After more than a month of careful planning and preparation, at dawn on the ninth day of the eighth month, 5,000 disciples of the Longmen Dart Bureau, 1,000 disciples of the Feiyun Dart Bureau, and at the same time, nearly 1,000 gangs of people from the six sub-altars of Ximu, Xishui, Xihuo, Beijin, Beimu, and Beishui launched an attack, waking up the Fang Gang from their sleep. Under the superior strength and psychological offensive of the combined forces of Longmen and Feiyun Dart Bureau, there was almost no short-handed encounter, and the Fang Gang disarmed and surrendered. This incident marked that Xu Qing officially launched a counteroffensive against the Fang Gang, which was strong in itself and had stronger backers.

Fang Zairong, the leader of the Fang Gang, reacted quickly and asked his father-in-law Li Yong to send troops to attack the Longmen Dart Bureau, because Li Yong's favorite concubine Mei Lanwei's mother's family openly supported the Longmen Dart Bureau, Li Yong didn't want to offend Mei Lanwei and the Mei family, especially Mei Zhi was a general appointed by the imperial court, not a general appointed by him, Mei Zhi only obeyed the orders of the imperial court, and his name was the chief of the guard of the Yan Wangfu, in fact, he was the eyes and ears of the imperial court, monitoring his every move. Moreover, the Fang Gang attacked the Longmen Dart Bureau first, and the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Feiyun Dart Bureau formed an alliance and then counterattacked the Fang Gang, which is a typical Jianghu dispute and vendetta, and the government should not be involved, if the government intervenes in the dispute and vendetta of the Jianghu Gangs on the grounds of maintaining law and order, it must take a fair and just position, otherwise not only can the problem not be solved, but things will become more complicated. If you don't get it right, the political opponents will also charge the magistrate involved with colluding with the Jianghu gang organization and intending to rebel. Fan Yang Jiedu envoy is the Tang Dynasty frontier military town of the Jiedu envoy, no different from the princes, this is an emperor faction and the queen faction of civil and military officials are red-eyed, Li Yong does not want to go wrong, one wrong step, every step will lose. Li Yong promised Fang Zairong to find a way, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it for a while. The Mei family and the Longmen Dart Bureau quickly approached, and the Fang Gang became a fire and water, that is, in the past two months, which was beyond Li Yong's expectations.

Li Yong refused to help, Fang Zairong didn't want to sit still, so he had to save himself, mobilized 2,000 remnants of the gang in the afternoon of the same day, concentrated troops to attack the Ximu Branch, launched a counterattack, and was determined to regain the lost territory one by one. The fierce battle lasted until dark, lasted for more than an hour, more than half of the Fang Gang casualties, the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Feiyun Dart Bureau combined forces quickly increased their troops to the Ximu Branch of the Fang Gang that had just been occupied, and the strength soon surpassed that of the Fang Gang, killing more than 200 people when they were at a disadvantage, and only killing more than 100 people after the reinforcements arrived. The Fang Gang was cultivated by Li Yong with money and efforts, and was called a private Jianghu gang controlled by Fang Zairong, which was actually a tool for Li Yong to collect wealth and launder money, and it was also a tool for Li Yong to collect intelligence and monitor hundreds of officials in Fanyang, as well as Khitan, Turkic, Xi, Xianbei and other foreign races, and the importance of the Fang Gang was like his right-hand man to Li Yong. Seeing that the Fang Gang had suffered heavy losses and was about to be wiped out, Li Yong couldn't sit still any longer, and urgently mobilized hundreds of arresters in Youzhou to intervene at the location where the two sides were fighting.

As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, Xu Qing and Mei Yong immediately ordered their subordinates to stop attacking the Fang Gang after the arrest arrived. The Fang Gang was at an absolute disadvantage, and the opportunity to breathe was naturally to stop the fight quickly. The commander of the capture and quick order the two sides of the battle to disperse separately can avoid the criminal responsibility of chasing and gathering weapons to fight and disrupt the peace. Nearly 10,000 disciples of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau, the Feiyun Dart Bureau, and the Fang Gang quickly dispersed, and a fierce battle finally subsided.

