Chapter 267: The Thirty-first Year of the Establishment of Zhao (Second Update)
At the end of June, Wen Sheng received his last letter from Wang 13.
This letter was handed to Yunlu by a stranger, and Fang Shan did not show up, which meant that Wen Sheng did not need to reply to this letter, and even if he returned it, it would not be handed over to Wang Shisan.
Wen Sheng counted, in the past six months, she has received a total of more than ten letters written by Wang Shisan, and the letters she went to are also this number, if it is sorted out and bound, there is also a thick book.
In fact, what Wang 13 wants to say, Wen Sheng doesn't have to read the letter to guess.
When the imperial army entered Lancheng, Ji Nantang sent his lieutenant general to lead a team of men and horses to take control of Qi Yuan first.
He received a secret report that Qi Yuan was detaining many musicians of the Yuyin Society, all of whom refused to rebel with Wang Guangji, and Li Jianzhang, Kong An, Zhu Wenlin and others who Wen Sheng wanted to rescue were among them. Wang Guangji abandoned the city and fled unwilling to carry the burden, and wanted to burn all these musicians who did not know how to lift to death, and the people who were ordered to break the fire could not bear to light the fire, so he sent a letter to Ji Nantang and asked him to send someone to rescue him.
Ji Nantang was suspicious, and sent people to search in Qiyuan, and sure enough, he found those imprisoned musicians.
The musicians were tied up and locked in a tall building, and they were all mentally distressed and frightened, and there were firewood piled up under the building, and oil was poured on them, and all of them burned to ashes with just one fire.
When the news of Li Jianzhang and the others being rescued came to Beijing, Wen Sheng couldn't help but feel relieved.
The strange thing about this matter is that the people who have done good deeds secretly have not left a name, obviously not expecting to get a return from Ji Nantang or the musicians.
Sure enough, Wang 13 probably considered that he and Wen Sheng could no longer get in touch, and did not ask questions like before, but just casually chatted a few sentences, at the end of the letter, he wrote that the people in the rivers and lakes pay the most attention to the distinction between grievances and grievances, so he was ready to help Wen Sheng but a wish, as a reward for teaching him to write and practice these days, I hope Wen Sheng will be satisfied.
The letter is written in a tone from beginning to end, and it is rare to be serious.
No matter what the reason, since Wang 13 helped rescue Li Jianzhang and others, Wen Sheng is also ready to fulfill his promise.
She asked Du Yuanpu to release all the musicians he arrested last time.
As for the current situation, plus more than half a year, Wang Guangji has been ignoring their life and death, and even refuses to exchange Li Jianzhang and others, whether these musicians will moths to the fire and rejoin the old master, or will they be incognito if they are cold, Wen Sheng will not help worry about it.
Ji Nantang also wanted to join forces with the Jiangbei battalion and strike while the iron was hot, enter the Feiyun River in one go, and have a tough battle with Lin Shinan, and completely eliminate the scourge of Wang Guangji by the way, but was opposed by Yang Haojian and Zhu Ziliang.
Although he failed to catch Wang Guangji and was escorted back to Beijing to give Emperor Jianzhao a thousand cuts, he also fought a real victory.
The Ji family army is a good hand in water warfare, regardless of the rivers, lakes and seas, but the soldiers of the Jiangbei battalion can't do it, they can't let Ji Nantang fight Dongyi and Nanchong, and take away all the credit, what does he want to do?
Even Fu Liangji wrote a letter to persuade Ji Nantang, telling him to rein in his edge and try his best to have a good relationship with His Royal Highness the King of Han.
Ji Nantang had no choice but to give up.
Emperor Jianzhao was really happy, and ordered the three of them to be commended, each with a reward, urging them to find a way to capture Wang Guangji alive.
But at this time, the real person in the army was Yang Haojian, he ordered Zhu Ziliang to keep an eye on Lin Shinan's army, and selected a deputy general from the soldiers and horses to be the vanguard, and ordered him to bring 200 warships and 8,000 elite soldiers to explore Wang Guangji's details first.
