Originally, I decided to stay in Yueyang for three days before leaving, but everyone insisted on taking a few more days off. Zhu Hongsan saw that he was not in a hurry to travel, so he agreed and took another three more days off.

Three days later, on the second day of the third month, everyone was ready and set off for Changsha. The news came from the Ma family shop, Ma Mingyuan and the others had already left Changsha on February 15th, and they would probably be able to arrive at Hengzhou Prefecture in April.

Zhu Hongsan was not in a hurry to receive the information. Anyway, it was only March now, and Beijing Chongzhen seemed to be hanged in March next year. It was still one year, and he could go to Guangzhou Prefecture before the end of the year. With his current strength, he would definitely be able to develop self-protection power within one year.

Because of this, Zhu Hongsan did not urge the team to leave quickly, and still moved forward slowly. When he was optimistic about it, he would play for a while.

It took more than 500 miles from Yueyang to Changsha, and Zhu Hongsan walked a total of one and a half months before he arrived in Changsha.

Looking at the towering Changsha city wall ten miles away, this is probably the last big city in Hu Guang. Going south, you will enter the Nanling Mountains. These eight major watersheds in China. Hengzhou Prefecture is at the foot of the Nanling Mountains. Crossing it is a winding and difficult-to-leave mountain road. Zhu Hongsan expects to take at least half a year to walk out of the Nanling Mountains to Guangzhou.

Changsha is the home of China's rice market. The saying "Huguang is mature, and the world is full" has been said for hundreds of years. Half of the rice in Huguang is concentrated in Changsha. This place supplies grain from the entire South China. This is also the last time Zhu Hongsan replenishes grain on a large scale. Further to Nanhengzhou Prefecture, Chenzhou and Shaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong are not densely populated areas.

Zhu Hongsan instructed Tong Yangjia to try to replenish grain and salt in Changsha. If the meat is gone, you can hunt, and if the food and salt are gone, it will break. Tong Yangjia took his newly acquired master Gong Dacheng to bring people to the city to purchase.

Gong Dacheng was the magistrate of Puqi County. After being arrested, he wanted to run away at first, but Zhu Hongyi whipped it ten times and became honest. After seeing Tong Yangjia as his thigh, he resolutely married his legitimate daughter to Tong Yangjia as a concubine. It was really a capital. However, Gong Dacheng had a good plan. He heard that his family had run a grain store before, but when he was admitted to the juren of his generation, he was elected as the magistrate of Puqi County.

Tong Yangjia asked this guy to take care of the logistics and it was all his money. I wonder if throwing the grain mouse into the grain warehouse could kill him.

Zhu Hongsan called Qian Fatty and said, "Seeing that you performed well, I'll give you a task. If you go to the city, ask me for someone, a princess named Zhu You, the king of Ji, Changsha, is about eighteen or nineteen years old, find out everything about her."

Fatty Qian looked up and looked at Zhu Hongsan with a strange look. That means you want to be married?

Zhu Hongsan kicked him in the ass and cursed: "Don't worry about what he's doing so much, just go there if you want to go."

Then he called Qian Yong and Zhang Sanqiang and asked them to be optimistic about their homes. Those who wanted to go out for fun had to take leave and could not go out alone. After the arrangements, they took Zhu Hongyi to Changsha City.

Changsha City is no less than Wuchang Prefecture, with a tall city wall. There is also a hereditary vassal king inside. However, the Chu vassal in Wuchang is the blood of Taizu, and King Ji of Changsha is the son of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, the unlucky guy who was arrested in Tumu Fort. There were several princes in other Changsha, but it was not long since the vassal was withdrawn.

Walking on the streets of Changsha, Zhu Hongsan watched with interest. Everyone was trading peacefully, and the yamen runners were also calmly collecting various bad rules, as if the wars in the north had nothing to do with the people here. Who would have thought that the world would be in chaos in a few years?

Since Changsha is a rice and grain wholesale market, half of the shops on the street are grain stores. Zhu Hongsan casually walked around and found a restaurant to have dinner on the street. He asked if the road to Guangdong was easy to walk. The guy said there was a Guangdong guild in the city, so you can go there for details.

