Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 248

"This is the head of Zhu Yi's dog thief."

Outside Yunyang City, by the Hanshui River, Wang Guangen of Huaguan Suo put a head in front of Pan Shiliang.

Pan Shiliang looked at the bloody head and frowned, "It doesn't look too real."

"Zhu thief insulted me several times, I joined Pan Fuyuan, led the soldiers to seize the city, and punished this thief first. The thief was arrested and still yelled at me, so I ordered someone to hook his tongue out and cut it off, but the thief returned He stared at me, and I had his eyeballs gouged out and crushed, and he wrote and scolded me, so I chopped off all ten of his fingers." Wang Guangen pointed at the blurred head, "I was so annoyed at the time that I forgot to save my face."

Pan Shiliang stroked his beard, "This does not prove that this person is Zhu Yizhuan."

"Don't worry, Fuzhi. I've always been one-sided. If I say surrender, I will surrender. This Zhu thief's head really blames me for not keeping it well, but don't worry, I still have it alive. Xunyang Fuzhi Xu Qiyuan, Hanzhong governor Gao Doushu, are now Being held by me, already persuaded by me, willing to join the Qing Dynasty together."

Pan Shiliang frowned.

He was not very willing for Gao Doushu and Xu Qiyuan to surrender.

"If Master Fuyuan doesn't want to, I'll cut off their heads as well. This time, I promise not to cut out their tongues and eyes. I will show you the truth."

Pan Shiliang waved his hand, "Since you have already surrendered, then forget it."

"The Fuyuan promised me the post of chief soldier?"

"Ben Fu reported to the governor that he has already written a document to let you be the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang Town, and your two brothers will also be awarded the posts of deputy generals."

Wang Guangen was dissatisfied, "Why is it Xiangyang general soldier? There is no Xiangyang general soldier in Huguang, only Yunyang general soldier and Xiangyang deputy general soldier. Is Fuyuan dissatisfied with me?"

"Of course not. The imperial court attaches great importance to the return of generals. You are indeed the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang, not the deputy commander-in-chief. This is a new establishment. This is also considering that Yunyang has been besieged for a long time, and it is very dilapidated. The soldiers are tired and the people are tired. That's why the general was specially stationed in Xiangyang, where there is enough money and food to facilitate the general's recovery."

The two of you say a word to me.

"Okay, I am the Nursing Home."

"It shouldn't be too late. General Wang, please hand over the city defense now, and Yunyang City will be handed over to General Yang Wenfu."

Wang Guangen gritted his teeth, "Okay."

The Yunyang city gate slowly opened.

This iron wall, which has been standing for more than ten years and has not been breached, finally opened the city gate on its own initiative.

The three brothers Wang Guangen, Wang Guangtai and Wang Chang led the soldiers and horses in the city to come out first.

More than [-] soldiers asked Pan Shiliang, the governor of Yunyang, to surrender. Pan Shiliang accepted the surrender surrounded by a group of Qing army generals and schools, and inspected the troops.

Looking at these soldiers with tattered clothes and yellow and thin faces, he was very surprised. It is hard to imagine that these people have guarded Yunyang for more than ten years from the beginning of Chongzhen to the present, preventing them from being destroyed by Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, etc., even under the Qing army. In front of him, he persisted for so long.

But looking at these disheveled soldiers, Pan Shiliang also believed why Wang Guangen and others were going to surrender. They were so hungry that it was difficult to hold on.

"Brothers have worked hard." Pan Shiliang pretended to comfort, "Wang Zongbing, let your people come to my place to collect food, and eat a full meal right away."

"Thank you, Lord Fuyuan."

Pan Shiliang hesitated for a moment, and finally added, "Everyone will be rewarded with a penny!"

"Thank you, Master Fuyuan." Thousands of Yunyang soldiers thanked feebly.

Pan Shiliang frowned, a little dissatisfied.

Gao Doushu and Xu Qiguang led the officials in the city to surrender.

Pan Shiliang looked at these two courtiers of the Ming Dynasty with admiration and contempt in his heart. He despised them for being ignorant of current affairs. What would be the result of persevering?

But on the surface, they still greeted each other with a smile, held each other, and comforted them with kind words.

