Yongfeng County began to make trouble since Chongzhen five years, when the Liukou from Yongfeng through Jishui Luling, all the way swept through.

At that time, there were tens of thousands of Liukou, and they almost broke through Yongfeng County.

The people were miserable by the group of rogues, after the bandits passed a white land, they did all kinds of evil, burning and looting in the countryside, and now the people of Yongfeng are afraid when they hear the thieves.

Moreover, when Yongfeng Zhixian learned that the Liukou were in rebellion, he did not send troops to encircle and suppress them, nor did he let the people take refuge in the city, but drove the people away.

As soon as the rogues left, the magistrate immediately sent people out to collect taxes, and the people were already looted by the rogues, and now they were taxed by the government, and they immediately complained.

After hearing that the incident of the bandits in Yuanzhou reached Ji'an Mansion last year, the common people knew that there was a great king in Yuanzhou.

King Mo rebelled and did not want money, food, and gave the people back the land.

Within two months, King Mo's fame spread in several surrounding states.

Ji'an Mansion and Yuanzhou Mansion are close to each other, and it won't take long for something new to happen in Yuanzhou.

This time, when I saw the notice, it was the army of King Mo of Yuanzhou who had captured the county seat, and the people were happy in their hearts.

Some people even went to the Yamen to find the commander of the rebel army and asked when the division of land would begin.

Peng Jinhong didn't expect the people of Yongfeng to welcome the rebels so much, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while.

He could only tell the people that it would not take long for the matter of dividing the fields to begin, and when the people heard that they would have to wait for time, they suddenly became a little impatient.

Some radicals even directly called on the people in the countryside to rebel and follow King Mo, and at one time thousands of people responded, and the people armed with sickles and hoes broke into the landlord's house one after another, demanding that the landlord hand over grain and land.

When the landlords in the villages around Yongfeng saw that the tenants were so violent, they dared not to pay, so they could only tearfully hand over the title deeds and grain at home.

The people of Kengtian Village made the most trouble, and their tenant Chen Qi led the people of the village to directly capture the ancestral house of the patriarch Chen Yuanren.

The Chen family came from Yimen Town, De'an County, Jiujiang, where the Chen family came out of Yimen, and some of the Chen family moved to Yongfeng Kengtian Village since the Song Dynasty.

Since the Song Dynasty, the Chen clan has become a local clan after hundreds of years of reproduction in the pit fields.

However, most of the fields in Kengtian Village were in the hands of Chen Yuanren, the patriarch of the Chen clan.

The Chen Yuan Ren family has gone through five generations of patriarchs and has become the giant of the Yongfeng Chen family, and most of the other children of the Yongfeng Chen family have become tenants of the Chen Yuan Ren family.

Chen Qi is one of the tenants of the Chen patriarch's family, he has a wife and children, and rents five acres of fertile land for the Chen patriarch's family.

But even if they rented five acres of land, Chen Qi's family still lacked food and clothing, and the fundamental reason was that the rent collected by Chen Yuanren was too high.

Eighty percent of the grain produced in the fields had to be given to the patriarch, and the remaining twenty percent had to be kept not only as rations, but also as seeds for the coming year.

When Chongzhen's five years of rogue came, all the food in Chen Qi's family was snatched away by the rogues, and the wives and children at home gnawed on the bark of the tree hungry.

Chen Qi licked his face and went to the patriarch's house to borrow grain, but Chen Yuanren took advantage of the situation to ask him to write an IOU, borrowing one bucket of rice to repay five buckets, which was simply usury.

In order to keep his wife and children alive, Chen Qi had no choice but to press his handprint on the IOU.

Chen Qi has long been very resentful of the patriarch's family in his heart, today he went into the city to sell the straw sandals he knitted, and when he saw that the county seat had actually changed, he inquired only to know that the soldiers and horses of King Mo of Yuanzhou had reached Yongfeng.

Chen Qi immediately realized that his chance for revenge had arrived, and he returned to the village to spread the news that King Mo of Yuanzhou Mansion had taken Ji'an Mansion and Yongfeng County had also been captured.

King Mo wanted to divide the land for everyone, Chen Qi lobbied everywhere, and soon won over the 145 strong men in the village.

They rushed to the patriarch's house with a hoe and ordered the patriarch to hand over the family's land and grain.

Of course Chen Yuanren refused, and he also scolded as the patriarch, Chen Qi's blood rushed straight to his head when he was scolded, and he immediately took a flat shoulder to open Chen Yuanren.

Chen Yuanren was killed on the spot in his own home, and Chen's house was also occupied by the villagers.

At this time, everyone who followed Chen Qi to rebel against the patriarch was stunned, and when they saw so much food, they didn't know what to do with it.

The crowd immediately talked about what to do with the grain.

Some said that everyone in the village should be divided equally, some said that they would sell it in the capital city, and some said that they would hire a boat to pull it to the provincial capital to sell it.

Only Chen Qili disagreed, he waved his hand and said: "Don't even think about it, these grains are for the righteous army that we dedicated to King Mo as military food, and no one is allowed to touch them!" ”

When everyone saw that Chen Qi said that he wanted to dedicate himself to the righteous army, they immediately didn't dare to speak.

Chen Qi asked his cousins Chen Wu and Chen Liu to look at the granary of the granary, and he quickly ran into the county seat and met Peng Jinhong, the leader of the rebel army who was working in the county office.

When Peng Jinhong heard that there was such a good thing, he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately sent fifty troops to follow Chen Qi to Kengtian Village.

Peng Jinhong didn't say how to deal with the grain in that warehouse, but first sent troops to take care of it, and Peng Jinhong had to wait for the lord to send someone to deal with it.

Chen Qi returned to Kengtian Village with fifty righteous soldiers in a spirit, and the people in the village saw that Chen Qi actually entered the village with the righteous army, and immediately talked about it.

Everyone praised Chen Qi for his ability, and he was able to deal with the rebels, and he led his troops back to the village.

Chen Wu and Chen Liu were also taken aback when they saw their cousin come back with troops, and the two grabbed Chen Qi and asked, "Big brother, have you seen King Mo in the county seat?" What does King Mo look like? Is it like everyone said that they have three heads and six arms? ”

Chen Qi laughed and said, "Who spread this, King Mo must be the same as us." ”

"Does that mean you've seen King Mo?"

"No, King Mo is not in Yongfeng County, he is now in Anfu County, and I saw General Peng, a subordinate of King Mo."

When the two brothers heard that they hadn't seen King Mo, they were immediately disappointed.

In the afternoon, the news of Chen Qi in Kengtian Village spread in several surrounding villages, and people in the surrounding villages followed suit, and for a while, the entire peasant movement in Yongfeng spread like a virus, and by the next day, all the surrounding villages in Yongfeng County had a civil uprising.

The villagers who have been oppressed for a long time have picked up the flat hoes at home and rushed to the landlord's house, and for a while, the landlords of the entire Yongfeng were wailing again and again....

Early the next morning, Jishui Zhixian received the news of the fall of Anfu and Yongfeng counties.

The three people of the county magistrate and the county magistrate were all trembling when they heard the news, and the three of them hid in the county government to discuss countermeasures with the officials of the county government.

Zhixian asked everyone present with a bitter face: "That Mo thief captured Fucheng, and killed Fuzun and two Zhixian, Yongfeng Zhixian heard that he had also died last night, and now my Jishui County is trapped in three places, it can be said that it is a turtle in an urn, how many, what is the best strategy?" ”

The county seat and the chief bookkeeper and others bowed their heads one after another, and now they have nothing to do.

Even the prefect was chopped up by the thief, and their group of people is now like grasshoppers after autumn.

