So Xiong Wencan had to transfer Zhang Jiace to lead his troops to Yanping Mansion to attack this group of thieves who called themselves Blackbeard, the surname of this group of blackbeard is Hu, the specific name is not clear, the age is about thirty or forty years old, it is said that he is a person from Tingzhou Mansion, Kong Wu is powerful, he can carry a gun on a horse, and he can pull a bow when he gets off a horse, and he is known as a hundred enemies.

Originally, Blackbeard was just a small group of bandits operating in Tingzhou Mansion, but seven years after the Apocalypse, as the Yanping Mansion town army was eaten by the sea wolf in one fell swoop, the strength of the official army in Yanping Mansion was extremely empty, so Blackbeard led his troops into the territory of Yanping Mansion, plundered and coerced the people into joining the gang, and also annexed several bandits in Yanping Mansion.

In this way, Blackbeard's strength expanded rapidly, and in the second half of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he already had nearly 10,000 minions under his command, controlling a large area, and hundreds of thousands of people were within his control, which was quite arrogant.

After his strength increased, Blackbeard was no longer as cautious as before, and often gathered a large number of his subordinates to attack Zhaike Fort, and wantonly plundered the territory of Tingzhou Mansion and Yanping Mansion, which was almost invincible.

The prefect of Yanping Prefecture and the prefect of Tingzhou finally mobilized 2,000 officers and troops, and also requisitioned a large number of township warrior regiments to practice the attack on Blackbeard, and as a result, they sent the garrison to lead the troops, but carelessly, led the army into Blackbeard's ambush circle, when they entered the ambush circle, Blackbeard led the crowd in all directions, rushed to kill, and actually inadvertently killed this garrison on the spot.

After Blackbeard won, he led the crowd to link the eight villages and seven forts in Yongan County, killing the local people's heads, robbing a large number of people and goods, and at the end of November, he also led the crowd to Yongan County, although he did not attack the county seat, but he showed off his might outside the county for a while.

They dragged some wealthy people arrested nearby to the city and beheaded them in public, and they spoiled women outside the city, took off their pants and urinated on the county seat, and did all kinds of insulting things, which made the people in Yongan County very frightened.

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he couldn't bear it, so he had to recruit the chief soldier Xie Longyi and the deputy chief soldier Zhang Jiace to discuss how to deal with it, and finally decided to send Zhang Jiace to lead more than 4,000 local officers and soldiers from Fuzhou, Xinghua Mansion and Yanping Mansion, plus 3,000 regiments recruited from various places to train the villagers, and enter Yanping Mansion to clean up Blackbeard.

Zhang Jiace reluctantly accepted the order, and after two months of grinding, it was not until the beginning of February after the imperial court changed to Yuan Chongzhen that he led his troops to Yanping Mansion.

However, when Zhang Jiace led his troops into Yanping Mansion and walked for a whole month before the troops arrived in Yong'an County, the military discipline of the officers and troops led by Zhang Jiace was corrupted, and they were more ferocious than bandits along the way, and they brazenly looted the people in the passing area.

However, after Zhang Jiace arrived in Yong'an County, he entered the county seat and hesitated, and ordered it to be annexed around Yong'an County, in the name of preventing bandits from invading the county.

If Blackbeard had the ability to capture Yong'an County, where would he wait until now after Zhang Jiace's army arrived to attack the county seat! Years ago, he was afraid that he would take Yongan County.

Zhang Jiace led his troops to be stationed in Yong'an County, and constantly asked Yong'an County for all kinds of food and materials, asking the local squires and people to help them in the war, which made Yong'an County even more difficult for the people to make a living, and there were many complaints, and the magistrate of Yong'an County was extremely angry, and sent people to Fuzhou to find Xiong Wencan to complain.

When Xiong Wencan learned the news, he immediately sent people to the army to reprimand Zhang Jiace, ordering him to arrest Blackbeard within a month.

After Zhang Jiace was reprimanded by Xiong Wencan, he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he led his troops into the mountains to clean up Blackbeard.

But after a month, Blackbeard's main force was not found at all, but he killed a lot of people, cut off a lot of people, and killed good people to fool Xiong Wencan.

Xiong Wencan was so angry that he sent someone to reprimand Zhang Jiace again, threatening that if Zhang Jiace did not seriously attack him, then he would start the court and arrest him.

Zhang Jiace was helpless, so he moved his real character and led his troops around the mountains, trying to find Blackbeard to fight with him.

However, Blackbeard didn't seem to be a reckless man, and he never fought against Zhang Jiace's main force, and hid in the mountains, forcing Zhang Jiace to only score troops to attack him.

Blackbeard concentrated more than 7,000 of his subordinates, divided the troops into two ways, one way to contain Zhang Jiace's Chinese army, and the other way under his personal leadership, attacking a soldier and horse sent by Zhang Jiace, and finally Zhang Jiace was defeated again, only with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, and the soldiers fled back to Yong'an County, hiding in the county and not daring to come out.

The news reached the yamen of the governor of Fuzhou, and Xiong Wencan almost had a heart attack, and his blood pressure increased by at least twenty or thirty mercury, angrily denounced Zhang Jiace for incompetence, and ordered Zhang Jiace to be arrested and taken to Fuzhou City for trial.

