"Why did the imperial court lose again?"

The people next to him sighed.

"The court fought with that person, and it seems that it has never won."

Someone else said.

For Lu Yan to call himself King of Qin, many people were worried that after calling him King Qin and other officers and soldiers, they would be retaliated against by the officers and soldiers, so they replaced him with that person.

And Yuegang is not far from Zhangzhou Mansion, and some people have fled from Zhangzhou to take refuge here.

So he talked vividly in the crowd about the siege of Zhangzhou Mansion by the imperial army.

It seems that there are still people in the Zhangzhou Mansion to answer them, and the army of the imperial court almost attacked it.

However, the army of King Qin of Zhangzhou Mansion was really not afraid of death, and he used fire to beat the army of the imperial court.

I heard that hundreds of corpses were piled up outside the city gate that day, but unfortunately they still failed.

Later, the army of King Qin who was attacking Quanzhou Mansion came back, and finally broke the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of this, everyone sighed.

What's wrong with Daming, the Jurchens in Liaodong can't beat it, and they can't even beat a group of anti-thieves.

Zhang Qian just listened to them quietly and didn't interject, just listening can get a lot of news.

Slowly, everyone dispersed, and Zhang Qian's eyes became more gloomy, how difficult the state affairs were.

He didn't leave right away, but continued to look at the notices.

From here, you can get a lot of information about Lu Yan's troops, and Lu Yan doesn't seem to have any intention of concealing it, and how many troops participated in many wars were directly written.

He estimated Lu Yan's strength, which should be around 10,000.

It's just that why is this Lu Yan so careless, he didn't even hide such important information.

He thought about it carefully for a while, and felt that he couldn't understand Lu Yan's thoughts, so he left here.

Zhang Qian didn't leave Yuegang immediately, but walked around.

It seems that Yuegang has not been affected by much of the war, and it is still bustling, except that there are some more soldiers with murderous faces coming to patrol.

The soldiers were armed with spears, some with swords and shields, and looked murderous.

Even people who don't know anything about military affairs can see at a glance that these are definitely the real elite.

This made Zhang Qian's face a little ugly, where did Lu Yan get the elites, and these elites were actually used for patrolling.

Not far away, you can see a large number of ships coming to dock at Moon Harbor.

Some of the officials still got on board to inspect the docked ships and then began to collect taxes.

Zhang Chuan snorted coldly, and then took Li Wei to a restaurant not far away.

In a place like a restaurant, even if you don't ask anything, you can get a lot of news.

He ordered a table of wine and food, and ate silently with Li Wei.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, I heard that you spent 2,000 taels of silver this time to buy several ships and goods."

At a table not far from him, two middle-aged men in brocade clothes who looked like wealthy families were eating together.

"Haha, that's right. I heard that King Qin openly sold ships and goods, so I hurried to buy some. In the past, we had no way but to think of other ways. Now there is such a great opportunity, it would be a fool to miss it again. ”

One of the round-faced fat men chuckled under his breath.

"Isn't there a problem with buying these ships and leading the cargo? After all, the current identity is a thief. ”

Another thin, shrewd-looking man said.

"No problem, it's all a big stamp, what difference can it make. And I asked them to move the date forward by a few months, before they took Moonport. ”

The round-faced fat man whispered.

"The shopkeeper Zhang is really smart, if this is the case, I also want to get a few ships and goods, this ship is too difficult to get, and it is not enough at all."

The shrewd man said with admiration.

The round-faced fat man agreed with a face, it was too difficult to say that these two things were too difficult to do.

Don't even think about it without a very tough government background.

Zhang Qian couldn't help but glance at them, these people were really chaotic ministers and thieves, and they dared to trade with traitors.

If there is a chance in the future, they must be put in prison and let them know how powerful Jinyiwei is.

In addition to these, he eavesdropped on other people's conversations.

found that in addition to confiscating the property of some large families, it was frightening, and other Lu Yan's policies were very popular.

In particular, Lu Yan's move to open up the sea has won the welcome of many people, including large households.

Moreover, the military discipline of Lu Yan's army is good, and it is rare to hear of any robbery, which is even stronger than that of officers and soldiers.

In addition, it seems that the artillery of Lu Yan's subordinates is particularly powerful, and the city wall of Xiamen seems to have been collapsed by Lu Yan's artillery.

This made Zhang Qian even more worried, he was really a thief of the country.

