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As for Ling Xuanfang, who participated in the township examination five times and failed to pass the examination, and was a deputy tribute student in the township examination five times, he changed this name for himself, whether he has the meaning of admiring Fang Xuanling, it is not clear.

Because this person is also a real person in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, although Ling Xuanfang, a person who was born in the township test deputy Banggong Sheng, belongs to the end of the bureaucratic class in the late Ming Dynasty, and his reputation in the military and political arena of the late Ming Dynasty is not very loud, but after digging deeper, this person has had many admirable deeds in military and political affairs.

In the military and political arena of the late Ming Dynasty, he finally relied on his name and deeds as a staff member of He Tengjiao, a well-known historical figure in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the peasant armies from all over the country flocked to the east, surrounded the important town of Xuzhou, when this Ling Xuanfang had just risen from the position of Shanghai County Cheng to Xuzhou Tongju, and served under He Tengjiao, who was the commander of Xu Huai's soldiers, at that time, he took advantage of Li Zicheng's new defeat in Henan, rode out of the city alone, entered the peasant army camp, and persuaded several units of the Xuhuai peasant army led by Chen Xiaoyi to accept Zhao'an, and relieved the siege of Xuzhou in one fell swoop, and was greatly appreciated by He Tengjiao since then.

However, this Ling Xuanfang did not participate in what He Tengjiao did when he was the governor of Huguang after the death of the Ming Dynasty, because in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army under Li Zicheng besieged Xuzhou again.

This time, the Ming army was defeated, Xu Tengjiao fled south with the main force, while Ling Xuanfang led Chen Xiaoyi and other local armed forces to resolutely resist, and was finally divided and surrounded in the area of Fangcun in Xuzhou, and still refused to surrender when there was a strong enemy outside and then no reinforcements.

Until the end, after hearing that the city of Beijing was broken by the main force of Li Zicheng's army, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, Ling Xuanfang was full of grief and anger, vomiting blood several liters and died, which can be regarded as fighting for the Ming Dynasty to the last moment.

However, this Ling Xuanfang, the early field for many years, but he did not even get in, the reason why he was able to become the general judge of Xuzhou is because of his political achievements in Shanghai County, and the reason why he was able to become Shanghai County Cheng is precisely because he has made meritorious contributions in pacifying the civil unrest in western Zhejiang.

Although Ling Xuanfang is quite unsatisfactory, his family is rich, and he is also one of the largest families in Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and more than ten mulberry gardens and weaving factories.

Historically, the big landlords and the bureaucracy have had friendships, especially when there are local affairs, and the only people the government can rely on are these local eunuch families and large landlords.

This time is also the case, after the news that the Taihu thieves Tu Augly colluded with Jiashan Hao Shang Cheng Zai to capture Jiashan County in one fell swoop, Zhao Jianji, the prefect of Huzhou, immediately ordered the inspection departments of the counties under the jurisdiction of Huzhou Prefecture to gather in their hometowns to reorganize their armies for war, and at the same time also convened large households in various counties to raise money and grain.

Ling Xuanfang was the most outstanding one of them.

Since the thieves in northern Shaanxi broke out, the imperial court allowed the gentry in northern Shaanxi to recruit and train village soldiers, and the will to form a village for self-protection has long been spread all over the world, after the civil unrest in Zhejiang last year, the imperial court knew that the Jiangnan military equipment was lax, so it soon ordered the gentry in northern Zhejiang to raise their own food and salaries, and recruit and train village soldiers.

Ling Xuanfang, a 48-year-old deputy Gongsheng of Zhejiang Township Examination, quickly recruited 1,000 young and strong Dingkou between the ages of 18 and 40 from among his tenants and weavers, and became the largest township soldier in Wucheng County and even in the entire Huzhou Prefecture.

And because this Ling Xuanfang is quite strategic, and he understands Qi Jiguang's method of recruiting and training troops in Zhejiang, he soon became the right-hand man of Zhao Jianji, the prefect of Huzhou, to resist the threat of Tu Augly and chaotic people.

These things of Ling Xuanfang, not many people know in later generations, in addition to the fact that there are too many characters who can sing and cry or sigh in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is another reason, that is, he has another name.

And his other name is a little more famous than the three words Ling Xuanfang.

Another name of Ling Xuanfang, called Ling Mengchu, is the author of "The Surprise of the First Moment" and "The Surprise of the Second Moment".

This person was also an all-round person with both civil and military skills at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it was a pity that he wasted too much time in the imperial examination.

