Wei Ran returned to Huiji City and also met Tan Xuan himself.

Tan Xuan, a member of the Tan clan in Yuyao, Huiji County, is five years old today Chinese New Year's Eve. When the former thief Sun Tai was in trouble, Tan Xuan led the villagers to resist, but in the end, he was unable to resist and fled to the sea with his family.

At the beginning of the year, Sun Tai was pacified, and Tan Xuan returned to Yuyao. In order to win over Tan Xuan, Xie also gave a part of the food for disaster relief to the Tan family, Tan Xuan distributed the food to the people, and disdained to be with Xie and others, and wanted to take the opportunity to go to Jiankang to denounce it a few days ago, but he didn't want to be informed, so he was imprisoned.

At present, Tan Xuan saw the young Guangling County Prince, and couldn't help but say: "The county prince is too reckless, and now the county prince is going to conquer Linhai County again, if the remaining scholars are not convinced, wouldn't the county prince be in a dilemma." ”

Wei Ran said with a smile: "Tan Junshou is too worried, I will leave 3,000 Huainan troops for Tan Junshou to deploy, and I will take all the soldiers of Huiji County and the private soldiers of various Shi clans to the Linhai front." ”

Tan Xuan looked at Wei Ran, and was very anxious in his heart: "If these private soldiers are unwilling to fight with their hearts, how can the county prince be good." ”

Wei Ran looked at Tan Xuan, who was angry, and couldn't help but say angrily: "You literati are ink, if you don't fight hard and disobey military orders, then kill them all." If these scholars did not have private soldiers in their hands, it would not be more convenient for Tan Jun to keep things in order. ”

In fact, Tan Xuan can't be blamed for being too careful, he has read sage books since he was a child, and he really didn't expect Wei Ran to act like this, and he couldn't help but be dumbfounded at the moment.

The next day, in the mouth of the vegetable market in Huijicheng, Wei Ran personally supervised the beheading, and the people in Huijicheng were rolling, but the people cheered.

Wei Ran then issued a conscription notice, and countless people responded at one time. Wei Ran selected young and strong people from among them and asked for their identities.

Do not want to be an only child in the family, and do not want to be married but have no children.

More than 4,000 soldiers were recruited in half a day, and Wei Ran formed a formation with the private soldiers of the Shi clan. Zhang Gui is in charge of training and commanding.

Three days later, Wei Ran led his troops into Linhai City.

However, there are also many interesting things that happened along the way. First of all, the private soldiers of the Shi clan were really entangled, and there were thousands of these private soldiers gathered together, gathering to disobey the military order and want to probe Wei Ran's bottom line, but Wei Ran not only cut down the most ferocious people on the spot.

Before leaving, Wei Ran asked each scholar clan to send one person to the army, and Wei Ran took the opportunity to beat the son of the scholar clan who took the lead in making trouble with thirty military sticks.

Pity those sons and daughters-in-law, who were already hostages in the army. At present, they are still subject to the control of others, and they can only demand that all private soldiers are not allowed to make trouble, and must obey military orders.

After Wei Ran led his troops to Linhai County, he surrounded the city, but did not attack.

Instead, he pulled a person out of the army, and it was Zhou Xiu, who was captured by Wei Ran before.

Zhou Cheng, the warden of Linhai County, saw that his own nephew had been beaten and did not look good, so he was immediately angry and scolded Wei Ran in the city.

Wei Ran was not annoyed, and listened to Zhou Cheng shouting there with great interest.

After Zhou Cheng finished scolding, Wei Ran shouted to Zhou Cheng: "Zhou Junshou, I don't know if your wife and children are still on the island?" ”

It turned out that Wei Ran interrogated Zhou Xiu for several days, Zhou Xiu was already a gentleman, where could he withstand the beating, and soon confessed that Zhou Cheng of Linhai County had become a precautionary measure, and transferred important people in the clan to the island in advance. At the same time, the deployment of troops in Linhai County was also informed one by one.

When Zhou Cheng heard Wei Ran's words, he was not in a hurry, but said: "Since I led the army to start an incident, life and death have long been put aside. ”

Wei Ran didn't talk nonsense with him, after the army surrounded Linhai City, Wei Ran picked up Weber's letter to him, and after reading it carefully, Wei Ran smiled slightly.

Wei Ran then ordered the army to dig tunnels under the two walls.

Zhou Cheng looked at Wei Ran's military camp from the top of the city tower, and saw that Wei Ran's army had not moved for two consecutive days, which couldn't help but make him suspicious.

At this time, the soldier suddenly came to report that he vaguely felt that there were people underground.

Zhou Cheng suddenly realized: "The Qi army is going to dig tunnels and sneak attack. ”

Zhou Cheng pondered for a moment and said, "Come on, dig a horizontal ditch around the city wall, and send troops to guard the horizontal ditch." ”

It turned out that Zhou Cheng's consideration was that when Wei Ran's troops dug the tunnel into the city wall, they would encounter a horizontal ditch, and the soldiers would be killed by the Linhai County soldiers, and if they retreated, they would use fire to suffocate the Qi army in the tunnel.

At this time, in the camp, Zhang Gui also reminded Wei Ran: "County Lord, is the plan to dig tunnels too hasty?" Once discovered by the enemy, if a trench is dug in the city, the plan will be broken. ”

But what Zhang Gui and Zhou Chengdu didn't expect was that this strategy was come up with by Weber. The county town of Linhai is close to the sea, and the geology is soft. Wei Ran asked people to dig more than ten tunnels on both sides, but they did not pass into the Linhai County City, but through the underground of the city wall.

