In addition to Xiao Tang leading the new army to defeat the Hedong thieves in Jieshan, Fenzhou, and capturing a large number of thieves, Wang Huan, Han Cunbao and other generals who led the troops to intercept the thieves in the west of the Weisheng Army successively attacked and forced the thieves to flee instead, but they were stopped by Yao Pingzhong and the soldiers of the six battalions of the Western Army intercepted and killed the flanks, and the thieves' fighting spirit was lost.

The war to pacify Hedong has been carried out to the present stage, Gaizhou, Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Longdefu, Fenzhou and other large groups of rogue in the south and central areas of Hedong Road have basically been swept away, during which Tian Hu, who led his troops to flee north, did not allow the official army to suppress the flow of his own thief army, but he also ordered nearly 10,000 thieves to go directly to the middle of the Weisheng Army through Liaozhou, in an attempt to take advantage of the time when the official army was in charge of Fuzhou Mansion, and once again muddy the situation at the southern end of Hedong Road.

However, Xu Guanzhong, a subordinate of Xiao Tang, first expected that Tian Hu would not be indifferent when he saw that his sphere of influence was gradually being compressed and encroached, and predicted that if the thieves wanted to take advantage of the situation, the thief army thought that the official army was ordered to pacify the places on Hedong Road at this time, causing the rear garrison to be empty, and there was a good chance that they would make a detour to Tongluo County, the center selected by Xiao Tang when he passed through the east of the river, and launched a surprise attack on Tongluo County, the seat of Weisheng Army.

However, the process of Xiao Tang's troops conquering the thieves in Jieshan, Fenzhou, and Qinyuan on the west side of the Weisheng Army was much smoother than expected, and Xiao Jiasui took advantage of the situation to offer advice to Xiao Tang to set up more ambushes in the area of Weisheng Army, Wuxiang and Nirvana, and set up a pocket array to wait solemnly on the road from Liaozhou to Tongyu County. On the contrary, nearly 10,000 thieves who fell into the danger of the officers and soldiers encountered a surprise attack, and their morale was greatly reduced, and when they finally fought their way out of the bloody road, and when they were about to flee to the north, they found that they had been waiting for a long time in front of them, but they were led by a chain of heavy cavalry equipped with thousands of armored horses, and several battalions of officers and soldiers followed the order of the main general, and launched an overwhelming charge against them with a force that shook the earth and the earth......

After this battle, the thieves under Tian Hu's command have lost more than sixty percent.

Just as Xiao Tang was preparing to gather heavy troops and gradually advance to the north to completely eradicate the thieves in Hedong who had been raging for a long time, Tian Hu, who was now located in Fangshan, Taiyuan Prefecture, finally realized that a catastrophe was coming......

Under the gaze of all the strongmen, although Tian Hu sat on the big tiger skin chair with a golden sword, he still put on a majestic appearance, but the more refined thief leaders had clearly noticed that Tian Hu was moody these days, and even when he convened a group of thieves to discuss the matter, he was not as good as before.

Now Tian Hu's face is very uncertain, he sat on the big chair without saying a word, the officers and troops are winning one after another, and a large number of soldiers and horses available to him have been annihilated or captured, Rao is Tian Hu, the rebellious and ferocious Hedong leader, and now he has long realized that the balance of victory has long been inclined to Xiao Tang's side.

Tian Biao, who was at the head of the bottom, saw that Tian Hu's eyebrows were very rare and showed a little fear, and he immediately said in a loud voice: "Big brother! Your prestige in the green forest has not diminished, and now the Hedong bandits are not the same, only you are the only one, we can still rely on the current manpower to confront the officials and troops in Taiyuan, Xinzhou, and Daizhou. Besides, we will follow the original method of looting and accumulating military funds, and there will inevitably be hunters, tenant farmers, and homeless people who will defect to us. Rao let those dog officials have the upper hand first, but if we gather all the soldiers and horses to defend the danger, how can those guys help us? ”

Tian Hu listened, but his face seemed to be a little gloomy, he snorted coldly, and said in his heart that his third brother is still a brainless rammer, and he can't think of any good plan to gather the remaining soldiers and horses to occupy the mountain and defend it? I'm afraid that the officials and soldiers have long been expecting him to fight such an idea!

