Chapter 169: Pirates attack the city
Early morning in Quanzhou
The drizzle rustled down and fell on the roof, eaves, brick walls, courtyards and windows of the Quanzhou Prefect's Mansion, making waves of "rustling" sounds.
Because it rained in the morning, the weather seemed a little dim, but the air was extremely fresh, and the entire prefect's mansion was relatively peaceful and quiet.
However, a rushing sound of horse hooves in Quanzhou City in the early morning broke the peace and tranquility of the Quanzhou Prefect's Mansion.
"Immediate report, urgent report, quickly report to Prefect Li, and the military's situation is urgent!" After several riders and probes rode all the way to the gate of the prefect's mansion, they turned over and dismounted, raised their hands and reported in an emergency, shouted loudly.
The gatekeeper of the prefect's mansion did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly rushed to the inner house of the prefect's mansion.
From the doorman to the inner house where Cai Rongxue lives, there are three doors. The first door is a male servant responsible for opening the door and passing messages, the second door is a middle-aged servant responsible for opening the door and passing messages, and the last door is Cai Rongxue's personal maid Xiaoqin responsible for opening the door and passing messages.
Li Sanjian, who was born in a poor family, had already had the intention of being a wealthy mansion at this time.
"Young Master, Jun is urgent to report!" Xiaoqin did not dare to neglect after receiving the urgent report. She gently knocked on the door of the inner room with a piece of clothing.
"Officials, the military is urgent to report!" Li Sanjian was too tired and slept too heavily yesterday, but he was still in his sleep at this moment. Cai Rongxue was awakened first, so he pushed Li Sanjian and said.
Cai Rongxue shouted three times in a row, and Li Sanjian woke up in a daze.
Military information? Or urgent report? Li Sanjian woke up suddenly when he heard this. After a rough look at the urgent report, he hurriedly jumped under the bed and repeatedly ordered Cai Rongxue and others to say, "Hurry... hurry up... take the armor."
There are only ten words above the urgent military report, which is "The fall of Shihu Shui Village, the situation is critical!"
When Li Sanjian saw the urgent report, how could he not be in a hurry?
At this moment, Li Sanjian was anxious.
Where is Shihu Shui Village? Shihu Shui Village is the gateway to Quanzhou and is a fortress guarding Quanzhou.
If Shihu Water Village is really lost, Quanzhou will basically have a wide door open, and the pirates can take the boat and drive straight into the city of Quanzhou directly.
Why didn't anyone in the Quanzhou Prefecture Office remind himself of the importance of Shihu Water Village? Including why he ignored this place? At this time, Li Sanjian said in his heart.
Seeing Li Sanjian's anxious look, Cai Rongxue didn't dare to ask more questions. She hurriedly ordered the servants to take Li Sanjian's armor and dress them properly with several maids.
"Xue'er, after I leave, you instruct the people in the mansion to close the door tightly. Do not open the door if it is important or familiar with it. People who are important are not allowed to enter the mansion." Li Sanjian hung the King of Wu sword at his waist, stabilized his mind for a while, and slowly said to Cai Rongxue.
The situation is not shocked, the mountain of Tai collapses in front of him and the color remains unchanged, and the elk rises in the left but his eyes are not instant. This is what a general should at least have and the most important thing.
When something happened, Li Sanjian, as the prefect of Quanzhou, was distracted first. Wouldn't his subordinates be even more panicked?
Therefore, Li Sanjian calmed down at this moment and thought about how to deal with this matter.
"I understand, you are... you have no eyes, but you must be careful." Cai Rongxue said to Li Sanjian with great concern.
When the matter came to this point, how could Cai Rongxue not know what happened?
In this world, men are women's heaven
, is the pillar of the family, how can Cai Rongxue, as Li Sanjian's wife, not worry?
It would be useless to say too much at this moment, so Li Sanjian held Cai Rongxue's sweaty little hand, nodded, and turned around and strode away.
When Fu Erniang drove out, Li Sanjian and others had already left the Quanzhou Prefect's Mansion.
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There is Qingyuan Mountain in the north of Quanzhou, Guishan Mountain in the west, and Zimao Mountain in the distance. The southwest is surrounded by Jinjiang, and the northeast is Luoyang River. Luoyang River and Jinjiang merge into the sea in the southeast of Quanzhou.
Quanzhou is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition to the southwest of the city wall, the reason is that the southwest of the city wall is a flat land, and the southeast of the city wall is lakes and swamps, facing the sea. Qingyuan Mountain is the northern part of Quanzhou. Therefore, if you want to break through Quanzhou, you must attack in the southwest.
The city gates southwest of Quanzhou are Linzhang Gate and Tongjin Gate.
At the end of September and early October of the second year of Chongning, the pirates in Tongpan Mountain of the East China Sea gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of large and small ships to the city of Quanzhou, besieging Quanzhou, hoping to capture Quanzhou City in one fell swoop.
At this time, the river surface outside Linzhang Gate and Tongjin Gate in Quanzhou was covered with ships of various sizes, and the vastness could not see the end at a glance.
The mast is like a dense forest, the sails are like clouds hanging from the sky, and all kinds of flags are also fluttering in the wind, and the thief is extremely powerful.
