Tian Hu's brows immediately twisted into a pimple when he heard this, and he asked Qin Sheng with a cold face: "Then do you know what the details of the people gathered on the left side of Taihang Mountain?" ”

Qin Sheng thought about it for a while and said: "Leader Tianda, the soldiers and horses near the left side of Taihang Mountain, the few people led by them are called 'Lying Mountain Tiger' Fu Xuan, 'Ghost Fox' Meng De, 'Zhang's Eight Legs' Liu Ze, and 'Iron Courage' Jiao Wentong. It is said that the original leader of the township was also impatient with the exploitation and oppression of the local government, so he simply led the villagers to gather grass and green forests and open mountains and villages.

However, although those people are also regarded as people in the green forest, they rarely look for ordinary people to raid and cut paths, they either break the Zhuangzi of the big families near Taihang Mountain, or directly attack the county seat under their rule. The green forest righteous army who boasted that it was only because they couldn't stand the anger of the officials that they gathered in the mountains and forests, but did not harm the lives of the good people. Even if the big boss has the heart to recruit, he is afraid of ......"

Qin Sheng was only halfway through his words, and then he looked up at Tian Hu's face again. After all, Tian Hu gathered all kinds of strongmen not only to rob houses, kill people and set fires, no matter what kind of court officials he is, or the old and weak women and children, he can kill them, although now they are also the most powerful group of thieves on Hedong Road, but according to Tian Hu and other strongman leaders who loot and burn everywhere without scruples, those people in Taihang Mountain may only look down on them, how can they willingly come to join Tian Hu?

Tian Hu snorted heavily when he heard this, according to his temperament, he usually dislikes those characters in the rivers and lakes who are obviously falling into the grass, but they think they are chivalrous. In the green forest to make a living, with the knife licking blood, by fighting for life in exchange for being able to live a rushing business, all fucking to do the bandit business, but to advocate that they join the green forest is to hoe the strong and help the weak, which is different from being a bitch 1 and setting up an archway?

"What a Green Forest Rebel, fucking bullshit! If the dry bird man doesn't know how to lift, he will touch my Tian Hu's moldy head! After Lao Tzu occupies several state capitals and government mansions in the east of the river, he will look for those guys to pay attention to it! ”

Tian Hu's face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "But the most important thing now is to break the city of Mianshang County, and then the knife will cut Xiao Tang's house, and it will also be the courage of the instructor army!" ”

Ji Wenbing, An Shilong, Qin Sheng, He Ren, Kou Fu and other strongman leaders who were present all received their orders when they heard this, and Tian Biao, who was beside Tian Hu, also sneered a few times, he took out the steel knife on his waist, and shouted to the nearly 10,000 thieves under Shimuro Mountain: "Little ones, have you heard clearly? Grass damn it, the gold silk and grain are all from big families, and the beautiful Peugeot girls are also from big households, but we have to scare the birds of the government and the powerful! Let's fight in the green forest, and every day we are afraid of being cut off by the officials and soldiers!

With a head on his shoulders, why can those guys live happily, but we are in danger? Fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck it! As long as the county seat of Mianshang is broken, not only the money, food and women are ours, but if Xiao Tang is killed, the forbidden army led by him will collapse like those pocketed officials and soldiers in Hedong, who can stop us at that time? When my eldest brother occupies the Hedong land and dominates, those of us who have to do big things with our heads tucked in the waistband of our trousers can be regarded as having a good life!! ”

Tian Biao raised his arms and roared, and most of the thieves in Hedong also howled after him. While they frantically responded to Tian Biao, the tyrannical and ferocious beast in their hearts also seemed to be completely provoked, this group of robbers who had already made a living by burning and looting were more like a group of bloodthirsty and man-eating beasts at this time!

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In the county seat of Mianshang, Xiao Tang came to the county government to meet with the local magistrate, and went to discuss with him to resist the Hedong thieves who might kill him at any time.

The magistrate of Mianshang County, surnamed Li, is thirty-five or sixteen years old, his face is thin, his eyes are clear, and he is also a thin figure, and his eyebrows and temperament are also like a shrewd and capable civil official. According to Xiao Tang's thoughts, there was a mutiny among the officials and troops of Mianshang County before, and these days the county is always worried that a large number of thieves will break through the city.

But Li Zhixian was only a literati after all, and he was not very proficient in the way of commanding troops and defense, and he was worried day and night that the county town was weak in manpower and could not resist a large number of thieves. Hearing that Xiao Tang, the commander of the generals and troops who led the Zhulu army to Hedong, also came to Mianshang, Li Zhixian was naturally surprised and delighted, and after talking with Xiao Tang a few words, Li Zhixian didn't care about being polite, so he got straight to the point and directly told Xiao Tang about the garrison situation in Mianshang County.

