Chapter 28 Yongning

After Li Shuanzhu Xin'anyi defeated the officers and troops on the way to rescue Luoyang in Mianchi County, the whole army immediately contracted. After loading the money and grain obtained, the whole army resolutely gave up Mianchi County on the sixth day of October, and continued to take Luo Li's second battalion as the guide, teaching battalion and heavy battalion and other troops as the middle army. Li Shuanzhu's third battalion covered the flank, Xun Go quickly to the hinterland of Henan.

As for some food that can't be taken away, Xiao Tianjian has no pity, even if it is scattered to the exiles in Mianchi County and the local poor people.

At first, when Xiao Tianjian ordered to give up Mianchi County, Luo Li and others said that they did not understand. They finally took down the bridgehead of Mianchi County. They thought that Xiao Tianjian would maintain contact with Shanxi on this basis, and then gradually develop towards the hinterland of Henan, but Xiao Tianjian asked them. Give up here and enter the hinterland of Henan in a lonely and in-depth way.

So all the generals asked Xiao Tianjian why he did this. Xiao Tianjian took them to stand on the map and point to the map and explain to them, "Although Mianchi does not seem to be too important, it is the only place to connect Henan and Tongguan. If we stay here, it is bound to threaten Luoyang City. In this way, It is equivalent to cutting off the connection between northern Henan and Shaanxi. In this way, whether it is the government of Henan or Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, they will not sit back and watch us here!

If I don't give up this place, I will be attacked by the officers and soldiers on both sides of Henan and Tongguan. How many officers and soldiers can this small Mianchi County stop? Moreover, the grain reserves here are limited. Once we are blocked here, we will fight to the death in the city. Even if we rely on the support of our hometown, we are likely to be easily cut off by the officers and soldiers!

So at present, we can't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place. Why are we reluctant to give up such a small Mianchi county? What's more, we don't need to get supplements from our hometown in a short period of time. What's the use of staying here? It's just a waste of our troops!

If one day we want to get through here again after we stand firm in Henan, it can be said that it doesn't take any effort at all. How can this small Mianchi County stop us from going home?

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the generals had nothing to say. Xiao Tianjian gave up here. In fact, he directly broke the fantasy of those soldiers in their army in Shanxi, and did not leave them any way out. In this way, these soldiers had to rush forward with him!

Feng Yijun was even more shocked when he learned of the defeat of the sent army in Luoyang. He knew that the Xingtian army came down to the south fiercely this time, so he did not dare to neglect it. He sent someone to inform the general of Tongguan by detour and asked him to send troops to attack Mianchi County from the west. At the same time, he immediately sent someone to urgently report to Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, and asked him to dispatch soldiers and horses. He came to Luoyang to support, sent more troops, and went out of Luoyang to prepare to recover Mianchi County again.

Just when Luoyang was busy and happy, the news came back from Mianchi County. After Xing Tianjun killed Mianchi County and a group of officials, he suddenly gave up Mianchi County and left Mianchi County that night and disappeared.

So Feng Yijun hurriedly sent troops back to Mianchi County, received Mianchi County, sent troops to guard Mianchi County, quickly sent people to Chen Biqian of Kaifeng Prefecture, and quickly sent people to find the whereabouts of this group of Xing Tianjun.

Three days later, Feng Yijun finally learned the trace of Xing Tianjun. It turned out that after giving up Mianchi County, Xing Tianjun set out to go south overnight and ran straight to Yiyang County along the official road. After entering Yiyang County, he suddenly turned to the west, which only took a day. He was killed in Yongning County.

Wu Dalie, a magistrate of Yongning County, was originally bored during this period. Although Gao Yingxiang and other volunteers have left West Henan and returned to Shaanxi, it is not much stable because of this. Over the years, the court's rate, coupled with the fiefdom of the imperial relatives and dignitaries in Henan, Most of the fields in Henan are concentrated in the hands of these relatives and powerful people, so that ordinary people can't make ends meet at all. In addition, after years of famine, even the tenant farmers who farmed in Huangzhuang have starved to death, making Yuxi almost become a bandit's nest at present.

The area around Yongning is extremely serious for banditry. Not to mention far away, there are two powerful local thieves, such as buckets and tile jars, who are coiled in Xiong'er Mountain, Dafang Mountain and Niuxin Mountain, and often go to Yongning area to attack and disturb.

At the beginning of spring this year, Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an in Yongning County, asked the court to build Yongning County on the grounds of theft. However, in the past half a year, although the wall of the county has been raised by one foot, the county government is poor and jingling.

However, Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an, refused to take out the silver and put the matter on his county government. Although the king of Wan'an is not as rich as the Fu King in Luoyang, after all, he is still a relative of the emperor. The Wang of Wan'an family accounts for more than half of the land in the whole Yongning County, and there are no millions of taels of silver in his family. At least there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and he asked him to build Yongning County. It was easy to touch his mouth, but he didn't know the difficulty of building a city.

