Chapter 144: Mighty and Blessing

The moment Zhuo Xianchen opened the curtain of the carriage, Zhuo Xianchen was such a seasoned soldier, with a twist of his wrist, he directly twisted the short sword in the hand of the person in the carriage. In the carriage, a young girl hugged a middle-aged woman, her face full of panic.

Zhuo Xianchen, who was wearing a metal mask, looked so eerie and terrifying, and he really deserved the uneasiness of a mother and daughter who seemed to be in the carriage. But Zhuo Xianchen didn't even say a word, and made a gesture to ask the sergeant on the side of the carriage to pay more attention, and that's it.

After a brief battle, less than twenty of the entire three-hundred-man contingent were alive, most of them those who had been hiding in the carriage and had not moved. After some interrogation, the sergeants finally understood what the origin of this team of Taizhou political secretaries was. It turned out that Zeng Jia, the previous Taizhou political secretary, was very old, and he was tired and sick when he arranged the supply arrangements for Jiang Xujing's department, so he had no choice but to let Sun Boping, who was originally in Subei Town to coordinate the supply matters at the front, and was quite familiar with the various situations in Taizhou, temporarily act as the Taizhou political secretary. Due to the difficult conditions in Subei Town, and it is almost impossible for Sun Boping to have the opportunity to return to Subei Town to serve after his transfer, Sun Boping immediately let the family go to Tianxu City, the capital of Taizhou, to enjoy happiness with him. And these belongings are so eye-catching that the daytime pavement may attract covetousness from many quarters, and may even attract some daring bandits to gamble. That's why they chose to walk day and night, under the escort of two hundred sergeants, and they took it for granted that it would be fine.

What I didn't expect was that it would not die. The group of people escorting his family bumped into Zhuo Xianchen's department.

The convoy consisted of Sun Boping's wife and a concubine, two sons and a daughter. And the mother and daughter that Zhuo Xianchen saw were Sun Boping's wife Qin and daughter Sun Meier.

They did not stay in place for long, although the night raid, the battle was extremely short, and the movement was not very large, but after all, it was in the territory of the enemy. Had to be careful. When they returned to their makeshift camp in the mountains, the sergeants guarding Sun Boping's family were still wearing masks, while the officers gathered to discuss how to deal with the matter.

"It's really a big fish," After hearing his deputy Hu Huaijing give a brief statement on the situation, Zhuo Xianchen was thinking about how to maximize the value of these people. If you can use these few Sun Boping's family members to make Sun Boping mess up at the very least, it will be able to make Jiang Xujing's supply a mess. And the better news is after Sun Boping was transferred to Taizhou as the political secretary. No one in Subei Town has yet taken his place. At present, Subei Town is still transferring all kinds of materials sent from behind according to the pace arranged by Sun Boping before. Rather than blackmailing an official in a key position with the family of that official, it was clear that disrupting the transshipment rhythm of Subei Town and causing a considerable amount of chaos in the supply of supplies on the front line seemed to be a more concise job.

"Let's find a place to stand first, is there a suitable place around here?" Zhuo Xianchen thought about it. His task seemed to be much easier in an instant.

Shang Suixun thought for a moment and said, "There is a place. There is a clan surnamed Li here, and the family has a lot of real estate, people...... Presumably, everyone under his command wanted to kill him. He had a mountain village more than forty miles from here. It was built into a castle with a lot of style. There were probably more than 500 Ding soldiers guarding the ...... If you are in charge, the loss will not be small. ”

Zhuo Xianchen smiled and said, "No need to attack." We have the family of the newly appointed political envoy of Taizhou, so it's always okay to borrow a place to rest for a day, right? No matter how domineering the Li family is, he will not be sloppy with such a powerful local official. Tomorrow night, inside and outside, I don't believe that the castle is really made of iron. ”

Indeed, with Sun Boping's genuine family, with a full set of official documents and other documents they seized. Lee's castle changed hands in a matter of minutes. An army of 1,000 men, led by Hu Huaijing, completed this simple task. The remaining 2,000 people carried out the first blow to Subei Town, which now has great hidden dangers.

Zhuo Xianchen led 2,000 men to suddenly attack two teams carrying heavy supplies, burning all the weapons and arrows and other things transported, and burning most of the food. In addition to the grain they used for their own consumption, they sent some of the grain to a nearby village inhabited by ordinary farmers and tenants. They didn't even stop a single step in the village, and each cavalryman threw his sack of food in the middle of the march in the village, and the task was completed. And they also left a second clue to their trickery - they set up a triangular banner with Tianwangzhai written in the middle of the grain pile. And their first clue was naturally to pile up the corpses of those Xiling soldiers who protected Sun Boping's family and set them on fire. Flags were erected around the fire...... Presumably, these two clues will definitely leave different impressions in the minds of different people.

