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Chapter 495 What a Yang Ge department, three days away from me

In the first ten days of September last year, I was on the boat of Yang Sichang, the governor of the river outside Wushan City.

"Huaguansuo" Wang Guangen kowtowed and wept in front of Yang Sichang. He swore allegiance to the imperial court and would never have a second heart in this life.

Although Wang Guangen was born as a bandit, he was born with a peach blossom face and was very handsome.

He originally had six to seven thousand men and horses, but recently about [-]% of them were killed, injured or fled.

Yang Sichang ordered him to serve as a guerrilla in Yunyang. He selected more than [-] elite soldiers and horses to follow the army to chase down the bandits.

In the cabin of the boat, Yang Sichang asked him, "Do you know where Li Zicheng is now?"

Wang Guangen replied with a respectful expression: "Since my younger brother Guangxing saw Li Bandit in Zhushan, I only know that Li Bandit has fled to the northwest, but I don't know where he fled.

His current team is very small, and they are very hungry and tired. Most of them are lurking in the mountains somewhere on the border between Shaanxi and Huguang. "

Yang Sichang still felt uneasy about this, he pondered: "If he can be recruited to surrender, it will remove a big hidden danger for the imperial court."

Wang Guangen said seriously: "The final general knows that Li thief's temperament is very different from Cao thief's, and also different from the eight thieves.

His heart of being a thief is firm and firm, and he is extremely tolerant. He has always been poorly clothed and poorly fed, unlike the eight thieves and Cao thieves who are greedy for pleasure, so it is not easy to recruit him to surrender. "

Yang Sichang said: "Since he is so recalcitrant and unwilling to surrender, then wait a little longer, and after the bandits are wiped out, it won't be too late to divide our troops to encircle him.

You are currently stationed in the area of ​​Yun and Jun. Don't be careless. You must send more detailed operations to investigate his whereabouts and prevent him from suddenly jumping out and breaking the city. "

Wang Guangen replied with a respectful expression: "I will obey your lord's order, and the general will never dare to be negligent."

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Yang Sichang was in a trance in the center of the cabin alone, thinking wildly about the past.

He twisted his beard and whispered softly:
"If you don't act peacefully, you will follow the example of the praying mantis.

Traveling back and forth between Chu and Shu is rampant, and there is nothing to do with soldiers and remnants of the people.

Yuntun rains suddenly masters gather, snakes and hogs rush to hide?
Mian'er's soldiers and civilians captured and surrendered, and the nobles rewarded them for their merits. "

This is a poem "Xijiang Moon" written by him when he first came to Sichuan to pursue Zhang Xianzhong. At that time, it was posted all over the prefectures and counties of Sichuan and Huguang.

He vaguely remembered that he had made a more popular notice to his staff at that time:
"This is the traitor in Gucheng, and now his life is dying.

Xing'an traveled in all directions, and the heavenly soldiers from all directions caught up.

He fled and changed his name and surname, and fled hiding alone in black.

Soldiers and civilians will be tied up to surrender, and jade belts and brocade clothes will be rewarded. "

Thinking back now, everything was nothing more than a flash in the air. In a trance, the jingle that Zhang Xianzhong used to ridicule him at that time came to his mind again:

"There was Governor Shao in the past, who often came to dance in groups;

What a Yangge department, three days away from me."

He was thinking wildly, when he suddenly heard a few apes' cries falling from a high cliff, the voice was clear and bitter, his heart couldn't help moving, he sighed, and chanted unconsciously:

"The Three Gorges of Badong and Wu Gorge are long, and the ape cries three times and tears stain his clothes!"

Due to his heavy heart and desolation, all kinds of problems of supervision and suppression came to his mind all at once, and he sighed in his heart: "Your lords in the court, how many painstaking efforts do you have to know that I am a country!"

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At this time, Yang Sichang didn't know that Luoyang had fallen and Fufan had been in trouble, and he didn't even know that the situation in Henan had changed drastically, and Kaifeng was already in dire straits.

