Zhang Shenyan sent his proud protégé, Lin Tinghui, the deputy envoy of Huguang Tixue, to Jiujiang City to meet Huang Degong and ask for peace talks.

What Huang Degong wanted now was to prolong the speed of the attack of the left army as much as possible, so he did not refuse the peace talks, so he asked Lin Tinghui to pick up the Lin Tinghui with a hanging basket.

As soon as Lin Tinghui arrived in Jiujiang City, he sold Huang Degong's promise that Zuo Liangyu would be the prince of the prince.

Huang Degong neither agreed nor refused, but asked Lin Tinghui to go back first and let him come to Jiujiang City three days later to listen to the news.

Lin Tinghui, as the deputy envoy of learning, was just a pedantic Confucian scholar, who was as ambitious and talented as his teacher Zhang Shenyan, and thought that Huang Degong had been moved, so he returned to Zuo Liangyu's camp quite contentedly.

Even, in order to flaunt himself, Lin Tinghui habitually bragged for himself, saying how Huang Degong was arrogant and self-respecting at the beginning, refused to listen to himself, and threatened to kill himself, and even forced himself to take refuge in him.

This is also the habitual disease of literati, who like to exaggerate a very ordinary thing too much, and flaunt their greatness, plus they have a good ability to tell stories, so Lin Tinghui is the same, he is so boastful, plus Zhang Shenyan and others are fueling the troubles, Zuo Liangyu really believes it: "In this way, Huang Degong is not without ambition, since this is the case, the old man will wait for him for three more days!" The order went down, put it down for the time being, and prepared a generous gift, and took it to see Huang Degong three days later. ”

Huang Degong couldn't help but smile coldly when he saw that the left army had stopped the offensive, and began to order the officers and soldiers in the city to strengthen the defense, and also told Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, to continue to increase internal investigation and public incitement, and at the same time step up the transfer of money and grain into Jiujiang City, and the wounded soldiers and some important baggage also took advantage of this to leave the city and move to Nanchang.

At the same time, Weng Zhiqi's side also had more time to avoid confrontation with the main force of the left army, and continued to increase the offensive posture in Huangzhou Mansion and Anqing Mansion, Weng Zhiqi led the cavalry not only successfully occupied Susong City, killed the Susong prefect Shangli, who had taken refuge in Zuo Liangyu, but also successfully joined forces with his own 30,000 infantry to repel Zhang Yuanliang's division of the left army.

Huang Wei, the imperial historian who defected to the left army, was also killed by Jinyiwei at this time, and Zhang Yuanliang's troops had to retreat to Huanggang, cutting off part of Zuo Liangyu's grain route, and Weng Zhiqi took the opportunity to occupy Huangmei and split Zuo Liangyu's department into two parts.

Here, Yuan Jixian, who was stationed in Anqing, also had plenty of time to transfer money and grain to Anqing to strengthen the city defense of Anqing, and at the same time heard that Weng Zhiqi occupied Susong and Huangmei and blocked Zuo Liangyu's northward road, he immediately personally escorted 100,000 stone grain and countless ordnance, clothing and shoes to Susong, and when he saw Weng Zhiqi, he personally held Weng Zhiqi: "The general led the army to break into Huguang and cut off Zuo Liangyu's way to the north. ”

It's not that Yuan Jixian really respects Weng Zhiqi and a martial artist, but under the lure of the position of the third prince of the imperial court, although he is a civil minister and the governor of the theater, he is also very active in the battle, as soon as he heard that Weng Zhiqi's lone army went deep into Huguang and the west of Nanzhili, he decisively considered that Weng Zhiqi might be short of food and grass, so he immediately transferred grain and grass to aid Weng Zhiqi.

Therefore, Weng Zhiqi's ministry no longer has to collect grain from the mouths of the people, and military discipline will not be corrupted, and it can also take out some food to soothe the people and collect part of the people's hearts, and make judgments against the behavior of the left army, so that Weng Zhiqi will stand more firmly in the Huangmei and Susong areas.

"Thank you Governor for success, the last general is grateful, all this is the proper command of the Hou Ye, the last general does not dare to take credit, now the left army has not been removed, the last general has to prepare for the left army to suddenly go north, so as to block the north gate for the governor!" Weng Zhiqi said.

Yuan Jixian personally poured wine for Weng Zhiqi: "Then there is General Lao, there are generals in the imperial court who dare to fight, why worry about the traitors, the general first came here, and the people's livelihood here is withering, and it has been poisoned by the left army for many years, and it is difficult for the people to raise the army. ”

Now because of the righteousness of occupying the common anti-rebel thief Zuo Liangyu, Zhu Youzhen took the temptation of the prince and the three dukes, coupled with Zhu Youzhen's direct delegation of power, so that Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong and other civil and military officials in charge of Jiangyou can actively deal with it, and even disconnect from relatives and distance, and compared with the civil and military discord and selfishness of the left army, the outcome of victory and defeat is naturally self-evident.

Three days later, Lin Tinghui, who claimed to be Tang Jian in the Tang Dynasty, came to Jiujiang City again, and this time he also brought rich gifts, three cannons, twenty boxes of three-eyed guns and Lumi guns, as well as two hundred war horses and countless gold and silver, and even ten beautiful women.

Unexpectedly, Huang Degong smiled directly: "Accept the gift, but I also have to accept Lin Tixue's head, come on, kill this rebel minister who rebelled against the court and aided the abuse!" Send his head to Nanjing again, I, Huang, am not Zuo Liangyu, I would rather be abandoned by the king than never abandon the king! ”

"Huang Degong, you! You can't kill me! You vulgar martial artist, you", before Lin Tinghui finished speaking, Huang Degong's personal soldier Ding cut off Lin Tinghui's head directly, and Lin Tinghui's head fell to the ground in an instant, maybe Lin Tinghui didn't expect that he would be directly deceived by Huang Degong until he died.

Zuo Liangyu waited for another three days, but he didn't wait for the news that Lin Tinghui had come back to restore his life, he even began to wonder if Lin Tinghui had secretly defected to the imperial court, and he even began to doubt Zhang Shenyan.

On this day, the people who followed Lin Tinghui to Jiujiang came back and told Zuo Liangyu the news, Zuo Liangyu vomited blood again after hearing it, and his whole life was only half of his life, he didn't expect that he was so tricked by Huang Degong, and he was delayed for a long time in vain.

Zuo Liangyu directly threatened to break through Jiujiang City and break Huang Degong's body into ten thousand pieces, he now hates Huang Degong, so that he can only storm Jiujiang City now, and has lost the opportunity to attack Anqing from Huangmei Susong.

On the same day, hundreds of thousands of troops of the left army marched to Jiujiang City by land and water to launch an attack, Jin Shenghuan's troops continued to take the lead, and for a time the entire river outside Jiujiang City once again set off stormy waves, and countless left troops rushed towards the bank of Jiujiang City, and Huang Degong's side also fired artillery fire, bombing the river bank less than 100 steps deep to bombard the grass, and even the fish and dolphins were killed countless times.

But Jiujiang City was like a nail nailed to the Yangtze River, and the left army was killed by 10,000 enemies, thunderbolts, bows, arrows, and rolling logs.

Jin Shenghuan had to order to retreat, and then Luo Dai's department went up, and Luo Dai's department didn't last for half a day before retreating.

By the time the night ceased fighting, the left army had to retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River due to lack of energy.