"Up!" Hou Dagui was extremely excited, roaring hoarsely, and the hundred brothers under his command shouted separately, and in an instant, they swarmed in from the city gate.

Bai Jiaolong saw that Hou Dagui had succeeded, and immediately ordered to move forward at full speed, and when it was, there was a commotion inside and outside the southeast gate of Baocheng County, resounding in the sky.

Hou Dagui led people into the city, and first sent people to completely control the traffic at the southeast gate. Xu Si led people down to the city to meet, and Hou Dagui asked his subordinates to give Xu Si and several others a red practice each, and let them wrap it around their right arms as guides.

Soon after, Bai Jiaolong led the men and horses into the city, Wu Mingfeng also arrived at the west gate, Hou Dagui ordered Wu Mingfeng to guard the southeast gate, and followed Xu Si and others with Bai Jiaolong to kill in Baocheng City.

At this time, the soldiers of Baocheng who were originally guarding the southeast gate had already fallen apart, and one-third died in the hands of Xu Si and Hou Dagui, and the rest screamed desperately and fled into the city.

The loud noise had already woken up most of the people in the town who were still asleep. The county magistrate He Yongxi was also disturbed by the loud noise outside the house and jumped up. He never imagined that the "Dragon Gate Array" he had painstakingly laid out would collapse so without warning, and the initiator of all this was just a little thief named Jiang Ba'er.

Jiang Ba'er has lived in Baocheng for more than 20 years, and he has done a lot of stealing chickens and dogs, so he is familiar with all the roads inside and outside Baocheng County, from the city gate to the cracks and holes in the walls of the paths. However, this time, he did not facilitate Hou Dagui's actions through these, but directly found one of his internal responses in the city-Xu Si.

If you want to survive in the treacherous environment surrounded by officials and soldiers, it is difficult to persist without a way. This Xu Si is a local, in fact, he has been secretly associated with Jiang Ba'er and other rogues for a long time, but he looks loyal and honest, and he is taciturn in plain life, whether it is a senior official or a subordinate, he can't imagine that such a conscientious and honest person will be involved with the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods outside the city.

Over the years, he has reaped a lot of benefits from Jiang Ba'er and others, just two days ago, Jiang Ba'er came to the door late at night and said that he would give him a great fortune. Needless to say, what he had to do was to enter the city as an internal response to the Zhao Ying men outside the city on the night of his shift.

At first, Xu Si was a little panicked. Although there was no shortage of pickling things in the past, they were all petty thefts that were not to be worried. If you respond to Jiang Ba'er's request this time, it will be a complete clear line with the government, and it will be a job to go all the way to the black. For him, it is better to ride on both sides of the wall to curry favor, and nothing that has a way back is good for anyone.

However, Jiang Ba'er also said that Baocheng's posture of being strong and inward-looking has now been fully discovered by Zhao Ying. If he Xu Si doesn't help with this, according to Zhao Ying's strength, he will definitely take the city overnight; If he helps, on the one hand, he can provide Zhao Ying with a little convenience, and on the other hand, it will be enough to protect himself, and even greatly benefit him.

As soon as Jiang Ba'er said this, Xu Si had no idea. Zhao Ying's ability, he has also heard of it, and knows that the other party is currently the number one thief entrenched in Hanzhong Mansion. If they come to attack Baocheng, it is unlikely that the officials and troops of Hanzhong Prefecture, who have always been accustomed to shrinking turtles, will rush to help. Besides, although there are many soldiers and horses in Baocheng County, they are all miscellaneous pieces that He Yongxi put together, and others don't know the details of the inside, but he Xu Si doesn't know? It is absolutely a fool's dream to expect these people who can only hold hoes and flat burdens for most of their lives to resist the murderous rogues.

Seeing that he was shaken, Jiang Ba'er took the opportunity to throw away the weapon in his hand and said that if Xu Si didn't want to agree, he could tie himself up to see the official right now. Xu Si hurriedly didn't think about it, so he had to take his heart sideways and take over this errand of opposing the official and the coward.

Seeing that the dense torches in front of him illuminated half of the southeast gate of Baocheng, and the matter of combining the inside and the outside had been completed, Xu Sicai secretly breathed a sigh of relief and settled down.

There should not be many people in the night attack, because too many people will easily expose their whereabouts, and second, in the dark light and blindness, it is also possible to mess up because of the unfavorable coordination and organization. Speaking of the elite of Zhao Ying, the number one is the middle camp. This kind of small-scale action is not like commanding a large army against each other, according to Hou Dagui's ability, he is completely competent, and he dares to kill and rush with a fierce force that no one in Zhao Ying can match, so it is just used here.

