Liu Shanyang had arranged the affairs of his family before he came, and he had made up his mind to go out of Sichuan with Han Xiufeng, whether Han Xiufeng went to the capital or to Liangjiang.

Pan Er knew that Han Xiufeng was not worried about his hometown, and decided not to go out of his hometown for three or five years before coming to Wushan, just when he was staring at the map and thinking that Changmao really wanted to kill Chuandong, and when the time came, how could he, who was in charge of housekeeping, and Gong Ying and other gentry and Jiang Zonghai and other eight provincial governors, convene the Chuandong regiment to train and help the officers and soldiers to prevent blockage, and there was a rush of footsteps outside.

As soon as the three of them turned around, they saw Chen Zhankui hurrying over with a servant.

"Lord Han, there is news, there is your official letter!"

"Really?"

"Lord Han, this is an official document from the Military Aircraft Department, and it is six hundred miles to go in an expedited manner! My family is worried about delaying your official business, so as soon as I received the report from the post station, I ordered the small one to send it to you quickly. ”

Han Xiufeng recognized that it was the official official of the Provincial Department who came to deliver the official document, and took the official document and looked at it while signaling him to retreat first.

Liu Shanyang and Pan Er were extremely nervous, after all, Han Xiufeng had invited him to Liangjiang to quell the chaos, worried that the emperor would really order Han Xiufeng to go to Liangjiang, Chen Zhankui and Chen Tianru, Zhang Biao, Li Tianbao and other group leaders who heard the news were excited, because it was as difficult to make contributions in Wushan as it was to stay in Ba County, and even if they went to Songkan Camp, they would not be able to fight now.

"Lord Han, what did the emperor say?" Chen Zhankui couldn't help but ask.

Pan Ergang raised his head and was about to give him a look, Han Xiufeng put down the official document and said: "I don't know if the emperor has received the official document and Hu Linyi's report, and knows that Hubei is in a tight situation." I still felt that Sichuan was too far away from Liangjiang, and felt that far water could not quench my thirst, so he kindly allowed me to go to Liangjiang to serve, and did not let me return to Beijing, but ordered me to immediately lead the eastern Sichuan regiment to train and gallop to help Wuchang. ”

finally had the opportunity to go into battle to kill the thief, Chen Zhankui said happily: "It's good to rush to help Wuchang, fight at home, you don't have to go so far!" ”

Chen Tianru said even more eagerly: "Lord Han, you give an order, as long as you give an order, I will help you return to Yangjiao and Songkan to transfer troops!" ”

Han Xiufeng's errand is to supervise the group training in eastern Sichuan, no matter what the occasion is, as long as he opens his mouth, it is to ensure the safety of eastern Sichuan, but Pan Er knows very well that Han Xiufeng is just talking, and the only one who really wants to protect is Chongqing, and the other state capitals under the jurisdiction of East Sichuan Province can be guaranteed, and if they can't be guaranteed, they can't be guaranteed!

Because of this, Pan Er concluded that Han Xiufeng would not easily transfer people from the Songkan camp and the Yangjiao camp, and without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, he asked coldly: "What kind of soldiers are being transferred?" Transfer all the brothers of Songkan and Yangjiao, what will the bandits in Guizhou do if they kill Qijiang? Do we want our hometown anymore? ”

"Master Pan, why don't you go back to transfer troops to help Wuchang?" Chen Tianru couldn't help asking.

Han Xiufeng weighed it and stared at Chen Zhankui and the others: "The group training in eastern Sichuan refers to the group training in the entire eastern Sichuan Province, not just the thousands of brothers stationed in Songkan and Yangjiao. Besides, how far away from Songkan is, even if you go back to transfer troops, it will take a month to come and go, and far water can't quench your thirst! ”

"But we have more than 300 good people......"

"You only have more than 300 brothers, but there are group exercises in Wushan."

"Lord Han, you mean recruiting on the spot?"

"It's not recruitment, it's extraction," looking at them as if they didn't understand, Han Xiufeng could only explain: "If it's recruitment, we have to pay for food." The transfer is different, and the required money and grain can be provided by the county government and the local gentry and merchants. There are not many soldiers, and there is no need to transfer much, as long as 700 is enough. ”

"We have 300 people, and then 700 regiments are drawn from Wushan, that is 1,000 soldiers. Lord Han, is a thousand enough? ”

"Enough, you can't get more."

