In fact, Sheng Huai'en and Li Dan could mobilize only these 1,500 or 600 people, which was almost exactly the same as what Lou Shifan had guessed.
But Nanshan had already begun repeated planning. On the one hand, he used wine making and selling to attract his attention. On the other hand, he repeatedly deduced and made careful arrangements. There were illusions on the outside and betrayal and lurking on the inside.
Four major dramas: instigating a rebellion at Toad Pond, raiding Fengtou Bridge Fort, outsmarting the Tu family, and finally forcing the Western Camp to surrender. The series of actions gave Lou Shifan no time or opportunity to think about it.
Even though they were all tied up in the corner of the wing, he still couldn't understand why he was completely defeated with three times the force.
The sun was hanging high in the sky, and the guards "invited" him out of the house, saying that they were ordered by the patrol to give him "a break" so as not to block the blood in his legs.
Lou Shifan squinted his eyes for a while and slowly moved his numb legs. He moved his neck and felt that there was a very sore spot on the back of his neck (where it had fallen when Shen Jie knocked him unconscious).
Slowly his eyes could see clearly, and he found that many people in the courtyard were lining up to go out the door after coming out of the East Campus. When he looked carefully, he suddenly realized that they were his subordinates.
Lou Shifan even saw a few familiar people. He called their names loudly, but they glanced dejectedly and said nothing, while others pretended not to hear.
Lou Shifan turned around in disappointment and saw the guard smiling, with a hint of disdain and sarcasm clearly on his lips.
Suddenly, he saw two women standing at the door of the courtyard next door. He immediately called out: "Qiniang!" Then he took two hard steps to that side, but there were ropes on his ankles, so he only walked two feet away. .
The guard immediately raised his sword and gun and shouted: "What are you doing? Back off! Let you go if you are told to do so, don't think about the uselessness!"
At this time, Yishou Jin next door was also looking at the prisoners lining up. She clearly heard the shouting, but she sighed heavily and said to the maid: "Go back, it's very hot outside!" She didn't even finish her words. Look here, turn around and enter the house.
Lou Shifan originally wanted to go over to talk to her and explain, but when he saw her like this, he couldn't help but get angry. He cursed "heartless and unjust" in his heart, and looked at the guard's firm eyes, so he had no choice but to turn around and walk towards his door.
"What is he going to do?" Sheng Huaien stood on the outer wall not far away and looked over here, asking with some confusion.
"Reluctant? Want to explain? Feeling ashamed? Haha, I think it's both." Li Dan crossed his arms and said with mockery in his eyes: "But this Third Young Master must not have figured out how he became a prisoner. , do you believe it?"
"Well, one thousand and five is better than four thousand and five. Lao Sheng and I can't do it alone. Your brain is the best!" Sheng Huaien held out his thumb.
Li Dan shook his head: "What can I do alone? It's obvious that there are so many brothers working together.
Besides, the Lou family and his son are not big thieves yet. Although they are from a low background, their family has property. It is not too much to say that they are a middle-class family, right?
If they were rebels from extreme poverty, they wouldn't be so stubborn and could still join hands with us to do business? That is to say, for greedy people like Lou Thief, this trick might not work as well for others! "
"Then you must be able to come up with other tricks to torment them. I don't believe you only use this one." Sheng Huaien's words made Li Dan blink and look at him, and the two of them laughed at the same time.
"If you don't bother me, you won't bother me. If I don't mess with him, he will mess with me. Fortunately, we have both overt and covert preparations this time, otherwise it would be quite troublesome for this kid to really turn his back and capture all of us!"
After Li Dan finished speaking, he paused and then said: "Sending Hua Jibibao's letter will probably make Lou Thief angry and vomit blood. But his spirit of attacking Shangrao is definitely not as strong as before.
Before he makes a decision, we have to give him two more medicines, one is to quickly defeat the enemies besieging Guangxin, and the other is to ambush Lou Er who comes for reinforcements.
