More than 100 kilometers away from Taihu County, there is a village called Blum, which has about 100 families and about 4500 people.

Perhaps such a village can only be considered ordinary in modern times, but in this era it is already a large village in the truest sense of the word.

In the center of the village there is a vacant lot covering several acres, which is where the village used to thresh the threshing ground, which is commonly known as the threshing floor.

In the past, the threshing floor was also the most lively place in the village, and villagers could be found on the threshing floor whether it was busy or slack. It's just that today there are no children who are always playing on the threshing floor, but instead rows of dark green tents and a busy figure in a green military uniform.

In the largest tent in the middle, dozens of lit candles were distributed around, illuminating the entire tent, Yang Feng, who was dressed in military uniform, was staring at a wooden table with his head down and looking at the map carefully, and opposite him stood two guerrilla generals, Gou Xingma and Yan Di, surrounded by a circle of officers at all levels.

"Look."

Yang Feng pointed to the map and said: "According to the information we have got, as of today, three of the six counties under Anqing Mansion have been occupied by thieves, and Taihu Lake is the largest and richest of the three counties, and it is also the most convenient place to transport. ”

After the thieves occupy Taihu County, they can go straight to Qianshan County to the east and then take Anqing Mansion directly, and to the south can go straight to Jiujiang Mansion, which can be said to be offensive and retreating, so in order to realize our plan, our task this time is to take back Taihu County, and then force the thieves to the east.

Gou Xingma looked at the map for a while before saying: "Grandpa, now that Li Zicheng has recruited a lot of displaced people to take refuge with the slogan of not paying food, and now he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the last general even heard that there are many military households and officers and soldiers of the guard post who have also taken refuge in them, so we can't underestimate it." ”

"Of course my grandfather knows."

Yang Feng sneered.

"If this Li Zicheng's strength is too weak, my father is not at ease."

"Hahaha......"

All the generals laughed, Yang Feng did not hide anything about the next plan, in addition to Gou Xingma, Yan Di and other senior generals, the officers above the thousand generals were also told all this.

This is not that Yang Feng does not have a sense of secrecy, but in his opinion, Jiang Ningjun's actions cannot be concealed from people at all, and it is better to say it earlier, so that the officers below can better understand Shangfeng's strategic intentions.

Of course, Yang Feng didn't shout his strategic intentions to the whole army, if he did this, it would be a pure fool, just like now, Yang Feng's strategic intentions are only qualified to be known by these officers with more than 1,000 generals in the big tent.

To be honest, when Gou Xingma, Yan Di and other officers heard Yang Feng tell his strategic intentions for the first time, everyone's first reaction was that their grandfather was crazy.

The local power of the gentry and landlord class in Jiangnan, not to mention them, even the local people understand how terrible it is, because the gentry and landlord forces of this era have a very deep control over the people.

For example, if there is any dispute or even homicide in a private village, the first thing that people think of is not to go to the government to report the case or complain about grievances, but to go to the clan elder, patriarch or local squire for arbitration.

And the clan elders are also unusually powerful, they have the power to punish the village from marriage to marriage and theft, and it is not uncommon to beat the board, expel the family tree and even invade the pig cage, and the people who can serve as the clan elders or squires are generally wealthy and powerful people, and it can be seen from here how much power the squires have in the people.

And what Yang Feng has to do now is to use the hands of the rogues to fight the squire forces in Jiangnan, if not to sweep them away, at least to hit them hard.

This is a bold idea, so big that it scared everyone, even if the officers of the Jiangning Army were brought out by Yang Feng, they also felt that their boss was going crazy, if this plan was known, Yang Feng would definitely immediately become the public enemy of the entire Jiangnan gentry.

But then everyone thought about it, Yang Feng's original relationship with the Jiangnan gentry was very bad, and it can even be said that because of the relationship between the Donglin Party, the two sides have long become a life-and-death relationship, and now even if it is bad, how bad can it be.

At this moment, they no longer have to worry about this problem, but they have a feeling of excitement because they are witnessing it happening.

"Grandpa Guo."

Yan Di suddenly raised a question: "If the gentry in Jiangnan see that the situation is not good, and the court orders the Jiangning army to rush to the aid of Jiangnan to suppress bandits, what should we do?" ”

"How's that good?"

Yang Feng snorted lightly.

"Let us suppress the bandits, no problem. Let's let them scrape together a few million taels of silver to serve as military expenses, and by the way, bring in more than 100,000 or 200,000 stones of grain and grass, otherwise why should we take a chestnut for them? ”

"That'...... What if those people really put together the food and grass? ”

"It doesn't matter if you really make it up, we can pull it out immediately, but it's hard to say how to hit where and to what extent?"

Everyone looked at each other, and their hearts were all stunned by the shamelessness of their boss. It doesn't count that he extorted other people's grain and grass, and he destroyed other people around him, but he said it so naturally, no wonder he is a national prince, and he can only be a thousand generals or guerrilla generals.

"Report ......"

A voice came from outside the tent.

Soon, a general manager strode in and said loudly: "Grandpa Qiyuguo, don't accept the report at night." An hour ago, they met at the outpost of the thieves a hundred miles away from Taihu County, and the two sides started a fierce battle, and the night team eliminated a total of 16 people from each other, and pursued the remnants of the outpost to Taihu County.

After being enraged, the thieves sent more than 100 people out of the city to pursue, and then we were annihilated more than 50 miles away, but the thieves have already learned the news of the arrival of our army, and are now repairing the city wall and preparing to resist stubbornly. ”

Yang Feng asked without thinking: "What is the situation in Taihu County now?" ”

Mr. Qian replied: "According to the confession of our captives, there are now more than 3,000 thieves in Taihu County, and their leader is a captain of the thieves, named Yuan Datou.

This Yuan Datou has always been brutal, a few days ago before attacking Taihu County, he issued an order to reward three days after taking the county, when Taihu County was taken, the entire city was slaughtered all over the field, at least thousands of people were slaughtered, countless women were insulted, and now the remaining people are being forced by Yuan Datou to repair the city wall. ”

There was silence in the big tent, but Yang Feng could see a trace of murderous aura in the eyes of many officers.