Li Zhongshan gave an order, and Wang Quan and a dozen other soldiers from the Shanzi Battalion who were following him had already drawn their flintlock pistols and pointed them at the soldiers of Wu Shifan, Wu Shijue and their two brothers. This reaction was so fast, At first glance, it seems that they often conduct firefighting drills!
Wu Shifan and Wu Shijue had no idea that "Little Job Lu Bu" Li Zhongshan would fall out of favor faster than flipping through a book. They were not mentally prepared, and their soldiers did not react. Before they could even draw their swords, they were already shot with a flintlock pistol. Moreover, Wang Quan and the soldiers of Shanzi camp were both double-gun soldiers, each holding a flintlock pistol in each hand, and while drawing the gun, they also completed the action of loading the trigger, and the flintlock pistols were at any time. In a state where it can be fired.
Just before Wu Shifan and Wu Shijue could react from the shock, Li Zhongshan took action and lifted Wu Shifan up from his horse, grabbed him on his saddle, and at the same time pulled out a The dagger pressed against Wu Shifan's back, completely controlling the Great Zhou Taisun.
"Li Shikai, what do you want to do?" Wu Shijue had already reacted, but he was powerless at this time and could only ask loudly.
Li Zhongshan ignored him. He just leaned into Wu Shifan's ear, who was still in shock, and said softly: "Meiyu, don't struggle, and tell your people not to move, because my knife is pressed against the back of your heart." .”
"Don't move, don't move." Wu Shifan was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and remembered that Li Zhongshan's nickname was "Little Worker Lu Bu"!
He has been captured alive by "Lu Bu", so it's better not to struggle. It's useless to struggle.
Seeing that Wu Shifan was still cooperative, Li Zhongshan smiled at Wu Shijue and said: "Shuangyu, don't get me wrong, I took Meiyu just to use him to blackmail you to help me snatch Xiaogen. You go quickly, Meiyu and I will go to Ye together." The county is waiting for you to bring Xiaoji back."
"What." Wu Shijue said in his heart: Do you know that your little wife was robbed by your brother? Shouldn't you be furious and fly south with your own soldiers to rob her? Why did you arrest the grandson to blackmail me? Isn't this too unloyal? By the way, you are a small job Lu Bu, you are a dishonest person to begin with!
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Shuangyu, don't blame me for being unloyal. The main reason is that I am afraid that someone will use Xiaogen as bait to set up a trap for me. I am not doubting you and Meiyu, I am mainly suspicious of your grandpa Huang!"
"Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go, don't hurt my grandson, keep your knife away from my grandson's back!" Wu Shijue probably knew that he was in the wrong, so he didn't talk nonsense to Li Zhongshan and agreed to the other party's request in one fell swoop. , and then gave a loud order: "Lead the army on the right to guard the left camp, and lead the army on the left to guard the left camp. All lightly armed, follow this general to go out into battle! The rest of the troops will guard the emperor's grandson and general Li!"
Although Wu Zhou now claims to implement Zhou rites, its military system is similar to the imperial army system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The imperial army directly led by the Zhou Dynasty is divided into ten and sixteen guards. Among them, the imperial army led by Wu Sangui has a total of 16 guards. There are eight troops, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan command two troops and four guards, Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong command the six guards, and Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue also command the six guards.
Under each command or guard, there were five battalions and fifteen military offices. The battalions were under the jurisdiction of the soldiers who served in the previous period, and the military offices were under the jurisdiction of the soldiers and households of the soldiers in the countryside.
In addition to the government troops under the command of the generals and guards, Wu Zhou also had some town troops controlled by affiliated vassal towns, and the organization was relatively messy.
However, even the soldiers directly led by the Wu and Zhou imperial courts actually had a strong tendency to become warlords!
Because it is best for government soldiers to serve nearby, otherwise they will spend too much time on the road and the time they can actually serve as soldiers in the army will be very short. Therefore, Wu Zhou's military mansions could only be concentrated in Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hunan, and Hubei.
