Stupid, stupid, Chai Jin felt that Fang Yunkai was stupid after knowing that the messenger was beaten, in fact, killing the messenger was not a big problem, but after whipping, if you put it back, it is destined to dig a pit for yourself.

Sure enough, after the messenger was beaten, he cried in front of Shi Bao with a handful of snot and tears, which can be said to be adding fuel and vinegar, and said a lot of bad things about Fang Yunkai.

Shi Bao himself looked down on Fang Yunkai, a guy with well-developed limbs and a simple mind. Everyone said that it was up to the owner to beat the dog, but now Fang Yunkai actually beat his messenger and insulted himself, which made him angry.

"Fang Yunkai, you bastard, you actually humiliated Lao Tzu, it seems that you are impatient." Shi Bao had the heart to kill Fang Yunkai in his heart, so he followed Chai Jin's proposal at this time and decided not to rescue Shouchun Mansion.

Under the leadership of Li Jun, 20,000 sailors were killed, and he received a secret letter from Liu Zhenglong on the way, that is, he first led the army to Miyang County to meet Shibao, and could not rashly send troops to Shouchun Mansion.

Li Jun didn't know why he didn't go to Shouchun Mansion, he just knew that he would carry out the order, and as for fighting, that was a later story.

When the navy was in Xinglong Town, which was still fifty miles away from Miyang County, he encountered a little trouble, and at this time, the town had just been ransacked, and in this case, Li Jun would definitely not ignore it, so he called the local Baozheng to see what was going on here.

Baozheng Niu Sanbao saw that an official army was coming, and he had a bottom in his heart, and when he saw Li Jun, he knelt down and saluted: "My lord, you want the people to be the masters." ”

"What's going on, come on, this official is in charge of you."

"Thirty miles away, there is a Niugu Ridge, where a few mountain kings came, burning and looting everywhere, no, this place was looted a few days ago, and more than a hundred women were arrested, and I hope that the adults will help rescue them."

"King of the Mountain? How many people there are, and who are the fractions, do you know? ”

Bao Zheng thought for a while and said: "The leader seems to be called the eight-armed Nezha Xiang Chong, and the other is called Zhang Qing, who has no feather arrows, and the others are not clear, as for how many people there are, it is estimated that there are seven or eight hundred, and I can't say the specifics." ”

Li Jun is not familiar with these two people, but the three heroes of the Ruan family know Zhang Qing, Ruan Xiaoer said: "My lord, Zhang Qing is a first-class master, he was on Liangshan before, and then Liangshan collapsed, I didn't expect to run here." ”

"Then you say this, can you bring Zhang Qingzhao back?" Li Jun didn't pay attention to the seven or eight hundred bandits at all, for him, he didn't want to make trouble in a small place, and it was a good thing to be able to surrender.

Ruan Xiaoqi shook his head, he said helplessly: "Zhang Qingxin is arrogant, it is difficult to tame. As for the difficulty of surrendering, if he wanted to join the imperial court, he would not have left and fled here. ”

"So you mean it's time to exterminate this group of bandits?"

Ruan Xiaoer said: "Let's say this, if you want to recruit Zhang Qing, you must defeat him, and after he is captured, I have a way to persuade him to surrender." Although this guy is arrogant, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know the times, and after being defeated, he will have the right choice. Of course, if he doesn't know the times, he will be killed. ”

"Okay, then take them down, who is right to do this?" Li Jun also cherishes talents, and is unwilling to bury Zhang Qing and Xiang Chong.

Just when Li Jun and Ruan Xiaoer and others were discussing how to take down Zhang Qing and Xiang Chong, the soldiers outside the door reported that a Taoist priest asked to see him.

Li Jun has had enough respect for the Taoist priest since he was a child, and this time the Taoist priest asked to see him, although his heart was a little messy, but he still met the Taoist priest.

"Poor Dao into the clouds, Dragon Gongsun Sheng has seen the general."

Seeing the Taoist priest coming, before Li Jun could speak, the three heroes of the Ruan family surrounded him and called them elder brother one by one.

