Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

Thousand Household Lofts.

A huge map was placed on a table, the most conspicuous position of which was written Qingzhou Mansion, and the names of Yidu, Linzi, Boxing, Shouguang and other county towns were also written elsewhere, apparently a detailed map of Qingzhou Prefecture.

In addition, there are hundreds of small colored flags divided into three arrows on the map, one pointing directly to Qingzhou Prefecture, one pointing to Juzhou, and one pointing to Gaoyuan County.

"Gan Yang, Wu Feng, Peng Guan, the three of you will take 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Linzi, bring all the siege equipment, and after taking Linzi, surround Qingzhou Mansion, only besiege but not attack, and wait for others."

Su Hao pointed to the map and said, "Tian Ming, Liang Ping, Jiang Shizhong, the three of you will lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Gaoyuan, and after taking Gaoyuan, Boxing, Le'an and other places, you will join the three of Ganyang and jointly attack the city."

"Guo Hong and Liao Qing, the two of you will take 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Juzhou, and take all the counties of Qingzhou Mansion as much as possible."

Wang Congyi's 140,000 army has almost drawn the entire Shandong troops, and now the troops of the various provinces in Shandong are not much left, and there are only 4,000 people left in the Qingzhou Mansion and the Hengwang Mansion Honor Guard Division and the Hengshan Pastoral Office, among which the Hengwang Mansion Honor Guard Division and the Hengshan Pastoral Office are the guards of the Hengwang Mansion, the former guards the Wangfu, and the latter raises horses for the Wangfu.

Because of his performance when attacking other counties in Jinan Prefecture, the wealthy families on the side of Qingzhou Mansion basically did not take the initiative to recruit Xiangyong for the prefectures and counties, after all, he is not the real White Lotus Sect, those real White Lotus Sect disciples are ordinary people who can't survive, every time they capture a county, the first time is to loot the wealthy families, this practice will naturally make all the wealthy families resist desperately, after all, people don't want to die, they don't want their property to be robbed.

In all dynasties, those who won the world were never those who won the hearts of the people, but those who won the hearts of the gentry, and when it came to winning the hearts of the people, who could compare to Li Zicheng and them, but those who had revolted since ancient times won the world, and even Zhu Yuanzhang did not rely on the common people to win the world.

"Yes, Chiho!"

Hearing Su Hao's order, everyone responded.

Soon after, the three armies and horses went towards Qingzhou Mansion in three ways, and for a while, the whole Shandong shook again.

………

Qingzhou Mansion City, Mansion Office.

The prefect Liu Yingjiu and the commander of the Qingzhou Zuo Weiwei made Gao Ting both have sad faces, the rebels are coming, and it is only more than 200 miles from Jinan Mansion to Qingzhou Mansion, and there is a Menghu lying next to them, so they naturally will not take it lightly.

"High Commander, now that the rebels are coming this way, what should we do?"

Liu Yingjiu had a bitter face, how could he encounter such a thing, Wang Congyi was really a waste, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, he could still be defeated.

What to do?

Hearing Liu Yingjiu's words, Gao Ting almost rolled his eyes, since he became the commander of the Qingzhou Left Guard, he has only been to the camp a handful of times, and now he is temporarily catching ducks on the shelves, how does he know what to do?

In the capital, the military department swallowed most of the power of the governor's office of the five armies, and set up a military patrol road and a military reserve road in the locality, which were held by high-level officials of the Department of Punishment and Inspection.

….

In the entire Shandong guard station, except for the guard commander of the guard post along the river directly under the direct jurisdiction of the governor of Caoyun, because he needs to escort Cao grain, he still has some power, and the guard commander of the other guard post is similar to him, and he has not been to the camp several times in more than ten years.

This time, Su Hao took a spoonful of the officials above and below the Procuratorial Envoy Department in Jinan Mansion, Jinan Mansion was not recaptured, and the imperial court did not have the face to reappoint officials such as political envoys and probationary envoys, so he could only let him lead the guard, but he hadn't even been to the camp for more than ten years, let alone studied the military books, and now he was suddenly let take care of it, what could he do.

[In view of the general environment,

But thinking about it, Gao Ting still spoke: "Prefect, now there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in the guard, and it is very difficult to defend the palace, so the prefect might as well go to Hengwang's Mansion, lend the guards in the palace, and then ask the wealthy families in the city to donate more

I can get some money and food, so that I can recruit some villagers to help defend the city."

Hearing Gao Ting's method, Liu Yingjiu's face was even more bitter, if this method was useful, he would have used it a long time ago, but this is not at all, the guards of the palace are not something he can mobilize, and those wealthy families in the city ignore him, what can he do?

