However, in the territory of Suzhou, on the side of the whirlpool that was the front line of Huaishang's preparation for the enemy, the soldiers of the Tianping Army headed by Cao Quanhui were greeted by empty camps and few figures.

"Where are the soldiers and horses of Pinglu and all the Dao, where have all the commanders gone, what about Qi Dutong, why are there only you people."

Looking at these thousands of soldiers who were included in the military village, obviously belonging to the old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as those unkempt and unclothed people, Cao Quanyang only felt that the sky had fallen.

He immediately sent people to search for seven camps in a row, and only then did he find a drunken left-behind servant in a corner.

"Cao Jie is a step late, wow, the Taining army of Qi Dutong has been fighting with the thieves for several days, and each has its own victory or defeat. There are also the Pinglu Army in Qingzhou, the Reform Army in Yuzhou, the Xuanwu Army in Bianzhou, and the Yicheng Army in Huazhou to come to the aid one after another; ”

After the other party was awakened, he quickly knelt on the ground and responded.

"Under the five-way joint attack, the thieves were greatly depressed for a while, and they did not dare to fight again when they withdrew more than ten miles, so they were detained for more than ten miles in the joint venture of the village. However.. However, "

"And yet, what's the matter..."

The vanguard soldier and horse envoy and the capital Yu waited for Cao Xiang, and couldn't help but step forward and hold the other party's arm and asked repeatedly.

"Just the day before yesterday, there was a sudden emergency report, the Tianxiong Army (Wei Bojie Du Envoy) and the Cheng German Army (Heng Ji Jie Du Envoy) sent troops across the river, claiming to use Dao Qing and Yan to suppress thieves for the imperial court;"

The man was frightened by this and confided:

"It was Marshal An (Shi Ru) who led the Qingzhou Army to pull out the camp overnight. Then, Qi Dutong also led his troops to retreat due to the uproar under his command; The remaining four towns competed for the long and could not obey each other, so they also returned to their own towns. Only now, there are some remaining retreating Sizhou military headquarters, and they have not yet fled. ”

"An Shiru and Qi Ke let this guy really hurt my generation. Father, we can't stay here any longer, and we have to go back to Bingyunzhou. In case the two thieves in Hebei want to go east. ”

Cao Xiang immediately shouted angrily, and then said to Cao Quanyang.

At the same time, the thieves on the other side of the river moved, obviously feeling the movement of the official army, and attacked with a reflex.

"Don't stop, don't go into camp, we'll just let it go like this, and we're flanking the thieves from the side. Da Lang, you can take the lead. ”

Cao Quanxi immediately said to his eldest son Cao Xiang.

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A few miles away on the other side of the river, in the main formation of the rebels who had just moved over. A dusty general, half-kneeling on the ground, bowed:

"Report to the Yellow King, there seems to be an ambush for the officers and troops on the other side,"

"The three formations of the army that crossed the river were defeated and scattered."

"You can see it clearly. Is it the banner of which people?。。 ”

Shang Rang, the deputy chief manager on the side, asked impatiently

"But it's the Cao Ziqi of the Tianping Army."

The man hurriedly answered.

"It's actually that Cao Lao'er, this is really good, the old enemies and old enemies have been sent to you."

Shang rang out with hatred.

"But what do you say about the defeat of the former army."

Then there was the Tao of Dutong Gaihong who was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter, now that the army is officially strong and strong, even if he defeats a few formations of men and horses; In addition to the headquarters of the military government, I still have five armies and seven wings here, and more than a dozen formations of nearly 200,000 troops, so it is good for him to kill them. ”

Huang Chao was not angry but laughed.

"Since the other party's words count, so that the officials and soldiers of several towns have retreated without a fight, with a mere Tianping army, what else do you want to do to turn the world upside down, first let those newly recruited troops and the attached Tutuan, the town and the like come forward and set up a formation to meet the attack;"

"Lao Shang, Gai Lao, you each command your own team, responsible for the queen and the formation. I will send out the former army horse team of my own formation to be responsible for containment and support; Why do you have revenge today, revenge, revenge, so don't let this old thief get away. ”

You must know that since he conquered Jiangdong and Huainan, now the men and horses under his command, the sky-high general, can be said to have changed shotguns for guns, and they have become more and more elite and well-fed, and their plastic surgery has flourished;

Not to mention other things, just the food and materials for the army's own use are enough to support the consumption for several years; Not to mention the grain and materials that the leaders of the rebel army had intercepted and collected in their hands.

