Most of the guards who were brought by Yang Jiamo to loot were originally hundreds of people, and most of them fled back to their hometowns in the chaos.

There are only dozens of people, who belong to Nanchang Wei, and they run back one after another to report the news.

Seven of the first batch to go back fled for their lives from the middle of the afternoon until late at night. On the way, they were tired and hungry, and they killed and expelled the people in the dark, and ate something to rest on their beds.

By the evening of the next day, Nanchang was about to close the city gates, and the seven people finally rushed back to Nanchangwei.

In fact, on the same day, there were merchant ships from Fengcheng Wharf that spread the news to Nanchang. However, no details were provided, and these guards fled and were immediately taken by the Nanchang Wei command to see the governor Li Maofang.

Li Maofang asked, "Why was Mr. Yang chased to Fengcheng?" ”

A guard soldier replied: "Mr. Yang took us to the countryside to suppress bandits, and raided the homes of several landlords who were thieves." Those landlords have a lot of money and grain at home, and they didn't finish moving for two hours......"

"Shut up!"

Li Maofang was furious and urged: "Quickly talk about the war, no problem how to rob the gentry." ”

The guard hurriedly said, "We are moving things, and two or three thousand thieves are coming." Yang Zongzhen won the battle first, chasing and killing a few fields of anti-thieves, and those anti-thieves ran fast, and they could only collect troops if they couldn't catch up. As soon as Mr. Yang retreated, those anti-thieves came back, and the sailors who dragged the anti-thieves arrived. Mr. Yang disembarked outside Fengcheng County and led his troops into the city. ”

"Escaped into the city?" Li Maofang asked.

"I don't see it clearly." The guards shook their heads, they only cared about fleeing for their lives, and they didn't dare to approach the county seat, how could they know what the situation was over there.

Li Maofang asked again: "Why didn't you go into the city with Mr. Yang?" ”

The guards cried with sad faces: "At that time, they were all rushing to get off the boat, Yang Zongzhen was afraid that he would not be able to run fast, and asked his family to kill our local soldiers in Jiangxi, saying that it was blocking his way to get off the boat." We were not beaten away by the thieves, but were killed and dispersed by the family members of Mr. Yang. ”

Li Maofang was speechless for a moment, he could imagine how embarrassed Yang Jiamo was at that time.

Yang Jiamo fought in the north, and he threw down the infantry and broke off. To put it bluntly, it is to let the infantry block the enemy, and he himself will run away on horseback with his family. But when I arrived in Jiangxi, I couldn't ride a horse, and my family was wearing iron armor, so I couldn't run if I wanted to.

Dong Xiangheng, the commander of the Jiangzhou military garrison, is training the naval army at Poyang Lake.

Li Maofang sent someone to summon Dong Xiangheng, and at the same time invited the officials of the three divisions of Jiangxi to discuss the matter.

Ding Kuichu, the political envoy of Zuobu, was the one who asked for money and did not want to die, and finally surrendered and was killed by his whole family.

Zhang Bingwen, the political envoy of the right, this old man died heroically in history.

At that time, he served as the political envoy of Zuobu in Shandong, and the Tatars entered the customs to attack Jinan. The eunuch raised his hand and held a heavy army, and he shrank in Linqing and did not dare to move. Zu came with reinforcements, but he waited and hesitated, afraid of the enemy and did not dare to engage in battle.

Zhang Bingwen mobilized the people in the city to defend the city for half a month, and the city gate was broken on the second day of the Lunar New Year. He also led the people in a street battle with the Tartars, and was outnumbered and killed by arrows. His wives, concubines, and maidservants, a total of more than ten people committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake.

Jiangxi's envoy is called Wu Shiliang, who is 85 years old this year, and this old gentleman is only 69 years old. Historically, he also donated 100,000 taels of silver to recruit soldiers to fight in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was 97 years old when he resigned and returned to his hometown and died of illness.

There is a temporary absence of the Jiangxi capital secretary, and he died of illness some time ago, and there is no new appointment in the imperial court.