The county seat of Jishui is only forty miles away from the capital city of Luling, and the thieves have arrived in an instant, and they have now sent all the officers and soldiers and officials of the city to the city wall to guard the city.

Jiang Guohua, the county lieutenant, stood up and suggested: "My lord, our Jishui is just a small city in Yuer, and it is not comparable to Fucheng, and now I hear people outside say that Wang Mowen is already on his way back to the division, and I believe that he will arrive in Jishui County in the afternoon, or tomorrow at the latest."

Our Jishui officers and soldiers are only fifty, and the government servants are only thirty, this amount of manpower, it is okay to arrest thieves in normal times, and it is a dead end to resist with thousands of troops. ”

Zhixian Tang Zi'an glanced at him and said leisurely: "You mean, surrender?" ”

After Tang Zi'an asked, everyone at the scene suddenly fell silent, everyone closed their mouths tightly, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

When Tang Zi'an looked at the appearance of the people, he immediately understood what they meant.

He slapped the table vigorously and scolded: "Okay, you guys, you are really a good abacus, you are afraid of death, and you are afraid of being charged with surrendering and rebels, so you want me to take the lead in surrendering, even if the thieves are destroyed, the court will only blame me Tang Zi'an, and will not blame you for the crime, you are really calculating!" ”

The officials were told by Tang Zi'an that they had a weakness, and they didn't dare to look up, so they could only look down to see if their shoes were dirty.

Tang Zi'an saw that everyone was silent, and his heart became even more angry.

He got up and waved his sleeves and said: "You people eat the court in vain, disregard Jun'en, I, Tang Zi'an, will never be as spineless as you, hum!" With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

As soon as Tang Zi'an left, the county lieutenant Jiang Guohua stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the county lord is unwilling to surrender, what do you think?" ”

After some discussion, several people felt that this small city of Jishui could not be defended at all, and finally agreed that as soon as the army of Mo thieves arrived, they would immediately tie up Tang Zi'an and go to the city to dedicate the city.

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After Mo Qian captured the county seat of Anfu, he immediately prepared troops and horses, and sent fast horses to Yuanzhou, and ordered Cheng Zhidun, who stayed in Yuanzhou, to immediately organize the people and escort grain and grass to Anfu County.

Since Yuanzhou sent troops, Mo Qian set the combat goal of capturing Ji'an Mansion and Anfu County within half a month, for this reason, he did not bring much grain and grass when he sent troops, only enough for the army for a month.

Now that the army has successfully completed the operational objectives of the first stage, and the next two will continue to fight, the problem of grain and grass must be solved immediately.

Cheng Zhidun immediately began to prepare after receiving Mo Qian's letter, he ordered the requisition of 10,000 people in Yichun and Fenyi counties, and personally led a team with Qianzong Yijiu to press 20,000 stones of grain and grass to Anfu County.

Yuanzhou's hometown was handed over to Yang He and Yi Chenggui to guard the family, and the two of them had one article and one martial arts, and it was enough to guard the family.

On March 15, the first batch of grain and grass arrived in Anfu County.

Mo Qian couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that it was Cheng Zhidun and Yi Jiu who were escorting the grain and grass.

"Urging Branch, Brother Jiu, why are you here?"

Cheng Zhidun saluted and said: "My lord, after receiving the lord's letter urging for grain, he immediately led someone to transport the first batch of grain and grass of 1,000 stones to solve the lord's urgent need!" ”

Yi Jiu also stepped forward and said: "Yes, lord, I heard that the lord won the battle, and my heart was also itchy, so I gathered two thousand villagers in the township to come to help the lord!" ”

Mo Qian was overjoyed, he took the two of them by the hand and said: "Very good, now that the first phase of our army's combat objectives has been achieved, the next step will be to march north, at this time it is really the time to use people, Brother Jiu, don't go back, just stay here to conquer the city for me." ”

Yi Jiu laughed crookedly when he heard this, he thought that he would not be able to get anything on this expedition, but he didn't expect to be able to get military merit in the end.

