The winter night was extremely cold, even though Mo Qian was wearing several layers of clothes, his hands and feet were still cold and shivering.

Lu next to him was distressed when he saw Mo Qian being cold like this, and he persuaded Mo Qian: "Lord, light the fire, if you don't bake the fire, you will freeze!" ”

Unexpectedly, Mo Qian resolutely objected.

He said: "The ignition will be discovered by Tian Younian's army, once Tian Younian detects a mistake, then won't our ambush be wasted?" Besides, the soldiers are not afraid of the cold, so why should I be afraid of the cold? ”

Hearing what Mo Qian said, Lu Zhao and Cao Guoqi beside him were moved.

When leading troops to fight, I am not afraid that the main general will not know martial arts, but I am afraid that the main general will be special in the army, because this will cause injustice in the hearts of the soldiers.

However, since Mo Qian's incident, everything he can do by himself will inevitably be done by himself.

So far, he doesn't even have a maid by his side, and he still washes his clothes.

Several times, Lu Zhao wanted to give Mo Qian a few maids to serve him, but Mo Qian refused.

He said that they had just revolted, the conditions were still very difficult, the soldiers were doing their own laundry, and he, the leader, had no reason to enjoy the blessings first.

Cao Guoqi, who was sitting next to Mo Qian, was also shivering coldly at the moment.

He didn't have to come out with the army in person, but he saw that his lord had to go out of the city in person, and as the county commander of Fenyi, how could he lie down in the bed and sleep in the county office.

With a glimmer of moonlight, Cao Guoqi could see the hot air spewing out of Mo Qian's mouth.

"With this master, why worry about the great cause!"

......

On December 17, the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, just after the time of the child, the Sendai Gate, the east gate of Yuanzhou Mansion, was slowly opened from the city.

Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou, rode a tall horse contributed by the squire of Yuanzhou, holding a long knife in his hand, and pointed his sword at the east and said: "Pull out!" ”

Qian Dayou, the lieutenant of Fenyi County, protected the prefect Tian Younian and fled back to Fucheng after the defeat of Mingyue Mountain.

In view of Qian Dayou's life-saving grace, Tian Younian praised Qian Dayou a lot, and handed over all the troops in the city to this person for training.

Coupled with the help of the two big families of squire Yuan Yesi and Pan Shiwen, Tian Younian soon 'raised' 3,000 villagers in the city.

Although the village warriors who had been practicing for more than a month did not dare to go out of the city to fight against the thieves, it was more than enough to defend the city.

Mo Qian originally planned to wait for himself to stabilize these places in the countryside before sending troops to capture Fucheng, but when he saw that Tian Younian was able to raise an army of 3,000 in a short period of time, Mo Qian simply gave up the idea of attacking the city.

Although the city wall of Yuanzhou Mansion is not high, it is still very difficult for the newly formed rebel army to rashly attack the city without absolute force to crush it.

This time, Tian Younian received Xie Xuelong's order, and he actually wanted to take the initiative to attack with the imperial army to attack Fenyi County.

It's a pity that this method of warfare was discovered by Mo Qian's meticulous work that he had buried in the city in advance.

Fenyi County is located in the east of Yichun County, west of Xinyu County, 60 miles away from Yichun City, the capital city, and only 40 miles away from Xinyu County in the east.

Tian Younian calculated the time, set off when he was a child, and when he arrived in Fenyi County, it happened to be the dawn of the day, and at that time, the thieves in Fenyi County would be frightened when they saw that their army had arrived.

Binjiang Town, also known as Binjiang Pu, is 30 miles away from the county seat of Yichun, the capital city, and the people in the town make a living by farming and burning bricks.

Since the beginning of the Taizu year, Binjiang Town and Fenyi County are the big brick-burning households of Yuanzhou Mansion, and the white porcelain city bricks on the city wall of Nanjing are produced from this.

Tian Younian led the army out of the city from the east gate, the army carried torches and walked in the night, at the end of the Yin period, the army marched to the old crow mountain, which was only two miles away from Binjiang Town.

At this time, Tian Younian didn't notice anything wrong at all, but just urged the team to hurry up, and hurry up.

For in another hour it will be dawn, and when the army will walk on the plains, without shelter, it will be easy for the thieves to find them.

At this time, in the Lao Ya Mountain on both sides of the road, Mo Qian led the main army of 4,000 people and had been squatting in the mountain for a full hour.

Finally, there was a fire on the official road.

I saw the firelight advancing on the official road like a long dragon.

As soon as the firelight appeared, Lu Zhao woke up Mo Qian, who was almost asleep.

"Lord, Tian Younian has been here!"

Mo Qian, who was half-asleep and half-awake, immediately woke up when he heard that Tian Younian had come.

He rubbed his face with his hands to sober himself up quickly.

Looking at the pipeline, I found that there was a long fire dragon slowly advancing on the official road.

Tian Younian is finally here!

Mo Qian watched the fire dragon slowly advance, until it came to a stop on the riverbank, Mo Qian drew his sword out of its sheath and shouted, "Kill!" ”

In an instant, countless torches lit up in the Old Crow Mountain on both sides of the pipe, and the shouting of killing was deafening for a while.

Tian Younian had just walked to the river and was about to cross the river, when he suddenly found that the bridge on the Yuan River had been burned, and a bad idea suddenly came to his heart.