He originally thought that Wang Guangji still had 50,000 or 60,000 horses around him at best, and there were not many ships, so he sent these 8,000 people by himself, even if he couldn't find a bargain, he could always check the situation and withdraw to think about it in the long run.
Who knew that the result was greatly beyond Yang Haojian's expectations, that is, Ji Nantang was taken aback when he heard about it, there were not even ten of the two hundred ships back, and the eight thousand people were almost wiped out.
The people who fled back had palpitations in their hearts, and reported to Yang Haojian that they were not familiar with the waterway and had strayed into the encirclement, although there were not many enemies, but this time Wang Guangji sent more than ten musicians.
These musicians sat on the bow of the boat, surrounded by soldiers raising shields to protect them, bows and arrows could not shoot them, more than a dozen boats advanced and retreated, and in a moment the soldiers and horses were crushed.
The opponent has a large number of musicians participating in the battle, and the water war is extremely beneficial to the musicians. After hearing the report, Yang Haojian immediately dispelled the idea of continuing the attack, wrote a seal to Emperor Jianzhao overnight, and sent a fast horse to Beijing.
In the recital, he called the battle a small defeat, and the reason was entirely blamed on the musicians of the Feather Music Society.
He asked Emperor Jianzhao to issue an order, either to order Gao Qi and others from the Yuyin Society to make meritorious contributions in front of the army, or to transfer a team of musicians from the Xuanyin Pavilion to help.
This delay came to the end of July, the weather was too hot, and Emperor Jianzhao felt more and more in good spirits, so he called Qin Heze and several other ministers to discuss, and approved Yang Haojian's first request.
Gao Qi thus fell into the hands of Yang Haojian, but the battle situation did not change much, although the imperial army blocked Wang Guangji on the river, it was still far from catching him to completely quell the rebellion.
The autumn test in August came as scheduled, and the results of individual battles and team battles were similar to those of the spring test.
At the beginning of September, when the East China Sea, which had been quiet for more than a year, suddenly made waves, first the Baizhou soldiers and horses and the local officials jointly signed a letter, saying that pirates had been found in several coastal counties, and it was suspected that they were exploring the way for the Dongyi people to attract troops to attack again.
After this piece was sent, neither Emperor Jianzhao, nor Fu Liangji and others took it seriously.
In recent years, the coastal prefectures and counties have been alarmist from time to time in order to ask the imperial court for money and people.
But the officials who wrote this chapter don't want to think about it, the Hutoutan Victory Imperial Court annihilated 100,000 people and horses in Dongyi in one fell swoop, how many people are there in the small country of Dongyi? It's only been a short year, how can it be possible to recover the vitality and fight the big beam again?
But only half a month later, the Zhangbai Prefectures' plea for help entered Beijing like snowflakes with the fast horse.
A large number of enemies suddenly appeared in the East China Sea, stopped their ships in many places, and forcibly landed on the shore.
The situation in Baizhou was the most severe, and several counties had already been lost in one day, and the county town captured by the enemy was like a hell on earth.
Immediately afterwards, there was an impeachment of Ji Nantang on the desk of Emperor Jianzhao, and Zhang Cheng, the servant of the imperial history, said in the recital that Ji Nantang exaggerated the number of people who exterminated the enemy army in the Battle of Hutoutan, risked the merits of the army, and committed the great crime of bullying the king, which made the court misjudge the shape of the situation, which was the culprit of the current situation and should be dealt with strictly.
Emperor Jianzhao issued an order and ordered Ji Nantang to immediately hand over the military power and return to Beijing for an explanation and defense.
Yang Haojian took the opportunity to bring up the old matter again, the last time he hinted, this time bluntly said that the fourth princess had a good impression of General Ji, and said that he could come forward to help in this matter now to ensure that Ji Nantang was safe and sound. R1152