Chapter 17: Opening the City Gate
(The first update, the big chapter, asking for a red ticket)
"What, Lin Jian wants to bring troops into the city, absolutely not, absolutely can't let him bring troops into the city!" When Ge Zufang, the envoy of Shandong Xuanfu, heard that Lin Jian had sent a message to enter Shouguang City to discuss the aftermath of the Changyi mutiny, he reacted violently and jumped up to oppose it like a cat that had stepped on its tail.
"Lord Ge, don't be impatient," Chen Debiao, the governor of Shandong, patiently appeased Ge Zufang and said, "Lin Jian is only bringing guards into the city, and he is not asking the Jiangdong Left Army to be stationed in Shouguang. Lord Liu has four thousand Qingzhou soldiers in the city, is he still afraid that Lin Jian will not be able to bring three or five hundred people into the city? He looked sideways at Liu Yefei again, squinted his eyes and smiled, "Lord Liu, what do you think?" He waved his hand to everyone in the hall again, "You also come and talk about whether you want to open this city gate or not, it's not an exaggeration to say that it's wrong, brainstorming!" β
In addition to him, Ge Zufang, Chen Debiao and other Shandong County officials in the lobby, there were also Shouguang Zhixian, County Cheng, County Lieutenant and others standing under the hall, waiting for them to make a decision on whether to open the city gate and let them go or close the city gate and ignore Lin Lian's request to enter the city. Tang Haoxin did not show up in the post house, and sent someone to invite him, only saying that he knew about it, but he was a little unwell and it was inconvenient to go out to blow the wind.
"Humble and dull, I always feel that this city gate has the advantage of opening, and there is the benefit of not opening it, and I really can't figure out whether it is good to open it or not," Du Juefu of Shouguang Zhixian County said respectfully, "It is all up to you to decide, and Shouguang County will try its best to cooperate." It is rare for you to gather in Shouguang County, and there are many difficulties in Shouguang County, so I just take this opportunity to complain to you......"
"Yes, yes, yes," Ge Zufang waved his hand to stop Du Juefu from continuing, "Shouguang's difficulties, you have been nagging seventeen or eighteen times, don't you feel annoyed, my ears are going to be calloused, and now there are difficulties in Shouguang County......
"Yes, yes, it's a nagging." Du Juefu gave up his hand to make amends, and then retreated peacefully, which can be regarded as expressing his position on this matter.
Ge Zufang was slightly stunned, giving Du Juefu such a fork, almost forgetting what he just said.
The officials are all fine, Chen Debiao looked at several officials in Shouguang County looking at each other below, and scolded secretly in his stomach: Try your best to cooperate with the fart, Liu Yefei transferred more than 8,000 Qingzhou troops to Shouguang, Shouguang County's reward of one or two silver was not expressed, and the local squires did not come forward to reward and condole, and even refused to hand over Shouguang City Defense completely.
When Chen Debiao was in Qingzhou, he originally made up his mind to stand on Liu Yefei's side, but after arriving in Shouguang, he inadvertently found that the local officials of Shouguang County were biased towards the Jiangdong Left Army in this matter, but Liu Yefei, as an envoy to Shandong and also knew the affairs of Qingzhou Prefecture, was their top boss, forcing them to pretend to be deaf and dumb in many things.
But just pretending to be deaf and dumb and passively resisting also shows that their position is tendency.
Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army had Tang Haoxin's support, and Liu Yefei had Zhang Xie and Yue Lengqiu's support. It is said that Lin Tie and the Jiangdong Left Army are at an absolute disadvantage, after all, Tang Haoxin no longer has much real power in the court, and Lin Tie and the Jiangdong Left Army will return to Jiangdong, and they will still be restrained by Yue Lengqiu, the governor of Jianghuai, but the attitude of the local government in Shouguang County is too intriguing.
Thinking about it, if it weren't for the fact that Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army attracted the main force of the Eastern Front of the captives in Yangxin and defeated it, it is really difficult to say whether Shouguang City could be kept, and with this, the local area of Shouguang County should also have a good impression of Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army. But this favor was not enough for the local officials of Shouguang County to resist their immediate boss, and Chen Debiao was inconvenient to travel in Shouguang City, but he sent all his staff out, but he inquired about some information.
