When Song Qing returned to Pizhou from Yangzhou, Zhang Tang originally planned to send troops to intercept him, although he did not receive a direct order, but his territory was close to Yangzhou, and he had heard a little rumor, so he also asked his subordinates to observe along the way, but in the end, those subordinates did not dare to move, and they were all frightened by Song Qing's horse team of more than 300 people, the horse team is not a new thing in Daming, but it is mostly in the north, Huai'an is closer to Jiangnan, and he is still more afraid of this ruthless role.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Tang was somewhat dissatisfied, because he felt that his subordinates were too cowardly and could not complete the things he explained, and could not let him make contributions in front of Master Yang, because he was a little depressed in the past two days, and moved a Taishi chair all day long, sat on the official road outside the north gate of Suqian and drank.

It wasn't until nearly noon that Zhang Tang felt a little hungry alone, so he got up from the Taishi's chair like an old lady, and was about to go into the city to eat something, when he suddenly felt that the mountains were shaking under his feet, and he subconsciously felt that there was an earthquake, and he was about to call his subordinates to come over, when he saw a black pressure of people and horses rushing over from afar, and the first person was holding a mountain opening knife, almost killing in the wind and lightning to the front, holding the knife high above his head, and asking with murderous aura: "Which is called Zhang Tang?" ”

"Your tiger master is!" Zhang Tang stood up a little bit forward, pointed to the war horse that was still galloping over, and said, "Don't stop for the tiger master quickly, otherwise let ...... it."

Halfway through the words, the big man on the opposite side had already rushed to the front and cut down the mountain opening knife, Zhang Tang didn't have time to dodge at all, the whole person was directly split in half, and a large stream of blood foam suddenly spurted out. The subordinate who was standing next to him and was about to accompany him to dinner was suddenly frightened and froze, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

The big man slashed Zhang Tang to death with a knife, his face was hideous, and he pointed the tip of the knife at his subordinates, and said with a smile: "If someone asks, just say that your grandfather came from Xuzhou, specifically looking for the old dog surnamed Yang to take revenge, if the local government can't do it, ask him to go to Nanjing to find the surname Yang, and the old dog knows why such a thing will happen to Lu." In addition, from today onwards, there is nothing to do with the surname Yang in and outside the city of Suqian, all of them will belong to us, if anyone dares to say a word, the soup on the ground will be the end! ”

Zhang Tang's subordinates are just scoundrels in the city, who usually follow Zhang Tang's fox and fake tiger power, and the dog fights people, where have he seen such a bloody scene, and the one who died in front of him was the tiger master who he had always regarded as a god. And the perpetrator was standing in front of him, the big knife in his hand was still dripping blood, where did he dare to disobey the slightest, but he wanted to say something sycophant. But he found that his mouth did not obey at all, and his body was very stiff, so he could only nod his head with great effort, and then ran away tremblingly.

Not long after. The officials of Suqian County rushed over, and many people vomited as soon as they saw Zhang Tang's body that was cut in half, and asked carefully about the situation. Quickly reported to the magistrate, but the magistrate didn't say anything, he had already gotten some rumors here, saying that Song Qing in Xuzhou had a quarrel with the Yang steward in Nanjing City, and he didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, and the Yang steward had the support of Wei Guogong, but Song Qing was also not a fuel-efficient lamp, he was just a foreign official, and he was not a local native, and he had to change places after a few years, there was no need to mix with this kind of thing, and it was very likely that both sides would not please after the worst, so it was better to wait and see what happened.

In fact, his choice was very correct, when he returned home that night, there was a box in the hall, and the county opened it to see, and saw that the box was divided into two grids, one of which contained a long knife, and the other was full of silver.

The magistrate of the county watched from the wall, and Song Qing's men and horses began to attack everywhere unscrupulously in Suqian, as long as they had a little relationship with Steward Yang, they were their targets, starting from the easiest shops, and then developed into those scoundrels in the streets and alleys, as well as the power of the rivers and lakes around Suqian that originally belonged to Zhang Tang.

The speed of the purging is very fast, after losing the leader, the power of the rivers and lakes in Suqian does not know what to do with the Dao, if they were their own masters in the past, it would be just that, but Zhang Tangtong and have four or five years, the unconvinced thorns have been killed, and the rest only know that the Dao obeys orders, and now the people who gave the order have been killed, plus the people on Song Qing's side are moving fast, almost attacking more than a dozen places at the same time, but in just half a day's work, Suqian has been completely occupied.