Mr. Qian, don’t always tell me, tell me your opinion. Which one to fight first? "
"Which one should I hit?" Sheng Huaien rolled his eyes and repeated, "Oh, by the way, where is Lou Er now?"
"We should get off the boat at Dayuan today, so we can go to Fengling Town tomorrow." Li Dan replied, "It's not far from Dayuan to Guangxin, only about eight or nine miles."
"You're still asking me? I think you have already made up your mind!" Sheng Huai'en glared at Li Dan. Li Dan didn't pick up on him and just urged him to speak quickly with a smile.
Sheng Huaien had to grind his hands behind his back for a while, and then slowly said: "Actually, there are few people in Guangxin. I heard that Fengling Town was lost and people are panicked and have little fighting spirit. It is appropriate to attack this soft persimmon.
But I'm worried that if I don't finish the fight, Lou Erdou will come up and attack me from the front and back, and that will be bad. "As he said this, he looked around and saw that they were all his own soldiers, so he said softly:
"We have a lot of troops here. It's easy to fight with the wind, but it's hard to eat rice with uncooked food!"
Li Dan nodded slightly, and also lowered his voice and said: "So, if you want to deal with Guangxin first, the key is the word 'quickly'. Go quickly, fight quickly, surround quickly, and then turn back quickly!"
"Well!" Sheng Huai'en pointed his hand at the surrendered soldiers below: "But there are still a lot of things to do here. What quick method do you plan to do?"
"That's easy to say! You have forgotten what we do. We have plenty of carriages and horses! I have ordered the food and baggage to be transferred from Xishan and Nanshan to Tujiayuan."
Li Dan said: "To say that the wall of the compound in Huajubu is not bad, it is much better than the thin wall of our Xishan camp.
Food and baggage can be safely left here, leaving some manpower to look after them. As long as the general doesn't have a gun, he can't get in!
I put Mr. Zhu in charge here and sent all the prisoners to Xishan.
Leave a team of officers and soldiers, plus Tie Linglong's No. 1 Squadron and part of the governor, to continue the screening and disintegration work, and then take them to the Liantang to Fengling Town, and then to Guangxin, where the officers and soldiers were not able to complete the repairs due to the war. The road is prepared. what do you think? "
"I'm afraid that the manpower is still insufficient, and Nanshan has to defend it.
In this way, I asked Lin Baihu to do some work and at least put a team of officers and soldiers to guard Nanshan. Each squadron of the update brigade now only has more than 200 people. It is best to expand it to 300 people as soon as possible! "
After this attack, more than 3,000 prisoners were taken, so Sheng Huaien felt that the more than 200 guard troops were not enough.
"Okay, I agree. Leave this matter to Sun She (Tie Linglong) and let him handle it. I will leave him another hundred migrant workers, armed to assist." Li Dan nodded in agreement:
"Second Master Zhu will keep the rest, and the migrant workers will leave him three hundred to repair the walls and doors, as well as Li Biao's breeding team."
After the battle, an inventory found that a total of more than 60 horses and more than 40 donkeys and mules were seized from the stables in the villages of Huajubu.
"The rest of the team immediately set off to their respective attack positions after unloading their carts and changing their horses. They blocked Guangxin's Chow Tai Fook and absolutely refused to let his men escape!"
Sheng Huai'en admired this guy very much. When other people fought, they always thought about how to defeat their opponents, but Li Dan said: "The enemy's effective strength must be effectively annihilated in order to achieve quantitative and qualitative changes between ourselves and the enemy."
Is this kid really only fifteen years old? This ruthlessness and unique vision will make people's backs goosebumps. He has to be fifty years old to do this!
But if you think about it carefully, what Li Dan said and did seemed ordinary and natural, and there was nothing surprising about it.
Originally, the numbers were not equal. The purpose was to kill more enemies so that one could survive, or to capture more prisoners so that they could fight for oneself. Moreover, it was true that the number of people on one's side seemed to have doubled for some reason. doubled.
Tsk, it’s still wrong. No general or military officer would dare to say with confidence that he can defeat three times the enemy next month. Where does he have the confidence to be calm and unhurried at such a young age?
