Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 226 Skinning
Zhang Xianzhong was a little scared now, he had a feeling of being tricked by Zhu Changyuan, this feeling was not too fatal, the real fatal thing was, what if, what if Zhu Changyuan really wiped out the bandits in Fang County?
"Bah, bah, bah!" Zhang Xianzhong yelled, patted his thigh fiercely, and said, "How could I have such an idea, it's impossible, it must be impossible."

Yes, in his opinion, it is indeed impossible.

"Father!" Liu Wenxiu had a refined appearance and was not good at words. After seeing Zhang Xianzhong lost his temper, he said timidly: "The child will go first."

"Go quickly, ride my handsome horse, and stop him before he arrives in Fang County and call him back. I always have a bad feeling."

Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and dared to leave Liu Wenxiu. He picked up the pen and started to practice calligraphy again, but he was so upset after writing a few strokes that he couldn't keep up. He threw the brush on the table and said, "Master Tang, let's go, my master." Go and listen to your lecture on Sun Tzu's Art of War."

"Okay, sir please."

Although Tang Bingshuo is just a teacher, not even a juren, but I have to say that this scholar has a lot of hills and valleys in his chest. Not only is he smart, but he is also well-educated, and he usually dabbles in a wide range of books, such as military books, hundreds of schools, juggling, etc. I can say a little bit.

Especially for "Sun Tzu's Art of War", it can be said to have unique insights, otherwise Zhang Xianzhong would not have relied so much on it.

When he was free, Tang Bingshuo gave lectures to Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons. The most talked about was Sun Tzu's Art of War. Sometimes Zhang Xianzhong also listened to a passage.

But today, after arriving at the lecture hall, Zhang Xianzhong still seemed extremely irritable. He couldn't listen to Tang Bingshuo's class at all, waved his hand and said, "Stop talking, and you can analyze it for me. Is Zhu Changyuan the one who wiped out Fangxian?" Sun Xiaofeng?"

Master Tang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Marshal, it's absolutely impossible. Do you think he can lead a hundred cavalry in one day and one night to fight back and forth to Fang County, which is four hundred miles away?"

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head.

At this moment, the gate outside came to report, saying: "Marshal."

"Say!"

"Little General Ai is back and said he has something important to see the commander in chief."

"Oh?" Zhang Xianzhong frowned, got up himself and said, "Take me there, don't need him." He always felt that this was a harbinger of something big going on. Ai Nengqi had always been quiet and didn't bother him often, but now he actually said something was going to happen. thing?
Menzi led Zhang Xianzhong to the downstairs door, and sure enough, he saw Ai Nengqi in casual clothes.

"Father!" Ainengqi knelt and kowtowed.

Zhang Xianzhong helped him up and said, "What's wrong?"

"It's not good." Ainengqi took a deep breath and said, "The people outside the city just now found more than a dozen corpses in the Malan River. When they were fished out, they were all wearing armor from us."

"What?" Zhang Xianzhong's eyelids twitched suddenly, and he said, "Where is it? Take me to see it."

"It's just outside the gate of the commander's residence." Ainengqi led Zhang Xianzhong out of the gate.

The moment Zhang Xianzhong saw those corpses, his face suddenly turned pale, and he said: "It's a bad thing." He stepped forward and turned the corpses around to look at them, his face became more and more gloomy, and finally said: "This is terrible. Look at your cavalry."

"Did you see the horse corpse?" Zhang Xianzhong asked again.

"No." Ainengqi shook his head.

At this time, another soldier ran over from the river outside the city, ran up to Zhang Xianzhong and Ainengqi in a panic, and said out of breath, "There are a lot more fished out."

"Let's go to the river to have a look."

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't sit still, and led three hundred guards to walk towards the river.

Outside of Gucheng is the Han River, upstream of Xiangyang City, and the Malan River flowing down from Fang County confluences into the Han River not far from Gucheng. Therefore, if a large number of corpses are found in this Malan River, only Can explain one thing.

As for what it was, Zhang Xianzhong could think of it with his toes.

"Huh, that's not right." Zhang Xianzhong looked at the other part of the body that had been soaked in water and looked at the ugly body, and shook his head. The more he looked, the more confused he became, and finally he realized: "This is probably Sun Xiaofeng's person." , not our team."

But how can this be understood?

First of all, there are Sun Kewang's men and horses in the river, and some of them are suspected of Sun Xiaofeng's men.

Adding these two things together, Zhang Xianzhong's heart skipped a beat suddenly, he looked at his master, and found that his master was also looking at him in shock, the two of them knew each other, but they guessed together.

Zhang Xianzhong no longer had the heart to look at the dead bodies fished out of the river, his eyes were flickering, he said: "Nengqi, Master Tang, and also, go and call Dingguo over to my study, right away."

Li Dingguo bid farewell to Zhu Changyuan and returned to Gucheng after the first bandit suppression. He is currently patrolling a certain camp outside Gucheng. Hearing that Zhang Xianzhong told him to go to the study immediately, he naturally dared not delay.

Within half an hour, the three of them gathered in the study at the same time, all facing Zhang Xianzhong with a gloomy expression.

"The Dongchuang incident happened, what can I do?"

Facing Zhang Xianzhong's inquiry, the three could only say nothing.

