On September 25th, the night of the uprising, thanks to Xu Dalang's three cheers and Zhang Xing's Simiandong song, the five cities of Baima, Puyang, Weinan, Waihuang, and Chengshi changed their appearance overnight and fell into

Depose the hands of the Dragon Gang.

Among them, Liu Yezhong, the governor of Dongjun County, reached an agreement with the Qilong Gang, and in the name of the county governor, ordered all the cities, towns, and cities in Dongjun to surrender to the Qilong Gang in exchange for the treatment of "gifts sent out of the country" for the whole family;

The three core lieutenants of Dongjun, Zhou Weishi, the county official in charge of government affairs, formally surrendered, and Dou, the captain in charge of military affairs, was executed and passed down. Only Li Tingwen, the black ribbon of Jing'antai, who had the power of spies and high-level criminal cases, escaped;

Among the five county magistrates, the magistrates of Weinan, Waihuang, and Chengshi were attacked and killed immediately, while the two magistrates of Baima and Puyang chose to surrender.

The next day, the four cities of Kuangcheng, Lihu, Yuanju, and Jiyang fell into the hands of the Deposed Dragon Gang.

On the third day, Xucheng and Lingchang surrendered.

On the fourth day, Leize City Kaicheng surrendered.

Generally speaking, the progress is quite smooth, but compared with the original plan, there are still big deviations... Some cities are not included in the step arrangement, such as Weinan on the first day, Jiyang on the second day, and Jiyang on the second day.

Lei Ze on the fourth day was an unexpected gain.

Especially Leize, which is located at the junction of Dongping County and Jiyin County, was not even in the overall plan. It was just a feint attack with Xiahou Ningyuan and some bandits. However, the county captain actually came out of the city to suppress the bandits and was killed. After blocking the city gate for two days,

The embarrassing scene of surrender forced Xiahou Ningyuan to take over the city.

At the same time, not to mention the huge loopholes that had been remedied, such as Niuda's father, on this day, the first huge and obvious obstacle also completely emerged. Jiyin County and County governance Jiyin City not only failed to follow the rules

The plan was successfully taken down immediately, but it affected all the towns south of Jishui. Even Dingtao, an important town next to Jiyin and located north of Jishui, still maintained the imperial banner.

In other words, half the county was mobilized and began to strictly guard against the sudden outbreak of rebellion.

"The Fang brothers are trash!"

In the county government office in Puyang City, people were cheering for the release of grain outside, but Taoist Wei, who had only returned for half a quarter of an hour, was already furious. Holding a letter in his hand, he almost spit on Li Shu's face. He was no longer like before.

We were so excited when we showed up together outside to put out food.

This scene made several people from Xiong Bonan down, including Puyang Lingguan Xu, nervous, but they couldn't help but peek.

Zhang Xing, on the other hand, seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago and did not panic at all. Instead, he called Guan Xu to fetch the autumn grain and storage account books for accounting.

"With great ambition and talent, I look down on this and that, but in the end I am played with and applauded..." Taoist Wei was obviously really angry. He didn't care that there were many people up and down in the hall and continued to scold him. "Now.

Well, what they originally had in hand has been ruined by them. Now half of the counties south of Jishui are connected together, and they are backed by Liang County. What if reinforcements from Liang County arrive? What if reinforcements from Liang County arrive in a few days?

What will we do if the great Prime Minister Zhang brings his troops from Xingyang and directly attacks our heart? How can we make progress at that time? Just waste it here!"

In fact, everyone was nervous, but they all understood that it was natural for Li Shu to be criticized.

First of all, everyone knows that although one of the Fang brothers belongs to the left wing and the other to the right wing, Fang Yanlang, who belongs to Li Shu, is the big leader and the elder brother of the two cousins... There is no doubt who is the leader among the two.

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Secondly, according to the increasingly clear intelligence, the mistakes made by the brothers in Jiyin may be far from outrageous, but the obvious arrogance and arrogance in them, as well as the identity of the main person responsible, have been revealed.

It turned out that after the Fang brothers arrived in Jiyin City, although they did not directly take advantage of Jiyin Captain Shang Huaizhi, who had previously made an appointment with the Deposed Dragon Gang, they clearly had the intention of grabbing credit or acting on their own initiative.

At noon on the 25th, before Shang Huaizhi had controlled the county soldiers and was about to launch a military uprising, instead of staying to assist Shang Huaizhi, they first took the name of the Fang family, entered the county house, and tried to persuade the county governor to surrender alone.

