Chapter 12: Witness to Yuezhou (2)

Gao Huaiming thought it was right. There were 10,000 troops in Yuezhou City. The army under the city was only 4,000 or 5,000 people, and the Dongting Lake Navy was afraid of. It only took three days to find out the authenticity of the Ministry of War's transfer order. It was nothing to give him three days of food and grass. He immediately ordered the mobilization of 5,000 troops and three days of food and grass to go out of the city, and sent more than a dozen clever scouts to mix in the team delivering food and grass to check the reality.

"Master, you are back!" Sun muttered and the butler Yang Lu, who was guarding the door, saw that his master's sedan chair was back, hurried up to greet him.

Yang Weiyuan reached out and rubbed his temples that were secretly painful, and his left eyelid was pounding. He felt an ominous premonition in his heart, and the stuffy sedan chair emerged. He impatiently "um" responded to the greeting of the housekeeper with a smile on his face.

Yang Lu is a person who is good at observing words and expressions. When he saw that the master today had his eyebrows squeezed together, there must be something difficult to solve. He stepped aside and kept silent.

Yang Weiyuan just sat down when he returned to the mansion and was about to have a cup of tea. The servants hurriedly came to report that someone outside the mansion asked for a meeting.

"No, no, no!" Yang Weiyuan was upset and said repeatedly.

"Master, that person said, if you don't see him, you may be in danger!" said the servant carefully.

"What, I'm going to see who is so angry!" Yang Weiyuan was holding a fire inexplicably. With a bang, he put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and said, "Go, bring in that person who doesn't know how high the sky is!"

The servants were granted a general amnesty and ran away quickly. After a while, they brought in a middle-aged man in his thirties.

"Mr. Yang!" The person who came was expressionless. When he saw Yang Weiyuan, he simply hugged a fist, which was considered a meeting.

Seeing that the visitor had some temperament and had a good origin, Yang Weiyuan had to temporarily suppress the irritability in his heart, and responded neither indifferent nor salty, "Who is the Lord?"

"I came from the capital." The visitor said calmly.

"Beijing?" Yang Weiyuan's heart suddenly broke out. Isn't the current capital Nanjing?

"Please leave with your left and right!" The visitor seemed to say to Yang Weiyuan in an orderly tone.

Yang Weiyuan couldn't guess the other party's origin. Seeing that the other party seemed to have a great origin, he thought for a while and waved his hand to ask the butler Yang Lu and the two girls who were serving him to retreat.

There was only Yang Weiyuan and this mysterious visitor in the room. The mysterious visitor reached into his arms and took out a token. When he showed Yang Weiyuan this way, Yang Weiyuan immediately changed his vigilant eyes to a flattering smile and said, "It turns out that he is my own!"

"Mr. Yang, my ancestors recently discovered that the local situation in Huguang is a bit unstable, especially the group of officials who were originally reserved. Zhu Xieyuan from Sichuan is planning to recover Huguang. He specially ordered me to come and remind me." The visitor said carefully.

"What?" Yang Weiyuan suddenly understood what was the ominous premonition that was before?

"Mr. Yang, is there anything wrong?" the visitor asked in surprise.

"Now there is a large army stationed outside the south city of Yuezhou City. The number of people is about four or five thousand. With the order from the Ministry of War, we came to Yuezhou City to garrison!" Yang Weiyuan said.

"Don't worry, Lord Yang, this is the secret order from our ancestors to disrupt Huguang's original military deployment and facilitate the control of these people with dissent." The person who came said with a relaxed look on his face.

"Is it really a secret order issued by our ancestors?" Yang Weiyuan asked in disbelief.

"Why, Lord Yang doubts my words or doubts my identity?" The visitor said bluntly, with a slight displeasure on his face.

"But the general who led the army and the local gang under the city was once the disciple of Zhu Xieyuan, the current governor of Sichuan. The subordinates were afraid..."

