"Smack!" The tea cup fell to the ground and the tea soup splashed everywhere, and Zhao Chongbi shouted regardless of his identity: "Jinxian is lost? When did this happen?" He didn't seem to hear Li Dan's answer, sweat was dripping on his forehead, his face was pale, and he muttered:

"What is the thief army going north? Won't they attack Fuzhou and attack Nanchang instead?" He is now the "Xuanfu Inspector of Central and Southern Gansu", and before he has acted, the county has lost one, which cannot but shock him.

"The Inspector told your Excellency not to panic." Li Dan's quiet voice woke him up. "The city was lost, but the team ran out." This is obviously a comforting word, Zhao Chongbi couldn't help but smile bitterly, but heard Li Dan say again:

"The garrison is dead, and the head Han Bong-kook is still there. He gathered the remaining soldiers and retreated to Tangxi, with his back to Buffalo Ridge and the Fuhe River, claiming to defend Nanchang."

"Oh? So at last there is one who has the courage." Only then did Zhao Chongbi remember to take out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then said, "What happened to the situation in Jinxian City?"

Three days after the news came, and the messages continued to go back and forth between Meigang and Anren, and everyone gradually learned about the situation. It turned out that the city was not broken at once, and the defenders began to resist, because the enemy entered through the south gate, and the people ran to the north of the city.

The county magistrate was a "lover of the people", and ordered people to open the two gates in the north to let the gentry flee for their lives, but it suddenly caused a great panic in the city.

If they are united to defend the city, the handful of bandits who have mixed in may not be able to succeed, but when I heard that the old men have fled from the north gate, everyone suddenly loses the idea of fighting again, and everyone just wants to escape first, or hurry home to settle their families.

As a result, the officers and troops began to show signs of collapse, and the garrison was suddenly hit by arrows in the melee, which made them lose their determination to hold on to the end, and the morale of the Jiangshan army was greatly boosted.

At this time, two important figures appeared, one was the general of Na Han, who withdrew to the west gate with the main force of the official army, but fortunately, the Jiangshan army did not surround the other gates due to insufficient troops, so this group of people broke through.

The other was a prisoner named Lai Wubao in the iron smelting station, who organized a group of prisoners, young and strong and officials who refused to give in, and after breaking off, he actually let the Jiangshan army retreat again and again.

However, he found that the enemy brigades were entering the city one after another, and decisively led people to retreat to the east of the city, and defeated the Jiangshan army that had just occupied the east gate and seized the gate. Later, he took the remnants of the army to protect the people and retreated all the way east.

Later, this man set up an ambush in Taipingling to defeat the pursuers and killed a leader of the Jiangshan Army, which made everyone turn the corner and cross the river smoothly from Chaxi to the east to Fengtang.

Another group of people who fled east parted ways with them halfway, and were later picked up by the Song Laoqiao Department who had arrived at Chijialing.

It was from this population that Lai Wufa, the newly appointed inspection envoy of the inspection sub-division, heard the news that Han Jiang and others were going west, and immediately sent inspector Yu Liang into the lake to deliver a letter to Da Baiyan, asking him to send someone to inform Hutouling to try to help and protect these people, and at the same time to contact Han Jiang.

Now occupying the head of Qinglan Lake is Ye Zifeng, one of the seven families in the west of the original lake, who is the leader of Feng Baiyan, so after Zhou Datou's death, this territory was given to him by Dabaiyan.

Li Dan reported that the Fengqiao Inspection Branch had sent a patrol horse to escort Lai Wubao to Anren, and he was very curious, what kind of prisoner was this, who could lead a rabble to kill out of the chaos and retreat?

Zhao Chongbi was also curious: "How can there be such a person in the prisoners of the iron official? And how did he enter the city?"

In fact, the Jinxian Iron Smelting Institute is not only iron smelting, but also stretches for more than ten miles on the east bank from Xiaowenling to Zhangshan Ridge along the Fuhe River, there are iron-smelting, ironworking, and armor-making offices, as well as wharves, prisoner camps, military craftsman camps, servicemen's camps, iron officials' offices, and other facilities, and even merchants' houses, wine shops, and brothels.

Therefore, Li Dan said that the 4,000 people in that area are by no means groundless, but whether the Jiangshan army captured the county seat and occupied the surrounding areas, Li Dan did not know. You must know that Lidu not only has an iron smelting station, but also a well-known production area of Fuhe brewed shochu!

The reason why Li Dan is so concerned about Jinxian is mainly because of the world's largest iron smelting station, the famous soju production area, and the huge reserves of limestone, porcelain stone, and coal in Zhongling, these resources are all urgently needed, and they are larger and easier to mine than Yugan.

