Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhiji turned around and walked towards the county government.

Li Xin had no choice but to let a few soldiers come over and search him, to check whether he was acceptable.

When he arrived at the county government office, Zhang Zhiji looked at Li Xin who had been escorted over, waved off the escorted soldiers, and asked, "After all, why did you have a conflict with the Marquis's soldiers?"

Li Xin smiled wryly and said, "The students came in after climbing over the city wall in the middle of the night. It's just that they didn't expect to encounter the sergeant sent by Lord Hou to patrol as soon as they entered the city. That's why there was a conflict."

Zhang Zhiji glanced at Xu Mingde, the endless sarcasm in his eyes made Xu Mingde blush, and said embarrassingly: "It's the lower official's dereliction of duty, Lord Hou forgive me."

Zhang Zhiji said with a smile: "I'm sorry if I don't forgive you. I'm not the head of the army in the former Tang Dynasty, so I can't control you. Otherwise, your head has already hung on the city gate."

Although Li Xin can be regarded as capable of writing and martial arts, he was still confused by the conversation between the two.

Zhang Zhiji didn't care about this, he just ordered loudly: "Come on! Send someone to take over the patrolling of the city wall, and let those yamen servants go back to sleep. Give Xiaotong twenty sticks from a hundred households and tell him that he won't show up again." In this case, I want his head!"

In just one sentence, three orders were issued in a row. After the soldiers took the order and left, Zhang Zhiji looked at Li Xin: "Don't tell Benhou that you came in over the wall empty-handed. What kind of thing did you use? Son, take it out."

Li Xin just smiled, and took out a flying claw from the package behind him, and said in a dazed way: "It's nothing else, it's just that the students found it from Jin Yiwei who died in Pushui. Thanks to this thing, Students can be lucky enough to be Xiaotong."

Seeing that it was just an ordinary flying claw, Zhang Zhiji lost interest, and just asked: "Then what happened to Wang Er and Wang Mingyu, and how did you know, let's talk about it."

Li Xin clasped his hands and said, "Back to Lord Hou, the students were originally visiting friends in Baishui County, but they suddenly heard that Wang Er had rebelled, and Baishui's city defense was far worse than Xiaotong's, and it fell within a day.

It's just that although Wang Er destroyed the county seat, he only killed the county magistrate's family and didn't disturb the people much.

The students took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the city. When they arrived in Pucheng, they didn't expect that Wang Er's rebels would arrive in the blink of an eye.

Only this time, Wang Er's rebels were completely different from the style they had in Baishui. They not only killed officials, but also plundered wealthy households in the city to pay for the army.

The student used the name of a scholar to chat with Wang Mingyu when he was on the first street.

Then Wang Mingyu saw that the students were quite knowledgeable, so she tried her best to invite the students to join him, and said that she wanted to discuss major issues with the students.

The student pretended to agree at that time, but that night he used this flying claw to escape from the city wall of Pucheng and fled all the way to Xiaotong.The original plan was to rest at Xiaotong for a night, and set off for Lantian tomorrow, but he never thought that he would directly encounter Lord Hou's army. "

Zhang Zhiji patiently listened to Li Xin's explanation of the cause and effect, and then continued: "Then how do you say that Wang Mingyu's plan is bigger?"

Li Dao said: "Master Hou, the students looked through the history books and found that if ordinary disaster victims rebelled, most of them just looted to get enough to eat. As for the others, most of them didn't think much about it.

But this Wang Mingyu was different, she was quite ambitious in her words, she wanted to go northeast to attack Chengcheng, and then go all the way north to meet Gao Yingxiang, and form an alliance of three families.

And judging from what he said, most likely he wanted to fight for the leader.But now that Wang Er is still there, how can he win?

That's why the students said that Wang Er might not be dead soon.If Wang Mingyu is allowed to make the trip, most of Shaanxi will be ruined. "

Zhang Zhiji knew what kind of leader Wang Er wanted to send his army northward to compete with Gao Yingxiang. He even knew that Wang Er planned to make things bigger first and then go to Tang Wang. He just didn't know that there was Wang Mingyu who wanted to usurp power. thing.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Zhiji said: "In this case, you can go with my army, and you can plan and plan for me along the way."

One sentence stumped Li Xin.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Zhiji still couldn't trust himself, otherwise he wouldn't have said that and wanted to tie himself up in the army.

It's just that the situation is stronger than people, and now I can't help but disagree.The whole of Ming Dynasty knew that Emperor Chongzhen trusted this Lord Hou very much. Let alone a scholar with no power or power, no matter how big his family's background was, how could he be bigger than the backer of Lord Hou?

In desperation, Li Xin had no choice but to surrender.

In the evening of the next day, the army marched all the way, but they arrived behind a hillside more than ten li outside Pucheng.

