Chapter 69: The Rain of the Night
Zhang Xiang got the grain and grass of the Zhen family as he wished, although the Zhen family was a family of businessmen, but this time it was not profitable, like a free gift, in order for Zhang Xiang to owe them a love debt.
Favors are the worst to repay debts, and Zhang Xiang doesn't want to owe the Zhen family, but the Zhen family made a condition that Zhang Xiang couldn't refuse, not only letting Zhang Feng recuperate in the Zhen family, but also giving Zhang Xiang 300 parts.
What Xiang Feijun lacks now is the source of soldiers, the Zhen family is really steady and ruthless this time, it is worthy of being a famous businessman's family, since Zhang Xiang can't refuse, then Zhang Xiang can only admit this favor.
The three hundred parts that the Zhen family gave to Zhang Xiang were all from the Zhen family, and they all received some martial arts training since they were children, and they all had one or two hands and were very obedient, Zhang Xiang was very satisfied.
But there is also a problem, although these family members are ordered by the Zhen family to recognize Zhang Xiang as the master, but their hearts are still biased towards the Zhen family, these people can be said to be much more powerful than most of the soldiers of the Xiang Fei Army, and if they are incorporated into the army, they will inevitably rise rapidly.
But they are a little worse in terms of loyalty, this is not allowed to happen to any ambitious person, Zhang Xiang in order to avoid betrayal in the future, so these Zhen family members formed a separate army.
There is no way to do this, Zhang Xiang doesn't know what his relationship with the Zhen family will be in the future, at least at this moment, he will use them, so the leader of this team composed of the Zhen family has to be carefully considered.
Zhang Xiang has been thinking about this problem on the way back to the camp, and there has never been a suitable candidate, and in the end Zhang Xiang can only retreat to let his uncle Bai Que occupy the position of the leader of the belt, in fact, Bai Que's ability is fully qualified to hold this position.
However, Zhang Xiang positioned this Zhen family unit as a vanguard force, which could exist like a dead soldier, so no matter whether Bai Que's ability was qualified or not, he was not very suitable to be this commander.
But after all, there are not many people available under Zhang Xiang, so they can only use them first, and when they leave Wuji County, they see a large number of hungry people on the road, and Zhang Xiang's grain and grass carts are constantly tempting them.
These hungry people have been following behind the grain and grass carts, Zhang Xiang didn't care much at first, but the hungry people are accumulating more and more, and he also finds a problem, if it continues like this, there will inevitably be conflicts.
At that time, once the blood is not good for anyone, Zhang Xiang is still a little soft-hearted, so he gave a cart of grain and grass to these hungry people, Zhang Xiang still does not understand the greed of human nature, if you don't get it, you won't have extravagant hopes, Zhang Xiang let these hungry people taste the sweetness, and these hungry people will lose their minds even more.
The hungry people stormed Zhang Xiang's team, and Zhang Xiang ordered not to kill people at first, until a member of the Zhen family was stoned to death by the hungry, Zhang Xiang had to give the order to attack, how could the hungry people block the crushing of the cavalry.
In the end, Zhang Xiang saw a river of blood flowing from corpses everywhere, Zhang Xiang knew that there would be such a consequence, which was directly related to his soft-heartedness, and he also knew what it meant to teach people to fish was better than to teach people to fish.
Zhang Xiang didn't relent, once he saw the hungry people, he drove them away, Zhang Xiang didn't want to see this kind of tragedy, Zhang Xiang returned to Jiumen County with grain and grass, and found a strange phenomenon, and a large number of people gathered in front of the camp.
These people were different from the hungry people, although they were as thin as they were, but they seemed to be very sensible, and they were talking about what the soldiers of the Xiangfei Army were saying, but the guards seemed to be pretending not to hear.
Zhang Xiang's appearance was not only seen by the guards, but also by the people in front of the camp, and immediately surrounded Zhang Xiang and the others.
However, Zhang Xiang also understood, these are the people of Jiumen County, ten miles and eight townships, who want to join the righteous army, it seems that these people have been miserable by the Yellow Turban thieves, and of course there are some speculative people.
Now the defeat of the Yellow Turban Thieves has been decided, these speculative people pounced like cats smelling fishy, and even more so that the Yellow Turban Thieves wanted to join the righteous army to obtain a white body, and Zhang Xiang did not break it, so he naturally welcomed these people very much.
Whether it is a speculator or a yellow turban thief, he must have some ability, otherwise he would not dare to do such a thing, since Zhang Xiang is not afraid of things, naturally he will not refuse, "Everyone, I am the commander of this rebel army, I already know your affairs, and I will start recruiting troops in the afternoon." ”
Because Zhang Xiang gave the letter, so these people were scattered, Zhang Xiang also successfully pressed the grain and grass into the barracks, and Deng Mao Baique and others who heard the news also rushed over, "General, you are back, we are all annoyed by these people these days, if they have any bad intentions, it is easy to do, but they want to join the army to fight thieves, this is a good thing, we can't drive them away, but we don't know how much food the general can get, so we don't dare to recruit troops without authorization, so we can only do it like this." ”
Zhang Xiang: "I know, I don't blame you, I decided to recruit troops in the afternoon, and all the generals will go to the front in the afternoon, don't let go of a good seedling, the Xiangfei army will not recruit if there are enough 3,000 people, don't look away." ”
"Counting the people and horses that the general brought back this time, the general is trying to recruit eight hundred and twenty-three people." Yang Xu suddenly spoke like this, and Zhang Xiang was also taken aback, and it was only then that Zhang Xiang saw Yang Xu's figure.
