stubborn thief

Chapter 106 Yan'an Guard

Yan'an Mansion, Jialing Mountain, Nanguan besieged city.

Accompanied by the moonlight, the flag soldiers wearing hats at the city gate struggled to push the winch, followed by the sound of clattering iron chains, and finally returned to calm with a thud.

On the dry ditch illuminated by the torch, in the billowing dust falling from the suspension bridge, a man rode alone through the smoke and dust to enter the pass.

The guards who closed and opened the door greeted and said, "Master Liu, the general and Ren Baihu are waiting for you at Fan Gongjing."

"understood."

The person in the dust is Liu Chengyun.

He turned over and got off the donkey, lifted the scarf to block the smoke and dust, waved his hands to disperse the dust in front of him, and said to the guard: "Have you waited long?"

"Soon, not long." Qi Jun said as he stood on tiptoe and leaned behind Cheng Yun, looking at the donkey cart: "Master Liu, what's behind?"

"Several brothers were injured and recuperating in the besieged city. I also got soybean oil from the oil mill to supplement the brothers."

After all, Wei Jun was still happy when he saw Liu Chengyun took out a pistachio from his arms and stuffed it into his hand: "A Yue pistachio, from the west, break it and eat it at night."

The guard beamed with joy, and called his men to come down to move the goods and bring the wounded soldiers into the city. He did not forget to thank him: "Thank you, Mr. Liu, for remembering our old brothers from the Lion Camp."

Liu Chengyun waved his hand and stepped into the Nanguan siege city built on the mountain.

The guard in this city is Yang Yanchang.

At this time, Yang Yanchang was no longer a hundred households who wished to be thieves to make a living, but a thousand households who were actually taught in the besieged city of Weinanguan in Yan'an. Dressed in brocades, they stood by the well looking at the moon with their hands behind their hands, looking very majestic.

It's just that no one knows how much pain he has in his heart.

This has to start from the day when Liu Chengzong robbed the county government prison.

Chaos broke out inside and outside the city, and Zhang Xiong, a thousand households, led the army out of the besieged city.

Yang Yanchang originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos and lead the remaining defenders to loot the treasury, silver and grain in the besieged city, and flee to fall into the grass with Liu Guoneng.

Unexpectedly, Wu Qianzong and Qianhu Zhang Xiong died in the hands of Liu Chengzong successively.

His immediate boss is dead, so he doesn't have to run away.

But if he doesn't run away, he is the last serving officer of Yan'an Guard.

Liu Chengzu, Zhang Tianlin, and Monk Wang, who were always doing one thing and not doing two things, led their troops to gallop around outside the city.

The Nanguan Siege City with only 36 banner troops left was the last bastion of the government that day.

The situation is critical, even the famous ancient generals cannot protect Yan'an Mansion.

But Yang Yanchang can.

The thirty jin of silver that had just been collected was put into a small wooden box, wrapped in red silk and satin, and sent directly to Liu Chengzu.

Yang Yanchang, a hundred households, crossed the formation of hundreds of thieves with a horse under his crotch and an iron spear in his hand. He had no enemy under his command. He shouted to expel the thieves and protect the magistrate, and charged into the city of Yan'an alone. .

In the afternoon of the same day, the rebel army came back, and Yang Baihu, who was full of food and drink, rode out of the city again, killing seven in and seven out of the formation, and the rebel army scattered in shock.

In the evening, the magistrate's yamen inspected the corpses of more than thirty bandit soldiers on the battlefield where the fierce general galloped past. They were indeed all faces of strong boys, but the wounds were different, most of them were knife wounds and arrow wounds.

But this is harmless, a star is slowly rising over Yan'an Mansion.

The news spread to the trilateral government in Guyuan, the Governor Yang He was furious, and invited Yang Yanchang to Guyuan for an interview.

Not even a real official title!
shame!What a shame!

The meritorious service is reported, the official is promoted to three ranks, and the general of Hancheng is transferred to guard against the bandits in the south.

