After a battle after the Guangwu Assertion, a small group of officers and soldiers was cut off, and the officers and soldiers immediately shrank back, and they no longer had the courage to harass the remnants of Lu Shi's army, which made the march of the next few days easier.

On this day, when he was marching, Zhao Xing suddenly caught up with Lu Shi excitedly, and shouted loudly: "King Chuang, wait, there is good news, there is good news." ”

Good news? This is a long time since the army broke through, and it is especially rare to have good news that can make Zhao Xingdu, who has always been calm, so excited. At that time, not only Lu Shi was waiting on the horse, but also the people and horses on the march involuntarily slowed down, hoping to hear what the good news was.

"King Chuang, I just got the news from the brother of the sergeant of the broken queen, the officers and troops have retreated, and the officers and soldiers have retreated." Zhao Xing changed his calm and dark temperament in the past, and before he ran in front of Lu Shima, he shouted in a hurry, and the sound was definitely more than eighty decibels, and in this valley, it was clearly heard in the team where everyone deliberately held their breath and listened.

Lu Shi asked in disbelief: "The official army has retreated?" Are you sure? Why? "This news is too timely, if you don't get a rest like this, the team will be dragged down, especially the old people in the team, although there are brothers who take turns to carry, but they have also tossed one by one dying, especially the team must raise a grain and grass, now the military food has run out, only by killing some precious war horses and livestock, get rid of the officers and soldiers, get rest, this is already an imminent matter.

"It's true, it's true." Zhao Xing waved his hands and shouted frantically, for fear that the good news would not reach everyone's ears.

"Just now, the two prison sergeant brothers were patrolling and scouting behind, and they didn't see the officers and soldiers following behind, so they chased forward for a while, and saw that the officers and soldiers of the brigade were turning around, and the two brothers were not at ease, so they grabbed the tongue of a small soldier who had fallen behind, and after interrogation, they learned that the officers and soldiers of the brigade had received orders from Governor Yang He to retreat."

"Do you know why?" Lu Shi's heart moved, he faintly felt something, and hurriedly asked.

"I know, I know, according to that little soldier, the governor sent an order from the general, the Guyuan border army mutinied, taking advantage of the emptiness of Yan'an, the mutinous soldiers are besieging Yan'an Fucheng, and the attack is very urgent, and the officers and troops from all walks of life are urgently transferring back to reinforce Yan'an and encircle and suppress the mutineers."

Lu Shi was stunned for a long time, he knew about this matter and wanted to take advantage of it, but by mistake, he acted in advance, and he broke through this period and forgot the time.

Lu Shi suddenly raised his hands high, and shouted excitedly on his horse: "God help me, God help Woniu Mountain, God help the Black Tiger Army——"

Lu Shi cheered, so that those people who were still doubting the accuracy of this news cheered together, this cheer was really a tsunami, and all the depression and depression in the past half a month were thrown out of the nine heavenly clouds at once.

Liberated, this time it's really liberated.

The army stopped to rest again, and this time the commanders sitting together were no longer worried, and when they ate dinner, they were already frowning and laughing.

Lu Shi held a big bowl with a missing mouth, snoring and eating dinner with only the bark and no rice grains, and now he felt that the original bitter bark rice was no longer difficult to swallow, and after eating all the rice, he was carefully adding the leftover soup in the bowl with his tongue, a small hand handed over a small bowl, and poured the small half bowl of bark soup in the bowl into Lu Shi's bowl, Lu Shi looked up, it was Chunlan.

"I'm full, I'll give you the rest." Chunlan said with a smile, bringing boundless joy to her already withered little face.

Lu Shi wanted to say something, but the third uncle carefully took out a small paper bag in his arms, opened it, and it was a small pinch of white salt, pinched a small point in it very carefully, snatched Lu Shi's rice bowl, and cherished it and sprinkled it into it.

"Don't, don't." Lu Shi hurriedly snatched it back, "This thing is expensive, let's keep it for the wounded soldiers to scrub their wounds." ”

After the First World War, there were countless wounded soldiers, there were no herbs, and disinfection relied on a small amount of salt.

The third uncle said with a smile: "This time the official army has retreated, we can also breathe a sigh of relief and find a place to rest, as long as we are given a period of time to rest, there will be food, herbs, and salt, and everything will be there." He burst out laughing.

Lu Shi took the bowl back, handed it to Chunlan and whispered, "I'm full, you better eat this." Seeing that Chunlan was going to postpone it, Lu Shi deliberately put on a straight face and whispered: "Don't lie to me, everyone is watching, it's good to get down to business after eating." ”

As soon as they heard that King Chuang was going to talk about business, everyone immediately suppressed their laughter and stared at Lu Shi, waiting for his next arrangement.

