Chapter 61: Entering the County Town
Obeying Xiang Kang's orders, more than 300 garrison soldiers who voluntarily or were forced to participate in the rebellion quickly re-arranged. Xiang Kang had no time to count the number of people and identify elite soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, so he hurriedly appointed Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan and Xiang Sheng as the commander of a hundred people, and asked them to appoint the garrison commander, Shi Chief and Soldier Commander, and organized the additional more than 40 people, and led them to serve as the central army himself, so that Xiang Yang and Xiang Di were each responsible for protecting themselves and conveying orders.
At this time, the unselected blacksmith shop apprentices and the militia trained by Xiang Kang had already emerged from a crowd of people and spontaneously came to Xiang Kang, requesting to participate in the rebellion, and also expressed their swearing to follow him to the end. Xiang Kang was of course very happy to see him, so he quickly organized all these confidants into the central army, greatly enhancing the strength and loyalty of his central army.
Immediately afterwards, Xiang Guan ordered a team of 100 people to quickly go to his ragged courtyard and blacksmith shop to get the weapons hidden before and distribute them to the garrison soldiers. At the same time, Xiang Yang led some people to rush into the pavilion and use all the weapons and horses in the pavilion hall. Fortunately, the pavilion soldiers of the pavilion hall had already fled in all directions. Xiang Yang's team easily got some weapons and three horses without any resistance.
Before it was over, Xiang Kang, who had already deduced the action steps, called Xiang Zhuang again and told him: "Brother, take your people with you, go to Mr. Yu's house immediately, and borrow all the oil and carriage from him. If he doesn't lend it, you will rob it. But remember, don't hurt people, and don't tell the Yu family what happened for the time being."
Xiang Zhuang received the order and quickly led his 100-man team to rush towards the Yu family. Xiang Kang led some people to strode to Feng Zhong, and while personally tying Feng Zhong, he said, "Brother, I will give you two choices. One is to take Sister Qiu and your child away quickly, and the other is to do it with me. If the matter is done, I will definitely not treat you badly."
Feng Zhong was silent and said, but when Xiang Kang untied the rope on his hand and asked him again how to choose, Feng Zhongcai gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, I'll do it with you."
"Don't regret it?" Xiang Kang asked.
"It's too late to regret." Feng Zhong replied frankly, saying, "You have killed so many county officials here. We have joined forces to do so many things before. Even if you let me go, I will definitely not be able to escape the sanctions by the government in the future. At the very least, I have to be sent to Mount Li to be a prisoner. Instead of being a prisoner, it's better to fight with the court with you!"
Xiang Kang smiled and stretched out a hand to Feng Zhong. Feng Zhong understood and reached out and held Xiang Kang tightly, shaking it hard.
It was also at this time that Feng Zhongcai discovered that Xiang Kang had been holding on to this bad thing for a long time. After Xiang opened the luggage package that Xiang Kang had been carrying before, he actually took out a large "Chu" banner from Xiang Kang's package, and a slightly smaller "Xiang" banner, and a few vermilion-shaped flags, and all of them were Chu-style military flags from the Warring States Period! He then found a few bamboo poles from the pavilion and put them on the military flags and started them up. A Chu army appeared again on the land of the old Chu State after fifteen years.
During the busy preparation, Xiang Guan first returned to Xiang Kang with a large number of weapons. Xiang Kang quickly distributed the sabre to the militia who had practiced the sabre technique before. He also took the opportunity to incorporate these militia into his central army, strengthening his central army's strength again. More than 20 hook inlays were also distributed to Xiang Kang's soldiers in the central army. Other ordinary swords, axes, hammers and other objects were divided into three parts and distributed to Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan and Xiang Sheng's 100-man team.
After a while, Xiangzhuang successfully drove a few carriages of Yu's family and pulled a dozen jars of grease back to Xiang Kang, saying that Yu Gong was frightened by his legs just when he saw so many people rushing into his house. As soon as he said he borrowed oil and carriage, Yu Gong immediately opened the warehouse to lend him all the grease and carriage. There was no conflict during this period, and the Yu family did not dare to ask what happened. Xiang Kang was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered: "Okay, get the Magistrate Zhou on his carriage and tie it up, set off and go to the county town!"
After the departure order was issued, according to Xiang Kang's arrangement, Xiang Sheng led a 100-man team to serve as the vanguard at the front, Xiang Zhuang led a 100-man team to follow closely. Xiang Kang led the central army to escort Zhou County Magistrate and Township Sefu as the third team. Xiang Guan led his 100-man team to walk at the end, and the four teams in front and back stride forward together, and the team drove down Xiang County in a slightly chaotic manner.
