After more than thirty rounds, Yun Hezi couldn't stand it anymore. After all, he was old and had been running around before. Seeing that the idea of hitting Li Dan with one blow failed, Yun Hezi realized that this task was not so easy to complete.
Seeing that he was timid, the two of them cheered up even more. When the old Taoist saw him, he shouted: "You kids are bullying me, I'm going to go too!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and took out some pill-like things from nowhere, and smashed them on the ground hard. The calf's eyes were sharp and he shouted: "Be careful!" Then he saw a ball of light and flames, followed by a loud "bang".
Just as Gao Can was about to chase him, Li Dan reached out to grab him and shouted: "Beware of the poisonous fire!" Everyone around covered their mouths and noses.
The old Taoist took the opportunity to rush to one side, stepped on the square shield with one step, and reached the top of the wall with the next step, knocking several team members who were caught off guard off the wall.
But he was stunned as soon as he landed. Five golden flower formations outside had surrounded him and attacked him, leaving the old man busy parrying.
After finally breaking up the formation, a bearded man stood in front, holding two iron whips and shouting: "Where does the cow's nose go, there is a stone here!" After saying this, he rushed over like a buffalo.
He used the thorn to push the iron whip outward, and heard a "clang" sound, which made him take two or three steps back and almost sat on the ground. He was shocked. How could there be so many warriors under Li Dan's command?
The more scared he became, the more panicked he became. He didn't dare to fight against this piece of stone, so he broke out of the formation and rushed out. Strangely enough, those group trainers gave way one after another as if they were leading him away.
As he rushed to a small tree, he heard people cheering, and Yun Hezi felt the emptiness under his feet again. This time there were no pit walls or thresholds, and the whole person fell into the pit as the bamboo strips collapsed.
"Lower the net, lower the net!" someone shouted. Yun Hezi knew that something was wrong. If he was caught in a fishing net, it would be difficult to escape!
Feeling that there was flat ground under him and no sharp stakes, he took out a pile of thin iron pieces shaped like arrows from his arms and threw them out with his hand, causing screams from above the pit. "Be careful, the old man has a hidden weapon, stay back!" someone shouted again.
This gave Yun Hezi a chance. He jumped on the pit wall and tapped two points with his toes before jumping out of the ground.
"Hey, he's out, surround him!" the voice just shouted. Then a ball of blade light rolled towards him, and Yun Hezi quickly caught it.
At this time, Lu Jiu and Song Xiaoniu also rushed out, and the four of them surrounded Lao Dao at the core. Yun Hezi also tried his best to prevent them from succeeding and was forced to retreat from time to time. Although his thorns were only more than two feet apart, they were not defeated at all.
Zhu Qizhen appeared beside Li Dan with great interest at some point: "Hey, is this the assassin? What happened to the Jiangshan Army? They didn't send a young man here. What's the use of such an old man?"
Li Dan was too lazy to continue the topic with him, and just said: "It's okay. You should quickly gather your team to surround him. I'll be here soon."
"Bragging, I haven't seen you catch him for a long time, and you still dug a hole, how much effort you put into it!" Zhu Qizhen curled his lips: "Hey, how about I go down and help him!" He said that he was going to pick off his own shield. arm.
Li Dan quickly stopped him: "How can this be done? He is here to kill me. Every wrongdoer has his own debtor...!"
As he was talking, he suddenly heard someone shouting "Sir, be careful". Both of them were stunned, not knowing which master he was calling.
But when he looked up, he saw the old Taoist rushing out of the siege and heading straight for the entrance of the courtyard. Zhu Qizhen hurriedly drew his sword, and Li Dan faced him with a spear. "Yun Hezi, surrender!" Li Dan repeated.
At this time, the old Taoist's clothes were torn, the Taoist robe had become strips of cloth, and there were several injuries on his exposed body. "Kill you, Mr. Yang will be king, and the world will enjoy peace!" He roared, blocking the attack from the big gun, but was blocked by Zhu Qizhen's knife.
"Hey, your Zhu Baihu family is here!" Zhu Qizhen slashed with his sword.
"Ha, there are dogs from the imperial court to help you, but I'm not afraid!" Yun Hezi said, opening the blade and slamming it down with his hand. This thing is actually like a four-edged bayonet. It is usually made of fine steel, and the back part is like a steel bar.
When used, it can be used in combination with the routines and techniques of knives, swords, whips, maces, and short spears.
Therefore, Yun Hezi's flip-hand attack was a trick of turning a stab into a whip. Zhu Qizhen had never seen it before and was not wary. He hurriedly blocked with his sword, but unexpectedly there was a crisp sound.
The sounding knife actually broke.
