Chapter 422: The Rich Man (Text)

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This battle is full of weirdness until now, and Zhang Tianlu doesn't know what Zhai Zhe's purpose is.

The achievements of the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang are well-known in the south of the Yangtze River, but they cannot be experienced in person if they do not meet them once on the battlefield.

Zhang Tianlu was a little scared and a little regretful. He knew that the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang might go north, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, let alone so many. Knowing this, after capturing Ning Guofu, he would slowly try to do it, and he would not fall into the embarrassing situation he is in now.

It's all to blame on the Zodiac Zhou, the defeat was too fast, so fast that no one thought of it. The battle of Huizhou Mansion has been fought so far, for Zhang Tianlu, it is already a chicken rib, the food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it.

He wanted to return to Ning Guofu, but now he couldn't be the master. Duoduo has sent a partial division to help, and he has withdrawn from his army, and he can't explain it to anyone.

Zhang Cunren led 30,000 soldiers and horses to capture Fuyang easily, and immediately sent someone to ask Duoduo. The eastern Zhejiang army completely abandoned the defenses along the way, and there were two roads in front of him, one through the Yuling Pass to Huizhou, and the other through the mountainous area of the upper reaches of the Qiantang River into eastern Zhejiang.

The messenger hastened.

After weighing it, Duoduo decided to focus on stability and ordered him to cooperate with Zhang Tianlu to capture Huizhou Mansion first. The battle in Jiangnan was fought from mid-June to the end of August, and his confidence became less and less, and he had a feeling of helplessness towards Zhai Zhe.

This back and forth was delayed for another day.

Hangzhou City is more than 400 miles away from Huizhou Mansion, and after passing Fuyang, there are mountainous areas along the way. Hearing that the Qing army went north, most of the people either hid in the mountains or moved to eastern Zhejiang. From Fuyang, Xincheng, Yuqian and Changhua along the way were not garrisoned by soldiers and horses from eastern Zhejiang, but Zhang Cunren had to send troops to garrison every place he attacked, because it was related to his grain route.

The Qing army did not bring much grain and grass at the beginning, and Zhang Cunren planned to join forces with Zhang Tianlu and then plot the overall situation.

When Zhai Zhe withdrew his troops from Jixi City, Zhang Cunren was under Changhua City, and he had not received news from Zhang Tianlu in recent days. He arrested some mountain people and tortured them, some people said that Zhang Tianlu captured the Huizhou Mansion, and Huang Daozhou had been defeated, and some people said that the Huizhou Mansion was recaptured by General Pingyu in eastern Zhejiang, which made him confused.

Changhua to Yuling Pass is mostly a narrow mountain road, he marched carefully all the way, saw the banner of the Ming army on Yuling Pass, Zhang Cunren felt a little drumming in his heart. The mountain road to the west was rugged, and he did not carry a cannon with him on his journey north.

The Qing captives set up camp twenty miles in front of Yuling Pass, and Zhang Cunren came to check the terrain. Yuling Pass is not very steep, but it is obviously heavily guarded by the Ming army, and he will either capture it here, or go around a hundred miles of mountain roads to the city of Huizhou. With such a long supply line, and at the same time to deal with the threat of eastern Zhejiang and Huizhou, Zhang Cunren did not dare to do so.

At the Yuling Pass, Fang Guoan led 18,000 soldiers and horses to garrison this place.

Zhai Zhe and Fang Guoan were also using a clairvoyant mirror to observe Zhang Cunren.

Zhai Zhe was a little helpless and said, "It's another Han person!" ”

"Without these dogs, how could I take down the Ming Dynasty with just the 100,000 people who were captured." Fang Guoan was indignant, and said: "Although the Ming Dynasty is harsh on military generals, it is not to the point of being willing to be a slave of the Eastern Captives.

Fang Guoan did not defect to the Qing Dynasty, which does not mean that he has no complaints about the system of suppressing military generals by Wenchen in the Ming Dynasty for many years.