I was so busy and nervous. After leaving, Xiang Kang remembered that he forgot to say goodbye to his two aunts, and quickly turned around and looked at the crowd in front of Shilingting Tingshe, wanting to find the figure of the little girl Yu Gui. However, the crowd was chaotic and the traces were hard to find. After looking at the figure of the little girl Yu Gui, Xiang Kang had to leave the little girl behind for the time being and said to himself: "Baby, wait for my brother-in-law to come back and love you."
Of course, what Xiang Kang didn't know was that since he started to capture Zhou County Magistrate, Yu Gui's little girl had been silently staring at him in the chaotic crowd. Her beautiful eyes had never left her figure. She didn't know that at this moment, the little girl was folding her hands in the crowd, praying silently with tears in her face, "Ghosts, God, please bless him to come back safely, please."
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I know how to unite people's hearts. When I set out to drive towards the county town, according to Xiang Kang's arrangement, the Xiang family's children shouted loudly and led more than 300 garrison soldiers to sing the Chu military song that was still not completely forgotten by the old Chu people. Of course, it was not loud enough at first. However, with repeated singing, the military songs gradually became one and began to echo loudly in the rain...
"...... I was fucked by Wu Ge and was armoured by rhinoceros armor, and the chariot was staggered by the hub and the short soldiers were caught. The flags covered the sun and the enemy was like clouds, and the arrows fell and the soldiers fought for the first place. I was leaning on the formation and strolling my way, and the left was silenced and the right was wounded. Two wheels of haze and four horses were squeezing the jade squeezing and hitting the drums. The sky was quarreled with power and spirit, and I was stern and killed all the time and abandoned the field..."
The effect of loud military songs is the gradual unification of people's hearts. He sang the Chu military song that once resounded throughout the Central Plains battlefield. Fifteen years ago, more than 300 garrison soldiers, who were all Chu people, seemed to have returned to the era of Qin and Chu fighting. They felt like they had become the Chu warriors on the battlefield against Qin and Qin. The feeling of timidity and guilt gradually disappeared, their morale began to be high, their morale gradually began to solidify, and their spirits increased significantly.
However, even so, Xiang Kang was very clear in his heart that these more than 300 garrison soldiers were still a group of real mobs. As long as there was a slight setback, they might scatter at any time, turning the seemingly huge team into only him, the commander and more than a dozen Xiang family members. If you want to solve this problem, there is only one way to win the battle! Continuously win the battle! Until Xiaxiang County is taken down, you can have money and food to expand the army, free up your hands to train the army, and prepare for greater challenges.
It is precisely because of this that, when passing by the village capital Dahuting, Xiang Kang decisively ordered Xiang Sheng to lead the front army to attack Dahuting, and he took down the pavilion house almost without any effort, killed the pavilion soldiers and killed the pavilion chief, seized various supplies from the pavilion, which greatly boosted the morale of the army. Then, Xiang Kang looked far away and gave up the opportunity to directly advance to Xiaxiang County, and deliberately directed the army to set off to Santaiting in the north of Xiaxiang County to attack Santaiting, the gathering place of Xiaxiang County garrison soldiers.
"Uncle Ji, why are you going to Santai Pavilion?" Xiang Ta asked in confusion: "If you go to Santai Pavilion, you are also a gathering place for the soldiers of Xiaxiang. Will you encounter many enemies when you go there?"
"It is precisely because it is the gathering place for the soldiers of the Xiaxiang garrison, so we must go there first." Xiang Kang replied: "Otherwise, if we stabbed us from the back under the leadership of the county lieutenant when we were attacking the city, we would suffer a great loss immediately, and it would be impossible for the army to collapse immediately. So we should first attack Santaiting and kill the soldiers there to disperse so that they would not pose a threat to us."
"But the entire Xiaguan garrison should be there. Can we beat us with such a few people?" Xiang Ta asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, I dare to guarantee that the garrison soldiers are not our opponents." Xiang Kang said with a smile: "There is no organization and no preparation in advance. No one wants to go to the frontier to be garrison soldiers to die in vain. It would be strange if we don't scatter immediately when we see us killing us. There will definitely be someone willing to surrender to us, follow us, and strengthen our army's strength."
When Xiang Kang was exposed, when Xiang Kang's newly released Chu army suddenly appeared in Santai Pavilion, the shocked prime minister Xu Zuowei was still smart, and immediately organized the newly assembled garrison soldiers to attack Xiang Kang's army, and successfully forced the garrison soldiers of Santai Pavilion to barely go into battle. However, none of the garrison soldiers under Xu Zuowei were willing to work hard. Xiang Sheng and Xiang Zhuang's two hundred-man teams had just launched the charge, and countless garrison soldiers under Xu Zuowei couldn't wait to start running for their lives, and even shouted, "Run! The world is in chaos, go home quickly, take advantage of the situation now!"