Sheng Huaien couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't think about it.
He watched Li Dan, Wu Mao, Master Ba, and Zhao Jingzi discuss it thoroughly, and then called for orders to assign tasks to the chief officers of each army one by one, proceeding in an orderly manner.
"Oh, maybe this is talent?" He admired in his heart. While I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw someone walking into the small courtyard where Ichijin was imprisoned.
Hey, isn't this... Zhou Qin and Zhou Yingzheng? Sheng Huaien twirled his beard and turned his face thoughtfully to look at Li Dan who was busy in the distance.
"What are you here for?"
The maid changed the external medicine and was about to wrap it with a band. Suddenly the door opened, making her hurriedly pull it open.
The quilt was covered with a piece of gold called Xu Qiniang. When Xu Qiniang saw it was Zhou Qin, her face immediately dropped.
"Why are you shouting? We are old acquaintances and we are not strangers." Zhou Qin pulled a chair and sat down beside the bed with a smile on his face. He waved to the maid and said:
"You go outside for a while first, your master and I have something to say." The little girl glanced at Xu Qiniang's eyes, then knelt down and bowed before going out.
"Who is an old acquaintance of yours?" Xu Qiniang turned away.
Zhou Qin noticed her strange posture, lifted up the quilt and saw that her hand was covering the ointment area, and the straps were still loose. He stood up and sat down on the edge of the bed, leaning down.
"You...!" Xu Qiniang blushed and tried to push him away.
"Don't move. I'll tie it for you and get back to the chair." Zhou Qin said softly, finding the strap with her hand, wrapping it twice behind her and tying a knot.
Their hair almost touched each other, and they could hear each other's breathing and heartbeats.
Xu Qiniang felt that she was trembling all over and her face was burning badly. She turned her face away and did not dare to take a breath. However, the more she did, the faster her heart beat and her chest heaved violently.
"Okay." Zhou Qin pulled the quilt to cover her, sat back in the chair, pulled the waist knife across her legs. "Well, I didn't expect you to be injured so seriously. I'm very sorry." He said, wiping his mustache.
"Hypocritical!" Xu Qiniang rolled her eyes and muttered.
"Then who asked you to give me a dart?" Zhou Qin opened the lapel of his clothes to show her the cloth wrapped around the wound.
"It was a confrontation between two armies..."
"Okay, since it's two armies facing each other, each with his own master, let's not blame each other, okay? Tit for tat, that's enough!"
When Zhou Qin said this, neither of them spoke for a while, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"When he said, 'Each one is his own master, which one are you after? Is Lou Zishi still a flowery man?" Zhou Qin pretended to wipe his beard and suddenly whispered in a low voice.
"None of your business!" Xu Qiniang glared at him.
"You, you bitch...!" Zhou Qin almost jumped up, but resisted and sat back down. "They are not good people anyway. One treats you as a plaything and doesn't care at all, and the other only cares about his own survival..."
"If you keep talking nonsense, get out!" Xu Qiniang was furious: "Are you worthy of talking nonsense here?"
"I'm not just talking, Zhou Heiyu is not that kind of person!" Zhou Qin really jumped up:
"Don't you know? When you led troops to Guangxin, Lou turned his back and sent people to Yongfeng to bring the dead magistrate's concubine to Shangrao. Now the two of them are living happily in the garden! "
"Where did you know that?" Xu Qiniang's face turned pale.
"We also have spies, and there are reports from people who surrendered. If you don't believe it, I'll go back and find Jia Mingjiu. He knows everything!"
Speaking of Jia Mingjiu, Xu Qiniang knew that it was probably true.
Apart from himself and Lou Shifan, the only person in this camp who has direct contact with people from the old camp is Jia Mingjiu, and the letters sent by Lou Shifan and the letters from the old camp all go through his hands. "Why, even he surrendered?"
"He is not surrendering, he is surrendering. Lou Shifan almost killed him, forcing him to come to us." Zhou Qin looked at the woman's face and said:
"And that Lou Shifan, he promised to sacrifice you in exchange for us letting him go back." He took out the letter and folded the other parts, exposing only part to her.