Most of the military mansions in Gansu and northern Shaanxi were under the control of the military guards led by Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong. The military mansions in Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi were under the control of eight commanders directly led by Wu Sangui. The armies in Henan, Xiangyang, and Yunyang were The government capital was under the control of Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan and his son, while the military government in Hunan was under the control of Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue and his son.
As a result, Wu Zhou's soldiers formed three military groups!
Of course, now that Wu Sangui is still there, the three military groups are not clearly distinct and cannot be subordinate to each other at all. For example, the 20,000 troops led by Wu Shijue when he took command of the Northern Expedition were from the Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan groups and the Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue groups. Among them, the troops from the Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue groups were the left and right leading army guards, about 10,000 people.
Because Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan's troops want to stay in Henan Prefecture, Shaanzhou, and Ruzhou to defend and suppress local powerful forces, they are now following Wu Shifan and Wu Shijue to go south. In addition to one battalion of Wu Shifan's personal soldiers (from Youwei), they are Wu Shijue's left and right led the army and guards.
Now Wu Shijue was also very neat. He directly brought two battalions of cavalry under the leadership of the left and right guards, and marched south lightly.
After watching Wu Shijue lead his troops away, Li Zhongshan put away the knife and gently put Wu Shifan down. Then he looked at Wu Shifan's handsome face full of anger and said with a smile: "Meiyu, don't be angry. We are chasing the lost deer together, so it's no big deal to play tricks on each other. But it seems like your personal soldiers You are not very good at it, and you are not very vigilant yourself! I am a world-famous tiger general. You and I are walking side by side, how can you not be extremely careful? If you don't change this problem, if you encounter the Xuanwu Sect in the future, you will That would be terrible!"
Wu Shifan almost made Li Zhongshan angry, "Well, you little job Lu Bu, at this time, you still haven't forgotten to alienate my brothers, uncles and nephews?"
Li Zhongshan laughed and said: "Meiyu, don't be angry. If you fall into my hands in the future, you will not lose the title of prince. I am not the emperor anyway, and we have nothing to do as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. So you don't have to panic, You can be a rich man all your life. But if you fall into his hands, you will definitely die! So we are still the closest relatives and friends, and we are still brothers, okay?"
What he said was sincere. Li Zhongshan was the general and the minister, and the source of his power was the National People's Political Council. Therefore, if Wu Shifan was defeated and surrendered, Li Zhongshan would not be suspicious of him - he would not enter the army at all. The core power circle of the new Ming Dynasty cannot be reached.
Wu Shifan, whose face was full of anger just now, suddenly laughed: "Okay! If you fall into my hands in the future, I will treat you well and will never care about what happened today. To be honest, you plotted against me today, and I I’m plotting against you too, and we’re tied. I will still remember your kindness to me in the past. But you also have to be careful about your good brother Li Jiqing, no, it’s Sun Jiqing!”
Wu Shifan did not forget to alienate the brotherhood between Li Zhongshan and Sun Jiqing. After finishing speaking, he said to Li Zhongshan with a smile: "Brother Shikai, let's not bask in the sun in the fields. Let's go to Ye County and wait." .If Shuangyu sends troops, he will definitely not miss."
Something weird! Li Zhongshan looked at Wu Shifan's confident look and immediately felt that something was wrong! However, he did not break up with Wu Shifan, but smiled and nodded and said: "Okay, let's go to Ye County and wait for Xiao Geng!"
"Okay, let's wait together!"
"stop!"
Just when Li Zhongshan and Wu Shifan became good brothers again, talking and laughing together as they entered Ye County, Wu Shijue, who had led his troops to run more than ten miles, suddenly issued an order to stop advancing.
Following a whimpering bugle, the two to three thousand Wu cavalry troops all stopped moving forward. An adopted son of Wu Guogui immediately approached Wu Shijue: "General, are we going to go back and save our great grandson?"
Wu Shijue smiled: "My great-grandson will be fine. My great-grandson is here. The Wu family has two dragons taking over the legitimate son. If the great-grandson dies, the Wu family will be dominated by our Wu Dayushuai family! Li Zhongshan is as fierce as Lu Bu and as treacherous as Cao Cao. This Let’s settle the account clearly!”
