Lord of the House

(The second update, arrived as scheduled, although I wanted to sleep when I wrote it)

In the early morning drizzle, the wet car curtains hung down heavily. Song Jia sat in the darkened compartment, listening to the sound of ruts running over the pavement paved with charcoal slag.

Wanting to lift the curtain to look at the man riding on the horse beside her, but afraid that her mind would be seen through by the goblin sitting opposite, Song Jia sighed softly, leaning against the wall of the car, with her cheeks against the cool siding—this is this. It is a delicate and luxurious carriage, with delicate wood texture, like human skin, and it also has a faint fragrance.

The carriage stopped, Song Jia lifted the curtains and looked outside, before reaching the ferry port. There were two boats approaching in the distance. Seeing Lin Fu looking over there, Song Jia thought to herself: Who do you want to wait for to go to Hecheng? ? When the boat docked, an old man with white hair and a white head locked his hands in iron cuffs, brought him ashore, and walked this way.

After seeing the old man's face clearly, Song Jiaduan was taken aback, what kind of old man, it was obviously Du Rong who killed Lin Bie at Meixi Lake last year! Lin Bie did not kill him, but imprisoned him. No wonder his body could not be found afterwards.

Du Rong hasn't turned 50 yet. When he met in Jiangning last year, he was still full of black hair. He didn't expect that he would be locked in Xisha Island for a year for Lin Fu, and his temples were already full of frost and snow.

"Du Rong sees the young lady?"

Song Jia saw that Du Rong came to salute and there was no strange expression on his face. He asked in surprise through the car window, "Dang Du knew that I was detained in Chongzhou?"

"Don't say it so ugly, when will I force you to come down?" Lin Bie rode on the horse and laughed.

Song Jia raised her head and glanced at Lin Fu, and felt that this look was ambiguous, which was inappropriate in Du Rong's eyes.

"Du Rong is confined to Xisha Island, and the envoy to Lin is generous, reads and writes, and knows something about what's going on outside," Du Rong said with a wry smile, "Envoy Lin also promises that no matter what happens with Jin'an in the future , Ten or eight years later, Du Rong will still be a free body, and he can also be an idle cloud and a lonely crane."

Song Jia listened to Du Rong, who was the sole leader of the She family, and sighed in her heart. She looked at Lin Fu and said, "I can understand that you used me to humiliate the She family; since the Du family has disappeared from the world for many years, why do you bother to put him again? drag in?"

"It's not about the envoy Lin Du," Du Rong said, shaking his head, "I told the envoy Lin Du to take the initiative to say that I would go to Hecheng."

Song Jia was slightly startled, seeing that Du Rong didn't look like he switched to Lin Fu, how could he help him go to Hecheng and say surrender?

At this time, a fast horse came from the west, stepped on mud and water, and handed an official letter to Lin Fu.

Song Jia can openly look at Lin Bing's stern profile, with the rain on her face, her temples sticking out of her pocket, and her brows are slightly wrinkled, with a calm demeanor, but she doesn't want to have any urgent matters. Send a quick ride to catch up and report.

"Shewenzhuang is a good method," Lin Fu handed the letter to Song Jia through the window, and said, "The She family divided troops in eastern Zhejiang to attack Xianxia Ridge. Ten years ago, the She family was blocked from Xianxia Pass and had to leave East Fujian. Entering the west of Zhejiang, but today we first seized the east of Zhejiang, and then detoured to the west of Zhejiang to seize the Xianxia Pass, which is a long-cherished wish for many years - I think there will be a strange army to attack Shanguan..."

East Fujian is separated from the mountains and mountains in the Central Plains. In addition to the detours by sea, one must go to Xianxia Mountain when entering Zhejiang West, and Shanguan Road must be taken when entering Jiangxi. The only way to enter East Fujian from the Central Plains is by land.

Eight surnames entered Fujian, and they took the two roads of Shanguan and Xianxiaguan. Down the Min River, through Shaowu, Jian'an (now Nanping City) to Jin'an (now Fuzhou City), it is the earliest developed area in East Fujian, and it is also the most developed area in East Fujian today.