"The thieves attacked Fengcheng, and Yang Zongzhen was besieged in the city," Li Maofang sighed, "Tell me, should you send reinforcements?" ”

Ding Kuichu hurriedly said: "Don't fall for the anti-thief plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, in case we rescue, what should the anti-thief sneak attack on Nanchang?" ”

Zhang Bingwen asked: "How many available troops are there in Jiangxi?" ”

Li Maofang replied: "There are only one or two thousand soldiers who can fight, and the rest are all new soldiers." On the side of the sailor, he was hit hard in the summer, and he was probably no match for the anti-thief sailors. In the hands of Yang Zongzhen, there are hundreds of elites, all of whom are hundred-battle armor soldiers from the north. ”

"Only one or two thousand soldiers to fight?" Ding Kuichu was so shocked that his vest was cold.

Li Maofang sighed: "There are more than 10,000 recruits, and they have only been trained for two or three months. Luling Zhao thieves are notorious, and these recruits are afraid that they will not dare to fight. ”

Zhang Bingwen suddenly said: "Zhang Yinghe, the prefect of Guangxin, has 5,000 strong soldiers in his hands, and he is now suppressing bandits in Nanfeng County. It can be ordered to send troops to attack Jishui and take the rear of the Zhao thief, so that it will have the miraculous effect of encircling Wei and saving Zhao. ”

"This plan is feasible," Li Maofang asked Wu Shiliang again, "what does the old gentleman think?" ”

Eighty-five-year-old Wu Shiliang sat there and seemed to be about to fall asleep, half-squinting his eyes and saying, "When you find out the truth, are the hundreds of armor soldiers in Yang Zongzhen's hands still there?" If it is, Fengcheng County will be saved. If not, it's useless to save it. Those hundreds of armor soldiers are the key, and they are the only elite soldiers in Jiangxi! If there are no armor soldiers, Nanchang is the bag of the thief, and when to take it away depends on the mood of the thief. ”

This big truth was said that everyone was speechless for an instant.

"Poof!"

Zhang Bingwen suddenly slapped the table: "Yang Jiamo, this thief, is so dignified, he went to the thief territory to rob and make the situation like this!" ”

At that moment, the governor's attendant stood at the door.

"Fu Shuai, urgent military situation."

"Come in and say."

The attendant bowed into the room, bowed his hand to everyone, and said, "There is a messenger from Fengcheng County to report, and there is a gentry named Wang Tingqian who asks to see him. ”

"Bring them all in." Li Maofang said.

After a short time, Wang Tingqian and the messenger entered the house together, and all the officials got up one after another.

Wang Ting tried to return the salute and said excitedly: "Princess, I heard that the thieves have besieged Fengcheng, and my Wang family's business is in Nanchang. Please ask the governor and the princes for permission, and I will pay to recruit 2,000 soldiers to guard Nanchang City. ”

The crowd rejoiced.

Li Maofang took Wang Ting's hand and said, "With the help of the public, Nanchang will have no worries." ”

Wang Tingli said awe-inspiringly: "Defending Sangzi is just a duty." ”

Although Wang Tingqian was dismissed from office and lived idle, he was a local gentry and was willing to recruit 2,000 soldiers to help fight the war, so he was immediately regarded as his own by many officials.

For such an important meeting, Wang Tingqian directly stayed to observe.

Li Maofang questioned the messenger, "How did you get out of the city?" ”

The messenger replied: "The magistrate rewarded twenty taels of silver, and sent more than ten messengers to go out of the city at night in baskets." Other messengers, the villain did not know, the villain quietly swam across the moat, day and night to the river, halfway spent five dollars of silver to take a boat to Nanchang. ”

"Is Mr. Yang's family still there?" Wu Shiliang asked suddenly.

The messenger replied, "There are some losses, and there are three or four hundred left." ”

The messenger handed over the letter, and the officials carefully checked it, and it was indeed the great seal of Fengcheng Zhixian.

The messenger knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please lords, hurry up and send troops to rescue Fengcheng!" ”

……

Fengcheng County, Chenglou.

Yang Jiamo, the chief soldier, and Xie Longwen, the county magistrate, were sitting in the city tower for dinner.

No matter what the grudge is, it is a grasshopper on a rope, and they have temporarily reached a cooperation.

How to cooperate?

Write a letter to deceive the governor and bring troops to rescue!

If the governor is told that Yang Jiamo's family has been destroyed, the governor will definitely not send troops. Only by saying that the family members are still there, the governor has the motivation to rescue, because in the future, he will have to rely on those family members to fight.

