Ling Jingyang didn't see which Iron Fist Legion soldiers released arrows, only saw Iron Fist Legion soldiers and rebels fighting together.

He couldn't imagine that these inexplicable arrows were shot by the Fusang puppet army, and after Mei Shaozuo turned around in the east of the city in the evening, he didn't see any trace of the Fusang people, so he was ready to go back.

When passing by a corner, he suddenly saw something, a little familiar, so he stepped forward to take a look, it turned out to be a wooden block, he picked it up and looked at it, he felt that the wooden block was so familiar, raised it and looked at it, and immediately realized that this was not the clogs worn by the Fuso people?

There is only half of the clogs left, and it should be abandoned here if it cannot be used anymore, and the Ming people will also wear clogs, but it is very different from the clogs of the Fusang people, and the Ming people of Shanxi wear clogs even less.

He hurriedly put the clogs in his arms and ran to the city gate, wanting to tell Ling Jingyang that there might be Fusang people in the east of the city.

When he arrived to the north of the city, the Fuso people had succeeded in provoking trouble, and the arrows they secretly fired provoked a bloody battle between the rebels and the Iron Fist Legion.

The rebels were not large in number and did not have strong combat effectiveness, and they were soon killed by the Iron Fist Legion and retreated, and in the end, more than 100 people were left under the city gate by the Iron Fist Legion.

The Iron Fist soldiers were furious, they had accepted the surrender of the rebels, but they were still attacked by the rebels, killing and wounding hundreds of soldiers, and they were killed in the battle, and most of the remaining rebel soldiers were shield soldiers, and they held their shields and decided to die with the Iron Fist Legion.

Ling Jingyang still didn't want to kill all the rebels, and once again stepped on the city wall, ready to shout to persuade him to surrender, he just showed his head, Mei Shaozuo had already arrived, and pulled him down from the city.

The next moment Ling Jingyang was dragged down, he saw dozens of arrows shooting in the direction where he was standing, if it wasn't for Mei Shaozo pulling him, he would have been shot by the arrows.

More than 100 Fuso fighters rushed out of various houses in the east of the city and launched a surprise attack on the Iron Fist Legion, which was besieging the rebels.

The Iron Fist Legion's defense line on the east side of the city gate collapsed instantly, and the besieging rebels saw the hope of survival, and also rushed to the east defense line of the city, and the Fusang army flanked Shi Tie and hundreds of Iron Fist Legion soldiers.

Seeing this, Li Rufeng led the Overseer into the battlefield, but ordered the Iron Fist soldiers on the west side to continue to garrison the position, which is the last line of defense, even if the east defense line is broken, this line of defense is still there, and there is a chance to turn defeat into victory.

With him on the battlefield, the rebels were suddenly defeated like a mountain, and they were killed again and again begging for mercy, Li Rufeng was so angry that he continued to kill, and the rebels who were attacking the eastern defense line lost their stamina and were gradually killed and dispersed, and Li Rufeng basically stabilized the battle situation.

Shi Tie was beaten by the Fusang people and couldn't raise his head, the Fusang people had the advantage of raiding, and after the battle, they were assisted by the rebels, and instantly beat Shi Tie, Shi Tie fought on two fronts, with heavy casualties, if it wasn't for Li Rufeng's timely killing, Shi Tie had been raided by the Fusang armed forces, and died in glory.

The battle in the city was in full swing, and Ling Jingyang finally woke up from his coma, after he was dragged down by Mei Shaozuo on the city wall, his head hit the stone slab when he fell to the ground, and he fainted.

This frightened Mei Shaozuo, and the other pro-soldiers pulled out their waist knives and put them on Mei Shaozuo's neck, Mei Shaozuo and the pro-soldiers waved their hands vigorously, and kept shaking Ling Jingyang.

Finally woke Ling Jingyang from his coma, Ling Jingyang woke up and wanted to beat Mei Shaozuo, Mei Shaozuo covered his head and said to him: "Dudu, don't beat me, just now there were Fusang people who wanted to murder Dudu." ”

Ling Jingyang followed Mei Shaozuo's gaze and saw that the place where he stood up just now was covered with a bow and arrow, and if Mei Shaozuo didn't pull him, he would most likely be shot by stray arrows.

