In the side room of the back hall, the Eighth Prince stayed for about half an hour before leaving. After the Eighth Prince left, the old Taoist came out of the room.

After the old Taoist appeared, a young Taoist rushes forward quickly.

"master……."

The old Taoist nodded slightly, and only two people could hear the voice and gave a few instructions. The young Taoist responded and quickly left. Looking at the young Taoist's leaving figure, the old Taoist showed an unfathomable smile on his face, and he waved his long sleeves and headed straight towards the backyard.

A few days later, Kangxi issued an order to regain the position of Eighth Prince Beile. Even Ma Qi, who was seized from the position, was released by Kangxi. However, he was not returned to him as the Minister of the Study Room, and only he was regained the position of Grand Secretary of Manzhou and the Minister of Revenue. But no matter what, with Ma Qi's comeback, some people in the court began to burn cold stoves for the eighth Prince who failed to fight for the stock market. However, this time, the eighth Prince was not as high-profile as before. On the contrary, he seemed extremely low-key. Except for interacting with a few good princes, other court officials did not contact any other official affairs except for official affairs. They never shy away from some of the affairs assigned to him by Kangxi, and worked diligently and down-to-earth.

Kangxi was quite satisfied with the changes of the Eighth Prince. He even praised the Eighth Prince in public in the court. However, the Eighth Prince did not show any joy. Instead, he was frightened and said that he was just doing things for his father and the Qing Dynasty.

The Eighth Prince kept a low profile and changed his normal behavior. Kangxi was satisfied on the surface, but no one knew what he thought. In addition, there was another person who secretly saw it, but he was silent on the surface, but was extremely anxious in the dark.

This person is no other person, but the fourth prince Yinzhen. The fourth prince has always been the hardcore of the prince in front of everyone. Moreover, this person is introverted, never formed a clique, and is serious and diligent in doing things. Although he is not praised as a virtuous king like the eighth prince, the fourth prince is also a very capable person among the princes.

But if the Fourth Prince is just an honest person who only knows how to do things, it would be a big mistake. In history, the Fourth Prince Yinzhen emerged and eventually won the throne. How could such a person be an ordinary prince who only knows how to do things?

Not to mention the rest, just because the prince was seized, his fourth prince still calmly stood firm in front of his prince, and on the surface he also maintained good relationships with the eighth prince and other princes. At the same time, he was acting as the Ministry of Revenue during Ma Qi's dismissal. This alone shows that he is a not simple person.

However, no matter how anxious the Fourth Prince was, he could do nothing. He could only wait for the opportunity secretly, but he didn't know when this opportunity would fall on him.

Let’s not talk about the intrigues between the several princes of Kangxi, we continue to look at Yichang, where Gao Jin’s troops are located.

After several battles, Gao Jin finally seized a flaw in the Qing army and fought a big victory with the cooperation of the navy. Now Gao Jin has taken over the important land of Jingzhou Prefecture and finally opened up the channel from Sichuan to Hubei.

Taking over Jingzhou Prefecture, Gao Jin was able to say that the sea was wide and the fish was leaping with the sky was high and the birds were flying. Taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the Qing army were now concentrated in Henan and Sichuan, the Qing army in Hubei was defeated by Gao Jin and was unable to organize effective forces for a while, Gao Jin began to plan the next direction.

According to Gao Jin's idea, he would use Yichang and Jingzhou as the basis, and then directly attack eastward along the Yangtze River and attack Yueyang in one breath. As long as he took Yueyang, Gao Jin could contact his old subordinates in Jiangxi, and then he could regain Jiangxia in the east and west.

"Prince..."

On that day, just as Gao Jin and his subordinates finished their affairs, they returned to the mansion. When Wang Ling'er and Wang Wan'er saw Gao Jin coming back, they hurriedly came up to meet him.

"Have you packed up?" Gao Jin took off his outer robe and asked after taking a sip of the tea handed over by Wang Ling'er.

"It's already packed up, please don't worry, your lord." Wang Ling'er replied.

"The army will set off in the future. This time, the army will take action together. The leader is the old brothers before. Logically, there will be nothing wrong, but you still have to be careful on the road. This war is not a walk in the world." Although Wang Ling'er and Wang Wan'er are not women who have no power to fight, they are the saints of the White Lotus Sect and have rich experience in walking in the world. If you only talk about force, you may not be able to join forces.

But the army is different. It was nothing before Gao Jin led them to march and fight, but this time the eastward advance was of great importance. In order to ensure that Gao Jin would lead the army first. As for them to follow the army, the sister is now Gao Jin's wife and has a special status. In order to avoid trouble, Gao Jin specially advised her.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, our sisters are not people who are ignorant of importance, but you can't take us with you?" Wang Wan'er continued on the side.

Gao Jin shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to take you with me, but this battle is dangerous. To be honest, if the situation is not forced by the situation, I don't want to do this. Although the Qing army in Hubei has been defeated by our army, its strength is particularly strong. Moreover, Yueyang is an important Qing army center, which is not easy to fight. If you are by your side, there are some concerns in marching and setting up formations, so..."

"Prince, please stop talking. We know what the prince means. Please don't worry, your prince." Before Gao Jin finished speaking, Wang Ling'er said quickly.

