Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 499 Digging the Yellow River with Water Instead of Soldiers

After Zhang Yutian, the Yanxi soldier, left Li Huajing's mansion, he did not go far, nor did he return to Heze, the mansion, but stayed directly in Cao County.

The servant comes in.

"how?"

Zhang Yutian asked urgently, and the servant replied, "The little one took the wanted portraits and compared them carefully. Sure enough, I found that there are many thieves in Li Huajing's mansion, even the Yuyuan thief Liang Min, and the horse thief Ding Weiqiu are also there."

"It's become a den of thieves now!"

Zhang Yutian exhaled cold air, feeling a chill in his heart.

The prefect Huang Dengxiao and the water conservancy co-prefect Gao Yuanmei, who were drinking tea and waiting for the news, were also stunned.

"It's too presumptuous, what are you going to do!" Gao Yuanmei was shocked and angry.

"What else did you find out?" Zhang Yutian asked.

"Laughing and laughing in Li's house, it's so lively pushing cups and changing cups,"

"It's over!" Huang Dengxiao panicked.

Now Zhang Yutian also understood that Li Huajing had colluded with Liang Min and other thieves, and he was counted on to suppress the bandits, but his house has now become a den of thieves!
"Hurry up!" Although Zhang Yutian is a soldier and has a standard battalion, in fact, the situation in Shandong is so turbulent, and money and food are in short supply, his standard battalion has few people. If you want to mess up, what's the use.

Both the prefect and the same prefect also brought a small team of servants, and they also panicked at this time.

"Hurry back to Fucheng!"

"We must impeach Li Huajing for fornicating the bandits to the imperial court!"

Just about to go out, Zhang Yutian stopped and shook his head.

"Can't go like this,"

"what happened?"

"Since Thief Li has cheated on the thief, he probably has turned his back on him. If we go like this, we probably won't be able to go. We have to go quietly and change clothes."

Zhang Yutian is quite cunning, and he thought of a way to get rid of the golden cicada's shell. He called the servants, selected a few people to change into their official uniforms, and then sat in the hall and closed the door to drink and talk. When drinking and composing poems, no one is allowed to go in and disturb her.

Then they changed into the clothes of servants, smeared their faces, and went out quietly from behind, not daring to bring any more followers.

Be careful all the way, and sure enough, when you go out, you notice that someone is already staring at the door. At the gate of Duocheng, there are even soldiers checking. Fortunately, they have prepared for it. I want to go back to the funeral.

He left the city without any risk, and ran quickly.

Here, Li Huajing and Liang Min had a very happy chat, and even blushed from drinking. Dealing with this group of rough guys, drinking freely and happily is undoubtedly the best way, which can shorten the distance between each other as quickly as possible. , It is also more convenient to talk about things at the wine table.

After drinking it happily, we can talk about anything.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about. What should be discussed is almost done before the meeting. This time it is just a meeting to confirm. The so-called blood alliance is just a ritual.

After drinking the blood wine, everyone is called brothers.

In Luxi, everyone will be grasshoppers on the same line from now on, with Li Huajing as the commander-in-chief, Liang Min, Ding Weiqiu and other big leaders as deputy commander-in-chief, generals, etc., and smaller forces The leader is guerrilla, defense and so on.

Li Huajing took the lead, and at the wine table, the reorganization of various troops into the Luxi Rebel Army was negotiated. The official designation is of course the Daming Caozhou Tuanlian General Town. Li Huajing is the commander in chief. .

It was even agreed that three days later the troops would be formally raised, and everyone would go back to their hometowns, raise their troops at the same time, and divide their troops to attack the county where they were located. Taking Caozhou Fucheng as a base, they would divide their troops to take the surrounding areas and support Liu Zeqing in raising troops in Jinan. They unite.

The plan is comprehensive and the prospects are wonderful.

"Those fake officials are still there, don't let them run away, lock them up, and kill Jiqi after three days!"

