Chapter 374: Negotiation
Yang Steward's power composition is very huge, so huge that ordinary people need to look up, in Nanjing, this acre of three points of land, except for those officials who really have a very high status do not care, the rest of the officials and people and no one can ignore him, if it is said that twenty years ago, Yang Steward still followed the son Xu Hongji, many people are polite to Xu Hongji for the sake of Xu Hongji's face, but today, the three words of Yang Steward itself already represent the supreme authority, no longer simply a steward.
The Wei Mansion is not without other stewards, if it is only in terms of status in the mansion, Steward Yang can only rank third, there is also a steward surnamed Liu, and the son of the Xu family, Steward Xu, those two are big names in the mansion, even if Steward Yang sees them, he must politely greet them and call the chief steward.
However, whether it is Liu Guan Shi or Xu Guan Shi, they are only doing things in the house, even if there are some outside businesses, they are just making a few pocket money, their minds in this area are far less than Yang Guan Shi, so their status and reputation in Nanjing City are not so prominent, and only Yang Guan is known to outsiders, and many people directly regard him as the head of the Wei Mansion, so they are even more afraid of him, and they dare not have the slightest disobedience, which is also one of the effects he wants to pursue.
It's just that in Song Qing's view, although the power of this Yang steward seems huge, it is actually completely vulnerable, ordinary people or middle and lower-class people can't deal with it, those who don't have much power and only have some official positions can't deal with it, but he, a really powerful commander, is easy to deal with, the only problem is actually in the Wei Mansion, this hereditary duke's mansion has the ability to surpass the prince in the Ming Dynasty, and the only one who can compare with them is the Mu family in Yunnan.
However, Song Qing had judged before that the Wei State Mansion might not know about these things, because although he dispatched the officers and soldiers under his command. However, what was used was the method of the rivers and lakes, which was completely the same as the way to engage in vendetta on the rivers and lakes, and as long as this method was not completely transformed into a cross-border attack by officers and soldiers, Wei Guogong might not notice this kind of thing.
This is not his random speculation, but after a very rigorous deduction, because everyone's realm is different, people Wei Guogong is concerned about national affairs, like this kind of vendetta in the rivers and lakes, don't look at it at the door of the house, but as long as you don't enter Nanjing City. No one will notice it, after all, Song Qing is attacking the business of Steward Yang's own, not the business of the Wei State Mansion, the difference here is very big, as long as the State Mansion itself does not lose, others will not report it with many words.
And that Yang steward himself would not want this matter to leak out, because once it was known to the Duke of Wei, he promised to inquire carefully, and even asked Song Qing directly. If the steward of his palace dared to hunt down and kill the imperial generals, it is conceivable how the Wei State Guild would react, and it would inevitably be thunderous at that time.
The Xu family of Wei Guogong was considered a mainstay type in the Ming Dynasty, and it was also a relatively upright family. Although there are also those problems of the Xungui family, it is undeniable that this family is very good in the entire Ming family, so Song Qing will be so relieved and bold to use the current method to deal with Steward Yang. Because he knew that even if he was really known by the Duke of Wei, the biggest victim would definitely be Steward Yang, not him, who was fighting for the country. The general who had only been fighting and killing in the north for a long time.
Yang Xing, who had one hand cut off, did not die, but was sent back by Luo Xiaobei, which made Yang Tong somewhat disappointed, but at the same time it also made him feel frightened, Yang Xing's identity must have been known by the other party, and he still dared to cut off one of his arms when he knew that Lu Dao was one of Yang Steward's two godsons, which showed that Song Qing didn't take them to heart at all, and even to some extent, he didn't take Yang Steward in his eyes at all, and the previous hunting and killing was just because there were few people.
Today, the few people have become them, Song Qing led a large team of men and horses to Nanjing, things are completely beyond imagination, Yang Tong's uneasiness in his heart is getting stronger and stronger, but he has to face a show, Song Qing asked him to go over to answer, the deadline is two hours, if the time does not pass, the other party will take the initiative to attack.
