Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 122 Aftershock (6)

Early in the morning, when everyone was still asleep, rows of soldiers were already standing in the barracks in Cangzhou City.As soon as the horn sounded, the army of 3000 troops began to flow slowly, heading for the outside of Cangzhou City.

After the army left, the gates of the city were closed, and people from outside could not come in. The villagers who went to the city to go to the market were shut down one by one.If the people inside want to go out, yes, there is a basket hanging from the city wall, and you can take the "elevator" down.

In the city of Cangzhou, there is a street called Cangnan Street.It is not far after entering the city gate. If you go further in, you will find the governor's mansion after a winding road for a mile.At this time, Cangnan Street was piled up with a lot of fodder.This is the horse grass collected by Xu Qing from various places. For the convenience of transportation, it is piled up on both sides of the street, almost all the way.

Wang Shan led five teams of state soldiers, that is, 750 people, as the front army, and the newly promoted Yingzheng Chujiang also led five teams each as the left and right troops. The cavalry counts as the center army.The number of the Chinese army is smaller, but with the cavalry leading the formation, the combat effectiveness is the strongest.

If I use a metaphor, it would be that more than 2000 people like Xu Qing rushed towards Haixing County like a storm.Whether it was aristocratic families or ordinary people, almost all believed that Xu Qing had led troops to rescue Haixing County, and he had done his best.There is only one person who doesn't believe it, and that person is Huang Shimei.

In Haixing County, Wang Yi's body was originally placed in a coffin for people to mourn.But on the contrary, Wang Yi was lying next to the coffin, singing and dancing, pushing and changing cups, so happy.

"Magistrate Lu, oh, no, no, it's time to call Magistrate Lu, magistrate Lu, please drink up this cup..." A rich old man said with a smile.The county magistrate Lu he was talking about was naturally Lu Jing.After Wang Yi's death, he, the county magistrate, acted as the county magistrate.

Lu Jing was very pleased with the title "Magistrate Lu", and suppressed his secret joy.Shaking his head, he replied respectfully, "No, no, outsiders please..."

"Together..." The fat old man took a sip, very happy.That annoying Wang Yi finally died, and the deputy county magistrate was a very sensible person, and all the families in Haixing County breathed a sigh of relief.What is even more gratifying is that the equally annoying Governor Xu is about to die.

After drinking a cup, singing and dancing began. Someone asked Lu Jing, "What is the plan of County Magistrate Lu in the future?"

"What other plan do you have, spend your old age in Haixing'an..." Lu Jing stroked his beard, said so on the lips, but said in his heart: Such a small county can afford me?When I have earned enough money, I will turn around and go to Chang'an, no, Luoyang, just donate an official position.

After hearing this, all the people present said, "It's the best."

"Come on, let's make it clear for Magistrate Lu..."

"drink!"

After the wine was half drunk, a young servant brought a letter. Lu Jing took it to read, and unfolded it to the people present. It said that Xu Qing led troops to Haixing for support. Death, one step closer!"

"Hahaha, I've waited for a hundred years to dress up, how could he be able to shake the slightest?" The fat old man sneered.

Everyone listened, and they all agreed: "That's right, the mantis is like a car, and you can't think of yourself..."

No one knew that Wang Yi in the coffin would not die with peace...

Wang Yi's death was not at all the work of bandits.

The thing is like this, because Wang Yi just offended his boss, he was demoted eight thousand miles to Haixing County as a county magistrate.When Wang Yi arrived, he immediately realized that the biggest harm in Haixing and even Hebei was the aristocratic family, so he began to reform some bad rules tacitly set by the aristocratic family.

Haixing County was poor, and the power of the aristocratic family was not strong, so his reforms did not encounter particularly obvious resistance.Since Wang Yi is only a county magistrate, he has little power, and his boss is still from a family, so Haixing and other families are just disobedient to Wang Yiyang.Until the governor of Cangzhou appeared and Xu Qing came...

Wang Yi was greatly encouraged by Xu Qing's decrees and measures, and stepped up the process of reform. The family of Haixing County was very depressed, but they couldn't resist, so they found the county magistrate of Haixing County, Lu Jing, who was also depressed.

Since Lu Jing was demoted, he has been frustrated repeatedly.He used to be a speech officer, and he was the best at finding seams on eggs, but he didn't know anything about mundane affairs, and he was even more upset to have such an upright and strict boss like Wang Yi.

After coming and going, and the cause and effect, Wang Yi got involved with the local forces in Haixing.When Xu Qing made a big fuss in Cangzhou City and the entire Cangzhou family was upset with Xu Qing, they planned a plan of "tune the tiger away from the mountain and draw the bottom line".

First organize private soldiers to besiege Haixing, then assassinate Wang Yi, in order to lure Xu Qing to lead his troops, defeat Xu Qing with an ambush, and another team controls Cangzhou City.

In this way, Lu Jing became the county magistrate and began to make money, and the family members also got rid of their confidantes, getting the best of both worlds.

Wang Yi died tragically, and Xu Qing was on the way to his tragic death, as if everything was planned... But Lu Jing was still worried, just like before the girls came to the aunt, there was a strange feeling that something was wrong.

Don't worry, Lu Jing stopped the banquet and personally went to the pass where the ambush was buried to check.

The ambush soldiers were all private soldiers raised by the aristocratic family, both in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment, they were somewhat stronger than the bandits that Xu Qing had exterminated before.But they also have a fatal flaw, that is, they are divided internally and do not trust each other.The reasons for the lack of mutual trust are, firstly, because there are grievances between the aristocratic families, and secondly, because there is no leader who can suppress the conflicts.If there is no high degree of mutual trust between comrades-in-arms, what else can we talk about hand in hand?

