After the Qingming Festival, the weather finally became auspicious to warm up. The ice surface on the Fen River has melted a lot, and people can no longer stand on it.

The water flows in the Dongnian River and Xinian River on the east and west sides of Jingle County are getting bigger and bigger, and even the already dry Futou River and Wanhui River have gurgling water.

This shows that the ice and snow are beginning to melt.

On the second day of the March, Jingle County Government Office Study Room.

Early in the morning, He Changbao paced back and forth in the study, frowned and restless.

Chen Congzhi stood aside and said anxiously: "Sir, let's go immediately. You won't be able to leave in a few days."

He Changbao walked to the coffee table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then frowned and asked, "Master, who is surnamed Qin really dares to attack the county town?"

"Oh, my lord, even the third-rank official dares to kill. What else in this world does he dare not do? Now the imperial army has gathered in Shuozhou, and it is impossible for the Qin people to know that the imperial court is going to encircle him."

"As the saying goes, dogs jump over the wall when they are anxious, rabbits will bite people when they are anxious. If a person surnamed Qin is anxious, he will inevitably attack the county town to block the route of the imperial army to the south. At that time, we will not be able to leave."

"Sir, think about it, how did the Qin family do the Meng family and the Du family? At that time, money and black hats are not guaranteed will be a trivial matter, and losing your life is a big matter."

He Changbao's face changed, but he quickly frowned and said, "I have ordered the three squads of yamen runners and Bai Jun to strengthen their defense, patrol day and night, and close the city gates and not allow anyone to enter and exit. There are also three hundred townships trained by the Wu family and several middle-aged households to help defend the city. Now there are more than 500 troops in the city, let alone the walls of Jingle City are three meters high, and the Qin people have only more than one thousand troops. How can they attack in?"

"Since the bandits entered Shanxi, countless magistrates were questioned and beheaded. If the official abandoned the city and fled, he would probably not even be able to keep his head if he didn't mention this black hat."

"If I hold on for a few days, when the imperial army arrives, I will not only be innocent, but also be able to achieve the merit of defending the territory."

"grown ups!"

Chen Congzhi became more and more anxious as he spoke, pointing to the outside, saying, "Do you think the Qin surnamed would not prepare early? I'm afraid he would have sent someone to sneak into the city before the lord locked down."

"ah?"

He Changbao was shocked.

"Hurry, send someone to notify each city gate. No one is allowed to approach the door hole. Violators will be killed without mercy. Another hundred yamen runners will be transferred back to guard the county magistrate's office and not a single fly is allowed to be put in."

"Sir, let's go out of the city quickly." Chen Congzhi almost cried when he persuaded him.

Just as He Changbao was about to speak, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly sounded outside.

"Sir, it's bad, it's bad..."

A Dian official ran in panic and stammered, "Sir, here, here... The south of the city is coming..."

He Changbao's face changed drastically: "What's coming?"

"The Qin surname is here... I'm here, just outside the south of the city, I'm here..."

He Changbao shook, and the teacup in his hand broke to the ground with a "splash".

Chen Congzhi's face also changed drastically, and then he sighed dejectedly as if he was depressed.

"Hurry, go and notify the Wu family, strengthen your defense, quickly..."

He Changbao didn't care about the broken porcelain pieces on the ground and ran out trembling.

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There are three villages between Jingle County and Jingyou Town, which are lined up from north to south along the Fen River.

One is Fengrun Village, which is only twenty-five miles away from Jingyou. Twenty miles north is Zhanggui Village, and ten miles north is Shahui Village.

In this era, basically every village had more than one landlord and old wealth, and these three villages were no exception. Each had one landlord and old wealth, and there were a lot of land. The most had more than 4,000 acres of land, and the least had more than 1,000 acres, which were distributed on both sides of the Fen River.

In the past, Qin Chuan had no choice but to attack these three villages. He led his troops by the side many times, but never stepped into the village.

Because these three old treasurers did not go against him, they had always been huddled in their respective villages and had never sent troops to fight Loufan with those big families.

Qin Chuan didn't want to make a lot of noise all of a sudden, so he let the three old treasures go temporarily.

But now, since he has already broken up with the Ming court, he has not had so many concerns.

After Ren Liang and his 800 men surrendered, Qin Chuan had another army in his hands.

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Among the eight hundred people, Qin Chuan laid off one hundred people, and after dispersing and planting, he finally divided up five hundred people to form a new camp, called Longwu Camp, with Ren Liang as the camp official.

