The next morning has arrived at the territory of Zhao County, although Zhao County is not a big place, but has a long history, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period has formed a small city, is an important wheat producing area, the Great Song Dynasty in the south of the month is dominated by rice, the north of the fine grain is mainly wheat, steamed steamed buns, make buns, make noodles raw materials, Zhao County is the main production area of wheat, which is why the Liao soldiers chose here as a stronghold.

Luda, Zhao Long, the old village chief, Quartz and others led the army to Xiaojiaying Village, which is thirty miles away from Zhao County, west of Zhao County. The village chief Shi Lao opened the conversation box and said: "This Xiaojiaying Village was still a barracks forty or fifty years ago, and the general who led the troops was surnamed Xiao. ”

"At that time, my grandfather was only a teenager and was in charge of miscellaneous labor in the barracks." Quartz said, "Grandpa, you've said it dozens of times. ”

Luda said: "The years of Rongma are the most unforgettable, is the old man still familiar with this area, let's start acting immediately." ”

The old village chief said: "Here is my old friend Xiao Zhuang, let's go find him." ”

The team was advancing, and a vote of men and horses were killed in the camp of the Xiao family in front, not to mention six or seven hundred people, led by dozens of cavalry, and the ones behind were all strong men, holding all kinds of weapons.

This group of people was guarding the entrance of Zhuangzi, and they were bold enough to dare to come out in the face of more than 2,000 cavalry.

Ruda called over the top soldier of the front army and asked him to ride over and communicate first, so as not to misfire.

Shi Lao Village Chief said: "It's better for me to go, the people are also afraid of the chaotic years." ”

Luda said: "It's okay, our army is stationed here, and the old village chief will go over to meet old friends." ”

The old village chief took a dozen strong men and rode over, and after less than a stick of incense, he came back again, and brought an old man. Shi Lao Village Chief said: "Battalion Commander Lu, Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao, this is the owner of Xiao Zhuang." ”

Luda and Zhao Long didn't trust it and bowed their hands.

Xiao Zhuang said: "You are the Luda who is called Lu Madman, and the Liao soldiers who fought are scattered." ”

"That's just an exaggeration by the people, and the Sprinkle family has only won a few battles." Ruda Road.

Luda is not a polite person, chatted a few words, and soon the two sides were not as good as the topic, Luda said: "The Sprinkle family was ordered to drag the Liao soldiers in Zhao County, but there are nearly 30,000 soldiers in Zhao County, and the strength of the army in charge of interception in Jeju is relatively weak, and it is necessary to mobilize the people nearby, I don't know if the old owner Xiao is willing to help, mobilize the people, and distribute weapons, so that the Liao soldiers have no way to continue to endanger the people nearby." ”

Xiao Lao Zhuang said: "Lao Shi has already told me that the two of us still have a certain influence among the people in this area, and the people have long wanted to resist the Liao soldiers, but there is no one to take the lead, and there is a lack of weapons, so this has been forbearing, as long as someone takes the lead, it is definitely not a problem to launch a strong man of 350,000 or 50,000, they are all strong men who dare to fight." ”

"Okay, then let's get started today. I arranged for the two old owners to be protected by 200 elite soldiers, and the two of them lobbied the villages as soon as possible, so that the villages could organize strong men, and after the organization was completed, weapons could be distributed. ”

Immediately began to split up, Xiao Zhuang and Shi Zhuang took 200 cavalry and some weapons to the nearby villages to lobby, and Luda brought 800 cavalry to patrol nearby to strictly prevent Liao soldiers from sneaking attack. Zhao Long led the rest of the soldiers to set up camp.

Xiao Zhuang Zhuang, Shi Zhuang Zhuang's actions are still very smooth, although Zhao County is not far from Zhending City, but the damage is very serious, there is no other reason, Zhao County is fertile, is a well-known wheat producing area, Zhao County county warehouse is full of grain, the Liao soldiers came directly to rob the grain of the county granary, the county order was killed, the head Zhao Si led more than 100 horse troops to surrender to the Liao soldiers.

Zhao Si surrendered to the Liao soldiers in order to make meritorious service, the first thing he did was to propose to collect food from the people, the Liao soldiers went south to get what is food, immediately divided the Liao soldiers into a team of five or six hundred people, and went to the villages and alleys to collect food, the Liao soldiers were very fierce, and they obediently handed over the food, if not, they would definitely kill a chicken and dog and not stay, it was not easy for the common people in these years, there was not much grain in stock, and the food would die, if the food was given to the Liao soldiers in the spring of the next year, it would be starving to death, so the people were in trouble, and they fled to death. Almost every village was sacked by the Liao soldiers.

Therefore, the owner of Xiao Lao Zhuang and the owner of Shi Lao Zhuang came over with the cavalry to publicize, saying: "The Jeju army has defeated the Liao soldiers several times, and the Liao soldiers are now at the end of the road. ”

The common people are very simple, if you rob my things, it won't work, everyone said: "It's not that we are greedy for life and afraid of death, we are all pure masters, but we only have kitchen knives, hoes, shovels, how to beat the spears and knives of the Liao soldiers." ”

Old Xiao said: "What you said is true, you dare to fight with the Liao soldiers if you have weapons." ”

"It's not true."

"Here, good spear." Old Master Xiao handed the spear to this man.

This man took a look at it, and the head of this spear was half a foot long, very sharp, and it was indeed a good weapon for battle.

These two people are very appealing in this area, and they went to six or seven villages that day, mobilized nearly 3,000 strong men, and made an appointment to go to the barracks tomorrow to receive weapons together.

The book is brief, these two old village chiefs led the cavalry, lobbied around, and coupled with the prestige of Luda and Zhao Long, in three days, it only took three days to mobilize nearly a hundred villages and 20,000 strong men.

Ruda put the men together, and each of them was given a spear, and each of them also carried a hoe, shovel and other weapons.

The training of these strong men is still more troublesome, but fortunately, Ruda does not plan to let them go into battle, so a little bit of organization and discipline is okay.

In the evening, the herald sent by Wang Jin said, Luda frowned after reading the military order, and Zhao Long asked: "Battalion commander, what can still make you worry?"

Lu Da said: "The situation is sudden, the Liao soldiers in Zhao County will retreat tomorrow, and Wang Jiaotou ordered us to make sure that the three major roads to the north in Zhao County are all destroyed tonight, and the Liao soldiers must be delayed for three or two days." ”

Zhao Long said: "Twenty thousand strong men are here, they may not be good at fighting, they must be able to work, let's go." ”

Immediately the whole army set out, first to the road north of Zhao County, Luda waved his hand, ordered Zhuangding to excavate, to dig the road off, but the hoe planing up clicked, digging not frozen at all, it turned out that a few days ago there was a light rain, now it has passed the winter solstice, the weather is cold, the road is frozen. If the road is not dug up in this situation, with more than 10,000 cavalry, it should be able to stop the 30,000 army led by Xiao Hong, but most of these 10,000 cavalry are new recruits, and they must have suffered heavy casualties.