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From Luoyang, Ruzhou, Baofeng, Yexian, Yuzhou, Nanyang, Xinye, all the way to Xiangyang, the sky over this area is full of war clouds and murderous atmosphere.

The official documents issued from Kaifeng, Luoyang and other places were sent to various prefectures and counties by speed.

On these rolling lists, according to the population and the number of acres of land in each prefecture and county, they listed the grain, forage, firewood, and bean fodder that needed to be raised by the people and horses crossing the border, as well as the corresponding people and vehicles. It is very clear on the roll-out that from a certain month to a certain day of a certain month, a certain number of soldiers and mules and horses under the command of a certain general are about to pass through you from a certain place, and you need to raise the above-mentioned grain, grass, men and horses, and repair the road to supply the army to cross the border.

This is a form of providing money and grain support and guarantee on the basis of the "One Whip Law" that arose during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and according to the current situation in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the peasant army. That is, "the amount of summer tax and autumn grain in the middle of the year in the government, prefecture and county, and the amount of silver hired and raised by the Jiatu tribute, and the total levy and equal expenditure." In contrast, although the Ming army had tax regulations, officials often practiced privately, and their names were different, "so they set up rolling orders to eliminate their disadvantages." The rolling bill is very thoughtful and convenient in the collection procedure, and the method is: 5 or 10 households in each mile are a unit, and the yamen will issue the roll bill to Lijia, and list the number of acres of land, the number of silver meters, the number of dues, and the time limit one by one, so that the chief and the first head of the li will be called for payment one by one. The period of urging is called the "comparison limit", which can be compared every 5 days or 10 days. When it comes to the entry period, the flower household must pay the tax in person at the yamen, and if it still can't be paid after coming to the yamen, it will be "responsible".

This kind of system, in the eyes of Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and others, who led the army south, is naturally very novel, but it is extremely convenient and convenient.

"Master Liu, this is a good way! The Great Army crosses the border. No longer worry about firewood, grass, grain, and straw, it is a place for people and horses to camp, and there is also a settlement. ”

Ma Shouying hugged his fist at Liu Zongmin, who was surrounded by hundreds of personal soldiers in the team, and said with admiration.

Ma Dashuai was polite. There's no way to force it out! Liu Zongmin smiled bitterly and pointed to the villages and villages on both sides of the road that were hidden among the mountains and trees.

Small chaos lives in the city, big chaos lives in the countryside. From Luoyang all the way to Nanyang. It is the famous walled area in western Henan in history, and it is full of people who are fighting to protect themselves.

The premonition of the troubled times, the common people are very keen, any village, Zhuangzi, is surrounded by rammed earth walls, around Zhuangzi there are also deep trenches, access to drawbridges, and there are arrow towers at the four corners. There are people watching 24 hours a day.

The rich Zhuangzi, the wall is also built with bricks and stones, and there are horse faces, artillery, rolling wood, sheep's head stones, righteous nights, wolf tooth beats and other guarding equipment. The big surname, the big clan, is a deep wall and a big village, like a military fort.

In the peaceful and prosperous times, the small and undefended villages did not exist today. Now there are so many poles, swordsmen, horse thieves, and so on that all the villages have been walled.

Of course. Many villages and villages seem to be people, but in fact, they also act as bandits from time to time. Not to mention some weak passers-by merchants and ordinary people, even the officers and soldiers who look weak dare to rob.

During the Long March of the Red 25th Army led by Xu Laohu and Xu Haidong, an old man recalled that when passing through the walled area, he was strictly guarded. Because there have been records of entire brigades and regiments being disarmed in this area. During the Anti-Japanese War. Commander Tang's troops were disarmed by the militia in western Henan.

Until General Chen Geng led his army south to cross the Yellow River and open up a base in the Funiu Mountains, the bandits and militia groups in western Henan were also very powerful armed forces, and their individual combat capabilities were extremely strong.

"If you go to fight these villages one by one, I don't know how much work it will take. How many soldiers and horses were lost. It is better to ask the local magistrate to assign them how much grain, rice, firewood and grass to pay in each village, and how many people, chariots and horses will be sent to help the army. In this way, they can live their lives, and we will have less trouble. ”

"Humph! The generalissimo is just too benevolent! If we rely on Lao Hao, these stockades will open him one by one! Reward your brothers! Hao Shaoqi was on horseback, although the sore on his body was still aching, but he was still grinning and expressing his opinion.

