After killing Li Tingwen, early the next morning, before anyone noticed the hanging of his head at the city gate, Zhang Xing asked Xu Dalang to send the Bai family and his party, including the maids washing clothes in the side yard, across the river... He wouldn't Dare to let Jia Yue's group take them there, and even dispatch the people elsewhere first... It can only be said that it is good to have something to say first, and the time is still short.
As Bai Erniang entered the military camp on the other side, Guan Xu, the former Puyang order and now the right-wing leader of the Deposed Dragon Gang and Puyang deputy helmsman, also successfully entered the besieged Chanyuan City and met with Niu Da and the local Chanyuan people. The rebels made an explanation.
In the afternoon, Meng Shanggong, the captain of Jijun, went in to "recruit surrender".
But this matter was not so smooth sailing - some local rebels who involved Chanyuan to contact the Deposed Dragon Gang expressed strong dissatisfaction and anger, because they were not only from Chanyuan, but also quite a few from other places in Jijun. Including the heroes from neighboring Wuyang County, their ultimate goal is to return to their hometown!
In response to this, Niuda, who had been surrounded by these people on and off for almost a month, was quite embarrassed and ashamed, and then he was at a loss to deal with it.
On the other hand, Guan Xu, an old bureaucrat, had a calm attitude and dealt with things properly. He offered to stay and be free, and would provide money, food, and ordnance to those who left, and ensured that these people could come to Chanyuan to settle down at any time when necessary, and besieged the city. His achievements will also be remembered in the account books and... uh, Zhang Longtou's heart.
This can be regarded as suppressing the matter.
After waiting another night, the "surrender" was officially successful at noon on the second day. However, this afternoon, as soon as the flag was changed on the city, the soldiers of Jijun couldn't wait to withdraw... It seems that they were doing business and keeping their promises. On the other hand, the official army was more efficient than the rebel army.
But the matter was not over yet. Zhang Xing personally crossed the river again that night, comforted Niu Da, and officially assigned the special Chanyuan to the Puyang branch, allowing him and Guan Xu to deal with it in camera, and hinted that he would wait for Li After the pivot gained a big leader, he immediately added Niuda as the big leader on the right wing, which was able to maintain unity a little.
There is no way, this is the life of a big leader who just makes do and make ends meet.
If Chanyuan doesn't give Niuda, can he give it to Xu Shiying? How about giving it to Wei Xuanding? Or do you have the strength to swallow it yourself? Xiao Zhou, the only one qualified to be a nail, is still wandering downstream.
In early November, the siege of Chanyuan had just been lifted. Early the next morning, Zhang Xingfu went without stopping. He almost immediately turned back with three thousand people, but he led his troops to Jiyin and came back. Xu Dalang also immediately led his troops to the west. Returned to Baima, and continued to deploy troops to the border, linking up with Zhang Xing's deployment to form a defense line...
There is no way, there is really no way. Even if someone keeps saying that Longyou was tricked by a shrimp in shallow water and that he is going to pinch Zhang Shizhao's beard, he is actually still worried in his heart, worried that there will suddenly be people in Liangjun and Xingyang. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed forward, extinguishing the so-called deposed dragon gang's raging situation with a basin of water.
It can only be said that fortunately things are not that bizarre - at least in Liangjun, Jiyin and Dongjun only maintained an almost convulsive tension against the rebellious Jiyin and Dongjun, rather than an effective and decisive counterattack.
In fact, as soon as Zhang Xing arrived in Jiyin, some heroes from Liang County came to join in the fun. Not to mention the intentions of these heroes who were destined to return without success. According to the black record they had previously reported, in fact, the rebels had gathered before, but they turned to After going north, all areas of Jiyin were temporarily empty. At that time, the fleeing officials from Jiyin who were passing through Liangjun and some middle and low-level officials from Liangjun themselves took the initiative to advise Cao Wang, the prefect, and suggested that the latter assemble the county soldiers and troops stationed in the territory to march north to Jiyin. Yin, one hit.
