Fenghou

The first thousand and 340 chapters and seven Liwei

Wang Jian arrived in Min County, where he took over the military power from Siguan Ya and Liu Ziyu, the appeasement envoy. Liu Ziyu only ceased to serve as the governor of the capital, but he was still the appeasement envoy of Fujian Road and the governor of Fuzhou. The emperor Zhao Gou only lifted his military power. That's all.

Liu Ziyu didn't have any regrets either, he knew it was inevitable, the other commander was his nephew, how could the emperor rest assured that he would hand over the Fujian Road army to his command?

Next, Liu Ziyu will go to Lin'an to report on his work, and after the report is completed, he will return to Fujian to continue to serve as the comfort envoy of Fujian Road and the governor of Fuzhou.

After the transfer of military power, Liu Ziyu led Wang Jian to the top of the city. Not far to the south was the magnificent Minjiang River, which was not far from the mouth of the Minjiang River, and the river was very wide.

Liu Ziyu pointed to the Minjiang River and said to Wang Jian: "I always thought that the Western Army would enter the Minjiang River by sea and land at the pier in front. I once considered whether to send troops to intercept the Western Army's landing, but after thinking twice, I decided to give up this idea. Dangerous thought?"

"Why is this idea dangerous?" Wang Jian asked puzzled.

"What if the Western Army's landing is just a trick to lure the troops? Isn't it right for us to lead the army out of the city in the middle of their trick?"

Wang Jian nodded, "Grand Liu's idea is reasonable, I will remember it!"

Liu Ziyu was quite relieved in his heart, and said again: "General Wang is also a man who has experienced many battles. He should not underestimate the enemy, and he also knows how to defend cities. I don't need to explain too much about other things."

Liu Ziyu turned back and told the deputy general Qiao Wu and the others, "You must strictly observe military discipline and assist General Wang to defend Fuzhou. Don't slack off in the slightest!"

All the generals bowed and saluted together, "Follow the order!"

Liu Ziyu went to Taixue to visit his adopted son Zhu Xi again, told him to study hard, and gave the remaining 1000 taels of silver to their mother and son. He had an intuition in his heart that he was afraid that after going north this time, he might return. Not much anymore.

After arranging the follow-up matters, Liu Ziyu got into a bullock cart, escorted by more than a dozen personal soldiers, and went north to return to Lin'an to report on his duties.

As soon as Liu Ziyu left, the drums of the barracks began to rumble. Twenty thousand soldiers assembled quickly on the school grounds. The soldiers gathered on the school grounds, but the generals all assembled in the central army tent.

The [-] troops were formed by Liu Ziyu gathering militia soldiers from various states along Fujian Road, and then he personally trained a loose local militia army into an elite army. Before Zhang Jun rebelled, Liu Ziyu led the army. Twenty thousand troops rushed to Lin'an to assist in the defense of Lin'an City.

Not only are the [-] soldiers from Fujian Road, but the generals were also promoted by Liu Ziyu from the leaders of the militia. For example, the deputy general Qiao Wu was originally the commander of the Jianzhou militia. The generals of the Xiang army had relatively low status, but Liu Ziyu did not discriminate against them, and still entrusted them with important positions, which made the generals respect Liu Ziyu from the bottom of their hearts.

Now that Liu Ziyu was transferred away, all the generals were very disappointed, and stood in the big tent to listen to the lecture of the chief general Wang Jian.

"I came to Fujian Road to preside over the defense according to the will of the emperor. From now on, I will be in charge here. No matter what regulations you have in the past, but from now on, you must follow my regulations. If you don't obey my military orders, you will be executed. !"

Wang Jian looked sternly at the generals who bowed their heads and said nothing. He knew in his heart that these generals did not respect him. It was impossible to convince these people in a short time. The only way was to take one of them immediately. Prestige, kill one to make an example to others, and deter them all.

Wang Jian's eyes fell on Qiao Wu.

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Qiao Wunian is about 20 years old, tall and strong. He joined the army at the age of [-] and has been in the state army. He can be regarded as a veteran fried dough stick with all kinds of bad deeds, but Liu Ziyu made him change his mind, and he has no bandits. Now, his excellent side was revealed, and he became a lieutenant with outstanding abilities.

Qiao Wu's parents, wife and children are all in Jianzhou, and he married a concubine in Min County to take care of his daily life.

Qiao Wu's stomach is not very good, he has to go home for dinner every night, and his concubine cooks meals for his stomach. Liu Ziyu also knows his situation, and specially approves him to go home during non-wartime conditions.

As night fell, Qiao Wu arranged his military affairs and went home as usual.

