Shang Wu looked at the crooked letters, the letters were made of wooden boards, and the situation of the old wood was indeed very bad.

When they left, they didn't have many troops, and although they took half of the army with them, the problem was that the situation they faced was the most complicated. The Taihang Mountains are far from being as easy to develop as Shang Wu thought, where the population is sparse and the terrain is treacherous, it is a good place for all kinds of bandits to haunt, and it takes a lot of perseverance to develop in such a place.

The harsh combat environment exceeded Lao Mu's imagination, fortunately, he actively adjusted the plan, from the martial triangle tactics, created the mountain triangle tactics, they kept eating, attacking some small local bandit organizations, and then they absorbed some local mountain people, they usually have no ability to protect themselves, and the arrival of the Red Turban Army has changed their situation, at present they have more than 500 soldiers, more than 3,000 people. They are also rooted.

"What do you think should be done about this?" Shang Wu handed the wooden board in his hand to Little Bean, and most of the letters were transmitted through this small wooden board.

"Hmm. Sir, I think that in a situation like this, we should actively reinforce it, we can't always carry out our guerrilla warfare in the plains, we should carry out our guerrilla warfare in the mountains, although the mountains do not seem to be as rich and populous as they are here, but the problem is that the mountains have a lot of mineral resources that we need. Sir, you once told us that there are too many resources in the Taihang Mountains. And that's what we need. Little Beans said.

"Yes, I have decided to send three regiments of troops, about 1,100 people, into there, and at the same time, after the summer grain is completed, we will establish a grain reserve there, and at the same time a new base for us, so that they can develop rapidly. The timber there, and all sorts of resources, is something we need so much. Shang Wu said to Little Douzi.

"Sir, urgent letter." Just then, a second lieutenant entered, who was a member of the communications section of the Shangwu command. At present, the main role of the cavalry is still the role of communication, and the cavalry is responsible for maintaining this liaison with all the troops.

"Oh. This is from Kuroko. Shang Wu said with a smile. Shang Wu looked at the letter and said.

There are too many typos in this letter. There is no way, and there are only a little more than a thousand words that Kuroko can recognize. It still seems to have been a great difficulty in getting him to write the entire epistle. Many words that can't be replaced by words that are close to you, it looks like a headache, Shangwu did not teach them to use classical Chinese to write letters, to achieve such a standard, they need at least five years to complete, Shangwu simply can't give them more than five years. They can only communicate in the vernacular. So, there is more content than the average epistle. However, in the future, there will be more paper, and the promotion of vernacular will be imperative.

In the letter, Kuroko wrote that their battle was going well, they captured a lot, they only left a part, handed over a large amount of their booty, and the team developed rapidly, it has exceeded 800 people, the nearby villages are actively joining the Red Turban Army, and the tunnel work is also being carried out intensively, but they soon encountered difficulties. This difficulty is. When they want to dig underground, they often appear black soil, or black stones, and the more they dig, more and more, in many places. Only a small number of areas are suitable for digging tunnels, but often when further excavation is carried out, tunnel work encounters problems.

"Black stone." Shang Wu said with a smile as he looked at the letter.

"Let's go to Kuroko's place." Shang Wu was very interested in these black stones, and he felt that those black stones were an important resource, coal. What Shang Wu may not know is that Kuroko's area is close to the Handan area.

Just as Shang Wu was about to leave, another letter was delivered in time, and after Shang Wu opened it and read it, he was more likely to deal with his own judgment. Their tunnels happened to lead to a coal area.

"Huh." Shangwu was delighted. It looks very exciting.

"Sir, why are you smiling like that?" Seeing his commander laugh constantly. Little Beanzi knew that there must be some major discovery. Or maybe their important processes will change dramatically.

"Coal, it's coal, we have a lot of coal resources, it's wealth, I thought it would take us a long, long time to find such resources, but now it seems that our situation is going to change a lot." Shang Wu said with a smile. Although he didn't know exactly where Shangwu was, he made it after consulting the information, and later there was a very famous coal area in the Handan area, Fengfeng Coal. The guerrilla area where the Kuroko is active is roughly at the edge of this range. It could really be a coincidence. It is a shallow coal area, and the reserves may not be very large, but it is enough to show that the coal there will be very large.

