"Jiang Shuai still remembers the old man." The person who came twisted his beard and smiled, found a chair and sat down, and looked at Jiang calmly.

Jiang looked at the person in disbelief: "Is the Inspector a human or a ghost?" ”

"Of course the old man is human." Hong Chengchou seemed quite satisfied with Jiang's reaction, he pointed to the sunlight spilling in from the window and said, "Is there still a ghost who dares to come out in broad daylight?" ”

"But, but ......" Jiang had met Hong Chengchou many times before, and then the Songshan Ming army was defeated in the north, Hong Chengchou's whereabouts were unknown, and later it was reported that he died of hunger strike at Lin Dan Khan, and Emperor Chongzhen personally laid the foundation, and everyone thought he was indeed dead for several years.

"Inspector Hong is a human being, not a ghost, Brother Jiang, don't misunderstand." Wang Qinian said with a smile: "The Inspector came this time to discuss the plan with us on the order of Qingji Khan. ”

Hong Chengchou did put on a hunger strike, he thought that with his identity and status, as well as his familiarity with the officialdom of the Central Plains, even if Lin Dan Khan was a scheming man, as long as he had the heart to sweep the Central Plains, he couldn't help but treat himself well. Hunger strike and death will not be soon, Hong Chengchou pondered that if the other party came to put on a coat for himself, or personally serve tea and food, he would be moved, crying "Lord Ming", and then he could continue to be a big official in Mongolia.

I don't want Lin Dan Khan, a barbarian, to be even more uneducated than Hong Chengchou expected, so he sent all the captives to be slaves in a swarm, farming young and strong, and herding sheep for the old and frail, Hong Chengchou didn't have time to set up his celebrity shelf, and was whipped by the Mongolian soldiers with a whip on his head and face: "What are you pretending to be dead, and you don't go to work!?" ”

Hong Chengchou, who is full of knowledge, has lived in the dark in the past few years, and when he was looking up to the sky and lamenting, it was a pity that when he was full of splendid beauty and could not display it, he hit Amin's car without seeing the sheep under his hand.

Amin saw that this old thing behaved decently, and thought that when his dead ghost cousin Huang Taiji was still alive, he valued the scholars of the Central Plains, so he threw Hong Chengchou a piece of wheat cake that he had not eaten in half, and Hong Chengchou, who finally caught the opportunity, bowed his head and cried "Lord Ming", and climbed up to Amin in search of death and life.

It happened that Amin was thinking about surrendering Dashun at that time, and needed a slave who was familiar with the rules of the Central Plains officialdom, so he brought Hong Chengchou back to North Korea, and along the way, Hong Chengchou used all his strength to plan for the master, pointing out that after Amin occupied Korea, the king of the Li family fled to the Ming Dynasty and was given preferential treatment, and the best way to find out King Shun's intentions was to find out what King Shun's attitude was towards the exiled king.

Amin was deeply impressed by Hong Chengchou's words, and after some investigation, he was disappointed to find that Li Zicheng still treated the Korean king politely after entering and occupying Beijing, and said that he would survive and ensure that he returned to his old mansion.

Although disappointed, Amin still sent people to the Dashun court to dredge, hoping to be a vassal king under the rule of Dashun, but I don't know if it is because of the relationship between Li Zicheng and his surname Li, the Dashun court ignores Amin's envoy, and finally only throws down a sentence: If Amin will send troops to assist the Shun army in attacking Lin Dan Khan, he can give him the post of Jianzhou Jiedu envoy after recovering the whole Liao and pacifying Mobei.

