The artillery twist line was burning with a "whoosh", and the momentum of the sparks made the lead jump lightly on the dark artillery barrel, He Bingwen regretfully glanced at the Chinese army coming from the canyon, and his eyes widened sharply at this glance, and he lost his voice: "Xuanhuang Regiment Dragon Banner? ”

The second army in the canyon is walking towards the mouth of the valley, the officers and soldiers are like a forest of swords and guns, and the flags are rolled, but although one of the big flags is crooked in order to avoid the branches, and because there is no wind, the flag is hanging low, but the bright yellow flag, and the faintly exposed golden-scaled dragon claws, are clearly the Xuanhuang Tianzi regimental dragon flag that can only be carried by the nobles of the Son of Heaven and the ministers of the Qin Mission, in order to control the authority of its Xuanhe.

He Bingwen was taken aback, and immediately shouted: "Extinguish the line of fire, don't open fire!" ”

He Bingwen said that he had jumped over with an arrow, and the waist knife had been swung out in mid-air, and it slashed at the cannon body with a "sonorous" sound, causing a spark, and the half-cut twist fell into the grass and was still "booming" and burning.

He Bingwen was shocked into a cold sweat and shouted loudly: "Don't move, see clearly, how can they have the Son of Heaven Dragon Flag?" ”

These soldiers have never seen any dragon flags of the Son of Heaven in their lives, how do they know what the guerrilla general is saying, the gunners are holding the fire fold and look around one by one, the crossbowmen have already wound the hard crossbow, their fingers are buckled on the board machine, and when they hear the adults' orders, they subconsciously turn the arrows towards the sky, and they don't know what is happening in a daze.

Jing Li saw that he was about to show his stuffing, and said hurriedly: "The widow is about to walk out of the valley, do you dare to fight and cower?" Immediately fire the cannon, hear no, disobey the military order, and kill all of them! ”

Brother Yan Hu rushed to the other cannon with one arrow, snatched the torch from the soldier's hand, and was about to ignite the fuse. He Bingwen became suspicious at first sight, even if he obtained a large number of official clothes and weapons from Jinhua, there was no possibility of obtaining the Xuanlong Banner of the Son of Heaven.

Now there is only one Qincha in the six coastal provinces, that is, Lord Yang Lingyang, and other Qincha who have been to Jiangnan, this flag will also be handed over when they return to Beijing, where is the Son of Heaven Dragon Banner? They were so panicked, as if they were worried that the would-be wouldn't escape?

He Bingwen said sharply: "Stop! He threw it backhanded, and the steel knife in his hand brushed the ground with a bang, this knife was intended to stop, not wanting to hurt people, it was shot in front of Yan Hudi, the steel knife brushed by, "poof" into the ground halfway, the handle of the knife trembled slightly, and Yan Hudi was frightened to take a step back, and he almost fell.

He Bingwen followed and rushed over, a personal soldier beside him only felt a light on his waist, and the saber was already held in He Bingwen's hand. The Yamashita army holds the Dragon Banner of the Son of Heaven, and the officer must find out in order to distinguish friend from foe, who dares to act rashly? ”

He swept away Jing Li and the others, and said: "This official must investigate carefully, if the people under the mountain are really Japanese invaders, I will destroy the Chinese army and immediately pursue the front team of Japanese invaders, and they will never be allowed to disturb the Fujian region, but at this moment, the enemy and I are not clear, and we must not act rashly." Generals, I'm sorry. Watch them! ”

He Bingwen gave an order, and the soldiers around him "choked" the steel knife out of the sheath, and the hula spread out a semicircle to surround Jing Li and others, He Bingwen turned around and said: "Inform the rear team to gather and prevent the Chinese army from escaping, immediately."

As he was instructing, Jing Li was already sweating urgently: as soon as He Bingwen got in touch with the mountain, the truth would be revealed, and then the disaster of death would be imminent, and the only way to kill He Bingwen and manage to control his army was a life-and-death fight."