"Alas, my career has come to an end." Xie Longwen sighed.

wrote a distress letter to deceive the governor, even if he could win this battle, he would definitely be hated by Li Maofang, and he could lose his official position by casually finding a crime and impeaching him.

Yang Jiamo sneered: "Let's save my life." ”

Suddenly, a section of the city wall in the north made a commotion, and the two thought that there was a rebellion, so they hurriedly put down their chopsticks and ran to check.

It turned out that Xie Longwen had sprinkled money to recruit soldiers, and the enlistment fee of the soldiers guarding the city was deducted. At the same time, the village warriors who were recruited before also took the opportunity to make trouble, because their monthly rations were also deducted.

Yang Jiamo went straight to the county office, hacked the master to death with a knife, and came back with his head and shouted: "The person who deducted the military salary has been killed by me, and he will be paid in full tomorrow!" ”

The county prince, the canonical history and the main book, when they saw the master's head, they suddenly trembled with fright.

Because of the deduction of military salaries, the three of them also have a share.

That night, the three of them gathered to discuss secretly.

"Why don't you go down?"

"The three of us are evil...... has a bad reputation, and I am afraid that I will be tried by the anti-thief public. ”

"There is merit in dedicating the city, and it can be used to redeem the merit to some extent. If the city is broken by the thieves, it will inevitably die. ”

"Last time, that Huang Qi went into the city, he only looked at the head of the magistrate, and asked us to help maintain law and order. The thief is reasonable, and he will definitely be able to atone for his crimes. ”

"Yes, yes, General Huang Qi is very reasonable, and he is also outside the city this time."

"This city can't be defended, and sooner or later it will be broken by thieves."

"How many henchmen can Lao Liu mobilize?"

"More than forty."

"Then Yang Jiamo is strong in martial arts, and he must be killed by design."

"Who can get the poison?"

"I'll give it a try."

“……”

Yang Jiamo and Xie Longwen did not wait for reinforcements from the governor, but Zhang Yinghe, the prefect of Guangxin, and Cai Bangjun, the prefect of Fuzhou, received a letter from Li Maofang to save Zhao from Wei.

Cai Bangjun's promotion was very fast, Chongzhen was a jinshi in the first year, and Chongzhen became a prefect in five years.

This old man didn't do anything else, devoted himself to cultural and educational work, and also recruited scholars to compile the "Fuzhou Mansion Chronicles".

Until the Nanchang bandits made a lot of trouble and occupied the county seat, he finally recruited the township to suppress the thieves, and invited Zhang Yinghe to cross the government to help suppress them.

Just a few days ago, Zhang Yinghe led more than 4,000 troops, and Cai Bangjun led more than 2,000 troops, and finally exterminated the Nanfeng bandits, and only dozens of secret disciples fled into the mountains.

"You are like a princess, but you want to send troops?" Cai Bangjun is quite weak-hearted, and he is really too famous as a thief in Luling.

Zhang Yinghe sighed and said: "The general army is besieged, and we can't sit idly by. What's more, we are not going to fight the main force of anti-thieves, but to lead troops to raid Jishui County. The purpose of this dispatch of troops is not to attack the city, but only to enter the jurisdiction of Jishui County and force the main force of the anti-thieves to withdraw from Fengcheng. ”

"It's up to you." Cai Bangjun didn't know how to fight at all, and if it weren't for Zhang Yinghe's help, he wouldn't have dared to exterminate the bandits by himself.

Zhang Yinghe actually had a headache, Li Ruolian, who was framed and demoted by Li Maofang, was the brother of his classmate and friend. They grew up together since childhood, and Zhang Yinghe and Li Ruolian are like brothers. In terms of personal feelings, Zhang Yinghe couldn't wait to strangle Li Maofang. Even in terms of public intentions, Zhang Yinghe also wants to impeach Li Maofang, but this governor is too bastard.

However, he can only help now, otherwise Nanchang is in danger!

The officers and soldiers of Guangxin and Fuzhou sent out together along the Chongren River, and then turned into the Wujiang River on the way, and went straight to Jishui County from behind.

Siege Wei to save Zhao.

(There is something to do this afternoon, only two watches.) ）