Ten years later, Zhou Huai'an watched the back of the last march in the distance, and the city of Guangzhou, which was no longer noisy and noisy, also returned to calm; However, at the cost of a quarter to a third of the city's population, the original population of the city has been reduced. Either he joined the rebel army, was conscripted as a servant, or simply fled to the countryside and went into hiding.

As a result, the city of Guangzhou and its popularity, which was slowly reorganized and restored, regressed to the beginning of the arrival of the rebels, and even fell into a worse decay.

As one of the accomplices, Zhou Huai'an also made an exhaustive list of them, so as to roughly meet the needs of the first batch of advancing people; As for the later men and horses, it was really the implementation of the idea of having enough food and clothing by themselves, and among the various names of catching Ding and sending messengers to collect grain, they tossed enough places outside of Guangzhou City.

Even some of the cantonments originally set up by the rebels did not let go, and the ones who pulled the cattle and sheep did not dig up the seeds that the rebels planted in the ground to grow seedlings and take them away; During this period, Zhou Huai'an even secretly sent some lists to the past, which were the results of the activities of the preliminary census team and the exploration team, and there may be a distribution of large household lists and temples in some townships;

As the so-called pit is not a pit, it is better to take this opportunity to do it more thoroughly, and maybe it can reduce some collateral damage to ordinary people. Although he inevitably fell into some infamy and misunderstandings because of this, Zhou Huaian thought that if he didn't do it himself, but someone else was responsible for the whole process, as long as he had to kill hundreds of people with rivers of blood and injuries as an example, he would pay several times the price to achieve the result.

More importantly, after this forced disguised assistance and observation, these processes are almost indistinguishable from the practices of the former officials and soldiers; Let the members of this army under him wonder and realize how they are different from other traditional rebels.

Mainly because on the other hand, Wang Pan received a letter, saying that the name of the Angry Wind Camp could be restored and magnified in his own hands, and he was already satisfied; There is really no need to use such a name to restrain the further development and prospects of this military horse in the hands of Zhou Huai'an. This statement also made Zhou Huaian feel a little satisfied and relieved, which meant that he had the opportunity to name an army with his own brand for the first time.

In order to obtain the qualification to let this team stay and guard the rear road of the army, Zhou Huai'an paid a quarter of the collection on the tribute ship, a large amount of unplanned grain and military funds, and hollowed out the industrial potential of Nanhai County in a short period of time. Although it is only a flirtatious temporary title; But it also means that after most of the rebels left, there were all kinds of expediency for the place.

Despite this, as the most valuable pearl in the Pearl River Delta basin, the garrison of Guangzhou City still has nothing to do with his subordinates; Instead, it was handed over to the two front-line troops that were withdrawn from Meizhou as a temporary resting place.

Because now Meizhou borders Fujian at the other end of the mountain, Zheng Kui, the Fujian observation envoy, and Chen Yan, the training envoy of the Fuzhou regiment and the self-proclaimed queen of Fuzhou, are fighting each other endlessly and have no time to care about anything else. Even the prefectures of Zhang, Quan, and Ding in Fujian were also in turmoil on their own side, and no one could take care of the peasant army outside the mountains. Therefore, these two troops were able to move to Guangzhou with free hands.

As for the ruined Meizhou itself, it was returned to the defense zone of the Fury Wind Camp as a symbolic compensation. Theoretically, it would be nice to send men from Heyuan City to take over the camp they left behind. Although this is only a small military state with a book account of tens of thousands, it is still the key and hub of the border between Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces in later generations.

An inland mountainous area, Zhongjiaoling Pass, and a coastal hill, between the Sanhekou Dazhai, just controlled the main land access routes to Qianzhou (present-day Ganzhou, Jiangxi) and Zhangzhou, Fujian, respectively, to the west of the Jiangnan Province. The reason why it is the main and not the only one is that it is the only place where the caravan and the brigade can pass; Although there may be some mountain trails, hunting trails, sheep intestine trails or something, it is very difficult to use them to pass the army.

