Chapter 358

The two were dazzled and fought, and after dozens of rounds, it was still difficult to distinguish between them.

Xu Shangyi was anxious in his heart, thinking that he would die today, so he simply raised the heart of losing and fighting for his life, and saw Liu Liu's left short knife coming horizontally, he didn't dodge or dodge, and swept the big knife to Liu Liu's waist, letting Liu Liu's left-handed knife slash on his arm, and wanted to fight to get a knife to chop Liu Liu.

Liu Liu scolded loudly, and the moment the knife in his left hand slashed Xu Shangyi's arm, with the help of his hand, his body jumped up a few feet, only to feel a chill under his feet, and shouted in his heart: It's over!

When he fell to the ground, the soles of his feet stabbed, he stepped on the ground full of rubble and stones, grinned his teeth, and hurriedly stepped back to take a look, only to see that the soles of his two boots were cut off by Xu Shangyi's big knife, and the uppers of the two boots were intact, but his feet were slick on the ground. In addition to being pleasantly surprised, I couldn't help but smack my tongue, if I jumped half an inch shorter just now, the soles of my feet would be gone.

Looking at Xu Shangyi again, he was slashed by Liu Liuyi on his right arm, and he deliberately used his arm to block the knife to fight for his life, this knife was cut into the bone, and half of his arm was almost cut off, and at this moment blood gushed out, obviously it was useless; The big knife in his hand was originally a blade used with both hands, and his right arm was useless.

Liu Liu laughed and said, "Master Guan, do you still want to fight?" ”

Xu Shangyi looked up to the sky and sighed, and shouted: "Your Majesty, the ministers are loyal." With that, he raised the big knife in his left hand, stretched out his neck and wiped it on the blade, and suddenly a cavity of hot blood spurted out, and his body stiffened for a few breaths before falling into the dust.

There was an uproar of exclamation among the officers and soldiers, and there was a commotion, and Yang Hu shouted loudly: "The dog officer is dead, do you still have to fight hard?" Don't put down your blade and surrender yet! ”

Several hundred flag officials shouted: "Anti-thief, don't think about it, brothers kill." ”

The eyes of all the officers and soldiers were red, and they roared and raised their blades, Yang Hu scolded angrily: "If you kill yourself, there is no way; Brothers, cut them all down. ”

A moment later, the war ended, and none of the more than 500 officers and soldiers brought into the city by Xu Shangyi survived and all of them died.

Under the bright moonlight, above the gatehouse of the North City Gate, a human head was picked up in the air by a long pole, and with the wind lamp of the pole head, the officers and soldiers outside the city recognized at a glance that it was the head of Xu Shangyi of a thousand households, and suddenly panicked; Chen Bao knew that he could not stay here, the thieves did not know how many soldiers and horses they carried, so they did not dare to go out of the city to attack, and the top priority at this moment was to quickly report the news from Baoding.

Chen Bao immediately ordered, and the whole army turned around and retreated, not daring to stay for a moment.

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In the courtyard of the Xinzhenzhai Post House, the commander of Bazhou Wei made Chen Wei listen to Chen Bao's narration, and his heart tightened, the thieves seemed to have become a climate, not only would they use tricks to lure, but the power of the thieves was not only hundreds of people as they had known before.

Xu Shangyi is brave and invincible, and he governs the army well, and his soldiers and horses are not a plate of scattered sand, because of this, Xu Shangyi was entrusted with a heavy task, stationed alone in the new town in the south of Bazhou, and the five hundred soldiers and horses he personally led were completely annihilated, which shows that the number of thieves must have exceeded several times, and the number of thieves in Wen'an County is conservatively estimated to be two or three thousand people, which is tricky.

Chen Wei quickly paced in the courtyard, thinking about countermeasures, Chen Bao said in a low voice: "Commander, what we need is to report to the imperial court quickly, the thieves have become a problem, and we must mobilize the officers and soldiers of Hejian Mansion and the surrounding guards to surround it." ”

Chen Wei stopped and shouted: "No, I can't report it." ”

Chen Bao was stunned and said, "Why is that?" ”

Chen Wei frowned and said: "This official said that if he can't report it, he can't report it, this official will immediately send someone back to Bazhou and mobilize all the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses of Bazhou Wei, can't we have more than 5,000 people and horses to deal with the thieves?" ”

Chen Baodao: "But...... My lord! ”

Chen Wei waved his hand and said, "Stop, I have made up my mind, and I won't say much." ”

Chen Bao had to keep his mouth shut, but he muttered in his heart, the Bazhou guards and horses poured out of the nest may not be able to suppress the thieves in Wen'an, first, the number of thieves is probably thousands, and the number does not account for much of a disadvantage; Second, the thieves are not a rabble, and all indications show that there are also capable people who can calculate among these thieves. Now it can only be annihilated in all directions, and in time, the strength of the thieves will inevitably be even stronger, and it will not be something that a Bazhou Wei can deal with.

But muttering and muttering, since Shangguan gave the order, Chen Bao didn't dare to say much, so he had to give up his promise, Chen Wei saw that Chen Bao's face was sad, and his body was also very wolf, so he softened his tone and comforted: "General Chen has worked hard, this battle is not your fault, it is caused by Xu Shangyi's underestimation of the enemy, you and take your brothers back to the camp to rest, and the position of the thousand households in Xinzhen will be temporarily replaced by you, go." ”

Chen Baoshu had no intention of joy, and left with someone in despair.

