At the end of the next day, after the three brigades of the Ziqiang Army had eaten and drunk enough, they set off to the northwest with three days' worth of dry rations, leaving behind Guo Zhiqi, deputy commander of the second brigade, and the troops of a regiment.

More than four hours later, the army marched about 100 miles on a remote and rugged line, and Li Suiqiu of the 2nd Brigade in front received a report, and not far away was Beizhai.

At this time, noon was approaching, and Li Suiqiu immediately ordered the troops to stop, eat and rest on the spot, and called Kuang Lu and others to discuss how to deal with Beizhai

"Beizhai is a nearby guard station, more than 100 meters from north to south, close to 80 meters from east to west, such a poor and remote place, the guard here has always maintained its establishment and training, it is reported that there are more than 1,000 people in it, do we stop by it or ignore it and continue to go north?" Li Suiqiu asked after the introduction.

"Beizhai is only a few dozen miles away from Wuping, if the news of the attack spreads, won't we be exposed?" Kwong Lu voiced her concerns.

Huang Gongfu suggested: "In my opinion, we can leave a part of the team as in Pingyuan, and the main force will continue to advance." ”

"That's right," added Kuang Hong, "leave a regiment, and tomorrow night, probably at the same time as our main force arrives outside the city of Tingzhou, we will also launch an attack here, take Beizhai as quickly as possible, and then continue to march southeast, and together with Pingyuan's troops, flank Wupingsu from two directions, and destroy the Zheng men there." ”

"This time, just one regiment of my Fifth Brigade will stay, and Deputy Brigade Commander Huang." Li Wo took the initiative to take on this task.

Several people nodded.

In the Wuping Institute, Zheng Hongkui, who tossed and turned last night, and Zheng Hongkui, who had only fallen asleep at dawn, woke up at noon, and the first thing he did was to summon a staff general under his command and ask: "What is the movement of the Guangdong army in Pingyuan now?" ”

"General Hui, a vanguard force of several hundred people was sent from Pingyuan, but it has been hovering five miles away from us, and there is no other action."

"Yes," Zheng Hongkui sneered: "I heard that the main army in Guangdong was rebuilt from the former guards, but in this way, it seems that the battalion soldiers in Guangdong are too useless, and they were actually defeated by the waste-like guards."

Let people continue to stare at Pingyuan, and inform me as soon as there is news, after all, there are 20,000 troops there, and you can't take it lightly. ”

"Yes."

The next day, in the Wangqu Mansion, the prefect of Tingzhou City, there was an obscene sound that kept coming.

"Beauty, where are you?" Although a middle-aged fat man with a naked body is blindfolded, he still can't cover his pig brother statue, the fat on his body is shaking, and the grease is disgusting, it is the prefect Wang Qu.

The two women with bee waists and hips were thinly dressed, revealing a large area of snow-white skin, and smiled and made a seductive voice: "Giggles, master, I'm here, come and catch me, come quickly." ”

"Hey, hey, don't run, beauty, look at me and catch you, and then everyone will be happy together, haha!" Wang Qu rubbed a pair of fat hands, showing a lewd state, and his mind was full of women.

"I'll catch it, I'll catch it again, I'll catch it, it's not right......" Wang Qu took off the blindfolded black cloth, kicked down the person in front of him, and looked at him unhappily, "What are you doing here, don't you see that I'm having fun?" ”

The person who came was a staff member of Wang Qu, who was familiar with the books of sages since he was a child, originally disdained to work for officials like Wang Qu, but unfortunately he tried and failed, so he could only seek a good place for Wang Qu.

At this time, he was already sweating profusely, and he was even more embarrassed when he was kicked to the ground by Wang Qu, but he didn't care about anything else, and immediately got up and said: "The master is not good!" ”

Who knew that Wang Qu kicked over again when he heard it: "Lao Tzu is very good, why do you dare to curse me?" ”

"No, sir," the staff was so anxious that they were about to cry, "the outside of the city is full of troops, and our Tingzhou City is surrounded!" ”

"What?!" Wang Qu was shocked, "Bastard, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

The staff scolded in his heart: It's not your own reason, it's really a fat pig, it seems that this thing is likely to be finished, I have to find a way back for myself.

At this time, the two Qinglou women had already retreated with interest, Wang Qu first sent someone to inform the other officials in charge of Tingzhou, and then quickly changed into official clothes, and hurried to the city tower.

Wang Qu looked down, and saw that the black pressure was full of soldiers, and the fat on his face kept twitching: "Ge Tian, how many people are down there?" ”

Ge Tian is the general of the defending army of Tingzhou City, and he is also Wang Qu's brother-in-law, he has never been on the battlefield, how can he see this kind of battle, he can only stubbornly answer: "There are probably tens of thousands of people." ”

"Ahh There are tens of thousands! Wang Qu and the others were taken aback, "Then can we still hold it?" ”

"The defenders in the city are only three or four thousand, and I am afraid that we will not be able to hold it with our strength alone, if it is the troops of the guard, even the ...... on the other side of the city."

"I'll ask you if you can keep it!" Wang Qu roared, he was too afraid of death, the glory and wealth of the world, countless beauties were far from enjoying it.

"Guard, can't stay." Geda replied helplessly.

"Where is the prefect of Tingzhou?" At this time, a shout came from the city.