Now he is no longer the farmer who could only farm a few months ago, and after staying in the army for a long time, Yi Jiu, a general with mud legs, also began to learn.

He invited a 50-year-old Xiucai to serve as the chief bookkeeper in his army, responsible for helping him deal with the copywriting in the army, and helping him come up with ideas to learn how to read or something.

After a few months, after seeing the people and army under Mo Qian's rule, Lao Xiucai basically realized that Mo Qian was very likely to conquer the world.

He immediately admonished Yi Jiu, urging him to follow the lord by his side, wherever the lord goes, he will go, where the lord wants to beat him, he must not retreat, and he must bravely pick up the burden.

The better he fights, the more he wins, and the wider the territory he captures, the higher the title he will receive when he builds the country in the future.

Knighthood, this is something that Yi Jiu never dreamed of in his life, but under Lao Xiucai's explanation, he felt that this matter was not so difficult.

This time, he heard that Mo Qian needed to escort grain and grass from the rear, so he immediately found Cheng Zhidun and asked to accompany him.

Cheng Zhidun couldn't refuse him, so he could only take him with him.

Now seeing Mo Qian, Yi Jiu couldn't suppress the heart of making meritorious contributions in his heart.

He arched his hand and said: "Lord, I am willing to take my two thousand Xiangyong to capture the three counties of Jishui, Xiajiang and Xingan!" ”

Mo Qian couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, he glanced at Yi Jiu and asked him, "Brother Jiu, this can't wait to fight?" ”

Yi Jiu scratched the back of his head and smirked: "Brother Lu and Brother Peng can lead the troops to victory, as long as I stay in Yuanzhou with Cheng Gui, my bones are almost soft, lord, you just let me go!" ”

Mo Qian smiled and said: "Okay, I will give you another 1,000 regular soldiers, cooperate with your 2,000 Xiangyong, and let you capture the three counties of Jishui Xinganxia River within fifteen days." ”

The news that Yongfeng County was captured by Peng Jinhong had been quickly reported to Moqian, and now in the north of Ji'an Prefecture, only Jishui County remained.

In the three counties of Taihe and Wan'an Suichuan in the south, Mo Qian decided to personally lead his troops to attack.

In particular, the geographical location of these two counties is extremely important, as long as these two counties are stationed, the reinforcements from the southern Jiangxi side will be completely blocked in the Ganzhou area, and they will not be able to go north at all.

An important reason for this is the characteristics of the land in the southern Jiangxi region, which is mountainous, and Wan'an and Suichuan are located at the junction of Ji'an and Ganzhou.

The border between the two provinces is just bounded by the extension of the Luoxiao Mountains, Zhuguang Mountains, which are high and steep, and the army is impassable at all.

If the soldiers of Southern Jiangxi want to go north, they can only take a boat down the Gan River.

The Ganjiang River happened to flow through Wan'an County, and after Mo Qian occupied Wan'an County, he only needed to block the Ganjiang River with iron cables and send troops to collect ship taxes on the river, which was a lot of income.

All the plans were ready, Mo Qian left 200 soldiers to be stationed in Anfu County by Cheng Zhidun to requisition grain and grass, and he personally led 2,000 troops to the south and rushed to the outside of Taihe County to make peace with Lu Zhao.

The remaining 1,000 regular soldiers were handed over to Yi Jiu and asked him to attack the three counties of Jishui.

Yi Jiu received the military order, immediately ordered the soldiers and horses, and killed the murderous county seat towards Jishui County.

(The time of the previous protagonist's troops was changed from February to March, the reason is that the officials of Fengyang in order to get rid of the crime after the imperial tomb was burned, they hid the news, and it was not until February 12 that Chongzhen received the news, which is what I checked the information and did not check in detail, so in order to advance the plot, the second day of February was changed to the second day of March, sorry.) ）