Therefore, after crossing the Huai, it was necessary to not plunder much along the way, but to maintain a decent military discipline, and sometimes to distribute some money to the people and the people, but to recruit and coerce some young men on the spot to expand the army. Therefore, for a while, "the poor and the sick" and "the cloud followers are numerous".

However, he couldn't help but think of the cheap son-in-law, the monk Zhou who claimed to be the Taiping Army; It can be said that the rebel army can have the current situation, which has a great relationship and influence with it. At least at the moment, many of the systems, strategies, and regulations of the Great General's Mansion were derived from him.

It's a pity that the world still makes people inevitably have to part ways. is like the disagreement between Wang Xianzhi, the general who was bent on recruiting peace and himself on the way to the righteous army; If not, with the help of his subordinates, he can avoid many worries about transportation and supply.

Despite this, after he made up his mind to unify his mind and lead his troops north, he still did not send anyone to take the initiative to repair or bridge with him; Because he seemed to see himself in the other party, the shadow and traces of himself who was once relatively young;

You must know that when he divided his troops from Wang Xianzhi, he was only 6,000 people. There are even other rebel leaders who have fled from several ways, such as Liu Yanzhang, who occupies Jiangzhou and claims to be the assassin, who claims to have 20,000 horses and horses.

And now he is sitting on tens of thousands of horses, and occupying many cities inside and outside the mountains, and people have to be afraid and wary of a strong force. Although he has been getting a steady stream of benefits from the other party, Huang Chao does not want to be easily controlled by others.

This trip to the north is not or does not mean to get rid of its influence and infiltration; Although they are all under the banner of the righteous army, the interests of who is in charge and who are subordinate are not allowed to be compromised or compromised in the slightest.

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In Pingxiang County, which is adjacent to Tanzhou in Yuanzhou, and outside the Taipingtun Wai in Luxi Township. Groups of fierce men with knives and guns were also staring at the wooden doors that were gradually revealing many holes under the many axes.

As their leader, more than a dozen squires and powerful people who were relatively decent and well-protected also gritted their teeth and talked one after another.

"You don't know, what the people who escaped in were eating, so thick that the chopsticks couldn't reach it."

"As long as you are willing to work hard, you will have two big handfuls and a large salt cabbage for every meal."

"It is said that the Zhuangzi purchased by these thieves are all fat and very solid."

"All the families have to eat three meals a day, and the meal is rice and wheat for dry food, and it is accompanied by a large pot of vegetables and soup cooked in agricultural sauce."

"Every family raises pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, as well as rabbits and dogs with surplus food.

"Every night, I have to gather in the ancestral hall where the lights are lit to listen to lectures and learn words."

"When we are busy at night, everyone still has chicken eggs and wine to eat."

"How can this be reasonable, these poor sticks and mud legs who kill thousands of knives are more useful than the old men."

"And rest assured, when you break the fence and slaughter these poor sticks, won't you eat wherever you want, sleep wherever you want, why don't you come back on a good day."

"If it weren't for those peace thieves, why would we have lost our family business and hid in the mountains, and joined those barbarians, mountain people, and bandits. This time, I was finally able to raise my eyebrows and get all of them back.。。 ”

And behind the earthen fence separated by a wall. Holding the knife used to cut rice, Deng Pimple, who was squatting behind the wooden fence, was restless and looked at the barbarian wife who was holding the half-grown pig not far away from time to time.

Although he was brought back by a village that had been raided and robbed, and he couldn't even speak Chinese, he was all he has to live now. Because she not only endures hardships and stands hard work, she can do everything such as plowing the fields, cutting rice, feeding pigs and chickens, but also giving him a child, and she also has the hope of passing on the family in the future.

I still remember the first time she saw the brown rice in her hand according to the work in Zhuangzi, holding it and crying like a child, and muttering to him non-stop. To tell the truth, when he first tasted rice without any bran in the canteen where he worked in the collective, he couldn't be better than her.

Immediately, a large and large moist grain leaked out, and tears flowed down his face and he couldn't cry; Because he remembered the family he once owned, his father and mother who only wanted to be able to taste food before he died of illness and starvation, and his younger siblings who gradually lost their breath in his arms, and their hands and feet were as thin as firewood poles.

Then the small family formed by the two, in this kind of language barrier comparison, in the long night of mutual comfort, slowly added more things, raised piglets, chickens and ducks, and had more hope after always being able to eat half full.

