Chapter 55: Luring the Enemy Out of the City

The lord of Bozhou City will be Huang Shou, a thousand-household official, who was originally the family of Liu Liangzuo's younger brother Liu Liangchen, and later Liu Liangchen descended to the Qing Dynasty in the Daling River and sent him back to report to Liu Liangzuo, hoping that Liu Liangzuo would help take care of Liu Liangchen's family.

Among the four towns in history, Liu Liangzuo was the first to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which made the situation in Jiangbei erosive, which had a lot to do with his younger brother who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Gao Jie died first in the four towns, Huang Degong committed suicide in defeat, and after Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he participated in the anti-Qing Dynasty and was killed, only Liu Liangzuo lived until the Kangxi period, and also became the Jiangnan Governor of the Manchu Dynasty, which has a lot to do with his younger brother Tou Qing morning, and the Manchus regard him as their own person.

After Huang Shou delivered the letter, he stayed in the gate.

Liu Liangzuo saw that he was burly and made a good knife skill, so he kept him by his side and regarded him as a confidant.

After the army captured Guide this time, Liu Liangzuo decided to temporarily avoid the edge of the thieves and fled to Yingchuan, leaving Huang Shou in Bozhou.

At this time, the strength of Henan's army was too strong, and the number of troops had exceeded one million, and after Liu Liangzuo retreated to Nanzhi, he had palpitations and did not dare to go to Henan again, so he was ready to fight Zhang Xianzhong, who had fewer people, and quickly made some credit, so as to make up for the merits.

The official army lost the Guide Mansion, and the intrusive army directly threatened Fengyang Mansion and Nanzhili, which was something that Emperor Chongzhen and the southeastern gentry could not tolerate.

Fengyang is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the hometown of the Zhu family, when he was beaten by the Liukou once, the emperor was furious and killed many people.

Now that the rogue is approaching the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family again, Emperor Chongzhen naturally wants to be held accountable, and the southeast gentry who have the right to speak in the DPRK naturally do not want the thieves to get close to Nanzhi and threaten the lair of the southeast gentry.

In this way, whoever loses his return to Germany will naturally be severely punished, but there is no unanimous opinion on who to punish.

At this time, the governor Hou Sui was still in Beizhi and had not taken office, so it was naturally difficult to convict him, and the situation in Yuzhou was erosive, and several big men had already been killed.

At this time, if you dare to go to Henan to be the governor, you are either a great hero who is dedicated to the country, or you are forced to be helpless and have to go. At the beginning, Sun Chuanting was sick and retired, and was said to be unwilling to serve the imperial court, so he was demoted to a civilian by Chongzhen, and then imprisoned him for two years.

Hou Sui was forced to take over this mess in desperation, so he walked a little slowly on the road, and before he arrived, he lost his virtue, so he naturally didn't blame him.

Besides, he was dismissed, and he had to find someone to help the governor again, the Chongzhen Dynasty was too quickly depleted, and the cabinet and governor were frequently replaced, and there were no talents, and no one was willing to take over such a big plate.

If the governor cannot be investigated, he can only be held accountable for Liu Liangzuo, who led the troops, and Liang Yizhang, the magistrate, and among these two, Liu Liangzuo has soldiers, and the southeast still depends on him, so it is impossible to take the main responsibility.

Liang Yizhang said goodbye to his second brother Gao, and soon after arriving in Huai'an from Luyi, he was locked up by the Criminal Department and escorted to Jingshi for interrogation, while Liu Liangzuo, although he was not heavily punished, was also reprimanded, making him guilty of leading the army.

In order to quickly earn some credit and get rid of the guilt, Liu Liangzuo was ready to work with Huang Degong to bully Zhang Xianzhong, who had relatively few people, and Bozhou handed it over to his henchman Huang Shou, and asked him to transfer the money and grain to Yingchuan and Shouzhou.

