stubborn thief

Chapter 151 The Trend of Two Breads
Just when Liu Chengzong got two red cannons.

Throughout the Fen River Basin, the Shanxi government's troops are mobilizing to the front line of Luliang Mountain.

Pingyangwei mobilized [-] banner troops to station in Daning and Pu counties, and another [-] households led troops to station in Liulangzhai on Luliang Mountain, strangling the throat of Xi County entering Huozhou.

In the Kukongguan Inspection Department in the northeast of Shilou County, Li Shien, a soldier in Southern Hebei Province, put down the letter and sighed.

He was only envious of Pingyang Wei.

Pingyang Guard is not held back by the palace, and there is a permanent councilor. They have more than 5000 banner troops to run and stay, and they can take out 300 people to deploy defenses.

The meaning is also very obvious, as long as the bandits don't disturb Pingyang Mansion, they can't control other places.

He is different. His full official title is the deputy envoy of the second government of Lu'an Fenzhou, which is in charge of South Jinan Road.

It sounds very capable, but in fact, there are three palaces in these two palaces: Qingcheng Palace, Yonghe Palace, and Shen Palace.

The names of Fenzhou and Luzhou are obviously prefectures, but they are government-level administrative units. It is because the three princely mansions were rampant in the past, and the state level made officials oppressed by the second mansion.

That's why Luzhou was upgraded to Lu'an Mansion when Emperor Jiajing was in power; Fenzhou was upgraded to Fenzhou Mansion in the 22nd year of Wanli.

In this regard, Lu'an Mansion is even more difficult than Fenzhou Mansion. There are two very important counties in Lu'an Mansion, one is Changzhi and the other is Pingshun.

Place names in ancient times were all based on aspirations for good things. If they are safe, they will be uneasy, if they are peaceful, they will be uneven, if they are smooth, they will be difficult, and if they are governed, they will not be cured.

In Pingshun, there used to be a small official named Chen Qing who gathered people to rebel in the Taihang Mountains. From the tenth year of Zhengde to the seventh year of Jiajing, he took down seven state capitals in the south of Taihang Mountains.

Therefore, under the condition of limited resources, Li Shien, the military guard in charge of the two governments, seemed to be bound by his hands and feet, and it was difficult to accomplish anything.

In the past few days, he forced some soldiers back from Wangzhuang, and mobilized the people in Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Pingyao, Jiexiu and other places, and only then pulled out a [-]-man army for defense.

They were respectively stationed in Wucheng in the northern section of Luliang Mountain, and Kukongguan in the middle section.

What should he say about his army?

Last year, King Qin's army in Shanxi mutinied and fled. Li Shien was worried that the four counties of Fenzhou Prefecture would be looted by the defeated army, so he tried his best to urge the people to practice throughout the winter until the beginning of spring.

Therefore, the people in Fenzhou Prefecture are well-trained, and there are also many troops in the townships, and Shanxi Tieye is particularly well-developed.

It cannot be said to be a mob.

But the farming is busy.

After several years of drought, we finally saw snow last winter.

The lethality of this busy farming season on the peasants and the banner army is almost equal to the rain of the peasants' rebellion.

Moreover, the thieves have not yet entered the border of Fenzhou, so it is very difficult to pull them out to fight.

It can only be said that it is reluctant.

They alone are not enough to solve the siege of Yongning Prefecture. As for the troubles in Xizhou, Li Shien has no time to take care of them.

And subjectively, Li Shien didn't want to care too much. In the past two days, he sent reconnaissance cavalry to enter Yonghe County through Shilou, and according to the information collected, the bandit soldiers led by 'General Liu' seemed to have done three things.

Annihilated Zhang Zhan's banner army, set up a valley government office, and executed more than 400 criminal banner troops.

They besieged an earthen fortress in Xixiang, Yonghe County. The people said that there was an official lord living there, but the detectives didn't know which lord it was.

Then they sent people to collect and bury the corpses of the victims in Zaowang Mountain and Fanjia Mountain, and led the troops to leave after worshiping.

