Four hundred and ninetieth chapters pull the nails
After listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu, who was already full of budding ambitions, became even more eager to move. He asked tentatively with red eyes: "Qing'er, can our Zuo family also sit in that seat?"
"Of course!" Zuo Yuqing said affirmatively: "Father, I think that Ming Taizu was originally just a commoner, and he even served as a monk when he was young. He can rule the world, why can't we? Father, you are sitting on ten
Wan Dajun, all the officials in Jiangnan will look at your face. What does this mean? This means that we already have nearly 30% to 40% of the world's money. With this money, we can do nothing, recruit troops, buy horses, build weapons,
Unify Jiangnan and even the world!"
Having said this, Zuo Yuqing's originally thin face turned red. He waved his arms and said: "Father, we have soldiers and food, why do we have to succumb to others? Now that Chongzhen doesn't want to be the emperor, you
Why not do it?”
Listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu's eyes also flashed with a strange light, and something called ambition continued to expand in his heart.
Zuo Yuliang, who was sitting next to Zuo Liangyu, had his eyes shining brightly. He immediately thought that if his father became the emperor, wouldn't he, as the eldest son, be able to inherit the throne in the future?
Thinking of this, Zuo Yuliang's heart began to stir, and he quickly said: "Yes, father, what are you waiting for? Now Hong Chengchou is still being dragged by the Zhou navy to Jining and cannot move. Looking at the entire Jiangnan,
Who can compete with you!"
Seeing his two sons encouraging him to start his own business, Zuo Liangyu burst out laughing: "It's rare for Qing'er Liang'er to be so unanimous about one thing, so what else can a father say? In that case, let's
Just give it a try and see who belongs to this world!"
"good!"
Seeing that Zuo Liangyu had finally made up his mind, Zuo Yuqing and Zuo Yuliang also stood up and shouted in unison: "My children are willing to work hard for their father and work together to achieve a great cause!"
"Hahaha......."
The father and son laughed at the same time. After a while, Zuo Yuqing said with a serious face: "Father, since we have set our ambitions, let's remove the nails that Hong Chengchou left behind us tomorrow.
Let’s do this tomorrow…”
As Zuo Yuqing's voice sounded, a faint murderous aura came from the lobby of the garrison mansion...
Late at night on the fifth day of August in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen
There is a huge military camp outside the western suburbs of Jinling. Although it is already late at night, groups of soldiers in full armor can be seen patrolling the military camp with swords and guns from time to time. It seems to be very heavily guarded.
A large tent stands in the center of the military camp. A thin figure is looking at a piece of information attentively. This is a middle-aged man in his forties. What is impressive is that he has a bean growing on the corner of his mouth.
With a big black mole and a somewhat gloomy face, his expression revealed an indescribable gloom at this moment. He was none other than Ding Qun, an aide who was regarded as a confidant by Hong Chengchou.
After a long time, Ding Qun slowly raised his head and sighed: "The storm is about to come, is Zuo Liangyu finally going to take action?"
Ding Qun thought for a while, picked up the wolf hair on the desk, dipped it in ink, quickly wrote a few sentences, folded it a few times and put it into an envelope. Then he immediately shouted in a low voice: "Here comes someone!"
"arrive!"
Following Ding Qun's voice, a sergeant wearing a mandarin duck jacket immediately opened the tent and walked in. He strode up to Ding Qun and said in a deep voice: "May I ask what Master Ding has ordered!"
Ding Qun stared at the sergeant and asked in a deep voice: "Hong Santong, take this letter immediately, set off for Jining, hand this letter to Commander Hong with your own hands, and tell him that the matter in Jinling cannot be delayed.
, please ask him to return to the army immediately to eradicate the traitors, it is extremely urgent!"
After speaking, Ding Qun handed the letter into the hands of the sergeant.
The sergeant solemnly took the letter and said seriously: "Master Ding, please rest assured, I will risk my life to hand this letter into the hands of Commander Hong." After saying that, the sergeant immediately turned around and left the building.
account.
