Chapter 371: Beacon Yangzhou Road (II)

Thank you for the reward of Tears Hongchen 6, big brother, have you changed your number?

At this moment, the Yang steward in Nanjing City is indeed a headache, or since he got the news that he did not kill Song Qing, he has already regretted it a little, at first he felt that Song Qing was just a military leader, or a military leader who had just risen, and he would kill it, but then he realized that he had made a big mistake, the other party was already a general, and he was also a general with the impression of the emperor, if he was really killed, the boss would definitely track it down, even if he could find enough scapegoats, but it would not be so easy to solve, At that time, I am afraid that I will have to give up a lot of things to other big people in Nanjing to pay for my reckless behavior this time.

But even so, he still did not take back his order, because he has always done things like this, as long as the order is issued, unless something big happens, it will definitely not be taken back, after all, this is related to his reputation in Nanjing and even the entire Nanzhili business for so many years, if his order is withdrawn soon after it is issued, what will others think of this matter, and will no one carry out his order in the future without any discount?

Therefore, after the order was issued, not only did he not mean to take it back, but began to order to chase and intercept everywhere along the way, and Song Qing must be killed on the way back to Pizhou, but he didn't expect that he had used more than 2,000 people before and after, and he didn't stop more than 20 people, when the news reached Nanjing, Steward Yang was completely stunned, locked himself in the house, and didn't go out for two days, and when he went out again, he received the news that all the Huai'an Mansion had fallen.

This news shocked him even more than Song Qing escaping back safely, because he didn't expect the other party's revenge to come so quickly, according to his previous thoughts, Song Qing even managed to escape back. If you are timid, maybe you will be soft on the spot, and then you will even send someone over to sue for peace, even if you have a hard temper and plan to retaliate, then you must investigate everything clearly, and then slowly start to mobilize manpower, so that you can retaliate, and the generals who led the troops in this year can fight those families. Song Qing, a newly rising general, how many soldiers can he fight?

No matter how reckless the other party is, he didn't think about anything, and directly led people to Huai'an to start retaliating against his subordinates, so it would take ten days and a half months to get results, and it would even take longer to end the battle in Huai'an Mansion, and at that time, even if Song Qing really defeated Huai'an Mansion. On his side, he has also prepared both official and private hands, and he can completely deal with the other party, but who knows that only a few days after Lu Dao, the entire Huai'an Mansion has been taken down. It's unbelievably fast.

In the final analysis, he is still too confident, so many years of smooth life in Nanjing, and his growing authority. He didn't believe that any military leader could challenge him at all, even though he was not a Qingliu civilian official and did not have such a strong faction support. But the big tree with his back to the Wei Mansion is enough for him to run rampant on the ground of Nanzhili, after all, the Duke of Wei is the boss of the entire Jiangnan Xungui, and he is also a very powerful force in the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Guogong is a hereditary title, few people are willing to offend, because you offend this generation of Wei Guogong, maybe people will take you for a while, but your family always has three disasters and six diseases, people have been doing this position for generations, and sooner or later they will be able to avenge their revenge, for the sake of future generations, no one will be willing to make enemies with this kind of family, because the position of the steward of the Wei Guogong Mansion is very useful in Jiangnan, and Steward Yang never thought that there would really be someone who didn't take him seriously.

In fact, his thoughts can't be said to be completely correct, Song Qing didn't take him seriously, but took himself more seriously, Song Qing didn't want to offend the Wei State Mansion, and he also didn't want to offend him, a steward with a high status, but if this breath is suppressed, I am afraid that I will not have the courage to do business in Jiangnan in the future, let alone expand my power to Jiangnan after a few years, and even make Jiangnan a range of my power, the premise of everything is on this matter, so it must be solved.

Song Qing, who cares about himself very much, is now stationed outside the Jiangdu City with soldiers and horses, and is planning to clear out the most powerful forces that dare to resist after the most stubborn, all the way from north to south, the actions of the surrounding officials are similar to what he imagined, the connection between Steward Yang and the government is not too close, but the two sides are doing business together, most of Steward Yang's subordinates are just people in the rivers and lakes, and the places where they do business are under the jurisdiction of officials and masters everywhere, so the two sides will have a similar way of trading, and the officers and soldiers do not care about the business of those people, After reaching the end, they will share the money together, and the cooperation between the two sides has been quite tacit over the years, but all this does not include dealing with the enemy together.

Especially Song Qing's enemy, the local government is very reluctant to offend, although Yang Steward walks all day in the Wei State Mansion, but he is not an official after all, including Wei Guogong himself is also enjoying happiness in Nanjing City, for officialdom things, in fact, far less clear than those serious officials, they don't know what kind of person Song Qing is, although they have heard of the reputation, but they really don't know the status of Lu Dao in the hearts of the emperor, as well as the status in the hearts of the Ming officials and people, is really not an ordinary military attaché.

People like Song Qing, there are really a lot of local officials who have the heart to make friends, but there are definitely not many people who are willing to offend them, if it is Wei Guogong and Song Qingdou, of course they know how to choose, after all, the name of the hereditary Guogong is not blown, as long as there is no problem with the brain, normal people know which side they should stand on, but a Yang steward is worse in terms of level and weight, even if it is to give face to the Wei Guogong Mansion, everyone does not help each other, and it is already a very polite way to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Song Qing had already judged the development of the situation before, he knew too well the temperament of these officials in the Ming Dynasty, these officials may like money, but they cherish their lives more, and they also have a very strong desire for promotion. And generals with infinitely good futures, they don't want to offend, not to mention that after he Song Qing wins, he can also make money by cooperating with him, and there is no need to get along with him for the sake of being a steward of the Wei Mansion.

