Chapter 60: Tuyue Prefecture (2)

Originally, I thought it was just a few thieves holding the banner of "Doing the Way of Heaven" to seek some money, but the Yuezhou guard was ready to turn a blind eye and treat it as if he didn't see it. When they can't stand it anymore, look at the way they beg to come to the door and you can also vent your evil anger.

Now this gang of thieves actually dares to come to brush his tiger whiskers, and there is more than one soldier who has beaten him, and they are obviously guarding the future of Yuezhou. According to his understanding, even if his Yuezhou soldiers were a group of sheep in front of the Yuan soldiers, they were still officers and soldiers, and they wanted to be face-saving, and they would never tolerate the bullying of those bandits. If you swallow your anger like this, you will not only lose your voice, but also lose face.

It's just that what makes Zhizhou and the guard general feel strange is that those who have been robbed and taught a lesson are those bullies and ruffians with bad reputations, but those with good reputations are fine.

But now is not the time to discuss who is good and who is evil, what these bandits are doing is to slap the two of them in the face, and they must get this face back, otherwise they may not even be able to protect the black yarn hat.

These regular soldiers, disguised as bandits, beat up and robbed the bullies in their homes, and they were all very happy.

Because it was usually these bullies who bullied them, but now they have ravaged these bullies, watching them kneel in front of them and beg not to beat, smash, or rob their belongings, it is a bad breath.

After preparing grain and grass in Zhizhou, the defenders of Yuezhou prepared to march to the areas where "bandits" often frequented. Although the guard general is a mediocre talent, he is not a fool, he knows that weapons are not the most important thing, morale is, although he usually drinks a lot of soldiers' blood, but he also knows how to take some money to stimulate morale when he has combat missions.

Seeing these white flowers and silver, the group of soldiers who couldn't stand on their feet immediately came to their senses, and they held their heads high, as if they were a well-trained iron army.

Knowing that this group of rabble has little combat effectiveness, but Shi Bin does not approve of hand-to-hand combat like robbing the landlord's bully's house, these Yuezhou soldiers are still stronger than ordinary landlords' guards, and they can't make the slightest mistake to let the Yuezhou guards know their true identities.

So, before the Yuezhou garrison commander began to encircle and suppress, Shi Bin revised the military order and ordered the attack to be carried out in the capital; Use crossbows that attack from a distance as much as possible; and not to lay a dead hand, and not to leave a wounded soldier behind; Once defeated, retreat immediately.

The guard wanted to fill this group of "bandits" with crowd tactics, but who knew that their weapons and equipment were quite ferocious, almost all of them were crossbows, and they were not the 'rusty' swords, guns, swords, and halberds that those landlord bullies said at all.

At that time, it was very painful to be injured by an arrow, and it was difficult to pull out because the arrow was squeezed by the muscles; If forcibly pulled out, the arrow hook will also bring out the muscle tissue, causing secondary injury.

As a result, many soldiers who were wounded by arrows had to have their limbs sawed, and those who were shot in the guts had to die, so the soldiers generally preferred to fight with a group of archers or crossbowmen.

Looking at the bandits who were not only not surrounded, but also had such strong combat effectiveness, although the Yuezhou guards were furious, they were helpless. Before half an hour of fighting, the army completely retreated due to heavy casualties.

After all, a few taels of silver are not comparable to your own life. No matter how much the guard commanded, no one would turn around and attack again.

When the deserter was of course to be beheaded, of course, he cut off the heads of several deserters who were usually unpleasant, but he still could not prevent his sergeants from escaping.

As the saying goes: the law does not blame the public. Knowing that this battle could not be fought, the Yuezhou guard had no choice but to withdraw to the city, and communicated carefully with Zhizhou in frustration, euphemistically saying that he had tried his best, but he was still unable to do anything.

Na Zhizhou didn't expect this group of ruffians who only knew how to oppress the people to solve the problem, but he didn't expect it to be so unruly, and after only half an hour of fighting, he would never go back again.

Seeing that the annual appraisal is coming, if you want to keep your seat, you must at least add a thick red envelope to the middle of the evaluation; If bandits are rampant in the territory, I am afraid that even a silver mountain will not be useful. Even if it is useful, then when the corruption and bribery that have been feared all day long in the past few years have not been done in vain? So the governor of Yuezhou decided to find foreign aid.

Knowing that the matter had reached the stage where it was time to conclude, Jia Ling wrote a letter to Jia Nidao, which read: There is such a big thing in Yuezhou, since the local garrison cannot solve the problem, Shi Bin is willing to "help". Just ask him to hand over the military command of Yuezhou to Shi Bin, so that he can exterminate the bandits and let Shi Bin temporarily stay in Yuezhou.

Jia Rudao, who saw the family letter, was very helpless, he knew his daughter's temperament very well, she belonged to not hitting the south wall and not looking back, if she didn't agree, she would grind hard until he agreed. What's more, the Yuezhou guard is indeed a waste, and hundreds of bandits can't be eliminated, so what's the use of him?

Although he was ready to agree to his daughter's request, after all, it would be good for him if his son-in-law had a lot of energy. However, he was still very puzzled as to why so many extremely combat-effective bandits suddenly appeared in the usually calm rear, and this matter was very strange. knew that this was most likely a bureau set up by Shi Bin's gang, but he still decided to send a special envoy to investigate.

The governor of Yuezhou and the guard general thought that this matter would not be a big deal, as long as they passed the annual evaluation. After all, this is just a group of bandits who don't kill people but only rob money, but they didn't expect that in less than half a month, they were known by Jia Yidao, the commander of Huguang, and sent a special envoy to question the two of them.