Xu Qiniang knew some words and could barely understand the notice. She saw that it was a letter written by Lou Shifan to his father, and it read:
"My son has reached an agreement with the leader of the regiment. As long as his father sends a letter of divorce to Qiniang and the military rations are successfully paid, he can be released!"
"This heartless one!" Xu Qiniang was furious and reached out to grab the letter, but Zhou Qin dodged it. But she couldn't hold it up and sank as soon as her arms became weak.
Zhou Qin hurriedly dropped the letter and hugged her, but Xu Qiniang bit her on the arm. Afraid of alerting the guards, he held back his words and bit into it, causing Xu Qiniang to cry.
Zhou Qin was a little worried and quickly said softly: "Did you touch the injured area? Does it hurt? Then, if you bite it, you might feel better."
unexpectedly
His words made Xu Qiniang loosen her mouth, hold his neck and cry loudly.
For a while, Zhou Qin couldn't sit down or stand upright, so she had to hug her with her back hunched over, holding her waist with one hand, and gently patting her back with the other. She was so embarrassed.
Hearing the movement inside, the maids and guards ran in and were stunned when they saw the situation.
Zhou Qin looked back and became very angry: "Who told you to come in? Get out!" The maid stuck out her tongue and ran away, and the guard also ran away while holding back his laughter.
After crying for a long time, Xu Qiniang finally finished venting her tears. "Come on, let's lean on each other." Zhou Qin said, helping her gently lean on the cushions, waving her hands and saying, "You have internal injuries, don't dare cry like this again!"
"You didn't hit me? There's nothing good about a stinky man!"
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. If I had known you were like this, I wouldn't have taken out the letter." Zhou Qin picked up the letter, folded it and put it in her arms:
"After all, this is a letter from someone else's family. If I can't fasten it well, I have to find someone to deliver it." He said and patted the dust on it, then looked at Xu Qiniang's dull and straight eyes, and felt a little flustered:
"Well, I mean, girl, you should say something. I still think it's better for you to be fierce than you are now."
Xu Qiniang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Am I good? What's good about me? A spent flower has become a willow, someone broke it and threw it aside. Now it's completely ruined!"
Master said at the beginning: Don’t look at this person treating you like this now, he will change his attitude even faster than this in the future! I don't believe it, I think this kind of thing can't happen to me.
What's more, there was so much gold, and he took it out as soon as he asked. How could he do this if he didn't have me in his heart? Do you know the story of a man called gold, right?
That's how he took me back to his house. Maybe I will never meet such a person again! As he spoke, the tears couldn't stop falling, and he began to "whimper" sadly.
"I'm a golden girl, why are you crying for that old pervert? He has been coaxing you for so many years by relying on his wealth and power. Shouldn't you still be heartbroken for him?" Zhou Qin said dissatisfied.
"I'm not crying for him, I'm crying for myself. I'm finished. No one wants me anymore. How will I live in the future! Master, Master!"
Xu Qiniang cried even more sadly when she thought of her master and her brothers and sisters who were now wandering to unknown places.
"How come no one wants it?"
"Now, I, I can't even be considered as a talented person, I'm just a discarded loser!"
"Who dares to say that? Whoever says that, I, Zhou Heiyu, will cut him into pieces first!" Zhou Qin roared.
Xu Qiniang was stunned and looked at Zhou Qin with a twitching look: "You, surnamed Zhou, what does it have to do with you if I cry to myself?"
"Uh..." Zhou Qin scratched the back of his head, carefully sat down on the edge of the bed, and said with a bit of embarrassment:
"I said, sister, you are injured because of me, you didn't say it! But we treat you as an opponent on the battlefield, one on one with real swords and guns, as you said, 'Everyone is his own master,' right?"
Lao Zhou has never done anything wrong to you and will never do it! Look at me, my smooth tone on the battlefield is just to anger Hua Jishou.
Even if I found out your identity later, Lao Zhou would not look down on you, nor would he try to step on you.
