Shangnan, a county of Xi'an Prefecture, is built according to Guo and is extremely quiet.

The city is not too big, but it is better than the truth. According to Chen Yuzhu's introduction, it was expanded once in the early years, and the heightened wall and the old wall can be vaguely seen in the old and new colors [1].

Surrounded by fertile fields outside the city, the trickle of clear streams is accompanied, and the withered yellow trees become forests. In the southeast, under the shroud of the bright and unbright sky, the black and dark are dark, and the distant mountains are undulating.

In the season of war and chaos, the city gate is closed at night, and it is only released in the corner. A few torches were extinguished, and the city wall guards stood with pestles and guns, drowsy and snoring.

On the official road that spread from the city gate, more than a dozen figures came in a hurry without hiding their whereabouts, and a person on the city tower woke up when he heard the sound and shouted to stop. The guards around them woke up in a mess, and they all raised their guns and arrows, aiming them at the front.

Suddenly, a voice came from the front: "Official, don't release arrows, don't release arrows." "Under the gray sky, it is difficult for the guards to see the appearance of the person who speaks, but when they hear their voice, they also feel a little familiar, and when they get closer, they don't often sneak out in the middle of the night, and who else is the Chen Yuzhu who is looking for them to go to the Qinglou to play?

Everyone on the city tower breathed a sigh of relief, and the commander put the knife back into its sheath and shouted: "It turned out to be Chen Wu, didn't you just take the road guide out of the city on the sun?" Why did you come back so quickly? ”

Chen Yuzhu was supported by Cao Mang, who had changed into official and military clothes, and after a few miles, he was already sweating profusely, wiping his sweat and complaining: "Don't say it, I do have something to do, but who knows that I met these people halfway."

They are all soldiers fighting with thieves in the west, and I am a man of righteousness and bravery, do you say that I can ignore them, so I can only take them to be wounded first, and I met the brothers at the outpost in front of them, and they dare not leave their posts without permission, so I can only take them back, sir, open the door quickly! ”

What kind of righteous and courageous people are all bullshit, the captain of the city tower was told a lot more soberly by his story, of course he knows who Chen Yuzhu is, they are all bitches, you fucking set up a memorial arch for me? Nine times out of ten, when they heard that there was a war in the west, they were so frightened that they couldn't walk, so they simply stopped doing anything and found an excuse to come back.

Looking at his injuries, maybe he was beaten a few times at the front outpost, and most of them knew about the money owed, but they didn't belong to the same part as the front outpost, so they didn't care about it, no matter what, there were also a few meals of flesh and skin friendship!

"Fuck your mother's righteous and brave people." Thinking of the last Wu Chang, he burst into a foul language, causing everyone behind him to laugh, and then shouted: "Open the city!" ”

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Half a day and a night of repair, manpower, horsepower fighting spirit is a lot. Yang Kai ordered his men to press forward to a distance of five miles outside the city gate, hiding in the mountains and condescendingly, waiting for the signal from the city gate.

But I saw that above the city tower, a few torches that had been extinguished were then turned into a piece, thrown into the air, and fell outside the city. A bright official road is exhibited outside the southern city.

Yang Kai stared at this scene, jumped up, got on his horse and turned around and raised his gun and shouted: "Capture the city, celebrate for three days, money, wine and meat, everyone will share it." ”

After that, he took the lead, leading Han Bin, Cao Mang, Cai Qian, Zhao Hu, the team was behind, roaring and shouting, and the old brother who followed behind him was stunned, and Yang Kai, who was on horseback from a distance, seemed to have become Yang Taisui's back, very similar.

According to the prior deployment, after Cao Mang seized the city gate, there was no need to go deep for the time being, only to ensure that the city gate was not lost, and the brothers who were leading the horses in the rear heard the movement in the city and rushed to it.

Five miles away, it takes a lot of effort on horseback.

Cao Mang got on his horse and stopped at the city gate, waiting for the rear team to come up, and then seamlessly integrated into the forward camp of the team.

two barracks in the city where soldiers were hidden; the county government office in the city; Guarding the gates of the city, the defeated officers and soldiers and the bitter people left the city, and gently let them go, and the merchants and gentry fled, and all of them were stopped.