Tian Hu, who still has some strategic vision, knows that once he is entangled with the thief party and rises up, he must make the strongmen under his command feel that there are huge profits from time to time. With so many people under his command, they used to be able to meet their needs by fighting and robbing houses separately, but now that they are gathered together for the sake of the incident, tens of thousands of people and horses have to eat and drink, and how long can the money and food last?

According to Tian Biao, is it possible to loot everywhere while gathering a large army to defend to the death? Could it be that he pulled tens of thousands of horses to rob the state and county by county, so that the military department of the Zhulu Prefecture will immediately discover the movement of his own soldiers and horses, and then the advantage of sending several rogue gangsters to fight guerrilla warfare will be lost, and the officers and troops will easily detect their traces and send heavy troops to encircle and suppress, the several officers and troops under the command of Xiao Tang have won several big victories in a row, and the two sides simply gather a large army to do the final desperate fight, so what are their chances of victory?

If you want to say that Tian Biao is a cruel and accustomed man, although his son was arrested by the official army, he also hated him and gritted his teeth, but it was not his own life that was lost, it was Tian Biao's past evil or how he did evil, Lao Tzu is fierce and fierce, it is a big deal to catch a girl and produce another one. However, although Tian Hu is also lustful and tyrannical, thinking that his son Tian Ding and other relatives are going to be razed by the clan really taught him to feel a burst of fear in his heart.

In addition to founding a country and becoming a soil emperor, Tian Hu should have tasted the sweetness of rebellion, but now he is unwilling to taste the bitter fruits of defeat and accept the price of rebellion.

Since Xiao Tang, you definitely refuse to leave me a way to live, and if you want to be accused by the world, whether I am a traitor or a collusion with foreign races, my life Tian Hu must not be broken in your hands!

"Is there a bird for just gathering the strongmen and horses in the northeast of the river? With the soldiers of the north of Jin, how many people can there be? It's only more than 30,000 or 40,000 people, and now that we have started an incident, the Great Song Dynasty government still doesn't know how many officials and troops have been dispatched to encircle and suppress us...... Hum! Xiao Tang has the support of the Song court behind him, why don't we use external forces? ”

Tian Hu Senran said, and immediately looked at the resignation that had just returned from the northwest, and asked: "Brother detachment, those party leaders in the Xia Kingdom, have you already passed the mouth?" ”

The leader of the strongman of the Dangxiang clan who was called to leave the recruit immediately stood up and reported to Tian Hu: "Leader Tian, I went to say that the leaders of the party and the troops sent troops, and it really took a lot of words!" Because the Xia State lost to the Song State in the previous war, if they wanted to help invade the state and seize the county, they would definitely refuse, and there were very few tribes who had to pick this time to touch the mold of the Song court.

However, most of the people of several tribes are in barren land, and the Song people have a lot of money and food, and they are ten or a hundred times richer than their several tribesmen! In addition, in the past two years, Yinzhou has also suffered from black disasters and white disasters, and the herdsmen have no way to live, so if you want to mobilize the leaders of the tribe to take the opportunity to cross the border to loot, they are also very happy! It's just the leader of Tian Da...... The party department is just for money and food, I'm afraid it won't be used by you. ”

Tian Hu snorted coldly and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as they can disturb the pool of water in the east of the river again!" There is another thing that is very important, take off the brothers, you said that among the leaders of the party, there are also some people who are familiar with the ancestors of the Xia State and Lu Ze (the title of the Xia State official system, translated as the meaning of the big leader and leader)? I intend to get acquainted with them, and I also want to take this opportunity to get on a line with the nobles of the Xia Kingdom. ”

Although Tian Hu is just a green forest bandit from Orion, he has lived in Hedong for a long time, and he has also found that the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia has become tense again in recent times, and when the war between the two sides really resumes, he still has 30,000 horses under his command, and he is from Hedong locally.

What's more, although Tian Hu does not know the history, he also knows some historical figures who have left a lot of deeds in the territory of Hedong, and he also knows that during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a person who had done the post of Jiedu envoy in Hedong, but later rebelled, and also faced the encirclement and suppression of the army of the Later Tang Dynasty, but that person received great help from foreign countries, and even became the founding emperor from time to time......

And that person's name is Shi Jingjiao.