Dominate the Country

Just when Shi Liang was thinking about the "good things", hundreds of miles away in the north of Hanyang Prefecture, at the southern end of Dawu County, Agui, who was alone with only a part of his personal army and a group of staff, was also eating a simple dinner.

He did not go south to Xiaogan with the army. Because the army that came out of Henan was just more than 20,000 people, not a complete army, Agui, who stayed behind, racked his brains to plan money and food for the army, so he was now more than 100 miles away from the front line. The front-line military was supervised by Wen Fu, who was the grandson of Wen Da, the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace. In his early years, he followed the Dingbian General Zhao Hui to fight back to Xinjiang, defeated Huo Jizhan, fought against Yarkand, was promoted to the Cabinet Scholar, moved to the Cangchang Assistant Minister, and was given the hereditary post of Yunqiwei. Later, he became the Shangshu of the Lifanyuan. In addition, there was Ma Quan, the governor of Shaanxi. Although the former governor of Shaanxi, Wang Tenglong, was exempted from the death penalty, he has only climbed to the fourth-rank Dusi until now, which is far from the original first-rank governor.

Aligun's letter for help was also sent from Wuchang to Agui's desk. The Fu Han army only bombarded during the day and attacked at night. Aligun used this method when he was supervising the battlefield in Henan. However, the bandit army in Henan is different from the Qing army. They are all wearing iron armor and rattan armor, and are not afraid of hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army. Now the situation has changed. Aligun is using the tactics of the Fu Han army to defend the attack of the Fu Han army on Wuchang, and the attacking Fu Han army is using Aligun's tactics to deal with the Qing army.

It's an interesting scene, but the Qing army is miserable.

The Qing army couldn't take down the position of the Fu Han army at night, and the current Qing army can't stop the attack of the Fu Han army at night. Agui didn't sleep well these two nights. He had no time to think about this problem. It was simply unsolvable.

With current firearms, muskets are almost useless at night, and the only weapons that can be relied on in night battles are spears and swords. In sword and gun fighting, it depends on the courage and equipment of the soldiers, and the Qing army has little advantage in these two aspects. Should we petition the emperor to pull all the Eight Banners soldiers in the Jianrui Camp and Fengtai Camp to the battlefield? They are wearing cotton armor, which to a certain extent offsets the advantage of the Fu Han Army in armor, but how many banner soldiers are there? How many Han people are there? Besides, how can the current banner soldiers still have the bravery of the past? If the elite are really killed, the situation will be even worse.

In this night fight, the Qing army's cavalry, which is very advantageous, is almost useless. Take Fenghuang Mountain in Wuchang as an example. The battlefield is full of ditches and potholes, which is not a place for cavalry at all. Agui racked his brains, but could not think of any way to stop the offensive of the Fu Han Army...

As for the Henan Army, Sichuan Army, and Hunan troops, that is, the current situation, Agui still holds some hope. If the various armies can really arrive quickly and arrive together, and contain the Fu Han Army attacking Wuchang from the north, west, and south, and the defenders in Wuchang City can muster up their blood and fight to the end with the attacking Fu Han Army, maybe the Fu Han Army will be in vain.

Agui estimated the military strength of the Fu Han Army. Chen Ming has people in Jiangnan, Anqing and Jiujiang have also added a lot of people, and there is also Huangzhou Prefecture. The Fu Han Army has completely occupied Huangzhou Prefecture. Even Luotian and Huangma in the mountain valleys have been killed by the Fu Han Army. Huangzhou Prefect Wang Wenxi disappeared after Luotian fell. Agui knew what Wang Wenxi was doing, that is, he escaped.

Now there are more and more officials in the Qing Dynasty who are afraid of death. Think about the officials in Henan, who gave birth to a big bandit like the Chen family under their rule. They must be incompetent. But those incompetent local officials also died after the Chen family started the rebellion, which suited Agui's appetite more than Wang Wenxi's generation.

Agui didn't know when he fell asleep. He only knew that he seemed to be carried to the bed in a daze, and he continued to sleep. He heard a few shrill screams. In the dead of night, the screams that cut through the night made people feel creepy.

Agui opened his eyes suddenly.

The soldiers had already mounted their horses, and the few riders on duty at night galloped towards the direction of the screams at the call of a few armored soldiers.

When Agui was dressed and walked out of the tent, he saw a small village in the northeast of his camp. Agui still remembered that there was a small village there. When he was camping, some of his guards suggested buying some meat from the village, but Agui stopped them. Now the dark village suddenly boiled up, shouting and screaming, and gradually there were lights on. It was a house that was set on fire.

Agui looked at the village in the distance quietly.

About a cup of tea time, several soldiers who went to investigate came back on horseback, rolled in front of Agui's horse and reported: "Report to the prime minister, there are mobs attacking the village, killing people and setting fire."

"How many mobs?" Agui frowned slightly. He did not mean that this place could not be the Fu Han Army, and the Fu Han Army would not rob people's villages.

"About a hundred people." The soldiers replied.

Agui hesitated for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Go and disperse them, but don't chase them." A hundred or so rioters are nothing to mention. Even if there are five or ten times more, the three or four hundred soldiers around Agui can drive them down without any hindrance. What makes Agui melancholy is the Qing Dynasty. It has only been less than two years since the war, and the people have already shown a chaotic scene.

