"Things are not as terrible as imagined, I have been your staff member for many years, and I rarely walk around outside, and no one will recognize me for a long time. I've been studying the reports about the security forces in various places, and I haven't heard of the security forces doing anything indiscriminately killing innocents, so if you send a few more capable men with me, there should be no problem in protecting my safety, and I won't force it if it doesn't work. Through these battles, it can be seen that the thieves always use firearms as their main offensive weapons, and our army also has a large number of firearms, but they cannot exert their power. If we can figure out how they use firearms this time, it won't take much effort to defeat the thieves. Zhang Shaotang comforted Hong Chengchou.

"Be careful, this gang of thieves is the strangest I have ever seen, they use more sophisticated firearms than the court, if you can know where they got it from, cut off their way, it will be easy to destroy them." Hong Chengchou felt that he was about to grasp the key point, and his desire to defeat the enemy made him no longer stop Zhang Shaotang.

Hong Chengchou immediately ordered Cao Wenzhao to set up a camp on the spot to prepare for the fortification, and Wang Chengen led his troops to join Cao Wenzhao under the urging of Hong Chengchou. Wu Fa, the general who had retreated earlier, knew that it would be more troublesome for him to hide behind again, and it would be safer in a crowded place. So he led the team back and set up a large camp close to Cao Wenzhao.

All of a sudden, more than 50,000 officers and troops were stationed on the border of Yanchang County, but the security forces on the opposite side did not move, and the two sides faced off strangely.

After Zhang Chu won the battle of Ganguyi, he had to lead his troops to retreat, and he withdrew to extend and repair, not because the enemy was too strong, but because the enemy was too scummy, and the original battle idea was to eat up part of the cavalry of the official army and defeat their mobile force. Who knew that Cao Wenzhao refused to march, and Yang Jiamo came in all of a sudden, and the 30,000 army was swallowed by Zhang Chu, but Zhang Chu was choked enough.

Not to mention the doubling of the consumption of bullets, gunpowder and other materials, the placement of the 20,000 captured prisoners also made Zhang Chu busy for a while.

Zhang Chu had no choice but to give up the opportunity to continue the attack, return to extend the replenishment of supplies, and screen the prisoners, the officers of the official army were sad one by one, their own officials did it this time, even if they saved their lives, the punishment of going back to the court could not be light, maybe they were not killed by the thieves, and they were finally beheaded by the court. Many of the previous members of the court did not escape the fate of death.

Many of the officers and soldiers were very happy, they had long heard that the security army did not abuse prisoners, and would recruit strong people from the officers and soldiers to join the security army, and the officers and soldiers even had some expectations for this, and it was common for the officers and soldiers to abuse the soldiers, and many officers and soldiers had fled to join the thieves and became the main force of the thieves.

This time there was no need to run, the security army came to the door to receive it, but it was a bit of a pity for the brothers who were killed, and in the end they did not escape this catastrophe.

Yang Jiamo had long lost the prestige of the court officials, and in the face of the inquiries of the security army censors, he told him what he knew, and Zhang Chu was very satisfied with his attitude. ordered someone to send him to the mine for transformation, and if there was a chance, he would be given a chance to live, and Yang Jiamo left with a thousand thanks.

The whole extension was busy, and the soldiers were actively preparing, eager for the enemy to attack quickly so that they could be wiped out in one fell swoop.

This time, the officers and soldiers had a long memory, and they gathered together and neither attacked nor withdrew, but squatted on the Yanchang border, which made Zhang Chu very uncomfortable. Under the pressure of the officials and the army, the normal production and life of the people could not be prolonged, and it was inevitable that there would be omissions in the army's long-term preparations for war. The people of Yanchang did not have so many troubles, they knew that the security army had won a great victory, the official army had been defeated, and the enemy could not come to Yanchang, so after the celebration, the county town of Yanchang returned to its previous state.

Hong Chengchou's master, Zhang Shaotang, was indeed very bold, and only brought two retinues and some goods to disguise himself as a merchant who was a footman. This Master Zhang's favorite reading is Wang Yangming's books, and his actions are mostly influenced by it, and he is not a reader who only knows how to drill old papers, Wang Yangming led the troops to exterminate the thieves as a civil official, and has always been his role model, and he also fantasizes that one day he will lead thousands of troops and horses, gallop on the battlefield, and establish immortal feats. Although he is not a commander now, if he can defeat a strong enemy by surprise, he will be famous for eternity. The appearance of the security army aroused his fighting spirit, and there are many legends of the battle examples of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak, but it is really difficult to achieve it in reality. Not only did the security forces do it, but they also did it very clean and beautiful. Such an opponent deserves to take the risk of fighting with it.

Zhang Shaotang rushed to Yanchang with the mood of fighting with Zhang Chu, but he didn't expect to be stopped by a small soldier as soon as he entered the Yanchang realm.

It turned out that the security forces had set up checkpoints at various intersections to check the belongings of passing pedestrians.

Zhang Shaotang waited behind the crowd under inspection, a little worried that if he was stopped here, this trip would be in vain.

The security guard did not intercept the people who entered, but carefully checked them one by one and then issued a small iron plate to let them go. Zhang Shaotang was relieved at this time, and at the same time wondered what the use of that little iron card was.

It was Zhang Shaotang's turn, and a small soldier asked Zhang Shaotang's identity in detail, his place of birth, and the purpose of extension, and registered these in the book, and finally took Zhang Shaotang's hand and looked at it one by one. Zhang Shaotang thought to himself, although this view can be seen whether it is doing manual work, it doesn't seem to have any effect on distinguishing good and bad people, right?

After reading the soldier, he took out a small iron card, picked out some small chisels from the small box on the table, and chiseled them on the iron plate with a hammer. ”

Only then did Zhang Shaotang understand that this was asking for money. I was very angry in my heart, the thief is still a thief, although these thieves speak politely, but in the end, in order to collect money, what do they do with so much effort, and no one dares not to give it directly. People had to bow their heads under the low eaves, Zhang Shaotang had to take out the change and hand it to the soldiers, holding this iron card in his hand and thinking, just such an iron piece will cost ten lines of money, this security army is really a goose plucking, and he will not let go of a small profit, I don't know if this is the arrangement of these soldiers or the thief leader.

The soldier saw Zhang Shaotang holding the iron card, looked over and over again, knew that he had seen this thing for the first time, and said kindly: "This is a temporary residence permit, you have to carry it with you, if you don't bring it when you go out, you will be punished for digging coal in the coal mine for ten days, and you will be punished for digging coal for one year by fraudulently using other people's fines." You have to keep it and return it when you leave for an extension. ”

Zhang Shaotang didn't expect this small iron card to have such a big effect, and he didn't dare to say more for fear that the soldiers would see his flaws, so he walked through the checkpoint with his entourage in the direction of extension.

Leaving the checkpoint for a distance, Zhang Shaotang couldn't help but take out the small iron card called "Temporary Residence Permit" and watched it repeatedly, looking at the strange symbols on it, Zhang Shaotang felt that he still read less books, and he didn't know any of the symbols on it.

At this time, a pedestrian who also looked like a businessman passed by, and Zhang Shaotang decided to ask shamelessly and solve the question in his heart. (To be continued.) )