At this time, the wood-fired door, which had been cut with many holes, finally cracked open unbearably; The thieves who had been shouting and screaming outside the fence for a long time finally appeared in the fence with the smoke and dust, and there were even some familiar faces in the past.

It's just that at this moment, the neighbors who are usually kind and kind, as if they are possessed by evil ghosts, are full of resentment, hatred, disgust and other expressions, which makes the description distorted and hideous.

It was only when they ran a few steps before they screamed and rolled around with their feet in a ball, but the ground was hastily covered with sharp and fine bamboo sticks; At this time, Xu Dumu, who was in charge of training everyone in Zhuangzi, also stood up and roared angrily and slashed at the thieves who were struggling all over the ground.

"If it's a man, follow me."

However, before he could run a few steps, Deng Pimple suddenly fell limp and knelt on the ground, no matter how many people who rushed to soak around him called, he couldn't stand up for a while, and his courage seemed to be leaking out of his body all of a sudden.

No matter how much truth he usually heard, he could only watch these men in the Zhuangzi fight and tear apart with the thieves, and the screams and roars were endless. And he could only kneel on the ground without arguing, and let out a meaningless roar of self-pity.

At this time, he suddenly heard a familiar scream, but it was his brute wife who was dragging the piglet's legs and feet with a thief who climbed the wall to enter; This is the meat of her heart that she has fed since she was a child, and she also gave it the name "Hua Luoluo", so no matter how the other party threatens and scolds, she refuses to let go.

Then he was put on his stomach by the ragged man and curled up like a shrimp, but his hand was still holding on to the hind legs of the piglet, and he was dragged to the ground; At this moment, Deng Pimple's blood rushed and his eyes were red, this was his last hope after the death of his whole family.

Suddenly he jumped up, knocked the thief to the ground like a gust of wind, and rolled into a ball with all his might. When Deng Pimple got up again in the panic of the woman, a knife had already been inserted into the other party's neck, and blood splashed out like a spring.

Then in the woman's gesture, more heads appeared on the circumference; At this moment, Deng Pimple seemed to have fallen off some burden, and grabbed a bamboo rod with his hand, and stabbed it in front of him.

I don't know how long later, looking at the sparse figures who left many corpses and wounded people outside the enclosure, and under the chase and cutting down led by the leading captain Xu Dumu, all kinds of hasty escape; Deng Pimple, who was covered in blood and mud, couldn't help but cry with the woman.

However, before they could rejoice for long, they saw Xu Dumu and his party who were hurriedly retreating in front of them, and a large group of thieves rushed behind them; I saw them like a full stream, emerging from the gaps in the cols, stones, and trees everywhere, and there were so many that people were a little frightened.

Then when Deng Pimple and the others hurriedly wanted to use various objects to re-plug the broken door, they were stopped by Xu Dumu:

"Don't panic, listen carefully. But what about the whistle of this army. ”

Then, the Ding Zhuang in Zhuangzi noticed that behind the noisy sound of the thieves running over, there was a piercing whistle that had been heard in the past but was more neat; The mountains are as beautiful and melodious as a stream flying by.

There was a sporadic dull roar, and then a little bit of smoke and smoke rose up. At this moment, Deng Pimple and they only felt that there were hot things gushing out of their eyes.

Listening to the reports that came back along the way, the numbers of various formations and subsequent executions under multiple attacks, Zhou Huai'an was already a little numb; But what surprised him a little.

Firearms, which had no chance to come in handy in Huainan and Jiangdong, were able to exert their might in the suppression of rebellion and suppression of commotion here; Although there are some suspicions of overkill.

The reason is also very simple, when a mixed clearance force equipped with the corresponding fire throwing team grenadiers has to travel a long distance to reach the target; All you need to do is muster up your spare strength to set up a firearm and blast at the enemy.

Basically, there are no enemies and mobs, and it is very simple to break up and be chaotic without being frightened, and then kill them with a little team. Even if the rioters are occupied by checkpoints, fortifications, and buildings that want to resist stubbornly, they will be burned to death and expelled by the incendiary materials and poisonous smoke balls thrown in.

In particular, the poisonous smoke ball is a miracle against the crowd of rioters; After throwing one at a crowded enemy, it is scattered and fled like a nest of explosions; Even if they can stay in place, they will be smoked and lose their mobility.

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