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Yang Jiamo and Xie Longwen, as well as Yang Jiamo's two remaining family members, guarded the four city walls in the southeast, northwest, respectively.

However, Fengcheng County has twelve city gates!

Seeing the fire in the city, many city guards were afraid that their homes would be burned, so they wanted to go home to help put out the fire.Hearing the shouts one after another, they thought that the rebels had sneaked into the city, and they ran away one after another.

Yang Jiamo even beheaded several people, but still couldn't hold back and fled.

At this moment, before troops were even dispatched outside the city, these city guards were already scared out of their wits.

Chapter 180 [The magistrate's last words]

At first, Xie Longwen stopped the soldiers from escaping, but when he heard the cries of rebels outside the city, he immediately ran down from the tower.

While running, he was still distracted and escaped from the government, shouting: "Open the city gate!"

No one paid attention, and all the officers and soldiers ran away.

Xie Longwen wanted to open the door and escape, but it was difficult for one person to open it without the help of soldiers.He didn't dare to waste time, instead he fled into the streets and alleys of the city, climbed over the wall and hid in the woodshed of a certain rich family.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yang Jiamo quickly took off his cotton jacket and ran to the north along the city wall.

According to the original plan, his two surviving servants also ran to Beicheng to meet up.After tying the rope and hanging down, the three of them grabbed the rope and slid down, quickly fleeing into the streets outside the city.

Seeing several teams of rebels rushing past, they seemed to have entered the city, Yang Jiamo immediately fled with two servants.

When he ran to the moat, Yang Jiamo was in despair for a moment. There were a few rebels guarding each bridge.He immediately retreated back to the street and headed towards the west pier of the city. There is no moat here, but there is a wide Ganjiang River, and ships are not allowed to dock during the siege.

Although Yang Jiamo's ancestral home is Chongqing, he has settled in Liangzhou Wei for several generations. He and his two family members belong to landlubbers.

The three of them took off their chain mail, forcibly removed the door panel of a shop, lifted the door panel and rushed towards the Ganjiang River—unable to escape along the river bank, because there was a moat in the middle, and the moats on both the north and south sides flowed into the Ganjiang River.

Three landlubbers, each lying on a door panel, ran to the downstream city of Nanchang.

One of the servants suddenly lost his balance when he floated more than ten feet away. He started pouring water with a grunt, clapping his hands indiscriminately and calling for help in panic.

Yang Jiamo was terrified in his heart, let alone paddling, he didn't even dare to move his fingers, and just lay down on the door panel cautiously.

The night doesn't tell the direction, it just floats down the river.

"Bang!"

I don't know how far it floated, but the door panel suddenly hit the bank and flipped over.

Yang Jiamo also poured water, and his whole body sank, waving his limbs in terror, trying his best to swim to the surface of the water.Swimming and swimming, until he was exhausted from swimming, Yang Jiamo finally resigned to his fate, and then he stepped on the sand.

Try to stand up, the water level is only up to the waist, I have been busy for a long time just now, and I don’t know who I am fighting wits with.

Yang Jiamo was ecstatic, and quickly climbed to the bank and walked forward along the river.After walking a few steps, I lay down and rested. I was really exhausted just now, and I was full of water.

After a short rest to recover his strength, Yang Jiamo continued on his way.

While walking, Yang Jiamo suddenly fell into the water, and the Gan River was in front of him again.

The ghost hit the wall?

Gradually, the sky was dimly lit, and Yang Jiamo finally understood that he had floated on a Jiangxin Continent.Moreover, it is a small sandbar, full of weeds, not even farmland, and no residents or ferries.

In all directions, it is full of river water!

Yang Jiamo wanted to cry but had no tears. The mighty general was trapped on a small sandbar.

Yang Jiamo wandered around the sandbar, and finally found to his surprise that there was a port town on the other side of the river to the east.

Jiangxi's water network extends in all directions.

This port town is called Xigang Town. In addition to being on the verge of the Ganjiang River, it is also next to a small river, which is a tributary of the Fuhe River.Starting from this river, you can go to Raozhou in the north, Fuzhou in the south, and go back to the north of Nanchang city by detouring the Ganjiang River.

"I have money, I want to take a boat!" Yang Jiamo yelled frantically towards the other side.

Nobody cares.

"I have silver, I have silver!"

Yang Jiamo shouted that his voice was smoking, but no one came over.The sandbar is more than 300 meters away from the river bank, and it is still a bustling town. Who can hear it under the hustle and bustle?

The first day was extremely long.

The next day, Yang Jiamo was really hungry and panicked, so he started to dig grass roots and eat them raw.

On the third day, I finally saw a ship passing by. It should be that Fengcheng County resumed the passage of merchant ships.

"I have money, I want to take a boat!" Yang Jiamo's voice was weak.

