Yi Jiu led 1,000 regular soldiers and 2,000 village warriors to the gate of Jishui County, and found that the gate of the county seat was open, and a group of officials wearing official uniforms were kneeling at the gate of the city with a human head in their hands.

Seeing Yi Jiu riding a tall horse, the officials bowed and shouted, "Welcome King Mo to the city!"

Yi Jiuren was stunned, he called his dog-headed military advisor Huang Chunnian and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Huang Chunnian squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "General, this is the surrender of the officials of Jishui County!" ”

"What? Surrendered? Lao Tzu hasn't sent troops to attack the city yet, why did they surrender? His grandmother's, it's not fun! ”

Yi Jiu sent a soldier to the gate of the city to investigate the situation, and after a while, the soldier came back and reported: "General Qiyu, Jiang Guohua, the captain of Jishui County, beheaded the magistrate and cut off the head to surrender!" ”

After speaking, the soldier held the tray to show him, Yi Jiu glanced down and saw a bloody human head in the tray, and there was something wrapped in a cloth next to it.

Yi Jiu asked, "What is this?" ”

"General Hui, this is the official seal of Jishui Zhi County!"

As soon as Yi Jiu heard this, he was convinced that Jishui County had really surrendered.

"Order, leave 200 people in the county seat, and the rest of the horses, follow me to the south bank wharf, requisition all the ships to the north, let's go down the river to attack the Xiajiang!"

Jiang Guohua and other county officials waited at the gate of the city for a long time, and wanted to join the righteous army by killing the magistrate as a letter of surrender, in order to be familiar with the generals of the righteous army, Jiang Guohua waited at the city gate immediately after receiving the news.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a few hours, the generals of the rebel army didn't even bring their horses, and directly led the army to turn around and go north by boat!

Jishui's boats were limited, and the 3,000 army couldn't sit down at all, and those who didn't get on the boat could only run on two legs, and for a while the dust was rolling outside the county.

Jiang Guohua and the others were stunned, they stood at the gate of the city stupidly, watching the boats on the river sail north, and the chief bookkeeper Wan Zhixuan said to him: "Lord Jiang, this righteous army didn't take us seriously at all, and they didn't even bother to enter the city, and they didn't give us surrender, this is really too deceitful!" ”

Jiang Guohua couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "People are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads!" ”

At this time, a group of 200 rebels crossed the drawbridge and entered the city gate, and a soldier in armor asked them arrogantly: "Which of you is in charge here?" ”

When Jiang Guohua heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Back to the words of the little general, Jiang Guohua, the contemptible captain of Jishui County!" ”

"You're in charge, aren't you?"

Jiang Guohua looked around, Zhixian had been beheaded by himself, the county was an old man in his sixties, basically didn't care about anything, thinking about it, no one in the entire Jishui County seemed to be bigger than himself.

"Back to the little general's words, I am in charge! Dare to ask the general's name! ”

"My name is Liu Changshun, I am a hundred households under General Qian Zongyi under the command of King Mo, from today on, Jishui County will be under my control, all of you have to listen to my orders, whoever dares not to listen, I will let his head move!"

As he spoke, Liu Baihu took out the long knife on his waist and waved it twice.

Jiang Guohua and the others behind him were suddenly frightened and retreated.

Liu Changshun saw that these officials who were once high and powerful were so timid and afraid of death at this time, and he couldn't help but look down on them even more in his heart.

He stretched out his hand and pointed at Jiang Guohua and said, "You, show me the way!" ”

"Where does General Liu want to go?"

"Go to the treasury!"

......

Mo Qian personally led 2,000 troops to Taihe City to make peace with Lu Zhao.

After Lu Zhao led a thousand troops south from Luling, he camped outside Taihe County with great arrogance.

Wu Wenying, the magistrate of Taihe, couldn't help but be frightened when he saw that the thieves in Yuanzhou had actually been killed outside Taihe City.

He sighed that his life was not good, he had just been in office as the magistrate of Taihe for less than a year, and he actually encountered such a major event as anti-thieves and chaos.

Wu Wenying was born in a serious academic class, he was a senior in high school in the first year of Chongzhen, and finally got a real official in the county, and took office in May of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

As a result, I didn't expect that the chair of the county magistrate had not been sitting for a year, and the thieves from Yuanzhou Mansion came to the door of his house.

Listening to the people who fled south of the city, Xu Fusheng, the magistrate of the county, was beheaded with a knife, not to mention the magistrate or something, all of them were clicked by the righteous army, and even the eunuchs sent by the emperor to collect the money did not survive.

After Wu Wenying heard that Fucheng had fallen, he immediately organized hundreds of villagers to go up to the city wall to defend the city.

The total number of men, women, and children in Taihe County, including the villages to which it belongs, is only 40,000 or 50,000, while the number of people in the county is even smaller, with less than 10,000.

After these people got rid of the old and young women and children, the young and strong men did not even have three thousand.

Wu Wenying tried everything to gather 800 people in the city and immediately went to the city wall.

However, what Wu Wenying couldn't figure out was that the rebels and horses had gone outside the city, but they did not launch an attack on the city.

