At the same time, Nanchang City, Yuzhang County, and the county guard Yin Tong were also anxiously waiting for the arrival of a person.

His face was a little thin, his eyes were very deep, and his beard had fallen a lot, because in the past month, Yin Tong had not slept well or eaten a comfortable meal......

At the end of January, the children of the Southern Expeditionary Army hurriedly went north from Nanchang, and then news spread, it was said that Marquis Wu Zhong had died in battle!

Yin Tong has been an official in Beidi County, and he is a colleague with Heifu, and he still has some old friendships, so he can't help but feel sad, but what happened next made it all seem not so simple!

At the beginning of February, an envoy came from the north to demand control and imprison the old troops of Marquis Wu Zhong, and Yin Tong suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Yuzhang is the old township party of Wuzhong Hou, if I am not good for him, his generation may fight back."

So, Yin Tongming strictly obeyed the orders of the imperial court on the surface, and ordered the county soldiers to arrest Lixian and Jing, but secretly, he notified Lixian and others to escape.

The situation is complicated, and he wants to observe the situation again before making a choice.

Yin Tong's waiting was right, at the beginning of March, there was another gossip news: Marquis Wuzhong was resurrected and captured the Wuchang camp! also spread the news that the first emperor had collapsed, and that the traitorous ministers in the court had rebelled against their sons and usurped the throne, and even asked the messenger to send a copy of the "Edict of Clothes and Belts" to Yin Tong, asking him to take Yuzhang County to respond to the first righteousness.

At this time, Yin Tong was in a dilemma, on the one hand, Feng Wuxue's subordinates would take 3,000 people to Nanchang and prepare to go south to "quell the rebellion", and Yin Tong's cronies were only 1,000 left, so they did not dare to act rashly.

And in the south, there is also a southern expeditionary army of tens of thousands of people arrived in Luling County, led by the generals under the command of Zheng Heifu, the commander of Sanguan Anpu, those soldiers have witnessed Heifu's hair, and they trust Wuzhong Hou in no less than Nanjun short soldiers.

Yuzhang is like the backyard of Nanjun, most of the officials are the old party department of Heifu Township, and they are very dissatisfied with the sudden suppression of themselves by the imperial court......

Sima from other departments sent by Feng Wuxue wanted to hold on to the city and wait for General Feng's help, but Yin Tong became an ant on a hot pot.

"The Junjun's choice is right."

Not long after, Lixian had arrived, and he saw Yin Tong's hesitation, and strongly persuaded: "The county monarch still doesn't know? Today, Marquis Wuzhong has captured the Wuchang battalion, with tens of thousands of male soldiers, crisscrossing the Jianghan River, and on the other side of Changsha County, Li You has also been defeated, and was trapped in Linxiang by Tao, Xiao, and Han! ”

"Really?"

Yin Tong was shocked, he only heard that Li You went to the south to collect the military power of Lingnan, but he never thought that he would be defeated in Changsha, no wonder there has been no news from Changsha in recent days, I am afraid that the roads have been controlled by the "rebels".

Li Xian said: "The first emperor has collapsed, Lingnan and Jiangnan are all subordinate to the prince, the general trend is the Marquis of Wuzhong, and there is no traitor in the court." I heard that the first is to control the people, and then to be controlled by the people, the county monarch Ruokai City to welcome the southern expeditionary army into the city, become the first to respond to the first righteousness of the county official, after the fact, it is not a bad time. ”

"If you don't follow ......"

He put away his smile and said coldly: "Nanchang was built by the Marquis of Wuzhong, and the truth is known, and the people who moved in the city have not received the favor of the prince?" There are many people hidden in the old department of Wuzhong Hou, and there are tens of thousands of divisions outside the city, and the inside and outside should be combined, Nanchang can not be defended, if the county is obsessed, the day the city is broken, the king may be at risk of death! ”

"Let me think again......"

Yin Tong paced left and right, unable to make a choice for a long time in his heart, at this time, a tsunami broke out outside, it was Anpu attacking the city, and Wei Jing, who was hiding in the city, also took a group of people to do something in the city!

"Why did the fight start?"

Yin Tong was stunned, saying that it was too late and that it was too fast, Li Xian suddenly pulled out the wooden hairpin in his bun, took a few steps closer, and forced Yin Tong to the wall!

