When the people in the city heard Li Banghua's words, they couldn't help but be shocked, and their eyes were about to fall.

"Li Gong, the thieves are all people who don't know etiquette, how can Li Gong risk his life?"

Unexpectedly, Li Banghua waved his hand and said: "Shiji's words are wrong, when I lived in an ancient mansion, I heard a lot of news about this person, and I heard that this person was born in my Chaoxiucai, familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and has also been taught by the sage."

This person rebelled in Yuanzhou, but he did not commit any crime against the people of Yuanzhou, and he was able to sweep the two prefectures of Yuanzhou and Ji'an in less than a year.

I will go to his camp, negotiate with him, and fight bravely for the people of the city and the three thousand towns, and I am sure he will not be embarrassed by me."

When Liang Shiji heard this, he hurriedly said, "Gong Li, what if that thief is not good for you?" ”

Li Banghua glanced at him and said: "It's just a death, the city is broken, and death is death, what are you afraid of, die for the people of the city, I, Li Banghua, died as I deserved!" ”

When the city guards on the city wall heard this, they couldn't help but be in awe of Li Banghua, and said in their hearts that Mr. Li was worthy of being the pillar of the imperial court.

Li Banghua was an honest official, and his family did not have much money, so he only made up five hundred taels of silver, and there were some jade and jade things that were not very valuable, some of these things were rewards from the imperial court, and some were filial piety from his protégés.

Although it is not much, it is a huge amount of money for Li Banghua.

After preparing the finances, Li Banghua ordered someone to open the city gate and walked to the camp of the thieves with a family member.

Liang Shiji watched Li Banghua's departure on the city wall, and when he walked out of the city gate, Li Banghua glanced back at the city wall and arched his hand at Liang Shiji who was standing on the city wall.

Liang Shiji also returned the salute, which was regarded as a send-off for the former military squire.

Mo Qian ordered the army to retreat three miles back and set up camp, the reason why he did not choose to attack the city immediately was because he now had not only his own 5,000 men and horses in the army, but also the 4,000 officers and soldiers who had captured the imperial court.

Mo Qian had to take the time to integrate the 4,000 surrendered officers and troops before he could rest assured that he would attack the city.

Therefore, he decided to adopt the method of besieging but not attacking, first trapping Xiajiang County, waiting for the time when the food in the city was exhausted, and then attacking the city, and then he could go down in a battle.

As soon as he arrived at the camp, Mo Qian immediately sent people to take a boat to the south to go around the south of the Xiajiang River, and informed Yi Jiu and Peng Jinhong in the south, asking them to hold on to the outside of the city, without orders, not to attack the city, only to besiege the city.

The herald immediately took the order and left, and when the herald was finished, Mo Qian called Yi Dayong to the camp for a meeting.

Since the incident, Mo Qian's righteous soldiers have still adopted a relatively simple officer system.

Five people form a squad, with a captain, ten people into a squadron, a captain, two squadrons as a flag, and a flag officer.

The ten banners are 100 households, with one hundred households, and 1,000 generals above 100 households, and officers in charge of 500 households.

In general, it is the general who is set up.

At present, there is only one highest-ranking officer in the rebel army under Mo Qian, that is, Lu Zhao, who rebelled with him, and he is the only one who worships the position of general, Yi Jiu, Yi Chenggui and Peng Jinhong are still in the position of President Qian.

This time he led 5,000 troops to the north, the general Lu Zhao was in charge of Wan'an County, Yi Jiu and Peng Jinhong were both outside the southern city to confuse the defenders of Xiajiang City, Mo Qian did not have a single senior officer, and the highest position was a group of 100 households.

There are 5,000 people, and there are twenty-five in 100 households alone, and Mo Qian called Yi Dayong, whom he valued the most, into the tent, ready to let him deal with those officers.

Now that the army is getting bigger and bigger, the number of troops will break 10,000 in a short time, and he can let those officers go, but Mo Qian has no intention of letting these 4,000 captives go back to Nanchang.

Liu Zongxiang tried his best to recruit a group of strong men, and just put them back, then his battle was not in vain.

As long as these people are reformed, they will be an elite soldier with extremely high combat power when they turn around, and they can make a lot of efforts to fight the world for themselves.

However, before transforming this officer army, Mo Qian still had one more thing to do, he had to deal with those officers in the army.

"Have you counted the number of the 4,000 soldiers?" Mo Qian asked Yi Dayong.

Yi Dayong stood up and replied, "My lord, after counting, there are a total of 4,560 troops surrendered. ”

"How many officers?"

"Back to the king, there are fifty-two captains, thirty-two flags, twenty-one hundreds, five generals, and no one of the thousands of officers and above!"

Mo Qian nodded with satisfaction and praised: "Yi Dayong, you are very good, in just a few months, you are so proficient in things in the army, today you led your subordinates to stop Li Yulong's personal soldiers, and you have gained a lot, I will now promote you to the head of Qian, I hope you will work hard in the future!" ”

When Yi Dayong heard this, he immediately smiled on his face.

"The last general Xie Dawang cultivates, and the last general is willing to break the king's bones!" As he spoke, Yi Dayong knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.

Mo Qian originally didn't like the bad habit of kowtowing, but after dissuading him a few times, he found that this group of ancients was too old-fashioned sometimes, as long as they saw themselves, they would inevitably salute, and over time, Mo Qian found that he was also assimilated by the ancients, so he didn't force it.

"Work hard in the future, you were pulled up by me, don't embarrass me in the future!"

"Don't worry, even if I, Yi Dayong, die, I can't disgrace you, the king!"

"Well, you go down, gather all those officers, and ask them if they are willing to surrender to the rebels, and those who are willing to contribute to the rebels, I can not blame the past, if I don't want to, let them go home!"

"Let them go back?" Yi Dayong asked a little incomprehensibly.

"If you don't let people go, do you still want to keep them? Yi Dayong, if you go, just say that I am willing to treat the prisoners preferentially, and all officers who are willing to serve will be reinstated, and if they are unwilling, they will pay for the passage home, and they will never be embarrassed! ”

"Order!"

Yi Dayong received the military order and went out of the camp, called several flag officers under his banner, and ordered them to bring out all the officers they caught.

Soon more than 100 officers were pulled to the open space of the camp, Yi Dayong stood in front of them, and said in a loud voice: "You group of lackeys of the court listen to me, my king has the virtue of a good life, I am ordered by my king to ask you, which of you is willing to surrender to serve the righteous army, my king is of great use, why, is there anyone willing to surrender?" ”

A group of officers, big and small, you look at me, I look at you, and I can't make up my mind for a while.

Several officers even gathered together to discuss in low voices.

"Guys, will you descend?"

"Brother Li, are you going to surrender? Your family is all in Nanchang Mansion, you are going to surrender, aren't you afraid that the whole family will be beheaded? ”

When the officer surnamed Li heard this, he immediately took a step back in fright.

"That doesn't fall? If we don't descend, will we be able to live? ”

"I don't know, maybe I can? I heard that last year, when Governor Xie made a good score, King Mo let a lot of people come back, and those people even gave a few catties of rations, maybe we can go back? ”

"Well, then we won't descend!"

The officer surnamed Li stood up and said: "This is my general, my little family is all in Nanchang Mansion, please be gracious to the general!" ”

When Yi Dayong heard this, his brows immediately furrowed, and he asked, "Does this mean that you don't want to surrender?" ”