"Not from now on!" Zhai Zhe turned his head and said meaningfully: "This kind of thing should not be stored in the first place. ”

This is his close contact with Fang Guoanci, although the two are on the same front, the relationship is more like an alliance. If he hadn't given the county seat of Fuyang to Fang Guoan, and kept giving him the title of marquis, Fang Guoan might not have taken the order of the Pingyu General's Mansion seriously.

This is a conversation between military generals, and it is not surprising to say anything.

"General Zhai, don't worry, Yuling Pass is handed over to me!" Fang Guoan patted his chest and said.

Zhai Zhe smiled lightly, he was not a roundworm in Fang Guoan's stomach, but he knew his thoughts well.

Fang Guoan actively went north and cooperated with Zhai Zhe's battle to capture Huizhou Mansion, these battles were fought extremely hard, not just looking at Zhai Zhe's tens of thousands of taels of silver, but also unwilling to be driven by him Zhai Zhe.

Two months ago, Fang Guoan was hiding in the mountains and forests in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, and he was almost about to fall apart, when he met Zhai Zhe and handed him an olive branch.

But the territory of eastern Zhejiang is so big, Ningbo Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion are Zhai Zhe's territory, and Hangzhou City was captured by Zhai Zhe, so of course the Tian Fu is in the hands of General Pingyu, and the Tian Fu of Jinhua Mansion belongs to Zhu Dadian. If Huizhou Mansion is captured this time, it should be able to give Fang Guoan a piece of the pie.

Even if it is a joint attack on the Qingqing, no one will contribute in vain. In troubled times, there is power when there are soldiers, Fang Guoan has 18,000 soldiers in his hands, and his combat power is not bad, of course, he doesn't want to live like a beggar, relying on Zhai Zhe's handouts.

"Since General Soldier Fang said so, I will treat these people as the credit that Duoduo sent you!" Zhai Zhe promised, "The soldiers have worked hard and have not received their salaries for two months, if they can take Huizhou, this year's Tianfu will all belong to the general army of Fang." ”

"Thank you, General Zhai!" Fang Guoan gave his hand, and he didn't show how excited he was, he wanted more than just Tian Fu this year.

Zhai Zhe didn't explain much.

Things are changing, and it would be too narrow to look at the existing territories.

handed over Yuling Pass to Fang Guoan, ordered Zuo Ruo to lead the army to stay on the mountain side of Jixi East to monitor Zhang Tianlu, and Zhai Zhe led his personal guards to Huizhou.

Originally, the rebel armies of Ningguo Mansion and Huizhou Mansion totaled **10,000 people, and after the defeat of the Zodiac Zhou, these people went to the east and west. Huizhou Mansion was recovered in one day, and the army led by General Pinglu raided the Qing Dynasty, recovering Huizhou and Jingde County one after another, and defeated and besieged the arrogant Zhang Tianlu at Jixi. Zhang Huangyan had the intention to spread the news, and ordered the rebels who were taken in to contact their lost companions. The common people spread the word of mouth, talking about the general Zhai Zhe, who soon recovered Ningshao and Hangzhou, and the achievements of the troops entering Songjiang spread everywhere.

Outside the city of Huizhou, there are barracks at all four gates standing against the city wall, and a long column of people is carrying huge trees and stones into the city.

The soldiers and horses holding high the banner of General Pinglu came from far and near, and Zhang Huangyan went out of the city to greet him.

Zhai Zhe saw that Zhang Huangyan was surrounded by a group of men in all kinds of clothes, and he was more gangsteric than before.

When those men with big shoulders and round waists saw Zhai Zhe like seeing a rare thing, they didn't dare to look at it, let alone speak.

Zhang Huangyan urged him to step forward and dismounted, "Meet the general." ”

Zhai Zhe looked at the group of people in front of him and said, "Xuanzhu, how can you, the leader of the righteous army, look like the king of the mountain." ”

Zhang Huangyan looked down at his dress, and said in surprise: "Is it like?" Then he turned to look at the people around him, and laughed knowingly. The dozen or so leaders of the rebel army around him also laughed together, and the tension when they first met Zhai Zhe dissipated a lot.

