After re-embarking on the road, Li Xin once found Zhou Yanru's second butler, Zhou Fu, and proposed that now that the siege of Dongchang had been lifted, he could immediately send Gu Pingyu to lead troops to follow him to protect Zhou Yanru first. Unexpectedly, Zhou Fu shook his head and said again and again that since the Marquis of Zhenyu had already gone on the road, he would not dare to work with General Gu again. Of course, this is just a superficial statement, and Li Xinyan can not know that the reason why Zhou Fu is not in a hurry to set off to the south is all because he was frightened by the thieves of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution in Dongchang. Now that there is such a question, it is just to have an explanation for it, so as to save the villain from complaining about it again at that time, so that Zhou Yanru will hold a grudge against himself.

Li Xin and his entourage went south along the river, but due to the rain and snow for several days, the road was muddy, and the speed of travel on the road was slower than that of the big ships in the canal. In order not to break away from the escort army, the five large ships slowed down and walked side by side. As a result, even what Li Xin said before could not be done in three days and 100 miles. But finally all the way safe, after leaving Dongchang Mansion to reach the boundary of a large lake, the soldiers on the shore rescued several fugitives from Henan, and under the inquiry, there was a person who had been the chief secretary of Yucheng County, Guide Prefecture.

Niu Jinsong immediately felt that this person must be useful to the general, so he took him on the ship.

Sure enough, the chief bookkeeper of Yucheng County, Guide Mansion, told the first-hand news brought by Guide Mansion. All the previous news, they learned from the refugees who fled to the north along the way, but although it was first-hand information, it was definitely not good news.

The county chief secretary wept bitterly after seeing Li Xin, "The marquis of Zhenzhen, Li Cheng and the fifth battalion of Gezuo joined forces to attack the city in Shangqiu, Guide Mansion, Suiyang, Ningling, and Xiayi fell one after another, and Shangqiu was besieged in only three days before it was breached......"

Speaking of which, even Niu Jinsong heard some of the doubts.

"Slowly, slowly... Didn't Li Zicheng have Yang, and the Yang Pavilion Department was holding him back, why did he hit Guide Mansion? Yang Gebu just sat back and ignored? ”

The master hurriedly explained: "This, this, it's not because of Xiong Butang, who keeps saying that he is impregnable in De, and it turned out to be such a catastrophe, after Yang Gebu knew the truth, even if he wanted to come to the rescue, it was too late." ”

The face of the chief bookkeeper turned indignant, "Speaking of this, if it weren't for Xiong Butang's insistence on recruiting the fifth battalion of Gezuo in Yinghuo Mountain, he wouldn't have been defeated and died... It was Yang Zhuoran who instigated the ministry to recruit the thieves, and he personally went to Yinghuo Mountain, everyone only said that this matter was a spectrum, who would have thought that the thieves of the fifth battalion of Gezuo were just false and wrong, and after the surrender, the army of Li Cheng suddenly broke out, and Xiong Butang was powerless to return to the sky even if he had three heads and six arms, and in the end, he finally ended up with this end..."

The face of the master book was even more excited and resentful, Li Xin sighed for a while when he heard it, Xiong Wencan actually died in the hands of Li Zicheng, so it's okay, after all, it is better to be honored after death than to be beheaded and robbed. So, sometimes, it's not necessarily better to be alive than dead. For example, Yang Sichang in Kaifeng City, after this incident, even if Zhu Youzhen trusts him again, I am afraid that he will be disappointed in him because of this, so what he is about to face next is to accept the emperor's thunderous anger, after all, not to mention the loss of the teacher, but also the death of a governor. This time he was in a big deal, and he couldn't find any reason to get away with it.

Yang Sichang has been targeting Li Xin, and he will want to get rid of him quickly, but after Li Xin made the judgment that this person was about to be unlucky, he couldn't even feel a sense of schadenfreude. Xiong Wencan's death meant the complete failure of Yang Sichang's strategy to suppress thieves in the Central Plains, and it was also the complete failure of the Ming Dynasty's strategy to suppress thieves in the Central Plains. In this way, will the situation in the Central Plains not be corrupted? This conclusion made him shiver at once.

"The Yang Pavilion Department can't rescue in time, so it's time to recover the Guide Mansion, right?" Li Xin's judgment is that Yang Sichang has always been cautious, so his troops are still worthy of a battle, so under the full attack, Li Zicheng may not be able to withstand it.

"It's been recovered, but it's no different from losing it?"

"I said, can you change your statement of squeezing your intestines, if you have something to say in one go, how long will this make me anxious?" Niu Jinsong listened to what he said, and he looked down on the fugitives of the defeated army, and urged him mercilessly.

"Does the general know the habits of thieves after breaking the city?" This rhetorical question made Niu Jinsong shiver inexplicably, how could he not know the notoriety of thieves.

"It may not be necessary to kill it, but it will definitely rob it and burn it all. There are countless people who have lost their families as a result..."At this point, the chief bookkeeper fell to the ground and wept bitterly.

Since the Linqing Dynasty went south, the name of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution has appeared frequently, and their appearance in Shandong is really related to the fall of Guide Mansion. According to the description of the master book, Li Xin pinched his fingers and counted the next day, and the Erhe Department of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution was withdrawn from Dongchang Mansion around the time of the capture of Guide Mansion. This is even more incredible, after the victory of Guide, they should have taken advantage of the victory to expand the results of the battle, how could they quietly withdraw their troops?

