Lu Daqi originally joined forces with Zuo Liangyu in Jiujiang last year to dare Zhang Xianzhong, and finally forced him into Sichuan, and then Zuo Liangyu entered Wuchang to watch the situation behind closed doors, and by the way, he contained the first department of Yuan Zong, which was entrenched in the Jingxiang area, and Lu Daqi was in Jiujiang to contain the Baiwang Department entrenched in De'an County, deep in the mountains.

De'an is in the middle of the mountains, it is easy to enter and difficult to come out, Zuo Liangyu has entered the mountains several times to clear and return with feathers, anyway, he defeated once and finally simply threw this hot potato to Lu Daqi.

Zuo Liangyu people are too powerful to do it, and Lu Daqi does not dare to act rashly single-handedly, so he can only play a role in preventing it from going up the river and converging with Yuan Zongdi in the Jingxiang area, so that Bai Wangbu is also extremely nourishing in De'an County's land for the king's life, and then heard that Li Zicheng sent troops to the east to fight with him, and poured out of the nest to the east into the Poyang Lake, and then went down the lake to the bank of the Yangtze River, and went down the river to break the mouth of the lake, Peng Ze, at this time Lu Daqi was shocked, and it was too late to lead the soldiers and horses to stop it.

Just like Li Zicheng when he went on an expedition to the east, Bai Wang was surrounded by the displaced people in the next city, claiming that the army of 200,000 murderous people frightened the states and counties in front, and its speed was incredibly fast, when Chang Yu was cleaning up the Qing army in the north, he had just arrived in Wangjiang County, and now it has only been a long time to break Wuhu and approach Nanjing.

Exactly the same routine!

Lu Daqi saw that he was extremely embarrassed to follow behind, the thief army left hundreds of people in every city, that is, the city of these hundreds of people was extremely difficult to attack, he did not have many soldiers and horses, and after you recovered a city, the thief army had already taken several more, leaving it far behind, and he did not dare to stretch the battle line too long, for fear that Jiujiang would make a mistake.

However, at this time, Lu Daqi had already seen through Bai Wang's thoughts, and decided not to gnaw bones behind his buttocks, and left the troops to guard Jiujiang and lead his own troops to take a shortcut and rush to Nanjing to ask for help, and let Xu Hongji send troops to intercept him, because he knew that at this time, Anqing Mansion and Luzhou Mansion Taiping Mansion were empty of troops and had no troops to stop.

However, Xu Hongji and other nobles took Nanjing City as the most important thing and refused to send troops, which made him angry and helpless.

It stands to reason that he is the governor of the four provinces, and Nanjing is also under his jurisdiction, but the military power is not in his hands and is useless, so he can only look at the capital.

"At this time, the thief army is very different from a few years ago, in the past, it was mainly plundered, and it was always a thief to run back to the mountains after robbing, but now they are mainly to establish political power, and after entering the city, they will kill less, and build a pseudo-government and serve as a pseudo-official" Lu Daqi shook his head with a wry smile: "They have ambitions and want the world of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"It's not a new thing for the wolf's ambition to be revealed, Lu Shangshu said something about the thief army" Chang Yu took a few sips of the teacup, Lu Daqi cleared his throat and continued: "The thief army originally went down the east bank of the river, after all, it is not easy to cross the river, but there is a tributary river beach in Wangjiang County, and the thief army crossed a part of the soldiers and horses to take the Wangjiang River easily, and continued to travel north As for Anqing, maybe they were just crossing the border and plundering, but they didn't expect Anqing to ......" said and sighed and shook his head, a city is so easy to lose, there is definitely a problem there, Even the officials themselves opened the door and surrendered.

"The thief army may not have expected to be able to easily take Anqing City, this is a mansion city, Bai Wang personally led the elite troops into the city to operate, and at the same time sent the troops to continue north along the east bank, and then broke the Chizhou Mansion and Tongling, and entered Wuhu, and maybe they didn't want the soldiers and horses to be too scattered, after taking Anqing Mansion on the west bank of the Yangtze River, they did not invade Luzhou Mansion to the north."

"That's Zhang Liang's work!" Chang Yu snorted, he commanded the two intelligence departments of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and knew more information than anyone here, Zhang Liang, the governor of Anlu, lost in Anqing and took advantage of the chaos to escape back to Luzhou, and then organized some soldiers and horses and people to counterattack Anqing, so that Bai Wang gave up the plan to go north on both sides of the strait at the same time, he knew the truth that greed and more chewing were not rotten, and the war on the east bank was progressing rapidly outside Nanjing, so there was no need to spend it on the west bank.

"In your opinion, how strong is the thief army?" Chang Yu asked.

Lu Daqi groaned slightly: "200,000 is more, not less" Everyone in the hall was shocked, and a few people looked at Chang Yu with a provocative look, and they all said 200,000, you still don't believe it, 200,000 troops, you are forcing you to fight.

