Chapter 67: I Fought with You
Fang Baihua has always been a proud peacock-like woman, she has her own pride, but in the past few days, it can be said that she has been hit hard, first Honghe Town was ransacked, followed by the loss of Muzhou, not only lost the army, but even the general Shi Bao, whom her father valued more, disappeared mysteriously.
It all started with the killing of his uncle, and then there was a succession of bad luck, but Fang Baihua, who was under pressure, didn't really realize that the crisis was coming, so he didn't tell Fang La what happened in Muzhou as soon as possible.
The reason why Fang Baihua suppressed the affairs of Muzhou was mainly because the official army had successfully recaptured Hangzhou recently, and most of the 100,000 troops had been lost.
didn't tell Fang La, it doesn't mean that Fang Baihua doesn't pay attention to it, she has already ordered the road in Qingxi Town to be blocked, and to conduct door-to-door investigations, and once a suspicious person is found, she will be executed directly. Not only that, the entire Qingxi Town has entered a state of combat readiness, all the rebels are armed to take up their posts, insist on patrolling every day, and the patrol range has been expanded to more than ten miles outside Qingxi Town, of course, it is also natural to plan the treasure within the patrol range.
Fang Jin and Fang Hammer have been in a mess these days, and they began to calculate how much benefit they could get after the official army recovered Qingxi Town, and Fang Hammer finally agreed to marry his sister to Fang Jin.
At this time, Fang Jin completely admired Liu Zhenglong, and the entire Qingxi Town was turned upside down, and almost every inch of the corner was searched, but this guy seemed to not exist at all, and he still stayed in Qingxi Town, and he couldn't be searched.
The tighter the search, the more opportunities there were for Fang Jin, Fang Hammer, Xie Cuihua, and Fang Yunyun, and they were secretly active below, and many people were developed to work for the government.
The more soldiers in Qingxi Town, the more afraid the people became, as if they would kill the officials and soldiers at any time. After all, they are all ordinary people who have never seen the world, in their minds, Fang Lana is not called an uprising, but a rebellion, and once it fails, it will be killed and the nine clans will be exterminated. A mud leg can't fight against the imperial court, you see that this Bumu Prefecture was easily recovered by the official army, Honghe Town refused to serve the government, and the whole town was suppressed.
Because Fang Baihua adopted a high-pressure policy and blocked the news, the lies of Fang Jin and others spread very quickly below, and so many people believed that the government would soon clear Qingxi Town.
Qingxi Town is always Fang La's lair after all, and the Fang family is still very powerful in the local area, so that the activities of Fang Jin and others have been exposed.
Thirty-seven people, including Fang Jin and Fang Hammer, were executed in the center of the town, and their heads were hung on the flagpole. It was Fang Hu who did this, this guy originally wanted to kill chickens and monkeys and deter Naxi from making an example, but he didn't expect it to backfire, so that the people could see that Fang La was really not an uprising, but a rebellion. indiscriminately killing innocents is destined to be annihilated by the imperial court. In this way, the undercurrent of Qingxi Town is surging, and the situation is gradually out of control.
A spark can start a prairie fire, and the common people are even more opposed to the rebels in private, in their eyes, this group of rebels is not worthy of the word rebels, as long as the officials and soldiers come, everyone is willing to give the officials and the army an internal response to drive away the rebels.
The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, at this moment Qingxi Town has reached the point of the cup bow and snake shadow, from Fang Baihua to the rebels below, everyone's nerves are very tight, especially Fang Biao, who is short-tempered and kills people at every turn, almost to the point that he can't live without killing people every day.
Rebels robbing the common people have happened repeatedly, and there are often rebels who are secretly killed by people for no apparent reason, all of which indicates that Qingxi Town has reached a critical moment of survival.
Liu Zhenglong wanted this effect, and when Fang Hu and Fang Biao fought for Fang Zaitian's ninth aunt, the official army finally arrived.
It was the second day of the second month of February, and it was a good day for the dragon to raise its head, and at noon it was cloudless and the sky was clear, but when he was about to finish eating, suddenly there was a violent storm, lightning and thunder. The rebels, whose nerves had long been tense, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they all hid to rest, in their opinion, the officers and soldiers would not come on such a night.
Not to mention the soldiers below, even Fang Baihua thought that it was absolutely impossible for the officers and troops to attack Qingxi Town on this night of wind and rain, lightning and thunder. It was also on this night that the two brothers, Fang Hu and Fang Biao, after getting drunk, fought because they were fighting for their father's ninth aunt.
On this stormy night, under the leadership of Yan Shun, Bao Xu, and Mu Hong, the Long Xiang army entered Qingxi Town in three ways. After the three-way dragon army arrived at the designated position, the navy began to exert its power again, and directly launched an attack on the town with a stone thrower.
To be honest, this attack will not have any effect at all, but it has dealt a great psychological blow to the rebels, and it has also announced to the common people the fact that the official army is coming.
