Song Gao led an army of 12,000 people, and Jiang Chao led his headquarters as the vanguard. Originally, when Kuidong and Zhu Dashan joined forces, they had asked Kuidong to attack the five cities of Kuixi, but due to the disunity of each family, although a large army was sent to attack the city, it was not defeated. However, Li Guoying couldn't take care of Kui Dong's side for a while, and the two sides had a lively table tennis game, but it had no substantive effect. The Qing court was not at peace in the five cities of Kuixi, and Kuidong could not take the city.

Song Gaoju took Wanxian in one fell swoop, and it was indeed like a big earthquake in Kuixi, and they were all very amazed at when Kuidong had such a powerful combat power. Wanxian County does not have a county order, and it is managed by the Tan family itself, but Liangshan County has a county order appointed by the imperial court. The county commander Fan Xun is still very proud, only his own Liangshan County in the entire Kuizhou has not rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and he must be an excellent grade in this year's official evaluation. Maybe I'll be able to rise next year. Now I heard that Wanxian was defeated by the anti-Ming army, but Wanxian was the army of the 6,000 Tan family stationed in it, how could it be broken by the anti-Ming army without warning.

Fan Xun walked back and forth in the county government uneasily, and Jiang Chongyang, the warden on the side, said: "County Zun, let's quickly submit a note to the governor's yamen, and let the governor send troops to defend the city." Fan Xun said: "I have already submitted the paper, and I sent it to the governor's yamen last night, but I'm afraid it's too late." Besides, now that the Governor has gathered his forces to attack Boryeong, Liangshan is afraid that the Governor will not send troops over. Jiang Chongyang was also worried: "How is this good, this time the Kuidong army can capture Wanxian in such a short time, I'm afraid that the small county town of Liangshan will not be able to hold it." ”

Fan Xun thought for a while and said: "Regardless of whether you live or not, you and I have the responsibility of defending the land, and we must also defend the city with all our might, you go and arrange to defend the city first, and I will ask the big families in the city to raise some grain and grass." When Jiang Chongyang heard this, he had to go to defend the city first, there was no garrison in Liangshan County, only more than 100 people from the government and the catcher, and Jiang Chongyang mobilized 200 people, a total of more than 300 people. In order to arrange to defend the city, Jiang Chongyang didn't have time to go home for lunch, and stayed in the city until the afternoon.

Jiang Chongyang was patrolling the city wall of the east gate, and suddenly Pan Qiba, who was guarding the west gate, ran over and said, "Brother Jiang, the county order of the dog day has run away." Jiang Chongyang was shocked: "What? "This Pan Queba is what everyone calls him, when he is young, his family is poor, and Pan Queba goes to steal the fruits of other people's homes to eat. As a result, he was discovered, fell from a tree and knocked his teeth, rolled on the ground in pain, and was beaten by the outsiders who rushed to him. The tooth fell out on the spot. Since then, the two front teeth in this mouth have never erupted, and they have been nicknamed Lack. Later, the Qing soldiers killed the foreigners, and Pan Queba also found an errand in the county office, and now Jiang Chongyang asked him to take people to guard the west gate.

Pan Queba's speech was a little leaky, Jiang Chongyang didn't hear it clearly for a while, Pan Queba approached and said again: "The county order of Dog Day, Fan Xun ran away." Jiang Chongyang said: "It's impossible, he is still collecting grain and grass from the big families in the city in the morning." Pan Queba said: "That's right, it's him, I can see clearly, several of his servants are also carrying several bags of luggage." Only then did Jiang Chongyang believe that Fan Xun really ran away: "The one who was killed by a thousand people, he ran away with the money from the curtain." Pan Queba also said anxiously when he heard this: "Brother Jiang, what should we do?" How can this city be defended? ”

Jiang Chongyang walked back and forth twice and said, "What should I do, cucumber with red oil - cold salad." Now that the county orders have run away, we are still guarding a fart. Pan Qiba said: "If you don't keep it, will we run too?" Jiang Chongyang thought for a while and said: "No, he Fan Xun can run, we can't run, we are holding the hen and incubating the eggs - we can't leave the nest." Can we run, can a family run? Pan Qiba didn't know what to say for a while, Jiang Chongyang suddenly said: "Since the official is coming, and we can't run, I think we just surrender, we won't fight." ”

Pan Qiba asked: "If we don't fight, as soon as the Ming army retreats, the Qing soldiers will come again, what do we say?" Jiang Chongyang said: "I can't care so much now, let's keep it now." Pan Queba said: "That's okay, it's the only way to do it." ”

