Hearing Fang Irong say this, he looked at the surrounding terrain, and Yan Yumeng secretly complained in his heart. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This hellish place is full of bare loess, and it can be said that there is no grass. Standing on the ground and looking up, there is an unobstructed view of the area within a radius of more than 20 miles, and there is nowhere to hide.

If you encounter a thief today, how can you escape?

He said: "Brother Fang is right, there is no way to run, you can only walk slowly to maintain your strength, and I hope to be able to walk to the county seat as soon as possible." ”

Fang Rong's next words made Yan Yuemeng's heart fall to the bottom: "I'm afraid I won't be able to get to the county seat today, these thieves have followed us for such a long time, obviously they are aiming at the money in the back, and if they don't achieve their goal, they won't stop." ”

Yan Yuemeng shouted nervously: "Brother Fang, what if that's the case? ”

Fang Irong snorted and patted the scabbard on his waist: "If those thieves don't open their eyes, they won't have to fight them." ”

"What a few thieves, that's ten, ten!"

Fang Irong said: "Brother Yan, don't be afraid, you still have some strength in the bottom, and you may not be able to suffer." ”

Strength, can you win with strength alone? Yan said that Meng was even more afraid in his heart, but what else could he say in this situation in front of him?

He has always been cheating and cheating, and he even took the initiative to take over the back basket on Fang Wurong's back at this time, so he had to save some strength for Brother Fang. Now, Yan Yuemeng can only pin all his hopes on Fang Wurong.

Because of the strong terror in his heart, he walked about two miles, carrying a hundred catties of copper coins on his back, and was so tired that Yan said that Meng was about to lose his breath.

I glanced at Fang Irong who was opening the way in front of me again, this monkey, jumping up and down with a simple knife, why didn't he know how tired he was!

Yan Yue Meng finally couldn't stand it anymore, sat on the ground with his ass, and panted: "Rest for a while." ”

Fang Irong turned around and smiled: "Brother Yan, you took the initiative to carry this basket, no wonder me." ”

As soon as the words fell, suddenly, a group of people suddenly jumped out of the dry canal next to them, forming a semicircle. Wielding the weapon in his hand, he slowly approached with a sinister smile.

It can be seen that these people are regular soldiers who have been trained, and they forcibly occupied the favorable terrain from the beginning, and vaguely formed an encirclement of Yan and Fang.

"Ah, thief, no, no, no...... It's a Jurchen Tartar! Yan Yuemeng, who had just sat down, let out a sharp scream, jumped up like an electric shock, and then fell to the ground by the back basket strap on his back, and the yellow copper coins were scattered to the ground.

Yes, it was the Jurchen Tartars, as a native of Yingtianfu, Nanjing was sacked by the Jin army several times during the Jingkang year and later when Zong Ze stayed in Tokyo. As Yan Yuemeng, who was affected by the war and destroyed his family, how could he not recognize them.

I saw that these ten thieves had shaved their hair, revealing their bare blue scalps, and there were several braids like rat tails on the back of their heads, who were they if they were not Jurchens?

Intense fear instantly occupied his mind, as if he was stunned, and Yan Yumeng felt that he couldn't even move a finger.

Seeing the copper coins all over the ground, the eyes of the Jurchens lit up, and suddenly let out a strange cry and rushed forward: "Money, money, mine, mine!" ”

It was at this moment that their tight formation also dispersed.

It's too late, it's too fast. Suddenly, Fang Irong let out a loud shout: "Dog Tartar!" The long Pak knife in his hand slashed a lightning bolt of light, instantly slicing at the throat of a spearman.

Without waiting for the human blood to be marked, the long knife in his hand turned again, and slashed directly at the head of another archer, and with a "poof", red, white and white liquid sprayed into the air.

"Straight lady thief, dare to rob my money, dare to rob my money! How do you tell me to explain to Du Tong? He screamed, and the knife in his hand slashed forward.

Two people were hacked to death at once, and they were archers and spearmen again. The other eight Jurchens only had a short-handed knife in their hands, the so-called one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short, and one inch dangerous, and they were actually slashed into a mess by Fang Irong, who looked like a mad tiger, with a simple knife.

Yan Yue Meng only came back to his senses at this time, and looked ahead with wide eyes in surprise.

Fang Irong is just a scholar, and he doesn't know the slightest martial arts. But with great strength and fearlessness, an unreasonable slash forced the remaining eight Tartars to jump around on the ground, and their faces were full of fear.

He, he, he, he...... Why is it so powerful?