Thinking of this, Jing Li untied the saber under his ribs and threw it to the generals next to him, and walked towards He Bingwen with a sneer: "Hmph! This official is just afraid that the Japanese will escape from the ambush, you are so cowardly, after I go back, I will sue Lord Ruan and Admiral Zhou for you! ”

He has no weapons in his hands, and although he is not subordinate to him, he is a general, and his official position is higher than He Bingwen's, and those pro-soldiers only move the blade with him, and they dare not force him too much. Jing Li walked two steps away from He Bingwen's side, suddenly quickened his pace and rushed over, and a bright short blade also came out of his sleeve, and shouted sharply: "He Bingwen is in battle and is afraid of battle, on the orders of Lord Ruan, kill!" ”

When he approached arrogantly, He Bingwen noticed it out of the corner of his eye, but he never expected that he would dare to act aggressively surrounded by his own personal soldiers.

Yan Hu's brother is Zhou Hong's sworn party, he is an official in the open, a thief in secret, and he has done everything he can to lose his conscience, once Qin Cha arrives in Fuzhou, their evil deeds are difficult to hide, and they are all enough to cut off their heads, so as soon as they see Jing Li move, they will pounce on them with their blades.

Jing Li didn't ask for He Bingwen's life with a knife, he pulled out the knife and stabbed again, He Bingwen had already retreated, he was a veteran who had been bloody on the battlefield for many years, decisive in killing, how could he have so many scruples when life and death were at stake, and immediately shouted: "Murder before the battle, plot to assassinate the main general, give me arrows!" ”

Those archers were accustomed to listening to He Bingwen's military orders, and they never dared to disobey the order, and at this time they knew in their hearts that these people were also high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and they were not offended, but as soon as He Bingwen gave the order, they subconsciously moved their arms, sank, and loosened the strings, which was just a matter of a moment, and they still thought that they couldn't do it, and their fingers had been removed from the strings.

The bowstring roared, more than 20 wolf tooth arrows that could penetrate the heavy armor within a hundred steps made a sharp roar, "boom" The bowstring trembled, the strong arrow was like rain hitting the residual lotus, "poof" A muffled sound of piercing flesh into the body, Jing Li was hit by four arrows in the chest, the sharp arrow pierced the chest, and the sharp cluster penetrated from the back, flying two steps upside down with him, and fell heavily to the ground.

Yan Hudi and the others, who pounced on him with a steel knife with teeth and claws, were also nailed with sharp arrows, Yan Hudi stared at He Bingwen with a pair of disbelieving eyes, and slowly collapsed to the ground for a while.

At this time, He Bingwen was ninety percent sure in his heart that there must be something strange in it, he covered his arm dripping with blood, turned his head and looked down the mountain, the Chinese army in the canyon had approached, it was definitely the full honor guard of the Qincha, a breeze blew, and a dark green banner next to the Dragon Flag of the Xuanhuang Regiment of the Son of Heaven unfurled, and there was a "Yang" word on it.

He Bingwen was shocked: Oh my God, could it be that the army of Lord Yang is actually under the mountain?

He Bingwen was a veteran of the battlefield in the end, he was shocked but not panicked, he shouted in a deep voice: "Heavy artillery, bows, crossbows, and stones are ready, and listen to my orders." Wen Baihu, let go of the arrows and order the army under the mountain to stop advancing and stand by in place! ”

It has been three days since Yang Ling, the minister of Qincha, the governor of the six provinces, the mighty marquis, and the general of the dragon and tiger of the Zhuguo State, arrived in Fuzhou. As soon as Yang Ling arrived in Fuzhou, he stayed in the Yamen of the political envoy and took over all military and government affairs in Fujian, but in the past three days, he did not see any officials from the military and government departments in Fujian, which made these officials miserable and panicked, and they stayed at home and did not dare to go out.

"The political envoy Ruan Dawen, the admiral of the navy Zhou Hong, the imperial envoy Zhai Qingshan, and the prefect of Fuzhou Wang Feiling fornicated with the Japanese and plotted to assassinate the Qincha, and they were all arrested and imprisoned."

"The homes of the four adults are all surrounded by officers and soldiers, and I heard that no one is allowed to enter or leave."

"I heard that the guerrilla general He Bingwen has been busy these two days, going in and out of Qin all day long."

"Is that true?" As soon as he heard the news, as long as he had a one-sided relationship with He Bingwen and nodded his friends, they all prepared generous gifts and flocked to He Mansion to listen to the news.

The next day, I heard that the chief officials in charge of military administration, civil affairs, people's strength, money, food, and ordnance had been called to the Qincha Xingyuan one by one, and the bureaucrats to whom they belonged hurriedly ran to the homes of these adults early to wait for news.

