August is still the golden autumn in Chudi, the field is filled with the fragrance of wild cinnamon, and the vicinity of Jing'zhou has been developed since the Three Kingdoms era, and at this time, it is the land of fish and rice. Moreover, it has been peaceful for a long time, and it is completely different from the drought locusts in the Central Plains, and it is completely different from the repeated wars and fires in Nanzhili, and she looks like a gentle and quiet country girl, shyly and fragrant smile.

She may not be as rich and glorious as everyone's ladies, but she has her own happiness and longing.

Bai Wenxuan is full of desire to possess and ravage this peaceful land, and he wants the novice to tear her happiness and longing to pieces.

However, Sun Kewang's death more than three years ago made Bai Wenxuan more cautious. Especially when Zhang Xianzhong took his arm and commanded, he was even more vigilant.

"Wen Xuan, there is one thing, I haven't told Cao Ying, this Fang Kongzhi has a niece, who is Yu Guozhen's daughter-in-law. Therefore, under Fang Kong's account, there must be Yu Guozhen's tiger guard, you must be careful, don't ask for merit, but ask for no fault, if there is anything, let Cao Ying and them go. ”

These words made Bai Wenxuan both a little unconvinced and a little moved, if he wasn't worried about his safety, why would the Eight Kings be here.

Zhang Xianzhong is a fierce person, and he can be said to be the most among the thieves and chiefs, but he is extremely affectionate to the people around him, so although he occasionally feels that what the Eight Kings are doing is not quite right, Bai Wenxuan, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, etc., are still loyal to him.

"Major General, I see officers and soldiers ahead!"

As he pondered, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping, but it was the scout who came to report the news.

He looked left and right, and before he could make up his mind, Luo Rucai's subordinate asked loudly: "How many officers and soldiers, five thousand?" ”

"No, there are only more than 1,000 people, it seems that they are the forward of officers and soldiers, and they are building a barracks, and it seems that they want to defend the camp and wait for rescue."

"How far is it?"

"Less than five miles!"

Before Bai Wenxuan could answer, a child of his own family who returned to Ma Shouying smiled and said: "Luck, luck, it's getting late this day, so they helped us set up a camp, which is really luck." ”

"The camp of officers and soldiers, you dare to live in it? Don't forget Yu Guozhen's methods when he was in Nanzhili, who knows if there is fire buried underneath! Bai Wenxuan said: "Be careful, probe again, and see how far away the officers and soldiers are." ”

He gave the order to probe again, and then settled his men and horses, but did not rush forward. About half an hour later, another group of scouts arrived, and their appearance was a little strange.

"Major General, Officers and Soldiers Brigade...... They took off their costumes and scattered to loot the villages. ”

"What?"

This news surprised everyone.

Zhang Xianzhong's department did not deal with Zuo Liangyu, who was the worst in military discipline among the officers and soldiers, and did a lot of robbery and looting than the rogue, but it was slightly better in indiscriminate killing. Therefore, they were not surprised by the looting of the villages, but were surprised that the officers and soldiers would take off their clothes.

Immediately, Bai Wenxuan understood: "I heard that Fang Kongzhi is known as a virtuous person, and he governs the army strictly, if the officers and soldiers wear the clothes of the officers and soldiers to plunder, they will be governed by them, and now they take off the clothes of the officers and soldiers, and they can blame us...... His grandmother's, these dog officers and soldiers are deceitful, they have the benefits, and we have the infamy on our backs! ”

"What else do you see?" Luo Rucai's subordinates saw that the scout was spitting and spitting, obviously he had not said anything, so he asked.

The villain saw the officers and soldiers on the cart...... cough, the box fell down, it was full of gold and silver, and there was also a cart of Di Gong wine......"

The scouts looked at the forest from afar, thinking that they had not been discovered by the officers and soldiers, but they did not have a sharp weapon like a telescope in their hands, so they naturally did not know that what they saw was a scene. But after the scouts reported that they had seen a large amount of gold, silver, grain, wine and cloth looted by the officers and soldiers in several villages, they were immediately excited, especially Luo Rucai's department, just like Luo Rucai himself, their pursuit of wealth and goods was endless, and when the general of Luo Rucai's department said: "In this case, what are you waiting for, why don't we go until the officers and soldiers are empty?" ”

"Wait, who knows if this is a trick to lure the enemy?" Bai Wenxuan is not dizzy yet.

"The plan to lure the enemy, only relying on a group of officers and soldiers who have robbed countless goods to lure the enemy? It's just 5,000 people, it's to lure the enemy, we can also support him, be cautious on the road! ”

Everyone responded violently, and Luo Rucai's department was the first to move, and then Ge Liyan, Zuo Jinwang and other departments also followed. Bai Wenxuan was helpless, and he had to follow.

However, although he followed, he was still extremely cautious, and in more than five miles, it was only a moment's work before they saw the camp set up by the officers and soldiers. Because the camp was set up in a bit of a hurry, only shallow ditches were dug and some antlers were piled up haphazardly.

Seeing the rogue coming, the camp was obviously panicked, and after a while, the stockade was opened, and a group of about 500 officers and soldiers rushed out crookedly.

"Kill the thief, kill the thief!"