It was around night that Li Huajing received the report, knowing that something was wrong, Zhang Yutian, Huang Dengxiao, and Gao Yuanmei actually ran away.

"How could you run away?"

After learning that they had pretended to leave the city and escaped half a day ago, Li Huajing also understood that the incident must have been leaked. Although he did not know why the news leaked, since the incident had already been leaked, he could only act in advance.

He hurriedly woke up the brothers who hadn't sobered up, and told them that the situation was serious.

"We must raise our troops immediately!"

When Liang Min and the others heard about it, they were so dazed that they broke out in sweat. They gritted their teeth and said, "Okay, I'll rush back overnight to make trouble."

"Inverted!"

Li Huajing drew his knife and split the table in front of him with one blow, "The order is reversed!"

The servants brought back by Li Huajing, together with the troops brought by his nephews who came back in advance to contact and recruit, and the troops brought by Liang Min and others, immediately took up their knives and guns and rushed out of the door.

Since Li Huajing entered the city of Cao County, the local regiment bravery has been controlled by him, and his nephew has taken over the command. At this time, many people are still ignorant of the order.

Li Huajing and others tied their heads with red wipes on their foreheads, wrapped their arms in red scarves, and began to clean up Cao County.

There was a Manchu official in the city, and his family of 24 were in the city. Li Huajing took the lead in attacking him and beheaded his entire family.

Then he went to the county government and surrounded all the family members left by Huang Dengxiao and others, including the officials who had not left to visit.

Seeing this, many yamen servants knelt down and begged for mercy.

Li Huajing only killed a few, and the rest were directly incorporated, but for those officials, they were all cut off, but the officials were not cut down, and they were all kept.

Cao County won.

Li Huajing officially unfurled the banner in the city, claiming to be the commander-in-chief of the Daming Caozhou Regiment, following orders anyway.

The city was in chaos for a day, and the various rebels killed, looted, and even raped everywhere in the small county town. Most of the officials who were not killed in the county government did not escape the second wave of killing and looting.

Wearing a red scarf and holding the banner of anyway, he can kill people and grab things without falling behind. Several groups of people even fought for the spoils.

Noon the next day.

Li Huajing stepped forward, and the leaders of various ministries sent servants to restrain them, and the chaos ended.

The leaders of the various ministries led their subordinates back to their own lands loaded with plundered spoils. Li Huajing occupied Cao County, and began to set up recruiting flags, set up porridge sheds, and set up steamed bun baskets under the flags.

Those who join the rebel army will be rewarded with two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge, and they will eat food as soldiers in the future!
Looking at those buns, many people who survived the catastrophe rushed to sign up.

Zhang Yutian and others finally fled back to Fucheng, and soon received news of Li Huajing's rebellion in Cao County, and then Dingtao, Chengwu, and Shan counties around Cao County also raised their flags and quickly captured the county seat.

Immediately afterwards, Ding Weiqiu and others who returned to Dongchang Mansion also launched an attack, attacking the state and occupying the county, with great momentum.

The three guys who survived the catastrophe sat together in embarrassment and despair.

Huang Dengxiao even planned to commit suicide by hanging himself, because Li Huajing would kill him at any time, and at this time the capital was empty and there were no soldiers available.

Can't hold it at all.

If they abandon the city and flee, they will not be able to escape the court's investigation. They will still die and their family members will be implicated. It is better to commit suicide in the city, and they can still be named martyrs and die, and their family members can also be sealed.

Gao Yuanmei pulled Huang Dengxiao back, "I can't just die like this."

"Li Thief's future, the Yuyuan Thief is already unstoppable, and now all kinds of thieves are linked together by Li Thief, and we can't do it anymore, it's better to kill ourselves, so as not to fall into the hands of the thief."

Gao Yuanmei gritted her teeth, unable to appease her indignation, "I have a plan to suspend the robbery and win a chance for us to win reinforcements."

Zhang Yutian also hurriedly asked, "What's the trick, Mr. Gao?"

Gao Yuanmei is a co-knowledgeer of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Department, an official in charge of the river course. He knows the situation of the river course very well. But last year the Ming bandits sent troops to Shandong, so the plan was put on hold, and this year they committed another crime in the north.

I went to inspect the river embankment before. Many sections of the river embankment are in bad condition, especially the Tongwaxiangji river section on the border of Henan and Shandong. If this area cannot be reinforced, the embankment may collapse at any time during the summer rainstorm. "

Zhang Yutian asked in surprise, "Do you want to dig the Yellow River embankment?"

Gao Yuanmei gritted her teeth and said, "We have been cornered and have nowhere to go. We can only try to save ourselves. As long as the embankment of the Yellow River is dug in Lanyang, the Yellow River will burst and the water will flood Shandong, and the entire Caozhou Prefecture will become a mess." Heze, the rebels will be blocked, and the reason why the Yuyuan bandits are difficult to suppress is because they are covered by elm trees and have dug hundreds of miles of tunnels underground, extending in all directions. The garden, the tunnel where the thief hides, will become the place where the thief dies."

Both Zhang Yutian and Huang Dengxiao were stunned.

This is really a trick.

Li Huajing, together with the Yuyuan bandits, rebelled everywhere, attacked the city and plundered land, and would attack the capital of Caozhou at any time, but they had no soldiers to defend, and they had only one dead end.

But who knew that Gao Yuanmei, who managed the river, would be so ruthless that she would take the initiative to burst the embankment and flood the rebels.

After thinking about it carefully, I feel that this is a clever plan.

Although the Yellow River breaks its embankment, it will cause a huge disaster given the current situation of rainy and flooding in summer, but now I can't take care of myself, so how can I care about other things?

As long as he can save himself, he will be flooded.

Even the Yellow River was destroyed, and when Caozhou was flooded, the rebel army might collapse, and the capital city of Caozhou would be saved. Even the Yuyuan Tunnel, the base camp of the Yuyuan bandits, would be flooded with water.

"Is it easy to dig?"

Zhang Yutian asked, he wanted to use the river to retreat from the enemy, but he didn't want to take responsibility afterwards.

Gao Yuanmei looked at him and thought about the key.

"It's easy to dig. As long as you dig in the right place, you don't need many people, and you can dig it out quickly."

Zhang Yutian looked at his two colleagues, and now they were all grasshoppers on the same rope.

He lowered his voice, "Copper tile chambers are gathered in Henan Province, we can go there quietly, and then dig the embankment quietly, as long as we keep it a secret afterwards, who will know whether we broke the embankment or dug it artificially?"

As long as I don't say anything, I will borrow the water from the Yellow River to drive back the bandits and kill the enemy, and I won't be held responsible. After all, although Tongwaxiangji is close to Caozhou Prefecture, it is still in Henan, and Henan officials will be responsible for the investigation afterwards.

The three guys looked at each other, finally gritted their teeth and nodded.

Dead friends are not dead poor, in order to advance and retreat together, the three of them each sent their children and confidantes to Lanyang Tongwaxiang to secretly dig embankments.

A thunder exploded in the sky.

Bean-sized raindrops fell with a crash, becoming denser and denser.

As a river official, Gao Yuanmei used to be most afraid of heavy rain in this season, but now, he showed a smug smile, "God helped me, the heavy rain poured down, the river rose, and it was easier to dig the embankment. Once the embankment is breached, the river will become more turbulent, and Li Huajing and the Yuyuan thief will all be submerged by the flood and buried in the bottom of the water."

Zhang Yutian also showed joy on his face. At this time, as local officials, they only thought about how to defend the capital city of Caozhou, how to keep Wusha Dingdai, and how to get rid of the responsibility, but they didn't think about how big the damage would be if the Yellow River broke its embankment. disaster.

(End of this chapter)