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Qin Mu was assassinated, Huang Lianshan felt that he could not escape the blame, although now Qin Mu's personal guard is not in charge of him, but he, the "Jinyi Guard Commander", has nearly 1,000 people, not only responsible for reprimanding intelligence, but also responsible for anti-traitor work, the assassin has sneaked into the city, can he say that he is not responsible?

He bowed down and stood in front of Qin Mu's desk, waiting for criticism with his head down.

Qin Mu said in a deep voice: "If this official dies on the battlefield, he will die a well-deserved death, and if he dies under the assassin's knife, it will be your incompetence!" ”

Qin Mu rarely said such heavy words to them, including Zhu Yijin and others, they all knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty in unison: "Please surrender your lordship." ”

"Huang Lianshan, not long after the formation of the scout camp, this official will not care about you this time, if there is a next time, he will not be spared."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Huang Lianshan bowed his head again, he quietly glanced at Zhu Yijin and Li Shi, and hesitated, "My lord, today is different from the past, adults can spend less and less time in the army, and there will be more and more shili who intend to be unfavorable to adults, for the sake of the safety of adults, subordinates think that it is necessary for adults to strengthen their own defense, although the Niu brothers are reckless, but they have practiced martial arts since childhood, they are righteous and careful, and they know all kinds of side doors and left roads. ”

Qin Mu thought for a while and said, "Niu Wanchuan let him continue to be Su Jin's deputy general, just let Niu Wanshan come." ”

"Yes, sir."

"Get up." After Qin Mu finished speaking, Zhu Yijin and Li Shi did not get up. "Get up!" Qin Mu sighed again, and the two of them hurriedly got up, "Li Shi continues to stay around the official, Yijin, you don't have to think too much, first finish the things I give you, and then the official will have his own arrangements." ”

"Thank you for your innocence." Zhu Yijin is in an extremely complicated mood, since he made a big fuss in Nanchang. He has always been close to Qin Mu's left and right, in the past, Qin Mu's men and horses were small, and he always galloped on the battlefield in person, and he and Li Shi rushed into battle together as personal soldiers;

But now, as Huang Lianshan said, Qin Mu expanded his army by more than 100,000 at once, and fought on all sides, Qin Mu wanted to take charge of the overall situation, and there were fewer and fewer opportunities for him to charge into battle in person, and they and Li Shi also slowly transformed from personal soldiers to guards.

Zhu Yijin longs to be like Liu Meng and Su Jin, galloping on the field. has made great achievements, but following Qin Mu to be a "close minister of the Son of Heaven" is also unavoidable, making it difficult for him to choose.

Now because of the poor guards, Qin Mu asked him to leave the left and right, Zhu Yijin was inevitably uneasy in his heart, but fortunately, the secret things such as transferring treasures continued to be handed over to him to do, which showed that Qin Mu still trusted him, and Zhu Yijin finally felt a little comforted in his heart;

Of course, he also knew. This is probably Qin Mu's test for him, if this matter is also messed up, even if Qin Mu doesn't take his life, he Zhu Yijin will never be able to get ahead in Qin Mu's camp.

"Your Excellency. A total of eight spies, all of them have been caught, and all the confessions are here, please take a look. ”

Qin Mu took the confession handed over by Huang Lianshan and looked at it. is the same as the two statements in Zhu Yitie's previous interrogation, and there is nothing new.

Huang Lianshan asked, "How do these eight people deal with adults?" ”

"Can you control them from using me?"

"Lord Hui, one of them is called Cheng Erhu is from Ningxiang. The parents, wives and children at home are already under our control, as long as they promise heavy profits, it is not difficult for him to be obedient. ”

"Okay, come forward." Qin Mu carefully instructed Huang Lianshan, who came over close to his ear, and Huang Lianshan wrote them down one by one and left in a hurry.

Qin Mu then said to Li Shi: "Let people prepare a table of wine and food first, the official wants to invite the red lady to the banquet, well, you personally go on a trip and invite the red lady to the governor's yamen, remember, be grand." ”

"Yes, sir."

***

Zhang Kewang marched in the rain, causing 50,000 horses to complain, and even many deserters, and his morale was extremely low.

Zhang Wenxiu, who fled back from Changsha, walked in front of the team, with a defeated face, Qin Mu used Neiying to capture Changsha without knowing it, if it can be said that he was negligent for a while, then the battle outside the west gate of Changsha, ten to one, he was even vulnerable to a dignified battle, causing the surrounding states and counties of Changsha to fall to the wind, and he no longer had any excuse to excuse himself.

The rain didn't stop, the march was slow, he was more anxious than Zhang Kewang, but Zhang Kewang also didn't like his difficult brother, and felt that the big haode situation was all buried by him, and he didn't give him a face since they met, and the cynicism continued, Zhang Wenxiu didn't want to see his stinky face, so he simply ran to the front of the army.

There are still forty miles away from Xiangyin County, the sky is like lead, gloomy, and the raindrops hit the body and are cold, which makes people shrink. The soldiers were moving forward with difficulty, one foot high and one foot low in the mud, and at the current speed, forty miles would be at least two days away.

"This son of a bitch, why don't you have an eye." Zhang Wenxiu was so anxious that he scolded, at this time, the scout in front brought back a person, Zhang Wenxiu saw through the misty rain curtain that it was not Cheng Erhu who he sent to Changsha to inquire about intelligence and wait for the opportunity to assassinate Qin Mu.

"Cheng Erhu, Cheng Erhu, come here."

