It's no wonder that Pang Gang changed color, and those who have led soldiers know that there are two things that generals are most afraid of, one is defeat, and the other is mutiny.

The so-called mutiny, generally speaking, refers to the mutiny of the army. When an army, for political or other reasons, suddenly turns its guns and does not obey the command of the previous commander, but instead runs to a new target or leader, and obeys the command of the new leader, it is a "mutiny".

In the eyes of many generals, the horror of the mutiny was worse than the defeat, and it was because Pang Gang would change color as soon as he heard the word mutiny.

Pang Gang stood up openly, snatched the three hundred miles in the hands of his own soldiers, and looked at it at a glance, and after a while, Ruolan on the side asked, "Husband, what does it say?" ”

Pang Gang sighed after reading this urgent document before saying: "This is a three-hundred-mile urgent sent by the commander of Laizhou (sorry, the previous chapter was written as Dengzhou) and Zhiweijiang and Shu Feisong, the prefect of Dengzhou, and they claim that nearly 1,000 soldiers in Laizhou City died yesterday and began to mutiny in the city. Wei Jiang took his family to suppress it, but he was beaten back instead, Wei Jiang saw that the situation was serious and did not dare to slack off, so he sent 300 miles to send someone to Qingzhou for help. ”

Ruolan couldn't help but smile and said, "They asked for help from Xianggong, didn't they say that it was very dangerous?" Xianggong, you better not go. ”

No matter how talented Ruolan is in business, but at the moment he is just a wife who is worried about her husband, and when she encounters this kind of thing, she will naturally worry about her husband's safety like a little woman.

Looking at Ruolan's worried expression, Pang Gang patted his little hand and smiled: "It doesn't matter, Xianggong is going with soldiers and horses, you Xianggong and I will dare to fight, and I will be afraid that their handful of rebels will not succeed." ”

After comforting his wife, Pang Gang immediately said to his soldiers: "You immediately notify Bin Baihu and Qi Baihu, and let them immediately lead the five hundred cavalry of Lingshanwei to Qingzhou to wait for the dispatch!" And you immediately tell Deputy Wang Qianhu and Deputy Hao Qianhu to order them to immediately assemble a thousand elite cavalry and stand by in the barracks fully armed! ”

"Yes!"

With a series of orders issued, the pro-soldiers took the order and left. At this time, Pang Gang and Ruolan also walked out of the room, and saw that the commander of the yamen was made to jump by Pang Gang's successive orders, and Kong Ruolan's heart hung again.

She asked with a bitter face, "Xianggong, can't you not go?" ”

Pang Gang looked at his worried wife and touched her face lovingly, and said with a smile: "Of course not, you and I are the general and general Dingyuan who are responsible for the defense of Sanzhou, how can the officers and soldiers mutiny?" This matter is the scope of the husband's responsibility, and it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore it and be enrolled.

In this way, by the end of the evening, all the fifteen hundred cavalry had been gathered, and they hurried towards Laizhou under the leadership of Pang Gang

Just as Pang Gang was hurrying to Laizhou, Laizhou Commander and Commander Tongzhi Wei Jiang was leading two hundred family members to retreat in the Command Tongzhi's Mansion to resist the attack launched by the rebel soldiers.

Next to Wei Jiang stood a short and fat official wearing a four-grade vermilion official robe, in stark contrast to Wei Jiang, who was tall and thin, he was Shu Feisong, the prefect of Laizhou.

"Hurry up, put all of them on the wall, and if those rebels dare to get close, they will be shot with arrows!!" Wei Jiang commanded his subordinates to carry longbows and birds to the high wall.

Looking at Wei Jiang, who was busy moving forward, Shu Feisong, who wanted to stop talking, asked tremblingly: "Lord Wei, do you say that we can hold out until General Dingyuan's reinforcements arrive?" It's been a day now. ”

Wei Jiang sighed lightly and shook his head, "The official doesn't know, if it is calculated according to the normal time, they should arrive in the evening of tomorrow, otherwise with more than two hundred family members, I don't know if they can hold on." ”

"What a good thing this is!" Shu Feisong was so frightened that his hands and feet weakened, and he grabbed Wei Jiang and cried out: "Lord Wei, how is this good, in case those rebels rush in, wouldn't it be difficult to save the life of this official?" Lord Wei, you must save this official. ”

Wei Jiang looked at the prefect of Yizhou with tears and snot flowing in his eyes, and a feeling of disgust surged in his heart, this is the prefect who has no responsibility at all, and he is not happy at all when he allocates food and salary, but this time it is good, he has not paid food and salary for three consecutive months, and now it is good, the soldiers finally made trouble.

And this Shu Zhifu is well-informed, as soon as he heard that the soldiers mutinied, he immediately ran to his yamen with his family to ask for asylum, and this fat pig was justified when he asked for asylum. But he didn't think about it, if he could take one less concubine and allocate a little more money to himself, how could this happen today?

