As mentioned earlier, it took a day for Fuwang Zhu Yousong and his entourage to arrive at the junction of Tianchang County and Yizheng County with their troops in advance, and wait for the news, and the time was worthy of the end of February.

It is not difficult for the officials who have opened God's perspective to find that at this time on the other side, Zhu Shuren has just received the last order of Chongzhen relayed by Zhang Yan, and it will take another day or two before he can return to Nanjing to communicate with Shi Kefa, and then go to Hefei to pick up his father-in-law, King Lu.

Therefore, if King Fu really wants to take a risk, directly enter the territory of Yizheng, and then cross the river from Yizheng County to Jingkou and turn to Nanjing, he can still arrive before King Lu.

However, if there is no sufficient excuse for this kind of thing, if you go directly to the reckless, then there will be no way to retreat, and once it fails, the generals who lead the troops will be punished by the clan, which is a great crime of conspiracy and rebellion.

Liu Liangzuo is not the kind of ruthless person who is willing to cut down the whole family, he really has such a brave backbone, and in history, when Duoduo went south, he would not be the first to be a traitor and directly give up all his defense areas to join the enemy.

Therefore, to confirm that Shi Kefa did not welcome the king in time, he also had to quickly inform Ma Shiying again and let Ma Shiying have an idea, which took another day and a half.

Fortunately, on Ma Shiying's side, he was not completely unprepared, and Ruan Dacheng beside him was even more good at engaging in infighting tricks. When Liu Liangzuo was sent to lead troops to escort King Fu south, Ruan Dacheng had already expected that Shi Kefa might be tired of playing tricks, and Ruan Dacheng made preparations at the same time.

After four or five days of collusion, Ruan Dacheng's second-hand preparations have now begun to take shape.

The day after Liu Liangzuo sent people to ask for instructions, Ruan Dacheng personally came to the Tianchang County Army and conveyed a new order:

"Liu Junmen, don't be afraid, you can lead the troops into Yizheng and cross the river to escort His Royal Highness to Nanjing! Governor Ma has found a righteous name for you! ”

Liu Liangzuo was still a little timid: "If foreign soldiers are not summoned to Beijing, if there is disharmony in the end, it will be a big crime...... I wonder what excuse the Governor used? ”

Ruan Dacheng smiled sympathetically: "After learning that King Yong and King Ding might be martyred that day, I persuaded Brother Yaocao to immediately try to contact Liu Zeqing, Gui and Xu Dingguo in Shandong to confirm whether the troops were re-transferred to the south after the invasion of Beijing was withdrawn.

As I expected, after four or five days of quick contact and understanding of the enemy's situation, it can now be confirmed that three days ago, that is, on the seventh day after the thieves withdrew from Beijing, Liu Fangliang on the South Road of the Chuang Army had been forced to withdraw from Baoding Mansion by the Qing army.

Liu Fangliang slowly retreated south, and the forward turned to attack south, recapturing Linqing and other places two months ago, where Zhu Shuren went north to save the time of recovery, and crossed the Yellow River from Linqing to the south!

On the other hand, Gui and Bo directions, Gui Defu Shangqiu and other places, were also temporarily recaptured from Liu Fangliang when Zhu Shuren went north to King Qin. When Zhu Shuren's soldiers and horses withdrew, Liu Fangliang had no intention of going south again to seize it.

But now, the thieves have an unstable foothold in Hebei and are forced to flee south, and Liu Fangliang's partial division has also re-encircled Shangqiu and captured many counties in Guide Prefecture! Xu Dingguo has also withdrawn the main force from Shangqiu to Bozhou! ”

The situation relayed by Ruan Dacheng is also very different from the original historical inertia - after Li Zicheng was defeated by Dolgon in Hebei, he didn't think about fighting back on the spot and not retreating.

But after the Jin Kingdom was crippled by the Mongols in history, he always thought that "the part that was lost from the Mongols should be invaded south to make up for the Song Dynasty", and then Li Zicheng thought about continuing to pinch the soft persimmons and fight the land in the south that was still controlled by the Ming Dynasty to return blood.

And Xu Dingguo, mentioned in Ruan Dacheng's words, is also a hob meat general who has been fighting the imperial court in Shanxi and Henan for many years, and should have followed Hou Xian (Hou Fangyu's father, the former household department Shangshu) in history, because of previous defeats, Chongzhen was imprisoned in the fifteenth year, and he was deprived of military power in the Henan battlefield.

