A drinking banquet lasted for about an hour and dispersed, and Xiang Boliu returned home drunk, at this time Xiang Liang and a group of Xiang clan members were already waiting in the lobby, as well as several other gentry rangers who were ready to help the Xiang clan rebel, including Zhong Liwu and Long He, the two hardcore accomplices.

Dispersed the servants and closed the door, Xiang Bo told him what he had inquired about in Chu Shengyuan, and all the people in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

"In this case, three days later, the fourth brother from the east gate, the fifth brother from the north gate, the seventh brother from the west gate, the dragon and brother lie outside the south gate, once it starts, Wuzhong will be chaotic, when the time comes to Zhongli brother and a certain leader Xiang Shierlang to attack the county guard office, it is the time to point Mao, you can sweep the officials of Wuzhong net, seize their official seals and military talismans, so that you can order the lieutenants and policemen, as long as you succeed, the big thing will be done, the army is like chess, please don't be negligent, once we don't retreat from the south gate and retreat to the Fujian-China border......"

The matter of the Xiang clan's conspiracy to rebel may be unknown to the entire Great Qin except for Chen Xu's guess.

But it is not clear when the Xiang clan rebelled against Chen Xu, and Chen Xu also has a guess that the Xiang clan will not take such a risk, after all, the development trajectory of Daqin has been distorted by him, but after being successfully ambushed this time, Chen Xu knew that Xiang's ambition could not be suppressed, so he used the illusion of poisoning and dying to reveal a false image to the outside world, so as to lure the Xiang clan to rebel in advance, so that he could have the opportunity to wipe out the Xiang clan. And at the same time, it also gave an extremely strong signal to the emperor and the Manchu civil and military who had begun to slack off, that is, Great Qin was not as peaceful as they imagined, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms were still secretly dormant and ready to move.

Therefore, while releasing the illusion of death, he gave Jiang Heng a reminder and asked him to strictly guard against Xiang's actions.

As for whether Xiang will take the bait Chen Xu is not clear, because this is an extremely fucked up era, not to mention the inconvenience of transportation, there are no telephones and telegrams, Wuzhong and Xianyang are separated by three or four thousand miles, even if it is an urgent letter of four hundred miles, it takes half a month to arrive, and it is a month later to come and go.

Therefore, after Chen Xu sent someone to send a letter to Jiang Heng, he could only wait resigned to fate.

Huipu County, which is three hundred miles southwest of Wuzhong, already belongs to Minzhong County.

Huipu County is a newly built county after the conquest of Minyue, said to be the county seat, in fact, it is similar to a small town in the mountains, there is nothing around except a refugee camp-like camp surrounded by a simple stone wall and fence more than a foot high, which is not only the temporary county governor's mansion, but also the command camp of Gao Yan sitting in Fujian.

It took less than two years for the county to be established in Fujian, and it was also divided into eight county governance areas, but in fact, there are only two counties with names, one is Huipu, and the other is Ye, both of which are close to the border of Huiji, and there is no arrangement for the county guard and the county order and other chief officials, because the mountain is high and the road is far and the traffic is inconvenient, and the Yue people are not subject to the king, so the county of Minzhong has been nominally owned by Daqin, but in fact the governance is very chaotic, under the strong suppression of Gao Yan, it still relies on the management of the Yue chief, and the court does not intend to manage, Fujian is full of deep mountains and old forests, there is no way to go, not to mention the carriage lane, there are very few roads that can ride horses, the Yue people do not ride horses, go out by two legs, except for the area at the junction with Huiji, to the south is simply the place where the savages live, Gao Yan can only be stationed in Huipu, let a group of prisoners and the summoned rangers and idlers go to communicate with those savage Yue people, the result of the exchange is naturally to see whose fist is bigger.

In fact, the Qin Dynasty conquered the Lingnan lands in history, and the management methods were still the same, and the court was allowed to be managed by Zhao Tuo, the generals who conquered Minyue, and appointed the local Yue chiefs as the rulers to govern together, and the real complete jurisdiction over the Lingnan lands was already in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period hundreds of years later, until Sun Quan established the Wu State in Jiangdong, in order to increase the number of soldiers and wealth, he began to develop the Lingnan lands on a large scale, and slowly incorporated the Yue people into the jurisdiction, and Sun Quan also had the blood of the Yue people, Fang Yi was blue-eyed and purple-haired, The appearance of the Central Plains people is very different, it is precisely because Sun Quan's bloodline has been recognized by the Yue people, so Lingnan will quickly submit to the Wu State, and it has also created the Wu State regime to be able to compete with the Wei and Shu countries, plus the Three Kingdoms period sail and sea ship technology is very mature, relying on shipping to and fro quickly, Wu occupied Jiaozhou, South China Sea and other places, greatly expanded the exchanges between the Central Plains and Lingnan, and laid a solid foundation for the national integration after the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Chinese territory of later generations.

