Fang Litian took over as the governor of Suizhou for a short time, but with his extraordinary courage and sufficient sugar-coated shells, he still co-opted and bribed a group of generals of the Shence Army, most of these people can only be used as decorations when there is peace, but there are also hundreds of dead soldiers to rely on in times of crisis.

Zhang Bozhong relied on these hundreds of dead soldiers, turning Suizhou City upside down, although he didn't think much of what Zhang Bozhong said, but it was not good to say anything, who would really spit out the meat in his mouth, even if Yang Hao was unwilling to occupy Suizhou for a long time with scruples of brotherhood, it was not ruled out that there was a short-term occupation of Suizhou when he had the opportunity, Suizhou is not a small city, the city has not been broken by foreign enemies for six or seven years, such a fat sheep, who does not bite him a few bites when it falls into his hands,

The news of Wenlan's abandonment of the city was known to the world by Fang Litian, and there was an uproar in Suizhou City, the officials and gentry and the people had their own fears, and the rumored godlike Wenlan was such a straw bag, and the prestige of the Shence Army plummeted.

Just when the city fell into chaos and despair, Mao Linbo, the captain of the Breaking Wave Battalion, commanded two sentinels to set up an ambush on the bank of the Wuding River in the south of the city, and captured Wenlan who abandoned the city and fled in one fell swoop.

As soon as the hand was met, Wen Lan felt weak, withdrew his horse and fled, secretly took a bow to shoot Mao Linbo, Mao Linbo was short and avoided him with an arrow, and the flying hammer smashed the leg of Wen Lan's mount, and Wen Lan was captured.

Zhang Bozhong suspected that this Wen Lan was fake, and asked Fang Litian to identify it, and confirmed that it was the Suizhou soldiers and horses who made Wen Lan undoubted, Zhang Bozhong sneered: "Everyone praises you for being strategic, good at using soldiers, with both hands with sledgehammers, and bravely crowning the three armies, why are you so." Wen Lan was ashamed and silent, and seized 260 pieces of luggage carried by Wen Lan, and the value of gold, silver and jewelry was discounted by more than 100,000 yuan.

Hu Ling, the deputy envoy of the soldiers and horses of Suizhou, heard that Wenlan was captured, so he took over as the envoy of the soldiers and horses, and the Shence army had three battalions of troops in Suizhou, a total of 3,500 people, but most of them were nominal children of the local gentry, these people never participated in military drills, greedy for life and afraid of death, and had a loose style.

Hu Ling is a veteran of the battlefield, there are no soldiers in his hands, he led his own soldiers and slaves to the street to suppress, the situation in the city is slightly settled, Fang Litian is against Hu Ling, the captain Hu Qinglin, who has a grudge against Hu Ling, led the people to mutiny, and set up an ambush in the middle of the street, shot Hu Ling with poisoned arrows, after gaining power, Hu Qinglin called himself the Suizhou soldier and horse envoy, and hired Fang Litian as a military advisor,

Fang Litian said: "Wenlan fish and flesh the people, provoke the people, Shangfeng will definitely investigate it, for today's plan, one is to quell the riots in the city, and the other is to draw a clear line with Wenlan, both of which are indispensable." He volunteered to collect the "horse bandits" who had entered the city to harass him, and asked Hu Qinglin to welcome back Wu Cao, who was driven out of the city by Wenlan, to show his heart to break with Wenlan, and Hu Qinglin did so one by one.

The co-optation of the "horse bandits" went very smoothly, Mao Linbo agreed to take refuge in the official army, on the condition that they would not be investigated for the crime of harassing the city from now on, Hu Qinglin readily agreed, Mao Linbo was stationed in Beidaying as a captain of the Shence Military Academy, and the north gate was under his direct control, Wu Cao was welcomed back to the city by the scenery, and Hu Qinglin also gave him an errand of Suizhou teaching,

The overall situation was slightly decided, Hu Qinglin's greedy and lustful, narrow-minded nature was exposed, he used the excuse of searching for the remnants of the bandits to rob the people's property, and the money obtained was divided into three accounts, and he got seven soldiers and three of them, which caused the people's resentment to boil for a while, in order to calm the people's resentment, he threw out Wenlan and Hu Ling's old department as scapegoats, and killed forty or fifty people in a row to calm down the people's grievances.