And when they returned to the castle of the Li clan with almost enough food for three thousand people to consume for about a month. They didn't even stop at the castle gate to see if it had really fallen into their hands. They are too confident if they can't do even this little thing. Then what are they doing in Xiling?

From being ordered by Ye Tao to leave the brigade and march in the direction of Xiling, join Shang Suixun, sneak into the territory of Xiling, until robbing Sun Boping's family, capturing the Li Castle, attacking two baggage teams in a row and then returning to the Li Castle, a total of seven days have passed. In the past seven days, the forbidden army Zhuo Xianchen's troops have been marching and fighting continuously, and they have not rested well, and now, except for more than 200 people left to defend the castle in place, guarding the few people captured in the Li Castle and Sun Boping's family, the rest of the people can rest. Although the Li Clan's castle was designed to accommodate only 1,000 Ding soldiers, the luxurious houses that were originally used for the Li clan were no problem to use as dormitories, but the more troublesome thing was their more than 3,000 horses, breeding grounds and forage consumption, which was a super serious challenge.

While the soldiers were resting, the officers searched the castle very carefully. In addition to discovering that the castle built halfway up the mountain actually has a very luxurious secret passage that leads to the back mountain, allowing two people to lead the horse side by side, there is also a dungeon. Although Zhuo Xianchen and others are not familiar with Xiling's laws, they at least know that Xiling, like Dongping, is also separated from the previous unified kingdom, and the basic laws are similar, except that Dongping is much more advanced and perfect than several other countries in terms of commercial law and tax law. In any country, it is a crime to detain without permission. And when they spent two days, while quietly gathering the hearts of the surrounding tenants, while controlling the people who might go to the Xiling government to report to the Xiling government, while carefully investigating the identities of the various people who were locked up in the dungeon. Then, they found that the people they needed in their immature plans began to appear. a middle-aged man who was jointly oppressed by the Li family and the local government and ruined his family; A small official with no background, who was bent on asking for the people's life, but at a certain time asked the Li family to take out a little grain to help the tenants and yeoman farmers around him who were exhausted by the requisition of grain after being requisitioned by the army, but was thrown into the dungeon by the domineering Li family. Their backgrounds are very much in line with Ye Tao's requirements for two kinds of people, a leader of the peasant movement, and a spy who can be cultivated in the long term to infiltrate the official system of Xiling.

After spending a few days completely controlling the Li Castle and the surrounding attached granges, it seemed as if everything had not changed as before. While quietly radiating its tentacles to all sides, he was making various preparations, and he would rather be slower on the noose of the supply line of Subei Town and the entire Xiling army. Zhuo Xianchen's troops still adhered to the guidelines of marching at night and strictly concealing their whereabouts, preferring to take some long detours rather than let Xiling suspect the area of the Li Castle when he pursued. In the entire north of Taizhou, it may be difficult for the entire Zhenbei Military Division to find a better base.

Although Sun Boping had learned that his family had been robbed, the robbers remained silent, and no one came to demand ransom or anything else. What bothered him even more was that various abnormal situations began to appear near Subei Town, and from time to time there were attacks on the baggage team or the assassination of officials who counted supplies in several storage yards outside the town, which had begun to gradually affect the supply efficiency of Jiang Xujing's department.

But for the Xiling army, this is not the most worrying issue. When Jiang Xujing felt that he could attack at any time, defeat the Yunzhou army in front of him, and expand a large territory for Xiling, he received extremely reliable news: the Dongping army had arrived. Not only that, the location of the camp of the Dongping army made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and he happened to be stuck between the Bauhinia Valley camp and the Mengnan Banner military camp. If the army of Yunzhou dared to set up camp in this place so arrogantly, I am afraid that Jiang Xujing would have pounced on it with a large army, but the Blood Qi Army did not give him this opportunity. The speed at which the Blood Qi Army set up camp was amazingly fast, a fairly well-defended military camp was completed in just one day, and the outskirts of the camp were unabashedly set up with long-range weapons such as divine arm bows and ballista catapults, and the Blood Qi Army showed an obvious posture of preparing for an attack.

Jiang Xujing listened to the scout chief post under his command report on the situation, and was extremely angry. Does the Blood Qijun think he is a dead man? It was the first time he had dealt with the Blood Qi Army, and he was indeed shocked that the Blood Qi Army was well-equipped and well-trained, but at best, the Blood Qi Army in front of him was only more than 20,000 people. Sensing that with the arrival of the Blood Qi Army, the morale of the army on the Yunzhou side had also been greatly improved, Jiang Xujing felt that instead of waiting until his side was fully prepared, it was better to start fighting when the morale of both sides was high and they were not fully prepared. He believed that he would be able to wipe out the arrogant young men.