The thief monk Xu Hai wreaked havoc in Jiaxing Mansion in the northeast of Hangzhou Prefecture, successively captured Pinghu and Haiyan counties, and then stormed Chongde County, and said that he would come to Hangzhou City, and cut off the head of Xu Jin, the governor of Zhejiang, to make a night pot for his uncle, "Shark King" Xu Wei.

Xu Jin scoffed at this, and sent three guards to guard Chongde County, namely Hangzhou Youwei, Haining Wei, Linshanwei, and Weipu Qianhu, if you add the local officials and Minzhuang in Chongde County, the total strength is close to 20,000 people.

Although the combat strength of these coastal guard troops is worrying, but the victory lies in the large number of people, plus behind Chongde County is Hangzhou City, and the governor of Zhizhejiang Xu Chop is staring at it closely, so from high-level officers to ordinary soldiers, they dare not slack off, but they guard Chongde County steadily, firmly blocking Xu Hai's soldiers.

However, it is humiliating enough that the regular army of the three guards was forced to retreat in the city by a rabble. Although Xu Jin was very annoyed by this, he was helpless, in the current situation, it would be good to rely on this group of Adou soldiers who had lost their courage to hold their positions, and it was impossible to expect them to win the battle.

Xu Hai's offensive pace was temporarily blocked in Chongde County, and then looked at the two groups of Japanese robbers, Orinobu Miko and Hosokawa Takeshu, although they were haunted in the area of Songjiang Prefecture and Kunshan, Jiangsu, and made the local officers and soldiers exhausted, but what they wanted was just money, and they were not like Xu Hai and Wang Zhi who attacked the city and plundered the land, but they could postpone the dealing.

Therefore, after the arrival of the three troops led by the old Jiangxi troops, Xu Jin immediately prepared to personally wave his army to clean up Wang Zhi.

Compared with Xu Hai in Chongde County, Wang Zhi's danger is obviously greater, recently this guy has made a lot of trouble in the area of Ningbo Mansion, due to the negative response of the local gentry and officers and soldiers, and even fornication with thieves, so that Wang Zhi is like a bamboo in the area of Ningbo Mansion, and has successively captured several counties, and his power has swelled sharply, and now he is even more in the city of Ningbo Mansion.

In addition, Wang Zhi was so arrogant that he established himself as the king of Hui, which was absolutely intolerable to the imperial court, and for this alone, Xu Jin had to cut him first and pull him out with lightning speed.

On July 28, the second year of Jiajing, after Xu Jin met with Yu Linsheng and three other former Jiangxi ministers, he immediately convened a military meeting and made a series of military arrangements.

First of all, Xu Jin ordered Xi Shu, the governor of Zhejiang, to lead the Hangzhou guards to sit in Hangzhou City. Secondly, Xu Jin issued three orders in a row, ordering Shaoxingwei, Guanhaiwei, and Changguowei to send troops to support Ningbo Fucheng on three sides. Third, the reward for killing a thief is raised, and the reward for killing a pirate is increased from five taels to ten taels, and the reward for killing a pirate is increased from two taels to five taels.

Although Xu Jin didn't say anything, as long as he had a little brain, he could guess that the governor was preparing to personally wave his army south to Ningbo, so not long after Xu Jin finished the military meeting, more than a dozen fast horses quietly left from the four cities of Hangzhou, and their whereabouts were unknown.

Between summer and autumn, it is the season when typhoons are frequent in coastal areas, the sky is still clear in the morning, close to noon, but suddenly the wind is howling, rolling dark clouds cover the sky and the sun is closed, and the torrential rain is like ten thousand arrows falling together, and cattle and horses cannot be distinguished from 100 meters away.

To go from Hangzhou City to Ningbo Mansion, the nearest road is naturally to take the official road, through Shaoxing Mansion all the way to the south, about 300 miles is Ningbo Mansion.

At this moment, near the official road about 30 miles south of Hangzhou, a small group of officers and soldiers was lurking in the dense grass beside the road, and was drenched in soup by the sudden storm, and the rain was dripping down the edge of the hat.

Despite this, the officers and men did not look for a place to take shelter from the rain, but crouched quietly in the grass, like a stump, allowing the muddy stagnant water to flow under their knees. The young officer at the head was lying directly on his side in the muddy water, with one hand supporting his head, and a grass root lazily in his mouth, which was the second brother-in-law Xie Erjian.

