Gu Siyuan to his grandfather Tang Hao's filial piety expired, at the end of March out of Tongguan, along the Yellow River eastward, at that time in eastern Henan, southern Henan chaos, northern Henan, northwest Lu and other prefectures and counties to the Liang family father and son control, the road to Qingzhou to be blocked tightly, can only pretend to be a wandering army, want to find an opportunity to pass through the Huaisi area.

Yang Pu and Zhao Qinmin led more than 200 elites to pick up Gu Siyuan out of Tongguan, all of whom were loyal to the Gu family, and their discipline and loyalty were worth testing. Passing through Hezhong Prefecture, he selected Jianrui from the displaced people and took in the army, and made his family members accompany him, but it became the best cover for entering the Huaisi area and pretending to be a wandering army.

The Wandering People's Army is led by the Eight Great Kou, but its descending hills and poles are numerous, and the way to come is complicated.

The people's army from all walks of life, with Liu An'er being the most powerful, almost every day people come to join the army, and there is no shortage of landlord armies with speculative tendencies, like Gu Siyuan, who is running around with a large number of family members, how can he be suspicious?

After the west bank of Bianshui successively captured several difficult villages and seized tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass for the displaced army, Gu Siyuan's department regarded Liu An'er as a trustworthy elite soldier, and in mid-May he was pulled into the core theater of the wandering army in Huaisi, transferred to the jurisdiction of Qushuai Ma Lantou, and stationed in the Nanzhai area of Suining.

As early as the beginning of May, after receiving a secret envoy sent by Gu Siyuan, Lin Jian originally planned to send troops to pick them up from Huaisi and send them to Qingzhou. At that time, the Wandering People's Army did not have any blockade of the rivers of Bianshui and Surabaya, but Gu Siyuan offered to stay in Huaisi and wait for the opportunity to move.

This stay was two months, until Liu Tingzhou led the Huai army into Siyang, Ma Lantou transferred the elite of the Liumin army in Suyu and Suining, and after Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to break through to the west of the Surabaya River, Gu Siyuan had the opportunity to wait for the opportunity to move, and almost effortlessly captured Suining City.

The crescent moon is like a hook, hanging in the sky, and the faint green glow is sprinkled, outlining the sparse shadows of the hills, sparse forests, and rivers on the left. only complained that the night was too good, and Lin Jian had no excuse to let Gu Siyuan collect his troops, let go of these routs, and harvest fewer heads.

For Gu Siyuan, for the young generals under his command, the dazzling military exploits also need to be set off by the head. Even if they were still dressed in the skin of the Wandering People's Army yesterday, the vast majority of the soldiers really regarded themselves as members of the Wandering Army, but it did not prevent them from changing their identities today and attacking yesterday's robes.

Gu Siyuan personally supervised the battle under the city, commanded the dispatch of the soldiers to chase and kill the rout of the exile army, and Zhao Qinmin gave advice by his side, with a green shirt and a feather fan, which was quite the mastermind of the world.

Gu Siyuan recruited displaced people in Hezhong Mansion, and the soldiers and horses were expanded by more than 1,000 people, pretending to be a wandering army stationed in Suining Nanzhai, naturally he did not stop the pace of expansion, and the soldiers and horses were expanded to four battalions, plus the families of the army, there were almost nearly 6,000 people.

The Huaisi region has always been rich, grain and grass are not a problem, and the armor can only rely on fighting local private soldiers to capture some supplements, which is still seriously insufficient, but there are more than 200 elite soldiers with excellent armor as the foundation, and the army is trained with the method of governing the army passed down by Lin Bin, Gu Siyuan's four battalions of soldiers and horses are much more elite than the ordinary exile army.

Yang Pu has faded his thoughts of fighting on the battlefield over the years, and plans to pass this matter and hand over this army to Gu Siyuan to personally control, and he will also look back on Wuchen's side to be a loyal old servant, and at this time come to the city to see Lin Bin.

Lin Jian frowned and looked at the killing under the city, and when Yang Pu approached, he came back to his senses and said, "Uncle Yang, I have tired you in the past few months. ”

"What is the ...... that is not affected" Yang Pu smiled indifferently, he was still a few years away from the age of the sixtieth birthday, his beard was already frost white under the new moon, and he was wearing iron armor, but he was a veteran.