"Mr. Yang, you lead troops to defend Yunyang City. The brothers in Xunyang have worked hard. You will be responsible for the city defense in the future. Let the brothers in Xunyang go to Xiangyang to rest and replenish supplies."

Yang Wenfu drove into the city with 3000 troops who had already prepared, and everything went well.

After Yang Wenfu sent someone to report that the entire city had been defended, Pan Shiliang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the same day, Pan Shiliang couldn't wait to enter Xunyang City and live in Yunyang Fuzhi Yamen, which finally lived up to his name.

The next day, Pan Shiliang summoned the Wang brothers.

"Wang Zongbing is familiar with the situation in Yunyang, so he will stay here to help Ben Fu familiarize himself with the local situation. The more than [-] soldiers in Yunyang, according to the imperial government system, have three battalions of [-] soldiers in the town, and Wang Guangtai and Wang En are two lieutenants. One battalion, the old and the weak will be eliminated and dismissed."

Pan Shiliang ordered more than [-] soldiers from Yunyang to surrender, and only [-] remained. Wang Guangen stayed with him in Yunyang temporarily, and Wang Guangtai and other generals went to Xiangyang to garrison the [-] soldiers.

Wang Guangen looked reluctant, and finally reluctantly agreed.

On the same day, more than 1000 Xunyang soldiers were abolished, and each of them was sent away with only two buckets of grain and one coin of silver. Town Xiangyang.

Gao Doushu and Xu Guangqi were also left in Yunyang.

Yunyang went down without a fight, and Pan Shiliang was triumphant, and wrote a letter to Luo Xiujin, the new governor who was still in Henan, to report his victory.

Because Yunyang City was already in his hands, and the Yunyang soldiers surrendered honestly, and even accepted the abolition and transfer of defense. In addition, Wang Guangen, Gao Doushu, Xu Qiyuan and others were all held by him, so Pan Shiliang felt that everything was under control. .

He adapted some of the troops into his own Fubiao, recommended Yang Wenfu as the general soldier of Yunyang, and took his headquarters as Yunyang Zhenbiao.Although they took over a dilapidated and hungry Yunyang City, they were all very happy.

This fortified city has not fallen for more than ten years, and now they have taken it without bloodshed, that is a credit.

But within two days of being happy, news came from the south that the thief Yu Ni besieged Jingzhou and Wuchang. This frightened Pan Shiliang a lot, so after some discussion, Pan Shiliang decided to recruit troops.

When he came, he only brought 3000 people with him, three thousand for the town bid, and two thousand for the care bid. There were not enough soldiers, so he immediately posted a recruitment notice.

When you enlist in the army, you can eat food and get paid.

Yunyang was poor and hungry, and the recruitment list was very effective, and two thousand soldiers were recruited in three days.

There were even a few groups of people nearby who came to ask for attachment, such as the bandit Chen Jiao, and the former Yunyang Zuoqi general Wang Bin, who had previously disagreed with Wang Guangen and led his troops to Fang County to recruit troops and buy horses to support themselves, and they also asked for attachment at this time.

Pan Shiliang never refused to come, and recruited more than a dozen large and small groups of people at once, claiming to be tens of thousands of people, and still ordered them to divide into Junzhou, Fangxian, Zhushan and other places on the outskirts of Yunyang.

Wang Guangtai, Wang En, Li Maochun, Liu Tiaoyuan and others led 1000 Yunyang soldiers and followed Qi Shangyou's [-] troops to Xiangyang. They went down the Han River, stop and go, and arrived in Xiangyang in about ten days.

After arriving in Xiangyang, Qi Shangyou led his troops to garrison Xiangyang city, but Wang Guangtai and other 3000 troops were stationed outside the city.

After Wang Guangtai complained a few times, he also accepted the arrangement.

So they were divided into three battalions and stationed outside the city.

Everything is going as planned by Pan Shiliang.

For several days in a row, they practiced casually a few times during the day, and then they had nothing to do, while Qi Shangyou and Xiangyang's branch patrols, magistrates and other officials, as long as they didn't enter the city, the rest didn't come. They distributed food every five days, and only five days at a time. of.

After a few days like this, it was Gan Wenkui's birthday, all officials in Xiangyang City attended the banquet. Wang Guangtai and other Yunyang officers were also invited, and a group of officers each brought their family members into the city.

