Huizhou Prefecture governs one prefecture and six counties, She County, Yi County, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Jixi, and Qimen. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past half a month, Liu Liu and Liu Qi have run rampant in most of these six counties, and have successively cholera in Xiuning, Jixi, Yixian, Wuyuan, and other four counties, swaggering across the border to plunder the people, and making quite a fuss.

While training troops, Zhu Houzhao has always been paying attention to the development of the situation. And in careful research, a major problem was discovered, among the six counties in Huizhou Prefecture, She County was the richest, and the wealthy families were also the most, and then the further south they went, the poorer they became.

The strange thing is that this group of horse bandits, whose primary task is to rob money, does not seem to have the idea of fighting Shexian at all, and many times they pass through the door without entering, as if they have simply given up a large piece of fat here, or they dare not at all.

Although She County is relatively close to the state capital, but judging from the report submitted by Moshanlin, let alone a few small county seats, as long as the operation is good, their group of people is completely capable of plundering the state capital.

The thousands of guards in the Huizhou Mansion were not the enemy of this group of horse bandits at all.

The last piece of information said that Liu Liu and Liu Qi led a large number of horse bandits towards Qimen.

Qimen County is the poorest county in the whole Huizhou Prefecture, with Qishan Mountain in the northeast and Changmen in the southwest. In the eyes of normal horse bandits, such a county is nothing at all, and the poor are like ghosts, and they have no value in plundering.

But the group of horse bandits still ran towards the mountains without hesitation.

No matter what, Zhu Houzhao felt that something was wrong. If such a thing had happened in another state capital, and the horse bandits had fled and the army of the guard station had suffered defeats, several chief officials in the palace would have been anxious a long time ago.

But Mo Shanlin did not have this situation at all, and Jia Lian had no intention of reporting to the imperial court for support.

As the military commander of the first government, when Moshan Lin was helpless after being defeated in a row, Zhu Houzhao, who had a lot of confusion, led a thousand soldiers who had been trained for half a month on the road.

Qimen County is located in the southern part of Huizhou Prefecture, with high mountains and many waters, and the roads are extremely difficult to navigate. This place is also close to Jiangxi, and the group of horse bandits will flee from this place to the jurisdiction of other provinces if they are not careful.

This time, Zhu Houzhao only followed a few little minions of Jinyi Guard, and none of the people from the team brought out. But fortunately, with the assistance of the two brothers of the Chen family, the two men who dare to look at the head still have a considerable deterrent effect on this team of more than 1,000 people, of course, the biggest source of deterrence is Zhu Houzhao.

After passing through the county, Zhu Houzhao's team walked for five days to the territory of Qimen County, which was regarded as nominally biting the tail of the horse bandits.

That night, after Zhu Houzhao entered the territory of Qimen County, he set up camp on the spot, and did not blindly break through. The latest information has been handed over to Zhu Houzhao, and the newspaper clearly pointed out that the horse bandits did not plunder the county seat of Qimen, but entered Qishan in the north of the county seat.

Such a situation undoubtedly gave Zhu Houzhao a headache, but after careful consideration, Zhu Houzhao relied on the large number of people and the crowd to issue a military order early in the morning of the second day and wave the army to Qishan.

Zhu Houzhao's habit is like this, as long as he encounters something that he can't figure out or can't see clearly, he has always adhered to the tradition of hitting two poles first with dates or without dates, and there will always be a little gain no matter what.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao is not alone, although the other team does not know what Zhu Houzhao is experiencing now, some news still keeps reaching Zhu Houzhao's ears.

It's a pity that most of it is information about Mo Ya's inner family's activities. Although this kid is a bully, he still has the talent to seize power in the family, and in a short period of time, he has regained some of the power that originally belonged to him, not too much, but there is hope.

But these are of no use to Zhu Houzhao's current situation.

Fortunately, the people of Jinyiwei are not stupid, and they finally carried some information about Moshan Forest in the leftovers sent up.

Zhu Houzhao found something unusual from these brush-by-pass messages.

"The Mo family has extensively searched for people from the green forest who committed crimes, and many of the leaders of the rogue are hiding in the Mo family, and the Mo Mountain Forest will take over!"

After seeing this message, Zhu Houzhao's strategy was immediately adjusted.

He no longer expected the 1,000 people under his command to make any feats, but passed the order back to Beijing through the Jinyi Guard, ordering the Shenji Battalion to send 800 people to Huizhou as soon as possible, including 300 cavalry and 500 musketeers.

However, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and the war situation on Zhu Houzhao's side is imminent.

After the army arrived in Qishan, because Zhu Houzhao got the secret report of Jinyiwei, he did not rush to attack and kill the robbers on the mountain, but camped on the spot.

Chen Ergou and Chen Fugui played the role of leaders under Zhu Houzhao, but because Zhu Houzhao was in the embarrassing situation that no one was available, these two were used as scouts by Zhu Houzhao at the same time.

While it was still early, the two brothers quietly touched the mountain.

In some consideration, after setting up camp, Zhu Houzhao did not sit in the camp, but also quietly slipped out of the Chinese military tent, far behind the Chen brothers.

Two fierce tigers suddenly appeared in a group of sheep, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be curious. Especially when the flag was sacrificed today, the two of them cut off four heads in the blink of an eye, and the corners of Zhu Houzhao's eyes jumped straight when they saw it.

The sword used by Chen Ergou is also okay, and the machete in Chen Fugui's hand is full of thirty catties, and it can be used as you wish. Zhu Houzhao is also a master of internal boxing, he naturally knows how strong the arm strength is if he wants to use such a heavy weapon, and it is needless to say.

Besides, that huge horse chopping knife was still Chen Ergou's weapon.

I don't know what kind of mentality the horse bandits on the mountain are in, it may be that Lian Zhan Lian Jie made them look down on the 1,000 officers and troops under the mountain at all, and there were no sentry posts on the mountain path.

Chen Ergou and Chen Fugui walked between the mountains and forests, like one like a spirit ape, and the other like a bear, very fast, and around Zhu Houzhao's skills, it was only very difficult to keep up.

Suddenly, the two seemed to have discovered something, stopped in unison, and quickly hid. Zhu Houzhao was shocked, could it be that these two people discovered their existence?

He hurriedly took two steps forward to find the figure of the Chen family brothers, but he quickly stopped.

A sound of footsteps and noisy talking came from the path up the hill.

After a distance of more than ten zhang, through the shadowy branches, Zhu Houzhao saw a team of more than ten men with machetes walking down from the mountain. It looks like a patrolling horse bandit, but it looks a different kind of lightheartedness.

Zhu Houzhao secretly observed, he was eager to see the reaction of the Chen brothers.

At the same time, he also took out the steel crossbow and held it tightly in his hand.

People who have two hands will never miss anything.