, This son-in-law is very stable

The Hejian prefect Fang Mingxu was frowning. The tens of thousands of harbors of grain he transported a few days ago were robbed, which made him very angry. Last year, he sent the Hejian camp to suppress the horse bandits, but he didn't expect that it would rekindle so quickly.

He was angry and wanted to suppress him again, but now the disaster was a little short of his troops, and he had to protect the city. Finally, he discussed with Liu Xinyuan, the Tongguan in charge of the camp, and sent thousands of troops to escort the food to avoid being robbed again.

"Report to Master! I'm going to report it urgently!" A civil servant came in with a red envelope and said, "Sir! An urgent report came from the port, and dozens of troops and armor suddenly appeared! It was said that the Yang family sent to find someone!"

"What?" Fang Mingxu was stunned. The Yang family was looking for someone. The Yang family knew that it was responsible for transporting the food for disaster relief in Fengcheng this time. The food they robbed a few days ago was sent by them, but...

He felt like a lightning in his heart: Where did the soldiers come from the Yang family? Where did so many people come from? Dozens of ships? What do they want to do? Didn’t they say that the escort was a son-in-law before? Such a humble person, let alone disappear, isn’t it even if he dies? Is this their excuse!

Naturally, he could not imagine what Zhang Wei, a son-in-law, did in the Yang family and his importance. In his opinion, a son-in-law is a humble person and has little difference from his identity as a concubine.

So it can be imagined that he naturally did not believe what the Yang family said about finding people, especially such a situation. Even if he lost it, the court would not have sent so many troops to find them.

"Quickly notify Judge Liu Tong, so that he feels that the soldiers gathered in the camp are in case of an accident!" Fang Mingxu thought of the first thing he wanted to do was to attack Hejian?

It’s not a fault for thinking too much. Dayan prohibits the people from building military armor. If there are dozens or hundreds of people who can barely say that these are dozens of ships, I’m afraid there will be tens of thousands of people. Is this here to find people?

This is enough to conquer the city and territorial territory! If you say something else, it would be fine, but if you lose a son-in-law, you are so shaking a big fight? Is it someone who doesn’t believe it? You definitely just make an excuse!

Fang Mingxu was walking back and forth in the hall, anxious. If there were so many soldiers and horses, the Yang family would take advantage of the opportunity to be affected by the disaster in Hejian to attack the city, he would probably not be able to escape the responsibility of losing his territory!

He has been an official for many years and has not encountered rebellion, but most of them are small-scale fights and can suppress them with backhands. This is the first time that a large army is in a turmoil.

"Master Fang!" Liu Xinyuan rushed over after receiving the news and said breathlessly: "Now the camp is empty, and more than half of the soldiers have taken over the city gates, and the rest have gone to escort the food!"

Liu Xinyuan was the nephew of the local clan Liu family. In addition to his Jinshi, he achieved such a position as a second-rank official in the mansion. After receiving the news, he and Fang Mingxu had almost the same idea, so he rushed to discuss the matter.

"Mr. Liu! When is it now? Hurry up and close the gates of each city! Summon the soldiers guarding the city as soon as possible and join forces together!" Fang Mingxu said anxiously: "Then let someone go to the north to ask for help! Let's go outside the port as soon as possible to deter them, and don't let those people leave the port! I will send someone to negotiate and delay!"

"Okay! I'll mobilize troops and horses. The lord will also send people to contact us as soon as possible to see their real purpose! As long as it is not a conquering city, try to stabilize them!" Liu Xinyuan breathed and said, "The Northern Camp also needs to defend against the Northern Liao Kingdom, I'm afraid it can't be moved lightly! I'll send a letter and try it!"

The two of them immediately made arrangements separately. Fang Mingxu sent someone as an envoy to the port for negotiations. However, after asking more than ten people, no one dared to go. He was so angry that he wanted to fire all these aides, and in the end a minor official took on the task.

Fang Mingxu naturally praised him so he took out a hundred taels of silver on the spot and asked him to send it home before going home. He also promised that he could become a civil servant after he came back and become one of his aides.

Liu Xinyuan first wrote a letter, telling the situation of Hejian Prefecture, and then sent someone to send the letter to the Beidi Camp, and at the same time ordered the blockade of the four cities, gathered most of the troops in the camp, and drove directly to the port.

On the other side, the port is already crowded, among which the dog brought the most people from Crescent Island, with about 20,000 people. Yang Zhiyong and Yang Zhiyi each brought about 8,000 people. The three parties plus the original left-behind and returned from the Yang family branch in the northern part of the country, there will be more than 40,000 people!

When they arrived at the port, they first waited for nearly an hour for meals on the ship, and then took an hour for disembarking and organizing formations. At this time, the port was already full of people from the Yang family.

