As soon as the Qingming Festival passed, the weather finally warmed up, and the ice on the Fen River melted a lot, and there were no longer people standing on it.

The water flow in the Dongnian River and the Xinian River on the east and west sides of Jingle County is getting bigger and bigger, and even the Futou River and Wanhui River, which have long dried up, have gurgling water.

This means that the snow and ice are beginning to melt.

On the second day of the first month of March, Jingle County Ya Study.

Early in the morning, He Changbao was pacing back and forth in the study, his brows furrowed and irritable.

Chen Congzhi stood aside and said anxiously: "My lord, let's go immediately, we won't be able to leave in a few days." ”

He Changbao walked to the side of the coffee table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then frowned and asked, "Master, does that surnamed Qin really dare to fight the county seat?" ”

"Hey, my lord, the surname Qin even dares to kill the third-grade master, what else in this world does he dare not do? Now that the imperial army has gathered in Shuozhou, it is impossible for the person surnamed Qin not to know that the imperial court is going to encircle and suppress him. ”

"As the saying goes, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit will bite when it is in a hurry, once the surname Qin is in a hurry, he will inevitably attack the county seat, so as to block the route of the imperial army to the south, and when the time comes, we will not be able to go."

"My lord, think about it, what did the surnamed Qin do to the Meng family and the Du family, when the time comes, it will be a trivial matter if the money and black yarn hat are not guaranteed, and losing your life is a big deal."

He Changbao's face changed, but he quickly frowned and said: "This official has ordered the third class of officials and white servants to strengthen their defenses, patrol day and night, close the city gate and not allow anyone to enter or leave, and there are three hundred villagers trained by the Wu family and several families to help defend the city, and now there are more than 500 soldiers in the city, not to mention that the city wall of Jingle City is as high as three zhang, and the surname Qin is only more than 1,000 troops, how can it be attacked?" ”

"The artesian Kou entered Shanxi, and there are countless magistrates and governors who have been beheaded for their crimes, if the official abandons the city and flees, not to mention this black gauze hat, I am afraid that he will not even be able to keep his head."

"If the official holds it for a few days, when the imperial army arrives, the official will not only be innocent, but will also be able to defend the land."

"Your Excellency!"

The more Chen Congzhi spoke, the more anxious he became, pointed to the outside, and said, "Do you think that the person surnamed Qin will not prepare early?" I'm afraid that before the adults sealed the city, he would have sent people to infiltrate the city. ”

"Huh?"

He Changbao was taken aback.

"Quick, quickly send someone to inform the city gates, no one is allowed to approach the door, violators will be killed, and another hundred officials will be transferred back, and the yamen of Zhixian County will be strictly guarded, and not a single fly will be allowed to enter."

"My lord, let's get out of the city quickly." Chen Congzhi was so persuaded that he was about to cry.

He Changbao opened his mouth and was about to speak, when a rush of footsteps suddenly sounded outside.

"Adults are not good, ...... is not good"

A warden ran in in a panic and stammered, "My lord, here, here...... Seongnam is coming......"

He Changbao's face changed greatly: "What's coming?" ”

"The one surnamed Qin is here...... It's coming, it's just outside the south of the city, it's coming......"

He Changbao shook it, and the teacup in his hand "snapped" and fell to the ground.

Chen Congzhi's face also changed greatly, and then as if he was deflated, he hung his head and sighed.

"Quick, go and notify the Wu family, strengthen your precautions, and ...... quickly"

He Changbao didn't care about the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, and ran out all the way.

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Between Jingle County and Jingyou Town, there are three villages, lined up along the Fen River from north to south.

One is Fengrun Village, which is only twenty-five miles away from Jingyou, twenty miles to the north is Zhanggui Village, and ten miles to the north is Shahui Village, which is close to the county seat.

In this era, basically every village has more than one landlord old wealth, these three villages are no exception, there is also a landlord old wealth, and there are a lot of fields, the largest one has more than 4,000 acres of land, the least one has thousands of acres, distributed on both sides of the Fen River.

In the past, Qin Chuan did not commit any offense against these three villages, and led soldiers and horses to pass by many times, and never stepped into the village.

Because these three old fortunes didn't go against themselves, they all obediently shrank in their respective villages before, and they didn't send troops to fight Lou Fu with those big families.

Qin Chuan didn't want to make too much noise all at once, so he let go of the three old fortunes for the time being.

But now, since he has torn his face with Ming Ting, he doesn't have so many worries.

Since Ren Liang and his eight hundred men surrendered, Qin Chuan had another army in his hands.

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Among the 800 people, Qin Chuan laid off 100 people, and after breaking up and inserting, he finally divided 500 people to form a new battalion head, called Longwu Battalion, with Ren Liang as the battalion officer.

Today, Emperor Guan's army has a total of 3,200 troops, Li Dingliang led 700 traps to garrison Ninghua, Jingyou Town was garrisoned by Liu Youzhu with 500 Wudang battalions, and Mengjiazhuang was Luo Ba's 500 square battalions.

