When Hubu Shangshu heard this, he stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, there are only three thousand taels of silver in the treasury, and there is no surplus silver left."

The emperor's smile froze suddenly.

Is it already so poor?

Fortunately, Liu Yuliang said at this time:

"Your Majesty, gold and silver are not enough to show the great merits of Inspector Hong, please knight Inspector Hong."

Zhu Yousong suddenly laughed.

This is indeed a method, the title is an iron rice bowl, and it is a very high honor, and more importantly, it does not cost him money, but it can also show the importance of the emperor. Although it is said that the title should be given to Yulu, but now that the imperial court has even dragged out the military salary, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to drag the honorable ones - at least it is better than the reward owed to the meritorious hero.

"I sealed Hong Chengchou as Nan Anbo, awarded the Taibao, and gave the python clothes and jade belt."

The ministers felt that this reward was quite reasonable, so they all said yes, and Zhu Yousong's eyes turned to Liu Yuliang's body again, and praised:

"Or the first assistant has the wisdom to share the worries for me, this war, there is also the first assistant to sit in the rear, strategizing, should be rewarded!"

Liu Yuliang, the corners of his mouth unconsciously hooked.

Chen Yan was on the side, but he couldn't see his arrogance, and signaled his subordinates with his eyes, and immediately someone stood up:

"Your Majesty, Second Auxiliary Lord Chen, before the war, you can calmly dispatch and give advice to Your Majesty, and there should be a reward."

"What Aiqing said is reasonable."

Zhu Yousong nodded, and also gave Chen Yan a reward, and the other party excused himself, and he also accepted it. This made Liu Yuliang a little dissatisfied, and he only felt that his first assistant had been robbed of the limelight.

He squinted his eyes and met Chen Yan's somewhat provocative gaze.

In the eyes of the two of them, there seemed to be sparks coming out.

……

"My lord, the siege of Jingshi has been lifted!"

Under the city of Luoyang, in the midst of the earth-shattering artillery fire, Sun Chuanting received a report from his subordinates.

Hearing the news, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face:

"Good, good!"

"In this way, there will be no worries!"

He looked up and looked at Luoyang City in front of him.

Although it has experienced the war, Wang Chongzu has been to Luoyang twice, but at this time as the capital of Dashun, it has been well repaired, the city wall is tall and strong, and the rear of the female wall is countless artillery, aiming at the enemy army below.

No matter how Wang Chongzu led the army to the north, there were still 60,000 defenders left in Luoyang City, and Sun Chuanting only had 80,000 under him, and it was almost impossible to break through this fortified city.

Therefore, the siege strategy of the Ming army was to use a large number of artillery and firearms as the vanguard, and the golden drums in the rear sounded in unison, and the flags were unfurled, making a magnificent appearance, frightening the defenders in the city, and putting pressure on the main force of the Shun army on the northern expedition to force it to return to help.

He also succeeded, Wang Chongzu retreated south in such a hurry, in addition to knowing that it was impossible to capture Beijing, he also had the intention of rescuing Luoyang to some extent.

Now, with the retreat of Wang Chongzu's army, the danger of the Beijing division has been resolved, and the danger has become him.

"Order, stop the attack, pack your bags, and pull out the camp and return to Huguang tomorrow!"

Sun Chuanting immediately made a decision and ordered.

And Sun Chuanting was not the only one who got the news of the failure of Wang Chongzu's attack.

Zhang Xianzhong also got the news.

In the past few years, he has not had a good time, Sun Chuanting has been operating hard in Huguang, steadily and steadily, and has continuously stabilized and expanded the area under his control, and in the east, the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has occupied Jiangxi, and he is under great pressure.

Fortunately, at this time, Sun Chuanting led the army north to King Qin, and not long ago he had just defeated the various rogues in the north of Huguang, and after some deliberations with the escaped "Cao Cao" and "Shooting the Sky", he went south to join him, which made his strength double.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he immediately expanded his power and successfully occupied several cities.

"Father, son-in-law thinks this is an opportunity." Righteous Sun Kewang said:

"Sun Chuanting poured out of the nest and attacked the back of the second king, but the cities under his command were very well defended and difficult to attack, so instead of consuming military power here, it was better to go north to intercept and kill Sun Chuanting."

"Its military strength must have been exhausted after so many days of fighting, and our army will definitely defeat the Ming army by taking this opportunity. If we can defeat Sun Chuanting and make him lose his troops, then we will have a great advantage in Huguang. ”

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help nodding when he heard this, Sun Chuanting was pressing in Huguang step by step, which could be called his henchman, if he could take this opportunity to hit him hard, he would be able to gain the upper hand in Huguang.

In the middle of May of the first year of Hongguang, Zhang Xianzhong sent several of his subordinates to attack the new city occupied by the Ming army in the north of Huguang, and he led an army of 200,000 to enter the territory of Henan, preparing to intercept and kill Sun Chuanting.

In the process of advancing northward, the Ming army was deployed in the rear to store grain, but it was discovered by Zhang Xianzhong's sentinels, and Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed and immediately led his troops to turn.

Soon after, the Western Army suddenly appeared under Xinye City, the heavy grain and straw of the Ming army, and began to storm on.

And Sun Chuanting also got the news that Xinye was attacked by Zhang Xianzhong, and at this time he only had four days of rations left, so he quickly went to rescue Xinye.

However, before he arrived, Xinye had already fallen, and Zhang Xianzhong turned his horse's head and greeted the Ming army.

He took Li Dingguo as the vanguard, led the old battalion elite soldiers to attack, regardless of casualties and killed, the Ming army ran for a long time, was already tired, should not be its opponent of the Western army, at this time instead occupied the upper hand, fierce battle for a day, the Ming army retreated, casualties of tens of thousands, forced to retreat to Dengzhou to rest.

Zhang Xianzhong took the opportunity to lead his army to attack Dengzhou and began to attack the city.

The 200,000 troops of the Western Army are very well hydrated, of which at least 70,000 or 80,000 are just collected homeless people and cannon fodder.

Sun Chuanting supported it for ten days, and more than half of his subordinates had been damaged, and at this time, Liu Zongmin, the general of the Shun army, also led more than 10,000 cavalry to march all the way to the city of Dengzhou.

On the thirteenth day, the city had been without food for several days, and in the face of the ants of the Western Army and the Shun Army, the city was finally broken.

……

Sun Chuanting's armor had been torn, the arrow feathers were inserted horizontally and vertically, and the long knife in his hand had also been opened.

Multiple injuries on the body.

After many days of fierce fighting, he has no skills.

Only the most loyal soldiers are left around, desperately defending against the approaching thieves.

"The reward for killing Sun Chuanting is a thousand gold, worship the general!" There was a shout from nowhere, which made the soldiers of the Western Army feel like crazy.

Today, it seems that the end is over.

"It's a pity, I can't kill thieves for Your Majesty anymore......"

He sighed softly.

On the opposite side, the figures of resistance fell one after another, and the soldiers of the Western Army, with swords in their hands, broke through the weak defense line of the pro-army like a wolf, staring at his head with glowing eyes.

"Kill!"

Sun Chuanting let out a final roar, raised the broken long knife with his scarred hand, and struggled forward.

Fight to the death.

(End of chapter)