"Brother Yingjiu is full of energy, and he seems to have made a further step in cultivation, which is really gratifying! Hahahaha~~" Just as Wang Youling was getting better, there was a familiar laughter in his ears, and he couldn't help but turn his head to see that it was Hu Xueyan.

Wang Youling was not annoyed, put down the book, and said with a smile: "How did Guang Yong come so early today?" ”

Hu Xueyan pointed to the sky: "It's not early, Brother Yingjiu is afraid that he has forgotten to read, right?" ”

Wang Youling raised his head slightly, suddenly felt that the sun was dazzling, and quickly withdrew his gaze, and shook his head with a wry smile: "A nerd, where can you get any cultivation?" It made Guang Yong see and smile, by the way, since last night, has there been news of Baoshan? ”

"Not yet!" Hu Xueyan hesitated for a moment, and then said, he is also extremely helpless, the martial law of the Democratic Alliance Army is quite good, the people are also extremely cooperative, outsiders are difficult to follow the form, since the start of the war, dozens of fine workers have lost contact, and it is difficult for the news to reach Jiaxing, even if there is, it was several days ago.

Wang Youling sighed: "Yingyi can't attack for a long time, I'm afraid that it will gradually lose its sharpness, this battle is not optimistic!" ”

Hu Xueyan did not follow the words, but fell into silence, the British army took the Black Flag to help clear mines, and then forced Chen Cun to clear mines, and extorted Chen Cun for a huge amount of money, this is not a secret, he disagrees with the British approach, it is clear that he is forcing Chen Cun to throw himself into the arms of the Democratic Alliance, he was about to say his worries, suddenly a rush of feet: footsteps sounded, and Wang Youling couldn't help but look at it.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang!" A general in garrison attire hurried over, his face full of anxiety. yelled: "Shorthair is coming, Shorthair is coming!" ”

"What?" It's like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Wang Youling's face suddenly changed, and he said urgently: "How many people are here?" How many artillery pieces were brought? ”

The guard hurriedly replied, "Go back to your lordship." About 8,000 people, and the artillery seems to be none. ”

Jiaxing is an important town in northern Zhejiang, with 20,000 defenders and hundreds of artillery, it stands to reason that the Democratic Alliance army only came with 8,000 people to attack, and did not bring artillery, which should not be worried, but Wang Youling's face became more and more gloomy. It's been a month, the Democratic League army has retreated in Songjiang and has not advanced an inch, and today it suddenly came with a lone army, obviously not to attack the city, but to persuade them to surrender!

"I'm afraid that the battle in Baoshan will change, Brother Yingjiu, let's go up and have a look!" Hu Xueyan also realized the problem and followed.

"Hmm!" Wang Youling nodded and walked away quickly.

About half an hour passed. Wang Youling and Hu Xueyan climbed to the north gate of Jiaxing, about four miles away, lined up with 8,000 troops and 3,000 cavalry. The 5,000 infantry, all in dark green uniforms, look like the Democratic Alliance Army. But it is not a neat formation, but a pile to the east. As soon as the west stall is spread, it is in the shade to enjoy the shade.

It can't be helped. The weather was hot, and Wang Feng couldn't be disgusted with nothing, so the soldiers stood in formation under the scorching sun.

The two men raised their binoculars and looked into the depths, and when they saw several people riding horses, a soldier in the city asked, "Lord Wang, do you want to open fire?" ”

"No!" Hu Xueyan waved his hand to stop: "If you come forward alone, you must pass the word, let's see what he says first." ”

The small group of men and horses stopped their horses more than 100 zhang away, and one of them called loudly: "May I ask if the prefect of Hangzhou is here?" ”

Wang Youling replied: "This official is exact, who are you?" ”

This person arched his hand: "I am a nobody, Lord Wang does not need to worry about it, I am here to pass a word for the commander-in-chief, our army has completely annihilated the British fleet two days ago, captured the British flagship Duke Wellington and the three frigates below it and about 100 small steamer merchant ships, captured 15,000 Indian soldiers, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers at all levels of the British army, and the rest were killed, the Green Battalion and Chen Village have surrendered, and our army has won a complete victory!" Could it be that Lord Wang still has to make senseless resistance? ”

The head of the city suddenly exploded, and it turned out to be a total annihilation! Wang Youling and Hu Xueyan both guessed that the Democratic Alliance army was here to persuade them to surrender, but they didn't expect that they would come with the power of total victory.

Wang Youling's body shook twice, and muttered, "Guang Yong, what should we do?" ”

The Jiaxing County Commander hurriedly took it over and said: "Lord Wang, Yingyi's army is strong, even if he is defeated, how can he be completely annihilated?" Don't fall for the shorthair's tricks! ”

Hu Xueyan glanced over, the local officials in Jiaxing, led by the county order, were full of panic and anxiety, because according to the style of the Democratic Alliance Army to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the city was broken, these people must be the end of the family and the extermination, Jiaxing has a developed economy, full of oil and water, from the county order to the master, and then to the soap officials and jailers below, none of them have a clean ass!

Due to their position, they naturally did not want Wang Youling to open the city and surrender, but after a while, the city untied two cloth bags, took out a corpse and raised it high with a bamboo pole.

"It's Lord Ji, Lord Ji was killed!" An adjutant general exclaimed, although the corpse's face was covered with lime, but not everyone could wear the official uniform from the second grade, and the face model did have a bit of the outline of Gilhanga.