But now, when Zhu Shuren went to the north to Qinwang, he briefly recovered the Guide Mansion lost by Liang Yizhang and others, and Zhu Shuren couldn't stay for a long time, and the imperial court also set up a new general army in this newly recovered Henan land, and released Xu Dingguo, who had been guilty before, to reuse it.

When Liu Liangzuo heard these urgent military situations at first glance, his face was naturally quite worried, after all, he was still a pure military general with little culture.

Hearing that the friendly forces in front of him were losing their land one after another, and that he, the chief soldier in charge of the defense of Fengyang and Huai'an, was very likely to be pushed to the front line of resistance again, he really couldn't figure out why Ruan Dacheng could say these bad news so much.

Ruan Dacheng, is this guy a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs? I lost my land, are you still so happy?

Ruan Dacheng saw that such a vulgar martial artist had no political sensitivity and did not understand the art of intrigue and intrigue, so he was also quite disdainful, so he had to pick out the words:

"Liu Junmen, think about it, if the thieves don't attack Liu Zeqing and Xu Dingguo, we will directly and forcibly send troops to send His Royal Highness King Fu to Nanjing, but there is no way out!

But now it's different, and the thieves have given us a brilliant excuse! His Royal Highness King Fu, as the closest vassal king to the first emperor's bloodline, naturally has to be protected by the Ming court!

And there are many prefectures and counties in Huaibei that have been fallen by Liu Fangliang's new round of attacks, Fengyang is already the place where the thieves and soldiers are directed, we are escorting King Fu to the south at this moment, not 'no court to summon foreign soldiers to enter Beijing without authorization', but to help the court escort King Fu to transfer! lest King Fu be in the war zone again! With such a righteous reputation, even if it doesn't work out in the end, there is a talisman!

I have persuaded Brother Yaocao to further show favor to Liu Zeqing and Xu Dingguo, as long as they cooperate with His Royal Highness King Lifu, after the matter is completed in the future, their sins of losing their teachers and losing their land in Shandong and Guibo can be written off!

They can also follow and be knighted from the dragon heroes! In the future, King Fu will sit firmly on the throne, and he will be able to transfer them away from the front line of resistance, and let them go to the rich areas of the south to bring troops, oil and water, which is much more than staying in the bitter cold land of Shandong and Henan!

When the time comes, let those stubborn thorns head to the front line of anti-Tartar resistance! Let those generals who can't be people and serve the king of Fu go to endure hardships and die, and let's eat and drink spicy food later! ”

Liu Liangzuo was analyzed by Ruan Dacheng, and his eyes lit up and his spirits were lifted.

That's right! We are now the soldiers who escort His Royal Highness King Fu to avoid Liu Fangliang's southern invasion again! It's that the Nanjing court is too procrastinating and incompetent, obviously there is a vassal king who is closest to the first emperor, and he forgot to let the other party retreat in time and protect it well, let's help Nanjing check and fill in the gaps!

After coming back to the taste, Liu Liangzuo couldn't help but admire it from the bottom of his heart:

If you want to talk about the infighting of civil officials, it is really a villain like Ruan Dacheng! This skill, without twenty or thirty years of professional calculation of their own people's background, it is absolutely impossible to react so quickly!

Now that he has a name to protect his body and a way out, what else does Liu Liangzuo have to hesitate about? On the same day, he ordered his troops and horses, plus brought hundreds of scout cavalry under the command of Xu Dingguo and Liu Zeqing brought by Ruan Dacheng, and went south to march together!

Xu Dingguo and Liu Zeqing's people were also sent by Ruan Dacheng to Ma Shiying to inquire about the military situation in the north and get in touch, so he asked Erzhen to send them quickly, so he should accept a vote.

Xu Dingguo and Liu Zeqing were also very cooperative, giving one person two horses, regardless of the lack of cavalry in his army, and letting these people travel hundreds of miles a day to cooperate.

Liu Liangzuo didn't need how many troops these people actually provided, all he wanted was a name, and after having these hundreds of people, it was not Liu Liangzuo who went alone, but the three towns of Jiangbei jointly participated in the righteous act under the call of Ma Du, and the momentum and reputation would be different.