I just wanted to shout for the team to withdraw to Yichun, but I found that there was an earth-shattering shout of killing behind me, and I saw that there were countless anti-thieves on his back road.

"It's not good, it's a trick against the thief, quick, block it for me, block it for me!"

Tian Younian had already been shadowed by Mo Qian in the battle of Mingyue Mountain, but now he was actually ambushed by the thieves who didn't know where, and his heart was suddenly confused.

He frantically waved the long knife in his hand and commanded the villagers to come forward to resist.

But when he saw that the officers and soldiers at the back of the team were crushed as soon as they encountered the enemy, Tian Younian's heart suddenly cooled.

"County Lieutenant Qian, Qian Dayou, where are you?"

"My lord, my lord, I'm here!"

Qian Dayou rode a horse to Tian Younian's side.

"There is a lot of money, what's going on?"

Qian Dayou was also confused at this time, thousands of people were suddenly killed in the mountains, and he himself was stunned.

"My lord, I don't know what I do!"

"What a bunch of waste, quick, protect the official first!"

Qian Dayi was stunned when he heard this, evacuated?

"My lord, we can't withdraw, we are now backed by Yuan He, there is no way to retreat, only by fighting to the death can we fight a way out, once we evacuate, we will definitely be defeated!"

Tian Younian didn't think so, he turned his horse's head to the south and said: "If you love to withdraw, you won't be withdrawn, so this official won't accompany you to die here!" ”

As soon as the prefect fled, a chain reaction was immediately triggered.

When Sanqian Xiangyong saw that all the officials had run away, and he didn't run away, wasn't he a fool?

The three thousand township brave people didn't care about the reward Tian Younian said, and the girl ran with the prefect, and some of them were even faster than at least Tian Younian.

Mo Qian was overjoyed when he saw that the official army was actually defeated in a battle.

He pointed at the fleeing officers and shouted: "Chase me, don't let Tian Younian run away!" ”

The army of four thousand, with torches in one hand and long knives in the other, chased after them.

The official army did not even have the most basic resistance in this battle, and a group of village warriors who had been trained by Qian Dayou for more than a month were crushed after encountering Mo Qian's army.

The 3,000 officers and soldiers were dead and fled, and because the sky was dark, many officers and soldiers accidentally fell into the Yuan River while running.

Although the flow of the Yuan River in winter is not fast, the temperature is not high.

As soon as the person entered the icy river, he immediately shook his way coldly, and his lips turned white after a while.

There were no less than 100 officers and soldiers who fell into the water, and countless people trampled on each other.

Some of the clever officers and soldiers simply stopped running, threw their weapons on the ground, raised their hands and shouted surrender.

As soon as the rebels saw that the officers and soldiers had surrendered, they stopped slashing and killing, leaving a few teams of men and horses to collect the weapons of the officers and soldiers.

When the officers and soldiers who ran in front saw that the thieves did not kill the prisoners, they immediately learned to be smart, and knelt on the ground one by one and shouted surrender.

Originally, everyone was a native of Yichun, speaking the Yichun dialect, and some of them were still related to the family.

Only the prefect Tian Younian and dozens of personal soldiers around him did not dare to surrender, they followed Tian Younian to run rampant and domineering in Yuanzhou Mansion for many years, once they fell into the hands of the thieves, they would definitely die.

Tian Younian rode a horse fast, what he wanted was to run south along the river bank, and when he ran to a place with a bridge, he would cross the river and go to Xinyu County to join the governor Xie Xuelong.

After losing the battle, he returned to the imperial court and dismissed the official at most, but if he fell into the hands of the thief, who knows how he would die.

Tian Younian didn't want to be like Zheng Qiuping, the county magistrate of Yichun, who was given a sword by the Mo thief to cut off his head.

Tian Younian went all the way south and ran wildly for ten miles, but found that all the bridges along the river had been destroyed, and there were not even a boat to cross the river.

Tian Younian panicked suddenly.

At this time, Qian Dayou also patted his horse and ran over, Qian Dayou saw Tian Younian, and said: "My lord, there are chasing soldiers behind!" ”

"What?"

Tian Younian looked back and found that there was indeed a group of thieves chasing them on horseback.

The first few anti-thief generals were extremely powerful, and they killed their own soldiers without cavalry like chopping melons and vegetables, and in just half a pillar of incense, the sixty personal soldiers around him instantly knew that there were less than ten people left.

"It's over, the sky is going to kill me!"

Thinking that he was about to fall into the hands of the thief, Tian Younian was sad.

"Ouch!"

Tian Younian had just finished speaking, when suddenly the horse he was sitting on stepped into the air and stepped into a deep puddle.

Tian Younian was thrown out in an instant.

The whole person flew up, and it took two heels to roll forward before landing.

Tian Younian landed on the ground first, and his whole person flew into the field on the side of the road, the rice field in winter was muddy, and Tian Younian's face was instantly covered with mud.

When Qian Dayou scooped Tian Younian up from the field, he actually found that there was a bubble of cow dung hanging from the corner of Tian Younian's mouth!

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, are you alright?"

Tian Younian really wants to die at this time, am I so unlucky to be an official in the world?

Qian Dayou pulled Tian Younian up from the mud, and just wanted to help him onto his mount, but turned his head to find that there was a fire behind him.

Mo Qian, who was chasing after him on a horse, couldn't help but laugh when he saw Tian Younian with cow dung hanging on the corner of his mouth.

"Lord Tian, how does this cow dung taste?"