Chapter 10: Ling Mengchu

After Zhang Xuan explained this matter, he didn't leave two of them. Cheng Jikong and Wang Daoshan immediately said goodbye and left.

Out of the county office, Wang Daoshan saw that there was no one around, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhang Xuan insulted me like this, I will repay it." ”

Cheng Jikong said: "Brother Wang, be careful that the wall has ears. ”

Wang Daoshan was shocked when he heard this, and immediately looked around, but found no trace of others, and it took a long time to breathe a sigh of relief. But I didn't dare to say it anymore, I didn't say anything.

At this moment, Cheng Jikong sighed slightly in his heart, and looked down on Wang Daoshan more and more. On the contrary, he looked at Zhang Xuan with admiration, and said secretly in his heart: "I thought that Zhang Xuan was just a lucky noblewoman, but it seems that this Zhang Xuan still has some ability." I can't say that my dragon merit is going to be on Zhang Xuan. ”

Cheng Jikong didn't care about the so-called Xuzhou defense envoy because he promised Wang Daoshan. Therefore, when attacking the city, he did not exert much effort, so after the army entered Xiao County, Cheng Jikong's tribe was behind, and there were no Cheng Jikong's subordinates among those who violated military law.

The board hit someone else, and Cheng Jikong didn't feel pain.

And for people with strength and ambition, they hope that the Lord is a man with skills and strength. If it is just kindness and care for them, people like Cheng Jikong will not be convinced.

"However, why have I always heard Zhang Xuan say that it is King Wu, Cao Cao, not Dashun, or Emperor Yongchang. Could it be that there is something wrong between Cao Ying and Chuang Ying? Cheng Jikong's political sense is very keen, but he didn't think much about it, because he was already on the boat at the moment, and it didn't make sense to talk about it anymore.

Among the county offices.

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother Cao, what do you think of these two people? ”

"Cheng Jikong may be useful, Wang Daoshan is still alive, and his mind may have died under that knife." Cao Zongyu said with a sneer.

"That's what I want, but even if it's a corpse, I'm going to use it." Zhang Xuan said with a wry smile: "Who let the righteous army not have enough talents, you take the Nanyang battalion to rectify the two armies, Wang Daoshan's department doesn't need to work hard, and the focus is on Cheng Jikong." He'll be your subordinate in the future. ”

"Understood." Cao Zongyu said.

After Zhang Xuan divided the thieves in Xuzhou, he picked out the strong men, made the remaining old and weak, and ordered Zhang Su to settle the camp on the spot. Even though Zhang Xuan knew that Xuzhou was now the land of the four wars, even if they were resettled on the spot, these people might not be able to avoid the war. But what needs to be done, still has to be done. Zhang Xuan can't fight with so many old and weak.

In this way, Zhang Xuan discovered that the sum of Cheng Jikong's department and Wang Daoshan's department was only 15,000 strong people.

It's nowhere near as strong as they say it is. It's just a vain old and weak force.

It was at this time, Xiao

The news of the county seat was also broken in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is only forty-five miles northeast of Xiao County. It's just that the person who can really take charge of things in the city at this moment is Ling Mengchu.

This person is also a well-known figure, but his talent is not above being an official, but above writing, and he is a first-class family at that time. His representative works include "The Surprise of the First Moment" and "The Surprise of the Second Moment", which together with Feng Menglong's works are called "Three Words and Two Shots".

However, Ling Meng's journey to the first imperial examination was extremely bumpy. Tried and tested. At the age of 60, he was still not ranked, and he was appointed as a deputy tribute official, first appointed in Shanghai, with a reputation for governance, and later transferred to the deputy envoy of Xuzhou. He is in charge of the river.

When He Tengjiao gathered all the officials to ask Chen Xiaoyi's plan, Chen Xiaoyi was Cheng Jikong's pseudonym, and then his popularity grew and he abandoned it. Ling Mengchu didn't say a word.

That night, He Tengjiao summoned Ling Mengchu, and Ling Mengchu said: "I know that He Gongzhi must be called, and the bonlight is already waiting." Immediately presented "Ten Strategies for Suppressing Thieves", He Tengjiao was overjoyed when he heard it, thinking that he was a confidant, the former Wu Jiaji's battle, and Ling Mengchu had a meritorious service.

He Tengjiao was transferred, and in a hurry, he handed over the military affairs to Ling Mengchu and asked him to take his place temporarily.

It's not that He Tengjiao doesn't want Ling Mengchu to take his place. Rather, it can't.

