Ganzhou is located in the northwest of Kuizhou Road, and is also one of the most marginal state cities of the empire.

Ganzhou, along with Lijing, Liangzhou, and Jingzhou, formed the northern defense line of the Zhao Dynasty, and was also one of the four major defensive points of the empire, which was not peaceful even during the heyday of the Han people.

When the former Qin was in power, the Xiongnu from the steppe and the big clans of the Western Regions often came to knock on the pass, and when the Xiongnu were wiped out by the Mongols, the Mongols frequently knocked on the pass. By the time of the Zhao Dynasty, the unprecedented unification of the empire's largest territory had not prevented the Tatars from knocking on the Mongols on a daily basis.

In short, Ganzhou is not a very good place, outsiders come to rob once, rob once, fight, fight, and die.

So Ganzhou Taishou is not so easy to be, only from the apocalypse one to three years, Ganzhou Taishou died five, on average one and a half deaths per year.

The gang in Bianjing City who pulled out their hair are all calculating people and are not stupid, although they want to be officials one by one, but it is absolutely impossible to fight for their heads, so from the beginning of the year to the beginning of summer, the official position of the fourth grade of Ganzhou Taishou has been vacant for a hundred days, and no one dares to take it.

The queen of heaven assigned Zhang Stork, the secretary of the military department, to go to Ganzhou, and gave him the crown prince Taibao and Shangfang a sword.

Hardcore dog-legged Zhang Stork didn't have to say, the queen of heaven let him go wherever he went, and walked decently for more than 4,000 miles from Bianjing to Ganzhou for about 17 days before he went to the book and resigned and went home.

The queen of heaven found the second dog-legged soldier Han Zhong, Han Shilang simply didn't even bother to pretend to be garlic, three words "I won't go", and the queen replied with eight words: Dismissal for the people, no longer use.

When the court was in a hurry, someone was finally willing to come out and take the blame, and this person was Wang Zaixin, the head of the Ministry of War.

He has always been unknown in the Ministry of War, and he is low-key, and he came to the Ministry of War not because he understands soldiers, but because he was a bachelor for ten years and finally survived a director of the Ministry of War, so he was transferred from the Hanlin Academy.

In other words, he's the one who pulls out the top bag.

Wang Zaixin rushed to Ganzhou with more than a dozen servants, successfully took over the seal of Ganzhou Taishou, and began to rectify the rule of officials.

In terms of government affairs, he managed Ganzhou in an orderly manner, and militarily he also accumulated grain and dug deep trenches, and also sent people to build a small city ten miles outside the city as an outpost to defend against the Tatars and the people of the Western Regions.

Unexpectedly, when the news came back to Bianjing, the queen of heaven was furious and threw the song to the ground in anger, "Ganzhou, the old and new cities are only ten miles apart, and the new city is built so close, is it to let people go out with mines and tripping horses in front of the old city?" If the new city can be kept, then what is the use of the old city? If they can't hold it, will the defeated army of the new city open the old city gate and let them in, or will the city gate be closed to see them die? Wang Zaixin mistook me for Da Zhao! ”

But the court had no time to regret it, for the king had died the day before the letter came.

On October 12 of the third year of the Apocalypse, Wang Baobao, the leader of the Kuizhou bandits, gathered 100,000 troops and launched an attack on Ganzhou City.

After hundreds of years of baptism of war, Ganzhou City is surrounded by moats, carefully defended, and there are red-coated cannons sitting at the head of the city, which is really a strong city.

The battle lasted for three days, and the process was relatively simple, probably because the king of Ganzhou Taishou led 10,000 defenders to fight in Xinqin, and was beaten away by Wang Baobao's 100,000 army and retreated to the new city.

In the new city, Wang Baobao set fire to the sabotage, and the chaos was great, and Wang Zaixin retreated again and returned to Ganzhou City.

At this time, Wang Zaixin knew very well that he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on, and there would be no hope, and he was really powerless to save the situation.

