As soon as Fang Hu's side moved his troops, Bai Qi would know there.

Bai Qi attaches great importance to intelligence work, no matter what kind of battle he fought, before the war, he would send a large number of scouts to various places to investigate, so no matter where he garrisoned the army, within a radius of 300 miles, any wind and grass could not escape his eyes.

The three counties want to unite to exterminate him, and Bai Qi has long known about it. Therefore, Fang Hu's every move, he is very clear. At this time, Bai Qi summoned several of his leaders to his side and prepared to meet the enemy.

Lei Sheng is his deputy general, and the second leader is called Wang Bao, Bai Qi appointed him as a hundred chiefs, and also promoted several hundred chiefs to be in charge of these horses.

At this time, other people also heard the news that the official army was coming, Lei Sheng looked excited, and waved his fist: "Come on, come on, our brother has been trained by the general these days, and his combat effectiveness has been much higher, don't say that he only has more than 2,000 people, even 5,000, and he can stop it." ”

Wang Bao was also full of confidence: "Big brother is right." As long as we put up a battle formation, we will definitely kill them. ”

Everyone happily spoke, but found that Bai Qi's face sank like water, and he didn't say a word, so they all stopped talking like clay figures.

Bai Qi looked at them: "Say, why don't you say it?" ”

Lei Sheng said with a smile: "General, we are just growing everyone's morale, as for how to fight, you still say." ”

Bai Qi sneered: "Fight? What to fight? General order to the whole army, withdraw! ”

Everyone was dumbfounded: withdraw?

Bai Qi looked at their surprised eyes, and then explained: "There are more than 2,000 officers and soldiers, we only have about 1,000 people, and we can only fight six or seven hundred, can you fight three of you?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, and the answer was yes.

Bai Qi said: "The officers and soldiers are well-armed, and there are two hundred cavalry, what do you have in your hands?" Is there cavalry? ”

Everyone shook their heads again, although they had laid down a few forts and obtained some weapons, but after all, they were too few, and could only arm about 300 people, and the rest still used wooden sticks and shovels as weapons, and as for the cavalry, they did not dare to think about it.

Bai Qi nodded slowly: "There are not as many people as there are, no weapons are as good as others, and no one has rich combat experience, how can this battle be fought?" ”

Lei Sheng asked timidly: "General, where are we retreating?" Into the mountains? ”

According to their thoughts, they must have taken everything they could in the fort and fled into the mountains like a swarm, so that the officers and soldiers could pounce in the air, and then come back when they were gone.

Unexpectedly, Bai Qi's next sentence came to a 180-degree turn.

"We don't go into the mountains, we go into the city."

Everyone was dumbfounded again: into the city? Which city to enter?

Bai Qi explained again: "We want to enter Meixian County." Then recruit troops there and expand your strength. As long as you occupy a city, you will have a source of soldiers, food, and weapons. ”

At this moment, everyone was excited again.

Bai Qi continued: "Right now, the three county orders of Meixian, Fufeng and Wugong are all waiting to hear the good news in Meixian, so we are very sure of attacking Meixian. ”

Lei Sheng was so excited that he slammed his fist on the table: "General, you give the order, whatever you say, we will do it." ”

Other people also said that they would do a great job under the leadership of Bai Qi.

Bai Qi ordered the troops and ordered everyone to gather, he asked Wang Bao to take the women and children, and some old and weak people to go first, and rushed to the city of Meixian, saying that the survivors of the nine villages that were broken through should first mix into the city of Meixian, and let some strong men pretend to be sick and injured, mixed with the old and weak of these women, and do not disperse after entering the city, and live at the entrance of Dongcheng City. As soon as the army arrives, let those strong men seize the city gate and welcome the army into the city.

Wang Bao is very happy, this is a heavy responsibility, which fully shows that he can afford to look up to him.

In fact, Bai Qi can be regarded as knowing people and being good at work, although the second leader Wang Leopard is not as brave as Lei Sheng, but he has a more active brain, not like Lei Sheng's rough and arrogant, a tendon. This kind of work of infiltrating the enemy camp is still done by Wang Bao, and it is more graspable.