Originally, there were hundreds of officers and soldiers stationed outside the southeast city of Baocheng County, but when the southeast city gate was lost, these officers and soldiers themselves blew up the pot first, scattered and ran wildly, and many of them panicked and ran to Wu Mingfeng, or were captured alive or hacked to death, without the slightest strength to resist.

Hou Dagui and Bai Jiaolong took more than 300 Xiaoguo soldiers under the leadership of Xu Si to the mansion of He Yongxi, the county commander, while Jiang Ba'er and more than a dozen brothers went to the city to set fire everywhere, the people were frightened and ran away, and the county town of Baocheng fell into great noise and chaos.

In such a chaotic situation, the inferior quality of the officers and men of Baocheng County, who had never received training, was undoubtedly displayed, and more than 3,000 people inside and outside the city did not gather an effective resistance force on the cusp of this storm. By the dawn of the day, when the follow-up troops of the Zhao battalion arrived to completely control the whole city, the fiercest battle that could be praised during the period was the battle between Hou Dagui and He Fu's family when he attacked He Yongxi's mansion.

When Zhao Dangshi and more than 100 nights did not enter the city, He Yongxi's head had been cut off and hung on the southeast gate tower for public display. Listening to the soldiers' reports, after Hou Dagui broke through He Mansion at night, He Yongxi gathered his family together and wanted to set fire to himself, but fortunately, Hou Dagui was brave and brave, regardless of his safety, and personally rushed into the fire to snatch He Yongxi's already suffocated body, but He Yongxi's family and a He Mansion were all burned to ashes.

This battle was already secure, Hou Dagui took the county seat with only a few hundred people, and most of the Zhao camp was still stationed in Chenggu County. The reason why Zhao Dangshi came here was mainly to maintain military discipline after the city was broken. After all, he had an appointment with Liu Xiaohong first, and before Zhao Ying completely transformed into an iron army that was strict with himself, he still had to pay attention to everything.

Hou Dagui and the others still obeyed Zhao Dangshi's earlier instructions very well, except for the arson carried out for the sake of the war at night, there was no superfluous burning or looting. However, this may also have something to do with the fact that Baocheng County really has not much oil and water to fish.

Baocheng County is small and barren, except for some grain in the treasury, there are really no other flowers. After Zhao Dangshi briefly instructed the aftermath, he handed it over to Hou Dagui to handle. Hou Dagui has rich experience, and it is more than enough to deal with this little thing.

I haven't slept well in the past few days, and near noon, fatigue hit, Zhao Dangshi was looking for a place to relieve his fatigue, but a Tang soldier rushed to report the military situation.

In addition to the attack on Baocheng County, Zhao Ying also carried out another action at the same time, which was to abide by the agreement with Liu Shaozong and send the county lord of Huaqing back. The two parties had secretly agreed on the time and place of the handover earlier, and Zhao Dangshi asked Meng Aocao to lead more than 100 horsemen to escort the county lord's car.

I never thought that it was such a thing that seemed ripe, but something went wrong. According to the report of the Natang soldiers, after Meng Aocao sent the lord of Huaqing to the designated place this morning, he suddenly killed the officers and soldiers from the west. Wu Dading nearby sent some people to respond, but the officers and soldiers were quite strong, and they were completely defeated, and the military battalion lost more than 100 people, and Meng Aocao himself was wounded.

Things came suddenly, and Zhao Dangshi asked urgently: "How is the county lord of Huaqing?" ”

The Tang soldier replied: "General Meng desperately protected the county lord, and then Xu Qian led a thousand people to three miles away, and the official army retreated by itself." ”

Zhao Dangshi asked again: "Can you see the flag on the other side?" ”

"The enemy army did not raise the flag, but judging from its origin and combat effectiveness, there is no doubt that it should be the official army of Hanzhong Prefecture."

In addition to these, the Tang soldiers had nothing else to report and immediately retired, and Zhao Dangshi was the second monk who was puzzled. The powerful military force of Hanzhong Mansion, except for the little red wolf, is only the official army of Hanzhong Mansion. The little red wolf has been defeated, and it is impossible for any of the rogues to quietly enter from under their noses in the past two days, so what the Tang soldiers said is not bad, this sudden attack of the army is the official army of Hanzhong Mansion.

However, he and Liu Shaozong have come and gone, and they have basically negotiated the terms of the transaction. Liu Shaozong agreed to the previous request for sending troops, and there is no reason to sing such a thing at this moment, as long as An An divides and takes away the county lord, it is a great achievement, and as for the ransom, everything is the business of King Rui, and it has nothing to do with him. Zhao Dangshi thought about it and never figured out Liu Shaozong's motives.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Dangshi didn't have a clue, so he decided to take the matter back and discuss it with Qin Qigong, Mu Gongchun and others. Anyway, the county lord of Huaqing is still holding it in his own hands, no matter what the next move is, the initiative on his side is still there.

