After learning that Zuo Liangyu had raised troops on the side of the Qing monarch, the Shun army, which had arrived in Suqian, stopped to rest on the north bank of the Huai River, and soon after Xu Ping received news that the Ming army had contracted to Yangzhou. After waiting for a few more days, the Shun army began to advance south again, and the soldiers crossed the Huai River defense line without blood, and the officials of the Nanming Dynasty of Huai'an Prefecture opened the city and surrendered, and after a while, Bao Ying also sent a surrender table, and sent someone as a guide to lead the Shun army into the territory of Yangzhou Prefecture.

This time, the Shun army had not yet arrived at Gaoyou before stopping again for rectification, and the Jiangbei army of Xu Ping and Hedgehog had no buffer space near Yangzhou, and the two armies of Ming and Shun had already operated a base facing each other. At this time, Xu Ping was not in a hurry to attack, but leisurely began to sleep in the barracks, after this time he picked up this hobby again, and entertained himself in the camp when he had nothing to do.

"My lord, someone from the Jiangbei Army is here."

"I think it's time too." Xu Ping continued to play his piano and commented indifferently: "Who is coming?" ”

According to the intelligence of the south, Zuo Liangyu led the army of the Qing monarch with 800,000 troops, and the troops loyal to Nanjing fought fiercely in the area of Luzhou Mansion and Taiping Mansion, and in the past 30 days, there were 20 days and nights of fierce fighting. Now there is already a pessimism in the Jiangbei Army, according to the line report Xu Ping knows: Most of the generals of the Jiangbei Army feel that the future is at a loss, and they do not think that they have the ability to fight on two fronts and win.

If the left side wins, they will definitely support King Lu to ascend the throne after attacking Nanjing, and the Jiangbei army is the hero who supports King Lifu to ascend the throne, and the new emperor will suddenly become a sinner from a hero when he ascends the throne, even if they can hold Yangzhou in front of the Shun army, what are they trying to do? Even if he can keep the Nanming regime, he can't keep Emperor Hongguang, he can't keep his status as a hero, and he is likely to be investigated for not supporting King Lu in the first place.

If the whole division retreats south to engage Zuo Liangyu, then the Shun army will drive straight in, and now Xu Ping is leisurely and slowly advancing, not attacking the Jiangbei army, just following behind them to accept the territory, it is very clear that his intention is to take advantage of the fisherman. The generals of the Jiangbei Army also did not think that this was a promising road, even if they fought with Zuo Liangyu, but they fought all the soldiers, and the Shun army also entered Nanjing and seized the original territory of the Jiangbei Army, and they all suddenly became lost dogs.

"The person who came is Yu Dong, the governor of Jiangbei, don't you still have a relationship with him?" The guards smiled and said: "This time the Admiral of Jiangbei came in person, which shows his sincerity." ”

"Bring him in."

The burly Jiangbei Admiral carried a wooden box in his hand, and after walking into Xu Ping's camp, he bowed down and fell: "The sin will be Yu Dong, dare to resist Wang Shi, capital crime, capital crime." ”

Xu Ping let out a "hmm" without raising his head, and his fingers were still plucking the strings.

"The sinner kills the villain Gao Jie, and dares to sacrifice it to the general." Yu Dong's face was on the ground, and the wooden box he brought was held high above his head with both hands.

"Oh." After hearing Gao Jie's name, Xu Ping suddenly stopped the movements in his hand, raised his head and looked at the strong man in front of him.

Gao Jie is Li Zicheng's great enemy, and his wife, Mrs. Xing, is Li Zicheng's ex-wife. When he went south this time, Liu Zongmin also specially explained to Xu Ping and Li Dingguo that he must not let go of Gao Jie, it is best to capture and return to Beijing with a thousand knives, and it would be good if he could be killed.

In the Nanjing Army, Gao Jie is a die-hard main battle faction, he is willing to surrender Zuo Liangyu will not agree to surrender to the Shun Army, Yu Dong and others decided to surrender, they planned to tie Gao Jie as a greeting gift, the day before yesterday Yu Dong in the name of the Jiangbei Governor convened the generals of the field army in the north of Yangzhou to hold a military meeting, planning to stage a Hongmen banquet. But Gao Jie was suspicious and resolutely refused to attend the meeting, saying that if a military meeting was held, he could not hide it from the Governor Shi Cabinet Department, and if he wanted to open it, he would have to go to Yangzhou to open it, anyway, the distance was not very far now.

Seeing that Gao Jie refused to give in, Yu Dong, Li Chengdong, Liu Ze and others did not talk nonsense with him, and immediately ordered troops and horses to besiege Gao Jie's camp, which was related to the head and future glory and wealth of Xiangshang, and the soldiers of Jiangbei fought bravely and broke through Gao Jie's army in one day and night. They also ignored Shi Kefa's several times to send envoys to ask where the change began, and after killing Gao Jie, they took his wife and children to surrender to Xu Ping, because it was Gao Jie killed by Li Chengdong, Yu Dong volunteered to personally appoint a messenger to see Xu Ping, and asked for the life of the hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters of the Jiangbei Army.

