However, now, this Qiu Yizhi, who is clearly his opponent, whether it is good or bad, has one thing to say to himself, two to say, and wants to hand over the power of the county to himself - although it is by no means a trust in himself, he also responds to the quotation of "gentleman frank".

This made Xu Rong, who had been up and down in the officialdom of the capital for many years, be touched.

He tried his best to suppress his excitement, and asked calmly: "My lord, I have something to say, and I have something to say, don't you worry about entrusting the county to me?" ”

Qiu Yizhi laughed loudly: "What's so worrying about this? Sanyin County Order, were you Jing Zhaoyin at that time? Even if you have two hearts, what waves can you set off? Flag-picking rebellion? I have now brought all the soldiers and horses in the county with me, and if you have the slightest misdeeds, I will use this excuse to destroy you. ”

This is another honest sentence, which made Xu Rong feel uneasy and relieved.

But I heard Qiu Yizhi say again: "But Mr. Xu himself has to think about it carefully." With the power of His Royal Highness, if he wants to deal with his subordinates, he has to use tricks secretly, and he doesn't dare to communicate openly. It can be seen that it is not a fish meat that can be slaughtered by others. Before Mr. Xu makes a rash move, he should think about it carefully. ”

Before Xu Rong was sent by Zheng Xin to spy on Qiu Yizhi, he had also spoken to this highness. From a few words, Xu Rong also vaguely felt that Zheng Xin was a little jealous of this Qiu Yizhi. At that time, he couldn't figure it out, with the power of His Royal Highness, to deal with a small county order, why should he be so thoughtful, didn't he find a reason to deal with it casually?

After listening to Qiu Yizhi's words today, I finally realized it.

He Xu Rong is not a stupid person, he has already guessed the power of it - these two people, either of them are people who lift their feet higher than their heads, and they can't afford to offend any of them.

However, he thought about it: Although His Royal Highness is powerful at present, it can't reach the level of covering the sky with one hand, and the other two Royal Highnesses are not fuel-efficient lamps, the key is that the emperor's sacred heart is undecided, and who the prince is has not yet been determined? Maybe this Qiu Yizhi has some great handle in his hand, so he has nothing to fear!

Thinking of this, Xu Rong had already made up his mind, and Chao Qiuyi said to the end: "Since adults are honest with students, students will naturally not be disdainful about adults. I don't dare to say anything else, at least in this Sanyin County handed over to me by the adults in the past few days, the students must try their best to govern it. If, when you come back, you see that a people is restless and that there is no crop, you can take me and send me away. ”

Although Xu Rong said it magnificently, he had another calculation in his heart: His Royal Highness naturally had to explain; However, climbing the line of Qiuyi may not have any harm, the so-called two-sided investment and two-way profits are also.

Qiu Yizhi is indispensable to this, because he has just said that a small Shanyin County really doesn't matter to him - what he wants in Qiu Yi is just a name, as long as the center of the court still recognizes him as a county order, he now has soldiers and generals in his hands, and it really doesn't matter who actually controls the small Shanyin County.

However, Xu Rongneng made such a statement, Qiu Yizhi was still very happy, smiled and encouraged, and then beckoned Wei Chi Jiming to enter the house together, and after carefully taking care of the fine and soft supplies he carried, he went out of the county government to chase the team.

But before he could get out of the city gate, he was stopped by Wen Lingjiao.

I saw Wen Lingjiao riding on her extremely beautiful white horse, and said to Qiu Yizhi: "The son is on the expedition, and the little woman also wants to serve before and after the saddle, I don't know if the son ......can agree."

Wen Lingjiao's words, of course, Qiu Yizhi couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly agreed: "Good, good, good." This is an honor, but the soldiers are in danger, and please be able to obey my orders, otherwise it will inevitably be a little dangerous. ”

Qiu Yizhi said this, but he thought in his heart: At the beginning, he and Wen Lingjiao went deep into the enemy's stronghold single-handedly, and although they were in danger, they were able to retreat with their whole body; Now that he has two hundred elite soldiers who are absolutely loyal to him, and the opponent is an upright and upright two armies facing the enemy, what is the difficulty of protecting only one Wen Lingjiao?

Wen Lingjiao nodded obediently: "It's all up to the son." ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, his heart was about to melt, and he hurriedly settled down and said, "Okay, I'm afraid the team will go far, let's set off quickly." As he spoke, he shook the reins in his hand and let the sweaty BMW under his crotch slowly walk forward.

Wen Lingjiao also followed the horses, followed Qiu Yi's horse, and walked outside the city gate. He'er didn't say a word, carried Wen Lingjiao's usual things, and rode a healthy donkey to follow behind a few people.

Qiu Yi's training was quite methodical, and the journey was very fast, and the team walked for six days before arriving at the periphery of Jinling City.

Jinling is the most prosperous place in the world, not to mention the city, even outside the city has also built countless teahouses and wine shops, and the merchants from all over the world have not had time to enter the city, often rest outside the city. Over time, the outside of Jinling City is more lively than the ordinary city.

But now, the merchants have disappeared, and only the high-rise buildings are left standing on the ground, showing a strange depression and emptiness. Even the countryside outside the city has become unusually desolate – now that the autumn harvest is approaching, there are few farmers in the fields to take care of the fields, and the rice crops are growing sparsely, and it is feared that a poor harvest this autumn is a foregone conclusion.

Qiu Yi knew in her heart that such a situation was caused by the attack of the Japanese invaders, and if the Japanese chaos was allowed to run rampant, I am afraid that Jiangnan Province, the richest area in the world, would become a scorched earth.