This is nothing.

Because Song Chang, the governor of Jiyin County, did immediately express his intention to surrender and join forces after listening to the advice and situation analysis of the Fang brothers.

Not only himself, the Song Prefect also offered to persuade the county magistrate, the county's resident Hei Shou and others to surrender together. He even suggested that Dingtao County Magistrate Liu Bi was known to be brave and loyal to the court. I'm afraid it would be very difficult.

It was difficult to surrender with just a piece of paper, so he was willing to write a document that could not be more authentic and let Shang Duwei lead the county soldiers to take over Dingtao calmly.

Of course, Governor Song knew that doing this would make people worry about problems here in Jiyin, so Shang Duwei could leave half of his people and let the Fang brothers lead the city defense.

This seems very reasonable, especially since the Fang brothers devoted all their efforts to guarantee their meritorious service, especially since Song Chang himself publicly expressed his sincere thoughts on whether he could replace Wei Xuanding for his achievements... In fact, everyone

Everyone knows that this is probably the real reason why Taoist Wei did not care about influence and unity and scolded Li Shu in public, because you don't need to think about it to know what attitude the Fang brothers adopted towards this idea at that time.

If they were Chief Wei, they would also be angry, okay?

In short, the result there was that after Shang Huaizhi, who had been deceived and became lame, led half of his people to leave Jiyin and cross Jishui, the prestigious Song Chang immediately launched a counterattack, convinced the remaining generals, and then counterattacked.

He came to control Jiyin and imprisoned the isolated Fang brothers.

At the same time, he also sent his son Song Yi to ride out of the city alone and cross the river from the lower reaches before Shang Huaizhi to meet Liu Bi, the order of Dingtao. He told Liu Bi the situation and told Liu Bi to guard the city.

So, when Shang Huaizhi arrived at the foot of Tao City, he was surprised to find that he was facing a tightly closed city with four gates, a mobile crossbow team at any time, and Liu Bi, who stood on the top of the city in awe and scolded him.

and Song Yi. But when he had no choice but to withdraw to Jiyin, he found that he was still faced with the closed four gates and the crossbow team at any time, as well as the righteous Song Chang who stood on the top of the city and scolded him and the other two lieutenants in the county.

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Not to mention this, he even found that he and the families of many county soldiers were also detained together with the Fang brothers.

After all this trouble, in order to prevent his subordinates with families from escaping, Shang Huaizhi had to retreat to the north bank of Jishui. After learning more about the situation from his subordinates who had escaped from the city, he immediately asked Puyang and Wang Wulang on his left and right.

Sent a letter asking for help with Shan Dalang.

"The matter has reached this point. It is useless to say more. The key is how to remedy it."

Turning back to his eyes, Li Shu stood quietly and allowed the other party to finish spraying. Then he calmly took the letter and hid it in his sleeve. "Song Chang, this guy is indeed brave, resourceful and handsome. The Fang brothers fell into a trap."

In his hands, there is no shame.”

"Yes, it's time for me to take a trip..." King Xiongtian sighed and hurried forward, not only to ask for a fight, but also to relax the atmosphere.

The dignified chief and the big dragon have such a quarrel, what are they talking about?

"There are many brave and resourceful people. Magistrate Guan is also brave and resourceful, but he did not delay Mr. Zhang to take action and take down Puyang City that night." Wei Xuanding spoke loudly and responded coldly, actually overpowering Cheng Dan.

The master Xiong Bonan also successfully pulled Zhang Xing, Niu Da and Guan Xu next to him, causing a few people to be embarrassed for a while. "As for Fang Yanlang, he lost two cities in vain, ruined the situation of half the county, and even

In the overall situation, Shang Huaizhi also caused Shang Huaizhi to lose more than half of the county soldiers and family members. This is not something that can be explained without shame."

"I know that it will be impossible to explain to Shang Huaizhi if we don't deal with Fang Yanlang." Li Shu remained calm. "But their brothers are in the city, even if they want to be dealt with, they should wait until the situation is restored... At this time, they are anxious to discuss the crime regardless of the overall situation.

, wouldn’t it make people laugh?”

"That's right." Taoist Wei smiled, touched his clean new clothes and sat down, then looked at Zhang Xing, who had been silent. "Mr. Zhang, you are younger, why don't you bother to run for a while?"

