When he heard Lin Chunhong sending Xiongwei Legion north along the canal, Song Xuezhu was shocked and shouted loudly, elevating this to the height of life and death of the Ming Dynasty. Zhou Zhixun disagreed and asked: "There is only one Xiongwei Legion, and the full battle is only 20,000 people. What can I do if I can save? Are you really afraid that these 20,000 people will conquer the capital?"

Song Xuezhu had a bitter face and said, "Lin Chunhong really wanted to send Xiongwei Legion to attack the capital, but the Ming Dynasty was fine. I was afraid that Lin Chunhong used Xiongwei Legion as his fist and the canal as his artery to strangle the throat of the court and squeeze out the last trace of Ming Dynasty's vitality!"

Zhou Zhixun's face was full of confusion.

Song Xuezhu continued: "The Ming Dynasty is deeply rooted in people's hearts, so how can others covet it? No matter what happens Lin Chunhong makes in Jingzhou, as long as he does not raise the flag of rebellion and regards the Ming Dynasty as the truth, he still has room for maneuver with the people of the world. If he openly rebels and heroes in the world rise up and attack them, then there will be chaos in Jingzhou."

Zhou Zhixun had seen the military power of the Jingzhou army, and also witnessed the Jingzhou army and the Tartar blades facing each other with his own eyes. He was very impressed by Lin Chunhong's force and could not help but say: "Lin Chunhong has nearly 200,000 troops. It is reported that in the area under his control, there are no less than 300,000 archers everywhere, not to mention that the number of troops on the ocean is no less than 100,000 and there are thousands of warships. Anyone who wants to fight against Lin Chunhong's military force must also think about it?"

Song Xuezhu knew that his words were a bit false, which made Zhou Zhixun difficult to agree with. He said tirelessly: "Take you and me as an example, how would Lin Chunhong respond if he openly erected the flag?"

Zhou Zhixun said with gaze: "Of course, we are fighting to the end, and we will die!"

Song Xuezhu stared at Zhou Zhixun for a long time, nodded heavily, and said, "It is a blessing for Song to meet Duke Zhou in this life! Song and Duke Zhou have the same choice, and they are to deal with the death to the end! People in the world, who have this idea, can they stop people in the world? "

"If I really come to this point, I will try my best to organize a navy in the canal, saying that I will clear the centipede ship from Shandong no matter what the canal is! Without the canal, the Xiongwei Legion will have difficulty in supplying, so I will naturally retreat!"

"Also, Governor Hong led more than 30,000 elite troops, and had arrived in Guangping Prefecture. Governor Sun led more than 20,000 elite troops. Before Governor Hong, he had arrived in Zhao County. These were elite troops in a hundred battles. Although they had not caught up with the encirclement and suppression of the Tartars, they just prevented Lin Chunhong from doing arbitrarily. If Song had expected it, using Governor Hong and Governor Sun's military means, after hearing that Xiongwei's army headed north, it was likely that the first step was to approach the canal and prepare to cut off the canal at any time! The Tartars went deep into the territory of the Ming Dynasty and could not collect a large number of ships. Naturally, they were blocked by Lin Chunhong's more than a hundred centipede boats and could not cross the river. However, this was not a problem for Governor Hong and Governor Sun. How could the centipede boat, which was inconvenient to turn around, survive?"

After saying this, Zhou Zhixun kept nodding: "It seems that Lin Chunhong should not be so stupid that he rebelled openly. He should have sent Xiongwei Legion to station near the capital, causing it to not cause any trouble, and forcing the court to make greater concessions."

"That's true...ah..." Song Xuezhu sighed and said, "I hope the emperor and Mr. Yang can tolerate what ordinary people cannot tolerate. Let Lin Chunhong jump around for a while, slowly accumulate strength, and flatten Lin Chunhong in one fell swoop..."

Song Xuezhu shook his head and said, "What do you think about so much? It's useless for us to think about the things in the court... It's better to do something in Shandong first..."

After saying that, Song Xuezhu stared at the teacup in front of him and fell into silence.

Zhou Zhixun asked: "It seems that we can't ask Lin Chunhong for instructors and buy weapons... Otherwise, the emperor's anger will probably be unbearable to you and me..."

Song Xuezhu nodded, and did not speak, still staring at the teacup in a daze. After being silent for two quarters of an hour, Song Xuezhu suddenly said: "In Shandong, the model soldiers and the rural soldiers are all under control. Longping Hou, Ni Chong and Lin Chunhong are fighting fiercely, which is really worrying. Longping Hou has a title, so you and I can't move. Ni Chong stationed in Dezhou, and the surrounding Jingzhou troops gathered, so naturally he can't move..."

Speaking of this, Song Xuezhu pondered for a moment, and then said, "As for Liu Zeqing... his attitude is unclear at present, and he is close to Lin Chunhong, no one can understand what he is thinking... I see..."

Song Xuezhu suddenly showed a cruel look on his face and said, "It's better to earn Liu Zeqing into Jinan and acquire his military power to eliminate future troubles!"

Zhou Zhixun was startled by Song Xuezhu's words and shouted: "Duke Song! Liu Zeqing is innocent and has made great contributions. How can he just accept it? Isn't this too reckless?"

Song Xuezhu said resolutely: "Liu Zeqing has committed a death sentence after repeated orders to resist the army! If he surrenders to Lin Chunhong, there will be endless troubles. Instead of having a headache at that time, it is better to take action first!"

Zhou Zhixun was silent for a while before bowing, he said, "Zhou obeys Mr. Song's instructions..."

