Thinking of this, Zhang Guanghua turned to the middle-aged man and said, "Although this Persian has destroyed some of your crops, he is not guilty of death!" ...... you are," he said, looking at the villagers with their hoes, and then at the sturdy Amaridin, who was tied up on the ground.

"Are you General Lee's army?" Who knew that the middle-aged man did not answer, but asked an irrelevant question.

Zhang Guanghua and Lu Yishan glanced at each other, and both put their hands on the handle of the saber. He compared the strength of the two sides, and felt that the force value of his side was much greater than theirs, so he was relieved. So he asked, "Brother, why do you ask that?" ”

Seeing that Zhang Guanghua had completely misunderstood himself, the middle-aged man completely relaxed and laughed, while the other villagers also lost their nervous expressions.

"Looks like I guessed right! You are indeed General Lee's men. To tell you the truth, my name is Kang Shou, last year I followed Xu Shouhui and General Xu to revolt from Funing, successively captured Luoyuan and Lianjiang, and raised a large army to invade Fuzhou Road. But soon he was repelled by Luo Liang's dog thief who came from Quanzhou Road, and my brother Wang Shan was wounded and died of illness in Lianjiang County, and Dashuai was forced to retreat to the north. I led the remnants of my men to live in seclusion here in an attempt to make a comeback. ”

After saying that, he kicked Amiridin on the ground again and said: "This time we found a small group of Yuan troops haunting the river, and this Persian is also with the Yuan army. We waited for him to be left alone before we took him captive. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Guanghua was stimulated again. Although he didn't know Kang Shou, he knew who Xu Shouhui was. Xu Shouhui, who was born as a cloth seller, used the White Lotus Sect to gather people to revolt, and in 1352 he successively captured large areas such as present-day Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Hunan, with millions of people. However, due to the dispersion of the troops, he was defeated by the Yuan army the following year, lost in Qishui, and then retreated into the Meishan Mountain in the Yellow Sea. Soon after, it gradually rose to prominence, but in 1360 it was killed by his subordinate Chen Youliang in Quarry. is also a heroic figure.

Thinking of this, Zhang Guanghua finally put his mind at ease, so he indicated his identity as a military advisor and introduced the six guards behind him one by one. At this moment, the atmosphere that was still tense just now instantly melted. And some of the villagers even went back to the house and took out their rusty weapons, clamoring to go with Zhang Guanghua to fight the world.

"Brother Zhang, since everyone is a fellow believer, you might as well go back and report to General Li, just say that more than 100 brothers here are willing to obey his orders and follow him to kill all the Hulu!"

After speaking, Kang Shou shouted behind him again: "Assemble!" ”

Looking at the subordinates who quickly stood in a phalanx, Kang Shou nodded with satisfaction, and continued to Zhang Guanghua: "You see that my team is still very good, and I would like to ask you to say a few kind words in front of General Li."

After hearing this, Zhang Guanghua couldn't help laughing, which made Kang Shou know that he was already the nominal leader of the rebel army, and immediately agreed to join him, but Zhang Guanghua still told him that he would let General Li come over and meet him again.

Zhang Guanghua had another consideration in his heart, he was not ready to include Kang Shou in the army as an ordinary general, in fact, it was the best choice to separate Kang Shou's troops and set up a secret scout organization.

Kang Shou was able to lead more than 100 people to hide for more than a year without being discovered by the Yuan army, which shows that he does have unique skills. At present, although the equipment of the rebel army has become better and better, the intelligence system is almost blank, and the appearance of Kang Shou and others is indeed a great opportunity.

When Li Da proposed that Kang Shou continue to hide and serve as a secret scout force, Kang Shou thought about it and agreed. He knew that joining Li Da's army halfway would not necessarily get a good position. And if he becomes independent and sets up a separate system, although he can no longer enjoy the thrill of galloping on the battlefield, it is a great opportunity to cultivate a force that is completely his own.

However, Kang Shou finally put forward two conditions: one is to give him a large amount of start-up capital, and the other is to introduce him to a reliable chamber of commerce. Zhang Guanghua agreed without thinking about it, and asked Kang Shou to contact Shen Li about specific matters. All three of them were overjoyed, and together they came out to announce the decision to the people.

When all the dust settled, Zhang Guanghua took out the waist card he was carrying and handed it to Kang Shou, so that he had any information about the Yuan army, and sent someone to Anxi County with this waist card to report to himself or Shen Li. After thinking about it, he returned to the carriage and gave Kang Shou the dozens of taels of gold he got when he broke through Xianyou as a start-up capital.

After negotiating the cooperation, Zhang Guanghua and his entourage returned to Anxi with Amiridin directly.

……

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

On the morning of July 12, 1354, with the help of Huang Er, a blasting expert, the Dehua city wall was blown down in two places in an instant, and the emperor's ** team captured Dehua in less than two hours.

……

In Anxi, Zhang Guanghua was accompanying Shen Li to carry out the final assembly and debugging of the arquebus, and Lu Yishan ran in.

