What Mr. Xu said was true. Even if ten thousand pigs were in seven or eight days of kung fu, they could reach Yizhen. Therefore, in all kinds of confusion, Lu Si decided to take the initiative to see what the Ming army was doing.

The attack along the way was like entering a deserted state to the city of Liuhe, and there was no sight of a Ming army probing horse along the way.

What is even more surprising is that there is no trace of the Ming army in Liuhe City.

This is really a fucking strange thing!

"What tricks are the officers and soldiers doing? Sing the empty city plan?"

Monk Xu was so anxious. The reason why he didn't go back and continued to siege Xinghua City, which was as smelly and hard as the stones in the cesspool, was that he wanted to fight a battle with the officers and soldiers with the Lu Si brothers.

Since Lu Si thought about it, he simply took down Liuhe. This would not only make the strategic depth of the Huai Army nearly a hundred miles, but also make Liuhe a bridgehead for the Huai Army to extend into Huaixi and threaten Nanjing.

But just when Lu Si was about to drive the surrendered troops to attack the city, the city took the initiative to send people to negotiate.

The magistrate Yuan of Liuhe was willing to pay 5,000 taels of silver for the Dashun Huaiyang Jiedushi.

"Five thousand taels?"

Lu Si was very unhappy. He might have agreed if he had to do this in the past, but now he, Governor Lu, lives in Yangzhou and cut off hundreds of thousands of taels of grain that should have been shipped to Beijing in Huai'an, and pasted them with red and white paper. He could not say he could rob it, but after several searches, there was definitely a million taels.

I am afraid that there will be a few pages for the ones that have been destroyed.

So, Lu Si really doesn't like it anymore.

Soon after, County Magistrate Yuan increased the "city redemption fee" to 10,000 taels, and repeatedly asked the visitor to say that there was really not much deposit in the Liuhe County Government, and only this ten thousand taels were collected by the gentry in the city. He begged Duke Lu to leave the people in the Liuhe City no matter what, no matter what.

Lu Si could understand this. In addition to the local taxes from Huaiyang, the amount of grain he got in Huai'an was the tax silver that Yingtian Prefecture was the capital in October last year, including the Liuhe County Silver under Yingtian Prefecture.

However, no matter how understanding is, 10,000 taels of understanding are obviously not allowed to send Lu Si back. This time he came here to bring seven or eight thousand people, food and drink, and the laborers can return empty-handed?

As for money, there is actually still money, it depends on the strength.

More than two thousand surrendered troops began to set up battles outside the city to attack the city. These surrendered troops were incompetent in fighting the Huai army, but they wanted to break the city and grab a disaster. That was the best match, Zhang Fei, and he didn't even need to beat the chicken blood.

Now, without having to plead with County Magistrate Yuan, the gentry and wealthy businessmen in the city would bleed heavily. Otherwise, after the city was broken, they would not even have the qualification to be filial.

After another round of difficult negotiations, Liuhe City finally raised 100,000 taels of silver, plus 500 stones of grain, cotton cloth, medicinal materials, and even vegetables and flesh. As long as people can use it, they tighten their belts and send them out.

"Look, this is the back of the human heart."

Looking at the supplies sent out of the city by the car, Lu Si was convinced that he would not order the city to attack, and he was inspired by Liuhe. Since the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty were so afraid of the "thief army", he did not necessarily need to occupy Huaixi. Can he send the surrendered troops out to blackmail?

However, this idea was quickly suppressed by Lu Siqiang. It was not because of the fear that the surrendered troops would leave the palm of the Huai army and return, or be cleaned up by the Ming army in Huaixi, which would actually save trouble.

Just as Lu Si let Shi Kefa pass by and desperately wants him to cross the south, because Shi Kefa's opponent is too in line with the interests of the Huai Army, the surrendered soldiers ran back to fight against the Huai Army, and the effect was the same.

The guys Lu Si were worried about were too greedy and really treated himself as "bandits" along the way to burn, kill and loot. In this way, the Huai Army was defeated and at the same time, it would be a disaster for the people of Huaixi.

This kind of thing is not possible, but must, and is happening now.