The Lou family does not treat you as a human being. I, Lao Zhou, am a man of the world. I am loyal and responsible in my work. I will never look down on you because of your past. That, that…. "
He didn't know how to continue speaking. He was gesticulating but couldn't think of words, and he was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.
"W-what do you mean?" Xu Qiniang was also confused: "W-what are you...?"
"Ahem, Qiniang, let's put it this way!" Zhou Qin slapped her thigh, spread her hands and said loudly: "Zhou Heiyu is not a mine owner, he doesn't have a plate of gold at home, all he has is the Rushui River.
Hometowns are everywhere along the river, and there are boats and brothers on the river. We don’t have a mansion or a garden, nor do we have that tender skin and tender meat. What we do have is that we can grill fish and eat wine with heroes from all over the world.
If you like her, Heiyu's boat will be your home, and Heiyu's brothers will respect you as sister-in-law. I..., that's all I want to say! "
"But, but..." Xu Qiniang blushed. She didn't expect that this black man would say this in front of her. She was so flustered that she didn't know where to look.
"But I come from a humble background and have been married before... What innocent young lady wouldn't fall in love with such a good man like you, so why bother...?"
As he spoke, he bit his lip and stopped talking. Two tears fell on the quilt. She didn't want to be a kid anymore, she was really scared. Or, go to the master?
Just when she thought this, she suddenly felt as if one of her hands was being placed in a hot pot. It was Zhou Qin who put her hand in his big palm.
"Don't worry, sister, you don't have to worry about anything! Zhou Heiyu doesn't have a family yet. When you come here, you will be the eldest lady, the female shopkeeper of Rushui!"
All sects, boatmen, and guilds on the river all obey our orders, which is better than being a slave to that old thief Lou!
He doesn't want you, but I, Zhou Heiyu, will take care of him. In the future, we will laugh and see how he loses. As Li Sanlang said, 'Whoever laughs last will laugh best! "
"You, let go first!" Xu Qiniang withdrew her hand angrily, thought for a while and sighed:
"I have nowhere to go anyway. Even if I go back to Master in despair, I will be so embarrassed that I might as well not go back!
You can go to Fuzhou as you wish, and stay away from the land of right and wrong. It’s okay to just be a big lady. How can I, a lowly person, have that blessing? "
"Why not? Why do you always say you are humble?" Zhou Qin smacked her lips and said:
"Wu Maocai said that in the previous dynasty, Liang Hongyu was a singer in the Red Mansion, so she could still be a royal servant. Who is worse than the other?
In addition, Inspector Li also said that in ancient times, Mulan joined the army and Zetian was the empress. "
"Inspector Li, that Li Sanlang?" Xu Qiniang asked in surprise, "Have you ever told him about me?"
"Hehe." Zhou Qin smiled sheepishly: "If he hadn't exposed it, I wouldn't have dared to have such an idea." He pointed to his arms:
"He was the one who brought this letter to me, otherwise how could it have gotten into my hands?
Saburo said, if you are handed over to the government, you will die miserably because of your status as a family member of a rebel. But he pities you because you also came from a miserable background and were led astray by Lou Zi.
If he could take the opportunity to cut off the Lou family at this time, it would be better if he could at least save his life and not become... a burial object. "
"I understand." Xu Qiniang paused, then leaned on the edge of the bed and bowed: "I thank Inspector Li for saving my life! If I can't repay it in this life, my descendants should repay it!" She started crying again.
Zhou Qin hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, helped her up and lay still, and then said:
"Li Sanlang has already ordered Mr. Wu Maocai to come and check on your illness, and is sending people to find an old doctor. I will ask Brother Maocai to diagnose your pulse later.
When you are able to leave, I will send you to Geyang first, which is safer than Shangrao. We will meet again when I return to Geyang for business! "
Xu Qiniang nodded, but suddenly wanted to say something but stopped. When Zhou Qin asked why, she shyly pulled the corner of the quilt and hid inside, refusing to come out.
