Seeing that Miss Liu had found the guard camp again, Sister-in-law Qin's face was full of sympathy: "Why haven't you come yet?" ”

"I have nowhere else to go."

Miss Liu's words made Sister-in-law Qin shake her head: "Find someone who is right, marry, don't come." ”

After the breakthrough of Beijing, the soldiers of the Shun army were busy starting a family, everyone felt that the peaceful day had come, and the accompanying female battalion doctors and nurses engaged in nursing work became popular, and the soldiers of each battalion asked the commander of the female battalion to help say goodbye.

Miss Liu took off her hat and headscarf without speaking, and Sister-in-law Qin glanced at her hair and sighed: "Why are you so troubled?" ”

Although Miss Liu, who combed her hair into a woman's appearance, her tone was soft, but she was resolute: "Brother Yue is very good to me, no matter what, I will leave him incense." ”

Miss Liu told Sister-in-law Qin her intentions that she planned to adopt a child and let him inherit the surname of the Yue family, and this time she wanted to ask Sister-in-law Qin and the officers of the Guards Battalion to testify for herself, so that this child could be recognized as Yue Mu's heir: "In the past two years, Brother Yue has taken care of me beyond retribution, and I can't let him die if I say anything." ”

"It's a hard day, a hard day without a head." Sister-in-law Qin also tried to persuade.

"I've made up my mind." Miss Liu is very stubborn.

"Ugh." Seeing that the other party refused to change her mind no matter what, Sister-in-law Qin finally made up her mind and got up and grabbed Miss Liu's hand: "Go, follow me." ”

Led Miss Liu to the back of the Guards Battalion camp, which was a wounded barracks, where Sister-in-law Qin and some other female nurses were responsible for taking care of the wounded soldiers of the Shun Army, those soldiers who were wounded in the siege of the city had basically recovered, and there were still a few people who were about to recover, waiting to return to the Guards Camp that was about to set off for the southern expedition.

Sister-in-law Qin led Miss Liu to the door and pointed inside to let her in.

Miss Liu walked in slowly, staring straight at a soldier against the wall, and walked towards the man in a daze.

Seeing Miss Liu suddenly appear in front of him, Yue Mu suddenly became overwhelmed, he watched the woman walk all the way to him, and just as he was about to speak, Miss Liu pounced on him, and suddenly rushed Yue Mu back two steps, and slammed his back against the wall of the barracks.

"You're alive." Miss Liu hugged Yue Mu's tightly with both hands, buried her head in his chest, and cried loudly, her voice mixed with her back and joy.

Yue Mu instinctively wanted to stretch out his arms to pick up the person in his arms, but only his right arm was raised, and the empty cuff on his left side only shook a little.

The shaking of the cuffs seemed to remind Yue Mu that his raised right arm stopped in mid-air, and instead of hugging Miss Liu's back, he put his shoulder on his shoulder and tried to push the woman away.

"I'm already a wasted person," Yue Mu also had a long new scar on his face, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I can't farm anymore." ”

"You're alive." Miss Liu hugged Yue Mu tightly, without letting go at all, she shouted in a louder voice, as if thanking God for the gift: "Brother Yue, you are still alive." ”

Listening to the crying of the person in his arms, Yue Mu stood up straight, and after a long time, he finally stopped trying to push Miss Liu away, but hugged her with one arm, lowered his head and whispered, "Yes, I'm still alive." ”

In May of the first year of Yongchang, after a two-month rest, the Guards Battalion once again followed Xu Ping's banner, this time aiming at Nanjing. And Yue Mu, who lost an arm, has just recovered his health and returned to the battalion to serve as an inspector of the baggage team. When he left his original unit, Hu Chen, the team officer, personally put on a medal for him to thank him for his years of service in the 1st Infantry Brigade, and at the same time exchanged a felt hat for his hat.

With the approval of the operation, Yue Mu's newlywed wife can also accompany the army to take care of him, and he can also get special treatment that ordinary officers can't get - having his own independent tent.

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nanking

Emperor Hongguang was intensively preparing for the Northern Expedition, and the Southern Ming Dynasty had already prepared three million taels of tax silver, and it was expected that he would be able to obtain the same amount of tax silver in a few months.

Like Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Hongguang also went to court every day, day and night, correcting the chapters, and Nanjing had already provided more than 2 million taels of military salaries to the Jiangbei Army. Since ancient times, guarding the river must defend the Huai, and the Jiangbei army has returned to the north of the Yangtze River, preparing to resist the Shun army heading south.

Shi Kefa, a scholar and secretary of the military department, asked himself to supervise Jiangbei in the early court today, and Emperor Hongguang approved his request on the spot.

"The headquarters will set up the superintendent's camp in Yangzhou."

All around Shi Kefa were some relatively new generals, who did not all cross the river with the army, but stayed to discuss with Shi Kefa. Among them, Shi Kefa relied on the most was Yu Dong, the current governor of Jiangbei, who was once called "the savior of the Central Plains and the nemesis of Xu Ping" by the first emperor.

