Earlier, Emperor Jingxing had a decree: to order Jiang Nanwei and Hanoi Wei to send troops to conquer Lingnan Road. As the general of Jiangnan Wei, Yu Hongtu of course acted according to the order.

However, the integration of troops has not yet been completed, and the news of the earthquake came from Jingzhao: The emperor has died!

Gangnam Province is naturally a place where people cry and mourn their monarch. And Yu Hongtu and other generals, when they were crying, there was a trace of inexplicable confusion in them.

The emperor has died, so should the will of sending troops to Jiangnan Province continue? At this moment of chaos in the world, the emperor died suddenly, which is absolutely unfortunate news for Jiang Nanwei.

The monarch collapsed, and the two guards of Jiangnan and Hanoi had not yet sent troops to have this bad news. What will happen to morale? What will happen to the situation? Yu Hongtu This is all conceivable, which is very disadvantageous!

"To move or not to move?" Hanoi Wei General Gu Dacun frowned and asked Yu Hongtu.

Yu Hongtu was the envoy of this expedition, and he was the one who made the final decision, of course, so Gu Dacun asked this question.

Gu Dacun took more than 80,000 Hanoi guards to Jiangnan Province to meet Yu Hongtu. At this moment, Gu Dacun's heart is very complicated.

When quelling the turmoil in Jinzhou and Ezhou, he fought side by side with Shen Huashan. But now, the Shen family's army is against the imperial court, and he is going to take soldiers to conquer the Shen family.

Former partners, current enemies, this kind of transformation is really as uncomfortable as swallowing flies.

Gu Dacun once again said to himself: "Why did Shen Huashan turn the other way? ”

In their minds, the Shen family is equal to Shen Huashan. They really didn't expect that the kind little old man would hold Xiningwei without making a sound, and then pull Lingnan Wei, and suddenly raise troops, which shook the Seventh Avenue a few times.

In contrast, they didn't receive any news in advance, which is really weak.

"Even if we send troops, can our troops beat Xiningwei and Lingnanwei? They defeated 300,000 enemy troops in Western Yan. ”

It is not equal to Hongtu's answer, Gu Dacun continued. Although these words are to increase the morale of others to destroy their own prestige, they are indeed true.

The flood in Hanoi Province has not yet ended, and the soldiers of Hanoi Wei, as well as some of the disaster relief in the Henan area, can gather enough for these 80,000 soldiers, which is already a great strength of the ancients.

He didn't know how Xiningwei could increase tens of thousands of people in a short period of time. Previously, Xiningwei's strength was only 120,000, and after the invasion of the enemy army in Xiyan, there are now 150,000!

Is...... It's hard to convince people!

No matter what Gu Da Existence said, Yu Hongtu just said lightly: "Don't move, do you dare to resist the decree?" ”

He took out the bright yellow decree. This was sent by Jingzhao, and it was stamped with the jade seal of Emperor Jingxing, and it was sent to the will of the army.

Even if Emperor Jingxing died, how dare they, as military generals, disobey?

Gu Dacun sighed, knowing that Yu Hongtu was telling the truth. There is a holy purpose here, no matter how many troops there are, whether they can fight or not, the recruitment department must move.

The attitude of the imperial court, the face of the imperial court, and the integrity of the Dayong country all depend on this campaign to maintain. Otherwise, Daeyong will fall apart.

Jiang Bowen and Yan Luzheng are fighting happily in Longyou Road, and Gu Dacun and Yu Hongtu have always been in a wait-and-see situation. Now, it's their turn to be in the middle of the battle.

This kind of taste is really uncomfortable. Yan Luzheng is a little better, after all, Jiang Bowen killed 50,000 soldiers in the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, but he was a traitor and disloyal, and when he picked up Jiang Bowen, he had no psychological burden at all.

But when Gu Dacun thought that Shen Zejing and others had repelled 300,000 Xiyan enemy troops and held the territory of Dayong, with this great achievement blocking like a city wall, the two armies faced each other, and he was afraid that he would be soft.

Yu Hongtu wanted to say something, but stopped. Whatever Gu Da Existence thinks, it is all floating on his face. What he was thinking, Yu Hongtu was very clear. Yu Hongtu himself, why isn't he so entangled?

Immediately, a piece of paper from Jing Zhaolai put an end to their entanglement.

"Zuo Liangzhe, this is too insidious! This kind of indiscriminate means, thanks to his still a civil official! Seeing Ming Huang's will, Gu Dacun couldn't help but scolded loudly. What about the lonely minister, he has never been afraid!

Zuo Liangzhe relied on the power of the minister of Tuogu, and had the queen Zuo and Prince Rui in the palace as the name, and in the name of the new emperor, he made a will to send troops.

This order to send troops not only ordered the two guards of Jiangnan and Hanoi to set off immediately, but also ordered them to send the people of the Yu family, the Hu family, and the Ye family of Xishan to go on an expedition together, and it was necessary to suppress the Shen family, pacify Lingnan, and Xining.

What made Gu Dacun angry was the will to escort these three families on the expedition. What does Zuo Liangzhe mean by this, Gu Dacun is clear.

These three families are all old in-laws of the Shen family, and they are the best hostages of the Dayong Imperial Court, and they are used in the Lingnan war, of course, to coerce the Shen family to submit!

Such a method, in Gu Dacun's opinion, is really too insidious. Even if their troops were not enough and they could not defeat the Shen family, Gu Dacun did not think of using such a means.

