The man with a fierce face is Liang Shicheng, Liang Shifa's brother.

Liang Shicheng was originally a poor learner, he couldn't bear the hardships of being a military transporter, so he stayed in Huai'an Mansion when he was a teenager, and later went to Suzhou, Jiangnan, and did a job.

This line of work is very popular in Jiangnan Mansion, and it is the most fair to give money to fight for others, and collect money according to the size.

When the bands were prevalent in the Susong area, there were hundreds or thousands of people in the big ones, and dozens or hundreds of people in the small ones.

During the period from Jiajing to Wanli, the government repeatedly ruled the country poorly, and even beheaded 100 people at a time, but it still could not curb this trend.

These bastards are all brave outlaws who don't hesitate to die, even if they are ordinary scoundrels, they have learned all the bad things after a few years in the fighting industry, and they are more than ten times worse than before entering the fighting industry.

Fighting is not only fighting, but also all kinds of negative business.

Liang Shicheng had already become the leader of a small gang, but once he took over a business in the business where he worked, and a wealthy businessman wanted to frame his enemy, and he had already bought off the government in advance, but there was still a lack of corpses.

This corpse is not just a random one, framing the enemy who is also a big businessman, finding a corpse at random, there is no cause and effect, and the framed opponent will not easily admit defeat.

On that day, the lottery was drawn, and the person who won the lottery first took the money of the family, then ate and drank well, and took the initiative to make trouble at the door of the other party's house after gambling for a few days.

The other party didn't know what was going on, so of course he sent a servant to beat the man.

That night, the attacker suffocated the man to death, and his body was full of scars, and the next day the deceased's family carried the body to the door of the opponent's house to make trouble.

Then the government sent a large number of officials to help the idle, copy and arrest people, and make the matter bigger.

Of course, the family that had an accident this time was going to bleed heavily, and I was afraid that at least half of the family property would be taken away, and if it didn't work, it would break the house directly.

This kind of thing is not common in the Su Song area, after all, it is to harm people with human life, too damaging to yin morality, and generally willing to use and dare to use it, not only is the family background and powerful scary, but on the other hand, it is also a ruthless person who has no scruples about heavenly retribution.

But after that time, Liang Shicheng didn't want to continue working in the industry.

Who knows which time they will be drawn by themselves?

If you draw a dead lot, you can't regret it, if you don't die, the person who fights will help you die.

So even if you are already scared with soft legs and weak feet, you have to pretend to be a good man when you are about to pee your pants, pat your chest and show a nonchalant look, gamble when you should bet, and drink when you should drink.

Only Liang Shicheng saw the despair in the depths of the man's eyes, that guy was still a hungry ghost, but two days before he died, Leng had no way to touch the woman.

Other things can be pretended, but this thing cannot be pretended.

Liang Shicheng went out to fight, originally had nowhere to go, and when he heard about the changes in Yunti Pass, he came back to investigate with the intention of trying his luck, but Liang Shifa took a fancy to him at a glance.

This guy is angry, he has no burden to kill, and he dares to do it.

The important thing is that he has been mixed in the rivers and lakes for many years, and the people are sophisticated, the tricks of ghosts, and the wrists of the rivers and lakes are all all connected.

To put it simply, this person is the kind of talent that the Department of Military Intelligence needs, a good hand at going off the rails.

Sinking a person like Ding Ruqi into the pond with a bad morale of the army and the people does not have the slightest psychological burden for Liang Shicheng.

When he was in Jiangnan, he had done many things to tie people up and sink into the river, but at that time it was an evil thing to do with people's money, but now it is a righteous and bright thing to do for the boss, and there is no psychological burden to do it.

After sinking Ding Ruqi into the river, Liang Shicheng led his group of people to leave the city of Qianhu for the time being, and the boat went upstream, and arrived in the south of Guanyun County before dark that night.

The county seat is on the north bank of the Huai River, and the south side is the county seat of Guannan along the official road of the market town for dozens of miles.

Further south is Andong County, and then continue south, is Huai'an Fucheng.

It was already dark when Liang Shicheng arrived, but despite his exhaustion, he still chose to cross the river directly.

They are dressed as local scoundrels, and only this kind of people will swagger out at night, go to the village and go to the market, gather with the same party, either gamble and drink at night, or quietly steal chickens and dogs.

Most of the accidents that occur at night in the local area are the work of these scoundrels.

Therefore, once there is a major case, and the vicious case ordered by the county lord to be thoroughly investigated, in addition to the direct suspects, the arrest officer will first arrest a batch of these singles and scoundrels, lock them up and torture them severely, and see if it is a case done by this gang.

Therefore, if a scoundrel looks at the scenery, unless he is mixed with a lot of power, otherwise it is also precarious and extremely risky.

This is also a tradition that has existed since the Qin and Han dynasties, scoundrels, rangers, and sons-in-law and the like are all at the mercy of the government.

Liang Shicheng didn't go far before he found the guest army heading north.

Since he had been walking for a few days and had not yet arrived at Yunti Pass, Liu Zeqing may have been dissatisfied with the generals who led the troops, and issued an order, and the marching speed of the guest soldiers in the past two days has been significantly accelerated.

Liang Shicheng hadn't gone far before he heard all kinds of noisy noises coming from market towns and villages.

It was just after dark, which should have just arrived and the guest striker.

Liang Shicheng's heart sank, in the past two days, someone from the Military Intelligence Department has been reporting back the route and speed of the marching of the guest soldiers, the first three days the guest soldiers walked an average of more than 20 miles a day, and today it seems that they have walked more than 30 miles a day.