To be honest, if Cao Wang really dares to come, I dare not say that the Deposed Dragon Gang will collapse, but at least it will be trapped in Dongjun and Jiyin, and it will continue to see each other for a year and a half, and it will be half of the other rebels in the first half of the year. It is very possible for a county or a county to be in the same situation as a headless fly.
This is because Cao Wang himself is a distant branch of the nation. According to the character of Uncle Cao, he will definitely support it. Liang County under his rule is also a large county in the Central Plains-Kinki area, with a prosperous population, developed agriculture and commerce, and Because the intersection of the artificial canals from the Huan River to Luokou Cang is here, there are also two serious garrison troops of 3,000 men each, and two Yingyang Zhonglang generals are here.
However, things did not change. Cao Wang hesitated and then did not come. He just chose to stay in the county.
This result, on the other hand, was within the expectations of Zhang Xing, Li Shu and others.
This is not to say that the two of them are very good at predicting things, but that by now, everyone has already seen that the current situation of rebels everywhere has never been about how powerful the rebels are, nor how strong the government and the army are. What really led to the swarming of rebels everywhere, and even the successful siege of Dengzhou by hundreds of thousands of people, the blockage of Nanyang, the southbound channel of Dongdu, and the situation where the rebels of the Deposed Dragon Gang sat in two counties without anyone to control them, were essentially There is only one reason.
That is, the emperor, who was the core of the ruling system of this era, took the initiative to abandon the north and most of the Central Plains and hid in Jiangdu.
After the emperor himself ruined the situation, he lost the confidence to clean up the situation and chose to escape, which was almost equivalent to him voluntarily giving up on his own world... So, although everyone still looked at Uncle Cao, Uncle Cao was able to establish it so easily Does it belong to one’s own authoritarian system?
After being barely established, how can the northwest and southeast be balanced?
More importantly, if the situation reaches this point, will Jiangdong be stable? Can the people inside Guanlong be suppressed?
Of course, this is a tangent. Back to the most fundamental issue, unless there is a direct imperial edict and clear instructions from Dongdu Nanya, most of the county governors and lieutenants in these places will just sit still, or Respond perfunctorily. And everyone knows how it is possible for the three hundred states and counties of the Wei Dynasty to give direct instructions to the governors of states and counties. They will definitely mobilize field troops and appoint marching generals to lead several states and counties to carry out overall sweeps... So to put it bluntly, They are just part-time workers. To maintain the situation in this chaotic era is worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. Not everyone has the determination to be loyal to the country.
In fact, those who passively face the tide of the times and can muster the courage to face that decision are already heroes... Song Chang was this kind of person before.
And if someone can take the initiative to ride the wave of the times regardless of his personal future and safety, even if he is standing on the opposite side of the historical wave, he can be regarded as a hero.
In mid-November, Zhang Xing began to check the land acres and household registrations in Jiyin and Dongjun, and prepared to re-grant the land... This is not an innovative thing, but the beginning of the Wei Dynasty, or even the previous dynasty of Wei Dynasty and Dong Qi. The system they tried to implement was finally implemented in the Wei Dynasty. The so-called state-owned land was allocated to households according to men and women in Dingkou, and then they served according to their household registration, and paid land taxes according to the fields related to Dingkou.
The imperial court even allowed ordinary people to sublease their land as long as they did not delay paying taxes.
This is a very good system. At least Zhang Xing can't think of any better way. What he can do now is to free slaves as much as possible, grant land fairly, and then decide the land tax according to the real situation, and It's just to allow previously separated household registrations to be merged - and there is a saying that one acre of land is treated as two or three acres of land, and one household is split into three households. This extremely bad thing was basically done by the late emperor. , especially in his later years, he got hot-headed and used his slave status to open a way for people with official status to annex land. On the contrary, when the pilgrim ascended the throne, he quickly closed the door.
At the same time, Li Shu and the main force of the Deposed Dragon Gang were sweeping across Dongping County. Almost all the county towns and military villages surrendered. Li Shu couldn't wait to divide his troops into two groups, and began to try to recruit the troops in Juye Zezhong. After defeating the army in three expeditions and achieving great results, he tried to reach out to Jibei and Lujun.