Li Xin, who had been closely watched by others, followed Zhang Zhiji, cupped his hands and said, "I want to report to the Marquis, it's Pucheng now. It's just that the situation in the city is not clear now, and the students don't know whether the thieves have retreated. "

Zhang Zhiji hummed, and asked the general banner of the Jinyiwei who was following him, "Can you contact the Jinyiwei in Pucheng?"

The General Banner of the Jinyiwei gritted his teeth and said, "Master Hou, the Jinyiwei in the city must either be dead or have someone turn to the enemy. But as long as these rebels are still in Pucheng, the humble official will be sure to contact them." Hidden pile.

It's just that if the news gets out, the hidden stake has the risk of losing his head. Therefore, if Hou Ye must use the hidden stake, he needs to explain it to the admiral afterwards. "

Zhang Zhiji hummed, and ordered: "Send someone into the city to have a look at night, and if the bandits have not retreated, ask about the situation in the city.

If the culprit retreats, ask where the culprit has gone, the number of people and the situation of food and grass to see if you can find out clearly.

As for the hidden stake, Ben Hou will naturally explain it to your admiral. "

Hearing the words, Jinyiwei General Banner cupped his hands and then stepped aside, like a wooden man, and stopped talking.

Li Xin interjected, "Master Hou, why didn't you just send an army to besiege the city?"

Zhang Zhiji glanced at Li Xin, and said with a sneer, "The army is besieging the city? If the rebel army retreats, it's okay. If the rebel army has not retreated and the army besieges the city, what will the people in the city do?"

Li Xin was suffocated when he heard the words, cupped his hands and said, "Could it be impossible to attack the city directly?"

However, Zhang Zhiji said with a smile: "Siege the city? If the rebels force the people to defend the city, what do you think I will attack? Don't these people who have already suffered disasters not die at the hands of the rebels, but will die in this city?" Hou's hands? Will His Majesty spare this Hou?"

Li Xin said in disbelief: "Don't you, Lord Hou, be kind and not command soldiers? If the bandits run away, wouldn't it be a greater disaster? The students think that Lord Hou should not be kind to a woman."

Zhang Zhiji smiled and said: "You know what! What kind of woman's benevolence, no matter what, the Tartars on the grassland are better than this rebel army? The heads of the people killed by this Hou when His Majesty marched northward on the grasslands are rolling, How can you care about this mere rebel army?

As long as the rebels leave the city, the Marquis will be able to kill almost all of them. Even if they escape, how many can they escape? "

After finishing speaking, ignoring Li Xin who was stunned, Zhang Zhiji directly ordered: "Everyone find a place to rest first, don't cook with fire, just eat some dry food."

The ten thousand soldiers led by Zhang Zhiji were all veterans who had been to the grasslands. Not to mention being unable to light a fire and cook, they had endured even the hardest days.

Before Xu time passed, the General Banner of Jinyiwei, who had been with the army, rushed back in a hurry.

Seeing the solemn expression of the general flag, Zhang Zhiji also asked seriously: "How is the situation in the city?"

Jin Yiwei General Banner cupped his hands and said, "My lord, the rebels are still in the city at this time.

Zheng Wu, the county magistrate of Pucheng County, set himself on fire when the city was broken. The county lieutenant and the general banner of Jinyiwei in Pucheng died in battle. The chief secretary and county magistrate were killed after surrendering.

There were a total of six well-known wealthy families in Pucheng. One family was killed, and all the silver and food in the family were looted by the rebels.

As for the other five families, more than 1 shi of grain was also extorted by the rebels, and now they are all sent to the rebel camp.

According to the hidden posts who have been lying in ambush, there are about [-] rebel soldiers in the city now, and they will leave the city tomorrow and march towards Chengcheng.It's just that someone among the rebels proposed to coerce the people of Pucheng to go together. "

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Li Xin again, and then continued: "The person who suggested it is exactly the Wang Mingyu that this little brother said.

As for Wang Mingyu, she has read some books and has deep thoughts. Now she not only wants to survive, but wants to compete in the world. "

But Zhang Zhiji sneered and said: "Competing for the world? The toad yawned in such a loud tone! A mere place in northern Shaanxi wants to bring disaster to Daming? Do you really think His Majesty has a good temper?"

After pondering for a while, Zhang Zhiji then ordered to the many officers beside him: "Pass on Benhou's order, divide the troops into two groups, set off with Benhou on the one side, and go around Pucheng to lay an ambush. As for the other route, stay behind Here, after the rebels leave the city for twenty miles, cut off the road between the rebels and Pucheng."

Chapter 242 Your Majesty has an order to order you to surrender (4-character chapter)

The panting scout didn't care about his horsepower, ran all the way back, cupped his hands at Zhang Zhiji and said, "Report to Lord Marquis, the rebels are already five miles away."