Chapter Twenty-Nine: News Arrives

The water situation in Xuzhou this year is actually not too bad.

After all, by the Yellow River, seven or eight out of ten years have to prevent floods, and the people of Xuzhou have become accustomed to it.

After Zhang Xuan sat on the embankment for four or five days, after the flood peak passed, he gradually withdrew the brigade from the embankment. Replaced by a folk husband. After all, it was impossible for Zhang Xuan to keep his army on the embankment. However, the turbulent waters of the Yellow River made a deep impression on Zhang Xuan.

A few days later, the flood passed, and the sky was unrestrained. Officers and troops everywhere also took action.

The first to move was Lu Zhenfei, who dispatched troops and horses along the canal to Suqian.

In the Yazhong of Suqian County.

Lu Zhenfei has not yet arrived, but the entire courtyard is densely packed, and in several nearby counties, all the prestigious gentry homes are here.

"Your Excellency the Governor has arrived."

All the people stood up, bowed their hands, and said, "I have seen the Governor." ”

"Excuse me." Lu Zhenfei said with a smile.

Today's Lu Zhenfei is over fifty years old, but he is very well maintained, he looks only forty years old, has an excellent demeanor, and he does not wear an official robe, but wears a Confucian costume, which is not much different from the dress of everyone here. It makes people feel close all of a sudden.

Lu Zhenfei can also be regarded as a talent. When the Dutch invaded Penghu, Lu Zhenfei was also a patrol at that time, defeating the Dutch and fighting Liu Xiang, all of which were credited, and a lot of logistics work was done by Lu Zhenfei.

Lu Zhenfei may not be able to go into battle to kill the enemy, but his ability to pacify the place and rectify the soldiers and horses is not small.

"Hello friends, this official is polite." Lu Zhenfei smiled slightly and saluted. said: "Now that the war is urgent, this official will make a long story short. ”

"Your Excellency, please speak." An old man said.

This old man was dressed as a soldier, and he also looked like the head of the local gentry.

Lu Zhenfei said: "You also know about Xuzhou, Xiao Zhang Thief is the son-in-law of Cao Thief, he has always been extremely cruel, and wherever he passes, he can be said to have left no grass. And the two Huai up and down, all rely on this canal, once the canal has a problem, the biggest loss, that is, everyone here. ”

"My lord, we all know this." The old man said respectfully: "I have heard that Lu Gong is wise, if Lu Gong has anything to say, please say it directly, but if we can do it, we will definitely not refuse." ”

"Okay, talk fast." Lu Zhenfei said: "Protecting the canal is to protect your net worth, and the official has no other intentions, so he wants you to come forward to organize and train the team to maintain the calm on the ground." This officer led the officers and soldiers to inspect the canal up and down, and dared to ensure that the thief could not cross the canal no matter what. ”

Lu Zhenfei's style is not a day or two.

In fact, everyone who came today was mentally prepared.

Lu Zhenfei did not have many troops in his hands, and most of his strength was in the hands of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang. There are also some soldiers, which are good for transportation, but it is not good to let them go ashore to fight.

Lu Zhenfei also exchanged letters with Ma Shiying before, wanting to ask Ma Shiying to transfer an army over, Lu Zhenfei also took a fancy to Jin Shenghuan, but he didn't want Cao Ying to go east, Ma Shiying was extremely nervous for a while, and the people on hand were not enough, let alone Lu Zhenfei.

So Lu Zhenfei figured out his own way.

What can he think of, the first way is to ask for help, as soon as Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, is defeated, there is a huge gap in the strength of the troops in the hands of Qiu Zude, the governor of Shandong, not to mention the extreme destruction of Shandong, because the turmoil after the looting of the Dongyu has not completely subsided, where does Qiu Zude have soldiers.

There is only one way, to ask for troops in Nanjing.

Lu Zhenfei exchanged letters with Shi Kefa, and Shi Kefa had already promised Lu Zhenfei that he was going to draw out some of the several armies at hand to go north to support Lu Zhenfei. However, Shi Kefa also said that the soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River are all rotten and unusable, and they cannot go north unless they are rectified.

Therefore, no brigade of men could be sent for a while.

Another way is to ask for troops from the local authorities.