It didn't stop for a moment.
At the same time, Dongdu was melting gold pillars, recasting gold, silver, copper coins and weapons, and began to recruit troops on a large scale, and used the Jing'an Taiwan patrol team as a force to search for the slaves of Dongdu's wealthy families... Every time a thousand people were obtained, He couldn't wait to be sent to Nanyang, where there was a veteran general who had just arrived with thousands of soldiers. He would be responsible for suppressing the rebel Wu brothers who had blocked the throat passage between Dongdu and the south.
It was still mid-November, and here in Qi County, a large group of rebels from Dengzhou Zhishilang Wanghou, commonly known as the Zhishi Army, finally crossed the border in a mighty manner, and then marched westward against the Jishui River.
There was a reason why Wang Hou came in person, and there was also a reason why he came so late. That was that he was at a disadvantage in the political struggle with the two commanders of the Hebei rebel army, Gao Shitong and Sun Xunzhi... Gao Shitong won over Sun Xuuzhi and established the relationship between the two. The position of the leader and second leader, and then come to suppress Wang Hou.
Wang Hou was afraid of being annexed and did not have the ability to annex by fire, especially since the treasury in various parts of Dengzhou had been divided up, so he simply took the initiative to lead his troops to Qijun - before this, some of his subordinates had successfully occupied Qijun. In the two counties in the eastern part of the county, the process was effortless, which also made their march appear vigorous.
"Is Cheng Dalang not here yet?"
On the south bank of Jishui River, in the morning, a short and stocky man named Chishiro Wanghou, who was wearing full armor and a red brocade crotch, suddenly turned around on his horse with an angry look on his face. "Tell Shi Zijiang to send someone again. If Cheng Dalang hasn't come yet, let him personally lead the 30,000 troops from the north bank to Chengjiazhuang to invite him!"
When the close confidants heard this, they did not dare to neglect and left in a hurry.
About a quarter of an hour later, in the north of Jishui, the second master Shi Zijiang, wrapped in a turban and armor, learned of Wang Hou's military order and immediately agreed. However, after the ordering soldiers left, he stationed his horse on a small slope aside, remained silent for a while, and Not moving at all.
"Don't you want the second master to call Cheng Dalang?" At this time, one of his confidants stepped forward and asked.
"No." Shi Zijiang came back to his senses and looked away from the countless baggage, livestock, and vehicles in front of him, looking slightly irritated. "Cheng Dalang is so self-righteous that he looks down upon us just because he has joined the Dragon Slayer Gang. No one cares about us. He deserves to be scared and beaten. But since the big leader captured Dengzhou, he has never been as good as before. The brotherhood in Linyi is divided... I am obviously the second in charge, and both sides of Jishui are marching together, but they only let me take care of the baggage, pigs and cattle, and even let me do such offending things."
The confidant hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly: "I think the first master didn't think about the last one. After all, he doesn't even care about offending you, the second master, so how can he care about Cheng Dalang?"
Shi Zijiang was startled for a moment, but also smiled bitterly.
The two of them laughed at each other for a while, and then the confidant took the initiative and said, "How about I go there?"
"No need, just offend others." Shi Zijiang sighed. "Now that the boss has become like this, I can no longer learn from him...and there is no need for Cheng Dalang to show any shame anymore. I will go there in person and we will go together."
Of course the confidant nodded.
Just like this, the army on the north bank of Jishui suddenly changed its route, turned north, and came directly to Cheng Dalang's territory. Cheng Dalang was so sophisticated that he knew it early, but he panicked and led his troops to meet him.
The two parties met at the junction of Putai County and Gaoyuan County on the north bank of Jishui... As soon as they met, Cheng Dalang calmly stood up, dismounted from his horse, and took the initiative to salute and say hello.
Shi Zijiang stood there, hesitating for a while, but did not speak.