In the blink of an eye, another Jurchen Tartar was slashed in the shoulder by him, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground in pain.

"It seems that this Jurchen Tartar is not very good, is it?" Fang Irong laughed and shouted, "Brother Yan help me, let's clean up these people together!" ”

"Hey...... Good ......" Yan Yumeng subconsciously responded, but his body was so soft, how could he stand up.

Seeing that Fang I Rong shouted for help, the enemy who was injured just now shouted: "Defeated, defeated!" "Turn around and run.

Someone started to rise, and the others who had already been killed by Fang Irong shouted at the same time, and they also turned around and fled in a hurry like a smoke.

"I'm afraid, where is it so easy. You want to rob me of my money, straight thief! Fang Irong roared again and again, but he refused to give up.

The group of people chased me, and in a blink of an eye, they bypassed the mountain bay in front of them, and they couldn't see it anymore.

"Brother Fang, Brother Fang...... Come back, come back ......" Yan Yumeng shouted loudly, and he heard crying in his voice.

In front of him, two corpses were gurgling blood, and the smell of blood floated in the wind. There are buzzing flies that don't know where to come out of nowhere, and they keep falling on the enemy.

The two people stared at Yan Yumeng with black and white eyes, their eyes were full of confusion, as if they were asking: Why did I die?

The intense fear still hit like a tide, making Yan Yuemeng's whole body stiffen, and he just sat on the ground and looked at the two dead people fixedly.

I don't know how long it took for him to regain consciousness, and he stood up in a panic, picking up the copper coins on the ground and putting them in the basket. While pretending, he shouted: "There are Tartars, there are Tartars, I want to go home, I want to go home...... Brother Fang, Brother Fang, why haven't you come back yet? ”

A voice came: "Brother Yan is right, we have to go home." ”

It was Fang Irong.

Yan Yumeng turned his voice suddenly, and tears welled up: "Brother Fang, are you back...... What the? ”

But I saw that Fang Irong was covered in blood, and he was still holding the Pu knife in his hand, which was resting on the neck of a Jurchen whose five fingers on his right hand had been cut off.

This brother not only repelled so many enemies, but also brought back a prisoner.

Yan said that Meng was so happy that he cried out loud: "Brother Fang, you have been gone for so long, I thought you would not come back." ”

"Brother Yan said something unlucky, just ten thieves, I don't take it to heart." As he spoke, Fang Irong kicked the prisoner's ass and shouted, "Walk this way with the basket on your back." ”

Seeing that the direction he was pointing in was the way he came, Yan Yumeng was taken aback: "Brother Fang, aren't you going to Macheng?" ”

Fang Wurong had a calm face: "Don't go to Macheng, that county town has been occupied by thieves, we have to escort the captives back as soon as possible to inform the Wang military envoy, the military situation is like fire, and we can't delay for a moment." ”

"Hemp...... Macheng lost ...... How...... How? ”

Fang Irong nodded: "Yes, it's lost, now it's full of thieves." ”

Hearing that he could go home, Yan Yumeng came back to his senses: "Okay, okay, let's go immediately." Brother Fang, I can't imagine that you are a mustard scholar, you have such martial arts, you are really the legendary ten enemies, admire, admire! I don't think this Jurchen Tartar is very good! ”

Fang I said proudly: "What kind of Jurchen Tartars, they are a group of rogues, straight thieves, but they have coaxed us." ”

Yan Yuemeng: "Not a Jurchen?" ”

"Let's go!" Fang Irong slapped the prisoner with the blade of the Pu knife: "Tell us who you are?" ”

The captive broke five fingers, the pain was terrible, and he was afraid in his heart, and his body trembled palely: "Back to the words of the two grandfathers, the younger one is the soldier under Kong Yanzhou, grandpa spares his life, grandpa spares his life!" ”

"Kong Yanzhou, is it Kong Yanzhou, the commander who betrayed the Tokyo Left-behind Division before?" After asking this sentence, seeing the captive nodding, Yan Yumeng was curious: "What's the matter with your hair?" ”

The captive cried: "Grandpa, grandpa, General Kong said that the female truth is vicious, and told us to shave our heads so that we can be treated as our own by the Tartars so as not to be beaten by others." Also, we pretended to be Jurchens, and when we killed all the way, others were terrified when they saw us, and we occupied many states and counties without much effort. Grandpa spares my life, I'm just a pawn...... Yes! ”

Before he could finish speaking, Yan Yumeng slapped his ears and scolded angrily: "Parents who are exposed to the body, you are a good man of the Han family, but you dress up as a barbarian, and you don't even want your ancestors?" Straight lady thief, since Xiao Guan has been in the dust of war, and the river has cut off the spring of a foreign land. The Han children did their best to speak nonsense, but they scolded the Han people to the city. ”

Fang Wurong continued to slash away, and then scolded: "I said why are you so shabby in your clothes, and you don't have to be beaten, it turns out that you are two dogs, and you can't wait to hack you to death." Go, go! ”

After that, he lifted the Pu knife again, cut off the heads of the two corpses on the ground one by one, and tied them to his waist bloodily.