After finishing a meal, Zhang Qian and Li Wei went to Zhangzhou Mansion, hoping to find out more news.

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Although he won the army on Fujian South Road outside Zhangzhou Mansion, Lu Yan was still a little afraid.

If you come a little late, maybe Zhangzhou Mansion will be defeated by the enemy.

And Quanzhou Mansion is halfway through the fight, and this time it retreated, and the previous fight was completely in vain.

Lu Yan counted the forces at hand, benefiting from the outstanding performance of Li Jing and the fleet.

Now he has nearly 6,000 Xuanjia elite cavalry, 4,000 Qi family troops, 1,000 bird cavalry and 3,000 Wei Wushu, and nearly 14,000 troops in his hands, which can definitely be regarded as a strong force.

The Bird Gun Cavalry was personally produced by Qi Jiguang when he was in Jiubian, and played an important role in the process of fighting with the Mongols, with high-speed mobility.

And as long as 20 points of merit, it can be regarded as a good price.

In addition, although the genuine Qi Jiajun was recruited by him.

However, after Qi Jiguang died, many generals of the Qi family army still used the training methods of the Qi family army to train a large number of soldiers, such as Wu Weizhong, who fought in North Korea.

Therefore, now Lu Yan still has thousands of Qi family troops to summon, and all of them only need 20 points of combat merit.

And those Wei Wushu were Lu Yan's special siege troops.

"Wei Wushu" is an elite heavy infantry trained by Wu Qi, and its combat power is very strong.

These Wei soldiers wore triple armor (inner and outer three-layer protective clothing or another name for heavy armor), held a sword with a sword, operated a crossbow of 12 stones, and carried 50 crossbow arrows in the negative arrow bag, carrying three days' rations, and could walk a hundred miles in half a day (Xunzi Discussion Chapter).

It was the most elite unit in China in the early Warring States period.

Wu Qi led Wei Wushu to capture Hangu Pass, and after 64 battles, he seized more than 500 li of land on the west bank of the Yellow River of Qin, and compressed Qin to a narrow strip west of Huashan.

According to the records in "Wu Zi Lishi", in the battle of Yin and Jin in the thirteenth year of King An of Zhou (389 BC), Wu Qi defeated the Qin army ten times larger with 50,000 Wei troops, and created a famous battle in the history of Chinese warfare with 50,000 feet, 100 chariots, and 3,000 horses, and 500,000 people in Qin.

is a well-known elite in China, and the reason why Lu Yan did not choose Qin Ruishi is because the price of Qin Ruishi is too high and some cannot afford it.

The siege of the city requires hand-to-hand combat, and Wei Wushu is fully able to meet his needs.

In fact, Wei Wushu did not live up to his expectations at all, and the attack on Xiamen was Wei Wushu's heroic battle, and finally succeeded in conquering Xiamen.

Now he plans to send Li Jing another 1,000 Xuanjia elite cavalry, 1,000 Qi family troops and 1,000 Wei soldiers to enhance his strength so that he can fight to Zhejiang as soon as possible.

Because just by taking Fujian, it is impossible to make the imperial court agree to his request, and only by defeating the real anointed places such as Zhejiang and Nanzhili can the imperial court really feel painful, and then there is a possibility of consent.

Now the strength of the Ming army on the southern road of Fujian is very empty, and if he sends an army south, then he will be able to easily occupy a lot of territory.

It's just that which general is needed to occupy it?

I'm afraid it's hard for an ordinary general to do this.

Lu Yan thought about it, let's ask Yue Fei to come out, with Grandpa Yue's ability, it must be no problem to take Fujian South Road.

But now he has insufficient combat achievements at hand, so he has to wait.

So he set out again and led a large army to attack Quanzhou.

On the city wall of Quanzhou Mansion, Shen Qiaochu, the prefect of Quanzhou, He Shunling, the governor of Quanzhou Mansion, Jian Qinwen, the governor of Quanzhou Mansion, and others looked at Lu Yan's army outside the city and were shocked and frightened.

Last time, due to the Ming Dynasty's army attacking Zhangzhou Mansion, Lu Yan had to lead the army back to help, they thought that the siege of Quanzhou Mansion had been lifted, and nearly 10,000 troops of the imperial court would definitely teach Lu Yan a hard lesson.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the news of the defeat of the imperial court's army of nearly 10,000 came over.

