The heavy rain overnight washed the air in Qingzhou City exceptionally fresh, even if it was only July and the weather had not yet cooled, the people standing in front of the city gate today did not feel too hot. At this time, outside the west gate of Qingzhou, two groups of people were clearly lined up around the city gate, on one side were the government officials headed by Murong Yanchao, and on the other side was Sun Tu with more than 100 soldiers.

Although the two sides are separated by a distance, the atmosphere is still a little tense, especially on the side of the government, many officials are glaring at these soldiers with resentment, because they can't pounce on them and cut them a few times to get angry.

This is not only because during this period of time, under the leadership of Sun Tu, the Xiangjun has robbed a lot of the rights of the government office, and even let them spit out all the military salaries and other things that they had embezzled before, but also because recently Sun Tu has advocated letting the people under him bring up the old things again, suing a cadre of officials in the government office, and for this reason, many people have been taken into the military camp and severely rectified, so that they will not only suffer hardship, but also lose face.

Originally, after receiving blows one after another, these government officials had already recognized the facts, and even the Murong prefect could only swallow his anger against Shangsun Tu, so what else could they do? But this time, since there was a transfer envoy from this road to send someone to come, they felt that they had a chance to turn over, so they were naturally full of resentment when they met them at the gate of the city with the Xiang army today, and they just wanted to take this opportunity to take revenge.

Yes, these two groups of people appeared here at the West Gate today, waiting for the grain transport team sent by the upcoming transshipment envoy. And the purpose of both sides is also very clear, that is, to take these grains into their own hands.

Sun Tu is naturally in order to no longer be controlled by others, after all, he is really not interested in going to the yamen every once in a while to ask for money and food, and he doesn't get as much as they are greedy for ink - you must know that according to the regulations of the imperial court, there should be no less than 3,000 troops in Qingzhou, and the imperial court also distributes military rations according to this. But before, the military rations that Sun Tu obtained from the government were only based on the thousands of people in the camp now, so in the end, more than half of the money and grain were still obtained by them.

As for Murong Yanchao, in the case of continuous defeats, if he wants to win back a city, he can only take the military rations into his own hands again. And he also plans to truthfully report everything that happened here to the people of Shangguan Yamen, no matter how bold he is, he will not dare to force all these many horse officials to stay!

It is with this kind of thought in mind that Murong Yanchao's momentum today is quite not low, and when he met Sun Tu's gaze from afar, he also carried a provocative intent, which was a look in his eyes that he had not seen since he was scared back from the barracks.

Just when the two sides waited for half a day with their own luck, a puff of smoke and dust suddenly rose from a distance on the official road in front of them, and then a team came slowly, just looking at the banner of the transfer envoy yamen in front of the head, the two people in front of the city gate immediately shook their spirits, and Murong Yanchao hurriedly smiled and led the crowd to meet him.

Seeing that Sun Tu didn't mean to step forward to greet him, Tang Feng, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but be a little anxious: "The capital prison ......"

Sun Tu smiled calmly: "Don't be impatient, the success or failure of this matter does not depend on who sees Shangguan first, why should you lower your identity?" ”

This is reasonable, if it was placed in the past, Murong Yanchao would not have stepped forward to greet him in such a hurry, I am afraid that even the gate of the palace may not be able to welcome him out. After all, it was not the transfer envoy of the road who came, but just an official under him, compared to the Murong Prefect, who had a backer in the court and was the head of a government, the status was not half a star. He had no other way to make such a choice today.

And an official at the front of the team over there couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw Murong Yanchao, the prefect, leading the crowd to greet him, and hurriedly rode his horse and walked two steps quickly, until he came to the other party, and then turned over and dismounted neatly, and asked with his fists in his fists: "Is it the prefect of Qingzhou Murong in front?" It's really scary that the lower officials came here to let you go out of the city to greet you! "I already bowed down as I spoke.

And Murong Yanchao was a little stunned, didn't he come today with Qin Lu, the deputy envoy for transport, who had dealt with him several times before and had a good relationship? But he still regained his composure in a blink of an eye, and replied with a smile: "This official is serious, you have worked tirelessly to escort money and food for my Qingzhou, and it is natural for this official to lead his subordinate officials out of the city to greet me as the prefect of Qingzhou." I don't know who the official is......"

