Speaking of which, Zu Kuan couldn't go on, and the generals of the Tianxiong Army were also sad, the army had been out of food for a few days, and the soldiers were not so hungry that their chests were close to their backs, and they could insist on coming to this Doumuling, not because the supervisors and soldiers were also hungry, otherwise the soldiers would have dispersed a long time ago.

Lu Xiangsheng also knew that the soldiers were suffering, and after a long sigh, he slowly said to Zu Kuan: "How many days did it take for Dalinghe City to be destroyed before it was destroyed? ”

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Zu Kuan was speechless, Zu Dashou guarded the Daling River for more than three months, but during this period, the soldiers guarding the city were hungry for human flesh, did Inspector Lu want him to kill people for food?

Zu Kuan is actually not surnamed Zu, he is just a servant of Zu Dashou's family, but he has little courage to be promoted by Zu Dashou to serve in the army, after Zu Dashou's death, although the ancestral family's power in Liaodong was not uprooted by the imperial court, but also fell apart, among the remaining people of the ancestral family, Zu Dabi and Zu Dale could not support the situation after Zu Dashou's death, plus Zu Zerun, Zu Zehong and others descended to the east, making the ancestral family's position in Liaodong very embarrassing.

Although Zu Dashou's widow Li sued the emperor in a blood letter to avenge her husband's grievances, but after four years, Zu Dashou was really surrendered or false, whether he was killed by the Donglu or died in battle, and it was also as the ancestor pointed out that he was killed by Shi Dayong, who was a general in Jinzhou at the time, no one knew what the truth of the road was.

The only fact is that Shi Dayong, the murderer who was accused by the ancestral family of killing Zu Dashou, has now become the new Lushun chief soldier of the imperial court, and whether it is the Sixth Branch or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, all the impeachment of Shi Dayong is like a stone in the sea, and it will not be released. No matter how the ancestral family is active and how they cry out for injustice, in the eyes of the imperial court, it is as if Shi Dayong does not exist. People who know the Tao understand that this is the imperial court, and they can't deal with Shi Dayong, who didn't listen to the edict at all, so they can only pretend to be deaf and dumb. People who don't know the way of the Tao still say that Shi Dayong secretly bribed the princes in power and deceived the Son of Heaven to get away with it!

Fortunately, although Shi Dayong was at large, he never wanted to return to Jinzhou, and the Zu family, with the support of the new governor, drove the generals left by Shi Dayong out of the army, thus once again controlling the military affairs of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, so that the Liaodong Army was again under the control of the Zu family. However, no matter how hard Zu Dale and Zu Dabi tried, it was impossible for them to reproduce the majesty of the Liaodong Army when Zu Da was on his birthday. The elite of the Liao army were all buried in the Daling River, and in the short term, it was impossible for the Liao army to regain its former majesty.

In the past few years, although it is useless at all, the Li family's efforts to avenge her husband's grievances have not stopped for a day, and when she reached the last day, it was Zu Kuan, a rough person, who also knew that the reason why Mrs. Lu Dao kept aggrieved her husband all day long, in fact, it was not really to let the court kill Shi Dayong for the ancestral family, but a gesture!

Because it only proves that Zu Dashou did not really reduce the gold on the day, nor was he killed by the Dongyu, but he was killed by the villain outside the city after breaking through the bloody battle. Only in this way can the imperial court not suspect the ancestral family, because the three sons of the Li family are now all in Dongyu as high-ranking officials!

If the ancestral family did not try their best to bite Zu Dashou and did not reduce the gold, then the imperial court would definitely settle accounts after the autumn, and a large group of people in the ancestral family were high-ranking officials in Dongyu, and the imperial court could still rest assured that the military affairs of Liaodong would be handed over to the ancestral family again? Hugh said that the Li family wrote a bloody letter, even if it was thousands of letters, and it was difficult to hide the fact that most of the men of the ancestral family were officials in Dongyu!

Zu Kuan didn't believe that Zu Dashou was killed by Shi Dayong, because in his eyes, Shi Dayong was a man, and in the battle outside Jinzhou that day, he watched Shi Dayong lead people to launch a decisive charge against the Eight Banners, and the sentence "Shoot at me" didn't know how many men in the city cried. Such a good man, can he be a villain with a knife in the back? Zu Kuan didn't believe it, but it was useless for him not to believe it, don't look at his size and general, but in the eyes of the Zu family, he was just a domestic servant. Will the master take the feelings of the domestic servant to heart?