"Humble duty

I don't know what the twists and turns are here, but I met this person first. If it is useful, ask the adults to forgive him for his sins, or let him lead the army, and make the merit of his sins." Li Dan said softly.

"Let him lead the troops? Do you want to join the army?"

"I think that if he brings out those prisoners, officers and soldiers, and young men, someone must take them over, right?"

"Shouldn't these people be scattered into the various departments?"

"Okay my lord, if you are scattered, how can you help Nahan recapture Jinxianli?"

"Uh, huh?" Zhao Chongbi was stunned and got up: "What did you just say? Want to recapture Jinhyun? Do you have a plan? Grasp the geometry?" He suddenly pondered:

"But what about Dongxiang and Fuzhou? Didn't you say that if it drags on any longer, the Yang family may join forces with Yintuo? Then if you transfer troops to turn around and fight Jinxian, won't it weaken An Ren's side? We've done so much now, are we all in vain?"

"Your Excellency, you stop and let the lowly finish speaking." Li Dan smiled bitterly, he had been discussing countermeasures with the staff in the past two days.

Obviously, the loss of Jinxian has disrupted all the deployments, and if he still acts according to the original plan, then he will have to risk a stick of incense to lead his troops back south, or go all out to attack Fenggang and Meigang in the east and enter his hinterland.

Although troops can be arranged to block it, it is not worth taking the risk of whether the militia and the townspeople's combat effectiveness can be exceededly in the field battle.

If it is not blocked, the western inspection divisions may be devastated, and when they attack Dongxiang, they also divide troops to defend the flank, which is too passive.

In addition, a stick of incense is a "famous general" who conquered Jinxi and Jinxian, and his combat experience is obviously much stronger than that of his own patrol envoys!

After thinking about it, Li Dan thought that he couldn't sit back and watch a stick of incense gain a firm foothold in Jinxian, so he suggested that he suddenly kill back and attack the county seat while he was unprepared.

But Zhao Jingzi felt that this was no different from driving him back to Dongxiang, and it was best to leave these two thousand people in Jinxian to achieve the goal of cutting off Yang Xing's arm.

However, there are several prerequisites that cannot be bypassed to achieve this: cooperation and cooperation with the Hongdu (Nanchang) official army; how to solve the problem of insufficient troops and insufficient experience of soldiers on the northern front; And how to achieve the problem of closing the door and fighting the dog to annihilate all the enemies.

Obviously, Inspector Zhao must be asked to coordinate Nanchang's actions in this matter, and most of the credit must be put on the officials and soldiers.

As for the soldiers, several people discussed that in addition to the team that had been ordered to be mobilized, they also planned to invite Da Baiyan and Ye Zifeng to participate, of course, Han Zong and Lai Wubao also included the two remnants of the army.

But after saying that it was not enough to attack the city with the strength of these people for a long time, Li Dan wanted to use a strategy to lure out most or part of the enemy to annihilate it, and then it should be much easier to capture the city.

Therefore, he advocated letting Lai Wubao go back to lead the team, which was based on this consideration.

Zhao Chongbi began to hear that Li Dan was determined to recapture Jinxian, and felt a little unbelievable, but then pondered it carefully, and felt that the other party's foothold was not stable, and now he could take him by surprise, but after letting the other party gain a firm foothold, he was afraid that he would have to mobilize seven or eight thousand people to do this.

"So, the North and the South started almost at the same time? First weaken the enemy of Jinxian, and then the Hongdu official army recovers the county (Minhe Town). At the same time, the southern front captured Yujiang, lured the enemy and distracted him, and then the battle against Dongxiang began.

After Dongxiang was taken, the troops moved west, and Jinxian's troops moved south from Jinshankou to flank the enemy in Fuzhou. Isn't that so?" Zhao Chongbi asked.

"Exactly!"

"So, what troops do you need to mobilize to attack?"

"The North Road is dominated by Dong Houyong, and the troops participating in the battle are composed of more than 2,300 troops, including the Imperial Battalion, the 6th Provisional Battalion, the 7th Battalion of the Jinxian Provisional Formation, the Fenggang Militia Squadron, and the Teaching Team. It is not yet known how many people will be able to participate in Huxi.

The main column of the South Road included all units of the headquarters, as well as the first and second battalions and the Chinese military battalion, the Meigang militia brigade, with more than 3,700 soldiers, and the other flank column was composed of the third and fourth battalions, with the target of Yujiang and Jinxi, and the second transport company followed the action. Fifteen hundred people along the way.