His troops arrived at Yizheng that night, and then asked King Fu to rest for the night, while Liu Liangzuo raised a ferry overnight.

The next day, early in the morning of the third day of the third month of March, Liu Liangzuo hurriedly led his troops to board the ship at Guazhoudu, and led the army directly to Jinshan Temple on the opposite bank to land at Jingkou.

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The timeline goes back one day, on the day that Ruan Dacheng persuaded Liu Liangzuo to send troops, Shi Kefa in Nanjing City, of course, also learned about the changes in the local army in Jiangbei - after all, the territory of Yangzhou Mansion is still directly managed by Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, and the soldiers and horses of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, are not qualified to enter Yangzhou.

Therefore, when Liu Liangzuo's army entered Yizheng County, the defenders of Yizheng County immediately sent someone to report to Shi Kefa for 600 li, and it was delivered that night. At that time, Liu Liangzuo was still raising ferries in Jiangbei.

Scofa only had one night to react and deploy.

Shi Kefa knew very well that he had just negotiated with Zhu Shuren yesterday and sent Zhu Shuren to Hefei to pick up King Lu, counting the days, if there was no obstruction, King Lu would have to return to Nanjing at least three days later than King Fu!

Once King Fu, who is closest to the first emperor's blood, enters Nanjing City, and there are soldiers and horses to escort him, everything is unknown! Moreover, for the sake of righteousness and in order to win over Zhang Yan, Zhu Shuren got the "Dictation of the First Emperor Before His Death", and only said that King Lu would wait for King Lu to return to the south, and did not say that he would pass on the throne to King Lu!

This kind of edict that only supervises the country and does not pass on the throne, in the case of King Lu arriving in Nanjing first, can still stabilize the situation, if King Fu arrives first, there will be a chance to mess around in the cracks!

Shi Kefa wanted to understand these truths, and he was also bloody, and asked the subordinate officers of the army under his command overnight: "Where is the closest to Nanjing now for the soldiers and horses in other towns and horses, and those with water divisions?" ”

His staff member Yan Ermei was by his side at the time, and this person was also proficient in business, and he knew the information on the deployment of soldiers and horses, and replied:

"In addition to the soldiers and horses guarding Nanjing, the nearest naval army of Waizhen is on the opposite bank of Wuhu County on the border between Taiping Mansion and Luzhou Prefecture. It is the man of the governor of Huguang Zhu. ”

Shi Kefa thought for a while: "Liu Liangzuo has arrived at Yizheng, and he will definitely be able to find enough boats to cross the river by tomorrow morning at the latest, and now that the soldiers and horses in Wuhu are notified to come to help, it is too late to stop crossing the river...... Help me find the household department and Shen Butang to discuss the matter immediately! ”

Yan Ermei immediately went to do it, and in less than half an hour, Shen Tingyang of the household department was found,

Along the way, Shen Tingyang obviously also got the news from Yan Ermei, and knew what Shi Kefa was looking for him, so he got straight to the point as soon as they met:

"Xianzhi needs to dispatch a sailor to intercept Liu Liangzuo's crossing of the river? Zhang Mingzhen's department under the old man, although he is a protector, he can also use it when he is in a hurry! ”

After several years of construction, Zhang Mingzhen's department also has 20,000 or 30,000 sailors, not all of whom are stationed in Nanjing, but at least tens of thousands of them are located at key wharves on the periphery of Nanjing.

Because his troops are not strictly speaking, they are not local garrisons, but escort Caoyun, so it is legal to wander around Nanjing - if you want to escort supplies, money and grain from all over the world to Nanjing, you must have troops to escort them, right?

At the beginning, even when the national capital was in Beijing, the escort troops under the governor of Caoyun could be stationed as far as Tongzhou.

When you catch up with the transportation of grain, you can also follow the Cao fleet all the way to the Jishuitan Wharf (Shichahai) in Beijing, which is only separated by a coal mountain from the place where Chongzhen hanged in history.

Therefore, as long as Shen Tingyang's descendants do not enter the city of Nanjing, even if they stay at the wharf at the mouth of the Qinhuai River of the Yangtze River, there is nothing wrong with it.