The officer and soldier roared and charged this way, probably trying to kill a person who was unprepared, but now it is really difficult to tell which side is unprepared. Even Bai Wenxuan felt that he was too cautious, these hundreds of officers and soldiers actually flaunted their might in front of tens of thousands of them, and they really thought that they were all five tiger generals?

The officers and soldiers did not have a formation, but the Liukou was still barely maintaining the formation, but the Liukou could not talk about any military discipline, and there was still a gap of half a mile, and some people put down the birds.

As soon as the sound of the guns sounded, the officers and men immediately panicked, and the ranks were sparse, and then some people turned around and left, and some wanted to stop patrolling, but the dozens of bold forwards were still advancing. When they realized that their companions were gone, they looked back at their camp, and it was clear that they were also afraid.

"This is the bait-inducing army?" Someone said beside Bai Wenxuan, which embarrassed Bai Wenxuan.

"Look again, look at ...... again"

Before he could say anything, he saw that the officers and soldiers of the group shouted, and even the dozens of the most heroic people in the front turned their heads and ran. They didn't run slow when they came, they fled faster when they turned back, and in the blink of an eye, they ran a hundred and ten paces!

"Uh......"

Bai Wenxuan was stunned, if you lure the enemy, you have to come up at least twice and then leave, what is going on with turning around and running away like this?

When he was stunned, the rogue army was also at a loss.

Ji Yan scolded as he ran: "You bastards, what are you doing running so fast? ”

"Swallow, you're the fastest, why are you falling behind today?"

"It's just acting, you are acting too seriously, and the show just lets you act during the Chinese New Year......"

They are not afraid that their words will be heard by the thieves, for they are nearly a mile apart, and the thieves are noisy and noisy, and even the voices of their own people may not be able to hear them clearly.

Among the officers and soldiers, the last to run were naturally Ji Yan and others, and they were the only ones who had such courage to turn around and run back when they approached less than 200 steps away from the Liukou.

Seeing that the attacking officers and soldiers turned around and ran back to the camp, and the officers and soldiers in the camp also shouted and fled, Bai Wenxuan could no longer hold back the rogues who were in a hurry to step forward.

In the distance, Gao Dazhu saw this scene in the telescope and slapped his leg suddenly: "The first step is done, go!" ”

"These rogues have suffered a lot of losses from petty officials in Nanzhili, and they are still like this!" A tiger guard followed him and said, "I haven't seen them grow at all!" ”

"Have you ever read the article "On Thieves" sent by a petty official?" Gao Dazhu glanced at the tiger guard.

The tiger guard scratched his head and smirked, "Look...... But when I look at it, I doze off. ”

"The book issued by the petty official, you still dare to read it and doze off, no wonder you can only be a small soldier!" Dazhu hates that iron does not become steel: "The book says why thieves and sacrificial thieves are called thieves instead of rebels, or in other words, the fundamental difference between thieves and rebels throughout the ages is that what the rebels do is to establish a more just and reasonable order, while what thieves do is purely to destroy all order." This nature of the rebels determines that they care for the people, rather than coerce and persecute them; The nature of the thieves determines that no matter what slogans they play, such as 'doing the right thing for heaven' or 'robbing the rich and helping the poor,' they cannot form an ordinary disciplined force......"

"On Thieves" is an article published by Yu Guozhen in the face of the Xinxiang system, and the purpose of this article is to draw a clear line with the common people of Xinxiang and some of the Huwei who sympathize with the rogues and believe that it is the official coercion and the people's rebellion. Yu Guozhen wrote this article shortly after Song Xiance came to Xinxiang, and more importantly, the article was written in the vernacular of this time, so that ordinary people who had learned to read and write through night school could also understand the meaning of the article.

Song Xiance didn't know that it was his arrival that prompted Yu Guozhen to write this article, but after reading this article, he sighed and felt that a problem that had plagued him for many years was solved. Moreover, he also saw from this article that Yu Guozhen had some unstated meaning: now the Ming Dynasty is ruled by an unjust and unreasonable old order, and the Liukou only knows how to destroy this order and replace order with disorder, and only Xinxiang is trying to establish a new order that is in line with the long-term development of China.

This is the so-called "ordered by heaven", this is the so-called "Fengtian carrier"!

"Did the petty official really say that?" The tiger guard smacked his tongue and said, "The enemy is thousands of miles away...... When I get back to that book, I'm going to read it. ”

"Grind and wait, let's go back and prepare first, it's only the first link now, I think there are still extremely cunning people in this gang of rogues, if you want to really let them be completely fooled, you have to work a little harder!"

Soon after they left, the rogues rushed into the camp, where they found a large number of materials for the construction of the camp, but there was nothing of the gold and silver treasures that the rogues longed for.

Of course, there was no ambush that Bai Wenxuan was worried about.

Before they stopped to enjoy this half-finished camp, there was news from the scouts, the officers and soldiers who had diverged and plundered from all walks of life met in one place, met the defeated companions, and learned that after the camp was captured, the officers and soldiers were in chaos, arguing with each other, and even almost infighting, overturning several carts, rolling out all the glass bottles, in addition to the Di Gong wine that had been seen, there were other products that were said to be Hoi An!

This news suddenly made Luo Rucai and the others excited: profitable!

(To be continued)