Gao Jin sighed when he saw this, patted his side and let their sisters sit down and said, "What I just said is only one of them, but there is actually the second. Arrange you in the rear army, first to ensure that I am commanding on the front line without worries, and secondly, let you defend the retreat for me in the rear army. Once the war changes in the front, as long as the rear army is still there, I can withdraw the same route anytime and anywhere. In addition, you also know about Henan. Although I have opened the road to Hubei at present, if I don't take this opportunity to quickly advance eastward and gain a foothold in Hubei, we have no way out for the next major change in Henan. Therefore, this battle must be achieved before the Qing army can react. It will be even more difficult to fight again if we wait a few days."

When Gao Jin mentioned the Henan incident, the sisters looked gloomy. In fact, Gao Jin had reminded Zhu Jiancai before that, but Wang Ling'er and Wang Wan'er did not agree with it, and even had too much confidence in Wang Zhiqing.

In their opinion, the White Lotus Sect that took over Sichuan is now at its peak. Moreover, Zhu Jiancai agreed to open up the Henan passage under Wang Zhiqing's lobbying to allow the White Lotus Sect to come out of Henan. In addition, they were too overestimated about the combat effectiveness of the White Lotus Sect, believing that the Qing army in Henan was vulnerable. As long as they entered Henan, everything was under the control of Wang Zhiqing.

But who thought that the result was completely different from what they imagined? Zhu Jiancai openly agreed to Wang Zhiqing, but secretly sold the White Lotus Sect. When Zhu Jiancai discovered that the Qing army in Henan and the Mongolian cavalry were unstoppable, he decisively regarded the White Lotus Sect as a life-saving straw and shield. On the one hand, he opened the way to let Wang Zhiqing's army enter Henan, and on the other hand, he took the initiative to retreat southward, luring the Qing army to transfer the target, and directly pushed the White Lotus Sect's troops up.

As soon as the White Lotus Sect entered Henan, they could not understand anything and hit the main force of the Qing army. They suffered heavy losses in one battle, and even several elders in the sect were killed in this battle. If Wang Zhiqing had not led his troops to fight to the death, and the White Lotus Sect had more troops and had fought so hard that the Qing army could not be captured for a while, God would have known what would have been the result.

This battle greatly damaged the vitality of the White Lotus Sect entering Henan, and also caused Zhu Jiancai to take advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army and the White Lotus Sect to get a breather. After Zhu Jiancai retreated, he quickly completed the defense based on several cities. At present, the three forces in Henan were entangled. Although Wang Zhiqing was so angry that he gritted his teeth for Zhu Jiancai, he had no choice but to continue to cooperate with Zhu Jiancai because he was staring at the main force of the Qing army.

These situations were almost not much different from what Gao Jin had expected before, and even after learning the news, the sisters Wang Ling'er and Wang Wan'er were extremely angry and couldn't help but admire Gao Jin. Therefore, when Gao Jin defeated the Qing army and captured Jingzhou Prefecture this time, the soldiers decisively advanced eastward, their sisters did not object at all.

"Zhu Jiancai, this despicable villain, one day we will have to use his head to sacrifice his dead brothers and sisters!" Wang Wan'er gritted her teeth, and her eyes burst into anger. When the war situation came, their sisters simply didn't believe their ears. When they learned that many familiar brothers and sisters died in battle because of Zhu Jiancai, Wang Wan'er, who seemed to be in a precarious manner, cried bitterly on the spot.

"This revenge will definitely be avenged! Not only those brothers and sisters who died in battle, but also the revenge of Prince Yuan..." Gao Jin said calmly, but in his heart, he had long regarded Zhu Jiancai as his biggest enemy. Because if it weren't for his reason, how could Yuan Qi have suffered a mutiny? In the final analysis, this is all because of Zhu Jiancai.

The soldiers were very fast, so Gao Jin rushed back to Jingzhou the next day. When he arrived in Jingzhou, the main force of the army was also ready to attack.

Then, Gao Jin's troops went down the river directly and the army headed straight towards Yueyang. Although there was a town stationed in Yueyang, the Qing army in Yueyang had no advantage over Gao Jin's army and the navy. Gao Jin used the navy to enter Dongting Lake, and first attacked Yueyang with artillery fire. The army besieged the city and attacked. The Qing army relied on the city wall to resist desperately.

But Gao Jin was not a fool. Gao Jin made plans before attacking Yueyang. He attacked Yueyang in an eye, but actually used Yueyang as bait. His real purpose was to attract the Qing army from Hubei to help. Gao Jin used the trick of besieging the city to fight aid, and this move quickly worked. When he learned that Yueyang was in a hurry, the Qing army from Hubei quickly came to help. Who would have thought that he would fall into the ambush that Gao Jin had prepared long ago.

In the battle of Junshan, more than 10,000 Qing troops who came to support were almost wiped out by Gao Jin's troops. There were very few people who escaped, and even the general died on the spot. When the news reached Yueyang, the morale of the Yueyang defender plummeted and the people were in panic. Gao Jin took advantage of the situation to persuade the defender to surrender. The Qing army general Zhao Ming saw that the general situation had already opened the city to surrender, so Gao Jin took Yueyang. After this battle, Gao Jin's troops almost restored Yuan Qi's strength and became Nanjing. Zhu Jiancai and Wang Zhi's fourth largest force after the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!