He has a fever because the night is so cold.

A dozen boats passed by in a row, and someone must have seen Yang Jiamo, but none of them chose to stop.Because it is easy to run aground near the sandbar, larger ships dare not approach.It wasn't until evening that a merchant ship docked in Xigang Town, and a small boat was sent to rescue people.

"Thank you very much." Yang Jiamo passed out immediately.

This guy met a kind-hearted person, not only rescued him across the river, but also invited a doctor to treat his illness.

In a daze, Yang Jiamo opened his mouth to drink medicine, and then opened his mouth to drink porridge.

When he woke up, a few days had passed, and he was still floating on the boat, with a young servant standing in front of him.

"Where is this place?" Yang Jiamo asked.

The boy smiled and said, "You finally woke up. Just after passing Jishui County, there is Ji'an Prefecture in front of you. From your accent, you are from the north?"

"Yes, from the north."

Yang Jiamo was about to faint again, but he was about to be taken to the den of thieves.

……

Yang Jiamo wrote to lie to Li Maofang, saying that hundreds of his family members were still there.

Therefore, Li Maofang firmly believed that Fengcheng could defend for a month or two, and wrote to Zhang Yinggao and Cai Bangjun to surround Wei and rescue Zhao.

When she learned that Fengcheng County had fallen, Li Maofang had no choice but to take back her orders to Fuzhou.Because the distance is very far, Fuzhou must have sent troops. He can only send messengers again, and call back if he can catch up.

The two governors Zhang Yinggao and Cai Bangjun set off with nearly 7000 people.

All the way to the border of Chongren County by boat, there is no way to go by water in front of us. We have to go through 20 to [-] miles of hilly areas, and we have to walk more than [-] miles in flat areas.

The recruits in Fuzhou Prefecture were directly transferred to be grain transporters.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and after only a dozen miles of walking, the first snow of this winter suddenly fell.

The 65-year-old Zhang Yinggao ate and lived with the soldiers, which could at least boost morale.

But Cai Bangjun, who was young, was unable to cross the hills in the snow, so he insisted on sitting on a sliding pole.And his soldiers, because of their lack of combat effectiveness, were all thrown to work as civilian men to carry grain and grass.

After marching in the hills for only half a day, the Fuzhou soldiers were full of resentment and fled for a third of the night.

the next morning.

Zhang Yinggao approached Cai Bangjun: "If you take the sedan chair again, all the soldiers will flee."

"We shouldn't have sent troops this time," Cai Bangjun complained endlessly. "It's winter, how can a group of recruits go far away? Not to mention it's snowing again!"

Zhang Yinggao sighed, "If we don't send troops, once Fengcheng falls, Nanchang will face the rebels directly."

Cai Bangjun resented: "It's all caused by him, Li Maofang, so what are we waiting for?"

Zhang Yinggao persuaded, "Persist a little longer, it's only twenty or thirty miles away, and there are no steep mountains."

Cai Bangjun thought for a while and said, "There is only one way to boost morale."

"What method?" Zhang Yinggao asked.

Cai Bangjun said: "Tell all the soldiers that they can plunder and enjoy themselves if they encounter villages and towns ahead. Otherwise, why should they stay away from their hometown and go to Jishui County to fight across the government?"

Zhang Yinggao really wanted to reprimand him angrily, but he still held back and walked away without a sound, as if he had tacitly agreed to this approach.

After another day and a half, there were only more than 5000 soldiers left from the two prefectures, and they finally came out of the mountain to the border of Yongfeng County.

It was still early in the evening, but it was already impossible to march. More than 5000 officers and soldiers dispersed automatically, robbed property, raped women, and occupied houses to sleep.

Another day later, when they came to the small town where the two rivers meet, the officers and soldiers rushed directly to the town to loot.

Only Zhang Yinggao was able to restrain hundreds of soldiers, went to the wharf outside the town and snatched a dozen small boats, barely able to transport a little grain and grass by boat.

Once the opening is opened, it is difficult to restrain.

Zhang Yinggao did not dare to say that he was the magistrate of Guangxin, and claimed to be Li Maofang's army. More than 5000 soldiers rushed all the way to Yongfeng County.

Yongfeng County is under the jurisdiction of Ji'an Prefecture, but Zhao Han has not occupied it for the time being.

The gate of the city was closed tightly, and Liu Mianzuo, magistrate of Yongfeng County, dragged his sick body and stood on the tower, looking angrily at the officers and soldiers outside the city.

Zhang Yinggao personally stepped forward and shouted: "I am under the command of Governor Li, and I have been ordered to surprise Jishui County. Please provide food, grass and ships from your county."

"Go away...cough cough cough!"

Liu Mianzuo covered his mouth and coughed repeatedly, his palms were covered with blood.