That night, the people who occupied Suqian rested in the local area, and another army marched in the direction of Suining, where the strength of the rivers and lakes was weaker than that of Suqian, and it was also taken bloodlessly, and the two roads met on the bank of the Baiyang River in the early morning of the next day, and at the same time marched to the south, and Taoyuan County was taken at night.

At this point, the entire western part of Huai'an has been occupied by Song Qing's men and horses, so fast that the outrageous speed is enough to make the attackers dumbfounded, and this news has just begun to spread to the east, most of the local Jianghu characters have not yet gotten the news, and a few have not believed it after getting the news, because there has never been a similar situation for so many years, even if they all know that those Xuzhou people are very capable of fighting, but they have never taken the other party to heart, so there is no psychological preparation at all.

Ordinary Jianghu characters don't take it too seriously, those salt dealers naturally don't care even more, in their opinion, it is estimated that the local bandits in Xuzhou and Huai'an have a conflict, and the two sides are confused, and the Huai'an bandits are always weaker than the Xuzhou people, after being caught off guard, it is normal for this situation to occur, but as long as the big people pass the words, everything will disappear invisibly, and even if the two sides continue to fight, it has nothing to do with them, they continue to sell illicit salt.

The largest smuggling of salt in the entire Huai'an Mansion is called Xu Jin, and the people of Muyang County are not only the largest smuggler of salt in Huai'an, but also the eldest brother on the rivers and lakes of Huai'an.

He is a professional here, and the selection is all those ruthless outlaws, who can fight almost sixty people, and then put together five or seven hundred gangsters, which is the biggest force in the entire Huai'an, Song Qing's next target is him, and the ones sent are Luo Xiaobei and three hundred cavalry, as well as dozens of Huerhana.

Such a large-scale action, naturally can't hide from the local Jianghu figures, although Xu Jin didn't pay much attention to it before, but I heard that the other party gathered more than 300 horse teams to come to fight, and he was somewhat muttering, he was not too concerned about the recent events because he was focused on business, so he was not psychologically prepared for this matter, until he heard that people had killed him, he felt that things didn't seem to be right, it was too rare to have a horse team in his hands in these years, even those thieves were not easy to make up so many people, The only people who have this kind of strength are the officers and soldiers, but how could the officers and soldiers come to find trouble with them, and the face on Steward Yang's side is useless?

With this kind of doubt, he summoned all his subordinates, as well as the surrounding Jianghu people who were also in danger, and made up a thousand numbers, which can already be regarded as the first-class formation in eastern Huai'an over the years, thinking about the other party, even if it is an officer and soldier, he can't please them in front of them, as for fighting with officers and soldiers, he doesn't care, anyway, when the time comes, there will be Yang Guan to come forward to say that those officers and soldiers will do it first, it is already a broken rule, he just fought back out of self-defense.

He doesn't care in his heart, and his subordinates are all like this, Xu Jin is the biggest salt lord in the whole Huai'an, and those under him are small and medium-sized salt lords everywhere, the salt lords in these years are similar to drug dealers, and they are all headless traders, and they are not afraid of people coming to find fault and fight, even if they are officers and soldiers, they don't care, not to mention that the other party seems to be from Xuzhou, although it is quite close, but in Huai'an, it is a complete foreigner, and the number is less than one-third of them, which is almost a battle to win and not lose.

This kind of cheap thing, the salt lords are actually fine, but the improvised gangsters like it the most.

The battle has not yet started, and they are already imagining that after the other party is defeated by them, how will they find someone to ask for money to buy their lives, and those more than 300 horses, it is estimated that it will be worth a lot, even if they don't sell it, it is a good thing to be able to have a foot power mount when selling salt in the future, and they have earned it anyway.

But all of this disappeared after the real contact between the two sides, and the thousand people had no intention of arranging the formation at all, so they stood at the intersection where the other party should appear, yawning and stretching their waists and waiting for others, and when it was time for lunch, everyone was already impatient, and some even lay directly on the ground, although the salt lords who led the team felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't pay attention to it, and finally didn't say anything, allowing their subordinates to move freely and lazily.

A moment later, a team of three hundred horses charged, and the dozens of bald heads at the front of the crowd shot at the unorderly but rather dense crowd with their bows and arrows, while the rest rushed into the flock like tigers out of cages with spears in hand, and in an instant they were overflowing with blood. (To be continued......)