Chen Wei didn't feel sleepy at all, he immediately ordered his guards to return to Bazhou overnight, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the three thousand households left in Bazhou to set off immediately to join Xinzhen; Seeing several guards riding out of the moonlight, Chen Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Wei had Chen Wei's plan, Wen'an rebelled, as the commander of Bazhou Wei, the first time he sent a hundred soldiers to quell it, and was all annihilated, and the second time he mobilized more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in the new town to suppress it, and the main general led the soldiers and horses to lose more than 500 people, and lost more than 600 soldiers and horses in seven or eight days before and after. The only chance to turn over is to come out of the nest and quell the rebellion of the thieves in one fell swoop, so as to turn the situation around, which is why Chen Wei is not allowed to report.

Chen Wei returned to the room, and after reprimanding the two accompanying women, he sat down in front of the desk, pondered for a while, sharpened the ink and pen himself, and wrote a submission sent to the military department: "...... Although the thieves are numerous, but our Bazhou Wei army has arrived, and now the situation has been controlled, although the thieves are stubbornly resisting, but it is difficult to defeat our officers and soldiers bravely, and the rebellion will be quelled within a few days, and the triumphant song will be played......"

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On the night of August 19, there was a knock on the door of the Song Mansion, and the servants who kept vigil knew that the person outside the door was Beizhen Fusi Zhen Hou Da Biao, and hurriedly opened the door to let Hou Da Biao enter the door, and immediately called someone to report it to the inner hall.

After a while, Song Nan came to the flower hall with sleepy eyes, and Hou Dabiao hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Lord Song, something is wrong, and you really expected it." ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "Sit down and talk, come here, and make tea for Hou Zhen." ”

After Hou Dabiao sat down, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it over: "My lord, this is a secret letter sent by Meng Jiao from the Qianhu of Baoding Jinyi Wei, please take a look." ”

Song Nan took it, took out the letterhead and unfolded it under the candlelight, looked at it quickly, his face suddenly became solemn, and said slowly: "Sure enough, it is really a big trouble, and Wen'an's affairs are becoming more and more difficult to clean up." ”

Hou Dabiao nodded and said: "My lord has raised concerns before, and now it has been confirmed, according to the news obtained by Meng Jiao, the thieves in Wen'an County have reached as many as three or four thousand, and the Bazhou Wei is afraid that it will be difficult to deal with it, but as far as the humble officials know, the military department has not received the news about this battle, and the news that Xu Shangyi died in the battle of the thousand households in Xinzhen has not been reported, what is the reason?" ”

Song Nan frowned and thought, "What kind of reputation is Chen Wei of Bazhou Wei doing?" Did he really think that with the power of his Bazhou Guard, he could annihilate the Wen'an thieves who were already snowballing? It's just too naïve; After this battle, the momentum of the thieves is even greater, and some people who were originally watching will inevitably join the gang to rebel, and the next time the thieves will have more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, maybe 6,000, maybe 8,000, maybe tens of thousands are unknown. ”

Hou Dabiao rubbed his hands and said, "My lord, what should we do?" We can't sit idly by. ”

Song Nan said: "Naturally, we can't sit idly by, but this matter is not within our jurisdiction, we really have no right to interfere, maybe Chen Wei didn't report it for another reason, and maybe the Ministry of War has other arrangements." In short, tomorrow I will first explore the bottom of Liu Daxia, if he doesn't even know about this matter, it is that Chen Wei wants to win back this game by himself and secretly conceals the battle report, and then I will tell Liu Daxia the truth, how to decide, that is Liu Daxia's business. ”

Hou Dabiao nodded and said: "My lord is very worried, and I ordered Meng Jiao to make every effort to find out the news, report it in time, and report it to my lord as soon as there is news." ”

Song Nan nodded, Hou Dabiao got up to say goodbye, but Song Nan suddenly said, "Wait." ”

Hou Dabiao said: "What do you command? ”

Song Nan paced slowly, Hou Dabiao didn't dare to disturb, looking at Song Nan's figure without saying a word, Song Nan finally stopped and said, "You prepare tomorrow morning, I'm afraid we will have to go there in person." ”

Hou Dabiao was stunned and said, "Your Excellency wants to go in person?" ”

Song Nan said: "Yes, I have an ominous premonition, this time the matter is more tricky, I am afraid that the surrounding county governments will be affected, and we must prevent thieves from attacking the surrounding county governments, although the responsibility of my Jinyi Guard Yamen is not to quell the rebellion and suppress bandits, but in the Zhou Mansion in the three directions of Wen'an, the number of officers and soldiers in the guard is not even as large as the number of my Jinyi Wei Ti cavalry, we have to bear this responsibility." ”

Hou Dabiao said: "But, what reason did you leave Beijing? What did the emperor say when he asked? After all, it's not time for us to intervene in this matter. ”

Song Nan said: "I will meet the emperor tomorrow morning, I can't sit back and watch the shape collapse, I can't stay out of the matter." ”

Hou Dabiao nodded and said, "Okay, let's prepare immediately." ”