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Ma Shiying was much calmer than Emperor Hongguang, bowed slightly, and said:

"The emperor is not in a hurry, although Zuo Liangyu has 800,000 troops, this is counting the logistics personnel such as baggage and men, in addition, among the combat troops, only the first five battalions are his personal soldiers, and the last five battalions are only soldiers who surrendered.

Since the defeat of Zhu Xianzhen in the first battle, the most elite troops in Chu Town have almost all been lost, and the current combat strength of the first five battalions is very sluggish.

Therefore, although Chu Zhen's overall military appearance looks spectacular, its combat power is extremely limited."

Hongguang is still not at ease, "Even so, that's 800,000 people."

"800,000 people, it seems to be the edge of the left camp, but it is actually the great benefit of the imperial court." Ma Shiying smiled, "He Zuo Liangyu doesn't have the ability to come up with enough grain, grass and silver to support so many people."

"What does Mr. Ma mean?"

"As long as the imperial court sends Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing to the west to block Chu Town for a month or two, Chu Town will be in chaos!"

Seeing that Ma Shiying said yes, Hongguang put his mind at ease, "Then quickly send the soldiers of the three towns to fortify."

Ma Shiying said that he would obey the order, and said: "Please also ask Your Majesty to order Gao Jie to prepare for war, strictly guard the defense line of Fengyang Mansion, adjust Shi Kefa, and supervise Yangzhou and Huai'an, so as to prevent the northern army from going south."

Hongguang nodded convincingly, "It's still Mr. Ma's thoughtfulness!"

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Jiujiang, river battleship.

Yuan Jixian threw aside the holy decree in Zuo Liangyu's hand and scolded, "You puppet dare to be cunning! Are you stupid for me?"

Zuo Liangyu was not angry, he knew Yuan Jixian's talent and connections, and said respectfully: "Nanjing is not orthodox in the first place, Emperor Chongzhen is still in charge of Beijing, and even defeated the thieves and Jianyu, Nanjing will not be protected sooner or later!"

Ben Shuai is here to respond to the people of the heavens and share the worries of the emperor!"

Yuan Jixian snorted coldly: "You didn't go to King Qin in March last year, and now taking advantage of the unknown life and death of Emperor Chongzhen, you abandon the thieves and sacrifice the thieves, and attack Nanjing, you are suspicious and rebellious!"

Zuo Liangyu was already old and frail, and he had suffered from the wind and cold recently, coughing non-stop, and often couldn't breathe.

"Lord Yuan, the old man has never been sorry for King Xiaofu of Nanjing, it was he who favored Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng after he ascended the throne and let them take real power.

They knew that the old man had benefited from the recommendation of Hou Sui, a native of Donglin, and they were worried that the Donglin people would rely on the old man to argue with the Nanjing court, so they specially built the Banji City as a barrier to the west."

Zuo Liangyu sighed, held back his cough, and continued, "Now there is something to guard against in the west, isn't it just to guard against me!"

"If you hadn't pretended to be cold that day and refused to accept the edict of Emperor Hongguang's enthronement, how could you be guarded by the imperial court?" Yuan Jixian turned around, "You kill me!"

"Lord Yuan, now the 36 generals under my command work together, and they will definitely be able to take Nanjing, but for you and me, we will keep you rich forever!" Zuo Liangyu began to lure.

Yuan Jixian snorted coldly and did not answer.

Zuo Liangyu knew that his eloquence was not enough to move Yuan Jixian, and he didn't want to continue to talk in vain, but because he was dizzy and out of breath this time, he had to wave his hand and let people take him down.

That night, Wang Shizhong, Jin Shenghuan and others gathered together and were angry when they talked about Yuan Jixian's soft and hard refusal.

"You and I might as well follow the example of Song Jiang in the Water Margin and send someone to pretend to be Yuan Jixian to burn Jiujiang, one can force him to submit, and the other can take the opportunity to loot and replenish military supplies!" Wang Shizhong said viciously.

