The history of Jiangzhou is called Zhao Wencai, the first batch of jinshi after the resumption of the imperial examination, and he can be the main official in Jiangzhou, which must have a deep relationship with the Pei family, and Zhao Wencai is actually a protégé of the Pei family.

These famous families attach great importance to the cultivation of talents, not only to nurture their own children, but also to run schools everywhere, and to select the best talents from them to cultivate.

Zhao Wen is a native of Linfen County, Jinzhou, at the age of ten he was admitted to the Sanjin Academy in Linfen, which is the school that the Pei family spent money on, at the age of sixteen he was selected to Wenxi Pei's family for further study, and at the age of twenty-six he was sponsored by the Pei family to enter Beijing to catch the exam, and in one fell swoop he was admitted to the seventeenth place in the Jinshi department, and was awarded the main book of Hongdong County, and even his wife was the daughter of the Pei family.

With the support of the Pei family, Zhao Wencai was promoted step by step, and three years ago, he was officially appointed as the assassin of Jiangzhou, and Zhao Wencai became an out-and-out Pei faction.

When the Hexi army captured Taiyuan and exterminated the Yuan clan, Zhao Wencai immediately asked the Pei family and got an eight-word reply, 'Remain silent and wait for the changes'.

That is, don't take a stand, wait and see how the situation changes, Zhao Wen understands the caution of the head of the family, the southeast of the river was finally occupied by Zhu Zhu, or was captured by Guo Song, it is still difficult to say, the best way is to wait and see.

Ten days ago, when the Hexi Army annihilated Li Dan's 20,000 troops and broke through the Mouse Bird Valley, Zhao Wen immediately received a letter from the head of the Pei family, asking him to secretly write a letter of allegiance to Guo Song.

The reason why they did not publicly express their allegiance was mainly because Jiangzhou still had Li Huaiguang's 10,000 garrisons, and they had to be cautious.

On the morning of that day, Zhao Wen received a document sent by Li Huaiguang, ordering him to recruit 7,000 militia members within three days and send them to Luzhou for training.

Of course, Zhao Wencai knew that the so-called recruitment of militia soldiers was just an excuse for recruiting troops, and the advantage of this was that there was no need to pay a sum of money and food for settling down first, as in the case of recruiting soldiers, and the militia was generally used to maintain local law and order, and it was of a half-soldier and half-peasant nature, and there was no need to leave the homeland, and the local government was responsible for its formation.

But recruiting the army is different, it is to go to the battlefield, there is no way to force it, they are all voluntary to join the army, the people in Hedong are generally unwilling to join the army, especially in the southeast of Hedong, which is generally rich, and young people are even more reluctant to join the army.

Li Huaiguang also knew that he could not recruit people by recruiting troops directly, so he simply forced the states to form militia groups, and then transformed them into soldiers in the form of centralized training.

This kind of trick is almost the same as deceiving children, who will be fooled by the county commanders of the assassination history.

The key is the last sentence, those who do not carry out the order will be killed, who is this going to kill? It is clear that he wants to kill the state official and county order.

Zhao Wencai pondered for a long time, and asked people to invite his staff Zhuo Yong.

Not long after, the staff Zhuo Yong hurried over, Zhuo Yong was about forty years old, and he was also a talented person trained by the Pei family, but they didn't have the opportunity to come to the forefront, so they acted as a staff member behind the scenes, giving advice, Zhao Wen only joined Guo Song, which was the letter sent by Zhuo Yong to Huoyi County.

Zhao Wencai handed Li Huaiguang's documents to Zhuo Yong, "Zhuo Gong looks at this order, Li Huaiguang is about to jump off the wall in a hurry." ”

Zhuo Yong read the order, and couldn't help but gasp, a total of only 20,000 troops were recruited, and it would cost Jiangzhou nearly forty percent, obviously to take Zhao Wencai.

"It seems that Li Huaiguang's 10,000 troops are going to retreat to our Zhengping County."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's very simple, the envoy will definitely not carry out this order, but Li Huaiguang must let the envoy carry it out, then the only way is to let the army supervise, at least 5,000 troops will be transferred over."

The 10,000 troops that Li Huaiguang used to defend against Zhu Zhu are currently stationed at the junction of Jiangzhou and Puzhou, and Zhuo Yong is right, Li Huaiguang will definitely transfer troops to Zhengping County to supervise his formation of a militia regiment.

"So what should I do?"

Zhuo Yong thought for a while and said: "This matter is more urgent, and it is recommended to immediately ask the Hexi Army to send troops to Jiangzhou, on the other hand, the envoy should also make a false accusation, pretending to form a militia to deal with Li Huaiguang." ”

Zhao Wencai nodded, he immediately sat down and wrote a letter and handed it to Zhuo Yong, "Boxing Zhuo Gong to go to Huoyi County again and give this letter to Guo Yuanjun for me." ”

"The Pei family also has to say hello." Zhuo Yong reminded Zhao Wencai.

"I know, I'll send someone to Wenxi County immediately."

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Guo Song's army of 50,000 has been reorganized, but he is not in a hurry to go south, he is ready to shoot, and he has to wait for Zhu Zhu's movement, Zhu Zhu cannot watch himself swallow the southeast of the river, there will definitely be action.