Yang Tong was really a little scared, even if there were thousands of Jianghu characters around him, and even officers and soldiers were watching nearby, but he still felt chills for no reason, and he didn't know if Lu Dao should go to Song Qing to negotiate, so he spent more than an hour, he realized that he couldn't continue like this, but he really couldn't make up his mind, and it happened that the leader of the heroes of the rivers and lakes next to him came over and asked, "Uncle, the time is almost there, right?" Do you need to let the brothers rush forward, so as to avenge the second master first? ”
"Okay, let's go!" Yang Tong nodded subconsciously, and when the hero had gathered a good man and rushed towards the opposite side, he really reacted, and wanted to stop it, but in the end he didn't make any moves, there was always a long-standing inertia in his heart, in this place of Nanjing, no one could be his father's opponent, and naturally it couldn't be his opponent, don't look at Song Qing's majesty now, when he really started, maybe it would be over in a blink of an eye.
After all, the other party escaped from Nanjing in embarrassment under their pursuit before, maybe there was another reason for the things in Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou, or it was successfully attacked by Song Qing, so they all fell in a short period of time? With this emotion, he let those Jianghu people attack, but after all, he was still a little uneasy, and after those people all rushed over, he brought a few relatives to Sun Guerrilla's side, and at this time there were no officers and soldiers to make him feel more secure.
Sun Guerrilla did not find his abnormality, because in the eyes of this guerrilla lord, it is impossible for the Yang brothers to fail, he also has his own inertial thinking, and also feels that in Nanjing, one acre and three points of land, except for those top figures, no one can fight against Yang Guanshi, not to mention that the other party is still a Jiangbei barbarian from Xuzhou, as long as the more than 1,000 Jianghu characters rush over, the other party is estimated to be tired of coping, if it doesn't work, isn't there more than 1,000 officers and soldiers on his side.
With this emotion, Sun Guerrilla urged the war horse and took the initiative to bring more than 1,000 of his subordinates to watch the battle, and then saw a scene that shocked him.
There are more than 500 Xuzhou people guarding the ferry. Except for dozens of bald heads on horseback, the rest were infantry, infantry with spears, these spearmen were arranged in a neat phalanx, just standing in place stupidly, without the slightest intention of charging at all, so that Sun Guerrilla thought that they were scared stupid, if those bandits rushed over, the spears would not be able to fight at all, and there would be almost no other choice but to flee when the time came. Is it possible to start fighting with bare hands?
It is said that these people from Xuzhou are also officers and soldiers, will this soldier fight?
Sun Guerrilla himself is not very good at fighting, and he can be regarded as self-aware, but compared with the Xuzhou soldiers in front of him, he feels that he should also be regarded as a person who can fight, at least he must be regarded as a knowing soldier, and I don't know how these people came from Xuzhou all the way here, and the bandits in Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou are all wooden people? If I had known that Lu Dao was like this, I should have infiltrated there in the first place. Send some people to grab the land, maybe you can earn several times more silver now.
But the situation soon turned out to be as he had predicted, and instead of fleeing as he had expected, the spear-armed infantry did not flee as he had expected, but remained rock-solid. Until the first group of bandits rushed over, a high-pitched trumpet was shouted in the formation, and the people in the first row poked their spears forward at the same time, and all the bandits who could not catch the momentum were nailed to it. For a while, the screams came and went, and the smell of blood also spread to the sky, and even he could feel it from this distance.
According to Song Qing's own description. This picture is too beautiful for him to dare to look at, Sun Guerrilla is also a little afraid to look at it now, because the development of things is completely unexpected, he thinks that the scene that should appear did not appear at all, but screwed over, those soldiers and horses from Xuzhou seem to have no idea what it means to retreat, just rows of poke spears, and the local bandits are like moths to the fire, and more than 100 people have been killed and injured in the blink of an eye, and the rest are stupidly looking at the scene in front of them.