Shi Kefa has asked the imperial court to transport military funds to Yangzhou, this city is the strongest fortress in the south except Nanjing, the Ming Dynasty has been operating here for a long time, Shi Kefa looked at Yu Dong and asked, "What does Yu Shuai think?" ”

"Somehow, it seems, it's too far ahead." Yu Dong immediately pointed out: "The thieves are menacing, and when Xu rebels leave Xi'an, there are 500,000 soldiers......

"Where could there be half a million?" What refuted was Huang Degong, he and Huang Shi not only had the same surname, but also a genuine Kaiyuan, and he and others thought that he and Huangshi, the fake Kaiyuan, were fellow villagers, and even many people thought that they were of the same clan and clan. Although Huang Degong carefully turned over the family tree dozens of times and did not find the names of Huang Shi's father Huang Shiren and grandfather Huang Feihong, since the Marquis of Zhendong recognized him as a fellow clan, Huang Degong also happily climbed into this family business. After hearing Yu Dong's words, Huang Degong immediately retorted: "Yu Shuai, the last general thinks that there may not be 100,000 thieves. ”

"How could it not be?" Yu Dong blushed and retorted thickly: "When he was fighting in Henan back then, Xu Thief already had two or three hundred thousand henchmen, and he won every time!" Yu Dong tried his best to argue to Shi Kefa: "Li Chuang still has a million relatives, and now that Li Chuang is sitting in Beijing, many soldiers and horses must have been handed over to Xu Ping, and it is strange that he does not have 500,000 thieves." Master Inspector, the general thinks that we must not be able to defend Yangzhou, and we should stick to the Yangtze River. ”

Yu Dong has always been fiercely opposed to sending troops to Lianghuai, and he feels that relying on the Yangtze River to hold on is the best policy: "Master Inspector, the enemy is outnumbered, and you can't be careless." ”

"What nonsense is Yu Shuai talking about?" The more Huang Degong listened, the more disagreeable he became, and said angrily: "Henan is dilapidated, Shaanxi and Shanxi thieves are not attached to the people, and it would be good if Li thieves could afford to raise 100,000 soldiers." ”

"Be lenient with the enemy, lenient with the enemy." Li Chengdong on the side hurriedly jumped out to play a round: "Yu Shuai is cautious, it's not that Zhuge is only cautious in his life, Yu Shuai is the way to use soldiers." ”

"You can't retreat to the Yangtze River, haven't we made it clear?" Huang Degong saw that Yu Dong and Li Chengdong sounded like they were going to regret it again, so he slapped the table hard and shouted: "This Yangtze River stretches for thousands of miles, how can we fortify everywhere?" Be sure to stick to the two Huai! ”

Although Shi Kefa did not think that the Shun army only had 100,000, he had heard Huang Degong say many times that only by holding on to Jiangbei could he threaten the supply back of the northern army and make it impossible for the northern army to calmly attack the Yangtze River.

Seeing Huang Degong's fierce opposition, Shi Kefa still cared about Yangzhou, and Li Chengdong's ambiguous attitude seemed to support fighting in Jiangbei, Yu Dong had no choice but to agree: "Since the Inspector insists on this, then let's cross the river." ”

The Jiangbei Army will be stationed in a battalion north of Yangzhou to form a strong defense line that the Shun army cannot cross, while Yangzhou, which is located in the safe rear of the battle line, is responsible for supplying the army in front.

Seeing that Yu Dong no longer objected, Shi Kefa asked them to set off to their respective places of defense as soon as possible.

When the Shun army began its crusade to the east, Shi Kefa tried his best to raise military salaries, officers and soldiers, intending to respond to Emperor Chongzhen's Qinwang order to lead troops north to Qinwang. However, this work was not smooth, until the Shun army defeated the resistance of the new army in Shanxi and attacked Zhili, Shi Kefa only accumulated more than 10,000 troops, morale and worrying troops, at that time, considering the danger of the Beijing division, Shi Kefa swore desperately to set off, planning to rely on this more than 10,000 unreliable southern officers and soldiers to reinforce the Beijing division - at that time, Shi Kefa was still full of confidence, and swore to his colleagues in Nanjing that with the heavy concentration of troops in Zhili and the solidity of the Beijing division, Emperor Chongzhen would be able to hold out for more than half a year, Therefore, the Qin Wang Army will definitely arrive in time.

But on the second day of Shi Kefa's oath departure, before the army had all left Nanjing City, news came that the Beijing division was lost and the whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen were unknown.

In the days that followed, Shi Kefa insisted that Emperor Chongzhen had escaped with the crown prince and sailed south from Tianjin. This hope was soon shattered, in order to support the new monarch, Nanjing was a pot of porridge, the Jiangbei army relied on force to suppress the Donglin opposition, and the support of King Fu ascended the throne was considered to be over, and the Southern Ming court also began to operate, able to collect food and wages, and recruit soldiers to prepare for battle.

