The ferry was taken, and the people crossing the river were nervously busy, and Zhang Chu set off with Yu Jiang's team without waiting for Yang Biao's men and horses to completely cross the Yellow River.

Zhang Chu led the team to travel in Daning County and found that the environment in Daning was very different from that of Yanchang County. The ravines in the county are vertical and horizontal, the mountains are undulating, the landform is complex, the mountains in the north and south are surrounded, and the middle is an undulating hill. The next day, we set off again at dawn, and when we arrived outside Daning County, it was already dawn.

Daning County is dangerous since ancient times, there is Xinshui River outside the city around the city, half of the county seat is surrounded, the other half of the county is facing continuous high mountains, mountains and rivers are connected, it is more difficult to conquer Daning County. A strong city also has its disadvantages, outsiders cannot conquer it, and even the defenders do not think that anyone will attack this strong city. The smoke caused by the famine in the land of Shaanxi is everywhere, but this small county town is only across the river is still a peaceful atmosphere, the city gate is opened early, and people go in and out to start their day's life.

Zhang Chu and his team entered the city among the passing people, marched separately, and finally met in a secluded mansion in the city. The mansion had been rented in advance by Willow's caravan, and it had been emptied of all the people, and there were very few people even passing through. Except for a few people who went out to inquire about the news, the rest of the team members were resting in the house.

Night had fallen, and the team was ready to go. The team members who inquired about the news also returned, and brought back a valuable news, and they observed the situation of the barracks outside the barracks in the city for a day with the members of the caravan, and saw that the hundred families in the camp had left the barracks and did not return to the camp until dark. The trailing team found him at a widow's house in the city, apparently staying at his house.

After hearing this, Zhang Chu secretly called it great, so that the security army could save a lot of effort. So the soldiers divided into two ways, Yu Jiang led people to find the hundred households, and Zhang Chu decided to go to the county government to meet the county lord.

It was late at night, Zhang Chu and others came to the back wall of the county office, and the two team members squatted under the root of the wall, and the team members behind took two steps forward and easily went up to the wall with their lifting power, and went down the wall silently to the courtyard. Zhang Chu also painted the gourd in the same way, although the appearance was not chic, but he also jumped on the wall and entered the courtyard. The team members in front quickly entered a firewood room in the corner of the courtyard, and the two family members who had just woken up from their sleep opened their sleepy eyes, and looked at the team members with sharp knives in their hands in the light of the fire that had just been lit, and their faces were full of fear. Soon the situation in the courtyard was clarified, and the fire was extinguished again.

Although Song Zhixian of Daning County is over 50 years old, he is still old and strong, and a few days ago he just married a beautiful woman who was 28 years old as a concubine in the fifth room. Song Zhixian is very tired in the past few days, today after a hard battle is still defeated, throw away the armor, collapse the army, the defeated army after a thousand miles of even the strength to move, lying there made a huge snoring sound, when Zhang Chu entered the room, the team members have gagged the concubine of the county and tied it up, and the county magistrate is still asleep there. Zhang Chu ordered someone to light a candle, looked at the sleeping Zhixian, and thought that this was not a way of hospitality, and patted Song Zhixian's fat face with the back of the knife, and the coolness on the knife finally woke up Song Zhixian, and just about to scream, Zhang Chu gently pressed the tip of the knife against his throat, thus avoiding the noise disturbing the people in the middle of the night.

Song Zhixian, who has completely woken up, is still very familiar with the situation in the county, and the deployment of troops, money and food in the county is like a treasure, and everything is clear. In the end, I gave Zhang Chu a surprise. Song Zhixian was quite economically minded, saw the famine in Shaanxi, and foresaw that the price of grain would rise sharply, so he bought a lot of grain from eastern Shanxi and hoarded it, and now this grain is in the granary of the county government.

The members of the security army were busy in the county office, cleaning and searching house by house, gathering all the family members of the county and detaining them in a unified manner, while Zhang Chu and Song Zhixian chatted while waiting for the dawn to come.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city gate walked out of their residences at dawn, and came to the city gate with sleepiness to open the city gate, and the group walked towards the city gate, leading the team was a hundred households in the city, which made them feel very strange, and they did not know what gust of wind was blowing today. Hundreds of families crawled out of the widow's bed early in the morning, with a few villagers and peasants' coolies behind them. When they arrived at the gate of the city, they walked into the house where the soldiers usually rested without saying a word. After a while, a coolie came out of the house and saluted the soldiers guarding the door, and said, "Masters, the lord of the hundred households told everyone to go in, he has something to say." The soldiers did not dare to slack off, and they all went into the house, and then they were stripped naked, tied up into brown and thrown into the corner.

The gates were opened, and people entered and exited as usual, but some of the people who walked often wondered how the officers and soldiers guarding the gates had changed their faces. But this thought only turned in his head, and he was busy again.

At this time, a group of men and horses walked quickly from the main road, and some officers and soldiers walked in front, and the people who followed behind were also armed with knives and guns, but did not wear the clothes of officers and soldiers.

The group of men and horses walked in a hurry, and when they reached the gate of the city, they drove directly to the military camp without stopping.

The soldiers in the barracks panicked when they saw a group of men and horses driving to the barracks, and they had not received any news beforehand, what were the officers and soldiers doing here. Someone immediately reported to Baihu, but he couldn't find Baihu for a while, and when he looked up, he saw that Baihu was in the other party's team before he was relieved.

The team drove into the barracks, and some soldiers announced that the adults of the hundred households were going to give a lecture, and all of them gathered at the teaching field, and the soldiers scolded the hundred households for taking the wrong medicine, and what to say in the cold day, and lazily walked to the teaching field. Everyone stood still, but found that muskets were pointed at them around them, and one by one they immediately handed over their weapons and obeyed the arrangements of the security team. The security team immediately took control of the treasury and granary, and the county seat had changed hands before the residents of the city knew what was happening.

Zhang Chu looked at the granary of Song Zhi County and decided to change his plan, Daning County is in a dangerous terrain, and now that there is enough food, it can be held on to provide support for future operations. Zhang Chu immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to pass it to Zhu Xiucai and He Jin, asking He Jin to allocate fifty outstanding team members, and then recruit five hundred young people from the homeless people to bring them to Daning.

However, he and Yang Biao's team did not stop, leaving a hundred team members to defend the city, and the others all marched towards Xi County.