The person who came was none other than Sun Sheng, the prince of Zhuyun Long, and after a few words of greeting with the three heroes of the Ruan family, he said to Li Jun: "General Li does not want to take Niu Guling." ”

"Yes." Li Jun saw that Gongsun Sheng and the three heroes of the Ruan family were called brothers, so he didn't think too much, he said: "This general was going to Miyang County, but Xiang Chong and Zhang Qing gathered people to make a rebellion in Niuguling, and for the sake of the stability of the people in the town, I must eradicate them." ”

Ruyun Dragon Gongsun Sheng said with a smile; "Although Poor Dao and Lord Liu have never lived in life, Chai Jinjiao is my female disciple, for this disciple, I am willing to help you recover Xiang Chong, Zhang Qing. It depends on whether the adults want to outwit or attack. ”

"How about outwitting, and what about storming?"

"If you attack strongly, there are only seven or eight hundred people in Niuguling, and you can take it by sending troops casually, needless to say, poor road." Sun Sheng, the Dragon Gongzi of Zhuyun Yun, said unhurriedly: "If you outwit me, you only need to give me dozens of entourages to change the introduction of the introduction charge, Zhang Qing can go down the mountain, as long as they go down the mountain, I will have a way to take it down." ”

"Then outwit it, and let Ruan Xiaoqi cooperate with you." Li Jun didn't want to attack either, he said to Zhang Shun: "You lead two thousand elite soldiers, if Zhang Qing and Xiang Chong are stubborn, they will be annihilated directly." ”

After Li Jun made arrangements, he was ready to lead the army to continue to move forward, and he did not intend to stay in the town.

Sun Sheng, the Duke of Zhuyun Long, said with a smile: "General Li, are you going to Miyang County to meet with Shibao, and then go to solve the danger of Shouchun Mansion?" ”

"Not bad."

"Why didn't General Li take the lead in sending troops to Yun'an, and after cooperating with Yang Zhi to take Yun'an, he would go to Shouchun Mansion to relieve the siege?"

"But, but."

Sun Sheng, the Dragon Gongzi of Zhuyun Province, said unhurriedly: "Have you found a problem, Lord Liu just asked people to send you a message, but there is no official letter?" ”

"yes, how do you know?"

"Lord Liu is doing this to tell you a truth, and it is to let you make up your own mind on this battlefield. The battle of Shouchun Mansion will not start for a short time, and under normal circumstances, it will not start until Lord Liu arrives. Gongsun Sheng knew that Li Jun would not believe it, so he continued: "Yang Zhi sent troops to Yun'an, if you didn't send troops to help, it was destined to fall into the sand, I don't know how you should make a decision at that time." ”

"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders."

"Water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, I don't need to talk about this truth. In the future, you are destined to help Lord Liu take charge of the water area and command the naval army, if you need to fight step by step and according to the tactics deployed by Lord Liu in advance, you will not be able to take charge of it alone. ”

Li Jun shook his head and said: "Tactics are flexible and changeable, and Lord Liu has never put forward any opinions on tactics, and he will never give me instructions on the use of troops. However, attacking that city is a strategic deployment, and it will affect the whole body, and once the battle plan is changed and the whole situation is completely passive, then it will become a sinner. ”

Sun Sheng, the Duke of Zhuyun Long, knew that it was difficult for him to convince Li Jun, but if Li Jun couldn't take this step, he was destined to not be able to become the commander of the navy, and it would be difficult for Lord Liu to lay out the entire Jiangnan. It seems that if you want Li Jun to comply, you have to change your thinking.

After making up his mind, Ruyunlong said with a smile: "Think about it from another perspective, if you are now the commander of Jiangnan and you are here to lay out Jiangnan, then you tell Poor Dao, should you go to Yun'an to join Yang Zhi, and after the two defeat Yun'an, then lead the army back to Miyang County to join Shi Bao, and then fight a decisive battle with Li Zhu, or ignore the life and death of Yang Zhi's 10,000-strong army and insist on going to Miyang County?" ”

Li Jun really didn't think about this question, and this guy fell into deep thought.

