Not to mention that Li Jing, who was far away in Yangqu, didn't understand the details of Yongning Prefecture, but he couldn't see much from a letter, so it was even more impossible for him to understand that what happened in Yongning Prefecture was all instigated by the butterfly wings he crossed, so that later a series of unrecognizable patterns appeared one after another......

Zhao Sheng only felt that these days were terrible, he crossed the Yellow River from Suide, Shaanxi, and was intercepted and chased by Suide Zhizhou and garrison commanders along the way, and more than 10,000 old and weak women and children who followed him lost more than half of them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Finally escaped with a life, and finally escaped into the boundary of Shanxi, thinking that he could finally kick his breath, after all, the officials and soldiers in Shanxi have no time to take care of their own families, but Cao Wenzhao, who never thought about the dog's day, actually followed himself into Shanxi, chased and killed all the way, it was really embarrassing, and when he finally gained a firm foothold, he counted the remaining soldiers and horses, and he really wanted to cry without tears.

Up to now, the remaining young and strong people around him are only in their early thousands, where is there still the majesty of the past, but I sighed a few words, and I was glad in my heart, I don't know where a thief attracted Cao Wenzhao's attention, and even asked the court to order the transfer of his soldiers and horses, so that his family was finally safe.

He took the opportunity to raid a few villages and towns in the north of Pingyang Mansion in western Shanxi, coerced some peasants, and finally recovered some vitality, I didn't want to report a few days later, and I had to report to Cao Wenzhao to lead the army back to Qindi, and on the way back, he beat him hard, this is really a disaster, looking at the women and children who were coerced by hard work, the old and weak ran away again, Zhao Sheng no longer dared to stay in Pingyang Mansion.

He simply stayed with three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people to Yongning Prefecture in the north, thinking that this was simply a place where the officials and soldiers gathered, and he was looking for a weak place to develop, not that he didn't want to go east to meet the main force of the 36th battalion of thieves, but that there were elite guards of the officers and soldiers on the way from Pingyang Mansion to Lu'an Mansion, and he couldn't get by.

In this way, his soldiers and horses drove north, and as soon as they entered the territory of Ningxiang, Yongning Prefecture, they called the front strong to report, and the officers and soldiers guarding the county town were only one or two hundred, which instantly made Zhao Sheng frown, because the main force of the beggar army led by Li Mao was on the defense of the west, and only sent a partial division into Ningxiang, and had not yet deployed all parts of the county, so it was called misleading Zhao Sheng, thinking that this soldier and horse was on this.

Thinking that he was chased all the way to this, he finally had a soft persimmon to gnaw, where could he let go, hula la, and the whole division went north, straight to the county seat, passing through villages and towns along the way, burning and looting all the way, coercing people, and when he arrived at the county seat, he even pulled the flag and pulled up seven or eight thousand people, but most of them were women and children, and the combat power was not mentioned, but it was still able to bluff people.

"Qiu Laosan, has the letter for help been sent?" Xu Dabiao, the captain of the city, is also crying and laughing at the moment, he is also a rebel, and the opposite side is also a thief, it is said that he should be a person all the way, and he is fighting the official army together, but at the moment his strength is weak, and the other party is strong and strong, although he sent people out of the city to negotiate, but he had no choice but to believe it on the other side, and he decided that it was a delaying plan for the official army.

Just ignore it at all, arrogantly said, tell the whole division to go out of the city and beg to surrender, the offender will break the city at that time, and the chickens and dogs will be restless, this makes Xu Dabiao angry, this is shameless, if the main force of the whole brigade is here, these chaotic people on the opposite side can be exterminated in a moment, where can they be allowed to show their own face.

"Brother Xu, Xiao Qi rode a horse two hours in the morning to report the news, and the nearby beacon tower also went to the rear to warn, the closest to us is General Chen of Wucheng, who is close to us on weekdays, this kung fu should have come a long time ago."

