Because he drank high last night, Niu Mandi, who slept until the morning, felt a splitting headache, and the maid Luyun saw that Niu had woken up, so she hurriedly brought a big bowl of sobering soup, and Niu drank this bowl of decanting soup all over the ground, and then felt better. Niu Mandi has been mentally tortured for the past few days, he hasn't shaved for a few days, his beard and hair are unkempt, like a beggar, how can anyone who doesn't know think that this is the master of Jiannan Dao?

Niu Mandi's eyes were red, and he raised his head and asked, "Is Master Luo back?" This has become a sentence that Niu Mandi must ask every day when he opens his eyes. He really hoped that Luo Bingshang would appear in front of him immediately.

The maid Luyun bowed and said, "My lord, Master Luo hasn't come back yet." ”

Niu Mandi couldn't help but sigh, Luo Bingshang didn't come back, he really felt that he was missing his right-hand man, and he would not let him go to see King Pingxi if he knew it, after all, Yin Quan had been there, and there had been no movement. Not long after he began to send troops to attack Tang Jiusheng in Jianzhou City, the imperial court's report was cut off by the royal government, and he could no longer see the palace's report, so his understanding of the outside situation could only rely entirely on scouts.

The current situation is in a mess, Jiangzhou soldiers even occupied half of Luye City, obviously the situation is extremely unfavorable to themselves, and at this time there is no think tank, Niu Mandi feels that there is something to be discussed with. Niu Mandi didn't know how to deal with these messy things, so he simply borrowed wine to drown his worries in the past few days.

A lot of things, you have to lose it to know his preciousness, Niu Mandi is in such a mood at the moment. He hated that Luo Bingshang would be able to appear in front of him immediately, and Niu Mandi suddenly resented himself, he should have built a think tank in the first place, instead of relying on Luo Bingshang alone for everything. Niu Mandi thought about it further, he was really short-sighted, if the ultimate goal was to seize the world, would it be enough for Luo Bingshang alone?

At least Pingxi Wang Yin Quan has recruited a lot of people, whether he is useful or not, at least there are a bunch of people who claim to be strategists under his command to discuss matters. Recruiting people, recruiting troops, buying horses, Niu slammed his thighs all over the ground, and really wanted to slap himself twice, why did he forget about this ballast in a hurry, didn't he still raise some soldiers in the cottage before? There are also some powerful copycat bandits who have declared their allegiance to take refuge! Even if this group of bandit guys can't be used to participate in the defense of Luye City, it's always okay to take the siege of Jianzhou, right?

Thinking of this, Niu Mandi suddenly became excited, like a gambler who had already lost his eyes, and suddenly found that he still had a lot of gambling books available. Niu was full of triangular eyes, got up from the bed, put on his clothes, pulled his shoes and ran to the third hall, because he was in too much hurry, he accidentally tripped on the threshold and fell into the mud, Niu Mandi still cared about the image, got up from the ground and shouted: "Quick, quickly call the captains and scribes to the second hall to discuss matters!"

The little officials under his command heard the call of the envoy, and hurriedly took people out to inform them, and half an hour later, only a dozen of his subordinates came to the second hall to discuss matters. Seven or eight captains and six or seven scribes stood at the foot of the hall, talking to each other. The public case in the second hall is piled up with news from all over the world, which is more than a foot thick, and Niu Mandi is not in the mood to deal with these things at all these days, so these news are only piled up on the desk.

Niu Mandi sat behind the public case, and asked Gu Anyue, the chief butler who was standing next to him, with a puzzled expression, "Gu Anyue, why are there so few people?"

The chief butler Gu Anyue had no choice but to accompany the smiling face, and said cautiously: "Back to the words of the lord, since the lord announced his break with King Wei, especially in the past few days, the Jiangzhou soldiers have occupied half of Luye City, and the city is shocked for a while, so many of the officials have fled with money, and some people claim to be sick and hide at home, these are all the officials who can be summoned at present!"