On the contrary, his confidant leader did not move on his horse as he rode forward. He only smiled half-heartedly and said, "Cheng Dalang, you are so majestic. You left without saying goodbye in Dengzhou before. Now, the head of the family, Prince Zhishilang, invites you again and again. You are welcome." You didn't move, so Master Shi Er personally brought an army of 30,000 people over, and you came to pick him up... Do you feel that you have climbed into the high branches of the Dragon Slayer Gang, or are you saying that you have joined the people from Hebei, as the rumors say?"
Cheng Dalang naturally knew that those who came were not good and those who were kind would not come, but he did not expect that he would be so disrespectful and was stunned for a moment.
But it's not over yet.
The confidant leader smiled when he saw this, and continued: "There is even a theory that Cheng Dalang tried every means to stop here because he had contact with Zhang Xuguo... He was waiting for us to fight in the front, and then sent troops behind and went to our baggage. , cutting off our escape route...right?"
Cheng Dalang was angry in his heart, but he could only bow his head and hand his hands: "Boss Zhou, what you said is unreasonable... Of course I have selfish motives, but who the hell doesn't have any selfish motives? The world is in such chaos that the folks in my hometown are afraid If something happened and dragged me along, delaying the matter, why should I be accused of having an affair with the army?"
"Cheng Dalang, what you said is ridiculous. Since you know that all the folks in your hometown are here and don't follow our brothers from the East, why do you want to join the Dragon Slayer Gang? Then the leaders of the Dragon Slayer Gang, Li Shu and Zhang Xing, are What's the matter with the Kansai people and one from the Northern Wilderness? Don't say that the boss didn't give you a message when you joined the gang...Wuxiang Dongyilang died, didn't you hear it? The boss Wang is the genius The first person below to oppose Wei!"
"Boss Zhou, people have to be reasonable. At that time, I joined the Dragon Gang because Zhang Longtou personally came to find him at that time, and the Pu Tai Army was his handiwork. It was on the other side. It wouldn't work if I didn't. But you know that the Shi Army did Across from Dengzhou is Langya..."
"Okay." At this moment, Shi Zijiang suddenly spoke, interrupting the two of them, and just looked down at Cheng Zhili from a high position. "Now the first boss asked me, the second boss, to come and invite Boss Cheng in person. What does Boss Cheng say?"
Cheng Zhili immediately responded: "Of course, I will take these five hundred cavalry to draw a clear line with the Putai Army, so that I can go with Master Shi Er and serve as a vanguard for the Zhishi Army."
Shi Zijiang nodded, but then shook his head.
The confidant surnamed Zhou understood and immediately said: "It can't be just like this, otherwise where would the dignity of the first and second masters be? Boss Cheng, you have to apologize for your previous rudeness."
"It's natural. I have three hundred taels here..." Of course Cheng Dalang was prepared.
"Since thirty thousand people are here, let us stay in these villages in the north tonight!" Shi Zijiang suddenly spoke for the second time.
Cheng Zhili raised his head and was startled for a moment. He glanced at the chaotic and endless team behind him, and his heart felt cold... You must know that these days, hundreds of thousands of Zhishi troops have passed by both sides of Jishui. Although there are few people on the north bank, Although he had not actually passed through the manor that he regarded as his foundation, he was already suffering from harassment by a small group of troops.
So, how could he not know that as long as this army comes in, it will definitely destroy the place that is the foundation of his family, as Zhang Xingxin said?
At this thought, Cheng Zhili bowed to Shi Zijiang again and spoke sincerely: "Master Shi Er, I am willing to give up all the gold and silver in the family and will never keep it private. I just ask the second master to be a little noble and let my folks go... there are too many people." ”
Shi Zijiang sneered, thought about it, and seemed to be hesitant for a moment.
"Look what Boss Cheng said." The confidants surnamed Zhou also seemed impatient. "Why is your village so expensive? Since you want to do big things, you should imitate other heroes, collect gold and silver, burn down the house, and take the pigs and sheep with you! If you don't accept it, take it out in Hebei The way to defeat Zhang Jinscale is to kill tens of thousands of us, or simply kill hundreds of thousands of our Zhishi Army together, and then we can talk!"
