Mo Li couldn't help but be a little amused, and said, "Guo'er, what do you have to worry about, there are so many brothers for your husband, it's okay." Besides, Peijun is just a little woman, how can she protect me. ”

"What's wrong with the woman? You dare to look down on me, right? Okay, let's do two tricks, see if I don't knock you down! Liang Peijun appeared at the right time and said with a cold face and dissatisfaction.

"Oh, I'm married to a tigress, and you're going to do it with me at every turn!" Mo Li said with a sad face on purpose.

"What's the matter? Husband, do you regret this? Why don't you give me a lay-off? Liang Peijun said with a smile.

"Don't dare, how dare I! Besides, how can I be willing to give up your wife like a flower! Mo Li said with a smile on his face.

"Hmph, you'd better not dare." Liang Peijun gave him a blank look and said.

"Lady, I know your intentions, but, aren't we going to suppress bandits, this is going to march and fight, lady, you are a woman, there are many inconveniences in the barracks, besides, there are many poor and vicious bandits, I don't want you to take risks, it's better to stay at home and wait for your husband to come back!" Moli said.

"I don't! I'm going to follow you! Liang Peijun pouted and said, "My martial arts are better than yours, what are you afraid of, and I can protect you in any situation!" ”

Mo Li thought about it, Liang Peijun is not as good as Lin Guo, she is a real master, her martial arts are much higher than Su Su, and after several actual battles, she is not lacking in experience against the enemy, and it is not impossible to take it with her, so he nodded and said: "Okay, then Peijun will go out with her husband, prepare tonight, and set off tomorrow!" ”

After breakfast the next day, Mo Li gathered his subordinates to go on the expedition, announced the destination and mission of the expedition, and made a brief speech at the pledge meeting to boost morale. Subsequently, the army marched out.

Ma Jinzhong and Cao Bianjiao set off with the forward troops as soon as dawn, because most of them were light horses and the speed was relatively fast, they were about twenty miles away at this time.

Mo Li told Du Geng, He Zhendong and others a few words, and then stepped on his black horse, rode his horse and whipped, and took Liang Peijun to follow the team, heading towards the northwest.

The meander, in ancient times, belonged to the Jin land, Moli learned along the way, the meander territory is hilly and mountainous, the terrain is more complex, the temperature is dry and cold, and in the summer it is hot and rainy.

At this time, it was the end of March, and at the turn of late spring and early summer, it seemed that it was necessary to speed up the march, rush to Hequ as soon as possible to exterminate the thieves of Wang Jiayin's department, and then ask Ying to go to Liaodong. Otherwise, in the summer, the weather will be rainy, and whether it is marching or fighting, it will be unfavorable to the army of bandits.

First, after all, the bandit army is not familiar with the terrain of the river meander, and Wang Jiayin's department has been entrenched here for a long time, so it is naturally much more familiar than Moli's department, which is a disadvantage in terms of terrain.

Second, most of the weapons used by the soldiers of the Moli Division were firearms such as flintlock pistols or arquebuses, and whether they were arquebuses or flintlock pistols, they would be affected by the rain and would not be conducive to firing, so they would not be able to give full play to the advantages of the advanced weapons of the Mobu Division, and they might even fall into a desperate situation.

Lingchuan is about three or four hundred miles away from the river meander, and the traffic conditions in Shanxi and other places in this era are extremely backward, and the army is tired of grain and grass baggage, etc., and the march is slow, and it is already the limit to be able to travel 50 miles a day. In this way, it would take at least seven days for the army to reach the meander.

On the evening of the fifth day, the army marched to the boundary of Shouyang County, Taiyuan Prefecture, and Ma Jinzhong sent a warning, saying that it seemed that there were traces of Wang Jiayin's bandit activities in the front, and reminded the army to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack.

Mo Li immediately ordered the whole army to be vigilant, and sent rangers to spy on the enemy in batches. This time, the army will be on a large scale, Wang Jiayin will definitely get the news, and then it is possible to send people to attack and disturb the march of the army.

The night was uneventful.

On the sixth day, Cao Bianjiao's troops were ambushed by Wang Jiayin's subordinate Wang Ziyong in Niujia Village, Shatao Town, Shouyang County, and the two sides fought fiercely.

Cao Bianjiao led 3,000 cavalry to open the way, Ma Jinzhong led 5,000 men and horses to respond later, after receiving the news that Cao Bianjiao was ambushed, Ma Jinzhong immediately ordered people to report to Moli, and led his troops to help Cao Bianjiao.

The one who ambushed Cao Bianjiao was Luo Rucai, a general under Wang Ziyong. Luo Rucai has always been cunning and resourceful, calling himself Cao Cao, and he is a righteous person, but he also likes to be capricious.

Luo Rucai's personality is more complex and diverse, not only has the side of fighting righteousness and squandering wealth and punishing corrupt officials, but also has the side of righteousness and respect for clean officials. It is said that once the leader of a volunteer army under his command avenged someone, captured the city, and killed the family of the honest official, so angry that Luo Rucai divided the leader's five horses.

Luo Rucai is full of strategy, has always been very popular, and has a lot of appeal among the thieves, and it is he who suggested that Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayin and other righteous troops unite to fight against the officers and soldiers, which caused a vigorous wave of peasant uprisings in Shaanxi and Shanxi. In the future, the peasant rebel army repeatedly united many times, and most of them came from Luo Rucai's lobbying and running.

But Luo Rucai also has an Achilles' heel, that is, greedy for money and lustful, especially for women, because Luo Rucai has been poor since he was a child and can't marry a daughter-in-law, Luo Rucai can often get all kinds of beauties in looting after the rebellion, it is said that there are no less than 100 beauties around him, all of them are like flowers and jade, which is the reason why Luo Rucai likes to be a thief.

Robbing the rich and helping the poor and doing the right thing for heaven is just a slogan, and it is good to be able to protect yourself. They are all rabble, they don't give in to each other, they don't save each other when they lose, and they get together just to rob their homes and houses, and they have no other purpose.

However, after hearing the news that the imperial court had sent nearly 30,000 troops to suppress Wang Jiayin and other rebel armies, Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others all felt that they were both prosperous and lossy, and their lips were cold, so at this time, the rebel armies in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places felt that they had formed allies for joint operations.

Several peasant rebel armies, such as Yichuan Wang Zuojiao, Anzhai Gao Yingxiang, Luochuan Zhang Cunmeng, Yanchuan Wang Monk, and Hannan Wang Daliang, responded one after another, and jointly elected Wang Jiayin as the leader, and unified the command of all armies to fight against the officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

At this time, the number of thieves under Luo Rucai's subordinates was only seven or eight thousand, and at this time, they all came out of the nest, and laid an ambush in the woods under the slope of a mountain called Luoying Cliff somewhere in Niujia Village, Shatao Town, waiting for the officers and soldiers to pass by, and then killed from both sides after entering the ambush circle.

At this time, it was evening, the ancient trees in the woods covered the sky, the light was dim, only to see hundreds of thieves armed with knives, guns, clubs, bows and arrows and other weapons suddenly launched an attack, first a round of bows and arrows volley, only to see the sky of feather arrows from both sides of the whizzing out, at the same time on both sides of the high rolling down a lot of large stones and logs and other objects.

The soldiers who were walking in front on horseback were caught off guard, and were immediately shot dead and injured several times, Cao Bianjiao saw this and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, be careful! Let's build a defensive position on the spot and carry out a counterattack! ”