"What, you say it again?"

The family meeting hall was already full of people, and a spy dressed like an ordinary townsman stood at the bottom, while another old man stood up, questioning him with a look of disbelief.

"Clan elder, subordinates will never dare to say half a lie." The spy had a bitter look on his face:

"After the Liukou withdrew from Nanjing, it was divided into several parts, one stayed in Nanzhili, one went north to Henan, and one was dedicated to the thief Zhang Xianzhong, who went straight to Ningguofu and plundered, it is estimated that its target is Zhejiang! Now Huzhou and Hangzhou, which border Ningguofu, have all been placed under martial law. ”

"What about the army of the imperial court? Didn't the emperor say that the emperor asked Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng to promote the military affairs of the four provinces of Nanzhili, Huguang, Shandong, and Jiangxi with full authority to exterminate the Liukou, and his forward cavalry had already entered Nanzhili day and night? How can it be so rampant? ”

"General Cao Wenzhao, the left staff general of Taiyuan, has indeed led 4,000 elite cavalry into Nanzhi, but he first defeated the thief Gao Yingxiang in the north, and because there are still many rogues staying near Nanjing and threatening the capital, he gave priority to attacking those rogues, so that he did not pay attention to other thieves for the time being......"

Hearing this, the clan elders looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little solemn and even panicked for a while.

Yan Hongliang was also a little nervous.

After all, that's more than 100,000 people! Although he is a high-ranking member of the family, he has been in a high position for many years, but he has never led a soldier, and when he heard that more than 100,000 people were coming straight to Zhejiang, he immediately panicked, and couldn't help but turn his eyes for help to Yan Ling, who was sitting at the top.

Yan Ling did not panic at all, and said with an indifferent smile:

"This Zhang Xianzhong is a little anxious."

"The wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the best in the world, and now the south is unplunderable, so it comes directly to our Zhejiang."

"Just like that Cao Wen Zhao, the imperial army will definitely give priority to sweeping away the remaining rogues in Nanzhili, and then try to do anything else, hehe...... At that time, his "brothers" have become his meat shield and barrier, and by the time the imperial court clears the remnants of the rogues there, he has already eaten a lot of money in Zhejiang, and when the time comes, whether it is south to Fujian or west to Jiangxi, he can easily get rid of the pursuers and make great achievements. ”

Listening to Yan Ling's narration, everyone was even more flustered, they didn't expect this Zhang Xianzhong to think so long-term, and the imperial court really couldn't provide assistance in a short period of time, that is, they had to face this huge enemy army alone! All of a sudden, all the clansmen were panicked.

However, Yan Hongliang, the person who knew Yan Ling's identity, settled down instead.

Since Zu spoke so calmly, he must be sure.

For more than 200 years in the family, as long as this man is still sitting in front of the stage, then everything seems to be as stable as Mount Tai......

Sure enough, Yan Ling then said:

"Aren't we already recruiting soldiers into the guards? Although there are only more than 5,000 people now, the total number of troops that converge with General Ning Shao and General Taijin Yan can reach 10,000, of which 4,000 have seen blood, and the rest are also well-trained and well-equipped. ”

"Heh, if half of the more than 100,000 are old battalion soldiers, I will feel a little tricky, but Zhang Xianzhong's old battalion elite is only one or two thousand in the sky, and even the young and strong soldiers may not exceed 50,000, and the others are basically homeless, and it is okay to fight a good battle, once you encounter a strong opponent, it will become a drag on the army."

"There's nothing to worry about at all."

There was a sparkle in his eyes.

"Perhaps, this is still an opportunity......

……

The general army of Zhejiang hurriedly retreated, but fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong stayed in Ningguofu for a while in order to make up for his losses.

However, in the next step, Zhang Xianzhong followed into the province, and the first to enter was Hangzhou Mansion.

After all, there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

And the general soldiers of Zhejiang did not have the courage to turn back and fight with Zhang Xianzhong at all, and his goal was extremely clear - Hangzhou City.

If the Liukou can't capture Nanjing, they shouldn't be able to help Hangzhou. Their ability to attack is simply terrible.

As for other things...... You have to save your life first. As long as the provincial city is not lost, there should be no problem with the life of the family, and at this point, losing the official position or something is already a trivial matter.

Thinking like this, the general army of Zhejiang left all the generals, guerrillas and a large number of guards from all over the country with him, and planned to bring them into Hangzhou City together and defend the city in parallel.

As for what other prefectures and counties would do without the support of these soldiers and horses, he didn't care.

However, considering that Ningbo Mansion was the hometown of Yue Guogong, once there was a problem there, he would not be able to eat and walk around, so he still ordered General Ning Shao and General Taijin Yan to lead their troops back to their stations and hold the city, while the rest of the troops followed him into Hangzhou City.

However, leading troops is also a technical job, not to mention anything else, at that time, he was able to march with tens of thousands of people without problems, and he was already a general with a certain ability.

The general army of Zhejiang did not have this ability, especially with Zhang Xianzhong in the back, he was even more flustered, so he walked more slowly, and was bitten by Zhang Xianzhong halfway, and more than 25,000 troops were almost wiped out in a battle, and all the weapons and baggage were captured by Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhejiang's general army led several guards to break through and only survived.

There is no one to stop it in northern Zhejiang.

——

"In the spring of the eighteenth year, in February Jiachen, the king of Chuang, the eight kings, and the six thieves of the king of chaos camped hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the country, and even trapped Qianshan, Taihu Lake, Lujiang, Yingshan, and surrounded Nanjing. In March, the thief ran to the north of the river. In the same month, Gao Yingxiang came out of Luzhou and wanted to go to Henan, and the general Cao Wenzhao chased him and cut down 3,400. Zhang Xianzhong fell into Ningguo, and the prefect died. ”

"In the summer and April, Zhang Xianzhong committed Hangzhou from Ningguo, and the chief military officer Zhang Lai attacked the thieves in the north of Qiantang, defeated, injured more than 10,000 people, and was exempted from only a few horses, and the general Shan Chongdao was killed, and the thieves besieged Hangzhou."

"Wu Shen, the thief retreated, went to Shaoxing, and the generals Lin Xiao and Yu Wanji joined the soldiers of the prefecture to attack the thief in Xiaoshan."

Lin Xiao took the second battalion of firearms as the vanguard, bowed and led a hundred cavalry under his command to supervise the battle in the center, and lined up in front of the city. When the thief arrived, he hit him with a firearm, and ten thousand cannons fired at once, eroding for several miles, and the thief died very seriously. The thieves attacked the flanks of the officers and soldiers with the elite old battalion, and the spears were like forests that could not be approached, so they were defeated, and the damage was not calculated. ”

"When it was, the arrogance of the thieves had subsided, the officers and soldiers were brave, and the thieves were defeated. Lin Xiao's troops chased after him, chased thirty miles to the north, accumulated corpses to support each other, obtained a large number of his weapons, and beheaded 14,000 ranks. The thieves rushed west to Jiangxi, and the generals couldn't stop them. ”

- "The End of the Chronicle of the History of the Ming Dynasty"

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