After the sergeant went out, Ding Qun shouted again: "Come here, please quickly invite General Lin and General Du to come to the big tent to discuss matters. He said there is an urgent military situation and asked them to come quickly."
.....”
The next day, the sky was getting brighter, and all the sergeants in the military camp had already stood up. Groups of sergeants were practicing as usual in the military camp. Ding Qun and two rough-looking generals were standing in the stands next to the playground, watching silently.
The sergeants were practicing, and although they were just watching silently, there seemed to be a touch of worry on their faces.
"Report..."
At this time, a voice with a long accent reached everyone's ears from far to near. Then, a sergeant holding a long gun ran to the stand, looked at the people in the stand and said loudly: "Everyone, please
Sir, General Zuo led a large group of people to the outside of the camp and asked us to open the camp door wide to let them in. I don't dare to make the decision, so please make your decision!"
After hearing this, Ding Qun sighed silently and sneered at the two generals on the left and right: "Commander Lin, Commander Du, I, Ding, didn't deceive you, did I? But since Zuo Liangyu resolutely decided to take action, then we will
Let’s act according to the originally negotiated charter.”
The two generals looked at each other, and the older one nodded slowly and said: "As expected by Ding Zanhua, Zuo Liangyu really took action. He didn't take over our western suburbs camp for a day.
He will never give up for a day."
The older general on the left also nodded: "Master Ding, since Governor Hong has said before leaving that we and I will temporarily obey your orders, we will naturally follow Governor Hong's generals. Please ask.
Just don’t worry."
"Well, that's good." Ding Qun nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Then let's go meet the unkind Mr. Zuo Liangyu."
"I will obey Master Ding's orders!"
After the two men responded in unison, they automatically followed Ding Qun. Supported by a large group of soldiers, the three of them came to the gate of the camp.
The entrance to the camp is made of thick logs and thick iron nails, which is extremely strong. There are also many triangular nails scattered on both sides of the camp, and trip wires, traps and other things are dug. In theory,
He said that if there was no rush vehicle for the collision, and the people in the camp would not be able to enter the camp unless they opened the door and let them out.
At this time, there was a burst of noise outside the camp. After hearing this sound from a distance, Ding Qun frowned even more.
When they arrived at the entrance of the military camp and climbed onto the railing placed on an earthen slope at the back, Ding Qun saw Zuo Liangyu standing at the door about two hundred steps away from the camp, with his two sons guarding him.
Behind them were densely packed soldiers.
Today, Zuo Liangyu and his son were all wearing helmets and armor. They were staring at the entrance of the camp. When they saw Ding Qun appearing on the railing, Zuo Liangyu shouted loudly: "Is that Master Ding in front of you?"
"Exactly!"
Ding Qun replied without any sign of weakness, "Supervisor Hong went to the capital to serve King Qin. Before leaving, he ordered General Zuo to stay in Jinling. I wonder why General Zuo led his army to come here today?"
A flash of anger flashed across Zuo Liangyu's face, and he said loudly: "Master Ding, you don't tell lies in front of a real person. You must have known about the emperor's announcement of the Zen throne, right? Governor Hong went to the capital to serve as king, and now he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.
And Jiangnan cannot be left without an owner for a day. Today, I have led a large army to take over this western suburbs camp. Mr. Ding, as the saying goes, a good bird chooses the wood to roost. You and Mr. Lin and Mr. Du are beside you.
If you surrender to me, I will guarantee your glory and wealth. If you don't obey, don't blame me for being rude!"
When he said this, Zuo Liangyu's voice was fierce, and a hint of murderous intent appeared on his face.
"Hahaha........"
Ding Qun laughed loudly, pointed at Zuo Liangyu and said contemptuously: "Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu, you, the rebellious minister and traitor, have finally shown your feet! When Governor Hong was here, he could see that you were innocent.
I have the intention to rebel, so I specially ordered the two generals Lin Du and I to station troops here to keep an eye on you. Today you finally showed your weakness!"
