A fire attack and ambush did not end until dusk.

Zhao Ta stood at the head of the city, his face was dark and difficult to see, his body was like a gun, and the light of the setting sun shone through, reflecting the white robe, red like blood.

The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of all kinds of things burning, and the smell of scorched corpses, even if the black smoke dissipated at this moment, it still made people dizzy and nauseous.

In that large area under the city, there is no longer a living mouth, water and fire are ruthless, there is never a fluke, human skills, the sharpness of swords, has never been able to compete with the power born of nature.

There was no compassion on Zhao Tan's face, there was no superfluous expression, fighting a war was not a dinner invitation, and Ci Bu's soldiers were vividly displayed at this moment.

But his heart is still a little confused, after all, it is not a fight on the battlefield, but a strategy to win the victory, these soldiers on the other side, without even using a knife or a shot, all died here.

He sighed softly, and of the tens of thousands of people who entered the city, only three survived, two escaped, and one fainted at his feet.

Fang La and Fang Baihua ran away, it was General Lu who was unconscious, at first the soldier wanted to mend the knife, he suddenly remembered that Fang La actually took this person with him in the city, but did not bring Fang Baihua, I don't know what important person this person is, so he ordered to keep his life.

Just now, General Lu woke up once, opened his eyes and scolded, calling him, the King of Qin, the King of Birds, Zhao Ta saw that he was crazy and stepped on him, so he continued to be unconscious.

The next thing is to clean up the fire, search for the belongings of these dead thieves, and then bury the corpses, the thieves have money on them, and Fang La also wants to give his subordinates military salaries, bounties and silver, these thieves are fighting outside, so they naturally bring them with them.

It took a full night to finish the work, in the morning, Zhi Kecun, Du Bao returned from outside the city, Du Po led the cavalry to harass and pursue, and Zhi Kecun set up several ambushes on the way to the south, all of which were great victories, and there were tens of thousands of thieves who killed them.

Zhao Ta directly rewarded the Sixth Army, that is, he distributed all the money and property he collected, and did not leave any of them, and the army couldn't help cheering, calling the two kings Chitose Chitose, even if he was tired all night, he was also in good spirits.

Zhao Ta went back to the prefect's yamen to rest until noon, when someone came to report that Tong Guan had led the troops outside Hangzhou.

Zhao Ta sent an order to Tong Guan to send the army to the south and bring the generals of the western army to meet him.

It didn't take too long, and there was a report from the soldiers outside, saying that Tong Guan had arrived, and Zhao Ta nodded and called in.

After a while, I heard the sound of hurried footsteps, and I only saw a burly man wearing a golden helmet and gold armor, wearing a red coat, a face like brass, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a lion nose and a wide mouth, and a few steel whiskers scattered outside the door, and took the lead in entering.

Zhao Tan saw that it was Tong Guan, and couldn't help squinting, Tong Guan was also in his sixties and almost seventy, but he was full of energy, his temples on both sides were bulging, and his face was wrinkled, where did he seem to be so old.

Especially those few beards, it is simply against the sky, and the eunuchs have beards, although there are only a few, but they are also unique in history.

Zhao Ta may not have been able to determine Tong Guan's martial arts realm before, but as his own skills continue to increase, he can vaguely speculate that Tong Guan is a grandmaster!

How powerful should a grandmaster who has practiced the Sun Turning Needle be? How weird and difficult should the grandmaster-level sun-turning needle be?

Can the six-way firmament change be resisted? I'm afraid that it will take a grandmaster-level six-path firmament transformation to fight it, right?

Zhao Ta is not yet a grandmaster at the moment, but he feels that it is not far away, and it will probably only take an opportunity to step into this threshold with one foot in the door.

The so-called masters of the rivers and lakes and green forests are less than two hands, which refers to the rivers and lakes, floating on the surface, and the hidden talents, the masters of the game market, the court or the army, there are still other grandmasters.

Zhao Ta thought of Mi Zhenting at this time, where is this old man who has lived for nearly a hundred years? Although it is said that the fist is afraid of being young and strong, there is also a stick afraid of the old man, this Mi Zhenting is a stick player all his life......

