"The villagers of Saga Township, do you know that your little guy is an official soldier?"

"Yes, I know, my little guy also brought the 'Tou Shun Form' printed by the imperial court, but the villager has been serving Cai thieves for a long time, and they don't take this situation in their eyes at all, not only tied up the little guy, but also reported to other Cai thieves, guiding Cai thieves to brutally kill them." The more Wang Pei spoke, the more angry he became.

Gao Yue said: "Before the battle, the Holy Lord emphasized many times not to kill and injure the Cai people at every turn, and to love like a child, so there is this surrender state, if the villagers of Saga Township even refuse it, then we have no way to maneuver." ”

So Gao Yue immediately issued the prime minister's court sentence: "Wang Pei, you lead fifty cavalrymen to surround and burn all the farmhouses in Xiping Saga, as for the villagers, they have been through Cai Kou for a long time, and they don't want to surrender, but kill my scouts, and it is necessary to execute them all." ”

In normal times, Saga Township is still full of silence, only the chief carries a lantern, a little restless, to the village stable is to look and see: in the long house inside, there are all kinds of goods, there are tea skewers, cloth, clothes, there are armor and staffs, etc., their township and many other villages in Caizhou, and Caizhou indigenous military groups have close contacts: mountain sheds and river thieves loot in Deng Xiangru, Eyue Qihuang or Chen Xu, Shoulu, sometimes Caizhou regular troops go into battle to plunder, extortion, The property obtained was sold by Shen Guangcai's townships, and everyone's interests were equal, so many townships became the eyes and ears of the Huaixi Army.

Before, Saga Township led Cai Bing to kill two teenage officers and soldiers, the reason is this, the villagers thought that these two were here to investigate the situation on all sides, scouts, and spies, so they quickly told Cai Bing in the nearby fence.

Then the situation: the little guy was tied with his backhand, trampled on the ground, let Cai Bing lift the stone, and the skull was smashed to pieces, and then the body was dragged by several mules and thrown on the road.

For this purpose, Saga Township got 20 pieces of cloth, which was about 30 pieces of reward.

When Yuncheng fell, the lieutenant chief was quite afraid, so he summoned the men in each village to discuss, whether to abandon the field house and run to Fangcheng Mountain? But most of the men didn't care: the scout was killed by Cai Bing, what do we have to do? Besides, this official army and Cai Bing, for so many years, have been killing and killing, and you have sung and I have appeared on the stage, and no one has held us accountable.

Since it was Saga, the township was in a state of confusion, and it continued to calm down without caring about itself.

But this time, Gao Yue instructed Wang Pei: Cai Ren, Cai Bing, Cai Thief, and Cai Kou are often two sides of the same coin, so the disposal plan is no better than Shenzhou and Gwangju, since they owe the blood debt of the imperial court officials and soldiers, we have to let them pay for it in blood.

"Bang", the lantern carried by the chief suddenly fell to the ground, and the firelight reflected all kinds of goods in the longhouse, and quickly shook, and then sank into the darkness again, and the chief himself was so shocked that he took two steps back, and almost collapsed.

He could clearly hear the sound of horses' hooves and neighing on the roads in the countryside, and it was getting closer and closer, and it was getting more and more urgent!

The lieutenant got up, hurriedly pushed the door open, and then went straight to the ridge.

At this moment, it was the middle of winter, and there were a few bright stars on the dark sky, and the undulating hills like ink lines suddenly rose to the point of fire, and then the figures of several lines of cavalry stood in front of the chief in a blink of an eye.

Looking down from the eyes of the cavalry of the Chungmu Army, the fields, houses, earthen cages, silkworm sheds, stables, and woodlands of Saga Township are covered with speckled snow, which is clear under the starlight.

Wang Pei raised his arm, drew his sword out of the sheath, "Encircle, kill!" ”

Then dozens of cavalrymen of the loyal army scattered, holding torches and various weapons, and the horse's hooves raised bursts of smoke in the fields after the wheat harvest, like a blade, splitting the entire township boundary.

Torches were thrown and jumped and tumbled on the walls and thatch of the houses......