When Wang Qu heard the shouting of himself, a spirit almost fell to the ground, but was helped by Ge Tian to stabilize his body, and responded: "This official is Wang Qu, the prefect of Tingzhou, where are the brothers in the city?" ”

"We are from Guangdong, it is the second, fourth, and fifth brigades of the self-strengthening army under the commander of the Han army, His Majesty ascended the throne in Guangzhou, and sent an envoy to Tingzhou Mansion, but unfortunately encountered an accident, what does Governor Wang say about this?"

Wang Qu complained in his heart when he heard this: Zheng Zhilong has killed his own official, and he went directly to my Tingzhou Mansion to arrest people before, I dare not speak out, and now I have let the army of Guangdong touch the city silently, and now the soldiers are coming to the city, and the only way to save my life is to save my life first.

"Please check with the commander of the Han army, the previous subordinates were overjoyed when they heard that His Majesty had ascended the throne in Guangzhou, and they wanted to go to the court in person many times, but the situation was complicated and the government affairs were busy and could not be realized. After the holy envoy entered my Tingzhou Mansion, as soon as the lower official got the news, he immediately ordered someone to entertain him, how did he expect that Zheng Zhilong's pirate leader was easy to change, difficult to move, arrogant and unreasonable, and the lower official was more than willing to do but not have enough strength, and even heard the bad news before he saw the face of the holy envoy, and every time he thought about it these days, he couldn't help but cry, and it was difficult to sleep and eat. "Wang Qu tells lies and doesn't make drafts, he comes when he opens his mouth.

"Humph!" Li Wo in the army under the city said disdainfully, "This shameless rat, if we really don't know anything, this kind of goods should be ended with a knife after the city is broken." ”

"This is a mistake," Kuang Lu is from a literati background, and he is more thoughtful, "We don't take advantage of the fact that they are not prepared to attack the city, don't we just recognize that this Wang Qu and others will definitely surrender without a fight, so as to preserve the strength of our army, as for the disposal, we have to let the cabinet make a decision." ”

Li Suiqiu ordered people to continue to shout: "It is really rare for Governor Wang to have this heart, Your Majesty will definitely reward you when you know it, the night is getting darker, please open the city gate first and let our army enter the city." ”

"Open?" Ge Tian saw that Wang Qu was silent for a while, and asked.

"Open!"

"Squeak."

The city gate slowly opened, and Li Suiqiu said to Kuang Lu and the others: "I'll take people in first, and if there is nothing unusual, you will follow later." ”

Li Suiqiu took the lead and took the lead in entering the city. It turned out that he was too worried, and Wang Qu was already waiting respectfully with the officials and generals of Tingzhou City.

Seeing Li Suiqiu, Wang Qu stepped forward and asked, "Dare to ask the name of the general?" ”

"My surname is Li, my name is Suiqiu, and I am the commander of the Second Brigade, you can directly call me Brigade Commander Li."

"Yes, Brigadier Li." Wang Qu didn't know what the brigade was and what the brigade commander was, but he just did it.

"Our army is kind to the people and will never disturb the people, Governor Wang only needs to prepare dry food for our army, and then send people to cooperate with my people to transport military food, and the rest do not need to be troubled." Li Suiqiu made his own request.

Tingzhou Mansion is a central government, under normal circumstances, it receives more than 100,000 stone of grain a year, but due to the impact of natural and man-made disasters, grain production has dropped a lot, and many of the displaced people resettled in Guangdong are from the bordering Tingzhou Mansion.

However, officials like Wang Qu naturally had the means to constantly exploit the peasants and take them by force, and with the grain stocks accumulated in the past, it was more than enough to meet Li Suiqiu's demands, but the time was too tight.

After all the troops entered the city, Kuang Hong, deputy commander of the Fourth Brigade, and a regiment were designated to be stationed here to take over Tingzhou City, and there were no changes to the personnel in the city, everything was as usual, but the main generals of the defenders and Wang Qu and other officials were all responsible for the "protection" of the Ziqiang Army.

"Brigade Commander Li, that, there are too many of your men and horses, and there is no place to settle them in the city for a while." Wang Qu said cautiously.

"It's okay," Li Suiqiu said with a smile, "I said that Governor Wang only needs to prepare grain and grass, and we will solve the rest ourselves, so I won't bother you." ”

"Xia Guan understands." Wang Qu thought that Li Suiqiu would connive like those ruffians to allow his subordinates to loot the people in the city and seize their houses, but he couldn't think of any other solution. He didn't have any resistance, anyway, he didn't usually treat the ordinary people as people, and such things had happened in many places, but he was worried that Li Suiqiu would stretch out his hand to those big families, or even himself.

However, the troops of more than 10,000 people, on the streets of the city, where there was no one, took out dry food and water and stirred it into a batter to eat with relish, and after eating, they slept on the ground, without removing their armor and weapons.

"My lord, it's really strange what kind of self-improvement army is, sleeping on the street and sleeping so comfortably, eating dry food is the same as eating delicacies from the mountains and seas." Ge Tian said that he usually doesn't say anything else, and big fish and big meat are indispensable.

"yes, it seems that our surrender is the right choice." Wang Qu should arrive, he didn't dare to rest first, he kept watching what the self-improvement army was doing, and suddenly thought in his heart, if the one in Guangzhou unified the world, could he take the opportunity to rise to the top?