In the city of Xingquan Prefecture, the prefect's Yamen is brightly lit, and a group of civil and military officials are sitting in the flower hall. Generally speaking, such scenes of civil and military officials gathering together rarely happen, because they are all officials of the imperial court, and they are all busy, very busy.
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If they had something to do, they would go to the small green building to have a drink and listen to some music. After drinking too much, they would sleep in the small green building for the night.
Sometimes when I have free time, I will take one or two girls from Quxiang to climb mountains and visit lakes. There is no difference between autumn, winter or spring and summer. The wild flowers are so fragrant all year round.
When I was tired during the trip, I rested my head on my jade arm and kissed my red lips.
After resting and putting on trousers, they would write a poem similar to "The moonlight shines brightly on the bed, and there are two pairs of shoes on the floor" to express their longing for their wives at home and express some of the hardship and loneliness of their official career.
There are also some people who pride themselves on being romantic and think that things like jade arms and red lips are too lowly, and they have no interest at all. What they yearn for more is drinking heavily while singing "Chrysanthemum Broken"!
This was true for Zhengde, and it was true for most other eras as well. It's just that the means of travel changed from sedans to Audis, carriages to airplanes, and boats to yachts, but the people were still the same.
After all, some professions have not changed much from ancient times to the present, such as prostitutes and...well, many!
Regardless of ancient or modern times, it is quite difficult to gather a group of officials.
However, tonight, the civil and military officials in Xingquan Mansion gathered in the prefect's Yamen, and all of them had sad faces, as if all of them had lost their parents.
The leader is an old official wearing the uniform of a fifth-grade civil servant. He has white hair and a face full of wrinkles. Just by looking at the patches on his official uniform, you can tell that this person cannot be anyone else.
He should be a co-president of Xingquan Prefecture. His surname is Chang and his given name is Chuan.
He also held a small white handkerchief in his hand, covering his mouth from time to time when he coughed.
'Cough, cough.' After another violent cough, the fifth-grade peer touched the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief and said in a tired tone: "You are all the pillars of our Xingquan, and now Xingquan is in danger.
, Mr. Fu Zun is not here, and there is no one to make decisions. Now is the time when I need you to come up with suggestions and contribute to the safety of my Xingquan!"
"After repelling the puppet Tang thief army, I will definitely submit a memorial to you all to ask for your credit!"
When Chang Zhuo said this, some of the people below also spoke.
Immediately, a ninth-grade civil servant who didn't know where he was serving stood up: "Sir Chang, although Mr. Fu Zun is not in the city now, we still have you. As long as you are here, we will definitely be able to turn danger into good!"
"Mr. Chang, you are highly respected and have been in charge of Xingquan Mansion for many years. There are more than 300,000 people in this mansion. Who doesn't know that you are the Dinghai Shenzhen of our Xingquan Mansion? Maybe if you shout from the top of the city, the city will be destroyed."
Those pseudo-Tang thieves outside may be defeated in vain!" This is definitely a flatterer. Although he is a civil servant, his rank is the lowest and the official, only ninth grade, is younger than Zhima's son.
official.
However, this person's flattery may have been too explicit, turning the flattery into sarcasm, so that Chang Zhu glanced at him specifically, and then let out a cold snort:
"Now that Xingquan is in danger, stop talking nonsense like this!"
As soon as these words came out, the face of the ninth-grade civil servant who just said the compliment turned red, but he did not dare to say anything more. He could only sit down again, but when he looked up at Chang Chun, he would naturally feel embarrassed.
Even deep resentment is hidden.
Faced with such a small role, Chang Zhu was naturally too lazy to pay attention to him. After scolding him, he ignored the person and continued: "I summoned you here tonight not to hear some compliments.
It's not too late to wait until my sixtieth birthday, but now..."
Having said this, he looked around at the dozen or so people present, and then said seriously: "Do you have any strategies to retreat from the enemy?"
Chang Zhuo said this, and the scene immediately became silent. What is the strategy to retreat from the enemy?
They have Mao's strategy for repelling the enemy. Are the puppet Tang rebels outside the city so easy to retreat?
If it were easier to retreat, Lord Song Zhiwen would not have been defeated twice in a row, and the tens of thousands of troops would have been lost.
Although Song Zhiwen used the super magical power of Miaobi Shenghua to conceal the truth of the two battles of Lanjiang when he reported to his superiors, as local officials, they naturally knew more or less what happened.
The truth.
But they all pretended not to know, and even helped Song Zhiwen hide it from their superiors. The reason was simple. If the matter was exposed, Song Zhiwen would not end well, but officials who were subordinate to Song Zhiwen could not end well either.
Yes.
There was a big rebel in Xingquan Mansion, and he defeated the government troops several times in a row. If this matter was not covered up and the truth of the matter was revealed, there would be so many officials in Xingquan Mansion, and not many of them would be able to do well.
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Furthermore, who is Song Zhiwen? He is a middle-level official in the Ming Dynasty with great connections, and he is closely connected with the cabinet bosses. If these people don't deal with him and ruin his affairs, he can just move his fingers at will.
