The prince got up and went down with a smile, when the two were talking, Geng Ruji outside was still scolding, and then the scolding came faintly, at this time a young man beside Cui Guiyuan, who was not wearing an official robe, saw that the prince was gone, and stepped forward and said: "Uncle Shi, I have stored grain and grass for more than three months now, can I take the initiative to attack." This person is Zhang Wenhong, who is now living in Cui Guiyuan's home.

Cui Guiyuan glanced at Zhang Wenhong, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "Nephew, if you have time, you have to contact the prince more, and ask his old man for advice, this is the way of the official, you are still too tender, and in the future, you will be in the court, I am afraid that you will have to support each other with the prince." With that, he threw the teacup on the table and walked back.

Geng Ruji was still scolding in front of him.

The night was dark, a group of petty officials dispersed from the door of the governor's yamen, Zhang Wenhong also went out from the side, and saw Geng Ruji covered in ashes, extremely embarrassed, and also came out of the yamen, he scolded for a day, today is to offend Cui Guiyuan ruthlessly, and there is no hope at all if he wants to fight.

At this time, the militia was besieging Tai'an Mansion, Hu Quan personally led the troops, surrounded Tai'an like an iron bucket, he and a few attachés rushed out, originally to borrow troops from Cui Guiyuan, but it has been more than ten days, Cui Guiyuan did not see him, when he left, there was almost no food in Tai'an City, thinking of more than 100,000 people in the city, once the city was broken, it was unimaginable.

Geng Ruji saw Zhang Wenhong in front of him, knew that Zhang Wenhong was a person with great energy, and ran to Zhang Wenhong under great joy, grabbed Zhang Wenhong's hands, and wanted to kneel down for Zhang Wenhong, he didn't eat for a day, he didn't have any strength, and he had a lot of dust on his body, but when he thought of the hope of Fucheng, he had more strength in vain, Geng Ruji suddenly said loudly: "Zhang Zhifu, Zhang Gongzi, please, please, save 100,000 people in Tai'an City, and then don't send troops to rescue, Tai'an City will have people eat people." He is also telling the truth, since Shandong raised troops again, Cui Guiyuan transferred tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Licheng, not to send a soldier to Tai'an, and now Tai'an is the prefect to mobilize the people to defend the city.

Zhang Wenhong's heart throbbed, but when he thought of his situation, his heart hardened, he helped Geng Ruji up, and said, "Master Geng, I can't help you, you better find someone else." After speaking, he turned around and hurried away, only Geng Ruji stood alone in the empty street, and the light stretched his shadow long.

Geng Ruji was no longer able to cry at this time, and said in his heart: "How is this good, the prefect has told me a thousand times, and the people in the city are looking forward to it, and Cui Guiyuan has not sent a single rescuer, but he taught me how to save Tai'an, and now, I only have to bring dozens of family members to impact the military formation of the White Lotus Sect, even if I die in front of the battle, I will not live up to the trust of the people in the city." Thinking of this, my heart calmed down, I sorted out my official uniform, and said in my heart: "I am determined to benefit one party, and now I am incompetent and incompetent, only by dying in front of the battle, I can live up to the emperor's land and the great kindness of my parents." He walked quickly to the official post, where he still had a dozen family members, and he planned to take his family to die in the army of displaced people.

When he arrived at the post house, the post man knew that he had sinned against the governor, and he didn't come to greet him, and he didn't care anymore, and when he entered the hall, he saw several generals drinking together, and from time to time he made a shouting sound, thinking that it was a reinforcement who had just arrived in Licheng, and he had already had a will to die at this time, if it was before, he would definitely come forward to make friends, but he didn't need it at this time, thinking of this, he quickly stepped into his room,

After gathering dozens of family members, Geng Ruji sat in the hall and looked at more than a dozen servants in front of him, these people were all born to the family, and their ancestors were all servants of the Geng family, not hired, and they had always been loyal to themselves, but this was a mortal situation, I don't know if there were those people who were willing to follow, and made up my mind in my heart, and explained to them that if they were unwilling to follow, they would send the silver they had with them and let him disperse.

At that moment, he slowly spoke: "Tai'an is urgent, this official is entrusted by the people of the whole city, to ask for help, I don't want to do it unsuccessfully, I am ashamed of the prefect, I am ashamed of my father, this official has already decided to break into the camp of the militia, to die Mingzhi, this time there is no life, if you are not willing to follow, go now." As soon as he finished speaking, the old servants on the ground had already pounced on him, hugged Geng Ruji and said loudly: "Young master, young master, this is not the end of the matter,...... The servants below also buzzed and made many sounds.

Geng Ruji said loudly: "The whole city of 100,000 people trust, that day in order to let our group out of the city, sacrificed hundreds of soldiers, the people of the city are looking forward to the official can bring back reinforcements, now the soldiers can't be invited, how can the official escape alone, if you don't want to go, you can leave now." ”

Everyone below stopped, looked at each other, knowing that the master of their family was not joking, they had all done things under Geng Ruji for a long time, knowing Geng Ruji's personality, and knowing that their own master could do it.