Sun Sheng, the Duke of Yunlong walked out, and said: "I'll deal with the problem of Zhang Qing and Xiang Chong, as for whether to go to Yun'an or not, you can do it yourself, it will be easy to get, and it is difficult to find a handsome, this is the dilemma that your Lord Liu is facing now." If this problem is not handled well, nothing will be achieved in the end. ”

Where to go, at this time, Li Jun used his brains, he took out the map, and then summarized the information passed by the scouts, and finally made up his mind to meet with Yang Zhi to take Yun'an first, and then go to Miyang County.

After making up his mind, Li Jun first passed the book to Liu Zhenglong's flying pigeon, and after receiving affirmation, he finally began to deploy and prepare to go to Yun'an.

Sun Sheng, the Duke of Zhuyun Long, almost effortlessly managed to get Zhang Qing and Xiang Chong, and he personally persuaded the two to surrender.

Xiang Chong and Liu Zhenglong have had a relationship, and at the beginning, when they rescued Zheng Yunyan in Que Yunlou, the two had contact. This guy admired Liu Zhenglong very much, so in the face of Gongsun Sheng's wooing, he agreed without hesitation.

Zhang Qingxin was arrogant, no matter what Gongsun Sheng said, he just didn't want to agree to stay.

"Everyone has their own ambitions, you Zhang Qing is unwilling to serve under me, it doesn't matter, I am not reluctant. I'll give you a letter of recommendation now, you go to the northwest to serve in the army, you can still make meritorious contributions and make a wife and son. ”

Zhang Qing finally relented, not for himself, but for his wife Qiong Ying, he chose to serve in front of the Northwest Army, hoping to be crowned a wife and a son, and he could be regarded as worthy of his wife's deep love for him.

Yang Zhi was indeed in trouble, he led an army of 10,000 to attack Yun'an, originally thought that he could take this small city without much effort, but after arriving, this guy found that this battle was not easy to fight.

Yun'an is a small city, but the kind of small city with only one main gate and one water gate, but it is precisely because of this that once the city gate is closed and the army is fully defending the city, it is indeed very difficult to conquer this small city.

On the first day of coming to Yun'an, Yang Zhi suffered a big loss, that is, he originally thought that wherever the officials and soldiers went, they would definitely be supported by the people, and the rebels would also flee. However, it backfired, and it was not like that at all. The people around Yun'an are on guard against the officials and soldiers like thieves, and not only that, but they also continue to send all kinds of supplies to Yun'an City.

This is not the most terrible, the key is that the rainy weather in the south of the Yangtze River is not well prepared, so that the grain is wet, but the purchase of grain is resisted by the local people, and there are no ordinary people willing to sell grain to the officials and soldiers.

Can't buy food, at most it's depressed, it's just that it's transported from a distance to increase the difficulty of transportation, the key is that the official road has been destroyed, not only that, all the big trees in Yun'an County have been cut down and transported away, and the stones have also been transported away, which makes the siege weapon catapult useless. Once there is no catapult, it is indeed very difficult to capture Yun'an County, which has a very high city.

Yang Zhi is not a good general with both wisdom and bravery, at least there are not many ways to attack the city, not only that, he has always felt sorry for the lives of his soldiers, but he is not willing to rashly launch a strong attack, in this case, in the face of Yun'an County, he really doesn't know what to do.

On the first day, Yang Zhi ordered Cao Zhengxian to lead three thousand soldiers to attack the attempted siege, because there was no trebuchet to cover, so that when the army was charging, it encountered intensive blows from the defenders, although the soldiers fought bravely, it was difficult to rush to the city, and after sacrificing four or five hundred soldiers, Yang Zhi finally gave up the strong attack.

If you can't even take a small Yun'an County, wouldn't it be a great shame for Long Weijun? Yang Zhi quickly summed up that it was obviously difficult to forcibly attack the city without the catapult as a cover. Unwilling to rely on crowd tactics to forcibly attack the city, Yang Zhi decided to take the most stupid method, that is, to dig a tunnel, hoping that by digging a tunnel, the tunnel mouth can be dug under the city wall, and then buried explosives underneath to blow a gap in the city wall so that the soldiers can kill it.

Since he had this kind of thought, Yang Zhi was ready to do so, after all, there were many cases in history of solving battles by digging tunnels, and he found the blue-eyed tiger Li Yun in the camp.

