Army marches are quite boring, so in the next few days, during the march, many officers and soldiers kept talking about this food grabbing operation, treating it as an entertainment activity.
On this day, Zhou Xun boasted in front of Yu Ji again: "Only someone like you, who has never seen the world, would be afraid of such a small Ninth Grade Cang Yun Ambassador."
"I think back then, when we, sir, were commanders in the capital, we were brothers with the Chongwenmen Customs Ambassador. Do you know who the Chongwenmen Customs Ambassador was? He was the most prestigious ninth-grade official in the world. So.
Why do we adults take this ninth-grade official seriously?"
"So I say Brother Yu, follow us adults, just be bold, don't be hesitant all day long, rob when you need to rob, kill when you need to kill. You will never go wrong if you listen to our adults. Grabbing some grain is nothing.
Huh? It doesn’t matter if you rob a few women!”
"Except our brother Zhou!" Seeing that Zhou Xun was talking happily, Liang Hui interjected from the side.
Liang Hui's words caused everyone around to laugh. Although Zhou Xun was running away from marriage at the time and disliked his fiancée's poor appearance, when he was Queen Qin, after he and his fiancée got married, Zhou Xun had a deep relationship with his wife.
.It seems that the daughter of this official family is indeed well-educated and capable. This is why it is necessary to marry a virtuous wife.
So in public, Zhou Xun's henpeckedness has become a joke within the Runing Battalion officer corps. Of course, those officers think that the most henpecked person in the Runing Battalion is Wu Shigong, but no one dares to do it in front of Wu Shigong.
That's all. In addition, they no longer comment on Yang Goudan.
While these people were talking and laughing, several galloping horses suddenly appeared in the distance. Wu Shigong's front army immediately made preparations to meet the enemy. When the horses approached, they realized that it was a false alarm. These few
It was Wu Shigong who sent out several cavalrymen to explore the front.
After releasing these cavalrymen in front of Wu Shigong, the leading cavalryman gave Wu Shigong a military salute and said: "Sir, we found a group of refugees fighting among themselves four or five miles ahead."
"Oh?" It's not surprising that there are refugees. Nowadays, disasters are happening one after another. The officers of the Runing Camp are also used to seeing groups of refugees on both sides of the road. But Wu Shigong is a little interested in the internal fighting among the refugees.
Out of caution, Wu Shigong ordered: "Sanhe, just take a cavalry unit of 100 people to have a look and understand the situation before we talk."
After Li Sanhe set off with the cavalry hundred, Wu Shigong's army also stopped advancing and rested on the spot, waiting for the news to be delivered back.
After some time, Li Sanhe was seen escorting a convoy back. But the owner of this convoy surprised Wu Shigong. It was Wu Shigong's fifth brother Wu Shiwen.
Wu Shiwen was really unlucky. At that time, he went to Guizhou and became a county magistrate. Later, he abandoned the county seat and fled due to the invasion of She'an Rebellion, and lost his official position. Later, he finally regained his official position through Wu Shigong's credit, and came to Shandong and became a county magistrate again.
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But within a few years of this stable life, he encountered chaos again in Shandong. After escaping once, Wu Shiwen no longer felt the psychological burden of abandoning the city and fleeing. When he learned that there were already chaos around the county,
After the traces appeared, no one was sent to find out the exact situation. In order to save his life, he immediately dropped everything and fled the county with his family.
Wu Shiwen did not give up on his colleagues. Before escaping, he also notified all the officials and wealthy households in the county. It can be seen that the top leaders in the county have fled, and this person has a herd mentality. All the officials and many wealthy households also brought their families with them.
They formed a convoy and fled his county along with Wu Shiwen.
Wu Shiwen thought so, as long as he fled to Jining City, he would send someone to inform his fourteenth brother Wu Shigong. Wu Shiwen did not know that Wu Shigong would go north to fight this time, but Wu Shiwen knew that Wu Shigong had a strong army here, although that army
The army is stationed in Runing Mansion, but it is not far from Jining City. For the safety of the fifth brother, the fourteenth brother Wu Shigong should also lend a helping hand.
Even if the fourteenth brother Wu Shigong cannot come to the rescue without an order to mobilize troops, at least his life safety can be guaranteed by staying in the heavily guarded Jining City. You must know that Jining City is the hub of the canal, and the court has always
A large army is stationed here.
As for whether the court will hold Wu Shiwen accountable for abandoning the city and fleeing from the city, that will be discussed later. At least for now, he must save his own life. Anyway, this is not the first time Wu Shiwen has faced this situation.
But in the process of escaping, something unexpected happened. Wu Shiwen's convoy was composed of people who used to be in a superior position. When they encountered a group of refugees obstructing the movement of their convoy, people like Wu Shiwen
Of course, the domestic slaves used their whips to drive away these refugees who were not blind enough to block the way.
But in this time of war and chaos, the refugees' fear of the government and their observance of the law have basically disappeared.
So there was a quarrel at first, and then the quarrel turned into a small friction, and the small friction turned into a big fight. If it weren't for the discord among the refugees, the large number of refugees would have engulfed the convoy.
But even so, when Li Sanhe's cavalry arrived, dispersed the group of refugees and rescued the convoy, the entire convoy had lost a lot of manpower. Fortunately, most of these manpower were from the official and gentry families.
The losses suffered by slaves, officials, gentry and their families were relatively small.
After Wu Shigong and his fifth brother Wu Shiwen met, they knew that Wu Shiwen had fled the county, so something big must have happened. So Wu Shigong hurriedly bowed to Wu Shiwen's family members, then found an empty carriage and asked Wu Shiwen alone what happened.
What happened?
"Fifth brother! Where did the rioters near your county come from?"
"I don't know either! I also met a ghost, so I slept all night, and several counties around here became chaotic."
"Then what do you know?"
"I just know that there seems to be an army mutiny. I don't know which one it is! But I heard that it was the Ming army from Denglai who set out to rescue Liaodong. Eh? Fourteenth brother, why did you bring the army here?
Yes?"
"It was also the Ministry of War that ordered me to take the Runing Battalion north to rescue Liaodong." Wu Shigong smiled bitterly, "So where exactly is this mutinous army operating?"
"I really don't know!" Wu Shiwen really didn't know. He was just thinking about escaping at that time.
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Although he inquired for a long time, Wu Shigong still did not learn any useful information from his fifth brother Wu Shiwen. After the conversation, Wu Shigong met with the officers who went to other escaping officials and gentry to learn about the situation, and learned that those officials and gentry knew
He doesn’t know much more than his fifth brother Wu Shiwen.
Now Wu Shigong was in trouble. You must know that Wu Shigong now is not in Henan, which he was familiar with in Runing Camp, but in Shandong, a place he was unfamiliar with.
How wide is the sudden turmoil in Shandong? How many mutinous troops are there? Where are they currently operating? How far away are they from their own troops? Wu Shigong doesn't know this.
Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion only had 1,200 people. It was impossible to send out a large number of cavalry for long-range reconnaissance. It could only conduct reconnaissance in areas about 20 miles away from the army.
Moreover, Wu Shigong's current mission is to rush to Shanhaiguan. Should he abide by the original mission and continue to move forward? Or should he station on the spot to resist the rebel army? Or should the rebel army retreat to Henan because of the overwhelming force?
Wu Shigong felt that his head suddenly grew bigger!