At this time, Zhou Huchen also led the army to Wuhu.

Huang Degong was full of surprises at Zhou Huchen's arrival, because although Li Zuoliangyu's combat effectiveness was not very good, he was victorious because of the large number of people. Huang Degong's troops were somewhat insufficient, making this line of defense somewhat weak, and Huang Degong was planning to advance forward, and he was preparing to move the battle line forward and move to Tongling.

Zhou Huchen's reinforcements were 20,000 people, Huang Degong was relieved this time, and as Zhou Huchen's fleet began to dock, Huang Degong rushed over.

"Xiaohu is here, I'm relieved this time, give me some more grenades, I heard that your artillery is good, just use it, let's have some too!"

You're really welcome, Zhou Huchen greeted him with a helpless smile: "Uncle, I brought your grenade." ”

"I need artillery, give me some." Huang Degong did not give up, and it was useless for Zhou Huchen not to mention artillery. The relationship is here, Huang Degong takes it for granted, Yangzhou is so rich that it has been given to you, why should you give me some artillery.

"The gunner and the artillery belong to one, and the uncle's gunner can't use the little nephew's artillery, otherwise the little nephew will leave you some people to help and train the gunner by the way." Zhou Huchen had no choice, Huang Degong was his absolute ally, so he could only choose to compromise.

In fact, the firing of mortars only requires proficiency, which is very simple, in the final analysis, this kind of mortar is not that Zhou Huchen does not want to give Huang Degong, but it is too expensive to use and consumes too much ammunition.

"In that case, you can take a break, come on, take a seat!" Huang Degong succeeded, and he let Zhou Huchen go.

Zhou Huchen understands, it seems that he doesn't even have a seat if he doesn't agree! This uncle is really not interesting!

Huang Degong was smiling, smiling like a mountain flower.

On the side of the dock, Zhou Huchen finally had a seat, and he was not polite: "I'm thirsty!" Hurry up and serve tea, good tea! Or die! ”

"Xiaohu told your subordinates to rest quickly, and we will go south to Tongling tomorrow." The weather was a little hot, so Huang Degong took off his helmet and threw it into the arms of his own soldiers.

This is a picture of his own people, Huang Degong is equivalent to commanding Zhou Huchen, of course, Zhou Huchen does not mind, he is not familiar with Tongling, Zhou Huchen began to ask: "Uncle, is Tongling conducive to defense?" ”

"Wuhu can't let Zuo Liangyu come over, Tongling is good! The river is stable there, and there is just a narrow place where you can block it with all your might. ”

Zhou Huchen knew that of course Wuhu couldn't let Zuo Liangyu come over, once the war started in Wuhu, Zuo Liangyu's large number of chaotic soldiers would make a mess here. Wuhu is Huang Degong's territory, and he has to rely on all kinds of income here to raise soldiers, how can he let Zuo Liangyu come over. Tongling Zhou Huchen is not familiar with it, as for what happens to be a narrow place, the stability of the river level is just an excuse for Huang Degong, is there no such place in Wuhu?

It is understandable that just like Zhou Huchen's subordinates who drove Gao Jie away, his own territory cannot be touched by others, and it seems that he will do his best to deal with Zuo Liangyu and Huang Degong this time

Jiujiang is located at the junction of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Anhui provinces, according to the mouth of the three rivers, the Xiangjiang River with the lake, and the back of Lushan. Jiujiang Mountain has thousands of mountains, nine factions around the river, Qu on all sides, seven provinces are connected, merchants gather to, it is a necessary way to do business since ancient times, and it is an important military town that soldiers must fight.

On the first day of the first month of April, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers went to Jiujiang and invited Yuan Jixian to meet in the boat, Zuo Liangyu also solemnly took out the "crown prince" secret message from his sleeve, and invited Yuan Jixian to march into Nanjing together.

Yuan Jixian's character Jitong, called Linhou, is the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and has served as the imperial history, the member of the Ministry of Rites, the secretary of Shanxi, and the senator of Xiangguang. Yuan Jixian has a straightforward personality and is famous for daring to disobey the eunuchs in power, and is deeply expected. Since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he served as the right attendant of the military department and the right imperial history of the capital, and was stationed in Jiujiang, where he was the governor of Jiangxi, Huguang, Anqing, Yingtian (Nanjing) and other military affairs.

This is a very tough character, in the past years of studying in Shanxi, he went up to the sparse to criticize the power of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch party framed him for corruption and bent the law, and punished Beijing. More than 100 people from Shanxi followed into Beijing and distributed posters (leaflets) to defend them. More than 1,000 people from the government and the opposition jointly redressed his grievances, causing a sensation in the capital.