The shouts that shake the morale of the army caused the rapid collapse of the army. When Xiang Sheng and Xiang Zhuang rushed to the front with the army, less than half of the six or seven hundred garrison soldiers were left. Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Sheng and others were overjoyed when they saw it. They screamed and rushed directly towards Xu Zuowei. Xu Zuowei, who was riding on the horse, hurriedly pushed forward the battle. He also relied on his condescending advantage to injure the two fastest Xiang Kang soldiers. However, Xiang Zhuang saw the opportunity and inserted his sword into the butt of his war horse. Xu Zuowei's war horse immediately lost control and rushed straight into the crowd of Xiang Kang soldiers. First, he was hooked off the war horse by the war sword of Xiang Kang soldiers, and then stabbed to death by random swords and swords, and died beyond recognition.
As soon as Xu Zuowei died, the frightened soldiers behind him were of course completely collapsed. They were almost in the blink of an eye and were defeated by the two 100-man teams of Xiang Kang's army, fleeing countless times, and kneeling down and surrendering countless times. Xiang Kang's army easily killed the potential enemies during the siege, and solved the potential hidden dangers during the siege. The morale rose sharply again, and the morale of the army became even higher. Cheers of victory came one after another, and they remained uninterrupted for a long time.
As Xiang Kang expected, after learning the cause and purpose of the Xiang Kang army's uprising, the captured Xiaxiang garrison soldiers were indeed scrambling to join Xiang Kang's army. Even the garrison soldiers who had already escaped had even come back to ask for joining after learning about the situation. The number of soldiers in Xiang Kang's army quickly exceeded 600. Xiang Kang temporarily dispatched troops and quickly formed three 100 teams, handed them over to Xiang Han and other Xiang family's children. Then Jian Feng pointed and shouted: "Go to the county town and take the county town!"
Santaiting is less than ten miles away from Xiaxiang County. Xiang Kangjun, who was lightly equipped, rushed to Xiaxiang North Gate before it was dark. Unfortunately, the county town had already received news that the four gates of the city had been closed, and many officials and people had arrived at the city gate, and were still carrying stones and wood to the city to defend the city.
"Uncle Ji, the city gate is closed. We can't get in and we don't have any siege weapons. What should we do?" Xiang Ta asked anxiously.
"It's okay, as I expected, I have a way." Xiang Kang comforted him and ordered: "I ordered the entire army to rest on the spot and eat dry food as soon as possible. He asked Xiang Han to take his 100-man team to cut firewood everywhere and tie it into bundles of firewood. The more the better, and I will be of great use later."
According to Xiang Kang's order, the soldiers of Xiang Kang's army immediately rested on the spot in a mess, took out the dry food they carried with them - set out to serve as garrison soldiers on the frontier. Of course, the soldiers of Xiang Kang's army, who were basically garrison soldiers, carried dry food with them. Xiang Han followed Xiang Kang's order and took his 100-man team to cut wood everywhere, tied it into bundles of firewood to the army for later use, and soon brought dozens of bundles of firewood for Xiang Kang.
During this period, some soldiers of Xiang Kang's army tried to make fires to keep warm, but Xiang Kang strictly prohibited them and ordered those who dared to light the fire to be executed immediately. Xiang Ta and Xiang Yang were puzzled and asked the reason again. Xiang Kang refused to answer, but he kept looking up and watching the sky, so that his army gradually enveloped the night.
At the same time, Xiaxiang County Magistrate, who was temporarily acting as the county magistrate, also climbed to the north gate of Xiaxiang, Gong Youwei and others, and tried to look at Xiang Kangjun's movements. Seeing that Xiang Kangjun did not set up a bonfire and stationed in the suburbs, the county Magistrate who had been on the battlefield when he was young was inevitably surprised and said, "What are these gangs of thieves doing? Why don't they even light up the fire?"
"Maybe I wanted to launch a sneak attack at night, but I was afraid that we would find out their movements, so I deliberately did not set up a bonfire." Gong Youwei, who also went to the battlefield when he was young, analyzed.
"It makes sense." The county magistrate nodded and ordered: "Gong Youwei, you will live here tonight. When you find a thief stealing the city, you should fight immediately. You must not let the thief climb up to the city."
Gong Youwei agreed and expressed his concern that he was short of staff, so he would not be able to prevent this. The county magistrate waved his hand and said, "There are still two hundred people temporarily recruited in the city, and I will give you all, so that they can defend the city well. If the thieves kill in, none of us will survive!"
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At the same time, Qi County, Daze Township, and the area around the temple of the Society next to Tingshe.
"Great Chu rises, King Chen Sheng! Great Chu rises, King Chen Sheng!"