The label of the ancestral servant is firmly attached to Zu Kuan, no matter how desperately he behaves himself, but once his name is mentioned, others will always say that it is the rare brave servant of the ancestral family, not that it is Zu Kuan, the general of the Ming Dynasty!

After the death of Zu Dashou, in order to be able to make a comeback, in order to be able to make a comeback, under the proposal of the Li family and the support of Zu Dale and Zu Dabi, the Zu family and the Liaoxi Jiangmen put together a cavalry of 3,000 people, which was handed over to Zu Dabi, Zu Kuan, and Wu Sangui under the command of Zu Dabi, and asked Zhou Yanru, the head of the dynasty, to win the opportunity for them to go south to quell the rebellion in front of the Son of Heaven. But when he went south to quell the chaos, who was quelling the chaos, who was working for Daming, and who was stabbing him in the back, Zu Kuan couldn't know?

The filthy relationship between Shi Dayong and Gao Qiqian, and the tense relationship between Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui, Zu Kuan saw it in his eyes, how Shi Dayong led his troops to break away from the station, and how he raided Dengzhou with surprise troops. He was disheartened, he was just a simple martial artist, he just wanted to use his own skills to work for the court, in exchange for the wealth of his descendants, he didn't want to be the knife of the ancestral family, let alone be the ancestral dog for the rest of his life!

Although the ancestral family later won him the official position of Ningyuan's deputy chief soldier by taking advantage of the credit of going south to quell the chaos, he was completely desperate for the ancestral family, and he didn't want to stay in Ningjin anymore. In the sixth year of Chongzhen's Central Plains thieves, Zu Kuan resolutely went to the court and asked to lead his own troops and horses into the pass to quell the thieves. At that time, the imperial court was having a headache for the encirclement and suppression of the rogue by the elite soldiers, and Zu Kuan's Shangshu was naturally approved immediately, and after the ancestral family knew the road, the military department had transferred Zu Kuan to Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xunyang.

In the past, the Guan Ning army has never put other Guanzhen in their eyes, and felt that Lao Tzu was the first in the nine sides and the first in the world, so the Liaodong soldiers, including Zu Kuan, looked down on the soldiers and horses in the mainland, although the old Liao army was gone, but the 1800 cavalry under Zu Kuan was also pieced together by the generals of western Liao, which was not as good as the old Liao army, but it was still much stronger than the soldiers and horses in the Guannei. In the past two years, he has followed Lu Xiangsheng and fought a lot of tough battles, and he has made a lot of contributions. Because of this, the ancestors are a little arrogant, the military discipline is very scattered, those family members rely on the courage and willfulness of the reckless, sometimes plundering the people, the ancestral department often burns down the houses, rape women. Lu Xiangsheng was a person who couldn't rub sand in his eyes, so he was furious and persuaded Zu Kuan again and again to let him rein in military discipline and restrain his subordinates.

Of course, Zu Kuan was not persuaded by Lu Xiangsheng's words of patriotism and love for the people, but the person who obeyed him. Although Lu Xiangsheng is a civil official, he is completely a martial artist, taking the lead in every battle, fighting with a sword, not afraid of danger, often winning more with less, trying to turn the tide and win a lot. Folk rumors say, "Lu Lian will die when he encounters it, and he must not commit it!" Liukou even called it "King Lu Yan", for such a superintendent who dared to personally take a knife and lead his subordinates to charge and kill, can Zu Kuan not accept it!

I already respected Lu Xiangsheng, but now Lu mentioned the old boss Yuan Dutang, Zu Dashou, although he knew that Lu Xiangsheng was provoking him, but he couldn't help but have a hot blood, stepped forward in Lu Xiangsheng's gaze, and said loudly: "Don't provoke me, no matter how hungry you are, you can use a knife and kill people!" The superintendent but in a word, the last general led the sons and daughters to rush forward! ”

"Good!"

