Outside the window, the snowflakes are falling in the night, and the doors of all the rooms (offices) in the front yard of the Yashan County have been locked, and only the ceremonial room is still lit.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in his mid-thirties was seriously processing official documents under an oil lamp. This person was wearing a green eight-grade official robe, and it was Meng Xuan, the new county magistrate of Leadshan County, who was Tingfang.

Meng Xuan is a native of Yushan County, born in a person, originally taught in Goose Lake Academy, with integrity and ability, and was quite appreciated by the mountain chief of Goose Lake Academy.

Last year, Sun Sui suppressed bandits in Leadshan County, dismissed the former magistrate for dereliction of duty, and promoted Wu Linguang, the county magistrate, to act as the magistrate, so the position of the county magistrate was vacant, and the head of the Goose Lake Academy recommended Meng Xuan to Sun Sui.

The county Cheng (Zheng Bapin) is the deputy of the county order, mainly responsible for clerical and warehouse management, etc., and the actual power is not large, and it belongs to the role of sitting on the cold bench. Despite this, Meng Xuan has been conscientious and conscientious since he took office, and has handled the work of his subordinates in an orderly manner, and he is indeed a capable official.

However, the more capable the subordinates, the more they will be appreciated by their direct superiors, and they will even be jealous because they threaten the position of their superiors!

Wu Linguang, the county magistrate, is also from a human background, but he only took the position of the magistrate by taking the shit luck, and now Meng Xuan is also from a human background, and he is capable, Wu Zhixian naturally feels that his status is in danger of being threatened, so he has been squeezing out Meng Xuan, and he will not discuss big and small matters, but will reuse the main Bo Fang Tianlu (tea merchant Fang's family) more seriously.

Meng Xuan is an upright person, and he has a bit of a scholarly spirit, and he has some disdain for a sophisticated and sleek old official like Wu Linguang, so although he was excluded, he never took the initiative to flatter Wu Linguang, but just did his duty professionally.

Meng Xuan is only thirty-two years old this year, and a person at this age is actually not too old, and he can fight for the fame of Jinshi again, but Meng Xuan chose to teach in the academy, which shows that he is not enthusiastic about the scholarly career. is the so-called desireless is rigid, so Meng Xuan was too lazy to curry favor with and flatter Wu Linguang, and it was a big deal to go back to the academy as a teacher.

At this time, Meng Xuan finished processing the last paperwork and was about to pack up and go home from work, when the door was suddenly pushed open, and Li Ming, the head catcher, flashed in with a gust of cold wind, and said urgently with a panicked expression: "Lord County, the big thing is not good, the army under King Ning has already come to the city, and asks us to open the city and surrender!" ”

Meng Xuan's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "How many thieves are there?" ”

The word "thief soldier" is enough to see Meng Xuan's clear attitude towards King Ning's rebellion. Meng Xuan is an upright person, not like Wu Linguang, a sleek and sophisticated wall-riding faction, and the rebellious King Ning is an out-and-out chaotic minister and thief in his eyes, and everyone will be punished.

Li Ming's eyes flashed, and he replied: "I can't see clearly when it's dark, at least there are more than a thousand, maybe thousands!" ”

Meng Xuan frowned and said, "Let's go, go to the city and have a look...... By the way, have you notified? ”

"It's been notified, but the weather has changed, and the old problem of the county lord has been committed again, and the back pain is so bad that he can't get out of bed, so let the county lord be fully responsible for guarding the city." Li Ming's eyes were obviously a little empty when he spoke.

Meng Xuan's face suddenly sank slightly, he is not an idiot, Wu Linguang does not get sick in the morning and does not get sick in the evening, but he is sick at this time, nine times out of ten he is pretending, he just wants to shirk his responsibility, on the one hand, he doesn't want to offend the rebels, and on the other hand, he doesn't want to bear the charge of surrendering the city, this cunning old oilman really read the book of sages in vain, bah, ashamed to be in the company of such people!

Meng Xuan flicked his sleeves and strode out of the official office, a trace of guilt flashed in Li Ming's eyes, and he hurriedly chased out.

It is said that Li Ming went to ask Wu Linguang before looking for Meng Xuan, Wu Zhixian was eating chicken stewed mushrooms with his concubine, and he heard that King Ning's army had already marched under the city, and he was scared of the six gods on the spot, or the concubine gave him a bad idea and threw the pot to the county Cheng Meng Xuan.

Meng Xuan braved the wind and snow to rush to the north city gate, at this time, hundreds of officials and people had gathered at the head of the city, and when they saw Meng Xuan, they saluted one after another: "Lord County!" ”

Meng Xuan nodded with a cold face, and looked down from the battlement of the city wall, and suddenly felt a big settler. The thieves under the city are estimated to be about a thousand, and it seems that they do not carry siege equipment, not to mention that it is snowing now, just because those people want to break through the city gate, dream, hundreds of soldiers and people on the head of the city are enough to defend the city.

