Chapter 461 Pang Family’s Choice
Taishici stood at the bow of the boat, looked at Zhao Yun who had already landed, and asked the deputy general beside him: "Have the scout been dispersed?"
The deputy general responded immediately : "It has been spread out. If there is anything, come and report it immediately."
Taishici nodded with a heavy expression.
Zhao Yun has successfully taken over the Jinxiang Port.
There was no expected fierce battle, and there were less than 300 defenders in Jinxiang Port. When Zhao Yun's vanguard rushed into the port, these 300 defenders and some people ran from the west gate of Jinxiang Port and fled to the main city of Jiangling.
While Zhao Yun was sending back to capture Jin Township, he also sent a bad news that shocked Taishi Ci - Cai Mao had never entered Jiangling, which immediately aroused Taishi Ci's high alert.
From Zhouling and to Jiangling, in addition to the important branch of Xiangshui, there are also large swamp lakes.
These swamps and lakes can also be hidden in the navy.
If it were the Xiangyang navy in a complete state, Cai Mao might not dare to go deep into these swamps and lakes, because the water depths in these places vary greatly. If you are not careful, it is easy for the main ship to be in the center of the swamp lake. Stranding, causing losses.
But now Cai Mao has just experienced a big defeat, and the main ship has suffered losses. It is difficult to guarantee that he will not go deep into these lakes because he is forced by pursuers.
The most important thing is that these lakes and lakes are interconnected. The entire lakes and lakes north of the river are united to be the largest lake in the world - Yunmeng Ze.
After entering Yunmengze, as long as there are people familiar with the waterway, they can go to three places from here.
One is to go north to enter the Xia River, then flow downstream, enter the Yangtze River more than ten miles southwest of Jin Township, and thus arrive at Jiangling.
The second is that after going north to enter the Xia River, go up against the Xia River, turn into the Han River near Pai Lake, continue north to return to Xiangyang. However, this road has many shallow waters and is prone to stranding, and can only be carried during the flood season. Once it enters the dry season, even a small boat cannot pass.
The third is that after going north over the Xia River, continue to go north, and then heading straight to Huarong County, Nanjun, abandoning the boat and landing, and walking forty or fifty miles to reach Jingling City, which is swam in the Han River.
From here and continue north, you can return to Xiangyang, but on this way, all the ships have to be abandoned.
Taishici sent scouts to find Cai Mao at this time, mainly for these three routes.
Taishi Ci frowned and asked everyone around him: "Which path do you think Cai Mao will take?"
The crowd thought about it over and over again, and Jiang Qin bowed and said, "That's the end." I will think it is the third way."
"Oh!?"
Taishici was interested: "Please teach me if you want to teach me."
Jiang Qin replied seriously: "Cai Mao ran west and was invincible, if he left, he would leave. The first road is the first road, which should have arrived in Jin Township a few days earlier than us."
Taishici nodded in agreement and continued to listen to Jiang Qin: "The second road is to abandon all ships, After arriving at Jingling, he would also lose his ship and could only walk back to Xiangyang. Only the third road can ensure that the ship is safe, but he just took a few long roads."
Taishi Ci listened After that, he agreed and immediately ordered the scouts to double down on the third route.
It’s not that he had to kill Cai Mao, but that he was about to siege Jiangling, but Cai Mao’s troops were not sure whereabouts. This would inevitably seriously threaten the safety of the siege troops and must be guarded.
As Jinxiang Port was occupied by the Yangzhou Army, the situation in Jiangling City became more and more tense.
Liu Qi was recruiting young and strong men, distributing weapons, and driving them to defend the city, while urgently ordering the private armed forces of the major families in the city.
The Pang family also received an order from Liu Qi, but the person in charge was not seen yet.
Pang Degong and Pang Tong were still talking in the secret room. Pang Tong respectfully took out the Yangzhou secret letter he had sent before and placed it in front of Pang Degong's case.
"Uncle, the Jingzhou army was defeated in succession, and the elite troops were almost completely destroyed. There were only two or three thousand county soldiers in Jiangling City, and the various major families were only one or two thousand. Even if they were recruited, they would be sad. Count of ten thousand people."
Everything Pang Tong said is true. It is July now, and summer farming is tense. Many big families even sent their troops to the village to carry out busy farming, and the people will also have a large number of people. Young and strong laborers go out to the city to work hard.
At this time, there were really not many people in the city. Not to mention that people are in panic at the moment, even if they are united, they will not be able to raise tens of thousands of people.
Pang Degong opened the secret letter and started to look through it, but as he read it, his face not only showed no joy, but his brows became tighter and tighter.
"Shi Yuan, what this letter is probably not true."
After reading it, Pang Degong frowned and shook his head: "What is said in the letter is exaggerated and absurd, and it is not credible at all."