But even if Zhang Jiace is arrested, this matter must be solved, after all, this is a big defeat, and it is indispensable to play the imperial court, for Xiong Wencan, this is a big stain, Xiong Wencan is eager to make meritorious service to atone for his crimes, so he will invite the generals of Fujian to the Yamen of the governor of Fuzhou City.

When Xiong Wencan asked who could exterminate Blackbeard, all the generals came one by one to shrink their necks, and no one refused to jump out to pick up this hot taro at this time.

Because of Zhang Jiace's fate, those Fujian generals inevitably have some sad feelings of rabbits and foxes, and in addition, Xiong Wencan's recent crooked butt and taking care of Yu Xiaotian everywhere have already caused the dissatisfaction of these local Fujian generals.

So in the end, someone made a sour proposal, saying that since Zhang Jiace can't do it at the moment, then only General Yu should be able to do it.

As soon as someone mentioned this, they immediately received the support of many military generals, and they recommended Xiong Wencan to send Yu Xiaotian to lead his troops to solve Blackbeard's trouble.

Yu Xiaotian was originally a general of coastal defense, mainly responsible for suppressing bandits in the coastal area, and was also responsible for garrisoning the Quanzhou area and presiding over the military affairs in the Quanzhou area.

But because Yu Xiaotian and Xiong Wencan have been in a mess for most of the past half a year and have taken a lot of benefits, they have suddenly become the target of public criticism, Xiong Wencan was a little embarrassed, and felt that it was not appropriate to force Yu Xiaotian to go, but even Xie Longyi and the officials of the Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Department also proposed that Yu Xiaotian lead the troops to fight.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was also present, and he had been very low-key and did not speak, but now he saw that the generals regarded him as a Kaizi and asked him to come to pick up the hot taro, of course he understood what these guys were thinking in their hearts, these so-called colleagues were actually in Xiong Wencan's army.

Didn't you Xiong Wencan take care of this thief everywhere? Now the trouble is coming, you can't let the thief stand on the dry land and watch the excitement! Since the cheapness is taken advantage of by the surname Yu, then it is time for the surname Yu to make some efforts! If he Yu Xiaotian can exterminate Blackbeard this time, everything will be easy to say, if even he Yu Xiaotian loses the battle, see how you will have the face to regard this surnamed Yu as your right-hand man in the future.

Yu Xiaotian had been watching coldly as everyone was gossiping about giving him eye medicine, and he didn't say anything at first, but when he saw Xiong Wencan's embarrassed face, he finally came out of the crowd, hugged his fists and said to Xiong Wencan: "Since you think so highly of the last general, then the last general is willing to lead the troops to Yanping Mansion to exterminate this black beard!" ”

Xiong Wencan saw that Yu Xiaotian took the initiative to ask Ying to fight, which was much better in his heart, and Yu Xiaotian was still sensible in the end, and took the initiative to relieve him at this time, but considering that Yu Xiaotian started at sea, I don't know if the infantry army at hand is good at fighting in the mountains, for fear that Yu Xiaotian will also follow in the footsteps of Zhang Jiace and others this time, in that case, even if he wants to protect Yu Xiaotian, I am afraid that he will be impeached by many officials.

So he asked Xiaotian: "General Yu, since you took the initiative to ask Ying, then let me ask you, are you sure to take Blackbeard down?" ”

Yu Xiaotian smiled indifferently, straightened his chest and clenched his fists, and said loudly: "Please rest assured, Lord Futai!" Although the last general does not dare to say that he is 100% sure, since this matter has reached such a point, how can the last general sit idly by? At least seventy or eighty percent sure is still there! ”

After Xiong Wencan heard this, he felt a little relieved, although he was not very clear about the actual combat strength of the infantry army in Xiaotian's hands, but he had also heard many people say that Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, whether they were sailors or infantry troops, were quite elite, and they were definitely some fierce soldiers.

And although Yu Xiaotian is young, he is not the kind of person who likes to talk big, since he said that he is seven or eight points sure, then this time it should be about the same, and the worst will not end up like Zhang Jiace.

So Xiong Wencan was about to promise to let Yu Xiaotian lead the troops into battle, but on the side, Xie Longyi stood up and asked Xiaotian: "Then Ben Shuai asked General Yu, this time you led the army to Yanping Mansion, I don't know how many soldiers and horses Lu Dao will bring?" ”

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, he knew that Xie Longyi wanted to find out how many troops he was going to use first, and if there were too many, Xie Longyi would definitely not do it, and now Fujian really can't draw too many troops to take him under his command and go to Yanping Mansion to suppress the thieves.

So he smiled and raised two fingers at Xie Longyi and said, "This number is enough!" ”

Xie Longyi's face changed, and he immediately shook his head and said, "Twenty thousand? Not! Now I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to mobilize 20,000 troops, even if it is only 10,000 troops, we will not be able to take them! ”

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he also frowned, and couldn't help but feel a little dislike for Xiaotian, feeling that Yu Xiaotian's invitation to play this time was actually deliberately giving him a problem, so that he would retreat.

But he didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to shake his head and say, "Definitely!" Xie Junmen misunderstood! The last general means that only 2,000 soldiers are needed! ”

The pupils of Xie Longyi's eyes shrank, and he immediately said loudly: "Two thousand? General Yu, there is no joke in the army! This is in the governor's yamen, don't talk nonsense! Otherwise, how can Lord Futai spare you! ”

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