Zhou Qin laughed loudly: "I understand, you are scared. Fortunately, you didn't hit me that day, right?"
Xu Qiniang didn't answer, but her body was laughing and shaking under the quilt.
The man Lou Zi sent to contain Guang Xin was named Chow Tai Fook. Yes, that was the name, but he had nothing to do with jewelry, and he came from a very poor family.
My grandfather's generation accidentally ended up on the wrong side during the war. After the defeat, they were deprived of their positions in hundreds of families and were thrown into the mountains to mine for fifteen years before being released back to their hometown.
By doing odd jobs for others, he finally fell in love with a widow, and the two ended up living together. After renting more than ten acres of land, he had a son and a daughter.
Chow Tai Fook had never seen silver since he was a child. He only heard the old man recall that when he was a hundred households, his monthly salary was ten shi meters and one tael of small silver ingots per piece.
Only when he grew older did he understand what kind of a prosperous life this monthly salary meant, so instead of thinking about why his grandfather was on the wrong side, he believed that the current imperial court was the source of his family's poverty.
When Lou Zishi's team rose up,
When he got up, he went to "Jing Cong" without even thinking about it.
Now he felt quite satisfied, the rice had been eaten, the gold and silver were in the box, the good horse was riding, the good girl was sleeping, she was dressed in silk satin, and she sat in a fragrant armchair.
There were thousands of soldiers at his command in the camp, and the four characters "Linchuan Captain" were written high on the flagpole. That was Lou Shuai's own handwriting!
Linchuan was the first town he led to massacre. Who told them to dare to resist the rebels?
But everything changed this morning. In the afternoon, the lone soldiers who escaped from Fengling Town came back one after another. They brought the news that Fengling had been lost and that the three marshals and the first Jin were in danger, which immediately caused panic in the camp.
Leaders and sentry commanders from all walks of life came to ask him for advice. Chow Taifu, who was caught off guard, was upset.
"Grandma, don't make any noise!" He yelled angrily: "A bunch of incompetent bastards, they are all so panicked before they can figure it out, I'm going to get a big headache!"
Seeing everyone calm down, he thought carefully and sent out sentries in the direction of Fengling Town to see if they could find out the whereabouts of the Third Marshal. If they could find the people they broke up with, he would lead them here.
Just after the assignment was completed, a leader suddenly remembered: "By the way, didn't the patrol say that after noon, the fleet of the Second Heavenly King passed by the Qixi River? Shouldn't someone send him a message?"
"Well, that's right." Chow Tai Fook nodded: "When the sentinel comes back and gets accurate information, we will send someone on horseback to Dayuan to report the news. Please ask the Second Heavenly King to come closer to us."
"Sir Captain, we'd better send someone out now." The leader said softly: "Although the sentry is riding a mules and horses, he has to come back after dark before there is any news. If he goes to look for the Second Heavenly King all night, I'm afraid A little late."
"You really look down on the officers and soldiers!" Zhou Dafu was very unhappy: "It would take us half a day to go to Fengling Town via the official road from here. Do the officers and soldiers know how to fly?
Look at you all, you're all so scared, as if I'm about to die. Get out of here! Do you think I, the captain, am a freeloader? roll! "
"Report!" A soldier rushed into the house (Chow Tai Fook occupied the home of a local restaurant owner).
"What happened again?"
"The sentry is back, bringing with him the sentry chief Douzi Wan under the Third Marshal and twenty or thirty brothers who were scattered."
"Oh? Let the whistleblower come to see me quickly!" Chow Tai Fook felt like he had found a treasure, and he couldn't even wait to step out of the house and wait on the porch.
After a while, I saw soldiers and sentinels entering the yard, followed by a tall man in his thirties.
The sentry saluted first and reported that he met Douzi Wan and his gang when they reached the cold water pond and brought them back directly.
"Lao Wan, why are you just here, and where are the others? Tell me quickly, what happened in Fengling Town? Where are the three marshals and Yi Chengjin?"
Before Chow Tai Fook could speak, the people under his command were already asking questions, making him feel angry.
