The Jingwei battalion marched for two consecutive days, and by the afternoon of the third day it was less than 20 miles away from Meihe Town, Liu Ce ordered to rest on the spot, and sent Chen Qing and Guo Tao to take a few people to the surrounding area to inquire about the military situation to see if there were any abnormal movements of the thieves.

Feng Chou Nian took off the helmet, the bright light was extra dazzling in the sun, originally he cut his hair purely to resist the summer heat, and later found that this bare head brought a lot of convenience to his life, especially the hair washing part, just pour a basin of water on the head and wipe it with a cloth, so every time the hair grows out, let Sister-in-law Qing help shave it......

"Damn, it's almost here!" Feng Chounian threw the helmet aside, his face full of excitement, "Tomorrow Lao Tzu will screw off Jin Troy's head!" ”

"The flag is always powerful! The flag is always mighty! A few soldiers behind him couldn't help but slap their farts a few times, which made Feng Chou Nian very useful.

"I'll pick up good ones." Feng Chounian deliberately kept a straight face and pretended to scold, "Ming'er don't shrink like a girl, you know?" Whoever runs away, Lao Tzu will split him in half with an axe! ”

In the face of Feng Chounian's threats and intimidation, everyone was not afraid to laugh, and a soldier said: "Mr. Qi, you can rest assured, the brothers are thinking about piercing a few thieves' holes now, how can they run?" But Mr. Qi, you promised me, when you go back after this fight, you have to tell the general, I promised Xiaocui in the village, and I will marry her when I go back......"

The soldier's words spoke the hearts of the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion who had not yet made a family. The regulations in the Jingwei camp are very harsh, especially the rape of ** women, once discovered, no matter who it is, it will end up with a head. Those who have already started a family say that they feel that this regulation is equivalent to changing direction to protect their wives and daughters, and they have all tasted sexual intercourse between men and women, and their restraint in that regard is far stronger than that of those young men who have not started a family.

The most important point is that the treatment of the families of those in the Jingwei Battalion is limited to soldiers who have families, and Liu Ce stipulates that the materials seized in the battlefield are given priority to the soldiers with their families. As a result, many soldiers and people in the village who had high hopes for the future of the Jingwei Battalion began to liven up, especially those homeless people who had unmarried daughters and young widows who had lost their husbands, as well as the women of the manor who had been rescued from the stronghold, secretly wondered whether to find a soldier of the Jingwei Battalion as a son-in-law (husband) to rely on......

When Feng Chounian heard this, he immediately scolded with a smile: "When is it, still thinking about this stubble, no problem, I'll talk to the general when I go back, but you kid can't force others!" If I know it, I don't need the general to go out, I'll screw your head myself! ”

When the soldier heard this, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Qi, don't worry, Xiaocui and I really love each other......

"Love your size! Go back and sit down! Feng Chou Nian was about to kick him, so frightened that the soldier hurriedly returned to the queue, and sat on the side with a red face amid the boos of the surrounding soldiers, and he was really embarrassed to say such a sensual thing in a hurry......

Liu Ce took Qin Mo to look at the main road not far ahead, only to see that the terrain on both sides of the main road was dangerous, and it was the best place for an ambush, but at the moment, he only had more than a thousand people, which was not enough to divide his troops to attract Jin Heng, and Jin Heng was not a fool, and he left the town to run twenty miles to die......

Qin Mo stood aside, constantly brushing the short black and shiny beard on his chin, and followed Liu Ce after looking at it for a while: "It's a pity, such a good terrain, if a fort is set up here to guard the main road, and thousands of elite soldiers are set up inside, then the thieves can only return without work even if tens of thousands of troops attack, and they only sigh that the generals of the court are all incompetent......"

Liu Ce sneered: "According to what Mr. said before, the imperial court and the governor's mansion are not mediocre and incompetent, but intentional, I have known a little in the army for many years, the Zhao family's local army and the Thunder Army are openly cooperating to suppress thieves, but in fact, they are secretly restraining each other, no one wants one side to be powerful, otherwise how can the thieves become big step by step?" I wonder if the fall of Gaoyang was also their calculation......"

Qin Mo nodded when he heard this, thinking that there was some truth, and just as he was about to say more, Chen Qing from the rear stepped on his horse......

Chen Qing dismounted and came to Liu Ce and Qin Mo, and hugged a fist: "General, a quarry was found a few miles ahead, there were more than 1,000 people working to carry boulders, and hundreds of thieves were guarding it, and now Guo Tao and his two brothers are continuing to monitor, and they have come to tell if they are ......."

"My Jingwei camp is miles away from them, and I haven't noticed any movement here?" When Liu Ce heard the news, he couldn't help but wonder.