Just when Jiang Chongyang and Pan Queba were talking, seeing that it was getting dark, the two discussed that they would send someone to find the Ming army to surrender tomorrow. Since there was no longer any need to defend the city, Jiang Chongyang called all the people guarding the city down and told them to go home. Jiang Chongyang and Pan Queba walked down the city wall, and suddenly found that there were people who turned their heads to look at the city wall, pointing to the city wall with a frightened face. The two of them hurriedly turned their heads to look at the city wall, and found that there were suddenly a lot of trees on the city wall, and they were still moving and running into the city. Some people shouted: "Monster, run." Others shouted, "The monster has entered the city, run." ”

To say that Liangshan is very close to the ghost city of Feng, there has always been a legend of this ghost, and now when the sky is already dark, a piece of trees will suddenly appear on the city wall, how can it not be thought of as a monster. Pan Qiba also shouted: "My God, this is the old lady who went out and met his ancestors - bumping into ghosts." Then he turned and ran.

Jiang Chao rushed to Liangshan with the vanguard army, and before he had time to deploy the siege, he found that the defenders of the city had withdrawn the city wall one after another. Jiang Chao didn't dare to be careless when he saw this, and sent a general banner under his command to climb the wall with people to take a look, and this team of Restoration Army did not take off their disguise, and climbed to the city wall with branches and grass rings. As a result, the people in the city were strong and fast, because the sky gradually darkened, and they did not see the Fuming army approaching under the city. The Restoration Army took advantage of the cover of night to climb the city wall smoothly, and looked at the defenders in the city who had begun to disperse one after another, and the general banner felt that this was a good opportunity to seize the city. Immediately, he led his subordinates to run down the city and approached the city gate.

At this time, the evacuated Minzhuang saw the soldiers of the Restoration Army, and from a distance, it looked like a forest running up the city wall, and they were still moving towards the city. The soldiers of the Restoration Army didn't care about this, they just went to open the city gate, and Jiang Chao outside the city saw that his subordinates opened the city gate so easily. There was no movement of the battle at all, and there were some doubts at first, but seeing the people who kept fleeing in the city gate, they immediately entered the city with a large army.

Seeing a large number of trees entering the city, Jiang Chongyang was so frightened that he didn't dare to run, what Jiang Chongyang thought in his mind was: "This monster has run into the city, can you run on your own two legs?" Youkai can fly. God, what kind of world is this? This world is fighting, fighting monsters are coming, is this the life of a human being? Pan Qiba didn't pull Jiang Chongyang when he ran before, but now seeing that there are still a large number of trees rushing into the city, Jiang Chongyang, who was frightened, couldn't stand anymore, and knelt on the ground with a "plop", and couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth wide.

Jiang Chao led the army into the city, and looked at the people who kept fleeing, and he didn't know when the Fuming Army would have such great military might that the enemy could flee. After Jiang Chao entered the city, he saw a man standing there staring blankly at the Restoration Army, neither running nor speaking. Jiang Chao thought to himself: "There is one who doesn't run, I must ask what the reason is." Jiang Chao found the man, and before he could speak, he saw the man kneeling directly on the ground. It seemed that he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word. This person is Jiang Chongyang.

Jiang Chao bent down and said to Jiang Chongyang, "What do you want to say?" Don't be afraid, say no. And what are you guys running? Jiang Chongyang reacted after listening to Jiang Chao's words, and immediately kept kowtowing: "Monster King, please don't eat me, I'm a man, it's not delicious." Jiang Chao looked back, and then said to Jiang Chongyang: "Monsters, there are monsters there, get up and talk back." Jiang Chongyang didn't dare to disobey, stood up and said, "Thank you, King, you are not a monster." ”

When Jiang Chao heard this, he immediately cried and laughed: "Okay, open your eyes and see, we are not monsters, we are the Ming Restoration Army." What about your guards and prefectural orders? Jiang Chongyang looked at Jiang Chao carefully and said, "You are really not a monster?" Jiang Chao said: "Where did the monsters come from, we are the army of the Ming Dynasty." Jiang Chongyang pulled the branch on Jiang Chao's body and said, "Then why do you have branches on your body." Seeing this, Jiang Chao laughed and said, "This is not on the body, this is on the body." As he spoke, he untied the branches on his body, and Jiang Chongyang saw that Jiang Chao had taken down the branches on his body, and said, "You are really the army of the Ming Dynasty, you scared me to death just now." ”

Jiang Chao suddenly woke up after listening to Jiang Chongyang's words, and said to the soldiers of the Restoration Army: "Everyone take off all the disguises on your bodies, don't frighten the people in the city." Jiang Chongyang said: "There are no garrisons stationed in our Liangshan County, only us servants and fast catchers." The county magistrate cheated the big families in the city out of money today, and he ran away at noon. ”

Seeing this, Jiang Chao said: "Then you go and appease the people, let those catchers and servants surrender, as long as they surrender in peace, they can live." Then he said to the people of the Restoration Army: "You organize people to go to the city to maintain order, don't disturb the people in the city, we will spend the night here tonight, and we will hurry tomorrow." Under Jiang Chao's arrangement, Liangshan City quickly settled down.

