Yuanzhou Mansion City Mansion, Tian Younian looked at Mo Qian's reply in his hand, and suddenly almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

"How can this really be reasonable, this thief is not deceiving my official mansion and no one cares?"

Cheng Zhidun took the letter and looked at it, and found that Mo Qian actually ridiculed Tian Younian in the letter, and said that it was not the first time that the government ransomed officials with money.

As early as April of the first year of Chongzhen, Anyuan County, Ganzhou Prefecture, encountered Liukou Su Yapo, bag plan and other thieves, and the thieves led thousands of people to break through Anyuan County, plundered the county, and kidnapped Shen Yaofeng, the county.

In the end, the squires and wealthy people in Anyuan County raised funds together, and it took three thousand taels of silver to redeem the county order. (This story is recorded in Jiangxi Tongzhi.) ）

Mo Qian said in the letter that it was not the first time that the government had ransomed people with money, and since there was a lesson from the past, this time he would exchange some silver money and grain for a six-grade general judgment and a seven-grade magistrate, which was much more cost-effective than the business of a county order in Anyuan County.

It is the content of this letter that Tian Younian s high blood pressure has come up, fortunately Cheng Zhidun is next to him, otherwise Tian Younian is afraid that he will have to go to the west to see the Buddha at the moment he saw the letter just now.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Tian Younian said to Cheng Zhidun: "Give me an order immediately, let Shi Guozhu and Cao Guoqi come with troops tomorrow, and this official will kill this thief with his own hands!" ”

Cheng Zhidun knew that Tian Younian was angry now, so he could only persuade: "Fuzun, it takes time for the two adults to gather Xiangyong, and they came in such a hurry, I'm afraid that there are not enough people and not enough troops, and this thief is not easy to exterminate!" ”

Of course, Tian Younian knew this, but he was angry in his heart that Mo Qian wrote a letter to ridicule him, so he lost his temper.

Since Cheng Zhidun had already given him a reason to step down, he also got off the donkey and said: "Hmph, it's cheap that anti-thief, let him run rampant for another two or three days, and look back at how I clean him up!" ”

Tian Younian was organizing troops to recruit Mo Qian, and Mo Qian was not idle at this time.

Mo Qian not only divided the fields of Wentang Town and its surrounding four villages, but also divided the fields of the seven villages further away.

Mo Qian's method was very simple, take a large team of people to kill the landlord in the village directly, and give the landlord two ways to go.

First, he killed his entire family, and then confiscated the property of the landlord's family.

Second, hand over the family's fertile land and leave only 10 acres of land to cultivate by yourself, so as to protect the family's property and life.

When the landlord saw this posture, did he dare to choose the first one?

In just one day, Mo Qian completed the integration of the seven villages, and gathered all the strong men of the seven villages.

At this time, there were already more than 1,200 strong men under his command, and these people were all strong laborers in the village, and their average age was only twenty-five or sixteen.

Mo Qian led the surrounding villagers to help the villagers of the seven villages complete the harvest.

After harvesting the rice in the field and distributing it to the people, Mo Qian immediately organized the people to move all the things at home to Mingyue Mountain.

According to his information, Tian Younian has already sent people to Wanzai Fenyi County to call for reinforcements, and it is believed that Tian Younian will attack with the official army in a few days.

Wentang Town has no danger to defend, and if you want to survive, the only way is to move all the people into Mingyue Mountain.

Mo Qian moved all the villagers of Wentang Town and eleven villages into the mountains, except for the 1,200 strong men, the rest of the people all went up the mountain and were not allowed to stay outside.

The people also knew that King Mo had captured the city and killed the officials of the imperial court, and the imperial court would definitely send troops to attack soon.

In order to save their lives, the people could only endure the pain and carry the daily necessities of their homes to follow the large army up the mountain.

Fortunately, the area of Mingyue Mountain is large enough, and there is also mountain spring water, otherwise it would be a problem for so many people's lives.

Mo Qian sent two teams, each with a hundred people, led by Yi Jiu and Yi Chenggui respectively, to guard the two roads up the mountain.

One road up the mountain is northwest at the foot of the mountain, and the other road up the mountain is in Hongjiang Township on the east side of the mountain.

If you want to go up Mingyue Mountain, there are only these two roads feasible at present, and there is no way to go up the mountain in other places, unless you use climbing, but when you climb to the top of the mountain, your physical strength will not be able to support them to fight.

The two paths up the mountain are not only narrow, but also extremely steep, and two people side by side cannot do it.

It is only necessary to build fortifications at a few passes up the mountain, and then send 100 people to intercept them along the road, and even if there are 10,000 officers and soldiers, they will have to attack for at least half a month.

Mo Qian was full of confidence in the defensive position he had laid out.

The reason why he is so confident, the most important thing is that Mingyue Mountain is too steep, in a hilly area like Jiangnan, a mountain with an altitude of more than 1,700 meters, and mountains with an average altitude of more than 1,000 meters, in this era of cold weapon warfare, it is too difficult to attack the mountain.

If the officers and soldiers wanted to set fire to the mountain, Mo Qian had already considered this.

As long as the officials and soldiers dared to set fire, he would immediately organize the people to move from Mingyue Mountain to Wugong Mountain, and no matter how fast the fire burned, it would not be able to catch up with them.