Yang Zhi said to Li Yun: "Now, General Ben is going to dig a tunnel and come to the city wall, directly blow up a gap in the city wall, and then the army will kill it, you see how long it will take to dig such a long tunnel." ”

"That is, it looks like more than ten zhang, and it is very fast to dig, but the problem is to go down from the riverbed, which is very difficult, so I can't say, and I don't know what to do, so I can only dig and watch, this moat is a river, which is different from most moats, and the gap is also very large."

Yang Zhi didn't like to hear these things the most, he was silent for a long time and then said: "Although the moat is a river, but after all, not the entire moat is a river, there is still a section that can be excavated, of course, it is the most heavily defended place for the enemy, as long as we strengthen the attack to cover your excavation, I don't care so much, it must be dug within ten days." ”

"Yes."

In the Long Xiang Army, it is always the duty to obey orders, and subordinates must implement the orders of their bosses without discounting.

Despite the great difficulty, Li Yun still strictly carried it out, and he personally led the engineers to excavate.

In order to cooperate with the digging of tunnels, Yang Zhi ordered Cao Zheng to continue the siege the next day, but this time the strong attack was dry thunder and no rain, such an attack looked violent, but in fact the casualty rate was very low.

Although facing the siege, Yun'an County is still singing and dancing, and there is no tense atmosphere before the war, and the guy Duan Xiaohu, the lord of the city guard, is still drunk and dreaming of death.

Although Duan Xiaohu is a greedy guy who is afraid of death, greedy for money and lustful, but he is really good to the people in the city, not only did he not expropriate arbitrarily, but the tax was extremely low, not only that, but the judgment was relatively fair, which was destined to be supported by the people.

In the face of the fierce official army, the common people in the city and the rebels hated the same enemy, and young and middle-aged people joined the team defending the city and took the initiative to participate in the transportation of supplies, which greatly affected the defensive pressure of the defenders.

No one believed that the official army would be able to conquer Yun'an County, so most of the people were still living a stable life in the past, and business was still thriving and traffic was busy in the city.

No matter who is the ruler, it will not satisfy everyone, even more so Duan Xiaohu, who can't read a few words, this guy is born with hatred of the rich, it can be said that he robbed the rich and helped the poor, and was supported by most people in the city, but the oppression of the rich is extremely cruel, the richer he is, the more he is squeezed, as if the rich are hollowed out to rest assured.

The reason why the rich are called rich people is that the accumulation of wealth over the years is absolutely unimaginable and incomprehensible to the poor, Duan Xiaohu is in accordance with the understanding of the poor, the attitude of the poor towards wealth to squeeze those rich, although a lot of wealth is squeezed out, but the fact, the hidden wealth of the rich can never be found.

The richest family in Yun'an County was squeezed out of 150,000 yuan, and in Duan Xiaohu's opinion, he had already squeezed out the other party, and he didn't press it anymore, in fact, this money was just a drop in the bucket for the same family.

Although the loss was not large, the eldest son of the same family, Tong Dading, was killed, which made Tonghu Lai Ye very uncomfortable, he was very obedient to Duan Xiaohu's control on the surface, and even took the initiative to donate 100,000 stone food, but behind this was a seed of revenge.

Tonghu's ancestors followed the great grandfather to fight the country, and there has always been the immortal military soul of a soldier in his bones. In the face of Duan Xiaohu's oppression, Tonghu showed great obedience, but secretly he was actively preparing, he wanted revenge, and he wanted to use Duan Xiaohu's head to commemorate his tragic death.

Revenge is waiting for an opportunity, and the extremely forbearant Tonghu is like a person who has nothing to do, he is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance for revenge. This guy who is less than fifty years old has traveled south and north to see the world, of course he understands that the imperial court will never let thieves run rampant, but the time has not yet come.

The imperial court sent the county prince of Qinling, Jiangnan recruited Liu Zhenglong to come to Jiangnan to suppress bandits, which gave Tonghu great confidence, he had carefully studied Liu Zhenglong's resume, this is definitely not a civil official who is powerful, but a decisive killing, with soldiers like a god of war, come to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion, will definitely destroy Fang La, Wang Qing, Song Jiang and other three grass robbers with the momentum of destroying and decaying.