In the entire lobby, Chang Yu looked as usual, gently stroked the tea lid and smiled faintly: "Lu Shangshu is even counting those homeless people together."

Lu Daqi nodded: "What is the difference between being threatened by a thief and being a thief."

Chang Yu snorted: "It's no difference, but the difference is big" Everyone was puzzled, and he continued: "Although he acts as a thief, he is no different from a thief, but when he fights, he is simply vulnerable!" ”

Everyone whispered in their own voices, and Chang Yu looked around: "At the beginning, there were four or five hundred thousand people in Taiyuan who were besieged by thieves, but his main force was only forty or fifty thousand, and the rest was just waving flags and shouting and cheering, but so what, a knife went down to destroy the decay and wither"

Four and a half million! Xu Hongji and the others were shocked again, it was rumored that there were millions of thieves besieging Taiyuan City, and the little eunuch was also famous in that battle, although he knew that there was water, but thinking about the scene of hundreds of thousands of people besieging the city, he couldn't help but feel excited.

"It's just a bluff," Chang Yu smiled coldly, and looked at Xu Hongji with a quick turn: "How much is the Nanjing Soldiers and Horses?" ”

"More than 60,000" Xu Hongji spat out, and Chang Yu knocked on the table: "The governor asked the real amount!" ”

"That's the real amount, is it possible that Father-in-law Chang thinks we are ......" Xu Hongji was a little excited, Chang Yu smiled without waiting for him to finish speaking: "The most important thing for this governor at the moment is to quell the chaos and suppress thieves rather than investigate corruption and eat empty salaries, is it possible that Grandpa Cheng Guo is forcing this governor to investigate now, is it so difficult to tell the truth?" ”

Xu Hongji still had a hard mouth, but Chang Yu raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Zhilong: "You help to defend Nanjing and know the inside story, this governor will give you a chance to tell the truth, otherwise don't blame you for being ruthless when you check the accounts after the autumn!" ”

I...... Zhao Zhilong was stunned, and quickly glanced at Xu Hongji, and saw that his face was blue, so he licked his lips: "Don't talk about Nanjing, look at the whole Ming Dynasty, where is there a real amount."

"Don't you think about other places, how much is the real amount of Nanjing City now?" Chang Yu said sharply, Zhao Zhilong's heart was shocked: "There should always be thirty or forty thousand" Chang Yu turned his head to look at Lu Daqi, and saw him nod slightly: "Throw away the old, weak, sick, disabled and vacancies, forty thousand can still be made."

"The remaining 20,000, I guess everyone here has a share" Chang Yu's words immediately caused outrage: "How can this be true, it's just bloody" Chang Yanling also frowned, I don't know if it was because Chang Yu provoked public anger, or wanted to defend his innocence.

"Father-in-law Chang, why did you offend the nobles of the entire Nanjing City by coming up so indiscriminately?" Xu Hongji, who had been rarely talking and hiding behind and using others as guns, finally couldn't sit still: "Everything must be evidenced, although you are in charge of Dongchang's great achievements, but you are so empty-sighted and humiliating us, then we really want to seek justice from the emperor."

"Justice is in the hearts of the people!" Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, you know that the governor is in charge of the East Factory, you should also know that it is not difficult for the East Factory to investigate such a thing, as long as the Governor wants to, you can find out clearly within a day, the Governor is really not afraid of how much is implicated, and he is ruthless and uprooted.

Threat, the threat of the red fruit.

The whole world is not the king's land, no matter who you are, no matter how awesome you are, but as long as it is in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen is the boss, and Dongchang is his knife, if he wants to cut whom, he only needs to catch your handle to do it.

Regardless of whether you are a prince or a vassal king, are there fewer people who have been demoted, reduced or even executed for their crimes? Coupled with Wei Zhongxian's experience, it is not difficult for Dongchang to bring down anyone, Chang Yu's words are also clear, I am not afraid of you, even if you go together! Except for you to fight and die and break the net, you will do it first, but in the end, you will wait for the family to be ruined one by one.

"The military situation is urgent, the top priority is how to withdraw from the army and quell the thieves, and the investigation of corruption will not be mentioned for the time being, and it will be discussed in the future" Liu Kongzhao came out to play a round again, and everyone echoed, Chang Yu smiled, this strategist was really very thoughtful, so he looked at Liu Kongzhao and said: "In the opinion of sincerity, how to retreat from the enemy?" ”

"Uh, this...... I didn't lead the troops and didn't dare to talk nonsense, and I asked Chang Gonggong to instruct "Liu Kongzhao is very open, Chang Yu is not hiding, he got up and paced around the crowd: "If 40,000 soldiers and horses can make up, then this grain and grass should also be made up."

Coming, coming, Xu Hongji and Zhao Zhilong looked at each other, and sure enough, he came to Nanjing for grain and grass.