Xu Ping opened the wooden box and looked at the hideous-looking human head inside, it had been wrapped in lime, and he was definitely not worried about rotting for a while: "This is Gao Jie?" ”

"That's it." Yu Dong hurriedly answered below.

Gently closing the wooden box, Xu Ping instructed left and right: "Send the horse to Beijing quickly and present it to the king." ”

"General and General Yu are also old acquaintances," Xu Ping smiled at Yu Dong: "I finally have a chance to meet today, it's too fast, General Yu got up and spoke." ”

"General Xie." After Yu Dong got up, he stood restrained like a primary school student, and after Xu Ping asked him to sit down, Yu Dong still looked like he was low-eyebrowed, as if he didn't even know where to put his hands.

"What happened to Gao Jie's wife and children?" Xu Ping opened his mouth and asked, how to deal with Mrs. Xing and her and Gao Jie's children, this is not something that Xu Ping can decide, and can only be handed over to King Shun himself.

"Sin will have put them in captivity." Yu Dong also understands this truth, no one knows what King Shun thinks, Jiangbei Jun does not dare to be too rude to Mrs. Xing, in case Li Zicheng still misses the old love, it will be troublesome.

"Very good," Xu Ping asked people to pick up Mrs. Xing from the Jiangbei Army, and at the same time prepared a vehicle to send them to Beijing: "What are Yu Shuai's plans in the future?" ”

"But the general is the first to look forward." Yu Dong immediately said that their Jiangbei Army was willing to immediately go out to attack Yangzhou, according to Yu Dong, the Jiangbei Army's capable troops had all planned to surrender to the Shun army, even Liu Zeqing, who had a good relationship with Shi Kefa, also broke off with Nan Mingen, and now only Shi Kefa's standard camp was left in Yangzhou City.

Xu Ping nodded: "Please also ask Yu Shuai to bring all the generals to my gate tomorrow, I will have something to explain to you." ”

"Yes, General."

……

Early the next morning, the generals of the Jiangbei Army arrived outside Xu Ping's camp one after another, led by Yu Dong kneeling at the front of the door, and behind him knelt densely hundreds of generals and officers of the Jiangbei Army.

Seeing that Xu Ping soothed a song and a song, he waited until the three poles on the sun and did not go out of the camp to see the generals, and finally a guard couldn't help but persuade: "My lord, the people outside are kneeling so numb that their knees are numb, and their subordinates are about to lie on the ground when they see someone." ”

"Corporal Lixian, that's what the Lord has to do, not my business," Xu Ping was still immersed in his own entertainment, and slowly explained: "Villain, if you are close, you are not inferior, and if you are far away, you will be resentful, I am just a little more rebellious, so that they will be afraid in their hearts, so that they will work hard when they fight." As for the future, it is also from the top, let the Lord go up to appease and show grace, and the hearts of people should not be won over by me. ”

It wasn't until he had fun that Xu Ping got up and picked up two banners from the table, opened the tent door and walked in front of the people waiting outside the door. Unlike these Jiangbei Army generals in front of him, Xu Ping was not wearing a military uniform today, but wearing a robe, a square scarf, and a long sword tied to the belt around his waist.

Striding in front of the black pressed head, Xu Ping held the banner in his hand high, and stretched out his arms as far as possible for these Jiangbei Army generals to see.

"Killing one is like killing my father, and committing adultery to another is like adultering my mother." Xu Ping shouted loudly: "This is my lord's decree to the king, and I ask you to keep in mind that you must not hurt a single one of the people, otherwise you will not blame the general for being ruthless." ”

After finishing speaking, Xu Ping bent down and handed the banner to Yu Dong at the front: "Yu Shuai must let everyone remember this order, otherwise you will be the only one who asks." ”

"Dare to disobey!"

Yu Dong hurriedly agreed, and the generals behind him also shouted in unison: "I respect my lord's order." ”

"Okay, go and take Yangzhou as the general."

……

The 3rd Guards Battalion had just set off for Yangzhou when Xu Ping received an urgent report in the afternoon that the pioneer Li Chengdong had defeated Shi Kefa's troops outside Yangzhou City, had surrounded Yangzhou like an iron pass, and was preparing to attack the city.

At noon the next day, there was good news that the Yangzhou defenders were about to collapse at the touch of a button, and Li Chengdong broke Yangzhou with a fierce attack, and had already captured the supervisor Shi Kefa and waited for Xu Ping to deal with it.

After learning of this good news, Xu Ping rushed to Yangzhou with his personal guards. When he arrived at the city gate, he saw that all the other departments were besieging the city and camping, and only Li Chengdong's troops were now maintaining order in the city. Li Chengdong himself waited outside the door, and when he saw Xu Ping arrive, he immediately greeted him and called him a capital crime.

