The news of the chaos in Yidu spread to all parts of the country within a day, thanks to the perfect road and post system, as the ventral side of the core of the Yuan people's rule, according to the system, the information of Shandong in Dadu should not exceed two days, and the Banyang Road and Jinan Road that are close at hand will of course know earlier. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When receiving this news, Yan Zhonghu, the head of Jinan Road, couldn't believe it at all, after more than ten years of high-pressure policies, almost all hidden dangers were nipped in the bud, and Sageth, who was in charge of the East and West Dao Propaganda Division in Shandong Province since the Zhongtong years, was a confidant of the Great Khan, who could be called both talented and virtuous, plus the 7,000 Han troops and 3,000 Tanma Red troops stationed there, it was impossible to lose the city overnight in any case.

However, speculation is speculation, the fact is that the Han army that was transferred back from the front line of Chuzhou did mutiny, except for these soldiers who escaped from the city, no one knows what the situation in the city is now, from Jinan City to the capital is separated by more than 800 miles, such a big thing can not be hidden, Daru Huachi from all over the country must have been reported, if he is late, I am afraid that it will be considered a dereliction of duty.

Reporting is only one of them, how to deal with it now is the most important, Yan Zhonghu after carefully interrogating those defeated soldiers, got a judgment that is not very certain, there was no cavalry in the city at that time, the rebels at most looted the city, no matter who the city is in now, grabbing time has become the key in the key.

As the seventh son of the famous general Yan Shi at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he also has the style of his father's commander, and he is not lacking in determination, when he received the news, it was still late at night, and in the early hours of the morning, the garrison of Jinan City of 10,000 people had been assembled, and at the same time, more than ten fast horses rushed to the neighboring state capital and Dadu, so as not to be caught off guard by the rebels.

When the day was about to break, 10,000 Han soldiers stepped on the official road to Yidu, Yan Zhonghu's idea was that no matter what the situation of Yidu City was, the advanced Banyang City located between the two would not only be able to respond to the front at any time, but also prevent the rebels from prolonging, and when they met with the 3,000 cavalry troops on the Yidu side, the initiative of the entire battlefield would be in their own hands.

More than 160 miles of the road, according to the foot, can walk more than half of the way at night, and if you are ruthless, it is possible to arrive in the early morning of the next day, of course, he is anxious to have any variables, and the news he gets further along the way is still varied, saying everything, so the soldiers who are about to run out of physical strength have to take a short rest on the side of the road, after all, they are not cavalry, the march depends on physical strength, and fighting also requires physical strength.

In the short distance of nearly a hundred miles, he had gathered hundreds of routs, and the situation was obviously sliding in the worst direction, and when the vanguard brought a disheveled scribe over, he finally got the more credible news that Yidu City had fallen.

"Where is Lao Pingzhang?" The person who came was carrying a document stamped with the seal of the Xuanwei Division, and the words on it were very scribbled, obviously written in a hurry, he glanced at it, and asked.

"When the city was broken, there were only a few hundred people around the ambassador, and we waited desperately to fight a bloody way to ensure that we could not lose, but fortunately, the rebels only cared about looting and did not chase after them, and now the ambassador is in Banyang City, and the soldiers defending the city are less than five hundred, so we have to ask for help everywhere, in addition to the general manager here, Marshal Yesu's cavalry is still in Tai'an Prefecture, and I am afraid that I will also get the news."

The words of the person who came were a little upside down, but the general meaning was still very clear, hearing that Saggis himself was safe, Yan Zhonghu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that as long as his people rushed to Banyang City, they would be able to gather together with the cavalry army to stabilize the surrounding situation, as for the rebellion, everything had to gather enough military strength to do, Xu felt his emotional changes, and the scribe was a little anxious.

"Banyang City is small, when the lower officials came, the rebels had already intended to attack, and I implore the governor to help them for the sake of their colleagues in a province." After that, he knelt on the ground.

"Get up." Yan Zhonghu grabbed him speechlessly: "You don't need to say it, this official also knows how to act." ”

He glanced around on his horse, and on both sides of the official road, there were all crooked sergeants, and after more than five hours of rapid marching, even he felt tired on horseback, let alone these foot soldiers.