The Dragon Gate Dart Bureau has an absolute advantage in the decisive battle with the Fang Gang today, and after careful planning, there are still hundreds of casualties, Xu Qing is very dissatisfied with such an outcome, he thinks that he has made at least three mistakes, one is to underestimate the strength of the Fang Gang, the Fang Gang is the big gang of rivers and lakes secretly supported by Li Yong, and the weapons and training are compared with the special forces in Fan Yang's tens of thousands of troops - the guard cavalry of the Yanwang Mansion, although it is a rabble gathered by ruffians and people in the martial arts, But there is no shortage of martial arts masters from all over the country; The second is to overestimate the impact of the martial arts of a small number of martial arts masters on the battle situation, in fact, in the melee of nearly 10,000 people, the martial arts of a small number of martial arts masters basically have no impact on the battle situation; The third is that they did not expect that after the Fang Gang was frustrated, they would adopt the tactics of concentrating their forces to attack one place, causing casualties to the scattered Longmen Dart Bureau.

In the face of a powerful enemy, it is necessary to pay attention to the timing of the offensive and the art of attacking, and the so-called timing is, of course, when the enemy no longer has the advantage because of civil strife or other reasons, and the so-called art of attacking usually refers to the use of counter-tactics during or before the attack, the strategy of attacking the enemy from the east to the west, and the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, attacking the enemy's weak forces with superior forces, and destroying them in various ways, so as to buy, divide, divide, confuse, and disrupt the enemy, and obtain intelligence and information on the enemy's command, logistical supply, strategic tactics, and personnel deployment.

All this requires careful planning, careful deployment, patient preparation, it takes time, Xu Qing made the mistake of insufficient preparation, incomplete attack, and untimely intelligence before and during the war, there are objective reasons, one is that Xu Qing did not use the new army in order not to attract the attention of the imperial court, the second is that the Feiyun Dart Bureau retains its strength in the battle and does not go all out to participate in the war, and the third is that the combat effectiveness of the Fang Gang is indeed very strong, only above the guard cavalry of the Yan Wangfu, not under the guard cavalry of the Yan Wangfu, there are also subjective reasons, Xu Qing has taken over the Longmen Dart Bureau since he took over, especially since the alliance with the Feiyun Dart Bureau, the struggle between the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Fang Gang has developed in a direction that is more and more favorable to the Longmen Dart Bureau, making Xu Qing give birth to the illusion that the Fang Gang is just a "paper tiger", thus invisibly breeding the heart of the enemy.

That night, Xu Qing entered Mei's Mansion alone, ready to ask his future father-in-law Mei Yong why he did not send reinforcements when the Fang Gang counterattacked, and after the reinforcements arrived, he did not do his best to participate in the battle. Xu Qing has a special identity and can freely enter and exit Meifu without going through layers of communication. When passing by the window of Mei Yong's bedroom, Xu Qing heard that Mei Yong was talking to Mei Kaifang, and his heart moved, and he held his breath and eavesdropped on the conversation between Mei's father and daughter. I only heard Mei Yong say: "This poisonous wine is soaked in the Aboro flower, which is a strange flower produced in Xitianzhu, which is very toxic, but the onset is very slow, and it usually occurs in the human body for more than a year." Once the attack occurs, the poison has invaded the bone marrow, and even the gods cannot save it. ”

Mei Kaifang said dissatisfiedly: "It's so slow, Fang'er still has a difficult time!" ”

Mei Yong said in a deep voice: "Dad also wants you to get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, but he still has use value, and we can't let him die too early." ”

Only then did Xu Qing understand that the Mei father and daughter were discussing poisoning themselves, and his heart was suddenly furious. Mei Yong has been mixed in the rivers and lakes for decades, accustomed to the law of the jungle, and it is not surprising that she wants to poison Xu Qing, but Mei Kaifang is a girl in the flower season after all, and she makes a "beauty plan" to Xu Qing, and it is normal for people to fall in love for a long time, but she not only does not fake it, she does not give birth to the slightest emotion, and she also thinks that Xu Qing died not fast enough!