Wang Jian got the news from the big tent of the Chinese army. Qiao Wu came home. A sneer appeared on the corner of Wang Jian's mouth. This Qiao Wu really didn't take himself seriously. After changing the coach, he still dared to take the former coach's chicken feather as an arrow. , wouldn't he ask himself for instructions before going home?

Since he doesn't take himself seriously, he can't blame himself for not being sympathetic.

Wang Jian immediately ordered: "Beat the drums and gather the generals!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dense drums sounded. This was the sound of assembly. All soldiers must line up on the school field within a stick of incense, and all commanders and generals must assemble in the big tent.

At this moment, Qiao Wu was having dinner at home, when he suddenly heard the dense drumming from the direction of the barracks, he secretly screamed in his heart that something was wrong, dropped the bowl and ran towards the barracks.

Qiao Wu ran back to the camp, and after a long time, he rushed to the school grounds, and Wang Jian stared at him like an eagle.

Qiao Wu had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward to salute, "See Du Tong!"

Wang Jian said coldly: "All the soldiers assembled on time, and you are the only one missing. In your eyes, is military discipline just shit?"

"The circumstances of the humble job are special. Liu Dutong allows the humble job to go home at night during non-wartime."

"But I didn't approve it!"

"This……"

Wang Jian gritted his teeth and said, "The battle is approaching, but you despise military discipline. If you don't kill you, how can you convince the masses!"

"Push it down, chop!"

Wang Jian's soldiers rushed forward, grabbed Qiao Wu and dragged him down. Qiao Wu shouted: "The prohibition of going out of the camp in the military discipline is only for wartime. Now it is not a wartime. Military regulation No. 19 allows soldiers to go out of the camp for a short time." However, the commander-in-chief killed me with military discipline during the war, how can he convince the public?"

All the generals came forward and knelt down to intercede, and Wang Jian also realized that the reason for killing him was not sufficient and would arouse public anger, so he said coldly: "But you didn't ask me for instructions and left the camp without permission, is it a crime of disrespect to the commander? Shouldn't you be responsible if you haven't arrived yet?"

Qiao Wu lowered his head and said, "Yes!"

"Okay! For the sake of the generals' pleading, I won't kill you, but I won't let you go. You will be dragged down and beat with a hundred army sticks, and you will be removed from the post of deputy capital commander and reduced to a commander in chief!"

The soldiers dragged Qiao Wu down, stripped off his trousers, and in front of [-] soldiers, beat a hundred army sticks with their sticks. He didn't stop until he hit a hundred army sticks. Qiao Wu was beaten to pieces, his flesh was bloody, and he was dying. He was carried back to the big tent by his personal soldiers for treatment.

Wang Jian immediately appointed Wu Yao, his deputy who came with him, as the deputy general, and he did not bring many generals with him, otherwise he would replace all the generals at the first level of control.

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Opposite the gate of the barracks, there is a large open space. The open space is full of hawkers doing business. Some sell snacks in the open air, some sell groceries in tents, and there are temporary brothels converted from bullock carts. Liu Ziyu is more tolerant, as long as it is not in wartime State, these hawkers who do business will not drive away.

Wang Jian is also relatively generous in nature, he only attacked Qiao Wu for the sake of establishing his prestige and seizing power, otherwise he would not care about such a trivial matter as Qiao Wu going home for dinner.

The peddlers Wang Jian at the gate of the barracks did not order to drive them away, but continued to allow them to do business at the gate of the barracks.

During the lunch break, the hawkers started to do business. Soldiers kept coming out of the camp to buy things. There were even long queues in front of the temporary brothels, and all the food stalls were full of soldiers.

At this time, a command envoy finished a bowl of minced meat soup cakes at a food stall, wiped his mouth, took out a handful of money and handed it to the vendor, "The soup cakes are not bad, I will reward you for the extra ones!"

"Thank you General!"

The peddler thanked him repeatedly, and when the commander walked away, the peddler lightly flicked the copper coin in his hand, and a note was revealed inside, and the peddler stuffed the note into his arms quietly.

The first thousand 340 eight chapters of allegiance

Two days after Qiao Wu was beaten, Quanzhou Western Army received a pigeon letter from Min County.

In the big tent, Liu Qiong handed the copy of the pigeon letter to Hu Yantong, Hu Yantong looked at it and said with a smile: "Wang Jian is too impatient, Liu Ziyu has only been away for a day and started to attack, and the seizure of power is too obvious, which will make the following The general is disgusted."

"Why are you disgusted?"

Tang Qian was a little puzzled and said, "There is nothing wrong with Wang Jian's doing this! Usually, he has to replace his own people as lieutenants, and it's the same in other places. Not killing Qiao Wu is already an excuse."

