The remaining six officers and soldiers at the gate of the city did not see how their two comrades-in-arms died, and they found that the officer and general suddenly killed them, and cut them down in a few strokes.

At this time, Liu Tielong, who was already preparing outside the city, saw that Qian Da was successful, and immediately raised his knife and shouted: "Brothers, kill!" ”

The shouts of 3,000 soldiers shook the sky, and the 400 officers and soldiers on the banknotes were alarmed at once.

When the 400 officers and men saw an army of several thousand men emerging from the mountains, they were so frightened that they did not even collect taxes, and immediately took their weapons and ran in the direction of the city gate.

But as soon as a few hundred people ran ashore, they found that their Shangguan Town, the eunuch Nie Gonggong, had been approached with a knife against his neck.

A 'Guanjun' general held Nie Gonggong hostage and shouted: "No one is allowed to move, whoever dares to move, I will kill him immediately." I am a subordinate of King Mo of Yuanzhou, King Mo's army has arrived, if you want to live, you will lay down your arms and surrender, whoever wants to resist will die! ”

The four hundred officers and soldiers were frightened by Niu Ji at once, and Shangguan Nie's father-in-law was in his hands again, and hundreds of people were headless for a while, standing on the shore in a daze and not daring to move.

In this little delay, the 3,000-strong army had already crossed the drawbridge from the hiding woods and entered Luling City.

At this time, another army also came to the shore, and this army was assigned by Liu Tielong.

"General Niu, General Liu sent us to support the general!" A hundred households rushed over and shouted.

Niu Ji saw that the big thing had been accomplished, and immediately laughed and said: "Brothers, you are doing well, immediately give me the weapons of these hundreds of people!" ”

The 400 officers and soldiers did not even resist, and became prisoners of the rebels on the spot.

After Qian Dayou and his three subordinates cleared out the eight defenders at the city gate, eight more officers and soldiers soon rushed towards them.

Qian Dayou easily killed three officers and soldiers, and the remaining five people turned around and ran away in fright, not caring about the safety of the city gate at all.

As soon as the army arrived, they went straight to the government and county government in the city.

Xu Fusheng, the prefect of Ji'an, and Sun Yang, the prefect of Ji'an, who were still asleep, didn't know that the city had been breached, and they were still sleeping with their bare concubines.

The housekeeper knocked on the door in a panic and shouted: "Master, it's not good, it's not good, the thief has entered the city!" ”

Xu Fusheng was so frightened that he immediately got up, he pulled his family's clothes and shouted, "What did you say? Where did the thief come from? ”

Jia Ding pointed to the direction outside the mansion and said: "Mo thief of Yuanzhou Mansion, he led a large army to fight over, the West City Gate has been lost, thousands of troops, and now they are killing this side!" ”

"What? Thousands of troops! ”

Xu Fusheng's jaw was about to drop, he only had 800 defenders in Ji'an Mansion City, of which 400 people were transferred away by Nie Jinhai, and now thousands of troops have entered the city, and this city will be defended.

"It's over, it's over, it's all over!"

The first thing Xu Fusheng thought of was that the imperial court would kill his head, and with such a big responsibility of losing the city and land, he, the prefect, could not escape.

"What about Grandpa Nie outside the city?" Xu Fusheng suddenly thought that Nie Jinhai still had four hundred officers and soldiers in his hands.

"Grandpa Nie was captured alive by the thieves, and all the officers and soldiers of the four hundred banknotes surrendered!"

"What?" Xu Fusheng is completely dead now, there are only 400 people left in the city, how can he fight with thousands of thieves?

"Quick, get me a horse!"

Xu Fusheng didn't have time to think about it, and immediately asked the family to prepare the horse, and he was ready to escape from the east gate.

As the housekeeper ran to prepare his horse, he turned and went back to his room, where he hid a small chest with silver tickets and some gold and silver.

After Xu Fusheng was the prefect of Ji'an, he relied on the wharf in the south of Ji'an Mansion every day to live, and collected a lot of taxes every day.

There were dozens of taels of gold in the box, as well as two thousand taels of silver tickets, which were the belongings he had saved as an official over the years, and he didn't dare to let the thieves rob them.

The concubine who was awakened saw Xu Fusheng packing up the gold and silver, and immediately realized that something was wrong.

The concubine didn't even wear clothes, so she hugged Xu Fusheng and cried with a belly pocket: "Master, you can't leave the slave family alone!" ”

Xu Fusheng kicked away the concubine and scolded: "Fuck you, get out of the way!" ”

After a while, the family ran in and said that the horses were ready, Xu Fusheng didn't care about his concubine at all, and was ready to run away with the box.

As soon as he left the mansion, suddenly a group of soldiers wearing official armor came outside, Xu Fusheng thought it was the officers and soldiers in the city, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, quickly escort this official out of the city!" ”

Unexpectedly, no one among the officers and soldiers paid attention to him at all, but a strange general said to him with a smile: "Lord Xu, where are you busy?" ”

Xu Fusheng fixed his eyes and found that the person in front of him didn't know him, and then looked at the officials and soldiers behind him, they were all fresh faces.

A group of fresh faces wearing official and military armor, Xu Fusheng was stunned, and he couldn't figure out what the other party was.

"Who are you?" Xu Fusheng asked.

Qian Dayou smiled and replied: "This general is the vanguard general under King Mo, Qian Dayou!" ”

"King Mo? You are thieves! ”

"Yes, we are anti-thieves, and we are anti-thieves who have come to send Lord Xu on the road!"

After all, Qian Da stabbed Xu Fusheng to death.

