Under this banner of new colors. Gao Maoqing, the new Jiangxi observer of the imperial court, was also looking at these battlefields nervously and solemnly. At least judging from his surname, he is undoubtedly the clansman of the high county king and high envoy of the "pillar of the southern sky" and "the minister of the country".

This famous general at that time has always been virtuous and does not avoid relatives, and is also willing to promote his own children; Therefore, in the places where he served, the Gao clan also repeatedly served as key ministries, and was able to spread all over Helong, Jingzhao, Fengxiang, Xichuan, Annan, and eastern Zhejiang.

Gao Maoqing is one of them. It's just that as a member of the Gaojun royal family of this famous family in the Bohai Sea and the forbidden army, there is naturally a difference between relatives and relatives. Judging from the name, you can know that Gao Maoqing is a distant relative who has not been out of five suits and is within three generations, and he can barely be called "uncle".

Later, after Gao Maoqing was selected for the Ming Classics, he did not choose to go through the examination and examination of the Ministry of Officials, and he was waiting to be released as a candidate to apply for the post of envoy from the Makunishi River Festival; As a result, in the battle against Nanzhao, he accumulated some qualifications and broadened his horizons, and was further promoted to the judge of Xishan and the key envoy of Qingxi Pass.

It's just that this man who likes to pretend to be a god in front of the battle, and the trick of driving the Liujia divine soldiers, is really unpopular and makes many people dare not speak out; Coupled with the later sudden changes in Chengdu; The practice of slaughtering local commandos with guest troops, old and young, has greatly failed the support of the local people since then.

Of course, they did not dare to compete with this murderous and ruthless enough to the enemy and the person; But after he left office, he inevitably squeezed out and alienated in disguise, and even embarrassed the children of the Gao clan who stayed behind.

Therefore, Gao Maoqing, who was in charge of building a fence outside Qingxi Pass, was inevitably affected by the pond fish; In the end, he could only think of the origin of this uncle, and sought to get out of this situation of inability to act; But he is also a candidate from the imperial examination, and he is a member of the Gao family.

The imperial court issued a decree ordering people with lofty ideals to go to the south where thieves are frequent, to recover the land and rebuild the king; They specially selected such a group of noble-born and loyal and reliable disciples, and took the blank granted by the imperial court to the place to recruit and gather those "loyal and righteous people" who thought of the imperial court.

said that he was the Jiangxi Observer and the assassin of Hongzhou, but in fact he was brought to office; In addition to a stack of blank farewells and a few light and expensive treasures issued from the palace, there are only hundreds of armed troops, plus outlaws, rangers, and evil boys recruited on the road.

As for the choice of those staff, there is no one, because no one wants to risk his life by coming over, and maybe he will die on the road or in the land that day. After all, he, the so-called Jiangxi observer, has no name and no land to gain a foothold, and he is not even among the thieves.

Moreover, at the beginning, the imperial court specially selected a group of loyal people from reliable backgrounds, and there were hundreds of additional ents into the ranks; But the day after the completion of the official appointment, more than half of these people were already missing. It is said that it was due to various emergencies overnight or accidents at home.

In the end, he entered the palace to thank Heavenly Grace, and accepted the words of the envoy sitting behind the curtain on his behalf, and there were only forty or fifty people who gave the words of exhortation from the Holy Lord today; Then the routine of giving and rewarding, and after the unpleasant feast; Most of them scattered outside the palace gate on the spot, saying that the elders of the family were in a hurry.

In the end, a dozen people, under the leadership of the officials of the political hall, took the documents from the official department and came to Zuoyintaimen to receive the financial silk allocated by the imperial court; As a result, I opened the box on the spot and found that it was full of old things used by the palace market to force the people. At this moment, some people immediately scolded, and some people were disappointed and wanted to leave.

At this time, there were prime ministers Dou Luyuan and Cui Yan, who personally brought a group of subordinates to visit and comfort them; Then he reprimanded the palace gatekeeper who provided the goods; and handed over a batch of donations that were said to have been raised from many families in the city, and only then did they re-appease them.

In the end, after a few days of preparation, when they set off with their relatives and Hu, they found that the number of each other's hands was incomplete. The places where they receive and distribute are also different. First-class rich places such as Jiangdong and Liangzhejiang are also undesirable for Gao Maoqing.

He could only settle for the second best thing to make up for the lack of Jiangxi Road that he let out because he was sick on the spot; Then they said goodbye to each other and wished good luck, and took a dozen of them on a long journey; A lot of things happened on the road.

As soon as he walked out of the range of Tongguan, two servants disappeared; Then outside the Heyang Bridge near the eastern capital, someone secretly stole his mount overnight, and wanted to escape privately, but was caught and sentenced on the spot. Then, at the ferry crossing of Huaishui, he encountered a gathering of hungry people, and lost some of his bags and equipment.

As for his companions who also set off together, some went directly south to Xichuan through Sanguan, some went to Shangzhou to Shannan, and some came to Kanto like him, but they found an excuse to enter Luoyang City and never came out, and at this time there was no news at all.

And in the Central Plains out of the Tiger Prison, although it is claimed to be under the rule of the imperial court; But among the many cities guarded by officials and soldiers, there are endless streams of thieves and groups of homeless people wandering the way.

Then there were officials and soldiers who went back and forth, expelled and captured, and among them were considered meritorious. Even Gao Maoqing and his entourage would have almost not been spared if they hadn't had mules and horses for the journey. After the land crossed the Huaishui and entered Haozhou, there were only a few people left with two or three kittens around him.

According to the advice and promise of the prime minister Zheng Zheng and Zheng Daxianggong, who advocated this matter, as long as they can recover a land, they can be granted the responsibility of a land; As long as the imperial court gets accurate information, it will be posthumously recognized.

