The day before Xu Guanzhong left Jiaxing City, Zhu Dian captured Haiyan.
Zhu Tong kept Xu Guanzhong's strategy in mind, and even as an infantryman, he marched extremely fast.
A journey that takes two days in one day is like a beheading in a hurry.
Haiyan City is much smaller than Jiaxing.
Naturally, there are not many Song soldiers guarding the city, less than 500 people.
However, the county captains guarding the city are timid and cautious people.
That day, he was at the top of the city.
He saw the dust on the horizon from a distance, and knew that a large army was coming to kill him.
He hurriedly asked his men to close the city gate and rang the gong to let Song soldiers go to the city to garrison.
By the time Zhu Tong led his troops to the city, Song soldiers had already closed the city gate.
However, Zhu Tong marched quickly and fiercely.
Although the Song soldiers closed the city gate, the sharp weapons used to defend the city, such as boiling oil and flying rocks, had not yet had time to move to the top of the city.
Zhu Tong led the army to attack.
He didn't even call the formation to surrender.
He directly ordered the archers to go forward and suppress the Song soldiers at the top of the city.
Hundreds of soldiers carried a big cloth bag on their backs and ran to the city gate quickly with their shields held up.
Wait until they took out the contents of the cloth bag and placed it at the city gate, then ran back quickly.
After a while, there was a boom, and after an earthquake and the mountains shook, the original north gate of Haiyan City suddenly collapsed, and the Song soldiers guarding near the city gate suffered a lot of casualties in the collapse.
Among them was the unlucky Haiyan County Captain.
The Haiyan County Lieutenant's martial arts skills were passable, but in the explosion just now, he fell directly from the top of the city and was smashed into pieces by the broken stones.
Since capturing half of Shandong, Liangshan's army has become much richer in supplies and no longer needs to be as cautious as before.
The supply of gunpowder has also been increased.
After blowing down the city gate with gunpowder packets, Zhu Dian immediately ordered his men to rush into Haiyan City.
However, the explosion just now not only killed the county captain, but also frightened the remaining Song soldiers.
They all ran back to the city and became deserters.
The Song soldiers who ran back to the city missed the city gate and told the magistrate that the county captain was killed.
When the magistrate heard this, he decisively abandoned the city and ran away.
Zhu Tong successfully captured Haiyan City.
After learning that Zhu Tong had captured Haiyan City, Xu Guanzhong withdrew from Jiaxing with his men at midnight the next day.
Xu Guanzhong was very careful when he left, and no one in Jiaxing City noticed it.
Until daybreak, the common people went out and saw not a single bandit patrolling the streets.
The city gate was wide open, and not one of the thieves who used to guard and ask for tolls was seen.
The people of Jiaxing felt something was wrong.
After repeated confirmations, it was finally confirmed that all the thieves and bandits were gone, and the people of Jiaxing clapped their hands and celebrated happily.
However, those wealthy clans were furious when they heard that all the thieves and bandits had fled.
In the study room of the Gu Mansion, Gu Xuanhua roared: "Why did you say that all those thieves and bandits have escaped?"
Gu Rong was frightened by Gu Xuanhua's angry face.
He was so frightened that he backed away and said, "Yes, there is not a single bandit in the city now."
"Where have all those thieves gone?"
Gu Xuanhua shouted.
"I don't know.
It is said that the gang of thieves escaped at night.
No one knows where they went," Gu Rong replied.
Gu Xuanhua remembered the most important thing and hurriedly asked: "Where did the gold and silver they looted go?"
Gu Rong said with a grimace: "They are all gone.
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Not only were they looted them in the past few days.
Even the materials in the Jiaxing warehouse are gone.
They must have been taken away by them."
Hearing that these thieves had disappeared with all the gold and silver supplies, Gu Xuanhua angrily swept the pens, inks, paper and inkstones on the desk to the ground, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Send all those servants out, You must find those thieves for me.
If you can’t find any clues, you all don’t have to come back.”
I had just paid a large sum of protection money to these bandits a few days ago, but they all ran away without saying a word.
This is just fucking treating people like me like monkeys.
The wealthy clans who felt that they had been fooled immediately united and sent out personnel to search for the whereabouts of the bandits.
Although the chance was slim, they were still lucky.
If they found them, they might be able to get back the gold and silver extorted by them when the imperial court sent troops to eliminate this gang of thieves.
Even if I can’t get all of it back, I still want to get some of it back.
It's a pity that Xu Guanzhong and the others left in the middle of the night the day before yesterday.
In addition, Xu Guanzhong and the others paid great attention to their whereabouts.
The men of the wealthy clans could not find any clues at all.
Xu Guanzhong successfully led his men to Haiyan City while protecting the supplies.
After hearing the news from his men that Xu Guanzhong was coming, Zhu Tong personally went out of the city to greet him.
Zhu Tong raised his hands and said, "Mr.
Xu, you have worked hard all the way."
Xu Guanzhong cupped his hands and said, "Compared to General Zhu, it's nothing."