Although he is over forty years old, his sideburns are gray, and although he is defenseless, Lixian, who seems to be weak, is as decisive as many years ago in the dangerous city of Liyang.

He pressed the sharp part of the wooden hairpin tightly against Yin Tong's neck, and said with a pleasant face:

"Please also ask the county monarch to give an order, so that the county soldiers will rebel and open the city to welcome the righteous division!"

……

In mid-March, Yuzhang Shou Yintong was forced by Lixian to order the county soldiers to open the west gate of Nanchang, so that Anpu could enter the city unimpeded, and at the same time, the people in the city also responded to the call and cooperated with the Southern Expeditionary Army to encircle and intercept the officers and soldiers.

Immediately, under the coercion of Liham, Yin Tong could only send the letter stamped with the silver seal of the county guard to the counties:

"The whole county of Yuzhang is holding high the banner of righteousness, and it is difficult to follow the Marquis of Wuzhong!"

……

The establishment of Yuzhang County was the result of more than ten years of efforts by the old Heifu troops, and after Nanchang was taken, with Yin Tong's order, other counties naturally rushed to respond, and there was no need to send troops to attack one city and one pool, and it could be "peacefully liberated".

So Anpu barely left a garrison, and after capturing Nanchang for a few days, he immediately waved his army north with Wei Jing. Tens of thousands of people carried half a month's grain through Xunyang (now Jiujiang), westward along the Dajiang River, bypassing the Mufu Mountains, entering the jurisdiction of Hengshan County, and arriving at Xiapheasant County (now Yangxin County, Hubei).

The task that Heifu sent to Anpu was to take several counties of Hengshan County in the south of the Yangtze River after the liberation of Yuzhang, and control the two rich mines of Tieshan and Tonglushan at the same time.

Seeing the attack of tens of thousands of troops, Xia Pheasant County could only surrender, but further west from here, the group encountered a large number of people who fled from Exian County......

The people of the townships of Exian County (now Echeng City, Hubei) helped the old and the young, and wanted to flee to the pheasant, but they encountered a large army in front of them, and they couldn't help but be shocked.

"A group of thieves came from the west, although they wore the armor of Qin soldiers, they did all kinds of evil, killing people and robbing property, burning and plundering Lilu, occupying the wives and daughters of the people, and the county was in chaos......

"There are rebels in Exian County?"

An Pu and Wei looked at each other in shock, but under the reminder of the messenger sent by Heifu, they quickly reacted:

"It must be the thousands of Chu soldiers who escaped from the battle of Wuchang!"

……

More than half a month ago, Heifu led a short guard to attack Wuchang at night, gathered the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, and engaged Yang Xiong, but before the battle, the right wing ran three or four thousand people, all throwing torches, with the help of the dark cover before dawn, fled eastward......

After that, Heifu was busy fighting back to his hometown Anlu to rescue his father and fellow villagers, and his strategic goal was to capture Jiangling, so the more than 20,000 people who stayed in Jiangnan gave up the burned Wuchang camp and went west to Shaxian and Zhouling, and had no time to take care of the group of deserters.

Unexpectedly, this group of deserters fled to Exian County, a hundred miles east of Wuchang, under the entanglement of Fu Liren Ge Ying, and caused chaos in the township.

Exian was originally an important town in Hengshan, second only to the big city of Yicheng, and the defense was very strict, but the county soldiers were transferred to assist in garrisoning the Wuchang battalion, and then half of them were captured by Heifu, and half of them withdrew to Xiakou with Yang Xiong.

According to the people of Exian who fled, when they fled south, a rebellion also broke out in Tieshan Township, and thousands of subordinates killed Tieguan, joined the rebels, and under the leadership of Ge Ying, besieged the county seat......

"Iron Mountain lost?"

Wei was a little shocked, he had been an official in Hengshan County, and he had been a smelting official for a period of time, although he was in charge of Tonglu Mountain, but he knew that Iron Mountain and Tonglu Mountain, these two rich mines were the foundation of Hengshan County, and they were also a place where soldiers must fight!

During the southern expedition to Baiyue, the consumption is not only soldiers, but also blades, with an order of the imperial court, Iron Mountain, Tonglu Mountain has become an arsenal again, such assembly line operations day and night, the production of fierce things, a few years down, there are a large number of blades, enough to arm tens of thousands of people......