Lu Shi tidied up the dirty robe on his body, smiled and said to all the leaders of the remnant army sitting around him: "Now, the official army has retreated, we are truly safe, now, what we urgently need most is a place to rest, so that the people and children have a hot kang, so that the brothers can sleep well and recover their strength, and carry out a reorganization of the remaining brothers to restore our combat effectiveness." ”

All of them nodded in agreement, they were too tired, after nearly a month of fighting and marching, all of them were physically and mentally exhausted, and their physical strength was exhausted to the limit, and at the same time, a breakthrough battle completely disabled their own team, and they really urgently needed a reorganization to deal with any dangerous situations that might arise.

"Second, it is necessary to collect some grain, herbs, salt and other things, which is also urgent."

The third uncle and Cao Meng have a deep understanding of this, and when it comes to food and materials, they can't help frowning and sighing, now, it is really to the point of exhaustion, and if they don't look for supplements, they will really starve everyone to death.

"However, it is no longer possible to send a small group of brothers out to fetch grain, and the villages and towns along the way are also ruined, and the people have become homeless, and there is no food to buy at all, and those landlords have grain in the forts, but no one sells it to us, not only does it not sell it to us, but those big households also send out the villagers to shout and kill our small group of grain teams, which is really anxious to die." Cao Meng reported on the difficulties encountered by the old camp.

"It's a fact." Lu Shi nodded, but immediately straightened up and said firmly: "However, it is different now, now, there is no threat from the official army, so who is our hard-tempered team afraid of?" People, we will never move, but since those fortresses do not sell us food, then we will rob, what are we? We're still thieves, have we really forgotten who we are? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, and suddenly came back to their senses, and couldn't help laughing, and finally laughed until they fell.

Yes, the three disciplines and eight points of attention have become a habit for everyone to sing, and they really regard their group of people as the saviors of the world, as the rebels who do not commit any crimes in the autumn, and forget their original profession.

The brothers who fetch grain only think about fair trading, but they forget who they are against, and what are they polite to those landlords? Grab it.

Zhao Xing, who habitually shrank behind Lu Shi, suddenly whispered: "Everyone, according to the detective sergeant brothers, just outside the mountain where we are, there is a fort, the fort relies on the big mountain and soil cliffs, facing the official road in the river valley, the wall is not high, there are more than 200 households in the village, and the more than 200 households are tenants of a landlord. Moreover, the people are forced to work in vain, killing and wounding no less than a dozen people every year, and they really do all kinds of evil. ”

Everyone looked at Zhao Xing again, feeling that this kid had long wanted to attack the cottage and seize people's money and food, look, this has already made the investigation of the landlord's house leak.

Lu Shi turned around and asked Zhao Xing, "I don't know how many villagers there are in that cottage?" What about precautions? ”

"There are three hundred township warriors, and the equipment is average, and most of the three hundred township warriors are forced to go to the city by tenants who can't eat enough, and there are only dozens of Chen family children as leaders, so the combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning at all."

"Okay, that's him." Lu Shi finalized the goal on the spot, "One is to eliminate harm for the people, the second is to raise food and materials for the army, and the third is to find a place to rely on and rest." ”

This decision was immediately unanimously approved by everyone, saying that the elimination of harm for the people is now an excuse, and the rest is the most important thing.

After Lu Shi and the others finished discussing, he turned back to Zhao Xing and said, "Since you and your brother have investigated in such detail, I think there must be some siege methods, let's talk about it together, let's think about it." ”

Zhao Xing thought about it behind Lu Shi, and then said slowly: "According to the brothers' reconnaissance report, the fortress is built along the mountain, the front is the wall, and the back is the cliff, but our brothers have the guy to take advantage of it, thinking that in the middle of the night with a long rope, using the hook to fall down on the cliff of the back mountain, not more, as long as ten or twenty brothers, unexpectedly grab a section of the wall, the army can rush in, and it is easy to lay down this small fortress." ”

It's a good way, a good way. Lu Shi nodded, but remembered something, and asked Zhao Xing again: "The people of the fortress you invited will not leak the news." ”

Zhao Xing paused for a moment and said cautiously: "Those people, I am afraid that they will leak the news, they all stay in our team, and there will be no news leaked." ”

When Lu Shi heard this, he couldn't help frowning, but thinking that he was in an extraordinary period now, he didn't say anything anymore.

Since this matter was decided in this way, Lu Shi said again.

"There is another important matter, that is, we must send capable people and others to immediately go out of the mountain and go south to find the Great Commander of the Heavenly Star."

As soon as these words came out, the originally joyful atmosphere immediately dimmed, and everyone's faces showed worry and worry.

Guo Tianxing broke through with Chen Ce, and took away almost 10,000 people and horses of the official army, especially in order to attract the official army, and acted with great fanfare along the way, this time, I don't know how dangerous it is, and now I have lost contact with Guo Tianxing for nearly a month, how can I not worry?

Looking at the depressed mood, Lu Shizhan smiled and said: "Guo Tianxing is brave and good at fighting, Chen Ce is cunning and cunning, these two people are together, it is the officials and soldiers who should have a headache instead of us, we still care about our stomachs." ”

One sentence immediately made everyone happy, and they talked about tomorrow's battle again.