As soon as Xu Fusheng died, the box he was holding in his hand fell, and the gold, silver, silver, tickets, and jewelry inside were scattered all over the ground.

Qian Dayou picked up a silver ticket and looked at it, the top was a 5,000 taels of Nanchang Mansion ticket number treasure banknote, he said coldly: "It's really a dog official, I didn't kill you in vain!" ”

Asked someone to collect the money, Qian Dayou pointed at the prefect's yamen with a long knife and said: "Leave a hundred people to show me the prefect's yamen, don't run away from any of them, the other generals, divided into four teams, control the city gate for me, don't let this group of dog officials run away!" ”

"Yes!"

The more than 2,000 rebels will not feel tired anymore, and the army is divided into dozens of squads, each team of fifty or sixty people, led by the hundred generals and banner officers, to search for the people in the palace city.

The main city of Luling City is not large, except for some residential houses, almost all of the people in the city are yamen organs, and the people live on the edge of the wharf outside the southern city, which is much more prosperous than in the city.

The first thing Qian Dayou did after entering the city was to send troops to block the four gates, blocking all the people in the city, and none of these officials could get out.

Soon, the magistrate's yamen was also taken by the rebels, and after killing the magistrate, the rest of the officials trembled with fright and immediately knelt down and surrendered.

Qian Da did not kill them, but arrested them all, threw them into the prison in the yamen, and waited for Mo Qian to come and deal with them.

In less than half a day, the rebels swept away the city, and at noon, Qian Dayou posted a notice to reassure the people.

However, at this time, the people of Nancheng were already frightened, and the shouts of killing in the city made the people hide in their homes and dare not go out, and some people even set up boats to escape.

However, as soon as the boat rowed out of the dock, it was blocked by the rebels on the river, and it was not long before the rebels entered the Nancheng dock and controlled the waterway.

This time, even the hope of running was gone, and the people and the passing merchants could only stay outside the city honestly, and could not go anywhere.

In the afternoon of the same day, Mo Qian, who received the good news, led 20 light horsemen to Luling City first.

At the moment when he saw Qian Dayou, Mo Qian praised: "Dayou is really a wise general!" ”

received Mo Qian's appreciation, and Qian Dayou was happy in his heart.

He arched his hand and said: "My lord, the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, he has taken Luling City, the prefect Xu Fusheng and the county magistrate Sun Yang have been beheaded by me, this is the embezzled property I copied from their house, please check it!" ”

After that, Qian Dayou asked the soldier to come forward with two small boxes and open them.

Mo Qian didn't even look at the gold, silver, jewelry and silver tickets in the box, but asked Qian Dayou: "Dayou, how is the security in the city?" ”

"Lord Qi, the last general has posted notices everywhere to calm the people, and sent troops into the docks of Nancheng to stop the people and merchants from fleeing."

Mo Qian clapped his hands and praised: "Well done, give the order, reward the three armies tonight!" ”

The news that King Mo of Yuanzhou captured the city of Luling in Ji'an Mansion finally spread, and Guo Qiao, Anfuzhi County, was terrified after hearing the news, and hurriedly organized more than 1,000 townships to defend the city.

Jishui, which is closer to Luling City, not to mention the two counties of Taihe, after learning that the city was broken and the prefect was killed, the prefects of the two counties immediately organized the township brave, the four gates were closed, and they resolutely swore to fight the thieves.

However, Mo Qian has no plans to move towards these two counties now, and his first goal now is to connect Yuanzhou and Luling, an important hub - Anfu County.

Anfu County is located in the center of the two places, if Mo Qian can't beat Anfu County, then his supply line will be very long, and the grain and grass of the 6,000 army need to be diverted to Luxi Town in Pingxiang County to go south to Yongxin, and then reroute to the east to Luling.

As a result, it is time-consuming and accident-prone.

If you go to Anfu County, it will be different, and the distance between Yuanzhou and Anfu County will be greatly shortened, and the grain and grass in the rear can be transported in a steady stream.

At that time, Mo Qian could use Luling as a springboard to first capture the two counties of Jishui and Taihe, the nearest counties in the north and south, and then wave his army to the north to attack the three counties of Xiajiang, Xingan and Xinyu.

In this way, his base area can immediately connect the city, and in this area, there are many fertile fields, the population is dense, and the grain grown can support tens of thousands of soldiers.

That night, Mo Qian took advantage of the celebration to deploy the following combat missions, and Qian Dayou led 800 troops to defend Luling County, and blockaded the Ganjiang River, and did not allow a boat to go north from the Ganjiang River before the end of this battle.

He himself personally led 3,000 troops to attack Anfu County.

Staff General Lu Zhao led 1,000 troops to the south to feint an attack on Taihe, and Deputy General Peng Jinhong led 1,000 troops to the north to feint to attack Jishui.

Before leaving, Mo Qian instructed the two: "You two, you only need to lead the troops to wander outside the county seat, take the opportunity to rob the squires of various towns, remember, you can rob money, you can't kill in vain, and you are not allowed to rob the people's property."

This mission, only need to drag the defenders of the two counties, so that they dare not go out of the city, wait for me to capture Anfu, I will lead the troops back to the division, and then attack the city, can be in one fell swoop! ”

Lu Zhao and Peng Jinhong arched their hands in unison and said: "Don't worry, the lord will know that he will never kill a single person in vain, and he will not dishonor the reputation of the lord." ”

Mo Qian nodded, both of them are veterans, let them lead the troops alone, Mo Qian is still more relieved in his heart.

On the ninth day of the second month, after resting for two days in Luling, the army jumped out from the north and southwest Sanmen.

Mo Qian led the main force of 3,000 to advance to Anfu County in the northwest.