In history, Liu Mianzuo's eldest brother, Liu Xizuo, died fighting bandits.Liu Yongzuo, Liu Mianzuo's second elder brother, led his troops to defend Xinghua. After the Tartars broke through the city, they committed suicide by taking poison.

As for Liu Mianzuo himself, before Zhao Han's uprising, he had recruited [-] soldiers to suppress the bandits.

After exterminating the bandits in the mountains, Liu Mianzuo was injured and left the root cause of his illness. Because he was ill in bed, he did not follow Xie Xuelong to fight at that time.

After the peasant uprising in Yongfeng County, Liu Mianzuo had no choice but to fight against the bandits due to his illness. Now he has a thousand elite villagers.After seeing the administration of Jishui County next door, he suddenly didn't want to fight with Zhao Han, and only wanted to lead troops to defend Yongfeng County.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers outside the city did not leave and seemed to want to enter the city, Liu Mianzuo suddenly shouted: "Follow me and fight out with the whole army!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Liu Mianzuo wiped off the blood from his palms, and raised his troops out of the city to form an array.

A thousand townsmen bravely faced more than 5000 enemies, so they confronted without fear.

Liu Mianzuo roared angrily: "You are called officers and soldiers, but you are actually bandits. You have looted all the way here, even worse than the Luling Zhao bandits. Leave Yongfeng County quickly, or I will kill you out!"

Zhang Yinggao and Cai Bangjun looked at each other, they were both ashamed of themselves, and when the soldiers snatched some boats at the pier, they led the troops downstream to Jishui.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"County Honor!"

"Hurry up and help the county priest back to the city!"

The soldiers panicked and escorted Liu Mianzuo back to the county government.

Liu Mianzuo fought for several years, wiped out several old bandits in the mountains, and suppressed the peasant army in Yongfeng County.The officials in the county have been replaced a long time ago, and they are all his confidants.

Moreover, after Zhao Han occupied Jishui, Yongfeng County no longer paid taxes to the court, and all the money and food were used to train soldiers.Liu Mianzuo took the opportunity to lightly corvee the poor Fu, and everyone from the gentry to the common people respected him.

The county magistrate was disobedient and had already been hacked by Liu Mianzuo, claiming that he was killed by bandits.

After Liu Mianzuo came to his senses, he summoned the master book and the history: "If I die, I will immediately vote for Zhao Yan. If there are a thousand elite soldiers, and there is no serious evil, Zhao Yan must be reused. Only Zhao Yan can keep the people of Yongfeng County safe, and the rest The government cannot be trusted. Especially Li Maofang, I sent people to Nanchang to investigate, this bastard has already made Nanchang government angry!"

Both the master book and the classic history were promoted by Liu Mianzuo, and they were officially appointed by the court through Xie Xuelong.

"Don't talk too much about the county lord, it's important to recuperate from the sick body."

"Cough cough cough... I can't do it anymore. The old injury has dragged on for three years, and I will definitely not survive this winter. Remember, lead troops to sacrifice the city, and go to Zhao..."

"County Zun! County Zun!"

Chapter 181 [A lot of acquaintances]

"Just leave?" Cai Bangjun asked.

Zhang Yinggao sighed and said: "This person is burning with anger, if he doesn't leave, I'm afraid he will actually do it."

Cai Bangjun said angrily: "I'm not going to be angry? I came out to attack in the cold, just to encircle Wei and save Zhao? What if the main force of the rebels is not in Fengcheng? What if the main force of the rebels is in Jishui? Now Yongfeng County is not Let him enter the city, if the battle goes wrong, you and I don't even have a city to retreat to!"

"At that time, as long as we withdraw our troops in time, the magistrate of Yongfeng County will definitely open the city," Zhang Yinggao smiled helplessly, "First, he is an official ordered by the imperial court after all. Maybe from the rebels; second, we retreated all the way to Yongfeng County, when the rebel army approached, the magistrate of Yongfeng County would not let us enter the city, how could he resist the rebel attack? After all, we have [-] troops."

Zhang Yinggao guessed right, an official like Liu Mianzuo would never be a thief.If this person is still alive, he must also put the friendly army into the city.

But Liu Mianzuo died?

Of course, it doesn't matter whether Liu Mianzuo is dead or not.Because on the fourth day after Zhang Yinggao sent troops, Zhao Han received a secret report from Wang Tingshi, knowing that there was a surprise attack from the rear of Jishui County.

There are [-] soldiers stationed in Jishui County, mainly to guard against enemies from the east.

This city is very close to the city of Ji'an Prefecture. It only needs to hold on for half a day, and the reinforcements from the Zongbingfu can arrive by boat.

Regardless of whether the secret report is received or not, Jishui County will not lose, but the people of Jishui will definitely suffer.

Zhang Yinggao also knew the danger, so he would not go to attack the city, and he would not even approach Jishui County.