Chapter 1426
Ying Yi went all the way south, her feet like wind. From Luyangguan to Benye County, one hour to the south, Wuyang is in sight.
Walking through the horses and flowers along the way, passing by the nearly 200,000 acres of fertile land cultivated in Yexian County, there is an endless ridge, which makes people happy. Although it is raining heavily, many commoners are ploughing in the rain, and the vigor and vitality have been peaceful.
Ying Yi's heart inevitably rises with a warm current, a sense of accomplishment, and it is very cheerful.
When I was near Wuyang, I also saw large tracts of cultivated land, moistened by rain. But there is no commoners farming, and there is a faint sense of tension.
"Liou thief is hateful!"
If it weren't for Xian thief to invade, Yexian would definitely not miss anything here. However, when Xian thief came, not to mention other things, only to delay the cultivation, so Ying Yi hated it deeply.
Wuyang, here it is.
Wuyang was destroyed last year. Last year, the thieves poisoned Nanyang, and even the King of Tang was killed. Wuyang was also destroyed by the war at that time.
Even now, the Great Ming's ruling institution in Wuyang has not been rebuilt—the Great Ming Dynasty no longer has the energy to take care of everything.
Because according to the original historical process, also in one year, the thief would break the capital, the Chongzhen Emperor exterminated himself, and the Great Ming Dynasty perished.
The governance structure of Wuyang today is a rough framework built by Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Xiucai. There is only a group of officials and no official positions have been appointed for the time being.
The main responsibility of this group of officials here is to organize commoners to open up wasteland and cultivate. As for public security, this is the military control, and Zhou Li has the final say.
Currently, both Wuyang, Yexian, and Yuzhou are all militarized. Because military management is the most efficient. The world is in chaos, a hundred wastes are waiting to be revived, what we want is efficiency.
As for the formal civil government, Ying Yi intends to reorganize it after solving the problem of Kaifeng.
Xian thief attacked, but Wuyang was not directly affected. When Ying Yi arrived in Wuyang, although the city gate of Wuyang City was closed, there were no traces of the war in or outside the city.
Ying Yi jumped onto the city wall and was immediately surrounded by soldiers patrolling the city. After a look, someone recognized him.
With an excitement of the'Master', the salute will not be mentioned.
Ying Yi waved his hand, called this little officer-like soldier aside, and asked about the details here.
"My lord, the Xian thief was noticed by our ministry when he was still in Runing. Lord Zhou reported to Yuzhou, while at the same time he decided to keep Xian thief out of Wuyang."
Zhang Xianzhong's movement in Runing was promptly noticed by Zhou Li. Zhou Li hurriedly passed the news to Yuzhou, and decided to keep Liu thief out of Wuyang and avoid Wuyang from being harmed by Liu thief.
Yuzhou responded extremely quickly. It took only two or three days to send all kinds of war preparation materials and organize 1,500 young men to Wuyang.
Zhou Li left a hundred soldiers and organized these thousand and five hundred young men and women, as the defensive team of Wuyang City, and he took the remaining soldiers to Wuyang East. Zha Yashan is garrisoned to guard against the enemy outside the country.
From the mouth of the hundred household officials, Ying Yi also knew the recent battle.
After a period of time in Runing, the thief arrived at Chaya Mountain Pass two days ago and hit Zhou Li’s defense line.
Farming in Wuyang was also stopped two days ago.
In the past two days, Zhou Li has relied on the geographical advantage of Zha Ya Mountain to firmly fend off tens of thousands of Xian thieves to the east of Zha Ya Mountain. Casualties.
However, the situation is not very optimistic.
Zhou Li’s troops are too small, and although the Zha Ya Mountain Pass is considered dangerous, the geographical situation of the northern section of the Zha Ya Mountain still has loopholes in general.
If Xian Thief can't beat Zhou Li but uses a partial division to drag Zhou Li at the Zha Ya Pass, he may not be able to break into Wuyang from other places.
So the situation in Wuyang is still very tense.
Ying Yi is well aware of the situation here. Otherwise, he would not have to go south alone during the war in the north.
Because he is not at ease.
If it is tough, with Zhou Li's battle strength, although there are few people, Xian Thief may not be able to help Zhou Li. But fewer people is a disadvantage. The defense line east of Wuyang is too long to be fully defended by a small number of people.
Maybe Zhang Xianzhong has already started trying to divide his troops at this time.
At the moment, Ying Yi did not stop, and after asking for directions, she left Wuyang directly and headed east towards Cha Ya Mountain.
There is a smooth road between Wuyang and Cha Ya Mountain, and there is Wushui flowing through it, which is an excellent farming area. Therefore, most of the 200,000 mu of land reclaimed in Wuyang is concentrated in this direction.
For the purpose of reclamation and farming, Zheng Yunzhi divided the gathered commoners of the three counties into three parts. There are nearly 40,000 people in Wuyang. These 40,000 commoners were originally divided into more than ten villages, and seven or eight villages are located in this area to the east of Wuyang and west of Chaya Mountain. However, these commoners have long since been moved to Wuyang City because of the invasion by the stream thief.
Passed all the way. I only saw the cultivated fields, some lonely villages, and nothing else.
Amidst the mist and rain, there is only coldness and depression.
There is no rain for a year, but this time it rains continuously for many days. The official road, which seemed corrupt, was muddy. There are pitted puddles everywhere.
Ying Yi is carrying a big blade, wearing a single coat, and is full of thick smoke-it is the result of the heat generated by his majestic blood qi after the rain falls on him.
He is like a huge stove, wherever he goes, there is a fog. The whole person is shrouded in white mist, and even the silhouette can't see clearly.
In the middle of the line, Ying Yi's ear moved slightly, and he lifted the head. Through the fog and rain curtain that could not block his vision, he could see from a distance outside several li, a black shadow surged.
Ying Yi expression moved, exhale slightly.
"It seems that I came in time."
When he moved his feet, the air around him exploded, and the enveloped smoke instantly pulled up a long line in the rain. The white waves, just a few breaths, the blade light suddenly rises!
Zhang Xianzhong wore a cherry helmet, his yellow beard under his jaw was soaked by rain. For various reasons, he accepted the suggestions Li Chuangqian gave him and came from Huainan. But it didn't go well in Runing, and Ruyang City was not breached.
We had to entrap a few commoners in Xiping and Suiping, and supplemented some supplies. Then he ran into Zhou Li's defense line at Cha Ya Pass.
At first, I saw that Zhou Li had a small number of people, and Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about it. However, after two days, he attacked seven or eight times with an absolute superior force, except for the loss and then the loss, and nothing was achieved.
Only then did Zhang Xianzhong know how powerful his opponent is.
If it is other times, he will turn around and leave without saying a word. But not now. He didn't want to go to Huainan, who couldn't start the situation anymore, and Ru Ning Mansion was already very defensive against him and couldn't attack him eagerly. The only way to survive is to leave Runing, enter Nanyang, and go west to Huguang.
He very decisively threw the entrapped subordinate refugees outside the Zha Ya Pass to attract Zhou Li’s attention, and he took away all the old thief elites, totaling more than 3,000 people. A secret path breaks through Chaya Mountain and enters the territory of Wuyang.
"Damn god!"
Zhang Xianzhong touched the rain on his face, and cursed a few times at the sky. At this time, the faint front was like a muffled thunder, not yet When he reacted, in the dim rain curtain, a cold blade like a crescent moon blossomed before his eyes. Zhang Xianzhong only felt a cold in his neck, and he had fallen into darkness.