Coal is the grain of industry, and with these grains, Shangwu is still worried about not being able to develop industry?

"God really treats me well." Shang Wu couldn't help but say this on horseback. Indeed, without coal, his industrial development is very unoptimistic.

On the official road from Julu to Handan, a prisoner cart is slowly passing here, and the person in the prisoner cart is Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi's unkempt hair was spread, and he also felt very helpless.

"Eunuch villain." Lu Zhi scolded.

"Bang." At this moment, a huge explosion was heard, and the explosion point appeared at the front of the entire team.

"Boom." There was another huge explosion. Lu Zhizhi was startled, and on his prisoner car, an arm fell down all of a sudden, and there was still green smoke from the broken part of the arm, as if it was about to roast that arm.

"What's going on? What's going on? Some officers and officers shouted loudly, but many people's ears were ringing, and more than 100 people were escorted, and more than 300 people were lost at once. The rest of the people staggered and had no ability to resist.

"Kill. Kill. "More than a hundred Red Turban Army tactics jumped out at once, they were in groups of five or six, some with shields, some without shields with iron pots, many with sticks, it seems that they are also lacking in weapons. Lu Zhi looked at the soldiers with backward equipment wrapped in red turbans. They are very brave. He didn't look scared at all.

"Smack. Bang. "From time to time, they throw out some cylindrical objects. Then there was a loud thunderous noise.

"Thief and shemale law." Lu Zhi said calmly. It's a pity that the officers and soldiers couldn't resist it at all, and the huge explosion had made them lose the possibility of fighting in an instant. It all came and ended quickly, like a storm.

Many officers and soldiers surrendered. Half of them were killed, and a small number of people fled. The rest were taken prisoner.

"Damn it. Clean up the battlefield and see how much we've made. A captain and company commander of the Red Turban Army said excitedly carrying a ring-headed knife. The knife was the equipment of a cavalryman, but it was captured by them. Many Red Turban soldiers threw away their clubs and replaced them with spears and halberds. Some people pluck each other's armor from their bodies and put it on themselves.

"Sir, we're amazing." A sergeant said as he carried his booty.

"That's, don't look at how many **bags we used this time, damn it, more than twenty pounds of ** before and after, I didn't blow them all up, even if our Red Turban Army was merciful." The captain said excitedly. They belonged to a company of the 8th Regiment. Their ambush area was on this official road.

Originally, two soldiers were supposed to throw explosives. But they didn't. They are just in a certain area of the official road, digging tunnels, putting ** bags underneath, and then attacking the officers and soldiers by lighting ***, this practice is extremely fierce and hidden. Because if a person throws a ** bag, it is difficult to ensure safety. Moreover, the combat distance is not far, and it is easy to be exposed. But if you use an authentic, you can put more ** underneath. For example, more than twenty pounds of ** is enough to produce a lot of power. And it's extremely safe. The enemy is imperceptible.

This practice is equivalent to burying ** on important passages, thus causing greater casualties to the enemy. It's quite horrible. Because the people who were bombed may really get on the dirt plane.

There are such and such creative talents in the Red Turban Army who invent strange tactics, and such tactics can be brought into play. It's definitely a situation that others can't believe.

"Sir. We've got an old man. As the captain happily continued to give credit for his work, a sergeant shouted loudly. The captain was annoyed. It's not just to catch an old man.

"Hey. Speak, old man, what are you doing? A sergeant slammed his knife into the cart and asked loudly.

"Hmph." Lu Zhi raised his head proudly, he was ready to be righteous, in his opinion, these thieves, once they knew his identity, they would definitely be cut by a thousand knives, in this case, he might as well not say it directly, and he would have a good reputation if he died.

"Damn, pretty stubborn." A second lieutenant walked over as if watching a gorilla in a zoo.

"Looks like a scholar, sir, we can't kill such a person." The sergeant looked at the other's fingers and said. The literati are not the same as these rough people. The sergeant had apparently noticed this detail.

"Literati, we don't kill literati." The second lieutenant looked at Lu Zhi and said.