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The wind swept through the valley of the open and unobstructed light, like a beast pounced on its prey. A large cloud of dust was swept up by the wind and filled the air, and it was so yellow that I couldn't see anything clearly.

Zheng Sen, the new commander of Macheng County, walked on the mountain road sweating profusely, and it had been a day and a night since he came out of the county seat, but he didn't see a few people.

Yesterday, the Huangzhou envoy came over with an order, saying that there was a shortage of food in the army, and ordered the Macheng County government to collect the grain and grass needed by 1,000 people in the shortest possible time.

General Wang's order is simply embarrassing, most of the northern counties of Huangzhou are mountainous, few people, barren land, after being sacked by the Jurchens and rogues, the place is very poor, not to mention, the population has also fled. It's spring plowing season, not to mention here, even outside the county there are large tracts of barren land.

If you want to levy food and grain, you have to rely on large households. Since the Great Song Dynasty, there has been a tradition that the imperial power is not lower than the county, which means that the rule and decrees of the imperial court can only be down to the county level, and as for the local governance, it can only rely on the gentry.

When he was in Weizhou before, he joined the army as a county secretary in the yamen for more than ten years, so he was naturally clear about this kind of thing and knew what to do.

So, he took a cadre from the county government and others to the countryside to contact the big households in Macheng to see if he could advance some money from them and deduct it when the summer tax was due.

Huangzhou was in a state of anarchy before, and the Sizhou army moved to the town to say that it was an outsider, and the big families did not buy it very much. In these troubled times, the city changes the king's flag, and if you collect taxes today, you may be afraid of other armies tomorrow. When the time comes, the new owner of Macheng will have to collect it again, even if the family business is big, it can't withstand this kind of toss!

As a result, large households in various places have settled in villages to protect themselves, and regard the county government as nothing.

Zheng Sen was busy in the countryside for a day, talking about dry words, coercion and temptation, and finally gathered some grain, which can be regarded as an explanation to the defense envoy. That's not enough, though.

He decided to walk two more places today today.

Zheng Sen, as a county magistrate, is an exemplary person, and when he walked on the road, he naturally straightened his waist with strong spirits.

But his entourage was already exhausted, and they were all full of pain and staggered. Along the way, it was really bitter.

A public man complained: "County Zun, we fled with you all the way from Weizhou to Jiankang, and now we are coming to Huangzhou again, the reason why everyone has not dispersed is because everyone is blood relatives." Master, you have suffered so much in the past two years, and it is not easy to find a position in the county order, and you should enjoy some blessings. It's good now, I haven't seen a penny, and I've taken us to drill the ravine all day long. If you knew this, it would be better to stay in the army and be your deputy commander of the battalion who doesn't care about anything, but you would be happy to be idle. In the past, when we were in Weizhou, how did the county lord become an official, and then look at you, how are you an official now. ”

Listening to him, everyone else laughed.

That's right, this Zheng Sen is the deputy commander of Zheng who brought Du Shu back to the barracks on the day the Jiankang Defense Battle began.

After Wang Shen led his men and horses to defend Huangzhou, a Weizhou official who was in the army and paid in name also came with his family.

The king's envoys did not treat them badly, and according to their abilities and with reference to their previous duties, they were all assigned to the local civil affairs officials. With Du Shu's group here, Wang Shen easily established a set of government agencies. If there were no such people, everything would start from scratch, and the devil knows what would have become of Qi and Huangzhou. He was also secretly glad that he had thought of the future, and everything was foreseen, and everything was foreseen.