It is less than 100 miles from Huai'an Mansion to Guannan through Andong, and the forward arrives at Guannan County, which is not too far from Yunti Pass, and the distance is less than 100 miles.

At the current speed of the guest soldiers, in three days, their strikers will be able to reach the periphery of the Cloud Ladder Pass.

More than 200 miles apart, it took more than seven days to walk before and after, and this time the battle seemed like a joke to posterity, and the guest soldiers did not have the slightest action to defend against the sentinels, and everything was like an armed procession with open fire.

Don't say that there is a military intelligence department in Yunti Pass, even if there is none, the news has already passed by at this time.

In front of Liang Shicheng's eyes, under the moonlight, on the official roads, ridges, canals, and shrubs, there were guests pouring over with torches everywhere.

These guest soldiers are like ghosts emerging from the mountains and forests, unkempt and vicious.

Some people scold, some people are listless, and some people are evil.

Shortly after dark, these guests were tired enough to choke on the road, and there was no one in the place to prepare food for them, let alone the generals.

On the contrary, some moldy dry food will be distributed, and of course the guest soldiers will not eat it, they will be scattered, more than 100 people and dozens of people in one share, each looking for a village to loot.

In a hurry, he didn't specialize in looting things, but really only took some food.

The unfortunate ones were robbed of cattle, sheep, pigs and other large livestock, but most of those who remained when they knew that the guest soldiers were coming, most of them were gentry with meritorious status, and these landowners thought very highly of themselves and did not look at these ordinary battalion soldiers very much.

Who would have thought that between the hunger and exhaustion of these battalion soldiers, which one would look at those talents and people, even if it is the family of the official gentry who has relatives in the court, they will also rob it.

There are merchants with roots in the market town, and the landowners with status in the villages have been robbed, if it were not for these people, I am afraid that there would be no cattle and sheep for the guest soldiers to plunder.

Next to the ridges and canals, and in the farmland on both sides of the official road, large plains and wilderness are intertwined, and behind them are villages hidden in the woods.

There was a sound of dogs barking in the distance, and soon there was a miserable howl of dogs, and the dogs that should have dared to bark were also cleaned up by the guests.

Some people set up tents, and many more cut wood to build bonfires, then killed the animals, divided the meat, and boiled each one in a cauldron on the fire, or hung directly on the fire to roast the meat and eat it.

Chickens, pigs, sheep, dogs, cows, the smell of meat wafted above the bonfire, and the guests were either setting up cowhide tents or sitting cross-legged on the ground waiting to eat.

There were bursts of laughter in the Shandong accent, and it was obvious that although they were going to fight, the guest soldiers were not too nervous.

It's not to fight Li Zicheng, let alone to fight against the Manchurian soldiers, but to fight a Weisuo banner army in Yunti Pass, although I heard that this flag army is more elite, but it is more powerful than the bandits, and I am afraid it is far worse than the elite of the Liukou.

With this kind of thinking and understanding, these guest soldiers are not nervous at all.

Occasionally, a general would pass through the crowd on horseback, surrounded by cavalry, and the guests would move their bodies to make way for the general.

Most of these generals lived in market towns, were invited by the gentry and wealthy merchants, had wine, meat, and women, and fixed houses and beds to sleep on, and lived more comfortably than the soldiers.

These people who set up tents in the fields and even slept on the weeds were the lowest miscellaneous soldiers, those elite soldiers who came out of the city, the families of the generals and the pro-soldiers slept in the towns and villages.

Liang Shicheng took advantage of the night to walk more than ten miles, sentinel more than a dozen villages and two towns around, and finally determined that the guest soldiers were almost merging, which was different from the situation a few days ago.

A few days ago, it was the departure of guest troops from various camps, and there were occasional marching brigades of guest troops on the roads.

When I arrived in Guannan County, it was basically gathered into a large army, and about 10,000 people had almost gathered.

Liu Zeqing's army should now have 70,000 or 80,000 people, but not all of them can be dispatched.

In addition to horses and foot soldiers, there are also a large number of miscellaneous soldiers, firefighters, baggage, etc., which account for at least about 30% of the army.

Remove the miscellaneous soldiers, the departments stationed in each county, as well as the internal soldiers of each general, and dispatch more than 10,000 soldiers at a time, in fact, Liu Zeqing can be regarded as fighting rabbits with lions, and his contribution is not small.

This is also the reason why I know that there are more than 3,000 battalions of soldiers in Yunti Pass, and they have fought with bandits and pirates once.

It is this so-called soldier, judging from Liang Shicheng, a military intelligence personnel who was born in the line and has only undergone one month of military training, that the ranks are chaotic, not in a piece, the weapons are miscellaneous, the military discipline is wasted, the military orders, the military horns, the flags, the camps, and the march, there is almost no merit.

To put it mildly, it's like a group of refugees who have wandered in arms.

How much stronger are the barefoot battalion soldiers who are half-lying on the ground and have weak energy than the beggars and refugees?

It is such a group of people, who support the main general to support the Son of Heaven, Liang Shicheng thought of the Jiangnan garrison at this moment, what Wolf Mountain General Soldiers and Jiangnan Guards, the situation is even more unbearable than this Shandong guest soldier, after all, Liu Zeqing can dispatch 10,000 people in a few days with an order.

In Jiangnan, it would be good to be able to convey the military order in place in the past few days!