Jiang Chao later learned that the disguise of the Restoration Army actually frightened the defenders in the city and did not dare to fight back, that is to say, the Restoration Army captured Liangshan County without spending a single soldier. Then when Song Gaoju and others came in the evening, they were also surprised when they heard about it.

Three days later, after Song Gaoju took the Zhenyu guards to capture Dazhu, he disappeared from the sight of the Qing army.

Li Guoying gathered 30,000 troops and stationed them in Dingyuan for three days, and there were reports that Kui Dongming's army set off in large numbers to rush to Chongqing. Then a day later, it was reported that Wanxian County was lost, Li Guoying looked at the map and said: "This Kuidong played the trick of encircling Wei to save Zhao, last year in order to save Yongli, sent troops to attack Chongqing, and now in order to save Baoning, he sent troops to attack Chongqing." They really thought they could take Chongqing. Deng Ximing, the former governor of Shunqing Mansion on the side, said: "Kui Dong is not self-sufficient, how do you know that the adults left 10,000 troops in Chongqing, and let Liang Jiaqi general, Liang Yixun and others defend Chongqing." They thought that Chongqing was an empty city, and the governor had already arranged a place for them to be buried. Cheng Tingjun also said: "As long as we capture Baoning, Kui Dong is just a clown who jumps off the beam, and he will be destroyed when the time comes." ”

Li Guoying said: "Okay, in two days, Hui Yingzhao and others will be able to arrive." At that time, we took Boryeong in one go. Everyone was about to agree, when a messenger suddenly came in from outside the tent and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, Liangshan County ordered Fan Xun to come to the camp, saying that there is an important military situation to report to the Governor." Li Guoying frowned and said: "He is the order of Liangshan County, and yesterday he gave a note saying that Wanxian County was broken, and the Restoration Army wanted to attack Daliangshan, so I asked me to send troops to help." How could this Ming army attack Liangshan, and what is he doing here now? Let him in. ”

I saw Fan Xunfeng enter the big tent in the dust, and said with tears in his eyes: "Lord Governor, Liangshan County has been lost, the Ming army of 50,000 troops is attacking the city, Liangshan has no garrison, and it was broken by the Ming army in just one hour." Li Guoying looked at Fan Xun, who was in tatters, and found that he was tired, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Liangshan is lost?" Fan Xun said: "Such a big matter, the lower officials are so good at talking nonsense." Of course, the clothes on Fan Xun's body were torn by himself, the tiredness on his face is real, he ran all the way out of Liangshan County, can he not be tired?

Li Guoying didn't care about Fan Xun's bitter plan, and immediately looked at Yutu after listening to Fan Xun's words. Said: "This time, the people of Kuidong have become smarter, they are going to rush to Nanchong in Shunqing Mansion in advance to block our army's attack on Baoning." Deng Ximing said: "I think we need to prepare in advance. Li Guoying said: "Don't be afraid, Zhao Sancai, Huo Guangxian, you two quickly take the people of the headquarters and go to Yuechi and Guang'an Prefecture to garrison, and you must block the Ming army coming from Kuidong." As long as I can block it, I will credit you two for a great achievement. "Zhao Sancai and Huo Guangxian are overjoyed, it's better to defend the city than to fight the Ming army in Baoning here. He immediately replied: "Your Excellency the Governor, rest assured, we will definitely block the Kuidong family in Yuechi (Guang'an Prefecture)." With that, the two of them went out and rushed to Yuechi and Guang'an Prefecture with their headquarters.

Li Guoying said to Fan Xun: "Originally, you abandoned the county seat, which should be punished, but the information you brought is very valuable, so stay in the account and make meritorious contributions." Fan Xun immediately said, "My subordinates, thank you for your forgiveness. "Because after the last war, Zhu Dashan and Li Guoying both deliberately made Shunqing Mansion barren, so now Shunqing Mansion is sparsely populated, and both sides have no way to raise food and grass in Shunqing Mansion. Li Guoying had no choice but to say to Deng Ximing: "You have to step up the collection of grain and grass, our army will enter Shunqing Mansion in the next few days, and there will be no grain and grass at that time." ”

Deng Ximing hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Governor, I will definitely make the army have enough food and grass." ”