Then he ordered the guards in Xi'an, Tongguan, Qingyang, Fengxiang and other places to select and train warriors, and Sha eliminated incompetent guards to make room for talented men.

Later, under Yang Yanchang's repeated suggestions, Yang He also realized that the Yan'an Guard was short of troops and the major general was unguarded, fearing that the fortress would be lost, so he asked him for the post of Yan'an Guard Qianhu.

The governor also specially sent a letter to Zhang Nian, the magistrate of Yan'an Prefecture, praising Yang Yanchang's meritorious service in scaring the thieves and keeping Yan'an.

Governor Yang's great love for him, officials at all levels' compliments to him, and even the storybook that the storyteller in the teahouse at the gate of Yan'an Prefecture must say every day... To Yang Yanchang's ears, every word is heart-piercing.

He is a fake famous general, so there is no amazing bravery.

Can he do Qianhu's work well?Sooner or later this will be revealed.

In the torment day after day, Yang Yanchang surprisingly found that his work was very simple.

It only needs to be used as a decoration, and there is no need to do anything.

The work of Yan'an Guard can no longer be described as being solved like a bamboo, it was completely broken by the bamboo itself and hit the knife.

He needs to recruit troops, build ordnance, and find ways to provide food and grass.

But before the recruiting officer went out, hundreds of soldiers did not even say hello, so they prepared their own weapons and brought dry food to join the army.

The enthusiasm of recruiting military households made Yang Yanchang look stupid.

Since Emperor Jiajing Daojun was established, have hundreds of people come to serve as military households in the Ming Dynasty?

Except that most of these people are surnamed Liu, other places are very good.

"Cough cough."

The coughing sound behind him interrupted Yang Yanchang's meditation on Mochizuki, and pulled his thoughts from his memories to the Nanguan siege at night.

When he turned around, it was Liu Chengyun who had arrived.

The famous general who showed his strength in Fucheng looked very helpless in the face of the small Liu Chengyun. He sighed: "Chengyun, you came this time and sent another wounded soldier?"

Liu Chengyun smiled and bowed to Yang Yanchang: "General Yang is short of people, so let's send them here."

"Where did you rob again? I've heard that you are encouraging the people in various villages to steal food from big households. If you are dissatisfied, you will fight with swords and soldiers. The magistrate's yamen doesn't know who is behind the scenes for the time being, and the news will leak sooner or later. What's more..."

Yang Yanchang showed some dissatisfaction: "You are treating Yan'an Guard as a wounded barracks."

Liu Chengyun greeted the surrounding guards indifferently, and then said: "General Yang can't say that, the soldiers sent by the Lion Camp are all good soldiers. They have fought with others and been injured. When the general is about to use his troops, don't you compare them to others?" Is it useful to recruit refugees?"

"When using troops..."

Yang Yanchang felt dizzy when he heard this word: "Aside from suppressing you, what else should I use my troops for?"

Yan'an Mansion is now a den of thieves, and half of the leaders are surnamed Liu.

Liu Xiangyu, Liu Chengzu, Liu Chengzong, Shetatian, Chuangtatian, Guotianxing, Monk Wang, Cao Cao.

This group of people, except for the last one, he said hello to the rest of the people when he went to deliver the money, and he knew them all.

"Then suppress it. If the prefect's yamen gives the order, the Yan'an guards will go out and suppress twenty or thirty leaders. Let's go and suppress two rich and unkind big families."

Liu Chengyun waved his hand and said: "The general and my second brother are acquaintances, we can discuss everything, if you like money, let's divide the money."

"Suppress, what the hell, I have a total of four hundred households under my control, three of them are from your Heilongshan surnamed Liu, and the remaining one is that Ren Quan'er."

Mentioning this matter, Yang Yanchang became even angrier. He took a step forward and said to Chengyun, "Can you tell me that your second brother is the same age as Ren Quan'er, what kind of ecstasy soup did you give him? The child has become like this in one month." .”

Ren Quan'er was his former subordinate.