Xu Qing lifted his breath and quietly retreated a few feet, then made a sound at a normal pace and walked to Mei Yong's living room. Hearing footsteps outside the window, the Mei father and daughter stopped talking. Xu Qing pushed the door in, pretending to be slightly stunned and said, "Sister Fang is also here, just right, what I want to talk to my father-in-law is related to you." ”

Mei Kaifang smiled and said, "Really? Brother Xu. ”

Under that flower is a heart that is more poisonous than a snake and scorpion, Xu Qing felt disgusted when he saw it, did not answer Mei Kaifang, and said to Mei Yong directly: "Father-in-law, maybe it is not appropriate for me to call you like this, you have not taken me as your son-in-law until now, otherwise you would not have saved your strength in our decisive battle with the Fang Gang, I think this may be because I am only your quasi-son-in-law now, not your real son-in-law." I came to tell you one thing tonight, I decided to marry your baby daughter, Miss Mei Kaifang within three days, if I can't hold a wedding with Ling Yan within three days, I will dissolve the cooperative relationship with the Mei family, try to reconcile with the Fang Gang, and maintain the status quo of Youzhou Wulin. ”

It can be imagined how ugly Mei's father and daughter's faces were after hearing Xu Qing's words. Mei Yong said with a straight face: "You dare to threaten me!" If it weren't for the fact that my Mei family was strong in both the court and the opposition, King Yan would have already decided on you! You think you're a threat to me? Without my Mei family supporting you behind your back, can you beat Fang Zairong and King Yan? Fang Zairong will take revenge, King Yan will not allow anyone to challenge his authority, you can make peace with Fang Zairong, the ghost will believe it! ”

Seeing that Mei Yong and Xu Qing were about to fall out, and Mei Kaifang's hard work of using the "beauty plan" for months would be in vain, the Mei family's unification of Youzhou martial arts was equivalent to the unification of Fanyang martial arts, and the unification of Liaodong, Hebei, and Shandong martial arts was just around the corner, and the long-term plan to support Silla's anti-Tang activities in Baekje and Goguryeo, and to facilitate Silla's intelligence activities in the Tang Dynasty was about to be disrupted, Mei Kaifang was so anxious that he gave his father a look and shouted: "Dad-"

Xu Qing said calmly: "Master Mei, you are crazy below, but you have the capital to be crazy below." If you don't believe it, you can give it a try! As long as the head of the Dragon Gate Dart Board is the head of the dart, anyone who despises the Dragon Gate Dart Board will regret it. At this point, it is up to the master of the Mei Bureau to decide what to do. Of course, there is a premise for marrying Miss Mei in the next, that is, Miss Mei likes to be in the next, at least not disgusted, if she doesn't like it, she will never be forced in the next. Well, that's all for now. Mei Bureau Master, Miss Mei, farewell. ”

Xu Qing turned around and wanted to leave, but Mei Yong hurriedly said, "Mr. Xu, please stay." The old man said just now without consideration, and I ask Mr. Xu to forgive me. The Fang Gang is our common enemy, and we need to cooperate. For the sake of our cooperation, the old man promised to marry Fang'er to you, but it was only three days, isn't it too hasty? ”

Xu Qing said: "Don't be in a hurry, it's enough to feast on Youzhou celebrities in three days." "Okay then." Mei Yong said helplessly. Xu Qing said to Mei Kaifang: "Does Miss Mei have any objections?" "Nope." Mei Kaifang's answer seemed a little blank, the average girl would always blush because of shyness when asked about this kind of thing, but she was expressionless.

"Very good, I'm leaving, we'll see you the day after tomorrow." Xu Qing left the Mei Mansion much faster than when she came, Mei Kaifang did not leave Xu Qing to talk alone, she had a ghost in her heart.