Under the city, only Gu Siyuan's soldiers and horses were chasing and killing the rout, and the Jiangdong Left Army except for the water camp, the Fengli camp, the Changshan camp, and the cavalry camp all entered the city one after another to rest. In the eyes of outsiders, it seems that Lin Tie wants to give up all the merits of seizing Sui Ning to Gu Siyuan, but Yang Pu, who has deep contact with Lin Tie, knows that Lin Tie disdains to take credit from the heads of these chaotic people.

At this time, someone hurriedly went to the head of the city to report: "Li Wei of Suining Zhi County committed suicide by hanging a beam in the back house of the county government, and he just found it to the guards, and the medical officer has gone to rescue him, and he has come to report to the ......."

"Ahh Lin Jian was also stunned, not knowing which play this was.

With Gu Siyuan, a big undercover agent, what the officials and squires in the Huaisi area did and what they said after the fall, Lin Jian was clear.

Li Wei, the magistrate of the county, was captured when he broke Suining City, because he had a good reputation in Suining, Liu An'er wanted to recruit him as a strategist, but he would rather die than be a thief, and he was imprisoned in the Suining County prison until tonight.

Those officials who succumbed to the Wandering People's Army, as long as they did not have too resentful bad deeds, Lin Jian planned to help them cover up their crimes, and not to investigate the court, and to reward officials like Li Wei who had withstood the test.

This Li Wei is living freely in the bandit prison, and there is no reason why he will commit suicide by hanging a beam at the end of his hard life!

Lin Jian didn't know what was going on, but this matter was not trivial, so he couldn't ignore it, and he also took advantage of the situation to order the troops to be collected: "Let Si Yuan and Mr. Zhao come back to the city and come directly to the county government to find us...... He and Yang Pu first went to the county government house to see Li Wei, who had nothing to do and committed suicide.

As soon as Lin Jian and Yang Pu stepped into the county mansion on their front toes, they heard a loud commotion inside: "Miss is hanging the beam!" Miss is hanging from the beam! Then I heard the old and weak voice shouting, "It's better to let her die, it's better to die!" ”

Lin Jian was even more confused, and walked into the courtyard with a high fever, and the medical officer came over and said: "Lord Li has just recovered his breath, fortunately he found out a moment earlier......"

"What's going on?" Lin Jian asked.

The medical officer came over one step earlier, but he knew the details, and asked in a suppressed voice: "I heard the mother-in-law who was waiting for say that Master Li came out of prison and knew that his daughter was forcibly taken by thieves as his wife and pregnant, and he took a knife and wanted to kill his daughter, but he didn't know what was going on, so he hung the beam first......

Lin Jian sighed lightly, raised his eyebrows to look left and right, and said, "No one is allowed to spread this matter!" Save everyone first. Walking into the inner wing, I saw Li Wei wearing a shabby official robe, sitting on the edge of the bed with tears in his eyes, Lin Jian waved people to let everyone else withdraw first, pulled a stool, sat in front of Li Wei, and said, "Master Li, why bother?" ”

"The old man can't kill the rebel girl who is a thief, and he can only die to repay the court," Li Wei burst into tears, knelt down with his thin body, and took out a watch from his arms tremblingly, and handed it to Lin Bin, "Please make the old man present the watch to the court, and die without regrets......"

Lin Jian thought to himself that although this old man regarded his reputation as his life, he still had some humanity, and he didn't really kill his pregnant daughter with a knife, and took the watch, but he fell to the side and reprimanded: "Nonsense, the ruined houses in Suining City are broken, the people are displaced and have not returned, and there are tens of millions of corpses in the streets and alleys. Is it the people of Li who are important, or is your Li Wei's reputation important? You've figured it out for yourself! "Turn around and order your entourage," he sent someone to secretly send Master Li's daughter away overnight, and said to the public that she had died at the hands of thieves and that her body was missing. Whoever dares to leak this, kill! He stood up with his hands in his hands and said to Li Wei, who was kneeling on the ground in a daze, "You immediately have eaten and drunk enough, and go to the front office to take care of official business, there are a lot of things here, and there is no time for you to have a long relationship with your children here!" Before dawn, I want you to clarify the general situation in the city and report it to me. ”

Yang Pu sighed slightly, thinking that there was really no way for others to deal with it so neatly like Lin Lian, and at this time, I am afraid that no one would pay attention to him anymore, he was only twenty-three years old.

