After several officers under Liang Shiji returned to the city wall, they told the story that Peng Ji, the magistrate of Xiajiang, was unwilling to give two taels of silver to the three thousand villagers.

The three thousand township Yong were immediately blown up when they heard this, they were not from Xiajiang County, but the people of Qingjiang County, if it weren't for the county magistrate Liang Shiji to organize and train them, they would not be willing to come all the way to Xiajiang to fight.

Not to mention the dead in the war, there is no way to make money, but Lord Liang of the county has promised them before, as long as the brothers who have come to Xiajiang County to guard the city and survive, they will have at least two taels of silver salary.

Now seeing that the 10,000 imperial court officers and soldiers in Xingan County are about to arrive, this Pengzhi County actually crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and directly denied it.

Some unconvinced soldiers wanted to go to Peng Ji to ask for clarification, but they were stopped by the officer.

The officer said: "Lord Liang said, tell us not to act rashly, and don't be angry, he Peng Ji doesn't want to pay us military salaries, and it is clear that he wants to repay the debt, and Lord Liang will go to him to deal with it." ”

The villagers were forced by the majesty of the officers, so they didn't dare to make trouble, but they were very unhappy in their hearts, and many soldiers secretly gathered together to talk about it.

After Peng Ji returned to the county office, he sent his henchman Peng Dahai to come up to the city wall on the grounds of inspecting the city defense, and secretly checked the reaction of the three thousand villagers.

As soon as the villagers saw that he was Peng Ji's house slave, they closed their mouths one by one and didn't say anything, making Peng Dahai think that there was nothing abnormal about this group of villagers.

Peng Dahai told Peng Ji about the situation on the city wall, and when Peng Ji heard that the villagers did not resist too much, he felt that his method was too wise.

His family spent 5,000 taels of silver to buy them the fat shortage of Xiajiang Zhixian County, as soon as Peng Ji arrived, he immediately set up a card on the Ganjiang River to intercept and charge, and only half a year to collect more than 20,000 taels of tax silver, Peng Ji took out 10,000 taels to honor the officials of the provincial government.

Among them, Hu Yongqing, the prefect of Linjiang, took the most, taking four thousand taels.

That is, for the sake of the face of these 4,000 taels, after Hu Yongqing received Peng Ji's letter for help, he immediately sent Liang Shiji to lead 3,000 townships to the south to support Xiajiang County and jointly fight against the anti-thief Mo Wen.

Liang Shiji came quickly, the army except weapons, no other baggage, at that time the righteous army was preparing for the siege, Peng Ji in order to keep his rich county, he proposed to give the three thousand townships Yong two taels of military pay per person, as well as to provide military rations and other conditions.

It was under such conditions that the 3,000 villagers of Liangshiji would desperately defend the city.

Now that Peng Ji has reversed himself, the mood of the villagers has changed, and they have become listless one by one.

They huddled under the city wall, gathered around to discuss the matter of Peng Ji's slamming the door, and no one in the entire county knew that at the loess slope twenty miles to the north, Li Yulong's 10,000 troops were more than 7,000 people who had fled and surrendered.

At the beginning of the afternoon, the defenders on the wall of the north gate suddenly saw an officer army walking outside the city.

The number of officers and soldiers is not large, only three or four hundred, and they wear the armor of the officers and soldiers and carry the banner of the officers and soldiers.

The leader was a general of a hundred households, and as soon as the hundred households arrived at the north city gate, they shouted loudly to the city: "I am the vanguard general Li Yulong's account of a hundred households, General Li has led the army south, and it is ten miles away from the county seat. ”

As soon as the defenders on the city wall heard that it was reinforcements from Nanchang, they immediately relaxed their vigilance, and the people outside the city were wearing the brand-new armor of the official army, holding the standard weapons of the official army, which made people feel that they were real official soldiers at a glance.

"Wait, I'll open the door for you!"

The flag officer guarding the city wanted to send someone down to open the city gate, but before the order could be issued, he was stopped by a hundred households who had arrived.

"Wait a minute, something is wrong with them!"

The flag officer couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”

Baihu stretched out his hand and pointed to the 'official army' under the city and said: "You see, their armor is new, but there are a few people with blood on their armor, and, look at the flag, the largest officer under the city is only a hundred households, a hundred households, where is eligible to enjoy the military flag with a surname, the military flag, that is only available to officers with more than 1,000 generals, and his small 100 households cannot have a military flag at all." (Compiled in this paragraph)

After hearing this, the flag officer couldn't help but suddenly realize.

"Your Excellency, you say they are fakes?"

"Hmm!" Baihu nodded.

"And who are they?"

"Then you don't need to ask, of course it's a thief, these thieves want to wear the armor of our officers and soldiers to come to deceive the door, hum, they think it is beautiful, but it's a pity that they ran into me!"

The soldiers and flag officers around him couldn't help but admire this hundred households, and patted his horses one after another, saying that he was the reincarnation of Guan Yunchang and the rebirth of Yue Wumu.

The hundred adults who listened couldn't help but be proud.

Under the city wall, Yi Dayong stared at an official's helmet and waited under the city for a long time, but he didn't see the city gate open.

"Could it be that the king's plan has been discovered?" Yi Dayong couldn't help but say secretly in his heart.

However, in order to be able to deceive the city gate, Yi Dayong still shouted at the city tower with his throat in his voice: "Damn, what are you doing, why don't you open the city gate yet?" ”

This time, there was no flag officer to answer his question, and instead of arrows, arrows flew in.

The arrows rattled against the armor on his body, but none of them pierced through the armor.

As soon as Yi Dayong saw that the matter was revealed, he could only turn around and retreat first, and when he retreated, he had no idea, and was hit by an arrow in the place where there was no armor to protect his left arm.

A few of the hundreds of soldiers of the rebel army behind him who had changed their official armor were also injured by arrows, but because they were wearing armor, the injuries were not big, they were all flesh wounds, and they would be fine for a few days.

Yi Dayong led hundreds of rebel soldiers back to the camp of the army three miles away, and as soon as he saw Mo Qian, Yi Dayong knelt down and said: "The last general is incompetent, he failed to deceive the city gate, please punish the king!" ”

Mo Qian saw that there was still an arrow hanging on this kid's arm, and he was immediately distressed, he dismounted and helped Yi Dayong and said: "Brother Dayong has worked hard, it's okay if you don't cheat it, we don't need to worry now, just a Xiajiang County, it has become a turtle in an urn, none of them can run, Brother Dayong is injured, let's go down to heal first." ”

Yi Dayong saw that Mo Qian did not blame him, so he dragged his left arm that was hit by the arrow and retreated to the rear army.

Mo Qian saw that the deception plan failed, so he could only resort to his second trick.

He ordered to cut off Li Yulong's head, stick it in a spear, and the whole army opened up the county seat of Xiajiang!