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Pingjiang Road (i.e. Suzhou) is bustling with people coming and going. This is a typical Jiangnan city with small bridges, flowing water, and houses, forming the unique scenery of Suzhou City.

Since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been richest in the world, and Pingjiang is even more so. There are people doing business everywhere, and Pingjiang's most important business is not the salt industry, but the wine industry.

Pingjiang area produces a lot of grain. In addition to being self-sufficient, grain is also sold to all regions. However, there are still many grain surpluses. Therefore, the wine industry emerged and occupied half of the country's wine industry.

There are wine shops everywhere here, and there are many wines sold beside the road, which covers the fragrance of the sky and picks the osmanthus. It is best to say Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and you can be free to have a free official position. The wine is fragrant in the city, and the lake and fields are rented to a thousand boats of snow.

Therefore, all the official positions in Pingjiang are poor, and many people want to come to Suzhou and Hangzhou after they have lost their scalp.

However, now, as the largest official position on Pingjiang Road, Daru huā Chiwuhada and the prefect Lian Xixian were stunned by the shocking news and didn't know what to do.

Last night, Lian Xixian was called by the housekeeper and met the person who came to convey military information. When he learned that there were thieves on Changzhou Road, which was adjacent to Pingjiang Road, and Changzhou Road had been taken down by thieves, Lian Xixian was shocked.

There were many troops on Changzhou Road, but they didn't even defend it for a day. Even if the neighboring prefectures and counties wanted to send troops to support it, the main force of the province was sent by the provincial right leader Dashi Timur to counterattack and was collected by Zhu Yuanzhang. Other places were not sufficient in sufficient troops. For a time, they could not take any effective measures against this thief. The province only ordered all regions to take more precautions. Once the thief attacked, they must defend the city.

However, no matter how fast the province's actions were, it was not as fast as the rebels. The information was sent to various places, and it was five days before Changzhou Road was captured.

Defend the city? There were 20,000 troops stationed in Pingjiang Road, but there were less than 8,000 of these 20,000 troops, and the rest were empty. In other words, Daruhuā Chiwuhada was taking empty salary. And the combat effectiveness of these 8,000 people is probably both of them know in their hearts.

If it is a fight and rampant street, these people are still working. If they are pulled out to fight against the thieves, they may have to be killed.

Changzhou Road and Pingjiang Road are close to each other, and even Changzhou Road has been taken down. Next, will the rebels meet with Zhu Yuanzhang westward or attack Pingjiang Road eastward?

I'm afraid that this is something that doesn't even have to think about. It must be going east. The richest person in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces is Suzhou and Hangzhou. Will the thieves let it go?

I always thought that the war was far away from me, but I didn't expect it to arrive so soon.

When dawn was dawn, Lian Xixian went to visit Wuhada and the two discussed countermeasures.

The most important thing now is to figure out where these thieves emerged, and to figure out the direction of their attack.

"Mr. Daluhuāchi, magistrate, and Mr. Li asked for a meeting." The two were discussing, and the housekeeper came in to report.

Mr. Li? Lian Xixian knew that Mr. Li was a big family in Pingjiang City, with two big wineries, and was also considered one of the most numerous people in Pingjiang City. There are many people who respect themselves in normal times. What's the matter with me at this time?

"Can he explain his purpose?"

"No, he just said there was an emergency and wanted to report it to the adults in person." said the housekeeper.

Emergency? Lian Xixian pondered for a moment: "Then let him come in."

Wuhada did not express his objection. His mind was still turning rapidly to see where he could produce pitiful power and increase his strength to guard Pingjiang.

With permission, Mr. Li hurried in.

"Two sirs, something big is wrong." Mr. Li also knew Wuhada. Seeing that they were both here, he didn't care about greetings and immediately said.

"What happened? What's the point of making a fuss?" Lian Xixian asked while pretending to be calm.

"Sir, Wuxi has been captured by the rebels."

"What?" Lian Xixian and Wuhada shouted at the same time: "Wuxi was also defeated by the rebels?"

Also? Mr. Li was anxious and did not expect the meaning of the word "Ya".

"What's going on?" Lian Xixian asked.

"The day before yesterday, my winery sent more than a dozen mates to Wuxi to deliver wine. Unexpectedly, before he arrived in Wuxi, he encountered a brigade of thieves and confiscated all my wine. My mate wanted to argue, but he didn't expect that the other party wanted to kill people after a disagreement. Seeing that the situation was not good, the mate ran away immediately, but was still arrested. Only one ran out. When he inquired, he realized that the thieves had stolen Wuxi. Wuxi was so close to us, two adults must make the decision for me," said Mr. Li.

Make the decision? No matter how valuable your wine is, it is worth it to be better than Pingjiang City? The two of them thought to themselves.