All parties are organizing their subordinates and are preparing to advance along the river in a half-moon shape according to the negotiations. Among them, the people on Crescent Island have the fastest reaction speed. After all, they have experienced blood in wars, and the overall discipline is the best. Although there are the most people, the arrangement is first completed.

Seeing that Yang Zhiyong and Yang Zhiyi's manpower were almost organized, Gou'er asked someone to sing the flag and prepare to set off. Forty thousand people set up formations and walked along the river in a mighty manner.

As the saying goes, if people are boundless and unbordered, what does it mean to have 40,000 people? If there are four people standing per square meter, then there can be 28,560 people standing per football stadium, that is, four people in a square meter can stand a football stadium full of one and a half.

What's more, these 40,000 men were equipped with armor, and there were baggage behind them. Once they moved, the distance between them would be much larger, almost the same as the size of ten football fields!

After the Yang family set off, they dispersed in crescent shapes and divided into teams. When they encountered the village, they entered the search, causing all the villages along the way to be in chaos. Fortunately, they did not hurt people, nor did they rob. After all, in the eyes of these people, the villagers here were all a group of poor people who were half-starved.

Seeing that it was about to reach halfway, where the food was in trouble before, I saw a pair of people and horses from afar, each riding horses and hundreds of carriages behind me. When I saw their team, I wanted to turn to the north.

However, the Yang family's team came faintly in a half-moon shape. In addition, there were already many people, so they had to run for a while even if they rode a horse, not to mention that they were carrying baggage behind them.

After a while, another wave of teams came from where the horse team had just arrived. The team was neatly armored and had a serious military appearance. At a glance, you could tell that it should be the imperial army.

The horses sandwiched between the two sides were in a dilemma. On one side was the river, on the other side was the Yang family army, and behind was the imperial army, almost forming a triangle, trapping them in the middle!

This is the consequence of fleeing in a hurry without preparation and not sending out a sentry cavalry. These people are Hejian horse bandits! The carriage behind them is the 10,000 tents of food that they had robbed before!

It turned out that the government office summoned a large army, and they received the letter, thinking that they were here to encircle and suppress them. The leader of the bandit escaped by luck last year, but still had psychological shadows. When he heard the army was dispatched, he immediately took people to flee in a hurry, took Xiaoruan and food, and ran all the way south, but happened to run into the imperial army and headed towards the port.

After seeing the imperial army, these people immediately followed the river and headed northeast. However, with hundreds of trucks of food and supplies behind, the bandits were reluctant to leave. After all, the most valuable thing in Hejian Mansion is now food. If they abandoned the food, they would be afraid that they might starve to death even if they ran away.

Naturally, they couldn't run fast with their baggage, and the direction they fled was at the port, which was exactly the same as the direction the battalions of the government office went. As a result, they were naturally tightly attached to the back by a large army, and then encountered a large group of troops from the Yang family, forming the current siege.

The three parties were in a stalemate for a while. The imperial army knew who the two parties belonged to, but he did not know the position of the Yang family. Even the purpose at this time was to intimidate these soldiers and horses, so he did not dare to act rashly.

The horse thieves thought that both sides were all large army of the imperial court, just to wipe out them. The leader of the horse thieves was frustrated at the moment. First, they should not plunder the food for disaster relief, causing the imperial army to be dispatched, and second, they should not be greedy. If the food was abandoned just now, they would have been gone long ago, and the imperial army could not catch up with it.

The three leaders of the Yang family were discussing. Yang Zhiyi was the smartest. He said: "Looking at the flags of the people opposite, you will know that they are the soldiers of the Hejian Prefecture Camp. The horse team they chased may be the bandits we are looking for!"

"It makes sense! Then let's kill them directly and destroy them!" When Gou'er heard that it was a bandit, she immediately showed a ferocious face. It was these people who caused the son-in-law to disappear.

"Wait!" Yang Zhiyong was the most mature and steadfast, saying: "Although the imperial army should be encircling and suppressing horse bandits, the current situation should be that we are concerned about us. If we act rashly, it is likely to lead to misunderstandings!"

"Brother Yong's words are reasonable!" Yang Zhiyi frowned, nodded again, and said, "It's better to say hello to the imperial army first. The two sides will suppress the bandits together. Now that the encirclement has been formed, these bandits will definitely not be able to escape!"

"What if they work hard in one place and break through?" Dog'er has experienced more wars and has experiences more than them. He said: "Let's first reduce the encirclement, compress their mobile space, and thicken the formation!"

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The government office received a letter to summon troops,

Prepare to send troops to intimidate the Yang family,

The horse bandits misjudged it as encirclement and suppression.

Being in a stalemate.
Chapter completed!