Chapter 272: Undercurrent

After the siege of the Wuyongdu Rebellion and Xuan and Hu Erzhou soldiers, although Lu Fang extinguished the fire and cleaned up the mess after breaking the city. In order to prevent the soldiers from looting everywhere after the war, after breaking the city, except for leaving their personal soldiers to maintain order in the city, the rest of the army retreated to camp outside the city, but Hangzhou City still looked chaotic. Even during the day, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and the people hid in their own yards. Whenever the fully armed Moyedu soldiers patrol passed the street with heavy steps, several pairs of eyes were staring at them in the cracks on the door next to the road, with fear and anxiety in their eyes.

Outside the city, Wu Yong had not left Luocheng yet. After the city was broken, Xu Zaisi and Lu Fang were trying their best to recruit surrendered troops from Hangzhou. He and Lu Fang were trying their best to bite and swallow the two dogs that were pounced on their prey as quickly as possible, and they got a lot of them.

In Hangzhou Yacheng, after Cheng Ji committed suicide, Yacheng opened the door and surrendered, and it became the place of Lu Fang's shogunate. At this time, Chen Wu complained anxiously: "Lord, why don't Wu Yong's locusts go to east Zhejiang? In just a few days, they have incorporated more than 2,000 surrendered soldiers, and they are almost catching up with us. Let's fight to break the city, don't let them take away the benefits." As the Sima of the Mo Yedu Army, after the city was broken, he quickly sealed the arsenal, recruited the Zhenhai surrendered soldiers, and sent Chen Zhang, Gao Xu and other surrendered generals to compete with Wu Yong. In the past ten days, he has also recruited more than 4,000 people, which is a great gain. But when he thinks of the more than 2,000 soldiers recruited by Wu Yong and more than 10,000 armor in the Luocheng arsenal, he feels very painful.

There was no regret on Lu Fang's face: "Chen Wu, why are you anxious? Without General Xu, we can't take this Hangzhou City. They should be more than worth it. The big head is still here with us. We can't kick it away as soon as we use it. We are not kind enough to behave like this."

Seeing Lu Fang say this, Chen Wu had to lower his head and say yes, but he didn't believe in Lu Fang's words at all. At this moment, a soldier suddenly reported that a messenger had arrived in Guangling. Lu Fang was immediately excited and ordered to bring it in. Soon a messenger was coming to the hall and presented a silk book with both hands. Lu Fang took the letter and swept it in one line. After a while, Lu Fang suddenly clapped his high-high and said, "Yes, this method should work. Well, Chen Wu, when this matter is over, you can send Wu Yong to East Zhejiang. I believe they are a little impatient."

Although Chen Wu was a little confused, he heard that he could finally send Wu Yong, the wolf, to East Zhejiang. He was still very excited. He was about to go out to send the order, but Lu Fang called out: "Wait, let's talk about it when this matter is obvious. Today, you go to his side first and ask the two commanders to come to Yacheng, and then he said I would invite them to have a banquet."

Chen Wu bowed down and took the order. Lu Fang read the letter carefully again. In the letter, Chen Yun and Gao Fengtian wrote to Yang Xingmi to write that day to the meeting and retreat, asking him to send an important official to Hangzhou as the governor and ask him to be the governor of Hu and Hang to explain the matters of the Hang Observation Envoy. Later they invited Li Yan to serve in Huzhou, and Li Yan replied that his identity was special. If he was to serve in Lu Fang, it would be of no benefit to both parties. It would be better to stay in Guangling and secretly serve Lu Fang. At the end of the letter, the two said that Tian Wei was angry in the hall and returned to Xuanzhou to get a feud with Yang Xingmi.

After reading the letter, Lu Fang thought secretly that the reason why he had not sent Wu Yong to eastern Zhejiang these days was that he had never confirmed his legalization of Hu and Hangzhou. As long as it was not legalized for a day, Yang Xingmi might have sent troops to conquer him with Suzhou. If Wu Yong had left at that time, he became the only victim, and it would be better to leave him here as a helper. Now Tian Wei and Yang Xingmi are in a bad relationship. If he asked him to send someone here to be the governor of Hangzhou, Yang Xingmi would not be so ungrateful and push himself to Tian Wei. The more Lu Fang thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense. The stone hanging in the air these days had fallen halfway, and he couldn't help but hum a small song.

"My husband is like this, I guess he has encountered some good news. It's better to come and listen to Li Niang." At this time, a person came out from the back of the hall and saw that he was wearing a purple dress, which made his skin look like snow. His eyes were like autumn water. His long hair was covered with only a jade hairpin. He simply tied a bun, and he looked even more elegant and gorgeous. It was Chen Li Niang. Since giving birth, he has been more than a year, and compared to before, he has a bit of a mature woman's charm.

When Lu Fang saw Chen Liniang, he quickly met her, held her slender waist, and teased, "My husband is going to be promoted again. Liniang, do you think this is a happy event?" He casually took off the jade hairpin from Chen Liniang's head, and immediately his long hair was covered with waterfall. Lu Fang stroked it in his hand, as comfortable and tight as a piece of good satin.

Chen Liniang had no joy on her face, and she broke away from Lu Fang's arm and said, "I would rather Lu Lang be an ordinary minor official, as long as she can stay together day and night and grow old together."