When the She family raised the flag of rebellion, they went up against the Minjiang River, first occupying Jian'an and Shaowu, blocking Xianxia Pass, and Li Zhuo rose again at Shan Pass.

The She family surrendered and surrendered, and returned to Jin'an to be a fiefdom.

In order to suppress the extravagant family, the imperial court took Jian'an House on the upper reaches of the Minjiang River as the capital of East Fujian, and appointed a group of elites, led by Yu Wangao, the Admiral of East Fujian, known as the Jian'an Army. In the town of Shaowu, north of Jian'an, Lu Jingyan was the general to guard Shanguan and Xianxiaguan on the north side of Shaowu and on the northeast side, known as the Shaowu Army.

Last winter, Yue Lengqiu dispatched Shao Wu's army to the north of Qin Wang, Lu Jingyan died in battle, and more than ten thousand soldiers of Shao Wu's army were able to win over half of Yue Lengqiu and became Yue Lengqiu's direct line. The army was incorporated into the Jiangdong Zuo Army, leaving only the Jian'an Army under the command of Yu Wangao in East Fujian to deter the Shejia.

The She family's war in eastern Zhejiang has not yet been finalized, and they are not in a hurry to seek the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Hu area. Instead, they sent surprise troops to west Zhejiang to attack Xianxia Pass (Lin Fu guessed that there must be a surprise army to capture Shanguan), not for the long-cherished wish of many years, but It is to cut off the connection between the Jian'an Army led by Yu Wangao and Jiangxi and western Zhejiang, and trap them in the hinterland of East Fujian.

Jian'an Prefecture is a mountainous area. Only the alluvial plains in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River can be turned into fertile fields. The seven counties in one prefecture and Dingkou are not even as good as the county in Chongzhou, and the fertile fields are not as good as those in Chongzhou.

The 20,000 elites stationed in Jian'an were all brought in by land from Jiangxi and Western Zhejiang. Once Shanguan and Xianxiaguan were sealed off and the food source of the Jian'an army under Yu Wangao was cut off, they would be in a dangerous place, and they could not be expected to be able to deal with them. The Jinan luxury family directly used troops to ease the pressure on eastern Zhejiang.

Of course, if Zhejiang West, Jiangdong or Jiangxi can draw out their elite troops and attack them at the same time with Yu Wangao on the inside, and take back Xianxia Pass and Shan, the crisis facing the Jian'an Army will naturally be resolved and invisible - the key is Jiangxi, Jiangdong or Did Jiangxi and others draw out their elite troops in time?

Lin Fu became more and more certain that Jinan Prefecture, which had not reported from Tang for three days, had already fallen into chaos, but the road was blocked, and there was no definite news for a while.

The situation became more and more critical. Once Yu Wangao did not stand up to the pressure and saw that Shanguan and Xianxiaguan could not be recaptured, he gave up Jian'an and evacuated to the Quanzhang area in the south, then the luxury family would be able to connect northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang.

At this time, the mind and pattern of the luxury family were also revealed to the world.

Jin'an and Jian'an are places where there are few soldiers. After ten years of war, people's livelihood has been degraded, and they are no longer able to fight.

Although the two Zhejiang regions are also in the pattern of "seven mountains, one water and two fields", the two fields are concentrated in Minghui and Hangjiahu.

"Hangjiahu" refers to Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou. "Minghui" refers to Mingzhou Prefecture (Ningbo) and Kuaiji Prefecture (Shaoxing) on ​​the south bank of the Qianjiang River. Commerce and workshops are also very developed.

Now that the luxury family has acquired Mingzhou and Kuaiji, and if the northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang are integrated, it will be enough for the luxury family to recruit 100,000 elites to drink the Horse Qianjiang River and enter the Central Plains.

Song Jia leaned against the car window, read the letter carefully, sighed softly, and said, "The Song family is determined to protect themselves, so does your lord blame Song Bo?"

"I should be punished for slaughtering people for pirates," Lin Fu said with a smile. "It's okay to see each other on the battlefield. Whoever dies and who gets the sword, what's there to complain about? Du, what do you think?"

Du Rong smiled bitterly and did not answer Lin Bie's question.