Hu Yantong shook his head, "The situation is different in different places. The generals on Fujian Road have a strong local awareness. Simply put, they are xenophobic. You didn't realize it when you first came here. I have a deeper understanding. These generals are all local. Talking in the local dialect, everything is spread in the local circle, and it will never be spread.

Moreover, these people are very united. As long as a family is in trouble, almost all the generals in the same country will send people and money to help. It is easy to manage it, and it is troublesome. The key is that you have to surrender their leader, and everyone else will be obedient. But on the other hand, if you offend their leader, then other people will be hard to manage. "

Liu Qiong laughed and said, "So Wang Jian made a mistake in dealing with Qiao Wu."

"Correct!"

Hu Yantong nodded, "He used the Central Plains method to deal with the generals of the Fujian Road. It won't work, and something will happen."

Tang Qian said to Liu Qiong: "This is an opportunity. We must take this opportunity to win over Qiao Wu. As long as Qiao Wu returns to us, the other generals will not be a problem."

Liu Qiong took out a letter and said with a slight smile, "This is His Highness's personal letter to Qiao Wu!"

Hu Yantong and Tang Qian looked at each other, with incredible expressions on their faces, Hu Yantong asked anxiously, "How could Your Highness know in advance?"

Liu Qiong said indifferently: "In fact, these are all part of His Highness's strategy to seize Fujian Road. Why do you think Liu Ziyu resigned? It is because His Highness used a tactic to transfer Liu Ziyu away in Lin'an. The next step is to buy Qiao Wu, Fuzhou [-] The army is the subordinate soldiers of Fujian Road, killing them will affect His Highness's reputation in Fujian Road, it is best to surrender, His Highness asked me to wait for the opportunity, but I did not expect the opportunity to come so soon."

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Because of the existence of Quanzhou, it is extremely easy for the Western Army to establish an intelligence point on Fujian Road. Almost all the intelligence points of the Western Army in Min County are locals, and they have penetrated into Fuzhou officials and the military. For example, after Liu Ziyu returned to Beijing to report on his work At that time, Lin Huan, the general judge, was in charge of the government affairs of Fuzhou. Lin Huan's family was a big family in Quanzhou, so Lin Huan naturally secretly pledged allegiance to King Yong.

This is the highest-ranking official, and there are many other ordinary officials, big landlords, big businessmen, not to mention these.

In addition, many people were infiltrated in the army, and Li Hongdeng, who was in charge, was one of them. He secretly reported to Quanzhou that Li Hongdeng asked his subordinates to take the opportunity of eating soup cakes to spread the news.

Li Hongdeng is from Tong'an County, Quanzhou, and has a very close relationship with Qiao Wu. At this time, he is in Qiao Wu's tent.

Qiao Wu almost died, but was finally rescued by a military doctor. He was lying on the bed, depressed, and kept silent. In the past two days, the generals kept visiting him. This kind of low-handed means.

There were only Li Hongdeng and Qiao Wu in the big tent. Li Hongdeng said in a low voice: "The new deputy general Wu Yao is harsh. He scolds and beats his brothers frequently. The brothers are very dissatisfied with him."

Qiao Wu sighed and said: "They are outsiders, and their ideas are different from ours. They always want to find opportunities to show their prestige, so let everyone be careful, and don't be caught."

"Brother, do you think we are opponents of the Western Army?"

Qiao Wu smiled bitterly: "Everyone is not a fool, isn't this obvious? The Western Army wants to clean us up, it's as easy as squashing an ant to death, not to mention that now everyone has seen the changes in Quanzhou, the tax is only [-]% of other states, and the price is also low It’s cheap, and it’s easy to make money, you’re from Quanzhou, you should feel it too!”

Li Hongdeng was silent for a moment and said: "Brother, after he recovers from his injury, do you plan to continue working for them?"

Qiao Wu looked at Li Hongdeng with a half-smile and asked, "Have you secretly surrendered to the Western Army?"

Li Hongdeng sighed: "My parents, brothers, wife and children are all subjects of King Yong. How can I become an enemy of the Western Army again?"

Qiao Wu nodded lightly, "That's true. In fact, if Liu Dutong didn't treat me kindly, I'm afraid I would have gone to Quanzhou a long time ago."

"In fact, brother now has a rare opportunity, an enviable opportunity!"

Qiao Wu was startled, "What chance?"

Li Hongdeng took out the emperor's letter from his bosom and put it in front of Qiao Wu. Qiao Wu saw the words on the letter, his eyes widened immediately, and he lost his voice, "His Royal Highness King Yong!"

"His Royal Highness King Yong personally wrote you a letter, which is enviable!"

