When the invaders attacked, Song Xiaobo, the governor of Hecheng Division, lost two of his three souls. He coaxed and frightened several staff members who wanted to escape. He was so hot-headed that he took his family, staff, and servants in a hurry without caring about the consequences.
He secretly left the city and fled westward by boat.
After those few aides who knew well escaped, they would certainly not follow Song Xiaobo to Weiyang Mansion and be implicated again. When they arrived in Jiuhua, they parted ways and abandoned Song Xiaobo. Song Xiaobo would not meet Wang Chengfu again at this time.
In need of Wang Chengfu's persuasion, he calmed down and realized how serious the crime was for the city defender to abandon the city and flee without fighting. He was afraid that even if all his wealth was lost, he might not be able to save his head.
After thinking about it, Song Xiaobo felt that going to Weiyang to escape death was more dangerous than Shuhe City, so of course he did not dare to go. He also fantasized about abandoning his official position, hiding his name, and becoming a rich man. He also felt that this strategy was very difficult to implement, and it was really difficult to make up his mind.
After listening to Wang Chengfu's advice, he hurriedly went ashore and went to Chongzhou to try his luck.
Even if Lin Fu refused to agree to send troops to help him recapture Crane City, the situation would not be too bad.
In order to finally achieve the goal of plotting Hecheng Grassland, Lin Fu thought for a long time in the secret room, and finally decided to follow Wang Chengfu's suggestion and win over Song Xiaobo, the governor of Hecheng Division, to cover up the crime of abandoning the city and fleeing.
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Lin Fu and Wang Chengfu walked back to the meeting hall and said to the people standing here: "Hecheng and Chongzhou are adjacent to each other. Mr. Song, the governor of Hecheng Division, personally came to Chongzhou to ask for help. We cannot stand idly by..."
Cao Ziang was enlightened. He had just exchanged opinions with Fu Qinghe and Sun Jingtang privately. After hearing what Lin Fu said, he took out the letter from the west of Hecheng City that the sentry sent in the morning and asked: "This is also going to be distorted."
Can you please revise it?"
"Yeah." Lin Fu nodded in a muffled voice. Since he wanted to cover up Song Xiaobo's crimes, he not only had to send troops to help him recapture Crane City, but also reversed the truth and corrected the story of him abandoning the city and escaping first.
"The affairs of the country have been ruined at the hands of such a rat. If Brother Lin didn't just kidnap him and send him to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for punishment, why would he have to plead guilty for him?" Zhao Shuhan and others who were waiting for the news in the hall saw that Lin Fu changed his mind in the blink of an eye.
asked in surprise.
"Alas," Lin Fu could not tell the present Gu Siyuan, Zhao Shuhan and others about his intention to plot Hecheng pasture at this time. He just smiled bitterly and said, "The Hecheng military fortress has been lost, and Chongzhou is in trouble. He wants to invade the East China Sea as soon as possible."
When rushing to the sea, some things cannot be done arbitrarily - the defenders of Hecheng Division were defeated, but the casualties were not large. They were all scattered in Chongzhou. With Song Xiaobo coming forward, it would be easier to integrate the defeated troops. The Hecheng military fortress is in memory
There is not much food. If we want to restrict the invaders from raising food on the spot, we must clear the country and evacuate all the soldiers and civilians from all the capitals and pavilions on the left and right. This will not be possible without Song Xiaobo's intervention..."
"Song Xiaobo abandoned the city and fled, causing the army to be demoralized and lose the city. Now he went out of the city at night to Chongzhou to ask for reinforcements. The reinforcements did not arrive, the defenders were not strong-willed, and the city was easily captured by the bandits——This is one of the
There are indeed huge differences," Gu Siyuan said, "However, even if we cover it up for him, the truth about the fall of Hecheng Division will spread through other people's mouths. How can we excuse him then?"
"This world is inherently indifferent between black and white," Lin Fu sighed. "As long as Song Xiaobo stays in Chongzhou and actively gathers the remaining soldiers to help me counterattack Hecheng, what if he escapes?" Wang Chengfu asked.
Go to the side hall to invite Song Xiaobo and Wu Meijiu back to discuss matters.
Lin Fu had made up his mind. Zhao Shuhan and the others were just guests who came to Chongzhou to attend a wedding. He objected in his heart, but he could not argue face to face. He also stayed to discuss the matter of guarding the bandits together.