"Hmph!" After listening to Ding Qun's words, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but said angrily: "Well, Ding Qun, I originally cherished you as a talent, but since you toasted and refused to eat, then I will fix the problem
I’m not polite to you anymore.”
At this time, Zuo Yuliang, who was next to Zuo Liangyu, also encouraged: "Father, what are you waiting for? Since this bullshit master doesn't know how to praise, let's beat his mother. The kid won't believe it. He only has 20,000 yuan in Xidaying
No one can stop our 50,000-strong army!"
After listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu no longer hesitated. He immediately turned around and retreated. Soon Zuo Liangyu was surrounded by the soldiers behind him and disappeared. Then groups of soldiers pushed a
A heavy object arrived in front of the camp. Ding Qun and others took a closer look and found that it turned out to be artillery pieces.
Du Zongbing, who was standing next to Ding Qun, changed his expression slightly and said, "Good guys, Zuo Liangyu and his son are so vicious. They even brought out the artillery. Do you really want to forget about the friendship of the past?"
Ding Qun sneered and said: "Huh, for that chair in the Forbidden City, Zuo Laozuo can't do anything. But when it's the turn of the artillery, can we only allow them to have the artillery that Governor Hong left for us?"
Quite a few!”
Having said this, Ding Qun shouted loudly back: "Su Guerrilla, it's up to you to lead the artillery battalion next!"
A muffled voice came from behind Ding Qun, "Master Ding, just take a look!"
After a while, a scene appeared in front of the camp in the western suburbs. People from both sides set up artillery, whether it was general artillery or Hongyi artillery. Moreover, both sides were wearing the same clothes and armor. They were supposed to be in common.
The troops resisting foreign humiliation now aimed their weapons at each other.
I don’t know how long it took, but a voice came from far away.
"put!"
"Boom boom boom..."
The sound of artillery sounded almost at the same time. On the positions of both sides, the muzzles of dozens of artillery spouted tongues of flame almost at the same time. Streams of white smoke rose into the sky, and projectiles invisible to the naked eye broke free from the shackles of the barrel and flew.
It flew into the air, drawing beautiful arcs and falling into the opponent's camp.
"Pa bang bang..."
One after another, the projectiles fell on the artillery camp of the western suburbs camp. Some projectiles fell on the open space, and some fell on the place where the soldiers gathered. The soldiers who were unfortunately hit by the projectiles screamed in unison.
, where the bullet rolled over, leaving a trail of blood.
A projectile even landed on the gun carriage of the artillery camp, smashing the cannon to pieces. The wooden gun carriage was hit by the projectile weighing ten kilograms, causing sawdust to fly everywhere. The wood chips flying everywhere stabbed all around, and some
The soldier was stabbed in the face by these sawdust and fell to the ground with an astonishing scream. For a moment, the artillery camp started to stir slightly. The surrounding soldiers looked at the smashed artillery with fear, fearing
This bad luck also happened to me.
"You bastards, why don't you hurry up and reload the bullets and gunpowder and fight back? Why don't you wait for me to do it for you?"
Seeing this situation, the Su guerrilla who was supervising the battle from behind angrily picked up the riding crop in his hand and whipped several slow-moving gunners head-on, ordering them to fight back quickly.
Under the supervision of the Soviet guerrillas, the gunners of the artillery battalion also gritted their teeth and fought back hard. The two sides fought back and forth in a lively manner.
On a high ground outside the range of the artillery, Zuo Liangyu slowly put down the telescope in his hand and said with some depression: "I didn't expect that there are artillery in the western suburbs camp. It seems that this old man Hong Chengchou is here."
I left a hand behind when I left!"
At this time, Zuo Liangyu was very depressed. He originally thought that with the dozens of artillery pieces he collected from everywhere, he would be able to blast through their camp gates with a burst of bombardment at the western suburbs camp. Then with his own
The army's numerical superiority wiped out the defenders inside in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the western suburbs camp also brought out artillery and started a bombardment with them without showing any signs of weakness.
Seeing his artillery pieces being damaged one by one in the artillery battle with the opponent, Zuo Liangyu's heart kept twitching. These artillery pieces were the property he had accumulated with great difficulty. If they were all destroyed now, he would feel heartbroken.