Jinhai grain storage, Shouguang is also one of the important grain raising areas, such as Shouguang County under the jurisdiction of Yingkou, Mikou and other towns also have grain merchants, caravans and maritime merchants are cooperating with the Jiangdong Left Army, it is difficult to imagine that the local officials of Shouguang County did not enjoy the benefits from it.
Shouguang's current situation is advantageous if there is food, and there is no benefit if there is no food, and there may even be other changes due to lack of food.
Ge Zufang, Liu Yefei and others were in a hurry, forced out the Changyi mutiny, and transferred a large army to suppress the River Gang congregation, directly blocking the grain route from Jimo to Changyi and Shouguang, and provoking Lin Tie to support troops to force Shandong-to figure out these problems, it is naturally not difficult to understand which side the officials of Shouguang County will sit on.
Chen Debiao originally thought that Lin Lian's unauthorized transfer of troops would make the imperial court and the military department move quickly and make a strong rebuke - Changyi mutiny on the 13th, Liu Yefei mobilized the Qingzhou Army to suppress the mutinous River Gang congregation on the 14th, and on the 16th, Lin Lian got the news in Jinhai to assemble the Jiangdong Left Army, and on the early morning of the 17th, he raised troops to attack Shandong, and the military department should know the news of Lin Lian's unauthorized transfer of troops into Shandong at the night of the 17th at the latest - but it has been delayed until the evening of the 21st, and there is no news from the DPRK and China. Such a long time is enough for eight hundred miles to run two round-trips, so Chen Debiao can't help but feel strange.
At that time, the means of communication in the world were backward, and Chen Debiao did not have confidants and cronies in Jinhai to pass on the news to him in time, which made it difficult for him to grasp the overall situation, but the fact that the matter dragged on to this point was enough to make him feel some subtleties behind it.
Even if Chen Debiao would not take the initiative to hook up with Lin Tie, who was arrogant and arrogant, he also knew that he had to keep a distance from Liu Yefei at this time to prevent Liu Yefei from being unable to get into trouble, and he would drag himself into the abyss together.
Thinking of this, Chen Debiao looked at Liu Yefei with those two big and small eyes, and said, "Lord Liu, you have a quasi-idea: do you open the city gate and let Lin Jian come in to talk about things, or block him back?" In short, I'm sure you won't worry about what kind of demon moths Lin Jian can produce when he brings three or five hundred people into the city......"
gave Chen Debiao such a squeeze, Liu Yefei's face was even more ugly, he was very reluctant to let Lin Lian enter the city, but he had no excuse to refuse Lin Lian to enter the city.
Ge Zufang was useless and wanted to speak for Liu Yefei first, Chen Debiao stopped in front of him and said: "Since Lin Jian is going to enter the city, he also has the attitude of discussing and discussing to solve the matter, is it true that he will not be able to use troops in Qingzhou?" At that time, no matter what the consequences are, I am afraid that we will have to bear another share of responsibility. β
Ge Zufang wanted to speak and stopped, it was really difficult to decide, and finally looked at Liu Yefei with a sigh and said, "Lord Liu, you make a decision!" β
Liu Yefei was quite helpless in his heart, and if he insisted, he would become a loner. After all, Lin Jian came to discuss the aftermath of the Changyi mutiny, and he had already taken the initiative to take a step back. Liu Yefei thought for a moment, but there was no other good plan, waved his hand, and said to Du Juefu of Shouguang Zhixian County: "You go and open the city gate!" "Lin Jian is only from the fifth rank, although he has a knight, it is not enough for a few of them to come forward to greet them.
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Shouguang diverted the water of the Mi River into the moat, the Mi River has a small wharf in the north of Shouguang City, the first battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army changed from Yingkou Town to multi-oars fast boats by land and water, and arrived at the north of Shouguang City at dusk.
Lin Jian got off the boat and landed on the shore, accompanied by Sun Wenwan, Sun Wenbing, Lin Mengde and others, who were disguised as men, and enjoyed the scenery of early spring in the north of Shouguang City.