"Then let's"
Wu Shijue smiled and said: "Wear a red scarf and change the flag. This time we are helping General Li to save people. We will use his flag and dress up as the Huaixi Red Scarf Army. Is it okay?"
"Of course there is no problem. You are acting on General Li's orders. Of course you have to fight under his banner!"
Wu Shijue smiled and said: "That's enough. Go and deliver the order! Remember, the fact that we disguised ourselves as the Huaixi Red Scarf Army to rescue Princess Jiading is a secret, and no one is allowed to reveal it in the future!"
"yes!"
On the official road on the east bank of the Baihe River, two to three hundred knights were guarding a carriage heading south in the night. The carriage's window was open, and Wu Xiaoxuan's hoarse yelling and cursing voice kept coming from inside.
"Li Jiqing, are you crazy? I'm your sister-in-law!"
"Li Jiqing, do you think you can run away? My grandpa, my father, and my brother will not let you go."
"Li Jiqing, you can't make the same mistake again and again! It's still too late for you to let me go now!"
"Li Jiqing, my father has another daughter, and my third uncle also has a daughter to be married. Let me go, and I will act as a matchmaker for you. I will definitely let you marry the princess of the Wu family."
Wu Xiaoxuan probably felt that scolding was ineffective, so he began to discuss with Li Jiqing. There was really no one who wanted to recommend his sister or cousin to Li Jiqing, a good sister.
"Young Master, the daughters of His Royal Highness the King of Chu are very beautiful. And they are also the sisters of the British Princess!"
Fu Honglie had not given up on Li Jiqing yet, and continued to help Wu Xiaoxian to persuade the dizzy young master.
"Fu Sima, I don't want Wu Xiaotuo's sister!" Sun Jiqing immediately blocked Fu Honglie's suggestion, "I am the son of the Sun family, not a slave of the Li family!"
"Why are you a slave? You are, but..."
Fu Honglie didn't even know what to say. How could he deal with this kid if he admitted that he was the wrong father?
He was clearly cut from the same mold as Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan, so why did he have to recognize Sun Yanling as his father? Moreover, Sun Yanling's Sun family has been ruined and cannot afford to fight against the Li family in Guangdong and Guangxi.
There is no need for Li Fuchen to return to Guangdong. The troops at the hands of Guangdong Governor Li Jizhen, Guangdong Admiral Li Zhongren, British Princess Wu Xiaotuo, and Nan Princess Zhang Xiaoyu are enough to overthrow the Guihai Navy.
When he was about to analyze the situation with Li Jiqing (Sun Jiqing), Sun Yanling had already spoken first: "Fu Sima, you don't know yet, right? His Royal Highness the King of Chu has long been seeking Guangdong according to the emperor's order! Guangdong is rich and prosperous. Second only to Jiangnan, and rich in muskets and cannons, it is a must-go place for me in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now that Li Fuchen is blocked in Jiangnan and unable to return to Guangdong for a while, it is a God-given opportunity. If my father and son can help the king of Chu succeed, he will be the great Zhou Dynasty in the future. A great minister, are you afraid that he will not have the glory for generations? If Qing'er stays in the Li family, those brothers who are like wolves and tigers will swallow him up sooner or later!"
"King Chu?" Fu Honglie was shocked, "King Chu is the father of Princess Ying, how could he."
"Huh, now it's time to fight for the world! For the sake of the world, fathers, sons and brothers can kill each other, but why can't fathers and daughters fight against each other?" Sun Yanling said with a smile, "Fu Sima, if the King of Chu sends troops, will the surname of Guangdong be Wu?"
"this."
Now Fu Honglie couldn't explain clearly. Wu Guogui is one of the best generals in the world, and only Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan can fight with him. None of the generals Li Fuchen left in Guangdong could defeat Wu Guogui.