To be honest, along the canal, it is not poor. Even if it is not as good as Jiangnan, it is definitely not a poor place. However, Lu Zhenfei also knew that retraining a group of soldiers, not to mention how the money came from, was not enough time.

Therefore, he organized a large group training, wanting all counties, prefectures, and even towns to defend themselves, and then the limited troops in his hands could be mobilized.

I have to say, it's a good idea.

After Lu Zhenfei used this method, Yangzhou and Huai'an Prefectures, the regimental training peaked, just looking at the roster there are hundreds of thousands, of course, Lu Zhenfei also knows that there is moisture, but this moisture is pressing, there are probably as many as 100,000 regimental training, don't expect them to fight in the field, it is still possible to defend the city alone.

"Adults have a life, and we dare to disobey it." The squires were already mentally prepared in their hearts, and they said one after another.

It is also good for them to hold group exercises.

Not to mention anything else, these people are also accustomed to the chaotic thinking of these years, and they also see that Henan does not know how many big families, how many scholarly families have been extinct, even the famous Guide Hou family, they have to live in the south of the Yangtze River, for these squires and outsiders, they still want to have the power of self-preservation in their hands.

Not to mention, there are a lot of people who take care of the home and nursing home, but they just get it in private.

After Lu Zhenfei convinced these squires, the rest of the things were easy to do, with this canal, there was no shortage of materials, only silver. Lu Zhenfei opened the door widely, and for a while, I didn't know how many soldiers were near Suqian

Arm yourself.

But Lu Zhenfei did not stay in Suqian much, but took a large group of people and crossed the canal to Suining County.

Lu Zhenfei led 17 generals of all sizes, with a total of 20,000 or 30,000 people, to settle in Suining, making the small Suining County impassable.

Not long after Lu Zhenfei settled here, Zhang Xuan arrived.

Zhang Xuan had no intention of staying in Xuzhou for a long time, and after the heavy rain, the flood peak passed, and the ground was almost dry, so he summoned Wang Daoshan over and made his Xuzhou defense envoy a real fight.

Not to mention how Wang Daoshan is grateful, just talk about Zhang Xuan.

He originally intended to go south to Suzhou directly, but I heard that Ma Shiying sent Ding Chukui to settle in Suzhou and integrate the people of Suzhou.

Although Zhang Xuan had not heard of Ding Chukui's name before, he also knew that Ding Chukui was Ding Qirui's uncle, and with him, Ding's voice in Suzhou was greatly strengthened, not to mention that the Ding family army under Ding Qiguang really had some ability. Suzhou City is another fortified city.

There are no crevices to drill. Zhang Xuan was naturally reluctant to gnaw hard bones.

And Zhang Xuan also found a problem, Nanzhili seems to be closer to the canal, the more prosperous it becomes, far from being comparable to the ravaged and unsightly Henan. Zhang Xuan didn't know about other places, but at this moment, Zhang Xuan could see the clues when he looked at Suining City.

First of all, there are many buildings outside the city.

It made Zhang Xuan have a very familiar feeling, because there was such a situation in many places in later generations, the remaining city wall was swallowed up by the urban area and became a part of the city, and Suining has such a taste. There is a river in the south of Suining, which is called a small river by the locals, and there is also a name called Suishui, which is a river that flows from Henan, Suining City is in the north of Suishui, from Suining City to Suishui Wharf, it is quite a prosperous street, almost no one-story houses on it, most of them are two-story small wooden buildings, and even many places have three-story buildings.

This street also has bluestone slabs paved with the city, riding horses, and there is a very crisp sound of horses' hooves, which is extremely pleasant.

It's just a pity that all Zhang Xuan saw was a dilapidated street.

It wasn't Zhang Xuan who made the move, but Lu Zhenfei who ordered it.

At this moment, the hooves of Zhang Xuan's mount stepped on a piece of cloth floating from nowhere, and the word "wine" seemed to be written on it, Zhang Xuan felt that there was a rolling heat wave rushing over the buildings on both sides, and it had already been ignited. It was as if countless flaming arms were swaggering towards the sky.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but feel a little pity.

After all, in Zhang Xuan's opinion, there is no difference between a street here and the county seat. When Henan Chengping was in peace, it was probably the same, but when Zhang Xuan saw it, it had already been destroyed. Zhang Xuan can only get a glimpse of the prosperity of Wanli in this area.

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