Chapter 321: A Fire Cleans

Originally, the two guards in Linyi City desperately resisted Chen Deaf's rebellious army, because of the suspicion of the imperial court, they had been transferred to Qingzhou to defend it, and a big problem for the guards in the interior of the Ming Dynasty was that the real combat experience was very small, and the soldiers were always very panicked after seeing blood.

So these two guards can already be said to be a strong army, Liu 13 learned that the army of about 10,000 people in Qingzhou had rushed towards Linyi when he mobilized reinforcements, and the 30,000 people who were originally deployed in Xuzhou and Huai'an also began to go north, but after Liu 13 knew these news, the movement of these troops had already begun a few days ago, and originally, the movement of the surrounding troops was almost the fastest way to notify the center of the rebels.

But after not listening to Dengzhou Jiangfeng's orders, all of a sudden, those nimble intelligence networks disappeared into the sea of people, and Wen Dao and Liu Shisan could only rely on some of their connections in the green forest to deliver news, and the authenticity and timeliness of these things were a joke.

In the plan, Zou Cheng can be taken within a day, and then Wen Dao attacks Jining, the hub of Caoyun, naturally the world is shaken, whether it is Shandong or the soldiers and horses outside Shandong must be given priority to rescue here, in this way, Liu Shisan's troops can be in a relatively lax defense environment, or harass reinforcements on the periphery of Jining, or quickly go south to Nanjing, are much calmer.

Zou Cheng did not attack for a long time, the soldiers who heard the knife suffered heavy losses, Jining could mobilize troops and horses from the north and south through Cao Yun, after losing the suddenness, it was still a question whether it could be quickly attacked, and in the current situation, the officers and troops could already be surrounded separately.

Instead of being mobilized by the rebels, although Liu Shisan lost his brother's strategic guidance, his brain was still clear in distinguishing this, and he did not hesitate, directly it was almost destructive conscription and raising grain and grass, and then all of them were drawn to Jining, if Jining was laid, the strategic situation was different, Caoyun, the existence of Weishan Lake and Weishan Island were quite large strategic maneuver space.

Liu Shisan looked at the dejected Wendao in front of him, and he was also quite dissatisfied in his heart, he knew that the other party was a little jealous that he quickly gained the leading power among the rebels after coming to Linyi, but he also understood the policy implemented by Wendao, if he was allowed to practice the place wantonly, I am afraid that he would not have to wait for the officials and soldiers of the imperial court to come, and the local people would either flee or the cavalry would resist, but Wendao was his brother after all, and immediately said:

"Xiaodao, don't think about so many things, the soldiers and horses are gone, we can add more, the most important thing at the moment is to take Jining!"

Feeling that his cousin didn't mean to blame, Wen Dao raised his head a little cringe, hesitated for a moment, but asked:

"Second brother, why don't you take the stone mortar, doesn't it say that there is our back road?"

Hearing Wen Dao's words, the dissatisfaction in Liu Shisan's heart had already turned into anger, and he looked left and right to see that there was no one else except for a few distant guards, and this was the low voice of anger:

"Are you stupid? You dare to say this kind of important thing in public, you really want to cut off our last way out! ”

After saying this, Liu Shisan smiled bitterly and said:

"There are Dengzhou gunboats in Linyi Port now, and all the refugees have been pulled away by Dengzhou, and I regret not changing my words and not listening to my eldest brother."

After finishing speaking, the two of them looked at each other speechlessly, but Liu Shisan cheered up and said loudly:

"We now have about 30,000 soldiers and horses, open Jining City, our world will be wide, and then make a career for Dengzhou!"

Now the rebel soldiers and horses don't have to worry about Zou Cheng and Rongyang intercepting the back road, because the size and number of the rebel army have occupied an absolute advantage, and these two cities have no strength to pursue or fight, and it is similar to digging three feet into the ground for grain and grass and the collection of provisions, so that the rebels do not have to worry about food and grass for the time being.

In order to speed up the march, they ignored the dilapidated Zou Cheng and went straight to Jining.

Jiang Feng, who had been closed all along, finally came to the capital of Dengzhou, with four hundred guards by his side, and all of them were cavalry.

However, he did not go out to come to ask for a meeting, and wanted to negotiate the Jingshi merchant group on the flow and distribution of refugees in Shandong, but to welcome the envoy of the military department, the envoy's order was very simple, Jiang Feng's 2,000 people should immediately send troops to participate in the counterinsurgency, Jiang Feng took the document with a smile, and then asked with a look of embarrassment, can the time be postponed, because now Dengzhou's various war preparations materials have not been fully funded.

