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Li Yingsheng put away his letters and sent people out of the city at night to investigate. As expected, all the Yao people in northern Guangdong rebelled.

How about a fart?

Shen Youlong's military defense line layout is used to guard against the direction of Jiangxi.Zhang Tieniu suddenly rushed out from Huguang, he ran around and stabbed the chrysanthemums of the Shaozhou defenders.

Moreover, there are still tens of thousands of Yao people rebelling, and it is impossible for the officers and soldiers to win.

Li Yingsheng was upset, so he went to the government office in a sedan chair to meet the prefect Xiong Shikui who was under house arrest.

Why put the magistrate under house arrest?

Because Xiong Shikui is from Xinchang, Jiangxi (Yifeng County), and most of his relatives are under the rule of Zhao Han, what if the magistrate brings people to sacrifice the city?

"Fu Zun, I have offended you a lot recently." Li Yingsheng smiled apologetically and cupped his hands.

"Hehe." Xiong Shikui responded with a sneer.

Li Yingsheng explained the purpose of his visit: "Zhao Tianwang has captured Huguang, and from Huguang, he divided his troops to attack northern Guangdong. Tens of thousands of Yao people in northern Guangdong have revolted, and they have already joined forces with Zhao Tianwang. Why don't we join the bandits together?"

"what?"

Xiong Shikui exclaimed in shock, "Zhao Bandit has already occupied Huguang?"

"It's absolutely true." Li Yingsheng said.

The Xiong family belonged to a large family in Jiangxi, and the Xiong Shikui branch was relatively weak, but there were also several Jinshi.Two years ago, he was transferred to be the magistrate of Shaozhou, and immediately took over his family, took away a lot of property, and directly forcibly purchased land in Shaozhou.

As for the relatives who stayed in Jiangxi, Xiong Shikui could do nothing but take care of his own family.

"It's over, it's over."

Xiong Shikui was devastated, Zhao thief occupied Jiangxi and Huguang, and it was a matter of time before he took Guangdong.

If I had known this earlier, why did I bring my family to Shaozhou?

Li Yingsheng said: "Fu Zun, come down."

Xiong Shikui said angrily, "You are the leader of the troops. If you want to surrender, you will surrender. Why are you holding me?"

Li Yingsheng cried bitterly: "I am a general in charge of the army. I was persuaded to surrender from outside the city. I only agreed to let ordinary officers and soldiers go home. Fu Zun is a scholar. Can you go out of the city to help negotiate? Just say that I am willing to surrender the city and the treasures in the army. Hand them all over, and only ask for a dog's life to return home."

"Oh, let's go." Xiong Shikui sighed.

Xiong Shikui came down from the basket and went straight to the barracks, where he was tied up and taken to see Zhang Tieniu.

"Are you here to surrender?" Zhang Tieniu asked.

Xiong Shikui cupped his hands and said: "Xiong Shikui, the magistrate of Shaozhou, is originally from Xinchang, Jiangxi."

Zhang Tieniu smiled and said, "I'm still from my hometown."

Xiong Shikui said: "The city guard intends to surrender and asks to save his life."

"Go back and tell him that if you surrender, you will make meritorious deeds, and if you make meritorious deeds, you will survive." Zhang Tieniu said.

Li Yingsheng got the promise, but he couldn't believe it. He asked Zhang Tieniu to take only 30 people into the city to accept the surrender.

Zhang Tieniu really only brought 30 people, and swaggered to the city: "Quickly open the city gate!"

Li Yingsheng was startled, stood on the tower and shouted: "Why are there tens of thousands of troops outside the moat?"

Zhang Tieniu shouted: "Of course I have to be prepared when I enter the city to accept surrender. If something happens to me within [-] minutes, tens of thousands of troops from outside the city will immediately attack the city! Open the urn city, open the main gate, don't think about burning me to death in the urn city Inside!"

Seeing that Zhang Tieniu only brought 30 troops and the rest of the troops were outside the moat, Li Yingsheng believed in Zhang Tieniu's sincerity.But he was still afraid, and said: "Please, this general, order the army to retreat another half mile!"

"You eggless bastard," Zhang Tieniu ordered, "play the flag!"

The flag was waved, and the army retreated.

Li Yingsheng finally felt relieved and asked to have the gate of the Wengcheng and the main gate opened.

A soldier entered the urn city to check, came out and said to Zhang Tieniu, "The main gate inside is open."

"go!"

Zhang Tieniu walked in with a smile, and Li Yingsheng came down immediately, ready to surrender and offer the city.

