Hearing these soft and hard words, the governor of Fengyang took a few deep breaths, as if he was enduring something, turned his head to look at the deputy general of Wolf Mountain, but the deputy general of Wolf Mountain replied to him with a sad face, seeing this expression, the governor of Fengyang, Guo Shangyou, was deflated, turned his head and said weakly: "Then I promised you, but after agreeing, I also ask you to strictly abide by your promise, do not attack the city and kill the officials and people." ”

Dong Bingfeng didn't answer this sentence, and said to himself: "Your soldiers and horses withdraw to the barracks, and you can only move around the camp for ten miles in the future. ”

These requirements are also strict, but the governor of Fengyang and the deputy general of Wolf Mountain are not as angry and embarrassed as before, since they have agreed to a condition, it doesn't hurt to agree to another one, and now, this strict requirement is also logical, Governor Guo Shangyou and Deputy General Lu Quanyou glanced at each other, but they both understood the meaning in the eyes of the other party, and when this time happened, they had to resign and return to their hometowns anyway, Huaiyang is dangerous, or the farther away the better.

After the negotiation, the two sides returned to the camp, originally agreed to start on the third day, but the official army still found a reason to delay for a day, on this day, there were fast horses from the west into the official army camp, and then, the news of Xuzhou's victory began to circulate in Yangzhou Mansion.

The two sides did not move like this, but it made Gaoyou Prefecture breathe a sigh of relief, and dared to open the city for an hour every day, for the people in the city to enter and exit, and then the local leaders of Gaoyou Prefecture also went to Zhao Ziying and the official army to inquire about the activities, but this short period of calm was quickly broken, according to the news from the north, there were two thousand Xuzhou people from Qingjiangpu, and the official army also began to close the camp, not allowing outsiders to enter and exit.

Gaoyou Prefecture panicked closed the city gate, there were no officers and soldiers in the city, so everyone could only pool money to raise people to train in the group, led by the head of the sect and the catchers to guard at the head of the city, they also had to go to the battlefield of the characters, only felt that the movements of the two sides were very strange, such a confrontation between the armies, the detective horses between each other must be frequent, hunting and covering each other, it is said that it should be seen on the Gaoyou city at the midpoint.

As a result, in the past few days, I only saw the Xuzhou cavalry activities, but I didn't see the official cavalry appear, is it just closed and can't come out? Although the Xuzhou cavalry looks more like an official army than an official army, it is dressed in iron armor and has a clear way of doing things.

Then Ding Zhuang, the guard on duty at the head of the city, saw that there were thousands of officers and soldiers driving towards the camp of Xuzhou people, and the people who understood or didn't understand the city were dumbfounded, there were nearly 10,000 people in Xuzhou over there, what did you do with more than 1,000 people in the past, is it to deliver food? More than 1,000 officers and soldiers did not see them come back in the past, and what is even more incredible is that there are thousands of officers and soldiers who went over and did not come back, so it lasted for about four days, and then someone outside the city came to report that the officers and troops had withdrawn, and the Zhao battalion also began to withdraw in batches, but there were many more people than when they came.

The battalions and teams of the official army were told that the people and horses of Xuzhou had withdrawn, and they should be arranged to go out to garrison, because the light horses were not sent out, and the news of the entire official army camp was completely closed, and no one knew the situation outside.

When these battalions of thousands and hundreds of people pass Gaoyou Prefecture, they will be surrounded by the absolute superiority of the Zhao Zi Battalion Ding Tuan, and then the generals who lead the team will not have any fighting will and courage, and directly shout for everyone to disarm and surrender, in such a situation, who will be stupid to fight to the death, they are all ordered to surrender, obediently made prisoners, they will not notice that the generals who lead the team will leave the team after surrendering and return to Taizhou and Wolf Mountain.

In this way, one team after another, the governor and the deputy commander-in-chief sent all the people who had promised Zhao Zi's battalion, and these prisoners would be escorted to the eastern part of Huai'an Province under the regimental training, and the dredging and construction of the Salt River, the planning of the various granges in Huai'an Province, and all kinds of places that required labor were waiting for them to be busy.

There was no delay, the Yangzhou wealthy families who participated in the assassination of the martial arts competition were all arrested, and the whole family of these families was escorted to Dong Bingfeng by the official army, and with them was fifty percent of the family property on the books.

When these people were sent over, Dong Bingfeng and Zhou Xuezhi knew that as soon as the news of the assassination spread, the governor of Fengyang immediately sent his own soldiers into the city to control the wealthy families who participated.

The governor of Fengyang, the prefect of Huaiyangdao, the prefect of Yangzhou, the prefect of Huai'an, and the deputy general of Langshan jointly wrote a letter, saying that the officials and troops of Nanzhili and Jiangbei fought a bloody battle with the thief army, killing more than 10,000 enemies, but the thief army was powerful, the officers and soldiers were outnumbered, and more than half of the dead and wounded had to retreat to protect themselves.