Seeing that Lin Fu had changed his mind, Song Xiaobo tried his best to cover up his serious crime. When he came back, he knelt down again, kowtowed to Lin Fu a few times, and said: "Master Lin treats me like his parents again."
, Not to mention the afterlife, it is also an honor for me to serve as a dog or a horse for Mr. Lin in this life..." When I talked about the excitement, my tears and nose mingled together.
Wu Meijiu couldn't help but show disdain, and she was also wondering why Lin Fu suddenly changed his mind. He clearly wanted to kick Song Xiaobo out just now?
"Master Song, sit up and talk." Lin Fu asked Song Xiaobo to be lifted up from the ground, brought him a stool, and asked him, "Master Song, can you carry the seal with you? In order to prevent the East China Sea bandits from requisitioning food on the spot,
To defend the Hecheng military fortress, it is necessary to immediately evacuate the Zhuduting grassland households and salt soldiers. Mr. Song has been working hard for half the night. It is inconvenient to be tired again. However, Mr. Song needs to sign an order so that I can send someone to complete this matter on Mr. Song's behalf.
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"The seal is on my side," Song Xiaobo said. As long as he didn't push himself to die, Song Xiaobo could do anything at this time. He hurriedly lifted up the skirt of his robe, took off the ribbon pouch from the fleshy pleats around his waist, and put a paperweight-sized
He poured out the copper seal, held it in both hands and handed it to Lin Fu's case, saying, "Whatever Mr. Lin wants to do, just use the seal. There is no need to discuss with me..."
Wu Meijiu thought that Song Xiaobo was really spineless. Although he could not do anything for Lin Fu in Chongzhou, his official seal would never be touched by Lin Fu. Song Xiaobo actually handed over the official seal. No wonder Lin Fu wanted to keep it.
Song Xiaobo's life, such an obedient puppet, is more useful than anything else.
Lin Fu was also stunned. He didn't expect Song Xiaobo to hand over the official seal so straightforwardly, which caught him off guard in front of Wu Meijiu, Zhao Shuhan, Gu Siyuan and others. He smiled coquettishly and said: "Master Song should have the seal himself.
Safekeeping, I cannot go beyond the custody..." At that time, we discussed immediately sending a sentry with the order letter signed by Song Xiaobo, sneaking into the hinterland of the Hecheng grassland, and ordering all the grassland households under the jurisdiction of Zhudu Pavilion to evacuate westward to Chongzhou.
The guards at the capital pavilion were ordered to assemble in the direction of Jiangmen.
There are nine capital pavilions under the Hecheng Division. In addition to the pastures of more than 9,000 households, there are also more than 400 garrison troops.
Zhao Hu is guarding Jiangmen, but his troops are still weak. Once the war breaks out and the East China Sea pirates disembark from Jiangmen, Zhao Hu will be very tight, and the reinforcements that can be mobilized here will be very limited.
These more than 400 Ding Yong were scattered in various capital pavilions and could not play any role in preventing banditry in normal times. Their combined combat power was also very limited. However, after all, they had a certain scale and could be used as auxiliary troops if they were reorganized.
In addition, most of the defeated Hecheng troops fled into the northeastern region of Chongzhou, numbering about five to six hundred people.
Some of these broken troops passed through the west garrison of Hecheng, and Liu Zhenzhi detained more than a hundred people. However, most of the broken troops were scattered in the villages, and looting had already occurred. Before that, Hu Zhicheng had sent rural soldiers from the county to suppress it.
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Lin Fu said to Wang Chengfu: "Although you are waiting for a crime, you have done a good job in helping me. I will give you an envoy. Jinghai Division is short of an official, so you have to do it and take the responsibility first. Master Song sent a few confidants
Following you, I will send you another team of cavalry. You must gather most of the defeated troops to the west of Hecheng before dark to assemble and stand by." He said in a serious tone, "In troubled times, heavy orders are needed. If the defeated troops dare not to obey orders, then they will be punished.
On the charge of rioting, beheading on the spot, no mercy..." He ordered Zhao Bao beside him, "Go and order the cavalry of the capital, and you must obey the orders of the king's officials all the way..."
The official is a clerk, a kind of official, whose status is lower than that of the official.
The Jinghai Governor's Office is a yamen of the sixth rank. However, except for Lin Fu, who is also the chief official of the sixth rank, all other subordinates are civil servants and there are no assistant officers. Bihecheng Division is under Song Xiaobo, the governor of the seventh rank.