After dinner, Zhu Hongsan did not stroll around and took Zhu Hongyi back to the camp. Along the way, Zhu Hongsan considered that the city defense in Changsha was too tight, so it was difficult to take Zhu You out of the city. If an ordinary woman was okay, the key was that he was the princess, which was difficult.

Fatty Qian came back tonight and came to Zhu Hongsan to report the news.

It turned out that Zhu You was named Zhu Youjia, and was the third daughter of King Ji, and was named Princess Yiyang. Three years ago, Chang Bin, the son of the teacher of King Ji's mansion, heard that they were Qingmei and gave birth to a son named Chang Hong last year. This year, he was three years old. The Chang family lives in Tieshizi Hutong in Dongcheng. Fatty Qian went to step on the plate. The Chang family was not large in population, only more than ten people.

After Qian Lide said this, he asked, "Brother, do you really like that woman who gave birth to a child?"

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "What? If you can't fall in love with mother and daughter, I have some hobbies?"

Fatty Qian nodded repeatedly, and Zhu Hongsan said, "This is the case today, go and have a look with me tomorrow, Tantan." Fatty Qian agreed and went down.

Tong Yangjia came in the evening, and Zhu Hongsan thought he had done everything. Unexpectedly, Tong Yangjia turned green when he entered the house and said, "My lord is not a good thing. When I went to the Ma family shop, I met Ma Rong who escaped from Xianning. He said that Zhang Xianzhong arrived in Wuchang in February, and the Wuchang goalkeeper opened the door to surrender. Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Wuchang bloodi, and heard that more than 200,000 people were pushed into the river and drowned. The whole family of the King of Chu was killed."

Zhu Hongsan frowned. He remembered that he arrived in Wuchang in May, so why did he get three months in advance? Zhu Hongsan didn't know that it was his own big butterfly flapping wings. Originally, Xinyang could have lasted for three months, but later Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had an internal strife and retreated. Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongsan opened the city gate for his own life, and Xinyang only guarded for one day, which led to Zhang Xianzhong's early attack on Wuchang.

The next news was even more explosive. Tong Yangjia said: "Ma Rong said that after Zhang Xianzhong occupied Wuchang, he recruited soldiers everywhere. Now there are 800,000 troops and several groups of troops. Zhang Xianzhong led 400,000 main force south to Changsha. It was March when Ma Rong came out of Xianning, and Zhang Xianzhong had arrived in Xianning. He should be attacking Yueyang now."

Zhu Hongsan immediately stood up and said in surprise: "What? You're in Yueyang." This news was too unexpected. Zhu Hongsan remembered that Zhang Xianzhong broke Wuchang and went to Sichuan. Why did he go south? This is blamed on China's history education. China has a history of five thousand years, and the small matter of destroying Changsha will not be recorded in the middle school history books. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, it only remembers that Zhang Xianzhong captured Changsha in a certain month, and King Ji fled south, and later died in Myanmar. There are only a few words.

Zhu Hongsan stood up and his head turned rapidly. Yueyang was more than 500 miles away from Changsha, and it would be at most a month. He must set off these days and cannot wait any longer. He made up his mind and said to Tong Yangjia: "Sir, I will take people to purchase grain tomorrow, and I will buy as much as I can. We must leave the day after tomorrow."

Zhu Hongsan went out to call Qian Yong, and Zhang Sanqiang said, "You two will throw away all useless supplies tomorrow, leaving only weapons and horses. Try to minimize luggage, let's set off the day after tomorrow."

The two asked why, and Zhu Hongsan said, "Zhang Xianzhong's 400,000 army arrived in Yueyang. After capturing Yueyang, they would go south to Changsha. We must leave quickly."

The two were so scared that they hurried down to prepare.

The camp was in chaos that night, but fortunately, the people in Zhu Hongsan were basically adult men. Their family had already left with Ma Mingyuan first. Now there are no old and weak except for a few families.