Sent away Wang Leopard's first road, Bai Qi ordered a few hundred chiefs to follow him, with supplies, and led four hundred strong men as the second road, followed behind Wang Leopard, and went to attack Meixian County.

And on the last way, let Lei Sheng lead thirty or forty people, with some treasures and property, and wait in the fort not to go, and when the official army came, they could fight a few times, or they could not fight, and then they burned the fort and retreated to the mountains. When fleeing, you can throw your treasures, clothes and other things on the road to lure the officers and soldiers into the mountains, and they will not be able to return to the army in time.

Lei Sheng was also very happy, this task was also a bit challenging, and he had to have courage, and it was just right to send him.

The distribution was set, and the people went their separate ways.

Let's talk about Fang Hu, he led the 2,500 Ming troops from the three counties combined, all of them were in high spirits and their morale was sky-high, because there was a lot of oil and water to be fished out of this crackdown on bandits. According to the reports of the squires and wealthy households, this group of thieves robbed more than ten forts, killed people and set fires, left no chickens and dogs, and robbed all the treasures, which included at least tens of thousands of taels of gold, and as for silver and precious stones, there were countless counts, so much money that people were blushing.

Moreover, this is a hungry people, there is not much combat effectiveness, and when it encounters a regular official army, it will definitely collapse at the touch of a button, this is a wealth that is too easy to obtain, so everyone is holding back their strength and preparing to make a windfall.

Wugong County is very close to Taibai Mountain, Fang Hu and his people hurried without hurry, and they arrived at the bottom of the mountain at noon. He had already found out that the fort was more than ten miles away in the mountains, and the mountain road was relatively flat and easy to pass.

Fang Hu didn't let him stop, waved his army in, and walked for another half an hour, finally seeing the fortress. He ordered the army to disperse, divide into four groups, and surround the fort.

Just when the officers and soldiers rushed to the front of the fortress, and had not yet begun to encircle in formation, the gate of the fortress suddenly opened, and thirty or forty people rushed out, each carrying a large burden and holding torches in their hands.

I didn't forget to throw the torch into the fort when I left.

It seemed that the fortress had been piled with dry firewood, and oil was poured on the firewood, and several torches were thrown up, and in the blink of an eye, the fortress was full of fire, black smoke, and burned.

Fang Hu stomped his feet and scolded: "Bastard King Eight Lambs, see where you fled to......"

He ordered his officers and soldiers to follow closely, and Lei Sheng led thirty or forty men to run, while opening the baggage on his back, and from time to time throwing the gold, silver and jewelry inside on the road.

The mountain road is not like a road on the flat ground, no matter how flat it is, there are ravines and stone cracks, and those gold, silver and jewels roll among the stones, which are not easy to find, and the officers and soldiers who catch up are only concerned with picking up property, and their minds are not on killing the enemy at all.

In this way, the officers and soldiers chased Lei Sheng and them while picking up their belongings, and gradually chased them into the mountains.

Fang Hu chased for two hours, and Lei Sheng threw away all his belongings, Lei Sheng asked all his men to stand on the rocks on the mountainside, and shouted at the pursuers: "Don't chase, we have no money on us." As he spoke, he threw away all the furoshi.

Fang Hu took a look, it was indeed true, the officers and soldiers under him had already picked up a lot of treasures, and they had made a lot of money this time, so it was time to collect the troops. As for the dozens of hungry people, they just fled, and when they went back, they killed a few passers-by and used them to risk their merits.

So Fang Hu returned with his men and horses, but it was not so convenient when he went back, because it was already dark, and everyone was tired for a day, and they were all a little tired, so Fang Hu ordered to extinguish the fire in the fort and stay there for the night.

When the officers and soldiers came to the fort, because most of the forts were made of stone, although everything in the room was burned, the house could still be lived, and everyone began to light a fire to cook and sit on the ground to divide the dirt.

And they never imagined that Meixian at this time was a different scene.