Early in the morning, on the outskirts of the mountains.

As the sun gradually rose, the soldiers of the Ming army who had eaten breakfast began to line up, and finally, in this valley flat where the Ming army was temporarily stationed, several large phalanxes were assembled.

Although the soldiers inside are wearing standard military uniforms, they are in tatters, and most of these soldiers are wearing tattered, old and weak, and most of them are only skinny and boneless, if they are not all holding firearms, knives, guns, shields and other weapons, it is estimated that outsiders can directly regard them as homeless.

However, in addition to this group of soldiers who were like homeless people, there was also a group of soldiers who were obviously better dressed than those ordinary soldiers, and were well-equipped and looked better in physical fitness, there were not many soldiers, only twenty or thirty, but although these people were not in formation, they were far superior to the four hundred people composed of four hundred households in terms of momentum.

At this moment, in front of these hundreds of soldiers, Su Jiakang, the county lord of Zhengtai County, said with a satisfied look: "Zeng Qianhu has trained his troops well, and your Qianhu is worthy of the four words of an elite division!" ”

The young military general who was walking beside Su Jiakang immediately smiled and said: "Lord Su has praised it falsely, hundreds of soldiers in this district of the lower officials can enter the eyes of Lord Su!" ”

He was so humble, and even called himself an official, but Su Jiakang on the side showed a smile at the same time, and his eyes were full of contempt when he occasionally looked at this young general.

He Su Jiakang studied hard for decades before he was admitted to the Jinshi, and he was the county commander of the seventh grade for many years, but the Zeng Ziyun in front of him was only double ten, and he was not as old as his son, but he had already inherited his father's position of a thousand households and became a thousand households of the fifth grade, which was higher than his grade.

However, the military attache grade began to be worthless a hundred years ago, since the change of the civil fort a hundred years ago, the civil and military pattern has changed greatly, and later because the world has been peaceful for a long time, resulting in a phenomenon that will appear in the middle and late stages of any feudal dynasty, that is, heavy literature and light martial arts!

Nowadays, any seventh-grade civil official who was born as an orthodox jinshi can beat a third-grade guard commander, not to mention that the Zeng Ziwen in front of him is just a fifth-grade thousand-rank household.

Of course, Su Jiakang's contempt for Zeng Ziyun is not simply a noble and martial artist, but as an orthodox scholar, Su Jiakang despises this kind of person who has no fart skills and relies on inheritance to get up, especially this kind of person is still a vulgar general.

However, this time to attack Huangzhu Mountain, he had to rely on the thousand households under Zeng Ziyun in front of him, so although Su Jiakang secretly despised this person in his heart, he still did not show his contempt for him, and only occasionally couldn't help but show a trace of it.

Xing also knew that he was a little eye-catching in front of Su Jiakang, Zeng Ziyun Qianhu quickly said goodbye to Su Jiakang, and then reorganized his people and prepared to set off.

On the side, Su Jiakang stood on the side with his master and a few dog-legged people, watching Zeng Ziyun arrange people and horses to prepare for departure, and looking at the soldiers in front of him, Su Jiakang frowned slightly.

The officers and soldiers of Zeng Ziyun's Thousand Households, except for his twenty or thirty personal soldiers, the rest are estimated to be not much stronger than the county Yong he gathered some time ago.

At this time, Master Sun stepped forward and said: "My lord, it is less than fifty miles away from Jiguan Mountain now, and we will be able to reach Jiguan Mountain in two days, and when we arrive, we will cooperate with that person to take Jiguan Mountain, and then he can take us directly to Huangzhu Mountain!" ”

Su Jiakang said: "Is that person reliable? ”

Master Sun said: "Although these people from Jiguan Mountain are from bandits, but as soon as that person heard that you recruited him and promised him the position of a hundred households, he had a reason for reluctance.

Also, although he doesn't know the specific location of Huangzhu Mountain, but the general location is still known, when we get to the vicinity, we will find it for two days at most, and we will definitely be able to find out Huangzhu Mountain! ”

"That's good!" Su Jiakang nodded: "If you can successfully exterminate the puppet Tang and capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan this time, you will be indispensable for your credit!" ”

Before Master Sun could answer, Luo Mazi on the side said with a smile: "The wisdom and generosity of the adults, the little ones all know, the little ones wish the adults success, capture Li Xuan alive, add officials to the knighthood, and then the little ones will also receive rewards from the adults!" ”

Luo Mazi's timely praise made Su Jiakang show a satisfied expression.

On the side, Master Sun looked at Luo Mazi with dissatisfaction, but after Luo Mazi saw his eyes, the corners of his mouth jumped, and he returned a disdainful smile.

Speaking of giving advice, I, Luo Mazi, am naturally inferior to you, a master with a belly of intrigues and tricks, but when it comes to slapping horses, you can't compare to me in the next life!

How can a great skill like a sycophant, which has super high requirements for talent and understanding, be mastered by a vulgar person like your surname Sun?

As the sun gradually rose, this large group of officers and men, under the shouting and urging of commanders at all levels, began to slowly move deeper into the mountains.

At the same time, at the foot of the Cockscomb Mountain, which was fifty miles away from them, Fang Dongquan and the others also began to evacuate from the foot of the Cockscomb Mountain with their people.

Their evacuation is much simpler and faster than those officers and soldiers, although they claim to be the Tang Dynasty king, but in fact they are still a group of bandits, although these bandits do not have a fixed rules for fighting and marching, but they don't have too many scruples.

Carrying weapons and carrying burdens, you can immediately come to a robbery that you can say and go, not at all like those petty bourgeoisie in later generations, saying that they are going to have a trip that they say they want to go, but they are checking the strategy every day and making various preparations, and they can't wait to calculate how many steps they have to take on the road clearly, and it will take a few months before they embark on the journey with a large bag and a small bag, like moving.

How can these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain be free and easy!

A knife, a bag of dry food, and you can wander the world in no time!

After watching Fang Dongquan and them evacuate from Cockscomb Mountain, on Cockscomb Mountain, the faces of the three or four bandit leaders of Cockscomb Mountain were different, and three of them all showed relieved expressions.

But only a middle-aged man about forty years old showed a trace of melancholy that should not be there at this time.

After putting away the gloom on his face, he turned to speak: "Why did these Huangzhushan people retreat? Yesterday they were still shouting to come in, why did they run away in one night? ”

Immediately, a young strong man with big shoulders and a round waist, taller than Butcher Chen, and a muscular body, said: "I said Lao Chen, it's a good thing that they're gone, and the guys in Huangzhushan are all crazy people, and they are also called emperors, who knows what they think!" ”

Then there was another humanitarian: "I think, something must have happened to them, maybe it is the officers and soldiers who are going to encircle and suppress them!" ”

"Officers and soldiers?" At this time, Lao Chen's face was melancholy again, but after the gloom, he showed ecstasy: The one surnamed Sun didn't lie to Lao Tzu, they really came!