"Crack!" Zhang Xianzhong slapped the table firmly, his eyes were red, and he said hysterically: "Prevent people first, and educate people later. What I did is tantamount to rebellion. I don’t know what the result will be? What if the commander-in-chief personally raises the troops of the headquarters tonight, and goes straight to Xiangyang, and it’s against his mother.”

"No, general!" Tang Bingshuo stood up and persuaded, "Since the beginning of autumn this year, there has been no war in Liaodong, and Zicheng has been driven into the deep mountains of Shangluo by Hong Chengchou. Although there are occasional civil uprisings in various parts of Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to cause climate change."

"Let's just say that Xiangyang City seems to be safe to defend. The general will definitely be able to take it down with all his strength, but." Master Tang paused for a while, and drew a small circle on the table to indicate Xiangyang City, which is not far from the northwest corner. Draw a point here and say: "Shaanxi has Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's tens of thousands of troops, and Zuo Liangyu is eyeing the west. According to this, Lu Xiangsheng is only less than ten days away. where?"

Tang Bingshuo's words left Zhang Xianzhong speechless.

That's right, there are veterans who are used to fighting and veterans leading them. Although I have [-] elite men, I can take advantage of it for a while, but in less than a month, the imperial court will definitely send reinforcements from all directions to kill.

"Also." Tang Bingshuo pointed to Xiangyang City, and asked with a finger: "The defender of Xiangyang City, Chen Shiqi, has only a thousand soldiers, which is negligible, but Zhu Changyuan's [-] heavy armored cavalry may not be easy to deal with. "

Zhang Xianzhong shrank his eyes slightly, the first thing he thought of was not Zhu Changyuan's two hundred iron cavalry, but Zhu Changyuan's roar like a god descending from the earth in his commander's mansion that day.

"Then what should we do?"

Zhang Xianzhong has never been a person who does not pay attention, but at this moment, his heart is actually a little dazed.

"Forbearance!" Master gritted his teeth and said a word.

"Forbearance?" Zhang Xianzhong thought about the weight of this word.

"Yes." Master Tang analyzed again: "If General Sun really fought Zhu Changyuan in a battle, the whole army would not be wiped out. Besides, it has been a day since Zhu Changyuan returned to Xiangyang City, and he has not questioned the general from the beginning to the end. .”

"So, what this subordinate means is that we continue to endure. One is to wait for news from General Sun and General Wenxiu, and the other is to watch Zhu Changyuan's movements. What is the truth? Maybe our guess is biased."

"En!" Zhang Xianzhong said: "This is the only way to go now, anyway, even if he knows that the commander-in-chief has tricked him, it is impossible for Zhu Changyuan to lead 200 troops to attack our Gucheng."

"It's the imperial court." Zhang Xianzhong smiled slightly and said, "I'm not afraid, hehe, if he impeaches me, I can bite him back and say that I helped him attack Fang County. force."

"It's so good." Master Tang clapped his hands and laughed.

Early the next morning, Liu Wenxiu brought the news that Zhang Xianzhong wanted, but after hearing the news, his heart was filled with sadness.

Sun Kewang was nowhere to be seen, and none of the two thousand cavalry survived, even man and horse.What's more ridiculous is that they didn't die in Fang County, but on the way to Fang County.

Zhang Xianzhong shot himself in the foot with a stone and reaped the consequences, but he was not reconciled, so he wrote a memorial overnight and handed it to Master Tang asking him to send someone to the capital.

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Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, a few days passed by in a hurry.

It was another sunny winter day, Zhu Changyuan walked out of the tent wearing the cloak given to her by Zhang Yan, recruited Li Xin, Polu, Kong He and Bai Gang into the tent, and said, "Is everything ready?"

"Return to General, Mercury and others are ready."

Polu clapped his hands and answered.

"En." Zhu Changyuan nodded, and said: "It's good to be ready, but that thing is poisonous and volatile, so it needs to be kept properly, sealed tightly, and not leaked, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."

How powerful mercury is, other people don't know that Zhu Changyuan is like a mirror in his heart, for example, just a big drop in Gao Dezhong's condom last time can slowly kill this old guy.

"Yes! This subordinate has followed the order and sealed it into a large iron bucket. It is only two fingers high in the bucket, but it weighs more than 20 kilograms. It is really heavier than steel."

Zhu Changyuan smiled, looked at Li Xin again, and said, "How is it outside now?"

"The truth is out." Li Xin's fair face rarely showed an appreciative smile, and he said to Zhu Changyuan: "It has been a few days, and the news of Sun Xiaofeng's extermination in Fang County has spread rapidly to all directions."

"That's good." Zhu Changyuan stood up, paced back and forth, and finally turned hard, and said: "Since the situation outside has continued to ferment, let's add more fire to deter those bandits around. Bandit."

"Yes, the general should have done this long ago." Li Xin took a deep breath excitedly and said, "In this way, no one around Xiangyang City will dare to disobey the general's order."

"Hmph." Zhu Changyuan bit his lower lip with his upper teeth, slapped the table and said, "If you skin all the ten people I sent to persuade them to surrender, then I will also let him, Sun Xiaofeng, experience the pain of skinning."

　There is another chapter in the evening, which has a stronger taste. . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)