Zu Kuan's statement made Lu Xiangsheng happy, although the Tianxiong army is also good at fighting, but they are all foot soldiers, if there is no Zu Kuan's Guanning cavalry to fight, it is impossible for the Tianxiong army to win more than 100,000 liukou.

Lu Xiangsheng perked up, glanced at his eyes, and shouted, "What do you say?" ”

Li Chongzhen and Zheng Shizhu looked at each other, clasped their fists and said in unison: "Only the order of the adult is obeyed!" ”

"Good, good!"

Lu Xiangsheng turned around and looked at Xinyang City for a while, then thought for a while, then looked at Zu Kuan, and asked, "How did Inspector Yuan win the battle of Jisi?" ”

Zu Kuan said: "To tell the truth, if you don't hide it from the superintendent, Inspector Yuan was actually unable to withstand it that day, thanks to the white pole soldiers in Sichuan, the divine soldiers descended from the sky, so they were barely undefeated." ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "Yes, there is a huge disparity in numbers, and the troops cannot be divided." But after all, the enemy is several times larger than mine, and even if we do not divide our troops, it is difficult to ensure that we will not be surrounded by thieves. Therefore, there must be a divine soldier who descended from the sky to form a counter-encirclement, forcing Gao Yingxiang to transfer the besieging troops over. In this way, the siege of Xinyang can be solved, the officials and troops in the city can be pounced, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the battle can be won. After speaking, he pointed to the west fiercely: "General Li led the Tianxiong Army and the Governor's Battalion to concentrate their forces to storm the Xicheng Liukou!" "Turn to Zu Kuan again, "General Zu's Guanning cavalry is an ambush, once our army is surrounded, immediately attack!" Turning to Zheng Shi again, "If the enemy is defeated, he will run west to join Zhang Xianzhong, and quickly tell Wang Mengyin, the governor of Huguang, to invite the east and west to attack, and block the Han River, but it can be annihilated in one battle!" Let's get ready. ”

After giving the order, Lu Xiangsheng looked up at the sun and said loudly: "Attack when the sun is high!" ”

"Command!"

The generals responded suddenly, and the generals of the Tianxiong Army dispersed to prepare, but Zu Kuan didn't leave, groped around on his body, took out a double hemp fire for a long time, handed it to Lu Xiangsheng, and said: "Supervisor, you can also eat something, you have not had a bun sticky teeth for three days, if you fall, the brothers will all disperse." ”

Looking at the fire, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help swallowing in his throat, but then anger appeared on his face, his eyes bulged out, and he said angrily: "You are harming the people again?!" ”

"How dare you, the overseer said, if you provoke them again, you should ask for my head. However," Zu Kuan said in a low voice, "This cake is for a big family to get credit, alas, it is said to be a big family, but in fact, there are a few cakes in the family, and you can't see anything else to eat." Look, Inspector, your eyelids are swollen, if you don't eat something, you should lie down, you're really going to lie down, we're going to fart! ”

Hearing that Zu Kuan didn't plunder the people, Lu Xiangsheng comforted in his heart, but pushed the fire away, and said: "You're right, if your soldiers dare to harm the people, I will hang your head on the Xinyang City!" Keep this bread for yourself, and you'll have to do it later. With that, he turned around and left.

Zu Kuan stood there with the fire and looked at Lu Xiangsheng's distant back, couldn't help but have a sour nose, sighed lightly, and shook his head.

In the battle of Xinyang, Gao Yingxiang did not expect Lu Xiangsheng to attack from a long distance and was unprepared. The Lu army was a hundred battles, and there were 1,800 Guanning cavalry, and the sweeping king, the king of the collapse, and the king of the reincarnation were already a rabble, and they were caught off guard. As soon as the crowd dispersed, Gao Yingxiang was unable to support himself, and he broke away under the protection of Li Zicheng.

Zu Kuan chased and killed fifty miles all the way, killing countless people, Zhulong Bridge to Guanshan, accumulating corpses to fill the ditch, Chushui Red Stream. However, Wang Mengyin, the governor of Huguang, was not Gao Yingxiang's opponent, and failed to block Gao, so he made Gao Yingxiang cross the Han River.

On February 24, Lu Xiangsheng reported to the imperial court with a great victory in Xinyang, and on the same day, Hou Sui also reported to the imperial court "Tangyin great victory".