Most areas in northern Shandong are still ripe once a year, and this is the season for planting spring wheat, and the villagers will not be affected by the dispute between the Jiangdong Left Army and the Qingzhou Army.
Gyeonggi can't be chaotic, not only for the tens of thousands of Li people, but more importantly, except for the Yanshan defense line, there is no decent defense line in the entire north, and the Gyeonggi chaos can only be cheapened Dongyu. Once the Yanshan defense line collapses, it is likely that it will be thousands of miles away, and it is not until along the Huai River that it is possible to establish a solid defense line.
"The gates are open!" Sun Wenwan snorted lightly.
Lin Lian turned around to look, the north gate of Shouguang was slowly opening at this time, the city gate of the four cities of Shouguang was still in the form of a drawbridge, the city gate was put down, and it was horizontal on the moat, forming a bridge into the city, and several officials wearing green clothes were surrounded by more than a dozen officials, and they came out of the city to greet them.
"It's a local official in Shouguang, and the middle-aged man headed by him is Du Juefu, the county governor, and the Du family itself is the landlord of Shouguang, this incident, he shouldn't support Liu Yefei, but the local voice is sparse, and any opinions can't be transmitted to the center." Sun Wenbing said that some time ago, on behalf of the Jiangdong Left Army, he was responsible for raising grain, ordnance, and other materials in Shandong, and he was also the principal official who coordinated the transportation of the sea and Cao in Shandong on behalf of the Jinhai Capital Cao Transportation Division, and had a lot of contacts with local officials in Shouguang, Changyi, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and other coastal counties in northern Shandong, and had a deep understanding of Du Juefu and the Du family.
"Oh, then we can't afford to slack off." Lin Jian said with a smile, he has always been careful not to spoil the relationship with the local government, only the more support he gets, the wider the base of support he gets, can he really talk about a solid foundation, and a rogue or short-sighted warlord can't understand the reason.
Seeing Du Juefu and others approaching, Lin Jian led Lin Mengde, Sun Wenbing, Sun Wenwan and others to greet him, and said, "Lord Lao Du went out of the city to greet him, it's really a sin......
"The current situation is not what we want," Du Juefu returned the salute, "All the lords of the county department are treating each other in the city, and we are late when we go out of the city, and I hope that Lord Lin will not feel that Shouguang is neglected." β
"How dare you?" Lin Jian said with a smile, "I have always stayed in Jinhai for trivial matters, but I really wanted to take a trip to Shouguang, but I didn't expect it to be in this situation, and it was not what I wanted." β
"What is the situation of Shouguang City Defense?" Lin Mengde interjected and asked.
"It's not wartime, and there is no reason for the county secretary to take over the defense of Shouguang City," Du Juefu said, "The North City Gate also arranged a team of county sword archers as usual. Lord Lin took the guards into the city, and my Du family has a large house against the north city gate, and Lord Lin is aggrieved to rest there......
Du Juefu's meaning is also obvious, he can't directly hand over the defense of the North City Gate to the Jiangdong Left Army to control, but if something really happens, it will be easy for the Jiangdong Left Army to control the North City Gate.
Tang Hao's letter was high, and he would not come out to greet him, so he sent Ma Chao out of the city to greet him. Ma Chao saluted Lin Lian, and also confirmed with Lin Lian that the Shandong County Division did not make any special arrangements in the city.
Ma Chao and Tang Haoxin were also quite surprised that Lin Jian was suddenly going to enter Shouguang City to discuss the aftermath of the Changyi mutiny, and they originally thought that Lin Jian would drag on until the imperial court completely bowed his head in this matter before he would stopβin their opinion, Lin Jian did this kind of thing.
Since Lin Jian is willing to take a step back, the matter is easy to solve, after all, the imperial court still has to retain some dignity and face, as long as the last layer of the imperial court is not peeled off, many things are easy to say: Could it be that the chaos in Gyeonggi will be of any benefit to Zhang Xie and the dignitaries in Beijing?