"Wave the flag! Don't talk nonsense! If you miss a big thing, watch out for that black head of yours! Liu Zongmin has always looked down on Hao Shaoqi in his heart, and now that he has such an opportunity, he will naturally not let go of Hao Shaoqi. The contradiction between the two of them can be said to be a typical portrayal of the contradiction between Hao Shaoqi and the generals of the old eighth team. Because Hao Shaoqi is not a descendant of Li Zicheng's old eighth team, but originally subordinate to Gao Yingxiang's subordinates. After the death of King Gao Chuang, Hao Shaoqi came under Li Zicheng. Although his subordinates fought bravely, their military discipline was not good, and they were quite capable of harassing the villagers and plundering the people. In this regard, Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong and others all have a lot of complaints. In addition, the incident when he led his men and horses out during the most difficult and lowest period of the camp in Shangluo Mountain made the generals of the old eighth team even more angry.

A few days ago, the turmoil that occurred in the conference hall, although under Luo Rucai's intercession, Hao Shaoqi's head was temporarily retained. "Although there are great generals who intercede for you, the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped. How you robbed Cao Ying's horses, how to send them back to Cao Ying's brothers! ”

After saying this, Li Zicheng faced Luo Rucai with guilt, "Brother Rucai, I will allocate another three hundred good horses for you from my old camp, which can be regarded as making amends for your sins." The wounded brothers each paid a hundred silver dollars for the decoction. ”

The deployment agreed upon by the three families was to use Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi's troops who broke into the camp, Lao Hui Ma Shouying, Ge Li Yan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Troubled King Lin Yangsheng, and Liu Xiyao, the reincarnated king, and the Feilong Battalion of Wang Long's subordinate Luo Rucai, with a total of nearly 120,000 horses, from Kaifeng, Luoyang, Ruzhou, Nanyang and other places to Xiangyang to fight against Zuo Liangyu's department.

"Go to Xiangyang under the banner of the generalissimo and our old Cao, and make the momentum big along the way! Let the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu's family know that we have come to find his bad luck together in the camp, Cao Ying, and Huige five camps! Cao Cao, as the military advisor of the three armies, smiled and explained the precautions to the generals.

"Last time, the flag and Yuan Zongdi brothers scared Lao Zuo all the way back to Xiangyang under the banner of Xiao Luohu. This time, let's take a look at the virtual is the real and the real is the virtual. Wang Long, find out the banner of your previous Dragon and Tiger Battalion and give it to Ma Dashuai and them. Let them continue to fight out, scare and scare Lao Zuo. However, let Lao Zuo find the flaws. I think that our rebels are using the banner of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion to scare him again! Tempt him to rest assured and boldly come out of the old nest in Xiangyang, and fight with us! ”

Cao Cao patted Wang Long's shoulder vigorously, "When the time comes, your Uncle Ma, the two Uncle He, Uncle Lin, and Uncle Liu will feign defeat and lure Lao Zuo's troops to your formation, and it depends on how strong your troops are compared to Xiaohuzi's team!" ”

Wang Lung proudly puffed up his chest, "Please rest assured that the generalissimo, the generalissimo and the generals!" Although I dare not say that it is stronger than Luo Hu's Earthquake Mountain Battalion, at least it will not be worse than his team! ”

Wang Lung's words. Cao Cao's eyes flashed with pride. A barely perceptible smile appeared on his fat face. glanced at Li Zicheng out of the corner of his eye, "Don't think that only you Li Blind have the elite of the new army in your hands, and we also have it in our hands!" ”

"Lao Ma, Lao He." After listening to Luo Ru, Li Zicheng explained the operational deployment, got up and bowed his hand to Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and others. "Fight Zuo Liangyu, all the horses, weapons, and armor, I won't take any of them when I break into the camp, and they will be divided between you and the general."

This attitude naturally made Lao Huihui and others overjoyed. This year. The more soldiers and generals there are, and the more soldiers and horses, the more weight and cost of speaking. For this, they are naturally grateful. However, Luo Rucai instinctively smelled a strange smell.

"After the four prefectures of De'an, the political officials of these states and counties will trouble Brother Li Yan and Mr. Wu Xing to settle and select."