Li Dan was shocked and thought, if something happens to you, how will I see your father Zhu Zhanji in the future? He quickly changed his spear into a stick and struck it on the Taoist priest's left leg.
Yun Hezi snorted and knew that there was no chance of winning today, so he made a feint and left.
"Where are the Taoist thieves going?" With a loud shout, Gao Can stabbed a spear from the side. Plum blossoms bloomed among the spear flowers, but he didn't know which one was true and which one was false.
Yun Hezi was flustered and hurriedly rolled to avoid it. Gao Can caught up with him and stabbed him in the thigh. The Taoist priest screamed. When everyone saw him falling to the ground and shouted, more than a dozen guns were fired at him. Li Dan hurriedly shouted: "Keep him alive!"
Tao Shou rushed over to check, and then shouted: "You're still alive, bring me the fishing net!"
After a while, everyone carried Yun Hezi, wrapped in fishing nets, back into the courtyard with dozens of spears and spears pointed at him vigilantly.
Song Xiaoniu leaned down to listen to him, not knowing what he said to him. Then he got up and ran to Li Dan to give a military salute: "Report, sir, he is about to die. I asked him what else he had to say, and he said I can't believe it. Li Sanlang is..."
"Is it a doll?" Li Dan sneered.
Feng Shen appeared in the yard at some unknown time. He leaned down and whispered something to Yun Hezi. Then he stood up and walked over and said, "He is dead."
"Have a good death!" Li Dan glanced at the corpse coldly, then turned to find Gao Can: "If it weren't for Mr. Gao, this thief would still be very evil. You have made a great contribution!
Take the head off and take it to Meigang, and then stay as Jiao Baihu's deputy and the captain of Meigang's second team. Ask their original team to go to Huangqiu to form an inspection branch and a new district. Team. "
"I humbly obey orders and I will definitely live up to your expectations!" Gao Can was overjoyed. After the military salute, he knelt down and kowtowed.
As soon as the body was taken out, someone came to tell Mr. Zhao that he was here. Then Zhao Chongbi walked in and handed over his hands: "Congratulations, the inspection has eliminated a major problem! Now we can go to Anren with peace of mind." He handed over a piece of paper.
Li Dan took it over and took a look. It turned out that An Ren had sent back the news just now when they were in a fierce situation. With the help of the inside line, the North Gate had been captured. The Tanzhong Xiao tribe successfully entered the city, and a few enemy troops were surrounded in the Confucian Temple.
Zhou Zhixian has found and settled in the Yamen again, but the county officials and officers have escaped, and more than half of them were killed or injured, so Chief Li is asked to take office as soon as possible.
Li Dan forwarded it to Li Zhu. After reading it, he immediately handed it over to Zhao Chongbi and said, "In this case, the student will go and take up his post to help the county magistrate to calm the people's hearts as soon as possible!"
"Okay! I'll send a group of cavalry to escort you there." Zhao Chongbi said and handed the matter over to Zhu Qizhen. Li Zhu hurriedly said goodbye to his younger brother, said goodbye to Anren, and quickly packed his bags with his eldest follower Lu Ning'er.
"Then, let's set off after dawn." Zhao Chongbi looked very excited. This was the first county town he had recovered.
"My lord, please go back and have a good rest. After some sleep, we will be on our way."
Zhao Chongbi looked at him dissatisfied: "Don't you need to sleep?"
"Now that the city has been conquered, follow-up arrangements need to be made immediately. Not only do the teams need to be mobilized, but the construction of Huangxi and Shangdu forts needs to start immediately. The deployment of manpower and materials is a race against time. Where can I sleep in a humble position?" Li Dan smiled bitterly.
At dawn, Song Qian sent people back to report that the prisoner rescue had been completed. A total of 327 government prisoners had been rescued, 24 forest bandits had been killed, and 40 people had surrendered.
The current plan is to have these people gather the wood along the river to the mouth of the river, hand it over to the navy waiting there, and then send it to Shangdu and Huangxi for building forts.
As expected, Li Dan didn't sleep. He issued several orders to the navy and Yujiazhai respectively. Because the capture of Anren was too smooth, many materials and craftsmen were still on their way here, so we had to rush.
Zhu Qing arrived at dawn, and Li Dan left the rest of the matter to him, then put on his clothes and went to the bed to sleep as soon as possible.
After lunch, Zhao Chongbi led the officers and soldiers to break out of camp and set off. Everyone was very happy to learn that Anren had resigned. There were cheers everywhere and morale was high. Li Dan took the Chinese army part of the regiment training to Huanghuang Port first.
While waiting to cross the river in Xiaogang, there was a man wearing leather armor.
He walked up to the front and said something to his guards. Li Dan caught a glimpse and asked loudly, "Is it Huang Shu Huang Sima?"
"My lord, it is Willow Huang. Last time you asked me to find the military officer. My second brother replied to the letter the day before yesterday, so I came to report to you." Huang Shu saluted with a military salute and reported loudly.
"Come here quickly!" Li Dan waved to him. At that moment, a messenger came over to report that the forwards had crossed the river and the pontoon bridge was safe to pass.
Li Dan called Huang Shu to help him lead his horse, and they crossed the river together. As they walked, he asked, "You just said that there was a reply from home? What's going on?"
"My second brother went to invite Liang Zhuangyuan twice. The first time he didn't see him, but the second time he said he would consider it. My brother thought there was no hope, so he went back to the ancient port. Who knows how many days passed before he got home? Mr. Liang came down the mountain by himself.
It turned out that after hearing that Yu Qian was victorious and Liao Huazi was crowned, he agreed to come to the capital to inspect the regiment training. Huang Shu told Li Dan that Mr. Liang would arrive within the next few days.
They were preparing to go to the county seat. As soon as they set off, Huang Shu wrote a letter asking his brother to send people to Yangbu. However, because of the military situation, he did not tell them why they came to Yangbu instead of Yugan.
He was originally worried that the top pick would be arrogant and unhappy, but he received news yesterday that they would arrive in Yangbu today.
"So... I came to see the capital inspection report, and I also wanted to discuss with you. Should I transfer back to Yangbu to meet Liang Zhuangyuan, so as to avoid misunderstandings and upsets?"
After hearing what he said, Li Dan understood that because he acted too quickly, his correspondence conveyed delayed news.
If Liang Mingshan had not arranged for someone to greet him, he would definitely have failed when he arrived at Yangbu today. Therefore, Huang Shu was afraid that others would misunderstand him, so he hurried over to discuss it with him.
But Li Dan knew that Huang Shu was already the appointed guardian of Shigang, and he needed to take office immediately without delay. After thinking for a while, he said to him:
"You are the Sima of Song Zhongjun. Your position is important and you cannot leave. Let's do this. I will send a special envoy with a few guards to greet you and explain the situation. What do you think?" Huang Shu thought about it and nodded in agreement.
When he arrived on the other side, Li Dan called Lu Jiulai, explained the situation to him in detail, and asked him to take a group of lancers and a horse carriage back to meet the champion.
When Lu Jiu heard that it was such a good job, he was so frightened that his eyes widened: "My dear, are you going to meet the number one scholar in martial arts? You want me to go? What kind of blessing has my family achieved?"
"When you meet the officers and soldiers, just say that you have been ordered to go back to Baima to pick up a load of goods. Don't say anything else for the time being." Li Dan told him.
The regiment training team did not enter the town, but just drove past a short distance away. The neat soldiers on the vehicles and the catapults dragged by the horses behind them stunned the people watching the excitement from a distance.
Although there have been many cars running around in the past two days, and even soldiers have built a pontoon bridge on the river, the people still feel that they have not seen enough.
Watching and watching, someone muttered: "They have so many mules and horses, it's almost endless!"
"Are you jealous? That was donated by the people of Yugan. You think, a mule can be divided into four pieces of silver. If you get more dividends after fighting a few battles, even if it is not a surplus, you can still make money for a new animal!" " Another person said.
"This Yu Gan really dares to do something. If it were like this here, I would sell everything to raise money!" He was talking about the matter of "all people buying shares", and he immediately got the approval of many people around him.
"Look at their carriages. How big they are. They must carry a lot of stuff! They run very fast! Which of you can have such a carriage? If you do, not to mention the work in the fields, you can do two trips a month. Isn’t it enough to just buy and sell?”
An old man said enviously, and there were sighs all around.
"I hope the army's attack on Anren goes well, so maybe we can buy that long and tall carriage after the war!"
When Li Dan entered the North City Gate, all the fighting was over, and even the blood stains on the ground had been basically cleaned up. When passing by the Confucian Temple, I saw corpses being carried from inside to outside.
Tan Zhongxiao, who was waiting here, laughed and explained that there were about forty strong gangsters who refused to surrender, and they were all killed in the end.
Li Dan was not interested in how they were killed. He only asked about the loss of the Confucian Temple and the casualties in Tanbu before turning to the county government.
West
Outside the county government office in the south gate, Li Dan saw a haggard and pale young man wearing a blue official uniform. Li Zhu was whispering something behind him.
Li Dan held the horse. Signaling the guards to stop, he turned over and quickly stepped forward to salute Zhou Zhixian, and then saluted his brother. After the two returned the gift, Zhou Zhixian held his hands in gratitude and said:
"Thanks to Yu Gan Tuan Lian for rescuing me, I was able to see the light of day again by destroying the city and annihilating the enemy. I'm so excited right now that I can't describe it in words. Please come and pay me my respects!"
