Liu Bu saw Lu Jiude cursing Hong Chengchou's messenger, and was secretly happy. This was the effect he wanted.

He just wanted Lu Jiude to deal with Hong Chengchou and resist Hong Chengchou's constraints on him.

Seeing Lu Jiude forced Hong Chengchou's messenger to retreat, he felt proud, but said hypocritically: "Is it okay for us to do this? After all, Mr. Hong, Mr. Hong, is the governor of five provinces. If we had not paid a visit to him, would it be a problem?"

When Lu Jiude heard the words "Shangguan", he was very unhappy. These eunuchs were actually just slaves, but they were just serving the emperor. They only had the emperor and one master and the other. As for the others, they never threw away and never missed them.

If it were in the past, he wanted to use Hong Chengchou's troops to cheer for him, but now he has won over the Liu family army and controlled Zhang Xianzhong, so he doesn't care about Hong Chengchou at all.

Others are afraid of Hong Chengchou, but he is not afraid of Hong Chengchou. He said directly: "Hong is a good general. In fact, he is a clever person who deceives the emperor's trust and gains great power. If he can send troops early, he might have recovered Fengyang, but he is afraid of the enemy and keeps his feet away. This is a crime. We must write to him?"

When Liu Bu heard this, he knew that there must be a conflict between Lu Jiude and Hong Chengchou, so he put his heart in his stomach.

Liu Bu and others refused to go out to greet Hong Chengchou, which made Hong Chengchou feel a little embarrassed and difficult to get into the sheath, but in the end he ordered his troops to come. If he didn't come, they would not be able to enter the city when it darkened and would sleep in the suburbs again.

Hong Chengchou led 3,000 elite troops into Fengyang City at night. Although he entered Fengyang City, he did not have the imagined scene of the people welcoming each other. Not only did the people be cold to them, but the officials and gentry were also very cold to them.

Hong Chengchou was the governor of the five provinces personally ordered by the court and had the responsibility to pacify the bandits. His mercenaries cost 100,000, but he was afraid of the enemy and did not dare to move forward, which made them Fengyang people be bullied and ravaged by the bandits. It was not until Liu Bu won the war and drove away the bandits that he rushed over excitedly. This was nothing else to do except grab the merit or the merit.

So it would be strange if the local people were not full of hostility towards him?

Liu Bu was different. He defeated Zhang Xianzhong and captured Zhang Xianzhong's great man alive. Liu Bu was a small guerrilla general with only thousands of soldiers under his command, but he was so brave that he defeated the enemy and saved Fengyang.

However, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, had countless elite soldiers and generals under his command, but he was so afraid of the enemy that even many ordinary people in the local area could not bear it.

Hong Chengchou was also a shrewd person. He immediately realized this, so his subordinates were very angry and angry. They thought they had been going day and night, going to help thousands of miles away, but they received such treatment, which made them very unhappy.

Hong Chengchou comforted his unhappy subordinates and directly entered the Fengyang General Mansion.

Logically speaking, Hong Chengchou should have entered the Governor's Office, but he knew that Zhu Dadian was also coming overnight, which would make the master nowhere to stay, so he was very unhappy, so he had to temporarily enter the General's Office.

In fact, Liu Bu had moved out of the General Mansion in Fengyang City and entered the military camp in the city. He also sent troops to defend the four walls. In theory, Fengyang City is still under his control.

After Hong Chengchou entered Fengyang City, he first wanted to enter the General's Mansion to rest, and then went to find trouble for Liu Bu. He couldn't deal with Lu Jiude, but there was still a way to deal with Liu Bu.

As the governor of the five provinces and the imperial envoy of the imperial court, he was transferred by him within his jurisdiction.

But as soon as he entered the city, Liu Bu immediately sent troops to tell them that they had evacuated the north gate, the east gate and the west gate respectively, and he handed over the three city gates to Hong Chengchou's army to garrison.

The other party was very arrogant and left after saying that. The Liu family army also withdrew from the military camp in the city, stationed directly at the south gate, and then left from the south gate, entering the military camp outside the city, which clearly did not want to meet Hong Chengchou.

Moreover, his complete abandonment of defending Fengyang Mansion also means that he gave up on this city. If Hong Chengchou does not take over urgently, it will probably leave the city in an unguarded situation. Hong Chengchou had no choice but to immediately order his troops to take over the three walls.