Zhang Tieniu led his troops through the Wengcheng and came to the main gate. Li Yingsheng and his officers knelt down and shouted: "Welcome the general to enter the city!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Tieniu walked over with a smile, as if he wanted to help Li Yingsheng up, and Li Yingsheng also waited for Zhang Tieniu to help him.

Suddenly, Zhang Tieniu drew his saber and swung it out: "Kill!"

Accepting the surrender is a very complicated matter, and it will take at least several days of tossing.

Moreover, Li Yingsheng was too cautious to let Zhang Tieniu bring only 30 people into the city to accept the surrender.

What would Zhang Tieniu think?

It must be a hairy heart, what if Li Yingsheng suddenly regrets before the surrender is completed?

Instead of trusting Li Yingsheng, it is better to trust the knife in your hand.Although there were only 30 people around him, Zhang Tieniu dared to take the opportunity to seize the city!

Li Yingsheng was kneeling on the ground, when Zhang Tieniu slashed out with his knife, and killed him in a daze.

"kill!"

Wu Yong also drew his sword and hacked another officer to death.

Including Zhang Tieniu, 31 of Zhao Han's personal guards slashed wildly at the kneeling officers.

The standing ones killed the kneeling ones, killing a lot of them in an instant, and the remaining generals turned around and ran away in fright.

Xiong Shikui stood beside him in a daze, completely stupefied.

There are thousands of officers and soldiers in the city, and dozens of rebels dare to kill and seize the city?

Zhang Tieniu really dared to kill, and the officers and soldiers really dared to escape.

Seeing the army outside the city regroup, and seeing his own generals being killed and running wildly, the officers and soldiers on the nearby wall collapsed immediately.

Chapter 252 [Words and Cranes]

Zhang Tieniu kept his promise, and the middle and low-level officers and ordinary soldiers, as long as they hadn't escaped, all sent food home.

The premise is to confiscate their weapons and armor.

This was kind enough, Zhang Tieniu even wanted to kill all those officers regardless of their rank.

Moreover, there is absolutely no mistake in killing!

These officers and soldiers have been suppressing bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi for three years, and the imperial court has not paid them food and salaries. Where did their military food come from?

All hands are bloody, they are all executioners who slaughtered the common people.

Maybe some military officers have even committed crimes.One kill is a village, the money and food are taken away and put into pockets, the head is cut off and used as a reward for meritorious service, and then it is said that the village was slaughtered by rebels.

Some of the officers and soldiers who escaped on the day of the capture of the city flew to Shixing County to report, and the Shixing defenders also reported to Nanxiong.

"With only a small amount of luggage, the whole army will evacuate!"

Lu Qian, the general of Guangdong, was shocked and immediately withdrew from Nanxiongfu City, taking away the troops from Shixing County by the way.They had to leave early, otherwise they would be blocked there and unable to advance or retreat, because Zhang Tieniu's route of attack was to stab chrysanthemums.

In fact, Lu Qian's main force has already been blocked by Zhang Tieniu.

When evacuating, Lu Qian couldn't walk the normal way, so he could only leave through the mountain by a small road called "Qinghua Path".

After crossing the mountains and finally arriving at Wengyuan County, Lu Qian still did not dare to stay, and continued to retreat to Yingde County to garrison, and Zhang Tieniu was stuck on the main road to continue going south (Wengyuan County in the Ming Dynasty was very close to Yingde County).

The entire northern part of Guangdong was captured, leaving only Yingde City.

To the south of Yingde is Guangzhou!

Although there is Qingyuan blocking the waterway in the middle, there is a land official road between Yingde and Guangzhou.

As long as they capture Yingde again, they can directly attack the city of Guangzhou.

This is not because Zhang Tieniu is so powerful, but because of Shen Youlong's strategic mistake, he did not send troops to guard against Huguang.As a result, once Shaozhou fell, the main force in the direction of Nanxiong and Shixing would be at risk of being blocked and encircled and wiped out, which frightened the general Lu Qian to withdraw his troops from the mountain path overnight.

Shen Youlong himself, in fact, does not know how to fight. It is all up to his staff to come up with ideas, and the specific military affairs are left to the generals.

When news of the fall of northern Guangdong came, Shen Youlong's situation became even more embarrassing.

He wanted to shrink the line of defense, voluntarily abandoned the city, and withdrew to Guangzhou to join forces with Lu Qian, but was blocked by Fei Ruhe in Longchuan and could not return.

Just that way, Fei Ruhe divided his troops and got stuck.

