Tian Hu raised troops in Shanxi, and the refugees in Jingcheng County were under too much pressure, and the average daily consumption was tens of thousands of catties of grain and grass. Who knew that Chao Gai's will was very firm, and he replied: "It is a sin to starve the people to death, and I will find a way to do a good job in the resettlement of refugees if there is not enough food." ”

Huanghua Port used horse-drawn carts to transport countless grains, not only food, but also all kinds of fish, which was really unheard of by the refugees.

The increase in refugees is not without benefits, Shanxi is in chaos, and the number of strong men who are willing to go to sea to farm has increased, and almost every few days, thousands of people go to the Huanghua salt field to wait for loading. The world was in turmoil, and the state government stayed away from refugees, and no one cared about Chao Gai's recruitment of refugees to farm overseas.

There is no need to go to Heilong Island in winter, but the winter of New Jeju Island is not cold, it is the time of great construction, every few days there are one or two thousand strong men rushing to New Jeju Island, the population of New Jeju Island is expanding rapidly, and the county commander of New Jeju Island is so busy that Xiao Rang sweats on his forehead every day.

Ruda was urging the soldiers and refugees to build shacks together, and he took an order.

"Battalion Commander Lu, Battalion Commander Bian's order has arrived."

Although Luda and Bian Xiang are both battalion commanders, according to the arrangement of the military department, Bian Xiang is the main and Luda is the deputy, and Luda must obey Bian Xiang's orders.

Ruda said: "What's the matter. Luda took it and took a look, it was to let Luda rush to Shanshiqi's house to save Shanshiqi's family from danger.

Xie Zhen explained: "Shan Shiqi has participated in the Yuncheng competition twice, and our Jeju group training is quite related, today I received a letter from Shan Shiqi asking for help, saying that Tian Hu sent Tian Bao to lead more than 1,000 soldiers to besiege the village where Shan Shiqi's house is located, and Commander Bian decided to send you over to rescue and bring Shan Shiqi and his family to Jingcheng." ”

Luda said: "Since you are a friend in trouble, you must be rescued." The sprinkled family set off as a whole army. ”

The Luda battalion is infantry, with 500 soldiers, all machetes, and 30 auxiliary soldiers such as logistics. There were many mountainous areas along the way, so it was still suitable for infantry to march.

Luda's battalion was also beaten with iron legs and feet, and he walked more than 200 miles of mountain roads in two days, and the mules accompanying the army were tired enough.

The guide is an entourage of Shanshiqi, called Xiao Shanzi, a clever subordinate of the ghost.

Luda said: "Xiaoshanzi, it's almost there." ”

Xiao Shanzi said: "There are still six or seven miles, just go over the mountain in front." ”

Luda beckoned, let the soldiers hide in the roadside woods to rest, the rapid march is the easiest to damage the soldiers' combat effectiveness, so before the battle, it is necessary to send two sharp soldiers and Xiaoshanzi to set off together to go to Shanjia Village to reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

It didn't take long for Xiao Shanzi and the two spearmen to come back out of breath, and the spearmen said: "Report to the battalion commander, the enemy is besieging the village, and the village is fighting back fiercely. ”

It turns out that this is the case, Shan Shiqi is also famous in this area of Shanxi, firstly, he has quite a lot of property in his family, and secondly, a big iron rod in his hand is extremely brave, and he can be regarded as a master. Tian Hu raised troops, although Tian Hu was a big boss, but he had several military divisions under him, and persuaded Tian Hu to attach importance to talents. Shan Shiqi is the object of Tian Hu's invitation, if Tian Hu didn't know Chao Gai, he would definitely agree to Tian Hu, but Shan Shiqi has been doing business with Chao Gai in recent years, and has seen many heroes of the Jeju Army, and all kinds of things that benefit the people in Jeju, Shan Shiqi has secretly identified Chao Gai in his psychology and plans to defect to Jeju. Tian Leopard's kid led a thousand men and horses to invite Shanshiqi and invite Shanshiqi to come out. Shan Shiqi couldn't leave the house anymore, and Tian Leopard's kid was a quick temper, and he became angry as soon as he came and went, and sent troops to attack the village.

In the past few years, Shan Shiqi has been instructed by Chao Gai, and has made preparations for a long time, and the village is operated by an iron bucket, and the strong men in the village are also trained every day during the slack time, and each person has a weapon, so he is not afraid of Tian Leopard and them, which is why there is a stalemate in the past few days. Shan Shiqi was worried about Tian Bao's troops, so he sent Xiao Shanzi to Jingcheng County for help.

After three more miles, Ruda could already see the thieves besieging the village on the top of the hill. Although the defense of the village is strong, it is not a city after all, the courtyard wall is low, and the two sides are fighting fiercely, the thieves climb the wall, and the Zhuang Ding on it counterattacks with stones and spears.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers were only about seven or eight hundred, Luda immediately called the five company commanders under him and said, "This is the first battle of our battalion, and we must fight with momentum." ”

"Battalion commander, don't worry, we are five hundred tigers." The company commander said.

Ruda said: "Blow the trumpet, charge." ”

In fact, the five hundred soldiers did not have a few horns, but Ruda arranged for the auxiliary soldiers to have a horn in their hands, and they puffed out their cheeks and blew vigorously, and the horn sounded loudly.

Luda shook the big Zen staff in his hand and yelled: "Kill." ”

"Kill." Five hundred soldiers behind him shouted, and the heavy machetes in their hands were shiny.

Accelerating the charge, Ruda led the team to rush forward. Tian Bao found out that the enemy was attacking behind, and immediately stopped attacking the village, and sent 200 people to intercept Luda and others. But Tian Bao soon found out that the mistake was outrageous, Luda took the lead, a big Zen stick hit a large piece, dozens of catties of Zen staff was heavy, as long as it touched it, it was either dead or injured. The machete of the soldiers behind him was also sharp and heavy, and there were no tricks, and the thieves who were killed with one knife cried for their father and called their mother, and the two hundred people were scattered in an instant.