Under Zhang Bozhong's planning, Wu Cao stepped forward as a Suizhou priest, while strictly commanding the officers and soldiers for the crime of arson and looting, and on the other hand, vacating the school building to accommodate the homeless people whose houses were destroyed by fire.

Wu Cao's actions caused Hu Qinglin to be extremely dissatisfied, and Hu Qinglin said angrily: "What do you want to win people's hearts everywhere. Fang Litian said: "This person has no use value now, just use him to deter the people." Hu Qinglin thought it was reasonable, so he sent his own soldiers and guards to arrest Wu Cao, and before the soldiers went out, Fang Litian secretly reported the news to Zhang Bozhong.

Zhang Bozhong immediately asked Li Wei to take Wu Cao to the porridge shed at the intersection to give porridge, and while rushing to the North Daying, he ordered Mao Linbo to prepare soldiers and horses to attack and kill Hu Qinglin.

When Wu Cao arrived at the porridge shed, the people who drank the porridge knelt down into a black oppressive piece, calling "Bodhisattva" and "good man", the sound resounded through the sky, Wu Cao's face was kind, all the way to the cold and ask for warmth, saw an old woman in rags, shivering from the cold, he took off his own leather jacket and put it on her body, this action attracted a cheer, Wu Cao rolled up his sleeves in the cheers of the crowd, personally operated the spoon and gave the porridge, and the people rushed up, all of them were proud of drinking a bowl of porridge he served,

There was a lot of chaos, and suddenly I heard a burst of explosions and cheers, only to see dozens of soldiers pushing away the crowd and breaking into the porridge shed to catch Wu Cao,

Li Wei and a group of plainclothes guards stepped forward, protected Wu Cao, and asked the soldiers: "Why do you want to arrest martial artists. The commander of the pro-soldier stretched out his hand to get rid of him, but he couldn't move it, he was terrified, and he drew a knife and threatened: "Lao Tzu is ordered to do an errand, you don't cause trouble." Li Wei shouted: "What kind of dog official, Wu Shanren is a Bodhisattva who went down to earth to save the people from fire and water, what is the reason why you want to help the dog official harm him." And all the people rebuked with one voice,

Seeing that he had touched the anger of the people, the commander of the pro-soldier group panicked in his heart, and said: "Don't misunderstand, everyone, the general invited Wu Shanren into the palace to discuss the matter of relief for the victims. As soon as these words came out, many people believed it,

Behind him, a famous soldier suddenly stepped forward and shouted: "He told a lie, Hu Qinglin wants to kill Wu Shanren, I heard this with my own ears." Without waiting for the commander of the pro-soldier group to defend, Li Wei picked up a brick and smashed his face, he took the lead, and more than a dozen companions also joined the battle group.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Wei raised his arms and shouted: "Go to Hu Qinglin to settle accounts." Before that, Mao Linbo had been ambushed outside the Soldiers and Horses Mission, Hu Qinglin heard that Wu Cao resisted arrest, and also incited the people to make trouble, and immediately became furious, and led the soldiers to shout and kill, and others just sent out the Soldiers and Horses Embassy, and was shot by a cold arrow.

Everyone was frightened, the dragons were leaderless, at a loss, at this time, they saw Fang Litian riding a horse, everyone wanted him to offer a plan to attack and kill Wu Cao, Fang Litian pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "The people's hearts cannot be bullied, Wu Cao is protected by tens of thousands of people in the city, who dares to move him again, you who have the courage to kill the people in the city." When they heard this, they were silent,

Fang Litian took the opportunity to say: "In my opinion, it's better to go to Yingli as soon as possible, so as to seek a future for yourself." When everyone heard this, they woke up like a dream, and they were panicked to meet Wu Cao, but Fang Litian stopped him and said: "If you go in a mess, you will definitely be despised, why don't you play a full guard of honor to convince him." "From his words, the people put on a full ceremony to welcome half a mile of land,