This is undoubtedly the use of the loot and prisoners captured by Zuo Liangyu's department, and easily got the territory of these four prefectures to the camp account! This is too finely calculated!

"You're blind. Wait for us! Don't want to snatch the territory of the four provinces from our old Cao! You have your plan, and I have my ladder over the wall! ”

And the rest of the troops of the two families. It was quietly assembled in the areas of Shaanxi County, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yiyang, Lingbao, Xichuan, Lushi, and Songxian, preparing to ambush Sun Chuanting's army that attacked the rear of the peasant army from Tongguan.

"This battle is over. Let's go back to our hometown in Shaanxi without stopping! Li Zicheng encouraged everyone present very passionately. In fact, not only can you return to your hometown in a beautiful way, but also no longer a so-called thief, but an army that guards the land with dignity.

Long. The strategy planned by Li Yan and others for him to divide the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi region and gradually expand to the east, west, north, and south can be firmly implemented.

"After entering Guanzhong, not only can we go back to our hometown to have a good life, but we can also go west to Xiningwei and get thousands of good horses from Xifandi. You can also take Yulin City, rob it from the Mongols, and buy horses! When the time comes, we will have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of good horses in our hands, and the world is not ours?! Luo Rucai's agitation is more direct and vivid.

As a result, the 5th Battalion of the Hui Revolution and the troops of Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi, Wang Long and others appeared in the Nanyang area.

This area, unlike Luoyang and Kaifeng, has long been occupied by the Chuang Cao family, and the land of several princes' Wangzhuang has already been returned to the original owners, and the grain and grass tax is collected from the farmers who have recovered their own land according to the agreement. Because after all, it was not long after it was captured from Zuo Liangyu and Fierce as a Tiger, although the land of the Tang Wangfu in Nanyang had already been allocated to the peasants, but the administrative officials in this area had not yet been fully assigned to it.

Looking at the wheat that has been harvested in the fields, you can occasionally see some rice on the ground where the water is more abundant, but the farmers are not so active in planting soybeans and other crops. Instead, he looked coldly at the army that kept passing by in front of the village.

There was no such strong local government, and Lao Huihui and others immediately felt inconvenienced.

Not to mention the place to live in grain, rice, firewood, grass and beans, it is a little difficult to drink water.

"It's because we march in multiple ways, otherwise, I'm afraid we won't even be able to drink water! I've got to rob everywhere again! ”

Outside the south pass of Xinye City, there are many temples here, there are Dragon King Temple, Guandi Temple, Horse God Temple, God of Wealth Temple, etc., several temples not far from Chengguan are wide, and the houses are tall, enough for these thousands of people to be stationed. Each ministry chose a temple to set up camp.

In the Guandi Temple, Ge Li Yanhe Yilong wiped the dust on his glasses with a piece of silk, so that there was a bright light in front of him. He Jin, the king of Zuojin beside him, raised the kettle and poured it with all his might, wiped the water droplets from the corners of his mouth, and complained very dissatisfied.

If it were somewhere else, they wouldn't have to worry about it. If there is no food or grass, scatter the soldiers and collect food!

However, this cannot be the case here. This is the territory of the two Cao families, not to mention the brigade of the Cao camp and the Cao camp, and the core figures of the Cao family such as Liu Zongmin and Wang Long. Don't be overly presumptuous. What's more, the two families have long said that we will pay for your food, grass, and military salaries. The implication is that you must obey our military discipline and not make a mistake on our turf.

If it weren't for Luo Rucai, Li Yan and others who had also taken this into account, they would have paid special attention to it when formulating the route and scale of the march, stipulating that after the army entered the southern area of Nanyang Prefecture, it would have to divide its troops into multiple routes. There are only a few thousand people on each road, and the time before and after is opened. It is also good to have a buffer time for the local area. Avoid the usual rush of hundreds of thousands of people and horses along a road, which not only delays time, but also turns all places along the way into a desert like locusts. When the troops in front passed, there were still grain, rice, grass, firewood, vegetables, and vegetables, but when they passed, and the troops behind passed by, not to mention grain, rice, firewood, and grass. Not even straw sticks!