At this time, Tong Guan had already walked into the door, followed by Liu Yanqing, who was under the command of the Han and Tibetan soldiers.

Behind are Xin Xingzong and Yang Weizhong of Xihe Bing, Liu Zhen of Jingyuan Bing, Yang Keshi and Zhao Ming of Huanqing Bing, Huang Di of Yan Yanbing, Wang Jian and Ma Gongzhi of Qin Fengbing, and Yijing of Hedong Bing.

All of them are in armor, their robes are shabby, and their faces are full of dust.

Everyone greeted each other, Zhao Ta let him sit down, then served tea, and said, "You have worked hard." ”

Tong Guan hurriedly stood up: "How can the ministers be higher than the prince's hard work, the minister has received a report from the imperial court, the prince in Jiangning with a break of ten, a record of immortal feats, shocking the ancient and the present, the former and the widowed soldiers returned to Hangzhou, and now defeated Fang La, it is simply the reincarnation of the Marquis of Wu, the reincarnation of the military god, the ministers and others all admire the five bodies and throw themselves to the ground, how dare they volunteer for their hard work!" ”

Zhao Ta waved his hand and smiled, and then sighed and said: "Although this king has made some military achievements in Jiangning, he also has some mistakes, the warriors who were forced to flee to Jiangning by the Fang La thief army, as well as the local gentry in Jiangning, were all killed by the thief army that mixed into the city, it is really a big mistake, and this king cannot escape the blame!" ”

Everyone was silent when they heard this, although this news was not reported to the army with the palace, but such a big event, with their status and status, where would they not know?

But I can't say anything about this, except for Tong Guan, these people are all generals of the Western Army, but they are not the kind of lone generals who have no foundation, they are either from Jiangmen, or they are inextricably related to Jiangmen.

Jiangmen is a kind of family, although it is different from the Shi clan in Jiangnan, but it is somewhat similar in nature, so they dare not say, dare not accept, and dare not take this conversation.

This is a big deal, if you don't say it well, it may bring death to your own family, and none of these generals are stupid, knowing that this matter is beyond their means.

After a slight silence, Tong Guan laughed dryly: "The prince is too worried, how can the prince be blamed for this matter?" People were killed by the Fang La thief army, if the prince was not in Jiangning at that time, he was afraid that the whole city would be slaughtered by the thief army, the prince fought against ten, defeated the thief army of hundreds of thousands, killed countless enemies, and kept Jiangning, where did it be? It's clearly a merit on top of a merit! ”

Zhao Ta thought for a while and said with a smile: "But it's also the reason, not to mention that this king gave those who died a grand funeral, and found someone to ascend to heaven, during which he spent countless amounts of effort and exhausted his efforts, and he didn't expect the Yanyan princes in the court to be grateful for this, as long as he didn't blame this king." ”

Tong Guan said: "Where is this happening, the princes are not unreasonable people, how can they have such disobedient thoughts." ”

Zhao Ta took a sip of the tea bowl, his face became sad, he looked at the people below, and said slowly: "What makes this king sad the most is that this king's father-in-law also died in the hands of the thief army. ”

The generals, including Tong Guan, were stunned, and looked at Zhao Ta, Tong Guan knew about Zhao Ta's family affairs, and he only married a county gentleman who was the son of the Zhang family.

Zhao Ta said: "After the king entered Jiangning, the gentry came and went to the house to make friends, the king often drank and feasted with everyone to talk about poetry and articles, during which he got acquainted with the daughter of the gentry of Shezhou Zhu Wu Niang, Wu Niang is known as the first talented woman in Shezhou, and the king fell in love at first sight, and the heart was happy, the king also liked her talent and embroidery, so he proposed to Zhu Taigong, Taigong agreed, agreed to wait only until the end of the war, and then returned to Beijing to report to the official's house, married Wu Niang into the door, did not expect ......"