This will make the officials present lose their official hats.
These people don't dare to tell the truth, but that doesn't mean they don't know.
In the first battle of Lanjiang, three thousand troops were wiped out in ashes. It was already time for them to be surprised!
Now, the tens of thousands of troops led by Song Zhiwen are also finished, which makes them even more panic-stricken. Even though Song Zhiwen's tens of thousands of troops are somewhat unworthy of their name because they are mixed with many young men, there are still three thousand soldiers recruited, and the guard soldiers
There are more than 3,000 people. The regular army has more than 6,000 people.
They also knew a little bit about the size of the Puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side. They heard that the Puppet Tang thief army only numbered three to four thousand people.
This force is obviously smaller than the army led by Song Zhiwen.
But even so, Song Zhiwen was completely defeated. There was not even a scrap left in the army of ten thousand people, and they were all thrown outside Lanjiang and Xingquanfu cities.
Faced with such a puppet Tang bandit army, how could they defend the city of Xingquan?
Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge and sense knows that Xingquan Mansion cannot be defended by themselves alone.
The only thing that can be done is to hold on longer, maybe for a month or two to wait for the governor to lead his army.
If they can't defeat the puppet Tang thief army, they can rely on the fortified city to defend it for a month. After all, there are hundreds of regular troops in the city and the young and strong men who have stepped forward. If they recruit the old, young and weak from the people in the city, they can gather two more
Qian Qingzhuang is also possible.
As long as we persist until the governor leads his troops, the safety of Xingquan City will naturally be preserved, as will the lives of everyone present.
But not everyone thinks so!
Some people are born to be unwilling to be ordinary. They always want to do something big and dream that one day they will be on top of the world. They keep working hard for this and seize every opportunity they can.
Well, this kind of person will either become a savior hero, or become a super villain and cause harm to the world.
The most typical example is Ronaldinho and Xiao Xi. The two of them performed a drama with World War II as the stage. Although one lost and the other won, in fact, in terms of character and the essence of human nature, the two of them did not.
Big difference.
And these people all have a common characteristic, that is, they cannot be judged by common sense. You think it is a bad thing, but he thinks it is justice. The brain circuits of these people are different from ordinary people, and their imagination is huge.
Also very weird.
For example, Chang Zhuo, the co-president of Xingquan Prefecture, is sitting on the imperial chair in his study room, drinking warm tea while thinking about how to defend the city.
As an official who had been an official all his life and who was also an official from the imperial examination, he was going to become an official in another year. By then, ending his official career and returning to his hometown with a clear life would not be considered as a disgrace to his early life.
Ten years of hard study and decades of traveling around to become an official.
When the time comes, he can open a paddy field in the backyard, farm and raise chickens, and teach his children and grandchildren to read in his spare time. Wouldn't it be leisurely and contented? As for the thousands of acres of fertile land and numerous shops and other common things he has earned as an official for decades, others will naturally take care of them.
He himself doesn't have the leisure time.
Although he is about to retire as an official, he hopes to take this opportunity to go further. Maybe he will have the opportunity to make meritorious service and be promoted to the fourth rank. Wouldn't it be more beautiful to become a fourth-rank red-robed official and then serve as an official?
Therefore, Xingquan Mansion cannot be breached, and he must do everything possible to hold it until the governor leads his army to help.
But how to stop the attack of the puppet Tang rebel army?
Apart from the well-known traditional methods of recruiting young men in the city and preparing huge rocks and rolling logs, there is no other good way.
However, I heard that the weapons of the puppet Tang thieves were sharp. They not only had a large number of handguns for individual soldiers, but also huge cannons that were powerful and powerful for dozens of miles, and even explosive shells that fired hundreds of rounds.
Judging from some texts from the Lanjiang Ferry, when the rebel army's cannon fired, it was like thunder. It could be heard for dozens of miles upstream and downstream on both sides of the Lanjiang River. The bullets could reach as far as ten miles, and one cannon could destroy several large camps.
There is no stopping it.
These guns are pretty good. The Ming army has been playing with firearms for more than a hundred years. Naturally, they have some cannons. In recent decades, they have also been equipped with Folan cannons in batches. The same is true for the large Qianjin Folan cannon.
It can hit several miles.
But the explosive bombs of the puppet Tang rebel army made him feel a little troublesome. Firing a salvo of hundreds of bullets was nothing, it was just a matter of unifying a hundred people to drop bombs. The key thing was that their explosive bombs would also explode.
It is rumored that the army led by Master Fu Zun was defeated several times, all at the hands of these explosives, so much so that the frontline generals lamented: It is not our soldiers who are not brave, but the thieves' army has sharp firearms!
Facing such an army of thieves, how to stop them?
But no matter what, Chang Zhu was unwilling to let his reputation be ruined in Xingquan Mansion.
Not to mention that Chang Zhu was a very determined man. He wanted to resist the traitor army of the Tang Dynasty and made great achievements.
However, not everyone has the same idea as him, and some people even have completely different ideas from him.
He wanted to stop the puppet Tang thief army, but someone wanted to let the puppet Tang thief army enter the city!