The 1st Mobile Brigade of the Water Battalion defended to the south, and the 2nd Mobile Brigade went south from the headquarters of the Water Camp through Huxi, entered Fushui, and supplied Fuzhou from the water

, and escorted the marines to land at Shushan Temple to cut off the enemy's contact with Jinxi. and fifteen hundred on the water."

"You're throwing your all in?" Zhao Chongbi sighed slightly

"No way, let them force it!" Li Dan spread his hands, but immediately said, "Don't look at the numbers on the paper. The team is expanding too fast, and only thirty percent of the people here have actual combat experience, and the rest is hard to say. Therefore, the help of the officers and soldiers is necessary!"

"I know, I know!" Zhao Chongbi nodded: "I will order the rest of Jinxian's troops to cooperate with the Junbu, and at the same time ask Nanchang to send Hongdu Zuowei out to participate in the Jinxian reconquest battle. Now that they are all guilty, how can they not send troops?"

He paused and said, "In addition, I will tell you another news, the emperor has issued an order to transfer thousands of officers and troops from the north into Poyang to stabilize the situation in eastern Jiangxi.

It is because the prefect of Zhiwan has informed me that he has sent a thousand commanders to Anren to wait for the dispatch, and I think this army is just the reserve of our Chinese army.

I will also hand over the command of Zhu Qi's town department, I dare not expect Fuzhou to break the siege in one fell swoop, and if you can recover Jinxian, Yujiang, and Dongxiang, you will be a great achievement!"

At noon the next day, Li Dan just walked out of the Sanqing Palace, and saw Shen Jie and Shen Wu coming over, and there was a man with a red complexion and a thick stubble around his mouth next to Shen Wu.

When Shen Jie saw Li Dan, he stopped, gave a military salute, and said, "My lord, my brother has come back from Jinxian, and there is that Lai Wubao with him."

"Oh? Is that him?" Li Dan looked up and down with interest, and Lai Wubao stepped forward and knelt on one leg and reported his name loudly. Li Dan helped him up and beckoned everyone to speak in the side hall.

As soon as he entered the house, Lai Wubao knelt down for Li Dan. Li Dan hurriedly turned around and pulled him up, and asked in surprise, "What is Brother Lai doing?" If you have anything to say, please sit down and talk."

"My lord, I don't know who said to him whether or not his sins can be forgiven or not, so I ......." The fifth judge told apologetically.

Li Dan suddenly realized and laughed: "Let's talk about it first, what happened?"

Lai Wubao sighed and told Li Dan about his own affairs. It turned out that this Lai Wubao was a high-ranking person in Yuanzhou Mansion in Huxi Province, who had studied martial arts since he was a child, and later also worked as an apprentice blacksmith.

In the fourth year of Jingwu, Lin Zhang led the Sixteen Mines in Yongfeng, Ji'an urgently recruited volunteers to defend the city and assist the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, Lai Wubao actively recruited and won the fifth level of combat exploits by himself and was promoted to the volunteer team.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhang failed and was disbanded bravely, and Lai Wubao, who returned to the village, found that he had become a "drifter" with no source of livelihood. He was depressed and decided to try his luck in Fuzhou.

When I arrived in Fuzhou to do odd jobs, casual workers went to drink alcohol. One day, he bumped into a bad boy molesting a woman, Lai Wubao came to help, but unexpectedly knocked out one of the other party's teeth, and only when he woke up did he know that the person was the second son of Fuzhou Zhizhou.

This matter went to the court, and the Linchuan County Commander did not dare to call the shots, so he went to Zhizhou for advice. Fortunately, Na Zhizhou also knew that his son was stubborn, and waved his hand and said that young people don't know the severity, just give a lesson.

The county magistrate injured people in a drunken brawl and sentenced him to one year of hard labor in the Jinxian Iron Officer's Office.

Because it was a misdemeanor, coupled with his previous military exploits, Ambassador Tieguan looked at him differently.

This iron official has one ambassador and one deputy envoy each, and the deputy envoy is in charge of security protection, so the ambassador consulted with the deputy envoy and asked him to bring a team of misdemeanor prisoners to suppress internal and external lawlessness.

This would have been a good thing, but in fact, there were still 400 guards stationed in the local area, and there was usually no major incident. Lai Wubao thought that it would be good to go out for a year like this.

Who knew that last month, the garrison in the city sent a general to check the armament and training of the guards of the iron official, saying that it was "anti-coordinate". The ambassador received him warmly, and also found him the best local sister to accompany him.