Mob, mob...

The several Eight Banners officers around Agui looked at each other, and one of them retreated with a fist, and led fifty or sixty cavalrymen like sharp arrows to rush into the village, which was half black and red at this time.

After a meal, under the faint moonlight, several pro-soldiers who had just left led a group of people to the front of the Agui camp. In the dark night, they could see a group of people, including men, women, old and young. Wails and curses were mixed together.

An Eight Banners officer was guarding Agui. At this moment, he rode up to meet him and shouted: "Be quiet if you dare to disobey orders and you will be killed!" The murderous words immediately silenced the crowd. Even if there were still people who could not control their crying, they He forcibly lowered his voice.

"Master Zhongtang, this group of people was met by the young people outside Zhuangzi. I originally wanted them to wait by the side, but it turned out that these people knew that Master Zhongtang was here and insisted on coming over to kowtow."

This is a group of people who are fleeing. If they were not lucky enough to be bumped into by Agui's troops, they would be a group of homeless dogs. There were twenty or thirty of these men and women, each with a look of panic on their face, some were limping, and some seemed to be injured, with blood on their bodies.

But the eyes of all the Eight Banners soldiers in the camp were full of endless gratitude.

The thin man at the head was the landlord of the village, surnamed Huang, and the men and women around him were mostly his family, neighbors, and slaves.

The young man behind Huang Landlord was carrying his father, Huang Landlord's son, who was out of breath.

A few torches were lit, and Agui, dressed in official robes, stepped out and retreated away from the surrounding pro-soldiers like waves. Everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Agui from a distance. "Kowtow to the great master, thank the great master, the great master is a hundred generations..."

The yellow landowner became a little bolder, and he knelt down and moved twice, "I beg the great master to leave his name, so that the common people can know who the great master is. This life-saving grace will be reborn with kindness. I will wait for you." From now on, **** will eat fast, chant Buddha's name, and pray for the great master..."

Agui chuckled and Qingqing waved her hand, "Come up here." Compared to the commemoration of the common people, Agui was now more concerned about the origins of the chaotic mob. Are there a lot of things like this here...

An officer next to A Gui saw A Gui waving, and then said to Landlord Huang: "Come over, Master Zhongtang has something to ask you." Then he said to the others: "You are all waiting here."

The already burly figure became even taller with the lightning rod on his head. Under the torch, his face was filled with murderous intent, and his voice was filled with chills. The group below were at most the owners of small land in the countryside. Who dared to touch them?

"Huang Baihe, a commoner, has met Master Zhongtang." Huang Baihe was quite knowledgeable. When he heard the word "Zhongtang", his eyes almost popped out. When he came to Agui, he knelt down and kowtowed respectfully. This is a much higher official than their Dawu magistrate.

"Why was your Zhuangzi robbed? Where did the mob come from?" Agui asked in confusion.

Huang Baihe cried sadly: "You know, sooner or later, those people will rebel. The leader, Jia Liujin, as well as Gao Er and Ma Tieshan, are all the gangsters in the surrounding villages. After Chen Thief captured Huangpi, they The gang was upset. I heard the day before yesterday that they chopped off chicken heads and burned yellow paper, drank blood wine, and sent someone to report to the county magistrate. Who would have expected that they would take it seriously tonight. Coming to kill..."

A Gui breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that they were just rural ruffians. Even if these people broke Zhuangzi, they would only plunder and disperse, and they would not cause serious trouble. Although this kind of thing also shows the turmoil of the Qing Dynasty and the public to a certain extent, it is finally a great blessing among misfortunes.

Just as he was talking, the sound of horse hooves came from far and near, and a guard rolled off his horse and said loudly: "Report to the Zhongtang, the mob has been dispersed, and more than 20 people and one leader have been arrested."

Huang Baihe's face immediately turned red, and deep-seated hatred flashed in his eyes. He stood up and wanted to run, but after taking two steps, he knelt down with a thud and kowtowed vigorously to Agui: "Please make the decision, Lord Zhongtang. Please make the decision, Lord Zhongtang." …”

Agui said without any expression on his face: "Bring up the leader and execute the rest on the spot."

There was the sound of horse hooves in the distance, but it was the return of the team of horse-armored soldiers from before. The leading officer had a man lying across his saddle. He ran up to Agui and lifted his hand. The man rolled to the ground. He groaned in pain, and his face met Huang Baihe's eyes.

"Master Zhongtang, this person is Jia Liujin, the leader of thieves..." It turned into ashes, and Huang Baihe recognized it.

Agui sighed softly in his heart and looked at Jia Liujin who was so frightened that he was peeing in front of him. He threw a color away to his subordinates. Immediately, some soldiers picked up Jia Liujin and dragged him away. A shrill scream was from Jia Liujin. The last voice left in this world. He is indeed an ordinary rogue. Is he very courageous? He was scared to death in front of him. If it weren't for Chen Ni's unrest in the country, this kind of person would have been a country gangster all his life, bullying the weak in the countryside. How could he dare to gang up to kill and rob the village?

It's all that damn Chen Ni. Let the country, the country, and the country that the imperial court worked so hard to maintain, and the decades of peace and prosperity, be destroyed in one day!