"The subordinate official Cao transferred the account to the subordinate official Wang Ping." This person hurriedly reported his official name, he was actually only an eight-rank military attaché, which made Murong Yanchao even more unhappy in his heart, and he was a little too polite this time. But since everything has been done, he can't regret it anymore, so he smiled and said: "It turned out to be Wang Tishi, you have come from afar to really work hard, please go into the city first to drink a glass of water and wine, this official has set up a banquet in the city." ”

The two chatted and exchanged pleasantries, but their feet did not stop, and soon they came to the city gate. At this time, Sun Tu took a step forward, hugged his fist at Wang Ping and said, "Sun Tu, the official Qingzhou Metropolitan Supervisor, has seen a bad trip. ”

As soon as Wang Ping heard that he had reported to his home, he hurriedly smiled in return, and after reporting his official name, he added: "Xia Guan has also heard of Sun Dujian in Tokyo before Jingdong Road, and all kinds of contributions made in Jiangzhou are really thunderous." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." When Sun Tu smiled and greeted him, Murong Yanchao's heart sank suddenly, this time the chief officer of the grain was a military general, which had already made him worried, and now seeing that the other party was still so familiar with Sun Tu, it made him even more nervous, and immediately smiled and said: "Sun Dujian is indeed very capable in training military horses, and even this official is very important to him." But it is better not to go into detail about these things here, and it is not too late for us to go into the city and sit down and talk about it slowly. Moreover, these sergeants who escorted grain and grass must have worked hard when they came from afar, so let them send the money and grain to the government treasury first, and then make the next arrangement. "Two purposes, he must accomplish one as soon as possible.

Sun Tu sneered in his heart, but he had already opened his mouth before Wang Ping answered: "Hey, Murong Prefect's words are wrong, since everyone is working hard, how can I bear to let these brothers continue to work hard to send food into the city?" In my opinion, it is better to hand over the food to my brother in the army, and the other brothers will go into the city to rest. ”

As soon as they met with the people of the Yamen, the two sides had already fought for control of the grain. Wang Ping obviously didn't expect to encounter such a disagreement, and swept over the two Qingzhou civil and military chiefs in front of him with solemn expressions with a slight surprise, and after a while, he already understood something.

"This Sun Tu is really just like Tong Shuai said, he is a young man with courage and ability. Unexpectedly, he had only been in Qingzhou for a few days, and he had already been able to compete with Murong Yanchao, who had been operating here for many years. Wang Ping seemed to be hesitating, but in fact, he had already made a decision.

Because he originally came to Qingzhou on the order of Tong Guan, otherwise it would be Qin Lu, the original deputy envoy for transport, who came here today.

After crossing the river and demolishing the bridge to send Sun Tu to Qingzhou, Tong Guan was actually a little unsure. Sun Tu is certainly a little capable, but Qingzhou has no foundation for him after all, and with such a strong prefect as Murong Yanchao in charge, he is really afraid that this young man who he is optimistic about will suffer a big loss here, and even put his life on the line.

So when there was no news from there after a month or two, Tong Guan simply used his connections to send Wang Ping, who belonged to his own camp, to Qingzhou to find out. And the latter was also worried about Sun Tu's current situation, but it wasn't until he saw the battle in front of him that he was a little surprised to understand that Sun Tu was really capable and had actually established a firm foothold in Qingzhou.

Since everyone belonged to the same Tong Guan camp, Wang Ping naturally wanted to help Sun Tu, so he quickly bowed his hand to Sun Tu and said: "Since Sun Dujian has the intention to make the brothers easier, then the lower official will thank you first." It's just that there is a lot of money and food ......" said and looked at the hundreds of soldiers behind Sun Tu, and then looked back at the hundreds of truckloads of grain behind him, obviously the amount was not equal.

Murong Yanchao's face had become iron blue at this time, did he actually get such a result in exchange for giving the other party so much before? But before he could say anything, Sun Tu had already smiled and said, "This is not a problem. Tang Feng——"

The latter immediately understood, quickly turned around and came to the city gate, and gave a slam whistle, and immediately hundreds of sergeants and soldiers marched out of the city gate in a neat procession, and then stood straight in front of everyone.

A chilling aura of slaughter suddenly rushed over, not to mention Wang Ping and them, even Murong Yanchao and other government officials who had learned the strength of the Xiang Army were also uneasy, and a few of them even took a few steps back unconsciously.

It's only been more than half a month, and the original rabble-like van army has actually been trained by Sun Tu to be decent. This realization made their hearts sink even more, and Murong Yanchao wanted to say a few more words, but he was speechless at this time.

It was only then that he knew that Sun Tu had already made preparations, and maybe once he got Wang Ping's permission to get the food, he would have to let people snatch it. After suffering a big loss in several confrontations with Sun Tu, Murong Yanchao really didn't think that the other party was so bold.

Wang Ping's eyes swept back and forth on the bodies of the majestic Qingzhou Army, and finally he couldn't help but sigh: "Sun Dujian is really a master of military training, and the lower officials really admire him." In this case, I beg you to bring someone to receive it. Originally, his task was to deliver the military rations to Qingzhou safely, and it didn't matter whether it was handed over to the prefect's yamen or the local garrison.

Sun Tu smiled with satisfaction, with just one look, Tang Feng had already given the order, and then those sergeants were all full of enthusiasm and quickly pushed the wheelbarrows full of money and grain to the west gate of Qingzhou.

This year's money and food in the army have all fallen into the hands of Sun Tu, and even the last hole card of the prefect's yamen has been snatched by him!