Chen Zhankui was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted: "What the adults said is, no matter how much we say, we can't get it!" ”

The military order is like a mountain, Han Xiufeng didn't want to delay for a moment, and said without looking back while walking outside: "Shizhen, Changsheng, go, let's go to the county government together!" ”

……

At the same time, Bao Chao and Qian Junchen had just won a big battle.

A few days ago, Shi Dakai quietly ordered his subordinate Changmao to collect more than 200 civilian boats, and sneaked into Nanhu Lake and Sun Lake last night, intending to find the back road of the camp of the papermaking workshop by the waterway. Fortunately, when they found it in time, the two rushed to drive the boat out in front of Changmao, and caught Changmao off guard, burning the civilian boats collected by Changmao, so that Shi Dakai's trick could not succeed.

However, Hu Linyi, who was sitting in the Hongshan camp, was not happy at all when he received the good news.

Because the battle reached this point, there were two long trenches left to defend, with Shi Dakai's army of more than 30,000 in front and Wuchang City in the back. All the soldiers who can be sent out are sent out, and the defenses of Shuangfeng Mountain, Xiaogui Mountain, Saihu Embankment and other places are weak, and there are few warships on the East Lake.

"Zhensheng, the brother who asked for help has returned, and the official document promised to send troops, but only four hundred horses will be dispatched, and they will not arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest." Li Xubin wiped his sweat and said while holding on to the wood on the edge of the trench.

Hu Linyi looked at Changmao's can't see the end of the camp at a glance, clenched his fists and asked: "How is Lujiagang over there, can Jiang Yili hold it, how many days can he hold it?" ”

Although Li Xubin has always been at odds with Jiang Yili, he still groaned: "Although more than 500 brothers were killed and wounded in the battle, their morale has not declined, and they should be able to hold on." Fortunately, two deep trenches had been dug in advance, otherwise they would have had to face the enemy in one trench. ”

"Is gunpowder and lead enough?"

"There are quite a few, it should be enough for three or five days."

Thinking of whether he could hold it or not, it all relied on the deep ditch and high base, Hu Linyi sighed secretly, and was about to order his own followers to order the battalions to quickly dig the trench deeper, and quickly repair the camp that was bombarded by Changmao with cannons, Li Xubin continued: "The official document also said that the emperor has ordered Han Xiufeng, the former counselor of the General Administration Department of the Township Ding Wei, to lead the eastern Sichuan regiment to train to help, but the official documents sent by the capital to Sichuan are all taken on the North Road, and I don't know if Han Xiufeng has received the official document. ”

Hu Linyi has been a prefect and a Taoist in Guizhou, and he is not ignorant of the troubles and bandits in Guizhou.

Thinking of something that the political envoy who also served as the commissariat said a few days ago, he turned around and said: "That Han Xiufeng is not far from here, and the more than 50,000 taels of silver last time was the one he led the eastern Sichuan Tuanyong to help transport it from Ba County to Wushan. ”

Li Xubin looked down on Jiang Yili, let alone the Sichuan soldiers.

felt that even if Han Xiufeng could fight again, he would not be stronger than Xiang Rong, who had already died of illness in Liangjiang.

If it had been a month ago, he would have said that those regimental exercises were not the best, and that if they came, they would only cause chaos and even harm the place. But now it's not a month ago, now it's not so much about besieging the long hair in Wuchang City, and preventing the long hair led by Shi Dakai to save it, but rather being attacked by the long hair inside the city and the long hair outside the city.

Thinking that what is most lacking now is soldiers, and it is better to have one more person than one less, even if he can't fight to help wave the flag and shout, Li Xubin couldn't help but propose: "Since we know that he is in Wushan, why don't we send someone to give the order quickly?" He is from Ba County, and Qian Junchen is also from Ba County, so why don't you let Qian Junchen go! ”

"No matter how this order is transmitted, even if he comes, he will be a guest army. Listening to orders is to give you and me face, and if you don't listen to orders, I can't help him. Hu Linyi thought for a while, and then said: "What's more, even if you send someone now, it will take half a month to come and go, and if you don't talk about it, can Shi Dakai outside the city and Wei Jun in the city sit and wait for half a month?" ”

"Shi Dakai and Wei Jun will definitely not wait, I estimate that they will be pressed by the whole army tomorrow at the latest."

"So no one can count on it now, so you can only rely on yourself."