Chen Qingdao: "The thieves did not send spies to patrol around, but stayed in the quarry, Guo Tao and I observed for half an hour and did not find any probe horses coming and going, only taking care of those people to escort stones......

Liu Ce pondered for a moment and said to Chen Qing: "Call Fang Jing over, I have something to ask him." For the sake of insurance, Liu Ce still decided to call Fang Jing to ask for clarification.

After a while, Fang Jing came to Liu Ce's side with a little nervousness, not knowing what instructions the young leader in front of him would have.

Liu Ce looked at Fang Jing and said slowly: "Fang Jing, I heard that the people near Meihe Town are more familiar with the terrain, tell me what happened to the quarry a few miles ahead?" ”

"Back to the general's words, the quarry was originally the industry of the horsemen outside the Meihe Town, and the farmers in the nearby villages and the people in the Meihe Town also went to the quarry to do a short-term job in the stone yard to earn some subsidies in their spare time, after the thieves occupied the Meihe Town, the whole family of the horsemen was copied, and the quarry also fell into the hands of the thieves by the way, and now the thieves let the strong men of the town craftsmen carry stones to strengthen the city wall...... "Fang Jing 1510 said everything he knew, and then stood timidly in place, waiting for Liu Ce to reply.

"Aren't thieves guarding the quarry worried about someone sneaking up?" Qin Mo asked on the side, "Why did our army enter the Mehe River boundary for a long time but didn't see a thief spy?"

Fang Jing swallowed his saliva and said, "The thieves are now concentrated in the town, and now there are no officers and soldiers nearby, how can most of the thieves go around?" ”

Qin Mo nodded and said to Liu Ce: "General, I see that the morale of the soldiers has been high in the past few days, but there are still some new recruits who have not entered the camp and are not old, so they simply take down the quarry first, so that those recruits can have a clear understanding of the combat power of the Jingwei Battalion, what do you think?" ”

Liu Ce smiled and said: "Sir, I have this intention, just warm up before attacking the city tomorrow." Then he turned around and said to Fang Jing: "Fang Jing, are you willing to join my Jingwei Battalion?"

When Fang Jing heard this, he hurriedly stood straight: "The general just orders!" ”

"Okay, you will follow Yang Youhuai to fight later, this battle depends on your performance, if you are still good, you will be a member of my Jingwei Battalion!" Without waiting for Fang Jing to speak, Liu Ce said to Chen Qing again: "Tell me to go down, Yang Youhuai, Sun Cheng's department is the forward, Yang Kaishan, Feng Chou Nian, Xu Hui and the headquarters are the backup, and march into the quarry in turn!" ”

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In the quarry, a group of people each carried a large stone tied with a straw rope on their backs, and struggled to move in the direction of the town. Many stonemasons and craftsmen sat in front of a boulder with hammers and hammered constantly, and their faces were covered with lime, and they couldn't see any expressions. Not far away, several men kept swinging their sledgehammers and smashing them into the huge rock, and the wind blew up a gray color.

The outermost layer was full of thieves with all kinds of weapons, these people were sitting or lying, all listless, and several thieves with whips kept shouting at the people who carried stones, and rarely went wrong with a whip.

In the quarry there was a man of about twenty-five years of age who looked very strong, and was pounding on a boulder, but his eyes were scanning......

"Bang!" A boulder broke and rolled down, nearly hitting the craftsmen and thieves overseers below.

"Sun Biao! Do you want to stone Lao Tzu to death? Rough! One of the thief overseers below was raised by the dust rolling by the stones, and yelled angrily, "It looks like your skin is itchy!" Do you want Lao Tzu to give you a few more whips! ”

That man is Sun Biao, who was violently beaten by Liu Ce in the military camp a few months ago, speaking of this Sun Biao is also very unlucky, after being violently beaten by Liu Ce that day, he wanted to take revenge, but that night he was called by Deng Jiao to go to Gaoyang City to assist the Shi clan gate lord to escape to Caizhou. Originally, everything was going very smoothly, and he had already gone halfway, but suddenly Sun Biao found that his softness fell in the city, and it was not easy for him Sun Biao to save some money, and he had to honor his boss with a meager income, so he ignored the persuasion of Deng Jiaoniu and others, and resolutely returned to the city alone. When the news that the thieves had found their burden and broke through the Houtu Fort had come, looking at the countless fleeing soldiers outside the city and the thieves chasing behind him, Sun Biao was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and immediately ran to the city gate, but at this time, martial law had been issued in the city, and all the four gates of Gaoyang City were closed, and Sun Biao had no choice but to find a place to hide and find a way.

