Xie Xuelong went to seek prestige, and he was the commander of Zhang Zhongxing.

"What's your plan?" Xie Xuelong asked with a glimmer of hope.

Zhang Zhongxing arched his hand and said: "My lord, in my opinion, let's not care about this small town of Laoshizi, and directly lead the troops westward, attack the lair of the Mo thief, and capture the people under his rule as hostages, I don't believe that he will not ask the city to fight with us!" ”

Xie Xuelong thought that Zhang Zhongxing had any good ideas, but he didn't expect it to be the same method he said yesterday.

Xie Xuelong's face suddenly drooped.

"Zhang Tongzhi, this plan is not possible, we are the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, how can we do the things of bandits?"

Zhang Zhongxing's face was instantly ugly, and he slandered in his heart: "You old gang is really difficult to serve, if you want to beat people and shrink in the city and don't fight with you, you can't force the thief to come out, and you will have it on your mouth all day long, and you don't have the ability to suppress thieves at all." ”

However, Zhang Zhongxing could only say this in his heart, and he didn't dare to point it out to his face, otherwise he would have done it to the end.

Zhang Zhongxing's plan was vetoed by Xie Xuelong, and silence could not help but return to silence in the big tent, and everyone's brains were spinning wildly, hoping to come up with a good idea to break the enemy.

But after thinking about it, they really couldn't think of any other way than to attack.

At this time, Wang Tingmei stood up and said, "My lord, I have a way, maybe I can solve the current dilemma. ”

"Oh? Come on! ”

"Your Excellency can go to the Governor of Southern Jiangxi Pan Zenghong and ask him to borrow 5,000 troops, the people in the Southern Jiangxi region are strong, the governor of Southern Jiangxi is in charge of the military, and his subordinates have good combat effectiveness, if you can borrow 5,000 troops to go north, and then you will meet with our 7,000 army, then exterminate the Mo thief is like probing the bag and taking the ear!"

Xie Xuelong is like a drowning person at this time, but whenever he sees a glimmer of hope, he must hurry to seize it.

But as soon as he thought of asking Pan Zenghong to borrow troops, he couldn't hold the face on his face, and even if he turned back triumphantly, most of the credit would inevitably be shared by Pan Zenghong.

Besides, he and Pan Zenghong are not familiar with each other, so it is still a question whether he can succeed when he borrows soldiers.

Moreover, the bandit problem in the southern Jiangxi region has always been serious, and the officers and soldiers have been suppressing the bandits for decades, but instead of solving the bandit problem, the bandits are being suppressed more and more, and this cannot help but make Xie Xuelong draw a big question mark about the combat effectiveness of the officers and men in the southern Jiangxi region.

Qiu Shangyi saw Xie Xuelong's hesitation, knowing that he was hesitating in his heart, he stepped forward and said, "Lord Futai, Wang Xundao's plan is feasible!" ”

At this time, Zhang Zhongxing on the side was not happy.

He shouted at the top of his voice: "What's feasible, what's feasible, Pan Zenghong's guy has no real power in Nangan, and there are few generals under his command, so go to him to borrow troops, this is obviously a bamboo basket to draw water, in my opinion, it is better to lead the troops to smash the old nest of Mo Wen."

Didn't he do that in Wentang Town, Juntian Ce, who was deeply loved by the people, let's go to Wentang and arrest the people of the whole town, I don't think he can get out of the city. ”

Xie Xuelong suddenly came to his senses after listening to Zhang Zhongxing's words.

He clapped his hand and said: "Pan Zenghong has only been in office for a few months, and the affairs of Nangan have not been sorted out, so it is unrealistic to find him to borrow troops, so according to Zhang Tongzhi's strategy, send troops to warm Tang and force Na Mo to ask for a decisive battle out of the city!" ”

Well, the governor has made up his mind, and the people in the tent will no longer persuade each other, so they can only hurry down and prepare.

.......

In the Fenyi City Building, Mo Qian looked at Tian Younian, who was sitting opposite him, stretched out his finger and pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "Lord Tian, don't be surprised, in the cold winter, there are no good dishes to entertain you, just eat it!" ”

Tian Younian looked at the dishes on the table, and tears couldn't help but drip down.

He knew it was the last meal of his life.

The anti-Wang Mo Wen in front of him had already told him that if the official army retreated thirty miles back to Xinyu County, he would still have a chance to live, and if the official army did not withdraw, he would definitely die.

When Tian Younian stood on the city tower and watched the official army camp not have the slightest posture of pulling out the camp and leaving, he knew that he was dead.

He picked up his chopsticks and put a piece of bacon in his mouth, but found that the meat did not taste salty.

The bacon that should be extremely salty can't taste salt, and Tian Younian can't help but feel a little sad.

He glanced at Mo Qian opposite him and asked, "How old is Mo Gongzi this year?" ”

Mo Qian smiled and said, "I was born in the forty-fourth year of Wanli. ”

Hearing this answer, Tian Younian's chopsticks with meat couldn't help but fall on the table.

"Childe is only eighteen this year?"

"Hmm!" Mo Qian smiled and nodded.

Tian Younian was shocked, he couldn't imagine that he had been an official all his life, but he was defeated by a doll.

I want to be cold for decades, since the Wanli year, I have been promoted, and my family spent a huge amount of money to buy a Jiangdu magistrate, and after several years of officialdom, I finally survived until I was promoted to the prefect of Yuanzhou.

I thought that I could 'show my money' in Yuan Zhouzhi's tenure, but I didn't expect that in just four months, I actually lost in the hands of a doll twice in a row.