Zhao Dangshi stayed in Baocheng for a day and prepared to evacuate, and according to the previous agreement, Wu Dading's whole battalion was pulled to take over the defense. To tell the truth, it is not the best policy to fortify the army in the city, but because the next step is to attack the county, as a springboard and transit station, you still have to send people to guard this passage. Anyway, he also said to Wu Dading that he would give Baocheng to him, so he just pushed the boat down the river. And Wu Dafang was defeated in the east of Hanzhong Mansion, panicking like a frightened bird, and he also urgently needed a shelter to breathe. As for how he will treat the people in the city after taking over the defense, it is not within the agreement between Zhao Dangshi and Liu Xiaohong.

Wu Dading really got the coveted Baocheng, and he was convinced by Zhao Dangshi. After being a thief for so many years, I never dreamed that one day I would be able to become the lord of a county. His vanity was greatly satisfied, and even his previous depression was swept away.

Zhao Dangshi told him that the next step was to prepare to attack Chuxian, and as a passageway, Baocheng must be kept smooth. The implication is that I hope that Wu Dading will not do anything out of the ordinary and cause unnecessary chaos during the time he takes over the county seat. At that time, Liu Xiaohong's promise was to pack Baocheng and Chuxian to himself, and Wu Da must have benefits to take it, so how could he not do his best. So patted his chest and assured Zhao Dangshi that he would definitely keep the city safe.

Wu Ying is not his confidant after all, Zhao Dangshi is all he says, and it is not good to shackle too much, and after a few more words, he left the city with Hou Dagui and others.

The main force of the Zhao battalion was stationed in the Shahe battalion in Chenggu. In southern Shaanxi, there are names like Shaheying, most of them are Mintun, such as Chenjiaying and Yangjiaying of Ankang, and Wangjiaying of Hanyin. The families and people in these Mintun were all forcibly migrated or moved from the Jinyu, Lianghe, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang regions. The land of Hanzhong Prefecture, the military tun and the people occupy most of the land, these tundi villages and forts have a lot of grain in stock, even if they are repeatedly warn, but now Zhao Ying can still grab a lot of materials from their hands.

Zhao Dangshi is not a reckless man, he knows the power of these rural families gathered in Mintun and Juntun. He levied food, but only in moderation, and did not kill in vain. This alone is much more acceptable than the locust-like army and the little red wolf. It is also because Zhao Dangshi knows how to be in control, so even if most of the Tunpu area is still extremely resistant to Zhao Ying, there is no major turmoil because of the grain requisition.

When he returned to the camp, Hao Shaoqi, who was in charge of collecting food and salaries everywhere, was standing outside the gate to supervise. Truckloads of grain were pushed into the rear camp from in front of his eyes, and in the camp, there were Wang Laixing, He Kewei and other people in the rear camp waiting for the handover.

"Wait for this batch of grain and grass to enter the camp. After the winter, our days will be better. Hao Shaoqi walked up with a big mouth and a smile.

Zhao Dangshi nodded. Soldiers, grain first. Blindly brave and easy to kill, and ignore logistics, the plan will not last long. Many rogues are getting by because they lack a long-term vision, so they will be at a loss when the harsh winter comes, and the attrition is serious or even defeated. Since participating in the defeat of Little Red Wolf in Buckwheat Mountain, Hao Shaoqi has returned to Chenggu, cooperated with Wang Laixing, and began to shift the focus of his work to the direction of logistics. He Kewei had previously made a "statement" on military funding, and Zhao Dangshi estimated that with the grain and grass brought from Baocheng this time, it was no surprise that he would be able to survive this winter.

Military affairs are not only limited to conquering cities, but also dealing more with the logistics and personnel issues of the army. If it is said that foreign affairs can ensure the continuous development of the armed forces, then internal affairs are the most important cornerstone for ensuring the long-term stability of the armed forces.

"When I'm done with my business, I'll come to the Chinese army's big tent." Zhao Dangshi said to Hao Shaoqi.

Hao Shaoqi nodded yes, and the two were talking, not far away, a white shadow floated in. Looking closely, who else is the head of this fairy wind dao bone style with wide robes and big sleeves and lupine scarves, except for Mu Gongchun, the "living Zhuge in the camp"?

"Mr. Mu." Zhao Dangshi smiled and said hello.

Mu Gongchun returned the salute slightly, but he was not as calm as usual, but a little anxious. He shook his sleeves and said, "It's all back, and Qin and I have been waiting for a long time." ”

Zhao Dangshi and Hao Shaoqi glanced at each other, and they both felt that there must be something important.