Baoding, Hong Niangzi's Headquarters.

Monk Zhang, who was covered in dust, entered the headquarters with Jing Maocheng's company. The Matchmaker, who was handling military affairs, couldn't help but stand up in surprise when he saw this. Before Monk Zhang could speak, he said to Jing Maocheng: "Senior Brother, go to the kitchen and give them instructions, let them cook a few good dishes and boil a pot of good wine."

"Okay."

Jing Maocheng patted Monk Zhang on the shoulder and turned around and went there happily.

After sending Jing Maocheng away, the Hongniang asked, "Brother Monk, why are you here?"

Monk Zhang lowered his voice and said, "Madam, the Marquis has withdrawn his troops from Liaocheng. Dorgon is now rushing back with the Jiannu army. Let's withdraw our troops back to Henan as well."

"Ah?" Hong Madam said in a lost voice, "Half has withdrawn his troops? This is a good opportunity to deal with Jiannu."

"Mrs. I don't know anything." Monk Zhang sighed, "Zuo Liangyu rebelled, and the Marquis had no choice but to do so."

"That's right." Hong Niangzi suddenly realized, thought for a while and said, "Where are Jiang Xiang and the others? Should I send someone to notify them?"

"No need." said Zhang, "The Marquis said, Jiang Xiang, these villains who have repeated the troubles, let them bite the dog with Jiannu."

The Hongniang said again: "Does the Marquis have any more instructions?"

Monk Zhang said: "The Marquis said that we should train our troops well and defend Henan, not attack Beijing rashly, and not provoke thieves on their own initiative. The Marquis also said that he would transport 40,000 war horses to Jining at the appropriate time, so that we could cut off the military horse halfway and train a powerful cavalry."

The beautiful eyes of the Hongniang lady suddenly lit up, and a sweet smile surged on her fair pink face. I thought to myself that Wang Pu still felt sorry for her, so she gave her 20,000 war horses without even frowning! In fact, the Hongniang lady didn't know that Wang Pu was fighting against the Henan Army.

But then again, Hong Niangzi is now Wang Pu's member, and the Henan Army naturally became Wang Pu's army.

Wang Pu's abacus was so loud that he raised the 50,000 war horses brought from Datong to Jiangnan. Not only did he consume the forage in vain, it was useless, because Jiangnan could not recruit soldiers familiar with equestrianism at all, and he could not form a cavalry battalion. Since he could not form a cavalry battalion, why not hand over the war horses to Hongniang?

First of all, Henan is located in the Central Plains, with a wide and flat terrain, and is a natural cavalry training ground.

Secondly, due to the war, a large number of refugees flocked to Henan from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beizhi and Shandong provinces. Many of these refugees were horse households who raised horses for the imperial court. They were skilled in archery and horses, and were even not inferior to grassland people in terms of riding skills. Hongniangzi could recruit these horse household children to form a powerful cavalry.

Again, Hong Niangzi is Wang Pu's lover, and Monk Zhang is Wang Pu's confidant. Wang Pu would definitely feel at ease when he handed over this powerful cavalry to Hong Niangzi and Monk Zhang.

Finally, the Central Army is now a complete firearm army. Because of its delicate war horses, cavalry training is difficult to be easy to train, and its fodder consumption is high, it has become a waste of money with high investment and low combat power. In the future, cavalry may be used when conquering the Mongolian grasslands, but it is absolutely impossible to use it for the Central Plains to compete.

It was precisely for this reason that Wang Pu had released 40,000 war horses and generously handed them to Hongmao. However, Hongmao, who fell in love, regarded the 40,000 war horses as the wish that Wang Pu gave her. Naturally, she was extremely happy and filled with joy. If Wang Pu was in front of her, she would really want to give her a fragrant kiss.

It was not until four days later that Jiang Xiang, outside Beijing, learned about the news of the Henan army's withdrawal.

When they received the news, Jiang Xiangzheng and Wang Chengyin and Tang Tong discussed strategies to attack Beijing. Although the bandits destroyed all the red cannons on the city when they fled Beijing, Jiannu's resistance was very tenacious. The three armies attacked fiercely for a few days, but many casualties were killed or injured, but even the trenches could not be filled.

As a last resort, Jiang Xiang and the others had to suspend the attack and gather together to discuss countermeasures.

Wang Chengyin said that he would dig tunnels and bomb the city walls, Tang Tong said that he would cut wood and build a city rushing cart. Jiang Xiang proposed to use Jiannu's strategy to deal with Jiannu, and urgently created a group of oars and shields. Using oars and shields to cover the three layers of heavy armor to rush to the foot of the city wall, hollowing out the city wall. When the three were arguing, Jiang Xuan, deputy general of Datong, came in urgently.

"San, are you back?" Jiang Xiang said, "Has the Hong Madam agreed?"

"Second brother, the Henan army is gone!" Jiang Xuan spread his hands and said angrily, "When I arrived, Baoding had become an empty city. Not to mention the army, even the people are gone. There are only a few beggars on the empty streets."

"What?" Jiang Xiang said with a sniff, "It's gone? An army of tens of thousands of people disappeared if it's gone?"

Jiang Xuan said: "I asked, my brother, and Hong Niangzi's men may have returned to Henan."

"Return to Henan?" Jiang Xiang said more and more disbelief, "No, even if the Hongmao doesn't want to enter Beijing to get a share of the pie, it's always okay to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy a few prefectures. Why did she withdraw her troops in a good manner? It's strange, it seems that this is not the usual style of a thief..."

"It seems that Madam Hong is quite self-aware." Wang Chengyin said, "She may be worried that after conquering Beijing, we will join forces to deal with her."

A cold light flashed through Jiang Xiang and Tang Tong's eyes at the same time.

In fact, no one of Jiang Xiang, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong and others are willing to share the results of the battle with others. Don’t look at how good they are now as brothers, it is to join forces to deal with the Jiannu in Beijing. Once Beijing is captured, they will immediately turn against each other.

As soon as Wang Chengyin finished speaking, Tang Qian, a brother of Tang Tong, suddenly entered the tent and whispered a few words with Tang Tong's ear.

Tang Tong immediately changed his face when he heard this.

Jiang Xiang and Wang Chengyin became alert and asked in unison: "General Tang, has something happened?"

"Uh, ah? Yes." Tang Tong came back from his shock and said in a deep voice, "General Jiang, General Wang, I just got the news. Under the instigation of Jiannu, Huailaizhou and Baoanzhou have also rebelled. I have to lead the troops back immediately, otherwise I would not even have to go back home, so I say goodbye."

After saying that, Tang Tong took Tang Qian away in a hurry.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Chengyin immediately understood what was going on and said he quickly left.

Wang Chengyin's old nest Xuanfu and Tang Tong's old nest Baoanzhou and Huailaizhou are close together. Wang Chengyin knows the details of Tang Tong best. This time, Tang Tong brought almost all the troops by his side. Where can there be many troops in Baoanzhou and Huailaizhou? How could it be possible to rebel?

The Hongmao of Baoding retreated without any warning. Tang Tong suddenly pretended to have a fire in the backyard. Wang Chengyin was so sensible that he immediately understood that the result must be from Liaocheng, and that 80% of Jiannu won, otherwise Tang Tong would not have run away without even calling him.

Tang Tong is cunning, Wang Chengyin is ghostly, and Jiang Xiang is not stupid either.

When both of them left, Jiang Xuan scratched her head and asked in confusion: "Second brother, what's wrong with these two guys?"

Jiang Xiangning said in a voice: "It's probably because there's a result in Liaocheng. Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin want to leave."

"Stay away? No way!" Jiang Xuan said with a sniff, "Second brother, are you saying that Jiannu won the battle in Liaocheng?"

"I don't know." Jiang Xiang shook his head and said, "Even if he didn't win, at least he didn't lose. Anyway, it's impossible to be good news. In my opinion, Dorgon and Jiannu's army came back, otherwise these two guys wouldn't be so anxious."

"Ah?" Jiang Xuan said angrily, "Wang Pu can't stand it so quickly? I'm still going to the Central Army, the miscellaneous army is almost the same! We have caused trouble now, and Dorgon will definitely not be able to spare us. Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin are just thinking about escaping, but they don't know that they can only be defeated by Jiannu, and they can only die faster. Second brother, what should we do?"

"Now is not the time to blame others." Jiang Xiang said in a deep voice, "You send someone to secretly keep an eye on Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin. As long as they pull out the camp and withdraw the troops, we will withdraw immediately."

"Ai."

Jiang Xuan responded and took the order.

That night, Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin secretly pulled out their camps to retreat. Jiang Ying, who received the news, did not dare to neglect and retreated overnight.

The next morning, when Dodo climbed the city gate, he saw that the three rebels were gone outside the city.

Three days later, Dorgon brought an army of more than 100,000 Jiannu from the army. Duoduo, who was left behind in Beijing, hurriedly drove all the former Ming surrendered officials in Beijing to outside Desheng Gate to arrange ceremonial guards, and paved the floor with red felt to welcome the emperor's etiquette to grandly welcome Dorgon back to Beijing.

Nanjing, the palace of the Pavilion.

Wang Pu looked at Sun Chuanting, who was getting older and thinner in front of him, and suddenly felt a little guilty in his heart, and whispered: "Dad, you are much thinner."

"Hehe." Sun Chuanting smiled faintly and said, "It's much older."

Wang Pu said: "Did you eat the wild ginseng I gave you last time?"

"I've eaten." Sun Chuanting smiled and said, "I've eaten it long ago."

"Who are you coaxing?" Wang Pu asked Lu Liu to put two brocade boxes on the table and said angrily, "These are the last two. Don't give them to others again. You don't feel sorry for yourself. I still feel sorry for your old bones. If you really die, your son will exchange for the number of ginseng you won't come back."

"Stupid brat, there is nothing good to say when we meet." Sun Chuanting pretended to be angry, "Where are you cursing me?"

After saying that, Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu laughed at each other. They were neither father nor son but better than father and son. Sun Chuanting had completely regarded Wang Pu as his son, and Wang Pu also completely regarded Sun Chuanting as his own son. He even wanted to adopt his second son to Sun Chuanting as his grandson and continue the incense of the Sun family.

"Dad." Wang Pu gave Sun Chuanting a thumbs up and praised, "You handle Gao Jie and the other two very beautifully."

"Don't mention it." Sun Chuanting said angrily, "I really don't want to do such a thing."

"This is politics." Wang Pu said, "Politics is dark, bloody, and dirty. Either you die or I die. As long as it can hit political enemies, what if it is a dirty and framed?"

Sun Chuanting said: "After that being said, doing so is against one's conscience."

"Conscience?" Wang Pu said solemnly, "It is the conscience to benefit the people, and the revitalization of the Ming Dynasty is the true intention! There is something I must tell you. Since the Zuo Liangyu rebellion case has made Qu Shisi become ironclad, then you might as well involve Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, and take this opportunity to deal with all the potential political enemies, so as not to break our major events at critical moments in the future."

Sun Chuanting frowned and said nothing.

Wang Pu said: "Dad, think about Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng of the Longqing Dynasty. They are the national sages, and they are fighting to the death. In order to overthrow the political enemy Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng also used the trick of slaughtering the dirty trick and instructed the censor to list a large number of charges for Gao Gong. But can you deny Zhang Juzheng's contribution to the Ming Dynasty because of this?"

Sun Chuanting was still silent.

Wang Pu continued: "Zhang Juzheng framed the dirty and framed Gao Gong, and he turned over Gao Gong to take over the cabinet. He took over the cabinet to implement the new policy. The new policy is for the people of the world. For the people of the world, the true conscience is. This is politics, this is the great conscience - a conscience!"

Sun Chuanting finally nodded slightly, obviously convinced by Wang Pu again.

Wang Pu said again: "There has never been right or wrong in the political arena, but only success or failure! There has never been innocence or injustice, only compliment and frustration. If you succeed, you are right, you are wrong, if you fail, you are wrong, and innocence and injustice are just inferences that the loser seeks for his incompetence."

"Oh." Sun Chuanting sighed and said, "Boy, although I have lived for decades more than you, I have not seen it thoroughly. Yes, politics is like this, there is only success or failure, no right or wrong."

Wang Pu smiled and said, "No need to feel guilty or torment now, right?"

"Stupid boy."

Sun Chuanting smiled and pointed at Wang Pu, but didn't know what to say. A kind of warmth that had never been before gradually rose from Sun Chuanting's heart. No matter how deep Wang Pu was, no matter how cruel he was to others, at least Wang Pu was sincere to him, Sun Chuanting, and what he said came from the heart.

"Oh, by the way." Sun Chuanting suddenly remembered something and said, "There is a good thing, do you want to hear it?"

"Good thing?" Wang Pu said happily, "What good thing?"

Sun Chuanting smiled and said nothing, but called Sun Maocheng, the trusted general, to give a few instructions. Sun Maocheng took the order and left.

Wang Pu said unhappily: "What are you doing? It's mysterious."

Sun Chuanting smiled and said, "You will know soon."

After less than a meal, Sun Maocheng came back, and a tall, blonde and blue-eyed red-haired devil came with him. After seeing the man's appearance, Wang Pu couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "John!?"

"Oh, dear General, I'm glad to see you again."

The foreigner excitedly rushed forward and gave Wang Pu a warm hug.

Wang Pu couldn't wait to ask in English: "How did you do what you told you?"
Chapter completed!