Instead of being stabbed in the back by Zhu Zhu, it is better to brake with static and wait for Zhu Zhu to play the card first.

At this time, Guo Song got the latest news, Zhu Zhu had sent 3,000 troops to Yuxiang County in the southeast of Puzhou, which is very interesting, Zhu Zhu should have occupied Hedong City, but he bypassed Hedong City and entered the south of Hedong City, which was obviously to avoid the plague in Hedong City.

Guo Song was inspecting the training of the New Army on the school grounds, which was the surrendered Jin Army, and through training they were transformed into qualified Hexi Army, tenacious, obedient, determined, and full of physical strength.

At this time, a personal soldier ran over and said: "Qiqi envoy, that Zhuo Yong from Jiangzhou is here again, saying that there is an urgent matter to find the envoy!" ”

Guo Song nodded, "I know!" ”

These days, he has accepted the surrender of the state officials of Fenzhou, Jinzhou, Xizhou, Cizhou, Yizhou, Jiangzhou, and Qinzhou, and seven of the ten states in southern Jinnan have surrendered to him, leaving only Luzhou and Zezhou still in the hands of Li Huaiguang, and Puzhou in the hands of Zhu Jun.

Among these seven states, Jiangzhou is more critical, with the largest population and concentrated families, and Wenxi Pei is one of the five surnames and seven wangs in the world.

Guo Song paid the most attention to Jiangzhou, and Li Huaiguang was also very sober, and sent 10,000 troops to garrison Jiangzhou, not only to defend Zhu Zhu, but also to monitor Jiangzhou.

Guo Song hurriedly came to the big tent, and his own soldiers brought Zhuo Yong in, Zhuo Yong hurriedly bowed and saluted, "See Guo Yuanjun!" ”

"What's the urgency of Mr. Zhuo?"

Zhuo Yong took out a letter and presented it to Guo Song, "This is an urgent letter from Zhao Tingshi, Li Huaiguang began to recruit troops in various states by forming a militia group, and Jiangzhou was under the greatest pressure to form a 7,000 people's regiment at a time. ”

Guo Song took the letter and read it, and said with a slight smile: "It's actually a militia group, Li Huaiguang can't get money and food?" ”

"No, no one wants to join the army in the key recruitment of soldiers, so they simply use deception to let the states form a militia group, and then take the militia to Luzhou for training, and then they will be forcibly organized into soldiers."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and asked, "The letter said that there will be Li Huaiguang's army to monitor the formation of a militia group, is this possible?" ”

"Back to the envoy, when the villain set off, he got the news that the five thousand troops were on their way from Wanquan County to Zhengping County, and if Zhao Tingshi did not obey his orders, he would be killed by them."

Guo Song took a few steps and said to Zhuo Yong: "I will immediately send troops to Zhengping, and I ask Guo Tingshi to cooperate with me to completely annihilate the 5,000 enemy troops in Zhengping County." ”

Zhuo Yong took Guo Song's letter and hurried back to Jiangzhou, and Guo Song immediately issued two orders, ordering Ma Weijiang to lead 5,000 troops to occupy Linfen County in the south of Jinzhou and cut off the official road between Luzhou and Jiangzhou.

He personally led 30,000 cavalry south to Jiangzhou, and since Li Huaiguang was stationed in the army, he concentrated his forces to break them down.

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Zhengping County is a large county, with a population of nearly 200,000, there is only one medium-sized military camp in the city, there is no martial arts field, but 10,000 troops can be garrisoned, and 5,000 troops from the south are stationed in the barracks.

In the past two days, Zhao Wencai was particularly busy, he led the officials to the counties to issue tasks, the formation of militia soldiers, Jiangzhou has a population of more than 500,000, it is not difficult to form a militia of 7,000 people, in fact, Jiangzhou originally had a militia of tens of thousands of people, after the Jingyuan mutiny, it was gradually withdrawn, and now it is not difficult to reorganize, in just three days, the militia of 7,000 people was formed.

Zhao Wencai set up a camp outside the city, waiting for the militia groups from various counties to come and gather, but he was uneasy in his heart, on the one hand, Li Huaiguang gave him a very short time, only five days, he did not dare to delay, on the other hand, he was worried that the formation would be too fast, Guo Song's army had not yet arrived, the militia was taken to Luzhou for training, and he became a sinner in Jiangzhou.

At noon that day, Zhao Wencai was reviewing the documents in the official room, and someone outside said: "Mr. Zhuo is back!" ”

Zhao Wen stood up suddenly, surprised and delighted, and hurriedly greeted the door, Zhuo Yong walked in quickly, he gave Zhao Wencai a look, and said with a smile: "I have only been going to Wenxi for a few days, and the changes in Zhengping County are quite big!" ”

Zhao Wen glanced at the work outside, and said, "What does the head of the family say, let's go inside and talk!" ”

The two walked into the back room, Zhuo Yong took out Guo Song's letter, handed it to Zhao Wencai, and said in a low voice: "Guo Yuanjun's army will be killed tonight, and we want to cooperate." ”

Zhao Wen read the letter and nodded, "I know what to do!" ”

At this time, a fierce voice outside asked, "Are you assassins here?" ”