First, this position is only a deputy position, Dashun still has to send a defense envoy to Jianzhou, and secondly, Amin has lived in the Hanjiang Plain for so many years, and he is really not interested in going back to the old forests of Jianzhou to drink the wind. Originally, Amin wanted to dredge up again, but his envoy had to travel back and forth between North Korea and Beijing, and the distance was far away and he had to be careful to sneak away to avoid the eyes and ears of Lin Dan Khan, and the king of Joseon stayed in Beijing, and immediately ran to King Shun after hearing the news, and said shamelessly that the north of the Han River was given to his ancestors by Ming Taizu, and now Dashun is reforming, and he is willing to return North Korea between the Yalu River and the Han River to King Shun to show that he will break off with the previous dynasty. At this point, King Shun made up his mind, saying that he would not agree to Amin's conditions, and insisted that he hand over the foundation of Korea.

Since the door of surrender was blocked, Amin had to fight with Lin Dan Khan to the end, Hong Chengchou found that the master's demeanor had changed, and he immediately keenly realized that the other party felt that he had no use value, he hurriedly offered a plan to Amin, saying that the reward and punishment of King Shun was unfair, and the treatment of the northern border marshal after surrendering to Shun was not as good as that of Qianming, and he must be resentful, but he was afraid of the prestige of King Wu of Dashun and dared not speak.

Amin felt that Hong Chengchou's analysis was reasonable, so he put away his mind to slaughter him and asked for countermeasures, Hong Chengchou analyzed that today's plan, can only wait first, if the south is decided, Dashun Wu Wang Shuai Shi will return to the dynasty, then with the manpower and material resources of the Central Plains, Lin Dan Khan said that he can't hold anything, Amin is reluctant to go to Jianzhou Jiedu envoy; Hong Chengchou pointed out that if the south is indecisive, the policy of exempting Yishun from taxation for three years will definitely fall into an embarrassing situation, and the south will spend more money to further reduce the treatment of the former Ming army, and King Wu was dragged by the southern army to hold Dashun The north is empty, and if the time comes, the former Ming will be instigated.

Later, the development of the situation verified Hong Chengchou's prediction step by step, and the stalemate situation in the south became more and more clear from the middle of the year, and Hong Chengchou expected that the Shun army would not be able to continue the offensive in winter, and that it would be necessary to accumulate grain and grass to prepare for another offensive in the summer and autumn of next year.

Both Amin and Hong Chengchou felt that this was their last chance, and now it was the weak stage when the old power of Dashun was exhausted and the new force was born, and Amin immediately took Hong Chengchou to meet his brother-in-law. Lin Dan Khan communicated with Shun Ting several times at this time, and the other party insisted that he must spit out Liaodong and re-accept Shun Ting's canonization and moderation.

Hong Chengchou volunteered to send an envoy to Shanxi to persuade the worst Jin generals to surrender, before leaving, he once again discussed with Amin secretly, if this battle can be pushed to the Yellow River in one fell swoop, then swallow this territory and manage it well, sit back and watch Shun and the remnants of the Ming continue to fight infighting, and in the future will become a great yuan, and retreat will not lose the Jin country. If Dashun collapses under the attack of the north and south, and Huangshi comes to the ground with great might, then with the territory in his hand and the merits of the backstabbing king Shun, bargain with the Duke of Qi, at least to get the king of Joseon.

After sneaking into the customs, Hong Chengchou was the first to ask to see Wang Qinian, and after the southern expedition of King Wu of Dashun, the fire battalion of 10,000 people has been expanded to become a force that cannot be ignored in the north. Hong Chengchou estimated that Wang Qinian must not be willing to fight for a lifetime, but in the end, he was reduced by the Shunting court with such a strong army, and he could not get any glory and wealth.

And Hong Chengchou did not guess wrong, Wang Qinian was also angry when he learned that Li Dingguo was crowned the queen of Jin, and he was already secretly planning the success of the rebellion after learning that Niu Jinxing was going to reduce his military salary again. Hong Chengchou's condition was that King Zhao would add half of Shanxi's territory, but Wang Qinian took the initiative to resign, saying that Shanxi could be left to Jiang, and he wanted Shandong. After reaching an agreement with Hong Chengchou, Wang Qinian took him to find Jiang.

