Emperor Zheng ascended the throne for 40 years, thought that he was the world, first leveled the rebellion of the Fu family, and then removed the power minister Zhang Jiangling, and then set the grassland, sealed Lin Yuan as the king of Zhenbei, and then punished the prince against the party, and did a total of four major things. But later it turned out that it was the four major events that Emperor Zheng Qin Gong was proud of, plus the Xiaoice River period, that buried the last bit of vitality of the Great Zheng Dynasty. The current Da Zheng has essentially been divided into five parts of the world, among which Xiao Yu has the most military strength, Lu Qian has the most abundant money and grain, the herdsman has the most stable foundation, Xiao Lie occupies the orthodoxy, and Qin Zheng occupies the righteousness. Now the three major warlords of Xiao Lie, Murenqi and Qin Zheng are fighting in the Central Plains, and the war has spread to Qizhou, Yuzhou, Beidi, Huizhou and other places, and the other two warlords are not idle, and the Northwest Army led by Xiao Yu conquered Shuzhou in the autumn and winter of the first year of Jianwen, and then went out of Shu into the lake, and officially started a war with Lu Qian.

The war is raging, the natural disasters are raging, the heaven and the earth are furnaces, and the lives are ruined.

It was early winter, and it rarely snowed in Jincheng, but perhaps because of the Xiaoice River period, the light snow was sprinkled in these days, and it accumulated for a few days, and it also hung a layer of plain white on Jincheng.

At this time, the sky was cloudy, and a middle-aged man dressed in a dark black dark guard robe and wearing an autumn sweeping knife at his waist walked through a long corridor, holding a brocade box in his hand, and on both sides of the corridor were leather armor guards with swords in their hands, concentrating solemnly.

After passing through the corridor, there is a fairly well-preserved garden, where the guards have changed into secret guards who also wear dark guard robes and wear autumn swords, but after seeing the man holding the brocade box, they all hold their breath to show respect. After all, the Dark Guard also has an official position, and now there is no governor in the Northwest Dark Guard Mansion, and the highest official position is the unified level, and the person in front of him is one of the four commanders of the Dark Guard Mansion.

Walking into the garden, the man's body has accumulated a little thin snow, looking at the middle-aged man with a kind smile on his face, looking at the palm lamp in only a few places in the garden, just saw a small figure guarding the door, the man turned into a one-handed brocade box, and beckoned to the young man.

The young man trotted all the way over and said with a smile: "Qu Dutong wants to see the prince?"

Qu Cang took out a small silver ingot from his sleeve, stuffed it into the young man's sleeve without a trace, and said with a smile: "Little brother Ping'an, has the prince risen?"

Regarding the courtship of this prince's confidant, Zhang Ping'an did not refuse, touched his cuffs, and said with a smile: "Zhang Ping'an thanked Qu Dutong for rewarding him." The prince has already risen, so let's come with the little one. ”

This young man whose real name is Zhang Bai-year-old is actually a little eunuch, who was brought to Shuzhou by Xiao Yu and is responsible for taking care of his own daily life.

After the two passed through the two middle doors, they came to the door of Xiao Yu's bedroom.

Zhang Ping'an said softly outside the door: "Lord Wang, Qu Dutong asks to see you." ”

A moment later, a slightly tired voice came from inside the room, "Come in." ”

Inside the house, Xiao Yu was sitting on a soft couch with his robe on, coughed lightly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Qu Cang raised the brocade box with both hands and said softly: "Lord Wang, this is sent by the princess." ”

Xiao Yu hooked his hand.

Qu Cang handed the brocade box to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu took the brocade box, did not rush to open it, and did not speak.

Qu Cang bent over and stood in place.

After a long time, Xiao Yu waved his hand outward. Qu Cang gently exited the room.

Xiao Yu was the only one left in the room, and he slowly opened the brocade box, which was a neatly stacked cotton robe.

Xiao Yu took out the cotton robe from the brocade box and shook it off gently. The cotton robe is very poorly made, and the two sleeves can be seen to be modified, it seems that there was originally a sleeve to be longer, and then a piece was cut off, the stitches in the corners are very messy, there is no discipline, and the whole robe is not embellished with any patterns, plain and pure. But even so, it can be seen that the person who made the robe is very careful, every place has been carefully modified, the stitches are very messy, but they are very dense and strong, and the cotton is very thick.

Xiao Yu hugged the bloated cotton robe, a little unsure of what to say, this seemed to be the first time he could remember that someone had made clothes for him.

There is also a letter at the bottom of the brocade box.

