Almost following the traces of Zheng Zheng and his party, there was also a military horse under the leadership of Yang Fuguang, the envoy of the prison army, followed by Tongguan, but they went towards Xijing non-stop.

Although Tian Lingzi was crowned as the commander of the eight towns inside and outside the Shence Army and the soldiers and horses of all provinces, he commanded and recruited. But after he entered Shu on behalf of the king, the person who was actually in charge of the corresponding ministry was Yang Fugong, who was the deputy envoy.

And his biggest credential is that his brother recruited Yang Fuguang, the capital of the camp, and brought about 7,000 soldiers and horses from the loyal and military capitals.

It's just that the original loyal army of 17,000 people, after a series of chaos and internal friction by Xue Neng and Zhou Qi, and after being ordered to be sent to other places one after another; That's all left of these "willing to enter the customs escort".

And the process of convincing them to give up the state city they were stationed in to come over to escort them was actually very simple; Yang Fuguang just caused people to spread a rumor, saying that Huang Chao was in the westward thief army, and he personally declared that "everyone in the world can be pardoned; Only the Yellow Leader (Loyal Army) is unforgiving. ”

(As one of the few strong towns in the north that is both loyal to the imperial court and good at fighting, because in the achievements and merits of the past dynasties in the conquest of Huaixi and the suppression of Heshuo, the soldiers of the loyal army were authorized by the previous generation of the Son of Heaven to have yellow hats and yellow hips, so as to distinguish the special glory of the soldiers and horses in each town)

After all, it was the Henan Zhen Army led by the Zhongwu Army that chased and beat Wang Huang's thief army all over the world; And those who were ordered to slaughter and liquidate Huang Chao's hometown and burn the local almost uprooted-out grass to the ground were also the loyal soldiers who were transferred to suppress the thieves nearby.

Therefore, in the desperate fight against the thief, the military and civilian generals of the two states of Chenxu and Xu, to which the loyal army (jiedu envoy) town belongs, are also the most resolute and do everything to protect the land.

Just before the army of grass thieves was about to arrive, they had gathered the population and stockpiled a lot of armor, grain and grass; And fully mobilize to arrest and kill all the strangers and outcasts who may become thieves and spies, and all the families of outsiders and outcasts, and do what they plan to do for a long time and defend it.

It's just that the arrival of the only active Qinwang military horse has made the situation in Chang'an City more complicated and treacherous; Soon rumors sprung up in the streets; It mainly revolves around the topic of the "two sheep in the big interior" intentionally joining forces with the outside to succeed the matter.

Soon, an envoy came with an edict to greet and reward them; Then, at the same time that Yang Fuguang entered the city to meet him, he intercepted it in disguise at the Shuixi Pavilion in Bashang (now Bailuyuan, Shaanxi), and set up camp and stopped.

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Compared with the Huangchao army's rapid advance in the Central Plains, the Taiping army that returned with Zhou Huai'an brought continuous bloody rain to Jiangxi and Hunan; Almost every day, hundreds of people are being judged, and hundreds of heads are hanging on the head of the city, or in flails and standing under the roadside signs.

At the foot of Hengshan Mountain at the junction of Yuanzhou and Hengzhou, a group of people were also walking towards the mountain in a hurry.

"These are the dogs who are scared of thieves. Are those green-skinned dogs chasing after you? ”

Old lady Fan Jinzhong was also cursing loudly with a cane.

As the patriarch and the chief of the Lizheng, he didn't pay attention to the subordinates who killed some poor sticks when he was urging rent, and took advantage of the bad way of the world to collect some people's land; let a few people who didn't pay their debts think about hanging it, and reluctantly accepted the plea of their wives and daughters to come over and be slaves; Although it was a little harder, didn't it give them a way to live?

How came this ordinary thing that everyone had been doing for generations became a matter of great intolerance and heinous after these god-killing thieves came; And what kind of "public trial" should be handed over to those who shout and shout to kill, and be dragged to people to humiliate and condemn them?

You must know that he was also one of the local fathers and elders who "welcomed" the rebels in the pot pulp, and these thieves belonged to jackals, not only did they remember this old love and treat it kindly, but they also had to find ways to break their families in order to be willing.

What's even more hateful is that not only those foolish men and foolish women are blindly coaxing, but the people of the Fan clan are also moving with their minds; Just because those thieves promised to "only punish the evil" and "eradicate the main family, you can divide the family and live your own life".

Don't these ungrateful fellows know that only the prosperity of the main family led by themselves is their greatest support and barrier? Just because of a little injustice and a little grievance on weekdays, you have to secretly tell the rights and wrongs of the head of the family, which is too much of a thing.

Didn't they get any benefit when they took everyone to eat those foreign surnames? The widow mother and daughter who jumped into the river, he did not have it for himself, but let everyone have a share.

Then he hated his stupid son again. It is said that it is to let the people below be more restrained and be kinder to others, and they also let go to the countryside with their old faces to make all kinds of promises and gestures, not only exempting those poor people from paying off the arrears accumulated for many years, but also promising to reduce their rent from seventy percent to half.

But he couldn't stand the stupid son who was used to being arrogant in the township, and still took people to touch the house of Fan Laoshi, who didn't dare to put a fart; Then he slept with his mother-in-law who didn't dare to resist, and got up and beat people to death.

At this time, he had no choice but to send people to the county to inquire about news and activities, while giving up money and other benefits to win over and restrain the clansmen, so as to suppress those mud legs who dared to chew their tongues.

