Chapter 11 Self-invitation

So Xiong Wencan had to transfer Zhang Jiace to lead his troops to Yanping Mansion to suppress this group of mountain thieves who claimed to be Black Beard. The specific name of this group of Black Beard is Hu. The specific name is unknown. He is about 30 or 40 years old. It is said that he is a person from Tingzhou Prefecture. Kong Wu is powerful. He can carry a gun and draw a bow on the horse. There are hundreds of enemies. cheng.

Originally, Blackbeard was just a small group of mountain thieves operating in Tingzhou Prefecture, but seven years after the apocalypse, as the town army of Yanpingfu was eaten by seawolves, the strength of the officers and soldiers in Yanping Prefecture was extremely empty, so Blackbeard led his troops into the territory of Yanping Prefecture, plundered, wrapped up the people to join the gang, and annexed them. Several mountain thieves in Yanping Prefecture.

In this way, Blackbeard's strength expanded rapidly. In the second half of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, his subordinates had nearly 10,000 people and controlled a large area. Hundreds of thousands of people were under his control, which was quite arrogant.

After his strength increased, Blackbeard was no longer as cautious as before. He often gathered a large number of his men to attack Zhai Kebao and plundered in Tingzhou Prefecture and Yanping Prefecture, almost invincible.

The governor of Yanping Prefecture and the governor of Tingzhou finally mobilized 2,000 officers and soldiers, and also recruited a large number of township brave regiments to launch a campaign against Blackbeard. As a result, they were sent to lead the garrison, but careless, they led the army into the ambush circle of Blackbeard. After they entered the ambush circle, Blackbeard led the crowd around and rushed to kill them. Unexpectedly, he accidentally killed this guard on the spot.

In this way, the officers and soldiers were leaderless and could not resist. A large number of officers and soldiers were killed on the spot. Many villagers and officers and soldiers surrendered to Blackbeard. After the victory, Blackbeard led the crowd to visit the eight villages and seven castles in Yong'an County. The local people rolled up and robbed a large number of people and goods, and goods at the end of November, they still led The crowd went straight to Yong'an County. Although they did not attack the county, they were majestic outside the county for a long time.

They dragged some rich people caught nearby to the city and beheaded them in public, and abused the women outside the city. They took off their trousers and urinated in the county, which made the people in Yong'an County very frightened.

Xiong Wencan couldn't stand it, so he had to recruit General Officer Xie Longyi and Deputy General Zhang Jiace to discuss how to deal with it. Finally, he decided to send Zhang Jiace to lead more than 4,000 local officers and soldiers from Fuzhou and Xinghua Prefecture and Yanping Prefecture, plus 3,000 regiments recruited from various places to practice township bravery and enter Yanping Prefecture to clean up Blackbeard.

Zhang Jiace reluctantly received the order and lingered for two months. It was not until the beginning of February after the imperial court changed to Chongzhen that he led his troops on the road to Yanping Mansion.

However, when Zhang Jiace led his troops into Yanping Prefecture and walked for a whole month before arriving in Yong'an County, the officers and soldiers led by Zhang Jiace were defeated. Along the way, they were more ferocious than mountain thieves and blatantly looted the people passing through the area.

However, after Zhang Jiace arrived at Yong'an County, he entered the county and ordered it to be swallowed around Yong'an County, known as to prevent mountain thieves from entering the county.

If Blackbeard has the ability to capture Yong'an County, how can he wait until the arrival of Zhang Jiace's army to attack the county? I'm afraid he took down Yong'an County a year ago.

Zhang Jiace led his troops stationed in Yong'an County and constantly asked Yong'an County for all kinds of grain and salary materials, asking the local gentry people to help the war, which made Yong'an County even more difficult for a living and complained. Under the anger, the county magistrate of Yong'an County sent people to Fuzhou to report to Xiong Wencan.

When Xiong Wencan learned the news, he immediately sent someone to the army to reprimand Zhang Jiace, so that he must capture Blackbeard within a month.

After being scolded by Xiong Wencan, Zhang Jiace did not dare to delay any longer, so he led his troops into the mountain to clean up Blackbeard.

However, after a month, he did not find the main force of Blackbeard at all. Instead, he killed many people in vain, cut off many heads, and killed Liang to fool Xiong Wencan.

Xiong Wencan was so angry that he sent someone to reprimand Zhang Jiace again, threatening that if Zhang Jiace did not suppress it seriously, he would start the court and arrest him.

Zhang Jiace was helpless and moved seriously, leading his troops around the mountains, trying to find Blackbeard to fight against him.

However, Blackbeard did not seem to be a reckless man. He never fought against Zhang Jiace's main force and turned into zero hiding in the mountains, forcing Zhang Jiace to only kill and suppress him.

It's okay not to divide the soldiers, but this division is in the arms of Blackbeard. Blackbeard gathered more than 7,000 subordinates and divided the troops into two ways to contain Zhang Jiace's central army all the way. On the other way, under his own leadership, he attacked a soldier and horse sent by Zhang Jiace. In the end, Zhang Jiace was defeated again, only led more than 1,000 officers and soldiers and fled back. In Yong'an County, he hid in the county and dared not come out.

The news reached the Fuzhou governor's government, which almost caused Xiong Wencan to have a heart attack. His blood pressure rose by at least 20 to 30 mercury. He angrily scolded Zhang Jiace for his incompetence and ordered Zhang Jiace to be arrested and escorted to Fuzhou City for trial.

However, even if Zhang Jiace is arrested, this matter must be solved. After all, this is a big defeat, and it is necessary to report to the court. For Xiong Wencan, this is a great stain. Xiong Wencan is eager to atone for his crimes, so he invited Fujian generals to the governor of Fuzhou City.

When Xiong Wencan asked who could eliminate Blackbeard, all the turtles shrank their necks one by one, and no one would jump out to pick up the hot taro at this time.

Because of Zhang Jiace's end, those Fujian military generals inevitably feel a little sad. In addition, Xiong Wencan has been sitting crooked and taking care of Xiaotian everywhere, which has already aroused the dissatisfaction of these local Fujian military generals.

So in the end, someone made a sour proposal, saying that since Zhang Jiace can't do it now, only General Yu Sanjiang should be able to do it.

When someone mentioned this, he immediately got the support of many military generals and recommended Xiong Wencan to send Yu Xiaotian to lead the problem of Blackbeard.

Yu Xiaotian was originally a coastal defense general, mainly responsible for suppressing bandits in the coastal area. In addition, he was responsible for stationing the Quanzhou area and presiding over the military affairs around Quanzhou Prefecture. This kind of thing was not his turn to take the lead.

However, because Yu Xiaotian and Xiong Wencan have been in collusion for more than half a year and took a lot of benefits, they suddenly became the target of public criticism. Xiong Wencan was originally a little embarrassed and felt that it was not appropriate to force Yu Xiaotian to go, but even Xie Longyi, the political envoy and the officials of the inspector generals proposed to lead Yu Xiaotian to lead the army out. War.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was also present and has always been low-key and has not spoken. Now he sees that the generals regard him as Kaizi and asks him to continue the hot taro. Of course, they understand what these guys are thinking in their hearts. These so-called colleagues are actually taking Xiong Wencan's army.

Don't you, Xiong Wencan, take care of this thief everywhere? Now that the trouble is coming, you can't let the thief stand on the dry land and watch the bustle! Since the advantages have been occupied by the surname Yu, it is time for Yu to make some efforts! If Yu Xiaotian can destroy Blackbeard this time, everything will be fine. If even Yu Xiaotian loses the battle, it depends on how you can face to regard this surname Yu as a right-hand man in the future.

Yu Xiaotian has been coldly watching everyone giving him eye medicine. At first, he never made a sound, but when he saw Xiong Wencan's face, he finally came out more and hugged his fist and said to Xiong Wencan, "Since you think so highly of the last general, the last general is willing to lead the army to Yanping Mansion to destroy the black beard!"

When Xiong Wencan saw that Yu Xiaotian took the initiative to invite him to fight, he was much better in his heart. In the end, Yu Xiaotian was still sensible. At this time, he took the initiative to relieve him, but considering that Yu Xiaotian started at sea, I don't know whether the troops in his hand are good at fighting in the mountains. He is afraid that Yu Xiaotian will also follow Zhang Jia this time. In the footsteps of Ce and others, even if he wants to protect Xiaotian, he may attract the impeachment of many officials.

So he asked Xiaotian, "General Yu, since you took the initiative to ask, let me ask you, are you sure to take down Blackbeard?"

Yu Xiaotian smiled indifferently, straightened his chest and said loudly, "Please rest assured! Although the last general dare not say that he is ten times sure, since this matter has reached such a point, how can the last general sit idly by? At least 70% or 80% sure!"

After hearing this, Xiong Wencan felt a little relieved. Although he was not very clear about the actual combat effectiveness of Xiaotian's troops, he had also heard many people say that Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, whether they were sailors or marchers, were quite elite and were definitely tough soldiers.

And although Yu Xiaotian is young, he is not the kind of person who likes to talk big. Since he said he has seven or eight points of certainty, it should be about the same this time, and the worst thing is not to end up with a big defeat like Zhang Jiace.

So Xiong Wencan was waiting to promise to let Yu Xiaotian lead the army to fight, but Xie Longyi stood up and asked Xiaotian, "So I would ask General Yu, this time you will lead your army to Yanping Mansion. I don't know how many soldiers you will take?"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian knew that Xie Longyi had to figure out how many troops he was going to use. If there were too many troops, Xie Longyi would definitely not do it. Now Fujian really can't draw too many troops to take him to Yanping Mansion to suppress the thieves.

So he smiled and raised two fingers at Xie Longyi and said, "This number is fine!"

Xie Longyi's face changed and immediately shook his head and said, "Twenty thousand? No! Now I'm afraid it's difficult for us to mobilize 20,000 troops now. Even if it's only 10,000 troops, we can't take it out!"

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he also frowned. He couldn't help but feel a little displeased with Xiaotian. He felt that Yu Xiaotian invited him to fight this time, but in fact, he deliberately gave him a difficult problem to let him retreat.

But I didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to shake his head and said, "It's not! Xie Junmen misunderstood! The last general means that only 2,000 soldiers are enough!"

The pupils of Xie Longyi's eyes shrank and immediately shouted, "Two thousand? General Yu, there is no joke in the army! This is in the governor's government. Don't talk nonsense! Otherwise, Lord Futai will not forgive you!"

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