In the officialdom, pay attention to the name of the department, Ling Mengchu is just a tribute person, and he doesn't say a lot of things at all. But the other officials in Xuzhou are all mediocre people, and He Tengjiao is not at ease when he hands it over to others, so he can only hand it over to Ling Mengchu. He also knew that Ling Mengchu could not convince the public, so he specially explained to Ling Mengchu that he should calm down. Just wait for Ma Shiying's instructions.

I first heard that there was a police in Xiao County

The Ding brothers, as well as the guerrilla Liu Shichang and the garrison Zhuo Sheng, also asked for battle.

Only Ling Mengchu did not move, and was strictly ordered not to fight.

The generals were afraid of He Tengjiao's prestige and did not dare to be presumptuous, but they said a lot of ugly words, and Ling Mengchu has forty out of sixty this year, and he has already passed the time of anger, but the result is less than a day, Xiao County has fallen, and there are even Zhang Xuan, Yuan Shizhong, and Yang Shenzu's generals are in Xiao County.

For a time, Xuzhou was shocked.

Zhang Xuan, Yang Shenzu, they are not very familiar. But Yuan Shizhong is an old acquaintance with them. Yuan Shizhong haunted the eastern part of Henan, and the northwest of Nanzhili, and it was not a day or two. Compared with Yuan Shizhong, Cheng Jikong is several points worse.

Yuan Shizhong was shocked when he came back, but he didn't expect that Yuan Shizhong was not the commander, the commander was Zhang Xuan, the commander of the Cao Ying's right army. I was even more shocked.

However, they were shocked that Cao Ying's people had arrived here, not that they were shocked by Zhang Xuan's arrival, although Zhang Xuan was famous, but after all, it was not as famous as Luo Rucai's reputation that had been rampant in the world for decades.

For a while, it was rumored that there were 10,000 or 20,000 horses from Cao Ying, and then it was spread more and more, but the main force of Cao Ying's 100,000 people came to Xuzhou

There are those who want to take advantage of the chaos and escape. Ling Mengchu, with his old and weak body, took more than a dozen servants, and several soldiers escaped with blades, and ordered the generals, saying: "Fengyang reinforcements will arrive soon. ”

The armies were determined, and then the gates of the city were closed, and the whole city was under martial law.

Anyone who dares to go out on the street for no reason will be killed.

After Ling Mengchu finished doing this, he returned to the mansion and sat on the chair, unable to get up.

"Father, why do you have to suffer so much. I'll do that. Ling Chu said.

Ling Chu is Ling Mengchu's third son, Ling Mengchu has five sons, the eldest son, the second son is also older, and the fourth son and the fifth son are still young, only the third son Ling Chu is in his early twenties, he has just gotten married, and there is nothing to do at home, so let him follow his father to take care of him.

Ling Chu said as he undressed his father, and wiped his father's sweat after wetting it with a sweat towel.

Ling Mengchu took the sweat towel and said while wiping the sweat: "You think they are afraid of me, an old man, no, what they are afraid of is officials." As soon as you are white, what is the use of going up, you will definitely be killed by the rebels. ”

Ling Chu was a little unconvinced, and didn't talk nonsense, and said, "Dad, this time the thieves are menacing, can Xuzhou hold it?" ”

Ling Mengchu's face suddenly turned cold, and he reprimanded: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." ”

Ling Chu immediately bowed his head and said yes, but from his father's tone, he also felt that the future was not good, and said in a low voice: "Otherwise, Dad, let's go back to Jiangnan." Don't be this official anymore. ”

"Presumptuous." Ling Mengchu said angrily: "As an official of the imperial court, how can I escape from the battle and go to kneel outside. ”

"Oh." Ling Chu could only obediently kneel under the dripping eaves.

Ling Meng didn't even have the strength to be angry for a while. For the sixty-four-year-old man, who had already consumed all his energy and energy, he sat on a chair and closed his eyes. He secretly said in his heart: "Xinzhi, you don't understand me." ”

Salary is Ling Chu's word.

Ling Meng was half-bodyed, and when he was old, he was mixed with an official and a half-job, and he was about to make a career with his heart. proves that he Ling Mengchu is not only able to write those words that can't be put on the table. He is also a man of the world.

Moreover, Chongzhen's selection of people is eclectic, and he has repeatedly become a feudal official within a few years, and there is a precedent for Ling Mengchu to do a great career before he died. Good history is famous, reported to the country, and is under Anshuli.

The heart of meritorious service that has been suppressed for decades is the older you get. And now, although it is in a time of crisis, it is not the case, how can Ling Mengchu get the power of a state.

For Ling Mengchu, this is also where the opportunity lies.

However, thinking of the current situation in Xuzhou, Ling Mengchu was inevitably a little worried, he knew that with the men and horses in Xuzhou City, he could only hold on and not break the enemy. If you want to break the enemy, you can only see what Ma Shiying does.

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