They just heard that as soon as the governor entered the city, he asked Pegasus to inform the seven guards and horses who had retreated to Gutian, Shunchang, and Sanming to avoid the battle, totaling more than 40,000 people, rushed to Fuzhou in the starry night.

From this news, they vaguely deduced that the fourth governor must make a move, so all the officials of the third said memorized the information under their jurisdiction on military affairs, civil affairs, taxation, legal affairs, and so on, and waited for the governor to inquire about them.

Sure enough, all the officials received the order that night, and the next morning, all the officials of the military, civil, legal, and taxation departments were called by name and reported to the Yamen.

On the fourth morning, Yang Ling washed up early and stopped coming to the front office. In the middle of the night, the civil and military officials who came to wait for the audience were already boiling and blocking the entrance of the yamen.

The lobby was quiet, Yang Ling sat in front of the painting wall where the red said went to sea and the crane flew, with a python robe and jade belt, and his face was sinking like water.

He marched all the way south, the more he thought about it on the road, the more he felt that it was not appropriate, since he was in charge of the six provinces to suppress the Japanese, he has been sitting in Suzhou, and has never come to other provinces to personally command, and now Fujian officials have committed such a heinous case, it is the time when the thief's heart is weak, will the dog jump over the wall in a hurry to annihilate all the evidence of the crime when he hears the news?

And Jinyiwei's news is just a one-sided statement, if there is no other physical evidence, will the military and political officials of a province kill them if they want to? In view of this, Yang Ling, Xiao Hengjiang, Luo Yan and other generals studied it and decided to send Han Wu and Liu Dabang to pretend to be Japanese robbers and blackmail again.

Since Ruan Dawen is afraid of the Japanese invaders like tigers, and he is anxious for the Japanese to leave Fujian as soon as possible, so as not to expose the evidence of his own crimes, then it is very likely that he will be deceived, so as to take them down in one fell swoop, and they will be captured in one fell swoop. So Yang Ling ordered Liu Dabang to lead the army all the way to the water division, and joined Han Wu to go to Fuzhou by water.

Although Yang Ling thought that if Ruan Dawen and the others guessed their own intentions, they would definitely plan a countermeasure, but they never thought that they would be at the end of their rope and dare to use the army to murder Qin Cha. Therefore, when the army arrived at Yueshanyu, he only saw that the terrain was dangerous, and out of caution he ordered the front army and the rear army to distance themselves, and did not expect to encounter an ambush on the important pass of the Ming army and the only ancient post road between the two provinces.

If it weren't for the fact that he saved General He in the past, and made him the ambush general he is today, even if he was fine, the 1,000 iron guards in front of the march would have been wiped out under the attack of artillery, crossbows, and floods.

Therefore, Yang Ling was really angry in his heart, these two important officials from all parties were transferred to understand the military, government affairs, and official situation of Fujian Province, and the erosion beyond his imagination [***] made him angry, it seems that if there is no dose of a stormy medicine, it is difficult to clean up the decadent situation in Fujian.

Thinking of this, with murderous intent in his eyes, he looked coldly at the silent lobby, and shouted in a deep voice: "Come on, beat the drum and gather the generals!" Order all officials to report according to their rank! ”

The war drums in the hall rumbled, and two rows of neatly dressed pikemen and sword soldiers stood straight, lined up from the lobby to the yamen, and there was a solemn silence.

The first officials to enter the roll call were civilian officials, and according to their ranks, these officials arranged their clothes and entered the hall trembling under the gaze of the two vicious officers and soldiers. Yang Ling had a roster in front of him, and when he came in, he would pick one by one, and whenever he heard the name of an official who had been marked in advance, Yang Ling said without raising his head: "Take it!" ”

Immediately, two colonels pounced on him, held down the bewildered official, and escorted him to the side room. Yang Ling immediately stroked horizontally with a brush and removed the person's name. The officials standing in the lobby were shocked one by one, they looked at Yang Ling in awe, and then looked at their colleagues who were being dragged down by the miserable howl, and a joy arose in their hearts: Dead friends, don't die poor, it seems that they have already passed this hurdle.

When all the civil officials entered the yamen, the civil officials on the left side had already lined up outside the hall, and most of these people had three or four local dignitaries, but none of them were seated, and all of them were respectful, and they didn't dare to take a breath.