If the rebels don't attack, it is impossible for him Wu Wenying to open the city gate and attack it, so he can only go up to the city wall every day to observe the rebels outside the city cutting down trees outside the city, and it seems that they are making siege tools such as ladders.

This kind of peaceful day ceased to exist after half a month, because the anti-king Mo Wen personally led the army to the foot of Taihe City.

Wu Wenying stood on the city wall and could clearly see the Mozi banner among the rebels.

As soon as this flag is beaten, it means that the anti-Wang Mowen people have arrived.

And observing the armor of the rebel army, Wu Wenying can also be sure that outside the city must be the main force of the rebel army.

The three thousand main forces gathered under the small Taihe City, which has to be said to have brought a lot of pressure to Wu Wenying.

He immediately summoned the county magistrate, the chief bookkeeper, and the county lieutenant to discuss how to resist the enemy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, right now, the anti-king Mo Wen has personally led a large army to the city, and now you have a good plan?"

Song Huaijie, the county leader, arched his hand and said: "My lord, there are few soldiers in Taihe City, so we have just caught up with all the young and strong people in the city to the city wall, and there are not as many anti-thieves as there are many anti-thieves, so the current plan is to send a fast boat from the south of the city out of the water gate and go to Wan'an Jiang Wenyun to ask for help."

Jiang Zhixian has been fighting with the Liukou all the year round, and there are 600 elite soldiers in the city. ”

Wu Wenying heard that this was an idea, it didn't take much time for Taihe to go to Wan'an by water, and it was a downstream to take the waterway from Wan'an County to Taihe, and it would only take an hour to arrive if it was fast.

"Okay, I'll write a letter, and ask Lord Song to immediately send a clever person to set off from the South Water Gate immediately, if the speed is fast enough, the reinforcements can arrive today!"

"Yes!"

Song Huaijie took the letter and immediately sent his henchmen to take a fast boat and sail out of the Nancheng Water Gate, go upstream, and row towards Wan'an County.

The messenger on the front foot had just left the city, and Mo Qian on the back foot received the news.

In the camp tent, Mo Qian smiled at Lu Zhao and said: "Then Wu Wenying finally can't hold his breath, Brother Lu, you immediately lead 1,500 soldiers to bypass the mountain, go south along the river, send troops to intercept in the narrow part of the Ganjiang River, and be sure to repel the reinforcements from Wan'an County to me, if you can completely annihilate it, it would be better!" ”

Lu Zhao couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this order, he had been outside Taihe County for half a month, and he had long been idle, so he took his soldiers up the mountain to cut down trees every day.

Some of the trees were cut down and some of them were made into siege ladders and other things, and most of the wood was used as boats.

To this end, he also deliberately recruited dozens of craftsmen in Luling to make boats every day.

To fight in Jiangxi, if you want to be fast, you have to have a boat, because there are too many rivers in Jiangxi, and if the soldiers and horses rely on two legs, they can't outrun the boat on the water.

Mo Qian had already noticed this, as soon as he captured Ji'an Mansion, the first thing he did was to requisition ships, and the second thing was to build ships.

With a boat in hand, his troops will become a fast team, free to shuttle through the Gan River valley.

As long as the ship can reach, his rebels can reach it, so that his control area will be greatly increased, and his ability to control the place will become extremely strong.

Lu Zhao stayed in the mountains outside Taihe County for half a month, and the officers and soldiers and craftsmen worked together to build more than 70 large and small ships, the small ones could only carry more than 10 people at most, and the large ones could only carry 30 or 40 people.

But there were more than seventy ships, which was enough to transport fifteen hundred sergeants.

Mo Qian didn't need his men to fight in the water, they just needed to be able to stand on the boat and not get seasick.

Such a low requirement is not difficult at all for the soldiers from the southern region, and the six thousand soldiers from Yuanzhou Mansion are almost all good in the water, and white dragons in the waves.

Riding a boat is nothing to them at all, and it is already March, and the weather is gradually getting warmer, and now even if the soldiers are allowed to go down to the river to fish, they are not afraid of the cold.

Lu Zhao led 1,500 people carrying boats through the mountains, avoiding the eyes of the officers and soldiers in Taihe County.

And Mo Qian asked the remaining 1,500 people to deliberately make a posture of attacking the city outside the county with double banners.

Sure enough, Wu Wenying, the county governor of Taihe, saw that the rebel army was moving, and immediately concentrated most of his troops on the north city wall.

At this time, the remaining half of the rebel army successfully passed through the jungle and launched the boat from Sanxi Village in the west of Taihe County.

Lu Zhao ignored the surprised gazes of the people on the shore and urged his soldiers to enter the water quickly.

"Hurry up, brothers, hurry up!"

More than 70 boats were quickly launched, and the people on the shore were stunned.

The people couldn't figure out who their gang was at all, but seeing that they were all murderous, the people didn't dare to lean in, so they could only watch from afar.

When the rebels were all gone, the people talked one after another: "Who is this helping?" ”

"It's an official army!"

"It's not like it, you see that some of them wear different clothes from the officers and soldiers!"

"Hey, I heard Lai Laosan say that King Mo of Yuanzhou Mansion has captured the capital city, and his soldiers and horses have all been beaten outside the county seat."

"Really? I said, in the past half a month, the county town has not even opened the city gate, so that my hare can't be sold! ”