Lu Bing said coldly: "What I can do is only two things, first, not let Yan Song's people get close to the judge, the chief judge is an absolutely reliable confidant, and there will be no inducement and coercion of confession." Second, try your best to save Yang Jisheng's life, and I have already sent someone to resettle his whole family, so that they will not fall into the hands of Yan Song as a bargaining chip. Sirius, do you know what I want you to do next? ”

A gleam flashed in the wolf's eyes: "Commander-in-Chief Lu, should you let me go to the edict prison to guard Yang Jisheng." ”

Lu Bing smiled slightly: "I have this intention, what do you think?" ”

Sky Wolf lowered his head and thought about it, Lu Bing's task is deeply in line with his own heart, and it is really undesirable to be able to protect the loyal ministers and righteous men as much as he can, but now that the Japanese in Nanjing City are gone, Yan Song's father and son are bound to fight back frantically after they have survived this crisis, if they are consumed in the edict prison, they don't know what will become like in the martial arts when they re-emerge from the rivers and lakes, thinking of this, he began to be in a dilemma again.

Lu Bing was a little surprised by the Heavenly Wolf's reaction, he thought that the Heavenly Wolf would readily agree, frowned, and asked, "What, don't you want to?" ”

The Heavenly Wolf raised his head and said to Lu Bingzheng: "Now in the Imperial Prison, who is guarding Yang Jisheng so that Commander-in-Chief Lu can leave with confidence?" When you come back to Nanjing, I'm afraid that you didn't just come to me, in fact, I came to Nanjing City only temporarily. ”

Lu Bing smiled: "Yes, there is Feng Wu guarding the Imperial Prison, I am very relieved of Yang Jisheng's safety, but Feng Wu does not have the loyalty of you." I'm afraid that she won't be able to withstand the pressure of the emperor for a while, you know, people in the edict prison. If Feng Wu is in a hurry to solve the case, he may beat Yang Jisheng to death, which is also the main reason why I want you to go to prison. ”

Sky Wolf asked rhetorically, "Then what are you doing in Nanjing City for?" ”

Lu Bing's face became stern: "I got the news that Xu Hai, the leader of the Japanese Bandits, Shangquan Xinzhi and Mao Haifeng secretly landed and infiltrated Nanjing City. Trying to connect with Yan Shifan, they had already met Hu Zongxian before this, as the commander-in-chief of Jinyiwei. I can't ignore this matter, the north is just barely stable, and if the south is chaotic, the country will have problems. That's right. You said it in the inn just now. He fought with Yan Shifan last night, what happened? ”

Heavenly Wolf took a deep breath and described in detail the fact that he had met Izumi Xinzhi and Xu Hai and others on the street yesterday, entered Languifang, and then happened to meet the little junior sister outside the city, and then Yan Shifan appeared and made a deal with him, and even reported to Lu Bing word for word the agreement he finally reached with the little junior sister.

After Lu Bing listened. He let out a sigh of relief, "You're doing a great job, Sirius. You have improved, originally I thought that when you saw Mu Lanxiang being captured, you would go to rescue her regardless of anything. ”

Heavenly Wolf Zhengse said: "I will save her, even if I lose my life, but at that time, Yan Shifan and the Japanese were there, it was not a good time, I was originally preparing to rescue Yan Shifan when he took the little junior sister away, but I didn't expect his martial arts to be too high, and he saw through my position early, if it wasn't for his intention to turn enemies into friends with us, I'm afraid that I would have fallen there at this time." ”

Lu Bing said in a deep voice: "Heavenly Wolf, do you analyze what Yan Shifan's intention is in doing this, just want to ask you to bring a message, do you want to cooperate with our Jinyi Weihui?" ”

Heavenly Wolf thought about it carefully and shook his head: "I'm afraid that his real intentions are still on Yang Jisheng, when he talked to me, he only mentioned Yang Jisheng, and didn't mention anything about Shen Lian, obviously he already knew that Commander-in-Chief Lu would not take the initiative to harm Lord Yang as their father and son wished, last time Yan Song came to the door, this time he brought a message to me again, if the commander-in-chief refused, they might attack us Jinyiwei and the commander-in-chief." ”

Lu Bing sneered: "They can't move me, in fact, Yan Song's father and son also know this, and it is impossible for the emperor to disobey their wishes and depose me, so now they are seeking to reconcile with me, the purpose is to win me over to deal with those ministers of the Qing School." ”

Sky Wolf nodded: "What the commander-in-chief said is extremely true, it should be impossible for you to join hands with the Yan family and father and son again, but if you refuse directly like this, are you not afraid that the Yan family and father and son will use Shen Lian's matter to do you badly?" ”

Lu Bing's pupils contracted, obviously he was still a little jealous of this matter, he sighed: "Shen Lian didn't listen to my persuasion, and forcibly impeached Yan Song's father and son, although this time Yan Song gave me a face and didn't give Shen Lian a heavy hand, but the place where Shen Lian was finally sentenced to exile was Xuanfu in Shanxi." ”

"Since Qiu Luan entered Beijing, Yang Shun, the governor of Xuanda, is Yan Song's sworn friend, if he wants to find trouble with Shen Lian, he can do so at any time, and with Shen Lian's jealous and hateful personality, I can't control him here, and he is degraded to the border, so I must be even more resentful in my heart, I must be scolding Yan Song's father and son all day long, if I catch the handle, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect him."

The wolf said hatefully: "The king is faint and treacherous, the jackal is in charge, when will this dark world be a head." ”

Lu Bing's face sank: "Heavenly wolf, be cautious, do you also want to learn Shen Lian?" ”

Heavenly Wolf sighed: "Commander-in-Chief Lu, you better persuade Brother Shen well, at least don't give Yan Dang any tricks in the past two years, but Xu Tuzhi, after this battle, Xu Jie and other Qing School ministers are only afraid and dare not openly oppose Yan Song's father and son above the court, what we can do is only to secretly search for evidence of Yan Dang's crimes as you said, this time you came to Nanjing, are you going to investigate Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang?" ”

Lu Bing didn't answer directly, he put his hands behind his back and paced a few steps before he stopped and looked at the sky wolf: "If you were me, what would you do?" ”

Heavenly Wolf smiled slightly: "Actually, you know my mind best, I came to the southeast area because I didn't worry about this southeast minister, after all, the last time he secretly released Shangquan Xinzhi, it always made me feel that something was wrong, although the southeast area has been quite stable in recent years, but I am really afraid that there will be another Qiu Luan here, on the surface, I can spend money to buy peace, but if the Japanese invade it." It's vulnerable again. ”

Lu Bing shook his head: "Okay, I actually participated in the whole process of the last time, and I can basically be sure." Hu Zongxian himself is not like Qiu Luan, he will not betray the country to seek glory, although he is Yan Song's protégé, but he still has a sense of justice as a scholar, and he can still be stable in the overall situation. Fighting against the Japanese is not like Qiu Luan, who retreats into the pass and does nothing. I think he still has the heart to exterminate the Japanese invaders, but he can't catch it. ”

Sky Wolf shook his head dissatisfiedly: "I can't accept Commander Lu's statement, no matter how strong the wolf is, no matter how rich he is. It's just tens of thousands of armed pirates. It cannot be compared with a powerful country like Mongolia with a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of cavalry, with a population of several million in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, millions of people, and millions of taels of silver every year to fight against the Japanese, even the newly trained army has 100,000 people, not to mention that in order to pacify the Japanese, they also transferred wolf soldiers with strong combat effectiveness from Guangxi and Sichuan. Even the monks of Southern Shaolin joined the battle, sitting on several southeastern provinces. There is no shortage of money, food, and soldiers, but they say that they can't defeat tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, is this reasonable? ”

Lu Bing sighed: "Sky wolf, you are still a little too taken for granted, whether it is a Japanese or Mongolian, if you are like our Han people, fix a stronghold, waiting for us to attack, then naturally there is no need to worry, but their most headache for us is that there is no fixed place, the Mongolians live in the four seasons by water and grass, there is no fixed walled city, strong men fight everywhere, and the old and weak women and children are hundreds of miles away to watch their homes, once they can't beat it, they will roll up the yurt, and drive the cattle and sheep to escape without a trace, since the founding of our dynasty, The Mongols are always defeated but cannot be destroyed, and when they regain their strength, they will come to harass us endlessly. ”

"As for this Japanese Bandit, in fact, it is the Mongols on the sea, there are thousands of large and small islands off the coast of Zhejiang, it is difficult for us to know where the Japanese are entrenched, and the Japanese have thousands of warships, if they do not land, but only at sea, our army's warships and sailors may not be able to beat them."

