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Chapter 182 News about King Chuang

Jiazhou prison, death row.

Cao Qiang, deputy director of the Jiazhou branch of Zhenming Group, curled up on the ground covered with a torn blanket, groaning in pain. He had been tortured every day for the past few days, and his wounds had become inflamed, and he had lost 70 to 80% of his life.

If Zhang Yingjie hadn't been entrusted with the task of clarifying the official punishment and warning the people, and asked the arresting officer to keep him alive, and simply deal with it after the punishment, he would probably be dead by now.

"Shopkeeper Cao, wake up, wake up, the Governor has asked us to rescue you." Deng Hao walked into the prison and helped Cao Qiang up.

"Deng Hao, is it really you, Master Lin?" Cao Qiang opened his eyes when he heard the call.

"Master Lin has led troops into Jiazhou City. It is safe now. You must hold on." Deng Hao continued.

"I can survive!" Upon hearing that Lin Feng had captured Jiazhou City, Cao Qiang's spirit immediately lifted.

At this time, a health worker from the Zhenming Army came over, took out a first aid kit, and helped Cao Qiang treat his wounds.

"It hurts, it hurts!"

Disinfectant alcohol was applied to the suppurating wound, and Cao Qiang grimaced in pain.

"Shopkeeper Cao, please bear with it for a while!" the soldier who was treating the wound comforted him while scraping off the rotten flesh with a scalpel, then sprinkled with powder and began to bandage the wound.

Afraid that Cao Qiang could not bear it anymore, he gave him a piece of cloth to bite, and asked two Zhenming Army soldiers to hold him down to prevent his struggle from affecting the debridement.

After a while of treating the wound, Cao Qiang broke out in cold sweat from the pain, and the cloth strip in his mouth was bitten.

Because Cao Qiang suffered too many wounds all over his body, he used three first-aid kits in a row to treat his wounds, and his whole body was wrapped like a rice dumpling.

Fortunately, these are all skin injuries and have been properly treated. If the inflammation no longer occurs, with Cao Qiang's physical fitness, he should be able to recover quickly.

"Old Cao, things will be different this time when you go out. Master Lin will definitely look at you differently. It's worth the hardship." Deng Hao said while feeding him something to eat.

"I didn't think so much. Mr. Lin is so kind to us, so I thought I would never betray him!" Cao Qiang replied honestly.

"Good people are rewarded, unlike some people who become traitors and suffer misfortune this time." Deng Hao continued.

"Have Chen Xiong and others been caught?" Cao Qiang asked, he also hated these traitors very much.

"They were all caught, and no one escaped." Deng Hao replied.

At this time, a Zhenming Army soldier came over and reported: "Stationmaster, there is a prisoner in the prison who claims to be Li Chuang and wants to see our Lord Governor."

"I know, take me to see you." Deng Hao followed and walked over.

Jiazhou government office lobby.

Lin Feng was reading the latest government reports and military information kept by the state government. Of course, there was more information received by the state government and he needed to take a closer look.

One of the Di newspapers wrote that in March of the eleventh year (1638), after Li Chuang led his troops from Sichuan to Shaanxi, they left Taozhou. Governor Hong Chengchou ordered Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong to pursue and annihilate them. The people in the land were short of food, and the bandits had no food to eat, and many died of starvation in battle.

After Li Chuang's defeat in Taozhou, he led his army back into the fortress and went to Minzhou and the mountains of Xihe and Lixian counties. Cao Bianjiao chased him, while Li Thief and others lurked in the mountains and did not come out.

Another Di newspaper wrote: In April of the eleventh year, Zhang Xianzhong was promoted to Gucheng. Luo Rucai and other troops marched westward from Wan and Luoji and forced Tongguan. Meeting with Shaanxi Fu Sun Chuanting led the army east out of the pass. The bandits teamed up to fight Chuanting for dozens of miles, but failed to win and rushed to Neixiang and Zhechuan.

These newspapers were all sent recently and generally reflect the current situation of the imperial court's suppression of bandits. Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others were indeed very capable, and the peasant army that had already fought almost had nowhere to hide.

"Sir, Deng Hao from the Jiazhou Intelligence Station would like to see you." Fang Xiaoyu came in to report.

Hearing this, Lin Feng raised his head and agreed: "Let him come in."

"Sir, we have taken down the state prison and rescued Deputy Chief Cao Qiang. He was severely tortured and seriously injured in the prison."

"Is it life-threatening?" Lin Feng asked, preparing to take out a precious anti-inflammatory drug to save his life. People who can withstand torture and forced confessions must be properly protected.

"The wound has been treated, and it should be fine now."

"That's good. If the injury happens again, tell me as soon as possible." Lin Feng said. Once I heard that the injury was under control, I stopped giving him anti-inflammatory drugs for the time being.

"Understood, we also captured Chen Xiong and several other traitors in the prison. Sir, do you want to interrogate them personally?" Deng Hao continued to report.

"Oh, we caught these traitors!" Lin Feng frowned and a murderous aura spurted out.

Lin Feng never forces everyone to follow him, and he never complies with others' opinions. But he hated traitors the most, especially those who betrayed their comrades. "I will not interrogate you. You are responsible for the investigation and execution directly afterwards." Lin Feng was not interested in meeting a few traitors.

"Sir, we also found a spy in the prison who claimed to be King Li Zicheng. He wanted to see you. Do you see him?" Deng Hao continued to report.

"Have you verified your identity?"

"I didn't have any credentials with me. I interrogated the people from the arrest squad of the state government. They came here as suspected thieves and spies. It's been seven or eight days. The state government was busy dealing with our Zhenming Army, so they didn't have time to deal with it yet. .

