Although the loss of Yunnan in the eighth year of Yongchang Dashun is not good news, the situation is still not pessimistic - from a historical point of view. Dashun still controlled most of the country's territory, while the Southern Ming did not obtain the standard north-south division line of the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River: Sichuan could hold on for a long time by virtue of its topography, and there was little precedent for the south to recapture Sichuan with the support of the north since ancient times; Huguang is in a two-point situation, and the Yangtze River is shared by the two armies; The Jianghuai battlefield still seemed indestructible under the command of Xu Ping, and the southern army did not make any noteworthy progress in the past year.

However, Xu Ping's long-awaited Nanming was unable to succeed because of the party struggle, and after accumulating the offensive momentum for nearly a year, the Ming army's offensive was higher and higher; On the contrary, Xu Ping found that his political counterattack was messed up, Niu Jinxing did not stop his recital, and explained it smartly, while Li Zicheng wrote a personal letter to Xu Ping, asking him to focus on the overall situation and not to create a storm between the civil and military.

But this was no longer something Xu Ping could control, and after discovering that Xu Ping's counterattack was weak and wide, the enraged central bureaucracy became even more rampant, and only half of Xu Ping's rations, grass and military salaries were paid, on the simple pretext that he had no money and could not expropriate him.

In Huguang, for the Ming army that crossed the river to launch a full-scale attack, Li Dingguo formulated a strategy of first east and then west, he let Yu Shenhe defend in the west, and he concentrated the elite in the east to fight a counterattack. During this period, Li Dingguo successfully ambushed the Ming army several times, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was very different from before. Li Dingguo was never able to annihilate the large Ming army and turn the situation around, and he was also powerless because his relationship with the central bureaucracy was equally bad.

The Huguang Shun Army, which was under military pressure next year and was constrained by the central bureaucracy, finally lost Wuhan, and among the dead was one of Yu Shenhe's own brothers, who, after the high power of the Great Order, recruited several sons of the Jiang family into the army through connections, and had expected them to make military achievements.

After confirming the identity of the dead, Bao Yuanlang, who had been an envoy once, was ordered to send an envoy to the Shun camp again, and Huang Naiming put the body of the Jiang family's son in a valuable coffin and asked Bao Yuanlang to take it back to Yu Shenhe.

"There is no selfishness on the battlefield." Yu Shenhe accepted the body of his deceased brother and asked Bao Yuenlong to go back and convey his thanks to Huang Naiming.

"What I said to Yu Hou last time, I don't know if Your Excellency has thought about it in the past six months?" Bao Yuanlang took advantage of the fact that there was no one left and right, and began to persuade him to surrender again: "Hunan has been lost, and this time Wuhan has been recovered by our dynasty, Yu Hou asked himself if he could be exonerated from the crime?" ”

Yu Shenhe obviously hesitated for a moment, and only after a moment did he shake his head and said, "Your dynasty has a saying, but all the immortal army will not be forgiven. ”

"Marquis Yu is not counted among them, if General Xu is willing to submit to our dynasty, Duke Qi will not pursue the past." Nan Ming also knew a lot about the internal contradictions of Dashun, and Bao Yuanlang told Yu Shenhe that according to their intelligence, the Shunting court was very unfavorable to him, Xu Ping's lineage (this Yu Shenhe also knew that after the loss of Wuhan, there were more impeachment notes against him than against Li Dingguo). And a large reason for the weakness of the Huguangshun army was that the rear did not pay sufficient salaries and grain and grass, and even during the war. Although Li Dingguo's counterattack does not mean that it will be successful if it has enough military resources, at least the chance will be much greater, and Yu Shenhe himself also tried to relieve his younger brother who was trapped in Wuhan several times, but he was unable to launch it due to insufficient materials, and was finally defeated by the Ming army that was several times the first to attack.