Born as a small soldier, the eighth generation of the military family of the guard station, he served Yang Yanchang with water to wash his feet since he was a child. He was so loyal that he couldn't be more loyal, and he was placed in a big family outside.

Just because he delivered a cannon to Liu Chengzong, he lived in the waist of the tiger for more than a month.

The child came back as if possessed.

He keeps saying that I belong to Chief Liu, and keeps saying that Chief Liu treats me well.

Dare to suppress?
Can it be suppressed?

Yang Yanchang can command who is in the guard?

On the surface, he is a thousand households, but his actual command ability is equal to minus one. Let alone commanding troops, he can't even control himself.

Liu Chengyun just laughed: "What kind of ecstasy soup can you pour, just treat him well."

How good is it?
Washing his feet, treating his wounds, resting and not letting him work is better than letting Quan'er's father treat him better.

In a hierarchical society for 300 years, Yang Yanchang, who was born as a guard, is not incapable of understanding what it means to be nice to people.

But the brain naturally couldn't think of any good reasons for the Weisuo humanoid tools.

There is no need, the eight generations of ancestors have come here and have been loyal for generations, so do you still need to treat him well?
This is the consensus of the guards.

But now Yang Yanchang knew that it was time to treat the military households better.

Because many military households are surnamed Liu, if he does not want his head to be chopped off at any time, he must treat the military households well.

The Lion Camp kept sending wounded soldiers to Yan'an Guard, but Yang Yanchang had no choice but to say, "Chengyun, all these things about me were arranged by your second brother before he left?"

This question has been held in his mind for a long time, and only Liu Chengzong knows him in Lion Camp.

Everything about the promotion went too smoothly, leaving dead bodies from fake battles outside the city, someone in the city wrote story books for teahouse storytellers, and immediately sent people into the besieged city when they became thousands of households.

There were even later arrangements for Yan'an Guard to find craftsmen to make weapons, raise wounded soldiers, and Ren Quan'er.

Liu Chengzong also fought two times in the county government office, went out of the city and fought two more times, and fled for ten miles, turned around and beheaded Zhang Xiong.

The more he thought about it, the more Yang Yanchang felt that it was more suitable for Liu Chengzong to pretend to be a brave general.

Moreover, this person is very smart, and he arranged the funeral in such detail that Yang Yanchang was terrified by the details.

Among other things, the script of "General Yang of Yan'an Prefecture Defeats the Bandit Army" that Shan Fucheng is talking about all day long cannot be written before.

Even if Nan Jiashan had been plotting against him since the day they first met, it couldn't be so thorough, could it?
Unexpectedly, what he said made Liu Chengyun burst into laughter: "Why? My second brother killed Zhang Xiong that day. He was so tired that he didn't even say a word. He fell asleep on the horse's back. Later, he explained what we should do. Don't do anything, he just took people away, there is no time to plot against you."

Yang Yanchang shook his head, feeling in his heart that Chengyun wasn't telling the truth: "I've met all of your leaders. Except for your second brother and She Tatian, no one else knew me before that day."

As for Li Wanqing who shot down the sky?

Yang Yanchang had known him through Liu Guoneng a long time ago, and he didn't believe that Orion boy had such abilities.

"Someone knows you."

What's more, Liu Chengyun couldn't say anything, he just said: "No one wants to plot against you, it's just that the higher your promotion, the safer everyone is, it's not your Lion Camp, it's you General Yang, Yan'an Wei, and us, all of you Lion Camp."

Yang Yanchang's promotion, from military exploits to creating public opinion, was really a team effort.

Yang Dingrui came up with most of the ideas, including throwing the corpse. The corpses belonged to the Yan'an Guard Banner Army, but they were the thieves who fled from Laohui's men and joined the Yan'an Guard.

The storybook that fabricated the details of the battle outside the city was written by Liu Chengzu, who witnessed the battle.

Song Shouzhen, a hungry thief from Lehu, also wrote a song for him, and Liu Xiangyu wrote the lyrics. He wanted Wang Kun, the litigator, to sing it to his adopted daughter in the brothel.