If the victory is not martial, even if the court wins, Gu Dacun feels that he has been slapped in the face.

"Soldiers, treacherous. It is good to be able to win, there is no insidious and not insidious speech. Zuo Liangzhe's method cannot be wrong. ”

Yu Hongtu groaned for a while and said. He once led his soldiers to suppress King Sheng, and he knew very well that when dealing with rebellion, it was to use thunder to suppress it, and there was no other way.

"But......" Gu Dacun wanted to refute, but he didn't know how to say it. Yu Hongtu is not wrong, the Shen family rebelled in the front, and these Shen family in-laws should have been executed. However, he didn't feel kind about it.

"Even if we don't escort these people, won't the three thousand people who came from Jin Wuwei do this?"

Yu Hongtu spoke again. Along with this will came to Gangnam Province, along with the 3,000 soldiers of Kim Wuwei. It seems that Zuo Liangzhe was also worried that they would not do this, and sent soldiers to do this.

Yes, there are still 3,000 gold guards!

Gu Dacun has nothing to say now. Things have come to this point, so you can only take advantage of the situation.

Jingzhao came with 3,000 Jin Wuwei to escort the Xishan Yu clan to Lingnan. This matter soon spread in Jiangnan Weili.

The other generals didn't feel anything, but Duan Hong, the Zhonglang general who was guarding the Xianghu Lake, was anxious. What to do? What to do? How can we save the lives of these people? Duan Hong found that in such a situation, he had no way to think about it.

After the Shen family raised troops, Duan Hong knew that these people related to the Shen family were going to be killed. All he wanted was to save the lives of these people.

One is to protect the cultural foundation of Jiangnan Province, and the other is to repay Shen Huashan's kindness.

No matter what kind of crime the Shen family is to rebel, Shen Huashan's kindness, Duan Hong must still repay it. In Duan Hong's mind, the family will always be bigger than the imperial court, otherwise he would not have almost rebelled for his wife who was about to give birth.

In order to keep the Yu family, on the one hand, he instigated the civil officials and scholars of Jiangnan Province and used these people to defend the Yu family; On the other hand, he suggested to Yu Hongtu that he should lead his troops to defend Xianghu. In this way, on the surface, the Yu family seemed to be imprisoned, but in fact, it saved the lives of the family.

Duan Hong wanted to take advantage of the town guard period to rescue these Yu family disciples. However, before his plan could be implemented, Jingzhao came to Jinwuwei.

Now, the three thousand Jin Wuwei have replaced the Jiangnan Wei soldiers and are guarding the Xishan Xianghu Lake, of course, they have also choked the lifeblood of the Xishan Yu clan.

No matter how anxious Duan Hong was, the day of recruiting Si Qi's troops would soon come. Nearly 200,000 troops of the Recruiting Division set out from Jiangnan Province and advanced to Lingnan with great momentum.

Of course, the Xishan Yu family, as well as the children of the Shen, Hu, and Ye families, were also escorted by 3,000 Jin Wuwei and went to Lingnan Road together.

Among the hostages in this group, the largest number of people was Yu. Many of the Shen family's children left in Hangzhou have been tortured too much in prison and have already died; The Hu and Ye families did not have many children left; Only the Xishan Yu clan held Xianghu Lake, but not many people left.

Among the Shen Yu brothers, in addition to Yu Zhengkai and Yu Zhengdao in Lingnan Road, there are also Yu Zhengshi and Yu Zhengan; In the generation of Shen Yu's nephews, there are Yu Shijing, Yu Shigang and others.

Fortunately, the third generation of the Yu family, Yu Pingsheng, Yu Pingyan and others were secretly rescued by Duan Hong. Otherwise, the Yu family has been in the same vein for several generations, and the cultural roots are all here.

Yu Hongtu and Gu Dacun rode on horseback, looking at the group of hostages from a distance, their faces were very calm.

I don't know if they were mistaken, or if it was something else, but the group was straight and there was a smile on their face, and even the old woman with all white hair, with her waist bent and her head tilted back strangely—it was a straight posture.

This old woman with white hair is Shen Yu's mother, Shen Zejing's mother-in-law, and Yu Jinzhi's old wife! She is over eighty years old, and she is also a hostage of the imperial court!

The Jin Wuwei soldiers didn't want to escort such a burden, but Mrs. Yu insisted on coming along, and she was still chattering, and the Jin Wuwei soldiers became angry.

Since she insisted on sending her to death, how could the Jin Wuwei soldiers not allow it? Jin Wuwei, who was able to come to Jiangnan Province, either obeyed the orders of the Empress Zuo, or was bought by Zuo Liangzhe, and he had no respect for the Yu family at all.

Yu Hongtu and Gu Dacun looked at the smiling old woman, and ominous flashed in their hearts. I always felt that this old woman was laughing so hard that it made people's hearts flutter.

In this feeling, Yu Hongtu and Gu Dacun finally came to the border of Lingnan Road with their soldiers.

The Nanling Mountains are like a natural barrier, tightly guarding Lingnan Road. As long as you cross the Nanling Mountains, you will enter the hinterland of Lingnan Road.

Of course, Yu Hongtu and Gu Dacun did not cross the Nanling so easily, they were on the edge of the Nanling, in a city called Nanxiong, and began to communicate with Xining Wei,