It was this night attack that seemed to be useless that completely crushed Fang Baihua's fragile nerves, and she understood that the official army was not trying to seize Qingxi Town at all, to put it bluntly, they just wanted to plunder the wealth here.
Between defending Qingxi Town and protecting the treasure, Fang Baihua chose the latter very uncomfortably, losing Qingxi Town was just a bad deal to his father, but if he lost the treasure, he would not be able to explain it to the believers of the millions of Holy Fathers.
Fang Baihua just knew that there was a treasure, but she really didn't know how much gold, silver and jewelry there was in the treasure, if it was clear, she would definitely not choose to leave with the treasure.
The gold, silver and jewelry in the treasure were loaded with forty carts, and it seemed that Fang Zaitian had lied to Liu Zhenglong at the beginning, but these are no longer important, the key is that there are so many gold and silver jewelry, how can it be transported away without knowing it?
Although she regretted it a little in her heart, Fang Baihua, who had no better way, could only choose to take the army for escort and escort this treasure to her father.
also knows what Fang Baihua thinks, leaving 3,000 people to guard Qingxi Town, maybe he wants to protect his father's lair, and his father has an explanation. But such a division of troops is obviously a taboo for soldiers and an absolute mistake.
Although there were 5,000 rebels escorting them, it was obviously not an easy task to pull away forty carts of gold and silver treasures.
While walking on the mountain road, a car accidentally overturned, and boxes full of gold, silver and jewelry fell to the ground, which immediately caused a commotion. In the course of the scramble, the rebels fought with each other, and more and more people joined the warband, which in turn led to a fight of hundreds of people.
In desperation, Fang Baihua could only order a suppression, but this crackdown really broke many people's hearts. Following the uprising of the Holy Father, I wanted to live a stable and prosperous life, but in the end, it ended up like this.
The attack, two hundred cavalry suddenly attacked, and the rebels were in chaos, but this attack lasted for a short time and did not cause much damage to the rebels.
Although the attack did not hurt much, the rebels who were already nervous to death were even more panicked, especially after seeing the gold, silver and jewelry, many people lost themselves and were unwilling to serve the Holy Father, nor were they willing to escort the treasure, and everyone hoped to get a piece of the pie.
In this way, the cavalry harassed constantly, causing the rebels to march very slowly, until it was almost dark, and did not go out and did not reach the ideal safe area.
Attack, this time there was another attack, but this time it was not a simple archery attack, but the Long Xiang army killed it.
In the darkness of the night, this group of rebels was about the same as the blind men, they could not see anything, and when they were attacked in this situation, this group of frightened rebels began to flee in all directions like frightened birds.
The trees fell and scattered, and at this time, the rebels were scattering and fleeing, and it was no longer something that Fang Baihua could control, and the whole situation was out of control.
On this night, the attack looked menacing, but in fact it was thunder and rain, but despite this, most of the rebels fled, and less than two thousand remained.
However, after dawn, Fang Baihua realized that he had made a fatal mistake and chose the wrong road, this road had to cross the river, or he would have to take a detour of more than 200 miles.
What to do, where to go, crossing the river, being afraid of not having a boat, even more afraid of being attacked, if you take a detour, it is too hard. However, for the sake of insurance, Fang Baihua finally chose to take a detour, was attacked by an official ship, and said that he didn't dare to cross the river.
When passing by a mountain pass, suddenly rolled down from the mountain, huge trees, boulders, stunned the team into two sections, the most terrible thing is that the cart transporting gold, silver and jewelry was isolated, Fang Baihua, who felt extremely frightened in his heart, desperately wanted to turn over to protect those gold, silver and jewelry, but the rebels below did not think so, and began to flee in all directions.
Defeated without a fight, Fang Baihua at this moment wanted to cry without tears, and at this time, Liu Zhenglong appeared at a very timely time, he looked at the heartbroken Fang Baihua and said: "It's all over, the Holy Father will also become history, you want me to atone for your father's sins, instead of going all the way to the dark, wrong again and again." ”
"You dog official, you and I have no grievances in the long run, and no enmity in the near future, why do you have to work hard to kill each other." Fang Baihua was furious, and she swung her sword and stabbed at Liu Zhenglong.
Liu Zhenglong shot back, and said coldly: "What is the fault of the people in Jiangnan, why were they burned, killed and looted? What is the fault of the people of Honghe Town, they were ransacked by Shi Bao, the general of the Nanli Dynasty under your father's command, and all the men, women and children in the family of the ten richest people were killed, and by the way, even your future husband was executed. This is called rebellion, and you want to destroy the nine tribes. If you are filial, you should think of a way out for your father. ”
"I'm fighting with you." Fang Baihua was about to collapse, he didn't expect that the bloody case in Honghe Town was planned by Shi Bao, and he didn't expect that he would have to watch over the widow. She only has one thought now, that is, to kill the dog official in front of her, and then kill herself again, so that she can repay her father's nurturing kindness.