Lao Mu Kong.

The base of Liu Tichun, the prince of Ming and Anhui, who had been operating for more than ten years, is now in ruins, except for Xiazhai, other places have been set on fire by the rebels.

Now stationed in Lao Mugang are the soldiers and horses who follow the party to guard Su and Ta Tianbao to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

There are more than 1,400 people in the party department, stationed in the area near Zhongzhai in Xiazhai.

There are more than 1,100 people in the tower, stationed in the periphery of Xiazhai.

In addition, there are more than 1,000 family members of the second department.

The person in charge of the party department is Guo An, a registered general soldier, who once served as a lieutenant in the Lao Shun Army and is a close confidant of the party Shousu.

The person in charge of the tower is Ma Wenzhong, the registered general soldier, who is the nephew of Ma Shouying, the leader of the rebel army who was listed with Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai during the Chongzhen period.

After Ma Shouying died of illness in Jingzhou in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Ma Wenzhong took over his flag and continued to play the "old return" flag, so he was also called "little old return".

After the defeat of the army, he had to join forces with Ta Tianbao, and gradually became Ta Tianbao's subordinates.

It's just that neither Guo An nor Ma Wenzhong had any resistance to the Qing Dynasty after knowing the fall of the Yongli Imperial Court, and they also actively promoted this matter.

After Dang Shousu and Ta Tianbao made up their minds thoroughly, the two were ordered to kill seven generals, including Zhou Guowang, Li Sanhu, and Chen Qiyuan, who refused to surrender in the military discussion.

and buried alive more than 100 people, including seven generals' sons and nephews, wives and daughters, and relatives.

This move made no one in the army dare not surrender again.

After the two of them went to Cizhulong, the soldiers who stayed here were in charge of Guo and Ma.

However, Guo An and Ma Wenzhong's words don't count, and it is a young Manchurian who really calls the shots.

This person is the "liaison officer" monk of the Du Min faction in Lao Mugang.

The monk is only a seven-grade pen sticker, and in the future, Kui Dong will be in Xi'an with a blue flag and the deputy capital of the yamen, mainly to do Manchu and Han translation, copying documents and other work.

He is not very old, he is only nineteen years old this year.

A civilian pen post was assigned by Du Min to Lao Mugang as the "Manchurian Ambassador", not only liaising with Tian Heng and Wanhe, but also responsible for the control of the party and the second division of Taji.

It can be said that there is an existence of the prison army.

It looks incredible.

The reasons are not complicated.

The father of the monk was the 1st class Ada Ha Fan (Light Car Captain) Santu.

And Santu is Du Min's brother-in-law.

Therefore, Sangha is Du Min's nephew.

Can an uncle cultivate a nephew?

At the moment on the battlefield of Kuidong, is there any errand that is safer and easier to report to the police than being a liaison officer?

The young and proud monk relied on his uncle's cultivation, and it was the first time that he felt how good the Manchurian identity was.

Guo An and Ma Wenzhong, the two old thieves, can be described as respectful in front of him, and even the Han Aha who came with the monk can dictate to them.

It's also pitiful, Guo and Ma used to be ruthless people who killed people without blinking, but at this time, they were like cramps and had no heart at all, it was really the monks who wanted them to go east, and the two would never dare to go west.

The Lord will be like this, and the following troops can imagine what kind of state of mind it is.

Since shaving their hair, the more than 2,000 parties and the old tower department have basically been in a mess, eating when they have food and sleeping when they have sleep.

Even the ends of the braids that some soldiers had braided turned white.

It's like I've aged a dozen years overnight.

There is nothing worse in the world than the collapse of faith and the loss of all meaning in life.

Let's just live.

In order to impress the young Manchurian ambassador even more, Ma Wenzhong also sent his cousin, who was only 15 years old, to the monk's tent.

The effect is good, at least the monk calls Ma Wenzhong first when there is something, and says that he wants to bring Ma Wenzhong's sister back to Xi'an.

This made Ma Wenzhong quite excited.

Whether it is a banner man or a Han person, anyone who takes on an important errand at a young age must have someone on it.

