On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Qingzhou City.

The wind and snow that lasted for half a month finally stopped today, and the long-lost sunshine showed a smiling face after the clouds dissipated. This makes Qingzhou City, which has been silent for a while, lively again, with pedestrians coming and going between the streets and alleys, and the shops of all sizes are even more colorful in front of them, and there is a festive celebration everywhere.

The local bandits in the three mountains are gone, the people are all running, and it is the New Year's Festival, everyone naturally wants to relax, put aside the hard work and worries of the past year, and enjoy this rare happy time.

Everyone also knows who got everything this hard-won, so whenever someone passes in front of the gate of the mansion in the east of the city, they will subconsciously stop and spontaneously salute Sun Dujian and say good New Year. Even if there is no one in front of the door at this time, it does not prevent everyone from making such a choice, because only in this way can they express their gratitude to Sun Tu in their hearts.

At this time, Sun Tu, who was loved by the people of the city, was really at home, and did not go to the military camp or the yamen to sit in the town. After all, the Chinese New Year, and now that the people in the government and the barracks are also on vacation, even if they are busy with official business, they can't miss these few days. And after the Shangyuan Festival, the eighteenth day of the first month is the day of Sun Tu and Ya'er's wedding, and he needs to prepare everything at home.

Although he resigned from the three media and six certificates because he didn't like restraint, there were still too many things to pay attention to at this time, and Sun Tu needed to participate in it, and he always had to know more, after all, he followed the local customs. And the most important thing is the accurate control of the time on the wedding day, which is a major event related to the luck of the newlyweds' lives, even Sun Tu does not dare to be too sloppy.

At this time, he was looking at the relevant time flow sent by Huang Wenbing with Ya'er, and saw that the two young men and women who didn't know anything about it were speechless: "This marriage is really complicated, and it is harder than me leading the army to fight......"

Ya'er blushed and snuggled in Sun Tu's arms, and nodded in agreement at this time: "Yes, we had to work from morning to night that day, Ya'er was really afraid that something would go wrong with her." ”

"Don't worry, with me, it will be fine." Sun Tu said, his eyes swept upward, looked at the specific date and hour above, and smiled a little helplessly: "This year has become the first year of Xuanhe again, so if you change the era name in a few years, won't the current official family feel trouble?" ”

Yes, after two years of Chonghe, I don't know if I feel that the two years are still not satisfactory, and the current emperor actually changed the name of the era to Xuanhe again. In fact, as early as July and August last year, the imperial court had already sent the relevant official documents to all the state capitals and counties in the world, but Sun Tu was not in charge before, so it was not until today that he noticed that the imperial court had changed the name of the year again.

For those who were accustomed to the fact that the later emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties had only one era name in their lifetime, and could even use the era name to refer to the current emperor, Sun Tu was quite unacceptable to Zhao Ji changing the era name so frequently.

After complaining about the change of the year name, Sun Tu hugged Ya'er again to delve into the details of the wedding day, and sighed in his heart, compared to the modern wedding of the later generations, it is more humane. Think about the so-called retro wedding of some colleagues and classmates in later generations, which is completely incomparable with the complicated ancient wedding, if they really let them follow the ancient rules, I am afraid that no couple will accept such a wedding.

While he was thinking wildly, the housekeeper came to the study and reported in a low voice: "Master, Governor Huang is out asking to see you." Although Huang Wenbing is only the temporary prefect, after more than a month, he has been recognized by the people of the whole city, so everyone also calls him Huang Prefect.

Sun Tu was a little strange, on the first day of the new year, Huang Wenbing had already come with others to celebrate the New Year, why did he come to the door again in a few days? Could it be that there was something wrong with him that he couldn't handle?

Ya'er got up very obediently and went back to the backyard, giving up the place to the man. After Sun Tu nodded and agreed, the housekeeper invited Huang Wenbing, who was in shock, into the study, and as soon as he saw Sun Tu, he hurriedly said: "Eunuch, something big has happened again." On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a sudden chaos in Jeju Province, and some Liangsan thieves attacked three Zhuangzi on Dulonggang at night, although they failed to break the village, but they also killed and injured many people......

"Huh? There is such a thing, you sit down and talk slowly. Sun Tu quickly raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and after he sat down, he said again: "How did you know about this?" "In this day and age, it is not so easy to transmit news, even if Jeju Qingju is only two or three hundred miles away, it is impossible for such things to spread so quickly.

"If you go back to the capital, it was because the Jeju government just sent someone to ask for help, and the lowly official only knew about this change." Huang Wenbing took a breath and said, "On Chinese New Year's Eve, the raid was not successful, and the Liangshan thieves besieged Zhujiazhuang, the leader of the three villages in Dulonggang, and their situation was precarious. And when the Jeju government sent soldiers and horses to the rescue, it was defeated by the ambush soldiers of Yangsanbo, and seeing that the thieves were powerful, the Jeju government asked for help from several surrounding state capitals. Now four or five days have passed, and I don't know if the Zhujiazhuang can keep it. ”

"Are you saying that Liang Shanbo and his gang attacked Zhujiazhuang?" Sun Tu hadn't taken it seriously before, but at this time he finally became solemn - did the three dozen Zhujiazhuang in the story still appear?

