Chapter 424: Rebellion in the East China Sea
Meng Haigong was the heir of Li Zitong, and for a long time, Li Zitong seized Donghai County and allied with Sun Xuanya of Langya County to contain the Sui army in Pengcheng County, so that Li Zitong has always been standing.
Since Li Zitong was poisoned by the Bohai Society in the capital, Meng Haigong took over Li Zitong's subordinates as the second person in Donghai County, but his prestige was not as good as Li Zitong, and several generals did not obey him.
This move was extremely vicious, but it was a defeat move of killing 3,000 enemies and losing 800 self-damage, although it eliminated the generals who did not obey him, but it seriously shook the morale of the army, and soldiers began to flee, and morale gradually collapsed.
However, at this time, Zhang Xuan led the army to exterminate Sun Xuanya and Wang Bo of Langya County, the alliance of Donghai County died, and Yang Yichen began to prepare for the march against Donghai County.
After several rounds of negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement, Meng Haigong disbanded all the troops, and the court appointed him as the Taishou of Donghai County, at the same time, the Sui army Huyalang led Zhang Zehao to lead an army of 3,000 troops into Donghai County, and Donghai County has since returned to the territory of the Great Sui.
But Meng Haigong never imagined that two months after he accepted the imperial court's recruitment, the imperial court would attack him, and he would actually transfer him to Wenshan County as a taishou.
Meng Haigong had never heard of Wenshan County, and when he finally learned that Wenshan County was still in the west of Shu County, he suddenly flew into a rage and decided to rebel again.
Donghai County is today's Lianyungang, there are only five counties in the whole county, Huairen County in the north, Shuyang County in the west, Lianshui County in the south, and Donghai County in the county and Donghai County on Donghai Island, with a population of more than 50,000 people, who make a living from farming and fishing.
But a few years ago, the Central Plains was in turmoil. Bandits arose, and hundreds of thousands of Pengcheng County and Xiapi County fled into Donghai County, and these exiles made Li Zitong successful, so that Li Zitong had 60,000 thieves at its peak.
Although tens of thousands of soldiers were disbanded, Meng Haigong had a back hand, and he distributed the most fertile land in Donghai County to thousands of his cronies. He left these soldiers in Qishan County and Donghai County, and in addition, he hid a number of weapons on Donghai Island.
In the county government of Qishan County, Meng Haigong paced back and forth in the hall with his hands in his hands, and his military advisor Han Zhishui sat next to him, Meng Haigong snorted heavily and said: "What a golden mouth, his mother stinks worse than bullshit, transfer me to Wenshan County, I'm afraid I won't even be able to walk Pengcheng County and die violently on the road." Since that bullshit genius is unkind and unjust, don't blame me Meng Haigong for turning his face and being ruthless. ”
Han Zhishui persuaded: "Let Jun calm down first, it's not impossible to raise troops, but we must think about two things clearly, one is how to deal with Zhang Zehao, and second, what should we do after we raise troops?" ”
Meng Haigong was a little upset and said: "There are still 10,000 stone of grain in the official warehouse, and I still have two thousand henchmen to recall, I have already sent Liang Jinhui to Donghai Island to recruit troops and raise weapons." I want to raid the Sui army camp. ”
Han Zhishui laughed, "The envoy is now the Taishou of Donghai County. Do you still need a raid to deal with Zhang Zehao? ”
Meng Haigong woke up a little, "You mean to say-"
Han Zhishui said slowly: "Since the envoy is leaving, you might as well set up another Hongmen banquet and invite the local gentry to accompany you, I believe Zhang Zehao will definitely come to the banquet." ”
"What about the army?"
"The army is easier to deal with, leave it to me. It's a trifle. ”
Meng Haigong was suspicious, he didn't know what medicine was sold in Han Zhishui's gourd, Han Zhishui smiled and whispered a few words to him, Meng Haigong suddenly realized, and praised repeatedly: "High!" That's brilliant! ”
There is a bazaar by the sea outside the northern city of Qishan County. Mainly sell seafood, fish, shellfish, seaweed and other seafood are everything, in addition there are mountain goods and game and other items trade, every day before dawn, a large number of fishing boats will be just caught seafood here to unload, merchants from all over the country have rushed to buy goods.
It was not dawn this day, more than a dozen ox carts slowly came from the direction of the barracks, and there was a man in his forties sitting on the head ox cart, his name was Tao Tong, a logistics brigade commander of the East China Sea garrison, in charge of the head soldier, that is, the head of the gang, he would come here almost every day to buy vegetables and goods, and the people in the bazaar were already very familiar.