But the words of the people who came are not unreasonable, Banyang City is not as big as Yidu, Jinan and other big cities, and there are not enough defenders, if the rebels attack in a hurry, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop it in a round, if it is because of this, Sagis has a good and bad situation, he will not escape the end of a poor rescue, in this case, it is better to sit in Jinan and wait for news.

"If you can't rest, tell the soldiers, Pingzhang is waiting for us to save it, and we have defended Banyang City, no matter what the court is, Yan has another reward."

If you want people to spare their lives, you can only sacrifice such a method, fortunately, although the routine works for the past, the military law and the promise finally let these foot soldiers cheer up, all of them are here, how can there be any forward team, when they go out of the city, there are still a few formations of the team, and pull out a long line of skirmishers on the official road, from a distance, it is somewhat similar to those routs, but at this time Yan Zhonghu can no longer take care of it, and it is a blessing in misfortune to be able to run to the city of Banyang alive.

Fortunately, this road is relatively flat, and there is no obstacle from high mountains and dangerous passes, otherwise even if he wants to run, he will have to take into account the disadvantages of the terrain, because the sky is about to get dark, which is a taboo for marching.

The Banyang Road sandwiched between the two roads was actually artificially split out after the Li Pu Rebellion, in order not to make a certain place too vast and difficult to control, therefore, Banyang City is not only inferior to big cities like Yidu and Jinan, but even ordinary state capitals are inferior, and there are indeed some people who fled from the city, which is just an instinct in the war.

When the pheasant slave arrived here with people, there was no one to stop them at all, the reason was very simple, several local officials were all recruited by Sajith to Yidu, and they were all swept away in yesterday's seizure of the city, her eyes swept over the low city walls and empty streets, and she immediately lost interest, and the group passed through the city without stopping, and went straight to the official road leading to Jinan.

"What about people?" Stopping her horse, she looked ahead suspiciously, it was getting late, there were no pedestrians on the road, and there was not even a living thing in sight.

"That's not?" One of the soldiers looked left and right, pointed to the field on the side of the road, and said.

At this time, of course, nothing was planted in the field, and the bare ridges were pushed into a row by the plough target, but at this time, the field looked like it was in the harvest time, and the ridges were full of black shadows, like crops waiting to be harvested.

The pheasant slave led them to beat their horses and go down to the field, and the black shadow in the distance got closer and closer, and when the naked eye could make out it, a group of people ran out of the black shadow and quickly met it.

"My sister is not staying in Yidu, what are you doing here, are you afraid that Lao Qi will embarrass you?" Qi Baozhu hugged her fist from a few steps away, and said with a grin.

"What's so good about Yidu...... Yes, the old man is looking at it, and there is nothing to do left and right, come and go around your place. ”

The pheasant slave replied casually, but his eyes looked behind him, it turned out that the rows of black shadows were countless foot soldiers sitting on the base, if it wasn't for the darkness, there would be no way to hide people, needless to say, the same arrangement is the same at the other end of the official road, she bypassed Qi Baozhu and others, walked to the front of the military formation, and like those foot soldiers, found a ridge, and sat down like this.

After coming into contact with her these days, Qi Baozhu and these generals behind him can understand a little bit about her temperament, don't look at her age, she is clear about the rules in the army, she is so smart, and her temperament is even more straightforward, not at all like the legendary Jiangnan woman, and I don't know how the land of the Great Song Dynasty raised such an alien, of course, I can only say this in my heart, and I am still respectful on my face.

"Where are the Tartars?"

"According to the brothers in the microphone, they had just passed the double stack, and there was still an hour to go." Qi Baozhu and the others didn't dare to sit on an equal footing with her, they all bent over and stood around, and their sight was suddenly blocked, and the pheasant slave holding the horsewhip was a false whip, which made them sit down honestly.

"Why is it so slow?" Hearing that there was still an hour, the pheasant muttered impatiently.

"It's not slow, it's two hundred miles away, and the last general's people don't dare to rush like this."

Listening to her tone, Qi Baozhu almost didn't choke on his own saliva, saying this was like speaking for the enemy, the pheasant slave glanced at him, and his eyes rolled his eyes.