Niu Jinsong was quick to speak, "No... As the main book said, the day when Guide Mansion was broken by thieves was the day when Dongchang Mansion was relieved, and He Yilong and He Jin were clean, such an ......abnormality"

"That's right, that's right..."The master hurriedly continued Niu Jinsong's words, but Niu Jinsong was even more puzzled, how abnormal was right? This time he didn't ask, just looked at the master book and waited for him to explain.

Li Zicheng and the Fifth Battalion of the Left Side of the Revolution had just joined forces to defeat the Guide Mansion, and there was an internal strife because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, Li Zicheng relied on the people in the Guide Mansion to return the horses of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Movement and drove them back to Yinghuo Mountain, and finally Li Zicheng was driven out of the Guide Mansion by the Yang Pavilion Department.

It turns out that since Guide has been recovered by Yang Sichang, the threat along the Grand Canal should also be lifted. But the master book may have to be silent, not shocking, and dying.

"The Yang Pavilion Department defeated the thieves in the Guide Mansion, and led the soldiers to Kaifeng to sit in the town, and many of the thieves who had fled returned to the Guide Mansion. At present, the Guide Mansion is no longer under my Da Ming control. If the marquis goes further south, he may encounter a large number of thieves. The sinner saw that there were only 3,000 soldiers in the town, and he was afraid of unforeseen danger once he encountered it......"

What he saw and heard along the way, although Li Xin had the intention to fight the thief, he lacked the ability, there were only 3,000 people around him, and the artillery and cavalry were sandwiched together, in addition to having someone to protect Zhang Fangyan, how many people could he come up with. The thieves in the Central Plains gathered together by tens of thousands, and even if they went, they were afraid that they would be difficult to match.

Li Xin took the master book and ordered the land soldiers to speed up the march and must rush to Nanjing as soon as possible, even if they were recruiting soldiers in Nanzhili, it was not impossible to go north to attack the thieves. After making up his mind, even if the march was accelerated, it would take several days before he could reach Jining Prefecture.

After the ship arrived in Jining Prefecture, the wharf was already full of people, and it was Jining Zhizhou who had already learned in advance that the fleet of Zhang Fangyan and Li Xin and his party was about to arrive, and they waited at the wharf early in the morning, waited for three hours, and finally did not fail, and waited for the dignified old man and the marquis.

"Xiaguan Jining Zhizhou Yan Binglie is waiting for the old town of the Pavilion to come..."

Zhang Fangyan stepped on the boat and asked: "The old man heard that thieves continue to attack both sides of the Grand Canal, and the rumors seem to be untrue when I see them today." Yan Zhizhou, have you ever been a thief here? ”

In fact, Li Xin had already received a report from the scouts before the big ship entered the wharf, and he had encountered more than ten official and military rangers before and after, and after approaching the wharf, there were thousands of local soldiers lined up to be on guard. It's just that if this Yan Binglie thinks that this kind of defense can block the thief's blow, it is a dream.

Yan Binglie wiped his face and replied truthfully: "It's not a secret, in order to welcome the elder and the marquis, the lower officials have already sent out all the soap soldiers in Jining City who can be sent out, fortunately, the thieves did not attack today, and disturbed ......" However, Zhang Fangyan found that Yan Binglie, the governor of Jining, had a stiff face, and seemed to have a great intention of swallowing. It's just that Yan Binglie didn't say it, so Zhang Fangyan didn't ask, just waiting for him to take the initiative to talk about it.

After entering the city, Yan Binglie finally talked to Zhang Fangyan and Li Xin alone before he officially said, "There were a lot of people just now, so I can't say more for the sake of the stability of the army." In fact, the shì of the lower shape of the eyes is far more strict than what the lower official said before. To tell you the truth, yesterday, yesterday the spies reported that the thieves, the thieves have surrounded Xuzhou..."

Li Xin and Zhang Fangyan were stunned, originally they marched in a hurry along the way, in order to avoid fighting with the thieves, but the thieves still blocked their way south.

"Please also ask the elder and the Hou Ye not to keep it secret, otherwise the news will spread, and I don't know how many families will be left in Jining Prefecture in Xiaguan, and they will have to leave their hometowns for refuge..."

Zhang Fangyan agreed that such military secrets should naturally be kept strictly secret. Li Xin sneered: "Yan Zhizhou thinks too much, how can such a big thing be hidden?" In a few days, the refugees from Xuzhou came in a big way, how can you hide it? Instead of blocking the news from the people, it is better to publish some news in a controlled manner, stabilize the place, and recruit the people to save themselves and resist the thieves..."

"Yes, yes, yes... What Master Hou taught was..."

Although Yan Binglie agreed, as soon as he turned his face and went out, he still strictly abided by the news and closed the city gate to prohibit entry and exit. In just two days, some people in the city were already dissatisfied with the policy of closing the door. Under the successive protests, Yan Binglie had no choice but to make concessions and open the door for half an hour a day. But only this half an hour was enough, and the news that Xuzhou was besieged by bandits spread throughout the city almost overnight, and the wealthy families in the city were horrified and began to plan to leave the city for refuge.

Yan Binglie, the governor of Jining, panicked and hurriedly went to ask Zhang Fangyan for an idea, but Zhang Fangyan sent him to Li Xin on the grounds that he was not good at military affairs. Yan Binglie couldn't ask for it, what he wanted was to leave this Wen Yiwu and the two of them in Jining Prefecture.

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