Chapter Twenty-Nine: Luring the Serpent Out of the Hole

In the county office, a team of officials walked into the side hall with the last stack of account books.

The audit has been carried out for four days, and it is gradually coming to an end, and so far, no problems have been found, which is precisely what Yang Yuanqing is most worried about.

At this time, an old imperial historian stepped forward with a list and said to Yang Yuanqing: "Envoy, this is the final verification result. ”

Yang Yuanqing took the list and looked at it, all the twelve imperial historians signed on it, and the evaluation was on the top, this is the best evaluation.

"Have you ever been spot-checked in kind?"

"Returning to the envoy, I went to check yesterday, and the money, grain, cloth and silk were counted one by one, which was completely consistent with the accounts, and the grain error was twenty stones, which is a normal error."

Yang Yuanqing glanced at the other imperial histories, the verification had ended, and the imperial histories were busy sorting out their own records, and everyone had to write a report, and finally Yang Yuanqing summarized it and reported it to the saint together with everyone's report.

"Alright! The final report will be written by you, and if it is correct, I will sign it. ”

The old Yushi nodded and went to write a report, Yang Yuanqing walked to the disaster relief document and picked up a thick disaster relief record, which is the disaster relief record of the county government, which has the detailed name and address of each disaster relief object, as well as the handprint, you can randomly check more than 100 people and check the specific amount of food, which is a relatively strict disaster relief record inventory.

Yang Yuanqing picked up a list of disaster relief records in Zhangqiu County, and it was different at first glance, there was only one person's name, and there was no address or age, and then it was crookedly printed with handprints, most of which were blurred.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, Zhang Xutuo himself was innocent, but he couldn't guarantee that the county below would be as clean as him, he beckoned, "Everyone come here!" ”

Twelve imperial histories all came up, Yang Yuanqing spread out two different inventories on the table, and said to everyone: "When writing the report, try to be as detailed as possible to each official, such as the county government, the disaster relief procedures are complete and strict, the county can give a review, and Zhangqiu County has an imperfect record, and the county government can only give a middle evaluation, but in the end, when it is summarized, we are targeting Qi County, not the county government, so the imperfection of the county is dragging its feet, Qi County can not give a review, and in the end can only give a middle comment, and write out the problems I said." ，”

The twelve imperial historians agreed together, and they all went separately to revise it, at this time, a soldier saluted Yang Yuanqing at the door, Yang Yuanqing walked out quickly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"General, Captain Qin, please come over, there is an emergency at the head of Dongcheng."

"I see!" Yang Yuanqing gave a few more commands, turned around and walked out of the county office.

The street is noisy, people come and go, very lively, more than 200,000 people have poured into Licheng County, and temporary tents can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, although they seem very crowded, they are not messy, and from time to time there are patrolling soldiers walking on the street, and the order is good.

From these details, it can be seen that Zhang Xutuo has managed well, and there is no open space in the city, almost all of the open space is planted with vegetables, melons, beans and grain, and even in the narrow alleys, there are a few melon vines and a few pumpkins, and the fear of food has been deeply rooted in everyone's heart.

Yang Yuanqing went to the city, and Qin Qiong had been waiting for him at the head of the city for a long time.

"Have you finished harvesting the wheat outside the city?" Yang Yuanqing walked to the women's wall and asked with a smile, he looked out, and saw that a large wheat field had been harvested, and there were still a few wheat fields against the wall that had not been harvested, and hundreds of people were struggling to harvest in the wheat field.

"Yuanqing, I just received the news from Tanma that more than 35,000 thieves from Changbai Mountain have come down the mountain at night, and they are killing Licheng County, only fifty miles away from Licheng County."

Qin Qiong had a serious expression on his face, he looked into the distance, and there was a nervousness in his eyes that could not be concealed.

Yang Yuanqing was stunned, turned around and asked, "What about my master?" Where are his soldiers? ”

"To be honest, I don't know. ，”

Qin Qiong sighed, "Now there are only five hundred troops in the city, and I am very worried about the safety of the city. ”

"But there are 200,000 people in the city, you don't have to worry at all, didn't you mobilize 30,000 young people to go outside the city to cut wheat? Organize them to defend the city, and tell them that if the city is breached, their wives and daughters will be taken captive by thieves, and I believe they will defend the city to the death. ”

Qin Qiong smiled bitterly with some shame, "You're right, I'm a little too nervous, I'll arrange it!" ”

Qin Qiong turned around and walked towards the city, and heard his shout coming from a distance, "Go and find the Ma County Order, and Li Sima will also invite you, I have important matters to discuss with them." ”

Yang Yuanqing looked out of the city, and his heart was also full of expectations, if Zhang Xutuo could defeat Wang Bo in this battle, then he would have the capital to deal with Yu Shiji.

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On the official road east of Licheng County, the boundless Changbai Mountain thieves are rushing towards Licheng County, in the team, from time to time there are thieves on horseback who will shout loudly, urging the march, this team has more than 35,000 people, led by Wang Bo and Meng Rang personally, only 5,000 people are left in the cottage to pretend to be virtual soldiers, attracting the attention of Zhang Xutuo's army, more than 35,000 thieves are disorganized, and the weapons are also extremely crude, self-made knives, spears, and hoes, wooden sticks, simple bows and arrows.