Niu Mandi had a gloomy face, nodded, and snorted coldly: "Okay, these people are just these people, the soldiers are not very expensive, without those people, can't this official accomplish great things? Prepare an official document for me, from today on, the Jiannan Dao Jingluo has made the yamen officially renamed the Jiannan Wangfu, and the official will make himself the king of Jiannan and lead the army to crusade against Tang Jiusheng! Jiannan Dao is no longer the Jiannan Dao of the great merchants, but the Jiannan Kingdom of the land full of cattle!"

The dozen or so officials standing below looked at each other, and said in their hearts: "Lord Niu is crazy? I am the king of Jiannan, who will follow you? Now that there is a shortage of soldiers and major generals, and there is not enough money and food, who is willing to follow you to rebel and establish himself as the king of Jiannan? Now even Luye City is half of the people, and the people's hearts are scattered, and there is no news from Jianzhou for a long time, and Yujiang County is also surrounded by the soldiers and horses of Lianzhou County, and there are internal and external troubles, can you call yourself the king of Jiannan to solve these things?"

Seeing that the officials below were silent, Niu Mandi couldn't help but be furious, and slapped the wooden wood on the table and said, "Why, haven't you heard the king's order?

Nanwangfu, we have nothing to do with the imperial court in the future, you are all officials of the palace!Gu Anyue, you will count the list of officials later, and this king will start appointing officials from the Jiannan Kingdom!"

Gu Anyue agreed, but the person stood there and didn't move. Niu Mandi waited for a long time, but he didn't see any movement, tilted his head and asked strangely: "Gu Anyue, why don't you go down to count the people?

Gu Anyue swallowed: "My lord, ah, no, prince, do you think, even if you appoint officials big and small now, but we lack money and food, and we don't have generals, it's nothing more than an empty shelf, what's the point?"

Niu Mandi narrowed his triangular eyes and said contemptuously: "Are you crazy to be an official? Soon, we will have soldiers and generals, money and food! At that time, we will attack Anshu County, destroy the Weiwang Mansion, pacify Jianzhou, and slaughter Tang Jiusheng." Capture Huzhou, Xiajiang Prefecture, Lianshan in the east, Xuantong in the northwest, and at that time, the entire Jiannan will be in the hands of this king!"

Liu Ye'an, the scribe of the torture room at the bottom, boldly asked: "Wang, Wang, I want to ask, where did these soldiers and generals come from? Didn't you already send the main force of Luye City to attack Jianzhou City? Now we can't even handle the 3,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangzhou, how can we talk about unifying Jiannan?"

"Yes, yes, Scribe Liu is right!" The officials and officials standing below all echoed.

Niu laughed proudly, "We now have soldiers and generals, what are you afraid of? Our palace still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the mountains of various counties, and now is the time to put these soldiers and horses out to come in handy! You don't have to worry, just follow this king to work hard, when the time comes, high-ranking officials and Houlu will be indispensable to you, and you are all the founding fathers of Jiannan Kingdom!"

These officials don't know whether what Niu Man said is true or not, but looking at Niu Man's excited appearance, there should be such a possibility. Anyway, now everyone is controlled by the soldiers who are all over the ground, and they can't run and can't run, so just mix it up! Gu Anyue took the lead and knelt down, "Chen Gu Anyue sees the king of Jiannan, my king Chitose Chitose Chitose!" More than a dozen people standing below also knelt down and said loudly together: "The ministers see the king of Jiannan, my king Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

Niu Mandi nodded with satisfaction, and said with an intoxicated expression: "Zhongqing is flat!" ......

Luye City to the west more than 200 miles, there is a Jiejia Mountain, at the foot of the mountain there is the famous Lushui River of Jiannan Road, there is a gang of robbers on the mountain to occupy the mountain as the king, there are more than 8,000 horses, the bandit leader is named Zhang Yuanyuan, it was originally a boatman, every day in the Zhangjia ferry on the Lushui River to transition guests, fishing in leisure time. Five years ago, when crossing a river with a guest, he coveted the guest's wealth and beauty, and killed him for money, so he slashed the guest and pushed him into the water.

Zhang Yuanyuan then threatened with a knife and occupied the woman brought by the guest, but he didn't think that after the woman was humiliated, he actually took advantage of his unpreparedness and committed suicide by throwing herself into the water, and Zhang Yuanyuan couldn't, so he had to accept those belongings. How did he know that the guest was a county man who went to work, surnamed Huang Minglie, and he was also water-sensitive, Zhang Yuanyuan didn't hack Huang Xiancheng to death with a knife, and Huang County Chengshun floated down the water and swam to the shore and was rescued by the local villagers.

Cheng Yi, the magistrate of Sanhe County, heard Huang Lie's accusation and was furious, and immediately sent the head catcher Sun Deli and Hu Facai and others to arrest Zhang Yuanyuan, but he didn't expect that Sun Deli and Zhang Yuanyuan were cousins.

The head catcher Sun Deli and the catchers pounced, Huang Xiancheng killed his wife and lost all his property, but he failed to catch the enemy, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Cheng Yi, the county magistrate, persuaded him hard, prepared some coils for him, and promised him that sooner or later he would catch Zhang Yuanyuan to report for his wife, Huang Lie went to the post with hatred, and vowed to kill Zhang Yuanyuan one day sooner or later to take revenge.

Zhang Yuanyuan took those belongings, saw that he could not survive in Sanhe County, simply crossed the Lushui River, and went to understand the Dazhai of Jiashan Jiejiazhai to advocate strong, Zhang Qiang was originally a butcher, and when he quarreled with his neighbors because of a homestead, he killed a neighbor's family of four with a pig-killing knife, and was arrested by the local government, and there was no way out, so he fled to Jiejia Mountain, gathered hundreds of bandits to build a cottage on the mountain, and robbed the house to claim the king's hegemony.

Zhang Qiang was overjoyed when he saw Zhang Yuanyuan coming with his belongings, and immediately appointed Zhang Yuanyuan as the small leader of his subordinates. Zhang Yuanyuan since he learned about Jiashan, he is very dedicated to the Dazhai advocate for the strong life, every time there is a robbery, charge in the front, retreat in the back, won Zhang Qiang's favor. There is also a dog-headed military advisor Qiao Chongliang on Jiejia Mountain, who specially gave Zhang Qiang bad ideas, and together with Zhang Yuanyuan, he is known as Zhang Qiang's right-hand man. Later, Zhang Qiang simply let Qiao Chongliang be the second leader, and Zhang Yuanyuan was the third leader

Family.

Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long, Cheng Yi, the magistrate of Sanhe County, failed to send troops to Jiejia Mountain to suppress bandits several times, and in a fit of anger, he reported the matter to Huo Renhong, the Shou of Luye County, saying that Zhang Qiang and others gathered people and horses in Jiejia Mountain, took in some outlaws, robbed homes and houses, and resisted the arrest of officers and soldiers. Although Huo Renhong was working under the nose of Niu Mandi, he was very dissatisfied with Niu Mandi's behavior of covering the sky in Jiannan, so Huo Renhong ignored his master's opposition and took it upon himself to mobilize 3,000 soldiers and horses to Jiejia Mountain to suppress the bandits.

Zhang Qiang of Jiejiashan had repelled the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers many times, so he did not take the officers and soldiers seriously, and led nearly 1,000 of his men to ambush by the Lushui River, trying to ambush the officers and soldiers again. But he didn't expect that the general of the commander of the army who came to suppress the bandits this time was Hou Jingxian, the famous general of Luye County, Hou Jingxian already knew before he came that Zhang Qiang's gang of bandits was extremely fierce and killed and injured officers and soldiers many times, so he first sent scouts to disguise themselves and find out the terrain.

After Hou Jing first figured out the terrain, he learned that Zhang Qiang personally led his troops to ambush beside the Lushui River, so he simply planned to use 1,000 soldiers and horses as the main force, recruited civilian boats, and made a posture to cross the Lushui River at Zhangjia Ferry, but secretly crossed the Lushui River at the floating ferry port of the upper reaches of the main force, and a divine soldier descended from the sky behind Zhang Qiang and others, which caught Zhang Qiang off guard.

