This is a rebellion. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the nine tribes are to be punished, let alone the governor and the commander-in-chief. Even the intercession of the king Qian Shui will not work. "Yang Yuqian said angrily.
Fatty Xu said: "Okay, it's useless to say all this now. From now on, we have to keep an eye on the shareholders of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce and not let them do anything detrimental to the Tiger Flag."
Li Lidong and Wang Shuochen nodded. Yang Yuqian hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded along with them.
Fatty Xu continued: "Tiger-Character Banner also has business at sea. You guys will each select some of your children and see if you can let Tiger-Character Banner send them to the sea. Even if we are liquidated by the court in the future, we will be able to keep them." A root.”
"Will Liu Heng agree?" Li Lidong asked hesitantly.
Fatty Xu said: "We have done so much for him, so he shouldn't object to such a small request."
"Can we all go to sea? The property in Lingqiu can be sold to Tiger Flag." Wang Shuochen said.
Fatty Xu glanced at him and asked, "Would you do this if it were you?"
"This..." Wang Shuochen hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head.
If he were Liu Heng, he would definitely hope to have as many people around him as possible, so that he would be more confident when facing the imperial army in the future, and naturally he would not let the people around him escape to the sea.
Fatty Xu withdrew his gaze from Wang Shuochen, looked at the other people around him, and said, "Okay, everyone, let's go back and decide who will leave earlier. I'm worried that the court won't give the Tiger Flag too long, so you guys Be quick and don’t drag yourself too much, otherwise no one will be able to leave.”
Li Lidong, Yang Yuqian and Wang Shuochen all said goodbye.
They didn't know that Zhang Huai had led the army to Guangling County.
Guangling borders Lingqiu. If you are in a hurry, you can reach Lingqiu County in more than half a day at most.
The soldiers and horses Zhang Huai brought this time were all personal servants of each family. Most of them were equipped with war horses, and they numbered nearly a thousand people.
However, the team came out in a hurry and did not carry much dry food. They collected food and grass from whichever county they went to along the way.
When we arrived in Guangling, we had to collect grain and grass from Guangling County, so we naturally had to stay in Guangling for one more day. After all, the amount of grain and grass needed by thousands of people was not small, and collecting it also took time.
As the army passed through, Guangling County closed its gates early, and Zhang Huai led his army to spend the night outside the city.
Bandits are passing like soldiers passing by, and no official wants the army to cross the border. The same goes for the magistrate of Guangling County. However, they cannot stop this kind of thing and can only cooperate. What they can do is to close the city gate and prevent the army from entering the city.
Zhang Huai brought with him all his own soldiers and servants, and they also did some banditry along the way. However, because of the restraints of various military generals and the fact that they were on the road all the way, except for some unlucky common people, the common people who suffered disaster Not much.
"Sir, we will arrive in Lingqiu tomorrow. Should we go to Lingqiu County first and bring the soldiers and horses from Lingqiu to guard the camp." Li Kaiyang sat next to Zhang Huai and said.
Huang An was still one of Lingqiu's garrison guards at the time. He was quite familiar with the situation of the Lingqiu garrison camp and knew that the Lingqiu garrison camp could muster at least several hundred soldiers and horses.
Zhang Huai shook his head and said: "Lingqiu garrison Wang Tong used to be a member of a thousand households in the garrison camp. He has been in Lingqiu longer than Li Huaixin. Who can guarantee that he has not betrayed the imperial court."
Li Kaiyang also came from an official family and had been exposed to it since he was a child. Hearing what Zhang Huai said, he understood that the Lingqiu garrison had been abandoned. In the future, after the tiger-character flag was cleared, the official scapegoat would be the Lingqiu garrison.
Zhang Huai picked up the wine cup and drank a cup of wine. He took a breath of cool breath and said: "Tell the generals below that no one is allowed to leave the camp tonight. If you want to have fun, there will be plenty of opportunities after tomorrow."
"Don't worry, sir, the general has been handed over." Li Kaiyang responded.
Zhang Huai nodded.
The place where the officers and soldiers camped was a village outside the city. The people's houses were requisitioned, and all the people inside were driven out. Several generals lived together in the best house in the village.
In the second half of the night, Zhuangzi became quiet, and the original bonfires were all extinguished.
A dozen figures appeared outside Zhuangzi, groping in the dark, and entered Zhuangzi.
"Be careful and don't alert the officers and soldiers." The person walking in front whispered to the person behind him.
The people who came to Zhuangzi at night did not look for generals like Zhang Huai, nor did they look for ordinary sergeants. Instead, they went all the way to the stables where the army's horses were parked.
There were originally people in Zhuangzi who had dogs at home, but so many officers and soldiers suddenly came to Zhuangzi, and the dogs barked for a long time. Even if there were dogs barking at night, no one cared.
The soldiers and servants brought by each military general did not live together, but lived separately. The war horses they brought did not park in one place, but were parked in several places.
There was someone staying in the horse pen, but it was already late at night, and the person staying behind had already found a warm place to sleep.
More than a dozen black shadows entered Zhuangzi and then separated.
A few dark figures touched one of the horse pens next to Zhuangzi.
One person inside found the guard of the horse pen and directly wiped the other person's neck with a knife.
After doing all this, he walked around the horse pen again, and after making sure there was no one else, he started to sprinkle things into the manger, and then mixed it with his hands several times, and then walked out again in the dark.
In the past half an hour or so, a dozen black shadows who entered Zhuangzi appeared outside Zhuangzi.
One of the black figures whispered: "Have you alerted the officers and soldiers?"
No one around him answered, they just shook their heads at him.
The black shadow continued: "Okay, let's go."
More than a dozen black shadows moved away from Zhuangzi in the night, and finally disappeared under the black curtain in the distance.
At dawn the next day, Zhang Huai dared to wake up. Before he could wash up, he saw Li Kaiyang walking in quickly from outside.
When they got closer, they heard Li Kaiyang say: "Sir, it's not good. Many of the war horses we brought have died. Not only that, the people who stayed in the horse pen at night were also killed."
Zhang Huai's expression changed and he asked hurriedly: "Do you know who did it?"
"I don't know." Li Kaiyang shook his head, and then said, "I suspect it should be the people with the tiger character flag. Apart from them, I can't think of anyone else who would do such a thing."
"Damn it." Zhang Huai kicked over the wooden frame in front of him and knocked the copper basin on it to the ground.
Without the war horses, the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly reduced, and the original strength will be less than 23/10.
"Sir, what should we do next? Do we still want to go to Lingqiu?" Li Kaiyang asked aloud.
The loss of so many war horses at once was also a blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers.