Only then did he realize that he was wrong to blame Mei Shaozuo, and said to him with a slight apology: "Mei Shaozuo, you did a good job, go back and give you a promotion." ”

Mei Shaozuo still feels that Wen Mandarin Duck and Bai Lushui are busy in the kitchen, and Ling Jingyang said: "Governor, you will promote me when you turn around, and you will give me a daughter-in-law in the Central Plains, okay?" ”

"Yes, I will reward you with a daughter-in-law."

"Xie Dudu, Dudu, this is the clogs I found in the east of the city, there should be Fusang people in the east of the city?"

He handed the clogs to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang was not in the mood to care about the clogs and the Fusang people at this time, he wanted to calm the war in the city as soon as possible, and Mei Shaozuo said: "You protect yourself, I will destroy this group of rebels in the city." ”

After speaking, he led his own soldiers into the battlefield, the Fuso militants were not strong in combat, and after the Iron Fist Legion and the Overseer stabilized, they launched an attack on the Fuso people, who were a rabble in the regular army, and in less than a while, they were killed and torn apart.

Ling Jingyang asked his own soldiers to Li Rufeng, Shi Tie conveyed the military order, be sure to destroy all the non-Iron Fist Legion armed forces in the city, Li Rufeng and Shi Tie received the military order, and led the troops to chase fiercely, Mei Shaozuo felt that this was an opportunity to perform, and also joined the pursuit team.

Seeing that the Fusang armed personnel were successful in stirring up trouble tonight, they immediately abandoned the puppet army, changed into a new line, and retreated from a tunnel in the city to the outside of the city.

The suppression of the remnants of Fusang in the city was carried out vigorously, Zhang Shun in the west of the city was still standing still, Mei Shaozuo was bent on killing Fusang Xizuo, and did not tell Ling Jingyang that there were unknown armed forces in the west of the city.

General Zhang Shunbu said to him again: "Captain, if we don't attack again, when the Ming army regroupes, we won't have a chance?" ”

This general, who kept instigating Zhang Shun to attack the Ming army, kept buzzing in Zhang Shun's ears, Zhang Shun was furious when he heard it, and suddenly pulled out his waist knife, looking back, it was a knife, and the head of the general fell to the ground.

When other subordinates saw Zhang Shun's might, they didn't dare to speak or sympathize with this killed companion, Zhang Shun scolded: "Dog cub, there is a Ming army outside the city, and there is a Ming army in the city. ”

Under Zhang Shun's deterrence, hundreds of soldiers of the Dashun army continued to remain hidden, and after the Fusang armed forces in the city were basically wiped out, Zhang Shun did not launch a surprise attack.

Ling Jingyang didn't know that there was still an armed force in the city, his eyes were red, and he was running on the streets east of the city, and the remnants of Fusang were constantly dragged out, and finally more than 20 puppet soldiers who were not killed were gathered in a small courtyard.

Mei Shaozuo took more than a dozen personal soldiers and beat the puppet army one by one inside, hoping to obtain useful information, but where is the information of this group of puppet soldiers, it is nothing more than the appearance of their leader, the tone of speech and eating habits, etc., which are all useless information.

Ling Jingyang was sad about tonight's war, he could have subdued hundreds of rebels, but in the end, not only did he not subdue the rebels, but he was also provoked by the Fusang people, all the rebels were killed, and the Iron Fist Army also lost more than 200 soldiers.

Ling Jingyang looked at the corpses all over the ground, as well as the houses burned by the war, and he wanted to kill all the Fusang people in Fenxi County in one go.

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The puppet army continued to be beaten in the courtyard, but there was still no useful information, Ling Jingyang summoned Shi Tie and asked him how much grain and grass there was in the city?

"Lord Hui, there are more than 5,000 stones."

"What about the people?"

"In today's battle, most of the people in the city left, and there are still more than 4,000 people in the city."

There are nearly 5,000 people in the entire Fenxi county, each person has a pound of grain and grass per day, and 5,000 stone grain and grass can be eaten for several months.

He asked Shi Tie to go to the city to recruit soldiers, as long as he came to join the army, he had enough to eat every day, and said to Li Rufeng: "Rufeng, I want to keep you in the city, but there is a more important task for you, and I need you to leave Pingyang Mansion temporarily." ”

Li Rufeng was born a cavalryman, and he didn't want to nest in the city at all, so he said to Ling Jingyang: "My lord, where do you let me go?" ”

"Go to Henan Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion and bring back the left and right wings of our army."

Li Rufeng just wanted to set off, but Ling Jingyang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, why didn't he lead the troops to Henan?