On the second day, the thieves attacked the city and plundered everywhere, Sun Biao threw away all the military uniforms and armor on his body in order to save his life, and found a piece of people's clothes casually, and finally found a chance to escape, but the good times did not last long, and he met the Jinheng Department as a prisoner within a few days of escaping. In order to survive, Sun Biao took out his ability to pretend to be his grandson, nodded his head, and miraculously survived under the nose of the "Jin Jiajun" a few months later and became a coolie, but he was thinking about escaping all the time......

"Master, I'm not intentional, look at me, alas......" Sun Biao saw the overseer coming over with a whip, and hurriedly changed his face to a flattering face, slapped his face with his hand, and made a loud beating.

Seeing this, the thief overseer waved the whip in his hand, slapped Sun Biao a few steps away, and said viciously: "Don't hurry up and work, don't want to be lazy!" ”

"Phew! It's better not to fall into my hands. Seeing the thief overseer leaving, Sun Biao muttered with a cold light in his eyes. Continuing to think about how to escape, a man quietly approached him and said, "Brother Biao, I have seen, there are more than 300 guards around this stone field, and it is not so easy to escape!" ”

When Sun Biao heard this, his heart suddenly cooled: "Then how about you say to climb over this stone mountain?" ”

"Brother Biao, don't be stupid, that's impossible, there are more than 20 shooters on the mountain, I'm afraid that I will be shot into a hedgehog before I climb halfway......"

"Damn, is it true that all your life is like this? My Sun Biao is not reconciled! Sun Biao slapped a stone on the side with one palm, and suddenly the stone cracked into several pieces!

The man hurriedly comforted: "Brother Biao, there will always be a chance, in fact, ......" The man suddenly wanted to speak and stopped.

"If there's a fart, let it go!" Sun Biao was very impatient when he saw him like this.

"Actually, Brother Biao, you can join the rebel army and be a leader......

Sun Biao pulled up the man's collar violently: "You listen to Lao Tzu, I don't want to hear this kind of thing a second time, Lao Tzu fell here because he didn't want to be a thief!" If you want to bring up this stubble again, I'll slap you to death! Got it? ”

Seeing that the man couldn't stop nodding, Sun Biao let go of his hand, and then said: "Besides, don't look at this thief, in fact, there is no future, and I, Sun Biao, don't look down on ......."

At this moment, suddenly there were hundreds of people dressed in riveted leather armor holding spears that they had never seen before, and they were walking slowly towards the quarry indifferently......

The thieves and coolies in the field didn't react for a while, and watched as the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion slowly approached......

"Mr. Qi, the quarry in front of you can accommodate ten people in and ......out side by side," Fang Jing pointed out the terrain ahead to Yang Youhuai, and Yang Youhuai immediately sent someone to convey the harvest information to Sun Cheng and Liu Ce. The convenience of reading and writing on weekdays was suddenly reflected, and the herald could clearly convey the orders and instructions of the generals to all corners without making mistakes......

"Change formation!" Yang Youhuai shouted, the troops in the flag quickly changed formation, the front row of ten spear and shield soldiers held a square shield, standing in front of the chest, the height of the square shield was 1.5 meters, erected just to cover the entire upper body and various vital points, holding the spear in his hand and standing at the mouth of the shield, behind the spearmen crossed and stood with the front row of spear and shield soldiers, the three-meter spear poked out of the gap in the shield, and the whole formation was like a barbed wall walking slowly......

"Enemy attack!" Only then did the thieves in the quarry react, and in the shouting and scolding of the thief commander, they panicked and picked up their weapons and prepared to fight.

"Who are these people?" Looking at the chaotic scene in the quarry, Sun Biao was puzzled, "Could it be that the official army has come back?" ”

Looking up, I saw more than 100 people holding spears not far away and attacking into the stone field, and looking at this formation, it was definitely not an ordinary army.

"Looks like there's hope to get out of here today." Sun Biao felt that his opportunity had come......

The defender of the quarry thieves was called Pang Ren, a small leader of the Jin family's army, and because of his ruthlessness and viciousness, he was deeply used by Jin Heng, so he was sent to supervise the quarry. At this moment, Pang Ren came back to his senses in the first surprise, and saw that these soldiers wearing armor in front of him were not officers and soldiers, and he was relieved in his heart: More than 100 people want to attack more than 300 people?

"Brothers, go up! Dare to offend my rebels! Wipe them all out in the gorge! Kill! Pang Ren ordered the thieves to rush and kill Yang Youhuai's spear formation on the spot, but he didn't know that he had made the same mistake as Hu Kui.

"Kill!" More than 300 thieves came to the Jingwei camp with red eyes......