In the night, thousands of elite iron horsemen are approaching a certain point in a net.

Roll the armor and be silent.

"Commander Ji!"

Ji Gang, who looked a little haggard, was vaguely haunted by the sound of the female doll's "wow" in his ears at this time, and he turned his head in a trance.

"Fire Ear Ash, Timur, where are you preparing, how's it going?"

The two Tartar officials who came to look for him, well, it was Zhu Di's mouth, who rushed at him with armored horses on the chaotic battlefield when he was in trouble, but was shot down by Tong Xin with an arrow and the two goods under the horse.

surrendered after the war, Zhu Di not only did not deal with them, but was promoted to be his own personal guard.

As for the other fierce generals of the Southern Army who refused to surrender, they were all beheaded.

His hero, my enemy, that's all.

"It's all ready, Hai Dongqing of Commander Tong is still hovering over the village, the miscellaneous beast is domesticated by Commander Tong's mind, if there is really a situation inside, it will fly over to warn as soon as possible. What's more, there is also the Ming Di of the Tong Commander as a signal. ”

"Okay."

Ji Gang nodded and said, "Then it's hard for you, these are all your people, and it's not easy for me to interfere." ”

"As it should be."

Carrying a horse lance, Fireear Ash responded.

In fact, the two Tartar officials just gave Ji Gang a face, and routinely reported to the officials on the field who were not under the command.

There are many factions in the army, even if Ji Gang is from Zhongyiwei, but after all, he is now serving as the commander of Jinyiwei, and it is not convenient for Yue Yi to command Zhongyiwei on his behalf.

What's more, how could a smart person like Ji Gang reach out and grab military power that does not belong to him? Let Zhu Di know, is it too long?

Therefore, Ji Gang found a tree, leaned on it, and took a nap.

The cry of the female doll still echoed in my ears.

But he fell asleep peacefully.

At the same time, Zhang Erlang also left his courtyard in a hurry.

The result of the discussion with his father just now was very grim, and there were many people who had seen Zhou Shibo, including those scholars, so it was extremely difficult for Zhou Shibo to leave Jiangnan quietly.

Now there are soldiers and horses everywhere outside, once they are stopped to check their identities and find out that they are absconding court criminals, then the consequences are unimaginable, and their entire clan is facing the risk of being connected.

For the sake of today, it is safest to hide Zhou Shibo in the mountains, as long as he avoids the limelight of this army dispatch to enforce the "apportionment into the mu", he will naturally be able to calmly plan next.

But

A hint of gloom flashed in Zhang Erlang's eyes.

The official who visited the village temporarily, as well as several of his guards, especially the middle-aged man dressed as his wife, who looked like an old pawn who had rolled a knife on the battlefield, and the strange-looking Mongol who looked like a Padang gibbon, were not easy to deal with.

"I can only go to the mountains and discuss with Zhou Shibo again, whether to move the rebels in the mountains." Zhang Erlang thought secretly in his heart.

"Wow!"

Several dogs barked one after another.

Unbeknownst to Zhang Erlang, a woman huddled in a livestock pen saw him coming, stopped sharpening the gap between the shackles and chains, and hid under the belly of the buffalo.

"Tonight is probably the last chance."

The woman was originally a merchant woman, who was abducted by the homeless people here, and usually acted as the proprietress in the store, how could she be a nameless wife to a strange and vulgar man?

On weekdays, he wears gold and silver, eats and drinks well, and sleeps in a red silk tent, but now he is not only beaten and scolded and can't eat, but he can only sleep in the livestock pen, and women just dream of escaping from here.

Fortunately, when the hostess entertained guests, the woman's mind was shrewd and observant, and she quickly deduced from what was known.

"The green-robed official with a foreign accent and his party are not with Zhang Erlang and them, otherwise when they see me during the day, they won't have a short conversation with Zhang Erlang from afar."

"Then Zhang Erlang is so late, why did he hurry to the side door that opened towards the mountain?"

The woman came up with the answer almost instantly.

Zhang Erlang is going to the mountains, there are secrets in the mountains!

Because of the exiles who plundered and occupied him, he often carried rice bags into the mountains with his companions, indicating that there must be people hidden there, and there were many people, otherwise it would not be possible to need so much rice every month.

Even, in order to support these mysterious mountain people, the people in the dock fort can't eat enough every day, and they have to open up new farmland to grow food.

"Maybe the green-robed official is here to track down this secret?"

A reasonable idea instantly appeared in the woman's mind.

"Not good!"

