The head of the general army is dedicated to His Majesty, and Zhao Dangshi should be the first. But he did not dare to accept it.

It was pure luck to be able to obtain Cao Wenzhao's head this time. If it weren't for Li Guo's lure of the enemy all the way, Liu Fangliang and others' tenacious bloody battles in Tripzi Pass and the unremitting pursuit afterwards, which consumed almost all of Cao Wenzhao's combat power, this credit would not have fallen on Zhao Dangshi, who only had fifty horsemen.

It was because he resolutely pushed the main merit of obtaining the head of Cao Wenzhao to Liu Zongmin and Liu Liangzuo, and only said that the second Liu was properly arranged and dared to rush to kill, so that Cao Wenzhao could be awarded the head.

He made a wise step to retreat, not only gaining the reputation of killing the famous Cao Wenzhao with his own hands, but also not to attract the jealousy of the first class of the eighth team. The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, Zhao Dangshi does not have the level of "dragon" yet, but he still understands the truth of advance and retreat.

Under his strong resignation, the first merit of this battle was counted on Liu Zongmin's head. Liu Zongmin is the general of the eighth team, he has always been ruthless, and Zhao Dangshi is placed under his subordinates to listen to him, and he is regarded as the first merit, even if others are dissatisfied, they dare not squeak. The second merit was given to Li Guo, who lured the enemy in. The rest of Liu Fangliang and Lin Yangcheng are separated from each other, and each has a reward.

This time to break Cao Wen's edict, Li Zicheng still paid a certain price, among which the elite of the old eighth team suffered two or three hundred casualties, and the rest of the miscellaneous soldiers, Lin Yangcheng, Zhang Tianlin and other troops suffered incalculable casualties. Although Cao Bianjiao ran away with hundreds of cavalry, Li Zicheng was still very happy to kill strongmen like Cao Wenzhao and capture hundreds of good armor.

More importantly, Cao Wenzhao was killed, and the momentum of the official army was depressed. There were not many people in the official army who were willing to take the initiative to attack the rogues, and with this precedent in the past, the officers and troops of all departments would weigh the weight and become more negative, and the situation in central Shaanxi would certainly change because of this.

In a good mood, Li Zicheng's attitude towards Zhao Dangshi was also more polite, and he even wanted to solicit. Zhao Dangshi had his own considerations at the moment, and he didn't want to enter the system of breaking into the army, he politely refused the other party's kindness, and even took only a small part of the gold and silver that was rewarded, on the contrary, he asked Li Zicheng to replenish the soldiers and horses, so that he could deserve his name as a "sentinel".

At present, the rogue's arrogance is flourishing, and it is in a stage of rapid expansion, and all battalions and teams are plundering people everywhere to enrich their ranks, and now even a small hundred households in the eight teams have as many as three or four hundred people under their hands, Zhao Dangshi prides himself on being the sentry officer who returns to the camp, and the men and horses of only fifty people are really stretched, and it is reasonable to expand the number of people.

But this is the matter of pulling Zhuang Ding, he has enough food and clothing by himself, so why bother Li Zicheng? In this regard, Zhao Dangshi has his own opinion. Guanzhong has suffered military disasters, not to mention the strong men in their twenties and thirties, even the weak and old people who have gone down to the fourteenth and fifth five-year periods, and have already been screened by the rogue officers and soldiers who come and go, and they may not be able to pull good soldiers even if they dig three feet into the ground. On the contrary, Li Zicheng's eight teams are powerful, and the quality of the soldiers in them is also superior among the various subordinates, and Zhao Dangshi thinks that he is in the stage of creation, and the quality of the basic troops must still be guaranteed, so he started the idea of the eight teams, hoping that Li Zicheng can reward a few children while being happy.

How could Li Zicheng not know Zhao Dangshi's thoughts, but he didn't refuse. First, the number of people asked by Zhao Dangshi was small, and if he insisted on refusing, he would appear stingy and ruin righteousness in front of others; Second, he also wanted to take this opportunity to knock on a few subordinates who were not very comfortable. Therefore, in addition to the promise, he bore the brunt of the attack, and drew a hundred people from Gao Jie's subordinates, and then transferred them from under several other generals to make up five hundred people and handed them over to Zhao Dangshi.

Those camp generals and Gao Jie were all veterans who joined forces with Li Zicheng at the beginning, and they had many trilogies, and their status was almost equal to Li. Li Zicheng is also very indulgent to them, but one mountain can not tolerate two tigers, after being beaten several times, they also gradually understand their situation, for this draw, because the amount is not large, they do not dare to complain, but among them, of course, some people are disgusted by this kind of behavior.

Not to mention this, besides, Zhao Dangshi's success will reach 500 athletes, which is even more gratifying than digging for gold mines. When Liu Zongmin heard the news, he also thought that he would repay Zhao Dangshi for his efforts this time, so he packed up more than 100 pairs of armor from the camp and brought them over.

