When Gu Siyuan's term of filial piety to his grandfather Tang Hao expired, he left Tongguan at the end of March and marched eastward along the Yellow River. At that time, there was great chaos in eastern and southern Henan, and the counties in northern and northwest Shandong were under the control of the Liang family and his son. The road to Qingzhou was blocked.
They were so strict that they could only disguise themselves as a refugee army and try to find an opportunity to pass through the Huaisi area.
Yang Pu and Zhao Qinmin led more than 200 elites to pick up Gu Siyuan from Tongguan. They were all loyal followers of the Gu family. Their discipline and loyalty were worthy of testing. They passed through Hezhong Mansion and selected capable people from the refugees to take them into the army.
The family members accompanying them became the best cover for entering the Huaisi area and pretending to be a refugee army.
The refugee army was led by the Eight Great Bandits, but as they descended from the top of the mountain, there were many poles and their path was complicated.
Among all the refugee armies, Liu An'er was the most powerful. People came to seek refuge almost every day, and there were also speculative landlords. How could soldiers like Gu Siyuan, who traveled around with a large number of their families, be suspected?
After successively capturing several difficult-to-attack villages on the west bank of Bian River and seizing tens of thousands of stones of food and grass for the refugee army, Gu Siyuan's subordinates regarded Liu An'er as a trustworthy elite soldier, and in mid-May, they were drawn into the core battle area of the refugee army in Huaisi.
, transferred to the jurisdiction of Qushuai Malantou and stationed in the Suining Nanzhai area.
As early as early May, after receiving the secret envoy sent by Gu Siyuan, Lin Fu originally planned to send troops to pick them up from Huaisi and send them to Qingzhou. At that time, the refugee army could not even talk about blocking the Bianshui and Si Rivers.
On the contrary, Gu Siyuan took the initiative to stay in Huaisi and wait for the opportunity.
This stay lasted two months, until Liu Tingzhou led the Huaihe Army and entered Siyang, and Malantou transferred the elite refugee troops from Suyu and Suining areas. After Lin Fu led the Jiangdong left army to break through and rush to Surabaya and Hexi,
Gu Siyuan had the opportunity to wait for the opportunity and captured Suining City with almost no effort.
The crescent moon is like a hook, hanging in the sky, with a faint green light shining down, outlining the sparse shadows of the nearby hills, sparse forests, and rivers. Those shadowy shadows are the broken soldiers of the refugee army fleeing in the night. I only blame the night for being too dark.
Well, Lin Fu had no excuse to ask Gu Siyuan to withdraw his troops, let these defeated troops go and harvest less heads.
For Gu Siyuan and the young generals under his command, the dazzling military exploits still need to be set off by their heads. Even if they were still wearing the skin of the refugee army yesterday, most of the soldiers really regarded themselves as members of the refugee army, but this does not hinder
They changed their identities today and attacked yesterday's robes.
Gu Siyuan personally supervised the battle under the city, commanding and dispatching his troops to pursue and kill the defeated refugees. Zhao Qinmin was beside him to make suggestions. He was wearing a green shirt and a feather fan, which gave him the feeling of being the mastermind of the world.
Gu Siyuan recruited refugees in Hezhong Prefecture, and the number of troops increased to more than a thousand. He pretended to be a refugee army and stationed in Suining South Village. Naturally, he did not stop the pace of expansion. The troops under his command were expanded to four battalions. Including the family members who accompanied the army, there were almost six.
Looks like thousands of people.
The Huaisi area has always been rich, and food and grass are not a problem. The soldiers can only be supplemented by capturing local private soldiers, which is still seriously insufficient. However, there are more than 200 elite soldiers as the foundation, and they use the military management methods taught by Lin Fu.
In order to train the army, Gu Siyuan's four battalions of soldiers and horses were much more elite than the ordinary refugee army.
Yang Pu has been indifferent to fighting on the battlefield in recent years. He plans to get over this matter and hand over the troops to Gu Siyuan himself. He will also look back to Wuchen and become a loyal old servant. At this time, he comes to the city.
See Lin Fu.
Lin Fu frowned and looked at the killings below the city. When Yang Pu came closer, he came back to his senses and said, "Uncle Yang, these past few months have been quite tiring for you."