Of course, as the last ambassador of Yingtian, one of the troika of the newly established Guangzhou Left-behind Division, he also had to continue to stay here, and take care of the many chores that had been carried out half-cut in the tuntian, construction, and management of the sick and wounded.

In addition, it is necessary to assist Lin Yan, who is the envoy of the salt and iron official, to sort out and deal with the situation in the aftermath of the local situation; Because after most of the rebels marched north, they almost did their best to empty everything that could be taken away from the place. As a result, there are many short-term shortfalls and unsustainable messes.

At the very least, the bartered rice and timber trade with Annam will never be cut off; Otherwise, as the actual military leader, under the name of Meng Wei, the current envoy of the Guangzhou Left-behind Division, the remaining garrison personnel and horses with serious damage will be hungry and even chaotic.

However, after not having the Huangchao army in Guangfu as a deterrent, Zhou Huai'an is really a little unoptimistic about whether Annan is still willing to continue to maintain this reciprocal relationship of trade and exchanges, rather than producing other variables such as home.

And the first battle report from the front was also sent to Guangfu along with the enemy that the rebels encountered first.

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Compared with those military towns in the north that are constantly attacking and fighting all day long, the imperial court is not located in the south, and the observatory, and the strategy is undoubtedly a model of weakness and long-term ignorance of soldiers in a sense; In fact, the greatest significance of the existence of the armed forces under their command was to guard against thieves, and to ensure the timely collection of taxes and forced labor for the imperial court, as well as the rapid suppression of possible popular rebellions and tax resistances.

Of course, this is only the ideal situation; Under daily circumstances, these military quotas are more often used as an example for generals to eat their salaries in deficits, as well as as as the role of minions and lackeys for officials at all levels to accumulate wealth.

In a sense, Huang Chao's decision to forcibly send troops north this time was among the harbingers of several "thunder and rain". It did have the effect of taking it by surprise in a sense, and the state troops and united soldiers who were stationed in the places along the route to prepare for the enemy were almost immediately defeated in front of the overwhelming vanguard of the rebels.

As the deputy commander of the camp and the Hunan observer, Li Xian, the grandson of Li Sheng, a famous former dynasty general who claimed to have 50,000 armor, is one of them; It was through the vigorous promotion of Wang Duo, the prime minister of the dynasty and the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, that he got this prominent and beautiful position;

Although it is claimed to be the origin of the family, he also knows his own affairs, and there is absolutely no ancestor to accumulate meritorious officials to the king of Xiping County, that person is known as "the great talent", "good at adaptation" and "Jingyuan is difficult" Li Taiwei, how many martial arts and heroic martial arts have been handed down;

That is, through the natural rich and noble body of the door shade and a group of civil servants to sing harmony with each other, coupled with his generosity and generosity known as "ancient chivalrous" to make money and extravagance, this is the only way to boast the reputation of the famous door tiger; Therefore, he is proficient in some of the skills of chanting and singing correctly, and is more so than the means of strengthening himself with a gun and a stick;

It's just that there are still some ancestors who left behind the family generals and the origin of the tribes, so even if they talk about military strategy and military affairs, they are still well-organized and breathtaking; There is even a record of personally repelling and capturing a group of thieves entrenched in the mountains and wilderness, as an aura bonus after his daily famous general; Therefore, as soon as the courtiers thought of a loyal choice that could share the worries of the court, they immediately let him rank first.

Despite this, he still spent a considerable part of his net worth to make a point, and bought the most valuable female music in the West Market, and sent it to the old man of Wang Tang, who is known as the "old man of Sanle Zhai" and is especially beautiful, before he got the final recommendation; And the official was awarded a town of Weifu self-dictated Taining Festival envoy.