"What is General Lee's crime?" Xu Ping asked in surprise.

"Sin will restrain the army, so that some people will take the wealth of the people." After surrendering to the Shun army, Li Chengdong also copied two banners that were exactly the same as the couplet given to Yu Dong by Xu Ping overnight and hung them next to his military flag. After entering the city, Li Chengdong had a school that broke into a private house and ate the lunch of the people. After hearing about this, Li Chengdong immediately whipped the prisoner with 20 lashes, and after parading through the streets, he beheaded the prisoner next to the couplet, and then hung his head in front of the Yangzhou Yamen.

After seeing Xu Ping, Li Chengdong hurriedly came to ask for guilt, and now Yangzhou is safe in all cities, most of the soldiers don't even dare to go down the city wall, and the local officials are still responsible for security in the city.

"Since General Li has punished the offenders, the general will not be held accountable."

"General Xie."

"Bring Scofa."

To Xu Ping's surprise, Shi Kefa, as a pavilion elder, refused to surrender, and when he saw that Li Chengdong tied Shi Kefa tightly, Xu Ping wanted people to loosen his ties.

"The general can't," Li Chengdong hurriedly persuaded: "He has repeatedly wanted to commit suicide, and he must not let go." ”

After breaking through the gate of Yangzhou, the defenders suddenly scattered, Shi Kefa not only did not break through, but rushed out with a few standard camp guards to resist in the street battle, and when he fought and retreated to the front of the yamen, the standard camp guards were killed and wounded, and he himself resisted with a sword, and finally was executed.

"The official only wants to die." After seeing Xu Ping, Shi Kefa closed his eyes and rolled over and over again.

"Sir." After hearing Shi Kefa's deeds, Xu Ping couldn't help but have some respect for this rare elder: "The number of great Ming Qi is exhausted, why should Mr. be like this." ”

"I heard that when the first emperor was martyred, General Xu was on the side." Shi Kefa suddenly opened his eyes and looked directly into Xu Ping's eyes: "What this official wants is to follow the first emperor underground, can General Xu be able to prevent it for a while, and can he prevent it for a lifetime?" ”

Xu Ping sighed and shouted: "Untie Mr." ”

After being loosened, Shi Kefa shook his arm that was already numb, looked at Xu Ping and said, "This official still wants to borrow something from General Xu." ”

"What is the gentleman asking for?" Xu Ping knew that the other party had made up his mind, and he was as determined as Emperor Chongzhen: "Sword or white silk? ”

Shi Kefa thought for a while and replied: "This official is a dignified scholar of the Ming Dynasty, of course, he needs a sword. ”

"Do as you are told." Xu Ping pulled out his sword, held it in both hands and handed it to Shi Kefa: "Three hundred years of Ming monks, it is not in vain to have a gentleman." ”

Xu Ping's praise did not make Shi Kefa feel any glory, but laughed miserably: "Ping Su talks about his heart and mind, and he will repay the king when he dies." Shi Moushang can't be a general colleague; You can't supervise the thief. When it comes to the end, you can only die, and if you are really useless, you will not be in vain if you have been raising soldiers for three hundred years? ”

Shi Kefa died by the sword, and Xu Ping ordered his body to be collected into a coffin and buried next to Yangzhou City as a scholar.

At this time, Xu Ping got the information again, Huang Degong got reinforcements and reinvigorated, led the troops in Luzhou Mansion with Zuo Liangyu's Qing Jun side army fought repeatedly, in order to support Huang Degong, the Hongguang court has sent the last of the troops still loyal to Nanjing to Huang Degong's side to help the war, now they do not know that Yangzhou has fallen, the north of Nanjing has been opened.

Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Xu Ping ordered the army to set off immediately after a little rectification, and Yu Dong, Li Chengdong, Liu Zeqing and others were in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and they could not wait for even a moment to leave Yangzhou and set off immediately, preparing to search for ships to cross the river. According to them, the sailors of the Funing Army have sailed into the Yangtze River, but they cannot take care of all these many ferries, not to mention that the Jiangbei Army also has its own sailors. Moreover, Huang Degong and Zuo Liangyu fought fiercely, and now the river defense has been chaotic, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us in the rear, and the Funing Navy Division has also been greatly affected.

Before leaving Yangzhou, Xu Ping went to the just-built Shi Kefa tomb to give a speech, it is said that the text should be four Liliu and Gong Shen Yuzhen, but Xu Ping will not and will not follow this model:

"Everyone is in the south and Mr. is alone to discuss the king of Qin, the ministers are happy and Mr. invites himself to supervise the teacher, the field battle is unfavorable to defend the city, the defense of the city is unfavorable is the street battle, and the street battle is unfavorable to the martyrdom, woo hoo strong."

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