This almost frightened the officials and gentry of Quanzhou Mansion, how could this gang of thieves be so ferocious, even tens of thousands of imperial army were almost killed.

How can they Quanzhou Mansion be the opponent of the enemy.

Although they have tall walls to rely on, the enemy has Hongyi cannons.

These cannons were far superior to the cannons at the head of their city in terms of power and range, and last time they destroyed the wall of Quanzhou Mansion more than ten meters.

If the army of the imperial court comes to help, maybe Quanzhou Mansion will be finished in two days.

Now that the enemy had once again lined up artillery positions outside the city, what would they do if they once again bombarded the walls of Quanzhou Mansion with a heavy bombardment.

"Lord Prefect, I heard that the Lin family seems to have some connection with the pirates of Dayuanwan, so it is better to let them go and intercede and let them not attack Quanzhou Mansion."

At this time, the housekeeper of a large household in Quanzhou Mansion said.

"Oh, if that's the case, why don't you ask them to intercede."

Hearing this, whether it was the prefect, the governor of coastal defense, or the officials, they were all overjoyed.

Once Quanzhou is captured, the fate of these officials defending the city can also be imagined.

They have fought for their official positions all their lives, and absolutely no one wants to lose this official position.

The housekeeper smiled secretly, their family and the Lin family have always had business conflicts, in the past, the pirates in Dayuan Bay had robbed their ships under the command of the Lin family, and now was a good time to retaliate.

Soon someone went to invite the Lin family, but it was not the head of the Lin family, but an inconspicuous concubine of the Lin family.

Because the people of the Lin family fled to Fuzhou City long ago in order to escape the military disaster.

Of course, this is also the case for many large families in Quanzhou.

"Your Lin family can know the thief army outside, if you can find a way to make the thief army outside stop attacking the city, this official promises not to investigate your Lin family's thief crime."

As soon as he saw this concubine, the prefect of Quanzhou immediately said with grace.

The other officials and gentry also looked at him with burning eyes, for fear of hearing a word from his mouth!

Hearing this, the concubine couldn't help but sweat coldly.

Their Lin family wanted to break off their relationship with the pirates, but they didn't expect to be exposed in the end.

It seems that a mishandling today is the end of a broken family.

No matter how strong their Lin family is, they can't be stronger than the combination of so many officials and gentry.

"Wronged, sir. Our Lin family has absolutely nothing to do with the thief army outside the city, this must be a malicious slander by someone who has an enemy of us. ”

The concubine quickly knelt down, and then cried out.

At the same time, he quietly signaled to those big families who had a good relationship with their Lin family, hoping that they could help.

But I didn't expect them to turn a blind eye to all of them, and if this rebel army attacked the city, their losses would be great.

This couldn't help but make him feel a pang of despair.

"Clever words!"

The prefect of Quanzhou couldn't help but be angry.

It was the only straw he had, and if he didn't catch it, they would be all done.

"Lord Prefect, this Lin family dares to secretly conspire with the rebels and plot to rebel. He thought that he should issue a sea fishing document, arrest the entire Lin family, and then punish the nine clans. ”

He Shunling, the same acquaintance of Haiphong, said with a smile.

"Lord Ho is right."

The butler who had just proposed it said with a smirk.

This concubine glanced at the magistrate, the magistrate of Quanzhou Mansion has always been good friends with their Lin family.

But Jian Wenqin, the magistrate, snorted coldly and turned his head to the side.

At this time, he is already extremely merciful if he does not fall into the well.

This concubine finally knew that their Lin family was in the midst of public anger, and absolutely no one was willing to save them this time.

So he gritted his teeth and said: "Please be kind to the prefect, our Lin family has absolutely nothing to do with this thief army, but our Lin family is willing to send someone to intercede, hoping to delay the siege time of this thief army as much as possible." ”

The officials and gentry here looked at each other, and then both smiled on their faces.

"If you are willing to send someone out to intercede, come on, quickly protect Lin Gongzi well, so that no thieves will hurt him. In addition, please ask Lin Gongzi to send someone out of the city to communicate with the thief and show him righteousness. I hope that the thieves will be able to get lost and return, so that my Quanzhou Mansion can be exempted from the disaster of swords. ”

The prefect of Quanzhou immediately said with a smile.

This concubine's face was miserable, and all the protection was fake.

He knew that if he didn't succeed, maybe these officials would have to take his Lin family's sacrificial flag.

This made him regret it terribly, why should he collude with pirates for a little money.

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