Zhao Hede is dead, the highest military rank in the city is the marching Sima Duan Yingya, Li Mao led people to enter the military academy to sit in the town, and sent fast horses to the south of the city to pick up the clerks, and both soft and hard to bring the generals Huang Fenglai, Li Yu, Zhang Dingfang, Chen Wanchun and other powerful figures into the military courtyard, the city is determined.

However, the chaos in the city is still there, and when I saw that there was a mutiny in the city, the soldiers stationed in the city slipped out of the barracks one after another to take advantage of the fire to rob, and the soldiers who were close to Shang He Lai were even more panicked, and they had the idea of taking advantage of the chaos to get a vote and leave.

Li Mao knew that it was easy to summon a tiger and difficult to summon a tiger, so he would rather extort a small amount of money from the stragglers door to door than let the garrisons outside the city enter the city to suppress them. Previously learned that Shang Helai was ensnared by Li Mao in Chunyang Building, the city defense camp Ma Hedong and Chen Lan were panicked, and the two were used by Yu Huacen because of Shang Helai's recommendation, and after taking charge of the city defense camp, he held Shang Helai to support him, and was quite disrespectful to Li Mao.

Shang Helai was rescued from the prison by Table Ling Tianling's "skull face", ambushed Zhao Hede, burned the military courtyard and rebelled again, the two were ecstatic, and hurriedly sent people to contact, wanting to raise troops together, but the envoy just entered the city and got the news that Shang Helai and Table Ling Tian were ambushed in front of the military court and the whole army was annihilated.

When the two heard the news, they were panicked all day long, and after thinking about it again and again, they decided to move to Suxiaodu Township, preparing to dissolve the people after grabbing a windfall, and then return to the sea to do their old jobs.

Zhu Zhenyuan and others were not interested in crusading against Ma Hedong and Chen Lan, they were now concerned about the reward promised by Li Mao, and seeing that the city defense camp was about to collapse, Li Mao discussed with the clerk and wanted to go to Su Xiaodu Township to persuade the two to come back. The clerk advised: "The two of them are in shock, and it is difficult to protect themselves from being killed at this moment." Take a break. Li Mao said: "If it is disbanded as a thief, then half of Chengwu County will be poisoned by it, if it is not disbanded, I am afraid that it will become the target of Li Zhenke and Yang Yuanyin, if the Pinglu army approaches Gushan in the name of begging for thieves, the situation in the city is afraid that it will be difficult to clean up." ”

Wencheng knew very well that the Qing Navy was wary of the Pinglu Army, and he also knew what the purpose of Li Zhenke and Yang Yuan's visit was, and he couldn't create a pretext for them to send troops to interfere. So he said: "I'll go, I've been friends with him for more than ten years, and I still have some friendship." Li Mao said: "The city has been decided, although the Xiying Army and Chen Wanchun have been stabilized, Li Yu and Zhang Dingfang still have some doubts, you can't be suppressed, you can't go." ”

Li Mao's words are reasonable, Li Yu and Zhang Dingfang both belong to the faction, and the relationship with Shang Helai is not bad, and Li Mao has some complaints about Li Mao's move of hanging Shang Helai's head above the city, and he has to ask the clerk to come forward to appease. The clerk didn't dare to persuade more, so he hurriedly wrote a letter and asked Li Mao to bring it, and said: "If the two of them insist on leaving, let them go, in the past, when they did businessless business, the two of them worked alone, and then they couldn't get along before they defected to General Yu, and now the official family is used to eating, how can they still suffer that hardship, they will come back sooner or later." ”

Li Mao said: "I personally selected the commander of the city defense battalion, and I asked myself if I treated them well, even if I didn't call them back, I wouldn't dare to do anything to me." "I took the letter of the clerk and took the green ink and the horse out of the military courtyard.

The streets and alleys of Gushan Town have become a pot of porridge, and the people and horses belonging to Zhao Hede's family are leaderless, and they are taking advantage of the fire to rob, and the soldiers who have a good impression of Shang Helai are worried about their future, and they are also taking advantage of the chaos to reap the benefits. There are also stragglers who take advantage of the fire to rob and rob around, extorting and extortion, and there are cries everywhere inside and outside the square.

