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With a large number of sailors, they led 1000 infantry and rushed to rescue Fengyang.As a result, Zhang Xianzhong beat the elite fighters who had trained painstakingly in a muddle-headed battle to the point where there were only more than [-] soldiers left.

Although the army has been re-recruited and there are another [-] infantry, such recruits are useful!

Wang Siren thought carefully and said: "Let's go to Linjiang Mansion first, and then decide how to fight after finding out more about the real situation of the rebel army. We have a navy, we can advance or retreat, don't easily fight against the rebels."

"That's the only way to go." Li Maofang said.

Chapter 159 [Luling King Zhao]

Xinyu County.

Standing on the tower, Chen Yanyi, the magistrate, looked at the rebels outside, and scolded the eighteen generations of the first assistant Wen Tiren's ancestors in his heart!

He was a Jinshi of the new department last year. Although he was ranked at the bottom of the top three, he was a good scholar in the selection examination of the library.

Chen Yanyi is young, and his blood is not cold, and as an official, he naturally wants to impeach the powerful and gain fame.Accidentally, Wen Tiren's henchman was impeached, and then he was released as a magistrate.

Coincidentally, the former Xin Yu County magistrate spent money to get promoted, and Chen Yanyi was cast as the new Yu County magistrate.

God is sorry, Chen Yanyi has been in office for less than five days, and he has just recognized all the officials of the county government, before his butt is hot, the rebels have already attacked the city.

Before Chen Yanyi had time to hire the master, he could only ask the chief bookkeeper, "Are there only a few dozen officers and soldiers guarding the city?"

The head book replied: "The former county magistrate recruited more than 500 townships to defend the city bravely."

"Where are those brave men?" Chen Yanyi asked.

The chief book said: "The county magistrate resigned, and Xiangyong also left, because the county government has no money to pay."

"Where's the money?" Chen Yanyi asked.

"Why should the county lord ask questions knowingly?" the master book said in a bad mood.

The county government treasury can run away with rats, and the money has been swept away by the former county magistrate.There were barely some left over, and they were also divided up by the chief secretary, Dian Shi and others, and they could be pushed to the head of the former county magistrate when traced.

After the Lantern Festival, Zhao thief passed by here and extorted a sum of grain and grass.

Everyone felt that since Bandit Zhao chose to withdraw his troops, he would not attack the city again in the short term. After all, if he took the water route, there were still three counties in between.Who would have thought that bandit Zhao just went back to the spring plowing, and when the spring plowing was over, he suddenly sent troops to kill him.

Fei Ruhe was also very depressed. He originally wanted to swindle the city, but Zhao Han made too much noise in Zhangshu Town, so he led his troops here, and Xinyu County was closed.

Xinyu County is located at the confluence of Yuan River and Kongmu River. Fei Ruhe can only land in the north and west, and the east and south of the county are rivers.

While he made people fill the moat with soil, he made people build siege equipment.

A few days later, seeing that the moat was filled with several roads, the master book and the history found Chen Yanyi: "The county lord, come down."

"As a county magistrate, I have the responsibility of guarding the land. How can I surrender to the rebels?" Chen Yanyi scolded angrily.

The chief book said: "The county lord doesn't know something. This Zhao thief is true to his word. He is different from ordinary thieves. He will not kill people indiscriminately."

Chen Yanyi sneered: "The rebels still have credit?"

The history of the classics said: "Zhao thief in Luling, he keeps his word, who doesn't know how many counties are around?"

"Chong!"

Chen Yanyi drew his sword out of its sheath: "Whoever says surrender again, I will definitely kill him!"

The master book and the history of the classics retreated with a sneer, and a group of yamen servants came up.

Chen Yanyi despaired instantly. He had only been in office for a few days, and he was a loner in Xinyu County.

After the rebels besieged the city, Chen Yanyi lobbied the big gentry, hoping that they would donate money and food, and recruit the young and strong in the city to defend the city.But those big households all pretended to be deaf and dumb, as if they were not afraid of the rebels breaking the city, and now he has no money, no soldiers, no food!

Under normal circumstances, a newly appointed county magistrate like Chen Yanyi would have to wait until the summer grain was collected before he would be able to do business with money and grain.

Zhao Han's reputation worked, and everyone from officials to big households was unwilling to resist.

If you resist, you may not be able to defend it, and you will be liquidated by the rebels.

If they surrender directly, the rebels will not burn, kill and loot, and they will have nothing to lose.

"Do you still want to rebel?" Chen Yanyi retreated with his sword, and angrily scolded the servants who surrounded him.

Dian Shi persuaded: "Xianzun, surrender."

"Don't think about it!"

Chen Yanyi said angrily.

Dian Shi immediately waved his hand, and the servants began to outflank Chen Yanyi.

Chen Yanyi was completely in despair, and could only say: "After I die, let my entourage go back to Fujian, and at least bring back news to my family."

"Why bother." The master book sighed.

Chen Yanyi suddenly knelt down towards the north: "Your Majesty, I have owed the emperor's favor, so I can only die for my country."