Wei Jiang pulled his sleeves impatiently, got rid of the pair of greasy fat hands, and said impatiently: "This official will do his best, as long as General Dingyuan can arrive before the Ming Shen time, it is estimated that there is no problem, if he can't arrive before the Shen time, he can only resign himself to fate."

After speaking, Wei Jiang impatiently walked to the escalator behind the high wall in front of him, ready to go up to the wall to check the enemy situation, Shu Feisong saw Wei Jiang go up to the high wall and looked at his fat body, gritted his teeth and was about to follow.

At this time, the voice of a family member came from the high wall near the front, "My lord, the rebels are rushing up, everyone hurry up and release arrows." ”

As soon as the housekeeper's words fell, a scream was heard, and one of the housekeepers was shot in the chest by an arrow from the front, and fell from the high wall to the flat ground in the courtyard with a scream.

Seeing such a scene, Shu Feisong didn't dare to go up the wall anymore, and the strength that gushed out of nowhere came out of his body, and ran towards the inner courtyard without looking back at a speed that did not match his figure.

The sky gradually brightened, and the rebels surrounded and commanded the prefect's mansion to attack all night, but under the desperate defense of more than 200 family members led by Wei Jiang, there was no progress, but one person was so tired that people were sleepy and left hundreds of corpses. When the sky was about to dawn, more than 800 tired and hungry rebels, led by a deputy thousand generals and several hundred generals, began to burn and loot in Laizhou City, and soon, a panicked cry and scream sounded in Laizhou City.

At this time, Pang Gang led more than 1,000 sergeants to a place more than ten miles away from Laizhou City overnight, but Pang Gang, who was riding on a horse, was frowning at this time. Although Laizhou also belongs to his defense area, he has never inspected Laizhou since he served as a commander, not because Pang Gang is unwilling, but because Pang Gang knows the virtues of those Qiu Ba in these years, if Shangguan arrives, they will definitely cry and shout and ask for food and salary, and they will definitely make more trouble than the other.

"Crying children have milk to eat" this sentence is not invented by later generations, as early as hundreds of years ago, our ancestors have already eaten the essence of this sentence thoroughly, is that Pang just planned to go to Dengzhou Laizhou after a period of time with some silver in his hand to inspect, then the waist pole will be tougher, but never thought that he was not ready, Laizhou came to Laizhou mutiny news, learned the news of the Laizhou mutiny, Pang Gang was in a hurry, and sent more than 1,500 sergeants to get on the war horse and go straight to Laizhou.

Laizhou is more than 200 miles away from Qingzhou, and under the urging of Pang Gang, the sergeants on war horses rushed to the outside of Laizhou overnight.

Qi Wuming, who had been on the road with Pang Gang all night, was dressed in a rough manner and asked: "General, we have been on the road all night, and if we continue, even if the brothers can stand it, but these war horses can't stand it, you still let the brothers take a breath and take a break to feed the war horses something." ”

Pang Gang shook his head, "Qi Baihu, it's not that the official is ruthless, but that he doesn't treat me at this moment." The officers and soldiers of Laizhou mutinied and made trouble, if the bullet pressure is not effective, those officers and soldiers will easily become chaotic soldiers, you are also an old soldier, and you don't know the virtues of those Qiu Ba, and I don't need to tell you what the consequences will be! ”

Qi Wuming was silent, he was also a veteran, and he was really clear about the virtues of those fellow officers and soldiers, the vast majority of these people were composed of some brave and ruthless ruffians and soldiers, and they were more bandits than their officers and soldiers. They are dressed in the uniforms of officers and soldiers, but they are doing the work of bandits, and it is better to be pressed by officers and military discipline in ordinary times, and in the event of a disturbance or turmoil, these unrestrained soldiers can imagine what will become of these unrestrained ruffians with their butts.

Pang Gang looked at the team behind him that seemed to be out of sight, and he was still quite satisfied with the fact that he was able to decisively buy more than a thousand war horses from Zu Dashou and Wang Pu and others last time. It seems that it is really important to improve the mobile surname of the troops.

At this time, Pang Gang, who was walking at the front of the team, could already see the city tower faintly exposed to the rising sun, and Pang Gang couldn't help but urge the war horse that was almost foaming at the mouth under his crotch and trotted forward.

After a while, Pang Gang, who felt that the horsepower of the horses under his crotch was getting worse and worse, dismounted and ordered loudly, "Leave two hundred people to take care of the horses, and the rest of the people will immediately walk into the city with me, and everyone will be loaded with guns, and those who encounter plunderers will be killed!" Kill the women and children of the silver! Kill those who set fire to the house! Kill those who keep dissuading! ”

Hearing Pang Gang's order, Qi Wuming and the others couldn't help but be startled, it seemed that their Dingyuan general was going to open the killing ring today.

With Pang Gang's order, the sergeants behind dismounted, untied the reins to let the horses who were already tired of walking to take a breath, and then handed them over to the remaining sergeants to take care of, and the remaining more than 1,300 people followed Pang Gang in a neat line to rush into the city where there were already faint screams and shouts from time to time in front of them

(To be continued)