At the next time, the little servant in Tsing Yi was his own scholar, named Geng Qing, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said: "Little master, there is still an old lady and sister in the small family to support, and the little one can't die, so he has to go." ”

Geng Ruji knew that what he said was the truth, so he said: "I know your family background, so you can go." I don't want Geng Qing to say: "Please also ask the master to return the small purchase documents to the small one, or the innocent body of the small one." More than a dozen servants with the same thoughts knelt down and said in unison: "Please return our master, a young innocent man." Geng Ruji said: "You don't have to worry, these things are all in the city, presumably once the city is broken, these things will go with the soldiers, if you don't want to follow, just go now." ”

Several of the servants did not believe it, looked at each other for a while, and finally doubted it, got up and went to the door.

Geng Qing also knelt down and kowtowed: "Although the master is good to the small, but the little one wants to be free, so I will say goodbye to the master." With that, he turned and went to the door.

Geng Ruji's more than ten domestic servants all left the post in twos and threes, and disappeared after a short time.

There is only one old Zhang Tou, who grew up with himself since he was a child, like a father and son, Lao Zhang Tou took out Geng Ruji's flag, which was the flag of the Tai'an Ti Torture Envoy, the official position of Zheng Liupin, and the same level as the prefect, and he can be regarded as a high-ranking official, Geng Ruji plans to die in front of the militia formation, so he must die above board, so the flag, the official uniform, these things must not be sloppy.

Geng Ruji looked at the empty hall and said, "Lao Zhang, take care of my official uniform, and we will leave the city early tomorrow morning, this is the time for me to be loyal to the country." With tears on his face, Lao Zhangtou carefully put away Geng Ruji's official uniform, and he will wear it to death tomorrow morning.

A rough howl suddenly sounded in front of the hall, and one person shouted: "You evil slaves, you actually gave up your master at this time, it is nothing, Lao Zhao looks down on this kind of betrayal." Lao Zhang poked his head out, and saw that the main general who was drinking below just now was twisting Geng Qing, who was trying to get away, and was slapping his face, scolding himself: "What's it, it's just a ...... to be beaten."

Geng Ruji originally planned to spend one night in the hall, and when he was going to die, he was in no mood to sleep, but when he heard the sound outside, he also got up, poked his head out, and saw the general raise his palm to hit Geng Qing.

Geng Ruji said: "This general, please stop." The general stopped, turned his head, and showed a face with Chinese characters, with extremely thick eyebrows, and at a glance he knew that he was a member of Yanliao.

The general opened his mouth and said, "This general Zhang led the teaching, and I have seen this adult." This military general is stout, with a mountain armor on his body, and it can be seen that he is a military attache of the third grade, Geng Ruji just replied: "This general, let him go, he is no longer the servant of this official." At this time, he had the will to die, so he had no intention of dealing with others anymore, but unexpectedly, Zhang led to teach: "This adult is Lord Geng of Tai'an, the young general has already heard the reputation of the adult, the adult loves the people like a son, and has done a lot of things for the country and the people in office, and the young general is like thunder." Geng Ruji's official reputation is still good, and he also has a clear name, but these things are in the officialdom, not only did not bring him a trace of benefits, but made his colleagues speak coldly, and he just wanted to send the general away quickly, so he said: "General Zhang, please let this servant go, I am a person who is going to die, and I don't need anyone to accompany me." Zhang Shujiao said loudly: "This is where the words are, I heard the words of Master Geng just now, these servants are so greedy for life and afraid of death, they actually let you go to death alone, where the truth comes from." Geng Ruji knew that his words just now had been heard by the military attaché, so he said: "That's right, Geng was sent to death alone, why bother with a human life." Zhang Shu taught: "Master Geng don't worry, the young general will go with you to save Tai'an Mansion, and he will definitely not let Tai'an Mansion fall into the hands of the exiles." ”

Hearing this, Geng Ruji was overjoyed, like a long drought and a rainstorm, his body trembled, and he hurriedly said: "General Zhang's words are true, if you save the 100,000 people in Tai'an, Geng should give up his life to repay him." When he said this, he was about to kneel, and he was excited when he thought that Tai'an was saved.

Zhang Shu taught: "Don't worry about Lord Geng, Geng's two thousand sons are all good at battle, and they are definitely not afraid of the homeless soldiers." As he spoke, he patted his chest hard, looking full of certainty, and a few of his relatives stopped talking, and pulled Zhang Shujiao, but Geng Ruji didn't see it, he was excited, and he wanted to kneel.

Zhang Shujiao grabbed Geng Ruji and said loudly: "Lord Geng, you just have to sleep well, tomorrow morning, you will go out of the city with me and go to save Tai'an Mansion with the two thousand generals." Geng Ruji thought that there were soldiers to save the city, and he just wanted to laugh a few times with joy in his heart, and several soldiers and Lao Zhangtou pushed him into the living room together, with a look of ecstasy on his face.