The villagers who had just come out of the door screamed and were stabbed by the fork and lance......

Those who tried to run along the fields into the mountains were shot in the back by sharp arrows not far away, and fell to their deaths by the ravines and canals, or under the hooves of horses tumbling and trampling......

In the morning, the whole of Sagaxiang was destroyed, and under the light of the fire, the houses where the villagers had lived for generations were burned to rubble, and the fields and roads were full of the corpses of the slain villagers, both old and young, and Wang Pei's cavalry swirled in twos and threes, holding sharp and narrow horse lances, searching for survivors.

A full township, with a total of 97 households and 531 mouths, was surrounded and slaughtered by iron-blooded, ruthless and efficient cavalry, and not even ten people ran out.

Soon, when the sky over Saga Township was full of black and dreary crows, a group of officers and soldiers came from the direction of Yuncheng, erected a wooden plaque on the township road, and asked the people of the entire Xiping County and all townships and villages to send their own lieutenants to the city to lead the Shun and the Bad Book, which was the last opportunity to become the imperial court to organize the households, otherwise, it would be regarded as Cai Kou to deal with.

As a result, dozens of townships in the three counties around Yuncheng were all frightened, and the chief took the documents of the whole village and lined up in the official and military camps to kneel, only to promise.

Gao Yue not only asked them to contribute grain and money, but also asked each household to help the officers and soldiers dredge the river and transport grain, and also asked them to:

"Since then, Shen Guangcai and the people of the surrounding states are not allowed to enter the mountains and make tents, and they are not allowed to enter the water as robbers;

Each township implements the armor protection system, one person passes Cai Kou, the whole village sits together, one person does not report Cai Kou's movements, and the whole village also sits together;

The official army now occupies Yuncheng, Xiping, Xincai and other counties, as well as Shenguang Erzhou, and destroys all the fences previously set up by the Huaining army, of which Shenzhou and Anzhou are presided over by Yan Zhen, the envoy of the Wuchang army, and Guangzhou Gaoyue sent Yang Yuanqing to do the trick;

Since then, Shen Guangcai, each family is not allowed to hide the staff privately, those who dare to hide the staff will not be forgiven, all the staff ordered within 20 days, from the chief to gather and send to Yuncheng, and then by the ship to transport Shouchun City back to the furnace for smelting, for the official army of the staff firearms. ”

After January, Gao Yue and Du Huangsheng's official army advanced and moved their camp to Huiqu, and the soldiers and horses of Fan Xichao also came to rendezvous.

Yu Di has stationed troops in Wufang;

Yan Zhen and other armies on the southern front arrived at Zhenyang, among which Xu Si, Su Pu and Li Yu captured the Wengang Gate in the south of Runan, completely cutting off Rushui.

The encirclement network has shrunk further, and now Wu Shaocheng owns the land, and there is really only the lonely city of Runan.

Previously, Wu Shaocheng and Li Yuanping, who escaped, had just arrived at Xingqiaozha and really encountered the forward cavalry of Fan Xichao, but fortunately, Wu was still calm, and ordered Qi Shiliang, the town general of Xingqiaozha, to repel Fan Xichao's cavalry, and then hurriedly escaped into Runan City.

At the goose and duck pond in the north of the city, Wu Shaoyang, who returned to Runan one step earlier, led five hundred cavalry to greet him.

Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang got off the horse, hugged their heads and cried, "My brothers almost don't see each other." ”

"After returning to the city before, Shaoyang was worried about his brother all the time, and now that his brother has returned safely, Shaoyang is finally relieved!"

Wu Shaocheng didn't notice that when Wu Shaoyang said this, he stared at his strange eyes, but choked up and asked: How many soldiers and horses are there in the city?

Wu Shaoyang replied that there were still 10,000 people, and the city was strong and tall, which was enough for Brother to hold on for a long time.

"Defend to the end, defend to the end." Wu Shaocheng said, "As long as I can hold on for a few months, Wei Bo and Ziqing will not sit idly by and watch me perish, because the rabbit dies ......and the fox is sad."