At this time, footsteps came from outside, it was the military doctor, Qiao Wu hurriedly hid the letter, and gave Li Hongdeng a wink, Li Hongdeng got up and walked out of the tent...

At nightfall, Qiao Wu asked the soldiers to invite Li Hongdeng to leave, and only the two of them were left in the big tent. Qiao Wu was silent for a moment and asked, "Do you have any contact with them?"

Li Hongdeng nodded, Qiao Wu sighed and said: "I now understand why the Western Army did not attack for so long. His Royal Highness King Yong sympathized with the soldiers of the three armies and couldn't bear to kill them. How can we not accept this kindness."

After a pause, he slowly said to Li Hongdeng: "You tell the other party for me, thanks to His Royal Highness King Yong who thinks highly of me, I, Qiao Wu, have decided to do my best for His Royal Highness Yong!"

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Another half a month passed in a flash, and that afternoon, the alarm bell suddenly sounded above Min County, "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The whole city was shocked, and the soldiers rushed to the top of the city. Wang Jian also went to the top of the south city, and asked anxiously, "What happened?"

"Reporting to Dutong, a large number of warships were found on the river in the distance!"

Surprised, Wang Jian stepped forward quickly, leaning on the city wall and looking southeast. He saw black spots on the river dozens of miles away, which were clearly huge ships with thousands of stones.

Sure enough, they came from the waterway. Although Liu Ziyu told Wang Jian before that he did not advocate the ambush of the Western Army at halfway, Wang Jian was not so easily persuaded.

He looked at the sky, it was already past noon, and the Western Army ship was still tens of miles away, and by the time the Western Army ship began to dock to unload its troops, it might already be night.

He immediately ordered: "Go and find the deputy general, General Wu!"

Not long after, Wu Yao came in a hurry, clasped his fists and saluted, "Please give orders!"

Wang Jian slowly said to him: "Tonight I will lead an army of [-] to attack the fleet of the Western Army and prevent them from landing. You can lead an army of [-] to defend the city. No one will be allowed to open the gates of the city except me. !"

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Wang Jian immediately ordered, "The whole army has entered a state of war, and all peddlers outside the camp will be driven away, and anyone who approaches the gate of the camp will be shot to death!" '

The first thousand 340 nine chapters mutiny

As night fell, one after another large ships appeared on the river ten miles south of the county seat, and began to approach the pier, ready to put down soldiers.

At this time, the gate of the city opened, and Wang Jian led ten thousand soldiers to run out. Each soldier carried a crossbow arrow on his back and held a spear. The team ran to the dock ten miles away.

As soon as the [-] troops left, Lieutenant General Wu Yao ordered the city gates to be closed. The two large iron gates were shut with a bang, and the suspension bridge creaked up.

Wu Yao worriedly walked down the city, there were hundreds of soldiers squatting down the corridor, it seemed that they were all soldiers ready to take over, Wu Yao always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

As soon as he got down from the city wall, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes in front of him, and he saw a general rushing towards him with a big knife in his hand. It was Qiao Wu. Wu Yao was shocked. Isn't Qiao Wu seriously injured and bedridden? ?Now they actually come here on horseback, there is a problem here!

Wu Yao didn't care to think about it, and shouted, "Go up!"

Dozens of soldiers behind him rushed up together, Wu Yao retreated again and again, but suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and when he lowered his head, he found that there was an extra spear point on his chest.

He turned his head slowly, only to see hundreds of soldiers standing behind him, each holding a spear. It turned out that the real killer was behind him.

More than a dozen soldiers rushed forward, piercing Wu Yao's body with chaotic spears. Wu Yao screamed and died immediately. His soldiers turned pale in shock and retreated to rescue them, but they were surrounded and killed by hundreds of soldiers. Dozens of soldiers were also killed.

Qiao Wu ordered coldly: "Beat the drums, gather the generals!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dense battle drums in the barracks sounded, but unfortunately the team led by Wang Jian was already seven or eight miles away, so the sound of the war drums could not be heard.

Ten thousand troops assembled on the school field, and all the remaining generals came to the big tent of the Chinese army, but they saw that the chief general in the big tent was not the hated Wu Yao, but their leading brother Qiao Wu, the generals were startled for a while, Then they cheered.

Qiao Wu waved his hand and said: "His Royal Highness Yong is merciful and unwilling to let us die. I have decided to surrender to His Royal Highness Yong. If you are willing to follow me, please raise your right arm!"

The generals cheered again and raised their right arms. They have been waiting for this day for a long time. They have parents, wives and children at home, and no one wants to work for the court!

Soon, all the soldiers followed suit. This is because the Western Army had a deep foundation in Fujian Road and was generally recognized by the people on Fujian Road. It's a matter of course.