Tonghu is a capable person, and on the second night of the day after learning the exact news, he handed over his younger brother Tongbiao, Tongbao, brother-in-law Li Chai, Song Qian, and his son Tongyun, Tongkai, and Tongli to the secret room for a meeting.

Tonghu said: "All of you are your own people, I won't go around in circles, Wang Qing, a thief, went against the grain and rebelled in Jiangnan, and now the imperial court has sent a large army south, and it will soon be judged." This time the person in charge of suppressing the bandits is the county prince of Qinling, who is known as the jade-faced god of war by the world. Now, we have to do something for the imperial court, and we can also exchange it for the praise of the imperial court. At the same time, Duan Xiaohu, that bastard, killed my son, and extorted 150,000 guan and 100,000 stone grain from our family, and this time we have to make him pay. ”

"yes, it's going to cut this bastard with a thousand cuts." Li Chai is the former magistrate of Yun'an County, he should have been a peace officer, and he lived a comfortable life, as long as there was no major fault, under the operation of the same family, he could soon become a Beijing official, but all this was destroyed by Duan Xiaohu. He put down the teacup and gritted his teeth and said: "I am the same year as the county prince of Qinling, although I have never known each other, but we can be regarded as having a friendship in the same year, I will repair a book and let Lord Liu show us a clear way." ”

In the era of the imperial examination, the literati paid attention to the relationship between them, the same townspeople, the same list, and they were able to get together in the same year, weaving a huge network of relationships, pulling each other together, and helping each other, which gradually formed a civil official group that was difficult for even the emperor to contend with, which was most obvious in the Great Song Dynasty. The second is the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the eunuchs' excessive power, the civil official group headed by the Donglin Party would have buried the daimyo a long time ago. And the Song Dynasty, which was eventually buried, was thought to be a foreign invasion, but in fact it was destroyed in the hands of the civilian clique.

Song Qian was the regimental training envoy of Yun'an County before, and he said: "Big brother, although the Xiang Army has been disbanded, the Bow and Arrow Society is still there, as long as we operate it, it is still feasible to make up one or two thousand soldiers." It is not enough for these soldiers to resist Duan Xiaohu's rule, but as an internal response, it is definitely possible to help the official army take Yun'an County. ”

Tonghu waved his hand and said: "That's what it means to call everyone here today, Yun'an County is the foundation of our family, our ancestors took root here more than a hundred years ago, how can they be squeezed by Duan Xiaohu's bastard." I will pay 200,000 yuan, Song Qian, you will be responsible for recruiting troops and horses, and when the time is ripe, we will open the city gate, cooperate with the outside and take Yun'an County. Li Chai, you hurry up and contact Lord Liu to strive for the support of the imperial court. ”

"Dad, what are we three brothers going to do?" After the eldest brother was killed, Tong Tongyun secretly vowed to take down Duan Xiaohu's head to pay tribute to the undead, and now that he had the opportunity to take revenge, he couldn't bear it.

"There's a chance for you three brothers to make a move." Tonghu said: "Second brother, you have a good relationship with Liu Yunbo, who guards the water gate, you have to try to win him over, money and women, give what you want, pay attention, do this matter secretly, don't dare to leak the news." ”

At the same time, Yun said: "Father, you can rest assured, I can settle Liu Yunbo, the woman he raised in Yunyue Building is all my money, and it is time for him to work for our family." ”

Speaking of this, Tonghu paused for a moment, and he asked, "Third brother, do you have any dealings with Ma Dahai, who guards the arsenal?" ”

"Yes, that guy has been begging me to help him find some beautiful women."

"Very good, give it to him, there is only one condition, and that is to arrange our people to enter the military reserve." Tonghu wants to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, as long as the official army enters the city and digs out the air reserve, then Duan Xiaohu has great ability, and he can't think about turning the sky upside down. He said: "Second brother, third brother, the two of you should hurry up and contact our relatives and friends, contact those who are dissatisfied with Duan Xiaohu, you must control these people, and when the time comes, everyone will work together to help the officers and soldiers open the city gate and welcome the officers and soldiers into the city." ”