Moreover, Wu Guogui has six elite soldiers in his hands. If all the elite soldiers are used, he can pull out an army of 50,000. Coupled with the defection of Gui Haijun, this matter is a bit uncertain.
"Nonsense, you surnamed Sun, you are talking nonsense. How could Uncle King Chu send troops to Guangdong to seize the territory of Sister Xiaotuo's family? They are biological father and daughter. That's like some people who insist on saying they are father and son even though they are not father and son!"
"Xiao Xian, don't talk nonsense!" Sun Jiqing was a little angry.
"Why am I talking nonsense? Think about it again. Brother Shikai is the son-in-law of Uncle King Chu. You are not Uncle King Chu's son-in-law. Why should Uncle King Chu join forces with you to beat his own daughter and son-in-law? Unless you also Married to the daughter of Uncle King Chu!”
Not to mention, Wu Xiaoxian’s nonsense is quite reasonable.
Sun Yanling was afraid that her "son" would change his mind if he was deceived by his "fiancée", so he quickly interjected: "Princess Jiading, you are a princess. The daughter of King Chu is just a princess, how can you compare? Your father is a prince, in the future I want to be the emperor!"
As soon as he said this, there was a faint rumbling sound behind him.
Sun Yanling's arrival was not good, so she immediately looked back and found that seven or eight miles behind her, countless dots of fire appeared in a line at some point!
"It's the pursuers!" Fu Honglie shouted loudly, "They're coming so fast!"
Sun Yanling said: "Amma, let's go quickly!"
Sun Yanling did not answer, but reined in the horse, and then waved to an older soldier beside him. He saw the man immediately get off the horse, then lay down on the official road, and listened with one ear close to the ground.
"Lord, there are about three thousand riders!"
"Three thousand?" Sun Yanling took a breath.
"So many" Fu Honglie also shouted.
"Amma, let's run!" Sun Jiqing was also anxious, "The one chasing us must be Li Zhongshan."
Li Zhongshan is afraid of him!
His mother, Kong Sizhen, had always told him that he must not offend Li Zhongshan in the Li family, otherwise his life would be in danger. The eldest son Li Jizhen is not that dangerous. After all, Li Jizhen dare not touch Li Fuchen's red line, and Li Zhongshan is more powerful than his father. If he really wants to kill Li Jiqing (Sun Jiqing), Li Fuchen can only bite him. I admitted it with my teeth.
"Sun Jiqing, don't be afraid, just leave me here." Wu Xiaoji said quickly, "I put the blame on Shang Shuying, saying that she was the one who did all the bad things, and asked Brother Shikai to arrest Shang Shuying. Ying goes to Lingchi to be executed!"
She was tricked out of Wu Shifan's mansion by Shang Shuying, so of course she was very angry with Shang Shuying.
"Shut up!" Sun Yanling yelled, already feeling a little disgusted with this future daughter-in-law. This little girl is a bit sinister, and she looks a lot like Kong Sizhen!
Shang Shuying's voice came from the carriage again: "Changsheng, don't scare sister Xiaoji. Let's go quickly. If the carriage is too slow, sister Xiaoji and I will ride together."
"Gege, our horse power is low!" Fu Honglie said, "Most of our horses are Jiangnan horses. They are exhausted these days and cannot run at all. The general's personal soldiers include foreign horses from Macau, which are tall and strong. It’s amazing!”
"Stop talking nonsense and leave quickly!" Sun Yanling roared again, "You go first, I will lead others to resist!"
"Amma, be careful!" Sun Jiqing wanted to persuade his father not to take risks, but he still didn't say anything when the matter came to pass.
"Don't worry," Sun Yanling smiled, "My people and I have good horses from the northwest. If we can't, we can still run! Fu Sima, I leave my son to you. You must bring him safely to Guangxi."
Fu Honglie sighed, "General Sun, don't worry, even if you risk your own life, the young master will not be hurt."
Sun Yanling smiled and nodded, then made a big move: "Brothers, come with me and let's meet Li Zhongshan for a while!"
"Hey!" All the Sun family veterans below shouted in unison.
(End of chapter)