But the people sent to the event were not able to come back for a long time, and the few merchants who came down from the township also made him feel that things were a little wrong, and he just wanted to send someone to arrest these new faces, but they quickly dropped the goods and ran away.

Then there was a troop of thieves in the county who slaughtered them; Before he could think of pretending to be a good man who cooperated with all his might, he dealt with these thieves; I was shocked to hear that someone had already come forward to guide and identify these thieves.

After the minions and helpers he could support in private were all caught from his home one by one; Everyone knows that this time Mrs. Fan's family is going to be unlucky.

He even secretly sent a few children of his clan to participate in those things aimed at the big eaters in Tunzhuang, and they were raised; So he could only leave behind his family and his relatives, and ran away overnight;

At least in this Hengshan Mountain, which stretches for more than ten miles, there are several settlements of half-bandits and half-people who are gathering together; Most of them have a relationship with him, the old lady Fan; It can barely be used as a place to shelter and hide for a while.

After he really gets through the difficulties of this grass thief rampant, he will go back and settle the old accounts with these ignorant clansmen and villagers.

When he was so hateful and thinking about it, with the support of his cronies, he saw a walled wall hidden in the col and the flag was faintly visible, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, on the wall, looking at this figure coming in a hurry, the mountain soldier Zheng Pan Ada, who was from the Guiyang Mining Supervision Society, was also sneering at his younger brother Pan Erxiaodao:

"No, there is another wave of defectors, and it's the fifth wave. These people who are uneasy and reluctant in the place,It's really a catch.。。 ”

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Zhou Huai'an's journey back to Jiangling was slower than when he returned from Hongzhou before. Because the returned army came along the way, it actually put down twenty-nine large and small riots and rebellions one after another. Although most of them are remnants of the climate, it is not enough to bewitch and coerce the villagers, mountain people, and barbarians to counterattack;

But there are also some instigations related to neighboring officials and armies, or the result of sending people to fan the flames; There were even four times when the peripheral rebels who were temporarily incorporated were the result of colluding with the local anti-water and wanting to stand on their own, or they were dissatisfied with the current system and wanted to defect to the government.

Therefore, even if Zhou Huai'an's own team returns, these new troops will have little to do with the local area after expansion. I am afraid that they will continue to stay in the inland areas of the river basin along the river system for a period of time; In order to complete the follow-up repression, investigation, screening, interrogation and execution, etc., to assist in the sweeping work.

Therefore, at this moment, the Taiping Army ship carrying it was also docked at the mouth of the Yuanshui River on the south bank of Dongting Lake, and Zhou Huai'an, who was standing on the deck, had just commanded a battle on the shore to break the siege.

Thousands of barbarian coalition troops who came from Langzhou to besiege Longyang County were outflanked by the Taiping army from both land and water.

Of course, after a trip to Jiangdong and Huainan, and collecting hundreds of new recipes and ingredients, Zhou Huai'an accumulated the auxiliary system of corresponding energy in his body, and finally unlocked a new expansion function.

That is, the original circular passive scanning range can be confined to a relatively narrow sector; In this way, the corresponding detection range can be greatly extended. Of course, the farther it extends, the narrower the range of the sector, the higher the continuous energy consumption, and the shorter the duration.

Nevertheless, this proactive scanning range setting function is still very useful for the immediate command of the army in battle. For example, the original function of standing and defending can be extended to those who are attacking sequences, which is equivalent to an additional means of real-time combat situation control and less delay.

This also allows him to occasionally try the fun of personally commanding the soldiers in the extermination operation that has been pushed along the way; Of course, this kind of thing is also a matter of taste, and cannot form a routine and dependence.

After all, after reaching a certain level in history, the superiors who still like micro-manipulation can easily interfere with the judgment of the front-line commanders and the play of their personal expertise, and under the contradictions and conflicts, they will often be divorced from the actual situation and changes in the situation, and eventually turn into a terrible disaster.

In the past 300 years, there have been three expeditions by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to Goryeo but returned in vain and lost the world's armed demons; Later, there were three generations of blind commands of Tang Xuanzong, Suzong, and the ancestors and grandsons of the dynasty, which repeatedly ruined the good situation and situation, and let the rebels of the Anshi Rebellion survive in desperate situations again and again, and finally evolved into the disaster of the feudal town that has been left behind to this day.

However, these annihilated and captured Langzhou barbarian troops also confirmed a piece of news.

In the three states of Xiangxi, which were originally adjacent to the Taiping Army, whether it was Zhou Yue of Shaozhou (now Shaoyang, Hunan), Lei Man of Langzhou (Changde, Hunan), and Xiang Zhu, the leader of the Shimen barbarians in Lizhou (now Li County, Hunan), there were all changes.

They successively accepted the surrender and appointment letter of Song Hao, the so-called envoy of Jingnan Jiedu; and then they all abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces to continue to invade and plunder the territory of the Taiping Army; I thought that Shannan Jiedu made Liu Jurong's offensive in Jingxiang echo.

In addition, located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, there are the former monks Cheng Wei who fell into the grass in Huomen Mountain (now Tianmen Fozi Mountain, Hubei), attacked Guizhou, and called himself Thorn History, and Pan Zhang, a native of Xiazhou, raised troops and called himself Thorn Shi, and defeated the local rebels stationed in other parts of the army several times, and occupied several cities.

Therefore, in a short period of time, the situation that Zhou Huai'an had to face became complicated again.

(End of chapter)