Originally, the officials of the Southern Expeditionary Army had infiltrated the two mines, but with the elimination of the forces of Wuzhonghou by the imperial court in February, the iron and copper officials who had anything to do with Heifu were either imprisoned or fled from all over the world, and the imperial court sent another official to replace them, and the management and production of the two mines almost came to a standstill.

coincided with the arrival of the rebels, as the era of the old Chu State, after being captured by the Qin army, at Tieshan, thousands of coolies who had been working for more than ten years, and the subordinates who had long been unbearable actually took action and obeyed Ge Ying.

"I only hope that Tonglushan has not rebelled, during my tenure as an official, the more than 2,000 prisoners there were not bad, if I come forward, I should be able to say that they are obedient......"

Having said that, Wei Zhen didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he could only discuss with An Pu and ride with the car himself, striving to arrive early.

There is a distance of more than 90 miles from the pheasant to the copper green mountain, and Wei Jing and hundreds of chariots have only walked for one day.

As Heifu's younger brother, although he also danced swords and practiced martial arts when he was a child, he later learned the law and order, and worked as an official in various gold and iron workshops for a long time.

Along the way, I saw that because of the thieves, there were few pedestrians on the road, and occasionally I saw them, and most of them were refugees who avoided the trouble, all of them looked frightened, and when they saw the army passing by, they either knelt on the side of the road with a sluggish expression, or fled from afar, and they learned from their mouths that the situation in Tonglu Mountain was not optimistic.

Hurry up, and when he finally arrived at the mining area, the sides of Wei Wei's thighs were worn out and he was in pain......

But he gritted his teeth and continued to gallop, leading people to a noisy Tonglu Mountain mining area!

As expected, more than 2,000 subordinates were indeed on the verge of rebellion, all of them were disgraced, skinny, or bearded.

But when they are not working, the shackles that bind their freedom have been broken and removed.

After more than ten years of servitude, most of the prisoners of the Chu army in the past have died of exhaustion, and the long-suppressed subordinates can't hold back when they see that more than 1,000 people in Tieshan, 40 miles to the north, have been "freed".

Now everyone is armed with mine hoes and sledgehammers, and the momentum is violent, surrounding the workshop, gritting teeth, while craftsmen and officials are hiding inside to resist, here is full of gunpowder, and a rebellion is about to break out!

"Second and third sons!"

Wei Jing took the lead, and with six or seven hundred chariots, galloped into the middle of the two sides, and stopped the conflict.

He raised his hands and shouted: "Don't panic, the second and third sons, I am the younger brother of the Marquis of Wuzhong, the prince has raised the banner of righteousness, put things in order, amnesty the sinners, the subordinate prisoners of the Tonglu Mountain, from today on, they will all be restored to freedom!" ”

……

When Anpu arrived at Tonglu Mountain, he found that the subordinates here were obediently squatting on the ground and eating, not noisy or noisy.

Except for an iron official who had just taken office and was hated for his mistreatment of prisoners, he was executed by Wei Wei to vent his anger at the prisoners, none of the other officials and craftsmen were killed or injured, and Wei Jing was leading people to count the arsenal of the mine.

An Pu breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Wei in shock: "He is worthy of being the younger brother of the Marquis of Wuzhong, who is brave and strategic, and let a big chaos disappear invisibly." ”

"It's just a fox and a fake tiger, in the name of his brother, how can he compare with his fur? If I hadn't ridden to cheer me on, I'm afraid I'd be the first to be beaten and killed by the prisoners. The lieutenant waved his hand in surprise and sighed again.

"And the real chaos, I'm afraid it's already begun......"

As he spoke, Wei Jing pulled over a small blacksmith, but it was Guo Shao, a Handan man who had a relationship with Heifu in Tieshan more than two years ago, and was also authorized to make swords for the officers......

"Tell Captain Andu what you know."

Guo Shao escaped from the Tieshan riots, he was quite calm, he did not rush south, but took a group of craftsmen and slipped to Tieshan Township, and brought all his relatives over before the rebels occupied it.

He said to An Pu: "Official, when we came from Tieshan Township, we only heard that Ge Ying had seized Exian County, killed all the Qin officials, divided the bodies of Ling, Wei, and Cheng, and slaughtered the guests in the city......

As one of the migrants, Guo Shao spat angrily:

"Ge Ying also found a descendant in the city who is said to be the king of Ejun, named Xiangqiang, and established himself as the king of Chu!"

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PS: The second chapter is in the evening

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