Pang Tong was stunned and asked hurriedly, "What is the absurd thing about my uncle?"
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Pang Degong pointed to the letter and said, "In the letter, the battle of Zhouling, the Jingzhou navy was captured in one net, and more than 40,000 were captured alive. How can it be true? Then, it was south of Baqiu and Dongting Liu Hu was wiped out by the lake, so he was so timid. "
Pang Tong looked at Pang Degong in a daze, and then slowly said, "Uncle, the Yangzhou navy has arrived in Jin Township and Jingzhou water." Where is the army? Where is the army in Jingzhou's expedition? "
"The Jingzhou navy is naturally in the sand..."
Pang Degong reacted violently, and his face changed suddenly.
Yes, if the Jingzhou navy is still in Shaxian, then would the Yangzhou navy have flew over with wings?
Even if you go to Yunmengze, you can only take a small boat. Large boats, especially ships of the level of tower boats, are extremely easy to get stuck.
But on the river outside Jiangling City, there were big ships gathering and the sails on the building were like clouds. No matter how you looked, it didn't seem to be smuggled.
Pang Tong said leisurely again: "If the Jingzhou Expedition Army is still under Linxiang City, my uncle thought that the Yangzhou navy would come to our Jiangling first, or would you go to the Xiang River first to block the tail of the Jingzhou Expedition Army?" br>
Pang Degong looked solemn and said unbelievably: "Are all the words in this secret letter true?"
"It must be true!"
Pang Tong decisively said: "Uncle, if it weren't for Jingzhou." The navy suffered heavy losses and was almost wiped out. Why didn't Cai Mao's remaining soldiers come to Jiangling? If the government expected it was not bad, Cai Mao must have known that Jiangling could not be defended and was a dead place, so he took the risk of crossing the Xia River from Yunmengze , heading towards Xiangyang to the north! ”
Pang Degong's fingers holding the silk book turned white, obviously exerting great force.
But what Pang Tong said makes a lot of sense. Although it is also speculation, it should be much more reasonable.
Pang Degong's heart skipped a beat. If his nephew really made the decision, then Xiancheng would become the last chance.
Pang Tong had told Pang Degong about the story in Wujun before. The Pang family's status in Nanjun is no less than the status of the four great masters in Wujun.
When Pang Degong thought of this, he made a secret decision in his heart: "What should we do now in your opinion?"
When Pang Tongyi heard this, he knew that his uncle was already moved, so he immediately threw it. "Call up the people of the clan and take advantage of the county soldiers being on the top of the city to take the county government. As long as you catch Liu Qi, things will be accomplished!"
Pang Degong was shocked, obviously he was a nephew. This firm attitude was infected. After thinking about it carefully, I felt that Pang Tong was right.
After all, Liu Qi was inexperienced. After seeing the Yangzhou Army landing, he immediately piled up all the troops he could control to the top of the city, but ignored the hearts of the people in the city. If Pang Tong really follows Pang’s plan, the success rate is probably quite large.
But Gong Pang De did not agree at once, but instead asked a new question: "Shi Yuan, do you want to contact the Feng family and the others?"
Pang Tong heard After that, I fell into deep thought, and was obviously quite entangled.
As the leader of the Nanjun clan, if you turn against the enemy at this time, you will obviously lose others if you don’t bring your younger brothers, and it is difficult to explain in the future.
But rebellion is a lot of people, and even within one's own family, they will only tell the necessary elite children, and they are afraid of leaking the news.
Pang Tong hesitated for a moment and put forward an idea.
"Uncle, there is a plan, which may be feasible."
"Go quickly."
Pang Tong stood up and bowed: "I beg my uncle to come out of the mountain and lead him." The clan soldiers went to the county government to capture Liu Qi, and when his uncle took action, Tong persuaded the Feng family and other families to join forces to seize the city gate. "
Pang Degong understood what Pang Tong meant, and he should take his own safety and success rate of the city as the most important thing. But he didn't mention it in advance. After he caught Liu Qi, he could share the credit with the Feng family and others.
Pang Degong also had no choice but to think that Pang Tong's strategy was already the best.
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Immediately ordered to summon all the elite children of the Pang family to come to the hall to discuss matters, and at the same time gathered clan soldiers, distributed weapons and weapons, and also took out the strong bow, crossbow and armor in the warehouse.
According to the Han law, those who privately hold armor may be guilty of treason.
But during the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, major families had already begun to purchase various armors to arm their troops, and the princes and warlords from all over the country turned a blind eye.
After all, at this time, the troops of the aristocratic families were often requisitioned by warlords. It was considered an extra-partner army, so it was impossible to be as strict as the Han Dynasty.
