Chapter 159: The Fall of the Shaowu Regime III

After dawn, the ships of Shaozhou immediately headed north to Lechang. Take Deng and his subordinates over. also came, as well as Fu Shangrui. Zhang Xuan directly asked Fu Shangrui to hang up the official title of governor of Guangdong. Command the prefectures and counties conquered along the way.

To deal with these demoted officials, it is better to use Fu Shangrui, who is also demoted. As soon as Fu Shangrui arrived, he immediately shocked the whole Shaozhou Mansion. Even some people who dare to make small moves don't dare to act rashly.

The results were immediate.

In this way, Zhang Xuan is much more relieved.

Together with Deng He, who did not get off the ship at all, Zhang Xuan also brought more than 3,000 personal soldiers. Got on board. More than 100 large and small ships crowded the river, and a fleet of this size is still relatively rare in Shaozhou, and it seems that the entire Shaozhou ships have been emptied in one go.

Finally, let the boat go straight downstream. Lian Keyingde, Qingyuan two places.

The two counties were completely defenseless, and they were more defenseless than Shaozhou's. Just send someone to infiltrate first. Then take the city gates, and that's it.

Officials in both places also looked down on the wind. There are no hard bones like before.

However, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to fully trust these magistrates, who knew if they would change hands and sell them. Therefore, each county left a guard guard.

There was no other requirement, but the gates had to be closed for three days. Within three days, even if the city suffered from the disaster of Zhurong, it could not take a step out of the county.

In the part of Qingyuan County, there is also a special task, which is to block the river and not allow a single ship to go south.

However, Zhang Xuan did not have much hope for the outcome of this task.

Nothing can be done by touching the lower lip with the upper lip.

There are only 500 soldiers, how can they guard the county seat of Qingyuan at the same time. Blocking the river is simply impossible.

However, Zhang Xuan still left some helpers for them.

It was the Shaozhou sailors who transported them.

These Shaozhou sailors had already boarded the ship of Great Xia, even if they had the opportunity to distinguish in front of Shaowu. If you think about it, Shaowu won't believe what they say.

It's still about giving them a chance first.

I'm afraid that these people will fall into the Ming army, and they won't even have a chance to defend themselves.

In Zhang Xuan, it was intimidation and reward, which pulled these sailors to their side, as for whether they could block the river. Zhang Xuan didn't pay much attention to it.

It's not that he doesn't care, but he does his best to obey the destiny of heaven, in the torrent of a person's big era, he is both powerful and powerless, maybe one can set off great waves, but the same person, even Zhuge Liang can't do the mask.

And Zhang Xuan also has more important things to do.

It is to rush to Guangzhou by land.

Why not take the waterway?

Very simple. The Beijiang River merges with the Xijiang River in Sanshui and flows eastward, passing through the south of Guangzhou Prefecture. If you want to get to Guangzhou by water, this is the only way.

Just think about it, though. Ding Chukui's army is in the west of Sanshui, besieging Zhaoqing Mansion.

In other words, this waterway is not only the road from Qingyuan to Guangzhou on the waterway from Qingyuan to Guangzhou, but also Ding Chukui's logistics supply line.

Moreover, Shaowu recruited a lot of pirates, and their strength on the water must be much more powerful than Zhang Xuan's ships.

Even if Zhang Xuan is stupid, he will not take this path.

However, it is only more than 100 miles from Qingyuan to Guangzhou. The army marched in a hurry, but it was only a day or two away.

As long as the news can be run, Guangzhou City will be in Zhang Xuan's hands.

Zhang Xuan collected all the horses in Qingyuan County, but he only had 300 horses, and a considerable part of the horses were Yunnan horses, so Zhang Xuan seemed to him that where were the horses. It's a donkey at all.

However, this is what the South is.

Zhang Xuan gave these three hundred horses, all of which were given to Ma Sanbao's department, although Ma Sanbao came with the army. But his horses, like the horses of Luo Dai's army, fell to the end.

Now I can only ride such horses.

And Zhang Xuan's order was to open the way before the army, from now to Guangzhou. Anyone who bumped into the army of ordinary people was locked up on the spot. Handed over to the rear army at its disposal.