It's a pity that because of the robbery, the city was under martial law every day, which severely hit the brothel business outside the moat. In the end, Master Liu's libretto was useless.

"Who else?"

Yang Yanchang asked: "Is Meng Xiancheng, who is in charge of the county government, and Zhang Shuban, who is in charge of the house, also have a share? I went to the county government to handle errands, and the secretary office recognized that the banner army under me was the Liu family. Later, Meng Xiancheng actually told For each room, the manpower will be tight first to the Yan'an Guard Office."

Zhang Shuban?
Liu Chengyun knew about the county magistrate Meng, and knew that his second brother had an appointment with the county magistrate, so he couldn't touch Liujiazhuang if anything happened, but they couldn't trust the magistrate.

That's why Yang Dingrui asked many Liu family members to go to Yan'anwei to join the army, but Meng Xiancheng really didn't touch Liujiazhuang, and he didn't even move the Black Dragon Mountain, only sent someone to take a look.

But Zhang Pan, the secretary, didn't know what was going on.

I don't know if I don't know, Liu Chengyun said with a smile: "Leave them alone, general. If you ask them, they won't admit the thief. If others ask you, will you admit it? The general asked me to come..."

Chengyun stepped forward and asked, "Is there any news about my second brother? Where is he?"

"Don't worry about your second brother, he is very powerful."

It stands to reason that Yang Yanchang should be happy to become a thousand households, but he just can't be happy, and he always feels that he is being controlled everywhere.

But he is unwilling to say that he has nothing to do with the Lion Camp.

The mentality is very contradictory. It is obvious that everything is satisfactory, but it is controlled by others, which seems to make everyone uncomfortable.

Yang Yanchang shook his head and looked towards the dark east: "He completely destroyed the courier shop, the news from Yan'an Guard could not get out, and the news from outside couldn't get in. Sending a letter can exhaust the postmen in Heshui County." die."

Heshui County is now Qingyang Mansion, and several times the letters have been delivered in the city of Yanzhou. The local postmen are afraid to go north when they hear about the situation in Yan'an.

In the end, the postmen in Qingyang could only bear the ignorance of the road and ran for three hundred miles before sending the news to Yan'an Fucheng.

"Your second brother probably went to Shanxi, and he killed the guerrilla general Lu Cheng who suppressed him at Yanshui Pass...Chengyun, do you know how much trouble it took to send a letter that can be sent by twenty soldiers in one day? "

Yang Yanchang shook his head. The news of the Battle of Yanshuiguan had no way to go south, so he could only send it north, via Qingjian, Suide, Mizhi, and finally to Yuhe Station in Yuhebao.

The two side walls were sent from Yuhe Station, and the frontier troops raced on the Great Wall, all the way to Yanchi Station where the Ningxia guards were located, and then sent to the Trilateral General Mansion in Guyuan Prefecture by relays from Pu Si soldiers along the way.

Finally, from Guyuan Prefecture, all the way to Yan'an Mansion.

"Master Yang was very angry when the governor's capital was breached and a guerrilla general was killed as soon as he took office."

Yang Yanchang patted Liu Chengyun and said very seriously: "The officers and soldiers of Yansui Town are going south. The frontier army of Guyuan Town mutinied just last year, and the governor dared not move, but the Qingyang Guards also want to gather troops to march towards Fuzhou."

Chengyun was still young, so he panicked when he heard it: "Then my second brother is in danger, we must find a way to tell him the news!"

"Your second brother made too much noise. In the official document handed over by the government, he has been listed as the first-class thief leader along with Wang Jiayin and Wang Zuogua, but don't worry too much. Your brother is smart, as long as he stays in Shanxi , the Qin army could not cross the Yellow River."

Yang Yanchang raised his finger and pointed at Liu Chengyun, worried: "On the contrary, you, when the Qingyang army arrives, maybe I will be recruited too. By then, the chaos around Fucheng will be calmed down, and the post station will be reset for express delivery. If you can't find Chengzong I'll look for you, don't worry about it these days... don't let anyone get caught, we'll all be finished!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)