Tian Bao said: "Stop them, stop them, kill." ”

Tian Bao commanded the soldiers to surround it, and at this time, Shan Shiqi was looking out on the village wall, and when he saw the reinforcements, he saw that the morale was as fierce as a tiger. Immediately shouted: "The reinforcements have arrived, and those who are not afraid of death will be killed with me." ”

Immediately, Shan Shiqi led more than 200 Zhuang guests to kill the generals, and a big stick flew up and down, and the stick was wet and stained with red and white things.

Tian Bao saw that the general situation had gone, and immediately said: "The enemy is strong, retreat." ”

Originally, it could hold out for a while, but now when the order is to retreat, it will be an escape, and the main force of the thieves is nothing more than innocent people who have swept away, and their combat strength is very poor.

Luda and Shan Shiqi led their troops to chase out seven or eight miles, and Tian Bao led more than 100 remnants of the army to escape.

Shan Shiqi came over to thank Lu Dadao: "But the reinforcements sent by the battalion commander Jing Bian? Thank you here. ”

Luda said: "Sprinkle Luda, he is also acting on orders, and there is no need to be polite, but this place is not a place to stay for a long time, and Brother Shan has to leave quickly." ”

Shan Shiqi said: "It turned out to be Camp Commander Lu, I'm going to prepare, in addition to my family, there are more than 200 strong men in the village who are willing to go with me." ”

Ruda is stationed outside the village, cleaning up the battlefield. Shan Shiqi went back to the village to clean up, only packed fine and soft items, as for the coarse benzene furniture or something, they were distributed to the village, and they were not afraid that Tian Leopard would come back to retaliate, there were people on duty in the village every day, once they came, they hid in the mountains. Moreover, Tian Hu raised troops to eliminate corrupt officials and protect the people's banner, and for the sake of fame, Tian Bao would not lead troops to slaughter the people.

After Shan Shiqi and the people cleaned up, it was already sunset, and Luda said: "It's too late to leave at this time, and I'll leave tomorrow morning." ”

Shan Shiqi said: "Everything is subject to Battalion Commander Lu." ”

Ruda camped outside the village, and Shanshiqi also took people who were willing to go to Jingcheng to live in the barracks. Seeing the thick iron rod in Shan Shiqi's hand, Luda said: "You also use heavy weapons, and you want to have the strength to do it, why don't we have a discussion." ”

"This." Shan Shiqi didn't expect Luda to be so good at martial arts.

Luda said: "Our weapons are too heavy, let's fight each other." ”

Shan Shiqi was not easy to shirk, and he fought with Luda for a quarter of an hour, but Shan Shiqi was not strong, received two punches, and immediately retreated.

Shan Shiqi said: "Battalion Commander Lu is good, Shan Shiqi is not as good, your skills and strength are similar to those of Battalion Commander Wu." ”

Luda said: "You're talking about Wu Song, that's my good brother, he has enough strength and good enough alcohol." ”

After the martial arts competition, Shan Shiqi said: "When we return to Jingcheng tomorrow, we will definitely be pursued by Tian Leopard." ”

Ruda asked: "Why is this, does Tian Leopard have the guts?" ”

Shan Shiqi shook his head: "Today, Tian Leopard is only bringing some newly assembled soldiers, all of whom are people who have just put down their hoes, and the soldiers led by Battalion Commander Lu are rare and fierce, so Tian Leopard suffered a big loss." However, there is Tian Leopard leading a large army in Yangquan County, thirty miles away, known as 3,000 men and horses, although there are many new soldiers, but there are always veterans, so I conclude that tomorrow we retreat, Tian Leopard will definitely lead the veterans to pursue. ”

"It's better to take the initiative to attack passively, do the mountain brothers have the courage to accompany the Sprinkle family to go through, and tonight they will take Tian Leopard's camp." Ruda Road.

Shan Shiqi said: "Isn't this too dangerous, you must know that your mission is to pick us up." ”

Luda said: "The Sprinkle family has long been unaccustomed to these so-called rebels, if it weren't for Brother Chao Gai's strict order not to attack, the Sprinkle family would have gone to Taiyuan long ago." ”

Shan Shiqi thought about it and said: "Your battalion is now less than five hundred, and the strong men in my village are more than a hundred, and we are only six hundred together, which is less than Tian Leopard's 3,000 army." ”

Ruda patted his head: "Yes, the victory is also a miserable victory, we have to find another way." ”

At this time, the cattle in the barracks cried a few times, and there were more than 100 cows in the barracks, which belonged to Shanshiqi's family, and they were going to take them to Jingcheng together.

Shan Shiqi said: "I once heard Brother Chao Gai tell the story of the fire ox charging into battle, why don't we use these hundred cows to attack the camp of Tian Leopard." ”

"Very good, hurry up and prepare."

The two hit it off, immediately tied a knife to the horns of the cow, and put on a coat covered with oil, this method of warfare is very cruel, but these years don't talk about cattle, even people are not as good as pigs and dogs.

didn't bring many people, Luda only selected 300 big sword soldiers, and Shan Shiqi brought dozens of villagers to drive cattle.

The group drove the cattle to the vicinity of the Tianbao camp in the dark, and saw tents connected to tents from a distance, and patrolling soldiers walking back and forth.

Shanshiqi drove the ox forward, and when he was about to reach the camp, he set it on fire. The fierce fire oil burned violently, and the oxen screamed wildly, making a mess of Tian Leopard's barracks.

"Kill." Ruda roared, and led the troops to kill him with Shan Shiqi.

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