If Yu Wangao really forced the She family to flee from Jian'an South, the eight surnames from East Fujian, including the Song family, who were both prosperous and decimated, would follow the She family to raise the flag of treason. It's a precedent.

Song Jia looked back and saw that apart from the horse team, there was a long line of infantry in the back. She knew that Lin Firong could not delay the situation in Chongzhou, and the people trapped in Hecheng would not surrender, and Lin Fu had no intention to work on the water mill. Yes, a strong attack is inevitable.

Xiaoman held his head quite excitedly, watching the majestic march of the army.

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In the cold rain in the early winter, the Jiangdong Zuo Army still maintained a relatively fast speed on the main road in Chongzhou, and rushed to Hecheng before dark to enter the camp to repair.

Lin Fu entered the Hecheng camp, and first met Zhang Yan, the salt and iron envoy who had been overseeing the army on the north bank for more than a month, and Mao Wenjing, the commander of the cavalry of the Salt Protection Army. Zhang Yan knew about the sudden uprising of the people on the Yellow River embankment.

All 300,000 people rebelled, with Ge Ping as the leader, and with the support of Chen Hansan leading the troops, they defeated the Pingji town army, who was in charge of repairing the river, and killed the governor-general, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, Chen Zhongnian, the minister of Jinan, and others. . The rebels captured Linqing and Jinan on the 23rd.

Due to the lack of communication, it took three days for the news to reach the south.

The leader of the rebel army, Ge Ping, proclaimed himself the Marshal of Tianao in Jinan, and the big bandit Chen Hansan was named the left guard of Tianao, and the 300,000 Yellow River rebels called themselves Tianao Army.

According to Jinan, Ge Ping led the Tianbao Central Army, claiming to attack Yanjing directly from the north and overthrow the imperial court. Puyang, Hebi...

Lin Fu was upset and had a simple exchange with Zhang Yan before returning to the south bank camp. In the current situation, he can only rest in Chongzhou, unable to manage the overall situation of the world.

In the past month, the Jiangdong Zuo Army has requisitioned civilians and prisoners serving prison sentences to reinforce trenches and walls outside the Hecheng Fortress. The normal number of workers has been maintained at more than 3,000.

Now, the trench wall has been built more than one zhang high and twelve feet thick. Cao Zi'ang even had people dug a brick kiln on the south bank and started laying green bricks on the outside of the trench. The four prismatic camps were embedded in the four corners of the moat wall to reinforce the overall structure of the moat wall, and at the same time, a small number of elites were stationed to supplement the villagers, which completely surrounded the two thousand bandits in the inner Hecheng Fortress.

Lin Fu was so troubled and invested so much that after the surrender of the Kou soldiers, he directly used the trench wall as the outer city wall of Hecheng, expanding the scale of Hecheng into a big city of 2,600 steps per week, and became the Jiangdong Left Army except Chongzhou. The biggest foundation outside.

"Let's all get ready," Lin Fu said. "Send the arrow book over and give them another day. If they don't drop tomorrow, they won't be allowed to drop again..."

Lin Fu spoke calmly, but his tone was extremely cold. His mood was disturbed by the sudden civil unrest in Jinan, and he wanted to kill.

Cao Zi'ang, Zhao Qingshan, Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu, Wang Chengfu, Hu Zhicheng and others all complied with their promises. Song Jia, Du Rong and others who were inconvenient to appear in public were also shocked when they heard it behind the screen. Du Rong stood up and said, "All If the envoy can believe me once, he will let me send the letter in, no need to send the arrow book..."

"Okay," Lin Fu said, "I don't bother to persuade surrender, so the Du family will go in directly. Tomorrow's twilight will be when I will attack the fortress and annihilate the enemy. Although the heads of the Donghai bandits are not as valuable as the Donglu, Jiangdong Zuo The army's record really needs two or three thousand heads to set off!"

"Then let me go too, I'll be more confident." Song Jia, who was wearing a scholar's blue shirt, also came out and said.

"You can't..." Lin Fu shook his head firmly.

Song Jia felt a little melancholy, so she stopped talking, thinking: Do you want me to take this risk? Then let me follow along for what? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter