1,500 soldiers and horses were stationed in Fu'an County, temporarily stationed on the empty school field in the west of the city, and Fang Zhizhong, the commander of the army, and several captains were invited to stay at the Yin Hotel by the order of Xu County. Early the next morning, Xu Xianling took several visitors to ask for a meeting.

The visiting squire Shen Qingcai and his wife in Fu'an County can let the county magistrate accompany him, which shows that this Shen squire has an extraordinary background. After taking a seat, I learned from the introduction of Xu County Ling that Shen Qingcai's grandfather had done Lingzhou Assassination, and his father was also a six-grade official.

The Shen family is rich, and Fu'an County alone is a three-percent industry belonging to the Shen family, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land outside the city.

"General Fang, the Shen family has more than 400 hectares of rice fields in the north of the city, and the rice is ripe now, but the bandit army is going south, and Lord Xu ordered to close the door to prevent thieves, so it has not been harvested. It happened that the general led his troops to settle in, which was really like a long drought and rain, and Shen took the liberty of asking the general to send troops to escort him and let the Shen family harvest the rice. Shen Qingcai stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, speaking slowly and logically.

Shen Qing is only forty years old, but he looks like he has just passed the year, with a face like a crown of jade, three black beards, and elegance. Fang Zhizhong smiled and said: "The prince sent Fang to protect the people, Shen Yuanwai rest assured, I will send five hundred men and horses to protect you to collect grain." ”

Shen Qingcai said with a smile: "Thank you, general, Shen is willing to donate 30% of the harvested grain for the relief of refugees." "Even if 400 hectares of land yields one stone per mu, there are 40,000 stones, and thirty percent is 12,000 stones.

Fang Zhizhong stood up and bowed to Shen Qingcai: "Benevolence and righteousness outside the staff, Fang Mou thanked the people for his kindness." ”

Sitting quietly on the side, Mrs. Shen opened her mouth and said with a smile: "General Fang, we still have something to do with it. ”

This Mrs. Shen is picturesque and very beautiful, and it is inconvenient to take a second look at it when she sees the ceremony. Listening to Mrs. Shen's words at this moment, she responded: "Shu Fang is clumsy, and he doesn't remember meeting his wife." ”

Mrs. Shen covered her mouth with a fan and smiled: "I don't know the general, but when I mention a general, I know that Lord Jiang Anyi Jiang is the general's brother-in-law, I met Lord Jiang when I was young, his friend Lin Yizhen is my second brother-in-law, I am in the Lin family, and Lord Jiang called me Lin Fifth Sister back then." ”

Fang Zhizhong came to his senses, he had heard Jiang Anyi mention his friend Lin Yizhen when he was studying, he went to Pingshan Town to visit his godmother a few years ago, and he heard that Jiang Anyi and Lin Yizhen were married to their children, and this relationship is really not far away.

Seeing each other again, the relationship between them was much closer, and after chatting a few words of gossip, Fang Zhizhong said: "Tomorrow, I will personally lead the army to guard the Shen family to collect grain." ”

The next day, Fang Zhizhong led 500 officers and soldiers out of the city, behind him was a long queue, finally opened the city gate, and there was the protection of the officials and soldiers, the people in the city took this opportunity to go out of the city to harvest grain, the Shen family's team followed Fang Zhizhong's side, to Fang Zhizhong's surprise, it was Mrs. Shen who presided over the grain collection. Lin Wumei explained with a smile: "The clumsy husband doesn't count, in previous years, the concubines went to preside over the grain collection. ”

The fields of the Shen family are more than 30 miles away from the city, hundreds of hectares are connected, and the wind turns the rice waves and the waves are golden, which is very gratifying in the eyes. Fang Zhizhong scattered five hundred soldiers to garrison at a high place, and collected grain from his own tenants and hired farmers, of course Mrs. Shen would not stand on the hill to supervise the collection of grain, the Shen family had a farm nearby, and Lin Wumei invited Fang Zhizhong to the farm to rest.

Lin Wumei just followed Fang Zhizhong to the farm when she was sucking, and returned to the city that day, while Fang Zhizhong stayed in the farm. The harvested grain is constantly brought into the farm, and in early July, when the sun is shining, the freshly harvested rice has to be dried before it can be put into the warehouse. Four hundred hectares of land, more than 3,000 people worked for seven days in a row, and Fang Zhizhong also asked half of his subordinates to help harvest it, so he barely harvested seventy percent.

On 9 July, Mrs. Shen's carriage appeared at the farm again, accompanied by hundreds of carts, this time to prepare to bag the dried rice and transport it to the city.

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It has been four days since the bald man went out of the camp with 1,500 people, and everyone who should have enjoyed it has been enjoyed, but he only grabbed a few hundred stones of food promised to Cao Ye, which is too far away, and it is not easy to go back.

Looking at his subordinates smiling and smiling, his bags bulging, the bald man scolded: "You boys are happy, Lao Tzu can't grab the food and go back to Cao Ye's military stick, when Cao Ye beats me with a stick, I will whip you two." They don't just think about robbing things and harming women, they think about where the fuck are they going to find food. ”

A new recruit approached and said: "Bald master, not far ahead is Fu'an County, there is a rich man surnamed Shen in Fu'an County, his family has hundreds of hectares of land, and it is estimated that he can collect at least forty or fifty thousand stone of grain." ”

"Oh, you kid will tell you in detail." Bald Road. In the evening, the bald man knew about the situation in Fu'an County, and the court sent 1,500 people to garrison Fu'an County, and the Shen family was harvesting grain these days, and Fu'an County sent 500 officers and soldiers to protect them. Tanma reported that the Shen family's farm had more than 20,000 stone of grain stored.

