nanming man

Chapter 55 Lure the enemy out of the city
The chief general of Bozhou City is Huang Shou, a thousand-household official. He was originally the family member of Liu Liangzuo's younger brother Liu Liangchen.

Among the four towns in history, Liu Liangzuo was the first to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which made the situation in Jiangbei corrupt, so it had a lot to do with him, the younger brother who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Among the four towns, Gao Jie died first, Huang Degong was defeated and committed suicide, and after Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he participated in the anti-Qing campaign and was killed. Only Liu Liangzuo lived until the Kangxi period, and became the admiral of Jiangnan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Seeing him as one of your own has a lot to do with it.

After Huang Shou delivered the letter, he stayed in the pass.

Liu Liangzuo saw that he was tall and strong, and he was good at swordsmanship, so he kept him by his side and regarded him as his confidant.

After the invading army captured Guide this time, Liu Liangzuo decided to temporarily avoid the rebels, fled to Yingchuan by himself, and left Huang Shou in Bozhou.

At this time, the Henan Chuangjun was too strong, with over a million soldiers. After Liu Liangzuo returned to Nanzhi, he felt lingering fears and dared not go to Henan again.

The official army lost the Guide Mansion, and the invading army directly threatened Fengyang Mansion and Nanzhili. This was something that Emperor Chongzhen and the southeast officials could not tolerate.

Fengyang is the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, the hometown of the Zhu family. When it was attacked by bandits, the emperor was furious and killed many people.

Now that the rogues approached the Zhu family's ancestral grave again, Emperor Chongzhen naturally wanted to be held accountable, and the southeast officials and gentry, who had the right to speak in the court, naturally did not want the rogues to approach Nanzhi and threaten the lair of the southeast officials.

In this way, whoever loses Guide will naturally be severely punished, but there is no unified opinion on who to punish.

At this time Governor Hou Xun was still in Beizhi and had not taken office, so it was not easy to convict him. Besides, the situation in Yuzhou was corrupt and several officials had been killed.

At this time, if you dare to go to Henan to be the governor, you are either a great hero who is dedicated to the country, or you are forced to do so.At the beginning, Sun Chuanting retired due to illness, and was said to be unwilling to serve the court, so he was demoted to a commoner by Chongzhen, and then imprisoned for two years.

Hou Xun had no choice but to take over this mess, so he walked a bit slowly on the road, and Guide lost him before he arrived, so naturally he didn't blame him.

What's more, after he was dismissed, he had to find another governor to help him. The talent consumption of the Chongzhen Dynasty was too fast, and the cabinet and governors were changed frequently. There were no talents, and no one was willing to take over such a big plate.

If the governor cannot be held accountable, only Liu Liangzuo, the leader of the army, and Liang Yizhang, the local official, can be held accountable. Among these two, Liu Liangzuo has soldiers, and Southeast depends on him, so it is impossible to take the main responsibility. Let Liang Yizhang carry it on his back.

Liang Yizhang bid farewell to the second brother Gao. Not long after he arrived in Huai'an from Luyifang, he was locked up by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and taken to the capital for interrogation. Although Liu Liangzuo was not severely punished, he was reprimanded and made him lead the army.

In order to earn some credit quickly and get rid of the guilt, Liu Liangzuo prepared to work with Huang Degong to bully Zhang Xianzhong, who had relatively few troops. Bozhou handed over to his confidant Huang Shou, and asked him to transfer money and food to Yingchuan and Shouzhou.

At first Huang Shou was in Bozhou, and he was quite nervous. Later, he found out that Li Guo, who had conquered Guide Mansion, left behind a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and then went back to besiege Kaifeng.

At this time, Huang Shou was eating meat and drinking in the house, but a hundred households came outside with a man, "Information to thousands of households, a group of thieves came from the east of the city and surrounded Majiabao. People come over, please send troops from thousands of households to rescue."

"Come in!" Huang Shou was disturbed by his drinking, and his face was a little unhappy. After the two came in, he couldn't help asking coldly: "What's going on?"

The visitor quickly stepped forward and knelt down, "Reporting to Qianhu, a group of thieves surrounded Zhuangzi. My master sent a young man to ask Qianhu for help. When the thieves are driven away, my master will thank you very much."

Hearing the heavy thanks, Huang Shou's expression softened a little, "How many bandit soldiers have come, what weapons are they holding, and how many armored soldiers are there?"

Although Li Guo's main force had already left Guide, there were still thousands of troops left behind, so he had to ask more clearly.

If there were too many thieves and they were elite, then it would be safer for him to hide in the city. He didn't care about the life and death of Majiabao, but if there were only some thieves, he could consider earning some extra money.

"Reporting to a thousand households, there were a thousand thieves, and the leader wore a cotton armor, and the others were miserable haha, not to mention the armor, some of them didn't even have shoes." The visitor recalled: "They used They have all kinds of weapons, but they don’t have any bows and arrows, and they don’t have any firecrackers, they just rely on the large number of people and bully our Majiapu with few people.”

According to people's description, Huang Shou has already confirmed that it is probably a group of thieves from the north.

Damn, this group of thieves are really bold, if they don't take him seriously, then Majiabao is only about ten miles away from Bozhou City, so they dare to fight at such a short distance.

There is also a group of thieves in the upper reaches of Bozhou, who are also very wicked. They try to do things like give birth to a son without an asshole, and actually build a dam upstream to cut off the eddy water.

Although the drought in Nanzhi is not as severe as in Henan, water sources are also in short supply.

The grandsons in the upper reaches were too wicked and blocked all the water, and the fish in the river died of thirst. Naturally, there was not much water for irrigation on both sides of the lower reaches, so they had to go all the way to the Mashang River to fetch water, but the villagers there refused to do it, and many incidents had happened. Fighting with weapons.

Recently, a group of squires in Bozhou came to him frequently, willing to pay for food and money, and let him fight the Guisun upstream and tear the dam away, but Huang Shou was worried that if he took the initiative to attack, he would attract bandits from Guide to fight Therefore, he received the money and food, but did not act for a long time.

Now he didn't provoke the bandits, but the bandits crossed the border and came to Bozhou. They really didn't understand the rules and broke the tacit understanding between them.

"Damn it, I was just trying to make some merit, and this group of stupid thieves came to me." Huang Shou stood up at once. After Suishui was defeated, Liu Liangzuo was reprimanded by his superiors. , that is undoubtedly to give the commander-in-chief a face and let Liu Liangzuo have an explanation to his superiors.

"You go back and tell the horseman, I will send troops right away, you just ask him to prepare money and food, and prepare to reward the brothers."

Majiabao is located more than ten miles east of Bozhou, and it is as big as Gaojiabao, but the horsemen in the castle are richer than Gao Zurong.

It is said that Ma Yuanwai is a distant relative of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang. The fort wall is two feet high, almost catching up with the average county town.

At this time, the fort wall was full of young and strong people, and there were nearly a thousand bandit soldiers below, attacking with thunder and rain.

"Fight! Go for me, and shout louder for me!" Liu Heizi stood under the banner, stuck his sword in the ground, and loudly directed hundreds of bandits to attack the fort wall with ladders on their shoulders.

Suddenly one of his subordinates turned around and said anxiously: "Captain, the officers and soldiers are here!"

(End of this chapter)