After kowtowing a few times, Chen Yanyi knelt down towards the southeast again: "Father, mother, the child is not filial, and cannot repay the kindness of the two elders for raising them!"

After a few more kowtows, Chen Yanyi stood up and said, "An unfaithful and unfilial person, what face does he have to live in the world?"

Then he raised his sword across his neck and killed himself on the spot.

Master Shu and Dian Shi looked at each other, both sighed.Then, carrying Chen Yanyi's body, he ordered to open the city to welcome the rebels.

Fei Ruhe was about to attack by force, when suddenly the gates of the city opened wide, and a group of officials came out carrying the magistrate's body.

"Master, Master!"

Suddenly, a house slave ran over and threw himself on Chen Yanyi, crying loudly.

This is also a loyal servant, and he would not leave if he was let go, but ran to protect the master's body.

After Fei Ruhe understood what had happened, he sighed and said, "Alas, loyal ministers and righteous servants are rare in this world. Burn this magistrate to ashes, and let the servants take them back to Fujian for burial." Fei Ruhe said to the slave again. Said, "You can also take away the items from the magistrate. I will write another letter. After you arrive in Zhangshu Town, if you are detained by our army, you can show the letter and let us go."

"Thank you, General, thank you General!"

The slave kowtowed again and again, he didn't know what it means to be loyal to the king and serve the country, he only knows to be loyal to his master.

After two days' delay in Xinyu County, Fei Ruhe left five hundred Anfu soldiers to defend the city, and then led the rest of the troops to Fenyi County.

The sweeping king is also scoring Yixian!

Fenyi County is even more interesting. The county magistrate was hacked by Zhao Han during the Chinese New Year, and now the county government doesn't even have a chief official.

However, all the officials and big households in the city sent out money and people to defend the city, because it was the sweeping king who attacked the city.Even the common people in the city joined the army enthusiastically. The king of sweeping the land really has a bad reputation, and Yuanzhou's mansion city was plundered by this guy for several days.

"Call the city again," Sweeping King said angrily, "Just say that if you don't surrender again, after I enter the city, I will kill all the rich people in the city!"

A peasant army rushed to the city, just opened his mouth to say a few words, and suddenly shot an arrow, which landed two feet away from his feet.

Although Zhao Han took away Yuan Zhou's elite, some escaped inevitably, and now there are more than ten archers guarding the city.

Sweeping King felt restless. He occupied three counties, but Yuanzhou Fucheng (Yichun County), Pingxiang County, and Yongxin County were all easily occupied by stealing cities.As a big traitor, it was the first time he had seriously attacked a city, and he was completely unable to chew through the siege for half a month.

"Your Majesty, officers and soldiers are coming!"

"What? Quickly withdraw the people, withdraw to the camp and stand firm!"

Sweeping King had been studying for two years, and when Fei Ruhe's army approached, he immediately laughed: "Did you see that flag? The world is in harmony. It's brother Zhao's soldier from Luling, don't be afraid, one of our own."

This guy went to meet him in person by boat, and shouted from a long distance on the river: "I am the sweeping king of Pingxiang, Brother Zhao from Luling, is he here?"

When Fei Ruhe heard the news, he also stepped out of the cabin and stood at the bow of the boat and shouted, "I'm Zhao Yaonian."

"It turned out that it was Zhao Ergege in person," Sweeping King flattered, "I have heard of Zhao Ergege's reputation in Pingxiang, why don't we become sworn brothers?"

In Sweeping King's mind, Zhao Han is the elder brother Zhao, and Fei Ruhe is the second elder brother Zhao.

Fei Ruhe said unhappily: "We'll talk about the matter of sworn worship later. My family's chief town has taken a fancy to Fenyi County, so you retreat quickly and let me attack the city."

Of course, the Sweeping King was not happy, and said: "Fenyi County is the territory of Yuanzhou Mansion. Since I have occupied Yuanzhou Mansion City, Fenyi County City should also be occupied by me. If Brother Zhao wants the territory, he can go to Linjiang Several counties in the prefecture are occupied. We are all rebels, we must abide by the rules, and Mo’s family will hurt their peace.”

Fei Ruhe sneered: "According to what you said, Yongxin County is under the jurisdiction of Ji'an Prefecture, so you hand over the territory of Yongxin County!"

"Uh..." The sweeping king was speechless.

Suddenly, a yamen servant came down from a basket hanging from the city, rushed to the river and shouted: "General Zhao, I am Li Er from the Fenyi County Yamen. We met each other during the Chinese New Year. Please enter the city quickly, General Zhao, and don't let that The Pingxiang thieves have taken the city!"

The Sweeping King was furious when he heard this: "Damn it, when I attacked the city, you guarded it tightly. The Second Brother Zhao came, and you surrendered before the fight started. Are you looking down on me, Liu... the Sweeping King!"

The yamen servant said angrily: "You are killing innocent people indiscriminately. Two months ago, you broke through the Yuanzhou Mansion and killed all the big households in the city. Fate, I, Li Er, will fight with you to the end!"

"I'm too angry, let's sail over!" Sweeping King felt deeply insulted.