Cheng Erhu was covered in muddy water, and when he saw Zhang Wenxiu, he immediately ran over and said with a crying voice: "General, general, it's over, the brothers sent are finished." ”

"What's going on? Say it. ”

"General, Qin Mu was busy recruiting troops and horses, we mixed into Changsha City very smoothly, several people while inquiring about the news, while staring at Qin Mu's whereabouts, yesterday Qin Mu and the Red Lady went to the riverside teahouse to drink tea, we felt that this was a rare opportunity, so we swam to the back window of the teahouse to prepare for the assassination, at that time Qin Mu was discussing with the Red Lady about attaching Li Zicheng, Zhang Qing and I were from the back window"

"Wait, you said that Qin Mu and the Red Lady were together at that time to discuss the matter of attaching Li Zicheng?"

"They are saying that they want to belong to Li Zicheng, general, what's wrong?"

"Tell me, what did you all hear?"

"Zhang Qing and I touched the back window, and I heard Qin Mu ask: When will the army sent by King Dashun to meet arrive? The red lady replied to him: If you hold on for another five or six days, I will already send someone back to Xiangyang, and according to the distance, the army will be able to reach it after five or six years down the river by water. Qin Mu said, if you send someone to urge you again, I will lead the army north in two days. ”

"No wonder, no wonder the Red Lady and Qin Mu attacked Changsha together, it turns out that the two have already hooked up." Zhang Wenxiu muttered to himself, he couldn't figure out how the red lady could get together with Qin Mu, and now everything finally understood, "Come on, what else did they say?" ”

"General, no, at that time, Qin Mu had more than a dozen guards downstairs, and the little one and Zhang Qing were worried that they would be discovered after staying for a long time, so after listening to two sentences, they went through the window to assassinate them."

"Fools, you're looking for death."

"General, how do you know?"

"The red lady is very good at martial arts, with her, you still go in to assassinate, it is clear that you are looking for death."

"Ah the villain and Zhang Qing didn't know at the time, Zhang Qing just went in through the window, and was hit on the bridge of the nose by the red lady with a teacup, the villain followed closely behind Zhang Qing, and was kicked by the red lady and flew out of the window, fortunately the river is below, the villain swam and fled, and when he returned to the place where he settled to inform the others, he found that the place where he landed was surrounded by Qin Mu's men and horses, the general, it must be Zhang Qing's son of a bitch, the villain didn't dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly went out of the city to report to the general."

"Okay, let's not talk about it yet, you come with me." Zhang Wenxiu took Cheng Erhu to Zhang Kewang.

"What, it's true?" Zhang Kewang heard that Li Zicheng's army went to the south, and he couldn't help but exclaim, he personally asked Cheng Erhu, Cheng Erhu replied to him, Zhang Kewang couldn't find a flaw, and his heart was shocked for a while.

Don't think that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are against the Ming Dynasty together, everyone is a friendly army, just want to rebel, Li Zicheng has long wanted to annex Zhang Xianzhong, this is a well-known thing, when Zhang Xianzhong was king in Wuchang, Li Zicheng sent people to threaten, when Zhang Xianzhong wanted to attack Jiangxi, Li Zicheng sent the red lady to threaten again.

And now it is an indisputable fact that the Red Lady and Qin Mu are fighting side by side, if the two sides do not collude, it is unbelievable, now Qin Mu raided Changsha and seized countless gold and silver treasures and grain and grass materials, with these, it is even more logical for Li Zicheng to send a large army to respond.

"Big brother, since Qin Mu is going north, my father doesn't have to worry about being trapped, quickly order the army to stop advancing, the fourth brother only has more than 10,000 horses in Wuchang, if Li Zicheng sends troops south, the fourth brother will definitely not be able to hold it, and when Wuchang is lost, the people and horses in Yuezhou will definitely panic."

"Do you need to say that?" Zhang Kewang didn't wait for Zhang Wenxiu to finish speaking, he reprimanded, and then shouted to the heralds: "Pass my order, and the army will stop advancing immediately." At the same time, he sent people to inform Yuezhou and Wuchang to prevent Li Zicheng's army from going south. ”

It's no wonder that Zhang Kewang would be so gullible to Cheng Erhu's words, first of all, Qin Mu fought a battle with the officers and soldiers brought by Lu Daqi in Yuanzhou, and also captured more than 5,000 war horses, Qin Mu's behavior itself makes people suspect that he has different ambitions and signs of rebellion.

Next, the Red Lady fought side by side with Qin Mu under the city of Yuanzhou, blocking Zhang Xianzhong's pursuers together, and then attacking Changsha together, which is enough to show that the two sides have colluded together, so it is logical for Qin Mu to lead the army to the north, and Li Zicheng sent a large army south to respond.

After sorting out these causes and consequences in detail, Zhang Kewang and Zhang Wenxiu were convinced of the news that Cheng Erhu had "inquired". The current situation is that Qin Mu has already scraped Changsha into the air, and if Wuchang and Yuezhou are broken by Li Zicheng's army from behind, the consequences will be unimaginable.

And since Qin Mu is going north, there is no need for him to brave the rain to go south to make himself a tired soldier, the wisest thing to do is undoubtedly to wait for work and stop Qin Mu.

Zhang Kewang's decision was beyond reproach, but what he didn't know was that this was just a series of sets set up by Qin Daguan.

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PS: The internet was disconnected again in the morning, alas, the update was delayed, sorry sorry sorry.

(To be continued......)