The strange and strange shouts alarmed the soldiers of Chen County who were about to fall asleep. When they heard the shouts similar to foxes, they saw the ghost fires looming in the temple of the society. None of the soldiers of Chen County who were just greeting each other and were whispering to each other, discussing in a low voice about what the fox shouted. Only a treacherous leader named Chen Sheng slept on the broken straw mat early, turned over, humming comfortably, as if he was sleeping soundly.
Superstition caused panic and nervousness, which made no one noticed these Chen County garrison soldiers. Wu Guang, another popular village chief, went there, didn't know where, and no one noticed it. Chen Sheng, who seemed to be sleeping, had a smug smile on the corner of his mouth...
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The picture returned to the lower eye. This time it was guessed by the county magistrate and Gong Youwei. After a while, when the time was approaching the second update, several drums and gongs suddenly sounded in the darkness outside the north gate. The drums and gongs were both seized in the pavilions of Shiling Pavilion, Dahu Pavilion and Santai Pavilion. They were knocked very quickly, and they were particularly clear in the darkness. Gong Youwei, who was sleeping in the city tower, was shocked and rushed out of the city tower to organize officials and the temporary recruitment militia to prepare for the battle. However, what made Gong Youwei confused was that the drums and gongs stopped by themselves in less than half a quarter of an hour, and at the same time, no soldiers from Xiang Kang's army appeared at the north gate.
He did not dare to take it lightly, and led the officers and militias to stare at the dark wilderness outside the city. After confirming that there was indeed no danger, Gong Youwei waved his hand and asked the officers and militias to go down to rest, leaving only the officers and militias on duty to continue to monitor the movements under the city. He was full of suspicion and returned to the city tower to sleep. He could not understand what tricks the rioters outside the city were playing.
Unable to resist the invasion of the Sandman, not much time passed, Gong Youwei, who had been worried and tired for most of the day, couldn't help but fall asleep again. However, before Gong Youwei could sleep, drums and gongs sounded again outside the city, which was obviously much closer than before. Gong Youwei was shocked and could only jump up and rushed out of the city tower with his sword. After careful listening, it was true that Xiang Kangjun beat the gongs and the war drums about half a mile away from the north gate. He was afraid that this was the signal of Xiang Kang's siege. Gong Youwei could only force the official officers and militias to get up and prepare to face the enemy. However, ten minutes later, the sound of war drums and gongs suddenly disappeared without a trace. Only the drizzle was like silk outside the city, and no one was seen.
When things came to this point, Gong Youwei, who had some experience in the battlefield, also woke up. He knew that Xiang Kangjun was disturbing himself with exhausted tactics, and prepared to exhaust himself with the sound of drums and gongs, and then suddenly a truth came out of the ten falsehoods and caught him off guard. However, even if he understood Xiang Kangjun's intention, Gong Youwei was helpless. The power in his hand was too thin. It was okay to temporarily recruit militia hiding on the city wall and smashing stones. He sent him out to fight against the enemy. It was simply a joke to take Xiang Cheng's life and death. So there was no way, Gong Youwei had to curse Xiang Kang's ineffable tricks while letting the militia and officials go back to rest.
After being repeatedly tossed twice, Gong Youwei and the militiamen at the North Gate were already suffering and yawning. At the same time, they received the news that the county magistrate hurriedly climbed to the north gate and learned about the situation in person with Gong Youwei. After learning about Xiang Kangjun's bad behavior and vicious purpose, the county magistrate also cursed and couldn't help asking Gong Youwei: "Gong Youwei, why don't we send a team of people out and fight with them?"
"County magistrate, this is no joke." Gong Youwei was shocked and said hurriedly: "There are only more than one hundred officials in the county, and the rest are all the people recruited temporarily. They have no much battlefield experience and poor combat effectiveness. If they go out of the city to fight, the defeated army flees back to the city, and the city gates will not be closed. The gangsters took the opportunity to follow them into the city, and it will be over when they get off the Xiangcheng!"
Thinking about this, the county magistrate had to give up this plan, patted Gong Youwei's shoulder helplessly and said, "Gong Youwei, you will only have to work hard. But don't worry, I have already given the urgent letter to the county and the neighboring Tong County. If it goes well, the reinforcements will arrive in at most two days."
Gong Youwei nodded, and was about to persuade the county magistrate who was a little weak and weak to go back and rest quickly. Unexpectedly, the sound of thunder suddenly sounded like thunder and shouted loudly. You could vaguely see a fire rising from the east gate. Gong Youwei and the county magistrate were scattered when they saw each other and shouted in unison: "There are rioters on the east gate?"
"I've been trapped!" Gong Youwei, who was still a little brained, suddenly woke up and shouted loudly: "The thieves are calling out to the east and west! They deliberately beat gongs and drums at the north gate to attract our attention. In fact, their main force went to the east gate! Started at our east gate!"
Chapter completed!