"There's good news and bad news, which one do you listen to first?" Although he was still in a hurry just now, Lu Yishan still deliberately sold Guanzi.

"What so much nonsense, say the good first, and then the bad." Zhang Guanghua was speechless, and by the way, he led Lu Yishan into the house and poured him a cup of tea.

Lu Yishan took a sip of tea and continued: "The good news is that Huang Da sent someone to send a sample of the explosive package, and the manufacture of grenades and bombs has also become famous, and I believe it is only a matter of time before it is made." ”

Lu Yishan has followed Zhang Guanghua for so long and has also learned some modern terms.

"Well, good news indeed. And what about the bad news? Zhang Guanghua was about to wait and see the items that were sent, so he continued to ask.

"Do you remember the Persian we brought with us? After I negotiated a trade agreement with him, I sent him back as you requested, and today he sent me a message that the Yuan army was planning to attack Anxi in a few days. He said that as long as the reinforcements from Fuzhou Road arrived, the Yuan army on Quanzhou Road would send troops with them, and it was estimated that we would only have four or five days left. Lu Yishan didn't talk nonsense anymore, and said everything in one breath.

"That's right! How did I forget this. Zhang Guanghua slapped the table and stood up, he always thought that the current Yuan army was not a threat to him and ignored their existence, but he did not expect that because he changed history, it also caused the Yuan army in Quanzhou to react to the uprising differently than before. Historically, Quanzhou was besieged by the rebels several times, but did not take the initiative to attack, and now it seems that the Yuan army must have taken a breather and tried to counterattack and destroy the rebels.

Thinking of this, Zhang Guanghua began to worry, I don't know if Li Da and they captured Yongchun. Someone should be sent to inform them to come back as soon as possible, and don't delay too long.

……

In Quanzhou Bay, a white seabird soared wantonly in the blue sky and white clouds, flapping its wings and flying towards Quanzhou City. Looking at the ants on the ground, its heart instantly became proud. Perhaps tired of flying for too long, it found a large tree in the clearing west of the city, landed on its branches, and began to leisurely comb its feathers.

"Ready...... Put! ”

Suddenly, it heard a human voice in the distance, and almost at the same time, it felt as if the branch it was on had been attacked by some monster, and a piece of sawdust that bounced off even knocked off several of its feathers.

"Oh my god! I'm scared to death, I'm going home, Mom, I'm going home, it's terrible! "The frightened half-dead seabird, flapping its wings in embarrassment, flew towards the sea without looking back.

"Daru Huachi, what do you think of the army I trained?" Quanzhou Wanhu Saiputin said to Barbed Sand with a smile on his face.

"Well, that's good! Saiwanhu has a heart, and I believe that in a few days, we will definitely succeed and recover Anxi and open up waterways. ”

One of the two people in this conversation is Saiputin of Wanhu in Quanzhou, saying that it is Wanhu, but in fact, he has only more than 7,000 soldiers and horses.

And the other person is the Dalu flower red barbed sand in Quanzhou. Speaking of barbs, sand is also a character. From 1346 to 1354, Fujian Province broke out seven large-scale peasant uprisings, of which in 1353 and 1354, Quanzhou Road, Xinghua Road and Fuzhou Road on the upper right, as well as Zhangzhou Road on the lower left, were surrounded by the rebel army on a large scale, but he was able to send troops to relieve the siege in time, and united with the township regiment to finally break the defense line of the rebel army. When the whole Central Plains was in dire straits, he relied on his own strength to make Quanzhou and several surrounding roads persist to the end. It was not until 1357 that he was captured and imprisoned by the Wanhu Saiputin, who had colluded with Amariddin to rebel against the city. In the end, he was publicly executed for refusing to submit.

When Li Da's army broke through Xianyou and continued to go east, he concluded that Li Da would lead his army to besiege Xinghua Road above Quanzhou Road, and he was even ready to let Wanhu Saiputin lead his army to the rescue. If everything develops according to the trajectory of history, maybe his judgment is indeed correct, but he has calculated Zhang Guanghua as a military advisor. As a result, the rebel army turned to the northwest and captured the small county town of Dehua, so that they would continue to capture Yongchun.

If Li Da is really allowed to capture Yongchun and then return to Anxi safely, then the strength of the rebel army and the grain and grass will definitely be multiplied. When the time comes, those chaotic parties will jam the water arteries of Anxi and Yongchun, and they will basically choke the throat of Quanzhou, the largest treaty port in the Yuan Dynasty. Barbed sand is absolutely not allowed to appear in front of their own eyes, the hundreds of thousands of people in Quanzhou City who survive on trade are not vegetarians, if they really cut off their financial routes, they will be forced to a dead end, and it is difficult to predict what will happen then.

"Saiwanhu, are reinforcements from Xinghua and Fuzhou Road coming?" Although he doesn't believe in Saiputin, Barbed Sand still admires his military abilities. This time, he took the initiative to defeat the task of defeating Lee's chaotic party, and he handed it over to Saiputin to arrange.

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