Geng Ruji was like in a dream, suddenly laughed a few times in the room, and shouted to the sky: "There is help, Tai'an is saved......" suddenly made a lot of noise.

As soon as the door was closed, a pro-soldier behind Zhang Shujiao said: "Master, how can this be made, where is this the governor's strict order to go?" Several pro-soldiers persuaded Zhang Shujiao together, asking Zhang Shujiao not to pay attention to Geng Ruji, these days Cui Guiyuan strictly ordered not to attack, repeating every day.

Zhang Shuo taught: "And live, we are soldiers to eat food, in order to kill the enemy to serve the country, to ensure the safety of one side, our Liao soldiers have been in Licheng for more than ten days, but the governor has no intention of attacking, let the militia do evil outside, every time I see the displaced people, the background is far from the hometown, we go all the way south, I don't know how many homeless people starved to death on the side of the road, if I don't fight a dozen of those evil militiamen, I can't calm down in my heart." ”

Several guards stopped together, they went all the way south from Liaozhen, only to see countless homeless people starving to death on the side of the road, corpses and bones paving the road, this Qi is often ten miles without people, I thought that once I arrived in Licheng, I could attack, defeated the militia, I didn't want to get to Licheng, but Cui Guiyuan strictly ordered the Liao soldiers of the Yan soldiers who arrived in Licheng not to attack, and watched the Liumin everywhere destroy the spring busy farming.

A soldier named Zhang Chenglu said: "General, Lord Cui will not let us attack, if we violate his military discipline, then Lord Cui asks, but what do we say?" Zhang Shuo taught: "Lord Cui is a civil official, he is afraid of losing the battle, as long as we win this battle, presumably Lord Cui has nothing to say, and then he will not care." He said to a few soldiers around him: "Zhang Chengen, Zhang Chengzhi, you tell you to go down, get ready tonight, and we will set off early tomorrow morning to relieve the siege of Tai'an." Several officers under him were ordered, and Zhang Chenglu said, "My lord." He wanted to say something, but when he saw Zhang Shujiao's face, he stopped, he knew his general's temper very well, and he couldn't change the general's decision if he continued to talk about it, so he closed his mouth and said secretly in his heart: "God bless, don't make any trouble, I just hope that Master Cui is really as the general said, but he is afraid of defeat and does not dare to fight, not for any other reason." ”

At that moment, several generals went out and arranged overnight, intending to attack Tai'an.

The next morning, the sergeant guarding the city gate suddenly saw a Liao soldier barracks outside the city move, countless figures lined up in the morning fog, horses were led out, and a number of two thousand soldiers stamped neatly in the fog, and a general flag was raised.

Among the figures of all the generals, there is only one that is more special, that is a civil official, wearing a green robe, he is also riding a horse, standing behind the leading general, and they are facing countless rushing sergeants.

The sergeants cooked food, led the horses, and formed a team, and then under the astonished gaze of the standard battalion soldiers who defended the city behind, this group rode away and drove south.

A standard battalion soldier wiped his eyes and said, "Isn't that the rear camp of the newly arrived Liao soldier Zhang Shujiao, their first battalion has been specially taken care of by the governor, so you should take care of it, and go and report to the governor quickly." "At that moment, there are standard battalion soldiers to report to Cui Guiyuan.

When Cui Guiyuan stood on the city tower, he could only see the smoke and dust of the people in the distance, and the two lines of more than two cavalry did not get his order, so they drove out at that time, and when they looked at the direction, they knew that they were driving to Tai'an.

A guest next to him stepped forward and said: "My lord, this Zhang led the sect to ask for battle several times a few days ago, and after the lord rejected him, he was very displeased, saying that as long as he worked hard in one day, he could relieve the siege of Tai'an, and he was very dissatisfied with the big point." ”

Another guest also said: "My lord, according to the soldier's report, yesterday's Zhang led the sect and Geng Ruji had a very happy conversation, but I am afraid that he got on with Geng Ruji, and after listening to Geng Ruji's words, he led the troops privately but saved Tai'an." ”

At this time, a sergeant from below rushed upstairs and shouted, "Lord Governor, Master Zhang Shujiao has left you a letter and wants to send it to you in a small one." ”

The following people had already opened the letter, Lang Sheng read it, and the curtain guest read: "The world is safe, all of you are your generation, An can call the world with his body, how to serve the country and the people, only the military to the death, the death of the text, today the text is more valuable than the moral article, Wu is drowning in money, food and goods, seeing the country in danger and thinking that it is the step to advance, seeing the people displaced, and joking that it is the way to accumulate wealth, I am not talented, two thousand sons, are loyal to the country, the son of a good family, see the people displaced, such as seeing the parents suffering, see the demons making trouble, such as seeing the enemy as a disaster, An can avoid the war to protect himself, so he privately leads the army, in order to fight the enemy soldiers, if he wins, it is the public strategy, if he loses for the martial arts, he will bow again......"