It didn't take long for the isolated interrogation of the four court officers to end, and the four were escorted back to Zheng Fei by Pang Wanchun and others, and after comparing the content of the interrogation from the mouths of the four people, it was found that the answers of the four people were basically the same, that is, unless the imperial court had foreseen what would happen today before sending them out and gave them an explanation, otherwise, it was enough to prove that these four people were telling the truth!

Everything that happened in Gaotang Prefecture and Qizhou at present was clearly displayed in front of Zheng Fei's eyes, and several important questions he was concerned about were also answered.

It turned out that this official army was really a forbidden army from Hebei East Road, the main general's surname was Zhang Ming and the first, he was ordered to lead the 20,000 forbidden troops on Hebei East Road to besiege Gaotang Prefecture, and the strategy adopted was that the main force of 16,000 people surrounded Gaotang Prefecture, and the remaining 4,000 soldiers were divided into four roads to carry out a carpet sweep in Gaotang Prefecture, and this forbidden army of 1,000 people was one of the four roads, mainly responsible for the southwest direction of Gaotang Prefecture.

As for the current situation in Gaotang Prefecture, according to them, Zhang Jidi's forbidden army brigade had stormed Gaotang Prefecture for two days and two nights, but they were fiercely counterattacked by the Heavenly Dao Army in Gaotang Prefecture, which caused heavy losses to the forbidden army brigade, at least when they were ordered to leave, Gaotang Prefecture was still in the middle of holding on and was not breached. Zheng Fei was slightly relieved when he heard that Gao Tangzhou was fine.

In addition, one of the questions that Zheng Fei was most concerned about also had an answer, that is, unfortunately he really said it, the imperial court really transferred 50,000 horses from the Western Army of the Forbidden Army to join the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and at this moment he is attacking Qizhou with 30,000 Hebei Forbidden Army!

Zheng Fei secretly exclaimed in his heart, the Western Army, sure enough, is the Western Army! History has finally undergone a major change, although the Western Army is not many and only 50,000 people, but it also symbolizes that the Western Army has opened the prelude to entering the Central Plains battlefield several years ahead of schedule!

It's just that the leader of this Western Army is not a general of the Zhuang family or a general of the Yang family that Zheng Fei is familiar with, but a general named Liu Fa, who was the envoy of Jiao Xihe before he came.

Therefore, although Zheng Fei has never heard of Liu Fa's name, he only knows from his position that this person must be not small, and he can be the master of the Western Army, and he is by no means a vulgar person! As for how the imperial court decided to urgently transfer the Western Army here, what is the inside story is not something that the four low-ranking officers of the forbidden army can know.

In addition, in order to survive, the four officers also told many military secrets, such as the specific location of the other three forbidden armies, the route of action, the slogans, etc., such as the location of the grain and grass storage of the forbidden army besieging Gaotang Prefecture, the garrison strength, etc., through comparison, it is basically certain that what they said is true.

This information was not unimportant to Zheng Fei, and Zheng Fei immediately convened an emergency military meeting between Hu Sanniang and the generals of the Heavenly Dao Army to formulate the next action plan based on this information.

After discussion, everyone thinks that although Gaotang Prefecture has also fallen into layers of siege, but the situation is much better than that of Qizhou, at least the siege of Gaotang Prefecture is only 20,000 Hebei forbidden troops, Wu Song and 7,000 Gaotang troops should be able to hold Gaotang Prefecture, the top priority is to rescue Qizhou first, but before rescuing Qizhou, we should also help Wu Song relieve the pressure as much as possible, that is, try to kill the 3,000 people sent out by the official army to sweep up, and burn the grain and grass of the 20,000 forbidden army as much as possible!

Zheng Fei immediately divided the labor according to this purpose, he ordered Pang Wanchun to lead two infantry brigades plus a cavalry regiment to continue to advance in the direction of Qizhou, and according to the march plan of the remaining three forbidden troops provided by the four officers, find the 2,000 people on the east and north roads on the road, strive to completely annihilate them, and then continue to rush to Qizhou.

Zheng Fei himself led two cavalry regiments, put on the clothes of officers and soldiers and pretended to be the thousand forbidden troops who had been exterminated, and then galloped to the west of Gaotang Prefecture, if it went well, after annihilating the 1,000 forbidden troops in the west, he would go straight to the location of the grain and grass of the 20,000 forbidden army, and strive to burn their grain and grass!

In this way, as long as everyone can achieve the expected goal, the 20,000 forbidden army will be reduced to 16,000 people, and facing the loss of food and grass, the army's morale will be in chaos, and the opportunity left for Wu Song and the Gao Tang army will come.

As for these four forbidden army officers, Zheng Fei had already asked that it was their boss who ordered the slaughter of the village and tortured his five soldiers, and that person had also died under the sword of the Heavenly Dao Army at this moment, plus the thousand people annihilated, it could be regarded as avenging the hundreds of people and five soldiers in Houli Village. And these four people are indeed useful, Zheng Fei decided not to kill them first, after some coercion and temptation, the four of them saw that things had come to this point, it didn't matter if they betrayed the court a little more than one or two, in order to survive, the four of them swore that they were willing to do anything for the Heavenly Dao Army.

Zheng Fei made a promise to them with satisfaction, as long as they were obedient, he would keep his promise and let them go after the matter was completed, as for whether they were willing to return to the Great Song Dynasty or follow him incognito, they would listen to them, after saying this, Zheng Fei finally revealed his identity, and the four of them knew that standing in front of them at this moment was Zheng Linfeng, the thief leader of the Liangshan thieves who was rewarded by the imperial court for a million heads!

