Butcher Chen's bravery is second to none in the entire Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would not be able to be called the first fierce general of the Tang Dynasty.

And his bravery was once again proven when he intercepted the Fengjiazhuang spies!

Half a month after leaving the mountain, he returned to Huangzhu Mountain with seven Feng family captives, so that Zhang Laosan and Shanpao had companions.

According to Butcher Chen, he took more than 30 people out of the mountain from the trail, lurked for half a month, and finally succeeded in intercepting two groups of Fengjiazhuang spies on the way back to Fengjiazhuang.

And because it was an ambush, those Fengjiazhuang spies didn't expect to be ambushed halfway, and they began to collapse when they were hit by the first wave of arrows from the ambush.

When Butcher Chen came out with more than 20 bandits, they had no resistance at all, except for three people who stubbornly resisted and were killed, the rest of them all chose to surrender and become prisoners of the Tang Dynasty.

When he saw Butcher Chen escorting the captives back to Huangzhu Mountain, Cai Erhu, who claimed to be the second fierce general of the Tang Dynasty, was drooling.

He was envious!

Since he defected to the Tang Dynasty, he also wanted to be in the limelight like Butcher Chen, but unfortunately he never had the opportunity.

After Butcher Chen successfully completed the task, it also meant that the location of Huangzhu Mountain could continue to be kept secret in a short period of time, because from the mouths of these captives in Fengjiazhuang, Li Xuan once again confirmed that there were only more than ten spies sent by Fengjiazhuang this time, and they were divided into three groups to search for the location of Huangzhu Mountain.

Now these three groups of people have been wiped out by Butcher Chen and the bandits, and no one has been allowed to escape, so even if the people on Fengjiazhuang's side are suspicious, they can't be sure what danger these spies are encountering in the mountains.

Even if you can guess!

And more than a dozen people will not return, which will also make the people on Fengjiazhuang's side fearful, after all, Fengjiazhuang is not an army, but there is no way to bear the losses of dozens of people in a row.

Even if you forcibly send someone to come again, I'm afraid that those nurses of the Feng family will not come, you must know that these nurses who entered the mountain before are not ordinary people, but they are all martial artists who are proficient in fist and foot kung fu, and none of them can come out alive after entering the mountain, which will definitely make those guardians regard the mountain as a tiger's mouth, and they are willing to come to die!

People are all afraid of death, and they all have their own selfish intentions, but it's not that if you say that you want to send people into the mountain again, those people will be stupid to send them to death.

Although these are Li Xuan's own guesses, Li Xuan thinks that his guess is quite reasonable, even if Fengjiazhuang will send people again, but it is estimated that he will not send people again in a short time, even if he sends people, if the number of people is small, Huang Zhushan can completely catch these spies who entered the mountain one by one like last time, so that they will not come back.

Even if the location of Huangzhu Mountain was still exposed in the end, Li Xuan felt that the Ming army would definitely come after spring ploughing.

Now it's the Spring Festival soon, and another month is the sting, and after the sting, it's spring ploughing!

In this short period of one month, the Ming army was unable to gather a large number of men and horses into the mountain, and the biggest possibility was that as they expected before, the Ming army would enter the mountain after spring ploughing.

This time is probably after the middle of February, maybe the end of February, or it may be March, but it will not drag on for too long, after all, Li Xuan guessed that those local officials in the Ming Dynasty would also have pressure, and it was impossible to delay this matter for too long, and if it dragged on for a few more months, it would be a busy summer season, and it would be even more impossible for the Ming army to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress at that time.

Based on this speculation, Li Xuan finally put his mind at ease, at least within a month and a half, or even within two months, it is impossible for the Ming army to enter the mountain, and with this time as a buffer, the Tang Standing Army and the Guards Army of Huangzhushan can barely take shape even if the progress of training is slow.

At that time, if the number of Ming troops entering the mountains is only less than 1,000 people, it may not be impossible to win the battle, even if the number of Ming troops reaches more than 1,000 people, then the Tang Dynasty still has a chance to deal with it!

If the number of the explained army reaches two or three thousand or even more, then what else to fight, just run!

Li Xuan would never be so brain-dead as to think that the three or four hundred bandits of the Tang Dynasty could confront the regular army of the Ming Dynasty by thousands!

The threat of the Ming army has been behind for a while, and Li Xuan has also ushered in the first Spring Festival after coming to this time and space!

The rules of the Spring Festival in ancient times are obviously more complicated than in modern times, even in the bandit den of Huangzhu Mountain, since the twentieth month of the lunar month, the entire Huangzhu Mountain has actually entered the Spring Festival holiday.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the Tang Dynasty began to seal the dynasty, that is to say, no longer hold daily routine court meetings, and those officials who do not take money are no longer in office to deal with government affairs, whether it is Li Xuan's royal family or those ministers, they are like ordinary bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, each going back to their own homes to prepare for the New Year.

The palace was also busy, Li Xuan wanted to write couplets, not only for himself, but also to show the emperor's grace, but also to Fang Dongquan and other important ministers to write a couplet, write blessing characters and the like.

Empress Dowager Bai brought Dong Yunyun and Ye's two daughters to prepare for the New Year, such as lanterns, food, new clothes, etc.

However, it is said that they are preparing, but in fact, they are verbally instructed to do one or two, and the actual affairs will naturally not be done, but by the four or five old mothers in the palace and a few little maids.

During this time, Li Xuan also had a little more contact with the Ye family, during which he learned that this woman's fate was bumpy.

Ye's life experience is a bit tragic, according to her own words, her father was a showman in his early years, so their family can barely be regarded as a scholar in the local village.

But her father died early, leaving them orphans and widows, and the family situation gradually did not get better, especially when she gradually grew up and became more and more beautiful, which attracted the peeps of many disciples.

Two months ago, her village was robbed by bandits in Huangguishan, and it was inevitable that she, a beautiful woman, would be captured back to Huangguishan.

If she looked average, it was estimated that she would be defiled on the spot, but it was because she was so beautiful that the eyes of those bandits lit up.

This is not the kind of lustful eye, but the greedy eye that sees gold and silver jewelry!

Such a beautiful woman can be sold for a lot of money, and if it's a virgin, the price is even higher.

Therefore, the bandits of Huangguishan regarded her as a strange commodity to live in, not only did not defile her body, but even offered delicious food and drink, just to buy a good price!

It's a pity that before Huang Guishan's people sold her, Huang Guishan was broken by the Tang Heavenly Soldiers, and finally this Ye clan fell into the hands of the bandits in Huangzhushan.

And beautiful women will always get special 'treatment', when Qian Mengjiu and they saw this woman, their first reaction was to send this woman to the harem.

Then Empress Dowager Bai saw that this girl was not only good-looking, but also convex and backward and suitable for childbirth, so she took her back to the palace on the same day, and then implemented her series of plans!

After the Spring Festival, it is the Lantern Festival, and after the Lantern Festival, the people of Huangzhushan basically began to prepare for spring ploughing, and this spring ploughing was busy, and it was busy until the end of February.

After a spring ploughing, the people up and down the entire Huangzhu Mountain did not relax, but became more and more nervous, because they all knew that after the spring ploughing, the day when the Ming army would enter the mountain was not far away!