Lin Mengde dragged Lin Jian and Shouguang officials to greet outside the city, Ao Canghai led the first battalion of soldiers to quickly enter Shouguang North City from the suspension bridge, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual in Shouguang North City, Lin Jian and Shouguang local officials entered the city together.
As soon as Lin Tie and the officials of Shouguang County entered the North City Gate, they rushed to the north from the south side of the street with a large group of soldiers, holding weapons in their hands, and the formation was not neat, and the few people led by them even exposed half of their chests, revealing their black chest hair, and they didn't know whether it was dog blood or pig blood, and they wiped several lines on their chests and foreheads, looking very vicious, and shouted loudly as they walked: "The hot swineherd came into the city to find trouble with our Qingzhou army brothers." He is a pig breeder, and he doesn't pee according to his own virtues, what qualifications do he have to liquidate our Qingzhou army, brothers, work together to drive the swineherd out of the city, so that we can have a good life - he dares not to leave, break their dog's legs! β
Without Lin Bin's orders, Ao Canghai led the soldiers to quickly establish a blocking formation on the long street, and quickly controlled the houses on both sides of the street and the North City Gate Tower behind him.
Lin Lian's face was slightly dark, and more than a hundred steps away, the shouts of these soldiers were mixed together, and he didn't understand why they thought that the Jiangdong Left Army entered the city to liquidate their Qingzhou army? His eyes were fixed on the large group of soldiers who swarmed him, and there was no panic, he had already gained some fame for killing rebel generals in Yangxin, and it was no wonder that these Qingzhou troops, which were mainly composed of defeated soldiers, would be afraid of him entering the city.
Du Juefu and other Shouguang County officials did not expect the situation in front of them at all, they panicked, they didn't know what to do, they were even more afraid that Lin Jian would be suspicious and they would set a trap to lure him into the city, and they were in a hurry and didn't know how to explain.
The sentry general Liu Zhenzhi and his guards wanted to control Du Juefu and other Shouguang County officials, Lin Jian waved his hand to prevent him from doing so, but just blocked more than ten Shouguang County officials from the periphery, pouted and thought for a moment, watching those soldiers of the Qingzhou Mansion Army rushing over in a mess, arrogant and unabated, but it didn't seem to be premeditated, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Send arrows to warn, limited to fifty steps, those who enter in vain will be killed!" β
Several warning arrows were fired in unison, burrowing into the paving of the street, causing stone chips to splash wildly. Compared with the splashing of stone chips, the piercing sound reverberated in the city, which was even more terrifying, and the chaotic soldiers were shocked together, and they did not dare to act easily for a while.
After a moment of death-like silence, the leaders came back to their senses, raised their arms and shouted: "Damn, when Lao Tzu is scared, fuck him, forgive the swineherd and dare not kill people." We have 4,000 brothers in the city, and they must dare to do it, kill them, chop them up and make meat filling, and give them food! Those who raised their arms and shouted did not move, but more than a dozen people were agitated with enthusiasm, and they crossed the arrows to form a cordon.
Ao Canghai turned around and saw Lin Tie, Lin Tie took off the saber from his waist, and pressed the machine, and the saber popped out, revealing a string of cold sword light. Du Juefu and other local officials didn't understand the meaning of Lin Lian's action, so they were so anxious that their buttocks smoked, and said on the side: "Quickly send someone to find Lord Liu, find Lord Chen, these are chaotic soldiers, Lord Liu can suppress them if they come over." β
Ao Canghai took a big bow from the soldiers beside him in front and ordered: "The archers in the front line listen to the order, and those who cross the line will be killed!" He took three arrows from the quiver and put them in his mouth, and put one more on the string, and instead of shooting the soldiers who crossed the line, he shot them straight into the chests of the most troublemakers......
The width of the long street is limited, and the archers in the front row can not line up thirty people, but they are all good archeryists, and they are not merciless, a row of arrows is shot, more than a dozen people who cross the line have been hit by arrows and fall to the ground, three or five people have not been hit by arrows, and they are also standing there as if they are scared, and they dare not retreat, and they dare not enter.