That is, people like Zhang Huangyan can gather the righteous army of all factions into a group, like Huang Daozhou, who is proud of himself, although everyone comes here, they will inevitably return disappointed in the end. Zhai Zhe fell in love with this young man from the moment he saw Zhang Huangyan, not only because he was an all-rounder who was proficient in civil and military affairs, but also because he saw some shadows of Xiao Zhiyan in Zhang Huangyan.

The mountainous area of southern Anhui extends to the Dabie Mountain in the north of the Yangtze River, and there are many activities of the righteous army, but the rebel armies in various places often fight their own battles, and even have contradictions between each other, and cannot be twisted into a rope.

People in the rivers and lakes get along, and they have their own rules for the people in the rivers and lakes. Zhai Zhe boasted that he couldn't rectify these stragglers, but there were two people under his command who could take on this heavy responsibility, one was Xiao Zhiyan, and the other was Zhang Huangyan in front of him.

The group entered the city happily, and Zhai Zhe and Zhang Huangyan went to the mansion to sit down and talk.

"Xuanzhu, how is the layout of Huizhou's city defense, you must be prepared to be besieged by the Qing captives."

"There are more than 50,000 rebels from all over the country, and the last general has recruited the help of the nearby strong men and people, and is preparing food, gunpowder and rolling wood and thunder stones."

Zhai Zhe nodded, and talked about the purpose of his trip: "You draw up a list of the rich merchants in Huizhou City for me, and then tell them that I will invite them to dinner tonight." ”

Zhang Huangyan, a very smart character, immediately guessed what Zhai Zhe was going to do, and arched his hand: "Obey!" ”

"Leave me the best restaurant in Huizhou Mansion and invite these rich people to dinner, we can't be stingy, can we?"

Zhai Zhe said it very easily, and Zhang Huangyan thought that a bloody storm was coming.

He had been in the army for several months, and knew that the food and salary of the Pinglu General's Mansion were insufficient, and at the moment, only the rich merchants were fat sheep to be slaughtered. When the Qing soldiers went north, many Hui merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River fled back to their hometowns in a hurry, and when Zhang Tianlu went south, the rebels rose in all directions, and some people forced these rich merchants to give up silver for their salaries. They fled into Huizhou City from Jixi, Qimen and other places, which is why Yang Shouzhuang led the army to Huizhou City, and the Xun Gong in the city discussed dedicating the city.

Rich people are always a little more afraid of death than poor people.

Zhang Huang Yan Xun arranged.

The officials in the city came to the door one by one and handed over the names of the generals, and when the rich merchants received them, their hearts were like fifteen buckets of water.

There is a curfew in the city, and the time for the banquet is scheduled to be in Youshi, and Zhai Zhe will not be able to enter the city for half a day.

No one dares to offend the name of General Pingyu now.

There were still two quarters of an hour before the appointed time, and more than twenty wealthy businessmen arrived early.

The restaurant is the best restaurant, after the number of people is full, the guys serve the food, and put a few plates of wild vegetables, a plate of brown rice, and a plate of water in front of each of them.

Everyone sat still, and familiar people whispered to each other.

At that time, everyone heard footsteps from downstairs, and then the wooden staircase "banged", and more than 20 people immediately sat upright, staring at the front of them.

A burly general walked in from downstairs, and he didn't look like General Pingyu. When everyone was guessing, the man held on to the hilt of the knife, coughed lightly, and said, "Below is the general Wei Qian, the pro-soldier of the Pingyu General's Mansion, and on the table is the dinner that the general invited you to eat." The general is busy with affairs, and he can't get away for the time being, so he ordered me to accompany you, and after you have finished your meal, the general will come to see you again. ”

He said that he was here to accompany the guests, but he stood in front of the stage, looking like he was rejecting people thousands of miles away.

The wealthy businessmen did not dare to move for a long time.

Fang Jin looked at everyone looking at each other, sat there and didn't move, and asked with a cold face, "Isn't this dish to your taste?" ”