All four of them were shocked, and once again knelt down and begged for mercy.

Next, Zheng Fei ordered the second and third regiments of the cavalry to take off the uniforms of the dead forbidden soldiers and put them on, which turned into the cavalry of the forbidden army, and then agreed with Pang Wanchun and others on the meeting place after the good thing was completed, and then handed over two of the four officers to Pang Wanchun as a guide to find the two forbidden soldiers, and then led the two cavalry regiments with a total of more than 1,500 horsemen, holding the banner of the forbidden army and galloping to the west.

Pang Wanchun also gave an order, leading a cavalry regiment and two cavalry brigades towards the east.

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Let's talk about the situation of Zheng Fei and others,

Zheng Fei led a thousand horsemen, under the guidance of the two forbidden army officers, all the way to the east, along the way encountered many villages, although most of the villages were only harassed by the officers and soldiers, burned the hard-earned grain and robbed a lot of property, but the heart-wrenching thing is that there are still a few villages that have suffered the same tragic fate as Houli Village, the whole village was slaughtered, and even many women were subjected to even more inhumane rape and murder!

And compared to the forbidden army that had just been annihilated, the evil deeds of this forbidden army were obviously more hateful, because they not only killed all the villagers in several villages, but also cut off the heads of all of them and took them away, leaving only the headless corpses of the village, as for why they did this, even if the four officers did not dare to answer, Zheng Fei quickly guessed the reason, their purpose was clearly to use the heads of innocent people to pass off as the heads of the soldiers of the Heavenly Dao Army, so as to increase the number of enemies they killed and invite credit!

Zheng Fei and Hu Sanniang and the soldiers were furious when they saw all this, and they began to search for the forbidden army that committed this heavy crime, but fortunately, the sky had eyes, and finally, they found traces of the thousand-strong forbidden army in the east of Gaotang Prefecture.

Zheng Fei only took a few horses to quietly approach them and observe secretly, only to see that at this moment, the more than 1,000 people seemed to be tired, and they were resting under a small dirt slope fifty miles away from the west of Gaotang Prefecture, and what was infuriating was that there were several heads and ...... around them!

Zheng Fei's eyes were red when he saw it, he couldn't have imagined that as a dignified imperial court forbidden army, he would do such a thing that was worse than bandits and robbers, it seems that this time the imperial court sent them to attack him, for many of them, this is simply an opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune, salvage a fortune, and vent animal desires, so they will do these things that lose their conscience!

For this kind of scum scum, there is only one word, kill!

Zheng Fei quickly made combat arrangements, he asked Hu Sanniang and Xie Laoliu, the commander of the second regiment, to lead 300 cavalry to the northwest and northeast of this forbidden army, and he himself led 900 cavalry dressed as forbidden troops to approach them openly.

Hu Sanniang and Xie Laoliu immediately led the troops to set off, about a stick of incense, Zheng Fei estimated that they should also be in place, so he ordered two forbidden army officers to ride in front, and at the same time sent a few people to block all the routes of their escape, as long as they made the slightest move, they could kill them in an instant, and arrange all this, so he led the nine hundred horsemen to slowly begin to walk towards the place of the thousand forbidden soldiers,

Their traces were also quickly discovered by the sentries of this forbidden army, and the sentries were shocked when they saw that a "forbidden army" cavalry had come from the main road, and they were puzzled where this forbidden army came from, and immediately shouted to Zheng Fei and the others, "The bright moonlight in front of the bed." ”

Zheng Fei knew that this was a code, and he immediately glanced at the two officers, one of whom hurriedly replied loudly, "Don't look at it, go to sleep!" ”

But then again, "Have you had dinner?" ”

He replied, "How can you sleep without eating?" ”

When the sentry saw that the code was correct, he was sure that the person who came was indeed the forbidden army, and with the shouting he had just shouted, many people in this forbidden army had already noticed the movement here, and they all got up and ran over.

When Zheng Fei and the others were less than a dozen steps away from them, one of the officers looked at the officer who had just answered the code and smiled, "Huang Mazi, why are you kid, hey, this is not your one, ...... are they?" ”

"Oh......," Huang Mazi hurriedly replied as agreed, "they are brothers of the Western Army, and they have come to help us." ”

"Yo, it turned out to be a brother of the Western Army, fortunately, I will be lucky!" The officer immediately greeted him and hugged Zheng Fei with a fist, but Zheng Fei neither dismounted nor returned the salute, just looked at a bunch of heads not far away and sneered, "Brother, it seems that you have gained a lot, this is killing a lot of thieves, right?" ”

When the officer saw Zheng Fei's rudeness, he was originally dissatisfied in his heart, and only secretly scolded the Western Army in his heart, so he was arrogant, and said proudly when he heard Zheng Fei's words, "That's it, we have killed a lot of thieves." ”

Zheng Fei smiled again, "How much is a thief's head worth?" ”

The officer said, "Ordinary soldiers are not worth much, if they can catch a big thief, what regimental level is worth thousands of dollars...... hey, brother, don't you know?" ”

Zheng Fei naturally put his hand on the handle of the knife on his waist, and said with a smile, "Then you see, how much is my head worth?" ”

The officer finally realized that something was wrong, and he looked at Zheng Fei in shock and confusion, "...... you?" ”

When it was too late, he saw a flash of the sword, and the man's head immediately rose into the air.

This knife was killed very suddenly, and before the officers and soldiers could react, Zheng Fei had already raised the knife in his hand that was still dripping blood, and roared, "Brothers, kill these dogs!" ”

Thousands of people roared in unison, and the iron horses trampled wildly!