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But in Yu Dacheng's dumbfounded, Song Xiance started talking slowly while crossing his arms.

"But it's not impossible to fight! First of all, Liu Zeqing said that there are 2 people. In our Dongjiang dialect, he is bragging! He has 5000 people!"

"Liu Zeqing is the commander-in-chief of Shandong! There are more than 7000 registered soldiers in Shandong!"

Fang Bingwen wanted to refute, but was greeted with a big yawn from Song Xiance.

"Deduct 5000 from Denglaidao, leaving 5000, and then remove the Jinan General Soldier, Dezhou General Soldier, Yanzhou General, Gaotang Guerrilla, these military leaders are not considered to be empty pay, and Liu Zeqing will be airborne when he is full. The total number of soldiers can be [-]! If you get rid of the mud-legged soldiers who plow the fields, look at the troops in his old nest and water transport, and calculate the court salary, he can mobilize about [-] people."

"Besides, why do you think they are all called Liao soldiers? Laozi are called Liao soldiers! The raw melon eggs he brought back from Liao Town is a fart? Not a fart! Dongjiang troops are stationed in Laixi County! I don't believe he, Liu Zeqing, dared to risk rebellion to attack the county seat!"

Suddenly, Song Xiance's voice suddenly became arrogant, and Yu Dacheng was taken aback by the aura. After a while, Governor Yu's face became gloomy, and he walked to the front of the sand table again, nodding heavily. .

"Evil can never prevail, so I don't believe it! He, Liu Zeqing, is really lawless! The governor's battalion is going to Laiyang, General Yang, your troops will be stationed in Zhaoyuan! Zhao Guerrilla, your troops will be deployed to defend Haiyang! If his surname Liu dares to On the contrary, Ben Fu will destroy him and eliminate this harm for the court!"

Several generals suddenly agreed, but Fang Bingwen's scholarly face turned gloomy.

Chapter 396. Clever Mistake

This year Shandong is really very lively. First there was a thieves, and then the general soldiers of Shandong met with the governor of Denglai, and their own people started to fight among themselves. It is rare that the disaster in Shandong this year is not serious, and man-made disasters occur again. It is really doubtful. Could it be? Is the Ming Dynasty really exhausted?

In the past two years, the economy has been better. Mao Jue learned from the later generations of Central Qitai, and directly signed a production contract with the local landlord. up.

This is the case with the stubborn disease that the Ming Dynasty is facing now. It is not just a natural disaster, but a combination of natural and man-made disasters. On the one hand, droughts and floods alternated during the Little Ice Age. No one cares about water conservancy and disaster relief, and no one organizes digging canals to collect water, which leads to a vicious circle. Farmers who had already reduced their production abandoned them one after another. The tax was added to the Baojia residents who did not flee, forcing the residents who did not flee to continue to flee.

In the north, there is no complete li, and there is no complete armor.

To be honest, it doesn't even require any high-level political means to cure this stubborn disease, just restore the traditional production method of Ming Dynasty.

With the profits from selling cotton to Dongjiang, the landowners in Denglai Road regained their enthusiasm for production, and they regrouped the refugees who had no land to grow. Food was needed to feed the population, and it was impossible to rely entirely on imports. The grain fields also slowly recovered. In order to obtain more economic benefits, the local officials gave some guidance, and these landowners took the initiative to repair the water facilities. In the past few years, Mao Jue did not manage Dengzhou. The state's economy has been revived, and in the official words of Ming Dynasty, the place is called prosperous.

But it is not a good thing to be rich in this place, which attracts wolves. This is the case in Laixi County. Dengzhou escaped from the war, and the tenants’ houses below had nothing to clean up. They fled in a panic with their babies on their backs and dragged their feet. Since the Dengzhou government ordered to escape the war, within two or three days, the county town was almost empty.

The only ones left here are only about [-] officers and soldiers.

