That night, Huang Yu, the county commander of Yu County, sent someone to invite Zou Liang, the county's military lieutenant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lieutenant, that is, lieutenant officer, is a military position.

The military lieutenant, generally refers to the county lieutenant, county lieutenant and other military positions, but in some places and counties, there is a slight difference.

For example, in the county town where thieves are rampant, there will be military captains who are responsible for training guards and suppressing thieves; At the same time, there is also a county lieutenant, who is responsible for maintaining law and order in the county, and arresting criminals.

The military lieutenant in charge of the army, which is specially used to suppress bandits around the county town or to prevent the invasion of other countries' troops, is called the Weirong Army, which belongs to the same category as the six battalions of the garrison, that is, the garrison army.

This kind of special military lieutenant is generally a military attache specially appointed by the imperial court, and the length of his term of office depends on the severity of the local bandits and bandits, or depending on the Wei state, although it is nominally under the jurisdiction of the local county order, but in fact it is under the control of the military department.

However, in some county towns where there is no banditry, Wu Wei actually refers to the county lieutenant.

However, Zou Liang, the military lieutenant of Yuxian County, who was invited this time, is indeed a veritable military lieutenant, with hundreds of guards under his hands.

It is no wonder, after all, Yu County is also on the border line between Wei and Song, and its southeast is Yangxia County, in this area, the bandits are very serious, so don't look at Yu County is a small county, but in fact there are 800 county soldiers in the city.

This is indeed a remarkable number of troops for a small county with only more than 1,000 inhabitants in the city.

Even Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that there were actually 800 county soldiers in Yu County.

After asking, I learned that Yangxia in the southeast has always been a cancer in the hearts of surrounding counties such as Yuxian County, and the hidden thieves in Yangxia opened the so-called Shiguan, in the name of righteousness, and wantonly sheltered some wandering people, many of whom were outlaws.

Those people occupy the mountains as kings in Yangxia County, divide the territory with each other, and disturb the surrounding counties such as Yu County.

"Infighting? Will the hidden thief in Yangxia still fight among themselves? Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but ask when he heard this.

Hearing this, Wu Wei Zou Liang asked in wonder, "Your Highness doesn't think that the Yangxia Hidden Thieves are just a team, right?" ”

"Isn't it?" Zhao Hongrun asked suspiciously.

"If only it were one." Wu Wei Zou Liang shook his head and explained: "The so-called hidden thieves in Yangxia actually refer to the many hidden thieves in Yangxia, ranging from a dozen to hundreds, and they are constantly fighting with each other on weekdays. According to the humble position, the most powerful of the hidden thieves in Yangxia are the Fuqiu thieves and the Yiqiu thieves, and this time His Royal Highness King Su was rewarded with a head, which must be one of the two, and the rest of them never have the courage to do such a thing. ”

"Fuqiu thief? Hip Thief? Zhao Hongrun touched his chin, and while secretly keeping these two terms in mind, he said with a little surprise: "These two groups of thieves...... The names are really similar, does it matter? ”

"His Royal Highness King Su is really like watching the fire." Wuwei Zou Liang flattered, and then explained to Zhao Hongrun: "Actually, many years ago, the Fuqiu thieves and the Yiqiu thieves were the same group, they were entrenched in the northeast of Yangxia County in Geyang Mountain, also known as Geqiu, and the imperial court repeatedly sent troops to encircle and suppress them, but they were not eradicated. …… But later, for some reason, this group of people split themselves, that is, they became today's Fuqiu thieves and Yiqiu thieves, in fact, Fuqiu or Yiqiu, referring to Goqiu in the northeast of the county seat, that is, Geyang Mountain. ”

"I see." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then, he frowned and asked, "But then again, Yangxia is making such a big fuss, what is the local county order doing?" ”

Huang Yu, the county commander of Yu County, sighed when he heard this: "It's not the inaction of the local county order, it's actually ......" said, he lowered his voice and said: "Xia Guan remembered that five or six years ago, the imperial court sent a county order surnamed Ma, when this person passed through Yu County, Xia Guan entertained him, he was a well-educated man, this person listened to the admonition of Xia Xia, determined to eradicate the cancer of Yangxia, but in less than seven days, his wife and daughter, all were killed, although those hidden thieves hindered his status as an official of the imperial court, and did not harm him, but the adult lost his wife and children, In the end, I also suffered from madness......"

"How can it be!" Zhao Hongrun was furious when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you report it to the imperial court?!" ”

"Reported." The county magistrate Huang Yu smiled bitterly and said: "After I learned about this, I reported it to the imperial court, and the imperial court also sent an army to suppress it, but what's the use?" By the time the army arrived in Yangxia, the thieves had already fled to Goqiu, and there were only some unsuspecting civilians left in the city, so they couldn't kill those civilians, right? ”

Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this, and said, "Can you be sure that there are no hidden thieves pretending to be among those civilians?" ”

"The problem is that you can't tell." The county magistrate Huang Yu said helplessly: "There are ten people, one of them is a thief, can he still kill the other nine in vain for the sake of punishing one?" ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun was silent.

After listening to the words of the county commander Huang Yu and the military lieutenant Zou Liang, he finally understood how difficult the hidden thief in Yangxia was.

It's not that the imperial court can't deal with the thieves in this area, otherwise, as long as tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are transferred, on the one hand, they will surround Goqiu, set fire to the mountains, and on the other hand, they will slaughter all the people in Yangxia, and keep the hidden thieves in Yangxia annihilated.

But can the imperial court do that?

It's okay to set fire to the mountain, but it is immoral to slaughter civilians, not to mention the slaughter of the people of their own country, and whoever gives such an order will not be able to wash away the stigma for the rest of their lives.

And it is precisely because of the imperial court's rat trap that the situation on Yangxia's side is becoming more and more erosive, those county orders and Wei Rong troops sent to the past are not used at all, and they were assassinated within a few days of entering Yangxia County, unless they are honest, don't touch the interests of the local hidden thieves.

Over time, the imperial court will not be too lazy to take care of the land of Yangxia, anyway, Yangxia is located near the border of Wei, Song, and Chu, as long as the troops are deployed in these counties of Qiyu County, even if those hidden thieves want to make trouble, the biggest impact will only be Pingyu County of Chu State.

Unexpectedly, today, he was bumped into by Zhao Hongrun.

That night, the county commander Huang Yu and the military lieutenant Zou Liang explained to Zhao Hongrun the situation about Yangxia, of course, this was only limited to what they knew.

Afterwards, Wu Wei Zou Liang personally took 300 county soldiers to Yanling to convey Zhao Hongrun's order, and summoned the merchant army stationed in Yanling to come to Yuxian.

As for Zhao Hongrun and his party, they were finally able to rest for a night in the back office of the Yuxian County Government.

Fortunately, the county commander Huang Yu had already deployed more than 200 county soldiers in the county office, and even temporarily issued a curfew order, so that the whole city was under martial law, and finally those thieves did not succeed.

However, Zhao Hongrun regretted that these guys who dared to attack the county government of Yuxian County were not those hidden thieves in Yangxia, but those rangers who were consumed by the desire for profit and were carried away by the 50,000 gold that was offered to him.

For these people, Zhao Hongrun didn't bother to interrogate, because these people were the periphery of the hidden thieves in Yangxia at all, and they couldn't ask for any important information at all.

So, Zhao Hongrun asked Huang Yu to throw all those who had not yet breathed into the county prison, and as for the rangers who had been killed, they would find a place to burn the corpses, and then bury them in the ground.

The next day, the county ordered Huang Yu to officially impose martial law on Yu County, and hundreds of county soldiers were divided into dozens of teams to search for those outsiders throughout the city.

During this period, the He family, who seemed to be from He Zhirong, these wealthy squires in the county, also dispatched the subordinates and family members in the mansion to help the county commander Huang Yu search for those outsiders.

This scene finally made Zhao Hongrun have some confidence in the domestic aristocratic gentry.

He had to admit that the aristocratic gentry were not all bastards, no, the aristocratic gentry of Yu County played an example as an aristocratic gentry, although the security of Yu County was closely related to their lives, and they were helping Huang Yu to help themselves, but it is undeniable that these aristocratic gentry are spontaneously maintaining the prestige of the county government.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun once again couldn't help but sigh: The so-called aristocracy is the cornerstone of the country, referring to these nobles who have not been corrupted by money, status, rights, and interests!

Because the target of the search is a foreigner who is not a local villager in Fei Yu County, it is inevitable that there will be a mistake, but it is undeniable that after a large-scale search of the whole city, there will be a calm in Yu County for the next two or three days, and there is no more bold guy who tries to assassinate Zhao Hongrun in the county office.

On the eighth day of the second month of the eighteenth year of Hongde, Zou Liang, the military lieutenant of Yuxian County, led the three hundred county soldiers to repel a wave of thieves on the way, that is, in the evening of the next day after departure, they arrived at Yanling.

He did not enter the city, because he learned from the soldiers at the gate of Yanling City that the Shangshui Army was stationed in the camp of the Yanling Army, and this camp was built outside the city.

So, Zou Liang took his men and horses straight to the camp of the Yanling army, and asked to see Wu Majiao, the general of the merchant army, in the name of King Su Hongrun.

In fact, as early as when Zhao Hongrun was still in Daliang and had not yet set off, he wrote a letter and sent it to Guliangwei in Shangshui, and Wu Majiao who was stationed in Yanling at this time, and these two people, like Wu Ji and Qu Cheng and other generals, can be regarded as Zhao Hongrun's direct leading generals, so Zhao Hongrun has something to explain to them.

And when Zou Liang led people to ask to meet, Wu Majiao was wondering in the barracks, because he calculated the days, Zhao Hongrun should have been able to go to Yanling a long time ago, could it be that he went directly to Shangshui?

But this is not right, after all, if you take a boat to Shangshui, it is actually faster than going to Yanling.

Wu Majiao would never have thought that Zhao Hongrun would be assassinated on the way to Yanling and Shangshui, and it would be attacked one after another.

"Is this serious?!"

When he heard that King Su had been attacked, Wu Ma Jiao was furious.

Even, before Zou Liang showed the letter written by Zhao Hongrun, Wu Majiao summoned the generals under his command and ordered him to leave a thousand troops to guard the camp of the Yanling army, while he led 4,000 troops to kill Xiang County non-stop.

After a rapid march of one day and one night, the Shang Shui Army rushed to Yu County and arrived in Yu County at the morning of the tenth day of the second lunar month. (To be continued.) )