Can Ma Wenzhong see this?

He didn't dare to think that the little Manchurian nobleman in front of him was still worth his investment.

Tian Heng, Wan and Liu Tichun, who fought stubbornly in the back of the village.

Yesterday, Tian Heng sent someone back to tell the monk that Liu Tichun couldn't hold on, and they would be able to capture the house in the back in two days at most.

The monk must have rejoiced when he heard this, and if he won this battle, he must have been one of the meritorious people who were reported to his uncle, and he was still ahead.

Not to mention that there can be a future.

Even if you don't count military merits, you will definitely be able to move to important positions within the flag.

Because he was entangled with Ma Wenzhong's sister for half a night at night, the monk didn't get up in the morning until Ma Wenzhong called him outside, saying that someone from Cizhulong had come back, so he got up lazily.

It was Ma Changyuan, the chief military officer under the command of Ta Tianbao, who came back from Cizhu Cage with dozens of people before dawn.

Seeing Ma Changyuan's panicked face, Ma Wenzhong couldn't help but ask what was wrong.

Seeing that Dang Guogong and Tahou Ye didn't reply, I couldn't help but feel strange.

Ma Changyuan didn't say, but only asked Ma Wenzhong: "What about the monk?" ”

Between the words, he looked around seemingly casually.

"There is a military order? The monk is here, you come with me. ”

Ma Wenzhong was afraid of delaying the matter, so he motioned to Ma Changyuan to follow him to see the monk.

"Good! You two come with me, and the others stay. ”

Ma Changyuan left the soldiers who had returned with him here, and only took two of his men to the monk's place with him.

These two subordinates, Ma Wenzhong, looked a little surprised, but they didn't think much about it.

There are thousands of people in the army, and he knows all of them.

Inside, the monk was dressed and sitting in front of the stove to dry his hands.

Ma Wenzhong's sister is still in bed in the back room.

"Your Excellency!"

When he walked to the door, Ma Wenzhong deliberately shouted respectfully.

The monk said casually, "Come in." ”

After the door was pushed open, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in, and the monk couldn't help but shrink his neck, looked up at Ma Changyuan, who came in with Ma Wenzhong, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Lord Totong has an order!"

Ma Changyuan bowed down and said that he had detected a puppet king of the Ming Dynasty hiding in the area of the Yellow Lawn in the southeast, so the capital ordered the monks to command Lao Mugang's soldiers and horses to immediately go to the Yellow Lawn to arrest the puppet king of the Ming Dynasty.

"Pseudo-king?"

The monk suddenly came to his senses, and when he was about to ask clearly, Ma Changyuan suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it at Ma Wenzhong's neck, and covered his mouth with one hand.

"You guys!"

The monk was taken aback and was about to call someone, but the two officers behind Ma Changyuan pounced at the same time, one holding his hands and the other strangling his neck with his arms.

The monk rolled his eyes, his tongue stretched out, and his saliva was wet like a hanged ghost, and Wang Wufang let go.

The monk's body suddenly fell to the ground.

The mute Zhu San probed the kid's snort and made sure that the dead couldn't die anymore and kicked him.

There seemed to be movement in the inner room, and before Wang Wu could speak, the dumb man rushed in, followed by a woman's scream.

After the dumb man came out, Wang Wu glanced at him: "You killed that woman?" ”

"Abaaba..."

The mute shook his head and gestured that he had knocked the woman unconscious with the hilt of his sword.

Here, Ma Changyuan put the breathless Ma Wenzhong on the ground, and there was a sound of footsteps outside, during which there was a fight.

It was Xu Lin who was dealing with a few Han people who came with the monks.

The action was clean and neat, and the two pro-soldiers of several Han Chinese Ahba, including Ma Changyuan, were either killed or subdued.

After pulling the dagger out of Ma Wenzhong's neck, Ma Changyuan looked up at Wang Wu: "General, what now?" ”

Wang Wu pulled out his sword and slashed off the monk's head, lifted it and threw it to the mute, turned to look at Ma Changyuan: "Blow the trumpet, order the gathering!" ”