"Jiang Shuai, you must have also seen the report of the thief's mansion, just now sent the two battalions of the guard and the sharpshooter to Jiangnan, and now the Li thief is already alone, Jiang Shuai, what are you still hesitating about?"

The pros and cons of talking to Jiang for a long time, Hong Chengchou saw that Jiang was still hesitant, and couldn't help urging.

Jiang also knew that there were only more than 30,000 people left in Li Zicheng's lineage, of which 20,000 were probably newly recruited soldiers, Tang Tong and Gao Di were okay to guard the pass, but their strength was not enough to participate in the conquest of Shanxi, and if they withdrew the guards of Juyong and Shanhai, the Mongolian army in the western Liaoning corridor could go straight to Beijing: "I am afraid that King Wu will return to the north." ”

"Jiang Shuai is too worried," Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Xu Ping is a disciple of the Duke of Qi, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer in the battle between the master and apprentice, although the thieves are now strong, but Jiang Shuai and Wang Shuai are righteous in the north, Qingji Khan waved a large army of 500,000 into the pass, and in an instant, the north of the Yellow River is not owned by Li Thief, Xu Ping's army has lost the root of the people's panic, and the Duke of Qi must be on his back, when Xu Pingcang Huang returns to the savior, the Duke of Qi hits his laziness and returns to the panicked people, I expect him to die in the chaos. ”

Jiang frowned and thought about it: "There are still two divisions of fine willow and Taishan. ”

Ji Xinghui and Zhou Xuzu were sent by Li Zicheng to defend the northwestern border of Shaanxi and Henan, and if Wang Qinian and Jiang rebelled, these two armies could be immediately requisitioned to participate in the suppression.

Hearing this, Wang Qinian laughed and said: "If the two of them don't come, it's enough, if they come, my fire battalion will be able to destroy the two of them without much effort." ”

Jiang thought about it again and again, nodded and said, "After the matter is completed, how will the Khan King treat me?" ”

"The King of Khan is willing to share the world with Haojie, and he should worship Jiang Shuai as the king of Jin, and raise the statue of the whole Jin."

"Then where does the Khan want?" Jiang looked at Wang Qinian: "Where does Wang Shuai want it?" ”

"The king of Khan has worshiped Wang Shuai as the king of Lu, Shandong belongs to Wang Shuai, and the king of Khan, the land of direct subordination, will first govern it, and then return it to the son of tomorrow." Hong Chengchou smiled confidently: "King Khan's rejuvenating army this time is not for the Central Plains, but for the revenge of the great tomorrow!" Li thief Xing committed a crime, murdered the son of Shengtian, the king of Khan will go to Beijing to mourn for the first emperor, if Ji Shuai and Zhou Shuai are willing to participate in the righteous act, the king of Khan also has a big gift. ”

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"Sons!" Wang Qinian spoke to the army of the fire battalion, and under the dense sea of white feathers in front of him, the officers and soldiers were all dressed in white, with the filial piety of Emperor Chongzhen: "I said earlier that Taiyuan is a famous city in Shanxi, and the children and jade silks in it are all to be owned by the brothers, and my words always count!" ”

……

Feng Menglong is a native of Suzhou, in addition to creating more than 50 works such as three words and two beats, he also set the story of "Jingzhong Banner" that praises Yue Fei.

When the Shun army went south, Xu Ping, the king of Wu, was recruited because he liked Feng Menglong and because he had served as the county magistrate of Fujian, and Feng Menglong refused to accept the reward of the Shun court on the grounds that he was eighty years old.