Before, Qiao Chongliang, the dog-headed military advisor, had already given Zhang Qiang an idea, reminding him not to underestimate the enemy, since the enemy had 3,000 military horses and came from the county town, then he must have come prepared, but Zhang Qiang was arrogant because he repelled the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers in the county several times, and did not listen to Qiao Chongliang's opinion, and insisted on personally leading the troops to intercept and kill the officers and soldiers. Only Qiao Chongliang led a hundred weak soldiers to guard the cottage.

Zhang Yuanyuan also felt that this matter was inappropriate, but he was more thoughtful, and suggested to Zhang Qiang, since the boss is not afraid of the officers and soldiers willing to take the lead, then ask the boss to lead 500 main forces to ambush along the coast, and when the officials half cross the Lushui River, they will be raided, and the brother will bring 300 men and horses to you to cut off. If you win in front, I will bring someone to help you cut people, and if you lose, I will also take care of you in the back.

Zhang Qiang readily agreed with Zhang Yuanyuan's opinion and asked Zhang Yuanyuan to take 300 men and horses to break off in the rear. Zhang Yuanyuan, a native of Sanhe County, was familiar with the terrain and was also very scheming, and lurked in the reed pond near the Lushui River with 300 men and horses. That location just happened to see the battlefield, but because of the overwhelming reeds, it would not be discovered by others.

During the day, thousands of officers and soldiers drove large and small boats from Zhangjia Ferry, and as soon as the soldiers and horses in the front came ashore, Zhang Qiang could not wait to lead 500 bandits to kill, but he did not expect that the officers and soldiers who crossed the river were extremely strong in combat, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who crossed from the upstream floating ferry had already made a detour to kill them, Zhang Qiang was attacked by the enemy on his back, and immediately panicked, in the chaos of the army, Zhang Qiang was killed by an arrow, and the remaining bandits were leaderless, and there was a big chaos. Zhang Yuanyuan led 300 men and horses to lurk in the reeds and saw all this clearly. Seeing that the officers and soldiers were powerful, Fu Er, the small leader of Zhang Yuanyuan's subordinates, asked softly: "The third master, what should we do?

Zhang Yuanyuan calculated in his heart, the officers and soldiers are powerful, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, if they rush out rashly at this time, they will definitely be wiped out by the officers and soldiers. But if these brothers are gone, the cottage will not be able to hold on. Zhang Yuanyuan gritted his teeth, led people to set fire to the wind in the reeds, and went around from another direction.

There was a light wind that day, and the reeds were very easy to catch fire, and the fire borrowed the wind, and the wind helped the fire, and immediately burned the reeds along the coast. Zhang Yuanyuan took this opportunity to take three hundred brothers to fight behind the officers and soldiers, and forcibly rescued the bandits in the encirclement.

There were more than 300 people in the 500 bandits, and the bandits fled back to Jiejia Village with smoke and fire, and Zhang Yuanyuan led the brothers to prepare more rolling wood and stones, and defeated the officers and soldiers who came by victory many times. Hou Jing saw that hundreds of soldiers had been killed and wounded, so he refused to attack again, wanting to find out if there was a way to the back mountain and be able to sneak attack the cottage. The local township guide shook his head and said: "Captain Hou, there are many cliffs behind Jiejia Mountain. ”

Hou Jing saw that he had already shot the bandit leader Zhang Qiang and killed more than 100 bandits, which was not a waste of work, so he led his troops to retreat.

Dazhai advocated that Qiang was dead, and it should have been Qiao Chongliang, the owner of the second village, to take over as the master of the village, but Qiao Chongliang, the owner of the second village, was quite scheming, and thought that his prestige and martial arts were not enough to convince the public, but instead pushed the third village to the position of the master of the village. Zhang Yuanyuan is usually good at buying people's hearts, not to mention that if Zhang Yuanyuan hadn't contributed this time, hundreds of brothers would have died tragically by the river. Therefore, all the bandits surprisingly unanimously recommended Zhang Yuanyuan as the owner of the village.

Zhang Yuanyuan has long been ambitious, since the situation is like this, he will not push it, and he willingly agrees to be the master of Jiazhai.

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