And he had people cut a firebreak out of the mountain in advance, which could effectively block the attack of the mountain fire.

The remaining 1,000 people were personally led by Mo Qian and Lu Zhao, as the main force, preparing to carry out sports operations and find the viable force of fighters to annihilate the official army.

A team of more than 1,200 people, weapons and armor are far from sufficient.

Mo Qian only had 300 swords and more than 300 spears captured from the officers and soldiers of the guard, only 100 shields, and only 500 sets of armor.

This is still Mo Qian who looted the arsenal of Yuanzhou Mansion and brought it out.

There are a few musket bird guns, but there is not even gunpowder in the treasury, and the ash on the musket bird guns is a few centimeters thick, and it is a question of whether it can be used or not.

As for bows and arrows, not to mention, Yuanzhou Mansion has not fought for at least two hundred years, and the guard system has long been rotten, there is not a single bow and arrow in the treasury, and the only two found are still found in Liu Shizhong's house.

If you don't have enough weapons, you can cut the bamboo on the mountain to make a wolf whisk, but if you don't have enough armor, you really can't do it at all.

There was no way, Mo Qian could only equip the most sophisticated weapons and armor to the five hundred people with the strongest combat effectiveness.

These 500 people are all men who have worked in the countryside all year round, and they are full of strength, and if they are handed over to Lu Zhao for training for two days, they will look good.

However, in the end, Mo Qian has no bottom in his heart, so he can only hope that these people will be able to explode when they turn back to fight.

.......

Three days later, Tian Younian's long-awaited reinforcements finally arrived.

Cao Guoqi of Fenyizhi County came the fastest, and on the morning of the seventh day, he led 1,000 officers and soldiers and village warriors to support Fuzun's battle.

When he saw that Cao Guoqi only brought a thousand people, Tian Younian's face instantly pulled down.

He asked with a straight face: "Cao Zhixian, didn't this official say in the letter that he wanted you to lead 2,000 troops, but why did you only lead 1,000 people?" ”

Cao Guoqi replied with a bitter face: "Back to Fuzun, we are small in Fenyi County, there are few people, and this thousand people are still made up by me after asking the squires of the entire Fenyi."

Last year, the whole county was flooded, and nine out of ten families ran out of food, and there was no food.

The money and food for this dispatch of troops are still distributed to all the squires, and the county government has no food at all! ”

Hearing this, Tian Younian's face softened a little.

He said: "This official knows that it is difficult for you to divide Yi County, but this time is different from the past, the Mo thief coerced the people of one town and eleven villages to rebel, and there were as many as three or four thousand servants, and they also captured the city, and even the Zheng County Order was tragically poisoned by them. ”

Cao Guoqi listened and hurriedly answered: "Don't worry about Fuzun, I also heard some about the Mo thief on the way here, although he coerced the people of a town and eleven villages to rebel, but his Ding Zhuang men definitely did not exceed two thousand, and most of them were a group of mud legs in the field, and as soon as the Shixian commander arrived, our troops far exceeded the Mo thief."

When the time comes, I will divide the warrior Qian Dayou to lead the troops to attack his formation, and he will be able to annihilate the thieves in one fell swoop and save the three colleagues. ”

As he spoke, Cao Guoqi pushed a strong man of 1.8 meters behind him forward.

The man came to Tian Younian, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "The lowly position is the county lieutenant Qian Dayou, see the mansion!" ”

Tian Younian couldn't help but rejoice in his heart when he saw that Qian Da Youlong was tall and long, and he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, he nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Where is Lieutenant Qian?" ”

"Go back to the mansion and respect, and humble the Nanzhili Dan disciples!"

"Dantu, what a good place, this battle is all thanks to County Lieutenant Qian!"

"The government has won the award, this is a matter of humble duty!"

Tian Younian nodded with satisfaction.

Two hours later, the people of Wanzai County also arrived.

Shi Guozhu, the magistrate of the county, led the county government to arrest Kuai and 800 people from the township to report to Fucheng.

Tian Younian saw that Shi Guozhu only brought 800 people, and he was dissatisfied in his heart, but thinking that Cao Guoqi only brought 1,000 people, he didn't blame Shi Guozhu for the 800 people.

could only complain a few words to blame his subordinates, but Shi Guozhu was not angry, but comforted his superiors.

So far, Pingxiang, Fenyi, Wanzai three counties have sent a total of more than 2,400 troops.

Tian Younian originally wanted to recruit a thousand villagers around Yuanzhou Mansion by himself, but when he saw that the treasury was empty, Tian Younian's heart was cold.

Now even if he has money and food, he will not recruit the villagers, because the weapons have been swept away.

What is the difference between going to war with a group of bare-handed peasants and sending them to death?

That night, Tian Younian held a dinner in Yichun County, inviting three county commanders and several township representatives brought by them, plus the top ten squires of Yuanzhou Fucheng, to form eight tables of banquets for dinner.

The main reason why it is placed in the county government and not in the government office is that at night, the ghost cries and wolves howls in the wind at the door of the government office.

Tian Younian only lived in the government office for one night before he was so frightened that he moved out and moved directly to the county government office a hundred meters away.

At the banquet, Tian Younian picked up the wine bowl and said to everyone: "Colleagues, squires, warriors, tomorrow morning, we will send troops to suppress thieves. ”

"Cheers!"