The military attache entered, Yang Ling waved his hand to stop it, looked at Xiao Hengjiang, who was standing straight aside, and asked in a low voice, "The Seven Guards and Horses have arrived?" What's going on now? ”

Xiao Hengjiang leaned over and whispered, "Yes!" The officers and men of the Seven Guards were all camped outside the West City, and the seven large battalions were holding each other back, and the army was very quiet. General He's men and horses have blockaded the four cities, and the commander of the Seven Guards dared to enter the city calmly, and it seems that the confessions of Ruan Dawen and others are true, except for his sailors, although the military discipline is corrupt and corruption is rampant, there is no one who dares to cooperate with the enemy and become bandits."

Yang Ling nodded, and said solemnly: "This official knows it, let them sue in."

As soon as Yang Ling arrived, he had already taken control of the sailors anchored in the nearby inland river. The officers and men of the naval division had huge ships and sharp guns, suitable for sea operations, their land weapons were limited, and their land combat capabilities were extremely weak.

Judging from the situation we have learned in the past two days, the source of the Fujian Navy Division is extremely complicated, and the officers and men of the general colonel have hereditary soldiers who have been transferred from the guard, and there are mountain bandits and water bandits who have been appeased.

From the information that Chang Fanzi tortured from Zhou Hong in the past two days, the sailors sometimes encountered solitary ships on patrol at sea, the sea was vast, the world was boundless, and the binding force of the court and the law on them was extremely weak, and these officers and soldiers would pretend to be sea bandits, simply rob ships and plunder, kill all the crew members and throw their bodies into the sea, and their actions were even more ferocious than real pirates.

These generals involved in the case and those bandits involved in the slaughter of ships Yang Ling have been arrested according to the map, although the generals of the Seven Guards are [***] incompetent, but they have not committed this heinous crime, which makes Yang Ling greatly relieved, although these officials are not angry, but they are really going to kill them all, who will command those soldiers?

The ferocity of the Japanese has already destroyed the courage and courage of these soldiers, and how can an army without military spirit, morale, and military spirit, even if the soldiers' physique is not weaker than the enemy's, and their weapons are not inferior to the enemy's, how can they fight?

Troubled times with heavy canons! Since the Wako had scared this army into the walking dead with blood and death, Yang Ling was ready to wake them up with a bloody storm, as long as they dared to face the Wako, and dared to wave their weapons at the enemy instead of turning around and fleeing from a distance, then it would be half the battle.

Among the generals, there were not many arrests on the spot, but despite this, the ruthless methods of the governor also made the hearts of the civil and military officials present feel awe-inspiring, and there was silence in the lobby, only Xiao Hengjiang's deep voice echoed in the lobby.

Xiao Hengjiang first announced to the civil and military officials the crimes of Ruan Dawen and others bribing the Japanese with military funds and murdering Qin Cha, as well as the crimes of the officials who had just been taken down, and then Yang Ling got up and announced the appointment and dismissal of the officials in the province.

As a wartime governor, he had the right to appoint and dismiss military and political officials at all levels under his jurisdiction, but these officials had the word "deputy" on their titles, which were given to the emperor and formally appointed by the ministry.

The Fujian Navy Division was fully taken over by Han Wu and temporarily replaced the post of Admiral of the Water Division. The seven guards currently summoned by the army, the three guards originally stationed in Fuzhou, the six guards currently stationed in the south, a total of 16 guards, and the soldiers and horses of five guerrilla generals, were temporarily appointed as the general army of Fujian's anti-Japanese army, with He Bingwen as the chief soldier.

The Governor's Mansion was temporarily moved to Fujian, and Yang Ling concurrently served as the political envoy of Fujian, and appointed Liu Xun, the general judge of Fuzhou, as the prefect.

Immediately, the new commander-in-chief, Ho Bingwen, made military arrangements for all the generals.

All the officials were blinded by Yang Ling's drastic reforms and lightning-fast arrangements, and could only try to absorb all the information and listen to the deployment that was actually dictated by the young governor.

Yang Ling's performance was too strange, he didn't say a word about the disposition of the officials who committed the crime, so he transferred all the senior officials, arrested a group of officials on the spot, and then did not mobilize or appease the hundred officials, so calmly began to issue combat orders, as if all the officials were his subordinates for many years.

Is this calm and confident, or is it careless? In short, a strange and incomprehensible governor began to induce an inexplicable sense of awe and oppression among the officials.