The integration of Lingnan into the Chinese territory was largely attributed to Sun Quan, a process that lasted for hundreds of years from the Qin Dynasty.

At present, the rule of Great Qin in Lingnan has just begun.

Gao Yan sat in the humble county governor's mansion made of bamboo and wood, looking at a secret letter sent by Jiang Heng.

The content is very simple, let him mobilize the guards to defend the border between Huiji and Fujian, and beware of the anti-thief Xiang clan escaping to Minyue, this news shocked him very much.

However, after seeing Jiang Heng mentioning that it was the advice of the Marquis of Qinghe at the end of the letter, Gao Yan came to his senses.

He already knew that Chen Xu went to Wuzhong for a private visit in May, and he didn't know the purpose, but according to his son Gao Yao's description of Chen Xu's slapping of Xiang in the face when he came back with an excited look, he guessed that it might be because Chen Xu hated Xiang's provocation so he asked Jiang Heng to eradicate Xiang's hands, so he also felt that it was a bit of a fuss, he and Xiang were not too familiar and not strangers, and he had several contacts with Xiang when he recruited rangers to assist in conquering Minyue, and knew that Xiang was a tyrant in Wuzhong, and he relied on Xiang's help, he quickly recruited a mercenary group composed of 3,000 rangers and idlers, and it took a year to conquer dozens of tribes in Minyue before he had today's status.

Although Fujian is bitter, but after all, he got rid of the identity of the criminal minister, and also made him a soil overlord in this poor mountain and bad water, the real Shangao Emperor let him be at ease, and a large number of goods and rich products snatched from the Yue people were transported to Huiji and the Central Plains and other places through Quhai and other merchants in exchange for a large amount of money, and supported him to gain a firm foothold here.

In the past two years, Gao Yan has completely fallen in love with this place, and now his son has begun to prepare for the tea workshop with Qu Hai and others, to sell the tea in the mountains and mountains to the Central Plains, which is a huge way to make money, after a few months of exploration, the wild tea trees in the vast mountains of southern Fujian are everywhere, only need to give those Yue people some benefits, there will be a large number of Yue people picking tea and sending it to the tea workshop, this is simply a profitable business, as long as the tea development is successful, In a few years, the entire Gao family will soon become a wealthy family that rivals the country, which is much better than the Shui Tea House, which now monopolizes the tea leaves in the Central Plains.

Rich, powerful, and powerful, coupled with the support of the Marquis of Qinghe, the Gao family will soon be able to rank among the first-class wealthy families in Great Qin.

Therefore, although Gao Yan was a little unaware of Jiang Heng's letter, in view of Chen Xu's arrangement, this was a very good opportunity to hug his thighs, so Gao Yan quickly began to prepare, sending a corps composed of 500 soldiers, 1,000 prisoners and 1,000 rangers and idlers to set up ambushes at some mountain passes at the junction of Fujian and Huiji to prevent the Xiang clan from escaping.

As for Chen Xu's assassination injury, Jiang Heng didn't say anything, Gao Yan naturally didn't know anything, what happened in Xianyang a month ago would not have come here at all, and it was estimated that it would be three or five months later when it really came.

If he knew that it was the Xiang clan that assassinated Chen Xu, he would definitely send all his troops directly to Huiji County to help encircle and suppress the Xiang clan, as for the unauthorized transfer of troops by Yue County, it was simply not a matter for him, as long as he didn't say that Jiang Heng didn't say it, no one would know.

In Wuzhong County, Jiang Heng and Xiang were secretly deploying troops in their respective fields.

Xiang thought that Jiang Heng was really just deploying lieutenants and police officers to patrol the bandit leader Ji Bu on all sides.

But Jiang Heng has really been staring at Xiang's moves.

At the end of August, it is the golden mid-autumn season in the north, and Wuzhong in the south of the Yangtze River is still humid and muggy, although the hot heat has receded.

In the early morning of the third day after the Xiang conspiracy, at the beginning of the day, the officials of Wuzhong began to go out on horseback, and the yamen of each department also opened their doors and began to make a difference.