This time, Yu Shenhe thought for a while, but still refused: "Even if I am not a loyal minister, I must be a filial son." ”

"If you are worried about the safety of Ling Zun, Ling Tang, and Yu Hou's biological parents, Yu Hou should return to our dynasty. There are no eggs under the nest, if the Yu Hou is guilty, how can they be spared? Bao Yuanlang pressed step by step: "In fact, as long as Yu Hou nods, I have my own way to help Yu Hou's relatives get out of danger." ”

Yu Shenhe looked like he was about to be moved, and only some last hesitations remained: "I have many subordinates. ”

"This is not something that can be said in the next," not to pardon the Immortal Army is not only the meaning of the Huangshi Group, the Constituent Assembly does not object to this, and now Nanming public opinion generally believes that Xu Ping's Immortal Army is a group of bandits who do all kinds of evil, most of them are beasts full of evil, so Bao Yuanlang can't agree to this: "But if Yu Hou wants to bring fifty or one hundred cronies, this can still be guaranteed." ”

"Then there's nothing to say." Yu Shenhe asked Bao Yuanlang to go back and reply to Huang Naiming: "Either your dynasty will be pardoned, or there will be no pardon." ”

Soon the envoy of the imperial court rushed to Yu Shenhe's army with the holy decree of the Great Shun Prison State, Yu Shenhe hurriedly put up the incense case, led the generals to shout long live, and then knelt down together to listen to the angel's decree.

The wording of this holy decree was very harsh, blaming Yu Shenhe for neglecting his duties long before the Ming Shun war, and for not actively preparing for war, and when the Ming army invaded Huguang, he abandoned Hunan without a fight, so that the Huguang war situation was erosive.

Hearing this, some of the generals behind Yu Shenhe had already shown angry faces, if Yu Shenhe hadn't seen the opportunity early and led the army to avoid the Ming army, the Shun army in Huguang would have been wiped out by the superior Ming army, and it was not until Li Dingguo brought troops and horses to reinforce that the Shun army was considered to be equal to the strength of the Ming army, and Yu Shenhe also immediately launched a counterattack and recovered most of Huguang.

However, the second half of the decree became more severe, severely reprimanding Yu Shenhe for neglecting to raise the enemy, and fearing the enemy, seeing that Wuhan was besieged but not to relieve the siege, resulting in the fall of Wuhan. The imperial court demanded that Yu Shenhe immediately stop retreating and gather troops to recapture Wuhan, so that he could still make meritorious contributions, and if he continued to flee after hearing the news, he would not be forgiven.

Before the angry generals attacked, Yu Shenhe took the lead in thanking the order, and then invited the high-spirited angel to the back camp to set up a banquet to entertain him.

"Angel Rong Yu ......" This envoy is just the head of the military department, compared to Yu Shenhe's class, it is a heaven and an underground, but the other party came with a strict order, knowing that Yu Shenhe has a request for him, he is naturally full of momentum, and Yu Shenhe is also respectful to this military official. Yu Shenhe admitted that he had no ability to counterattack Wuhan at all, and if he did not retreat as soon as possible, his army would be wiped out by the enemy immediately.

But the angel was not willing to follow Yu Shenhe to inspect the army at all, and he was also disdainful of Yu Shenhe's remarks emphasizing the strength of the Ming army opposite. Anyway, Yu Shenhe doesn't have many troops now, and the imperial court doesn't think he has any ability to pose a threat, so unless he is willing to change his previous unruly temper and submit his name to the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Ministry of War, it is still unknown whether the imperial court is willing to continue to use him.

Hearing that Yu Shenhe was still rambling but always couldn't say the key position, the angel was a little impatient to get up and say goodbye, and in desperation, Yu Shenhe asked his generals to stabilize the angel, and he went out of the camp to call the quartermaster: "Take the rest of our military salaries." ”

The quartermaster paused: "Take it to the camp tent?" He felt that even if it was a bribe, it shouldn't be so explicit.

"Yes." Yu Shenhe ordered: "Take it immediately." ”

Back in the camp, Yu Shenhe didn't say a few words to the angel, and saw a group of soldiers carrying bags of silver rushing in, and moved the remaining tens of thousands of taels of silver into the barracks, and the heavy pockets were piled up all over the ground, and the angel was naturally dumbfounded.

"Angels forgive sins." Yu Shenhe saw that no more soldiers walked in, so he personally walked down to the center of the camp, squatted down to untie the rope on one of the pockets, and lifted the bottom of the bag with both hands, and the silver taels in it immediately fell out, rolling all over the ground with a ding-dong clang.

"This is all silver, the last general will not dare to use loess to deceive the angels," Yu Shenhe stood up and looked at the envoy of the imperial court, and said loudly: "Please also ask the angel to guide the last general to a way to live." ”

This rude behavior made the angel very angry in his heart, and now the generals of the whole battalion looked at him intently, and the angel's face turned red, and he angrily reprimanded: "What is the general doing? Is it a bribe? ”

"It turns out that the angel still can't trust the last general," Yu Shenhe sighed when he heard this, squatted down again to untie the rope on the other pocket, and poured out all the silver inside: "This bag is also real money." ”

Yu Shenhe said while untying each pocket one by one, pouring the silver inside into nothing, no matter how the angel drank Yu Shenhe turned a deaf ear, just poured hard, and soon the ground in the middle of the barracks was covered with bright silver, and also formed a small silver mountain, which emitted a dazzling brilliance and dazzled everyone's eyes.

Yu Shenhe's actions made all the generals feel miserable, and when Yu Shenhe fell to the last few pockets, they knelt down to the angel together and pleaded in unison for their commander: "Ask the angel to show you a way to live." ”

At this time, Yu Shenhe had already emptied the last pocket, he stood up with a shriveled empty cloth bag, looked at the angel and said: "My division is newly defeated, there is really no more, all the money in the army is here, if I Yu Shenhe has one or two more private collections, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!" ”

At this time, the angel was no longer as angry as Fang Cai, he was angry and funny, and comforted Yu Shenhe: "Master Hou doesn't have to be like this. He walked over and pulled Yu Shenhe back to his seat, this kind of sweeping way of bribing angels was unheard of before, and now that he knew that the other party was a vulgar and uneducated martial artist, most of Fang Cai's anger had disappeared.

"Hou Ye's difficulties, the subordinate officials really didn't know when they were in the court," looking at the dazzling white silver, the angel's words also became polite: "But when I saw it in the Hou Ye's army today, it was really another hardship, Hou Ye rest assured, the lower officials will definitely report to the prime minister and the cabinet when they go back." ”

Seeing that Yu Shenhe was silent, the angel thought that the other party was still not at ease, so he patted his chest and said: "Xiaguan will write a chapter and play the cabinet urgently, the difficulty of the Hou Ye is what the Xia Guan has seen with his own eyes, and he really can't recklessly counterattack Wuhan, this Xia Guan will definitely try his best to explain to the Hou Ye, and the prime minister and the cabinet will definitely understand." ”

"Alas-" Yu Shenhe sighed, and his expression suddenly became relaxed: "Can these military salaries of the soldiers really buy me a way to live?" ”

After finishing speaking, Yu Shenhe walked towards the pile of small silver mountain, at this time he still held the last cloth pocket just now in his hand, he walked to the silver mountain and squatted down and began to pick up the silver in the pocket: "The last will put away the silver for the angel." ”

"How dare you ask Master Hou to work?" The angel hurriedly ran forward to pull Yu Shenhe up.

The first time he couldn't pull, and when he pulled it again, Yu Shenhe had already filled his pocket, he stood up, smashed a full circle of his pocket on the angel's head, and shouted: "How dare you not work for the angel?" Will the last general die? ”

The bag full of silver smashed on his head, and when he landed, blood was splashed, and the messenger fell to the ground with a scream of screaming with his head, Yu Shenhe smashed the silver bag down with all his strength, and kept shouting: "Don't you just want silver?" Here you go, it's all for you! ”

All the generals were stunned, and only after the pig-killing voice gradually weakened did someone jump up to pull Yu Shenhe, but at this time the angel was already paralyzed on the ground, only breathing out and not in, and his head and neck were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood. Yu Shenhe, who had half of his body covered in blood, stared at the corpse, and the cloth pocket in his hand was also torn, and the blood-stained silver was falling out of it.

Although the angel's head had been smashed, a subordinate general still squatted down with the idea of what happened and reached out to probe his snort, and after a long time, he looked up at Yu Shenhe in despair and shouted, "Master Hou! How's it to kill an angel? ”

"You," Yu Shenhe wiped the blood on his face with his cuffs, and said coldly, "Take the army to the king of Jin." ”

"Then what should you do, Master Hou?"

"I've got my own measure."

