"That's it! Although we are not afraid, it does not mean that we do not pay attention to the officers and soldiers who came this time! After all, there are a large number of officers and soldiers this time, and for our Xingtian Army, it is also the most serious test we have faced since we became an army!

Once the quantity reaches a certain scale, it can undergo qualitative changes, so quantity is also an advantage that cannot be ignored! This time, the officers and soldiers want to crush us with their absolute superiority! So we can't afford not to pay attention to it!

Through the analysis of the news received, the officers and troops have attacked us this time, because the food and salary are insufficient, and the officers and troops have moved too much, so the possibility of launching a year ago is not very large, and many officers and troops who have been transferred need to rush to their assembly points from all over the country have not yet finally completed the assembly, so even if they completed the assembly a year ago, with the style of the officers and soldiers, they will not do it during the festival! In this way, according to speculation, the most likely time for the officers and soldiers to do it is around the Shangyuan Festival, so we still have nearly a month to prepare, and we should have already prepared when they do it!

This time, Shanxi has mobilized a large number of officers and troops south of Jinzhong, assembled at the intersection of Fushan and Jiangxian County, and also assembled in the area around Lu'anfu, and led by Wang Dingguo, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and Hu Dawei, the general of the staff, to prepare to attack us from the two fronts of Qinshui and Zezhou.

Hong Chengchou sent his generals, He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, to each command 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers and horses, and Chen soldiers were in the vicinity of Wenxi County and Jiangxian County, intending to attack us separately from Yuanqu and Yangchengxi.

In this way, it is very unfavorable for our situation, and if we still want to break them down like last time, it is estimated that it will be difficult, so this time we will focus on defense, supplemented by offense!

Although our strength is far inferior to that of the official army, we also have our advantages, this time we can say that we are fighting on the ground, but the official army has become a long-distance attack, and the area under our control is basically mountainous, although the official army has a lot of troops, but it is not easy to carry out.

At the same time, the vast majority of the people in our jurisdiction are with us, there is a saying in the world, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, the government has long lost their status in the hearts of the people, and the people have long regarded them as enemies, so as long as the officials and soldiers enter our territory, the people are not willing to follow them to deal with us!

In this way, it has created a lot of opportunities for us, so we will not be at a disadvantage in this battle because of the disparity in strength between the two sides!

After I discussed with Mr. Fu and Feng Gouzi, we have now formulated a battle plan, I order! Xiao Tianjian said as he pointed out the location of the officers and soldiers on the sand table with his baton, and the route of their attack, and finally put away the baton and shouted.

The generals followed Xiao Tianjian, looked at the sand table, and when they heard Xiao Tianjian say my order, the generals immediately tensed their bodies, stood up straight, and shouted: "I am willing to listen to the general's orders!" ”

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This pre-war mobilization meeting was carried out for a short time, and in less than an hour, Xiao Tianjian finished arranging it, announced its disbandment, and the generals led the troops violently.

Soon, in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, batches of messengers with orders went to various places to spread Xiao Tianjian's orders to various places.

All the places under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army were also immediately busy under the leadership of the chief security chief, the chief of security and others, and a township army organized the common people from all over the country to begin to move towards the mountains, looking for caves or leeward hiding places, building underground nests to live, leaving their original residences as much as possible, and bringing all the food and soft things that could be brought with them, and those who could not be taken away found a place to dig a pit and bury them on the spot, and even the door panels of the doors were removed and a place to be buried. Not even a grain of grain was left for the officers and soldiers.

Many people from all over the country are not very happy about this transfer, especially some old people, who are unwilling to give up their homes where they have lived for a long time, and refuse to leave their villages for a long time, and the security chiefs repeatedly do their work, persuade them to leave, and make it clear that after the officers and soldiers come this time, they will definitely burn and loot the people, hoping that they will take care of their own lives and hide in the mountains with others for a while, and then return to their homes after the war, if the house is burned by the officials and soldiers, It can be rebuilt later, but if people are killed, there will be nothing.

But even with this persuasion, some stubborn old people still refused to leave, so the chief had to give up on them, left them a small amount of food, took the villagers to avoid the mountains, and led the villagers to guard the key roads in the mountains to protect the people hiding in the mountains.