Wei Ran smiled slightly, and then pointed at the Linhai County City on the sand table with his sword and said, "General Zhang doesn't have to worry too much, this tunnel is not as simple as imagined. ”

At this time, the family will report: "County Lord, the tunnel has been dug, what to do next." ”

Wei Ran asked, "When will the Jingkou Navy arrive?" ”

"Tomorrow is coming."

After hearing this, Wei Ran looked at the map, and then said, "Everyone rest and recuperate, and launch a general attack tomorrow." ”

After Zhou Cheng's troops dug a trench within the city wall, they didn't see the figure of the Qi army, and Zhou Cheng couldn't help but guess, could it be that he was thinking wrong?

But seeing that the Qi army outside the city wall had no movement, Zhou Cheng was even more puzzled.

"If you attack the camp tonight, what do you think?"

But no one agreed, on the grounds that Sun Tai had lost his troops and lost his elite in the process of attacking Wu County at night. The Qi army has no movement today, and it must have induced us to attack the camp.

Wei Ran was indeed ready to be attacked in the camp, but Zhou Cheng did not move all night, which also made Wei Ran can't help but scold Zhou Cheng for being a gutless rat.

After dawn, Zhou Cheng stood on top of the city tower, he hadn't had a good rest for several days. But today, for some reason, Zhou Cheng felt extremely flustered, and the Qi army did not move for many days, besieging but not attacking. At first, he thought that he was going to trap him in Linhai County, so he had already requisitioned enough grain to store in the city, and at the same time set up ships on the east side in advance, and if the situation was not right, he led his troops to retreat to the sea, which can be said to be foolproof.

But he still made a mistake after all, when he saw the dense Southern Qi naval army on the sea, Zhou Cheng finally knew why the Qi army had not attacked, they were waiting for the navy. Then I saw that the navy surrounded the mouth of Rinkai County, and there was still a part of the fleet heading overseas.

Zhou Cheng closed his eyes, tears falling from the corners of his eyes, he knew that the navy was looking for his clansmen hiding on the island.

At this moment, the soldier suddenly shouted, "My lord, the Qi army has moved." ”

Zhou Cheng looked under the city wall, only to see that the cavalry of the Qi army was already lined up outside the camp, but he did not see the siege equipment.

"What does Wei Ran want to do, use a horse's head to hit our city wall?" Zhou Cheng said with a smile.

But seeing the Southern Qi fleet on the sea, Zhou Cheng's laughter turned into a bitter smile, and then he walked down the city tower and went straight to the east gate to the sea.

Not long after Zhou Cheng got down from the city tower, he stayed where he was, because he felt the feeling of the ground shaking, and then Zhou Cheng didn't react, he saw many stones smashed near him, and even the guards around him were killed by several people. Zhou Cheng turned back suddenly, only to see the city wall in front of him collapse violently, and countless soldiers on the city wall fell to their deaths, wailing all over the field

Wei Ran saw that the city wall had collapsed outside the city, and then shouted: "Soldiers, at this moment, rush with me, capture Zhou Cheng alive, a reward of one hundred taels, and an official promotion of three levels." ”

The Linhai county city, which lacked the protection of the city wall, was ravaged by the cavalry of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The soldiers could not withstand the onslaught of the cavalry, and the battle lasted only an hour, and the soldiers of Linhai surrendered one after another.

Zhou Cheng saw that the general trend had gone, and looked at the guards around him who had no fighting will, and after looking up to the sky and smiling, he drew his sword and killed himself.

Wei Ran found Zhou Cheng's body in the chaotic army, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Then Wei Ran beheaded Zhou Chengxiao, and all the soldiers of Linhai County laid down their arms and surrendered.

"General Chen, you take Zhou Cheng's head and the Huainan Army to continue south, and inform the whole county of Zhou Cheng's death. The surrender of the rest of the cities is not to blame. ”

Chen Dayan took the order and left, and at this time Zhang Gui asked, "How did the county prince use the tunnel to collapse the city wall?" ”

The soil of Linhai County is soft, and after Wei Ran led the tunnel to the bottom of the city wall, he used a number of beams to support the tunnel, and then burned the beams and trees together, and the tunnel collapsed violently, and the city wall also collapsed.

After listening to Wei Ran's explanation, Zhang Gui couldn't help but sigh: "The county prince is really a clever calculation. ”

"I just don't want to cause too many casualties, but now the Linhai County has been destroyed, and it will cost a lot to rebuild the city." Wei Ran really couldn't see the expression on his face.

In a short time, the admirals who had gone to pursue the island returned with many prisoners.

The Zhou Cheng clan was indeed on the island, but the Zhou family's private soldiers struggled to resist, Zhou Cheng's son Zhou Xun fled with dozens of cronies, and the navy was not familiar with the terrain, so he did not catch up in the end, and the rest of the Zhou clan were all here.

Wei Ran looked at the hundreds of Zhou clan relatives brought back by the navy, and said coldly: "All of them will be sent to Jiankang to be beheaded." ”

Half a month later, the news of Zhou Cheng's death spread to the entire Linhai County, and the entire Linhai County surrendered.

After Wei Ran purged a wave of Linhai county scholars, he chose Chen Qing, who had a good reputation, as the Linhai county guard among the remaining scholars, and appeased the people of Linhai County, distributed the land of the Shi clan to the people, and exempted the tax for one year like Huiji County, so that Linhai was completely recovered.

This rebellion, which began with Sun Tai's army, was finally completely suppressed after four months of history.

It is known in history as the Suntai Rebellion.