Chapter 55: Chasing! (a)
At nightfall, Cao Conglong returned to the governor's yamen, and the generals and officials who were responsible for leading the team arrived one after another, and even if they couldn't come, they sent people to report the news, and soon he understood the results of the day's seizure of power.
The situation is very good!
All the key points of the city have been occupied, the defenders have been completely defeated, and the officers have been swept away, and the ordinary soldiers have been put directly in the prison to wait for review. In addition, the civil officials of Ning Shao, who were born in Dalanshan, have joined one after another, and even the Jinhua officials recruited in the past six months after Sun Yu was taken down have not made any unexpected moves.
After the Fubiao battalion was assigned defense, the remaining brigade went to the homes of the officers of the Jinhua Ming Army and the staff members of the army according to the map, and escorted their families to the garrison's barracks in the city, where they were prepared to be used as temporary prisons. Of course, during this period, it is indispensable to loot some valuable things, and the officers of the Fubiao battalion, who will definitely get the filial piety of their subordinates, will naturally turn a blind eye, as long as they don't make too much trouble and make it difficult for them.
Groups of frightened family members were forcibly escorted to the barracks to be guarded, and Cao Conglong figured out that not all the family members of the officers were in Fucheng, although the matter of dividing the land had been temporarily stopped due to Chen Wen's expedition, but a large part of the family members of the county garrisons and guard officers had already gone to their posts, not staying in Fucheng and waiting for the division of land, but most of the family members of the army were still waiting for the victory of the Ming army in Fucheng.
He secretly scolded Chen Wen in his heart for not knowing the reason for keeping his subordinates' families as hostages, but fortunately, it did not have much impact on the overall situation, because he wanted to vigorously expand the Fubiao battalion to contain it, otherwise he would not dare to act with confidence even if he marched east with a large number of Jinhua Ming troops.
Coming out of the governor's yamen, Ni Liangxu did not go back to rest, but went straight to the military camp where the hostages were held. After understanding the situation, the woman who came out of the government office really didn't go home, which made him feel a faint uneasiness in his heart.
Returning to the Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households Office, which was temporarily used as the main camp of the Fubiao Battalion, Ni Liangxu told Zhou Qingui, who had become the chief officer of the Fubiao Battalion, about the matter. I heard that it was just a woman who ran away, Zhou Qingui laughed out loud, in his words, the little sister of the Zhou family was probably so scared that she ran to a relative's house to take refuge, can a little lady still rush to Quzhou alone to ask for help, even if she went to estimate that she was arrested on the way to be the lady of the village, there is no need to worry at all.
Subsequently, Zhou Qingui, who was in a good mood, said that if Ni Liangxu was interested in the little woman, Zhou Jingting's identity, the family behind him would not end well, and then he could be cheeky to ask Cao Conglong to make this woman a concubine for Ni Liangxu, and he believed that Cao Conglong would not refute his face in such a trivial matter.
Relying on the calculation and unintentionality, the entire prefecture was taken in one day, and the civil officials allied with Cao Conglong restored the rights eroded by Chen Wen, and the local garrison was directly replaced by the Fubiao battalion. The situation is very good, but Ni Liangxu's heart is still uneasy, but I don't know if the uneasiness comes from the guilt of Sun Yu or the woman who disappeared inexplicably.
If you can't figure it out, you have to continue to waste your energy, Ni Liangxu went back to rest after scrubbing. Cao Conglong has already ordered the officials to cooperate, and even the method of training is sure to copy Chen Wen's method, and the recruitment of soldiers will start early tomorrow morning, and it is always good to rest early.
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Quzhou Fucheng is located due west and south of Jinhua Fucheng, the two places are nearly 200 miles apart, if you count the ferries that need to be deliberately found due to the existence of streams on the road, it is not as simple as 200 miles to go around.
The three of them left Jinhua Mansion City in a carriage, and soon came to a ferry port on the Dongyang River, looking for a ferry boat that was slightly larger enough to carry the small carriage they were riding, and planned to cross the Dongyang River from there to Bailongqiao Town.
Bailongqiao Town is named after the Bailong Bridge across Baisha Creek on the left, I don't know if it is thanks to the legendary White Dragon, the land is quite fertile, the Zhou family has some land and a shop for collecting and selling groceries, these have already been taken away by Ma Jinbao and distributed to the officers under his command, relying on Chen Wen's big loan for the aftermath was successfully recovered, from there should be some necessities along the way.
Because the little sister of the Zhou family had a clear mind, she did not delay in the slightest on the way out of the mansion, and actually left the city before the wolf smoke of the arsenal was lit. The rebellious Fubiao Battalion, Cao Conglong and others were still busy breaking the defenders, and they couldn't take care of the ferry outside the city, so they easily found the ferry boat they needed, and transported them across the Dongyang River with people and carriages.
All the way south, I finally arrived at Bailongqiao Town before sunset. The shopkeeper of the shop in Bailongqiao Town was an old member of the Zhou family, who was honest and reliable at home in her father's generation, and was later arranged in the shop here, in addition to collecting and selling some groceries, he was also responsible for collecting rents from neighboring tenants.
After the three of them arrived, they went directly to see the old family, and after being invited to the back hall, the little sister of the Zhou family knew that it was very strange for her to go out with a coachman and a maid, in order to prevent the old family whose father was a very close friend from hiding her from returning home to report the omission of her whereabouts, so she directly explained the things in the city, saying that she was going to Quzhou to find her brother Zhou Jingting, in order to instigate Chen Wen to return to the division to quell the rebellion.
The Ming army was infighting, and such a shocking event directly stunned the old family, and the Zhou family's little sister's plan to go to Quzhou for help was even more stunned on the spot.
"Hey, it's just been a few days since this good day, why did you have such a thing of your own people beating you again, how can you beat the Tartars if you go on like this!"
The old family sighed when they eased up, until they remembered the plan of the little sister of the Zhou family, and hurriedly said that it was inconvenient for a daughter's family to go far away, if the little sister of the Zhou family was relieved, he would let his eldest son go with the coachman, and the little sister of the Zhou family only needed to stay here for a few days and wait for good news.
This method is reasonable, but I saw that the little sister of the Zhou family shook her head, and then said: "Uncle Pan, it is indeed safe for the two of them to go, but it is impossible to persuade Lin Haibo to lead the army back to help." ”
What the little sister of the Zhou family said is true, what kind of identity Chen Wen is, how can the son of a domestic servant and a coachman persuade Chen Wen without evidence. Only the little sister of the Zhou family can convince Zhou Jingting first to succeed, otherwise God knows what will happen after a long time, and then I am afraid that even if Chen Wen comes back, she will not be able to exchange the lives of her parents and relatives.
There was no other way, the old family had to hurriedly prepare some men's clothes for the little sister of the Zhou family to disguise, and found some dry food and silver money to send them to the inn in the town, and agreed to let his two sons and a son-in-law escort the little sister of the Zhou family to Quzhou early tomorrow morning.
Returned to the small courtyard of the house, before the old family's wife could heat up the meal, his youngest son sneakily came over, sat on the table and said to his father: "Father, the son thinks that the Ming army is infighting This is a good thing, let's hand over the thief woman to the governor yamen of the city, and then the Zhou family will be finished. (To be continued.) )