These people are not the first regiment of Tieyi, they randomly pulled a guard unit and threw it here. In order to pretend to be a little bit, Wenmeng also bled profusely, so he ordered the spare new armor to be sent down, and passed through to experience a battle The old armor was given over to the soldiers of the Denglai Guard, and it was so far away that I really couldn't tell the difference.

But pretending to be invisible is the most deadly! Not to mention spare armor, many other troops don’t even have a set of armor. Seeing Wen Meng waved his hand carelessly, another [-] sets of cotton armor were brought out, Deng Lai said enviously. The other generals wanted to rob him, they were all soldiers, they cooked braised pork and eggplants every day, they ate like landlords, they had all kinds of equipment, and I was like a bastard like a beggar, it was so unfair!

The generals guarding here are also unexpected, literati, the most trusted master of Shaoxing around Yu Dacheng, Fang Bingwen!

To be honest, Liu Zeqing was playing with a lot of momentum, but it was just a bluff, Dengzhou City is there, would he dare to attack the city? Mao Jue didn't even dare to hit Ningyuan City directly. If he dared, his head would be caught by the door, and he would really be called a serious rebel.

The core of the entire Denglaidao battle is Wenmeng's No. [-] Tieyi regiment with less than a thousand people. Just like the special forces of later generations are enough to decide a war, only Wenmeng can control the thieves he sent. After Wen Meng was wiped out and there was a small-scale confrontation, since Dengzhou could no longer control him, Yu Dacheng naturally had to compromise with him.

As for whether Mao Jue could send the second regiment and the third regiment, Liu Zeqing did not believe it. What kind of virtue did these generals in the Ming Dynasty have? To wipe out the thieves led by his personal soldiers, it must be Dongjiang's personal soldiers. It is rare that Mao Jue's personal soldiers were not under the protection of the large corps, and destroying Wenmeng was tantamount to severely injuring Mao Dongjiang.

That's why Liu Zeqing claimed that [-] troops were coming, but a large-scale war could not be fought. His attack mode was to organize an elite commando team to come straight to Wenmeng, and beat him to the ground.

What he could think of, Song Xiance naturally thought of it too. Dengzhou's defense mode is to leave [-] fake Dongjiang troops here to bluff and deceive, and Wen Meng leads the real first regiment to lie in ambush at the collar of the Xiluan Tomb, waiting for Liu Bu's attack. As soon as the second "thief" army came to attack the city, it would explode his chrysanthemums in the back. If Liu Zeqing's elite army was wiped out, he would not be able to survive in Shandong.

However, no matter how subtle the conspiracy is, it is still called a conspiracy. Once it is exposed, it is useless.

Although it is a small town, Laixi County was also an ancient city built in the Song Dynasty. The peeling blue bricks are riddled with holes, revealing a sense of vicissitudes. The evening wind blows the bells on the turrets, and the tinkling is particularly poetic. , If you are a poet, it is estimated that some of them have a poem that has been passed down through the ages.

It's a pity that the only people on this city wall today are those with evil intentions.

Tombs and mausoleums in the west suddenly burst into flames. The fire soared to the sky, which was no less than that of thieves stealing houses and burning half of the sky red. Fierce screams could be heard vaguely.

Hearing this, Fang Bingwen's mustache couldn't help curling up. He stretched out his hand and brought the wine cup on the table to his mouth. He took a sip, and that's it for a couple of baijiu.

Beside him, there was also a general with slanted shoulders and a mustache. He was not a good person at first glance, and he was gasping for air, looking at the battlefield and shaking his head in distress.

"These more than 800 sets of new cotton armor! There are also those knives and flintlock guns. If they are sold to Henan and sold to those refugees, how much will they be worth! They are all cheap for the surname Liu!"

A master and a commander of guards, logically speaking, they can't beat each other, but the two of them seemed to have known each other for many years. They poured themselves another glass of wine, and Fang Bingwen picked it up with a wicked smile.

"Come on you boy, after this job is done, the surname Liu will at least give our men a hundred and eight taels. When the time comes, pay some tribute to Eunuch Liu, and the two of us will be transferred to Fusi, Nanzhen, Nanjing to visit Shu Now that the days are over, who is still drinking the northwest wind by the canal in this poor place."