With these 500 people, Zhao Dangshi's confidence increased greatly, and he adopted the battalion system, and organized a total of more than 550 people into a battalion, which was divided into one division and one outpost, and temporarily appointed himself as the commander of the thousand. The first division is the infantry division, with 500 people under its jurisdiction, divided into five posts, and the commander of the department is Hou Dagui, and the leader is also the battalion officer. A post is a horse army outpost, with fifty horsemen, divided into two teams, both as a pacesetter and a sentinel task, and the head of the post is appointed by Yang Chengfu.

Regarding the matter of whether to make Yang Chengfu the president of Bai, Zhao Dangshi still went through a fierce ideological struggle. Given that Yang Chengfu had left everyone alone in Wuyu earlier, it was really difficult for him to trust him to hand over the most elite horse army. However, since Shangzhou has traveled all the way, Yang Chengfu's loyalty is obvious to all, and before he finds a suitable candidate, Zhao Dangshi can only hand over the post of Baiquan to this hob meat.

When he heard that Zhao Dangshi decided to let him be the commander of the fifty horsemen, Yang Chengfu was almost stunned like a thunderbolt for a long time, and he cried with joy, cried and laughed, and kowtowed to Zhao Dangshi vigorously.

Hou Dagui couldn't get used to his wretched appearance, and said that he was happy and stupid, and grabbed him and wanted to slap him twice, but was stopped by Zhao Dangshi. Yang Chengfu only heard Zhao Dangshi's emotionless voice sounding in his head: "I believe you this time, but you remember, if the matter of Wuyu is committed again, and you are chased to the ends of the earth, I will also break your body into thousands of pieces." When Yang Chengfu heard this, he only promised, trembling and just nodding.

Wang Laixing was young and unbearable, so Zhao Dangshi made him a Chinese army and was responsible for propaganda orders. As for Xu Hui, before he completely got rid of the shadow of the official army, Zhao Dangshi did not dare to give him any real power, and only kept him by his side as a staff officer. Xu Hui knew that he was not trusted, so he didn't squeak with a sullen face.

The composition of the 500 men from each battalion was complex, including the old revolutionaries who had been making trouble since the Apocalypse, and the new recruits who had only been arrested from the mountains in recent days; There are not only peasant children who have been born in extreme poverty for several generations, but also veterans who have served as soldiers at the border gates, made troubles, and defected to countless teams. Although Zhao Dangshi was not very satisfied with some of them, he had to admit that Li Zicheng was still righteous, and these 500 people were also in the middle and upper ranks in the official army just by looking at their physique.

Don't think about picking fat and thin, Zhao Dangshi didn't dislike anyone, looking at these five hundred simple and ordinary faces, he only felt that he had taken the first step.

When these 500 people were sent, they were all unarmed, and later Li Zicheng sent some wooden guns and flat knives, but neither the quantity nor the quality was up to standard. Zhao Dangshi took Hou Dagui and others to negotiate one by one, battalion by battalion, or exchanged gold and silver, and finally managed to gather more than 300 wooden guns, hundreds of knives and axes of various colors, and a few inferior bows. The hundreds of various types of armor given by Liu Zongmin before were also picked, and they were given priority to the Ma Army and the division and sentry officers. Although the equipment of the entire battalion was very rudimentary, it was much better than that of the vast majority of the rogue troops. You must know that as strong as Li Zicheng, a quarter of his former battalion is still unarmed.

Zhao Dangshi began to conduct simple military training for these 500 people according to the military training of later generations, mixed with the military drills of the Ming Dynasty. This approach immediately attracted everyone's attention. Seeing the five hundred people carrying out many strange exercises under Zhao Dangshi's teachings, the people in the other camps were quite curious. Even Li Zicheng came to visit once or twice when he heard the news, but most of them didn't think so, and the joke passed - with the current training level of these 500 people, even the formation of a team is crooked, it is indeed a joke.

Zhao Dangshi didn't care about the opinions of the outside world, he firmly believed that where there is a will, there is a way, as long as the training can be persisted, these 500 people will one day be able to do the ban.

For generals, they must be role models, which can make a group of officers led by Hou Dagui and Yang Chengfu suffer. After they had finished training with ordinary soldiers, they had to be left behind to train until late at night. Occasionally, when he was resentful, he glared at Zhao Dangshi, and he didn't dare to speak out again.

During this month, King Chuang marched into the army with victory, and confronted Hong Chengchou and Cao Bianjiao, who were stationed in Sanyuan, in the area of Chunhua and Yaozhou. The news of Cao Wenzhao's death in battle spread all over Shaanxi, and the officers and soldiers of all ministries did not dare to break into Wang Feng, and most of them waited and watched. The only troops that Hong Chengchou was able to mobilize in Xi'an were 2,500 troops under the gate and 2,000 stragglers collected along the way by Cao Bianjiao's escape. A total of less than 5,000 men and horses want to block King Chuang, who intends to attack Xi'an in the south, which is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car. In desperation, Hong Chengchou could only set up suspicious soldiers and bluff. King Chuang couldn't measure his reality and reality, and he was afraid that Hong Chengchou was ruthless in the past, so he didn't dare to enter again.