The first two months were supposed to be a critical moment for tax collection, but Su Hao sent people to various counties to interfere with tax collection at every turn, resulting in not much tax collection on the Fucheng side at all, no donations from those wealthy families, and no money from the government to recruit village warriors, and Su Hao recruited recruits to give such a high salary, and he could not give such a high treatment.

But he has no way to take these wealthy families, these people have their own backers in the officialdom, even if they don't donate, he has no choice, after all, these people have not colluded with the rebels, and it is impossible for him to come to the door to take people and raid their homes.

"Fuzun, King Heng is preparing to leave the palace with the palace guards!"

At this time, a servant hurriedly ran in.

"What did you say?"

Hearing the words of the servant, Liu Yingjiu's face suddenly changed greatly, if even King Heng ran away, then it may cause a large number of wealthy families and ordinary people to follow suit, and then the entire Qingzhou Mansion will follow.

"Stop it."

After coming back to his senses, Liu Yingjiu hurriedly said.

On the other side, Jiang Shizhong and other soldiers divided into three roads, approaching Qingzhou Mansion, only a few townships in each county bravely defended the city, and they could not stop the army led by Jiang Shizhong and others.

………

Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

"Master, according to Jiang Baihu, they have already taken the cities of Linzi, Gaoyuan, and Boxing, and are heading towards Qingzhou Mansion, do we need to send people to support?"

Ding Zimo arched his hand.

"No, I don't."

Su Hao looked at the official document and waved his hand: "Just experience them."

In addition to Jinan Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, which are the provincial capitals of a province, there are not too many masters in other prefectures, such as Qingzhou Mansion, the first-class martial artists in the prefecture are generally around seven or eight people, and now Jiang Shizhong Although they have fewer masters, they have an advantage in troops, and in general, they still occupy an absolute advantage.

….

Before, in Dongchang Mansion, Tang Xiangjin had made enough contributions, and now Tang Xiangjin, Yang Bao, Hao Yi, He Liu, and Luo Yi were left in Dongchang Mansion by him, and now Jiang Shizhong and they should also have some performance, otherwise after he takes Qingzhou Mansion and Denglai Erfu, he is ready to build a country and claim the emperor, and when he is rewarded for meritorious deeds, it is very likely that Tang Xiangjin will take the lead alone.

In this way, it is against the balance he has always deliberately maintained, not that he is suspicious, but just planning in advance, and it is better to prevent it in advance than to turn his face later.

Besides, Tang Xiangjin can't all rely on Tang Xiangjin in the first army, as the territory he occupies is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more places that need to be defended, and Tang Xiangjin has no ability to clone himself, so Jiang Shizhong and they must also grow up as soon as possible.

"Zi Mo, you arrange for people to go to those counties to recruit recruits."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao said, of the more than 80,000 guards captured last time, he only received more than 20,000 of them from Shandong, and the others were all arranged by him to farm, and the roots of these people are not here, once the imperial court comes to attack again, these people will be an unstable factor.

Therefore, his standard of recruitment has always been local, preferably under his rule, because in this way, he can guarantee the loyalty of these soldiers to the greatest extent.

"Yes, Master."

Ding Zimo nodded.

At this time, Su Hao put down the official document in his hand and said with a serious expression: "Zi Mo, how is the pro-military guard I asked you to form now?"

When Luo Yi and the others set up the Four Seas Gang, he had been cultivating pro-soldiers, but at that time, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not cultivate many pro-soldiers, and now that he has rebelled, he naturally has to have his own direct pro-soldiers, although his current strength is strong enough, but he can't do everything himself, not to mention Meng

The tiger can't stand the wolves, he doesn't have his own personal soldiers, and once someone has a different heart, he may be surrounded and killed.

Ding Zimo replied, "Master, there are now thousands of reserve candidates for the pro-soldier guard, and there are one hundred and twenty-one official pro-soldiers."

"There's no rush here, take your time."

Su Hao nodded and said, "The requirements cannot be relaxed, to join the pro-soldier guard, you must at least have the strength to enter the stream, and the training of bows and arrows cannot be left behind."

Now his strength is enough to protect himself, and he rarely leaves the city, and the demand for pro-soldiers is not so urgent, so for pro-soldiers, his requirements are very high, at least he must have the strength to enter the stream, after all, with his current strength, he can threaten him, at least the innate grandmaster, ordinary soldiers can't help him at all.

