Chapter 1168: Defending Xuzhou

Looking at this momentum, it is going to go straight to Jining, is the imperial court going to use troops against Xuzhou? At this time, the people on Jining's side realized that those who were arrested and killed a few days ago were the internal response of the government, and even the chaos here and there may be the government behind it.

At this juncture, many people in Jining have been slightly confused in their understanding, who is the official army, who is the bandit, the Xuzhou Zhao Ziying is doing is upright, and the rules are strict, it looks more like the official yamen, and the Ming official government and the official army are like, everyone knows very well, the scholars who participated in the demonstration a few days ago were secretly happy, and felt that they could finally see the blue sky, but only the young people were excited, and the old ones were worried, and the officers and soldiers would definitely make a military disaster as soon as they came. How to avoid this disaster, now that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, the canal is frozen, and you have to hide there to take refuge? There's nowhere to go!

The situation suddenly became tense, but to the surprise of Jining and the surrounding people, Zhao Ziying only strengthened control on the side of Jining City, and did not close the city under martial law, but the regiments and brigades stationed everywhere began to assemble near Jining, and Yunshanxing began to count the supplies.

Most of the water and land news is gathered along the canal, and then passed along the river, Jining knows that the news is that the Shandong soldiers and horses stationed in the two prefectures of Denglai are in a big move, rushing to Jining **, they don't know that the 3,000 officers and troops newly trained in Henan have entered the territory of Guide Mansion, and the new Daimyo Governor has approached Kongjiazhuang, and is about to enter the territory of Nanzhili Xuzhou, not to mention that Henan and the Daimyo are under the jurisdiction of Yang Zhaoji, the former Caozhou commander-in-chief, Yang Zhaoji is the Daimyo Commander-in-Chief, Zhou Baolu, who has been transferred out of Xuzhou, is the deputy chief soldier, and the personal soldiers and family members of the headquarters join it.

There were more than 5,000 garrisons in Fengyang, the central capital, 4,000 headed to Suzhou, and 1,000 went east to Qingjiangpu. In various places in the north of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili, the Fengyang Governor Standard Battalion and the Wolf Mountain Adjutant Army have begun to pull out the camp to the north, and there are also 3,000 soldiers and horses from Nanjing who have crossed the river and are stationed in Yangzhou as a reserve for the soldiers and horses going north.

These various officers and troops are stationed at the edge of the range of Zhao Zi's camp control, and they have always been so peaceful, but because the distance is too close, if they want to launch, they do not need to accumulate materials, and make a lot of preparations in advance, and it is winter at this time, and the materials for the winter in the camps everywhere are sufficient, if they prepare more in the winter, it must not be too noticeable.

The news trends from all over the world converge to Xuzhou, people who know geography can immediately understand this situation, the imperial court is to launch a large army to surround Xuzhou, Shandong officials and troops have been supplemented by Liao soldiers There are already 11,000 numbers, nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses of the Daimyo Army, 3,000 soldiers and horses of Henan, more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of Fengyang, more than 13,000 soldiers and horses of Langshan, and the elite of the governor's standard battalion is also close to 3,000, the imperial court has invested nearly 50,000 troops in the first batch, and the four brigades of the Zhao Zi battalion plus each regiment and each team can be called 20,000 generals. With almost twice as many enemy forces to face, this battle was difficult to fight.

Zhao Ziying and the official army battled, winning more with less is not a time, but this time people's hearts are raised, if you connect a series of things that happened after the Yellow River dam in Xuzhou broke, everyone can roughly guess the plan of the imperial court, first use various arrangements to make Xuzhou and Zhao Ziying control zhì everywhere chaos, and even arrange a killing game in Qingjiangpu, but this qiē thing is a superficial action, but secretly they are silently mobilizing troops and horses, or these officers and soldiers are originally aimed at Zhao Ziying, It's just that this is the time to start it.

It took so much effort to set fire to the bureau everywhere, and then at the end of the month when the people's hearts were the most relaxed, it can be seen that the determination of the imperial court this time, the next 50,000 officers and soldiers are not only so 50,000 officers and soldiers, and this year the surrounding area can be regarded as quiet and peaceful, whether it is the Mongolian departments in the north or the Jianzhou Jurchens in the northeast, there is no intention of further attacking, and the use of troops in the southwest is gradually coming to an end, that is to say, the imperial court can take out more soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress Xuzhou, the front 50,000 is just the beginning, and there will be a steady stream of followers.

But what really made the gentry and people of Xuzhou and Pizhou panic was not this, but that Zhao Jin was not in Xuzhou at this time, and the backbone was not there, how could he meet the official army, this court is really a capable person, and he actually led the always wise and martial Jin Ye and several masters to Qingjiangpu, and now he will not be able to come back for a while, which is going to delay the big event.

Different from the cognitive confusion in Jining, in Xuzhou and Pizhou, whether it is the gentry and local tyrants or the local people, they are extremely afraid of the official army coming to "recover", everyone is benefiting from Zhao Jin, but everyone is not because of this gratitude, but everyone knows that over the years, Xuzhou and Pizhou have the same meaning as Zhao Jin, and the people up and down are Zhao Jin's comrades, and Zhao Jin is a thief who advances and retreats together, which is equivalent to the official army After coming, in addition to looting the property of Zhao Zi's camp, There will also be bloody slaughters in Xuzhou and Pizhou, and it is also an upright massacre, and the thieves have always been cut down and eradicated, this Ming Dynasty has not done it.