Because Li Mao placed the main force of the whole army in the west at Wuguan, Qinglongdu, and Mengmen Pass to guard against the Qin Ming army, there were only two of the provisional Yongning garrison battalion and the 24th battalion in the interior, both of which were less than 1,000 people.

General Chen mentioned by Qiu Laosan is Chen Liu, the deputy general of the 24th Battalion, the second lieutenant of the 24th Battalion, who was transferred from the position of the leading staff general of the Hequ Garrison Battalion, and the 24th Battalion, most of whom are from Baodezhou, are naturally close, Xu Dabiao and Chen Liu are also familiar, and now they are in trouble, and when they saw that Chen Liu was notified, they were not in a hurry.

I only heard Xu Dabiao nod heavily, "Lao Chen is leading the army leader over, so I'm not afraid of these eggless people." ”

spat out again, expressing his disdain for the homeless people, "If Lao Tzu's third capital was a main force with 400 people, I would have gone out of the city to do the chaos earlier." ”

As he was talking, a soldier ran up the city tower, ran out of breath, bent over and kicked and said, "Captain Xu, warning in the north of the city, there is a large force of cavalry approaching, and the fortress ten miles away ignites two wisps of wolf smoke, with a total of no less than three hundred men and horses." ”

"Oh? The general's headquarters has arrived? How did it come so fast. When Xu Dabiao heard this, he was not surprised or rejoiced, you must know that the north is his own territory, and it is impossible for the officers and soldiers to touch their rear through layers of defense lines, and under the command of Li Mao, there has always been a cavalry army of 100 people, and after conquering Yongning Prefecture, hundreds of horses were added, and a cavalry army of three or four hundred people was gathered.

However, for this group of people and horses to come so quickly, Xu Dabiao was puzzled, his own messenger had only set off for two hours, and Li Mao's camp was stationed in Qinglongdu, about a hundred miles away from the city, even if the cavalry received the letter and left, it would take four or five hours to arrive.

What he didn't know was that this was all thanks to the fortress left by the official army, after Li Mao captured Yongning Prefecture, he made extensive use of these military forts, each fort set up a team, as a warning and eyeline for the army, and the enemy news appeared in Ningxiang County, and the nearest fortress was immediately lit with five wisps of wolf smoke, all the way to the west, directly to the Qinglongdu army station.

Since Baode Prefecture, Lan Prefecture and Yongning Prefecture were all occupied by Li Mao, no one is more familiar with the methods of warning these fortresses than him, a wisp of wolf smoke represents the enemy attack of less than 100 people, two wisps are less than 300 men and horses, three wisps are 500 to 1,000 people, four wisps are more than 1,000 people, five wisps are more than 3,000 men and horses, and there is also honeycomb smoke, representing 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Seeing five wisps of wolf smoke rising now, Li Mao saw it, where did he dare to slack off, because although the wolf smoke transmission speed was fast, since Zhao Sheng led the thief army into Yongning Prefecture, but after half an hour's effort, Li Mao, who was hundreds of miles away, received the message, but the details could not be transmitted, and Li Mao did not know whether it was the official army or whose family and horses came, only knew that an enemy attacked.

He immediately ordered all the soldiers and horses of the large battalion, and sent a message to Yongning Prefecture to close the city gate to wait for reinforcements, and asked Chen Da's headquarters in the north to go south and enter Yongning in the starry night, and in addition to the soldiers and horses left behind, he immediately led the main force of the fourth battalion of the headquarters to the south, and in order to prevent accidents, he personally led three hundred cavalry to the south.

Because after Zhao Sheng entered Ningxiang County, he went deep into the villages and towns to coerce the people, delayed for a lot of time, and when he arrived outside the county seat, Li Mao had led the army to set off for more than three hours, and soon after Zhao Sheng arrived at the south gate, the cavalry led by Li Mao also arrived less than ten miles north of the county...... (To be continued.) )