Xiao Yu opened the letter, and inside was Lin Yinping's handwriting, which were all daily family matters, such as her body was much better, the weather in the northwest was getting colder day by day, and it was time to start preparing for the feather coat, Xiao Yue contradicted her sister-in-law again, and her words were fragmentary, and it was these bits and pieces that really supported a family. At the end of the letter, he mentioned that the palace had been roughly renovated, and at the same time asked Xiao Yu slightly about when he would come back, and if he could come back, he would write back to tell her.

Xiao Yu got up and walked to the bookcase, and asked Zhang Ping'an to start grinding the ink, and the ink block quickly turned into ink, but Xiao Yu kept hesitating after lifting the pen, and for a while he didn't know how to write, and he didn't know how to speak.

In the end, I just wrote down the four words "Don't read it".

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At this time, the vanguard army led by Zhuge Gong had already entered the territory of Huzhou, facing Luo Zengxian's army from the front, and after the two armies had fought a lot, they began to enter a confrontation.

Luo Zengxian was a tall and strong man who was nearly a foot tall, wearing a fur robe, a cold black breastplate and a tiger head on his shoulders poking out majestically from under the robe. There are several scars on a pitch-black big face with Chinese characters, which looks hideous and terrifying.

Luo Zengxian is not only a high-ranking figure of the White Lotus Sect, but also a defender of the Two Lakes, who once accompanied the Metropolitan Governor Zhang Qing on an expedition to Baiyue and made countless military exploits.

Luo Zengxian has been on the battlefield for a long time, has experienced countless battle formations, and fought with Zhuge Gong's department as soon as he first fights, and he knows that the combat power of the Northwest Army really lives up to the name of Jia Dazheng, far above the rabble led by himself, and only his own pro-army can be compared to one or two.

However, Luo Zengxian was reluctant to use his own pro-army to fight these veterans in the northwest, after all, the pro-soldiers were the capital for his life in the White Lotus Sect, and the number was only more than 8,000 people.

So after a short confrontation, Luo Zengxian used the White Lotus Sect's tactics of sweeping the hungry people in the south of the Yangtze River, that is, the tactics of the sea of people, and constantly drove the hungry people to besiege the 5,000 Northwest armor soldiers, and in the end, there were 30,000 hungry people attacking together, but most of these hungry people were yellow and thin-skinned, their faces were blank, there was no armor on their bodies, and the weapons in their hands were also varied, knives, guns, wooden sticks, and even stones, compared with the Northwest Army with bright armor, it was undoubtedly a world of difference.

In the face of these "rebel army" who were ordinary people not long ago, Zhuge Gong ordered the whole army to fire a salvo and then began to fight head-on.

The 5,000 vanguard army led by Zhuge Gong were all cavalry.

The two armies suddenly handed over, and the 5,000 cavalry was like a sharp blade, stabbing into the formation of the hungry people, easily killing through the opponent's military formation, and then turning around and charging again.

As Tang Lie said, these Jiangnan rebels couldn't even ride horses, and they didn't have the strength to fight in the face of Dazheng's most elite northwest cavalry.

In just two round-trips, the "army" of nearly 30,000 hungry people has been defeated like a mountain, no matter how the overseers behind them killed, they could not raise the slightest morale, and their courage was completely lost, and they fled backwards with their armor abandoned.

Zhuge Gong was not in a hurry to chase and kill, but drove the hungry people behind unhurriedly, and in turn used the hungry people to attack Luo Zengxian's military array.

Luo Zengxian, who personally supervised the battle in the rear, had an ugly face, and he didn't expect that the tried and tested tactics of starving the people would be so easily broken by the Northwest Cavalry.

However, he was not too discouraged, after all, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is not conducive to cavalry conquest, this time he carelessly chose the wrong battlefield, as long as he is strong and cleared the wilderness, and then use the hungry people everywhere to consume, this invincible northwest cavalry army is not to be afraid!

Luo Zengxian's face calmly gave the order to retreat, when the White Lotus Sect started by relying on the homeless people, the focus is on a flow word, long in the march, how to defeat without routing, fleeing without scattering has its own rules. Moreover, Luo Zengxian's pro-army was also a cavalry army, and he used the hungry people to block the vacancy of the Northwest Cavalry, and turned around, so that Zhuge Gong could not catch up.

The next day, Xiao Yu of Jincheng and Lu Qian of Jiangdu both received battle reports, Zhuge Gong led 5,000 cavalry to break Luo Zengxian's 50,000 army, and Luo Zengxian led 2,000 cavalry to flee in a hurry.

The first battle between the Jiangnan Army and the Northwest Army, the Northwest won a big victory.