After defeating Ma Chenguang's army of 20,000, Rao Qiangfeng's bandit army had no fear of officers and soldiers, and raged all the way in Fangzhou, the officers and soldiers hid in the city and did not dare to go out.

"Stay in the camp for me tonight, eat and sleep well, and tomorrow the bald master will take you to grab food."

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The sentry spotted the bandits who appeared ten miles away and reported it to Fang Zhizhong in the farm. Fang Zhizhong stood up and comforted Mrs. Shen, who was a little pale, and said, "Madam, don't worry, Fang Mou will go to meet the enemy." ”

On the horse to carry the stick, Fang Zhizhong felt full of strength, from the town of Beiying back to Anyang Mansion for three years, except for Wei Mengqiang on weekdays to "fight iron", there is almost no chance to shoot, today the stick in his hand is going to be happy. Among the officers and soldiers who came to guard with him, there were two hundred palace guards, and the remaining three hundred were government soldiers, Fang Zhizhong looked at those palace soldiers and the frightened people, scurrying around, and ordered: "All the people enter the village, the government soldiers are defending outside the village wall, and the palace soldiers follow me forward and set up a formation to meet the enemy." ”

Although there were few 200 people, they stood like pillars, arranged neatly, and the cold and shining swords and guns were murderous under the scorching sun, and in the eyes of those soldiers and the people, the worried hearts were much calmer. Fang Zhizhong immediately carried an iron rod at the front of the team, and the smoke and dust rose on the official road, and the bandits came.

The first thing that caught the eye was the flying cyan Feibiao flag, which was the flag of the official army, and it was really nondescript to be held in the hands of the bandits. Fang Zhizhong subconsciously squinted, although he didn't know Ma Chenguang, he belonged to his colleagues, and this humiliation was also his own.

The bald man did not walk in front of the team, but stopped at a high place to look at the farm a few miles away, and the first thing he saw was the 200 officers and soldiers lined up neatly outside the farm, the bald man pouted, and those officers and soldiers who took refuge also taught them to stand in line, but if they stood neatly, could they fight, so many brothers under his command hugged forward, and these officers and soldiers were scared to the point of urine.

The bald man in his heart urged the horse to rush to the front of the team, he was going to say a few words to the general who rode the horse in the front, not all the generals on both sides before the war were played, and the generals of both sides had to report their surnames by name, Lao Tzu wanted to use the mouth of the official army to promote his name, don't always call himself a bald man.

Fang Zhizhong saw the bandit army separated left and right, and several horsemen rushed out of the ranks, and the most eye-catching thing was the big bald head that was shining with oil. Fang Zhizhong rode his horse forward to meet him, the bald man reined in the horse, and shouted at Fang Zhizhong, who was rushing over: "Come and get your name." ”

Fang Zhizhong raised the iron rod in his hand and smashed it towards the oily head, the bald man was shocked, why didn't he act according to the play, he raised the iron gun in his hand in a panic and threw it out, the stick smashed on the iron gun, smashed the iron gun into an arc, the stick did not decrease and fell on the bald head, with a shattering sound, red and white splashed, like a raw egg being crushed. In the end, he didn't report his name and surname, and the bald man thought regretfully before he died.

The bald corpse had not yet fallen off the horse, Fang Zhizhong's hand stick swept the rider on the left, the rider was so frightened that he hurriedly rode his horse to dodge, dodged a little slower, the stick was swept around the waist, and was immediately slapped from the horse and flew up, Fang Zhizhong no longer paid attention, let go of the machete split on the right side, the stick was handed over to the left hand, the right hand was clenched into a fist, a white wave went straight to the opponent's horse's head, the horse neighed, collapsed to the ground, and the rider fell to the ground. Fang Zhizhong led the horse, the horse's hooves were raised, and he stepped heavily on the man's chest, blood splashed, and the man was out of breath when he saw it.

In the blink of an eye, Fang Zhizhong killed three people in a row, and they were all bandit generals, those bandits were a little stupid, this general of the court should not be possessed by King Kong, and the Arhat should go down to earth. Fang Zhizhong raised the stick in his hand, and the two hundred palace guards behind him understood his intentions, and shouted in unison to kill forward.

The bandit army was a little dazed, the three generals of the unified army all died on the ground, who would command the group to fight, Fang Zhizhong could not care about the bandit army looking around, the iron rod in his hand was wheeled, like a huge wave, it was dead and rubbed and injured, and before the bandit army came to his senses, the two hundred palace guards rushed to the ground, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and the bandit army scattered and fled. Three hundred soldiers can't fight a tough battle, who can't fight a good battle and grab credit, the captain who led the army greeted loudly, "Brothers, kill thieves with me." ”

After more than an hour of chasing and defeating, only more than 100 of the 1,500 soldiers led by the bald man escaped, and the rest either died or became prisoners. Fang Zhizhong led the victorious army to escort more than 700 prisoners back to the farm, and when he saw the farm, Mrs. Shen greeted him with a smile and a wine, and when Fang Zhizhong approached, he shouted in a coquettish voice: "General Fang wins more with less, breaks the thief army with a big deal, and makes great contributions, and the concubine is the first to congratulate the general." General Fang, please drink three cups of victory wine. ”

On July 12, Cao Chengduo learned of the defeat and death of the bald soldiers, and led an army of 3,500 bandits to Fu'an County to avenge him. In Fu'an County, the war has resumed again.

On July 15, Fang Zhizhong led 500 officers and soldiers of the palace to rush straight to the camp of the bandit army, Fang Zhizhong was unstoppable, directly killed through the enemy camp and then turned back to kill back, so that the two bandit army were defeated, Cao Chengduo died in the defeat and escape at the hands of Fang Zhizhong, and only more than 1,000 people of the 5,000 bandit army of the department crossed the river and fled, and the military disaster in Renzhou was temporarily resolved.