At night, there was a sudden uproar, and a large number of craftsmen poured into the streets. Lai Wubao's surprise was not trivial, and he inquired with everyone to find out that he didn't know what crazy he was after drinking, and he was going to swim in Fuhe at night.

As a result, on the bank of the river, I met a young lady who came out as a teenager to carry water, and dragged her into the reeds in front of everyone.

This always vented proudly, and came out to praise how the little lady's skin was smooth and tender, how to enjoy, one

The face was on the horse, and he walked away.

Unexpectedly, this little lady was the daughter of Guo Jinshan, a military craftsman from the ironworks, and that person also had the status of a master craftsman (the highest rank of a craftsman). His family searched for his daughter, but found her dead naked in the reeds.

After inquiry, he found out that there was only this pedestrian passing by on this road tonight, how could he bear it?

His friend Wang Ermei, the craftsman of the armor making office, happened to come looking for him, and when he heard about this, he immediately went back to find someone to join, and a group of more than 400 people went to surround the iron official and ask for an explanation. Frightened, the general sent a warning signal and mobilized the guards to confront him.

Seeing that the atmosphere on both sides was not right, Lai Wubao hurriedly came forward to make peace, and negotiated with the general manager to ask him to pay for the burial of the dead and compensate the Guo family fifty taels. Who knew that the general scolded him, accusing Lai Wubao of blackmail and collusion with the military craftsmen.

At first, Lai Wubao patiently persuaded him, but the more he scolded, the more unpleasant it became, and he used a whip to whip him, and Lai Wubao couldn't help but grab him.

It was also this guy who deserved to have a short life, he tripped over a rock on the ground, and the back of his head hit the corner of the steps, and he died at that time.

The guards saw that they dispersed in a hurry, but Lai Wubao knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he went to the ambassador to take the lead. Because he was cautious and industrious, neither the ambassador nor the deputy envoy wanted to be embarrassed, but it was not easy to let him go, so he was imprisoned.

The next day, it was reported to the garrison and the county government, but who knew that the general subordinates had fled back overnight, and the wicked people sued first.

The garrison was furious, so he sent a general with more than 300 soldiers down, and arrested 200 people such as Lai Wubao, Guo Jinshan, and Wang Ermei and brought them to the county government, and handed them over to the county order for interrogation and verdict, and wanted to sentence everyone to the crime of gathering a crowd to rebel.

Fortunately, the county magistrate was lenient and understanding, and he put everyone in prison, but he was false and wronged with the guard. Before the result could be done, the Jiangshan army called, and the garrison's attention shifted to defense, so the matter was temporarily left behind.

But the county order didn't dare to let them go, so they had to take care of everyone for a few more days. Because the officials heard about the cause and effect, and admired their grievances, they did not make trouble.

"I see." Li Dan nodded: "So you were all in the city on the night the city broke?" Did the county let you out?"

"It's the county lord that Han sent someone to find." Lai Wubao replied. That Han always sympathized with everyone, and said that the dead ghost always did evil and did not deal with him, and it was just right to die!

Therefore, Han Jiang secretly financed some money bedding for the head of the cell, anyway, this prison has not held so many prisoners for a long time.

On the night of the city's destruction, Han Jiang's first thought was to release this group of people to help, so he sent someone to the county office.

At that time, the county Zun and his old wife had committed suicide, and the man had no way to go directly to the prison to cut off the latch chain and release everyone, and then took them to get weapons.

After listening to everything, Li Dan understood that the cause was not due to Lai Wubao, his sin was to injure the life of an officer by mistake.

However, the obsessive command of his garrison and the county order that protected him are dead, and I am afraid that this matter will not be at the mercy of all at once, and can only be discussed after the war. The reason why Lai Wubao fought hard is probably also to prove his innocence and ability.

"How many of your men can use and dare to fight?" Li Dan asked him.

"Two hundred men of the ironworkers, plus seventy or eighty brothers of the officers and soldiers, and about two hundred of the people of the city." Lai Wubao said.

"Didn't the officers and soldiers all retreat with General Han, why did anyone stay?" Zhao Jingzi, who entered the door later, sat opposite him and asked.

"This sir, most of the officers and soldiers have withdrawn with Commander Han, only Zhou Zongqi, who came to save us, has been fighting with us, and later took in some scattered officers and soldiers brothers one after another, and followed us to Fenggang."

Lai Wubao didn't recognize Zhao Jingzi, but seeing that he was very temperamental, he sat next to him and listened after coming in to salute, feeling that this person should not be in a low position, so he quickly got up and answered with his hands crossed when he heard his question.

"More than 400 is less than 500 people, but that's enough." Zhao Jingzi turned his face and whispered to Li Dan.