At this time, most of the thieves and soldiers looked at them with excitement, as if they could capture Licheng County in one fell swoop, burn and loot on a large scale, the daughters of large families, the ladies of the official masters, these women who are usually out of reach, will also become their palms.

But there are also some thieves who have the hope of capturing Licheng County, and maybe they can find their lost wives and daughters.

"Fifteen miles to go!"

Wang Bo shouted loudly: "Everyone work hard, go to Licheng County for dinner!" ”

Wang Bo is also very unsure, although there are only 500 defenders in Licheng County, but there are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, once mobilized, he may not be able to capture the city, he is more hopeful on the wheat field outside the city, but he is worried that the wheat field has been harvested.

The serious problem of food shortage has driven him crazy, when he started an incident last year, he was eager to recruit more than 100,000 people, and after he really recruited tens of thousands of people, he found that things were not as simple as he thought, the peasants came to him in order to have enough to eat, but the grain was in the hands of the government, in order to feed tens of thousands of subordinates, he tried his best every day, far less than when he only had 100 subordinates.

Wang Bo has realized that he has made a great mistake, he should not have rebelled in Qi County, there is a Zhang Xutuo in Qi County, who will suppress him to death, he should go to Lu County or Pengcheng County to develop.

Just as he was thinking a lot, a spy rushed from the front, "General! The spy shouted anxiously.

Wang Bo restrained his horse, and the spies' anxiety gave him a sense of foreboding.

"What's going on?"

"Report to the general, the grain outside the city has been harvested, and we are too late!"

Wang Bo opened his mouth wide, this news was like a slap in the face, he was stunned, and he suddenly realized that Meng Rang's words were right, it was not that he was late, but that Zhang Xutuo was leading him down the mountain at all.

He looked back abruptly, then, Zhang Xutuo's main force should follow behind him, he was waiting for him to attack the city, and then attack from behind.

Wang Bo tensed up every muscle in his body, although Zhang Xutuo's strength was only 4,000, he knew very well in his heart that Zhang Xutuo's 4,000 people were enough to defeat his own 35,000 people.

Wang Bo left sweat on his forehead, he nervously thought about the way to retreat, Zhang Xutuo was behind him, he couldn't retreat back from Changbai Mountain, did he really go to attack the city?

"General!"

Meng Rang chased after him from behind, and when he saw that Wang Bo's expression was wrong, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Virtuous brother!"

Wang Bo sighed and said ashamedly: "Sure enough, you said that the grain outside the city has been harvested, Zhang Xutuo is just to lure us out, I regret that I shouldn't have listened to you." ”

"Big brother, don't say that, we are also running out of food and grass, otherwise you wouldn't have gone down the mountain."

"Hey!"

Wang Bo smiled bitterly and said, "That virtuous brother said, what should we do now?" You have more vision than the foolish brother, you can get an idea! ”

Meng Rang pondered for a moment and said: "I have three strategies, the eldest brother can choose one of them, the best policy is to leave Qi County immediately, move to the south, and go to the south to develop; The middle strategy is to fight with Zhang Xutuo, and if he is defeated, he will go to the south; The next step is to return to Changbai Mountain. ”

Wang Bo thought about it painfully for a long time, he was afraid of Zhang Xutuo from the bottom of his heart, he would rather flee than fight with Zhang Xutuo, but he knew in his heart that the food in his hand was about to be cut off, where could he flee to?

He let out a long sigh, "There is no food in Changbai Mountain, and it is death to go back, and the next policy is not taken, and although the upper policy has a glimmer of life, but I have ten times the strength of the officers and soldiers, but I fled without a fight, and spread it to the world. ”

Wang Bo and Meng Rang discussed for a while, the dry food could only support a day and a half, and the two agreed to fight with Zhang Xutuo's army, and the 35,000 troops did not kill Licheng County, but camped on the spot, waiting to fight with Zhang Xutuo's main force.

Zhang Xutuo's main force was indeed thirty miles behind them, and at this time, he had received the news that the other party stopped halfway, and he immediately ordered, "The whole army stops and camps on the spot!" ”

The team stopped, and Luo Shixin rushed forward and asked, "Master, why did you stop when the fighter plane arrived?" ”

Zhang Xutuo shook his head and scolded with a smile: "You brave and unscrupulous guy, is this the arrival of the fighter?" Now Wang Meng and the others are in a hurry to fight me, why should I fight him? ”

Luo Shixin scratched his head and smiled: "It's the brothers who are in a hurry to fight, urging me to ask the master." ”

"No matter how anxious you are to fight, you have to endure it, now the biggest enemy of the thieves is not us, but themselves, they have no baggage, each of them only brings a little dry food, seeing that the food is about to be cut off, at most two days, they will be in chaos without a fight, at that time, I can completely defeat them in a battle."

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