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"Boom ......"

Dusty.

A tidal wave of troops surged on the official road.

In front of them were a team of horses, dressed in blue and red, wearing mostly felt hats and cloaks, and some of the elite horsemen in cotton armor were out in streams.

They not only searched both sides of the official road ahead, but also searched the surrounding boundaries for miles or tens of miles to avoid being ambushed again.

Behind the cavalry were foot soldiers, all wearing felt hats or turbans, and all kinds of weapons, such as swords, shields, spears, bows and arrows, bird guns, three-eyed guns, etc., which seemed to be twice as many as the horses in front.

They also dragged some artillery pieces in their ranks, although they were all small Francophone cannons, but there were dozens of them.

Finally, there was a huge army of fedgars and hungry people, who dragged horses and horses, and outnumbered the infantry and horses in front of them combined. Then in the procession, there were countless vehicles, mules, donkeys, cattle and other animals, transporting a large amount of grain and baggage.

The number of people in the team is more than 10,000, and the amount of grain and grass needed is huge.

This man eats horses and chews, and the amount of grain and grass consumed every day is hundreds of stones, and the huge baggage team can be imagined.

Longtou Mountain.

This mountain is twenty-five miles away from the southwest of Suining County, there is a red clay mound on the mountain, it is named after the dragon shape in the distance, there is the stone drum temple on the mountain, the Qingyun Temple, there is a village in the surrounding area. Under the mountain is the official road, there is the official mountain in the southwest, and there is the official mountain set in the southeast of the official mountain.

At this time, on Longtou Mountain, in addition to the word "Chuang" and the word "Luo" flag, there are a few flags flying high, and those gathered around are all fine riders wearing thick inlaid iron cotton armor.

They have fierce and cruel expressions, all of them are skilled in equestrianism, and there is a tyrannical and murderous atmosphere, and many of them have more than one war horse around them.

In front of the flag, there are three thieves standing side by side.

One of the three thieves was younger, probably about twenty years old, wearing a felt hat, a blue arrow suit, a rough felt cloak, and riding a yellow horse.

He rode a war horse, his young face was full of fierceness and sharpness, and he had the temperament of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, but he was the nephew of the drama thief Li Guo and the thief Li Zicheng.

A middle-aged man in his forties beside him, riding a black horse, dressed in the same felt hat and arrow suit, with a steel whip hanging from the saddle, a rough black face, deep eyes, and steady on the horse, he had a taste of cunning and wisdom.

But it is the drama thief Yuan Zongdi, one of the eighteen horsemen who broke through the Nanyuan Siege, like Liu Zongmin and others, killed his wife and swore to follow Li Zicheng, which can be described as the backbone of the camp, and the former battalion general not long after, Mianhou.

Finally, there was a thin thief general about thirty years old, dressed in red, covered with a gray coarse felt cloak, with a frivolous, arrogant, and vicious expression on his face, typical of the thief general at this time.

There was a hint of cunning in his eyes, but it was Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long.

Luo Rucai is also known as Cao Cao, the most cunning and resourceful, his nephew Wang Long is quite similar to him in all aspects, even in terms of hobbies and appearance.

Luo Rucai's wives and concubines are in groups, and every time he captures a place, he collects opera troupes and dancing girls from all over the world, and Wang Lung is the same. There are dozens of dancing girls in his tent, all of them are silk and satin, and the flowers and branches are showing, and at this time, the army went north to retaliate, and the dance girls of the troupe all came with the army.

There are also Xie Junyou, Tian Hu, Zhang Neng, Li Rugui and other thieves riding horses, all of whom are important generals in the front and rear camps of the camp in the future, or important leaders in the Cao camp.

Special thanks to Junyou, who was ambushed a few days ago, with an army of 1,800 people, and the remaining hundreds fled back.

At this time, he was silent and rode his horse, looking at the team that was going northeast like a tide, only to see the smoke and dust like a dragon, mighty and mighty.

Beside him was a lean donkey, wearing pure cotton armor, riding a war horse, looking at the tide of people and horses on the official road, his face showed a very excited look. This battle will definitely break the city and pull out Yang Xiucai, who killed a thousand knives, and kill his head.

The sound of horses' hooves "stomping" was followed by another fine horse.

He "sighed the law" in front of everyone, and immediately reported: "Report to all the big leaders, the old master, the official Shanji is unwilling to surrender to my righteous army, and he will not let the brothers enter the village, but he is only willing to give a reward of 100 stones." The brothers who fetched food were all around, but there were too few small villages here. Those big villages, the surrounding terrain is treacherous, it is not easy to attack, the brothers borrow some grain at most, each village dozens of stones, a hundred stones. ”

Yuan Zongdi inquired carefully and learned that although there were many grain teams, they had only "borrowed" more than 1,000 stones of grain and grass from more than a dozen villages, which was a drop in the bucket.

Li Guo beside him was very angry, and after letting the spirit ride away, he scolded loudly: "It's really a poor mountain and bad water, what a broken place, donkey balls, even the grain and grass for the troops have to be dug by themselves." ”

After Li Guo and other teams entered Suzhou and other places in the east, they found a phenomenon: in this part of Huaibei, because the Yellow River often bursts, there are too many muddy lakes in various states and counties here, especially in Suining, which is densely covered with ponds and lakes.

If the village on this side lives between the plains, the village will stand in the muddy pond, leaving only a winding dirt road to travel. With such a terrain, it is impossible to arrange troops at all, and no matter how many people attack, it is meaningless.

In particular, there are many large villages, several, more than a dozen villages combined, with a population of tens of thousands, and they are still very united, men, women, and children go into battle together, and attack such a stockade, if you bite hard copper peas that will knock out your teeth.

With their arrogance, they can only coerce and force them to borrow some grain and grass to deal with such a local tyrant.

Some of the big villages that are built on the mountains are even more difficult to beat, just like this official mountain set, behind the mountains and around the lake and ponds, Li Guo and others did not know how to put their mouths after observing.

And the Guanshan set seems to echo the dragon head set here, which is even more difficult to deal with.

It has also formed a phenomenon, caused by the exiles, the prefectures and counties and small villages have suffered, leaving the big heroes and strong to stand in the countryside.

Seeing that Li Guo was annoyed, Wang Lung on the side smiled and said, "Why should Brother Li Guo be angry, didn't you expect this situation?" It is best to borrow grain, but if you can't borrow grain, the grain and grass in our army are enough for half a month's food. It is only a small county town, and it will be captured in three or five days, or at most ten days, and there will be grain and grass replenishment in the interim. ”

Seeing that it was Wang Lung who spoke, Li Guo squeezed out a smile on his face, and he laughed and said: "Brother Wang Long is right, we have an army of 15,000 people, and we are only a small county town, there is really no reason why we can't attack it." ”

Wang Lung smiled again: "A tiger is out of the horse, and it must be a brave countryman, and it must be fleeing from the wind." I don't know what kind of Peugeot little lady is after the city is broken. I don't know what is the difference between this little lady of Suining and the little lady of Lingbi? Haha......"

He giggled and behaved in a frivolous and exaggerated manner, as if the battle was a pleasure in the mountains and rivers.

Li Rugui and other generals behind him laughed as loudly.

Disgust flashed on Li Guo's face, and then disappeared, to be honest, everyone in the camp was very blind to Luo Rucai's camp, and they were drunk! Like them, wives and children will kill when they say they will kill, this is the person who does great things.

However, at this time, Li Chuang and Cao Cao converged into a coalition army, and they were in the honeymoon period, and Luo Rucai's strength was even more impressive at this time, "There are five horsemen, each post is 3,000, 30,000 infantry, and no less than 450,000." ”

In this eastward attack, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long combined 5,000 soldiers and horses, and 20,000 foot soldiers.

At this time, the northeast went up to attack Suining, Wang Lung also brought a thousand horse teams and two thousand foot soldiers, Li Guo was disgusted in his heart, and the sincere unity attitude on the surface still had to be made, otherwise Wang Lung would go back to complain, afraid that it would be difficult to explain to the king.

When they joined forces to retaliate, they had a total of 2,000 fine horsemen, 4,000 foot soldiers, 4,000 auxiliary troops, and 5,000 hungry people to fill in the trenches and dig the earth, so that there were 15,000 men and horses, which were called 30,000, which can be called mighty.

When Xie Junyou returned from defeat, it was not long after Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others conquered Lingbi County.

Xie Junyou led a fine cavalry team of 1,000 people to the north, all of them were elite, and raised as many as 1,800 people, in the ordinary county town, there were 1,200 strong people in the government service, and some strong men were driven to the city, at most more than 1,000 people, and they had to defend four gates.

With such a force, no matter how casually some hungry people are coerced, the number of them is tens of thousands, and to be honest, ordinary county towns can be easily captured. But they were defeated, and less than 300 men and horses ran back, and they were still ambushed and defeated in the wilderness.

At this time, when the rogues are rampant, how can they not take revenge?

Hearing Xie Junyou tell about his experience at that time, how could Li Guo and the others not be curious?

The firearm used by Sui Ning Xiangyong was quite strange, and according to Xie Junyou and the others, it may have been a thunderbolt loaded with breech, which made Li Guo and the others even more curious.

Because there were too many officers and soldiers who surrendered in the camp, the number of firearms in the army naturally increased dramatically, and most of them used breech-loading birds, and it was not for nothing that there were breech-loading thunderbolts like Franc machines. However, it is rough and simple, and the fire often leaks out, causing casualties to the users.

Only some people transform themselves, and occasionally some people in the army use it, but it is not on a large scale.

That Suining Xiangyong used breech guns on a large scale, and Li Guo was young and vigorous, and he was also full of curiosity about many things, so he strongly advocated coming to retaliate, and by the way, he saw and understood.

Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long was just as curious and followed.

Yuan Zongdi was deep and steady, and he had always advocated that he would not raise troops because of anger, and Suining was a small place, and his bones were hard, so in his opinion, there was nothing to fight.

Even if the army is invincible, it is nothing to fail once or twice.

But Li Guo and others strongly advocated revenge, and he couldn't dissuade him, so he just stopped. However, he was cunning and cunning, and the main force of the eastward march remained in Lingbi, Suzhou, especially the heavy generals, and the siege of Suzhou City was non-stop, with 25,000 soldiers - now 24,000, and only 6,000 people were dispatched.

Nevertheless, they fed and starved the people, and their revenge on men and horses also amounted to fifteen thousand, and the need for food and grass was very large.

When they came, there were about 4,000 horses and mules, and they ate about the same amount of grain and grass as a man, and this man ate horses and chewed them, and the grain and grass they consumed in a day was more than 300 stones, and the grain and grass that they had prepared for half a month was nearly 5,000 stones.

Fortunately, the army went north and "borrowed" grain everywhere, and also borrowed more than 1,000 stones of grain and grass, which was considered to be sufficient.

The army set off from Lingbi, the foot soldiers dragged down the speed, all the way to search all over the place, to prevent the ambush again, walked for two days, and finally not far from Suining County, seeing that the terrain here is good, Li Guo and others are here to wait and see.

Looking at the mighty team, there was a high-spirited look in the eyes of all the thieves, as if in the fifteen years since entering Chongzhen, the army has been invincible in every battle.

Yuan Zongdi held the reins in one hand and looked at the steady stream of troops heading north, with contemplation in his eyes.

So far, the possibility of setting up an ambush on the road in Suining Township has been ruled out.

The sentinel came to report that the southeast, north and south sides of Suining City were not easy to fight, and troops could be arranged outside the west gate, but the townsmen of Suining County seemed to be ready to fight according to the city, digging trenches outside the city, building earthen walls, and there seemed to be clues on the city wall.

They put on a tough battle posture, which is very different from the states and counties they encounter along the way.

Their own sentinels are not yet ugly enough to defend them, because if they approach, they will be bombarded with firearms and driven away by their sentry horses.

In particular, they are sentry horses, and their handcuffs are very sharp, and their own horsemen can ride and shoot, and they are completely inferior to their firearms.

They were also one man and three horses, and they ran very fast, and many of their own situations were sentry by them, and then when they saw that the situation was not good, they went away.

Thinking of their sharp sentry horses, Yuan Zongdi's eyes showed caution, this group of villagers is brave, and it is not easy to deal with.