Zuo Liangyu has always been very friendly to Yuan Jixian, but this incident touched Yuan Jixian's bottom line, how could Yuan Jixian do such a thing, he began to euphemistically persuade Zuo Liangyu to quit the army, and knew the benefits.

This was originally an escape, how could Zuo Liangyu go back, but Zuo Liangyu was afraid that the army's heart would be shaken, and his attitude softened, he promised Yuan Jixian, saying that the left army would not occupy Jiujiang City, and revised the "Zhuwen" issued in the past to "Shulu", "Qingjun side" changed to "please Qingjun side", the tone changed greatly, and it stopped at the Yangtze River side of Jiujiang.

The persuasion had some effect, but Yuan Jixian knew that Zuo Liangyu would not quit the army, so he said a few words sternly: "The truth is undecided, I don't know who came from the secret message, the old virtues of the first emperor cannot be forgotten, and the new grace of the present cannot be negative!" ”

Before leaving, this upright old man solemnly left a sentence: "Love the people." And he walked away.

Yuan Jixian, who returned to the city, knew that Zuo Liangyu would not give up, so he hurriedly ordered his troops to stick to Jiujiang and not allow Zuo soldiers to enter the city. Unexpectedly, Yuan Jixian's subordinate Zhang Shixun had colluded with the generals of the left in private, and set fire to the whole city at night, and suddenly there was chaos, Jiujiang City could no longer survive, and Yuan Jixian and his generals could only run out of Jiujiang City.

Zuo Liangyu's troops took advantage of the situation to enter the city to kill, kidnap and plunder, Yuan Jixian was so disappointed that he was ready to die in despair. Zuo Liangyu sent Zhang Yingyuan to take the opportunity to take him into the boat, and Yuan Jixian repeatedly committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, but he was rescued. Zuo Liangyu tried his best to express to him that he did not mean to overthrow Emperor Hongguang, and asked Yuan Jixian to go east to "transfer the generals"; The prison army Li Youlong also repeatedly persuaded that it was useless to die in vain, so it was better to act at the opportune moment. Yuan Jixian had no choice but to agree with Zuo Liangyu and his generals that it was strictly forbidden to burn, kill and loot.

No one expected that on the fourth day of the first month of April, there was a big accident, and Zuo Liangyu, who was already sick, suddenly burped.

This Hou Ye died at an untimely time, as soon as he died, his son Zuo Mengeng was the main general. So, Zuo Mengeng did not mourn secretly, Zuo's generals did not stop acting, they pushed Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng as the main general, continued to kill, kidnap Yuan Jixian, burn Peng Ze, Zuoliu, Jiande, and then go down to the heavy city of Anqing.

The Hongguang court was shocked, and while summoning Huang Degong to resist, he urgently ordered Shi Kefa to come back to help.

At the same time as Zuo Liangyu raised his troops, the Qing army also began to prepare for an attack. Between the eight hundred miles from Guide to Xiangshan, there was no soldier in Nanming to block it, and the places of Yangzhou, Sizhou and Xuzhou were boiling and panicked.

Like Shi Kefa fighting the fire, after convening a meeting of military generals in Qingjiangpu, he crossed Hongze and marched to Sizhou.

In order to divide the troops, the Qing army suddenly became two roads, one towards Bozhou and the other towards Dangshan, surging forward.

On April 3, when Shi Kefa was preparing to supervise the army to block the Qing army head-on, Emperor Hongguang sent someone to send an edict, asking him to immediately lead his troops to the upper reaches of Lu and Anhui to stifle the offensive of Zuo Liangyu's army. Shi Kefa wrote to Chen Zuo Liangyujun that he was not the main opponent, pointing out that the left army did not explicitly rebel, only said "Qing Jun's side", and said that he could go to the edict alone, and the big deal was to give him a prince's knighthood, and he could invite him to release his previous suspicions and go to the front line to resist the Qing Dynasty together. At the same time, he tried his best to give urgent advice, and reported the urgency three times, and asked Emperor Hongguang to order all the towns and armies to divide Tunsi, Lin, Huai, Fengyang, Shouzhou and other places to control the Huai River as a line of defense to block and prevent the Qing troops from crossing the Huai.

Shi Kefa also wrote a letter to Ma Shiying, begging him to put state affairs first, quickly increase his troops, and concentrate Liliang to fight against the most vicious enemy, the Qing army.

After hearing the urgent report that the Qing army had broken through Bozhou, the Hongguang court put the cart before the horse, and even had the mind to behead several officials involved in the "Shun case" in Nanjing, and then convened the ministers to discuss the defense strategy.

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