At the same time that Jiang Yueguang was intensively studying the attack on Li Xin and the Three Guards, the military newspaper from Taiping Mansion had already made everyone's hearts rise to their throats. It turned out that it was the situation on the battlefield in Jiangxi that stimulated the Huangmei thief rebels besieging Taiping Mansion, and they launched an unprecedented offensive against Jianyangwei. The Huangmei Bandit rebels entrenched in the Ningguo Mansion in Nanzhi also invaded Guangde on a large scale, where Shi Kefa's regrouped and scattered official army, which made Shi Kefa's plan to threaten the Huangmei Thief rebels in Taiping Mansion from the flank completely in vain.

The regrouped officers and troops under Shi Kefa's command were already lacking in fighting spirit and low morale, and after a heavy defeat, they went all the way north, and stopped going north at the junction of Yingtianfu and Guangdezhou. Even if Shi Kefa knows that once Guangdezhou is completely abandoned, then Suzhou and Changzhou will face the Huangmei thief's soldiers, and the most core area in the backyard of Nanzhili will not have any barrier to stop the footsteps of the Huangmei thief rebels.

In this environment, in the furnace-like city of Nanjing, people can no longer care about the sweltering temperature and unbearable heat. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that the war is getting closer and closer to Nanjing. The Haikou had also come to the city before, but it was only a sneak attack after all, and they did not have the strength to really threaten the city of Nanjing, and the final facts also proved this judgment. Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenqing, led the Three Guards to capture all the ships of the Haikou and won a complete victory.

The Huangmei Thief rebels were different, and the regrouping of Wei Guogong and Ning Guofu in Taiping Mansion and Guangdezhou was the last barrier in Nanjing. Neither of them was a mediocre person, and the previous officials of the political affairs hall dared to move the idea of Li Xin and the Three Guards, also because these two people blocked the west of Nanjing. But it seems that overnight, this line of defense blocking the west of Nanjing has a tendency to collapse, the Huangmei thief rebels stormed the Taiping Mansion, and the Jianyang Wei of Wei Guogong was in danger and could fall overnight. Shi Kefa, who was responsible for patrolling the locality, was even more defeated, seeing that Suzhou, Changzhou and other richest places in Southern Zhili were already close to the war.

In the face of the drastic downward trend, even the old gods in the political hall did not express their position, Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing household department, and Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Nanjing military department, could no longer sit in the chair, and went to visit Li Xin in the military camp outside Nanjing several times, and he sent troops to save Shi Kefa and Wei Guogong, if these two people are defeated, Nanjing will face the rebel soldiers, and no one can predict how the future will develop.

Li Xin was full of invitations from the two of them, but his face was embarrassed and a little silent.

Zheng Sanjun was more decisive than Gao Hongtu, and when he saw that Li Xin was hesitant, he immediately said: "The Marquis of Zhenyu is worried about Jiang Yueguang, the director of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy, who has been jumping up and down recently? ”

To tell the truth, Li Xin is really not worried about Jiang Yueguang's pedantic nerd, as the saying goes, if a scholar rebels for three years, he can only be a toad that jumps on people's feet, not biting, disgusting.

What Li Xin really hesitated about was not the unpredictability of the war and the stability of Nanjing behind him, but in the past nearly a year, especially after the year, the foundation of the Three Guards Army in Nanjing could no longer be overthrown by a few civilian officials and a little public opinion. All he asked for was the right to act cheaply in the local area after the Three Guards had recovered the lost territory, and when the original officials were slaughtered in large numbers, so as to maintain local stability. In this way, if the consensus of all parties in Nanjing can be obtained in advance, it will also save people from being criticized afterwards. To put it bluntly, Li Xin needs the people in the political hall to give the Three Guards a legitimate name.

But Gao Hongtu, who came with Zheng Sanjun, obviously failed to realize Li Xinzhong's many thoughts that should not be declared, and when he heard Zheng Sanjun mention Jiang Yueguang, he also had an indignant look on his face.

"Jiang Yueguang has been making trouble lately! At the moment of the great enemy, this guy is still thinking about fighting in the nest, I think I can give this guy some color, let him study at home, and don't always think about interfering in political affairs. ”

Jiang Yueguang went around in tandem to form a party, which was exactly the same as what Wu Zhen did before Zhang Fangyan, the fake governor of Zhejiang, and all sober-minded people didn't think that this guy would succeed, but there were still a bunch of unambitious and profit-hungry speculators, who attached themselves to him and did things that they tried to instigate.

If it is placed in normal times, this is a commonplace thing in the Ming officialdom, and it would be strange if the court officialdom did not have this kind of intrigue and conspiracy one day. But is it also a matter of prioritization to engage in these tunes? At present, Nanjing is in danger, Jiang Yueguang is still doing these things, is it too slow for everyone to die? Such fools who ignore the overall situation and don't know the general situation, Gao Hongtu naturally scoffs at them.

Despite this, Gao Hongtu still failed to see through Li Xin's intentions. On the contrary, Zheng Sanjun seemed to be thoughtful, and under Li Xin's extremely obvious hints, he even asked bluntly: "What concerns does the Marquis of Zhenyu have, just say it." ”

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Zheng Laiyong led the vanguard to take the lead in Shangrao County, Guangxin Prefecture, and everywhere he saw was dilapidated and withered, several houses even had unextinguished fireworks, and his nose was filled with the smell of burnt burning. There is almost no difficulty in the battle to recover Shangrao County, and the tragic situation in front of us is all done by the Huangmei Bandit rebels, who burn and loot everywhere they pass, and the materials and grain and grass stored in the prefecture and county can be robbed, and those that cannot be taken away are burned down.