"Mr.
Xu, I have already held a banquet in the city.
Follow me into the city quickly."
Xu Guanzhong said: "General Zhu, there is no rush in this matter.
Please also ask the general to send people to close the four city gates first, and no one is allowed to enter or exit."
Zhu Tong asked anxiously: "Mr.
Xu, did something happen?"
Xu Guanzhong said with a smile: "General Zhu, don't worry, that's a good thing.
The general will send people to close the city gate first, and then we will explain to the general as we enter the city."
When Zhu Tong heard that Xu Guanzhong said it was a good thing, he hurriedly shouted: "Okay, I'll ask someone to do it right now."
Zhu Tong immediately ordered all city gates to be closed.
Returning to the county government office, Zhu Tong was shocked when he heard the amount of gold and silver materials Xu Guanzhong had collected from Jiaxing City.
"Although I knew that these wealthy families had rich families, I didn't expect that even the small Jiaxing County had so many wealthy families.
You can imagine how much wealth the wealthy families in places like Tokyo and Hangzhou must have accumulated.
The wealthy families in the Song Dynasty Quite a few, but when there is a disaster, few people are willing to come out to help the people.
The wine and meat in the Zhumen are stinky, and there are bones frozen to death on the road."
Zhu Tong sighed.
Xu Guanzhong didn't care about Zhu Tong's sigh.
He was more concerned about how much supplies he could collect from Haiyan.
Xu Guanzhong said: "Haiyan County is rich in fish and salt.
Although it is not as good as Jiaxing, there are also many wealthy families here.
I am afraid that when they hear the news from Jiaxing, they will flee the city with their families, so that's why Please ask the general to close the city gate as soon as possible.
Restrict the entry and exit of the people.
It won't be too late to open the city gates after we get money from these wealthy families.
If the city gates are closed like this, the people in the city will be uneasy.
Please ask General Zhu to send more people. , stabilize the order in the city."
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Zhu Tong nodded and said: "I understand, I will send more people to patrol, and there will be no chaos in the city."
Xu Guanzhong cupped his hands and said, "Thank you General Zhu for your help.
This time, the supplies I brought back from Jiaxing City will be temporarily stored in Haiyan's warehouse.
After all the wealthy families in Haiyan have asked for them, they will be sent to Zhoushan.
I will ask General Li and others to send them to Shandong."
Go to the marshal" Zhu Tong replied: "Don't worry, with my general here, nothing will be lost."
When Xu Guanzhong led his men and acted as villains to forcefully demand gold and silver supplies from the wealthy clans in Haiyan County, in the Hangzhou City Government Office, East Road Commander Wang Zhen led his troops to confront Fang La's army on the front line.
Yang Jian, the supervisor of the East Route Army, could not bear the pain of marching.
He stayed in Hangzhou in the name of coordinating and arranging logistics and food supplies.
Yang Jian was a favored minister in front of Emperor Zhao Ji, and he was worshiped as Taifu.
What's more, this time he is the supervisor of the East Army.
No matter how tight the troops and horses are, Wang Zhen must ensure Yang Jian's safety.
In order to protect Yang Jian, Wang Zhen left the deputy capital commander Guo Zhongxun to lead an army of 20,000 to defend Hangzhou and Yang Jian.
Yang Jian stayed in Hangzhou City because he wanted to have fun.
But after he was happy for a few days, he felt a huge headache.
A group of thieves who came from nowhere actually captured Jiaxing City and blackmailed the wealthy families in the county.
If this were the case alone, Yang Jian wouldn't be too worried.
If thieves don't rob or extort, then are they called thieves?
What these thieves robbed was not his, Yang Jian's, those wealthy clans were robbed and had nothing to do with Yang Jian.
He, Yang Jian, was ordered to destroy Fang La.
If he waits until Fang La is wiped out, maybe when he is in a good mood, Yang Jian will ask people to wipe out those thieves, and then easily take the money they robbed into his pocket.
But they were so stubborn that they did it in the name of Fang La, and they even shouted that they were responding to Fang La.
This made Yang Jian absolutely unbearable.
Now it was hard to defeat Fang La, and they were about to be wiped out.
If this group of thieves and bandits are allowed to continue making trouble, it will not only cause instability in the rear of Hangzhou, but also most likely lead to other people following suit.
Not only will it boost the morale of the Fangla bandit army, it will also cause the entire Jiangnan to be in turmoil.
It will be difficult to destroy Fang La's army.
These thieves must be eliminated as soon as possible Yang Jian shouted: "General Guo, find out who the bandits are in Jiaxing this time."
The deputy capital commander Guo Zhongxun shook his head and replied: "Reporting to Mr.
Yang, I don't know where these thieves suddenly appeared from.
I have never heard of them before.
I only know that they claim to be heroes from Jiulong Mountain and admire Fang La."
This guy just started the rebellion, and the leader of the bandits was nicknamed Snake Zhu Tong."
