At noon the next day, Ling Jing came to Huancheng County on time, this time, Lin Zhengtai personally came to the city gate to welcome Ling Jing's arrival, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lin Zhengtai invited Ling Jing to the city tower. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Inside the city tower, Lin Zhengtai sighed and said: "In order for the soldiers to be able to return home, I have decided to surrender to the Northern Sui, but I have three small requirements. ”

Ling Jing smiled and said, "Eldest son, please speak, I will listen to you!" ”

Lin Zhengtai said slowly: "First of all, I hope that His Royal Highness the King of Qi can pardon all the soldiers in the city, not deprive them of their property, and let them return home smoothly." ”

Ling Jing nodded, "This condition is not excessive, I can agree on behalf of His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

"The second condition is to beg His Royal Highness King Qi to spare my underage brothers, they are all still young, the oldest is only eleven years old, and the youngest is only one year old, and there are no evil deeds."

Ling Jing thought for a while, "I need to go back and ask His Highness for this article, but I personally think that as long as Lin Zhengbiao is not included, it should not be a big problem, His Royal Highness King Qi such as Zuo Xiaoyou, Dou Jiande, Shan Xiongxin and others have all been pardoned, and he doesn't care about a few children, please say the third condition." ”

Lin Zhengtai hesitated for a moment and said: "The third condition is that I hope my father can be buried with the rites of the king." ”

Ling Jing immediately shook his head, "I'm afraid this can't be done, Northern Sui does not recognize the Chu State, and our lord is the king of Qi, and he is also the only prince of Northern Sui, your father will be buried with the ceremony of a prince, where does this put our Royal Highness the King of Qi?" At most, I agree that Childe will bury his father by himself, which is a personal act and we will not interfere. ”

In fact, the third condition, Lin Zhengtai, also knew that the other party would not agree, so he had to nod, "Okay!" I buried my father myself. ”

Ling Jing said again: "Then about the official position of the eldest son, His Royal Highness the King of Qi decided to make the prince the prince of Poyang County, from the third grade of silver Qingguanglu doctor, as for the specific officials, the eldest son can choose an official position from the fourth grade, can be the middle county Taishou, can also be in the imperial court for the young secretary and young eunuch, but not in Poyang, Yuzhang and Jiujiang three counties as officials. ”

Lin Zhengtai slurred: "Can you make me the secretary of the provincial young eunuch?" In charge of the imperial court books. ”

Ling Jing was a little puzzled, and said with a smile: "Although the secretary province has the word 'province', it is actually a temple supervisor, and it is one of the lightest official positions, and it is called Erxian along with Zongzheng Temple, why did the eldest son choose this position?" ”

Lin Zhengtai smiled bitterly, "I have loved reading since I was a child, and I have collected tens of thousands of books, I have heard hundreds of thousands of books in the Sui Dynasty, and I just want to become a bookworm to get in. ”

Ling Jing laughed, "Some of the books of the Sui Dynasty are in Jiangdu, but most of them are in Luoyang, but sooner or later they will belong to us, since the eldest prince has the ambition to manage the books, I believe that His Royal Highness will definitely succeed." ”

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Zhang Xuan finally accepted Lin Zhengtai's first two conditions, and at the same time awarded Lin Zhengtai as the Duke of Poyang County, plus silver Qingguanglu doctor, the secretary and young eunuch, in charge of the scriptures and books, the next morning, Lin Zhengtai led 28,000 soldiers to formally surrender Zhang Xuan, according to the rules of the Sui army, these soldiers will all be repatriated to their hometowns.

Since then, Lin Shihong's Chu army has only Lin Zhengbiao to control about 40,000 troops to occupy Yuzhang County, and on the tenth day of April, Zhang Xuan led an army of 60,000 troops by land and water to kill Yuzhang County, preparing to wipe out the thief army in one fell swoop.

In the evening of that day, 40,000 Sui troops camped on the west bank of Poyang to rest, preparing to set off for the south early tomorrow morning.

Two thousand scout cavalry patrolled the surrounding area, and the camp was particularly lively, and the soldiers were busy with cooking and setting up tents.

At this time, a group of scout cavalry came to the front of the camp with a young man, this young man named Xia Xun, who was also a scout lieutenant of the Sui army, but his task was not to scout and patrol the surroundings, but was ordered to stay by the side of the Lu brothers and report to Zhang Xuan on behalf of the Lu brothers.

The scout brought Xia Xun directly to the tent, and a personal soldier went in to report, and after a while, the personal soldier came out and said: "The marshal let you in!" ”

Xia Xun walked into the big tent and saw that the coach Zhang Xuan was sitting at the table to review the papers, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Humble Xia Xun participates in the big handsome!" ”

"No need to be polite, please get up!"

Zhang Xuan put down his pen and asked with a smile, "Did Lu Ping ask you to deliver the letter?" ”

"Exactly!"

Xia Xun took out a letter and presented it, and the soldiers took it and handed it to Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan opened the letter and read it, then put down the letter and asked, "How is the situation of the Lu brothers now?" ”

"Marshal Qiyu, the two of them are in the army like the sky, Lin Zhengbiao trusts the two of them very much, especially General Lu Er, Lin Zhengbiao is even more obedient to his words, poisoning Zhang Bianwei and annexing his army is the single-hand plan of General Lu Er, this matter makes Lin Zhengbiao very satisfied."

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "You go back and tell the two of them that their success or failure depends on this, and I will make their suggestions to do it, but only this once." ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhang Xuan rewarded Xia Xun heavily, and then ordered: "Let General Luo and General Pei come to see me!" ”

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Not long ago, two armies came down from Jiujiang County, one was the general Zhang Wei led 5,000 troops, he came specifically to defect to Lin Zhengbiao, and the other was the 6,000 army led by the general Zhang Bianwei, but he wanted to enter Poyang Lake to join the second son Lin Zhengwei, but they did not have a warship into the lake, so they had to go south to Yuzhang County, and wanted to borrow more than 200 cargo ships anchored in Yuzhang County to enter the lake.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhengbiao sent him off under the pretext of wine, but poisoned Zhang Bianwei with a cup of poisonous wine, swallowing his 6,000 troops, bringing Lin Zhengbiao's army to 40,000 people, and became the strongest army in the Chu army.

Lin Zhengbiao's station is located in Yuzhang County, close to Ganshui, Yuzhang County is also one of Lin Shihong's old nests, its importance is second only to Poyang County and Huancheng County, it has always been the sphere of influence of the navy, is the place of rest and replenishment of the officers and men of the navy.

In last year's war with Xiao Mill, although Lin Shihong won a great victory in the water battle, he was defeated by Xiao Mill's army in Yuzhang County, thanks to the timely arrival of the water army, he barely kept Yuzhang County, but the western part of Yuzhang County has been occupied by Xiao Mill's army.

However, the western region is mainly mountainous, sparsely populated, and there are not even a few county seats, basically there is no strategic value.

In the big tent, Lin Zhengbiao was discussing with the Lu brothers how to deal with Zhang Xuan, they had just received the news that Lin Zhengwei's army had been wiped out, and Lin Zhengtai had surrendered the Sui army in Huancheng County, which made Lin Zhengbiao really feel flustered, and he wanted to retreat to Yichun County or Luling County, but the Lu brothers strongly persuaded him not to retreat south.

Lu Fei persuaded bitterly: "In the past two days, I have carefully checked the sergeant scrolls, eighty percent of our army comes from the three counties of Poyang, Yuzhang and Lujiang, if we retreat south, it will cause turmoil in the hearts of the army, and there will definitely be a large wave of escape, it is better to call on the soldiers to fight to the death with the Sui army in the name of defending the homeland, if we are defeated by the Sui army, it will not be too late for us to retreat south." ”

Next to Lu Ping also persuaded: "This time the Sui army marched west with an army of 50,000, and they left 10,000 troops to garrison in Poyang County, and in Jiujiang County, they left another 10,000 troops to guard against the Tang army, in fact, the army that entered Yuzhang County was only 30,000, and we had an army of 40,000, which had an advantage in terms of troops, if the tactics were right, we were not without the possibility of defeating the Sui army." ”

At this time, Zhao Yanlu, another general next to him, sneered: "General Lu Er is quite good at pinching branches and leaves, and the Sui army only has 30,000 troops, so I don't know where the water army has gone?" ”

Lu Ping spewed out a breath of cold air from his nose, glanced at him with disdain, and said: "This can only show that your intelligence is backward, and the Sui Army's naval division turned around and went north soon after entering Ganshui and re-entered Poyang Lake." ”

This news lifted Lin Zhengbiao's spirits, and he hurriedly asked, "Why did the Sui warships evacuate?" ”

"I don't know the specific reason for the lowly position, but the lowly position is estimated to be related to the Tang Army, the Tang Army has been eyeing Jiangxia, Lin Zhengwei and Lin Zhengtai's army has perished, if they don't do it again, there will be no chance, the lowly post has sent someone to follow, if there is a new situation, the lowly post will report to the lord at any time."

Lin Zhengbiao's heart began to liven, and said with a smile: "If this is the case, we can kill Poyang County, retake Poyang County, and even kill all the way to Jiangnan, anyway, the Sui army can't cross the Ganshui, is this our chance?" ”

The Lu brothers laughed, "The ambition of the lord is really beyond the expectations of the humble position!" ”

Zhao Yanlu hurriedly said: "Lord, Zhang Xuan will not give us this kind of opportunity, don't risk fighting." ”

Lin Zhengbiao smiled and waved his hand, "I'm just talking, don't be so serious." ”

At this time, the Lu brothers stood up and saluted, "Let's go and deploy defenses, even if we don't attack, we will defend Yuzhang County." ”

The two left in a hurry, but Zhao Yanlu did not leave, he was a veteran, about fifty years old, had followed Lin Shihong for many years, and was sent by Lin Shihong to assist his fourth son Lin Zhengbiao, but Lin Zhengbiao didn't like him very much, thinking that he was too timid and cautious, he didn't dare to do anything, and it didn't meet his appetite, so he kept snubbing him, and until recently, Lin Zhengbiao was unavailable and reactivated him.

Zhao Yanlu really hated the Lu brothers, and instigated the lord to kill people and control power all day long, how many former veterans were killed because of this? He wanted to kill them with a sword.

"Is there anything else going on with General Zhao?" Lin Zhengbiao glanced at Zhao Yanlu a little unhappily.

"My lord, the Lu brothers can't believe it, these two people have bad intentions, if we believe them, we will die at their hands sooner or later."

Lin Zhengbiao's face suddenly became gloomy, and he said coldly: "Do you need to talk about my business?" ”

"Lord, the words of the lowly office are true, and their behavior is unreasonable......."

"Enough!"

Lin Zhengbiao shouted angrily, interrupted Zhao Yanlu's words, glared at him angrily, and said: "If you want to replace them, give me some useful ideas, don't slander me in the back like a villain, come on, blast me out!" ”

Several guards persuaded Zhao Yanlu to go out, Lin Zhengbiao was distraught, pulled out his knife suddenly, and slashed at the table.

Zhao Yanlu was pushed out of the big tent, and he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, "The poor lord's foundation for decades was ruined in the hands of the rebel son like this!" (To be continued.) )