Everywhere I passed, I heard the cries of women from time to time.

The battlefield is dangerous, life and death are uncertain, and the most humble wish of the people since ancient times is just to live a peaceful life.

Ma Mingluan was initially worried about affecting the morale of the army, and was trying to send someone to dissuade him.

But when he heard that the barracks had already smashed the pot, the old mother told the child to be safe, the old father told him not to be a bad seed to shame his family, and the squire told him to make a name for himself and win glory for the township, and he was quite relieved in his heart.

Dazu is only more than 100 miles away from Dazhou, all the way to stop and stop, less than two days to rush to Dazhou, is sitting in the lonely city of Dazhou Zhizhou Xu Kong is looking at the eyes of the eyes, while letting the officials prepare wine and food, so that everyone is full of food and drink, on the other hand, Ma Mingluan, Zhang Daniu and others are pulled aside, and they want to speak and stop looking quite embarrassed.

Looking at the surrounding officials with sad faces and uncertain appearances, Ma Mingluan smiled and said: "My lord, I will lead the militia to support by the general's order. ”

Xu Kongtu sighed: "Alas, the brothers have just arrived in Dazhou, and they will go to the battlefield before they have eaten a bite of food, and I can't bear it."

But, but I really panicked, yesterday more than 3,000 local rioters robbed four or five cottages around Wang's hometown, robbed 3,000 loads of grain, Liao Qifang put the general, Dazhou warden Liu Da, and the military room scribe Wang Sanma led the soldiers and horses to chase over, how is the battle ahead

I know, the old man is even more anxious now. ”

Ma Mingluan smiled and said, "My lord, saving soldiers is like fighting a fire, I understand this."

In this case, I will go and tell my brothers, that everyone should have a full meal, and then go on the road at once in the afternoon, and will surely be able to reach the king's house before dark, and take back the grain in any case. ”

Xu Kongtu was overjoyed, held Ma Mingluan's big hand again and again, and expressed his gratitude repeatedly.

Xu Kongtu and Ma Mingluan returned to the station, told about the robbery of Wang's hometown, and promised to take back the grain and grass, and would give 10% as a reward.

The crowd was excited, and most of them were peasant children, and they usually hated thieves and robbers.

Now listening to the blatant robbery of the local thyrs, if there are rewards for helping the people regain their property, everyone is quite excited.

Everyone shouted loudly, no matter what, they had to help the villagers regain the looted grain, and some even shouted loudly, don't eat first, and wait until you kill the local thugs to eat.

Ma Mingluan stopped everyone with a smile, now in late August, the weather is unusually hot, it is noon, everyone rests first, rests until the sun is in the west, and eats and drinks well, so that they can go into battle to kill the enemy.

Many people originally said it simply, but now when they hear Ma Mingluan say this, everyone applauds loudly.

After being full of wine and food, under the guidance of the guide, everyone walked like flying, walked for two hours (four hours), and walked more than 30 miles, Fang met Liao Qifang, Liu Dian, Wang Sanma and others.

Seeing Ma Mingluan leading 500 people to arrive, everyone seemed quite happy.

According to Wang Sanma's introduction, this group of local tyrants of about 5,000 people, led by Yuan Tao, the king of the sky, the king of the Black Sky Tiger, and the Huang Harrier of the king of Zhengshi, plundered Wang's hometown last night, killing and wounding more than 20 villagers, peasant women, or using wheelbarrows, or carrying them on their shoulders, and plundered 3,000 loads of grain and grass.

Before the sun set, the militia rushed to the team to escort the grain and grass, but when they saw that the soldiers were strong, they had to wait for reinforcements.

Now the 4th Battalion of Liao Qifang's Volunteer Army, the Guang'an Prefecture Militia Regiment has been killed one after another, and the soldiers are strong and strong, and they just happened to attack the local tyrants at night to recapture the grain and grass.

When Ma Mingluan heard this, he shook his head again and again, thinking that the local rioters had already taken precautions, and it would be difficult to succeed if they attacked at night.

Liao Qifang thought for a while and said: "Staff Officer Ma, although Yao Huang has a large number of people, the vast majority of them are just displaced people who have been coerced, plus the thousands of people who have been forcibly conscripted to transport grain and grass, the morale of the local tyrants is unstable.

Our army is well fed, there is no pink eye, everyone is good at night fighting, the adults have led us many times in the past to successfully defeat the local tyrants, if we wait for the flower to launch a night attack, it will be successful. ”

Ma Mingluan nodded and said: "What Mr. Liao said is reasonable, we are familiar with the weaknesses of the local tyrants, and I expect that the local tyrants are even more aware of their own characteristics.

Now that the local tyrants heard that our army was following behind, they must be worried about our army's night attack, so they must be prepared, and it will be even more difficult to succeed in the night attack. ”

Liao Qifang thought about it, touched his head and shook his head: "What Staff Officer Ma said is not unreasonable, but the local tyrants have plundered so much grain and grass and coerced more than a thousand people, if they are let run away like this, then I, Fan Mingshan, am really a sinner."