Hearing that thieves appeared suddenly, Yang Jian frowned and asked, "Do you know how many people there are in this group of thieves?"
Guo Zhongxun replied: "There were only one or two thousand people, and they relied on trickery to capture Jiaxing City."
Hearing that there were only one or two thousand people in this band of thieves, Yang Jian was completely relieved.
He shouted: "General Wang is fighting Fang La's army on the front line.
There must be no chaos in the rear.
General Guo, I now order you to lead five thousand troops." , we must eradicate this gang of thieves.”
In Yang Jian's opinion, there are only one or two thousand bandits, and five thousand officers and soldiers are completely enough.
Not only Yang Jian thought it was enough, but Guo Zhongxun also thought it was just a group of thieves, and five thousand soldiers and horses were more than enough to fight.
Guo Zhongxun hurriedly raised his hands and shouted: "Yes, the general will take the order."
When Guo Zhongxun led 5,000 Song soldiers and arrived not far from Jiaxing City, the scout who scouted the way ran back and reported: "Report to the general, the four gates of Jiaxing City are wide open, and there are no bandits or bandits hanging on the top of the city." flag.no What's even more strange is that people can come and go freely at the city gate.
I stopped a few people and asked them.
They all said that the bandits had abandoned the city a few days ago and were nowhere to be found.
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I didn't dare to delay, so I came to report to the general
.
"
Guo Zhongxun was slightly surprised when he heard the report from his subordinates.
Those gangs of thieves and bandits have all run away.
Are they really afraid of our army, or are they deceitful?
Guo Zhongxun thought for a moment and then ordered: "Han Shizhong" Hearing the shouts, Lieutenant General Zhaowu and Lieutenant Han Shizhong immediately stepped forward and shouted: "The last general is here!"
Guo Zhongxun shouted: "I have ordered you to lead five hundred soldiers as the front army and go to Jiaxing City to investigate clearly.
If there is any abnormality, report it immediately."
Han Shizhong immediately shouted: "You have the order" Han Shizhong led his five hundred men all the way to the city gate.
He was just about to enter the city.
His subordinate Su Gesheng shouted: "General, if we enter the city rashly like this, we will be in danger if we are ambushed.
Why don't we let the younger one take a few people into the city to investigate first?
General, it won't be too late for him to enter the city again."
Han Shizhong shouted: "As former soldiers, we are responsible for exploring the road.
If we hesitate because of fear, it will delay the war record.
What's more, they are just a group of thieves, so why should I be afraid?
Enter the city."
Han Shizhong immediately rushed into the city on horseback, but he almost rushed to the front of the government office without encountering any ambush or resistance.
The only people I met along the way were ordinary people who were so scared that they hurried home when they saw the officers and soldiers coming.
Han Shizhong reined in his inferior horse, thought for a moment and shouted: "I will lead 300 people to guard the west gate.
Su Ge, you can take a few people to report to the general.
Our army has taken control of the west gate.
Let them come and take over quickly.
The others dispersed to investigate.
Are there any thieves?"
"yes" After the flag of the Song Dynasty was hung again at the city gate, the wealthy clans in Jiaxing City knew it immediately.
After Guo Zhongxun led the army into the city, the heads of these families immediately came to the door with their people.
These wealthy clans did not dare to question the civil officials or eunuchs like Yang Jian.
But as for the generals, they didn't take them seriously.
There are many people in these families who serve as civil servants in the imperial court, and some of them hold quite low positions.
In the main hall of Jiaxing City Government Office, Gu Xuanhua didn't even drink tea.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "General Guo, how long will it take to catch those thieves?"
"Don't worry, everyone.
I will catch those bandits as soon as possible.
You go back first."
After Guo Zhongxun helplessly persuaded the squires to go back, he couldn't help but shout: "This damn band of thieves has been captured by this general."
If you stop, you must pull it out and chop it off."
Before he could finish complaining, Han Shizhong walked in and shouted: "General, I just received news that Haiyan County was conquered by a group of thieves.
It is said that they are the same group of thieves who conquered Jiaxing City."
"Why the hell did they go to Haiyan again?
Han Shizhong, you can send a fast horse to report to Yang Xianggong and ask him for instructions."
Guo Zhongxun shouted.
The generals of the Song Dynasty did not have the right to send troops.
Even if they knew where the bandits were, they could not send them out without permission.
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It must be reported to the commander-in-chief, or even the emperor, before they can be dispatched.
Otherwise, it would be a serious crime to mobilize troops without permission.
"Yes" Han Shizhong replied.
After sending someone to report to Yang Jian, and then Yang Jian sent someone to deliver instructions, it took five or six days to go back and forth.
After Guo Zhongxun received the order, he ordered Han Shizhong to lead 500 people to stay in Jiaxing City.
When he rushed to Haiyan City with the remaining men.
Zhu Tong and Xu Guanzhong returned to Zhoushan two days ago with their men and the gold and silver supplies they collected.
Guo Zhongxun took over another Haiyan City with empty warehouses and angry gentry in the city: