Fenzhou Mansion, an important town in the middle of Shanxi close to Taiyuan, has jurisdiction over six counties in one state, and the same government in South Hebei Province is governed in Fenzhou City, and the jurisdiction is not wide compared with Datong, Taiyuan and Pingyang, but it is extremely important because it is located in the heart of Jinzhong.

Jiang Huang anyway, at the beginning, Fenzhou Mansion, like other places in Shanxi, set off an anti-Qing wave, all the county towns and towns gathered people as soldiers, under the command of the leaders elected by each of them, occupied the county seat, chased and killed officials, set up checkpoints on the streets, on the side of the main road, while checking the remnants of the Qing court, while cutting the braids of pedestrians, there were also teams of righteous soldiers and righteous people, spontaneously went to the streets, cutting braids for people from door to door, for a time there were grass kings everywhere, everywhere were "general soldiers", "generals", and even "governors", "governors", "town marshals" and other titles, as if everyone has met, and there is no official rank above the third grade, and they are embarrassed to say hello.

In the city of Fenzhou, in the yamen of the former Qing court.

This yamen, which had been badly destroyed in the anyway fighting a few months ago, had been so badly destroyed that the rioting righteous people had snatched almost everything they could take, not even the long case of pear blossoms and trees in the hall, except for six large pillars surrounded by a man, the hall was empty.

Now it has become the festival hall of Jiang Jianxun, a member of the Jiang Hao tribe, I don't know where to move some tables and chairs of different regulations and sizes, and put them in the lobby, and hang plaques under the eaves, set up weapon shelves around the house, and finally paste a picture of a big tiger descending the mountain on the wall facing the gate, and a simple festival hall will become.

Right now, in this lobby, there are more than ten people sitting tall, short, fat, and thin, looking at the costumes, both literate and martial. Some people wore a Ming Dynasty official uniform that had obviously been pressed under the box for a short time, and the clothes were full of wrinkles, but the person wearing it was proud and looked forward to it; Someone was wearing a reckless linen robe, but there was a splendid robe snatched from nowhere, which was nondescript, but the person who wore it sat arrogantly and leisurely; What's more, he was wearing a scribe's brocade robe inside, but the outside was covered with Qing army-style armor.

The only thing that is more uniform is that these people are wearing helmets or hats on their heads, covering their heads, covering the yin and yang heads that look extremely ugly because of the cut of braids.

These people sat in one place, noisy and noisy, and listened carefully, but they were arguing with each other about the strength of each other's troops, comparing whose merits were greater and whose merits were small, and arguing about what kind of reward and what kind of official position they should receive after conquering the whole province of Shanxi and expelling the Tartars from the country in the future.

The lobby is not small, but it is cramped by the hustle and bustle of this group of noisy people as if no one is around, the hall is full of black smoke and miasma, a room of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, making a solemn festival hall as cheesy as a vegetable market, and the soldiers guarding outside the house are curious to probe their brains inside, as if they are watching an interesting show.

Under the picture of the tiger, a stout young man with a frosty face sits majestically, he is dressed in iron armor, and the iron leaves shine brightly in the sunlight shining from the roof through the glazed tiles, making his whole person look much more stylish than those sitting below, quite a general's style.

This person is Jiang Jianxun, the nephew of Jiang Hao, the general of Datong Town, who is not more than thirty years old, but has been a veteran general in Datong Town for sixteen years.

Since he was 14 years old when he was a small servant by Jiang Jiu's side, Jiang Jianxun has never left Datong Town, and has gone through small flags, general flags, hundreds of households, and garrisons, and has always achieved the position of guerrilla.

Fighting with the Mongols, fighting with thieves, fighting with bandits, turning around and fighting with the Ming army after becoming a Qing soldier, and now fighting with the Qing army, fighting is like a kind of life, the maggot of the tarsal bone stays in Jiang Jiu's life, except for eating and sleeping, it seems that there is only fighting.

It is precisely because of this ability that Jiang Hao sent him out, contacted and connected with various places, coordinated troops and horses, and strived to establish a second anti-Qing force outside Datong, which could reduce the pressure on Datong, and also set off some waves as much as possible to disrupt the rhythm of the Qing court.

So Jiang Jianxun sat here.

Under his command, there are more than 40,000 soldiers, and sit below these leaders of the righteous army who are sitting below, there are 5,000 elite soldiers, who are collected from all over the country anyway, these officers and soldiers are the border army of the Ming Dynasty, after the Qing Dynasty, they fought in the northwest with Jiang Hao, and they were experienced and powerful, and were later dismembered and cut off by the Qing court in the name of being stationed in various places, and sent to various states and counties, on the surface, they were just to weaken Jiang Jiu's troops, but these soldiers had a great sense of belonging to the Jiang family, Jiang Jianxun ascended and shouted, and they came with ants, has become Jiang Jianxun's most core force.

It is precisely because of this core military force that Jiang Jianxun transferred to Jinzhong, more than 20 counties around Lianke Taiyuan, and his momentum is monstrous, so he is qualified to sit on the most noble chair in the White Tiger Festival Hall.

However, at this time, Jiang Jianxun's expressionless face hides a deep helplessness and disgust, full of leaders of the rebel army, all of them are "general soldiers", "generals" and the like, followed by thousands of people who dare to call themselves town marshals, according to a county also dare to call themselves governors, these people were originally in the Ming Dynasty, except for a few bandit leaders, all of them have a bit of an official body, and there are some forces in the local area. Jiang Jianxun's plan to unite all the anti-Qing forces was difficult, and he was very helpless.