At this time, I heard Li Zhixian say: "Lord Xiao, after some rectification by the lower officials in Mianshang County, although the scoundrels and idle ruffians who took advantage of the chaos in Hedong to make trouble have been thoroughly investigated, there are only more than 100 officials and servants available in the county, even if you add the people sent by the adults, you can only see about 200 people." Moreover, not only is there limited grain storage in the county, but the moat walls are far less than those of ordinary state capitals.......

There are also two or three Zhuang towns on the south side of Mianshang's rule that have been broken by thieves, although the lower officials have the heart to rescue, the people available to his subordinates are already stretched. If it is really as Lord Xiao expected, Hedong Kou Shoutian Hu will lead a large number of thieves to attack the county seat, how can we defend it? ”

Xiao Tang lightly took a sip of the hot tea that Li Zhixian ordered the officials in the yamen, and then said: "This does not need to be feared by the county, although the county magistrate sent people to take refuge in the city first, lest they be harmed by the thieves." When the thieves come to attack the city, I will deal with the soldiers under my command.

Now the thieves in Hedong are rampant, and they also regard me, a senior member of the DPRK and the Central Committee who has passed through all kinds of official affairs in Hedong, as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and those thieves want to take my life, and I also know this kind of thought. There are still 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Tongluo County, and I am about to take advantage of the moment when the thief army comes to invade the county and attack the city, and suddenly attack the enemy's flank, which can not only protect the integrity of Mianshang County, but also greatly frustrate the spirit of the thief army! ”

"It's good to be arranged like this, but it's just ......"

Li Zhixian only thought for a moment, and then said with a worried face: "It's just that there are only two hundred people guarding the city, and the number of people is also a little less. Even if there are officers and soldiers in ambush outside, it is difficult to guarantee that the thief army will not break the city before fighting with the soldiers and horses commanded by Lord Xiao's subordinates. Why didn't Lord Xiao order the forbidden soldiers of Tonglu County, Ma Xingye, to come to the aid and guard the county seat of Mianshang together. Wouldn't it be better to be able to plan everything in this way? ”

Xiao Tang groaned slightly, and then said: "Li Zhixian, I also know that acting like this will cause some danger to Mianshang County, but I arranged it like this in order to provoke Tian Hu to lead the army to attack." There are many thieves, and they are wandering and plundering all over the east of the river, but our army is lacking in skills, and if we blindly divide our troops to garrison various places, we can only end up in an embarrassing situation of taking care of one thing and losing the other.

At present, the thieves may not know that I want to lure the snake out of the hole, and if I order the army to come to the rescue quickly, it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the thieves. At that time, if Tian Hu is unwilling to fight hard and lead the army to evacuate, then will I lead the men and horses to chase or not? After all, now the thieves are raging in the prefectures of Hedong, and the affected counties and towns are not only Mianshang County, Pingyao County, Tongqi County and a few other places...... This official is in danger, and it is precisely because he wants to use his body as bait, and strive to exterminate as many thieves as possible through this battle. In this way, more people at Dawn will not have to be forced to be displaced by bandits. ”

Li Zhixian fell silent for a while when he heard this, but after a while, he sighed: "That's it! Lord Xiao was able to risk himself in order to quell the bandits as soon as possible, although the lower officials were not talented, but they were also the great Song courtiers who ate the country! Since Lord Xiao has already made arrangements, the experience of the lower officials to assist Lord Xiao is to act, when the thieves come to attack, it is natural that the city will be there, and the city will be destroyed! ”

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Author's note: Fu Xuan, Meng De, Liu Ze, Jiao Wentong, leaders of the Lianghe Loyal and Righteous Militia. After the disgrace of Jingkang, when the Jin army invaded the Central Plains, all kinds of rebels fought against the Jin soldiers. Song general Wang Yan once led Yue Fei and other eleven generals to lead 7,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River north to recover Xinxiang, but then besieged by tens of thousands of Jin troops, because outnumbered and led the troops to break through, and then united with the Taihang Mountains Lianghe (that is, Hedong, Hebei) righteous army, insisted on resisting Jin. Fu Xuan and other leaders of the 19 villages of more than 100,000 people went to join Wang Yan, and all the soldiers stabbed the words "serve the country with their hearts and swear to kill the gold thief" to show their determination.

This anti-Jin army in the early Southern Song Dynasty originally started from the Green Forest Righteous Army, and was later transferred to the official army, because of its outstanding achievements in defeating the Jin Army many times, and because of the eight characters tattooed on the face, it was called the Eight-Character Army.......