They had been here with great difficulty, but they just wanted to sit down and rest, but who knew they were about to start working.

Moreover, as the governor's personal barracks, they will be warmly welcomed wherever they go, and they will have good food and accommodation. Only when they come to Fengyang, the local people did not have any good looks to them, they were all cold and cold, and local officials did not greet them with good wine and food.

After they came, they couldn't even make a full meal and were about to start taking over the task, which made them very angry and very dissatisfied.

But even if they are angry, they must accept Fengyang. Now Liu Bu has withdrawn from Fengyang City. If they do not take over in time, Fengyang City will be trapped in a power vacuum and cause trouble. They will probably not be able to take over.

Hong Chengchou was very angry when he saw Liu Bu fighting against him. He said, "A little guerrilla general dared to go against me. If he had only this skill, his official position would have done this."

Hong Chengchou was the governor of five provinces appointed by the emperor. He was appointed as the Minister of War. He was also considered a first-class minister. He was also the one with real power. He had some solutions to deal with Liu Bu.

Liu Bu thought that with Lu Jiude behind his back, he could go against him and avoid him at all. This was completely wrong. Hong Chengchou couldn't do anything to Lu Jiude. It was impossible for them to deal with Lu Jiude directly, but it was not difficult to deal with Liu family to deal with Liu Bu.

The Liu family is just a local tyrant. Now it is beginning to become a warlord. With some soldiers in their hands, they dare to be arrogant after making a little contribution. They don’t know who their surname is. Then Hong Chengchou will teach him what his surname is.

Hong Chengchou is also an old man in the officialdom, and he is also very smart and cunning. Some are means to slander people, and some are methods to cure people.

However, he was still satisfied that Liu Bu handed over Fengyang City. After all, Hong Chengchou had completed his initial task and could finally hand over the emperor. No matter how this matter is calculated, it would be fine. Liu Bu is also his subordinate and one of his combat sequences, so he would not be so passive when he regained Fengyang. As for what he said about chasing bandits, he himself understood that bandits are best at mobile combat. It is not an easy thing to destroy them in one fell swoop.

After the Ming army occupied Fengyang, at least they had a certain initiative and would not be forced by the emperor day and night to send troops and go to war, and then he could deploy the army calmly.

Hong Chengchou knew what was going on with bandits, and he knew that the extermination could not rely solely on military forces, and it must be resolved through political means.

He also understood the so-called political means. The civil and military ministers of the court and the aristocratic gentry in the local area would not support him at all, so political means were doomed to fail.

So Hong Chengchou had few choices. He made a decision, which was to find the weaknesses of the bandits and wait for an opportunity to give the other party a fatal blow.

They chase and kill bandits and play cat and mouse games, and it will never be possible to wipe out bandits.

Even if they can temporarily wipe out the bandits, the other side will soon make a comeback, and the spark can quickly sweep the world.

It was because of the corruption of the Ming Dynasty that most farmers and the people could not eat enough, and what could they do if they could not eat enough? However, the civil and military ministers of the court did not see this and kept turning a blind eye to him and attacking the troops.

Hong Chengchou had a comprehensive plan. As early as when he took over Chen Qiyu's position and served as the governor of the five provinces, he had already had a comprehensive plan.

However, Fengyang, Zhongdu, was captured, completely disrupted his plan and put him in a very passive state. The emperor asked his troops to attack Fengyang day and night, and he could not use all his strategies and could only fight tough battles with the bandits and attack the other side.

In the eyes of civil and military officials of the court, the bandits may just be a group of peasants who were unable to eat enough and rebelled because of hunger, and had no combat ability at all. However, Hong Chengchou knew that after 10 years of melee, these bandits had become outstanding soldiers, and their commanders had also become very excellent generals, and their combat capabilities and command capabilities were not inferior to those of the generals of the official army.

This time, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly emerged, raided Fengyang and captured Zhongdu. This is a very obvious example. After so many years of battle, a group of capable generals emerged among the bandits, and they all emerged.

This means that they have become a truly armed military group.

Such a group is not easy to deal with, and it is not easy to deal with them, so he had to come up with a solution, which is to concentrate his superior forces to give the opponent a fatal blow.

The bandits captured Fengyang, Zhongdu, which was actually an opportunity for Hong Chengchou. He was preparing to gather elite troops and then launch a heavy attack on Fengyang.
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