But he didn't plan to quit anymore, because he thought he had this responsibility.

On October 15, Wang Baobao gathered 100,000 people and launched a general attack on Ganzhou City, and Wang Zaixin led 3,000 defenders to desperately defend the city to resist.

This time, Wang Baobao launched countless attacks with dozens of times the superiority of troops, but he never succeeded in taking the city.

Just when Wang Baobao seriously doubted whether the guard was still too punctual with the straw bag that he had beaten and fled a few days ago, the city of Ganzhou suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

There were no shouts, no artillery, for the defenders of the city had fired their last arrows, their last artillery.

At the last moment, Wang Zaixin asked the old servant at home about the direction of Bianjing City, stood at the head of the city, bowed to the southeast, and said his last words.

"Your Majesty, the minister has done his best!"

Then he put on his official uniform, wore the sword of Shang Fang given to him by the court when he came, and jumped off the city.

On October 15, 3,000 Zhao troops died in battle, Ganzhou Taishou Wang Zaixin was killed, and Ganzhou was broken.

Wang Baobao was a native of Asu in the Western Regions, and came to the Central Plains with his father when he was ten years old, and made a living selling illicit salt.

Salt was under the control of the government in the Zhao Dynasty, and it was not allowed to be sold by the people without permission, but with the corruption of the government, the price of salt rose higher and higher, and ordinary people only needed to spend one-third of the silver to buy private salt from Wang Baobao that was much better than official salt.

From the 30th year of the old calendar, Wang Baobao relied on the huge profits from selling salt to form a private guard, during which he raised a large number of disciples and guests, recruited countless dead soldiers to serve him, and made extensive friends with chivalrous warriors on the rivers and lakes, and spent a lot of money at every turn.

It is rumored that Wang Baobao once rescued a down-and-out swordsman on the street, and the swordsman was ridiculed by a beautiful concubine of Wang Baobao because of his ugly appearance, and the beautiful concubine was slashed to death by Wang Baobao with a knife.

Wang Baobao treats a down-and-out swordsman like this, and it is conceivable that his reputation in the area of Kuizhou Road can be imagined.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, Wang Baobao rebelled in Lizhou, and quickly organized tens of thousands of bandits, and successively captured Hexi, Ningbao, Jinchuan and other places, becoming a major local bandit.

It didn't take long for Tonglun, the county guard of Kuizhou, to mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses in the county, and 100,000 people quickly recovered the lost territories such as Hexi and Ningbao, and surrounded Lizhou.

Wang Baobao and the tens of thousands of bandits who had been put together from east to west held the city for more than 40 days, during which the Zhao army used various weapons to attack the city.

Whether it is artillery, giant crossbows or falling rocks, the Zhao army that is about to climb the city again and again was finally knocked down, and Tonglun, the shou of Kuizhou County, rode a horse and looked at the head of Lizhou City from afar, and it was clear that Wang Baobao, who was dressed in a red robe, was desperately killing at the front.

In this battle, some people persuaded Wang Baobao to give up Lizhou, temporarily avoid the edge of the Zhao army, and find another opportunity to try to make a comeback, but Wang Baobao insisted on waiting for a few more days, and the fighter plane would always appear.

After persisting for as long as forty days, there was finally a turnaround, there were millions of Tatars in the eastern border of Kuizhou Road, and Emperor Murong Huangtu of Yuan took up the Great Silk for Tianxingdao, and the iron cavalry rushed around, so that Tong Lun, who was fighting Lizhou in the west, suffered from the enemy on his back and had to announce his retreat.

The battle of Lizhou made Wang Baobao's name move the world, and at the same time, his self-confidence was extremely inflated. Shortly after the Battle of Lizhou, the Zhao Dynasty's fierce general Wei Chi Beihai was given the title of General Tiance and led an expedition of 300,000 troops to Tuoba King Kong.

When the army passed through the Kuizhou Road, it took only three days, Wei Chi Beihai broke through the city gate of Lizhou, Wang Baobao led the rest of the army to flee to the Western Regions, and was recruited by the Zhao Dynasty, and soon rebelled, and captured the city of Ganzhou.

Kuizhou said that such a capricious villain was enough for the county guard Tong Lun to have a headache, and sent troops to beat him, he ran, withdrew the troops and came back, and Wang Baobao chased after him behind his ass to harass.

Although Wang Baobao was righteous and generous to his own people, he was extremely ruthless in picking up his opponents, and in the battle of Ganzhou City, he captured 3,000 Zhao soldiers, and Wang Baobao dug a pit and buried them alive that night after they surrendered.

Many reckless, homeless, and bandits want to go to Wang Baobao to eat a bowl of rice, but the pot is so big, and many thieves who return in defeat pull Wang Baobao's banner and fake tiger power, and do something that hurts heaven and reason.

There are thieves on Little Lotus Mountain, the big boss is called Yuan Xiong Livestock, and there are 300 thieves under his hands.

But this small family went to Wang Baobao is really inconspicuous, and when he arrives in Lizhou, he will be a centurion at most, which is far better than being happy in Little Lotus Mountain.

A few days ago, he rode a horse to the Biho Pavilion, asking to pay a thousand taels of silver for the New Year's money, and a prestigious old scholar in the Biho Pavilion came out to intercede, and was held by himself with a knife and refused to give in, and finally committed suicide by hitting the wall, and only asked to be able to let the people of the Biho Pavilion a horse before he died.

Seeing that the onlookers were about to riot, Yuan Xiongzhu, who only brought a dozen horsemen to go, had to lower his body, cut the price down by half, and then galloped away.

This matter has not yet spread in the Blue Hoof Pavilion, and only a few senior ancestors are discussing with each other how to resolve the matter.

However, the people living in the Blue Hoof Pavilion are all poor, and several ancestors don't expect them to come up with money, and there is only a dead end at the moment.

When a few corpses were carried back to the Biho Pavilion from the official road, the matter of the thieves asking for 1,000 taels of money gradually spread, and the brave people carefully identified several unrecognizable corpses, and found that this was the family of the old man Li of the Biho Pavilion, which was an old ancestor who knew the inside story.

Eight people from three generations packed up their bags and left overnight, and somehow died on the road, and the body was already cold when it was found by the people of the Biho Pavilion.

Li Mi sat on the threshold with a bowl of millet porridge and listened, raised his elbow and pushed the girl next to him, "It seems to be a dead person, was killed by a bandit?" ”

Lu Ci smacked his tongue and said softly: "The bandits are not fools, they must know how to fortify on the road. In case the time comes to the Blue Hoof Pavilion to collect money, there is only one lonely town left, and they will lose face as a family. ”

Li Mi laughed, "This gang of thieves doesn't dare to provoke them, they know that they are bullied to death in a poor place like the Blue Hoof Pavilion, and it seems that they don't know the truth of the shallow water king Bashen." ”

"Boy, who are you talking about?"

A large area of light in front of him was covered by a ragged figure, and the black-faced beggar walked over with his hands in his hands, inserted the withered grass in his mouth into his messy hair, and took the half bowl of millet porridge in Li Mi's hand, drank it, and asked Lu Ci, "Girl, did your father go to collect medicine?" ”

Lu Ci hummed softly, only to see that the black-faced beggar's originally dignified expression finally lightened a little.

He is already a little grandmaster of the second-grade realm, but for some reason, every time he faces Lu Yatou's sloppy father, there will always be an inexplicable pressure, but looking at his qi, he doesn't look like a person who practices martial arts at all, unless it is the old monster who has already returned to simplicity and has a childish face.

But in the past few hundred years, only figures such as Zhao Xianxia, the former celestial master of Longhu Mountain, Wang Shuyang, the master of Wudang, and the monk who crossed the sea in the White Horse Temple, have been able to reach such a situation.

The sloppy old man surnamed Lu? Maybe it's just that I'm suspicious.