Both Yunyang and Xiangyang belong to the Han River Basin. Yunyang is in the upper reaches of Xiangyang, and you can go directly to Xiangyang by boat from the Yangtze River, but it is very difficult to go up from Xiangyang.

In comparison, Yunyang is more dangerous, and Xiangyang is more at an important crossing connecting the Jianghan Plain and Nanyang Basin, and even along the Han River, you can pass through Yunyang to Hanzhong, and along the Danshui, you can pass through Shangluowu Pass and enter Guanzhong The plain, Xiangyang and Jingzhou, have always been the two major strategic support towns of the Jinghan Plain.

Especially since Xiangyang is upstream, it has the advantage of diving.

It's just that Pan Shiliang is immersed in his pride in recovering Yunyang at this time, and doesn't care about the important town of Xiangyang.

Wen Anzhi rode a donkey into the city, claiming to be an accountant of a commercial firm, and after paying a penny to the gatekeepers, he was let go.

After entering the city, Wen Anzhi quickly connected with the people in the city.

In a warehouse, a group of people had long been waiting for Wen Anzhi's arrival.

"Everything is ready, I only owe Dongfeng." A man dressed as a storekeeper told Wen Anzhi.

"Since the establishment of the Xiangyang Brotherhood, it has absorbed many members, including senior officials and squires, young scholars, officials and servants in the government, and merchants and ordinary people. They have recruited many of them."

"Is it reliable?"

"The Xiangyang Brotherhood is also divided into peripheral, inner, and core layers. Different levels have different information and tasks."

In the eyes of different people, this brotherhood is a different organization, but in fact it is an intelligence organization of Zhu Yihai, with sufficient experience and efficient operations.

Xiangyang City has been infiltrated into all classes.

At this time, the banner of Daming is not bad, at least better than Chuangjun and Qingjun. From the gentry to the common people, they are quite supportive. According to the person in charge here in Xiangyang, they are developing well here. The request activity, everything is ready.

"Mr. Wen, are brothers Wang Guangtai really trustworthy?"

"The brothers of the Wang family have been sticking to Yunyang for several years, and they have already proved themselves." Wen Anzhi replied, "It's us, the time to prove ourselves has come."

Night falls.

The city gate of Xiangyang City was guarded and a curfew was imposed.

But a mansion in the city was brightly lit, and there was a Gan Wenkui birthday banquet on the patrol road and military preparation road platform, and all the dignified officials and gentry in the city went to celebrate.

Not only Qi Shangyou, deputy general of the Xiangyang garrison, and his officers, but also Wang Guangtai, who was stationed outside the city, also came.

At the city gate, a group of soldiers endured mosquito bites and drank the cool breeze.

"What time is it?"

"About Xuzheng (eight o'clock in the evening)"

"All Men Are Brothers!"

"Brothers work together to cut gold!"

"What did you say?"

What responded to him was a flash of knife light.

Several city gate guards suddenly drew their knives and slashed at people, then opened the city gate, raised lanterns and shook them.

Outside the city, [-] Yunyang soldiers, who had already been fully armed and recharging their energy, received the signal and quietly entered the city.

The banquet in the city is still happy, but the soldiers and horses outside the city have already entered.

All of a sudden, countless places in the city were on fire, and people with red scarves on their foreheads and arms were everywhere. They shouted the slogan "All brothers in the world" and rushed out.

The Yunyang soldiers went straight to the banquet mansion, hacking and killing all the way in.

Everyone at the banquet panicked, but the two Wang Xingtai brothers laughed and stood up to welcome their subordinates in.

"Surround the courtyard, don't let a single one go!"

Brother Wang Guangtai held up their knives, and in the banquet hall, they cut down Gan Wenkui, the prefect of Xiangyang, Yang Kuang, the prefect of Xiangyang, Li Shifa, the Tuiguan of Xiangyang, Pan Chaoyou, the magistrate of Xiangyang, etc. in the banquet hall, and captured Qi Shangyou, the deputy commander.

After one night, Xiangyang City returned to calm, but it has changed hands.

The flag of the Green Camp was pulled down and replaced with the flag of the Great Tomorrow and the Moon.

Wen Anzhi was invited into Xiangyang government office to preside over affairs.

"Immediately send a message to Yunyang, Xiangyang has been taken, and you can start to collect the net over there!"

(End of this chapter)