Everyone elected Wu Cao as the Suizhou Soldiers and Horses Defense Envoy, because the Suizhou Assassin has not been to the state for six years, the Soldiers and Horses are in charge of both the army and the people, Wu Cao knows that he is just a puppet to be manipulated, and he does not want to control the overall situation of Suizhou, but as the nominal lord of Suizhou, there are some things that he can always do, such as calling the thirteen mothers in prison to sleep in the bedroom,

This kind of thing seems to be dirty, but Wu Cao knows in his heart that Zhang Bozhong and Fang Litian will be happy to see all this, a puppet who has no ambitions and only has money and women in his eyes is the most in line with their wishes.

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Yinzhou is located in the northwest of Suizhou, and a Wuding River strings the two places together.

The sun is setting, the Wuding River in the north of Yinzhou City is rippling, on the platform of the point general by the river, Meng Bochang is reviewing the three thousand soldiers with his eyes, this is the essence of the three armies of Xia Sui, equipped with all the oolong horses, the horn cannon sounded three times, the armies set off in turn, the tooth general Lian Yong led over an oolong horse, and asked Meng Bochang to get on the horse, Meng Bochang stepped on the stirrup and was about to turn over on the horse, suddenly a cold wind blew, he couldn't help but shudder, Meng Bochang was stunned for a while,

Lian Yong asked in surprise: "General, what's wrong with you." ”

Meng Bochang shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I was shivered by the cold wind." ”

Lian Yong was surprised and said: "This may be a bad omen, the general should leave later." ”

Meng Bochang snorted: "If it's too late, Suizhou won't have the surname Meng, that's a bad omen." "Still on the horse,

Yinzhou to Suizhou is only a hundred and ten miles, the oolong horse legs are fast, an hour has arrived under the city, at this moment the sky is dark, there is a dead silence all around, only the two wind lamps on the arrow tower of the west gate of Suizhou are swaying in the night sky, a day ago, Meng Bochang got a secret report, Suizhou guard Wenlan was instigated by a teaching called Wu Cao to instigate the people to be imprisoned, Meng Bochang how could he believe that a small edict has the ability to imprison Wenlan, he concluded that this matter was Yang Hao behind the scenes, and his heart was quite unhappy, you obviously came to Xiazhou to invite me to send troops, why did you do it in Suizhou first,

Lian Yong went to call the door, but before he reached the drawbridge, he was shot back by the defenders' arrows, Meng Bochang was furious, urged the horse to step forward, and shouted: "Call Zhang Bozhong to come out and talk back." The city guard replied: "What Zhang Bozhong, Li Bozhong, we don't have this Wang Bozhong." ”

Zhang Bozhong has been hiding behind the scenes, and has never appeared in public, not to mention that the guards don't know his name, even Wu Cao doesn't know his real name, Meng Bochang doesn't know this, he thinks that Zhang Bozhong refuses to show up, and said angrily: "I'm Meng Bochang, ask your master to come to see me." ”

The guards of Meng Bochang's name had heard of it, and the guards were so frightened that they were about to report back, when another junior colonel stopped him and said: "Hugh wants to fall for him, how can he be a handsome man to call the door, this person must be a fake." After saying that, he drew his bow and shot an arrow at Meng Bochang, and shouted: "Get out, get out, go further, I'm welcome." ”

Meng Bochang couldn't stand this anger, took the carved big bow and returned him with an arrow, a golden arc broke through the air, and was passing through the hat of the little school, the guards were terrified, and their words were incomplete.

"Jin Ling arrow, urge the judge."

Meng Bochang's nickname and his golden feather arrows were often more famous than his own, and the frightened guards hurriedly went to report to Wu Cao, and at this moment, a machine crossbow quietly poked out of a window in the arrow tower and aimed at Meng Bochang......

Meng Bochang fell off the horse without warning, with a crossbow arrow stuck in his neck, Lian Yong took a step forward to pick up Meng Bochang, and reached out to cover the wound on his neck, but gurgling blood gushed out from between his fingers,

"Meng Bochang is dead, don't get out of here."

Someone in the city shouted gloatingly, and another crossbow arrow flew towards Lian Yong,