"The Xu Hai you saw this time, is the most capable of playing a leader among the Japanese Kou, this person was originally a monk in Hupao Temple, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the law name Pu Jing, his uncle Xu Weixue, is a maritime merchant who partnered with Wang Zhi to do business, and later became a Japanese Kou together, Wang Zhi's management ability stood out among several partners, less than two years, it far surpassed Xu Weixue, Xu Weixue couldn't swallow this breath, knowing that although his nephew was in Buddhism, he was a stranger since he was a child, not only excellent martial arts, but also the ability of the art of war, So he didn't hesitate to risk losing his head and sneaked back to Hangzhou, and took Xu Hai to be a widow. ”

"As a result, Xu Hai was first mortgaged by Xu Weixue as a hostage to Shangquan Xinzhi and others, and later Xu Weixue was killed in the process of trading together, but Xu Hai said to Shangquan Xinzhi and other Japanese robbers that he was willing to follow the Japanese to do it together, because Xu Weixue was dead, it was useless to kill one more Xu Hai, so Shangquan Xinzhi left Xu Hai, and soon, Xu Hai's Wentao martial arts strategy was shown."

"A year ago, the chief military officer Zong Li led the troops to defend Zhejiang, because Zong Li is a Heshuo people, the department is an elite soldier, he was also a fierce general who fought with the Mongols many times under the governor of Zeng Milling, even Hu Zongxian also had high hopes for him, as a result, Xu Hai commanded thousands of Japanese invaders, first pretended to rob two county seats, and plundered thousands of men and women, Zong Li immediately led his subordinates to pursue after hearing about it, and wanted to rescue the captured people, Xu Hai first deliberately showed weakness, and fought with the Zongli Department at Sanli Bridge, and was defeated three times in a row, leading the Zongli Department to pursue the victory, Until they entered his encirclement. ”

"Because there were only two or three thousand people in Zongli's department, and a lot of soldiers were divided to take care of the rescued people, so when the pursuit was less than a thousand people, the food was less than two days, and finally Xu Hai led thousands of bandits to surround Tongxiang, bloody battles for two days and two nights, and finally nine hundred soldiers, together with Zongli's general soldiers, died together. This battle is the first time in more than ten years that a general at the level of the general army has been killed in the southeast of the country, and for a time the Japanese were arrogant, and Xu Hai also fought because of this, becoming the second in command after Wang Zhi. ”

The wolf was so angry that he stepped on a piece of bluestone on the ground: "I knew this was the case, and I said yesterday that I would take Xu Hai's head to pay tribute to General Zong." Commander-in-chief, the Japanese are so rampant, this Xu Hai dares to swagger into Nanjing City, if this is not caught, then I will not become a thatched house for the Japanese to come and go? ”

Lu Bing's face sank like water, and he nodded: "But this time, I may not be able to arrest them, the tip I received is that this time there are a few widows." He came to negotiate with Hu Zongxian and Yan Shifan, and was protected by them, even if he had to do it. It can't be in Nanjing City, otherwise it will be like last time, if you catch Shangquan Xinyuki, you still have to put it back. ”

Sky Wolf's eyes widened in surprise: "What? How dare they blatantly conspire with the Japanese in this way? Could it be that the emperor also let this go? ”

Lu Bing sighed: "Before I came out, the emperor told me the truth, and Hu Zongxian had a secret concert to negotiate peace with the Japanese Kou." In the defeat of Tongxiang last year, Zongli's general army died heroically, and our southeastern soldiers were angry. Now there is no strength to take the initiative to attack, and after that great victory, the Japanese did not take advantage of the fire to rob, but took the initiative to send envoys to contact Hu Zongxian. Not only did they release the civilians and officers and soldiers who were captured in the war. Moreover, Wang Zhi said that he intended to negotiate peace with our DPRK, and that as long as he could allow him to do business with them, he would not resort to robbing coastal towns in the future. ”

Sky Wolf heard nothing to say, he knew that he had just been defeated by Mongolia in the north last year, at this time, the elite soldiers and fierce generals of the Ming Dynasty were gathering in the north, and a lot of money, food, soldiers and horses were transferred to the south to resist the Japanese, and in this case they could only negotiate peace. Moreover, Hu Zongxian is well aware of Jiajing's temper and does not make public the matter of peace talks. Instead, he played a secret play, which gave Jiajing enough face, and naturally got the Shang Fang sword that could negotiate peace with the Japanese Kou.