These private soldiers looked powerful because Xu Qing, a tiger, was here. If Xu Qing, a tiger, left, the conflict between them would be further intensified.Usually they stayed on the top of the mountain and scolded each other in the air, but now that they meet each other, can they just scold each other?
For this, Xu Qing planned to come up with a chain plan.

The scouts of the family ambush collected the movements of Xu Qing's troops and sent them to Lu Jing, who anxiously analyzed the information.Walking around in the ambush with a sword, there is quite a heroic spirit of a literati with martial arts.A piece of information came to Lu Jing:
"Officers and soldiers set up camp thirty miles before"

Lu Jing frowned, looking at the sky in disbelief, it wasn't too late, why did he set up camp?Puzzled in my heart, I just thought Xu Qing was being cautious and didn't dare to move forward rashly.He ordered his subordinates to step up their guard and continue to investigate.

What Lu Jing didn't know was that two meals were cooked in Xu Qing's barracks, one was eaten, and the other was buried in a pot to heat up...

Another group of private soldiers from the family has also quietly entered the territory of Cang County, and it takes only eight hours to get to Cangzhou City.This pair of private soldiers is obviously more united. The leader of the soldiers is actually the eldest son of the Xia family, Xia Hao...

The Xia family is one of the three major families, and its eldest son leads the way, and its deterrent power is self-evident, so it is reasonable that this group of private soldiers are relatively honest.Originally, Xia Hao, as the legitimate son of the Xia family, was not allowed to participate in this. If he failed, there would be a final veil, wouldn't he?But Xia Hao couldn't bear to cry, make trouble and hang himself three times. He stayed at home obediently for a month, and his wings were already itchy, so the Xia family sent him here.

Xia Hao took a look at the team he led, admiring himself for a while, and thought that I, Xia Hao, deserved to be the number one in Hebei, my writing was not bad, and my martial arts, as soon as I came.

"Uncle Zhang, I think it's quite easy to lead troops..." Xia Hao said cheerfully.

This Uncle Zhang is a veteran sent by the Xia family to assist Xia Hao.After hearing Xia Hao's words, he felt disdainful in his heart, but nodded on the face: "The young master is very talented, in the future Wen Chengwu will not be a problem..."

Xia Hao laughed loudly after hearing this: "Hahaha, Uncle Zhang is an honest person, unlike others who say that I am number one in the world, I am good at appearance...how can I be so good?"

Uncle Zhang was sweating profusely, and replied: "It's a bit untrue to be number one in the world. After all, you haven't compared with them, right? Hebei's number one is for sure..."

"Well, that's right, next time I'm going to visit the world and compete with everyone in the world!" The bold words Xia Hao said made others think he was a man of great ability.After hearing this, Uncle Zhang had nothing to say, and he didn't dare to offend, he just said: "Master, the forest is dense in front, I'll go check it out."

Xia Hao looked in front of him, there was no dense forest, it was just a dirt slope, he was puzzled when he saw Uncle Zhang Yiqi Juechen leaving only a back view.No matter how stupid Xia Hao was, he understood what Uncle Zhang meant, and a disgusted expression appeared on his face.But in an instant, it was replaced by an obscene expression, and he murmured:

"This Xu Qing is really lucky... tsk tsk tsk, especially this kid is very lucky, his wife, his maidservant, that little sister, ouch, the taste is delicious, I don't know he has enjoyed it all A few times. By the way, there is also the strong man named Niu next to him! Tsk tsk tsk..."

Xia Hao turned out to be a master of both men and women!Just listen to him say again:

"It doesn't matter. Today, my son, I will try one by one. No, I will try all three... I have been holding back for a month, and today I want to regain my glory!"

After finishing speaking, Xia Hao took out a small bottle from his sleeve, and the evil smile on his face became even worse.

Xia Hao went straight to Cangzhou City with a total of 2000 people.At five o'clock, in the middle of the night, Xia Hao was only seven miles away from Cangzhou City. Uncle Zhang called him to stop:

"Master, we have been marching for so long, let's take a rest..."

Xia Hao didn't feel tired at all, and returned: "Take a break? Cangzhou City is right in front of you, what are you doing for a rest, keep walking..."

Uncle Zhang knew that Xia Hao was an idiot, so he explained, "It's night and we're close to Cangzhou City, so I'm afraid of ambush..."

Xia Hao remained stubborn: "There are no more than 300 people left behind in Cangzhou City. What am I going to use to ambush us? Hurry to Cangzhou City and attack the city immediately!"

Seeing that it was useless to say the truth, Uncle Zhang played the emotional card again: "Master, it's not good, brothers are all tired, are you ready..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Xia Hao spat out:

"Hey, what brothers, you guys are my dogs, you dare to call me brothers, attack the city immediately!"

Although it was the conversation between Uncle Zhang and Xia Hao, many people still heard it, and many people started whispering. Uncle Zhang suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice:
"Master!"

Seeing that Uncle Zhang still wanted to talk, Xia Hao used his ultimate nirvana: "You still dare to disobey the order, have you forgotten the power of my Xia family?!"

"Okay, attack the city..." Uncle Zhang had no choice but to agree because he didn't dare to offend the Xia family.He thought, this time it should work, after all, there are only a few hundred people in the city, even if the casualties are a little higher... Sigh, people don't think of me as a human being!After finishing the work this time, I must leave this place of right and wrong and go far away. Anyway, I have a lot of savings...

Xia Hao planned to attack Cangzhou City overnight, but Lu Jing received a shocking piece of information:

"The officers and soldiers disappeared, leaving an empty battalion!"

(End of this chapter)