In Henan and Lao Mantou, Wang Tiedao and the two departments met, he suddenly asked Li Rufeng not to go, and told Li Rufeng about this strategy, Li Rufeng thought about it, but said: "Let's go to Henan, what about the Central Army?" ”

Shi Tie used to be the general of the Central Army, and he also said on the side: "Yes, let's go to Henan, the Central Army is still in Yicheng, it is impossible to abandon them, right?" ”

Ling Jingyang closed his eyes, after the Central Army was rebuilt, the whole army was stationed in Yicheng, nominally the Central Army, but in fact there were ten empty shelves, only hundreds of veterans, and the whole army was only more than two thousand people.

In the face of the rebels with the reserve corps as the main force, the Central Corps could not hold Yicheng, and Ling Jingyang did not trust the Central Corps, because Niu Guangtian, the commander of the Central Corps, was Jiang Jiu's general before.

But this time the reserve legion rebelled, and Ling Jingyang believed that Jiang Hao and others were also behind the scenes, otherwise it would be almost impossible for the reserve legion to achieve its goal.

Ling Jingyang and Shi Tie said: "Shi Tie, the Central Army has long been wiped out, and the current Central Army is formed by the previous right-wing troops, we don't know if they have set off a rebellion with the Reserve Army?" ”

Because of the large number of rebels and the unclear forces behind them, Ling Jingyang gave up retreating to Yicheng at the beginning, but asked Wang Mu to rush back to bring Zhu Youzhen and others to Fenxi County, but at this time, Fenxi County was also attacked by the rebels, and it still made sense to continue to defend in Fenxi County?

The three of them didn't speak, the atmosphere was terrifyingly cold, and in the end, Li Rufeng stood up and asked Ling Jingyang to fight, he was willing to take troops to Henan.

Shi Tie still didn't agree with Li Rufeng risking his death to go to Henan, and he didn't want to lose a good comrade-in-arms.

"Li Dudu, the last general thinks that Henan is the place of the four wars, and there is no fortress to defend, and if you go to Henan, you are afraid that you will be besieged by all forces, rather than that, it is better to defend it in Fenxi County."

Ling Jingyang racked his brains, but there was no better slope strategy, and he sighed that his personal strength would eventually be small.

Li Rufeng's brain suddenly flickered, thinking of the officials he took to the barracks, and said to Ling Jingyang: "My lord, aren't there still a group of people in the barracks?" ”

This is a wake-up call to Ling Jingyang, these Ming officials are very good in terms of character and social governance methods, and they are members of the Ming bureaucracy, maybe ask them for advice, and they will have different gains.

He asked Shi Tie to continue to recruit troops, and ordered Li Rufeng to continue to wander outside the city, paying close attention to whether the rebels showed signs of continuing to attack?

He took his own soldiers to the barracks to visit the officials.

Ling Jingyang stepped into the barracks again, and saw dozens of officials shivering in a corner of the barracks, it seemed that the evening battle had frightened them, and a few low-level military attachés did not know where to pick up wooden sticks, holding them in their hands, if the rebels attacked the barracks, they decided to fight.

Seeing Ling Jingyang walking towards them, many of them had a sense of relief, Ling Jingyang took them to the Yamen of Fenxi County, beckoned everyone to sit here, and asked the man to boil a big pot of fresh broth, and gave everyone a big bowl of steaming broth.

In this cold day, many officials were moved by a bowl of broth to cry bitterly, in the barracks these days they are not as good as pigs, not as good as dogs, this bowl of steaming broth, aroused their infinite yearning for a better life.

Ling Jingyang also drank a bowl of broth, the steaming broth dispelled the cold in his body, and also narrowed the distance between him and the officials, he saw that he was all drunk, stood up and said to everyone: "Everyone, do you know that there is a fierce battle in the city today? ”

Everyone nodded hurriedly, indicating that there was a fierce battle in the city today, and they were all ready to live and die with the city, these words were all kind words, and Ling Jingyang did not break them, but said to them: "You are also the pillars of the imperial court, and you are attacking Fenxi County today, guess which army it is?" ”

This group of officials was immediately divided into two groups, one group thought it was the Dashun army, and the other group thought it was the Qing army, and they couldn't imagine that it was the Ming army that attacked Fenxi County.

Looking at the argument with a red face and red ears, Ling Jingyang didn't speak, he heard interesting things from these mouths, and many people were obviously more afraid of the Qing army than the Dashun army.

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It is also because after the Qing army entered the customs, it showed strong military strength, which made more people think that the Qing army's power was more terrifying than that of the Dashun army.