He Bingwen loudly announced the overall military deployment, the key arrangements for the troops, the need for the officers and men of the guards to separately guard the key military points on land and water, and the strategic objectives that they needed to accomplish, as well as the detailed arrangements for the assembly of troops and horses, the march, the fierce battle, the retreat, and so on.

Yang Ling brushed his sleeves and asked indifferently: "Have you remembered the tasks that need to be completed by the generals of the guards and the matters that the civil officials need to cooperate?" ”

After glancing around, the officials didn't dare to make a sound, but just nodded in unison. Yang Ling smiled and said: "Very good, the six coastal provinces have used troops, and the Japanese have been defeated and retreated, and the Japanese and their families captured by us have tens of thousands of people.

Nowadays, the Japanese in Fujian and Guangdong are at the end of their rope, and as long as we are diligent, we can put down the chaos. Remember, now the first thing in Fujian's military and political affairs is to level the Japanese, you lords go back early to prepare, tomorrow morning the Seventh Guard Army will go forward, this official sits in Fuzhou, waiting for the generals to ask the court for merit and reward! ”

The Governor turned around and went back to the Inner Office, civil and military officials, you look at me, I look at you, and I was stunned for a long time before I dispersed. When the new officials took office, they did not dare to be ambiguous about the arrangements of the governor, and they all showed a posture when they mobilized the people, prepared grain, and reorganized the army.

But the civil and military officials all have their own plans in their hearts, rolling up their arms and sleeves to play heroes, everyone can do it, whether they really fight hard or bluff the enemy on the front line, who can care? In the posture of active preparation, there are a pair of wait-and-see eyes.

In the afternoon, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and groups of soldiers with steel swords unsheathed began to appear in the streets and alleys, and began to raid the homes of 128 high-ranking civil and military officials under Ruan Dawen.

The Fuzhou officials who lived next to them stood in their courtyards and looked at them secretly, and their hearts were beating in horror. Before evening, all kinds of gossip came to their ears through their families and neighbors: the prisoner officers at all levels were filled with the army, and the prisoner cart should be sent to the capital, and the long prisoner cart team drove through the Xicheng military camp in a grand manner, and went straight to the Beijing Division.

Early the next morning, the seven guards were completed, and the Fuzhou defenders opened the city gate and let them pass through the city, heading straight to the coastal front. The Seven Guards rode on their horses, and suddenly found that the flat and wide bluestone road between the east and west city gates had been blocked by the officials, inspectors, and people, and there was not a single common man on the street, and there was a prisoner kneeling every few steps on both sides of the road, and behind him stood a soldier standing with a sword.

These prisoners knelt from both sides of the straight west city gate to the east city gate, their hands tied upside down, and their mouths tied with strips of cloth, and walked to the intersection where the four main streets converged.

The generals and officers and men could not help but relax their steps and slowly walked down the street, hearing only the sound of horses' hooves and wheels.

Suddenly, I saw several officers and soldiers on horseback galloping on the road with arrows in their hands, and shouted loudly: "Spread the order of the governor, the prisoner is in place, and the body is verified!" ”

Immediately, the officers and soldiers standing behind the prisoners with knives responded in unison: "Return to the Governor, 1,125 death row prisoners, all of them have been identified, waiting for orders!" ”

The face of the Seven Guards generals changed suddenly, "One thousand one hundred and twenty-five death row prisoners? "Except for Hongwu and Yongle Dynasty, when has there been such a big stroke, who has had such courage, a command, and a thousand heads fall to the ground!"

In the distance, three horns sounded, and someone shouted: "Shoot the cannon and execute!" Chop ~~~~~~~~".

The long word "chop" passed leisurely past the marching officers and soldiers, and on both sides of the road, "Huh! With a bang, the sharp steel knives were raised together, shining with a clear light.

More than a thousand shining arcs were drawn in shock, more than a thousand blood splashed in the air, more than a thousand human heads rolled down to their feet, and the air was suddenly filled with a rich bloody aura.

The sound of tens of thousands of soldiers gasping suddenly converged into a wave of "buzzing" and heart-warming qi, and the Seven Guards commanded the envoys suddenly realized: Yang Ling's thousand-strong team of thousands of people who were isolated and helpless and had no one to escape to death happened to be one thousand one hundred and twenty-five people.

The corpses were all over the place, the blood flowed like a river, and the 40,000 army rolled up the banner and walked out of the east city with a foot of blood, and the fierce spirit rushed straight to the nine nights.

(To be continued)