Even if we drive to Wugong Mountain with a fast horse, it will take four or five hours. When we come back with soldiers and horses, it will be even slower, and there are less than 10,000 soldiers. Although we still don’t know whether Li Tao’s report is true or false, Jia Cong thought
Even if it was false, it was just a false alarm. If it were true, it would be fatal. So a soldier from the special battalion was immediately sent to report the news.
After a while, Uncle Yang came. Jia Cong said straight away: "There may be bandits coming tomorrow or the day after. Reinforcements are not so fast. I have to discuss repairing the city wall with you to guard against the enemy." Uncle Yang was shocked.
He turned around and told General Qi, "Master Su has General Yang under his command. When he was young, he followed General Shi to fight against foreigners in northern Xinjiang. He was the one who defeated the enemy with 600 cavalry and defeated 8000 enemies. Have you ever heard of him?"
General Qi immediately said: "How could you not know? This is what a man should do."
Jia Cong responded: "I know General Qi is also a good man!" He ordered people to get the map and invited Yang Guotai to come.
As soon as Yang Guotai entered the door, Uncle Yang looked at him and shouted: "Tu Genzi! Have you ever been a general?"
Yang Guotai didn't know what happened yet, so he raised his hands and said, "Brother Qianli, I went to the battlefield in my early years."
Yang Erbo happily took his hand and said, "I told you that this brother of yours is pleasing to the eye and seems to be a promising person."
Jia Cong said: "General Yang, please don't be humble. You have been staying in this city for so many years. As a general, you have nothing to think about in your free time, how to attack and defend the city?"
Yang Guotai thought: "I have really thought about it. Is there something wrong?"
"Now let's assume that the enemy has 40,000 troops and the defenders are 3,000." Jia Cong looked at him and General Qi, "Do you want to join forces and try to defeat 3,000 to 40,000?" General Qi was slightly stunned. Jia Cong shrugged, "
Anyway, General Qi can't leave, and he can only live and die with us." General Qi's brows moved. Jia Cong then pointed to the map and said, "Fourteen families of bandits are just outside the city."
Yang Guotai suddenly took a breath and said, "Is it still too late to get cement to solidify the city?"
Jia Cong thought for a while: "I'm afraid it's too late."
Yang Guotai frowned: "This is not going to be easy." He glanced at General Qi, and the two of them clasped fists and exchanged greetings.
Both of them were industry insiders, and they pointed at the map to discuss. The others didn't understand, so they listened. After talking for a while, they roughly had a shadow. Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Ruijin added: "I am responsible for killing the bandit leader.
It’s up to you to take care of it.”
Erbo Yang hummed: "This is my old man's territory. What does the bandit leader have to do with a girl like you?"
Chen Ruijin hurriedly smiled and cupped his hands: "Yes, I won't grow old with you..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard someone say outside the window: "I have killed the bandit leader Xu Qi. There are still some small groups of bandits that have not arrived, leaving you to play." Then he saw the willow swan fluttering in through the window. Jia Cong's heart sank.
: He would rather Li Tao was playing around.
It turned out that when Liu Hu heard that there was a fear of bandits attacking the city, the first thing he thought of was the three thousand grain guards. He and Zhenming traveled in the West for several years, specializing in instigating wars among various countries. They also lived in the suburbs of Nanchang for another year.
He was familiar with the roads. Because he thought that if he was a bandit, he would set up an ambush when the three thousand soldiers escorting grain soldiers left the city, and annihilate them all in one fell swoop. Without these troops, Nanchang Prefecture would have no more available officers and soldiers. Now Li Guopei
We are on the west side of Jiangxi Province, and the grain and grass are also going there. If we want to set up an ambush in the west of the city, we go to the west of the city to investigate first. There is Feihong Mountain sixty miles west of the city. Although the mountain is not big, it is enough to hide bandits. He also has that mountain.
I don’t know how many times I walked around, but I found bandit soldiers all over the mountains and plains. There is a Taoist temple on the mountain, Ziyang Palace. The bandit leader Xu Qi and the Taoist priest were in the same group and were discussing something. Liu Hu eavesdropped for a while and used his sleeve arrows outside the window.
Crucified Xu Qi.
Everyone hurriedly asked the thief what he said, and he said: "I heard from Xu Qi that Li Guopei is planning to annihilate Luo Xiaoshan next month, and it would be the best time to attack Nanchang Mansion at that time. We don't have all the people here yet, why is it suddenly advanced? Old?"
The Taoist priest said that he didn't know either. There must be a reason. Xu Qi added that he hurried over and agreed to wait for the man named Qi to leave for six or seven days before taking action. Why did he have to do it earlier? The old Taoist priest said that he guessed it was because
Something happened in the city. The price of rice has dropped back, and those lowly merchants are all as timid as rats. Xu Qi complained about the rush. That's all he could say."
After hearing this, Jia Cong thought: "The reason for the advance from next month to recently is that we suddenly came to join in the fun. What is the reason for the second advance? Isn't it better to wait until General Qi is far away before taking action? And these
The Green Foresters, who are living a chaotic life, are entering the city one after another. They are all unstable factors, and they are temporarily regarded as people from the opponent's side. Once bandits attack the city, the Green Foresters will make noise in the city, which can form a pincer attack from inside and outside. Especially if there are no people in the city.