At first, Huang Shou was still nervous in Bozhou, but later found out that Li Guo, who had conquered the Guide Mansion, left a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and then went back to besiege Kaifeng, so he stayed in Bozhou with peace of mind and lived the life of the emperor of the soil.

At this time, Huang Shou was eating meat and drinking wine in the house, but a hundred households came to the outside of the house with a man, "Enlighten thousands of households, a group of thieves came to the east of the city, surrounded Majiabao, and the horse staff sent people over and asked thousands of households to send troops to rescue." ”

"Come in!" Huang Shou was disturbed by the alcohol, his face was a little unhappy, and when the two of them came in, he couldn't help but ask coldly, "What's the matter?"

The person who came hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, "Back to Qianhu, a group of thieves surrounded Zhuangzi, my master sent a small one to ask for help from Qianhu, and when the thieves were driven away, my master will be grateful." ”

Hearing that there was a heavy thanks, Huang Shou's expression softened a little, "How many thieves are coming, what weapons are they taking, and how many armor soldiers are there?" ”

Although Li Guo's main force has left Guide, after all, there are still thousands of soldiers and horses left, so he has to ask more clearly.

If there are too many thieves and they are more elite, then it is safer for him to stay in the city, and he doesn't care about the life or death of Majiabao, but if it is just some thieves, he can consider making some extra money.

"Back to thousands of households, there are a thousand thieves, and one of the leaders wears a cotton armor, and the others are all suffering haha, not to mention the armor, some people don't even have shoes." The visitor recalled: "They used all kinds of weapons, but they didn't have bows and arrows, and they didn't have firearms, they just relied on the large number of people and bullied us with few people in Majiabao."

Listening to the description of the person, Huang Shou has been determined, and it is estimated that it is a group of thieves from the north.

Mother, this group of thieves is really bold, don't take him seriously, then Majiabao is only ten miles away from Bozhou City, so close distance, they dare to fight.

There is also a group of thieves in the upper reaches of Bozhou, who are also very lacking in morality, and they did some things to give birth to a son, and they actually built a dam upstream and cut off the whirlpool.

Although the drought situation in Nanzhi is not as severe as in Henan, water sources are also very scarce.

The grandson of the upstream was too lacking in virtue, and all the water was blocked, and the fish in the river were thirsty to death, and there was naturally not much water source irrigation on both sides of the downstream bank, so he could only go all the way to the Marchand River to get water, but the villagers there did not do it, and there have been many fights.

Recently, a group of squires in Bozhou often came to him, willing to pay money and grain, and let him go to fight the turtle sun upstream and open the dam, but Huang Shou was worried that he would take the initiative to attack and attract the thieves from Guide to fight him, so he collected money and grain, but he didn't make a move.

Now he didn't provoke the thieves, but the thieves crossed the border to Bozhou, he really didn't understand the rules, and it also broke the tacit understanding between them.

", Lao Tzu was trying to make some merits, and this group of stupid thieves came to the door." Huang Shou stood up suddenly, after the defeat of Suishui, Liu Liangzuo was reprimanded from above, if he could kill this thousand stupid thieves, it would undoubtedly be to give the chief military officer a long face, so that Liu Liangzuo would have an explanation to the above.

"Go back and tell the horseman, and I will send troops, and you can ask him to prepare money and food, and prepare to treat the brothers."

Majiabao is located more than ten miles east of Bozhou, just like the size of Gaojiabao, but the horses in the fort are richer than Gao Zurong.

Ma Yuanwai is said to be a distant relative of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and the fort wall is built two zhang high, almost catching up with the general county seat.

At this time, the castle wall was full of young people, and there were nearly a thousand thieves below, attacking with heavy thunder and small rain.

"Rush! Rush to Lao Tzu, and shout louder to Lao Tzu! Liu Heizi stood under the banner of the general, stuck his big knife on the ground, and loudly commanded hundreds of thieves to attack the fort wall with ladders.

Suddenly, one of his subordinates turned around and said urgently: "Captain, the officers and soldiers are here!"