"How are you going to fight this battle?"

"I was about to share it with my sister." As soon as he got down to business, Qi Baozhu immediately sat up straight: "In the last general's mind, there are more than 10,000 Yuan people, and they are all foot soldiers like the last general, the terrain here extends in all directions, and if you want to annihilate all of them without leakage, you are afraid that it will be difficult to do it with the 20,000 people in the last general, but if most of them flee back, this battle will be fought in vain. ”

"Is this it?" The pheasant slave didn't think it was too surprising, and the horsewhip in her hand was raised diagonally to the other end: "Haven't you thought about using that city?" ”

Qi Baozhu twisted in the direction she pointed, in the night when it was already dark, the end of the official road was blocked by an abrupt black shadow, he didn't understand the meaning of the pheasant slave at first, stared at the black shadow and thought for a while, and suddenly understood.

"Sister, do you mean Banyang City?"

"Well, that city is not big, 20,000 people will block the city gate in all directions, and the Tartars are afraid that it will be difficult to fly even if they have wings."

Put the enemy in the city and then go to the siege? Qi Baozhu and a few generals looked at each other, thinking that this eldest sister was really relaxed, is that an easy battle? But he couldn't say it clearly, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

The pheasant slave couldn't see the changes on his face clearly, but he could guess what they were thinking, and he was not in a hurry, and explained to them calmly: "Now the city is still in our hands, let people tear down the city gates, and wait for all the Tartars to pass, chasing them into the city, is it better than in the wilderness?" ”

As soon as they said this, they immediately understood, I have to say that this is really a method, people are in a panic, and they instinctively want to find a place to rely on, and it is no longer normal to defend the city in the dark, Qi Baozhu didn't say a word, and immediately pushed the person next to him.

"Take your people and do what my sister wants, faster."

The people who were called by him hurriedly got up, shouted and greeted, and the foot soldiers sitting in the front row of the military formation behind them stood up in turn, followed him, and ran to Banyang City not far away.

Walking on the official road with people, Yan Zhonghu's heart was faintly uneasy, the night was dark and gloomy, and there seemed to be nothing unusual around, in order to hide his tracks, he didn't even light the torches, and seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Banyang City, this sense of uneasiness was gradually increasing, but he couldn't say why.

He subconsciously slowed down the speed of the horse, and countless foot soldiers walked past him, in the cold night, everyone was sweating, these Han troops transferred from all over Hebei did not lose the name of the elite, and the two-day trip took only one day and one night to arrive, which made him relieved and somewhat alleviated the uneasiness.

"Give the order to go down, work harder, and rest again when you get to the city."

The bright prospect of entering the city to rest summoned the last trace of strength of these foot soldiers, and gradually they turned from walking to running, and the speed of the whole team increased sharply, like a long black worm, squirming on the official road, and a looming shadow appeared in the distance, as expected, it should be the Panyang City that he had in mind.

However, Yan Zhonghu's face was very unpleasant, but a suspicion rose, and the sound of the wind in his ears was the neat steps of the foot soldiers, in addition, the night was a little unusual, not at all as the people who came said, there was no fighting, no light, and no people and soldiers who escaped.

Wrong! He jerked his horse and shouted behind him, "What about the messenger?" ”

A few pro-soldiers looked left and right, and replied puzzledly: "Fang is still behind, I don't know where this time is, maybe I can't run and fall behind." ”

"Go, order the whole army to slow down, and the people in front search and advance."

Yan Zhonghu gave the order without hesitation, his eyes were fixed on both sides of the official road, but no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see the abnormality, his body was blown by the cold wind, the cold was getting heavier and heavier, and all the cold sweat that flowed down from the top of his head was cold.

"How did the Tartars have to stop?"

The pheasant slave was lying on the stalk like all the sergeants, not holding anything in his hand, but with a little light, he could faintly see the long black shadow on the official road, and found that they suddenly slowed down, she could see that Qi Baozhu and the others were the same, and in confusion, there was news from the front.

"The Tartar front team seems to have discovered something and is searching both sides of the official road."