Staff Officer Ma, adults usually say that you are resourceful, tell me, how to fight this battle, right? ”

Ma Mingluan beckoned, and everyone hurriedly stretched their necks to listen carefully, and then applauded.

Everyone camped separately and set up camp to clarify the discipline of camping to the outside world to guard against night attacks by local riots.

The people also hurried for a day's journey, and everyone was happy to be idle, and everyone applauded loudly, so they set up camp and set up camp ten miles away from the local tyrants.

At this time, the local tyrants who were encamped in front of them, Yuan Tao, the king of Zhengshi, Huang Harrier, and the Black Sky Tiger King, saw that night was coming, and they all looked quite panicked.

The Volunteers are good at night attacks, Yang Lin led his subordinates to successfully defeat the local tyrants in many night attacks, and now the two armies are holding each other, if the other party launches a night attack again, who knows what the outcome will be.

There is no way, in order to prevent the night attack of the volunteers, Yuan Tao is ready to adopt the method of taking turns to keep vigil, that is, Yuan Tao's department in the first half of the night, Huang Harrier's department in the middle of the night, and Wang Gao's department in the second half of the night.

This is obviously unfair, the autumn is dark late, coupled with the hot and humid weather, and the first half of the night does not delay any sleep, keeping the first half of the night has no effect on themselves, unlike the second half of the night, being woken up from sleep, how not cost-effective.

Just when everyone was stubborn and wanted to keep the first half of the night, suddenly a crony of Yuan Tao hurriedly came and handed over a note, Yuan Tao looked at it, was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "You turtle sons are not willing to keep the second half of the night, for fear of suffering a little loss, so let's do it, Lao Tzu will keep the second half of the night, which is good." ”

Huang Harrier, Wang Gao and others did not know the situation and had to agree, and immediately agreed that Wang Gao would be in the first half of the night, Huang Harrier would be midnight, and Yuan Tao would be in the second half of the night.

Everyone was complacent, and left the big tent with a smile, and the dog-headed military advisor next to him was puzzled, looking at Yuan Tao and asking why.

Yuan Tao said with a smile: "Our army is facing off against the volunteers, in order to clean up these people, of course Lao Tzu arranged two eyes and ears for them."

Just now, there was news that the officers and troops had received reinforcements, and there were many of them, and they wanted to fight openly and openly, so they would not attack at night.

Tell the brethren to rest well, lest they run out of strength when they go into battle tomorrow. ”

When everyone heard this, they all claimed yes.

The owner of the house was sent to kill a beating hen, and after being full of wine and food, Yuan Tao lay down on the owner's big bed to rest.

In a trance, after an hour of this, I suddenly heard the sound of a cannon, followed by a rapid sound of birds, and after that, there were even more charges, shouts of killing.

Yuan Tao was shocked, turned over and got up from the bed, grabbed a short knife and rushed out of the courtyard.

From a distance, I saw that someone was running away on the hillside in front of me, a huge fireball broke through the sky, and the rain fell on the camp like a scattered flower, and there were birds everywhere, and the trumpets of the charge were raised, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Next to the camp, lit fireballs were thrown into the barracks, and now it was golden autumn, and the weather was quite hot, and many things were lit and caused a raging fire.

Although Yao Huang had been on guard, the other party was menacing, and everyone's reaction was still quite flustered, and the frightened displaced people and the looted people ran away in fright.

Many people lit torches and gathered in groups of people urgently, and everyone walked back and forth in the camp with torches, cutting and killing the crowd running around to stabilize the situation.

More than ten unlucky ghosts became the souls of the sword, so the situation was under control, and when Yuan Tao was about to gather troops to kill him, the front of him, which was still in turmoil just now, suddenly became very quiet.

Everyone waited for a stick of incense in fear, and the front was still as silent as death, and more than a dozen homeless people were arranged to rush over with torches to check, but there was no trace of the volunteers.

Everyone didn't dare to be careless, and the big and small leaders strengthened the open and dark posts, so after an hour, everyone was really sleepy, and they went back to rest one by one.

Nervous, everyone had just entered the dream, and suddenly heard a burst of cannon explosions on the left, followed by the sound of birds, and shouts of killing.

Although Yuan Tao knew that this was a plan to exhaust the soldiers, he did not dare to be careless one by one, and everyone hurriedly got up to reorganize the soldiers and horses to stop the commotion.

At the end of the night, more than 20 people were killed by their companions, and only seven or eight were wounded by the officers and soldiers.

By now, everyone knows that they have fallen into the plan of the volunteers to fatigue the soldiers, but they don't dare to be careless when they know that it is a plan, and the plan of the tired soldiers is to fatigue the opponent first, and then inadvertently kill them, defeat the opponent, and win the victory.

Now the situation is to get out of this place as soon as possible and transport grain to Bazhou, so that there is no need to be so worried about it at that time.

Everyone yawned one by one, yesterday they rushed for a day, and at night they encountered an attack on the camp, which made many people cry bitterly and couldn't stand it.

Yuan Tao had more thoughts, did this detailed work provide false information, or was it discovered?

Everyone hurried on the road, stopping and stopping, and morale was low up and down.