"Zhang Erlang is going to the mountains to call people, assassinated them at night, and kept the secrets in the mountains!"

Thinking that her only hope of escape would be shattered tonight, the woman endured the pain even more, and continued to grind the gap between the shackles and chains, even if the slender wrist was rubbed into a bloody blur, she did not stop.

The chain was only made of thick iron mixed with impurities, probably because she was a weak woman, or in order to save some iron, each oval-shaped iron ring was not very strong, as long as the gap was sharpened, it could be removed, and then the upper half of the shackles moved.

In the dark night, there are many secrets hidden that are noble or dirty.

Zhang Erlang hurriedly entered the mountain, the mountain is not high, just the remnants of a small mountain range nearby, but it is deep and secluded, there are many underground rivers and caves, karst caves, it is easy to hide people.

If we go back to the Three Kingdoms period, the Sun and Wu regimes were constantly recruiting Shanyue people from these mountains to supplement their manpower. It is similar to the later generation of "my Daqing" who went to the Daxing'an Mountains to catch the Jurchens to be soldiers.

I twisted into the depths of the mountain, greeted the sentry, and then passed through a canyon like a line of sky, and the inside suddenly opened up.

There is a small cottage hidden in this canyon!

The cottage covers a wide area, with many buildings, and several simple but sturdy earthen platforms have been erected at the entrance of the village, on which even archers are erected. Several guards standing guard at the entrance of the cottage were also armed with knives and guns, looking vigilantly at the surrounding environment, as if this was not a cottage, but a military fortress.

Seeing that he was back, several guards guarding the gate first checked the password, and then they all came up one after another.

"Erlang!"

Zhang Erlang nodded at them and said, "Well, I'm back, I'm going to see Lord Zhou, let's go get busy first!" ”

After saying hello, Zhang Erlang walked quickly to the center of the cottage, stopping in front of the most spacious stone house.

"Tuk Tuk!"

"Enter."

At this moment, a middle-aged man was sitting on a chair drinking tea, a lone lamp was lit on the table, and there was no one around the table.

Seeing Zhang Erlang coming back, Zhou Jin put down the teacup and asked with a smile, "Why did you suddenly come back so late today?" ”

"There's something going on outside."

After listening to Zhang Erlang's words, Zhou Jin didn't think much about it, after all, at this age, he would always encounter all kinds of things, so he waved his hand and said, "You might as well say it." ”

"There are officials here, and they are still with guards, I don't know if they are really passing by, or if they are coming to track down Zhou Shibo."

Zhang Erlang said with a straight face: "How long will Zhou Shibo hide it from them?" ”

After listening to Zhang Erlang's words, Zhou Jin's face sank, and he asked in a condensed voice, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Zhou Shiboxiu has to pretend to be confused."

Zhang Erlang was almost angry: "What did Zhou Shibo tell us at the beginning?" ”

"Said that you took the holy decree and was ordered to recruit the righteous army Qin Wang to save the driver, the Yan army gave up the back road to Jiangbei, the Yangtze River is vast and absolutely cannot be forcefully crossed, as long as we recruit some soldiers, we can be promoted to make a fortune and change our fate when we arrive in Nanjing, and there is no need to dig food in the soil in the future, saying that Emperor Jianwen personally promised!"

"And then?"

Zhang Erlang walked back and forth in the room, his anger overflowing.

"Our father and son believed your words, and gave up their family wealth for several generations to help you recruit soldiers, but as soon as the army was formed, the city of Nanjing was broken. What do you say Emperor Jianwen must have escaped, as long as Jiangbei Mei's horses copied the back road of the Yan army, it won't take much time at all, and the Qinwang army from all over the country will flock to it, and then it will be like the story of Hou Jing's rebellion, and the army composed of the Han and Tartar officials in the north who was strong for a while will be consumed to death in the city of Nanjing sooner or later. ”

"But what's actually going on?" Zhang Erlang grabbed the teacup and smashed it, "King Yan ascended the throne, depending on the spread of the prefecture and county in the world, the Jiangbei plum horse in your mouth has not fought or surrendered until now, our father and son are carrying their heads to do big things with you, and what is waiting for is the 100,000 strong troops of the Yan army to come to Jiangnan to clean up like a sieve!" ”

"What now? These 100 or so soldiers are brave, will they shake the tree with 100,000 Yan army grasshoppers? ”

"How long are you going to use those previous words to deceive these soldiers who don't know the situation outside the mountain?"

Faced with Zhang Erlang's angry questioning, Zhou Jin asked indifferently.

"So what now?"

"You ask me?" Zhang Erlang looked surprised.

"Hmm." Zhou Jin nodded, "Then what are you going to do now?" ”

"Kill me, or get me out of here?"

"Kill me, even if no one pulls out my business, you have hundreds of private soldiers, and the local heroes are armed to this point, with Yan Yi's ruthlessness and decisiveness, he will not let you go."

"Let me get out of here, I'm a literati, and I'm a prisoner, if I don't have a way, I'll be caught sooner or later, and then I won't be able to endure the punishment, so I'll confess to you."

Zhang Erlang was dumbfounded.

"Shameless! My father and son have helped you, and you have reciprocated it like this? ”

Zhou Jin also sneered and mocked: "Seeing small profits and forgetting your life, doing big things and sparing your life, when things come to the end, I want to protect myself, how can I repay you?" ”

"So far, if you still want to save your life, then you and I will take a dozen henchmen out of the mountain bravely and kill the official and the guards around you, which is naturally comprehensive."

Zhang Erlang still doesn't know that what Zhou Jin said at the beginning was true, but it was all nonsense to deceive them, and now they can't get off when they get on the thief ship, so they have to follow Zhou Jin's intentions and go all the way to the dark.

But before going out, Zhang Erlang couldn't help but ask.

"What the hell are you trying to do?"

Zhou Jin replied angrily: "Die for the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and if you die, you will die, and you will be famous in history!" ”

Zhang Erlang really wants to ask, in order to leave a name in your history, do you have to take the lives of hundreds of us?

But now, when he remembers that his father and son were flickered by Zhou Jin's words, and wanted to use the merits of King Qin to get rid of the scene of the country tyrant and leap to the sky, Zhang Erlang not only sighed.

The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, Zhou Jin's profit is fame, and his own profit is official, what is the difference?

It's just that I suddenly felt that Zhou Shibo, who I admired in the past, looked a little disgusting with his proud appearance of a loyal and filial son.

"The little officials below are all used to being slippery, and they are absolutely not credible, and this year's re-clearing of the fields and acres to update the fish scale book has to be transferred from other places."

"The main purpose of the army pressing over this time is to clear away the bandits, suppress the localities, and prevent these local forces from gathering together and hindering the promotion of the apportionment into the mu."

It was night, but several people were not sleepy, and Zhu Di was sitting on the couch discussing with Jin Youzi the specific implementation of the service in Jiangnan.

Although there will be real problems in the local area, or the unreliability of the small officials, or the tricks of the clan forces.

But it was precisely because of his in-depth investigation in Jiangnan that Zhu Di decided that Jiang Xinghuo's proposal to divide the labor into the mu was an extremely effective policy, and the degree of effectiveness far exceeded his expectations.

In the south of the Yangtze River, there are many homeless people, hermitages, and tenant farmers, and the reason why they want to farm land for others is that they cannot afford the huge risks caused by forced labor to their production and livelihood.

Of course, if Jiang Xinghuo is here, it must be said that the inherent fragility of the smallholder economy.

But no matter how difficult it is, as long as the effect is excellent, in front of Zhu Di, who rules the country with an iron fist, it is not difficult, and he can only call the mantis arm to block the car.

Zhu Di was a little excited about this, it was one thing to listen to Jiang Xinghuo's lectures in prison, but now it is another thing to see the policy from design to implementation.

Seeing the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, they will be attached to the mu with the stalls.

The foundation of Emperor Jianwen's rule, the Jiangnan gentry class, will be dealt a great blow.

And now that the cutting of the feudal domain has been solved, and the gentry in Jiangnan have been initially suppressed, Zhu Di finally feels that his throne is stable, can he not be excited?

And just as the two were talking for a while, a shadow suddenly appeared outside the window.

The cloak is scattered, like a ghost.

"Boom!"

The guards' swords were unsheathed.

The woman's voice came in a low voice: "Don't be quiet, I'm the one you saw in the livestock pen during the day." ”

At Zhu Di's signal, a guard opened the window, and the woman was pulled in with great difficulty.

"Why don't you enter through the door?" Zhu Di asked knowingly.

"There is a dog watching at the door, and when it enters its range, it will bark non-stop."

Zhu Di nodded, the dog at the door said that it was actually Zhang Erlang who was in the courtyard to guard them, looking at the shackles on the woman's hands and the wrists that were ground into bloody flesh, it didn't look like some kind of trick like a bitter trick.

"Let's talk about it."