Cheng Zhili lowered his head and said nothing, but maintained his bowing posture towards Shi Zijiang... To put it bluntly, he really thought about resisting, mobilizing the Putai Army, and taking advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, to launch a surprise attack at night. However, if a fight breaks out here, tens of thousands of people will be defeated. The distance between the lower reaches of Jishui and the lower reaches of the river is so narrow, and the family manor and the surrounding countryside will suffer even greater disasters.
Therefore, he still chose to surrender.
"Forget it." Sure enough, after appropriate pressure and humiliation from his confidants, Shi Zijiang spoke three times. "That's good. Just give some gold and silver appropriately. Where will the gold and silver be spent in this world? Just drive out all the pigs, sheep, horses, cows, donkeys, chickens, and dogs in the nearby village...the cows, horses, and donkeys pull the carts, and the pigs, sheep, and chickens As meat, the dogs watch at night...this is the minimum.”
Cheng Dalang raised his head in a daze.
"I will camp here tonight and bring the livestock and gold and silver tomorrow morning... Let's not lie and hide for personal gain." Seeing this, Shi Zijiang finally dismounted, but he gave an ultimatum. "When the time comes, we will send sentries in to take a look. If we find that there are too many hidden, I will send troops to retrieve them ourselves."
After saying that, he actually turned around and ordered people to set up camp on the spot in the afternoon.
Cheng Zhili returned to the village in a daze, thought for a moment, made up his mind, and sent someone to call the leaders Zhou, Guo, and Lu who were at the ferry, together with Fang Yanshi, who had just arrived, to make the announcement.
"So, what Chief Cheng is saying is that you have to humble yourself and hand over the six animals?" Zhou Xingfan was extremely surprised. "You want to go with them to fight against Qi County?"
"People have to bow their heads under the eaves." Cheng Zhili looked slightly embarrassed.
At this time, even Guo Jingke couldn't stand it anymore: "Chief Cheng, Zhang Longtou wrote to you, saying that the rebels could not be restrained from crossing the border, and asked you to move to Hebei as soon as possible and guard Pu Tai. You said that the folks in the village , the autumn harvest has just begun, and I don’t want to leave, let’s look again; a month ago, Li Longtou also asked the leader of the house to send a message, asking you to cross the river early, let Wang Hou and others, march to Douzigang, and then wait for Li Longtou and others to come over at any time Cross the river and come back to respond, but you are still unwilling to move; now that you are even more willing to obey them, wouldn't it mean that our leaders and many ships would be wasted here with you in vain?"
Cheng Zhili finally knew that he was in the wrong, so he could only explain in a low voice: "These are my faults. I have no vision and determination, but this is the way it is at this time... As soon as I left, Zhuangzi began to move. There was still some gold and silver in the village. , I will never let the brothers in the navy suffer in vain!"
"Is this a matter of gold and silver?" Lu Dayue, the eldest of the Lu brothers, really couldn't hold it back. "It's a meritorious service! If at the beginning, we could only care about gold and silver, but the three counties above have won it. If our brothers, Xiao Guo, and Mr. Zhou all followed the two leaders, they would now be the governors of one county and one city. Now! Mr. Zhou may even be able to become a big boss!"
Cheng Dalang became more and more embarrassed and wanted to say more.
"Leader Cheng is the chief, the leader of the Pu Tai Army identified by Zhang Longtou and Mr. Li. If we really want to do something, we can't say anything..." At this moment, Fang, who had been silent since his return in early October, Yan Shi suddenly spoke, but his tone was unexpectedly calm, and his meaning was unexpectedly serious. "It's just Chief Cheng. After all, you are the leader of the Deposed Dragon Gang. What does it mean to follow Chishiro's Chise Army to fight against Qi County this time? When did the Deposed Dragon Gang become the pawn of the Chise Army?"