Ling Jingyang coughed dryly, everyone stopped arguing, and they all looked at Ling Jingyang, and Ling Jingyang said tepidly: "Today's attack on the Fenxi County army is the soldiers and horses of my court stationed in Fenzhou. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar, and the Fenzhou soldiers attacked Pingyang Mansion, isn't this a rebellion?

There are a few officials who are more shrewd, and they smell different political changes from listening to Jingyang's words, and they remain silent.

Ling Jingyang said again: "I, Ling Jingyang, am the governor of the five armies of the imperial court, but some people think I am a national thief? Let me ask you, am I Ling Jingyang a national thief? ”

A magistrate stood up and spoke for Ling Jingyang with righteous indignation.

"No, it's the adults who turn the tide, when my Daming Mansion is about to collapse, it is the adults who help it up, how can it be a national thief?"

Ling Jingyang smiled at him and said to him, "Are you?" ”

"My lord, I'm Chen Han, the magistrate of Hongdong County."

Ling Jingyang thanked him and gave him a rich reward.

"From now on, you will be the governor of Pingyang Prefecture, and concurrently serve as the governor of Hongdong County, and the governor of Bendu will give you the right to recruit soldiers."

Chen Han is a scholar and a hot-blooded man, he can't believe that he just said a few words, Ling Jingyang promoted him to Tongzhi, from the seventh grade to the fifth grade, and gave him the right to form an army, which is a proper reuse.

He prostrated himself on the ground, and listened

Yang swore that he would definitely form an army to protect the territory and the people, and not let the rebels step into Hongdong County.

In order to show his support, Ling Jingyang specially transferred fifty elite soldiers from the Iron Fist Legion to him as Chen Han's team to form an army.

Shi Tie also raised more than 500 young people from the city, and Ling Jingyang gave Chen Han more than 200 people from the young people, and Chen Han's heart blossomed.

Ling Jingyang looked at the other officials again, and the others suddenly understood that it didn't matter who the imperial court was, what mattered was military power, especially in this troubled era, with military power, everything was possible.

These officials were all monkey spirits, and they quickly surrendered to Yu Ling Jingyang, at least on the surface, but there was an official who hated the young man and did not show great respect.

Ling Jingyang was silent, he sent these officials back, and told them that those scoundrels who stirred up trouble in the county town were also rioting in the city today, and most of them were suppressed, so you can go back with confidence.

Hearing that these scoundrels were suppressed, the officials in the three places showed a knowing smile on their faces, they were not afraid of these scoundrels, but they had no soldiers and horses in their hands, only some armed forces such as government servants, and now these scoundrels have been eliminated, and they can recruit soldiers when they go back, and they will be proper little overlords in the future.

The officials all said goodbye to Ling Jingyang, but Ling Jingyang left the young man, who was the head of Hongdong County, and looked even younger than Ling Jingyang.

He was surprised why Ling Jingyang let him stay, could it be that he showed too much hostility towards Ling Jingyang just now?

In order not to show more hostility to Ling Jingyang, he and Ling Jingyang introduced themselves: "Governor Lingdu, Zhou Yuan, the chief of Hongdong County." ”

Ling Jingyang looked at this person who was younger than himself and said, "Zhou Yuan, do you also think that I am a national thief?" ”

Zhou Yuan paused, he really thought that Ling Jingyang was a national thief, and the rebels tonight should be loyal to the imperial court, but the army of Fenxi County was the real rebel in the eyes of the imperial court.

"My lord, the lower officials think that the upper officials are loyal and patriotic, and they are the models of my generation."

"Zhou Yuan, are you saying that the governor of Pontus is not loyal to the monarch and patriotic?"

Zhou Yuan is actually very contradictory, on the one hand, he does think that Ling Jingyang single-handedly supports the Chongzhen court, but on the other hand, he feels that Ling Jingyang is the Han thief Cao Cao.

He mustered up the courage to say what was in his heart even if his head was cut off by Ling Jingyang tonight.

"The governor rebuilt the Ming Dynasty, why don't you let the imperial court rebuild the six departments?"

When Ling Jingyang heard his words, he suddenly thought that he was very naïve in terms of power, but in fact, after re-erecting the Ming military flag, he should form the titular six divisions.

No wonder Jiang Hao generously gave Zhu Youzhen to him, he thought that Jiang Hao was Yuan Shao at the time, and he had no political acumen, but now it seems that he is naïve.

