With an urgent shout, a Shang Shui Army messenger hurried into the front office of Yangxia County. He kowtowed to Zhao Hongrun, who was standing in the hall meditating with his hands behind his back.
King Su and General Wu Majiao were attacked by rebels on the street when they were searching the scholar's hall in the city."
Zhao Hongrun turned around calmly and asked calmly: "General Wuma, do you want to ask for help?"
"Uh, never. The general just asked the young one to come and report to His Highness Prince Su." The messenger said truthfully after being stunned for a moment.
In other words, there are not many thieves attacking Wumajiao. He can deal with it by himself. He just sent someone to inform me.
Zhao Hongrun nodded secretly and said, "I understand, please go down."
"yes!"
The ordering soldiers retreated in response.
Watching the messenger walk out of the lobby of the front office, Zhao Hongrun lowered his head and pondered, his expression not very good.
Because within the time of burning incense, he had received several reports one after another. The reason was that many hidden thieves forces and the rangers in the city successively attacked the garrison in the city that had been taken over by the Shang Shui Army.
treasury and money and grain treasury.
Especially in the military base, according to the soldiers who came to report, there were hundreds of thieves who gathered to attack the military base, and the vast majority of them were the many rangers in the city judging from their clothing.
But it's no wonder, after all, Zhao Hongrun ordered Wuma Jiao and others to collect weapons from many military halls in the city and temporarily pile them in the arsenal.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that those rangers mainly attacked the weapons depot in order to regain their confiscated weapons.
The problem is that the rangers who attacked the arsenal all had weapons in their hands.
This phenomenon is very interesting.
No matter how you think about it, it is inseparable from the hidden thief forces in the city: either the hidden thief forces in the city bewitched the rangers who had not yet collected their weapons and instigated them to attack the arsenal guarded by the merchant navy.
The thieves distributed the extra weapons to the rangers whose weapons had been confiscated, and instigated the latter to gather in crowds to take back their weapons.
In other words, after he, Zhao Hongrun, took the lead to break up with the hidden thieves in Yangxia, the latter also quickly started to fight back. As for the intensity of the counterattack, it was not very intense for the time being.
As the main force of the counterattack, it was still the rangers, a group of mobs that seemed to be on the verge of collapse in the eyes of the Shang Shui Army. In the first confrontation, a dozen or twenty people died, and they immediately retreated back to the alley where they appeared in fear, almost
It did not have any impact on the Shangshui soldiers stationed in various places in the city.
Of course, although it seemed impossible to shake the Shang Shui Army's defense, Zhao Hongrun still did not dare to underestimate the hidden thieves in Yangxia County. After all, he could also see that those who came forward to attack the Shang Shui Army were nothing more than things like
The Ranger's desperadoes, those hidden thieves who are good at assassination, have not taken any action yet.
Zhao Hongrun naturally understood what this meant: the hidden thieves in Yangxia were warning him, or perhaps demonstrating their force.
If nothing goes wrong, if Zhao Hongrun continues to insist on taking back Yangxia on behalf of the imperial court and takes action to eradicate the hidden thief forces in Yangxia City, then the hidden thief forces in Yangxia City will officially attack him and the Shang Shui Army he leads.
Launch an attack.
It is in line with the words of Huang Yu, the magistrate of Yuxian County: It is simply lawless!
Zhao Hongrun clenched his fists bitterly.
But having said that, he was somewhat worried about the threat from the hidden thieves in Yangxia.
He originally thought that after the 4,000 Shang navy troops stationed in Yangxia, the hidden thieves would not dare to cause trouble even if they had the courage to do so. However, he did not expect that those gangs of people would still have such courage to instigate the rangers in the city to attack the Shang Dynasty.
Navy.
What does this mean?
This shows that the other party is not afraid of the four thousand merchant navy.
To put it bluntly, the other party believed that it would have the upper hand in the subsequent conflict with the four thousand merchant navy.
Could it be that the power of Yangxia Hidden Thief is more than what I guessed?
Zhao Hongrun paced back and forth in the hall.
Most of his understanding of the Yangxia Hidden Thieves came from the accounts of Yuxian County Magistrate Huang Yu and Wu Wei Zou Liang. But if you think about it carefully, the latter two may not be able to accurately grasp the power of the Yangxia Hidden Thieves.
ah.
It is very possible that Huang Yu and Zou Liang's understanding of the Yangxia Hidden Thief was limited to the power exposed by the Yangxia Hidden Thief.
This is not good
Zhao Hongrun stopped and frowned in thought.
It is undeniable that he also understands that he was too impulsive this time. Otherwise, as long as he waits for a month or so for the main forces of the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army to return, the Liangyang Xia hidden thieves will not be able to come up with any tricks.
But it's too late to say this now. After all, he has ordered the Shang Shui Army to garrison Yangxia. Is it possible that he can withdraw from the city again?
In this way, wouldn’t he, Prince Su, lose all his face?
What's more, it would be a big mistake if the embarrassing incident only increased the arrogance of Yang Xia Hidden Thief.
What to do?
Zhao Hongrun muttered secretly.
Suddenly, a look of surprise appeared on his face, he clapped his hands and said in annoyance: "I'm stupid! Why didn't I think of that?"
At this moment, Zhao Hongrun was shocked to realize that he had entered a misunderstanding.
It is true that the main force of the merchant navy led by Wu Ji should still be in the suburbs of Daliang at this moment, undergoing post-war reorganization and accepting rewards from the court. It is also true that it will take about one month for the main force of the merchant navy to return to the Shangshui area from Daliang.