Of course, he can also let the bazaar merchants deliver goods directly to the barracks, but then he does not come to the door in person, and every day the merchant comes to the door, he will be seen by people and take away his benefits.
"Yo! Tao Ye is here! ”
"Tao Ye is early!"
The merchants in the bazaar greeted him in a stammer, which made Tao Tong very useful, and it was an important reason why he was willing to come to the market.
At this time, he came to the door of the sheep shop, today is the day of settling the bill with the sheep shop shopkeeper, and it is also the day when he gets into the bag, just arrived at the door, the sheep shop shopkeeper immediately greeted him, "Tao Ye is finally here!" ”
"Shopkeeper Yang is in a hurry! Check out today as normal, and I want another fifty sheep. ”
"The sheep have, in the back of the sheepfold."
Tao Tong waved his hand and asked his subordinates to follow the guy in the sheep shop to catch the sheep, and he himself walked into the room quickly, just walked into the room, but saw a middle-aged scribe sitting in the room, Tao Tong couldn't help but be stunned, and the shopkeeper whispered to him behind him: "This Mr. Han is specifically here to find Tao Ye, as if he wants to make a big deal with Tao Ye." ”
Tao Tong is as rich as his life, and when he heard that there was a big deal, his eyes immediately narrowed, "What does Mr. Han want to do with me?" ”
The middle-aged scribe waved his hand and closed the door with his men, leaving the room with only the two of them.
The middle-aged scribe took out an ingot of gold and put it on the table, and then took out another ingot, taking out a total of five major ingots of gold and putting them on the table, and suddenly the golden light flashed, illuminating Tao Tong's eyes red, his breathing began to become rapid, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Here are five hundred taels of gold, and when the matter is done, I will pay another five hundred taels."
The middle-aged scribe smiled faintly, he saw that Tao Tong had taken the bait, and like rumors, this person forgot his righteousness when he saw profit, and he was greedy for money, and things would be easy to do
At dusk, in the largest Donghai restaurant in Qishan County, dozens of guests gathered together, most of them were wealthy families in Donghai County, and they specially held a banquet today for the Taishou Meng Haigong practice.
Although everyone's mouths showed reluctance, in fact, Meng Haigong, the bandit leader, was transferred, and no one was unhappy in their hearts.
Even Zhang Zehao, a Huya general stationed in Donghai County, was also invited.
The lobby was very lively, and everyone pushed glasses and changed lamps, toasted each other, and drank with great interest.
Meng Haigong sat by the window on the second floor, he raised his glass and smiled at Zhang Zehao beside him: "I got news from the capital that the successor Taishou of Donghai County may be Pei Ju's son-in-law Li Dewu, and General Zhang will have a good relationship with this person in the future, and the future is immeasurable." ”
Although Zhang Zehao is a general, he is not good at drinking, he was persuaded to drink a few bowls of wine, his tongue was a little big, and he smiled vaguely: "It's not pleasant to deal with these literati!" I'm still willing to deal with Meng Yuanjun. ”
"I also want to be with the general, but there is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, and we have worked together happily in the past few months, and we have done this bowl!"
Meng Haigong took the wine bowl and drank it all, he smiled and watched Zhang Zehao drink the wine in the bowl, and at a glance, a subordinate at the door glanced at him, meaning that it was ready.
Meng Haigong patted Zhang Zehao's shoulder and smiled: "Let's go to a thatched house together, how about drinking again when we come back?" ”
"I want to go, but I can't move, so let you go by yourself!" Zhang Zehao had a strong drink, and lay on the table and muttered a few times.
Meng Haigong laughed and said to everyone: "How can there be a thatched house that can't be moved?" ”
Everyone also laughed, "General Zhang has drunk a few more glasses, it seems that he won't be able to go to Qinglou tonight." ”
"If you don't go to Qinglou, won't life be boring."
Meng Haigong smiled and instructed Zhang Zehao's two personal soldiers behind him, "You can help General Zhang to make it convenient and help him spit it out." ”
The two pro-soldiers hurriedly set up Zhang Zehao and walked outside, Meng Haigong followed, he walked all the way to the thatched house in the backyard, and saw that the two pro-soldiers had helped Zhang Zehao in.
He glanced around again, and saw that the killing machine was hidden, so he coldly ordered: "Do it!" ”
More than a dozen swordsmen and axemen who were ambushed by the thatched hut rushed out and swung their axes into the thatched hut, only to hear a few screams, and the thatched hut immediately fell silent.
One of his subordinates walked out and bowed down to report to Meng Hai Gongyu: "Lord Qiyu, you have already succeeded!" ”
Meng Haigong nodded, he looked up at the sky, night had fallen, and the military camp should also be successful. (To be continued.) )