Summoning these people today, Jiang Jianxun originally planned to draw them to his own side, and do his best to ensure that the Jiang family is still the overlord of Shanxi, who knows that after these turtles taste the taste of self-reliance, especially after Ma Mingtu threw a moneyless official hat on their heads, they all became angry, and did not take Jiang Jianxun seriously in their eyes.

Rubbing his temples that were a little painful, Jiang Jianxun slapped the table and shouted angrily.

"Enough! You and others are all the humerus shares of the imperial court, how can they fight for merit and profit, abuse and quarrel here, you must know that the Tartars are still eyeing in Taiyuan, and the regent of Dongyu has sent troops to Hebei, we are still fighting here, how can we achieve great things! ”

He was tall and strong, majestic, and his armor added countless murderous aura, and he had a terrifying demeanor, and this loud shout made everyone quiet.

Seeing that everyone was in town, Jiang Jianxun slowly sat down, and said angrily: "Although everyone has their own territory, they are all Shanxi people, eat a pot of rice together, and they are all fellow villagers when they turn it over. ”

All the leaders nodded one after another, and a bald monk-like strong man stood up and said to Jiang Jianxun in a rough voice: "This is true, Lord Jiang is reasonable, we are sorry to accept the momentum of the Jiang family in Shanxi, so we gathered here today. ”

Jiang Jianxun glanced at him and recognized this person as Monk Hou, a former garrison general in Shanxi Town, who had always had an old relationship with the Jiang family, and when he spoke at this time, he was obviously facing himself.

The rest of the people, even if they were not convinced, it was inconvenient to speak, so there was a drum noise of "Okay, good", "Please talk about it Master Jiang".

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the general army of Datong Jiang is anyway, the four seas have been shocked, the eight directions have been chaotic, the Tartars have been caught off guard and panicked, in the line of Ningwu and Daizhou, Liu Qian has cut off the traffic of the Great Wall, and Datong and Taiyuan have cut off contact; In the east, Ningqing occupies most of Zezhou; On the west side are all of you, and almost half of Shanxi has been defeated; And in the south, the two leaders Han Zhaoxuan and Yu Yin seized the city of Pingyang Prefecture, and the whole mansion fell into the hands of my Daming. There is no one who can match this kind of prestige! Jiang Jianxun spoke loudly, his voice was subdued and frustrated, very infectious, and the crowd was passionate and enthusiastic.

Especially when the last sentence came out, the atmosphere of the scene was mobilized to a climax, and everyone shouted in surprise: "What? Pingyang Mansion was knocked down? The rock-solid Pingyang Mansion City was actually knocked down? That's great! ”

Everyone is talking about it, ecstatic, Pingyang Mansion is in the rear of Fenzhou Mansion, once the troops are dispatched, they can be with the Qing soldiers of Taiyuan Mansion one after the other, the north and south are sandwiched, and the righteous army of Fenzhou Mansion is sandwiched in the front of the not wide one by one, the threat is very great, and now this is like a thorn in the back of Pingyang Mansion City has been pulled out, and everyone is not happy.

"My lord, Han Zhaoxuan and Yu Yin have made great contributions, why don't you see them come here for a party today?" Someone asked loudly.

Jiang Jianxun smiled slightly and said, "Of course the two of them will come, they should be on the road at this time, and the general has already sent someone to invite them." ”

He paused for a moment, and said in an accentuated tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, if the country has no king, it will be chaotic, and if the army has no commander, it will be scattered. Han and Yu are both old members of my Jiang family, Han Zhaoxuan was the commander of Jiang when he was the commander of the army, and Yu Yin was the garrison, and he also served under the command of Jiang Zongbing, the two of them had already sent someone to the paperwork, and they were willing to follow the orders of Jiang Zongbing, and the two of them had hundreds of thousands of troops, and they were willing to lead troops to fight under the command of my Jiang family, and work hard to restore the Ming Dynasty, how could you go alone? Now is the time to employ people, why don't you be restrained by me, and work together for the Ming court, swaying in all directions! ”

He stood up and stood in the hall, his face as serious as a rock, and his eyes shining brightly, staring at everyone in the hall.

The leaders were suddenly dumbfounded, it turned out that this was Jiang Jianxun's purpose.

However, everyone understands that if you want to persist under the heavy pressure of the Qing army, it is inevitable to be in one place, but people are greedy and selfish, and they are worried that once they enter Jiang's house, they will probably become his retainers in the future, and their future status will depend on others, but this is unwilling.

More importantly, although no one present could match Jiang Jianxun, but everyone gathered together, they were not afraid of him, Jiang Jianxun did not have an overwhelming advantage, and he was defeated by the Qing army Nikan in Xinzhou, and retreated to Fenzhou.

The scene was embarrassing, everyone was silent, only a few people such as Monk Hou echoed their words, and at a glance they knew that it was dragging, and no one paid attention to him.

At this moment, there was a noise outside the door, and a soldier of Jiang Jianxun hurriedly came in and shouted: "General, there is a large group of soldiers and horses approaching outside the city, playing the banner of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know where it is." ”

Jiang Jianxun was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "But Han and Yu have arrived?" ”

The soldier shook his head and replied with a frightened expression: "I don't know, but those soldiers and horses, all wearing white armor, have never seen it, and it looks very strange!" ”

(End of chapter)