However, the news he brought was very important. Needless to say, it must have been a fight against the thieves in Changzhou. The other party acted very quickly and defeated Wuxi within a few days. In this way, the other party's intention would be very obvious, and the next target would definitely be Pingjiang City.

"You go down first. We will report this matter to the province." Lian Xixian sent Mr. Li away.

"Mr. Wuhada, we must give orders to let Pingjiang City enter combat preparations, and the Great Mén is closed and not let people go back and forth." Lian Xixian said.

Wuhada nodded. Although this would cause panic, he had to prepare in advance.

"People come, inform the city immediately and all are closed." Wuhada shouted.

After sending an order, the two began to discuss that at present, there is still a lot of food in Pingjiang City, enough to eat for about half a year. The main purpose is to ask the soldiers to step up training and patrol the city, and at the same time send people to report to the province, request assistance, and stay in Pingjiang for assistance. The other party will be besieged for at least half a month and have to withdraw troops.

Can you last for half a month? I'm afraid no one is in a clear mind.

"Sir, sir, something is wrong." Suddenly, a guard ran in in panic and reported to the two of them.

When Wuhada saw that it was the guard he had just sent out to deliver the message.

"ZheBai, why are you panic?" Wuhada shouted.

"Sir, the thief, has appeared outside the city." Zhebe said unhurriedly.

Lian Xixian felt the darkness in front of him and was about to faint. Where did the thief come from? Why is he so powerful? He reported last night that he had arrived in Changzhou and then he conquered Wuxi. Now, he is in front of him? Even if he fly, it is not so fast, right?

"How many people are there in total?" Wuhada asked.

"I don't know, there are tens of thousands everywhere, and there are also countless warships on Taihu Lake, which seem to be robbers."

Now that I was finished, I was surrounded. I was still calculating just now. If I were surrounded, how long I could last? So soon, it was time to test.

Can you last for half a month?

"Let's go, let's go up to the city and take a look." Wuhada said.

Lian Xixian leaned against the chair and barely supported his body: "I have to take a break first. I didn't have enough sleep last night and felt a little uncomfortable."

Suddenly, there was a loud "boom" sound of the earth shaking, and I felt the earth trembling.

What happened again?

The generals carefully understood the fast assault theory proposed by Zhang Yang: Now the fight is time, the faster the time, the less time the Tatars will have. In the battle of siege, they will suffer the least losses. They will attack at the fastest speed along the attack line.

Under the guidance of this tactic, the major camps started a marathon race. After leaving Changzhou City, the cavalry teams of the major camps began a crazy march.

If there weren't artillery soldiers who were dragging him back, they would have hoped to run to Pingjiang City in one day.

They spent a day and a night, and ran to Wuxi, resting for two hours. Before dawn, they started to attack the city. The effect was surprisingly good. The defenders of Wuxi were panicked. When the first round of artillery rain fell, they began to abandon the city and flee. However, they were unlucky to choose to escape west because the first battalion that was first to attack was attacking the East City. They thought that the gods appeared from the east.

As a result, they were killed by all the camps that followed, and not many of them ran away.

A small song appeared in the middle, and a convoy passed by. The rebel army strictly prohibited from disturbing the people, but the group seemed to be very brave and actually boasted that they were under the magistrate of Pingjiang and asked the rebel army to make way for the way. Since they were from the Tartars, the rebel army would naturally be rude. They confiscated all the goods, captured the group of people temporarily, and then let them pretend to be powerful. The rebel army would never be polite to the scum who defected to the Tartars.

After Zhang Yang found out, he did not object because he found out that these people were transporting wine.

When the people are still unable to eat, there will be people who will drink and drink. The prosperity of Pingjiang wine industry is not suitable for the development and progress of society. The wine smells smelly and the road is frozen to death.

Zhang Yang has made up his mind to rectify the wine industry after entering Pingjiang.

Strictly banning alcohol is not suitable, so Zhang Yang decided to take another method: impose high taxes on alcohol.

It is not easy to make wine by yourself under Zhang Yang's rule, because he distributed the land to the people and did not charge three years of taxes. However, if you want to sell the food, you must go through official purchases. This will prevent the problem of the source of food for brewing.

Winemaking is not profitable, so it will naturally decrease.

Perhaps, in the future, the country will eliminate poverty and develop social productivity and the restrictions on brewing can be relaxed.

After occupying Wuxi, a team of thousands of people left behind, and the rest rushed to Pingjiang City.

This marching method of not fighting against the vanguard, protecting the flanks, and leaving behind defenders made Shi Nai'an very worried that the Tartars only needed to make a tenacious blockade to cause major casualties to the marching cavalry.

When Shi Nai'an told Zhang Yang these worries, Zhang Yang just smiled. This kind of marching method is indeed a taboo in military strategists, but he can also discuss the situation. Now, his biggest goal is to arrive at Pingjiang Road as soon as possible and take down Pingjiang with lightning speed.
Chapter completed!