The guards and Green Forest people can all help open the city gate."
Chen Ruijin continued: "The bandits attacked the city and there were no soldiers in the city. Mr. Su could only go to the rich households' homes to recruit servants to guard the city. The more people in the green forest, the more people took advantage of the situation and robbed them. The wealthy households wanted to keep their servants to guard their homes and refused to lend them.
The government, it is actually better to wait."
Yang Guotai asked: "How many guards do you have with muskets?"
Jia Cong said: "Originally there were only more than twenty. It has just reached three hundred. In a few days there will be hundreds."
"That's enough."
"Ah?" Jia Cong was stunned, "Three hundred! Including the three thousand from General Qi, it's only three thousand and three."
Yang Guotai straightened his back and said confidently: "Three thousand grain guards are equipped with muskets. Each of you three hundred must be as good as ten. It is enough to deal with bandits and defend the city."
Jia Cong said: "These bandits are the breed of officers and soldiers."
Yang Guotai hummed: "What about the quality of the officers and soldiers? I have been a bandit for more than ten years, and I don't know how much sand is mixed in."
Su Cheng suddenly said: "General Yang, do you think we have enough manpower?"
Yang Guotai said with emotion: "I don't like it when the eldest lady calls me general."
Su Cheng smiled sweetly: "Uncle Tugen, we have enough manpower, right?"
Yang Guotai's face immediately burst into laughter: "That's enough, that's enough. Make sure Mr. Su is safe and sound."
Su Cheng took a breath, pointed at the map and said: "Then Uncle Tugen will have to go to defend the city now." Everyone was stunned. Su Cheng said seriously, "Uncle Liu killed Xu Qi, Xu Qi was not one of them
The leader of the enemy. The other party originally had a good plan, but they asked us to dismantle it step by step, and each step became more urgent."
Liu Xiaoqi shouted: "No! Could the soldiers guarding the city gate be bandits?"
Yang Guotai stood up and said: "Jia Cong, your people immediately go to guard the four directions of the city gate. Replace the original gatekeepers but are not allowed to let them go. Three hundred people, fifty from the southeast, north and south, and the remaining one hundred and fifty follow me."
Come." He looked at General Qi again and said, "Give me all your people." General Qi opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word "no". Yang Guotai looked at Yang Erbo and clasped his fists again, "Brother Qianli, please excuse me.
I'll go and take care of the water roots."
Uncle Yang's eyes widened: "What?!"
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said: "We didn't tell you because we didn't dare to alert the snake. Your uncle Shui Gen...that..."
Uncle Yang immediately understood what he meant, pointed at him and said: "You stupid boy! His inn is already full of green forest people, but I thought he didn't know it and warned him several times!"
Just when Jia Cong was about to argue, Yang Guotai said first: "Once the bandits attack the city, the green forest people in the city will not cause trouble. Could you please Brother Qianli and you Yang family people to help suppress them?"
Uncle Yang patted his chest and said, "With me here, what do those young children mean? My old man's feet are up, and they are higher than their heads."
Yang Guotai clasped his fists again: "Please."
Without hesitation, everyone went their separate ways. Jia Cong thought for a moment, and Chen Ruijin was guarding the Su Mansion, so the Su family would be fine; Yang Shuigen ran an inn, and as the elder brother of the same clan, Yang Erbo could calm him down; another green forest gathering place
There was a tea shop on the ground and a master was needed. So he asked Liu Hu to help Liao Shouping control the situation, and asked Zhenming and Yang Guotai to hold the battle. Not long after, the yamen who went to the city gate with the soldiers came to report: There are four city gates.
They were all taken over by the Taiwanese special forces.
Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief and asked two ladies, Chen Ruijin and Su Cheng, to see Su Zheng in the courtyard and tell the old man that he would run to the magistrate's office. Su Tao didn't know anything yet and was asking questions. There was nothing to try in these cases, right and wrong were clear-cut;
It's just that every time the lower limit is refreshed, Su Tao, an upright scholar, is so angry that his liver hurts.
He was currently asking about a property seizure case. It turned out that his brother-in-law sold his widowed sister-in-law to someone else as a second wife, and he took over the nephew's property without giving him enough to eat. By the way, he also took away his brother's property. But the person who bought his sister-in-law was originally from the family.
The couple had been childless for many years before they bought a woman who had given birth to a child. Now the widow has given birth to a son. The plaintiff is the little nephew, who is only eight years old now. The old servant of the family led him to play drums and complain, and sued his uncle for betraying his mother.
Su Tao naturally ruled that the property should be returned to his nephew and the widow should return to her late husband's family.
The widow burst into tears on the spot: "The palms and backs of my hands are all flesh, and my child is less than three years old..."
Su Tao sighed: "Now that the matter has come to this, the child is his son after all."
Jia Cong coughed and said, "Brother, you did not decide this case correctly."