"What are you afraid of? There are 10,000 defenders and navy troops in Yuezhou City, and only four or five thousand soldiers will scare you like this?" Although the person who came was not as good as Yang Weiyuan, he was the one in front of his ancestors, so he was naturally superior to him. In recent days, Wei Zhongxian has been sending eunuchs to the local area to strengthen his control. What kind of inspectors? Nanjing City cannot accommodate so many eunuchs, so he tried his best to send them to various places. After these people arrived in various places, they took the plunder of people's wealth as their first priority. The people were suffering. There were also a large number of Dongchang spies, and the person in front of him was the only one.

Yang Weiyuan was sent to Yuezhou City by Wei Zhongxian to be the prefect. In name, he was promoted. In fact, he was far less likely to be the glory of being a sixth-rank censor in Nanjing.

"I am not convenient for me to interfere in local military and political affairs. Local military and political affairs are still handled by General Gao and Lord Yang themselves. I am going to say goodbye, too." The visitor suddenly clasped his fists at Yang Weiyuan.

Yang Weiyuan originally wanted to hold a banquet to entertain the people, but the people insisted on having important things to do and could not stay. He hurriedly left the prefect's office and disappeared into the crowd.

Yang Weiyuan hurried out of the mansion and rushed to the mansion of General Gao Huaiming. The two had a secret conversation for a long time. To be on the safe side, Yang Weiyuan not only sent people to Wuchang to inquire, but also sent more than a dozen people to inquire about the nearby county government, asking them that they had secret defenses from time to time. In two or three days, news came that Yuezhou City was strong and it seemed a bit ridiculous to capture Yuezhou City with four or five thousand people alone. Yang Weiyuan was not worried at all.

Yang Weiyuan didn't know that the mysterious visitor he had just met was actually pretending to be Zuo Liangyu, who was instructed to be a person to be pretended by the land. Wei Zhongxian sent people to monitor the local area and the area. These people were both obvious and dark, and it was difficult to distinguish between true and false. Yang Weiyuan had been away from Wei Zhongxian for nearly a year. In addition, he was not a fool, but in a hurry, he did not recognize the authenticity of the people and the land. However, this person was cautious by nature, which made Zuo Liangyu's plan to defeat Yuezhou a little frustrated and had to change his original strategy.

Zuo Liangyu's army was really not good enough food and grass. He brought too much food and grass, and the speed of the march would naturally slow down greatly. Once the general attacked Wuchang or made Yuezhou City alert, it would be difficult to deal with it. He had to come up with such a method with obvious loopholes, defrauding the defenders in Yuezhou City and defrauding the grain and grass for three days. Once the attack on Yuezhou was not smooth, he could not sit still and wait for death. Sure enough, the defenders in Yuezhou City did not dare to let them in, nor did they dare to take responsibility. Although Yang Weiyuan was a little sensible, he was not aware of military operations. General Gao Huaiming was also a mediocre person. In addition, he promised not to enter the city for the time being. He was timid by nature and fearless, he would never ruin his bright future and happy life because of hundreds of loads of food.

As soon as the food was obtained, Zuo Liangyu immediately changed his strategy and ordered the army to eat and rest, and decided to attack Yuezhou at night. Since nearly a thousand troops had already been mixed in the city, he agreed to open the gate of Nancheng to enter the city.

Just after midnight, three brilliant blue fireworks rose above the south of the city. Five hundred soldiers who had already ambushed near the south city gate swung their swords toward the south gate. There was no idea how many of the Yuezhou defenders you had never fought, especially when they were attacked by someone. They were suddenly in chaos and were no match for the sneak attack army. Soon, the south city was lost, and the gate of the south city was opened to Zuo Liangyu's army.

Zuo Liangyuti's army quickly entered the city. According to the pre-deployment, under the guidance of the reconnaissance scouts who had first mixed into the city, they controlled several important yamen in Yuezhou City. To capture the thief, the king was captured first. As long as they captured the main officials in Yuezhou City, the defenders surrendered without fighting. Zuo Liangyu always obtained Yuezhou at a weak price. Then, when the generals of the Dongting Lake Naval Commander did not investigate, they were all designed by Zuo Liangyu and captured in one shot. Dongting Lake Naval Commander was controlled by Zuo Liangyu in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!