When everyone heard this, they changed color, but they didn't expect that there would be such a thing, so in this way, isn't King Qin also a victim of this chaos?

Zhao Ta said again: "But fortunately, Wu Niang was studying in the Xuan Mansion that night and escaped this catastrophe, but the others of the Zhu family in the city are...... Alas, they were all slaughtered by the thieves! ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, it turned out that this Zhu Xiuniang did not die, which was also a blessing in misfortune, but the whole family was killed by the thief army, which was really too tragic.

If there is no such thing, the Zhu family should be the in-laws of the royal family, and they will be richer and richer in the future, but this kind of thing happened to no one expected, the so-called unpredictable circumstances, people have good fortune and misfortune, everyone is used to fighting on the battlefield, and they are used to seeing the fragility of human life, and they can't help but persuade together: "Please also ask the prince to mourn." ”

Where is Zhao Ta willing to listen to persuasion, sighed and felt sad for a long time, and then said: "Just talking about family affairs, but not talking about military affairs, this king is too painful, I hope you will forgive me." ”

Everyone got up together, hugged their fists and said: "The prince bows humbly, and the ministers don't dare." ”

Zhao Ta shook his head and said, "Let's just talk about business." ”

He then told the story of yesterday's thief army entering the city in ambush, Fang La jumping off the city and escaping, tens of thousands of military horses and several generals, including Wang Laofo, all died in the city.

Everyone in front of them was shocked when they heard this, although they learned from the soldiers at the city gate that Zhao Ta had won the victory in sniping Fang La in Hangzhou, but they didn't know that the results were so brilliant, which simply wiped out half of Fang La's family background.

This is still Zhao Ta did not say that he cut off Fang La's arm, if he did, Tong Guan and the others would be even more shocked.

But this kind of thing related to his own martial arts, naturally he can not say it, Zhao Ta said: "Now that Fang La has returned to Muzhou in the south, several states in eastern Zhejiang are still in his hands, and there is Lu Shisang over there in Xianju to echo, how to deal with it next, do you have a good plan in your heart?" ”

Tong Guan pondered: "The minister thinks that it is advisable to strike while the iron is hot, and chase and kill all the way to the past, at this moment the thief chief is in a hurry, if he does not take this opportunity to annihilate in one fell swoop, he is afraid that the thief chief will make a comeback in the name of the Demon Sect, recruiting troops and horses, but it is just ......"

Zhao Ta said: "Tong Shumi's words are reasonable, but what? ”

Tong Guan clenched his fists and lowered his head and said: "The minister is ashamed, although the siege of Suzhou has been lifted, and the thief chief Fang La led his troops to flee south, but there are still bandits entrenched on Taihu Lake, and they have not been exterminated, and they are always worried. ”

Zhao Tan wondered: "Taihu Lake has a water camp, where did the thieves come from?" ”

Tong Guan said: "The prince doesn't know, after Fang La's incident, there was Suzhou Dakou Shisheng, who called himself Taihu Lake, and led the demon sect to respond to the man-made response, killing the soldiers of the Taihu Lake Water Battalion, occupying the land of Taihu Lake, and cooperating with Fang La. ”

"Are all the soldiers of the Taihu Lake Water Battalion dead?" Zhao Ta pondered for a moment, these Taihu soldiers are not a good thing.

Ordinary local forbidden troops are at most timid and incompetent, bullying the people during the day, but these Taihu soldiers are all forced prostitutes, acting for tigers, and doing all kinds of evil.

The reason is naturally that this Taihu Lake water camp is Zhu Mian's descendant, Zhu Mian raised the Jiangnan Ying Feng Bureau, at the beginning to salvage and find Taihu Lake stones, and to take the river waterway, so this Taihu Lake water camp was assigned to the name of the Ying Feng Bureau, and was commanded and used by Zhu Mian.

There are probably many bad things Zhu Mian ordered, this Taihu Lake Water Camp went to operate, and later the Taihu Lake Water Camp gradually became famous, the momentum was huge, no one dared to provoke, and began to do some ugly things in private, anyway, the benefits were half of Zhu Mian's side, Zhu Mian turned a blind eye, and he didn't know what to do.

As for what bad things he did at Zhu Mian's orders, and what evil deeds he did at his own time, Zhao Ta didn't want to think about it, in short, these people died when they died, and they were all innocent.

"Yes, Lord Wang, he was killed by Shi Sheng and the Demon Sect Sect, there are thousands of people, and there is not a single one left!" Tong Guan looked distressed.

Looking at Tong Guan's expression, Zhao Tan wanted to laugh in his heart, Tong Guan and Zhu Mian have a good relationship, this is a well-known thing, Zhu Mian was looking for Tong Guan to buy military merits, and when he was in charge of the bureau at the beginning, he was also connected with Tong Guan, and the dirtiness between the two goes without saying.

Zhao Tan nodded and said, "Then now the Taihu Lake is allowed to run rampant on the stones?" ”

Tong Guan said: "Not really, Zhu Ruli, the second lang of Zhu Mian's family, led the people to defend on the shore of Taihu Lake, and also handed over several times, but it was not profitable, but he just managed to maintain it, and I left him 3,000 soldiers when I left, I don't know if I can hold on." ”

Zhao Ta wondered: "Didn't the official family remove Zhu Mian from his post, how could his son still lead the army?" ”

Tong Guan hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, there is really no one available, this head is going to pursue Fang La, the generals of Suzhou City over there are as timid as rats, incompetent and cowardly, and they can't be a big deal at all, this Zhu Erlang is proficient in martial arts, and he is bold and careful, so the minister sent him, but it is a bit violated, and I ask the prince to forgive him." ”

Zhao Ta smiled and said: "What is there to forgive about this, extraordinary means should be used in extraordinary times, but this Zhu Erlang is so skilled, didn't Tong Shumi think about accepting him as a disciple?" I remember that Tong Shumian was always looking for a successor! ”

Tong Guan smiled when he heard this: "The prince is joking, that Zhu Miansheng has two sons and a daughter, the eldest son was assassinated and died in the Taihu Lake painting boat some time ago, only a second son is left waiting to pass on the ancestry, and the old age is sent to the end. ”

Zhao Ta laughed out loud and said, "That Tong Shumi should hurry up, this Jiangnan is a place where Chinese people are outstanding, why don't you hurry up and find a disciple?" I know that the inner prison even has a great-disciple grandson, you are the ultimate martial arts, there are few enemies in the world, don't break the inheritance of Li Xuan's envoy. ”

Tong Guan was angry when he heard Mi Zhenting, and said in his heart, Lord Wang, you really don't open any pot, but when he heard that the other party even had a great-apprentice grandson, he couldn't help but be even more depressed, and sighed: "Lord Wang, the minister has too high requirements for his disciples, even if he can't find a satisfactory person in Jiangnan this time, he will step up his search after returning to Beijing, and he will never break the mantle of godfather." ”

Zhao Ta thought for a moment and suddenly said: "Since the Taihu Lake Hero is fierce, you only leave 3,000 people for Zhu Erlang, I am afraid that it will be unstable, and then you have to go south, you can't have too many worries, this king thinks it is better to send another 3,000 soldiers and horses, let that side hold on, and wait for this end to destroy Fang La, go back and do the cleanup." ”

Tong Guan was overjoyed when he heard this, he wanted to leave more troops for Zhu Ruli, although Zhu Mian is now dismissed, but he understands Emperor Daojun, if the thief army is destroyed here, it is estimated that it will not take long for the official to be reinstated.

So he left 3,000 soldiers for Zhu Ruli, but he didn't dare to give more, after all, the Zhu family is indeed white now, although there is no big incident, but he has to avoid chaos, now that Zhao Ta has spoken, he naturally has the courage to continue to send troops, and can't help but say: "Lord, then I will send 3,000 people back to Taihu Lake in a while." ”

Zhao Ta nodded, chatted about going south again, and then dispersed.

Then he stretched, thought about it, and went straight to the guest room at the back of the house.

(End of chapter)