If there is a suspicious person, it can be summarily executed. Don't have to wait for orders.

This order clearly gave Ma Sanbao the discretion to kill human rights, and he said that whoever is suspicious can be suspicious.

But when it comes to the lives of tens of thousands of troops, Zhang Xuan would rather kill a few more people, but also try his best to ensure that the secrets of the army's march are not leaked.

Compared with the whereabouts of the army, the lives of a few people, dozens of people, are nothing at all.

However, even so, Zhang Xuan did not dare to guarantee it. None of the news has been leaked.

And at this time, there was another person who checked and filled in the gaps for Zhang Xuan.

It's Hu Tang.

At this moment, in a courtyard in Guangzhou City, Hu Tang sat on the Taishi chair. Holding a tea bowl in one hand, I was sipping tea. And there are dozens of big men standing below.

These dozens of big men are all dressed in short clothes. looks energetic, although he doesn't bring weapons, but he can't hide his military bearing.

Hu Tang said lightly: "Someone is coming to the house." We have been working in Guangzhou for so long, and what will happen in the future depends on this one. The previous things were all literary dramas, but this one is martial arts. If you're scared, say it beforehand. I agreed, but if I use you, I get wrong. Don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

Because he was in the enemy's territory, when he spoke, he used code language.

"Please rest assured, when you come, the lord's house will be settled. We've fought bandits, too. Naturally, when to do it, when to do it, we also know how to leave a memory for our wives and children. A big man said.

This big man's name is Wang Chengye. It's a Lujiang person. is a first-class powerful character, originally in Li Rugui's army, but Li Rugui was killed by Azig.

Wang Chengye is a member of the desperate fight. Later, it was subordinate to Zhang Xuanjun. Because of the fault of the defeated army, there are only 100 households.

Zhang Xuan ordered Hu Tang to recruit detailed work, and the standard for Hu Tang's recruitment was that his family was in Daxia and he had parents and a small family. Brave and brave, and sink into the subordinates.

counted and counted, and saw Wang Chengye.

Even if Zhang Xuan claims to be fair, many things are inevitable.

Zhang Xuan's order of promoting officers was also promoted from his old department. And Wang Chengye even has some ability. It is not Zhang Xuan's lineage, nor is it the old brother of the righteous army, but Cao Ying joined the army after he reached Lujiang.

When it comes to promotion, it will naturally be considered later.

Of course, if his talent falls into Zhang Xuan's eyes, it will be another matter. But Zhang Xuan only has two eyes, and there are hundreds of thousands of people under his command, and not every grassroots officer can pass it all over again.

Wang Chengye was not willing to do this, so he was willing to take a big risk and follow Hu Tang here. Wang Chengye is very skillful, and he will accept the good hands that have been transferred one by one. He became the head of these spies.

"Okay." Hu Tang said: "Then I will start arranging things. The news came from the north, and immediately sent people to ambush in the north of the city. All the government expedited express, no matter what it is, will be intercepted and killed. ”

"Yes." Four or five big men were ordered to go.

Hu Tang looked at Wang Chengye and said: "The real big thing is to take the shopkeeper into the city, we are not enough at all, Wang Chengye, how many people are in your hands now?" ”

Wang Chengye said: "Three hundred young and strong. Combined with the old and weak, there should be more than five hundred. ”

"Bring all the people, divide the guys here, and wait for the signal outside the city to answer immediately." Hu Tang said: "When the time comes, I will also go into battle." ”

Wang Chengye said: "Why is this so? ”

Hu Tang said: "Why is this? If you win this one, it's easy to say anything, but if you don't win, you and I will be in different places. Qiongshan, there shall be no kindness of a woman. ”

There was some bitterness in the corners of Wang Chengye's mouth, knowing that he was seen by Hu Tang.

How did these hundreds of people under Wang Chengye's command come here? In the war in Guangzhou, refugees were naturally indispensable, and Wang Chengye mixed with these refugees, pulling out a group of people among the refugees to fight with the gangs in Guangzhou City.

But Wang Chengye couldn't care less, many of these people were children, and it was easy to survive, and he pushed them into this fire pit again, but he didn't know whether it was good or bad.