"It's really time, it's fate!"

Tian Younian picked up the chopsticks on the table and frantically stuffed the bacon into his mouth, even if he died, he had to be a full ghost.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the sun hung high in the blue sky, and Tian Younian was pressed to the tower of the East Gate.

Mo Qian sent people to the official army camp to shout, saying that he would behead Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou, and invite the governor to come and take a look.

As soon as Xie Xuelong received this news, he was immediately angry.

He was furious and said: "What a thief, even if he is corrupt and perverts the law for the rest of his life, he should be dealt with according to the laws of the court, how dare he kill the officials of the court without permission!" ”

"Lord Futai, that Mo thief said to give us a quarter of an hour, and if we don't pull out the camp and retreat after a quarter of an hour, we will behead the Tian Governor's Mansion!"

"Let him behead, Tian Younian will die innocently, but the official wants to meet this Mo thief for a while to see who he is."

Xie Xuelong ordered all the soldiers and horses, and led all the officers and soldiers of the battalion out of the camp to the city of Fenyi.

I saw a person on the top of the city tower tied and hung on the beam, and next to him stood a fierce executioner with a big sword.

In the middle of the tower, a group of people stood on the edge of the city wall around a young man, looking down on the officials and soldiers under the city.

"Dare to ask the anti-king, don't ask it?" Xie Xuelong asked his subordinates to shout towards the city tower.

Mo Qian looked down at the outside of the city and saw a group of red-robed officials surrounding the eldest old man, and he guessed that this person should be the governor Xie Xuelong.

"Outside the city, Governor Xie is here, students don't ask politely!" Mo Qian arched his hand towards the city tower.

This is the first time Xie Xuelong has seen Mo Wen, a thief who is not at peace in Ganxi, and when he saw Mo Wen so young, Xie Xuelong couldn't help but gasp.

"This son can defeat my officers and troops several times at such a young age, if he is not exterminated today, it will become a catastrophe in the future!"

The other officials and generals couldn't help but be a little surprised when they saw that the anti-king was so young.

In their imagination, such a powerful anti-king should at least be a strong man in his thirties and forties, and even if he is a showman, he should have a scruffy beard.

But the truth was far beyond everyone's expectations, Mo Wen on the city tower was actually a young man less than twenty years old.

This person is so young that he can wipe out the entire army of Yuanzhou Governor Tian Younian, if this person is a few years later, this person will not be able to cause trouble to the whole province of Jiangxi?

Zhang Zhongxing looked at Mo Wen on the city wall, and said in Xie Xuelong's ear: "Lord Futai, it's better to take advantage of the anti-thief Mo Wen here, and lead the troops to attack the city, the city wall is so low, we just need to rush into the city and take the anti-king, and the remaining thousands of rabble are just local chickens and dog ears!" ”

To be honest, Xie Xuelong was a little moved by this suggestion.

Zhang Zhongxing saw that he didn't persuade Xie Xuelong, and couldn't help but hurriedly continued: "Lord Futai, the Mo thief's subordinates are just a group of peasants, and they have not undergone any military training at all, we have 3,500 regular soldiers under our command, and at the end of the siege, the general is willing to lead these 3,500 people as the vanguard, rush to the city wall and open the city gate, only three or four thousand anti-thieves, a battle can be decided!" ”

Xie Xuelong was finally moved, he looked at Mo Wen standing on the city tower, turned his head to Zhang Zhongxing and said, "Everything depends on General Zhang!" ”

"The last will be ordered!"

Zhang Zhongxing immediately turned around and ordered his subordinates to prepare for the siege of the city, and for a while, the official army camp began to get busy.

Those with shields and ladders went forward, the archers went backwards, and the villagers were all last.

This is the siege plan prepared by Xie Xuelong in advance, once the battle really starts, the more than 3,000 villagers in the team can basically play the role of waving the flag and shouting, and the real battle has to rely on the regular soldiers with armor.

At this time, the generals of the rebel army on the tower of the city also discovered the movements of the officers and troops outside the city.

Cao Guoqi said to Mo Qian: "My lord, the official army is preparing to attack!" ”

Mo Qian was not afraid at all, he said: "Xie Xuelong finally can't hold his breath, General Lu, let all the soldiers get ready, pass on the order, if this battle is won, the soldiers will each share one acre of land, and the officers will be promoted to one level!" ”

Nothing is more tangible than real money.

If you want your subordinates to work hard for themselves, you have to pay a price.

Mo Qian did not have much money and food in his hands, but he had a lot of land, and in the last years of this dynasty, if he wanted his troops to have combat effectiveness, he had to inspire the courage of his soldiers.

And there is no better courage than a reward.

If you expect the soldiers to die for themselves just by shouting slogans and singing, then it is better to go home early and farm.

Sure enough, after Lu Zhao passed on Mo Qian's order, the soldiers cheered and threatened to defend the county seat to the death.

However, before the war, Mo Qian still had to give him the gift that should be given to Governor Xie.

With a wave of his hand, the big knife in the executioner's hand fell, and Tian Younian's head fell directly on the city wall.

After cutting off Tian Younian's head, the guard general Lu Zhao shouted loudly: "The officers and soldiers of the dog's eggs have come up to attack the city!" ”

When Xie Xuelong saw Tian Younian's head in a different place, he couldn't help but almost vomit blood in anger.

He shouted loudly: "Sons, kill all the thieves and avenge Lord Tian!" ”

It seemed that the beheadings and insults aroused the last trace of blood and dignity in the hearts of the officers and men, and thousands of officers and soldiers rushed up in an instant.