Can't hesitate any longer, whether the enemy has noticed it or not, as long as they enter the field, they will definitely be able to find the ambush brigade of men, in the darkness the pheasant slave struck Qi Baozhu and the others with a jaw, and pulled out his saber with his backhand.

"The crossbowman listens to the order, the target is in front, and a salvo is fired." Qi Baozhu and the others held the knife in their hands like her, and did not get up immediately, but half-squatted on the spot to make room for the archers.

Following his command, the crossbowmen who were lying in the back row stood up straight, put the bows and arrows they had prepared on the strings, and did not aim, just pointed to the official road in front of them, slowly pulled the bowstrings to the maximum, and then released them together.

When the sound of breaking the sky in his ears gradually faded away, Qi Baozhu immediately issued a new order, and the foot soldiers in front of him, like them, bowed and raised their knives and guns and rushed out, and the originally silent night sky instantly resounded with an overwhelming shout of killing, and countless images of people came out of the ground and slammed into the direction of the official road.

Hit the trick! Yan Zhonghu's mind flashed these three words, a coldness from head to toe, maybe the damage caused by the arrow was not much, but it plunged his team into chaos, how many enemies there were, where they were, the night magnified the fear, and further deepened this chaos, and when his own soldiers desperately escorted him out, Yan Zhonghu sadly found that his 10,000 horses were only afraid that there would be few left.

"Horse, lead my horse." The pheasant slave saw the group of people fleeing on horseback at a glance, and knew without thinking that it must be the commander of the enemy army, and in order to hide her tracks, her horse was pulled behind, and she was eager to find it.

"Sister, you don't need to chase, they can't run." Qi Baozhu pulled her, and he looked confident.

This melee did not last long, in the absence of command, the enemy resistance only lasted less than a pillar of incense, when the ambushed foot soldiers on both sides of the official road met, the battle was almost to the end, except for the killed and escaped, the rest of the people all laid down their weapons, not that they did not want to fight hard, they were too tired, they drove for ten hours in a row, and they could almost fall asleep.

Qi Baozhu left 10,000 people to clean the battlefield and take care of the prisoners, and took the rest of the people to chase the rout into Jinan Road, the pheasant slave was a little curious about where his confidence came from, so he also followed him and mixed in the team, without the old man Zheng in charge, no one's words were good, although they were helpless, but they had no way to take her, fortunately, on this road except to rush is to contain the prisoners, but it is not too dangerous.

Without the drag of the foot soldiers, Yan Zhonghu rushed all the way, and it took less than half the time to rush back to his station, seeing that Jinan City was still fluttering the banner of Dayuan, his heart was slightly relaxed, but unfortunately it was only a day's work, more than 10,000 people were over, and he wanted to hold his breath more and more, and he couldn't wait to call people back immediately, the problem is, looking at the whole of Shandong, there are not many soldiers to deploy.

"Blind your dog's eyes, didn't you see the chief steward go back to the city, and don't open the door quickly." The boss is like this, how good will his subordinates be, a few pro-soldiers scolded and scolded for a while, and the drawbridge was slowly lowered.

"When you enter the city, immediately gather all the great households, let them go out, and fill the wall no matter what."

Yan Zhonghu looked at the empty city, and immediately thought of another problem, if the people and horses are lost, they will be lost, but if Jinan City is not guaranteed, even if he escapes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the responsibility. Galloping along the drawbridge into the city gates, his mind was so focused on them that he didn't pay attention to them, and the gates were closed the moment they entered, and from the gates to the streets, they were all filled with people, blocking their way.

Without exception, these people were all dressed in Han military attire, and a thousand households led by him looked at him with a smile and asked, "You are the governor of this city?" ”

"You are so bold, when you see the manager, you don't even kneel!" The pro-soldier didn't react, and scolded angrily with a horsewhip, not expecting that his chief manager was already pale and his body was shaky at this time.

This Qianhu is speaking with a fake Shandong accent!

Immediately afterwards, all the sergeants raised their swords and guns, and a row of arrows flashing with cold light pointed at them at the head of the city, and the cheers were deafening, and the whole sky resounded.

"Break into Jinan Mansion and capture Yan Zhonghu alive!"