I briefly interrogated him and found out that he was very familiar with Li Chuang's situation and should be from there. Besides, the state government didn’t know that we were going to attack Jiazhou City, so they probably wouldn’t have arranged for someone to approach us in the prison in advance. "Deng Hao analyzed.

"The analysis makes sense, so let's bring it in for a meeting." Lin Feng said.

Soon, a middle-aged man who claimed to be a spy from King Chuang was brought over.

When he saw Lin Feng sitting in the lobby of the state government office behind a desk, he immediately raised his hands in greeting and said, "Gao Qiubin, the sentry officer under King Chuang, has met the Governor!"

Lin Feng raised his head and looked at him. He was short in stature and quite strong in stature. He had bright eyes and a firm expression on his face. He looked like a man of great willpower.

Finally, he had to deal with the people from the legendary Chuang King Li Zicheng's force. Lin Feng was also quite curious. He didn't know what the Chuang King's army that could overthrow the Ming Court in the future would look like now.

"You claim to be a subordinate of King Chuang, what proof do you have?" Lin Feng asked.

"When I go back to the Governor, I don't have any credentials. As a sentry agent, how can I bring my identity credentials with me? Moreover, the younger one has been arrested by the state government. If we had the credentials, his body would have been in a different place." Gao Qiubin, the sentry detective, calmly said said.

A small sentinel has such a calm demeanor. King Chuang indeed has talents under his command. Lin Feng admired in his heart.

"Then don't mention the credentials. I believe you. There's no point in pretending to be a sentry. How is the situation with King Chuang?" Lin Feng asked.

"When the villain left, King Chuang was still dormant in the mountains of Xihe and Li County in Gongchang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. Because the people in the mountainous areas were poor and supplies were difficult, King Chuang sent out sentries from several directions, preparing to explore the weak points of the imperial defense and wait for opportunities. Breakout.

The villain was sent to the northern Shaanxi area. Hearing that there was an uprising by the Zhenming Army in Fugu, he prepared to come over to investigate, but he did not expect to be caught and imprisoned by the Jiazhou Yamen. Gao Qiubin replied.

Lin Feng heard that the situation he told was close to what was written in the Di newspaper, and he couldn't help but believe it in his heart. Then he asked: "What generals are there with King Chuang now?"

"There is no need to hide this. King Chuang has Liu Zongmin, Tian Jian, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other generals with him." Gao Qiubin continued.

"What's King Chuang's next plan?"

"This young man doesn't know. He can only take one step at a time to see if he can escape from the encirclement of the Shaanxi army. I once heard King Chuang and the generals discussing that they might still want to go to Henan." Gao Qiubin replied. .

Lin Feng looked through the "Things of the Ming Dynasty" in the space and knew that Li Zicheng later went to Tongguan and Henan, but was beaten badly by the Hong and Sun coalition forces, and only eighteen riders escaped.

"Gao Qiubin, we are the Zhenming Army, and we are also a rebel army that does justice for heaven and benefits the people. When you go back, you can tell King Chuang that I will attack the entire Shaanxi from Fugu from north to south, which can be regarded as reducing the pressure on King Chuang.

When we capture Jiazhou this time, the imperial court will definitely order Hong Chengchou and others to attack our Zhenming Army, which will put less pressure on King Chuang. I hope he can attack Sichuan from north to south by then to avoid conflicts between our two families. "Lin Feng told Gao Qiubin half-truth and half-falsely the plan of the Zhenming Army. It would be best to divide the sphere of influence with Li Zicheng first.

"Mr. Governor, the news of your uprising is very important. It will definitely be helpful to King Chuang's actions. I must immediately find a way to go back and inform King Chuang of your opinions." Gao Qiubin responded.

"Okay, then you go back as soon as possible. Deng Hao, give Gao Zhuangshi a hundred taels of silver for traveling expenses. Even if you have to give some of the extra silver to King Chuang, you can't take it away, so I won't be polite." Lin Feng Then he said.

"Thank you, Governor! I will definitely convey the goodwill of you and the Zhenming Army to King Chuang." Gao Qiubin left the government office after saying this.

Summoning Chuang Wang's sentinel was also a casual move to see if he could guide Li Zicheng to occupy Sichuan first and cut off Zhang Xianzhong's path.

Compared with Zhang Xianzhong, the murderous king who carried out massacres in Sichuan, Lin Feng would rather let Li Zicheng occupy Sichuan.

Lin Feng judged that the spy should be real. It would be meaningless if the court sent someone to act out this drama, and the information told to him was not particularly confidential.

After meeting King Chuang's sentinels, Lin Feng called Guo Zheng, Zhou Rui, Peng Xing and others over to make arrangements for the annihilation of Peng Qing's troops.

"After occupying Jiazhou, we must deal with Peng Qing's troops on the Quyechuan River as soon as possible. Guo Zheng, you immediately spread the news of the loss of Jiazhou to Peng Qing's camp, and sent people to try to burn the enemy camp's food and grass to create chaos. At the same time, you notified Nan Song Jilie of Wubao led his troops across the river to attack the enemy camp."

"Yes!" Guo Zheng said.

"Zhou Rui, you lead a battalion of officers and soldiers who are mainly responsible for consolidating the Jiazhou city defense. Peng Xing leads a battalion to outflank the rear of the Shaanxi army. Together with Song Jilie, they will attack from the front and back to defeat Peng Qing's army." Lin Feng then arranged.

"Understood!" Zhou Rui and Peng Xing said.

(End of this chapter)