"This is Lord Wu, yes, Lord Wu is the best to recognize, he is blind in one eye, Lord Wu was also killed, these two adults both boarded the flagship of the British army, and even they were killed, it seems that the Democratic Alliance Army did not boast, it was indeed the total annihilation of the British fleet!"

Although there are still people who doubt that the Democratic Alliance forces annihilated the British fleet with only a few wooden boats and fishing boats, the corpses in front of them cannot be faked, one is Wu Jianzhang, and the other is Gilhanga.

"Plop! Thump! There were more than ten muffled sounds, and the local officials led by the county magistrate all unconsciously weakened their legs and sat on the ground.

The county commander barely stood up, and cried: "Lord Wang, you are relied on by the court and given heavy troops to guard Jiaxing, can you not live up to the expectations of the court, the people of Zhejiang Province are all pointing to you, and our lives are also entrusted to you." ”

"Lord Wang, please help!" The rest of the people knelt down one after another, kowtowing and shouting, and even some people knocked blood splashed everywhere, they were really anxious, their lives were pinched in Wang Youling's hands, even if they knew that it could not be the opponent of the Democratic Alliance, but if they refused to resist, at least they could win a buffer time, the Democratic Alliance only had a few thousand troops, and they couldn't besiege the city to death.

Wang Youling's heart was unbearable, and at this time, the city called again: "Lord Wang, please don't hesitate any longer, it is a foregone conclusion that our army will take the entire territory of Zhejiang, please immediately raise righteousness to open the city, and sue the local officials, the commander-in-chief of my family admires your name, and has already arrived in person, please don't lose the commander-in-chief's kindness, and don't go against the trend!" ”

As the words fell, the crying at the head of the city became louder, Wang Youling turned his head to look, Hu Xueyan nodded slightly, many officers and soldiers of the green battalion put down their guns, obviously had no intention of fighting, and even Wang Youling suspected that if he resolutely did not surrender, it might cause a mutiny in the whole army!

"If you knew this was the case, why did you bother in the first place?" Wang Youling sighed and said, "Order, open the city and surrender!" ”

More than a dozen people passed out one after another!

It is indeed very pleasant for the fishermen to wantonly plunder the wealth that does not belong to them, but when the retribution comes to the door, it is to take the lives of the men of the whole family, and the women will also belong to others, and they will be happy under the crotch of others and have children for others!

Five minutes later, the city gate slowly opened, the cavalry of the Democratic Alliance Army did not enter the city, only Li Erhu entered with 5,000 infantry, seized the high point, disarmed the green battalion, and after another ten minutes, Wang Youling and Hu Xueyan were invited to Wang Feng.

"Contemptible people have seen Commander Wang, congratulations to Commander Wang for his complete victory and casting an immortal reputation!" Hu Xueyan was generous, bowed deeply, and his face was full of joy, but Wang Youling couldn't pull it off, his face was a little embarrassed, and he stood aside in a daze.

"Boss Hu is polite, hurry up!" Wang Feng snorted, and then cast his eyes on Wang Youling.

Wang Youling's age of about 40 years is very different from Wang Youling in later literary works, especially his relationship with Hu Xueyan.

Most people today talk about Wang Youling's dramatic experience of having no money to enter Beijing after donating money, and being funded by the red-topped merchant Hu Xueyan with 500 taels of silver, which is nonsense, Wang Youling is admittedly friendly with Hu Xueyan, but Wang Youling is thirteen years older than Hu Xueyan. Wang Youling reported that the salt donation ambassador occurred in the fourteenth year of Daoguang, that is, in 1834, the nineteenth year of Daoguang, issued by the Ministry of Officials in Zhejiang, Daoguang twenty-one years, the acting Xinchang of the Yangtze River, and later promoted to Cixi Zhixian, Hu Xueyan was born in 1823, from the fourteenth year of Daoguang to the twenty-first year of Daoguang, he was still a ten-year-old street running apprentice, with an annual salary of only eight taels of silver, how could there be five hundred taels to support Wang Youling?

Pushing back to the source, it is an apocryphal fabrication of Chen Daiqing in the "Shen Jie Zhai Wencun" Hu Guangyong chapter, Gao Yang's novel "Hu Xueyan" is also false, and Zeng Shiqiang deduced Hu Xueyan's family history in the hundred forums, and also has a similar view on Wang Youling's family history.

It is true that Wang Youling and Hu Xueyan are close friends, but there is no money exchange between the two, which is also the fundamental reason why Wang Feng is willing to reuse Wang Youling even though he knows that Hu Xueyan is good at speculation.

In the eyes of modern people, a big official and a wealthy businessman, 100% of the interests of the transfer, the ancients were not, the ancients had strong self-discipline, pay attention to the friendship of gentlemen as light as water, as a shame and shame to collect money, of course, not everyone can be as clean as Wang Youling.

Wang Feng swept back his gaze, arched his hand and said with a smile: "Kuanggan will and follow the strategy, dare to forget the court training, inherit the withering and seek peace, and share the same sorrow and happiness without the name of the lake, when Lord Wang was the magistrate of Cixi, the couplet written in the yahall is deafening, Wang every time he thinks about it, he is unconscious and awe-inspiring, and he takes it as a lesson, today I can see Lord Wang and his person, it is really a person like his words, words are like his people, in the filthy officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, there can be a loyal person like Lord Wang, it is indeed an anomaly. (To be continued......) R1292