Chapter 309: Nanjing is not a place to stay for a long time

In February of the third year of Chongzhen, in February of the first year of Chongde, Chen Cao, the king of Songjiang County, resigned from the military post of the governor of the capital of the five armies, returned to Songjiang with an army of more than 100,000 troops, and when he left, he gave the Nanjing court 100 Shenwu cannons and 10,000 flintlock pistols and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition.

and promised to donate 20,000 catties of grain to the Nanjing court every month, which won Zhu Yousong's favor, and also gave Chen Cao the honorary title of prince and Taibao.

"Wait for them to fight, the worse the fight, the better, the more lively the fight, the better, only when it is broken, I can come out to clean up the old mountains and rivers, only if it is sparse, can it not be broken or standing."

After Chen Cao finished speaking, he mounted his war horse, rode his horse and left with his subordinates.

Starting from Zhenjiang Mansion, a spacious cement avenue extends all the way to Suzhou Mansion, and when Chen Cao arrived in Suzhou, the railway line opened along the way is in full swing.

Those who stayed in Suzhou were Huang Degong and Lou Xingye, and now the identities of these two people are not simple, although they only have a guard regiment of troops, but now both of them have become division commanders, one is the commander of the fourth division of the Dingwu Army, and the other is the commander of the fifth division of the Dingwu Army.

After careful consideration, Chen Cao decided to keep all the 4th and 5th divisions of the newly organized armed army in Suzhou, and the current troops would be driven back to Shanghai for rotational training.

In the Suzhou camp, Chen Cao had just finished discussing things in Suzhou with a group of local officials, and Tang Yannian hurriedly walked into the big tent: "Lord Wang, we finally entered Nanjing City, how did we give away this opportunity to get it?" ”

Huang Chunyao stood aside, and when he saw this, he smiled and said, "Commander Tang, don't be in a hurry, it makes sense for the prince to leave Nanjing with us." ”

Chen Cao signed an official document, and then handed it to Zhao Xin beside him, and then said slowly: "Nanjing is deep and Longtan, and now staying in Nanjing is trapped in the shallows to kill himself, someone is willing to be this bait, why bother our people to go to this troubled water?"

Everyone knows that I Chen Cao has the heart to be the emperor, and everything now is just an illusion, you are afraid that you don't know, although the Beijing court has suffered a loss in Shandong, but this time Emperor Chongzhen has sent someone to negotiate peace with Jiannu in private, both sides have their own intentions, Jiannu has to digest North Korea and Mongolia, and what Chongzhen wants to do now is to be in peace. ”

Huang Chunyao took over the conversation: "Commander Tang, you must first settle the inside, Yang He's achievements on the three sides are now getting bigger and bigger, the exile Wang Jiayin has been killed, and now the Wang Ziyong, nicknamed Zijin Liang, has been trapped by Yang He in Xi'an Mansion and can't move, in order to completely eliminate the prestige of this Jingjing, Yang He has been ordered to go to Luoyang with the troops recruited from Shanxi and other places. ”

"After negotiating peace with Jiannu, the north dispatched a total of 500,000 troops from all walks of life to the south, commanded by Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Yanrong, Duke of Baoguo, and Xu Yunzhen, Duke of Dingguo, and many other noble generals in Beijing set off together," Chen Cao put a secret letter sent from Beijing on the table: "Look at it, this time the north is determined to eradicate Zhu Yousong and them, you say, why are you staying in Nanjing?" ”

"Those gangs of rammers, with my army, none of them are opponents."

Tang Kainian kicked his younger brother a little angrily: "You are a rammer, fortunately you are only the deputy commander, if you become the commander and have no control, won't you cause a big disaster?" ”

Everyone in the tent laughed, but Chen Cao knocked lightly on the table: "Nanjing is now a place of four wars, it is reported that the soldiers and horses of King Qin in Jiangxi, Huguang and other places have set off, and the Tang Dynasty even recruited 50,000 people to send them north for their own military expenses.

Let them fight, we have to do something else. ”

"Previously, Xu Shiji's department was trapped in the Dantu, because after the start of the Nanjing battle, Zhao Tianlin sent people to transport them from the river to Nanjing, after the city of Nanjing was broken, a large group of them all went to Yangzhou Mansion, and after the chaos in Yangzhou, they went to Gaoyou to seek refuge with Zhu Chunchen."

"Lord Wang, do you want the naval forces to go north directly?"

Chen Cao listened to the advice of your subordinates, and always felt that something was wrong, but he shook his head and said: "All the naval fleets are recalled to the port, let Nanjing have a good fight with the Northern Army first, let's sit on the mountain in Songjiang and watch the tiger fight, the soldiers of the fifty divisions still have twenty-seven divisions vacant, and the first priority at present is to expand the army." ”

The expansion of the army also means the expenditure of military spending and various consumption, and although the Songjiang Domain is already strong and strong, the pressure will also follow if it expands by hundreds of thousands at once.