At this time, Yang Qing and Wang Ru, who were waiting under the city, were already impatient, and saw that someone was looking at the city, and it was obvious that he was wearing a costume, so he shouted: "Is the city head of the lead county commander Wu Linguang?" ”

"This official is Cheng Mengxuan of Leadshan County, and you and other thieves dare to show off their might outside the city, and quickly drop their weapons and bind themselves." Meng Xuan said coldly.

Yang Qing and Wang Ru glanced at each other unexpectedly, the first leader did not appear, but a second in command came, and it seemed that his attitude was quite tough.

Yang Qing threatened sharply: "Dog officials who don't know whether they are alive or dead, you are limited to open the city and surrender within a cup of tea, otherwise this thousand households will order to attack the city and kill your whole family at that time!" ”

Meng Xuan sneered disdainfully: "Wishful thinking, this official is a dignified court official, how can he surrender to the rebellious ministers and thieves to sacrifice the city, don't talk nonsense, if you have the ability, you will come to attack the city." ”

Yang Qing was furious, and the longbow in his hand collapsed, but when he saw that the arrow was like a meteor, he went straight to Meng Xiancheng on the head of the city.

"Lord Xiancheng be careful!" Li Ming, the head catcher next to him, quickly pulled Meng Xuan back.

The powerful arrow swept across Meng Xuan's forehead, swept away the black gauze hat, and thrust it into a crossbar in the gatehouse.

Meng Xuan broke out in a cold sweat, and picked up the black gauze hat and put it on in embarrassment.

"Ma, count your dog official fate!" Yang Qing under the city scolded angrily and shouted: "Siege!" ”

The thieves immediately shouted and rushed to the city gate, slashing and kicking them in an attempt to break the city gate.

It is said that Yang Qing led a guard of men and horses who came to chase and kill Sun Sui, lightly armed, and did not carry siege equipment, coupled with the cold wind and snowflakes flying at the moment, it is impossible to climb the city wall, and can only attack the city gate.

At the head of the city, Meng Xuan settled down, and immediately ordered all the officials and people to throw stones and woods down, and the thieves below who tried to break the door were suddenly smashed to the head and bleeding, screaming again and again, and more than a dozen people were killed and injured in an instant.

Yang Qingzheng wanted to order the archers to suppress the defenders on the city, but Wang Ru said loudly: "Big brother, it's not cost-effective to attack the city like this, even if the city is broken in the end, I'm afraid it will cost the lives of hundreds of brothers." ”

Yang Qing is on fire at the moment, just chase and kill Sun Sui and almost wipe out the whole army, now even the siege is not smooth, but Wu Sanba has been like a bamboo, his grandmother's, why is he so unlucky!

"Third child, what do you say?" Yang Qing said in a deep voice.

Wang Ru said: "It's snowing right now, the ground is wet and the walls are slippery, and we don't have the tools to attack the city, so we can only lose our lives by breaking through the city gate, why don't we go to clean up the Fei family first?" Wait for the snow to stop at dawn and then attack the county seat of Leadshan! ”

Yang Qing pondered it and made sense, the Fei family manor has no city walls, it should be very easy to take, and the brothers also happen to have a place to settle down to avoid the wind and snow, the most important thing is to catch the Fei family is a great achievement, so he nodded and said: "Okay, go over there to attack the Fei family first, mother's, go back and attack the lead mountain county, and see if Lao Tzu doesn't slaughter the whole family of the dog county." ”

Yang Qing scolded indignantly, and ordered to go around the city and rush to the Fei family in Chaijiabu in the south of the city.

Those thieves and soldiers couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard that they didn't need to attack the city, this cold and sleet weather, and the county town with thick walls and high cities was simply sent to death, or it was better to attack the Fei family, I heard that the Fei family is a big family, the family must have a lot of money and food, and there are groups of maids and servants, cool!

The officials and people at the head of the city could not help cheering in unison when they saw that the thieves had repelled so easily.

Meng Xuan didn't dare to be careless, worried that the thieves would attack the other city gates, so he led the officials to keep an eye on the thieves along the city, and finally watched the thieves go around to the south of the city and stay away, so he was relieved.

Looking at the direction in which the thieves left, Meng Xuan vaguely guessed that the other party's target might be Fei Ge Lao, but it would be good to be able to hold the county seat, and the other Meng Xuan couldn't help, so he just sent a horse out of the city to report to Qianhu in the west of the city, as for whether Xiong Qianhu would lead his troops to rescue the Fei family, Meng Xuan was not sure.

At this time, the Fei family's manor was brightly lit, and more than a dozen carriages were ready to leave in the open space in front of the mansion, and there were more than a dozen carts of luggage. The family members carried the burden like servants, and everyone looked panicked......