Li Xubin also thinks that he can only rely on himself now, but after thinking about it, he still said: "Zhensheng, in my opinion, this person is still sent, and the news must be released quickly." ”

Hu Linyi was stunned, and immediately reacted: "What the elder brother said is very true, this news must be released quickly, so that all the brothers know that the imperial court has sent reinforcements to us!" ”

……

With Hu Linyi's order, the news that Han Xiufeng, the former general secretary of the General Administration Department who was ordered to supervise the training of the Eastern Sichuan Regiment, was about to lead troops to come to the aid suddenly spread throughout the battalions.

Bao Chao heard Qian Junchen talk about Han Xiufeng more than once, sitting in the trench of the left base of Lujia Lane, looking at Qian Junchen who was helping him bandage his wounds, and asked curiously: "Old Qian, you know Han Xiufeng, and you have also seen those regimental warriors under him, do you think Han Xiufeng and those regimental warriors under him can fight?" ”

Several brothers have already asked just now, Qian Junchen, who has always been looked down upon in the army, really has a sense of arrogance, and can't help laughing: "Don't be upset, when you were still working as a porter and selling coolies, he led the young man in Taizhou to investigate the ruthless private tyrant; When you were not a battalion officer, he cut more than 400 long hairs in the Wanfuqiao formation in the east of Yangzhou City, and was later transferred to Zhili by the emperor to train soldiers. ”

"So you really know how to fight?"

"Han Xiufeng is good at fighting, but his fighting style is different from yours."

"What's different?"

"He won't be like you every time he takes the lead and rushes to the forefront, although he is a donor, he is also a civil official, and people are as particular about strategizing as Lord Zhongcheng."

How could Bao Chao not hear the meaning of Qian Junchen's words, and couldn't help laughing: "So the brothers below all obey him?" ”

This is natural, not only the brothers below obey him, but also the fellow villagers who are officials in and outside the capital. I'm not afraid of your jokes, in terms of being a man, I, Qian Junchen, am far worse than him, and I still owe him favors until now. Qian Junchen thought about it and sighed: "It's a pity that I owe him a favor, and I can't pay it back in my life." ”

"Old Qian, don't say anything sad, you also saw it last night, long hair is not so terrible. Don't look at the number of them, but who will lose and who will win this battle is uncertain! ”

"Am I a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, I mean that people are now soaring, what do you want, there is nothing missing, I Qian Junchen has no chance to repay the favors I owed before."

It was when Qian Junchen sighed and sighed, in a deep trench less than three miles away from him and Bao Chao, Luo Zenan followed Li Xubin's Wu Zhongyi after his death. I can't believe that the news from the big camp is true.

He stared at his younger brother Wu Zhonggan and asked, "Could it be the same name and surname, not the same person?" ”

"Brother, it won't be wrong, it's Han Si."

"How did you know it was him?"

"I just went to ask Qian Junchen, and Qian Junchen said that it was Han Si, who used to be idle in the county government of Ba County, and he really flew Huang Tengda in his dog days, and before returning to his hometown of Ba County, Ding Wei, he not only became a counselor of the General Political Department, but also a small military aircraft!" Wu Zhonggan clenched his waist knife, gritted his teeth and said: "Qian Junchen, the melon baby of the Sichuan Gang, also recognizes it, Qian Junchen said that that the melon baby followed Han Si to the great light, and he has already been a second-class guard, and now he is on an errand in the palace!" ”

"They killed my eldest brother, and they were promoted to make a fortune, is there any heavenly reason!"

"Brother, you can't say that, God is still fair, won't he just send it to the door." Wu Zhonggan looked back at his brother who was sitting in the trench resting, leaned into Wu Zhongyi's ear and said: "As long as he dares to come, we will let him come and go, anyway, he has no eyes in the battle array." ”

"If he doesn't go into battle, what if he stays in the tent like Lord Hu?"

"There will always be a way, in short, if you are not afraid of him coming, you are not afraid that he will not come!"

"Yes, it's better to come than not to come, otherwise where will we find him!"

From the moment he heard that Han Xiufeng, the former counselor of the General Political Department, was going to lead troops to help, Xu Jiu, the food officer in the battalion, was paying attention to the Wu family's brothers' every move. Sitting in the deep trench and squinting his eyes and eavesdropping for a while, he confirmed that the Wu brothers wanted to take this opportunity to take revenge, and they were immediately anxious.

wanted to report to Mr. Zhang Dejian, but Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zeng went to Jiangxi, and it is said that they were besieged in Nanchang City by Long Hair. It is not only inappropriate to report to Master Li Xubin Li, but it will even lead to death. Xu Jiu pondered for a while, and secretly decided to wait and see what was going on, and then wait for Master Han to arrive in Wuchang.