But most of the people still obeyed the arrangements of the security chiefs, after all, in addition to some of the food they just shared, basically the vast majority of them are all family walls, nothing valuable at all, and they also know the brutality of the official army, like this, the official army will definitely burn and loot them, just like the popular saying at this time, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, officials are shaved, once the officers and soldiers are over, they estimate that they can't even keep their lives, and now they have a security chief, to command them to go into the mountains to hide, Therefore, they were very willing to cooperate with the action, and they packed up the soft grains and pots and pans, and followed the chief to avoid the mountains.

Many villages in Yangcheng, Yuanqu, Qinshui, Zezhou and other places basically had ten rooms and nine empty rooms on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, and they were almost gone, leaving only some old people who were extremely stubborn and did not leave their villages, but still stuck to their villages.

In the area under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, which was still lively because of the division of land, in just a few days, it fell silent and became lifeless, and it can almost be said that it has reached the level of extinction of the people of Wanjing, only at the junction with the territory controlled by the government, there are still some township soldiers of the Xingtian Army patrolling to prevent the government from entering the area controlled by the Xingtian Army in large numbers.

Even the lively Dongye Town this year has begun to be deserted, the smelted iron has been all transferred to the mountains and hidden, all kinds of tools and bellows and other things that can be disassembled and transferred, but also under the command of Fang Dashan, who has been promoted to the town guard of Dongye Town, was dismantled and transferred to the mountains with carts to hide, and then the iron furnaces in the entire Dongye Town were extinguished and silenced, and several important large iron furnaces were even buried by the furnace workers in the town with cinders or ore and coalAfter these things were done, everyone in the town evacuated Dongye Town.

Including the local people in Yangcheng County, they also took away their grain, and put it into the cellar to hide what they couldn't take away.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian did this is because their Xingtian Army has broken away from the category of the mobile fighting exile army, and has become an army with a fixed base, this time the troops mobilized by the government have exceeded their ability to resist them outside the control area of the Xingtian Army, and they can't be like other rebels, they can't fight and leave, this is the foundation for them to gain a foothold in the future, they will never give up here and the people here, so since this time they can't stop the large number of officials and soldiers from attacking, Then they can only reduce their losses as much as possible, evacuate the people to the mountains to take refuge, and give the officers and soldiers a strong wall to clear the field, so that after entering the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, they cannot rely on looting to get supplies on the spot, although the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army is not large, there are only three counties and more territory, but this area is densely forested, and the area is not small, if the strong wall is cleared, at least there is a radius of more than 100 miles, as long as the officers and soldiers come in, they can only rely on their rear to provide them with support.

Although Yangcheng County is still nominally controlled by the government, it has already become an enclave, and the people in the city can only hide in the city all day long, not daring to step out of the county seat half a step, so that after half a year, the people in Yangcheng County have almost run away, and even some rich people have to give up their property in the county in order to survive, and drag their families to flee from the boundary of Yangcheng, so that the entire Yangcheng County has almost become a dead city within half a year, with only less than 2,000 people left, if it were not for the Xingtianjun allowing the people in the city to take money out to buy grainIt is estimated that in the past six months, the people of Yangcheng County will starve to death.

Poor county magistrate Wang Jinsong and other officials in the city, the life in the city in the past half a year can be said to be worse than death, the original days of big fish and big meat are gone, it would be good to be able to eat three meals a day, and they have to be afraid that the Xingtian army will attack the county seat all day long, and they will take their dogs' lives, although the second time the official army attacked Yangcheng brought them a glimmer of hope, but because there are people from the Xingtian Army outside the city who are staring at Yangcheng County, they can only lie dry in Yangcheng County and wait for the officials and soldiers to come, But he didn't dare to act rashly.

But the result they waited for was extremely disappointing to them, and the second official army attack ended in the defeat of the official army, and they still had to live their life like trapped beasts in Yangcheng County.

Although they also ordered not to open the city gates, but because of the lack of food in the city, the common people could not make a living, and in the end, even the recruited Xiangyong and the limited garrison almost mutinied in order to eat, so they hurriedly opened the door and released the hungry people in the city.

And Xiao Tianjian did not take the county seat of Yangcheng County, but also because he did not want to touch the nerves of the imperial court excessively, he wanted land and population, and he was not interested in the gains and losses of a county seat, but this time the situation was different, the official army was determined to destroy the Xingtian Army this time, if this Yangcheng County seat was kept, then once the official army arrived here, Yangcheng County would become an important base for them to advance and rest.

So when all parts of the Xingtian Army began to retreat, Xiao Tianjian organized a large number of township soldiers in Yangcheng and drove to the county seat of Yangcheng County with a large number of people.