"Do you want to ask Zuo Shuai about this matter first?" Jin Shenghuan hesitated.

"Please tell Zuo Shuai, the credit is ours, and the materials will be divided......" Wang Shizhong whispered.

It was night, and Jiujiang City fell

In the sea of fire, the soldiers who defended the city fled in all directions, the people in the city were slaughtered, and overnight, the prosperous Jiujiang River was reduced to ashes.

Yuan Jixian saw the Jiujiang fire on the boat and scolded angrily.

Zuo Liangyu also jumped up in shock, coughed for a while, and then came out of the cabin, looking at the sea of fire and worried.

He heard Yuan Jixian's scolding, scolded his eight ancestors, and his female ancestors were also insulted, trembling with anger, coughing for a while, and after drinking a cup of tea, he ordered loudly to block Yuan Jixian's mouth, and sent people ashore to fight the fire and save people, and grabbed food and money by the way.

Three hours later, Wang Shizhong and Jin Shenghuan came to report the good news, "Dashuai, the two of us pretended to be Lord Yuan, set fire to Jiujiang, and robbed the army of food for two months, hahaha......

Zuo Liangyu smelled the smoky smell on their bodies, his nose was tingling, his eyes were black, and he said in his heart, what kind of thing did he raise.

Although it is not a big deal to burn the city and steal grain, but if you don't ask yourself to attack, you will know that you want to swallow money and grain alone, if all the generals in the battalion are like this in the future, sooner or later it will become a disaster.

This unhealthy trend must be killed!

Especially this Wang Shizhong, originally Liaodong Haixi Jurchen, the ancestors for the Ming Dynasty canonization, divided the Southern Dynasty Pass, when he was nine years old, the Southern Dynasty Pass was occupied by Jianyu, Wang Shizhong fled into the mainland with his family, by chance, got an official position, but Chongzhen nine years, because of greed for money and food, was deposed by the imperial court, once down. But it is also his life that should not be extinguished, when Chongzhen was eleven years old, Zuo Liangyu saw that he was brave, put him into the army, and let Zuo Mengeng marry the daughter of the Wang family and become his own family.

At this time, it is used to kill cattle and set an example for monkeys.

"Come on, take down Wang Shizhong and Jin Shenghuan, correct the law on the spot, and avenge the people of Jiujiang! Give the world an explanation!" Zuo Liangyu yelled.

"Dashuai, why is this so, we are all for your own good, pretending to be Yuan Jixian, is to force him to be used by you, in addition, burning, killing and looting is the foundation of our survival, our left battalion has done it dozens or hundreds of times, how can you blame the two of us today!" Wang Shizhong was shocked.

Jin Shenghuan was also shocked, "Zuo Shuai, the last general is not guilty, why do you want to kill me?"

"Without the orders of the commander, he sent troops to loot without permission, and said that he was not guilty?" Zuo Liangyu was very indifferent.

Zuo Mengeng knelt down: "Father, General Wang is his son's father-in-law, and I ask my father to spare his life!"

Zuo Liangyu was angry when he looked at this far-sighted son, if it weren't for the fact that his entire family had been killed, and there was only such a son left, he would have given up on this idiot a long time ago.

Wang Shizhong saw his son-in-law pleading for him, and hurriedly assisted, he knelt forward, hugged Zuo Liangyu's thigh and begged, "Dashuai, I am bent on serving Dashuai, begging Dashuai to spare his life!"

Zuo Liangyu ignored the so-called in-laws, at this time, he had to take the in-laws to establish his supreme authority.

He held back his cough, raised his leg and kicked violently, not wanting Wang Shizhong to hug him tightly, and he didn't let go, and the smoky smell on his body rushed straight to Zuo Liangyu's nose.

As soon as Zuo Liangyu wanted to drag Wang Shizhong down, he was choked and coughed violently, and he coughed for a quarter of an hour.

Zuo Mengeng hurriedly asked people to serve tea, but before the tea arrived, Zuo Liangyu coughed and fainted.

"Father!" Zuo Mengeng was shocked.