About a little more.
The misunderstanding is that more than one month is the time it takes for Wu Ji's Shangshui army to return to the Shangshui area from Daliang by land. But what if it takes the waterway?
We temporarily requisitioned transport ships from the Xia Cang Department of our headquarters and asked the merchant navy to take the boats along the Cai River and the Wo River to the boundary of Yangxia County. It only took a few days.
It is undeniable that the transport ships deployed by the Cangbu Department cannot transport all the 16,000 or so soldiers under Wu Ji's command to Yangxia at one time. That kind of ship can only transport about 200 people per ship. But the problem is,
Nowadays, there are more than dozens or hundreds of ships in Cangbe traveling between Xiangfu Port and Shangshui County?
Calculated, with only a few trips back and forth, Wu Ji's approximately 16,000 Shangshui soldiers could be transported to Yangxia.
"Hehehehe"
Under the stunned gaze of Zong Wei Chief Shen Yu, Zhao Hongrun suddenly laughed.
Threatening me? Okay! Let’s see!
After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun ordered the clan guards to find pen, ink and paper, and wrote four letters in a short time.
The first of these four letters was given to Zhao Yuanli, the sixth uncle of the king. Zhao Hongrun wanted to ask the latter something.
After all, before leaving Daliang, his uncle Liu Wang personally went to Prince Su's Mansion and asked him who else he had offended besides Zong Lao. At that time, Zhao Hongrun said no, but as a result, he was assassinated just after he left Daliang.
Zhao Hongrun would not believe it if there was no relationship between the two, because it was too coincidental.
The second letter was given to Li Liang, Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. After all, Zhao Hongrun wanted to temporarily requisition a transport ship from the Warehouse Department, so he naturally had to write a letter in his own hand. This was etiquette and could not be done casually.
So he asked someone to deliver a message. After all, Li Liang was also the household secretary of the imperial court, and he was not someone he could call around at will.
As for the third seal, it was given to Wang Fu, the Bureau Chief of the Smelting Bureau. After all, the enemies of the Shang Shui Army this time were agile hidden thieves. Their individual strength was very strong. In close-range hand-to-hand combat, Shang Shui soldiers might not be able to fight.
They are no match for this group of hidden thieves, unless they use hand crossbows.
But the problem is, Shangshui soldiers can't all run around with a hand crossbow, right? You must know that hand crossbows also require both hands to operate.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun hopes that the Smelting Bureau can create a special weapon specifically for dealing with Yangxia hidden thieves.
A weapon that is much weaker than the hand crossbow, but is lighter and can be operated with one hand, the Xiu Arrow.
As for the last letter, it was naturally addressed to Wu Ji.
After writing these four letters, Zhao Hongrun called Zongwei Zhu Gui and He Miao, and asked them to take two hundred Shangshui soldiers and head to Shangshui immediately.
After all, there is a transport ship from Cangbe in Shangshui County. Taking a boat to Daliang, even if you go up the river, is much faster than riding a horse. By the way, you can also convey it to Su Wangwei who is in Shangshui County at the moment.
Let them rush to Yangxia County.
If by chance, Cangbe's merchant ship has already left Shangshui and returned to Daliang, that's okay, because even if Cangbe's ship is gone, isn't there still a ship under the name of Chu Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu? With both parties
The relationship that is being maintained secretly at the moment means that if a Chu ship is commandeered, the soldiers and generals under the command of Lord Pingyu Xiong Hu on the Chu ship will not say anything.
After arranging all this, the only thing Zhao Hongrun has to do now is to stabilize the power of hidden thieves in Yangxia County.
"Shen Yu, pass my order to the soldiers and generals stationed at the arsenal to release some water."
"Release the water?" Shen Yu had been beside Zhao Hongrun for a long time. How could he not know the meaning of releasing the water? Hearing this, he asked in surprise: "Your Highness, there are weapons collected by General Wuma and others piled up in the arsenal. If they are taken away by him,
Isn’t the ban on swords just empty talk?”
"It doesn't matter." Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said calmly: "Only in this way can we stabilize the group of hidden thieves. Let's let those people be proud for a while."
Shen Yu frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized and praised sincerely: "Your Highness is wise!"
"By the way, send an order to Wuma Jiao again, telling him that he does not need to collect weapons for these two days, but that the city defense must be guarded by my king!"
"I understand the humble position!"
That night, due to the release of water by the merchant navy, the arsenal was captured by the impatient thieves and many rangers. When the rangers whose weapons had been confiscated regained their weapons, they cheered heartily.
When he got up, the civilians in nearby houses looked around in confusion from the cracks in the doors.
When this news reached the ears of Ying Kang, the leader of the Yiqiu people, Jin Gou, the leader of the Fuqiu people, and Youma, the leader of the Youma people, these big bosses among the hidden thieves in Yangxia couldn't help but look surprised.
They couldn't believe that the arsenal guarded by the Shang Shui Army could be lost so easily.
You must know that among the Yangxia hidden thieves, the relatively large hidden thieves organizations such as Yiqiu Zhong, Fuqiu Zhong, Youma, Black Spider, Mangya, and Duanlou have not yet begun to deal with the Shangshui Army. As a result, Shangshui
However, the army was robbed of its arsenal by a few weak hidden thieves?
Is it possible that the Shang Shui Army only has a false name?
Yuma and others are really confused. To be continued