Trip? The city is full of golden rings, and suddenly I heard the song of Dongjun on all sides... I used to think that you were from the north, and that you were in the army and hung out with Jing'antai. You were strong in military strategy and cultivation, but I didn't expect that you were in the heart.

Your skills are so powerful, I still trust your methods more for this kind of thing."

Zhang Xing, who was sitting there looking at the account books, glanced at Wei Xuanding, then at Li Shu, and said calmly: "What does Mr. Li say? If you want me to go, I will go with King Xiongtian, and Mr. Li will go to Weinan, Baima."

If Li Gong wants to go with King Xiongtian, I will go to Weinan and put grain on the white horse."

"It would be better for me to go with King Xiongtian." Li Shu thought for a moment and simply responded. "In the end, Fang Yanlang is more at fault for this matter, and Fang Yanlang is the leader of the left wing... However, both

To deal with this matter, Wang Wulang and others must be under my unified control."

"It's natural." Zhang Xing was noncommittal. "I'm going to Baima to feed grain, so Xu Dalang has to do his best. Some things should be dealt with magnanimously..."

Li Shu nodded, signaled to Xiong Bonan, who had already lost control, and wanted to leave together.

"However, if Mr. Li is leaving and I don't know when he will come back, some things will take their own course, and some things should be asked first." At this moment, Zhang Xing hesitated and suddenly pressed the account book.

He called out to the other party. "How will Xu Dalang's father reward him? Has Mr. Li made a decision?"

"Ask Xu Dalang yourself!" When talking about this topic, not only Niu Da became embarrassed, but Li Shu himself was also a little anxious. "If he is willing, let his father be the leader and then take charge of Weinan, so as not to have to talk about it.

Our rewards and punishments are unfair...and if he feels that father and son are upside down and doesn't want to accept it, then he won't accept it and let him make his own arrangements."

"Then let his father be a leader." Zhang Xing also said with a smile. "You can't just give him a big leader just because he is the father of a big leader, right?"

This matter is actually just a question.

Xu Shiying and his son themselves are not ignorant. After all, this situation that goes against common sense is caused by the choices of these powerful people... The father goes to deal with the government and be a good person, while the son carries a knife and goes about his business and becomes a thief.

It's a survival strategy.

You can't say that now that it's officially reversed, your father values ​​his son, so why should he use the name of father-son relationship to bypass the gang's internal system and directly rise to the top?

From a practical point of view, your Xu family is only worth a big leader. From a logical point of view, even the imperial court does not say that the relationship between father and son is putting the cart before the horse.

Especially at this time, Niu Da's father Niu Shuang has already decided to "recuperate" from illness. Do you, Xu Dalang, have to give your own father a reward or punishment?

"But, what about the demoted generals?" Zhang Xing seemed not to see Guan Xu beside him, as if he had not seen Niu Da before, and continued to ask sensitive things. "Most of our people are reckless, so it is inevitable that they will be demoted."

If we need to maintain these people, we can't give them all to the leader, right?"

Guan Xu was half embarrassed, half nervous. Even Xiong Bonan and Niu Da were startled for a moment, and then kept silent and paying attention. Wei Xuanding also stopped sulking and squinted to look... This was something fundamentally related to them.

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"Those who do good work will be given to those who are famous, capable and have good family background. Those who do well will be given to others. Of course, the rest will not be given..." Li Shu glanced at Xiong Bonan who was beside him and almost blurted out. "These are the only ones right now.

County, it is just a temporary resettlement based on local conditions. Mr. Zhang lives in the back, why can't he be resettled properly? Why ask me?"

"Of course I know that for this place right now, it's okay to adapt to local conditions, but the problem is that there should be something fundamental. Pay attention to it when making arrangements, so as not to slap yourself in the face tomorrow if you make arrangements today." Zhang Xing shook his head.

"Mr. Li, do you think so?"

"What do Mr. Zhang have to say?" When Li Shu heard this, he simply turned around and frowned. "Is it necessary to forcefully separate the civil and military forces? Surrender people but not lead the troops? Help people but not manage affairs? But if this is the case, both sides will

I’m afraid they’re all dissatisfied, right? Besides, there are already many leaders in the gang who don’t lead the troops.”

That's right, there are three of them in this room.

"What I mean is that a gang belongs to a gang, and a person returns to his position. The status in the gang is the status in the gang, and the official position is the official position..." Zhang Xing didn't seem to understand, and continued to answer seriously.
To be continued...