Now, the Guandi Army has a total of 3,200 troops. Li Dingliang led the 700 camps to station in Ninghua Station. Jingyou Town is led by Liu Youzhu and 505 Wudang Camps. The staying in Mengjiazhuang is Luo Ba's 500-sided camps.

Three cliffs and Donghuluchuan Dazhai each stationed 100 people. The mining protection team at the Heishan Mine was insufficient, so Qinchuan sent another 100 Guandi troops to garrison there.

The remaining Xiandeng Camp and the newly established Longwu Camp had a total of 1,200 troops, led by Qin Chuan, swept north along the Fen River.

Lao Cai, the landlord in Fengrun Village, was named Mao Kui'an. He was a very sensible guy. When he saw the Guandi army approaching the city, he obediently gave out two thousand stones of grain and one thousand taels of silver, saying that he was working hard on the army.

Qin Chuan had already found out about Mao Kui'an clearly and knew that this guy had never done anything bad for the world, but he liked to lend money and use it to occupy other people's fields.

Therefore, Qin Chuan didn't make things difficult for him, he only demanded an additional 1,000 stone of grain and a land deed of 2,500 acres of arable land.

The Mao family's land totaled more than 3,200 acres, and it would not be considered a killing of his 2,500 acres. As long as his Mao family is obedient in the future, as long as they do not commit crimes and bully men and women, they can still live in Fengrun Village. Qin Chuan promises not to kill them.

As the Mao family cried and howled, Mao Kuian obediently handed out the land deed and grain.

When it was Zhanggui Village's turn, the Guandi Army encountered strong resistance. Zhang Fugui, the old treasurer of Zhanggui Village, built the village into a solid fortress with a wall of nearly two meters high. There were twelve enemy platforms and arrow towers, and the gate towers had two floors, with several three-eyed guns inside.

Overall, the defense of Zhanggui Village Fortress is stronger than that of Mengjiazhuang.

Zhang Fugui has done a lot of things that have forced people to death. If he knew that if he was attacked by a Qin surnamed, the Zhang family would be finished.

So while sending people to the county town for help, he strengthened his defense and decided to defend himself. As long as he relied on his support for a few days, the Qin surnamed would be finished as soon as the imperial army arrived.

But he did one less thing: Qin Chuan had artillery and had a very strong firepower.

This time, Qin Chuan also pulled the red-clothed general's cannon.

The cannon car he designed had big wheels, similar to those of Napoleon, and it was basically no difficulty to drive on the snow.

He waved the red-clothed general's cannons, four small Franchise aircraft, and four tiger squat cannons, and three rounds were bombarded at the wall of Zhangjiabao Village, and the wall collapsed.

Then Qin Chuan asked Luo Daniu to shout, saying that he would only kill Zhang Fugui and others, so that he would not make things difficult for other innocent villagers.

After shouting, he continued to bombard several rounds of cannons, smashing an arrow tower and a wall.

At this time, Qin Chuan asked Luo Daniu to shout again, saying that if he could not surrender again, he would not leave any other people after entering the village.

Under the deterrence of the cannon, the villagers inside ran out of the gap. Zhang Fugui was so angry that he jumped straight into his feet, causing the guard to shoot arrows and injured more than a dozen villagers, but he still couldn't stop the momentum of the escaping.

After no villagers came out, the artillery continued to fire and collapsed two more arrow towers. The Guandi army then rushed into the gap with a large shield. Sixty flintlock rifles fired guns into the inside and rushed in step by step.

Not long after, Zhangjiabao Village was broken.

Zhang Fugui and his three cousins, five sons, seven nephews, and a total of fifteen were beaten to their heads.

Qin Chuan did not kill the elderly, weak women and children of the Zhang family, but took them back to Loufan. The woman was left to the Guandijun as her wives. The old ones were raised for a few years and died of old age. As for those children... if there were any signs in a few years, it would not be too late to kill them again.

The Zhang family’s money, grain and land naturally belonged to Qinchuan.

Qin Chuan left a hundred people to guard the Zhang family's property, and then led the remaining 1,100 people to look out for Jingle County to the north.

Mo Dekai, an old fortune in Shahui Village, had already heard of the news and fled into the county town, but now the ice and snow on the road have not melted, and it is difficult for grain trucks to walk in the snow, so most of the Mo family's grain cannot be transported, and only silver and jewelry have been moved away.

Qinchuan left another hundred people to guard the Mo family's food in Shahui Village, and finally arrived at Jingle County to complete a thousand Guandi Army.

There were hundreds of yamen runners and township heroes on the city walls, and there were many stones and rolling wood on the city walls, boiling water and gold juice.

Jingle is not easy to fight.
Chapter completed!