The envoy did not sell the slightest affection, blindly drove the Jiang family army south to quell the rebellion, according to the convention, Jiang Feng sent silver here The other party's mood will be much more relaxed, but this time the usual three hundred taels of silver is actually useless, Jiang Feng's continuous increase, until the last thousand two hundred taels of silver is to let this messenger loosen, saying that it can be delayed for three days, the price is so high, there is obviously an urgent matter.

However, the envoy who received a large sum of money already had a smile on his face, and he could answer questions, so Jiang Feng naturally knew something from the side.

Almost Zhitian swore that he would definitely open in three days, and after sending off the envoy, Jiang Feng did not spend the night in the city of Dengzhou Mansion, but directly returned to Yantai Mountain Qianhu with the guards and cavalry, and now Yantai Mountain Qianhu and the barracks under the mountain are deserted.

The lights in the council chamber were always on, from day to night, almost never extinguished. Jiang Feng talked about the things during the day today, but he asked Liu Twelve directly:

"Mr. Liu, you dare to be sure that those people are reliable, this time Wendao and Liu Shisan will definitely fail, if those people follow the two of them with all their hearts, I can't do anything here."

Listening to Jiang Feng's words, Liu Twelve smiled bitterly, nodded and said:

"Adults have done so much, the rest depends on the luck of these two boys, the so-called personnel destiny, we have done it."

Jiang Feng nodded, but Zhao Xiucai picked up a stack of letterheads, these letterheads were brought from North Korea by clipper, Liu Twelve quickly adjusted the procedure, and said to Jiang Feng:

"My lord, the thirty-eight civil guards of North Korea have been settled almost, but there are quite a lot of problems here, look at the letterhead written back by Zhang Liang, saying that the guards are in a hurry, and he is also anxious, in terms of civil affairs, we are still a lot behind, if we don't solve it as soon as possible, I'm afraid there will be problems."

Jiang Feng is also a little embarrassed about this matter, Tie Dan has been sent to run the reclamation manor outside the Guan, and the Ma brothers are all officials in Tianjin, which can be regarded as people with some experience in civil affairs in their own faction, if they say anything else, Liu Twelve knows that he knows the herdsmen very well, but now Liu Twelve can't leave his side, and mainly exists as a military staff officer.

The envoy of the military department who was sent to urge the Jiang family army in Dengzhou to set out to quell the rebellion got a far more than usual amount of silver this time, and he was naturally very happy in his heart, thinking in his heart that after three days, this Jiang Feng definitely had no reason to shirk, or continued to shirk that he could continue to make some silver.

However, after three days, there was no movement at all at the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households, and the envoy couldn't help but get angry, thinking, you are still so ignorant of what is good or bad when you have lost your position, and immediately asked the Dengzhou Prefect Yamen to send personnel to the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households Office to urge.

Who would have thought that after the officials of the prefect yamen heard the news, they shook their heads from the prefect to the yamen, and no one was willing to go out of the city to take this trip, and they were in a hurry, and they begged for mercy and cried with a sad face and said, 'There is still an eighty old mother at home, and she is still waiting for us to go home to pay respects, or spare us', he really didn't expect that Jiang Feng Jiwei had reached such a point, and the envoy of the military department was not stupid, and he also muttered when he saw this situation.

On the fourth day, if Jiang Feng did not send troops again, even the envoy of the military department would be beheaded, and the envoy finally panicked and desperately wanted to go out of the city to urge, but no one thought that before he could leave the city, smoke rose in the direction of Yantai Mountain and a fire broke out.

This is terrible, the prefect of the city hurriedly organized regimental exercises and officials to go out of the city to fight the fire, but when they went to the barracks under Yantai Mountain, they found that the barracks under Yantai Mountain were all on fire.

Over time, this is already a forbidden place in Dengzhou, if it weren't for the smoke rising today, no one would have come here at all, and now the fire in the Dengzhou military camp has been extremely hot, and people outside can't put out the fire at all, so they can only watch there, watching these wooden houses being swallowed in flames.

The fire lasted for three days in a row, and on the fourth day, the prefect of the king gathered all the gentry and family members, together with the officials and the people, and organized a total of nearly 2,000 fire-fighting teams.

There are a lot of rumors on the original Yantai Mountain Thousand Households, but because the Dengzhou camp is heavily guarded, no one really came up to see it, and now the mountain is already a dark piece, but the original dock fort shape can be seen from the stones that cannot be burned, there may be a road through the sea, but it is completely deserted.

On the sea dozens of miles away from Yantai Mountain, Jiang Feng looked at the Yantai Mountain and the smoke floating on it vaguely in the distance on the Shunfeng, and said to himself:

"Will be back for sure!"