And this Ling Xuanfang, that is, the reason why Ling Mengchu is quite famous in Wucheng County, where Huzhou Mansion is located, is because of the two books he published and engraved at his own expense, which has accumulated a little reputation for him.

However, poetry and songs, novels, miscellaneous studies, etc., in the Ming Dynasty, all belonged to the side door and the small skills of carving insects, and belonged to one of the literati Yaxing outside the eight strands of literature, and they could not wait for the hall of elegance.

Therefore, Ling Mengchu relied on "The Surprise of the First Moment of Shooting" and "The Surprise of the Second Moment", although he has some prestige among the people and scholars, but he has no choice but to do so, and neither of them is a lifter, so naturally he still has no chance to be an official.

It wasn't until the early years of Chongzhen, when Ling Mengchu, who was nearly fifty years old, that he finally made a contribution to helping to quell the civil turmoil in western Zhejiang, and was promoted as the county governor of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

As the saying goes, the vicissitudes of the sea show the true character of heroes. The arrival of Tu Achou, a group of water thieves and chaotic people, not only caused great harm to the counties along the Taihu Lake in Huzhou Prefecture, but also created a rare opportunity for Ling Mengchu to become famous.

Ling Mengchu's more than 1,000 township soldiers had no firearms, and there were only three arms, one of which was wolf warriors, the second was sword and shield fighters, and the third was archers.

The wolf has the most hands, accounting for more than half, and the archers are the least, about one-fifth, and among them are the more daring sword and shield hands.

Although the equipment of these township soldiers is simple, most of them are made of local materials and bamboo, but the township soldiers recruited by Ling Mengchu in western Zhejiang are better than the unification of orders and the prohibition of orders.

The vast majority of these recruited township soldiers were tenants and weavers of the Ling family, and they naturally obeyed the orders of the old owners who had relied on them for generations and did not dare to disobey them.

When Tu Achou and others led a large number of rebellious people to set off from Jiashan, there were plenty of money and food, and there were many people.

This situation made Zhao Jianji, Ling Mengchu and others very worried, worried that the Huzhou township soldiers were not the opponents of the rebellious people, so they only dared to hold on to the city.

But after Tu Achou led the rebels to besiege the Huzhou capital for more than ten days, Zhao Jianji and Ling Mengchu finally saw the strength of this group of rebels, and their courage quickly increased.

Therefore, when Tu Achou and others besieged the city and withdrew from the siege to the west, Ling Mengchu discussed with Zhao Jianji, so he decisively went out of the city and carried out a counterattack, and really achieved good results, not only causing chaos in the thief army, but also capturing nearly 1,000 chaotic people, and most importantly, his own side did not die for a while.

The achievement of these results not only strengthened the confidence of Zhao Jianji and Ling Mengchu, the prefects of Huzhou, but also gave confidence to this Huzhou township soldier, which had been organized for more than a month, and no longer looked frightened and timid.

Because they knew that although they were poorly equipped, they were already well-armed and well-fed compared to those rebellious people who could not even make a knife per person and could not even eat a meal a day.

Therefore, Ling Mengchu took the self-recruited Huzhou township soldiers, and after winning a game at the north gate of Huzhou Fucheng, he once again took the initiative to ask Zhao Jianji to lead this team of more than 1,000 township soldiers to follow behind the Tu Augly people all the way.

The chaotic people stopped, they also stopped, the chaotic people set off, they continued to follow, Tu Augly led the more combat-effective water thieves to turn back, they avoided without a fight, and formed a formation to hold on.

Ling Mengchu's formation is Qi Jiguang's classic formation against the Japanese Invaders back then, the Mandarin Duck Formation, which puts the largest number of wolf warriors in the front as the line of defense, and then arranges the archers with the least number of archers in the rear, engages in long-range shooting, and arranges swords and shields during the period, and takes the time to attack those water thieves and chaotic people who are blocked by the wolf warriors in front of the formation and cannot advance or retreat.

This formation is very simple and easy, and the effect is very significant.

The use of Huzhou Mansion is made of the mountain hairy bamboo everywhere, up to about two zhang long, can give full play to its defensive role, and change the bulkiness of the Song knife, concentrated the essence of the Tang straight knife and the sword design casting process of the Qi knife, not to mention the bamboo guns and wooden sticks in the hands of the rioters.

In this way, in the middle of December of the first year of Chongzhen, the Huzhou township soldiers, who only had more than 1,000 people, under the leadership of Ling Mengchu, actually followed all the way, and drove the Tu Augly water thieves with a total number of more than 20,000 people and their coerced rebels into the deep mountains and old forests at the northernmost end of Tianmu Mountain.