Liuhe is very close to Pukou, and it is also a must-pass place for the Ming army to attack Yangzhou. How could the officials in the city know nothing? They didn't know what happened like a deaf person.

According to Liuhe County Magistrate Yuan, the reason why the Ming army, who came from Nandu, was unable to set off in Pukou for a long time was because of internal strife in the Ming army.

The fuse of internal strife was Liu Liangzuo, the general nicknamed "Huama Liu".

Liu Liangzuo had been in charge of Huang Degong's subordinates to Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying, and participated in the battle against Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Susong, Luzhou and Lu'an. After Zhang Xianzhong withdrew from Huaixi, Liu Liangzuo's troops were stationed in Zhengyang, Henan.

At the beginning of the year, it was about the sixth day of the first lunar month. Because Huai'an fell, Huang De's power troops went to quell the rebellion. There were still many local gangs in Huaixi that failed to quell, so Ma Shiying ordered Liu Liangzuo to lead his troops into Huaixi.

What Ma Shiying did not expect was that Liu Liangzuo had been tragic along the way, burning villages and burning towns, causing the news that Liu Ma was coming from all over Linhuai to defend the troops and prevented Liu Liangzuo from entering any city.

Now Liu Liangzuo quit, so he ordered his troops to attack the city, causing the Linhuai area to be even more chaotic than the bandits.

Ma Shiying was anxious and thought that Liu Liangzuo had surrendered the thief, so he ordered Zhu Ji's troops, who should have joined the army and horses of the Nandu, to go north quickly, and asked the eunuch Lu Jiude, the military supervisor, to write a letter to persuade Liu Liangzuo.

After receiving the order from Ma Shiying, Zhu Ji immediately led his troops north to Linhuai, but the Deputy General Zhu was stubborn. When he left, he only said that there was chaos in the north and did not tell Liu Zhaoji what was wrong.

As a result, when the soldiers from the three camps of Nandu saw that Fengyang soldiers ran away, they thought they were fleeing fearlessly. In addition, no one of the soldiers of Nandu wanted to fight the thieves in Jiangbei, so they shouted that they could not go to die. They exploded the camp overnight and ran away, and no one could stop them.

Liu Zhaoji, who was only a few hundred people left by his side, was ashamed to meet Shi Gong and was wandering in Pukou.

This is what happened, which makes people confused and feel that everything is reasonable.

"Ma Shiying, like the Caoyuan Road Department, led wolves into the house."

Lu Si gave Liu Liangzuo this attraction, and this Huama Liu, who would become one of the four towns in Jiangbei, is like Liu Zeqing.

"go back,"

Since the Ming army bombed the camp itself, Lu Si decided to withdraw his troops back to Yangzhou. He was not interested in attacking Pukou because there was no navy under the capture, which would instead put the Huai Army under pressure from the Ming Army in Huaixi.

Obviously, the anti-encirclement and suppression battle against the Ming army in the southern capital has achieved phased victory, so the next focus of the Huai Army can only be to aid Huai'an in the north and realize the "north-south attack" mentioned by Liu Bao, the Huaiyangtonghui.

Lu Si actually didn't want to save Huai'an. After all, the Ming army besieged in the city had Huang Degong's cavalry, and the Huai army now had no combat ability to fight against the cavalry group.

However, the Henan Shun Army Group in the north had already moved south, and he could not sit idly by and watch the reinforcements he had invited were defeated by the Ming army.

In this way, the Northern Aid will be a foregone conclusion.

Let's see who will win.

With the withdrawal of the Huai Army, the officials, gentry and the people of Liuhe City were all relieved and were extremely grateful to County Magistrate Yuan who advocated paying the "ransom".

While Lu Si was still halfway, there was a quick horse coming from Xinghua.

The person Xu knew was the flag captain under Xia Dajun. He thought something happened in Xinghua City, so he hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was reported. When the flag captain said that, Monk Xu was also stunned on the spot.

"What happened?" Lu Si asked, trotting forward and trotting.

"this"

Monk Xu hesitated for a while and said truthfully: "Brother Lu, your ancestral tomb has been dug up."

What surprised Mr. Xu was that when Brother Lu heard that the ancestral tomb was dug up, he was not furious, but instead had a strange look on his face.
Chapter completed!