"Shangguan, save the people's women, the people's women were forcibly taken by them."

The woman briefly talked about her identity and experience, and finally said eagerly: "Zhang Erlang went to the back mountain, he must want to bring someone to kill you, please Shangguan take the woman with you, give the woman a chance, the woman will ride a horse, even if she falls behind halfway and is injured by shooting, she will never complain, as long as she brings the woman with you!" ”

To the woman's surprise, the middle-aged man in front of him who was dressed as his wife shook his head and said.

"Who said we're leaving?"

"If you don't leave, it's too late!" The woman was so anxious that she even cried.

"It's too late now."

Zhu Di said slowly, the woman was a little stunned for a while, but she saw several guards draw their knives, set up the bed board and round table that had already been removed as shields, and kicked through the door.

Zhu Di smiled at Jin Youzi and said, "And Guantong commands to break the enemy." ”

"Whew!"

Tong Xin took the lead with an arrow, shooting through the person who was walking in front, and the huge force made him stumble backwards twice before falling to the ground, and the enemy who took advantage of the night to touch saw that he had been discovered, so he simply stopped hiding it.

In the dark night, Tong Xin's eyesight seems to be unaffected, and every arrow can take away a fresh life, like death on the battlefield.

"Fight back!"

Zhang Erlang was so angry that he saw that his archers were about to be shot before they could even aim at anyone, so he picked up a pair of bows and arrows from the ground and wanted to shoot them back himself.

"Erlang, you can't see anything at night!"

The remaining archers hid in the corners of the wall as if they were hiding from the plague god, and they didn't even dare to come out.

There is no way, the man's arrows are too accurate, and they generally suffer from night blindness due to lack of nutrition, even if Zhang Erlang eats well and does not have night blindness, aiming and shooting at night is two degrees accurate during the day, and it is not a threat at all.

Zhang Erlang bent his bow and arrows, and just wanted to shoot, but suddenly felt that a catastrophe was coming, and subconsciously turned sideways, and then, a heavy arrow grazed his body and shot over, nailing the person behind him to the ground.

"Why don't you approach that marksman?"

Zhou Jin hid further behind and yelled at Zhang Erlang.

"I can't rush over, I can't fight at all!"

Zhang Erlang reluctantly pointed to the front line, and more than a dozen sturdy men rushed at the other party's three or four guards, but they were killed by the skilled veterans, and the front was about to collapse.

It was a rather lackluster battle from a tactical point of view.

The combat effectiveness of the two sides is completely not on the same level, and the newly trained militia is no different from a flock of geese fluttering their wings at the entrance of the village in front of these veterans who have survived a hundred battles.

Zhou Jin led out of a team of nearly 20 people in the mountains, and they fled to death, Zhang Erlang was shot through the thigh and couldn't move, and he himself couldn't move even half a step.

When Zhou Jin was brought to Zhu Di, he was stunned.

"Do you recognize me?" Zhu Di asked lightly.

Zhou Jin's astonishment was as if Ye Gong had really seen the dragon.

He was a petty official in the north, and he knew Zhu Di's appearance, when he abandoned the official and went south, it was also difficult for the Yan army to resist, and he didn't want to surrender and didn't want to waste his life, so he always had some greedy thoughts.

As for recruiting the rebels in Jiangnan to prepare King Qin, what he said to Zhang Erlang's father and son at that time was also sincere, he himself was a literati who didn't know how to think so, and it was common for him to have such optimistic and whimsical thoughts.

Zhou Jin had imagined more than once how he should be righteous and how he should scold Yan Yi in person.

But when Zhu Di really appeared in front of him, the sentence "Yan Rebellion" in his mouth couldn't be said anyway.

The only death through the ages.

The desire to survive when he abandoned the city and fled reappeared irrepressibly in Zhou Jin's mind.

"See, see Your Majesty."

Zhang Erlang, who was lying on the ground, grew his mouth in disbelief, he still wanted to say something, wanted to redeem something, but then he grabbed the ground with his head and said hatefully.

"This is the Yan Yi you want to kill day and night, how did you become this boneless appearance now?"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't listen to his nonsense."

Zhu Di stroked his palms and laughed.

"Capricious people, who want to live, only need to borrow something."

"Your Majesty, please speak! What is owned by the minister will be borrowed! ”

"Your head on the neck."

In the twilight, the sound of hooves is like thunder, and a thousand horses roll up Pinggang.

Zhu Di's branch line is over, and the second chapter of the car is a little later today, about half past eight.

(End of chapter)