Thinking of this, Qiu Yizhi hurriedly urged the people and horses to rush to Jinling City.

Approaching the city wall, Jinling City became a little more vibrant, and the number of people on the road gradually increased. However, these people were not merchants who came and went to the city to do business, but all soldiers who were ordered to gather in Jinling to resist the Japanese invaders—seeing their uniforms, some of them wore the clothes of the unified local Jiedu army, and many of them were dressed in different clothes, and it was obvious that they were also from nearby prefectures and counties.

Qiu Yizhi's current identity is just a small leader who commands a small group of soldiers with only two hundred soldiers, and he has no right to command the overall situation, whether he is marching or stationing supplies, he must obey the command of Shangfeng, that is, the current Jiangnan Provincial Thorn History and Jiedu Envoy.

So Qiu Yizhi chose an open space, so that his soldiers rested on the spot, and must abide by military discipline and not wander around, so he sent Zhao Chengxiao to inquire about the situation nearby, and it is best to ask who should command the reinforcements.

Who knew that Zhao Chengxiao would not return, and he came back after a while, but said: "No one here has unified the point, and everyone has been ordered by the general Cui Nan of the left, and they dare not withdraw the army easily, so they have to stay under this Jinling city." ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he immediately became angry - now that the enemy is present, although the number of Japanese people is small, but the combat effectiveness is extraordinary, when they are working together to resist the enemy, how can the army be scattered under the city like a plate of scattered sand? What's more, if there is no unified command of the army, there will inevitably be no unified restraint, and lax military discipline will inevitably harass the people, which will have the opposite effect.

So Qiu Yizhi discussed with Lin Shuhan, and wrote an invitation by hand, and copied more than a dozen copies, asking Zhao Chengxiao to find the generals of various armies and come over to discuss military affairs together.

Zhao Chengxiao was very good, and after receiving the order, he invited eight or nine generals - most of them were thousands of generals and hundreds of households, and only one or two brought the helmets of Zhonglang generals - to Qiu Yizhi to discuss matters.

When Qiu Yi first arrived, he wanted to hear the situation first, so he asked the generals to report the situation.

It turned out that this group of people also received Cui Nan's order, and because of the close distance, they had arrived at Jinling City three or two days earlier. However, Liu Qing, the assassin of Jiangnan Province and the envoy of Jiedu, forbade the army to enter the city to rest on the grounds that the military discipline of the troops in various places was poor and he was afraid of harassing the people.

Qiu Yizhi saw that the group of miscellaneous troops gathered under Jinling City was really chaotic, a pile here, a pile there, not so much an official army, but a bandit and a chaotic people.

So Qiu Yizhi smiled and said: "I see that for convenience, many of you forcibly occupied people's houses when you were stationed, and the people were unbearable, and most of them had already fled. Qian Thorn Shi Shoumu is responsible, and he is afraid that the officials and soldiers will attack and disturb the people, and he can't be blamed for this. I don't think it's as good as this, everyone has withdrawn from the houses, and there is now open space under the city, which is enough for us to set up a camp, so that Lord Qian can see our military discipline, and let us go in with confidence. ”

Qiu Yizhi was in Shanyin County at the beginning, and only twenty people resisted the siege of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and then not only was he fine, but he also provoked the head of Shi Yin Chengliang, an old thorn who covered the sky with one hand, and landed with a black gauze hat. His "feat" was extremely prestigious among the Jiangnan military generals, and his words were also justified, so that all the officers could not help but agree with sincerity.

But I heard a lieutenant general's uniformed officer arch his hand: "It's a trivial matter whether you can enter the city or not, and the key is to supply." The last general did not bring much grain, grass, water and rice, and if it was not replenished, I am afraid that it would be difficult to restrain the military discipline, and the officers and men under his command would have to 'borrow' from the people for a while......"

The so-called "temporary loan" is just an elegant term for "plunder".

Qiu Yizhi listened to his words, and his brows tightened - in his heart, "supply is a trivial matter, but the key is to enter the city", although it is a suburb outside Jinling City, countless houses have been built against the wall, and the absence of a large area of open space is not conducive to the official army to give full play to the advantages of being outnumbered; On the contrary, the narrow and long streets everywhere just gave the Japanese who were strong in individual combat ability the opportunity to stand and make a move......

In addition, the matter of supplies could not be ignored - Qiu Yizhi originally thought that Jinling was a prosperous place, so he only brought 5,000 taels of silver, thinking that all supplies could be purchased on the spot, so the grain and grass carried by the army were not very much; If he blocked himself outside Jinling City again, then the silver taels he carried would have nowhere to be used, and his soldiers would fall into a desperate situation of cutting off food and grass.

So Qiu Yizhi discussed with Lin Shuhan again, and then said to the officer corps gathered here: "We are ordered to come to exterminate the Japanese invaders, not to suffer here. Master Qian was born in Hanlin and has read the scriptures and history a lot, so he must not be an unreasonable person, but he doesn't know the difficulties of military affairs for a while. Why don't I go into the city and show my heart to him, Lord Qian naturally has other arrangements. ”

As soon as his words fell, he heard a thousand general take a half step forward, and said tremblingly: "Don't hide it from your lordship, I am afraid it will be inconvenient to meet Shangfeng in person, and I don't dare to argue with Lord Thorn Shi and General Jiedu face-to-face, please ......."

Qiu Yizhi saw that he looked like a wreck, but he was helpless: "That's good, there are a few generals staying here, and it's good to restrain the army." He pointed at Zhao Chengxiao and said, "This General Zhao can fight habitually, and he is quite familiar with military strategy, and I ask you to listen to his moderation for the time being." ”