Zhang Xiang: "You don't need to be too absolute, a few more or a few less are fine, or that sentence would rather be lacking than excessive." The generals also saw that Zhang Xiang took a fancy to this matter, and they didn't dare to deal with it.
When the recruitment began in the afternoon, although the number of people was small, the quality of the personnel was not bad, after all, at this time, few of them were soft persimmons, and a total of more than 300 people were recruited from day to night.
The people nearby didn't come together, they came one by one, there was no one when they were fine, and they felt a little busy when they had something, but fortunately, Zhang Xiang didn't lack time now, Zhang Xiang waited for him.
It took seven days for Zhang Xiang to recruit enough soldiers, and the more Zhang Xiang was in the back, the stricter the generals, the higher the quality of the soldiers, and the conditions for recruiting the soldiers were harsh.
Zhang Xiang, a good seedling, didn't want to let go of any of them, and he didn't know if Zhang Xiang was too blatant in doing so, which attracted the attention of Zhang Bao, who was stationed in Xiaquyang, and he sent 10,000 yellow turban thieves to deal with Zhang Xiang.
Zhang Bao had also investigated the Xiangfei Army in advance, and knew that the Xiangfei Army only had 3,000 people, so he would send 10,000 people, and the commander of this 10,000-strong Yellow Turban Army was also an old man in the Yellow Turban Army, and he was very experienced.
When he left Xiaquyang, he only had 10,000 soldiers, and when he was about to reach the Nine Gate, he had nearly 20,000 people, so you can imagine how many people he coerced along the way.
This yellow turban thief is very arrogant and swaggers through the market, Zhang Xiang is very confident in his subordinates, and the enemy is dark and I have occupied the terrain here, so it can be said that he has won.
In Zhang Xiang's eyes, these yellow turban thieves are given to himself to add vegetables, this yellow turban thieves are camped outside Jiumen County, and it seems that they will be ready to attack tomorrow, Zhang Xiang decided to strike first, and solve this yellow turban thief once and for all tonight.
The general who commanded this group of Yellow Turban thieves still knew a little about the art of war, and knew the truth of being loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the periphery of the Yellow Turban Thieves camp was full of people who were coerced, and only a small number of them were Yellow Turban thieves.
If the Xiangfei army once sneaks up, the first thing to face is these people, then the effect of catching up with the enemy will be greatly reduced, and the purpose of the night attack will be lost, and the strong attack is not Zhang Xiang's character.
The Yellow Turban Thief's method naturally has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the Yellow Turban Thief is safer, and the disadvantage is that it can allow Zhang Xiang's people to blend in better, because the periphery is like a fictitious thing for Lingding's scouts.
Zhang Xiang originally wanted to incite the people to rebel together, but after receiving the scout's return, Zhang Xiang dispelled this idea, this idea is not bad, but Zhang Xiang is still a little unbearable.
There is also a small camp in the middle of the Yellow Turban Camp, this small camp is the real resting place of the Yellow Turban thieves, the trenches, fences, and antlers are all there, like a hedgehog piercing his hands everywhere.
If you incite the people, you will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, Zhang Xiang informed Yang Xu of his concerns, although Yang Xu disagreed with Zhang Xiang's idea a little, but still followed Zhang Xiang to give a strategy, "Since the lord wants to protect these people, but tonight's action can be changed from annihilation to weakening, we don't need to be too greedy, or incite those people, but not to kill thieves but to flee, without these coerced people, we will be much easier to fight in the future, but I still think that the method of inciting people to kill thieves is more practical and effective." ”
Zhang Xiang didn't hear Yang Xu's last sentence, it was true that he was too greedy and wanted to become fat in one bite, since it was impossible, he could only choose to eat one bite at a time.
Since it is just to disperse the people, Xiang Feijun does not need to be afraid, Zhang Xiang looked at the lack of moonlight tonight, it was really a good weather for a night attack, it was a bit of a pity, and these yellow turban thieves were lucky.
The Xiangfei army was divided into four routes, attacking from all sides, there were not many yellow turban thieves in the outer camp at all, and the soldiers and horses of the four roads attacked the outer camp at once, and the righteous scouts among the people took the opportunity to instigate, and the people naturally scattered.
However, there are still some kinds of people, since they did not flee, but chose to attack the inner camp of the Yellow Turban, but unfortunately the efforts of these people were in vain, and the soldiers and horses who attacked the outer camp did not receive the order to attack the inner camp, and these people could only be sent to death.
At the same time, the heavens played a joke on Xiang Feijun and the Yellow Turban Thief, it actually rained heavily, an autumn rain and a cold, Zhang Xiang didn't want his soldiers to get sick, so he hastily retreated, but fortunately, there was this heavy rain, and the people who were coerced also left under the cover of the rain curtain, and the Yellow Turban Thief also did not choose to pursue.