Zhang Mingzhen may not be able to defend against the enemy approaching Nanjing by land from the south, but he can prevent the northern army from crossing the Yangtze River, which is absolutely useful.

Shi Kefa didn't have any more choices, and after learning a little about Zhang Mingzhen's situation, he immediately temporarily requisitioned the escort men and horses under the household department in the name of the Ministry of War, and completed the process in the name of the cabinet, so that Zhang Mingzhen immediately went to stop Liu Liangzuo.

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The next day, the Buddha dawned, on the Yangtze River between Guazhou and Jinshan Temple.

Dozens of patrol ferries on Liu Liang's left, carrying nearly 1,000 vanguard soldiers, took the lead in opening the way and starting the southern crossing.

The sky was still a little bright, and the movement was very secretive, not easy to be discovered by the defenders on the other side, and it allowed the soldiers from the north to see the terrain in front of them a little clearly, so as not to lose their way.

However, not long after Liu Liang's left side took action, he saw that as the sky gradually brightened, there were more patrol warships in Jiangxin pulling nets back and forth to search, and it seemed that these ships were much more elite and brisk than the ships temporarily collected by Liu Liang's left, and at first glance they were well-built professional warships.

"Stop the boat! The soldiers and horses of Fengyang Mansion are not allowed to enter Beijing without being summoned! You can't rebel! Zhang Mingzhen's troops had a group of scolders in front of them with wooden horns and shouting to stop them from advancing.

Liu Liangzuo didn't expect that he would be stranded in the middle of the night looking for a boat, and there would be such a big change, so he could only bite the bullet and let the pioneer shout:

"The thieves have crossed the river! Huaibei has already fallen to Erfu! Governor Ma can't let His Royal Highness King Fu be in danger and escort him south first! King Fu is the cousin of the first emperor, how dare you stop it! ”

Zhang Mingzhen's subordinates naturally did not show weakness, they were all explained by Shen Tingyang: "The vassal king is not allowed to enter Beijing unless he is summoned!" To avoid the enemy, just stay in the ceremony! The first emperor was martyred, and who supervised the country had Empress Yi'an to relay the edict of the first emperor and the cabinet to confirm the vote! Waiting to cross the river is to rebel! It's not a shame to go back quickly! Guns fired any further! ”

Liu Liangzuo saw that the arrow was on the line, and he was also a little unwilling, he decided to take a little gamble, so he pretended not to hear clearly, and let the pioneer continue to test.

Who knew that Zhang Mingzhen on the other side, in his opinion, it was really a, there was really such an elite large warship, which could be equipped with Hongyi cannons on board.

Zhang Mingzhen directly aimed at the position of nearly 100 paces in front of Liu Liang's left vanguard, and let the two gunboats open fire with their bow guns, and four shells weighing more than ten catties fell on the surface of the river.

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Because of the aiming error, the cannonball that deviated the farthest directly fell less than 30 paces in front of Liu Liangzuo's vanguard sentry ship, which was 50 or 60 paces away from the position of the preview. It frightened Liu Liang's left vanguard soldiers.

"If you don't go back, next time you won't be aiming at the bow of the ship to warn!"

Under the full deterrence of Zhang Mingzhen's troops, the two sides briefly exchanged fire and friction, and Liu Liang's left department had to retreat in a hurry because he was not accustomed to water warfare and did not have professional warships.

Fortunately, Zhang Mingzhen didn't want to provoke a civil war in the Ming army, so he didn't pursue more killing, so he accepted it when he saw it.

Liu Liangzuo immediately reported the situation to Ruan Dacheng, and Ruan Dacheng was also bloody.

"What to do? This is a complete tear of the face, if you can't cross the river, even if you return to Fengyang, won't King Lu settle accounts after the autumn in the future? ”

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ps: It's Chinese New Year's Eve tomorrow...... Take a few days off for the Chinese New Year.

I haven't asked for leave for many years, but this year it's January anyway, the full attendance and commission are gone, and I've been missing for five days, and there are many lice that don't itch.

Take leave from Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the new year, and once on the third day of the middle school. Anyway, everyone is busy, so they won't have to rely on reading books to relieve boredom during the New Year.

This year, I want to accompany my wife back to her hometown in northern Jiangsu, and I have to stay for a while...... Socialize a lot. It's been controlled for three years, and there are a lot of relatives who are going to leave after the release this year......