The yamen servant was so frightened that he turned his head and ran away, and returned to the tower in a basket.

Fei Ruhe couldn't help laughing and said: "Haha, this is what the people want, King Wu Na Sweeper, quickly withdraw the troops and let the county come out."

The sweeping king roared: "I came here first, and I have to talk about first come, first served when doing things."

"Go ashore." Fei Ruhe was too lazy to say anything.

Three thousand and five hundred soldiers landed at the pier outside the city, and swaggered past under the city.

This has already entered the range of the archers on the city, but the guards did not shoot a single arrow. They regarded Fei Ruhe as one of their own, and the rebels under King Sweeping the Dirt were the real mortal enemy.

King Sweeper brought more than 6000 soldiers, nearly twice as many as Fei Ruhe.

The two sides lined up outside the city to fight, and it seemed that the winner had already been decided before the fight started.

On Fei Ruhe's side, the army looked majestic and the formation was neat.Facing twice as many enemies, there is no cowardice, and the enemy army is not taken seriously at all.

On the side of the Sweeping King, it is composed of several large and small rebels, and the Sweeping King is only the leader in name.He occupied three counties alone, which made the anti-thief leaders under him very unhappy. This attack on Fenyi County was also to expand the territory and distribute it to the people.

Obviously the troops were twice as strong as Fei Ruhe's, but before the formation was completed, the morale of the army was already floating.

Firstly, Luling Zhao Yan's reputation is too great, causing huge psychological pressure on the rebels; secondly, Fei Ruhe's army is strong, and even the weapons are far superior to the opponent's.

Not to mention the regular soldiers, even Zhao Han's farmers and soldiers had replaced their bamboo spears with iron heads, and some of Sweeping King's soldiers were still holding hoes.

After Fei Ruhe gave the order, the messenger immediately waved the command flag.

Except for the [-] Chinese soldiers who were advancing slowly, the remaining [-] soldiers all made great strides forward.

The wolf soldiers cleared the way, the rattan players covered, and the pikemen were ready to go.

Only halfway through the advance, there were still dozens of steps between the two sides, and suddenly a wave of rebels collapsed.But it was a rebel leader who led more than a thousand soldiers under his command to run away without even asking for food, grass and luggage in the barracks.

"Run, Zhao Tianwang's soldiers are coming!"

Zhao Tianwang of Luling is the nickname given to Zhao Han by the surrounding rebels.

I saw that the rebels collapsed one after another, and even the headquarters of the Sweeping King kept running away.

The Sweeper King roared loudly: "Come back, I haven't fought yet, it's not too late to run after the fight!"

There were also some rebels who knelt on the ground and surrendered after running far north.They are local farmers in Fenyi County, who were coerced by the Sweeping King to attack the city. Although they killed the landlord, ordinary rebels cannot divide the land. They must be veterans (rebel veterans) to divide the land.

"Damn, I'm running too!"

The sweeping king stomped his feet angrily, and fled quickly with his headquarters.

"it is good!"

"Long live General Zhao!"

The defenders of Fenyi County cheered in unison when they saw this, and regarded Fei Ruhe as their protector.

Fei Ruhe led his troops to chase for a while, but he didn't bother to chase any more. When he returned outside the city, the gates of Fenyi County were already wide open.

No matter whether it is an official or a wealthy family, they all want Fei Ruhe to stay, otherwise the sweeping king will definitely come back.

Fei Ruhe led his soldiers into the city, and muttered, "If you do this, I will forget that I am a traitor."

Chapter 160 [Suppressing bandits and making money]

Nanchangwei, the school yard.

Li Ruolian, the general soldier of Jiangxi, inspected the troops, and suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "The Luling Zhao thief has stolen the state capital, burned, killed and looted, and committed all kinds of crimes. Now I am under the emperor's order to discuss it. With the help of all the lords, I will win the battle and win the capital. ! Let's go, let's go!"

Li Ruolian is 69 years old this year. In history, he led the Jinyi Guards and was 78 years old when he died for his country at the gate of Beijing.

If he hadn't been the eldest son of a military household and had to inherit the military position according to the system, he would definitely have taken the Wen Jinshi examination instead of this nonsense Wu Jinshi.His younger brother Li Ruogui was a Jinshi Wen. During the reign of Tianqi, he served as the minister of the Ministry of punishment. He resigned because he could not be tolerated by Wei Zhongxian.

By the way, his younger brother, Li Ruogui, was rumored to have hugged Emperor Tianqi when he was young, and Zhu Youxiao was given the title "Old Li with Golden Arms" after he ascended the throne.

In Yuan Chonghuan's treason case, Li Ruolian was the presiding judge.

Li Ruolian didn't find anything wrong with the trial, and Emperor Chongzhen was unhappy, so he asked his superior Liu Qiao to interrogate, and Liu Qiao found out evidence of Yuan Chonghuan's rebellion.

Li Ruolian was demoted two ranks because of this, and after a few years of tossing, he was slowly promoted back, and now he was finally thrown by Chongzhen to be the general soldier of Jiangxi.