The tense atmosphere in the Jianghuai area quickly became relaxed, which made the officials, businessmen and people of Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion breathe a sigh of relief, originally the people were quite dissatisfied with the governor and the deputy general and others who started the war without permission, and now some people are praising them for knowing the general situation and knowing the overall situation, when the Fengyang Governor and the deputy general of Wolf Mountain are ready to resign, there are even gentry who jointly signed to keep them.

More people began to celebrate the New Year again, starting from the end of the month, the season that should have celebrated the carnival turned into a day of fear, now you can finally have a good life, and some large families take advantage of this calm to move, most of them go to Jiangnan, a few go to Xuzhou, no matter where they go, they have not withdrawn from Xuzhou and Qingjiangpu business shop.

No one noticed that in this chaos, a few ships entered the Yangtze River, and after a short pause at the Yangzhou wharf, they continued to go north, there were too many such ships, naturally no one cared too much, and no one knew that those ships were loaded with eighteen-pound cannons, if the governor of Fengyang did not agree to the conditions of Zhao Ziying, then these cannons were used to knock Yangzhou and Taizhou City into sharp weapons.

More than 11,000 officials and soldiers of Henan Province were killed and captured, more than 8,000 people were killed and captured, the deputy general Zhou Baolu was missing, suspected of being loyal and martyred, more than 16,000 officers and soldiers in Shandong, more than 12,000 were killed and captured in battle, the general Yang Guodong was defeated, more than 100 military attachés below the general were captured and killed, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of Fengyang, and the whole army was wiped out on their own, more than 12,000 soldiers and horses in Langshan Town and the standard battalion of the Fengyang Governor, more than 7,000 people were killed and captured in battle, and the rest retreated to Yangzhou.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court mobilized 50,000 officers and soldiers, known as 100,000, to suppress Xuzhou, and returned defeated, shaking the government and the opposition.

This defeat came so quickly that the imperial court did not react for a while, when the news from all walks of life reached Jingshi, even Wei Zhongxian's political enemies did not use this as a reason to attack, and even did not act, no one believed that there would be such a result, how could it be defeated, how could a war of such a scale be defeated so quickly? Isn't it the powerful and chaotic people in Pizhou, Xuzhou? So many elites were dispatched, and they were launched so suddenly, how could they be defeated?

When the news reached the hands of some officials, many people threw away the letter after reading it: "Such a big defeat in one day, is this kind of war report and military situation a book by Mr. Storyteller?" "It must be wrong, don't take such unreasonable rural legends!" "Is it a trap set by Wei Biao?" And so on and so forth, in general it is just unbelief.

However, everyone is inextricably linked in the local area, when all kinds of official documents and private letters gathered in Beijing, such an incredible defeat has also become a reality, when it is known that this did happen, the court was speechless for a while, I thought it was an ordinary chaos of thieves, how did it become such a powerful thing, that Xuzhou is located in the center of the world, adjacent to the canal artery, in the north and south of the waist of the two Zhili, such a place has such a thief army, then what to do with this Jiangshan Sheji?

But this hesitation did not last long, a few days later, everyone didn't care about what the New Year's Festival, immediately began to sparse, such a big defeat, the military department Shangshu Zhao Yan is not enough to thank the world, the ceremonial supervisor and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian have many instigations, disaster to the country and the people, should be dealt with severely, from this defeat can be seen, from the end of Wanli to the present all the major defeats can find the root cause, it is nothing more than this Wei eunuch to make trouble, as long as the eunuch party is deposed, replaced by a clean and honest minister, then the official army can immediately turn defeat into victory, like a bamboo.

There are also people who have contacted Sun Chengzong, who has supervised Liaodong, and said that now everyone is looking forward to it, and ask Sun Ge Lao to return to Beijing to preside over the overall situation and reproduce the good situation of the Zhengying Dynasty.

Everyone frequently wrote books and attacked political opponents, but on the other hand, they were a little trembling, that Wei Zhongxian is a confidant of the Son of Heaven, and he holds the factory guard, and he can turn the tables at any time, if the time comes, if the Beijing Division is a Suo, everyone can do nothing, and everyone can feel that the Chu Party and Qi Party who are attached to Wei Zhongxian immediately wrote a book to refute it after they were speechless at the beginning, saying that the reason for this defeat was because someone colluded with the thieves and constrained the internal response, and all the reasons were taken to say, and now it has just entered the normal rhythm of argument.

But what everyone never expected was that Wei Zhongxian, who was in power and opposition, never reacted to these attacks, but made a jaw-dropping move, around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there was a decree in the palace to order, ordering Zhao Yan, the secretary of the military department, and Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, to supervise the army, and lead all the soldiers and horses to suppress the thieves in Xuzhou.

Among them, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses in Beijing, 3,000 soldiers and horses in Baoding Town, 4,000 garrisons in Zhendingfu, 8,000 infantry cavalry in Xuanfu border army, more than 7,000 infantry cavalry in Datong border army, and 16,000 in Yulin and Yansui border army.

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