As an extremely famous war story in the legend of the Water Margin, Sun Tu is naturally very familiar. He even clearly remembered the big battle between Liangshan and Zhujiazhuang because Yang Xiong, Shixiu and Shi Qian stayed in Zhujiazhuang overnight, and Shi Qian stole chickens and claimed to be Liangshan heroes to anger the people in Zhuangzhong and others were arrested.

But now, Shi Qian is still serving as the captain of the scout battalion in the Qingzhou Army, and he has not stolen chickens and dogs as before, let alone run to Zhujiazhuang to provoke right and wrong, how can there be a matter of Zhujiazhuang where Liangshan sent troops to attack Zhujiazhuang?

Huang Wenbing saw Sun Tu's doubts, so he explained: "It is said that when Liangshan sent troops to save Erlongshan a few months ago, the back road was attacked by people sent by Dulonggang Sanzhuang, so there was a grudge. It's just that I didn't expect them to be so bold that they attacked Zhujiazhuang on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve and defeated the Jeju official army......"

"Is that what happened? In this way, Zhujiazhuang suffered this catastrophe because of my Qingzhou. Sun Tu said with a solemn face. In fact, if it weren't for the other party's attack from behind, I was afraid that Liangshanbo's men and horses would arrive at Erlong Mountain earlier, at that time he had not yet led the army to break through Erlong Mountain, and once the enemy was attacked on his back, it would be very bad.

Huang Wenbing nodded: "So in my humble opinion, other state capitals can ignore this matter, but I, Qingzhou, must help." In addition, this is also in line with the cooperation between the officers and soldiers of the Shandong prefecture and the government that you have implemented before, although no one has responded for the time being, but this matter is related to the safety of the Shandong prefecture, and we cannot sit idly by. ”

"That's right, that's especially crucial." Sun Tu also nodded thoughtfully: "If even our Qingzhou army refuses to send troops to rescue, then the so-called Shandong official and military alliance before will really become an empty word." ”

Huang Wenbing saw that Sun Tu had already made a decision, so he reminded again: "But after all, Liangshan is not comparable to a small cottage like Erlong Mountain, they are strong and strong, and they are waiting for work, we are afraid that it will not be so easy to defeat them." ”

Sun Tu knew why he said this, obviously because he was worried that he would be arrogant and arrogant after breaking the three mountains in a row, and he would suffer at the hands of the Liangshan thieves. He smiled and said, "I can naturally save this." For example, among the many thieves today, Liang Shanbo should be the leader in terms of strength, and I will not hold it up. By the way, can the person provide details of the current strength of both sides? ”

According to the investigation of the Jeju government, nearly 1,000 people were mobilized in Liangshanbo this time, and the three villages such as Zhujiazhuang together were less than 500 villages. Although the local terrain is complicated, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the situation is still not optimistic. Huang Wenbing said solemnly at this time: "So the capital eunuch, if you really want to relieve the siege of Dulonggang, you have to send troops as soon as possible." It's just that the road is blocked by snow now, and it's not easy to get there as soon as possible, especially if there are too many soldiers and horses......"

As soon as Sun Tu heard this, he unconsciously got up and paced around the room and thought about it. Yes, it is not easy to help Zhujiazhuang and them break the siege, especially once he really leads people to kill them with great fanfare, it will only scare the people of Liangshanbo away. But in this way, if they don't give up, they can wait for their own army to retreat and attack Zhujiazhuang again, and his soldiers and horses in Qingzhou can't stay in Jeju forever.

In addition, now that the heavy snow has just stopped, the road is blocked badly, and a small number of people can still find a road to pass.

"Let me think again, and then make up my mind. But you can reply to him, this time my Qingju Army will definitely think of solving Jeju's predicament! Sun Tu gave a promise.

As soon as Huang Wenbing left, Sun Tu called Lin Chong and all his generals to his home to discuss the matter. These people also have a very consistent attitude after knowing the cause and effect of the incident, thinking that they should indeed send troops to save Zhujiazhuang, but they are all at odds with each other, and they can't even come up with a strategy that can convince everyone.

Seeing that everyone kept talking about each word, Sun Tu didn't interrupt, and didn't speak until the end: "I thought that there were not many soldiers and horses to save Zhujiazhuang, so the newly recruited soldiers and horses could not be moved, only the elite were selected from the two battalions A and B, together with the men and horses of the scout battalion, one five hundred people was enough." ”

"Five hundred people......" Everyone looked at each other, obviously hesitating.

"It's not a death battle in the wild, as long as you can enter Zhuangzi, and then there are people from Zhujiazhuang to cooperate, are you afraid that you won't be able to win?" Sun Tu said with a smile: "In addition, I already have an idea of how to get to the local area, and now what we have to do is to gather all the carpenters in the city and help me make something." ”