In desperation, Shen Youlong could only desperately lead more than 6000 old soldiers, the same number of civilian husbands and a large fleet.More than 3000 people voluntarily abandoned Longchuan City and went to attack Fei Ruhe outside Heyuan City.

There are also 6000 defenders in Heyuan, equal to more than 6000 people, and [-] people (including civilian husbands) who attack Fei Ruhe on both sides.

130 miles, the whole march along the river bank.

Camp in the evening.

After nightfall, there were shadows around the barracks, and a large number of grain transporters fled at night.They were forcibly recruited, and they were not willing to fight at all. How could they not escape such a good opportunity?

Shen Youlong was woken up by his own soldiers, and after learning about the situation, he didn't dare to stop him.

If there is too much commotion in the middle of the night, it is very likely that the camp will be bombed directly, and the officers and soldiers will follow suit.

Those officers and soldiers are also unwilling to fight!

The advantage of Shen Youlong is that he knows how to delegate power. He can't fight, so he trusts his generals very much.However, this also led to the corruption of military discipline. It took three years to suppress the bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi, and many times they deliberately let the bandits go.

For those generals, instead of fighting tough battles with the rebels, one can support the bandits' self-respect, two can preserve their strength, and three can take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

The generals got rich by robbing, but the big soldiers didn't get much.

Even the military pay is not enough, and the food is also very poor.This is the normal state of the army in the late Ming Dynasty. That army can feed the soldiers, but it belongs to the heterogeneous among the heterogeneous.

Shen Youlong can defend the city with a large army, but once he leaves the city and the Datong Army is nearby, the soldiers and civilians will make up their minds to flee.

The march continued the next day, but as a large number of civilians fled and scattered, they had to send soldiers to transport food, resulting in a slower march.

Camp in the evening.

This time, Shen Youlong learned his lesson and put the civilians in the middle and the soldiers on the periphery, so that the civilians could be prevented from escaping at night.

The civilian husband did not have a chance to escape, but the soldiers started to run.The outermost troops lost as much as 800% at night, and more than [-] people escaped overnight.

In the morning, after counting the number of people, Shen Youlong and the generals all looked ugly.

The deputy general is called Shi Wangzheng, a very good name.He invited Shen Youlong aside, and said quietly: "Master, you can't march like this anymore, otherwise when you arrive at Heyuan to fight the bandits, our army may be defeated before the fight begins."

"Why?" Shen Youlong sighed.

Shi Wangzheng suggested: "Pay the soldiers and civilian husbands immediately, and make up for last month's military salary. The supervisor must pay the salary himself!"

"Okay!" Shen Youlong followed suit.

Because he doesn't know how to fight, and in order to make generals obey him, Shen Youlong has never interfered in specific military affairs.

This brought about two results. The military general liked Shen Youlong very much, and thought that the governor was a good official, and he usually thought that the governor would work hard for him.However, military discipline has been seriously corrupted, and deduction of military pay has become commonplace.The low-level soldiers could not get paid, and they all relied on stealthily hiding some money to compensate for the loss when they robbed the village.

Such officers and soldiers, who have been suppressing bandits for three years, are all old soldiers. They are not only afraid of Zhao Han, but also other traitors.

In a word, don't want to work hard!

Shen Youlong called all the generals and announced: "The march is suspended today, you call the soldiers, and the governor will pay the salary himself!"

At this critical time, the generals also understand the governor, as long as they don't ask them to pay, the governor will pay the salary himself.

The soldiers lined up to receive their pay one by one, and finally there was some joy on their faces.

The effect was immediate, and there were only more than 300 deserters that night.

On the third day, continue to march.

Not far away, the mountain search team in front of the road came back in a panic and reported: "Master, there are bandits ambushing in the mountains ahead, and we saw a lot of anti bandit flags!"

"How many bandit soldiers are there?" Shen Youlong asked.

The spy replied: "I don't know, the young ones dare not get too close."

Shen Youlong was afraid of being ambushed, so he stopped advancing immediately, and sent [-] additional soldiers to find out the truth about the bandits in the mountains.

After tossing like this for an hour, the soldiers came back and reported that the ambush in the mountains was fake, and some flags were just planted indiscriminately.

Shen Youlong became more careful, and his marching speed became slower and slower.

After walking a few miles, another anti-thief flag was found in the mountains.I had to stop and check carefully again. After repeated tossing, I only walked more than ten miles in a day.

Moreover, morale plummeted, both generals and soldiers felt that there might be rebels ahead at any time.