Seeing Chen Liniang like this, Lu Fang couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Things before did make you wrong. Liniang, don't worry, your next child is not a legitimate son, and he will never lose his fault." He had handed Chen Liniang's beloved son to raise his wife Lu Shuxian. Although Chen Liniang nodded and agreed, he was always depressed. After he captured Hangzhou, he invited him instead of Lu Shuxian to Hangzhou. First, because Lu Shuxian had great prestige in the army and wanted to stay and guard Huzhou; second, he wanted to compensate Liniang well.

"I also know that you are a person who does big things, and you can't help yourself in many things. Sister Lu is a wife with you. You can't blame you for your deep affection, but, just." At this point, Chen Liniang's throat was already a little choked and could not continue to say anything. Lu Fang hugged her in her arms and gently patted Liniang's vest. Feeling the warm body in her arms shaking. Chen Liniang also stretched out her arms to hug Lu Fang. The two of them hugged each other in the hall, feeling their hearts felt comfortable.

Mingzhou, in the governor's mansion, Zhao Yingong returned from Yuezhou to kill the former governor and seize Mingzhou, and was ambitious to expand to all directions. However, Qian Miao defeated Dong Chang in the east and Huainan army in the west. With the two east and west prefectures (Hangzhou, Yuezhou) as the core, he firmly controlled more than ten prefectures and counties on both sides of Zhejiang. Zhao Yingong could only train his soldiers to wait for the opportunity. After the rebellion of Wuyongdu, Zhao Yingong thought it was a good opportunity, so he listened to the advice of his advisers and sent 500 soldiers to Hangzhou for assistance, but he stayed in the state to pray day and night, hoping that the situation in the two Zhejiangs would suddenly change so that they could fish in troubled waters.

A few days ago, news came from Yuezhou that Hangzhou City was captured by Huzhou soldiers. Qian Miao was unaware of his life and death. Zhao Yingong was overjoyed when he heard this, but he was still a little unbelievable, so he sent Xiaozuo to Hangzhou to inquire. After a while, Xiaozuo came back to report. Not only did he confirm that Hangzhou had been captured by Huzhou soldiers, but he also saw with his own eyes that the heads of dozens of people below the King of Yue were hung on the top of the city. When Zhao Yingong heard this, he wanted to raise an army to capture Yuezhou, block Zhejiang, and get all the seven states in eastern Zhejiang. His subordinates

But he advised him not to act rashly first. After the foreign army invaded the east, Yuezhou, which was the first to be attacked, would definitely ask for help from him. At that time, he was sending troops to Yuezhou, which was not only legitimate, but also accompanied the troops of the prefectures and county, and could also become the leader of the local forces in the eastern Zhejiang provinces. Isn’t it far better to snatch the strong city of Yuezhou? After hearing this, Zhao Yingong was reasonable, so he raised his soldiers and trained troops, and sent a letter to the eastern Zhejiang provinces, calling on him to avenge King Qian Miao, attack Lu Fang, and Xu Zaisi and others.

After Xu Zaisi captured Hangzhou, he led his troops back to Luocheng, recruited surrendered troops, joined the army, stepped up training, and prepared to cross the river to attack the eastern Zhejiang provinces. He was also a smart man. Hangzhou, a suspect place, may attract Guangling's army at any time. In addition, martial arts can be said to be enemies on all sides. The only one who can be regarded as an Allied army is Mo Yedu of Lu Fang, who is unwilling to stay in Hangzhou to anger Lu Fang. He stabbed Lu Fang in the back when he was conquering Zhejiang East in the future. In the past ten days, he has sent people to urge Lu Fang to cross the river several times, but the Zhou army, who was born in the Huzhou army, was not ready to stop, so the matter was delayed. He received an invitation from Lu Fang that day, probably to talk about crossing the river, so he came to Hangzhou Yacheng excitedly.

On the road in the city, Xu Zaisi saw a group of people lined up to collect grain, holding bamboo sticks in his hand, so he asked the soldiers of Moyedu who were leading the way. The soldiers replied casually: "Report to General Xu, although the siege of the city has not been long, the people who have been able to make a day to eclipse will be cut off. So Changshi Fan ordered the people to work on the construction site and exchange for grain. These bamboo sticks are the bargaining chips for work, so that they can help the hungry people, so that they will not be able to live without a living and take risks; secondly, there are many ruins in Hangzhou, and they can be repaired as soon as possible."

Xu Zaisi nodded, and saw that the burned ruins had been cleaned up a lot, and the bricks and stones were cleaned aside. He thought that for the future, there were waves of labor sounds of yelling in the gap in the city wall in the distance, which was obviously repairing. Although the entire Hangzhou city was still devastated, people were coming and going, and the weather was completely different. Although Xu Zaisi was a warrior, he had also served as a defensive commander in Huzhou and had been in charge of civil affairs. Although he could not fully understand Lu Fang's actions, he vaguely felt the difference between Lu Fang and other warriors.

Before he knew it, the group had arrived at Yacheng. Seeing that this was a strong city built by Qian Miao several years ago, Xu Zaisi couldn't help but think to himself: "This guy Lu Fang is not only good at fighting, but also economics, but also people are also good at it. If Qian Miao had such skills back then, how could he use a hero to serve hard labor, stir up a mutiny, and end up dead and destruction."
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