The next day, as soon as the city gate opened, Tong Yangjia took people to purchase grain. Zhu Hongsan and Fatty Qian Zhu Hongyi came to the Chang family in Dongcheng. Zhu Hongsan decided to do both tonight, and whether Cheng or not will leave tomorrow. If it really doesn't work, then the woman won't take it. After all, life is still important compared to his own life.

The Chang family is very secluded, close to the base of the city wall, only 500 meters away from the Dongcheng Gate. After leaving Dongcheng, it is the official road. It is really suitable for running away.

In the evening, Zhu Hongsan returned to the camp and set off at dark and waited for him a mile outside the Dongcheng city gate. Then Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Hongyi and led a hundred guards soldiers, and sneaked into Changsha City while the city gate was not closed.

Zhu Hongsan's plan was that he and Zhu Hongyi would go to get people first. After that, he sent fifty people to set fire in the city, fifty people used 200 kilograms of gunpowder to blow up the city gate and then went out. The time he set up with the guard company was to set fire at midnight, and then gathered at the Dongcheng city gate, and exploded the city gate at midnight. When setting fire, he shouted loudly that the bandits had entered the city. Most of Zhu Hongsan's guard company were Luo Rucai's old camp bandits. He often did something like killing people and setting fire to fight in the city, so it was naturally difficult for them to do it.

After the discussion, everyone took action separately. Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Hongyi lurked in the backyard of the Chang family and waited until they all fell asleep. Zhu Hongsan looked at the time of about 11 o'clock, and the setting fire was about to begin in another hour. Now he can take action.

Zhu Hongsan poked Zhu Hongyi and said, "Brother went to the backyard and killed them all. I'll go to the front yard."

Zhu Hongyi nodded and ran to the backyard with a horizontal knife.

Zhu Hongsan came to the front yard and saw the lights in the room going out. He lay down at the door and listened. Even breathing sounds came from inside. He knew that they were asleep. Zhu Hongsan took out the dagger and slowly opened the door bolt. He pushed open the crack in the door and caught the door bolt with his hands, and walked into the room.

This room is a suite, and the little maid lives outside, and Chang Bin and his wife are inside. Zhu Hongsan walked to the maid's bedside and saw that the maid was sleeping heavily. Zhu Hongsan gently picked up the pillow next to him, pointed it at the maid's heart with a horizontal knife and stabbed it. He covered the maid's mouth with a pillow, preventing her from making a sound. The maid died after a while after stomping his hands.

At this time, there might be a sound outside the inner room, and a man said, "Xiao Cui? Xiao Cui?"

A woman said, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I heard a sound outside. Maybe it was a cat. Xiao Cui was probably asleep. I'll go out to take a look." After saying that, the sound of a fire scythe ignition came from the inner room.

Zhu Hongsan knew that Chang Bin was about to come out, so he hid behind the door. After a while, the door of the inner room was pushed open, and a young man came out with an oil lamp in his hand. Before he could see clearly the situation in the outer room, Zhu Hongsan rushed out from behind the door and cut off Chang Bin's head, and the dead body fell to the ground with a plop.

The woman in the inner room said, "What's wrong with the master?"

Zhu Hongsan pushed the door and went in. Through the moonlight, he saw that it was Zhu Youjia on the bed. There was a small bed beside the bed, and a child was asleep inside.

Zhu Youjia saw a man in black coming in and asked, "Who is it?"

Zhu Hongsan stood beside the moonlight and said, "It's me."

When Zhu Youjia saw that it was the man who was bullying him in Yueyang Tower, she was shocked and said, "Why are you here in our house? Where is the master?"

Zhu Hongsan picked up Chang Bin's head and sent it to Zhu Youjia and said, "Are you talking about him?"

When Zhu Youjia saw that it was her husband, she was so scared that she fainted when she rolled her eyes.

Zhu Hongsan threw away the head, saw the child in the small bed next to him, and said, "Child, don't blame me, just join a good family in the next life." After that, he stabbed him with a knife.
Chapter completed!