"How can I not be affected..." Yang Pu smiled indifferently. He was still a few years away from reaching the age of sixty. His beard and hair were already frosty white under the new moon. He was wearing iron armor, but he was a stern veteran.
Under the city, only the soldiers and horses of Gu Siyuan were chasing the defeated soldiers. In addition to the Shuiying camp, the Jiangdong left army, the Fengli camp, the Changshan camp, and the cavalry camp all entered the city to rest and recuperate. To outsiders, it seemed that Lin Fu was going to capture the enemy.
Suining's achievements were all handed over to Gu Siyuan, but Yang Pu, who had close contact with Lin Fu, knew that Lin Fu did not bother to take credit for the heads of these rioters.
At this time, someone hurriedly climbed to the top of the city to report: "Li Wei, the magistrate of Suining County, hanged himself from a beam in the back house of the county government office. He was just discovered by the guards. The medical officer has already gone to rescue him and came here to report to your lord..."
"Ah!" Lin Fu was also stunned, not knowing what kind of drama this was.
With Gu Siyuan as an undercover agent, Lin Fu knew exactly what the officials and squires in the Huaisi area did and what they looked like after the fall.
The county magistrate Li Wei was captured when the city of Suining was captured. Because of his good reputation in Suining, Liu An'er wanted to recruit him as a counselor. He would rather die than become a thief, so he was imprisoned in the prison of Suining County until tonight.
Release it.
For those officials who submitted to the refugee army, as long as they did not have any extremely disgusting misdeeds, Lin Fu planned to help them cover up their crimes and not pursue them to the court. For officials like Li Wei who had withstood the test, he would naturally go to the court to reward them.
.
This Li Wei was living a happy life in a bandit prison. There was no reason why he should hang himself from a rafter at the end of his hard life!
Lin Fu didn't know what was going on, but it was not a trivial matter and he couldn't ignore it. He also took advantage of the situation and ordered the troops to withdraw: "Let Si Yuan and Mr. Zhao come back to the city and come directly to the county government to find us..." He and Yang Puxian
I went to the county government house to see Li Wei, who had committed suicide by hanging from a beam.
As soon as Lin Fu and Yang Pu stepped into the back house of the county government, they heard a loud roar inside: "Miss is hanging! Miss is hanging!" Then they heard an old and weak voice shouting: "Let her die, die."
good!"
Lin Fu was even more confused. When he walked into the courtyard where Mingzhu was suffering from high fever, the medical officer came over and reported: "Master Li has just regained his breath. Fortunately, he discovered it earlier..."
"What's going on?" Lin Fu asked.
The medical officer came earlier and knew the details, so he asked in a low voice: "The lady who was waiting at the table said that Mr. Li came out of prison and knew that his daughter had been taken away by thieves as his wife and that she was pregnant, so he took a knife and wanted to kill her.
Girl, I don’t know what happened, but I hung myself first..."
Lin Fu sighed softly, raised his eyebrows, looked to the left and right, and said: "No one is allowed to tell anyone about this! Save everyone first." When he walked into the inner room, he saw Li Wei wearing a shabby official robe, and he burst into tears.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Lin Fu ordered others to leave first, pulled up a stool, sat in front of Li Wei, and said, "Master Li, why bother?"
"I can't bring myself to kill the rebellious daughter of the thief. I can only die to repay the imperial court." Li Wei burst into tears. He forced his thin body to kneel down, tremblingly took out a form of worship from his arms and handed it over.
When he came to Lin Fu, "Please make an envoy to present the form to the court on my behalf, so that I can die without regrets..."
Lin Fu thought to himself that although the old man regarded his reputation as his life, he still had some humanity and would not kill his pregnant daughter with a real sword. He took the form of worship, but threw it aside and scolded: "It's nonsense, Suining City is ruined."
The houses are in ruins, the people are homeless, and thousands of corpses are lying in the streets. As an official in Suining, you don’t want to cheer up and clarify political affairs, but instead follow the example of a little girl who seeks life and death. I think you are old and confused! Is it the people who are more important, or you?
Is Li Wei's reputation important? Think it over yourself!" He turned around and ordered his followers, "Send someone to secretly send Lord Li's daughter away overnight, and tell the public that she died at the hands of thieves and her body was missing. Anyone who dares to reveal this will be killed!
"Xiu Shou stood up and said to Li Wei who was kneeling on the ground in a daze, "I hope you eat and drink enough immediately and go to the front office to handle official duties. There are so many things going on here that I don't have time for you to grow up with your son and daughter here!