In addition, there are two subordinate officials, namely, the eight-pin Caochang Supervisor and the nine-pincang ambassador.
Lin Mengde and others didn't mind such superficial things. Officials were just officials, and there was nothing inconvenient about doing things.
Zhao Bao is the younger brother of Zhao Hu. The three brothers, plus the younger brother Zhao Mengxiong, are all talented in martial arts. Zhao Bao is only eighteen years old this year and can lift four to five hundred kilograms of weight. His arms are frighteningly strong. Lin
Fu originally arranged a hidden stake for the seventh lady to protect her. He usually only acted as an ordinary banker. He also taught Zhao Bao how to ride, shoot, and learn mace. Zhao Bao studied for two years, and after polishing his proficiency in fists and feet, he became a master.
He is a good man. He was naturalized in the village camp and followed his mother to guard Zhou Quan next to the Seventh Madam.
After Gu Yingxiu went to Chongzhou with a group of orphans and widows, more than two hundred private soldiers of the Lin family stayed in Jiangning to listen to Lin Xulu's dispatch, while Zhao Bao followed to Chongzhou to serve in the personal guard camp and trained with Lin Fu.
The troops of the cavalry camp and the Chongzhou infantry camp could no longer be dispersed, so Lin Fu could only draw people from the guard camp to follow Wang Chengfu to collect the defeated troops.
Zhao Bao heard Lin Fu's order, took the letter talisman, and quickly went to the barracks on the southeast slope to gather the cavalry of the capital team. Together with Wang Chengfu, who had taken Song Xiaobo's order letter, he rushed to the north of Chongzhou to collect the defeated troops.
Song Xiaobo abandoned the city and fled first. He no longer had any prestige among the defenders of Hecheng. However, at this time, Lin Fu could only use Song Xiaobo's name to gather the defeated troops. He was worried that the defeated troops would not obey orders, so he gave Wang Cheng an extra kill.
The authority to kill rebels.
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In addition to assembling Hecheng Division's forces as much as possible, the Jiangdong Left Army also had to make adjustments.
Lin Fu didn't like Song Xiaobo, so he asked Hu Zhicheng to transfer several carts and twenty rural soldiers to him. On the pretext of letting him go to Jiuhua to bring his family here to settle down, he drove him away from his eyes and nose. But Chongzhou was on guard.
Lin Fu would not hide the affairs from Wu Meijiu, who was the county magistrate, and also invited Gu Siyuan, Zhao Shuhan and others to stay and discuss the defense together.
"Chongzhou, the beaches east of Gaocheng and the sea are all shallow water," Lin Fu hung the map of Hailing Mansion that he spent a lot of effort to make on the wall. He couldn't find a more accurate and detailed map than this one.
, the map even marked the tide lines along the coast, "The East China Sea pirates chose to invade the coast, and they also purposefully used the shallow water and shoal terrain in these offshore areas to restrict the entry of our large warships to participate in the war. In this way, the East China Sea pirates gained
The advantage of the large number of people on board is not afraid of our naval division outflanking its retreat. At this time, the Donghai bandits occupy the Hecheng military fortress and use it as a stronghold to invade the Huainan salt field from the north and even attack Qingjiangpu and Huaikou. We no longer need to worry
The East China Sea pirates will rashly invade the river mouth. Jiangdong Left Army will make two adjustments. First, the main force of the boat division will assemble towards Jiangmen Island, and the main force of infantry and cavalry will assemble towards the west garrison of Hecheng. The above arrangements must be completed before dark. Here in Chongzhou
The border must complete the assembly of village warriors and civilian ships within three days to serve as reserve combat power. If the invaders forcefully invade the river mouth, any warships that can be mobilized will be used. Who dares to obstruct this matter, military law in wartime
/ There will be no mercy in the matter. Mr. Wu, I will ride to Hecheng at noon, so I will ask you to take more responsibility for this matter."
The clouds of war have already enveloped the sky of Chongzhou. Listening to Lin Fu's deployment, he directly threatened the Hecheng military fortress with his infantry and cavalry, making a move to attack the city and seize the stronghold. The boat division could go out to sea from Jiangmen Island at any time to outflank its retreat.
Wu Meijiu secretly thought that the Jiangdong Left Army was really going to fight against the Donghai bandits controlled by the She family.