It turned out that just before Xu Jin held a military meeting, Xie Erjian secretly left Hangzhou City with fifty soldiers, rode south, and ambushed on both sides of the official road in two, one of which was ambushed at fifteen miles, while Xie Erjian personally led the other group to ambush at thirty miles, just waiting for those guys who ate inside and outside to flee and report the news.

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At this time, a fast horse appeared on the official road in the midst of a violent storm, and the four hooves were splashed with mud and water, and the sound of hooves through the noisy wind and rain faintly came into my ears. Finally, business came to the door, and Xie Erjian, who was originally lazy, jumped up with a carp.

Immediately, the knight probably deliberately made a long detour, and did not encounter the group of five hundred battalion soldiers who were lying in ambush fifteen miles away, but his good luck ended here, because he was hitting the muzzle of Xie Erjian's gun.

With a loud bang, the horse's hooves tripped over the tripping rope set in advance, and even the man flew out with the horse on the spot, and fell heavily to the ground.

The ten thugs immediately rushed out with their knives, tied up the knight who had fallen to a great pulp, and threw it back at Xie Erjian's feet, as for the horse, it had broken its neck and was helpless, so it could only be dragged to the grass to cover up.

Just like fishing near the river, sometimes there are no fish to bite and fish for a few hours, once there are fish to bite and fish, it is one after another.

Soon, another rider appeared on the official road in the wind and rain, but the knight on the horse was very vigilant, the horse was not fast, and from time to time he looked to both sides of the road.

As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope. The knight was so cautious that it was very likely that he had been ambushed fifteen miles away, but this guy had narrowly escaped.

Xie Erjian couldn't help frowning, although he always looked lazy, in fact, his requirements for his subordinates were very strict, and now that he had escaped a messenger, he was naturally unhappy in his heart.

At this time, the knight had already come to the ambush position of Xie Erjian and the others, and suddenly whipped the horse's buttocks, and the originally unhappy horse immediately raised its hooves and galloped, jumping off the tripping rope.

What a cunning guy, the dare has already discovered the ambush!

Seeing that the knight was about to escape, he heard a loud sound, and the bowstring exploded into a large mist, and a sharp arrow shot like a meteor catching the moon, and instantly sank into the horse's belly, and the blood immediately stained red and poured rain.

The horse roared and fell to the ground at high speed, sliding more than ten meters on the muddy official road before stopping, but immediately the knight fell to the ground, curled up in a ball, like a leather ball, rolled round on the ground for several meters, and then jumped up, and escaped from the grass beside the road.

Xie Erjian couldn't help but sigh lightly, this guy has some ability, no wonder he was able to escape under the hands of the first group of thugs.

Xie Erjian stopped his subordinates who wanted to shoot, and an arrow galloped out, as fast as a cheetah, and threw himself into the grass, and after a while, he came back with a person, poked it under his ribs casually, and then threw it on the ground and said coldly: "Tie it up!" ”

The two thugs smirked and took out the rope, tied the cunning fellow strongly, and broke one of his legs.

The heavy rain raged for more than an hour before it weakened and turned into intermittent showers, and at this time, Xie Erjian had five spies tied under his feet. After interrogation, most of these guys came from a long detour, and Xie Erjian suddenly felt that he should ambush another person fifty miles away, but it was too late now, and it was estimated that some spies had already gone south through the detour.

However, it doesn't have much to do with it, Xu Jin personally led his troops south to Ningbo this time, and he didn't intend to keep it secret, the reason why he sent someone to intercept the spies who reported the news halfway was just to take the opportunity to eliminate the black sheep in Hangzhou.

As the saying goes, if you don't get rid of the spies in your own team, Xu Jinna dares to leave Hangzhou and go south with peace of mind.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the rain stopped completely, Xie Erjian ordered the team to be closed, and escorted twelve spies back to Hangzhou City, and Xu Jin immediately closed the four cities.

The next thing is simple, Jinyi Wei Shun Teng touched the melon and arrested a group of official gentry behind the spies, one of whom was actually Zhou Shichang, the criminal envoy of Zhejiang.

Xu Jin couldn't help but sweat, and then became furious, and immediately tried the case in person, and then arrested more than 100 people from the Zhou family, and the whole city of Hangzhou was shaken.