Death is not an option.
Zuo Yuqing, who had been observing Zuo Liangyu's face carefully, saw what he was thinking, and quickly stepped forward to persuade: "Father, as long as we can completely wipe out the artillery battalion inside, we can let the soldiers attack as much as they want.
, if we successfully eliminate the thorn in our side that Mr. Hong left in our eyes, how many artillery pieces will we want in the future?"
"Yes!" Zuo Liangyu then thought about it. As long as this nail left by Hong Chengchou can be eliminated, who else in the south of the Yangtze River would dare to block his way? The artillery battalion has nothing to fear. As long as there is money, it is afraid of not having artillery. It can be rebuilt.
.
Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu didn't care about the artillery here. He turned around and said to the messenger behind him: "Hurry up and order the artillery camp to fire for me, and level the western suburbs camp for me!"
The rumbling sound of artillery continued for half an hour. After destroying the last artillery in the western suburbs camp, Zuo Liangyu's artillery camp was left with only three or four red cannons. And these few red cannons
Because of the continuous firing and being forcibly cooled down by the gunner with cold water, cracks appeared, and it was about to be scrapped.
Zuo Liangyu didn't care about the loss of the artillery battalion. After seeing that no more artillery fire was fired from the opponent, he roared and shouted: "Come here! Give me a full-scale attack! Rush in and kill them all!"
Following Zuo Liangyu's order, countless soldiers wearing red mandarin duck jackets swarmed towards the military camp under the supervision of officers.
Facing the swarming soldiers, rows of archers suddenly stood up on the wooden wall of the western suburbs military camp. They were either holding long bows and pointed their cold arrows at the soldiers rushing towards them.
.
"put!"
"Swish swish..."
Countless arrowheads flew into the distance in arcs and landed on the heads of the densely packed soldiers in front. Many soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, but more soldiers kept rushing forward under the orders of the officers behind them.
Come here, for a while, the sound of killings in this camp was loud and blood flowed like rivers...
While Zuo Liangyu and Ding Qun were fighting to the death, Hong Chengchou's fleet, which was rushing back, had already arrived near Yangzhou Mansion.
The sails and fishing boats were raised from time to time on the river. The weather and scenery in August were beautiful, and it was also a good time for literati to express their emotions. However, at this time, Hong Chengchou was in no mood to do these elegant things that he had loved so much in the past.
thing.
At this time, his heart was completely attracted by what happened in Jinling and the capital.
Looking away from the distance, Hong Chengchou turned around silently, only to see Cao Huachun, a white-haired eunuch, standing behind him with a letter in his hand. Cao Huachun saw Hong Chengchou turn around.
He handed the letter to him and said softly: "Master Hong, this is the latest news from the capital sent by Dongchang!"
"News from the capital?"
Hong Chengchou looked at Cao Huachun in surprise. This eunuch who was very loyal to Chongzhen seemed to have aged ten years in the past few days. His originally well-maintained face had become pale and his forehead had some wrinkles. But it was time.
Today, he, the governor of the East Factory, could still receive news from the capital, which shows that he still has some energy in the capital.
After receiving the letter, Hong Chengchou looked at it, and his already gloomy face turned even sadder.
"Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, announced his response to the emperor's decision to abdicate the throne, and was preparing to send envoys to the capital to congratulate him and honor Pang Gang as the emperor. Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, and Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Guanning, did not express any position on the emperor's decision to abdicate.
..... Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Province, privately sent an envoy to the capital to express his congratulations..."
"boom....."
There was a sound, and Hong Chengchou's fist hit the wooden railing beside him. With his face red, he cursed angrily: "These traitors without kings and fathers are now ogling Pang Gang. They think Pang Gang is sitting there."
After taking over the world, will we be able to eat their good fruits?"
After a long time, Cao Huachun on the side said quietly: "Supervisor Hong, we have to rely on ourselves for the current plan. Hurry up and order the fleet to speed up and return to Jinling!" (To be continued...)
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