In the name of pursuing the thieves and preparing for the Kou, he was awarded the deputy commander of the thief camp and the Hunan observer, and led the 50,000 troops and soil regiments allocated by the imperial court to sit in Tanzhou (now Shashi, Hunan), a high-ranking official in Hunan, and had both fame and practical benefits.

Therefore, he made up his mind early on to take office in this big city where the land and water are abundant, and he will earn back the net worth that he has spent on his reputation and official body before and after, so that he is worthy of being a famous son of the minister who is good at governing the family, and he is not afraid of losing the family business of his ancestors.

Therefore, when he heard that the many grass thieves who were entrenched and dormant in the east-west road outside the ridge suddenly crossed the danger of the first line of the lofty mountains and mountains of Guizhou - Quanyi Lingguan, one of the five mountains, and took advantage of the great water between the Ling Canal and the Xiangjiang River that swelled in summer, and advanced with the thousands of ships raised, in a blink of an eye, he broke the Lingling of Yongzhou Zhi, and then trapped the camp road and Yongyang of Daozhou, and began to besiege Hengyang Dacheng, the seat of Hengzhou Governance, after a series of urgent official letters for help.

Almost immediately he tumbled down from the feast of great talk and drink, and then jumped up with a roar, and in desperation left behind many of his guests and subordinates, and ran behind the curtain with a mess of wine and flesh that had been overturned, and disappeared without a trace; Then after a long while, a military officer with a bright face came out to spread the word, announcing the end of the banquet and going to the middle hall of Yacheng to discuss the matter.

Because there were also several messengers from Guizhou before, and the commensurate grass thieves who kept saying that they were almost trying to flee north, and even some of the officers and soldiers who had escaped from Guizhou also had the words to hold this view, so he was also extremely vigilant and vigilant for a while; However, the rumored thief had not arrived for a long time, and the slackness in his heart in favor of the scribe had reappeared;

For this reason, he even ordered the killing of several officers and soldiers who fled back from the south but did not want to serve the country, but "bewitched the people and pretended to be sensational" to set the record straight. Therefore, now that he suddenly got the news, he was a little bitter and embarrassed, and the expenses he had spent in this position before and after had just returned to his capital.

Therefore, the first thing he thought of after confirming the news was not to eliminate more spies or to gather reinforcements, but to arrange for the general to secretly sail north overnight to avoid being a thief;

And under the leadership of his leading soldiers, the entire Tanzhou City was also like a big stone thrown into the boiling oil, and before dawn, the generals and soldiers from the top down were also vying to go up and down, sending their families and goods to the chariots and horses to the north to take refuge;

Then their collective reaction led to the panic of the eunuchs, wealthy merchants, and big families in the city; So that for a while, all kinds of people were panicked, and the people who fled north across the Xiangshui River were congested on the road by crying for their fathers and mothers.

Then, as this symptom spread, those village owners, priests, feudal lords, squires, wealthy merchants, and many people who were not wealthy, but also thought that they were "well-dressed people" or "upright gentlemen", also avoided it and fled towards the establishment. Although most of them were sad and looked deeply mourned, they also made several kinds of people in Tanzhou City happy.

First of all, the doormen and guards who have feasted their own pockets, although they only have so much sesame power, can make a lot of temporary extraneous money from the rich gentry of these opportunity processes;

The second is the innkeepers and vacant owners, with the continuous influx of these "refugees", the dwellings in the city immediately become tense, even if it is a murderous house that has not been rented for many years, an abandoned house, even a hastily repaired shack, there are philosophers rushing to ask for it.

As a result, with the rapid increase in population, not only the rent skyrocketed, but even all things such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and everything skyrocketed, which not only made the local residents feel that rice beads were paid, but also brought a lot of mental torture.

And it wasn't until the third day that the first vanguard from the Huangchao Righteous Army explored the horse, and it was belatedly tunneled under this big city of Tanzhou. And their arrival also brought the news that the big city of Hengyang was breached.

(End of chapter)