After the retreat system of the Hongniang led the army to retreat, a man came out of the pine forest, looked into the distance, and sighed slowly: "It's a pity that this team is on the battlefield for the first time. They don't have enough combat qualities. Otherwise, the entire enemy army would have been wiped out today. I have to say that Brother Ma is as expected, and even I, a person who has been in the military for many years, will feel inferior to myself."

The person who sighed was naturally Ma Mingfeng's sworn brother Yu Zhenlong. Before Ma Mingfeng led the team to leave, he told him that Li Zicheng would definitely lead his army to attack. At that time, he only needed to set up an ambush and would definitely attack them head-on. Although Yu Zhenlong had a little doubt in his heart, he still covered what Ma Mingfeng asked for and did it, but he actually waited for the enemy.

This time, our side did not suffer any losses. He just shot a wave of feather arrows and asked the other party to withdraw his troops. Later, he cleaned the battlefield and obtained hundreds of light armor, as well as a large number of flags, snare drums, weapons and other objects. It was a victory in the first battle and was inspiring.

After sending people to clean the battlefield, Yu Zhenlong did not rush to leave, but ordered a hole not far from the front of the pine forest, and then buried a landmine improved by Ma Mingfeng...

Hongniang naturally didn't know about these things happening near the Songlin. She was unwilling to lead the three thousand cavalry to retreat. A day later, she finally met Li Zicheng's main army.

"Beware!" Li Zicheng saw Hongniang's army from afar and thought it was an enemy attack. As a result, he saw Hongniang's red outfit first. When he arrived close, he was even more sure that this was the three thousand elite cavalry led by Hongniang.

However, at this time, the so-called three thousand elite cavalry is no longer three thousand, only a little over two thousand, and there are many injured among them. These knights were depressed and depressed.

"What's going on?" Li Zicheng asked to Hong Madam with a deep face.

The Red Lady no longer had the heroic momentum she had before. She glanced at Li Zicheng and then slowly said: "Our team was ambushed near the Black Songlin. Tens of thousands of feather arrows suddenly attacked. The brothers were caught off guard and suffered a considerable loss..."

"What? How could this happen? Could it be that the troops sent by Kaifeng to support Luoyang have returned? But this shouldn't be. We just received news that these reinforcements were still on the road, and even if they left Feng, they were about a hundred miles away, so why did they encounter an ambush?" Li Zicheng was a little unbelievable and said to Hongniang.

At this time, he saw the strategist Niu Jinxing saying, "Students heard that Kaifeng magistrate recruited 10,000 young men and women, who trained soldiers in the suburbs of the city every day and ambushed the Hongmao, was that 10,000 young men and women?"

Li Zicheng touched his chin and said in a deep thought: "Ten thousand young people are strong? At most, they are just helping transport food. They are actually capable of ambushing our elite troops. It is simply incredible. It seems that the Kaifeng prefect still has some skills."

At this time, a scholar with a blue face said, "King King, the student knows the background of this Kaifeng prefect."

"Oh? Mr. Zhang actually knows it? Why don't you tell me?" Li Zicheng suddenly became interested in the Kaifeng prefect and said to the scholar.

If Ma Mingfeng was here, it would be obvious that this scholar was Zhang Linran who had not given him any position because Chongzhen despised him for being ugly.

Zhang Linran said, "If we talk about it, the Kaifeng prefect is still the same year as Wansheng. This man's surname is Ma and his name is Luan. Therefore, the son of Ma Shiying, the inspector of Xuanfu, was very talented. He once wrote a poem in Nanjing to admire Hou Fangyu, one of the four young masters of Daming. Later, he got the second place in the Guizhou provincial examination. It is said that because his articles were full of rebellious thoughts, his teacher Huang Daozhou was ranked second. Otherwise, he would be Jie Yuan in this subject. Later, he got the third place in the imperial examination.

It was his teacher who asked the examiner Cai Guoyong that the ranking could not be given too high to avoid arousing suspicion from others, so he gave a third place. When the palace examination was held, Chongzhen asked with the current situation. The man won the praise of Chongzhen with his three suggestions. With his talent, he could definitely be the top scorer in the undergraduate degree. However, Wei Zaode was so kind that he moved his flowers and trees to deceive Chongzhen's trust and love. Later, the foolish Chongzhen actually believed in Wei Dezao and ordered him as the top scorer, and pointed Ma Luan as the second scorer, which was really indignant."

"Oh? What strategy did this Ma person offer to the foolish lord?" Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and asked.

Zhang Linran then proposed three strategies from Ma Mingfeng.

Li Zicheng thought for a while, then said, "This Ma Luan is thorough in thinking, and the methods proposed are simple and effective. If the tyrant ruler really does what he does, we will be in difficulty and even have the danger of being wiped out. It's a pity that such people cannot be used by us."

Zhang Linran said, "Although this Ma Luan was later appointed as editor of Hanlin Academy, he was very disappointed with the tyrant emperor's behavior, so he had to find a way to leave the capital. Later, when Cai Guoyong was dying, he strongly recommended this person, and this person was transferred to Kaifeng Prefecture. However, the villain knew that this person had always been dissatisfied with Chongzhen, so the villain believed that if there was a chance, we could actually instigate or persuade Ma Luan to surrender. If he got this person, the King of Chuang would definitely be like a tiger."

"Rebel? Recruiting surrender? This is not impossible. If you can get this person, it is equivalent to having another wise general under my command. If you can get it, even if all the three thousand elite cavalry are exhausted, it will definitely be worth it." Li Zicheng agreed with this, but then smiled bitterly and said, "But this Ma Luan is not familiar with us. How could he surrender to us casually?"

But Zhang Linran smiled and said, "King Chuang, this matter is actually not difficult. As long as we trap Ma Luan and then send someone to persuade the surrender, the big thing will be accomplished."

After hearing this, Li Zicheng thought for a moment and asked Zhang Linran: "I don't know who will be sent to persuade him to surrender."

Zhang Linran looked at Hong Niangzi and smiled faintly: "Students think that Hong Niangzi is the most suitable. They have met before."

Then Zhang Linran talked about the meeting between Ma Mingfeng and Hong Niangzi in the capital.

Li Zicheng didn't expect that Ma Mingfeng would have such a past, and kept clapping his hands and exclaiming: "It's good, it's just a pity for brothers Li Yan, haha..."

When the Hong Madam heard this, she realized that the man who had refused to rebel with her before was the prefect of Kaifeng. He did not expect that this man would win the second place and be appointed Hanlin by the emperor. In just half a year, the sixth-rank Hanlin was directly appointed as the fourth-rank Kaifeng prefect, and he had done so many things in Kaifeng.
Chapter completed!