He said to Zhou Yuan: "Don't say the six departments, just say that the living environment of the imperial court is bad, don't you know?" ”

The Chongzhen court was surrounded by the Dashun army, the Qing army, and the Hongguang court, Zhou Yuan also realized this, which was also the contradiction of Zhou Yuan, he and Ling Jingyang shook their heads and said: "I don't have a governor in the Ming Dynasty, maybe I can defeat Jiannu and Dashun, but if there is a governor, even if I defeat Jiannu and Dashun army, I will not be surnamed Zhu from this day on." ”

"Zhou Yuan, you are also a scholar, have you ever heard of a sentence?"

"My lord, I know what you're going to say."

"Oh, which one?"

Zhou Yuan was very conceited and said: "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning? ”

Zhou Yuan represents the thoughts of people in this period, and Ling Jingyang feels that most of the scholars in this era are empty of patriotism, but they have no practical ability.

Just like Zhou Yuan said it was righteous and awe-inspiring, but in fact it had no effect.

He didn't say how to defeat the Qing army, didn't say how to defeat the Dashun army, and didn't say that the orthodoxy between the Hongguang court and the Chongzhen court was short-sighted, they didn't think about it, or they didn't think about it, and they blasted him away, the Chongzhen court is almost an undefended court, and any force can easily destroy the court.

"Zhou Yuan, do you know what empty talk is?"

"We will repay the king with death."

Ling Jingyang couldn't get angry anymore, flew up and kicked Zhou Yuan out, and scolded: "Come on, give him a pair of armor, and let him and the Iron Fist Legion go to the city wall." ”

A personal soldier brought Zhou Yuan a pair of general armor, Zhou Yuan put on the armor in full view, and gave him a spear, Ling Jingyang asked his personal soldiers to take him to the city wall to garrison.

I wanted to find a good strategist among the officials, but now it seems that most of them are waste, but after they go back, maybe a few people will choose to follow him in the future.

Ling Jingyang was a little nostalgic for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Yicheng, where there was at least a group of nimble subordinates, hoping that Wang Mu could bring them all, so he decided to continue to wait for Wang Mu's arrival in the city.

Wang Mu was on the way back to Yicheng at this time, but the rebels were faster than him, and a cavalry rushed from Taiyuan Mansion to Yicheng, and this army did not go to Pingyang Mansion from Qinzhou, but rushed to Yicheng from Fenzhou, where Zhang Luofu was stationed.

This army was very fast, and the leader was Jiang Xuan, the younger brother of Jiang Xuan, who led a thousand elite cavalry to rush to Yicheng quickly, and cut the generals along the way, and a small number of Pingyang defenders tried to block the advance of the Taiyuan soldiers on the road, but they were easily annihilated.

Wait for Wang Mu to rush to the Yicheng, here is already a strict battle, the city is densely covered with flags, Wang Mu looked at it from a distance, there are Ming military flags on the city wall, as well as Jiang Ziqi, Niu Ziqi, Zhang Ziqi and other several military flags.

It seems that the city has changed the Great King Banner, Wang Mu hated that he didn't come in time, and Ling Jingyang's power in the city was basically uprooted.

At this time, in one of the most splendid buildings in the city, Zhu Youzhen sat in the center of the hall, below which were Jiang Xuan, Niu Guangtian and other civil and military officials, and below them were a group of heavily armed soldiers.

A day earlier, Jiang Xuan's troops raided Yicheng, and the Central Army stationed outside the city tried to resist, Jiang Xuan came to the outside of the barracks and surrendered Niu Guangtian in front of the position.

Niu Guangtian saw that Jiang Xuan's troops were all elite cavalry, and his troops had no possibility of victory, and Jiang Xuan said that they came to Yicheng Qinwang to receive an edict from His Majesty to eliminate the national thief Ling Jingyang.

Not only that, the reserve legion Zhang Luo's auxiliary department was also about to come to Yicheng, Niu Guangtian couldn't bear to betray Ling Jingyang, but in the face of Jiang Xuan's cavalry and tens of thousands of reserve legion soldiers, he still surrendered and took the troops to become Jiang Xuan's general again.

The Central Army was on the verge of defection, and the number of city defense troops in the city was not large, only more than 600 people, at this time, the army was in turmoil, and most of them were scattered, and the people in the city were also frightened and scattered in all directions.

Wangbao wanted to organize the city defense army to defend the city, but most of the defenders ran outside the city, and it was no longer possible to organize the city defense army to defend the city.