In the past six months, in order to build and build Yongning County, Wu Dalie almost completely squeezed out the people around Yongning County. The city wall has increased by one foot. Yongning County has become much stronger, but the local banditry has become more and more serious. The people with land have almost run away, and the rest Only three imperial villages outside the city and six or seven large farms have been cultivated.

During this period, the huge thief Yidou Valley, who was located in the area of Xiong'er Mountain, led his troops to walk around Yongning County from time to time. The day before yesterday, Zhonghe Town in the north of the county was broken by a valley. The people in the town were almost slaughtered, which made the people in Yongning County panic and at a loss.

And the officials of Henan Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture are not paying attention to the suppression of bandits here at present. Yidou Valley and the tile jars are becoming more and more powerful, and each of them has nearly 10,000 soldiers. If they go crazy that day and unite to attack Yongning County, God knows that only Yongning County. Can the defenders and servists stop them?

But just when he had a headache about this matter, someone suddenly rushed into the county government and told him a worse news, saying that there was a strange army of thieves, which suddenly appeared in the east of Yongning and was heading towards Yongning County.

So Wu Dalie was so scared that he almost fell from the big chair to the ground. It was really raining in the house! There used to be a bucket of valley and a crawl jar in this area, but it was already chaotic. Now there is a group of thieves, so how does he live in Yongning County?

Wu Dalie did not dare to neglect it. He quickly asked about the situation of the new thief army in Yongning County. The person who reported the letter replied with a frightened face, "The little one can't figure out where they came from, but it doesn't look like a group of local thieves. The flag they hit clearly. There is a red flag embroidered with a human-shaped figure without a head on one side, and their armor is bright and looks neat! It's not comparable to the gang of thieves in a bucket of valleys and crates! Please make a quick decision! They are less than 30 miles away from the county seat now. It seems that they have gone to the Huangzhuang of the King of Wan'an in the east of the city!"

"Ah?! Idiot, after talking for a long time, how many people did they come? After listening to this, Wu Dalie was cold in his heart, and immediately scolded the servant who came to report the news.

"I can't see the small one, and I can't see it at a glance! At least there are more than ten thousand people!" The servant, who had been frightened, remembered this matter, but he was ambiguous.

Wu Dalie is really going to faint this time, 10,000 people? How can he handle this! If those local thieves in Yidou Valley come, he can still urge the hundreds of defenders in the city to fight, but I heard from this servant that this group of new thieves are strong and equipped with armor, so he can't do anything about it!

What other big flag without a head? What is this? Xing Tian... That's right! It's Xing Tian! This group of thieves should be the Xingtian army that has recently been in trouble in Shanxi and has been defeated several times in a row.

Wu Dalie was completely panicked. He almost didn't have time to tell his men what to do, so he ran out of the county government office. He asked someone to close the city gate immediately and ordered the government office to prepare a sedan chair. After getting on the sedan chair, he ran straight to the royal palace of the king of Wan'an.

Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an, is only in his forties. He is white, fat and very rich. Of course, he is only a little rich. He has not reached the same level as the King of Fu in Luoyang. Although he is also a relative of the emperor, he looks much more shabby compared with the King of Fu.

He is the tenth grandson of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and he belongs to a partial branch of the imperial family. At present, after more than 200 years, the imperial relatives surnamed Zhu can be said to be as many as cattle in China. It is said that there are hundreds of thousands. There are very few people like him who can still carry the name of a vassal king, even if it is not as much as the King of Fu. He is prominent, at least in this area of Yongning County, he is at least a king of Wan'an, and his life is still quite luxurious.

It's just that the world is unstable and chaotic now, so after the Spring Festival, he asked to build the wall of Yongning County. Now that the wall has been strengthened, he can rest assured.

Before Wu Dalie came to him, Zhu Caizheng squinted and sat on the soft couch, enjoying two beautiful maids pounding his legs for him. He didn't know what had happened outside the city at all. The only thing he was concerned about was this year's harvest in his closed fields this year. For him, the banditry was just a disease of ringworm. How can the Ming Dynasty not deal with such a bandit? Sooner or later, we will clean up the world!

While he was enjoying himself leisurely, an eunuch ran all the way into the hall and said to Zhu Cai, "Prince, Wuzhi County took several officials in the city to say that there was something urgent to see your Highness!"

Zhu Cai was comfortably and drowsy at this moment. Suddenly, he was disturbed and very unhappy, so he stared at the regular servant and said lazily, "What's the matter with them looking for me? It's good that I didn't find them. As an official of the land guard, at present, the imperial village outside the royal city has been repeatedly invaded by thieves, but they can't calm down, but what about me? I don't see you!"

The regular servant knelt on the ground with a frightened face and said to Zhu Cai, "Your Highness, there is really something important for them to find Your Highness this time!" A group of bandits suddenly appeared in our Yongning County and rushed straight to the county! In Wuzhi County, they are looking for Your Highness to discuss the matter of guarding the city!"