Chapter 304: See the Poor Dagger

Because someone had already been sent to pass on the information in advance, the Yunyang Mansion had already sent people to wait outside the city, and was arranged to go out of the city to meet Chen Wang is Yunyang Wei's commander Kang Ruiwu.

Before Chen Wang arrived, Kang Ruiwu, the commander of Yunyang Guard, who led a group of families to stand on the official road, was already striding up to meet him.

"Yun Yangwei commanded Kang Ruiwu, see Chen Shuai."

Kang Ruiwu had a ruddy complexion, a burly body, a long beard on his face, almost touching his chest, a leopard head and wolf eyes, and a loud voice, looking like a fierce general.

He was wearing a Ming iron helmet, a Ming armor with decent protection, a lapel collar and a waist knife, and a rather bloated outfit.

Chen Wang's eyes looked towards Kang Ruiwu's rear, and the group of family members who followed Kang Ruiwu, only there were not many well-dressed Ming armor, only four or five people, and the remaining forty people were wearing cloth iron armor.

Each of them led a horse and held a stirrup, both with a bow and a knife, and all of them had evil spirits on their bodies, and they looked quite capable.

This alone is already stronger than many guards.

Tan Yingfeng, the commander of Han Zhongwei, has more than 30 people under his command who can fight, and there is no Ming armor, and many of them are not very well armed, and their combat power is even more average.

It's okay to bully the bandits and bandits in Hanzhong Mansion, but if you really encounter a rogue or something, you can't beat it at all.

These families under Kang Ruiwu are much stronger than those under Tan Yingfeng.

In the end, it is a character who can survive several storms and can still protect himself.

"Yunyang Mansion is now in a mess, Wang Fuzhi is busy with affairs, and he can't withdraw for the time being, so he sent me to greet him."

After receiving Chen Wang's signal, Kang Ruiwu stood up from the ground.

Different from his appearance, Kang Ruiwu speaks and does things very tactfully, and he is extremely skilled in human relations.

The current Fuzhi of Yunyang Mansion is Wang Aoyong, a native of Linzi, Shandong, and a Jinshi in the fifth year of tomorrow

The reason why Chen Wang remembers him is very simple, this Wang Aoyong is a character who has entered "The Biography of Erchen".

Wang Aoyong naturally didn't want to meet him because he was really busy with affairs, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was heavy on literature and light on martial arts.

Wang Aoyong, as the governor of Yunyang, has a status similar to that of an ordinary governor, so he naturally will not lower his status to greet him.

Although there is only one word difference between Fuzhi and the governor, the status on the surface is also about the same, although the official face is sometimes called the governor of Yunyang, but in fact, the real accuracy should be called Yunyang Fuzhi.

Yunyang Fuzhi, the full name of Yunyang and other places and the commander of military affairs, and the governor is still different.

Although Chen Wang is now prominent as the chief soldier of the seal, this is in the sequence of military ministers.

After a few simple questions and answers, Kang Ruiwu got on his horse and drove his horse to follow Chen Wang, while his family members were a little farther away and did not join the queue.

"Chen Shuai came from afar, there were many hardships along the way, and he had set up a banquet in the restaurant in the city to catch the wind and wash the dust for Chen Shuai, and when Chen Shuai saw Wang Fuzhi, he could have a good rest."

Kang Ruiwu dragged the war horse, a little behind Chen Wang, and asked.

Chen Wangwei groaned and did not refuse Kang Ruiwu's proposal.

In the city of Yunyang Prefecture, there are not only the governor's yamen, but also the yamen of the Huguang Xingdu Division.

However, the troops guarding Yunyang Mansion City now are not the troops of Huguang Xingdusi, but the sergeants belonging to Yunyang Wei.

Most of the sergeants of the Huguang Xingdu Division were recruited and transferred to the army by Yang Sichang, either to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, or to follow Zheng Chongjian to stabilize the situation in Henan Province.