As if sitting on a red-hot soldering iron, the two of them were extremely anxious, and the superiors specially sent an envoy to inquire and explain that they had begun to pay attention to it, and if this matter could not be properly resolved, the black yarn hat would definitely not be guaranteed.

Before meeting with the envoy, the two prepared the right reasons in advance to save mistakes.

After all, the Yuezhou guard general is just a military general, and his brain is not very good at turning, thinking that it is good to spend thirty or fifty taels of silver to find a few seriously injured and amputated sergeants to deal with it, after all, this is also a habitual trick. The governor of Yuezhou is a civil minister, and he has been in the conspiracy for a long time, and thinks that finding a few people to deal with it is not enough to deal with the envoy, and not only human evidence but also physical evidence is needed.

The Yuezhou guard immediately understood what this physical evidence was, so he ordered his men to go to the battlefield and collect thousands of crossbow arrows to use as "physical evidence". This person's evidence and physical evidence are complete, as long as Shangfeng has no intention of investigating deeply, the matter will pass.

After the arrival of the envoy, the two of them slapped their sycophants like flowers, and when asked about the situation of the bandits, the Yuezhou guard was naturally only vague, but Zhizhou was familiar with this, and he was born as a Jinshi, and he naturally described the bandits as extremely vicious and unmatched, and most importantly, almost all of them were equipped with murder weapons - crossbows.

This is obviously a half-truth, and of course the envoy will not be incorruptible, but he can't listen to all of them, and he is too stupid to ask to see the wreckage of weapons left on the battlefield.

With preparation, he didn't panic when he had the bottom in his heart, and Zhizhou calmly signaled the servants to carry the crossbow arrows left on the battlefield to the envoy for inspection, to show that he was "fighting bravely to kill the enemy" and retreated because he couldn't support it, but it was definitely not a rout. And promised that the bandits would definitely be wiped out, but they just needed some support. In the end, he also gave 100 taels of silver "tea money", and the envoy said that he "sought truth from facts" to report the situation.

Seeing the crossbow arrows brought back by the envoy, Jia Rudao affirmed his judgment, this is definitely the bureau set up by Shi Bin, because in the entire Jinghu South Road, there is no general who loves and is good at attacking the enemy with crossbow arrows.

However, with the Yuezhou Zhizhou taking the initiative to request support, Jia Yidao can justifiably transfer Shi Bin's troops to Yuezhou, and he will not leave any handle.

Sure enough, as soon as the army led by Shi arrived, after two "fierce battles", all the bandits were exterminated, and he also stationed his army in the Pingjiang area.

As the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, Shi Bin thinks that he is just a guest dragon, it is better not to be too public, it is better to be low-key, but Jia Ling and the other brothers think that low-key is the right thing to do, but they should not stop there, and if possible, they will simply knock the Yuezhou guard off the stage.

There is no one who does not want to become more powerful, it is just a matter of active acceptance and passive acceptance, Shi Bin is more subtle, and he neither supports nor opposes this suggestion.

Jia Ling and Wang San, who knew their temperament well, let Yuezhou have a few "small accidents", but these "small accidents" were not in the area guarded by Shi Bin. In this way, the life of the Yuezhou guards is even more difficult.

Although he has long been deeply rooted in Yuezhou, the interests of the powerful in the state are naturally no longer supported by him, but instead support Shi Bin, who can keep him safe. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, the drums were beaten by thousands of people, and even some people who had a holiday with it began to stab black knives and play with falling stones.

Although the governor of Yuezhou is mediocre, he is not stupid, and when he saw the changes in the bandits in the state, he immediately understood the mystery. When the report letter in his hand accumulates to a certain thickness, he has become the most powerful promoter of the Yuezhou guard to remove the general, and at the same time ask the imperial court to appoint a new guard as soon as possible.

Jia Ling, who was worried about what to do under Jia Ling's brutal anger, didn't expect this Yuezhou Zhizhou to be so sensible, and he was very happy. Thanked him and hinted that he would be considered if he had any strengths or weaknesses. Of course, Zhizhou knew that this was just a polite remark, but he was sure that his black gauze hat was saved.

With the support of Jia Yidao and the cooperation of the governor of Yuezhou, Shi Bin temporarily took the post of Yuezhou guard. As for the original Yuezhou guard, he was demoted to the capital head because of his ineffective combat and was sent to guard the city gate.

After entering Yuezhou, he basically did the same thing as in Tanzhou, but because Shi Bin is now the son-in-law of the commander of Huguang, things are much easier. As long as the relationship is opened up a little, no one will deliberately stumble without opening their eyes, so that Tanzhou and Yuezhou are under his control militarily for less than a year.

Because of his son-in-law who can fight well, Jia Rudao's waist is also much stiffer, and he always thinks that Shi Bin can fight and score a few heads of Yuan soldiers, so that he can be promoted quickly.

With this consensus, Jia Rudao and Shi Bin's gang can be regarded as urinating into a pot, and they have completely become complicit. Of course, Shi Bin would not do anything that would collaborate with the enemy and betray the country and hurt nature and reason, but he could do some illegal things.

Jia Ling saw that her father and husband had such a tacit understanding, and they kept pulling the strings in the middle, hoping that her husband would become stronger and stronger.

Since Shi Bin has controlled Tanzhou and Yuezhou, and the territory is still the land of fish and rice and rich in resources, his heart has also begun to grow, and he has secretly communicated with Jia Ling several times how to completely control Jinghu South Road, and where to control Jinghu South Road.

Seeing that Shi Bin has now changed from passive acceptance to active seeking, Jia Ling and Wang San brothers are very happy, and an enterprising husband and eldest brother are what everyone wants.