But as soon as she heard Wu Shigong's name, Gu Hengbo, who had been silent all this time, got into a temper. She threw cold water and said, "Wu Runing is having a rift with the imperial court. Will he listen to the imperial court's orders?" After saying that, Gu Hengbo's beautiful nose flashed.
Wrinkled, looking in disbelief.
Hou Fangyu quickly defended: "Not to mention that the grudges have been resolved, the Holy Emperor has already issued an edict. Even Wu Changjing has always been loyal and loyal. He has not yet behaved disrespectfully. Everyone, do you dare to make a bet with me? Xiaosheng will go to Yixin
, Wu Changjing will definitely send troops. The loser will show off his skills in front of everyone, and Bo Jun will smile, and also add an elegant thing to Qin Huai?"
"It's a bet! It's a bet! Hurry up and agree!..." The scholars and everyone on the side immediately shouted. The bet on the Fengyue Field is the most popular entertainment activity in the Qinhuai River!
Then Gu Hengbo bit his red lips and said, "Just bet!" Her words immediately aroused a burst of earth-shattering cheers.
When the cheers subsided, Hou Fangyu smiled again and said: "But Xiaosheng also has a merciless request. In order to increase the success, I need your help, Liu and Gu!"
Liu Rushi, who was watching the excitement on the side, immediately said "huh?". She never thought that she would be shot while lying down, so Liu Rushi asked: "What kind of help does the master want from the slave family?"
Hou Fangyu's smile was full of jokes, and he said: "Wu Changjing has never forgotten these two of you. If you each send a letter, Wu Changjing will not hesitate to fight with you and smile."
Loud laughter erupted again in the Meilou. However, Gu and Liu were used to this kind of scene. They said calmly and generously: "Just write! I want the young master to be convinced that he lost!"
In fact, Liu Rushi and Gu Hengbo felt secretly happy. In this way, if Wu Bifu sent troops, Jiangnan Shilin would never take this account to the court's summons.
The "Jinling Sun" will also make headlines: There is a military attache who rushed to Jinling after a long journey to protect Liu Gu Ershu's flowers. That is really fantastic news!
Although Liu Rushi and Gu Hengbo have no good impressions of Wu Shigong, but there are tens of thousands of sad men stepping under the feet of that famous Qinhuai prostitute? How sad it would be for a woman to have no love. Even if she steps on a man, she will shed tears. From now on, Liu Rushi
and Gu Hengbo's reputation will definitely rise to a higher level.
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Not to mention that Liu Rushi and Gu Hengbo were infatuated; not to mention that Wu Shigong was sitting peacefully in his house, and the peach blossoms were blooming in the sky. With the advocacy of scholars like Hou Fangyu, the public opinion in Jinling City about sending troops was booming, and the civil servants were a little unable to resist.
Therefore, they found Wei Guogong Xu Hongji again and wanted to discuss an appropriate solution. Wei Guogong Xu Hongji also made concessions and took out what he had at the bottom of the box.
At this time, there were 30,000 officers and soldiers in the city of Nanjing. There were also tens of thousands of officers and soldiers near Nanjing. However, most of these officers and soldiers were from guard posts, and they were local soldiers from Jiangnan, so their combat effectiveness was indeed superior.
weak.
But among these officers and soldiers, there is also a capable division. That is the garrison camp of Wei Guogong Xu Hongji. Different from the nobles in Beijing, the nobles in Nanjing also have military positions. And Wei Guogong is also the garrison of Nanjing.
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Wei Guogong's garrison has three thousand soldiers. Other Nanjing nobles also have more than a thousand soldiers. Like the guards of Xue Mansion, these soldiers are the nobles' private soldiers, with good equipment, high combat skills, sufficient nutrition, good health, and
They were all trained as officers.
What's even more valuable is that these private soldiers all have combat experience. During the She'an Rebellion, these private soldiers took turns to fight. Basically, they have seen blood. And Wei Guogong Xu Hongji contributed this treasure. He started from his own defense
One thousand and fifty soldiers were mobilized from the battalion and other distinguished private soldiers, plus other officers and soldiers, to form a total of five thousand soldiers and horses. Under the leadership of Xu Hongji's general named Xu Ming, they rushed to the aid of Huang Degong in Hanshan.
After talking about the battlefields in Jiangbei, it’s time to talk about the Zhang and Luo coalition forces in Jiangnan.
Because of the unpredictable actions in Anqing, the Ming army was so exhausted that it finally exposed its flaws. The Zhang and Luo coalition seized the opportunity and launched an encirclement and annihilation battle. So this time, the Zhang and Luo coalition wanted to repeat the same trick.
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First of all, the Zhang and Luo coalition forces definitely could not stay where they were. Being attacked from both sides was a taboo for military strategists, so they turned to the southeast, aiming directly at Hangzhou.
This unexpected action completely confused the Ming army.
According to the pre-war assumptions of the Ming army, because of the obstruction of the Yangtze River, it was impossible for the Zhang and Luo coalition forces to cross the river smoothly. Therefore, the Ming army originally formed an iron triangle, hoping to form an encirclement and completely cripple the Zhang and Luo coalition forces. The iron triangle
The two corners are of course the Lu Jiude tribe and the Zuo Liangyu tribe, and the other corner is the Zhejiang army stationed in Hangzhou and Huzhou.
In everyone's impression, the corner of Hangzhou and Huzhou is the strongest. In addition to Hangzhou being the provincial capital of Zhejiang and having a fortified city and heavy troops, the famous Qi family army at that time was the Zhejiang army.
But now, there is not much left in the Qi Jiajun's mantle. A batch of the Zhejiang army's elites were consumed in the Korean War during Wanli's Three Great Expeditions, and a batch was wiped out in the Saarhu Battle. The last Qi Jiajun seeds were
, all were consumed during the Denlay Kong Youde rebellion.
And because the overseas world was completely controlled by Zheng Zhilong, who also turned from a pirate to a maritime trader, the threat of Japanese pirates in Zhejiang no longer existed. Therefore, Hangzhou's armaments were quite lax, and the so-called heavy troops only existed on paper, and most of them
The soldiers were all lent and rented out as labor by their own guards officers, so Hangzhou’s defense was almost in an undefended state. Of course, they knew everything about deception, and Lu Jiude and the others thought that Hangzhou
It is impregnable.
So when Lu Jiude received the urgent letter from the governor of Zhejiang, he almost lost his temper. Because at this time, the Zhejiang local government did not dare to hide it anymore. Lu Jiude finally knew about the one in Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, the strongest
One corner became the weakest. In desperation, Lu Jiude could only divide his troops. He asked Liu Yuanbin to lead three thousand troops to reinforce Hangzhou.
In fact, the target of the Zhang and Luo coalition forces was Lu Jiude. In their eyes, Zuo Liangyu was a frontier soldier and Lu Jiude was a Jiangnan soldier. They must be looking at the weaklings.
Moreover, the fake actions of the Zhang and Luo coalition forces were quite realistic. On the eighth day of August, they stormed Xuancheng. Although the soldiers and civilians of Xuancheng fought hard to defend, they could only hold on for one day amid the massive peasant army. Then, the mighty peasant army
Dangdi drove to Guangde.
But no one noticed that the peasant army was composed of old, weak, women and children. Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, with their own elites, had separated from the army and were moving quietly. (To be continued...)