Hearing the words of the entourage, Zheng Sen also smiled, and scolded at first: "It seems that you follow me and I want to enjoy happiness, those governors and counties in Weizhou used to enjoy happiness, what is the result." As soon as the Jurchens arrived, they died and died. Wang Daosi treats us with kindness, so he naturally has a solid heart to repay him. The defense made this person understand, although he was a tiger man who won all battles, he could talk elegantly and treat people with generosity. Once Qi and Huang's government affairs are straightened out, they will definitely not treat us badly. Let's do things, before asking people for treatment, we have to ask ourselves what we have done for General Wang? If you just eat and don't do things like before, you are not ashamed? ”

"The county is really a moral person, and I admire it." Everyone laughed and said: "It's a lot of hardship, according to us, Wang Daosi's ambition is not small, and he has Du Xianggong's blue eyes, and the future is naturally not small." If you don't have a good time for two years, if you make a contribution, you have to open your teeth and build a house. When the time comes, the county will say that it is not impossible to rise one liter, and it is not impossible to be a prefect. ”

Zheng Sen, like the officials of this era, is ambitious when he says it is good, and a little ambitious when he says it is bad. At that moment, he stroked his beard and smiled: "I have worked in Sihu for ten years before, and the things in this place must not be hidden from me." If General Wang has a place to use me in the future, he will naturally contribute. There are still two Zhuangzi to leave, and you don't have to complain. Anyway, that place is also close to the county seat, so I went there to urge money and food, and after eating, I could go back to the city before dark. ”

"It's extreme, it's extreme, let's raise the spirit." Everyone nodded their heads.

It turns out that this Macheng is a mountainous county, and more than seventy percent of the land in the territory is mountainous, and the remaining thirty percent is plain. Before they knew it, everyone had already walked up, and it was not a few steps away from the county seat.

At this time, suddenly an entourage pointed in the direction of the county seat and exclaimed: "County Zun, it's not good, there is something in the county!" ”

Hearing his shout, everyone turned their heads to look at the same time. I saw that the wind had blown away the dust in front of me, and on the distant horizon, the small Macheng County had already burned into the sky, and the black smoke rose straight up, connecting the sky and the earth.

"Rogue ...... The county seat was attacked! In an instant, Zheng Sen broke out in a cold sweat.

A few days after he relieved himself of the Macheng County Ya, except for the dozen or so officials who were temporarily recruited, there was not a single soldier stationed in the city. Moreover, most of the city walls of the county town have collapsed due to disrepair. If there are rogues to attack, it doesn't take much, only a hundred locks can be taken.

The most terrible thing is that there are still more than 10,000 catties of yellow valley in the city that have just been expropriated, and it must be these treasures that have attracted the rogue.

Losing the city and land, losing a lot of military supplies, how can I explain to Wang Daosi, will Chen Da let me go? Suddenly, Zheng Sen even had the heart to die.

He stood there dumbfounded, motionless and looking at the burning county town in the distance, helpless.

Suddenly, there were countless black dots in front of him, and under the sun, the flashes of weapons were one after another, and when counted, there were at least three hundred people. It's like a big net, covering the whole world.

"What is this ......?"

It's a thief army, yes, for sure.

Closer, closer, I can already hear their shouts: "Hugh is leaving Zheng Sen, Hugh is leaving Zheng Sen!" ”

"Thief, thief, ah, county, go, go!" All the princes drew their weapons and hugged Zheng Sen.

"I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving!" Zheng Sen screamed hoarsely.

"Hurry up, it's too late to go. County Honor, you have to report to the Defense Envoy Division quickly! ”

Zheng Sen smiled bitterly: "I can't go, this place is too open, and you can see more than ten miles of land when you look up." Let's go ahead, and the thieves will catch up behind. If you go on like this, you will be caught up by them sooner or later. ”

As he spoke, the enemy got closer, and was already able to see their bare scalps and pigtails tied at the back of their heads.

Zheng Sen wondered in his heart: Jurchen, didn't the Jurchen cross the river to Hongzhou, why did they still stay in this mountain?

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On February 17 of the fourth year of Jianyan, Macheng fell. Zheng Sen, the magistrate of the county, took the county yamen and others to retreat south, and after walking on the road for three hours, he was finally caught up by Kong Yanzhou's front army. The sixteen members of his companion were all killed on the battlefield, and none of them were spared.

At the same time, Kong Yanzhou's pigtail army launched an attack on the counties of Huangzhou at the same time.

By the 26th, Kong Yanzhou had taken the four counties of Luotian, Qishui, Guangji, and Qichun, and the entire Qizhou had fallen, and even Macheng County in Huangzhou had fallen into his hands.

It wasn't until the 27th that the Huanggang City, where the Huangzhou Defense Envoy Si Xingyuan was located, figured out where this inexplicable enemy came from.

Originally, there was a Ba River between Huangzhou and Qizhou, but now Kong Yanzhou suddenly crossed the river into Macheng, condescending, and the situation suddenly became bad for the Sizhou army.