"What nonsense!" Cheng Dalang tried his best to answer. "Of course I am the leader of the Deposed Dragon Gang. I am just pretending to protect my hometown. How can I really work for them? Don't forget, I was allowed to go to the Dengzhou Gang before... This time and the last time What's the difference? I think even the two leaders and the chief will be considerate of me, Lao Cheng. I also ask all the leaders to be considerate as much as possible."
At this point, everyone didn't know what else to say and could only look at each other in confusion.
In this way, in the end, the plan of Cheng Dalang, the only big leader and party involved, was followed. The six livestock were driven out, half of them were put on the boat, transported overnight, and the other half were sent to the front of the army. The eight hundred cavalry were also divided into two and three. Bai crossed the river, and the five hundred cavalry also followed Cheng Dalang to the Zhishi Army... Sure enough, when Master Shi Er saw the number of six livestock, he did not actually send troops to count them, but directly took Cheng Dalang forward to chase Wang Hou. .
As soon as Zhi Shijun left, the old governor of Cheng Dalang's family urged the Cheng family's own village and the closest manor to move to Hebei. However, the effect was still not good, but there was nothing they could do.
"Cheng Dalang is a man of great ability. At that time, I only thought that his martial arts, military formations, and handling of affairs were better than Shan Dalang, Xu Dalang, and Wang Wulang. But now it seems that he is a little confused about the fundamentals. Sooner or later, he will have to fight on the big festival. You will suffer a big loss." Zhou Xingfan, who was vaguely the leader of this assembled naval force, stood on the boat and looked at the farther and farther bank of the river, but he couldn't hold back his breath.
"How can people understand some joints without experiencing some things? Moreover, he led the Pu Tai Army alone in the lower reaches and was too independent." Unexpectedly, it was Guo Jingke who took the initiative to persuade.
Zhou Xingfan glanced at the other party and said nothing... He knew that Guo Jingke was probably speaking from the bottom of his heart, but this did not prevent this person from accepting Cheng Dalang's gift last night and keeping dozens of taels of gold and hundreds of taels of silver in his private pocket. In comparison, not to mention that he and Fang Yanshi were relieved, even the Lu brothers knew how to give half of it to the navy brothers who had worked hard for a long time.
It can only be said that if people don’t experience some things, they really don’t understand some joints.
Even after going through some things, isn't there still a saying that states can change easily but nature cannot be changed?
"It's good that Cheng Dalang is here. He is my brother here. These five hundred cavalry are also the best. I will talk to some of them in a few days and I will definitely give you the third and fourth masters... But is there anything else?"
One day later, at night, when Cheng Dalang's hometown was still trying to mobilize for relocation, on a low mountain in Changshan County, Qi County, the short and stocky Zhishilang Wanghou squinted at the person who came, and he was extremely satisfied. .
This is because the well-known Cheng Dalang in front of him changed his lukewarm attitude in Dengzhou and became respectful when he came up. Not only did he speak humble words, but he also kept praising Chishiro for initiating the righteousness of the rebel army. Naturally, he was The leaders of the rebel armies in the world even proposed that since there was currently a shortage of boats to cross the river, otherwise they would lead the way across the river after defeating Qi County, and try to get as many of the Putai troops as possible to serve the family of Prince Chishiro.
Of course, the most important point is that Cheng Dalang took the initiative to express his willingness to be a pioneer and lead his troops to take the lead in advancing westward.
"Actually, there is one more thing."
Seeing Wang Hou's unexpected coaxing, Cheng Dalang thought for a moment, then clasped his hands in front of him and said something. "Before coming, my subordinates donated tens of thousands of chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, dogs, horses and donkeys from the nearby village...but I thought that other baggage would be just a waste. These livestock are easy to move and should be put in the central army." That’s right, so it’s more convenient to use.”
Wang Hou thought for a while and immediately went to see Shi Zijiang: "Cheng Dalang is right. Second Master, you go back and send all the livestock here early tomorrow morning..."
Shi Zijiang hesitated to speak, but could only respond.
After all, this rebel army is called Chishi Army, and the leader in front of him is nicknamed Chishiro.