Li Dan quickly grabbed him and said, "The recovery of Anren was entirely due to the planning of the government and Tongzhi Master Zhao. I just sent people to help and I dare not take credit.
Tomorrow, Zhao Tongzhi will arrive with his army. You can just keep this moment to express your gratitude to Mr. Zhao. We need to quickly discuss a few urgent matters now, so it would be better to go to the Yamen to discuss it in detail! "
Zhou Zhixian had already heard what Li Zhu had said and quickly asked Li Dan and the generals to take a seat in the lobby.
However, when he returned to the county government office, the place was ransacked. Not to mention waiting for tea, stools and chairs were all gathered together. Zhou Zhixian looked very embarrassed.
Li Dan didn't take it seriously, but still asked the magistrate to sit on top. His brother, Nai, the chief registrar, accompanied him as his deputy, and he took the guest seat himself. Without being too particular, I asked Mao Zaidi to bring out loose tea, asked the cook to light a fire and boil water, and get bowls for everyone to share.
While the fire was being lit in the kitchen, Li Dan pointed to a young man sitting at the end, wearing a square scarf and a short beard on his chin, and asked, "You haven't introduced me to this dear friend yet."
"Oops!" Tan Zhongxiao slapped his thigh and jumped up to apologize to the man: "I was so busy chatting about military affairs that I forgot to introduce you to Mr. Tan. I'm really sorry for Tan's crime!"
Zhou Zhixian had a look of surprise on his face and quickly apologized: "I thought Caitan Yingzheng had already introduced me, but I was negligent. Please forgive me, Mr. Zhou." After speaking, he turned to introduce Li Dan:
"This is Yishi Zhou who has been hiding me for a long time and acted bravely when he saw justice. If it weren't for him, I would have become a lonely ghost!"
Li Dan was shocked. Seeing the man smiling and holding his hands, he said, "The county magistrate has given you a good reputation, so it is natural for students to do this." He stood up and came over, bowed down and said, "Student Zhou Xin, I would like to pay my respects to Mr. Li, the inspector of the capital."
"Please get up, please get up!" Li Dan hurriedly went over to help him and said in surprise: "After hearing Zhou Lang's story, I thought you were a leopard with a head and eyes, big and thick, but I didn't expect you to be dressed like this."
Zhou Xin burst out laughing: "Students also thought that Li Sanlang was like Luo Cheng, but he didn't expect that such a young man was so handsome beyond imagination. That's why he was frightened by the tiger's power and stayed behind, not daring to come forward. Forgive me, atone!"
After he finished speaking, he sang loudly again, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became lively.
Just as the tea was served, everyone still sat down, and Mao Zaidi and other personal guards poured a large bowl for everyone. Seeing that everyone was drinking with gusto, the magistrate and Zhou Xin also followed suit and took a few sips.
"Hey, the way to drink this is novel, and the taste is also novel." Zhou Xin said: "On weekdays, the house is full of cakes and tea, but it's not as enjoyable as this!"
"This loose tea is simple and easy. Although it is not a tea for gentlemen, it is suitable for peddlers and people in rural areas. If loose tea becomes popular, the sales volume of tea will be dozens of times higher than today!" Li Dan said to him with a smile. .
Zhou Xin's eyes lit up: "I didn't expect that your Excellency also knows about the vendors."
Li Dan smiled and said, "I still have a lot to ask Brother Zhou about this matter later. But today let's talk about other things first." After speaking, he asked Li Zhu:
"Brother, can you post all the notices for peace and security? When I walked into the city, I saw very few people walking on the street. There are already pickets and governors patrolling."
"The notices are already being posted, but someone just came to report that there are still some places in the west of the city that have not been posted yet, due to a lack of government officials.
Most of the people patrolling the streets were Xie Guiting's men. Zhou Jing'an (Zhou Xin) also organized militiamen to assist in the patrols. They were mainly responsible for the defense in the east of the city and on the east wall. "Li Zhu replied.
"Your Excellency, you don't know that the terrain in the east of this county is higher, but it is precisely because of this that all dynasties have not paid much attention to the construction of the east wall.
The east wall is not only the shortest, but it was also severely damaged by flash floods. It is only six feet high in most places, and the top is uneven and even overgrown with shrubs and thatch, making it difficult to walk. There are very few people there, so many places are like wastelands.
The militiamen can only follow
Wall inspection, as for repairing the city wall or patrolling the city, that is not possible. "Zhou Xin finished the introduction and smiled apologetically.
"It's good to have militiamen patrolling Jing'an. We have already made plans for the rest and will gradually restore Anren's city defense." Hearing Li Dan say this, the faces of the county magistrate and Zhou Xin shone.
