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    Outside Fengcheng County.

    Zhu Xieyuan looked at the closed city gate and the open countryside, his face was as black as ink.

    It is normal for the rebels in Fengcheng County to have been prepared for a long time.

    But how could the rural people in Fengcheng County hide so quickly?

    Not to mention livestock and food, even valuable furniture has been removed.

    The rice that has not yet fully matured is also forcibly harvested in advance.  If it is too late to harvest, just leave it in the paddy field, which is tantamount to abandoning it directly.

    There are spies on my side, and they are very high-level spies!

    In order to catch people by surprise, Zhu Xieyuan didn't even wait for the autumn harvest to be over, and sent troops when the rice was about to be harvested.  His military rations are definitely not enough, but he can directly harvest new rice in Fengcheng County, and he can't care about the people at this time. The people in the Zhao thief's territory are no different from the rebels.

    ?The rebels were informed in advance of dispatching troops so quickly. Judging by the calm transfer of the people in Fengcheng, the rebels received the news at least one or two days in advance.

    "Who do you think leaked the military information?" Zhu Xieyuan asked.

    "I really don't know." Wang Tingshi was also at a loss. He could swear that this time it really had nothing to do with him.

    Zhu Xieyuan said in a cold tone: "Demolish the house and besiege the city!"

    Residents outside Fengcheng County have withdrawn into the city ahead of time.

    Under Zhu Xieyuan's order, houses outside the city were looted to make siege equipment.  In addition, a small group of troops was sent to harvest the rice in the nearby fields. Even if it was not cooked, it could be taken back and cooked for food.

    The officer in charge of stationing Fengcheng County is Jiang Liang. He only has a thousand regular soldiers in his hand, but he urgently recruited a thousand peasant soldiers.

    The county magistrate is called Liu Shunyi, who was originally a poor scholar in Anfu County.

    Liu Shunyi is now responsible for maintaining law and order, temporarily organizing all the people in the city into Baojia.  Let the people supervise each other, and if members of their own Baojia dare to take the opportunity to make trouble, the entire Baojia will be punished.

    There must be spies from the government in the city, and there are more than one. We must prevent them from arson.

    Zhu Xieyuan seems to be going to be tough this time, filling up several sections of the moat in just one day.

    ? On the next day, there were two sides missing and one side was missing, and the Gan River was on the other side.

    Seeing this, Jiang Liang immediately ordered: "Notify Liu magistrate, let him organize manpower, block the eight small gates, and leave only four gates. There are too many gates in Fengcheng County, and the officers and soldiers are determined to attack the city this time."  .¡±

    On the outskirts of Nanchang, inside the Tu family mansion.

    The servant girl has been sent away, and a few scholars are drinking and chatting, they are the scholars who captured Yang Jiamo alive.

    "Let's guess, gentlemen, can the Governor send out troops this time to take down Fengcheng?" Tu Tingying asked with a smile.

    Yu Shiqin sighed: "Even if Fengcheng can be captured, once the reinforcements from Zongzhen Zhao arrive, they will surely defeat the main force of the officers and soldiers."

    "Oh, I only hope that Mr. Zhao will occupy Nanchang as soon as possible, otherwise this business will be impossible." The person who spoke was Li Fenglai, a grain merchant.

    Both Li Fenglai's eldest son and second son are studying in Bailuzhou Academy as hostages.  And the group of scholars who defected last year happened to be thrown to the academy, and they recognized Li Fenglai's son within a few days.

    This tip-off was written by them.

    Regardless of the fact that there are many mountains and few lands in Jiangxi, there are particularly many grain merchants.  They purchased grain in Jiangxi, shipped it to various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River and sold it at a high price, and then shipped back special products such as cotton cloth in the south of the Yangtze River, making a lot of money in this way.

    In order to raise soldiers, Zhu Xieyuan prohibited Jiangxi's grain from leaving the country, and was only allowed to sell it to the Governor's Mansion at the market price.

    What the hell is the market price?

    Can the price of rice in Jiangxi be the same as the price of rice in Jiangnan provinces?

    Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Zhu Xieyuan offended all Jiangxi grain merchants.

    It's nothing more than earning less money for a year, because I'm afraid that the officers and soldiers will continue to confront the rebels.  If they continue to toss like this for several years, they will simply let the grain merchants die. They only hope that this war will end as soon as possible.

    In rural areas such as Fengxin, Jinxian, and Gao'an counties, peasant associations have emerged one after another, and it seems that sooner or later there will be peasant riots.

    As big landlords, these grain merchants find it increasingly difficult to exploit the peasants, for fear that they will be ransacked and exterminated by the peasant association.  Zhu Xieyuan cut off their financial resources for doing business again, and they had two different sides. They had to choose one side as soon as possible.

    Do you choose Zhu Xieyuan?

    That is tantamount to choosing a protracted war, and the Zhao thieves cannot be wiped out within three to five years.  By that time, the peasants would have rioted long ago, not to mention keeping the land, the lives of the grain merchants might be lost.

    Under the connection of Li Fenglai, Tu Tingying and others, at least 70% of the grain merchants in Nanchang PrefectureThe degree is actually not very high.

    "How to fight?" Li Zheng asked.

    Fei Yinggong said: "We must not attack by force. The officers and soldiers attack the mountain, and we will harass from behind. Try to delay the time as much as possible. It only takes half a month. There must be reinforcements from Ji'an."

    Still, Zhao Han's army is too small, half of the regular soldiers are fighting in the south, and some elite farmers and soldiers are guarding against Huguang.

    Zhao Han wanted to send additional reinforcements, so he could only recruit farmers and soldiers from Luling, Jishui, Anfu and other counties.  It takes time to assemble, and it takes time to hurry. Zhu Xieyuan can come and go very freely in this neutral position.

    Just as Fei Yinggong said, Zhao Han's reinforcements may take half a month, and Zhu Xieyuan's plan is to withdraw the troops if they can't defeat the Lion Mountain in eight days.

    By the time Zhao Han sent reinforcements, Zhu Xieyuan would have already run back to Nanchang. This is an old fox who refuses to suffer!

    In the afternoon.

    More than 28,000 officers and soldiers, rested enough, had a meal, and began to organize an attack on the mountain.

    Judging from the plan, Lion Rock is really small, less than 400 meters long and less than 200 meters wide. If 200,000 to 30,000 people besieged it, it would be a sledgehammer.

    Fortunately, mountains can't just look at the plane.

    In the direction of Zhangshu Town, several troop carriers approached. Zhao Han couldn't wait for the peasants and soldiers to assemble, so he sent his own soldiers directly.

    The slave army led by Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu wore chain mail inside, cotton armor outside, and bamboo helmets embedded with iron pieces.

    There are not many people, only four hundred soldiers.

    The real fierce battle is coming, a fierce battle that the Datong Army has never encountered before!

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