However, this did not affect the second master's return to the north bank of Jishui that night. After returning to his base camp, he immediately cursed in the tent:
"Wang Blacksmith! Wang Lanqiang! After studying for several years, I can't even copy or write. I can only be a jailer. The jailer can't be a blacksmith. I can't even be a blacksmith. I can't hit the head of a spear. It's not me. If you helped him cover it up, he would have died in prison a long time ago, how can he transform into Chishiro?!"
I scolded him a lot, but I couldn't do anything.
On the second day, he finally let his confidant leader drive all the livestock to the other side... Of course, during this period, it was inevitable to slaughter chickens and geese, and forcibly hitch mules and horses to the carts, but after the Langya-Dengzhou-Qijun team searched , or a full 60,000 to 70,000 heads of various livestock were sent to the Chinese army on the other side.
By the evening of that day, Zhishi's army had passed Changshan County, where the rebel army had penetrated most deeply into Qi County, and headed for Zhangqiu.
Early the next morning, the army continued to move forward, with Cheng Zhili leading his headquarters as the vanguard. In the afternoon, before he saw Zhangqiu County, he became inexplicably vigilant... Without him, he always felt that the further he went, the terrain would become... It looks more like a natural narrow alley between mountains and rivers, which is the so-called dead place in the art of war.
Of course, this is just a warning, because since the summer, the rebel army has been surging in the past six months, gradually attacking the prefectures and counties. The officers and soldiers from all walks of life are not invincible, but they are really not many.
However, after repeatedly wandering around, Cheng Zhili, who had always been cautious, decided to be cautious. Therefore, four or five miles away from Zhangqiu City, where the city wall could almost be seen with the naked eye, Cheng Dalang temporarily stopped his troops next to Jishui and stopped on the spot. Rested.
Moreover, he did not leave for a long time.
The reason Cheng Dalang was careful at this time was actually very simple. No matter how long he delayed, he could at least avoid the siege, right?
However, an hour later, Cheng Dalang suddenly welcomed a strange old friend.
"Xiao Jia, why are you here?" Because the smoke and dust of the Zhishi Army Brigade could be seen in the distance behind him, Cheng Dalang was forced to stand up and began to put on his armor helplessly. Cheng Dalang was quite surprised.
"I know you are here, Boss Cheng, and I want to do great things with you." A young and capable warrior stood in front of Cheng Dalang, but it was Jia Runshi, the local tycoon in Licheng, Qi County and the son of the county thief Cao Jiawugen. The county has always been famous. "Boss Cheng, will you accept me?"
Cheng Dalang thought for a while, then just held his helmet and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Jia, does your father have anything to say?"
Jia Runshi was silent for a moment: "My father said, if you don't ask this question, I will take you forward to the foot of Zhangqiu City. If you ask this question, I will take you to throw away your armor and ride to Ji." If Shui runs away for his life...it won't be a waste of time for our two families to meet each other."
Cheng Dalang was startled for a moment, and suddenly put on his helmet. At the same time, he did not forget to call a confidant: "Go back and tell Chishiro, saying that the sentry cavalry outside Zhangqiu City is too tough and a bit irritating, so he should be careful behind him... After finishing the letter, don’t come back, just find a way to escape... As for the rest of you, speed up your armor, mount your horse with me, and prepare for battle."
This time, it was Jia Runshi's turn to be stunned.
However, even as cunning as Cheng Dalang was, he still made a mistake. As soon as he finished speaking, his messengers had not yet set off. Suddenly, a dense sound of war drums was heard in the mountains behind them.
Next, there are the mountains directly to the south and Zhangqiu City directly in front, and finally Jishui River.
"I knew that when the two armies were fighting, how could you entrust your life to others?" Cheng Dalang, who was fully clothed, got on his horse, but then glanced at Jia Runshi, who was still in a daze. "Xiao Jia, do you still dare to do something big with me? If you dare, just follow me and fight for your way out! If you don't dare, get out!"
Jia Runshi turned over and got on the horse he came on.
PS: Everyone will get rich during the Dragon Boat Festival!