As for bow and arrow training, for the innate grandmaster, it is difficult for even a martial artist to get close to him, and the only thing that can affect the innate grandmaster is long-range weapons, and it is difficult to infuse internal force with firebolts and the like, but bows and arrows are different, under the action of internal force, the power of bows and arrows is much greater than that of ordinary firearms.

Although it is impossible to kill the Innate Grandmaster, even if it is the Innate Grandmaster, he does not dare to carry the bow and arrow shot by the Rank Martial Artist with his body, after all, he will still be injured a little.

"Master, don't worry."

Ding Zimo nodded.

………

Time passed little by little, and the 40,000 troops led by Jiang Shizhong, Gan Yang and others gathered outside the city of Qingzhou Mansion, and for a while, hundreds of people in the city were panicked.

….

In the commander's tent, Gan Yang, Wu Feng, Peng Guan, Tian Ming, Liang Ping, and Jiang Shizhong looked at the city map of Qingzhou Prefecture, and Jinan Prefecture, as the provincial capital of Shandong, naturally has a detailed map of each prefecture and city.

"Lao Tian, how do you say this Qingzhou Mansion should be fought?"

Looking at the map, Jiang Shizhong only felt a little big, although he had been studying the military book recently, but he had no foundation in this area before, and he couldn't even count half a bucket of water for the time being, the city wall of this Qingzhou Mansion was extremely high, a little higher than Dongchang Mansion, and the only advantage was that the terrain was not too steep.

"Storm."

After looking at the map, Tian Ming said in a deep voice: "We have an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and we still have enough siege equipment, we will lead the team to attack in the north to attract the attention of the defenders in the city, you and Liang Ping take a few thousand people to the south city wall to attract the attention of the other party, distract their forces, if there is a chance, attack the city, if there is no chance, then divide the troops to other city walls, the other side only has more than 4,000 people, and it will definitely not be able to divide too many troops."

"Okay."

Jiang Shizhong nodded, they have absolute strength, and they can completely exhaust each other.

A moment later, Jiang Shizhong and Liang Ping each led 5,000 men around the south and east city walls.

On the city wall, Liu Yingjiu looked at the seven or eight tall arrow towers outside the city, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, each of these arrow towers is four zhang high, and the city wall of Qingzhou Mansion City is only three zhang seven, although an arrow tower can carry not many soldiers, but seven or eight arrow towers can carry six or seven hundred archers, and the advantages of the city wall of Qingzhou Mansion City have been offset a lot.

"High Commander, do you think we can hold it?"

Liu Yingjiu muttered in a low voice.

Hold?

Glancing at the siege equipment of the army outside the city, Gao Ting looked helpless, the arrow tower, Hongyi cannon, tiger squat cannon, rushing car, and siege hammer vehicle are almost all heavy siege equipment.

Now there are tens of thousands of defenders in the city, Liu Yingjiu and King Heng teamed up to capture the young men in the city and forcibly rushed to defend the city, but the morale can only be said that under the supervision of the supervision team, no one escaped for the time being.

And it's not just those strong men, even the guards under him don't have much fighting spirit, the recruitment treatment of the rebels has spread throughout Shandong, giving silver, giving fields, free rent, free of conscription, it can be said that if it weren't for the supervision of their own soldiers, those guards would have directly surrendered the city, this kind of morale still wants to hold the Qingzhou Mansion City, he can only say, Liu Yingjiu really dares to think!

At this time, the army outside the city began to assemble, and a large number of soldiers were arrayed, and the chariots with wooden curtains and chariots and rushing carts were lined up in front, followed by thousands of soldiers carrying sacks on their backs, apparently loaded with sand and gravel, ready to fill the moat, and in addition to the large ones

The shield bearers took their shields to cover the soldiers.

At this time, eight Hongyi cannons were pushed onto the makeshift forts.

Reload!

Ignition!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Under the action of gunpowder, six twenty-pound solid iron balls turned into a small black dot with terrifying kinetic energy and quickly crossed the sky, and then blasted towards the city wall!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

For a while, it was as if the ground was shaking, and the smoke and dust shrouded a small section of the city wall, some of the stompings were shattered, and the bursting gravel killed and injured several soldiers, some smashed a big hole in the city wall, and some smashed directly into the city.

At this time, the army also began to advance slowly, and the soldiers with sacks on their backs approached the moat under the cover of siege equipment.

"Archery!"

"Fire!"

Seeing the rebels approaching, Liu Yingjiu hurriedly shouted.

Hearing Liu Yingjiu's words, the drummer hurriedly beat the drum and gave the order.

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