Before dawn, I want you to clarify the general situation in the city and report it to me."
Yang Pu sighed slightly, thinking that no one else could do it as neatly and neatly as Lin Fu. At this time, no one would notice that he was only twenty-three years old.
Lin Fu threw away his sleeves and left. Li Wei sat on his knees on the ground, as if dead. He could not hear the cars and horses in the yard next door. He took his crying daughter and the serving maid and mother-in-law away. After a long time, he left the ground.
He stood up, straightened his clothes, and told the people around him: "Let's cook a bowl of spicy noodle soup and go to the front office..." Then he went to the front office to handle official business.
Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin withdrew their troops and returned to the city. Lin Fu went back to the posthouse first, and they rushed to see him. Gu Siyuan and others were still unfinished, and asked: "What happened in the city? The night is not bad at this time, but tomorrow, the troops will be defeated outside the city."
I'm going to run away."
"A foolish official does foolish things, so it's okay not to talk about it. Just save him." Lin Fu was not a talkative woman. There was no need to talk about Suining Magistrate Li Wei's family affairs with everyone. He asked Gu Siyuan and others to sit down and talk, and said,
"There are more important things to do than chasing down the fugitives and getting one or two hundred more heads. Let's sit down and discuss the next step..."
"Right now, it seems that guarding Suining and relieving the siege of Liu Tingzhou will not only threaten the rear wing of the main force of the bandits surrounding Xuzhou, but also cut off their food routes. Yue Lengqiu can hold Xuzhou, and the bandits can only go north to Shandong. It just so happens
Let them fight the Liang family..." Gu Siyuan said.
I don’t know if Zhao Qinmin was behind Gu Siyuan’s opinions, but compared to when he first entered Jiangning, Gu Siyuan was played around by Wang Chao, Fan Zhimei and other young masters from Jiangning. He is much more mature and is really different from what he used to be.
Compared to that, I was quite surprised.
The refugee army's troops were too concentrated in the periphery of Xuzhou and insufficient food was raised on the spot. Siyang, Suyu, Tancheng, Yuntiguan and Linhuai, Hao, Si and other areas in the west were the main food raising areas for the refugee army.
Lin Fu led his troops to occupy Suining, and the water camp warships blocked the Bianshui and Si Rivers. In fact, they cut off the food route for the main force of the refugee army to encircle Xuzhou.
Under this situation, Liu An'er could either conquer Xuzhou with all his strength before there was a shortage of food and grass, or withdraw from the siege.
The initiative in the war is no longer in the hands of the refugee army.
Lin Fu thought that Liu An'er might not be willing to stop, and Yue Lengqiu was not a good person. It was urgent to send his troops back south to liberate Liu Tingzhou first. He could not let Ma Lan head. Sun Zhuang was in Siyang, and Su Yu calmly reorganized his troops and fought with him.
Liu An'er sent troops from Xuzhou to attack Suining.
The key lies in the word "quick".
The reinforcements sent by Liu An'er from Xuzhou must have just been dispatched, and they are still about a hundred miles away from Suining; the Jiangdong Left Army set out from Suining to aid Liu Tingzhou, and still had to walk more than a hundred miles.
"I will start my troops at dawn and go south to Siyang. But when I arrive in Siyang, the bandits who want to come to Xuzhou will have to be pushed to Suining City. After I rescue Liu Tingzhou, I will send my troops north to support Suining. It may take two days and two nights.
time," Lin Fu looked at Gu Siyuan and asked, "How much more troops do you need from me to support you in order to defend Suining?"
Perhaps it would be most appropriate to leave Qin Chengzu to guard Suining, but whether it was public or private, Lin Fu wanted Gu Siyuan to be the commander-in-chief. With Yang Pu and Zhao Qinmin assisting him, Gu Siyuan could stand alone.
"Ma Lantou, Sun Zhuang is in Suyu, and there are still more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Siyang, all of them are elite soldiers. The key is to go and save Liu Tingzhou quickly. There cannot be fewer soldiers and horses. I have a water camp to support me, and I am not afraid of the rear.
The road is cut off," Gu Siyuan said, "You have extra soldiers, armor, bows and arrows, lend me some, and I will guard Suining for two days, waiting for you to return..."