However, Feng Menglong loved to travel all his life, and his footprints were all over the famous mountains and rivers, and after the Shun army took Nanjing lightly, the new dynasty reinvigorated the law and order, and Feng Menglong took a boat north to Beijing to observe the rare scene of dynasty change. And said frankly to his family: Lao Ji is in waiting, aiming for thousands of miles, when this Ding Revolution is going to carefully observe the people's customs, and then work hard to write a few articles, if he is in such a turbulent sea and wasted time, old death in bed will make him die blindly. When traveling to Shanxi, Feng Menglong happened to meet Jiang and Wang Qinian to lead the northern captives into the customs, Feng Menglong, regardless of old age and decrepitude, ran around the counties of Shanxi overnight to call on the gentry and the people to rise up to resist the invasion of foreign races. But the Shun army was caught off guard, and within half a month, the area outside Taiyuan was completely lost, and the Mongolian army broke Daizhou and Xinzhou, and drove straight into the hinterland of Shanxi, and soon surrounded Taiyuan.

In the past few days, the artillery fire at the head of Taiyuan has not stopped, a few days ago the camps outside the city of the Shun army were all broken by the Mongolian army, all retreated into the city to hold on, and before cutting off contact with the outside of the city, Beijing strictly ordered the Shanxi Shun army to defend Taiyuan, Beijing, Shaanxi, Henan are rapidly mobilizing, preparing to drive to Shanxi to engage the rebels and the Mongolian army that entered the pass in a big way.

"The city is broken!"

"The West Gate is broken!"

With a few terrible screams outside the door, there was a cry all of a sudden, and every family in Taiyuan City closed their doors and hid at home praying to escape this military disaster.

……

"It's devastating." Looking at the candlelit Taiyuan City Gate, Lin Dan Khan, who was on the front line, praised sincerely.

Although the fire battalion is equipped with muskets and even artillery, and the Mongolian army has had the experience of fighting with the fire battalion before, Lin Dan Khan still admired it when he saw the fire battalion attacking the city this time.

At the beginning, the fire battalion used artillery and muskets to firmly suppress the Shun army at the head of the city, and the well-trained sappers did not hurry to reconnoiter the terrain, and then quickly filled in the wide trench outside the city of Taiyuan. After paving this passage, the artillery and infantry of the fire battalion worked closely together to beat the Shun troops at the head of the city to the point that they could not raise their heads, and the staff officers rushed through the passage in the trench with the sappers, skillfully dug a hole under the city gate, and then filled it with gunpowder to blast it.

The seemingly impregnable Taiyuan City Gate was torn to pieces by the explosion like a piece of paper, and a large number of soldiers from the fire battalion immediately jumped up from the trenches where they were hiding, shouting and rushing into the city. Originally, when Lin Dan Khan faced the fortified city of Taiyuan, he also considered the strategy of a long siege, but he did not expect that the fire battalion would break through it with a negligible loss within a few days.

"King Khan has won the award," Wang Qinian smiled slightly: "It's just a matter of raising your hands." ”

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"Master, you can't go out!"

A servant hugged Feng Menglong's thigh tightly.

"Nonsense, eighty old man, only one death!" Feng Menglong struck the servant hard, smashed his head and ran to the door, pushed open the door and rushed out.

Looking back at the other servants who were cowering in the room, Feng Menglong shouted: "I read and read, and I was educated by sages, is it just to write a few articles?" ”

Xicheng was already in flames, and the Mongol troops who had entered the city were burning their houses to drive the defenders out of their hiding place, and Feng Menglong stumbled forward. In front of them are some stragglers dressed in black, trying to engage in street fighting.

"Kill the thief!" The white-bearded old man staggered past the black-clothed soldiers on the side of the alley, raised the sword in his hand high, and fearlessly rushed towards the white-feathered soldiers rushing over.

"Bang."

After a gunshot, Feng Menglong turned around twice in place like a drunk, fell to the ground, and the soldiers of the fire battalion stepped past the old man with an expressionless face, and a white-feathered soldier saw that he was still panting, so he stopped and stabbed the bayonet into Feng Menglong's heart, and then quickly pulled it out, and continued to rush forward The black-clothed enemy army who was still resisting in front of him.

Like the original history of Huangshi, Feng Menglong not only left books for his motherland, but also shed blood for his nation.

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