After Liu Zeqing fought with Duoduo, his troops were only more than 3,000 left. Later, he gathered some of the defeated troops and recruited a group of more than 6,000 troops, stationed in Xiajin County. These days, Liu Zeqing was quite proud and looked forward to the rewards of the court. Moreover, Liu Zeqing also realized with the unique shrewdness of the lower-level clerks that Lin Chunhong had gathered more than 100,000 troops in Shandong, Shandong would inevitably become a competition between the court and Jingzhou. He was close to both sides, waiting for the court and Lin Chunhong to win him over in order to make profits from it.

He never expected that he would have been happily going to Jinan to attend the celebration of the destruction of the Tartars, but Song Xuezhu threw the cup as a trumpet, and more than a hundred warriors emerged instantly and imprisoned him to prison.

At the same time, Song Xuezhu sent a large army to gather around Xiajin. Zhou Zhixun brought Yan Jizu's army to Liu Zeqing's camp in person, announcing the removal of Liu Zeqing's power as commander, and Shandong Governor Yan Jizu directly controlled all the troops.

Liu Zeqing's troops had no leader and were easily controlled by Zhou Zhixun. They escorted all dozens of his confidant generals to Jinan and were tried together with Liu Zeqing.

What made Liu Zeqing crazy was that Song Xuezhu was actually convinced of his crime of seeking to surrender to the Tartars, and even wrote down the crime and forced him to sign and seal it.

How could Liu Zeqing admit such a crime?

Liu Zeqing was a smart man. When he was captured, he realized that he had become a victim of the battle between the court and Lin Chunhong. He had to rely on Lin Chunhong to rescue him day and night, and howled day and night, scolding Song Xuezhu.

Song Xuezhu was not as patient as Liu Zeqing imagined. When Liu Zeqing refused to press his handprints when he died, he tortured Liu Zeqing. When Liu Zeqing was in a coma, he obtained Liu Zeqing's handprints and quickly reported them to the court.

After the news spread, the whole of Shandong was in an uproar.

Lin Chunhong was in Dezhou. After hearing that Liu Zeqing was captured, he was silent for a while and sighed to Lu Shiming: "Although Liu Zeqing is not a good thing, he was a general with thousands of troops in his hand, but he was captured by the 17th-rank inspector. The status of the general is so low, how can he fight on the battlefield with peace of mind? The Han nationality's military power is getting weaker and weaker, and he is bullied by the Tartars. It is all caused by these arrogant and domineering civil officials!" (Note: In the previous article, there was a temporary negligence and a typo. The seventh-rank inspector of Song Xuezhu Nai was not a local official, but a Beijing official, which is different from the censor.)

Lu Shi obviously hadn't woken up from the impact, and said stutteringly: "Which happened to Song Xuezhu? The Tartars were still rampant in Northern Zhili, so they remembered internal strife?"

Lin Chunhong stretched out his two fingers and said, "One, Song Xuezhu is worried that Liu Zeqing will surrender to us; the other, Song Xuezhu should have the intention of warning Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong, and may even want to warn generals all over the world...hehe..."

Speaking of this, Lin Chunhong suddenly sneered several times, and then said: "I didn't expect that the court hadn't reacted yet, and the collision broke out in Shandong first... Song Xuezhu, Song Xuezhu, is really a cruel person..."

As he was talking, he suddenly received a report that Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong came to visit together.

Lu Shiming finally regained his keen nature and sneered: "The rabbit died and the fox was sad, let's see what the two of them have to do..."

...

After Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong saw Lin Chunhong, they flattered and directly regarded Lin Chunhong as the leader of the military generals in the world. Lin Chunhong was calm about this honor. Yes, with hundreds of thousands of troops, Lin Chunhong was not the leader of the military generals, who was?

After the flattery, Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong were indignant and kept telling the story of the general being bullied by civil servants. They were spitting out and their grudges were ripped off. After talking about Liu Zeqing's incident, Zhang Gongwei regarded himself as Liu Zeqing's brothers and said angrily: "General Liu led his troops to fight the Tartars bloody battles, almost 50% of the soldiers. How could such a loyal and righteous man join the Tartars? If Song Xuezhu's move succeeds, wouldn't the world's military generals be killed by these corrupt scholars in the future? Please ask Governor Lin to vent his anger for the world's military generals!"

Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong have been fighting with the Jingzhou army recently. They have made great progress by borrowing instructors and engaging in friendship. They have long been marked as Jingzhou. Lin Chunhong is not stingy and has distributed the credit for the encirclement and suppression to Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong. Ni Chong surrendered the most thoroughly and directly received the reward of Du Du's head.

Especially Zhang Gongwei, I don’t know where I got 20,000 yuan from. As a deposit, I ordered 20,000 muskets directly, and agreed to deliver the goods in two months.

In other words, when Song Xuezhu attacked Liu Zeqing, the most affected were Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong.

Lin Chunhong saw Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong whine for a long time, but his meaning was no longer clear: We were both embarrassed and we were likely to be retaliated by the court. Lin Chunhong had to rush forward in this matter and prevent Song Xuezhu from continuing to attack us.

Lin Chunhong was confused and immediately became indignant, and he made a big fuss for the military generals in the world, claiming that he must give out a vent of anger for the military generals in the world.

Zhang Gongwei and Ni Chong got what they wanted and returned with satisfaction.

Lu Shiming kept listening behind the screen, waiting for the two of them to leave, and asked, "Governor really wants to save Liu Zeqing?"
Chapter completed!