Su Tao was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Jia Cong said: "The cause and effect are wrong. First of all, this sister-in-law is not a slave, but a good citizen. Is that right?"
"right."
"So her brother-in-law has no right to sell her, right?"
"right."
"So the transaction that my brother-in-law sold her to this buyer on that day was not established, right?"
"right."
"Since the transaction is not established, the sister-in-law has always been her husband's wife, not the buyer's second wife. Her son should belong to her husband's family. The child is the little brother's younger brother and has nothing to do with the buyer." Jia Cong looked at the buyer.
The child said, "This man was given to your family by God. He is your brother. He is not someone else's child."
The little nephew was stunned: "But he is not my father's son!"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Is your mother your father's wife?"
"Of course!"
"Then your mother's son is your father's son." Jia Cong turned to look at the defendant's buyer and said, "Don't feel wronged. When you bought this sister-in-law, even if some middle-aged man said nonsense, she
I will definitely tell you the truth. You know that she is not a slave, but you insist on treating her as a slave and forcing her to have a child. You have committed the crime of raping a common girl."
The buyer was anxious: "My son is mine!"
Jia Cong shrugged: "Since the woman is not yours, the son is naturally not yours either." He looked at Su Tao again, "otherwise, wouldn't it mean that all the families in the world who don't have sons can rape common women to get sons?"
After hearing this, Su Tao felt it was reasonable and nodded repeatedly: "That's right!" Then he gave the youngest son to the plaintiff's family as Jia Cong said. The young nephew was confused and turned to look at the old servant. Su Tao advised, "
A prosperous family is the way to run a household. You are a single person, but now God has given you brothers and sisters, isn't it a good thing?"
When the old servant heard the magistrate's words, he knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Master——" The little nephew also knelt down and thanked him. The buyer, Baba, lost his son and cried with regret.
When this group of people left, Jia Congfang whispered to Su Tao that bandits were afraid of attacking the city. Su Tao was anxious: "What should we do?"
"As a civil servant, you should just leave it alone." Jia Cong said, "Isn't General Qi here?" Anyway, all the people have been dispatched. "Now it's just suspicion. If there is any trouble, General Qi will send someone to report it.
"Su Tao rolled up his sleeves and was about to go to the city gate to have a look. He asked Jia Cong to persuade him and took him to see the old man Su Zheng - these Muggles can't be scattered everywhere.
On the other side, Uncle Yang returned home first and gathered his children and grandchildren to give instructions for a long time. Then he went to the inn owned by his brother Yang Shuigen. He walked in and asked the waiter with a smile: "Where is Shuigen?"
The waiter said "Ouch" and stepped forward to salute: "Second Master, are you here?"
Uncle Yang looked at the guests coming and going in the hall and said in a low voice: "Why are there more and more of these people? I don't think they are good citizens."
The waiter smiled and said: "They have a lot of money. Besides, the road is complete, so I can't help but let people stay in the hotel for no reason."
Uncle Yang frowned: "I don't feel at ease. Call your boss out quickly. I have something important to ask him." The boy agreed and ran to the back.
Inside, Yang Shuigen was discussing matters with several people. When he heard the report, he was moved and asked several of his accomplices: "Yang Tugen has surrendered to the imperial court. Will he confess me?"
Someone in the audience thought: "I'm afraid not yet. If Yang Qianli pretends to be nothing and asks you to go back to the old house for dinner, it will be the Hongmen Banquet. Hearing this tone, he thinks he got some reminder and came to ask you. You just coax him."
Just go to him."
Yang Shuigen packed up his clothes and came out. He greeted Uncle Yang and smiled: "Second brother, why do you have time to come here today?"
Uncle Yang's eyebrows were furrowed, and he deliberately lowered his voice so that the whole hall could hear him: "Your son is doing stupid things now that he's grown up! I don't want to think about your grandson either."
Yang Shuigen asked curiously: "What did second brother say? What did I do that made me stupid?" As he approached Uncle Yang.
Uncle Yang put his hand on Yang Shuigen's shoulder and said, "Tell me clearly! Why did you get involved with that woman from the Li family?"
After hearing the second half of the sentence, Yang Shuigen already understood that something was wrong, but he was not as fast as Yang Erbo, so he forced him to press his shoulders so that he could not move, and shouted: "Help me quickly!"
There were many green forest people sitting around in the hall, but judging from the situation, it was obvious that Dong Jia was hooking up with some woman at the inn. The owner's brother came to ask him, who cares about this business? They were all watching the fun with great interest. Uncle Yang also pressed his other arm.
He went up and said, "Why don't you pick a better-looking one! Her eldest daughter-in-law was reincarnated as a dumb gourd spirit in her last life, and now everyone in the four or five nearby villages knows about it! Go back with me quickly and make it clear that you and that woman
I've never seen him, never recognized him, and everything has nothing to do with you, do you hear me?" He pinched Yang Shuigen's shoulder with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "He is heartless, and he doesn't know the heights of the world! Even if the trouble gets big, my brother will help.
I can't help you." Yang Shuigen was stunned.
But at this moment, I heard someone shouting outside: "It's terrible—the bandits are coming—"