Most of the people guarding Yunyang Mansion City now are Yunyang Guard's guards.

Kang Ruiwu is the commander of Yunyang Guard, and the guards guarding the city are all his subordinates, and he has been a commander for a long time, so he should know a lot about the situation in Yunyang Mansion.

Chen Wang was interested in learning more about the things in Yunyang Mansion.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

Knowing more about the things in Yunyang Mansion can play a great role in the future layout.

Now that Kang Ruiwu is taking the initiative to make friends, why not?

Chen Wang agreed to the banquet, and the atmosphere was much warmer.

Chen Wang and Kang Ruiwu walked all the way, knocking on the side of the road and asking a lot of questions about Yunyang Mansion.

Kang Ruiwu also answered everything one by one, without the slightest impatience.

The soldiers and horses led by Chen Wang were not allowed to enter the city, and Yunyang Mansion set aside a place as a place to be stationed.

Previously, because Yunyang Mansion City allowed soldiers and horses to enter the city, those soldiers and horses were corrupted, which caused a very bad impact in the city.

It is precisely because of the lessons of the past that all the guest troops are not allowed to enter the city of Yunyang after that.

Regarding the regulation of Yunyang Mansion City, the difference between being in the city and being outside the city is not big now, and Chen Wang is not much dissatisfied.

Chen Wang asked a group of soldiers to stay at the garrison outside the city, and only brought Hu Zhili and six guards into the city.

Although the war has not yet spread to Yunyang Mansion City, Yunyang Mansion City has entered a state of war readiness.

Chen Wang led the troops all the way, and on the way, he encountered several patrols sent from Yunyang City.

Approaching Yunyang Fucheng, the atmosphere of war preparedness is even stronger.

After Yunxian County was upgraded to become a capital city, it expanded and built a brick and stone city wall on the basis of the original earthen wall.

With the increase of population, the city wall of Yunyang Mansion City has been repaired several times, and the length of the entire city wall has reached more than six miles long until now.

The average height of the city wall is two zhang and four feet, that is, about eight meters high, nearly three stories high.

Between the battlements of the city wall, there are many figures, banners are waving, and a large number of soldiers are gathered.

On the outskirts of the city and at the city gates, there were many soldiers and soldiers, and there were many patrols to maintain order, and everyone who wanted to enter Yunyang City had to go through an extremely strict check.

Those who did not pass the interrogation were expelled from the city at least or detained on the spot.

In the period when the bandits were rampant, there were really few cities that were forcibly breached.

The reason why most of the cities fell was because the rogues sent people into the city, taking advantage of the time of the big war or the dead of night, to set off turmoil inside, and the inside and outside should be combined.

Therefore, at this time, Yunyang Fucheng was extremely strict in the investigation and interrogation of entering the city.

With a special person to lead, Chen Wang of course did not need to go through the reconnaissance of the guards, and even when he passed through the city gate, a group of soldiers bowed down one after another.

Those soldiers and civilians who wanted to enter the city were all ordered to stop and wait, and only after Chen Wang passed through the city gate did they reopen the passage into the city.

The soldiers and civilians who were ordered to wait stayed on the side honestly, and many people's eyes stayed on Chen Wang's body, and when they were waiting to enter the city, they naturally saw the cavalry of the brigade galloping from afar.

Now the northern part of Yunyang Mansion is in turmoil, and there is news of rogues coming from all over the country, and people inside and outside Yunyang Mansion have always been panicked because of this.

At present, there are large groups of soldiers and horses to help, and they obviously look extremely elite, and everyone can't help but feel a lot more relieved.

Chen Wang's attention was not on the people around him, but on the soldiers guarding Yunyang Mansion City, so he didn't care about these glances.

Yunyangwei is quite famous in history, and its combat power was not bad when it was initially formed, and it has fought well in several counterinsurgencys.

However, today's Yunyangwei is naturally not as good as the original heyday.

According to Kang Ruiwu, there were almost 2,000 people in the main army under his guard, and more than 500 soldiers left in Yunyang Mansion by the Huguang Xingdu Division.

The pacesetter battalion under the command of Yunyang Fuzhi has almost a thousand people, and now there are barely 4,000 soldiers and horses in Yunyang Mansion.

In the earliest days, Yunyang Fuzhi did not have a pacesetter battalion under his command, after all, only the governor generally set up soldiers and horses.

But this time is different from the past, when Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others were wreaking havoc in Yunyang Mansion, the imperial court ordered Yunyang Fuzhi to train a pacesetter as a guard.

Most of the soldiers who came over to defend the city that Chen Wang saw all the way were wearing red hat hats, protective coats and mandarin duck battle jackets, and many of them didn't even have armor on their bodies, not to mention iron armor and cloth iron armor.

Many soldiers and even military uniforms, shoes and socks are basically tattered in many places, some thick and some thin, and it is obvious that many soldiers are suffering from the cold.

The officer of the guard guarding the west gate should have been at least a hundred households, but he was wearing a cloth iron armor and a pointed iron helmet.

There were three or four sturdy men around, presumably the family members of the guard officer.

They wore helmets and armor, but the armor was also a pair of cotton armor, and the red jackets that reached only the shoulders and exposed their arms were like cuirasses, and even the iron armours could not be matched.

The combat power of the Yunyang Guards can actually be estimated somewhat from this equipment.

Compared with the original Han Zhongwei, the combat power of the Yunyang Guard Army is indeed much stronger, but it is not much higher, and the real combat power is comparable to the combat power of ordinary battalions.

In terms of the sequence of the guards, the Yunyang guards are already okay.

However, in the case of the Yunyang Guards, there is more than enough to defend the city, but the field advance is insufficient.

Chen Wang saw all the soldiers guarding the city, as well as the city defense arrow tower and other facilities in Yunyang City, and had an estimate of Yunyang's defense strength in his heart.

Kang Ruiwu followed Chen Wang's side, naturally noticing Chen Wang's gaze.

Kang Ruiwu naturally couldn't guess Chen Wang's true thoughts in his heart, seeing Chen Wang's gaze sweeping around and then quickly retracting it, he only thought that Chen Wang might be a little disdainful of these sergeants under him.

"Chen Shuai's army is prosperous, the younger brother really admires it, if these sergeants under the younger brother have the ability of Chen Shuai's sons and daughters, they don't need to trouble Chen Shuai to personally lead the troops to quell the rebellion."

"In the place where the rogue is poisonous, as the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, we have the duty of protecting the territory and the people, no matter whether the road ahead is difficult or not, we should do our duty."

Chen Wang's expression was slightly solemn, first he replied to Kang Ruiwu's words with righteous words, and then said with a wide voice.

"I also used to be a fellow of the guards, and I also know the situation of the guards, and the guards under Commander Kang's command are already stronger than more than ninety percent of the guards, even if they are not much inferior to the guards on the nine sides."

The smile on Kang Ruiwu's face was even worse, Chen Wang, as the chief soldier with the seal, was much higher than him in terms of status and status, and now he was not only talking to him with a pleasant face, but even praising him, which was naturally difficult to hide his joy.

There are still many rogues raging in Yunyang Mansion, and as the commander of Yunyang Wei, he has a headache for them.

If he can befriend Chen Wang and use Chen Wang's power to sweep away these threats, then it will not only be a great achievement for him, but also more at ease.

There are dozens of streets and alleys in Yunyang City, merchants gather on the east and west streets, and many buildings such as bell and drum towers, Fuxue Palace, guild halls, theaters, temples, nunnery and so on are in an orderly manner.

Kang Ruiwu led Chen Wang all the way from the main road into the inspectorate.

When Yunyang set up a government office, because the first Yunyang Fuzhi Yuanjie served as the left deputy governor of the Inspectorate, so he co-located the office, and the Yamen of Fuzhi was located in the Inspectorate.

"Chen Shuai waits, Wang Fuzhi will be there soon, and he will go to the restaurant first, waiting for Chen Shuai."

Kang Ruiwu took Chen Wang to the second hall of the Inspectorate, and after confessing his guilt to Chen Wang, he withdrew from the hall and walked to the side, leaving Chen Wang alone to wait in the second hall.

Chen Wang didn't wait long, Yunyang Fuzhi Wang Aoyong, who was wearing a black gauze hat and a scarlet civil official uniform, had already walked into the hall from outside.

Wang Aoyong was over fifty years old at this time, but the maintenance was excellent, his face was fair, and his long beard and chest looked gentle and elegant.

For Wang Aoyong's second minister, Chen Wang was extremely disdainful in his heart, but this was not the time to turn his face.

"The last general, Chen Wang, see Wang Fuzhi."

Chen Wang stood up and gave a military salute to Wang Aoyong, he naturally didn't need to make a big salute when he was wearing armor.

"Mr. Chen is diligent in state affairs and comes from afar, so he doesn't need to be polite."

Wang Aoyong smiled and waved his hand, and then walked to the first seat of the second hall and sat down.

After a brief greeting, Wang Aoyong got straight to the point.

"Mr. Chen said that he had something important to do, but I don't know what it is?"

Wang Aoyong looked at Chen Wang, Chen Wang did not directly lead the troops to suppress the rogues in the north, but came to Yunyang to see him first, and said that there was something important to discuss, which made him quite puzzled.

"Fu Zhi Rongyu, the scale of the rogues who entered the mountainous area of Yunbei this time is above 10,000 people, and the thief leader Chang Guoan is one of the thirty-six battalions of rogues in the past, originally from the Junzhou area to be appeased, and is extremely familiar with the geography of Yunbei."

"The Liukou broke the township, and there were chaotic people colluding with them among the people, and the last general sent troops to suppress it, which was often known to them, and the benefits of the Liukou cavalry were transferred all the way to the war, and our department has had little effect since October."

Wang Aoyong's eyes were solemn, but Chang Guoan was a big man during the 36th Battalion.

He also knows what Chen Wang said, Chang Guoan has been plundering the counties recently, and even in the township, the snowflakes from all over the country are swarming like snowflakes.

Chang Guoan ignored the ordinary people, and only pointed the finger at the local gentry and eunuchs.

In the land of Yunbei, people were panicked for a while, and many people wanted to take refuge in Fucheng with their families, and he knew all these things.

After the murder of these local gentry and eunuchs, it caused a lot of turmoil in the court, and the criticism in the court and China was raging, which had a great impact on his reputation.

Thinking of this, Wang Ao couldn't help frowning.

Between Chen Wang's words, his mind was always on Wang Aoyong's body.

Wang Aoyong's expression changed naturally because it did not escape Chen Wang's eyes.

"Mr. Chen said so, but there is already a strategy to break the enemy."

Wang Aoyong has been up and down in the sea for many years, and his expression soon returned to normal, and he asked Chen Wang at the moment.

He is not stupid, since Chen Wang has displayed all the difficulties he has encountered, and he has made a special trip to Yunyang Fucheng, he naturally has a solution.

And Chen Wang is waiting for Wang Aoyong's problem.

"The rogues rely on nothing more than the eyes and ears of the rebels, and they also rely on the geographical advantages of the mountainous areas."

"Fuzhi has governed Yunyang for many years, and he knows Yunyang well, if he can get the details of Yunyang Mansion and destroy the Liukou, it is not a difficult thing."

Chen Wangtu saw that the map owned by Yunyang Fuzhi was not a simple map.

On the map, there are not only important passes in various places, but also places where mountain people gather, as well as many important places that are not known to the public.

If you can get the map, it is equivalent to mastering all the confidential and important matters of the entire Yunxiang Mountain District......

(End of chapter)