Three cliffs and East Huluchuan Dazhai each garrisoned a hundred people, and the mine protection team in the Black Mountain Mine was insufficient, so Qinchuan sent another 100 Guan Emperor troops to garrison there.

The remaining Xiandeng battalion and the newly established Longwu battalion, with a total of 1,200 troops, swept north along the Fen River under the leadership of Qin Chuan.

The landlord of Fengrun Village, Lao Cai, is called Mao Kuian, a very familiar guy, and when he saw that Emperor Guan's army was approaching the city, he obediently sent out 2,000 stone of grain and 1,000 taels of silver, saying that it was a labor army.

Qin Chuan had already inquired about Mao Kuian clearly, and knew that this guy had not done anything unreasonable, he just liked usury and used it to occupy other people's fields.

Therefore, Qin Chuan didn't embarrass him much, only asked for an extra thousand stones of grain, and the title deed of 2,500 acres of cultivated land.

The Mao family's fields totaled more than 3,200 acres, and taking his 2,500 acres would not be considered a total of extermination, as long as his Mao family was obedient in the future, as long as he did not act as a traitor and bully men and women, he could still live in Fengrun Village, and Qin Chuan promised not to kill them.

In the crying of the Mao family, Mao Kuian obediently handed over the title deed and grain.

When it was the turn of Zhanggui Village, the Guan Emperor Army encountered strong resistance, and Zhang Fugui, the old wealth of Zhanggui Village, built the village into a strong fortress, with a wall nearly two zhang high, and there were as many as twelve enemy towers and arrow towers, and the gatehouse also had two floors, and there were several three-eyed guns inside.

On the whole, the defense of Zhangguicun fortress is stronger than that of Mengjiazhuang.

Zhang Fugui has done a lot of things that force people to die, and he knows that if he is attacked by the surnamed Qin, the Zhang family will be finished.

So while he sent people to the county seat to ask for help, he strengthened his defense and decided to defend it to the death, as long as he relied on it for a few days, as soon as the imperial army arrived, the surname Qin would be finished.

But he counted one thing less: Qin Chuan had artillery, and the firepower was very fierce.

This time, Qin Chuan also brought the red-clothed general cannon. (The Red Six-pounder Cannon was renamed the Red General Cannon)

He designed the gun wheels to be large, similar to Napoleon's, and it was basically easy to drive on snow.

As soon as the red-clothed general cannon and four small Francophone machines and four tiger squat cannons were opened, they bombarded the wall of Zhangjiabao Village three times, and the wall collapsed with an uproar.

Then Qin Chuan asked Luo Daniu to shout, saying that he would only kill Zhang Fugui and a few others, and not embarrass other innocent villagers.

After shouting, several rounds of artillery were fired, knocking down an arrow tower and a section of the wall.

At this time, Qin Chuan asked Luo Daniu to shout, saying that if he didn't come out to surrender again, the chickens and dogs would not be left after entering the village.

Under the deterrence of the cannon, the villagers inside ran out of the gap, Zhang Fugui was so angry that he jumped to his feet, and let the guards shoot arrows to kill and injure more than a dozen villagers, but they still couldn't stop the momentum of the rout.

After no villagers came out, the artillery continued to fire again, and two arrow towers were destroyed, and the Guan Emperor's army entered through the gap with a large shield, and sixty flintlock guns were forced in step by step while putting guns inside.

It didn't take long for the Zhangjiabao village to be broken.

Zhang Fugui and his three cousins, five sons, and seven nephews, a total of 15 people, were beheaded.

Qin Chuan did not kill the old and weak women and children of the Zhang family, but escorted them back to Lou Fu, and the women were left with Guan Dijun as wives, and the old ones were raised for a few years to give them their own old deaths, as for those children...... If there are any signs in a few years, it's not too late to kill them.

The Zhang family's money, grain and land naturally belonged to Qinchuan.

Qin Chuan left a hundred people to guard the Zhang family's belongings, and then led the remaining 1,100 people to look at the Jingle County in the north.

Mo Dekai, the old fortune of Shahui Village, had already fled into the county seat when he heard the wind, but now the ice and snow on the road have not melted, and it is difficult for the grain truck to walk in the snow, so most of the Mo family's grain cannot be transported, and only silver taels and jewelry have been moved.

Qin Chuan left another hundred people in Shahui Village to guard the grain of the Mo family, and finally arrived at the whole 1,000 Guan Emperor Army in Jingle County.

On the city wall of the county seat, there are already hundreds of officials and village warriors waiting for the battle, and there are many stones and rolling wood on the city wall, and there are many kinds of boiling water and gold juice.

Jingle, a small city, is not easy to fight.

Of course, Qin Chuan would not be stupid enough to attack the city with only a thousand men, even if there was artillery, it would be difficult to attack this small city head-on, and even if he could fight it, he would suffer heavy casualties.