Therefore, all the officers and soldiers who had appeared in the past were not moved, and some of the timid even sent people to send various gifts, which was regarded as an apology for the previous chase and killing, Song Qing asked people to accept all the gifts as they were, and also replied that they had written off a sum in their previous lives. Of course, he didn't believe it himself, just to avoid trouble, for the time being, let these officers and soldiers go, and concentrate on dealing with those gangsters, and today is the last battle, and the other party has obviously reached the edge of despair.

The characters in Yangzhou were very miserable, and they originally thought that they were just chasing and killing an inconsequential character, even if there was news later that he was a military attache of the imperial court, no one took it too seriously. Anyway, they have Yang Steward behind them, and in their opinion, they can be mixed up in the Guogong Mansion and deal with an official as easily, in fact, this is indeed the case in Nanjing. Unlike the hidden dragon and crouching tiger in Beijing City, there are too many things that Wei Guogong and the eunuchs can decide, and the local prestige is too heavy, and those thieves who were born and raised in Nanzhili since childhood are deeply touched by this. Some people don't even know who the Son of Heaven is in Lu Dao, but they know that the Duke of Wei in this generation of Lu Dao is called Xu Hongji.

But this kind of errand that would never go wrong in their eyes is now like a ghost-headed knife. Just flickering and flickering on their necks, some people once thought about surrendering, but surrender seems to be useless, killing the red-eyed Xuzhou people almost everywhere to cut off some heads, this is actually Song Qing's policy, there are too many people in this world who are afraid of power and not virtue, you use the Huairou policy or the way of surrender to take over the territory, and then ensure that there is still a big mess waiting for you to deal with, but if you use steel knives and blood to knock down the territory, kill all those who dare to resist, It will definitely be much easier to manage in the future.

Therefore, he led people from Baoying all the way to the south, and beat out all the people and territories related to Yang Steward, and the remaining 1,000 people were also gathered to prepare for the most difficult battle in the north of Jiangdu City, but for this war, the bandits in Yangzhou had little confidence, that is, they did their best to obey the destiny of heaven.

Huerha once again led people to become a pioneer, after mixing Xuzhou for a long time, he also knew the benefits of silver, Song Qing promised him a thousand taels of silver this time, and his clansmen also had three thousand taels, so that this boy who loves to drink wine and eat meat was inexplicably excited, this time he stood in the forward position without waiting for orders, and when Song Qing issued an order, the first horse rushed out of the lun, and when there were still seventy or eighty steps away, the bow and arrow in his hand had begun to aim at the other party, and dozens of sharp arrows shot out of the gang in an instant.

Retreating to Jiangdu's side, many people have fought with Song Qing's soldiers and horses before, and they are very impressed by this group of bald heads who shoot arrows, seeing that this time it is this group of people who are in the vanguard, those who have been attacked by the rain of arrows turn around and run, and those who have not enjoyed this treatment have also joined the team of escapees after enjoying a handful, and followed more than 2,000 cavalry to the nest, just like they outflanked Song Qing before, they picked up all these people from both sides, brandished big swords and spears and began to kill.

After killing for a while, Song Qing shouted loudly in the distance: "Okay, stop it, find someone to carry the dead out of the canon, and tie up the living with ropes!" ”

Luo Xiaobei was killing happily, pulled his spear out from a dead man, ran to Song Qing's side and said: "My lord, what are these birdmen still left for, they are all killed, we were chased so hard at the beginning, we broke several brothers, kill them all, and avenge our brothers!" ”

"We can't kill them all, we still have to leave some people to help us manage our business, they are all local natives, we will send people over when the time comes, but we also need local natives to help us do things, and many things are more convenient for them to do." Song Qing shook his head, and then said: "You go and pull all the captives over, let them identify themselves, pull out those leaders and kill them, and then let those who are identified be the leaders, as long as those people identify one, they are traitors in Yangzhou, he can only rely on us, if he leaves us, maybe one day he will be killed by someone who wants to usurp power or want to avenge the previous leader, so loyalty can be guaranteed, understand?" ”

"Got it!" In fact, Luo Xiaobei doesn't understand, his mentality and thinking are still in the killing stage, and he hasn't thought about how to operate at all, which is also where he is worse than Li Sanlang, but he has a good point, whether he understands it or not, he believes what Song Qing said, and he will do it, no one can compare to him.

For a team that often fights and has not lost many battles, tying people up is a very skillful job, it didn't take much work, and the more than 500 local bandits and Jianghu characters who are still alive have been trapped like dumplings, lined up in three teams and knelt on the ground, Luo Xiaobei began to follow the method of sending words, let them recruit who was the leader by themselves, no one said at first, whether it was out of righteousness, or just been beaten stupid, for the time being, no one opened his mouth to answer the question.

However, for this kind of thing, Song Qing himself had done a very good demonstration earlier, holding a knife or axe next to each other for interrogation, and if he didn't answer, he would be hacked to death directly, the effect of this method was indeed very good, whether the other party was frightened, or felt that it was not worth dying here, after hacking three people to death, the fourth person began to confess, confessing the leader of the road he knew, and then these people were brought out and killed, and the fourth person was appointed as the new leader, and left temporarily with his new subordinates, and the interrogation continued.

In the next two days, Song Qing did not rush to attack Nanjing Yingtianfu, but began to take people into the territory, these territories are only down at present, and they cannot be regarded as his, only by completely grasping them and contacting the local government, can they be regarded as his Song Qing's territory.

Song Qing doesn't have time to contact the local government one by one now, and those who are in charge of the officials will not have any particularly obvious statements before he and Steward Yang completely divide the victory and defeat, so they need to leave some soldiers and horses to watch over them for the time being, and wait until he returns from Nanjing, but the local bandits he left behind before can also play a role, at least to make his people receive more quickly, and also to make the people who originally relied on these businesses to eat less rebound. (To be continued......)