The Pang family has more than 1,000 soldiers, half of whom went to the village outside the city to participate in Xia Geng, and only half of them were in Jiangling City. In addition, the young and strong children of the Pang family can have a total of six or seven hundred people. As far as Pang Degong knew, the county government probably had only more than 100 Liu Qi's guards and more than 100 county officials at this time, and there was no other force.
Hearing the decisions of Pang Degong and Pang Tong, all the Pang family members present were shocked.
Pang Degong's cousin Pang Yu asked, "Brother Ji is still in Xiangyang, the city of the state. If we welcome the Yangzhou army, wouldn't it be that Brother Ji was killed?"
Pang Degong glanced at Pang Tong, and the latter immediately stood up and replied, "Now Jiangling is surrounded by Yangzhou soldiers. You only need to strictly block the news. Uncle Ji may not be in trouble. Besides, as long as you can capture Liu Qi, Liu Zhendong will definitely throw himself into trouble and dare not make any trouble. Uncle Ji. "
Pang Yu lowered his head and thought for a moment, nodded slowly, agreeing with what Pang Tong said: "Since that is the case, then I am willing to act according to my eldest brother."
Then Another person, Pang Tong's peer, Pang Sui, asked: "Uncle, Feng, Wang, Zhang and other families have sent people to ask about our attitude towards the prefect's orders. What should we respond?"
< br>Pang Degong and Pang Tong looked at each other, and the latter said, "It's time to record them. After taking Liu Qi, they can just take these troops to get the city gate."
Pang Sui Stop talking and return to the original position.
"Okay! If there is no problem anymore, then today is the time for my Pang family to die. If anyone escapes at the battle, he will be killed even if he is close!"
Pang Degong immediately stood up and assigned tasks.
Although he has not been in office for a long time, he has always been in control of the affairs of the clan. Pang Tong was also in charge of the remaining vacancy, and soon he made the plan clear.
At the same time, people were sent to reply to Feng, Wang, Zhang and other families, asking them to go to the county government first and then discuss matters together.
Pang Family has stockpiled 200 sets of leather armor and five sets of iron armor. Pang Degong, Pang Tong, Pang Yu and others are dressed neatly.
As soon as the door opened, the Pang family swarmed out and headed straight towards the county government.
At this time, there were no people left on Jiangling Street, and the people were huddled in their houses and were worried.
Only the road were left were the officials and soldiers who were recruiting young and strong men.
Seeing the Pang family's army rampant, these people dared not stop it. After all, the county government also issued an order to recruit wealthy families.
Therefore, the Pang family's army came to the county government unimpeded, which also means that the mutiny was successful at least half of it.
When they arrived here, Pang Degong and Pang Tong both breathed a sigh of relief. What they were most worried about was that something happened halfway through, and then woke Liu Qi up.
"Pang Sui, you bring fifty people to the back door. Liu Qi must live, don't kill him."
Before entering the door, Pang Degong gave an order, and Pang Sui responded to the order and retreated. .
After fifty people, he hurriedly ran towards the back door of the county government.
After seeing Pang Sui running away, Pang Tong then accompanied Pang Degong.
At this time, the guards at the gate of the county government had already unsheathed their swords, and were obviously frightened by the Pang family's big noise.
They only after Mr. Pang De came over that they relaxed slightly.
The leader of the leader hurriedly came up, saluted and asked, "Pang Gong, why is there such a big disturbance?"
Pang Gong suddenly became angry and said, "The Ming Mansion issued an order." , recruit various troops, how dare you confuse the morale of the army here? Take it down with me! "
"Yes!"
A group of soldiers suddenly surged behind Pang Degong, but the other party obviously did not dare to fight. He was soon removed from his arms and detained.
But this action immediately attracted the attention of people around him, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Someone quietly ran towards the mansion, obviously wanting to warn the people in the mansion.
"Come on, bring them with me and come to the mansion to meet Ming Mansion!"
Duke Pang De deliberately shouted loudly, instructing the soldiers to bring these guards and create a kind of goal. The attitude of seeking Liu Qi to complain has actually resolved the tense atmosphere.
Soon after, the group walked into the inner palace and happened to see a group of famous children from Jiangling tribes in front of the hall talking.
Duke Pang De immediately walked over and asked, "You guys are here so quickly. How dare you ask where the Ming Mansion is?"
Duke Pang De is in Jiangling City, both the most famous scholar and the head of the Pang family. These gentry children usually He was the leader of the village. Now when they saw him, everyone hurriedly bowed their heads and bowed. "The Lord of the Mansion is still in the back hall, just waiting for Mr. Pang to come and meet us."
Feng Xi, the head of the Feng family, is tall and burly, and is not only a scholar. , it is better to say that he is more like a warrior. The Feng family is also a number of large clans in Jiangling, half of which are geniuses and half powerful. Their family is even above the Pang family.
(This chapter ends)