Ming Empire

Chapter 236 Zuo Liangyu Revolts

Wuchang, Hubei, where Zuo Liangyu lived.

A conspiracy was going on, Zuo Liangyu summoned his trusted generals to discuss the arrangement to decide their fate.

During this period of time, Zuo Liangyu had trouble sleeping and eating, and this was all forced by Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting.The court was controlled by these two people, and the emperor became their puppet.The imperial court issued an edict to seize their military power, and ordered them, the commander-in-chief, to serve in Nanjing.Of course Zuo Liangyu knew that this meant that Cao Yue or Sun Chuanting did not want them to continue to lead the army, and wanted to put the army in their hands.

Zuo Liangyu, who has been a general of the soldiers for many years, of course knows the importance of having soldiers in his hands.As long as he continues to stay in Hubei to lead the army, he will be the local emperor here. He has the final say on everything at this time, and he can ignore He Tengjiao, governor of Hubei.If he accepted the imperial court's order and really went to the Nanjing Five Army Commander's Mansion, then he would probably lose his status in the Ming Dynasty and end up with nothing.

When he arrived in Nanjing, no one knew whether those people would find a reason to arrest him and punish him.He has been in Hubei for many years and has done too many shady things, many of which are beheadings.If Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue wanted to put him to death, it would be enough to find one of them.Zuo Liangyu and his cronies believed that they must not go to Nanjing.

However, three of the commanders of the four towns in Jiangbei went to Nanjing. They really served as the governor of the five armies, and they were not arrested or imprisoned or otherwise embarrassing.If Zuo Liangyu was resolutely unwilling to obey the court's orders before Liu Zeqing's incident came out, then after Liu Zeqing refused to obey orders and was killed on the charge of "conspiracy to rebel", Zuo Liangyu could not have considered it carefully.

The total number of soldiers and horses in the hands of the generals of the four towns is no less than him. Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting easily took care of so many soldiers and horses. People were assassinated, and the generals under him immediately chose to surrender.This ending made Zuo Liangyu break out in a cold sweat. He knew that if he disobeyed orders like Liu Zeqing, then the imperial court would definitely declare him treason immediately, and then send a large army to suppress the rebellion.

Zuo Liangyu, who was deeply afraid that he would also be assassinated, stepped up his guard to prevent strangers from approaching.But he didn't dare to blatantly resist the imperial court. Although he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, if the imperial court really sent a large army to attack, he felt that he was not sure of victory.The fighting power of the army trained by Cao Yue is a bit frightening. The tens of thousands of slaves under Datong were all defeated, and Zuo Liangyu didn't dare to gamble lightly.

There are also tens of thousands of elite soldiers of Hong Niangzi, who are standing in the north of Xiangyang. This is also a headache army, and they are against him everywhere.He also vaguely heard that the Red Lady has been recruited by Cao Yue, and now many leading generals in the Red Lady Army are sent by Cao Yue himself.

There are wolves in the front and tigers in the back, Zuo Liangyu can't make a decision, so he can only adopt a policy of delay, but the worst thing is that the court gave a deadline.Seeing that the deadline was approaching, Zuo Liangyu was even more restless.He had to make a choice, otherwise Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, who controlled the government, would not let him go.How to choose, Zuo Liangyu is really hard to decide.

But soon he saw the opportunity. When Jiannu and the rogues were fighting each other, Cao Yue actually led the army to the Northern Expedition, preparing to recover Beijing.This news made Zuo Liangyu heave a sigh of relief. He knew that the imperial court had no strength to deal with him for the time being. With the tens of thousands of horses of Hong Niangzi and the tens of thousands of new guards left behind, they couldn't deal with his hundreds of thousands of troops.

When Zuo Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief, another change occurred.Jiannu actually sent someone to contact him, and revealed many "secrets" to him, saying that Cao Yue, Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting supported the emperor was false.The secret envoy who established slavery brought him a lot of unexpected news, one of which was that Dorgon wanted to form an alliance with him, and hoped that Zuo Liangyu would be in charge of the Ming dynasty.

In the secret letter, Dorgon told Zuo Liangyu that the Qing and Ming had a common enemy, that is, the bandits. The reason why the Qing army entered the pass was because of the invitation of Wu Sangui, the fierce general of the Ming Dynasty. He hoped that the Qing and Ming would unite to wipe out the bandits. Lose.Dorgon hopes that Zuo Liangyu can support another clan king, and the Qing will recognize the new emperor Zuo Liangyu supports and cooperate with him.

If the cooperation is successful, the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty can draw the Yellow River to rule, the south will belong to Zuo Liangyu, and the north will belong to the Qing Dynasty. The two countries will form eternal allies.

Duo ErGun told Zuo LiangYu in the letter that as long as he is willing to raise troops to fight against the Puppet Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty will fully support it.Now that the Qing Dynasty has poured all its power into attacking Cao Yue's new guard army, the new guard army of the Puppet Ming Dynasty, which is at an absolute disadvantage in strength, is no match for the elite of the Qing Dynasty at all. It is only a matter of time before Cao Yue is wiped out.If Zuo Liangyu raised an army, the Qing army would send a strong force to help him eliminate the Ming army who dared to attack.

After reading Dorgon's secret letter and talking with the secret envoy for several hours, Zuo Liangyu finally made up his mind that he was unwilling to lose everything and was ready to take the risk.

Zuo Liangyu has long been dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue's domination of the government, but Zuo Liangyu has 80 soldiers under his command, while Cao Yue has less than 20 soldiers and horses. Why should Cao Yuepu be the governor?Moreover, Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue did not let him go, pressing him step by step to obey.He wants to resist, and he wants to use his own strength to get everything he wants.

Cao Yue led the army to the Northern Expedition, and Dorgon led the main force of the slave establishment to dispatch. Zuo Liangyu took it for granted that Cao Yue would lose this battle.If Cao Yue was defeated, then Zuo Liangyu must be the one who cleaned up the mess.Therefore, Zuo Liangyu immediately started the arrangement, and after the arrangement was completed, he was ready to start an incident.

The emperor Zhu Cijiong supported by Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue turned out to be a fake. When the bandits led by Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, all the sons of Emperor Chongzhen, including Zhu Cizhao and Zhu Cijiong, had been killed by Li Zicheng. Zhu Cijiong was replaced by someone very similar.This person was found by Cao Yue, so he naturally let him manipulate and control him.After hearing these secrets announced by Zuo Liangyu, the generals under him were dumbfounded.After "knowing" these secrets, Zuo Liangyu's agitation made these generals who were worried about being deprived of military power and finally dealt with by the court ready to move.

In the end, most people agreed to follow Zuo Liangyu and raise troops to destroy the "pseudo-Ming" regime in Nanjing controlled by Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting.

Soon, Zuo Liangyu started an uprising in Wuchang. Under the slogan of "the side of the Qing emperor" and the slogan of eradicating Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue, he raised his troops and prepared to attack Nanjing.

He supported Zhu Changhao, king of Lu, as emperor, and the title of the country was still Daming.

Zhu Changhao's fief is Henan. After Henan was occupied by rogues and red ladies, Zhu Changhao had to go to Zuo Liangyu. This time he was also encouraged by Zuo Liangyu. He really thought that Zhu Cijiong, who proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, was just a lookalike Cao Yue found. The real Zhu Cijiong was already dead, and Queen Zhou was only persecuted by Cao Yue.

After the news of Zuo Liangyu's rebellion spread, the world was shocked.

(End of this chapter)