Lin Wei threw up his sleeves and left, Li Wei knelt on the ground, as if he was dead, and he couldn't hear the carriages and horses in the courtyard next door, and picked up his crying daughter and the maid and mother-in-law who were waiting, and after a long time, he got up from the ground, straightened his clothes, and instructed the left and right: "Burn a bowl of spicy soup noodles and go to the front office...... and go to the front office to take official business.

Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin collected their troops and returned to the city, and Lin Jian returned to the post house first, and they rushed to see him. Gu Siyuan and the others were still unsatisfied, and asked: "What happened in the city, the night was fine at this time, and if it dragged on until tomorrow, the defeated troops outside the city would flee far away." ”

"Foolish officials do foolish things, don't say it, just save people," Lin Jian is not a long-tongued woman, there is no need to talk about Li Wei's family affairs in Suining Zhi County when he meets people, and he wants Gu Siyuan and others to sit down and talk, and said, "There are more important things to do than chasing and killing fugitives and taking one or two hundred more heads." Let's sit down and discuss what to do next......"

"At present, it seems that holding Suining and relieving the siege of Liu Tingzhou can not only threaten the rear wing of the main force of the bandits besieging Xuzhou, but also cut off their grain routes, Yue Lengqiu can hold Xuzhou, and the bandits can only go north to Shandong, just let them fight with the Liang family......" Gu Siyuan said.

I don't know if there is Zhao Qinmin behind Gu Siyuan's opinion, but compared to Gu Siyuan, who played a lot for Wang Chao, Fan Zhimei and other Jiangning sons when he first entered Jiangning, he is much more mature, and it is really not what it used to be, and it is impressive.

The troops of the Wandering People's Army in the periphery of Xuzhou were too concentrated, and there was a shortage of food on the spot, and Siyang, Suyu, Tancheng, Yuntiguan and the western Linhuai, Hao, Si and other areas were the main areas for the Wandering People's Army.

Lin Jian led his troops to occupy Suining, and there were water battalion warships to blockade Bianshui and Surabaya, which was actually waiting for Ruo Ruo to cut off the grain route of the main force of the exile army to surround Xuzhou.

In this situation, Liu An'er either went all out to take Xuzhou before the shortage of grain and grass, or withdrew from the siege.

The initiative in the war is no longer in the hands of the displaced people.

Lin Lian thought to himself that Liu An'er might not be willing to give up, Yue Lengqiu was not a good stubble, and it was a top priority to return south to relieve Liu Tingzhou first, and he couldn't let Ma Lantou and Sun Zhuang calmly reorganize their troops in Siyang and Suyu, and send troops from Xuzhou with Liu An'er to attack Suining.

The key is also a quick word.

The reinforcements sent by Liu An'er from Xuzhou should have just been dispatched, and they were still a hundred miles away from Suining; The Jiangdong Left Army set out from Suining to aid Liu Tingzhou, and it was almost more than 100 miles away.

"I will raise troops to go south to Siyang in the morning, but when I arrive in Siyang, the bandits who want to come to the direction of Xuzhou will also be pushed to Suining City. When I rescue Liu Tingzhou, and then wave my army north to support Suining, it may take two days and two nights," Lin Jian looked at Gu Siyuan and asked, "How many troops do you need me to support you in order to hold Suining?" ”

Maybe it is most appropriate to leave Qin Chengzu to guard Suining, but regardless of public or private, Lin Jian has to let Gu Siyuan be the main general of the way. With Yang Pu and Zhao Qinmin supporting each other, Gu Siyuan can also stand alone.

"Ma Lantou and Sun Zhuang still have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Suyu and Siyang, all of them are elite soldiers, you go to save Liu Tingzhou, the key is to be fast, there can be no less soldiers and horses, I have a water camp to rely on here, and I am not afraid of the back road being cut off," Gu Siyuan said, "You have extra armor and bows and arrows, borrow some from me, and I will guard Suining for two days, and wait for you to return to the division......"