"Dad, you can't hesitate any longer! Grandpa just called Wu Yingxiong. When the adulterous couple Kong Sizhen and his wife were killed, you should have listened to me and immediately sent troops south to fight against the rebellion. At that time, Wu Yingxiong had no power at all.

Your troops and horses, and daddy, you have the majesty of a great victory over Kangxi, aren't you unstoppable? But you are afraid of being Yuan Tan, afraid that Qinglu and Zhu Ming will benefit. Now it's better, Qinglu and Zhu Ming are right

The troubles in our family are not interesting at all. But Wu Yingxiong’s methods are one after another... He has almost poached all our people!"

The speaker was Wu Shicong, who was standing angrily in front of his father Wu Yingqi and talking nonsense!

Wu Yingqi, on the other hand, was sitting there dejectedly like a primary school student who had made a mistake. Hearing his son talk about "poaching people," he finally couldn't help it anymore and muttered: "I will also try to poach people under Wu Yingxiong."

Yes, but..."

It turns out that Wu Yingqi is not that honest either. Although he is hesitant on the surface, he makes many small moves in private.

He thought that since he had a hundred thousand troops and had the reputation of defeating Kangxi and seizing the Central Plains, there must be many civil servants and generals of Wu and Zhou who wanted to join him.

Moreover, Wu Yingxiong seemed a little afraid of his brother, who had a large number of soldiers. He not only sent Wang Shirong to speak softly, but also sent his son Wu Shilin to Wu Yingqi's army.

So throughout February, Wu Yingqi felt very good and thought he could win without a fight, so he kept trying to win over Wu Yingxiong's powerful factions, such as Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Li Benzhen, Wu Zhimao, and Zu Zeqing.

.....Oh, and Sun Yanling.

Sun Yanling served as Wu Zhou's governor of Hunan on the recommendation of Wu Yingxiong. He had some remnant troops under him, and some old troops were detained by Zu Zeqing in Guangxi. Wu Yingxiong also helped him get it. So he stayed in Hunan.

More than a year later, Sun Yanling organized some troops again.

He can be considered a powerful person under Wu Yingxiong!

But this time Wu Yingxiong arrested his wife, and it is said that he asked Lu Yifeng, the governor of Jiangling Prefecture, to torture her until she was covered with bruises... It was a hundred days of grace between the couple!

So Wu Yingqi sent people to persuade Sun Yanling to raise troops.

Unexpectedly, the envoy he sent was directly kidnapped by Sun Yanling and given to Wu Yingxiong, and Sun Yanling also publicly announced his divorce.

Now Wu Yingqi's attempt to win over Sun Yanling completely failed!

After receiving letters from Wu Yingqi, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, and Guo Zhuangtu, three sons-in-law of Wu Sangui, wrote to Wu Yingqi one after another, urging him to make peace with Wu Yingxiong and telling him not to imitate Yuan Shang.

Moreover, the three of them also vouched for Wu Yingxiong in the letter, saying that Wu Sangui could never be poisoned by Wu Yingxiong. They also said that the most likely person to do it was Kong Sizhen... because Kong Sizhen was sent to the Wu and Zhou camp by Bumbutai.

She was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, so after deceiving Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong's trust, she poisoned and killed Wu Yingxiong.

The three people also told Wu Yingqi in the letter that Jiangling Prefecture Yin Lu Yifeng had found irrefutable evidence - no poisonous substance was found in the residual liquid of the bottle of allicin that Wu Sangui took, but it was found in the fish soup that Wu Sangui drank.

There was a serious poison. Although Chen Yuanyuan cooked the soup, Chen Yuanyuan asked Kong Sizhen to look at it for a while.

Now the interrogation of Kong Sizhen has reached the final stage. Although this woman is very stubborn and refuses to confess no matter how hard she is tortured, she still cannot escape in the end.

Therefore, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, and Guo Zhuangtu all advised Wu Yingqi not to believe in rumors and do things that would hurt relatives and make enemies happy.

As for Zu Zeqing, Wu Zhimao, and Li Benzhen, because they are stationed far away from each other, their positions are not yet known. However, these people should not come forward to take chestnuts from the fire for Wu Yingqi...

Therefore, Wu Yingqi's attempt to win over Wu Yingxiong's subordinates has completely failed!

At the same time, Wu Yingxiong was very successful in wooing Wu Yingqi's men! Including Wang Pingfan, Gao Qilong, Liu Zhifu, Zhang Zufa and other generals who guarded Nanyang, Runing, Ruzhou and Xuzhou, in the second

, in March, he successively accepted the official position of Wu Yingxiong.

However, Wu Yingxiong did not let these men send troops to attack Wu Yingqi. Instead, he asked them to lead his troops south and return to Hubei. At the same time, he also moved more than 40,000 voluntary evacuated households from Nanyang Mansion near Xiangyang, and announced that these people would be evacuated

Moved to the sparsely populated Luzhou, Xuzhou Prefecture, Jiading Prefecture and Zizhou of Sichuan, and four people including Wang Pingfan, Gao Qilong, Liu Zhifu and Zhang Zufa would be granted the title of Marquis of Luzhou, Marquis of Xuzhou, Marquis of Jiading and Marquis of Zizhou.

, and the local people eat the soil, and the hereditary will not replace it!

In other words, one person is a real Marquis of Ten Thousand Households!

As soon as these four general soldiers left, Wu Yingqi immediately lost 40,000 soldiers and horses, leaving only 60,000 troops. More than 10,000 of them were added after the Battle of Zhuxian Town, and his strength has been greatly weakened.

But Wu Yingqi still has the strength to fight!

But at this time, Wu Yingxiong's envoy Hong Shiming, who "the president stayed behind", came to Kaifeng Mansion with a decree to confer Wu Yingqi as the King of Henan.

According to this edict, Wu Yingqi can obtain Henan Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture, Nanyang Prefecture, Ruzhou, Xuzhou, and Shaanxi Prefecture, a total of three prefectures and three states. They can also bring food to the people and protect them forever. Moreover, Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong,

The troops led by Ma Bao and Wu Guogui stayed in the territory of the King of Henan and were arranged by Wu Yingqi.

In addition, Kong Sizhen can also be taken to Kaifeng Mansion and left to Wu Yingqi's disposal!

Now Wu Yingqi began to hesitate again.

When Wu Shicong heard the news, he was reorganizing his army and preparing to fight back to Jiangling. So he didn't even have time to take off his armor, and flew directly from the school field in Kaifeng Fucheng back to Wu Yingqi's camp.

"Shi Cong," Wu Yingqi saw his son's murderous look and had no choice but to comfort him, "the top priority now is to avenge your grandfather... My father wanted to wait until Kong Sizhen arrived in Kaifeng and execute her Ling Chi.

Then march to Jiangling."

Wu Shicong was almost angry at his father, "Dad! Do you think Wu Yingxiong said so many soft words because he really doesn't want to fight with us? He is stalling for time so that he can poach us!

The current situation is that we have soldiers but no money, and he has money but no soldiers!

But our soldiers have to be coaxed with money! We haven’t paid them for two months. If this continues, even Third Uncle and Manager Ma will have to defect to Wu Yingxiong, and we will have a fight by then!"

"Isn't this the land of three prefectures and three states in Henan?"

Wu Shicong stamped his feet, "How can we support our army in such a broken place, which has just been destroyed by the Qing Dynasty? And who of us are the ones who can manage the territory well?"

What he said was correct. Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong and his son were both fierce generals, but they did not know how to manage territory.

While the two father and son were arguing, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then Liu Xuanchu's voice was heard: "General, General Jinwu, there are guests coming to Kaifeng Mansion."

"Mr. Liu, please come in."

Wu Yingqi quickly invited Liu Xuanchu to come in.

This Liu Xuanchu is now the think tank of the Wu family. But this think tank is a principled think tank and refuses to persuade Wu Yingqi to send troops to kill his brother... This is fratricide!

Liu Xuanchu saluted Wu Yingqi and said, "General, General Jin Wu, you are a distinguished guest coming back this time. You have to go out to welcome us."

"Your distinguished guest? Who is it?" Wu Yingqi asked, "Do you need me to pick him up in person?"

Liu Xuanchu said: "General, there are two groups of distinguished guests coming this time. One group is Zu Zepu, Zu Yonglie, Zuo Chunqiu and others."

Wu Yingqi asked: "Zu Zepu, Zu Yonglie? Are they envoys of the Qing Dynasty?"

Liu Xuanchu shook his head, "No, they are Zhu Ming's envoys!"

"Zhu Ming?" Wu Yingqi was stunned, "Who else is there?"

Liu Xuanchu said: "The other group of people are Li Guohan's son Sang'e and the first-class bodyguard Alani...their envoys sent by the Qing Dynasty."
Chapter completed!