At this time, the sky has just dawned, and a large number of Wuzhong civilians have begun to carry baskets on their backs, carry baskets, drive cattle and horses, and even support small boats to start coming to the county town.

However, the difference today is that there seem to be a lot more civilian merchants entering the city to do business, many of them are ruffians who have recently disappeared, but the patrolling soldiers don't pay much attention.

"Ah~~"

With a scream, one of the soldiers near the east gate who was checking the entry and exit suddenly screamed and slowly fell down with his neck clutched, gurgling blood spurting from between his fingers, and his face was still full of confusion.

The blade in the hand of a burly man was still dripping blood.

"Killed~"

The sudden change caused an instant panic near the city gate, and the crowd of people who entered and exited scattered in panic.

"Kill, don't get away from Jiang Heng~" The big man raised his big sword and roared.

"Choking~~"

In the roar of the big man, there were suddenly countless people in the crowd from the back basket rattan basket around them pulled out weapons and bows and arrows to slash and kill the pedestrians who ran back and forth, and the panic in the chaos expanded more and more, and a battalion of soldiers at the door had not fully woken up.

"Quickly kill the county governor's mansion and capture Jiang Heng alive!"

A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes in the crowd rode into the city gate with a group of people, and hundreds of people behind him also shouted to follow, cutting down people on sight along the way, and the crowd fled in panic amid the terrible screams, spreading quickly into the city like a plague.

At the other two gates in the northwest, hundreds of bandits armed with sharp blades and bows and arrows slashed and killed patrolling soldiers and civilians along the streets, shouting all the way to the county guard's mansion.

When the bandits began to rush towards the county guard in the city, groups of guards in leather armor rushed out of some houses with swords and light crossbows, and under the leadership of the leader, they also hurried to the place of riot, and soon saw the people fleeing in panic on the street and the bandits slashing and killing with sharp knives.

"Kill, don't let go of a bandit!" The head catcher on the horse roared with his sword.

"Kill~~" The guard also roared and raised the bow and crossbow in his hand.

The crossbow arrows continued to flutter like flying locusts, and countless civilians and bandits fell down screaming and indiscriminately.

And among the bandits, there are also many longbows opened, a sharp arrow tearing the air and shooting many guards to the ground, after a round of arrows, the two sides soon collided together, on the street that is no more than three feet wide, with the metal impact and the tearing sound of the blade into the flesh, the stump and broken arm flew wildly, the blood splashed in the roar, roar, cry and wail mixed together, the usually quiet county instantly fell into extreme blood and panic.

However, these guards are all soldiers who have just retreated from the border pass, not only have they killed people, but also maintain the offensive order that the army usually prohibits, these hooligans who are rampant and domineering near Wuzhong on weekdays are opponents, and the bandits are almost defeated under a round of impact, many people are directly frightened on the spot and throw down their blades to flee to the surrounding lanes and houses, and the injured can only lie on the ground and kowtow and beg for mercy, but soon the head is cut off by the police, and the street is full of blood and water.

This kind of scene was staged almost simultaneously on several streets, and the whole county town was instantly panicked, and the pedestrians and fleeing bandits cried and shouted for their mothers to flee in terror and only hated their mothers for having five, six, seven, or eight legs.

"Report~, there are bandits at the east gate!"

"Report~, there are hundreds of bandits in Ximen who slashed and killed civilians, and the casualties are unknown!"

"Report~, there are bandits coming to the county governor's mansion at the north gate!"

Several fast horses galloped to report that there were bandits at the three gates.

In front of the county governor's mansion, the county lieutenant Zhao Dong's whole body armor was riding on the horse, his face trembled slightly, and he hesitated and struggled for a moment in his heart, and then choked and drew his long sword.

"Later, if I see that the bandits dare to have bandits escape, they will all be killed on the spot, and the bow and crossbow will be prepared~"

"Oh~" Several lieutenants behind Zhao Tong all hugged their fists to receive the order, and soon two thousand neatly draped soldiers rushed out of the county governor's mansion and quickly formed a semicircle around the county governor's mansion, and the light crossbows in their hands all clicked and opened.

And just when the bandits from the east, west and north directions attacked the city, in a mansion not far from the county governor's mansion, there were also thousands of bandits wearing simple leather armor and holding bows and crossbow weapons rushed out, and roared to the county governor's mansion under the leadership of Xiang Liang Xiang Bo and Zhong Liwu, but when they were killed at the county governor's mansion, they found that there was already a large army waiting here.