So the wolf could only say stupidly: "Then now you can only make peace with the Japanese Kou, right?" Commander-in-Chief Lu, in that case, what are you going to do in this Nanjing City, to be a guard for them during peace talks? ”

Lu Bing shook his head: "Heavenly wolf, in fact, I don't want to go on this trip, but the emperor is still a little uneasy about Yan Shifan and Hu Zongxian, and he is also afraid that these Yan parties will have any private agreements with the Japanese Kou behind his back, so he sent me to Nanjing to secretly monitor, once they have the behavior of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, then they would rather go to war than negotiate peace." ”

The wolf was happy at first, and then frowned deeply: "If you want to say that you want to sell the country, it depends on the intentions of the Japanese invaders, if they just want to open the country and obtain the qualification for trade, it should be allowed by the emperor, even if they can't trade openly, but as long as our dynasty allows them to entrench one or two uninhabited islands overseas in Zhejiang and Fujian as a base, and then acquiesce to private merchants to trade with them in such places, then the purpose of the Japanese invaders will basically be achieved, and the emperor has not lost face." Right? ”

Lu Bing nodded: "That's right, Yan Song is cunning, and he doesn't express his position, but he makes Hu Zongxian, Zhao Wenhua and others repeatedly sloppy, saying that it is for the Japanese Kou, to suppress and appease the Kou, now the pressure on the north of the imperial court is great, and it is necessary to adopt a Huairou policy here in the southeast, so that the Japanese can not be provoked to attack the coastal areas on a large scale, and the training of recruits and the construction of warships also take time." ”

The wolf said hatefully: "Excuses, excuses, raising soldiers for a thousand days, but when I used the soldiers, I said that this is not good, that is not enough, I really don't know what to do in peacetime, Hu Zongxian has more than 100,000 elite soldiers, but he does not dare to fight, compared with General Zongli, it is really far away!"

Lu Bing waved his hand: "Heavenly wolf, I think you may have misunderstood Hu Zongxian, I said, he is not Qiu Luan, or really wants to compete with the Japanese Invaders, according to my intelligence, he did recruit soldiers in Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as Guangdong, and handed them over to the generals for training, just to be able to defeat the Japanese at sea, and in order to deal with the Japanese Invaders, he also transferred good generals from all over the country, and let these good generals recruit troops in Zhejiang and Fujian, in order to fight the Japanese Invaders in the future." ”

The wolf crooked his mouth disdainfully: "There is a soldier in a bear, a nest of bears, a governor who does not dare to fight, how can there be any good generals, I think this is just an excuse for Hu Zongxian, nine times out of ten, I still find some Yan Song's henchmen to occupy the quota." ”

Lu Bing laughed: "Heavenly wolf, I'm afraid that you have misjudged this time, there are at least two people, I know, they can be called unborn generals, with these two people, I dare not say that in three years, after the training of the new army is completed, it will definitely be able to break the Japanese bandits." ”

Sky Wolf Qi said: "Is there really such a good general? How come I haven't heard of it. ”

Lu Bing nodded: "It's not surprising that you don't know the military of the imperial court, and you don't know good generals, one of them is Yu Dayou, the former Yazhou general and the new Ning (Bo) Tai (Zhou) general."

This Yu Dayou is a native of Quanzhou, Fujian, his ancestor Yu Min followed Emperor Taizu Hongwu to fight the world, and later settled in Quanzhou, Fujian Province as a meritorious hero, and the family inherited the Quanzhou Wei Baihu official, to his generation, it was already the sixth generation. This person has been poor since childhood, relying on his mother to sell his hair for his education, plus the relief of relatives and friends, he has to learn martial arts, is a talent with both civil and military skills, known as one of the ten talents of Qingyuan Cave, in order to practice courage when he was a teenager, he once climbed the boulder from the ground with his classmates, and then jumped down to hone his courage. ”

Hearing this, Sky Wolf muttered in his heart: I also did this kind of thing with Senior Brother Xu and Little Senior Sister when I was a child, it's nothing, but when I thought that Yu Dayou was just a scholar at the time, but he could do what he did as a martial arts person, he couldn't help but admire it again and nodded.

Lu Bing continued: "Later, Yu Dayou also had to be taught swordsmanship by another person, and was instructed by the senior monks of Southern Shaolin to practice martial arts. ”

Hearing this, the wolf cried out, "Really? "He still doesn't believe that a family of officers like Yu Dayou can produce a sword god-level master, could it be that Yun Feiyang accepted him as an apprentice again? (To be continued......)