The silent city, with Yang Kai and the others entering the city, seemed to wake up in a nightmare. The hesitant mood continued to spread, and the residents who stood up on the bed board seemed to have guessed what was going on at the first time, and rushed to strengthen the doors and windows, and the bold probe watched, and saw the healthy horse flying by, and was so frightened that they dodged in all directions.

There was a lot of disturbance, and the lights in the houses turned on and off.

The billowing dust and smoke of the rows of houses, the sounds of chickens and dogs, children crying, and adults crying in panic can be mixed together, becoming the last swan song of the city when facing the soldiers and bandits in the troubled times.

The first thing that jumped up from the arms of three or five unclothed women was to drive the slaves and the maids, and ordered the servants to clean up and hide the gold and silver, hoping that the thieves would come slowly and give them a chance to escape.

From the city gate, a team divided into four quickly ran away. The two teams attacking the garrison, Zhao Hu commanded Yang Kai all the way, Cao Mang led the team on the other side, Han Bin went straight to the county government under the leadership of Chen Yuzhu, and arrested the officials in the yamen, leaving Cai Qian, who went to the three major city gates of Notice, Yuliu, and Zhenyuan [2].

Shangnan City, the east and west of the Mu River, the stone bridge is built, the city inspection is located on the west side of the river, the two teams of infantry archers who were awakened by the riots in the city have just left the palace, completely defenseless, Yang Kai and Zhao Hu charged to come, short knives and spears danced wildly, where the horses passed, all people turned over on their backs, and became a ghost crying wolf.

In an instant, the two teams of soldiers outside the door were broken, leaving two ten-captains to guard outside the door, and the horse stepped on the door and went straight into the house.

The space was narrowed, the war horse was limited, Zhao Hu simply abandoned the war horse, picked up the spear, and the red tassel war spear dared to be the overlord in the chaos.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the dust of the battle situation in the inspection department was settled, more than half of the three hundred patrol officers were killed and wounded, and the rest surrendered on their knees.

Yang Kai left Zhao Hu to guard and surrender the soldiers, led more than 30 of his own soldiers, and went straight to Cao Mang's side, his side was particularly miserable, they were like enemies to see each other, their eyes were red, five hundred wounded soldiers left in the city, and less than two hundred remained, the wounds on Cao Mang's body were opened, and he couldn't tell which of the blood on his body was his own and which was the enemy's.

After Yang Kai came, he gritted his teeth, stopped the battle, left more than 100 soldiers to guard, and led people straight to the direction of the county government.

Before entering the yamen, the four directions from the southeast, northwest, and north came one after another to report: the city gate has been fully entered into my hands, and none of the merchant defenders have been let go.

In less than half an hour, a city had quietly toppled.

Yang Kaili was in the palace, thinking back to everything from entering the city to entering the palace, he never thought that it would be so smooth, and all kinds of hypothetical failures were diluted by success at this moment.

After thinking for a while, he felt that he couldn't let go, and gave two orders in succession. First, he opened the west gate to welcome the army into the city, and second, he did not kill the people to vent his anger as Wei Qianfu imagined, but selected two ten-captain commanders to lead his brothers to run around the city and read out the proclamation he had drafted temporarily to pacify the people in the city.

By the time the sky was bright, the city had gradually subsided, and the occasional sounds of fighting, screaming and panic were heard by the soldiers on patrol who had encountered the people who had taken advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, the fish that escaped from the army, or the wealthy merchants and traitors who wanted to flee by taking advantage of the chaos.

Fortunately, Shangnan City was not large, they acted separately at the first time, quickly controlled the large and small officials, destroyed the defensive forces in the city, and Yang Kai also seized the opportunity to pacify the people and did not cause large-scale turmoil, so he had hundreds of empty men left, running around, but he was barely able to stabilize the situation.

He took the lead in ordering people to count the grain depot and equipment storehouse, and instructed the people below to change the weapons that had been used for a long time in their hands, and keep the money and food for the time being.