It's like the inspirational story of Zeng Gon, the nephew of Zeng Yuanyu, the former Pinglu Jiedu envoy and the capital commander who died in office a few years ago, and claimed to be the protector of Jiedu and Duhu after recovering from the Annan base for a while; The "pillars of the court" who call for and encourage these can make a difference in the southern land where the thieves are rampant.

It's just a little ridiculous that the relevant news was actually announced by the thief army, and the imperial court was able to hear about it and posthumously gift and seal it. And Cui Anqian and others, who privately helped this martyr back then, were able to benefit from the addition of officials and knighthood.

Therefore, after he arrived in Huainan, he did not rush to take office directly, but went to Yangzhou to ask for help from the "uncle"; Thus he also learned the news that the rule of the imperial court in Jiangnan had been completely corrupted;

Even the envoys of Zhenhai, Xuanshe, and Zhedong, who controlled Jiangdong, failed to resist the surging thieves; In my heart, I crossed the sea for those people to go to eastern Zhejiang and Fujian. Even after Lingdong's colleagues pinched the sweat, Gao Maoqing still decided to continue to go south to Jiangxi.

And these hundreds of subordinates were the Huainan Jieya, who had not come forward to uncle, recruited and armed him locally, and provided food and straw for the journey. Only then did he ensure that he took the corresponding "pass" and flag, passed through the areas where the official army and the thief army, the Tutuan and Liu Min were entangled, and arrived at the land south of the river without danger.

Then the rest is relatively simple. With the blank body granted by the imperial court, coupled with the name of the king of Gaojun who pulled the tiger skin as a banner, when most of the grass thieves went to Jiangdong to plunder and wreak havoc, he was easily rescued and pulled up his banner, and won the surrender of the remnants of Peng Lize's official army trapped in the city.

With this beginning, coupled with his wanton solicitation of all kinds of confessions and vows, he soon attracted the local armed forces to rendezvous; After that, he successively defeated and surrendered several "thief armies", seized the cities and grain, grass and armor they occupied, and played the prestige and reputation of the court champion.

Therefore, in the short period of a few months, at the junction of several states, they relied on fighting to feed the war, and fought the banner of the thief army to seize their grain; His command also snowballed, growing rapidly with all kinds of defectors; In the end, there was this plan to form a coalition to work together to defeat Hongzhou.

As long as he takes this Hongzhou City, which "faces the lake and reaches the river", he is no longer the Hongzhou Thorn History and Quan Hongji who are self-appointed to unite and defend themselves; It is the Jiangxi regiment that has been recognized by the imperial court, and the Jiangxi regiment has been guarded, observed, and disposed of. If you take the hardcover athletes of the coalition army to rebuild the Nanchang Army, you will have the evidence of force.

If he can also get in touch with the uncle in Yangzhou downstream, get in touch with and assist and echo him, and then wait for an opportunity to recover some places in the neighboring Ji, Yuan, Rao, and Jiang areas of Hongzhou, then even the Jieyue of a Zhennan Jiedu envoy will probably not be able to escape.

is like the story of Zeng Gon who borrowed the road to Jiannan and went out of Guizhou, and in the land of Annan, which was cut off by thieves, he seized power and raised troops in Jiaozhou City; It is enough to give his own descendants of the Gao family, leaving a foundation and career pattern that has been praised from generation to generation. Even like the Jingzhaofang from the king of Nagao, it has become one of the pillars of the Gao family's houses in Bohai.

However, all these beautiful dreams and longings were cruelly interrupted and destroyed by sudden changes at the moment when his life was about to set off a climax. Those Taiping thieves, who claimed to be the thieves among thieves and more like the official army, turned around and killed them back at some point;

According to the previous report of risking death to cross the river, shouldn't they have been invited by the yellow thief to attack and plunder the land in Huainan, otherwise how could they give up the style of being on the edge of the weak thief, relatively low-key and gathering for a living, and besiege this Hongzhou city with all their might.

However, from the plains of the river, these strict and uniform Taiping thieves were like endless blue-gray waves, easily drowning out the mottled hues of the various coalition forces in the camp under the city.

Among them, several fronts drove straight in, rampage with an unrivaled momentum. Even if more backup poured out of the city, it could not shake the situation in which the city was gradually divided and outflanked and besieged;

As far as his heart is concerned, he wants to gather men and horses to retreat to the city as soon as possible, and then rely on the city defense to maneuver around these Taiping thieves who have traveled far away; In this way, the sharp energy brought to the other party is exhausted, and it is not a problem to have a great name and momentum.

However, the various coalition forces under his command have more than a dozen large and small mountains, and they have the advantages of each other, and they are bound and tied by various local and clan origins. When encountering the enemy, there is certainly the courage to fight and the risk of not giving up easily, and there have been many achievements and gains in defending the homeland;

But after falling into an unfavorable situation, there is no way for the commander-in-chief to be completely restrained. I could only sit back and watch as his peers rushed out of the city as if adding fuel to the fire, and joined the chaotic war group one after another.

"The Tiger Catcher is out of battle."

At this time, Gao Maoqing's side shook a little weakly, and suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Capture the tiger."

"Capture the tiger."

"Capture the tiger."

But it was the leader of the original Baoguo Ping thieves and volunteers who were born locally, and now the Fuzhou Assassin Shi Zhong Chuan was killed from the city gate; Although he occupies only a county in his hometown of Gao'an.

However, this was born heroic and suave and was known as the courage to fight tigers in his early years, so he was also regarded as the choice of the general under his command in the future. I saw that he took the lead in stopping the most fierce thief army in the battle array, and fought with a tall and large general on the other side.