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After Yu Shenhe killed the angel, he fled to the Ming army with his two younger brothers surnamed Jiang and some henchmen, and the southern newspapers immediately spread the matter widely, and Nanming also said according to the preface that he would recognize Yu Shenhe's marquis status and issue him a marquis-level salary every year. The Constituent Assembly pardoned the two dozen people brought by Yu Shenhe, saying that they were already under the protection of the laws of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and that anyone who harmed them would be severely punished by the law.

After receiving the report, Beijing immediately sent all the people from the Yu family and the Jiang family to prison to prepare for punishment, Xu Ping hurriedly wrote a letter to beg for mercy for them, but was severely refuted, telling him to think about it behind closed doors and stop speaking for the anti-thief.

But before they could deal with the families of these anti-thieves, the Nanming military suddenly launched a rescue surprise attack, and the airborne commando team that had been trained for a long time came in handy for the first time, and the air force picked a day when the wind was right, and flew all the way to Beijing through the fleet outside Tanggu, and then rappelled down to attack the prison.

Although the Tianjin side had seen balloons, the jailers in Beijing had never seen such a thing, so the commandos did not meet any resistance, and the guards and the surrounding people kowtowed to the Ming commandos dressed as heavenly soldiers and prayed. The commando captain dressed as Li Tianwang held the pagoda with one hand, sat swaggering in front of the jailer in costume, and let them obediently take all the prisoners out with a shout, and then watched the heavenly soldiers and generals escort the prisoners to accept the "heavenly punishment". Long after the commandos and the Yu family and the Jiang family boarded the airship and left, many people still hadn't figured out whether this vision was evil or auspicious—most people thought it was auspicious, because the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals had specially appeared to punish its traitors for Da Shuntian.

There were a few knowledgeable people in the palace of King Shun and Prime Minister, but these people were too late to convince others that the thing that flew away had made them see the new weapons of the Ming army in the south or Tianjin, and at this time, the Shun army, which did not have any air force or air defense weapons, could only cry out to the airship in vain.

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Of course, the rescue operation was blown up by the Air Force in front of the Nanming media, and for a time the airborne commando became a new hot topic, no longer under the original airship and ironclad ship, and the airship was once again mentioned by the people, originally with the passage of time, everyone has gradually become accustomed to this weapon, and today it was suddenly found that it can bring more legends. The commando commander in charge of this operation is even more legendary, he pretended to be the king of Tota Li to order the release of the prisoners, and the storyteller in the south also created a new storytelling joke for him.

Whether it is the proud Ministry of National Defense, the Air Force Division, or the commander of the airborne commando who has become famous all over the world in one day, they have not forgotten the farsightedness of Congressman Xue Shan at the beginning, and he was not missing a piece when the Constituent Assembly awarded the medal for this meritorious achievement, especially the excited commando captain, who even mentioned Dr. Xue Shan in front of the media many times, saying that without him, there would be no airborne commando team, and there would be no opportunity for his own meritorious service.

When the media cheered for the military's exploits, and laughed at Shun's incompetence in unison, and publicly suggested that the military should consider assaulting Shunwang to end the war (in fact, this can't be done, Shunwang has people around him who know airships). The Labour Cabinet is trying to claim this for themselves, while the opposition parties are rightly pointing out that Dr. Xue is not a member of the Labour Party, and that the Labour Party had made a lot of criticisms of the Air Force in the first place, with both the KMT and the Donglin Party selectively forgetting their previous skepticism about the Air Force.

Compared with the enthusiastic public opinion of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Shunfang was quite shocked, Yu Shenhe's defection to the south as a high-ranking official at the marquis level had already caused a very bad impact on the Shun Court, and this surprise attack exacerbated this impact, making those who had dissent because of the unfavorable military situation even more shaken.

Li Shun's "Liaodong People's Observer", the only one that could compete with the Nanming media, did not make any strong response to this issue, because the Liao Fan had just struggled out of the disaster, and now the main focus of the "Observer" was on how to turn the disadvantage into an advantage and carry out positive publicity on this matter.

Yi Cheng, the chief writer, set the basic tone for this matter: (caused by the use of seawater irrigation) the sudden salinization of a large area of cultivated land and the fact that the originally fertile land became unproductive in just one year is an unprecedented disaster in Chinese history, and the Liao Domain's success in overcoming this unprecedented disaster fully demonstrates the superior and advanced nature of the equal pay system implemented in Liaodong.

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