These stragglers have no special interest in two warriors on horseback and with swords, and their specialty is to bully unarmed civilians. Li Mao took Qingmo on a rampage on the street, as if he was in a no-man's land.

Out of the city, Qingmo asked Li Mao where he was going, and Li Mao said: "Go to Su Xiaodu to find Ma Hedong and Chen Lan." ”

Qingmo exclaimed: "Both of them have received the favor of Shang Helai, you killed their benefactor, how can they be willing to give up with you?" Li Mao said with a smile: "If everyone in the world knows how to repay their kindness, this world will be peaceful." When did Table Lingtian go to the prison of the military academy to save Shang, where were they? Where were they when they were beheaded? Sure enough, remembering Shang Helai's kindness, when he saw the head hanging on the city gate, he should kill it and come back to me to fight hard, what did they do, they went to Su Xiaodu Township to grab money, did they do this, brothers? Ma Hedong, Chen Lan and Shang He are good friends, not righteous friends, they are beneficial and friendly, and they are like passers-by. ”

Qingmo said: "If you don't talk about righteousness, just talk about the benefits, how can they believe you?" If it were me, I'd be afraid that you would settle accounts with me afterwards. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "Nine out of ten people in the world are short-sighted, only looking at the present, who cares about the future?" If you're scared, you can go back now. ”

Qingmo said: "I, who do you think of me?" When I left, Xiaoru cried and shouted to follow, saying that even if I die, I will die with you, my dignified man with eyebrows is not as good as her? ”

The south of Gushan Town is Su Xiaodu Township, Ma Hedong and Chen Lan's purpose here is very clear, that is, to get a handful of people and leave, Su Xiaodu Township can only be called rich Su Gui's family, Su Gui has been a official for many years, and his vision is very old and spicy, as early as when Gushan Town implemented martial law, he had a premonition that things were not good, and he packed up his soft and took his family to Caozhou's son Su Chengna for refuge.

Ma Hedong and Chen Lan led the army to enter Sujiazhuang in the name of suppressing bandits, but found that the Su family except for the grain in the granary, the cattle and sheep in the livestock shed, and other things of little value were gone, so Chen Lan casually fabricated a crime of banditry and tied up Su Zheng, the housekeeper who was in charge of the family business, and tortured the whereabouts of the Su family's property. When the protector Yuhou Zhang Xuan heard about this, he came to ask Chen Lan for someone, but was detained by Chen Lan on the spot, forcing Ma Hedong to order all the Yuhou troops to be disarmed and detained.

Su Zheng couldn't confess the whereabouts of the Su family's property, and Chen Lan personally led the team to excavate it, and he gained a lot for a while. When Chen Lan led the crowd to bury his head in the work, Ma Hedong boarded the newly built watchtower in Su Gui's house, and looked at the Gushan Town in the distance, with a trace of reluctance in his eyes.

Although it is a little harder to eat military salaries, it is stable, and there are cheats in the officialdom, but compared to the rivers and lakes where people's hearts are becoming more and more sinister, it is still better to mix. Ma Hedong glanced at the sky and silently calculated the time he had left to plunder. Su Xiaoduzhuang is still relatively rich, in addition to the rich man Su Gui, there are more than a dozen well-off families, squeeze a squeeze, and there is some oil and water, the countrymen have little knowledge, the knife is on the neck, and they are all recruited, but there is one point, these old hats love to bury money in the soil, which is deeper than the coffin, and it is not easy to dig it out.

"It's almost, it's time to withdraw." Chen Lan shouted from the watchtower. The direction of Gushan Town was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, which made people feel depressed, and Chen Lan was a little breathless. Shang He Lai is known as a cadre in the Qing Navy, not empty of martial arts, this time he was defeated in the hands of Li Mao one after another, and finally lost his head, which made Chen Lan's perception of Li Mao have a 180-degree turn, before this he always thought that Li Mao could sit in the position of the city bureau envoy at a young age, relying on the recommendation of Xue Rong, the former Chengwu County Commander, after this Chen Lan found that Li Mao's success has the above reasons, but this person does have two brushes, otherwise it should be his head hanging on the head of the city.

Chen Lan sadly found that she had unknowingly suffered from a phobia of Li Mao.