A circle of heads hung on the city wall less than two feet high, and in this hot weather, it was already black and foul-smelling, attracting a large number of mosquitoes and flies to fly and bite.

Zheng Laiyong frowned, he knew that most of these heads were government and county officials in the city, and they refused to surrender to the traitors, so they were already martyred and martyred, regardless of whether these people were corrupt officials or not, and now they are all awe-inspiring. Born in a low-level military household, he has never had a good impression of these officials, and now he has a rare heart.

"Go to a few people, take down all these heads, find the coffin shop in the city, nail some good coffins and bury them." As for the burial, it is necessary to wait until the identities of these people are identified, otherwise wouldn't it be the burial of nameless ghosts?

Zheng Laiyong was originally sent by Zhang Shi to assist in the defense of Jiujiang, but Zhang Shi finally sent someone to replace this brave general, so he caught up with this battle of Guangxin. However, the battle of Guangxin is really not happy, before the battle, Zhang Shi had specially instructed all teams and battalions to only pursue, not to be annihilated.

Therefore, Zheng Laiyong and his subordinates started from Wannian and Leping, and followed the Huangmei thief rebels all the way to the Guangxin Mansion. There have been a lot of tragic situations along the way, but the tragic Cheng dù is not as good as this Shangrao County. According to his speculation, there must have been fierce resistance in the city under the leadership of some people, otherwise it would not have caused such a miserable situation.

"Garrison, caught a dog officer, what to do?"

Originally, Zheng Laiyong's title was only a thousand generals before he left for Jiangxi, but after several meritorious services, he was quickly promoted to the garrison of Zhengwupin. At the same time, under Zhang Shishi's order, the command of several teams was restricted, and the number of auxiliaries recruited separately had reached more than 2,000 people.

The task of these auxiliaries is not only to transport supplies, but also to go into battle to kill the enemy at critical moments, but it is just that hundreds of three guards are still in charge of tough battles and vicious battles. All the battalions of the Three Guards Army that are now rushing to Jiangxi are facing this situation of rapid expansion in disguise.

After all, the infantry battalion and artillery battalion brought by Zhang Shi were no more than 10,000 people, and the elite army policy that Li Xin had always advocated had a great advantage in field battles, and could often defeat enemy troops several times or even more than ten times his own. However, in such a situation where they are responsible for field warfare and after recovering the localities, they will be dwarfed by the power vacuum and the maintenance of local law and order.

In this regard, Zhang Shi listened to Mi Yan's strategy, took the Three Guards Army as the backbone, and on the premise of not breaking up the original structure, formed a large number of nominally "auxiliary troops" under the control of each battalion as a supplement to the combat effectiveness of the Three Guards. Not only that, Mi Yan even put forward a strategy, that is, many local officials were slaughtered, and the generals at all levels of the Three Guards should not interfere on their own, and they must find the surviving local officials and deal with them temporarily as appropriate.

Therefore, Zheng Laiyong heard that the dog official was captured alive, but even if he was disgusted, he still didn't say the sentence that lingered in his mouth. "There is such a tragedy in Shangrao City, those who can survive until now are not cowards but must be rebels, and they have been pushed out and killed a hundred."

Now that he is under a strict order, Zheng Laiyong naturally did not dare to slack off for a moment, and asked the soldiers to bring the dog officer up. But seeing that this dog officer had already weakened his legs with fright, several soldiers sent him to grab his arm, and the whole person was like a paralyzed noodle withering on the ground. There were still words in his mouth.

Zheng Laiyong couldn't understand what he was talking about, maybe it was the hometown dialect of this dog official.

"Don't howl, our brothers are all officials of the Ming Dynasty, no one has killed your whole family, but you are also an official, stand up and talk back to Lao Tzu!"

When the official heard that it was the Ming army, his expression suddenly changed again, and he immediately got up from the ground.

"Even if you look forward to the king's master, it is not in vain that the officials endure the humiliation and burden, and secretly live here! I don't know, I don't know if the general is under the command of Shi Butang or the Duke of Wei......"

The dog officer's words annoyed the soldiers of the Three Guards behind him, and pushed him viciously, these people have been not afraid of the Three Guards since they joined the Three Guards, where would they put such a guts dog officer in their eyes.

"Let Lao Tzu hear clearly, we are the three guards under the command of the Marquis of Zhen, and the grenadier battalion ......"

The soldier said a long list of affiliations, and all kinds of unheard of new words surrounded the dog official, but he still absorbed and comprehended the key information. The name of the Marquis of Zhenyu is now famous in Nanzhili, and he is an official in a remote place in Jiangxi, but he has also heard a lot, and he never thought that his subordinates were such arrogant soldiers, and it seems that the rumors are not all exaggerations.

Zheng Laiyong didn't have the leisure to quarrel with this dog official, "Name, official position, authority!" ”

He used the standard interrogation language of the Three Guards, which was both stiff and impatient.

The dog official said respectfully: "The lower official is the county of Shangrao County, and he takes care of the daily ...... for the county."