Xu Fuyuan spoke: "Lord Wang, are all the soldiers and horses who surrendered reorganized and convicted for three years?" ”

"No," Chen Cao immediately interrupted Xu Fuyuan's seemingly simple but hidden disaster: "I said that there can be no veteran soldiers in the new army, especially the Weisuo army, these hundreds of thousands of surrendered people are all pulled to build roads for a period of three years, as long as they perform well, they can be released in advance, you see, it has only been a few months, the railway has been laid to Suzhou, and the cement road has also reached Zhenjiang, and when the railway is laid to Zhenjiang, our army can reach the Nanjing front line within one day, and those people will be caught off guard;

Now, our main goal is to recuperate and develop ourselves, and to completely wipe out this powerful military force in the north north of the Yangtze River within two years. ”

Chen Cao did not stay in Suzhou for a long time, and the next day he took the train directly back to Shanghai, and went to the governor's yamen before entering the house.

"Liu Xingzuo asks anyway..."

"Now?"

Chen Cao frowned, Liu Xingzuo in history did do it anyway, but it was also in the year of the Apocalypse, and because of his own arrival disrupted the process: "What did he say? ”

Zhao Xin shook his head: "I don't know why, it seems that Jiannu's side began to suspect him." ”

"What did Wan Qing say?"

Zhao Xin frowned: "This news was fed back by Wan Qing." ”

"Could it be that Liu Xingzuo has other ideas?"

Chen Cao's hands kept knocking on the table, which was a common sign he had when he was thinking about things.

"The new governor of Denglai, Wang Ting, got the help of his predecessor Sun Guozhen, I don't know how to get in touch with Liu Xingzuo, according to the news from Liu Xingzuo himself, Jiannu has been arresting our Ming Dynasty spies in Liaodong since the end of last year, whether it is our people, or the people on the side of the court, this is the case;"

Zhao Xin said: "The news was interrupted for a while, according to Liu Xingzuo's guess, it should be someone in the court who has a secret relationship with Jiannu, or someone in the court who is regarded as an eye and ear;

In addition, according to the report of the Hejian secret agent, he had come into contact with the messenger sent to Beijing by Wang Tingqian, which is estimated to be related to Liu Xingzuo. ”

If he loses Liu Xingzuo's line, Chen Cao feels that he will lose his capital, whether it is Liu Xingzuo or Wan Qing, it is the best choice for Chen Cao to find out the news of Jiannu, and Liu Xingzuo's identity is not simple, but Nurhachi's forehead.

"Someone should persecute Liu Xingzuo," Chen Cao guessed that it should be the internal reason of Jiannu in combination with the historical Liu Xingzuo surrender incident: "No matter what, you immediately send someone to Liaodong to contact Liu Xingzuo, if it really doesn't work, let the navy send a ship north to pick up Liu Xingzuo, and you must not let him surrender to Wang Ting's side;

Also, send a letter to Wan Qing, I want to know what Chongzhen said to Jiannu and what the content of the peace negotiation is. ”

"My subordinates will do it."

The family didn't know that Chen Cao was back, even Shen Zhuangling didn't know, after nearly a year of fighting, Chen Cao didn't know how to restrain the impulse of the year, and the impulse to want to go on when he saw a woman.

Today's Liangguo Mansion has been changed to become the Songjiang County Palace, but the regulation of his palace has long exceeded the level of the prince, but he has not used the palace name that the prince can use in the palace.

The guards in the front yard saw Chen Cao stepping into the house and stood up and saluted, and after Chen Cao simply returned the salute, he stepped through the arch of the carrier hall under the gaze of a group of male and female butlers, and headed towards the Yin'an Hall in the inner courtyard.

The door to the room was not closed, because the skirt covered the woman's head, and it was not clear who was the black hand, and the woman screamed.

Suddenly, a familiar woman's reprimand came: "Which thief dares to come to my county king's mansion to commit violence and take his life." ”

After Li Wan'er rushed into the wing room with her sword up, she saw Chen Cao who was doing business with his back to him, the figure and the python robe were very familiar, Li Wan'er saw this inappropriate scene for children in front of her, and immediately blushed, threw the sword to the ground, and ran out with a bang.

Then Chen Cao heard the voices of Li Xiang and others, and Weng Meixin had already rushed over with a musket, threatening to kill the flower thief, but was stopped by Li Wan'er, but found that Weng Meixin, who couldn't be stopped, also arrived in the wing, screamed and ran out.