In addition, it seems that he is stationed in Tubao, and he doesn't know what he wants to do.

Based on these three things, Li Shien believed that he should first defend the four counties of Fenzhou with limited troops, at least not to let the bandits cross Luliang Mountain.

Then dispatch Luzhou Guard reinforcements to deal with General Gao who sent troops to loot the rich households in Yongning Prefecture.

Che Cai, who was temporarily serving as a staff member of the military preparation department, asked, "What about General Liu in Yonghe County? Let him go first?"

"General Liu?"

Li Shien took a deep breath, raised his hand and put his fist to his mouth, and exhaled heavily: "I have asked Datong for help."

Che only blinked, suspecting that he had heard wrong.

He didn't understand the logic of the matter, and asked: "He didn't do anything, Datong asked for help, even if he wanted to ask Datong for help, he should use Datong soldiers to fight that General Gao?"

"Brother Che, it doesn't matter if you don't get muddy or King Gao Chuang, they are not as good as this General Liu. He buried the corpses of the people and punished the guilty banner soldiers. He is not a bad person."

Li Shien shifted his body on the chair, faced Che Cai, and said seriously: "But you have seen a thief and know what a thief looks like. Is he a thief?"

Che Cai nodded, then shook his head again, with a troubled face on his face.

Since General Liu buried Zaowangshan's body, his family members must also be among them.

The officers and soldiers killed his whole family, and the thieves avenged him and buried his whole family.

Che Cai could no longer tell who was a thief and who was a soldier, so he asked, "Does it matter if he is a thief?"

"I know Brother Che wants to say that he is not a thief, and I also think that he is not a thief. Whether he is a thief is not important, but what he is not a thief is very important."

Li Shien sighed, he didn't know what General Liu was: "No matter what, I was paid by the court and appreciated by the emperor. With these things in my hand, I can't deal with him."

Che was silent for a long time, raised his hand and tapped lightly on the table twice: "Let's hit King Gao Chuang first."

Unfortunately, things did not go as they hoped.

The Luzhou Guard Banner Army received a transfer order on March [-]th. On that day, [-] banner troops were dispatched, put down their hoes and put on their battle armor, and marched quickly from Qinzhou to Fenzhou Prefecture.

They entered the country very quickly. They set off on the afternoon of the [-]th, and on the morning of the [-]th they had already crossed the [-]-mile mountain road to Qinyuan County.

But that's it.

At the night when this banner army set off, the left-behind banner army stationed in Pingshun County, together with the deserters of King Qin hiding in Taihang Mountain, attacked the Wangzhuang of Prince Shen's mansion outside the city.

King Shen's mansion quickly asked for help from the flag army, and the flag army had no choice but to send a horse to inform Li Shien of the situation, and led the troops back to Lu'an Mansion.

On the other side, the army that Li Shien dispatched to Wucheng started a fight.

It wasn't with Gao Yingxiang, and it wasn't that they went north without getting muddled. It was they who accidentally discovered the bandit's cottage.

The leader, named Bashanhu, was originally surnamed Gao and was from Fenxi County. During the sixth year of Tianqi's drought, he went to Luliang Mountain with his fellow villagers, and lived a simple life without looting his house.

The local government tried to send patrols to arrest them, but they were all locals. In the end, they said that they ran away but did not find them, and the matter passed.

Ba Shanhu's life was quite comfortable at first, and it was not because of the invasion of Shanxi by the peasant army from Shaanxi. He suddenly received the news that the imperial army had entered the mountain, and he instinctively thought that these officers and soldiers were looking for him.

Quickly mobilized more than 500 people to pack up their things and prepare to flee, and at the same time sent people to watch the movements of the officers and soldiers.

But it was found that this group of people had no intention of going into battle at all. Thousands of people were divided into two groups, front and rear, and walked in a long line of snakes in the mountains.

Can this kill him all at once?

Bashanhu's weather was uncertain, and he struggled several times in his heart.

His nickname, chosen from Journey to the West, is indeed unlucky.

The little demon under the King Jinyinjiao brothers, and Yi Hailong, were beaten to death by Monkey King with a stick.

He also had a brother named Yi Hailong, who had a fight with the army several years ago and died.

But looking at the cottage that I lived in for several years, I was really reluctant to just run away, so I finally decided to do it all at once.

Immediately, he divided more than [-] strong men under him into four teams, set up an ambush attack among the mountain roads, and defeated more than a thousand unsuspecting officers and soldiers.

With a question mark on his face, Bashanhu led his men to clean up the weapons and armor left by the officers and soldiers, and took away the flags and horses.

I thought to myself: I haven't been out of the mountain for a few years, how weak are the officers and soldiers?

How did you know that when you asked the captive, they didn't come to look for him at all.

The news spread to the cave, and Li Shien, who was eating, was choked.

It's a bit inappropriate to be defeated by bandits, but it's understandable that the intelligence work is not done well, he thinks.

It would be outrageous for Luzhou Guard's soldiers to withdraw back. Your prince is staying in the palace, and the bandit soldiers dare to enter the city and kill you?
At this time, another person came to report: "Master Bing Xian, Min Zhuang is clamoring to go home and farm."

This was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Li Shien was so angry that he threw the bowl, and after he finished the throw, he thought about the hard work of every grain, and angrily picked up the rice grains from the ground and ate them.

The subordinate persuaded: "My lord, put another bowl. If you eat unclean food, you will get sick easily."

"Sick? If you don't die from the disease, you will die of anger sooner or later. If you die, don't worry about it."

Li Shien took a deep breath and shook his head, and said in a bad mood: "Death in office can be regarded as repaying the emperor's kindness, the best of both worlds."

To tell the truth, he even wanted to go to the capital, talk good words to make connections, and was transferred elsewhere.

I don't know what evil I did in my previous life to become an official in front of the vassal king.

Before he had time to eat the meal, another piece of news made Li Shien's blood pressure exceed his height: "Master Bingxian, Liu, General Liu seems to have left Yonghe."

Li Shien stared at his subordinates, the wording of the report was wrong: "What do you mean like? What do you mean go out?"

Where did you go!

The subordinate who sent the letter was also very aggrieved: "Our scout in Shilou was pulled out. The last letter was sent yesterday afternoon, and there is no news from Xizhou City today. I can only confirm that the two cities are not lost."

"The scout was pulled out?"

That is more bad luck than good luck.

Li Shien shook his head slowly, as expected, he was not someone he could deal with with manpower and material resources.

His subordinates passed through the mountain without knowing how to set up sentries, and they knew to pull out the opponent's scouts before making a move, how could they fight against it.

He thought about it, decided to give up, and said to his subordinates: "Finally, send a letter to Yonghe County, Shilou, and Xizhou City. If the city is besieged, light the wolf smoke and let the detectives transfer to Renjiazhuang. Don't go there again." Touched around the three cities."

Renjiazhuang is in the middle of the three counties, and the distance from each city is about twenty miles.

In his opinion, his current energy is limited, and he is unable to hold Gao Yingxiang in the north and Liu Chengzong in the south.

Anyway, Liu Chengzong doesn't harm the people. On the other hand, he seems to have the idea of ​​attacking the city, so let him play in Xizhou. As long as he doesn't come here, it doesn't matter if he is willing to open a small county government in the valley.

After all, it was Pingyang Mansion, and the Pingyang Guard held the army, and he didn't plan to come to the north to help him, and he didn't need to put his face on someone's cold ass.

He got up and went to the hall to write another letter, which was addressed to King Shen, telling the palace not to pester the Banner Army.

He believed that King Shen understood righteousness and would understand his good intentions.

In fact, King Shen is pretty good. Last winter, there was not enough food and grass for the Minzhuang people, and the seven counties in Fenzhou Prefecture didn't give him money and food, but Lord Shen donated food to him after he knew about it.

Moreover, Prince Shen's Mansion often took out some grain and shipped it to Xuanda after the farmers paid the rent to replenish military resources.

Although it is still not enough, but I don't know where it is better than others.