"All of them, five steps forward!" Luo Xiaobei in the formation gave the order again, hundreds of pikemen advanced five steps, just found a distance that could be assassinated again, and poked the spear out again, this time the effect was more obvious, those bandits were still scattered and ran over in formation before, but now they are all together, almost everyone has a result in an assassination, except for a very few who rolled outside when they saw a bad opportunity, almost all the other bandits standing in the first two rows were killed, and the corpses were all over the place.
"Gun out, team!" Luo Xiaobei's voice sounded again, and the team began to regroup, some bandits with good courage were about to take advantage of the momentum to rush and kill, but they saw that dozens of bald cavalry pounced, and the shot was a rain of arrows, and suddenly dozens of people fell to the ground with arrows, and the rest no longer dared to step forward, but they didn't know what they should do, so they could only stay in place for the time being, stupidly looking at the pikemen who were forming a team on the opposite side, until the other party finished the whole team, and walked towards them again in the sound of slogans.
Another strong collision, of course, this collision is one-sided, the bandits outside Nanjing City have no power to resist at all, either they are not poked to death by spears, or they are shot to death by dozens of bald cavalry with bows and arrows, after tossing three times, the bandits finally reacted, Zhilu Dao in front of this team is they can not resist at all, I don't know who was the first to turn around and flee, the remaining hundreds of people also dropped their weapons and ran wildly, Rao is Yang Tong shouted through his throat and could not do anything, he could only watch his people run away.
"I said Brother Yang, why don't we withdraw first?" Having seen an almost crushing battle, Sun Guerrilla no longer dared to put the word Zhibing on himself, the young general who commanded Ruo Ding in the spear formation was much stronger than him, and the combat effectiveness on the opposite side also made him dumbfounded, after roughly judging it, he felt that his officers and soldiers under him would not be much stronger than those bandits, at most it would be a few more rounds, and the result was exactly the same, a fiasco!
Therefore, he decided to withdraw his troops, after all, it has nothing to do with him how many bandits died, but if there were too many casualties among the officers and soldiers under his command, he would not be able to explain to the above, especially these officers and soldiers are old households in the city, if they die in a daze, then the family will be upside down, but at that time he can't explain why he will clash with the officers and soldiers of Xuzhou, this kind of unflattering inside and out, and it is even very likely to put his own life into it, he doesn't want to do it.
But Yang Tong couldn't let him go like this, grabbed Sun Guji's wrist and said: "Sun Guerrilla, you can't just leave, you took the benefit of my father-in-law, and now when it's time to see the real chapter, you can't pat your ass and leave directly, right?" ”
"I'll go back to the silver, and I'll return it to Steward Yang in person, but I really can't manage this matter in front of me!" Sun Guerrilla didn't have the slightest intention to talk about it in this regard, and said in a very blunt tone: "Sun is a court official, this kind of thing should not be involved, but it is the Yang steward of your family who has offended such a killing god, I am afraid that there will be no good life in the future, your brother Yang and I are also quite familiar, when my brother advises you, don't just look at the present, but also take a long-term view!" ”
After speaking, Sun Guerrilla didn't care whether Yang Tong could understand or not, he directly shook off his hand, said hello to Luo Xiaobei in the distance, and then turned the horse's head and left with his soldiers and horses, Yang Tong stood stupidly in place, letting the dust and smoke brought up by thousands of people and horses leave to surround him, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
After the dust settled, Yang Tong, who was already completely frightened, suddenly jumped off his horse, ran in front of the gun array of the dog camp in a few steps, knelt on the ground with a puff, and shouted at Luo Xiaobei: "This lord, don't fight again, I am willing to negotiate, I ask to see General Song!" ”
"Now Zhilu Dao is powerful?" Luo Xiaobei looked at the kneeling guy in front of him with disdain, and snorted coldly: "You were the one who chased and killed us at the beginning, it seems that you are more in charge than that Yang Xing, I thought you were a great character, but now why is it soft?" ”
Just as he was about to say more, a herald came from behind and whispered a few words in his ear, Luo Xiaobei turned his head, looked at Yang Tong contemptuously, and said: "You kid is lucky, my family is in a good mood today, I can see you, but whether you can go back alive depends on your own performance!" (To be continued......)