After Fang Dongquan heard the report of the spies in front of him, he once again urged the bandits under his command to speed up.

Because the time is very tight now, seeing that the sun has completely risen, those people in the Black Tiger Village will definitely set off after breakfast, if they can't arrive before this, I'm afraid they will face a large group of people scattered and fleeing, even if the people of Huangzhushan have three heads and six arms, but there is no way to catch the hundreds of people who are scattered and fled one by one.

For today's Tang Dynasty, every population is an important resource, and it is a great loss to run away from one.

In order to be able to catch all the people in the Black Tiger Village as much as possible, Fang Dongquan and the others naturally rushed desperately, trying to arrive before the people from the Black Tiger Village left.

In order to speed things up, they even changed from a normal march to a trotting march.

But they had been driving in the dark for an hour before, and now that they were running like this, the physical exertion was a bit great.

Especially in this year, people generally have a bad influence, even these young and strong people are mostly malnourished, except for a few bandits with good physical fitness, many people are already tired and wheezing after running for two moments.

Seeing this scene, Fang Dongquan, who was the main general, couldn't help frowning.

At this time, Qian Mengjiu, who had a tired face, walked to Fang Dongquan's side: "General Fang, it can't go on like this, if you run like this, even if you can run in front of those people in Black Tiger Village, I'm afraid the soldiers won't be able to lift their swords and guns!" ”

Fang Dongquan naturally knew what kind of goods the group of bandits under his command were, except for a very few people, most of them said that they were young and strong, but in fact, only the age met the conditions of being young and strong, and their physical fitness was actually no different from that of the homeless.

Although they are all bandits, not every bandit can eat meat and drink wine every day, among the more than 1,000 mouths in Huangzhu Mountain, many people still can't eat enough, even if they are young and strong, it is impossible to let go of their belly and eat every day.

The bandits who can really eat enough every day and eat meat at two ends in three days are the backbone leaders of the bandits' den.

He also knew that if he continued to run like this, even if he caught up with the people of Black Tiger Village, it was estimated that he would not be able to fight by then.

No matter what era of war, the physical strength of soldiers is very important, especially in the ancient armies with cold weapons in hand-to-hand combat, soldiers maintain complete physical strength is almost a necessary condition for winning the war.

An army that is as tired as a dog can't kill all sides.

"Prime Minister Qian, what do you think should be done?" Although Fang Dongquan knew that many of his subordinates were not physically strong enough to support a long and rapid march, there was no good way: "The people of Black Tiger Village can't wait for us for long, it's too late, they have to run!" ”

Qian Mengjiu said: "It's better to choose a brave soldier to move forward quickly, most of our men and horses are still in a normal hurry, after the brave soldiers arrive in advance, even if the people of Black Tiger Village want to go, as long as they block a little time, our large army will be able to arrive!"

If the people of the Black Tiger Village have not left by then, then the forward soldiers do not need to attack in a hurry, monitor them, and wait for the arrival of the army! ”

At this time, Butcher Chen stepped forward and said, "What the prime minister said is right, why don't you let me take the striker first, and you will follow behind!" ”

Butcher Chen said this, naturally he is not reckless, although he is rough, he has never read a book and likes to say half of the idioms, but this does not mean that he is stupid.

In fact, he was able to take Li Xuan and others all the way from Lijia Village to escape the pursuit of the Ming army and join Fang Dongquan and them, and then from a mere butcher to the number one general in the Tang Dynasty today, his status in a group of generals in the Tang Dynasty is second only to Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, and it is not enough to be able to fight.

It's just that most of the time outsiders are confused by his rude appearance and big grinning tone, thinking that he is just a stupid big guy who talks and does things without going through his brain.

However, many people who claim to be smart have died, but he, a stupid big man, is still alive and well, and he has personally led the team to fight many times without any injuries, and there have been seven or eight large and small battles, and there is no.

Such a person, if you call him stupid?

Butcher Chen said this, it was because the striker under his command was the best in physical fitness among the bandits in Huangzhushan, especially the more than 20 bandits in armor.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for these twenty or so bandits to charge in heavy armor, with swords and shields in their arms.

The total weight of this body of equipment is twenty or thirty pounds, especially the iron armor of Butcher Chen, this iron armor alone is almost forty pounds, and people with a weaker system can't walk for long in it, let alone charge and fight.

After hearing this, Fang Dongquan looked at Butcher Chen, and then said: "In this case, General Chen will work harder, take your people first, after finding those people in Black Tiger Village, if they haven't left, then don't care about them, don't be discovered by them, just watch them from afar, if they want to leave, you can drag them and wait for us to come up!" ”

Butcher Chen immediately said: "Don't worry, none of them can run, if this still lets them run, my old Chen can't afford to lose that face!" ”

After some discussion, the bandits in Huangzhushan quickly divided into two parts, one was the large army led by Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, and the other about forty people were the forwards who followed Butcher Chen first.

You may have to ask, there are only more than 20 armored bandits under Butcher Chen's hands, why do you have to bring more than 40 people?

This is because the armor and weapons of the armored bandits under the command of Butcher Chen have to be helped by someone!

When marching normally, even Butcher Chen, a fierce man, will not march in armor, but will hand over the armor to others to help carry it, usually carrying it with a flat pole, and only when fighting, will he put on armor.

In addition to the more than 20 bandits, the remaining 20 or so people are actually working to help carry armor and weapons.

Of course, even if they are these people who fight, they are also forward soldiers under the command of Butcher Chen, and they all belong to a group of bandits in Huangzhu Mountain with better physical fitness.

This is not an easy task to carry armor for the armored soldiers, and it is impossible to do it without some good physical strength.

After Butcher Chen left with more than forty people, Fang Dongquan slowed down with his large group of men and horses, returned to the normal marching speed and continued to advance.

Butcher Chen led the people to hurry, faster than their previous march, although this tired those who carried armor and weapons half to death, but the more than twenty bandits were still very full of physical strength.

The last part of the road, it only took them two quarters of an hour to arrive!

After Butcher Chen and Liu Tianning, who was monitoring the people in the Black Tiger Village, and a few other spies converged, many people in the Black Tiger Village had already eaten breakfast and began to pack up their things one after another.

Seeing this, Butcher Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, let's go around behind them, we must not let them go!" ”