But this is only a superficial calm, a few days ago, a person pretended to be the prince of Chongzhen to eat and drink, and the Hongguang court found the person and asked someone who had seen the prince to identify him, but none of the courtiers knew him; The courtiers were still worried that they would make a mistake, so they asked the eunuch to ask this person about the rules of the palace, but the result was that he didn't know anything, and it was obviously a fake.

But the Donglin Tongmen in the opposition did not give up, and said in unison that this person must be the prince, and what did he say about the courtiers who went to interrogate

As soon as the eunuch saw this person, he couldn't stand on his knees, and he kept saying "Chitose", and he said that he had a nose and eyes, if it wasn't for Shi Kefa personally asking about this matter, maybe he would have believed it.

On the grounds of this incident, Donglin Tongmen set off a call for Emperor Hongguang to concede, and for a while, the court and the central government were anxious to refute the rumors, and even the collection of military salaries and the recruitment of soldiers had to be suspended for almost a month before the matter could barely be calmed down.

Seeing that he could suppress the scholars and prevent them from continuing to make infighting at this juncture, Zuo Liangyu, who was guarding Huguang and commanding hundreds of thousands of Chu troops, suddenly went to the court again - more like a rebellion open letter than a seal, Zuo Liangyu threatened that he would raise troops to attack Nanjing and support the orthodox prince to succeed to the throne. This was suddenly another big chaos, and many of Shi Kefa's colleagues shouted and cheered for this anti-table, and also threatened that once Zuo Liangyu raised troops on the side of the Qingjun, they would support it in groups.

Fortunately, Huang Degong and other garrison generals assured that Zuo Liangyu would definitely repel even if he rebelled, so that the panicked Nanjing people could be calmed down again.

However, after King Fu took the old lady to Nanjing to be raised, Shi Kefa's fellow disciples smelled the smell of conspiracy and obscenity from this ordinary thing.

New rumors began to circulate in the streets and alleys of Nanjing overnight: it was said that Emperor Hongguang had an affair with his mother, which was discovered by the Donglin clairvoyants, who were always worried about Sheji.

If a person actually has an affair with his mother, how can he be the son of heaven again? Compared with the crown prince case, Emperor Hongguang has no ability to fight back on this matter. At least he could publicly defend himself before that person was really not the crown prince, and this rumor made Emperor Hongguang have no possibility of self-defense, the defense is getting darker and darker, and not defending himself is a tacit acquiescence. During the private duet, Emperor Hongguang once said to Shi Kefa angrily: He thinks that such vicious rumors should be unbearable for normal people to hear and speak.

In order to calm things down, Emperor Hongguang didn't dare to beat people with a court cane, so he could only ask Shi Kefa to communicate with him more. And Shi Kefa was already exhausted, he had just heard from a well-informed colleague that there was another case of a concubine in the making.

The cause of this incident was: an ignorant woman boasted to the magistrate that she was the concubine of Emperor Hongguang when he was still the prince of King Fu, but the magistrate of course took the opportunity to flatter him, and sent the incense car to Nanjing all the way.

When this woman arrived in Nanjing, she was thrown into prison by Emperor Hongguang, and Donglin Tongmen was ready to scold the emperor for doing a new thing that exterminated humanity: even his wife had to be abandoned.

Shi Kefa heard from his fellow disciples that Huang Zongxi had written an article to ask the emperor: If the woman was not the concubine of the Fu Wangfu, how could she dare to pretend to be the emperor's relatives, and further asked the emperor why he was rich in the world, why he even gave his wife a place to live and a mouthful of food—how could such a person with corrupt morals deserve to reign in the world?

Shi Kefa felt that this was just the opposite: there were more people who were impostors, and there were all kinds of birds in the forest. And now that the emperor's lustful name is known to the whole world by his peers, it is very possible for a stupid woman to think that she has a good look, and it is very possible to enter the palace and ascend to the sky in one step. And as Huang Zongxi said, if he is really the emperor's ex-wife, he does not lack this money, a palace and a mouthful of food, why do he have to deny it, and put it in prison to make a storm in the city? Or in this eventful and terrifying time, is the emperor stupid?

"I can't keep the community, I can die." Shi Kefa sat alone at his desk, silently reciting Emperor Chongzhen's last words. Nanjing, located behind the Yangtze River, is defended by tens of thousands of troops, and it is very safe; And Yangzhou, located on the road that the Shun army must pass through to the south, is very dangerous to hang alone. Shi Kefa felt that he was helpless about state affairs, he didn't know what to do, how to act so that his colleagues could work together and tide over the difficulties: "First Emperor, First Emperor." ”

"The minister can't protect the Ming Dynasty, he can die."

In the flickering candlelight, Shi Kefa whispered to himself.

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