The only thing he cares about now is the whereabouts of the two thieves, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, so he is in a hurry to rush to Shashi, so that he can quickly find out where the thieves Xian and Cao are, and re-establish and deploy the strategy of hunting down and suppressing them.

Yang Sichang was worthy of being a shrewd and capable man among the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Now, as soon as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai came out of Sichuan, he thought about the safety of Xiangyang, but he kept it in his heart all the time, and he didn't mention it to any staff or other people around him.

That night, when he was about to go to bed, after the supervising army Wanji and several other cronies and staff members who boarded the ship from Kuizhou had already left, only his son Yang Shansong had not yet left.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Yang Sichang sighed and asked in a low voice, "What do you think of Wang Shuzeng?"

Yang Shansong had already turned around and was about to withdraw, but upon hearing this, he hurriedly turned around and replied respectfully: "My lord is the most knowledgeable, so it is better to use Wang Shuzeng as the magistrate of Xiangyang than his predecessor.

He is young and promising, and he dares to do things. He is personally recommended by adults, and he is very grateful.

It's just that since my lord left Xiangyang and went to Sichuan to supervise and suppress the thieves, he seemed to behave in a bad manner sometimes, not as diligent as before.

It was also heard that sometimes he even interrogated the two concubines who were imprisoned in Xiangyang Prison under the guise of personally inspecting the prison. "

Yang Sichang also said: "Currently the situation in the battle is changing, so Xiangyang defenders must be mature and prudent; if there is a little frivolity, even if they are talented, it is very easy to get into trouble, so I am really worried about Xiangyang. "

Yang Shansong said cautiously: "My lord, why don't you quickly teach Wang Zhifu to be extra cautious, pay more attention to the city's security, and strictly prevent spies from entering the city?"

Yang Sichang shook his head, sighed, and said softly: "If you write a letter to Wang Zhifu at this time, if you don't write about the changes in the Mingchuan Central War situation in the letter, he will not pay much attention to it.

But if you explain everything to him, it is also inconvenient.

Now is the time when rumors are spreading, and it is absolutely impossible to let the Xiangyang side know the truth here, so as not to cause panic among the people, and give the descendants and refugees living in Xiangfan City an opportunity to take advantage of it.

What's more, many people in the imperial court, out of family opinion, regardless of the country's security and interests, only use criticism as their ability.

If we are a little careless and spread the news about the recent changes in the battle situation in Central Sichuan, and the officials in the capital know about it, they will attack us in an uproar, and the emperor is always impatient and easily angered,..."

When Yang Sichang said this, he was silent and didn't say any more, just sighed with infinite emotion.

However, Yang Shansong continued to ask a little eagerly: "But if you don't take advantage of this time to teach Wang Zhifu a hand and tell him to be careful about the city guard, what if the bandits harass Xiangyang?"

Yang Sichang also fell into silence for a while. After a long time, he raised his head and said: "The two thieves Xian and Cao are also exhausted at the moment. They have fewer troops, only three to four thousand people. Even if they escape from Sichuan, they may Dare to attack Xiangyang.

Even if he dares to attack Xiangyang, as long as the city gate of Xiangyang is strictly checked, there will be no spies in the city, and he will be safe. Even though Wang Zhifu is a little frivolous, Zhang Bingbei is indeed known as a veteran.

It seems that our worries were a bit overstated. "

Yang Shansong saw that his father was in a calm mood, but his body was also very sleepy, so he retreated lightly.

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Just when Yang Sichang couldn't guess where Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were now, he was worried about the safety of Xiangyang.

There is a group of troops stationed beside the Xiangxi River in Xingshan County. Although they are not as numerous as Li Chuang, they can be seen at a glance that all of them are elites of hundreds of battles, but they are a little weak and tired. , seems to have just gone through a long-distance raid.

(End of this chapter)