"Hahahaha..." Xie Huaizhong, the leader of the bronze cottage standing on a large ship, looked at the city of Quanzhou and couldn't help but laugh: "Second brother is indeed resourceful, and he is such a trick to doubt the enemy!"
The pirate leaders who surrounded Xie Huaizhong seemed to see a trace of saliva flowing down from Xie Huaizhong's mouth...
Of course Xie Huaizhong is drooling, or it is about to drain the water...
In the past, pirates captured a county town and were fortunate. After capturing the county town, they plundered property, women, etc. everywhere, just like hungry wolf, which was exciting and exciting.
This is the case in the county town, let alone a big city like Quanzhou? The mountains of gold, silver, jewelry and other wealth in the city are piled up, flowers and jade in the city, the groups of petite wives, and countless rare treasures in the city... How can it not make people salivate?
The most important thing is that if Tongshanzhai conquers Quanzhou city, even expands the results of the battle, and then captures several cities on Fujian Road, he will have the capital to bargain with the Song court, and may be recruited by the Song court, and then transformed into an official.
At the same time, Tongshan Village will surely boost its momentum, and heroes from all over the world will definitely accept the first place to vote. By that time, Tongshan Village will become one of the top overlords in the East China Sea, and Xie Huaizhong will be the leader of the heroes, and it is possible to even become kings.
No matter how badly he attacked Quanzhou city, then burned, killed, plundered, turned Quanzhou into ruins, and then left calmly, and hid in the vast sea. What could the Song Dynasty court do to Xie Huaizhong?
When Xie Huaizhong thought of his proudness, he couldn't help but stroke his bald head and laughed proudly.
"King, what should we do now?" Xie Huaizhong's subordinates seemed to have seen through Xie Huaizhong's thoughts and were already called "King".
"Well, what do you think of the current situation?" Xie Huaizhong stopped laughing and asked Fei Jingyang on the side.
"Brother..." The bandits looked excited and excited, but Fei Jingyang looked worried.
Zhong looked at the quiet city of Quanzhou and said with great concern: "Brother, why don't we withdraw our troops back to the island."
At this time, the city of Quanzhou seemed relatively quiet, with no noise, no noise, and no panic.
On the city wall, various flags of Song Dynasty fluttered in the wind, and the flags were mixed with various long and short weapons, like rows of trees. It was visible to the naked eye on the city wall. Teams of Song troops carrying quiveres were constantly moving on the city wall, but without making a loud noise.
How come Fei Jingyang was shocked by the formation of a high-profile battle in Quanzhou City?
Withdrawal? Return to the island? Xie Huaizhong almost fell off the boat stairs when he heard this. He turned to look at Fei Jingyang and asked unhappily: "Why did your second brother say this?"
Having created such a big battle, he attacked everywhere. When he arrived at the city of Quanzhou, he was about to break into the city, he stopped and withdrew his troops back to the island in dust?
How is this possible? You must know that in order to attack Quanzhou City, Tongshanzhai took out almost all the assets.
"Brother, where is the Quanzhou Zhoushi? So far, I have not seen a Quanzhou Zhoushi boat! " Fei Jingyang replied after hearing this.
Compared with the high waiting for Quanzhou City, Fei Jingyang was most worried about the Quanzhou Zhoushi.
Fei Jingyang originally planned to fight the Quanzhou Zhoushi on the sea outside Quanzhou, and defeat the Quanzhou Zhoushi in one fell swoop, annihilated most of its troops, and then besieged Quanzhou with a victorious army. This would definitely result twice the result with half the effort.
But when the pirates sailed to the city of Quanzhou, there was no trace of a Quanzhou boatman ship. It was as if he had tried his best to punch, but he hit the cotton with one punch, making the blood surging.
Fei Jingyang was worried that the Quanzhou Zhoushi, who had been missing, was hiding somewhere. When the time was right, he would give him a fatal blow.
Before you consider victory, you should first think about defeat, so you can never be defeated in a hundred battles! If the attack is unfavorable, the pirates can still leave calmly by boat, but if the Quanzhou boat army has been eyeing one side, it will make Fei Jingyang thorn on his back and a thorn on his throat.
The Song army in Quanzhou City had no ship but could not get out of the sea or chase the enemy, but the boat army was different and could chase the pirates and attack them.
Compared with this, Fei Jingyang would rather fight hard, fight bloody, die, or even lose at sea with Quanzhou Zhoushi, which is much more reassuring than what is so so at present.
"The military advisor is too much!" Xie Huaizhong's brother Xie Huaiyi said after hearing this: "It is reported that the Quanzhou official military boat division has sailed south, probably to rescue Zhangzhou. These are all tricks for the military advisor to transfer tigers from the mountain. Therefore, there is no official military boat division in Quanzhou at this moment, so you can rest assured and boldly attack the city."
The Tongshan Village was in full swing, so the big leader and the second leader were automatically upgraded to "king" and "military advisor"...
"No!" Fei Jingyang shook his head and said, "If the official military boat army strikes a flick, if the official military boat army returns again, how should we deal with it?"
"Where do you have so many?" Xie Huaizhong said impatiently: "The government army has only dozens of broken ships, but they are not the opponent of my hundreds of warships? Even if they return, they will not take them seriously."
"King, please order the siege. We are willing to be the vanguard!" The pirate leaders were overjoyed and asked to order the siege together.
Chapter completed!