When the sun rises in the east, the banner of the word "Chuang" floats from afar, Yang Kai and others personally went to Anren Gate in Xicheng, welcomed Gao Yingen and others into the city, and Wei Qianfu, who followed behind Gao Yingen, was secretly surprised by the results of Yang Kai and others.

He is willing to give up the first opportunity to attack the city to Yang Kai, it is not unreasonable, in the information reported by his subordinates, he hid the information that the solid wall of Shangnan City is high and did not report it, the original intention was to let Yang Taisui's old troops be seriously injured again to break the city, so that even if he is reused, his subordinates have no cronies and troops, isn't it easy to overthrow?

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Wei Qianfu's request to Gao Yingen for rewarding the soldiers was also gently rejected by the latter on the grounds that "it was not easy for the Yang Guan team to appease the people of the city, how could they bear such a disturbance".

In the middle of the day, Gao Yingen sat in the lobby of the county office, he couldn't hide the smile and excitement on his face, and the haze caused by Yang Taisui's death before could no longer be found.

Yang Kai and the other three old management teams were given seats, and behind each of them stood two personal soldiers, and then two teams of personal soldiers under the command of Gao Yingen were lined up crookedly.

Behind Yang Kai was Han Bin and Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu's position was originally supposed to be Cao Mang's, but he had injuries on his body, and Yang Kai ordered him to go down to bandage his wounds.

In the county office, there were more than ten officials and officials who were arrested and imprisoned by Han Bin from all over the world early, including the county, the county seat, and the main book, they were pushed into the lobby by a kind of soldier, and they saw the arrogant posture on both sides, and the thieves who looked angrily, and the cowardly knelt down, leaving two people.

Only the man who was in charge and half of him was left, he was caught from the bed, wearing only a undershirt and no shoes, but the atmosphere of Sen Ran did not crush his backbone, on the contrary, he straightened his waist and raised his head and chest.

Yang Kai looked at the two of them silently, according to what Chen Yuzhu said, Shangnan Zhixian is benevolent, it should be the one in front, and who is this behind him?

"What do you think these dog officials should do?" Gao Yingen didn't have the time to pay attention to these details, he glanced around at the four direct subordinates in the hall, although he didn't announce it, Yang Kai had been officially listed as the old management team in his eyes to replace Yang Taisui's name, and finally said.

"It's not easy, pull it out and cut off all the heads, and hang it up to show the public, isn't it over? What else to do? Wei Qianfu stood up, and before Yang Kai could speak, he exhaled impatiently, causing the little official who was closer to tremble and retreat to the other side, shrinking into a ball.

"Cut, cut ......" The remaining two old stewards are equally unwilling to waste time on these dog officers. In their opinion, they are righteous people, and they don't care that the other party is a good official or a corrupt official, and they are all in the name of dog officials, which is not wrong.

Hearing that Yang Kai didn't speak, Gao Yingen wanted to hear what he meant, after all, the other party didn't behead these people in the first place, and brought him here, in his opinion, he was already a loyal subordinate, he felt that he should release some kindness to Yang Kai, so he asked:

"Yang Guan, what do you mean?"

For a moment, all the eyes of everyone converged on Yang Kai's body.

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[1] Shangnan Cheng County Yachu set up a layer of Fengyi (now Baojiaopu Village), because the site is narrow, not conducive to development, Chenghua 13 years of the first county Zheng Ying that is to levy people, convene craftsmen, in the west of the Mu River (now Shangnan County) to build the city, expand the county, he personally supervised the preparation of materials, night and day, it took four years to build the city. At the same time, the county school was built to lay the foundation of the Southern Religion.

In the second year of Jiajing, Liu Chen, the county governor, dug the moat, extended the west city wall for two miles, two zhang high, dug and built the moat six feet deep and one zhang wide, and enhanced the city's defense ability.

[2] In the 39th year of Jiajing, Wang Shunmin, the county governor, rebuilt four city gates, the east gate was called "notice", the west gate was called "Anren", the north gate was called "Zhenyuan", and the south gate was called "Yuliu". In the seventh year of Wanli, the city wall was strengthened with stones.