If Zhao Ziying is defeated, everyone will also be unlucky. Thinking about this, Xuzhou is naturally united, it's not that no one wants to go over anyway, but there are no scholars in Xuzhou, and the contact with the government is naturally commonplace, and everyone knows that the internal guards, patrols and other light and dark eyeliners are distributed everywhere, and if you don't have it from home, if you take the liberty to contact the government at this juncture, it will be self-defeating.

Their ideas are also reflected in the state and county yamen of the four counties of a state, not only did the yamen everywhere rejoice because of this, but became cold, the officials and errands all did not go to run errands, each rested at home, and even the servants of the prefecture and county could not buy rice and noodles and non-staple food outside, no one restrained the vendors of anything, but no one dared to sell, if it were not for Zhao Shiyilang's timely speech, there might be officials who were starved to death, as for the officials did not have the slightest happiness, the magistrate and county of Zhizhou were scolding the imperial court, which was to send their whole family to death.

And the command of Xuzhou Wei and Xuzhou Zuowei made the same choice, after hearing the news, they all moved to Hejiazhuang with their whole families, not that they judged the shape in time, but not to make this choice is not good, first of all, they followed Zhao Jin to do business and make a fortune, which can not run away from the crime of thieves, in addition, now there are too many people in Xuzhou Sanwei standing on the side of Zhao Ziying, no need for Zhao Jin to tell anything, there are many people who are closely watching the movement of the Wei Station commanding this level, really want to make mistakes, I am afraid that I don't need Zhao Jin to give orders, The whole family was killed directly.

The most unexpected thing is that many merchants in the salt market and bazaar, their roots are not here, but they are willing to donate family wealth, and even let their own children join Zhao Ziying or help, the reason why they do this is very simple, Zhao Jin was ambushed and assassinated in Qingjiangpu They already know that their own masters or owners are involved a lot, if it becomes good, it is good to say, now it is not done, then wait to be liquidated and killed, the main family is dead, then the small situation here in Xuzhou has become their own private property, of course, This qiē must be won by Zhao Ziying, since he can turn from a mercenary to become a proprietor, why not support it.

The panic and chaos only lasted less than a day in Pizhou, Xuzhou, and then the people's hearts boiled, the heroes, the gentry, the officials and the family members of the family and the common farmers, the rich and willing to contribute, the strong willing to contribute, many unqualified to become the family and the brave warriors have turned out the weapons at home, the strong gentry took out their own food and materials, mobilized their own young and strong, and the officials and servants were up and down activities, so that all the official materials in Xuzhou can be used by the Zhao Zi camp, Let all the aspects of Xuzhou that are still controlled by the official family not be enemies of Zhao Ziying, and the family members of the family will let their second and third children sign up.

Don't say it's a layman, even the monks of Yunshan Temple are mobilized, some people are renovating the main temple of Yunshan Temple, preparing to be used as a camp fortress for the Zhao Zi camp, and some are encouraging young monks to serve the Zhao Zi camp, everyone's mind, everyone's actions, are showing a purpose, to defend Xuzhou! Defend Xuzhou!

After the enthusiasm was aroused, the originally orderly and busy farming, trade and craftsmanship, as well as the brigades and regiments of the Zhao Ziying battalion, became busy, such people's hearts naturally could not pour cold water, but now is not the time to rush forward, they can only work overtime to register and make a book, or form a team according to the local village, ready to be transferred at any time.

Until this time, many people knew that Wang Zhaojing had been back for a few days, and everything was running in an orderly manner, and the reason why Zhao Jin did not rush back was because he wanted to preside over the war on the Qingjiangpu side.

Fengyang Governor Standard Battalion, Wolf Mountain Deputy General Soldiers and Horses, Fengyang Garrison in the Central Capital, a total of more than 1,200 cavalry, Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch sent 300 of his own pro-army cavalry, a total of more than 1,500 cavalry, led by the new governor of the standard battalion guerrilla Qin Daning, straight to Qingjiangpu.

No one expected these thousand cavalry to defeat Qingjiangpu, the third brigade of the Zhao Zi battalion has nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses, and then count what patrol Ding Volunteer Regiment practiced, there are also more than 10,000 people stationed, these thousand cavalry must not be able to hit head-on, but these thousand cavalry guerrilla around Qingjiangpu, there is no problem with the Xuzhou soldiers and horses who contain Qingjiangpu, the cavalry and horse team are mobile and flexible, as long as the threat to Qingjiangpu is maintained at all times, the Xuzhou soldiers and horses will not be able to move, and when the army gathers north, the situation will be completely different.

This standard battalion guerrilla Qin Daning was transferred from Jiangxi, and he has always wondered how he can tolerate anti-thieves under his nose when he is in the middle of the world, Lang Lang Qiankun, or a central territory like Zhili, and he still occupies the hub of the canal and is rich in the world

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