Not to mention the famine years at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was basically an agricultural society, at the beginning of this century. A certain unit of the People's Liberation Army stationed in the coastal area of Fujian conducted cross-regional mobile training. The strength of a division is stationed from A to B for training. As a result, the local government was very sad to find that after more than 10,000 people and a large number of vehicles entered, the local municipal system collapsed.

First of all, the tap water system is not enough. Only one county can guarantee the drinking water supply network of the county. All of a sudden, there was such a huge increase in demand that it was not enough to meet the demand. Secondly, the road system is finished! A large number of heavy vehicles are running back and forth on the road, and the pressure on road traffic can be imagined. Third, the supply of non-staple food has risen. A good cooking squad leader can top half an instructor. What's more, the action of going out for training is a huge drain on the physical strength of the soldiers. What can I do if I don't eat better? As a result, all catering units went out to purchase non-staple food at any cost, and as a result, the price of local non-staple food skyrocketed.

The modern southeast coastal area can't bear it, let alone the end of the new field!

"Grab what! Now that the wheat has been harvested, this is not the ground where the famine is severe. Let's take out the money and let the old camp secretary take someone out to buy! ”

As the commander of this military horse, Liu Zongmin is quite calm. On the one hand, he ordered his entourage to take off the armor on his body for him, and on the other hand, he was very relaxed and played with a few fellow villagers haha.

"Did they receive the roll order sent to Xinye County? Send someone to urge it! Wang Lung frowned, this is already the junction of Nanyang and Xiangyang. Xinye is only more than 100 miles away from Xiangyang, and it is the area where Zuo Liangyu's army and horses are infested with impermanence, God knows if the gentry in Xinye County have colluded with Zuo Liangyu's army? In case Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses suddenly come to a surprise attack, it will be easy to make a big joke! It's better to be careful!

Wang Lung led his own soldiers out to inspect the stationing and fortification of the troops. Fortunately, the large army was camped, and he had already had rich experience, and all battalions and departments were orderly. The old battalion soldiers of the three families lived in the Guandi Temple. A large flag several feet high stands in front of the temple gate, the flag is snow-white, but it is made of horsehair. The spear was silver, but it was made of silver. The flag rolled horizontally in the wind, and a big word "Chuang" faintly appeared, but it was embroidered with black satin. On the other hand, the word "Cao" with the same shape was raised high, and he told the four sides that this was the place where the two marshals of Chuang Cao were stationed.

And the banners of Lao Huihui, Ge Li Yan, King of Troubled Times, King Zuo Jin and others were set up on the roofs of temples and on the treetops, lest others not know about their arrival.

Dozens of old battalion secretaries led the miscellaneous servants with the army, carrying a basket of copper coins and carrying a lot of silver dollars, and walked out of the Guandi Temple with heavy steps and went to the direction of Chengguan.

Although Nanyang, Xinye and other places also see homeless beggars, but at least the people's lives are relatively stable, and the villages are popular everywhere.

Xinye Baili Pingchuan, there is thorny water in the east, there is batch water in the north, there is water in the west, and there is turbulent water, it can be described as eight water competitions, fertile fields and hundreds of miles, the essence of Nanyang, all in this.

"I used to hear people talk about the Three Kingdoms, when Uncle Liu Huang was stationed in Xinye, Liu Biao told him that Xinye County was quite rich and grainy. It seems that if it is a peaceful year, Xinye County is really a good place! ”

"General, Uncle Liu Huang is hypocritical and righteous, and refuses to take Jingzhou from Liu Biao, so let's take the nine counties of Jingxiang for him!" Wang Lung's personal soldier leader was very amusing and continued the conversation.

Wang Lung ignored it, just observing the nearby terrain, which was a good habit he had developed over the years with his uncle Luo Rucai. No matter how you indulge in alcohol, this kind of life-and-death event does not dare to be sloppy at all. On both sides of the river, the surrounding area is plain, but the area of Shinno Castle on the east bank of the river is not large, and the city wall is also quite dilapidated, and there is a small pass around the city. A pontoon bridge that spans both sides of the river and leads to Nanguan in Shinno Castle. The soldiers in charge of the purchase were laughing and walking across the river.

A drum sounded, the gates of Shinno opened, and a crowd of well-dressed gentry poured out of the city. Behind them, many people carried pigs, sheep, cows, wine and other things, apparently, they came to reward the army. (To be continued......)