That's right, the other people he was talking about were Prince Qingcheng's mansion who kept giving birth to babies.

After all, this is a vassal family that changed the rules of wives and concubines in the clan of the Ming Dynasty with its own efforts.

Before the year of Hongzhi, the imperial court did not set a limit on the number of wives and concubines in the clan. As a result, King Qingcheng gave birth to 94 children. The Shanxi Yushi of the imperial court suspected that the royal family of Qingcheng adopted a baby from outside to deceive the imperial court.

As a result of the audit, the 94 children were all born to King Qingcheng.

Later, a rule was simply issued that the vassal king had a maximum of four concubines, but it was useless to have this rule. The next generation King Qingcheng directly gave birth to seventy sons.

At one time, Lumi, the clan of Shanxi, exceeded Shanxi's tax and grain by 29 shi.

If there is a villain in the normal world, the villain may disappear from everyone because of his incompetence.

Then the probability of the vassal king producing a villain will only be this high, and will not be lower than this, because they themselves have power.

In other palaces, there is one villain out of five people, but in Qingcheng Palace, there are ten villains out of fifty people.

Who can withstand this destructive power!
What Li Shien watched every day was which Zhuangzi was robbed by King Gao Chuang's troops.

Either Linxian asked for help, and had been besieged for five days.

But he didn't dare to let the army enter the west of Luliang Mountain, so he had to garrison the troops at Kongongguan.

He could roughly guess where the main force of Gao Yingxiang's army was by breaking through the gentry's fortress, but Liu Chengzong's army completely disappeared from his field of vision, and it took three days for it to disappear.

Live like a year.

He even asked Che Cai: "You said that General Liu has already returned to Shaanxi?"

But this is just the good hope in his heart.

On the evening of March [-]th, the soldiers of the courier shop, full of dust and dust, rushed from the direction of Fenyang, bringing a letter of help from Pingyang Mansion.

"How the hell do I still have the strength to send reinforcements!"

Hearing that he was cursing, Che asked curiously, "Brother Shien, what did you write in the letter?"

"Their Liulang Village in Luliang Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. What happened? The letter said that most of the lion thief Liu Chengzong jumped into Luliang Mountain and set up red cannons to bombard Liulang Village. Taking the lead, the army immediately abandoned its baggage and dived eastward.”

Li Shien handed the letter to Che Cai: "He has entered Huozhou!"

Che Cai rubbed his eyes and took the letter, and sighed after reading it for a while.

The letter also said that the government troops stationed in Puxian County had already pulled out their camps and headed northward, intending to pursue the bandit army from the rear, while the troops staying at Pingyang Guard on the other side were also heading northward, trying to pinch the lion bandit in Luliang Mountain.

Because there are only 1000 banner troops stationed in Puzhou, they are worried that there will be insufficient troops to block the back road, and hope that the Pingyang Guard Banner Army can send people south.

Liulangzhai is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it was a military fortress in the Song Dynasty. In that era, the location of the fortress was chosen without considering the defense against shelling.

But it's not this that confuses the car the most.

He asked Li Shien: "Brother Shien, do you have red cannons for these people you can mobilize?"

"Why do we have that thing? Aren't they all used for attacking and defending cities?"

"Then why does Liu Shizi have it?"

"Oh, I don't know. Brother Che, you can ask Prince Qingcheng's mansion to see if the prince built it for him. Now I feel that the biggest enemies of Fenzhou Mansion are in the east and west cities, no!"

Li Shien looked serious, he was thinking, why can't others be like him, honestly guard a place and don't move.

Obviously you can't beat others, you can't make a mistake if you don't operate, and you will give it away as soon as you operate.

"They are all enemies. Those who cross the border without permission, those who ask for help and troops, those who go home to farm, and those who are ambushed on the road, can't use their brains. Zhang Zhan's 700, 1000 people are dead, and those [-] people can block his back." Is there a way? One counts as one, and if it is done, they are all fucking thieves, and there is no wrongdoing!"

　good evening friends!

　　
　
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