The spies of Black Water collected a lot of information in Sichuan and sent it back to the capital for Xiao Ruxun, so that Xiao Ruxun could make an accurate judgment.
And according to Xiao Ruxun's judgment, Sichuan was about to experience a major upheaval in the near future.
In order to cooperate with Xiao Ruxun's next step of the plan, Wang Xiangqian wanted to conduct a census of the population of Sichuan, counting the number of households. Most of the prefectures, counties and the Discipline Commission obediently allowed Wang Xiangqian to do the census, but there were some places that didn't cooperate. There were Han people, and there were also people of different races. Yang Yinglong was the happiest among them.
He thought that Wang Xiangqian was violating his authority by conducting the census.
Not only did he not cooperate, but he also drove out the officials sent by Wang Xiangqian.
This was simply preposterous. Wang Xiangqian was infuriated and sent officials to question Yang Yinglong, but in the end, they were chased out by Yang Yinglong. Moreover, Yang Yinglong even said some dirty things.
Wang Xiangqian was even more furious and immediately reported to Xiao Ruxun, asking for Ma Qiancheng's cooperation. Xiao Ruxun ordered Ma Qiancheng to cooperate with Wang Xiangqian to deter Yang Yinglong.
Ma Qiancheng immediately transferred 3,000 white stick soldiers trained by Qin Liangyu to Chongqing as a deterrent. Yang Yinglong had long heard of the reputation of Ma Qiancheng and the white stick soldiers, so he was a little worried. Under the persuasion of his subordinates, he reluctantly apologized and agreed to cooperate with the census, which resolved a crisis.
But since then, Wang Xiangqian began to pay attention to Yang Yinglong, and the branch of Black Water in Sichuan began to focus on Bozhou. Gradually, they learned a lot of secrets.
For example, Yang Yinglong used eunuchs to serve him, and built his house like a palace, with dragons and phoenixes carved on the furniture, just like a local emperor.
This practice did not start when Xiao Ruxun launched the Northern Expedition, but around the 20th year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.
This guy had been disloyal for seven or eight years, and it was only now that the central government found out about it. One could imagine how weak the central government's control over the local areas was.
After Xiao Ruxun found out how arrogant this fellow who dared to challenge the imperial power was, he made up his mind to eradicate him. Moreover, he had to strike first to gain the upper hand.
He secretly instructed Ma Qiancheng to prepare the troops and ordered the Black Tortoise Camp troops stationed at Changde Prefecture to prepare for battle. Once the order was given, they would launch a pincer attack and capture him with the force of a thunderbolt. They would behead him as an example to the rest of the chieftains.
He had planned to deal with Yang Yinglong after he dealt with Nurhaci, but Nurhaci's escape to North Korea disrupted his plan.
With no other choice, Xiao Ruxun could only order Ma Qiancheng and Liu Gu, who was stationed at Changde Prefecture, to temporarily conserve their strength, stock up on provisions and weapons, and wait for his notice.
It was not difficult to fight two battles at the same time. The difficult part was to deal with things after the battle, which required a lot of energy to arrange and could not be sloppy. Xiao Ruxun did not want to make mistakes when he was in a hurry, so he suspended the plan of using troops in Bozhou and used all his strength to suppress Nurhaci, letting Yang Yinglong jump around for a while.
After receiving Xiao Ruxun's order, Liao Zhong immediately ordered 20,000 troops to cross the river to Yizhou. He stayed on the other side of the river to coordinate and let Ma Chong and Luo Rong send their troops as soon as possible, and then find out Mao Wenlong's movements.
There had been no news of this fellow for five or six days. The last news was that he had successfully crossed the river. He really did not know where they had gone.
Mao Wenlong did not go anywhere else. He had been following behind Nurhaci, maintaining a distance of about a day without changing. Along the way, he ate dust, which made his soldiers not very happy, but Mao Wenlong did not let them starve.
Although the people in the village were either dead or running away, there was still a lot of wheat that had not been cut in time. These wheat fed the pursuing Qin Army, but they were very dissatisfied with the situation that Mao Wenlong had not led them to fight the Female Zhenren head-on.
"General, we have been chasing for five or six days. It's time to make a move, right? Those North Koreans are really miserable. "
One of his subordinates could not help but directly speak to Mao Wenlong.
It was not that they wanted to make life difficult for Mao Wenlong, but that the Female Zhenren had really gone too far. Along the way, all they saw were destroyed villages and dead people. There were rotten corpses everywhere, mosquitoes and flies flying everywhere, and bursts of stench that made people vomit. It was really unbearable.
Dingbian City was full of dead people, Shunan City was full of dead people, and even Pyongyang was gone. It had been completely burned down by a fire, and there were corpses everywhere. This hellish scene even made some of the older members of the two thousand cavalrymen feel as if they had returned to seven years ago.
Everything was the same as seven years ago. The North Koreans had suffered heavy casualties. Countless people were slaughtered by the Japanese pirates. Corpses were everywhere. It was so miserable that many soldiers shed tears.
They could not bear to look at such a scene, but Mao Wenlong turned a blind eye to it and led them to harvest the wheat to make food. He burned the corpses with a fire, and then continued on his way slowly. He did not even mention killing his way over to fight.
Could it be that he was afraid?
No one thought so. Although Mao Wenlong was young, he was courageous and knowledgeable. He did not hesitate to kill people. How could he be afraid?
The subordinates could not help but ask the experienced team officer Zhang Long to ask.
Mao Wenlong felt that he could also explain. Just as he was about to explain, the people Mao Wenlong sent to cause trouble for Nurhachi came back.
"General, according to your instructions, we successfully poisoned them. Slave Jian stayed in that town for a night, and we poisoned more than 300 people to death. According to your instructions, we also went to several other towns to poison them and evacuated the local people. Slave Jian didn't chase after us, so our marching speed was delayed. We haven't reached the city yet."
Zhang Long, who was next to him, heard the news and was suddenly stunned.
What poison? What town? What evacuation? What was going on?
After listening, Mao Wenlong nodded with satisfaction and turned to look at Zhang Long. "You can't fight a war with brute force. You know that they have more people than us. Two thousand against four or five thousand. You and I are both divine soldiers and generals with indestructible bodies. Use your brain, don't put it aside as a decoration.
I got the map and poison from Yizhou and sent light cavalry to take a detour to chase after them. Jian Nu is familiar with the terrain of North Korea and will definitely follow the route he took when he followed His Majesty to the south to eliminate the Japanese pirates seven years ago. He will find the towns along the route and poison the wells before they do.
People always need to drink water. As the saying goes, once bitten, twice shy. They will definitely be frightened because they can't find a reliable water source. Even if they find one, they will have to test the poison, which will inevitably make them thirsty and slow down their marching speed.
This will buy time for the North Koreans in the south to escape and buy time for our army. During this time, it will be convenient for me to poison the wells in other towns. Even if I can't cover all of them, I can at least make them afraid. They will have to test the poison before every sip of water and not dare to drink it! "
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