Taking a sip, he drank the white wine again, dangling the white jade cup in front of his eyes, the little beard grinned, and Fang Bingwen snorted disdainfully.

"Qinhuai River, Nephrite is in my arms. On that day, I was drunk and dreamy, what is missing?"

The entire northwest of Shanxi has become a mess, and even the north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Empire is not a place for people to stay. The only place that is more comfortable seems to be Jiangnan. Thinking about that day, the faces of the two Jinyiwei spies seemed to be They all showed fascinated expressions.

At this time, the fire in Xiluanfen Ridge suddenly subsided again, the shouts of killing also gradually disappeared, and he didn't care about drinking anymore. Fang Bingwen threw down the jade cup, leaned on the wall and looked west, tsk-tsk in his mouth muttered.

"It's only half an hour, and this Dongjiang soldier is finished so quickly? What time is it now! Our agreement with the surname Liu seems to be Zishi?"

"Who cares! Come on, open the city gate, hurry over, maybe you can get something, those Dongjiang veteran soldiers have a lot of good things in their pockets, and they can't all be cheap for the surname Liu!"

Jin Yiwei, President Huqian of Bazihu, was really poor and frightened. He yelled, and he turned around and rushed down the city wall in a hurry. The soldiers of the Denglai guard ran out of the door after him.

He still felt something was wrong, but the mustache rushed out, so he could only hold up the hem of his robe and trot down the stairs, shouting as he ran.

"Wait! Wait, Lao Tzu!"

The ambush site should not be too far away from the main battlefield, otherwise the daylily will be cold when you come over, and after leaving the city gate and turning west, within a few minutes, hundreds of Rushan guards have already run to the bottom of Xiluanfen Ridge. At that time, the flames of war that had just ignited had not been extinguished, and there were scattered arrows and broken spears everywhere.

However! Not a single corpse, a piece of flesh, not a single drop of blood was seen! Among the tombs, the mountain wind whizzed past them, and the empty space was terrifying. These people seemed to be swallowed up by Yin soldiers.

"Isn't it! Hands and feet are so clean? Give it to me! Turn it over!"

Money is charming, how can we care about being weird at this time?The mustache jerked his arm upwards with the knife in his hand, shouting angrily.

Obviously feeling something was wrong, Fang Bingwen stretched out his hand as if to stop it, but unfortunately, he is not a general, and those guards still listen to his boss, and they are also anxious to find money. Then they climbed up Luanfen Ridge, searching impatiently here and there, with spears and knives in their hands digging at the buns in the graves, and some even cursed and searched behind the mountain.

The brigade went immediately, and they had no choice but to follow up to the ridge.But after all, playing the role of master has been a long time, and he has more eyes. Fang Bingwen watched those soldiers rummaging around, he was like sitting on pins and needles, his heart was anxious as if he was frying in a frying pan.

He obviously knew that there was a ghost, but he didn't know what the hell was going on. For a smart person like him, it was a torment.

The ancient Greek philosopher Thales often watched the sky at night when he was young, but he didn't care about his feet. He once fell into a big pit because of his fascination, and was ridiculed by passers-by. The person who was looking left and right didn't notice his feet. There were graves everywhere on the mountain. He stumbled and stumbled on the rocks. He staggered back and let him sit hard on the ground.

However, just like the plot in Conan, inadvertently, his head fell into the air, looking at the full moon, Fang Bingwen slapped his forehead suddenly.

"I understand!"

"Old Li, what do you understand? Where did these Dongjiang dogs go?"

All of a sudden, he became excited, tugging at Fang Bingwen's sleeves, and his mustache asked impatiently. However, with a sad smile, Fang Bingwen asked questions that were not answered.

"Old Zhao, what time do we agree with Liu that he will send someone to kill those Dongjiang dogs?"

"Zi Shi! What's the matter?"

Raising his head, Fang Bingwen pointed to the moon in the sky.