King Chuang summoned Li Zicheng and other cadres to discuss, decided not to rush in, but to choose another place, so he led his troops to the east, trying to go to Tongzhou, Chaoyi, out of Tongguan. In order to ensure that the actions of his army were not disturbed, he also assigned the King of Chaoshi and the Scorpion Block to enter the area of Fengxiang and Xulu from Pingliang to plunder, and threaten Xi'an to contain Hong Chengchou.

The army first passed through Fuping, and then went straight to Tongzhou, and at the same time, many detachments were also sent to plunder various county seats. Zhao Dangshi was assigned to a team to attack Chengcheng County. The size of this team is 10,000 people, led by a general under Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng also sent a group of people to cooperate, and there are many miscellaneous cards.

Speaking of Chengcheng County, the city is not big, but it is famous. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Douyao, the magistrate of Chengcheng, urged taxes and grain, provoked a popular uprising, and was killed. Although the scale of the incident is small, it is often regarded as the official beginning of the civil uprising in Shaanxi. King Chuang wanted to attack this county, on the one hand, in order to uproot the surrounding official and military strongholds and plunder the grain and grass, and on the other hand, there was no intention of commemorating the "revolutionary martyrs".

Mao Angxiao, the magistrate of Chengcheng County, took office and went out to meet Shangguan, but the county had no owner, so he was attacked by rogues. However, the city did not panic, but the government organized the army and civilians to defend the city and wait for reinforcements from all over the country. The general of the king is an anxious son, waving the army to attack for three days, but a lot of people and horses, is depressed, suddenly someone from the city out of the night to see, only said that he is willing to be the internal response, the inside should be the outer joint to take the Chengcheng.

But the general of the king made a difficulty. It is said that this is a good opportunity to take Chengcheng, but he is suspicious by nature, so he is afraid that the official army will make a trick and lure his own army into the city. He hesitated all night and couldn't make up his mind, so he summoned all the voters early the next morning to discuss the matter.

To tell the truth, among the people and horses sent to attack Chengcheng County this time, miscellaneous cards accounted for the vast majority, they were not in the army system, they were unwilling to sacrifice their lives and forget their lives for King Chuang, and they only considered their own interests and safety. They are happy to follow the group to fight with the wind, burn and loot, but they are really not happy to ask them to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers and do that kind of thing that has no return.

The general of King Chuang opened his bull's eyes and swept through the various leaders and commanders of as many as dozens of people in the tent, and his stomach was full of fire. Before the expedition, these grandsons were all enthusiastic, laughing and scolding, but now when they reach the juncture, they are all frosted eggplants, with their heads barred and not saying a word.

Just as the atmosphere in the tent was condensed, a general took a step forward, stepped into the middle, and arched his hand: "I'll go." ”

The general of King Chuang took a look and saw that it was a young man in his twenties, and he was surprised and delighted in his heart, and asked, "What is your name?" ”

The young general said: "The villain Zhao is in the world, and the five hundred brave soldiers are willing to listen to the dispatch!" ”

"Zhao Dangshi?" The general of King Chuang was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, "Is that Zhao Dangshi who beheaded General Cao?" ”

"Exactly." Zhao Dangshi's face did not change, and he raised his head slightly. He could clearly hear the buzzing of the voters standing on the right and left.

"Sure enough, there are no fakes under the daimyo!" The general of King Chuang wanted to say "there is no vanity under the fame", but he couldn't remember it for a while, so he replaced it with his own words. The people present were all rough people, and they didn't know any words, and the more vulgar the words, the more they could understand.

"Prize!"

"General Zhao is willing to go out, that's great!" The general of the king of Chuang was quite satisfied with Zhao Dangshi's initiative to ask Ying. This guy is famous, and the size of the troops under his command is not much, so it is suitable to take the lead, "Since General Zhao recommended himself, it was decided." He was afraid that Zhao Dangshi would regret it, so he hurriedly raised his voice and announced it in front of everyone.

"Wait, the villain still has a request!"

"Say."

"After the villain enters the city, the land occupied, and the other battalion leaders cannot compete with each other, can this be obtained?"

The general thought that he would make some request, but it turned out to be this, and he couldn't help laughing: "This matter is easy to hear, don't worry, with me, no one can touch your things." ”

He shouted to the crowd, "Did you hear it?" ”

Everyone nodded one after another, this Zhao Dangshi can only have five hundred people, and he can still occupy the whole city? At that moment, he was secretly smiling at Zhao Dangshi's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and he had already begun to think about the plundering plan after entering the city.