After setting up camp, Xie Shence rested early after confirming that all the terrain factors would not affect him.

Yan Jiegang has been running for so many days, and Xie Shence has also chased for so many days. In addition, during the period of several wars, Malé, people are even more tired. Xie Shence is no longer facing the Taihang Mountain bandits who have an absolute advantage with tens of thousands of troops, but the two thousand mourning soldiers who are desperate to survive.

It's very different.

Before, Xie Shence was the one who needed to work hard, but at this time, the positions of the two sides have been reversed, and the resistance Xie Shence faced has more than doubled.

Yan Jiekun's intentions are self-evident, that is, he made a false shot, seemingly avoiding some clans in Shanxi Province, but in fact, he lured Xie Shence to his home field in a big circle.

There are at least thousands of soldiers left behind in the cottage, which is an obvious thing. Even if Yan Jiegang attacked Jincheng in a desperate gamble, he would not throw out the small hut where he was staying.

After all, Yan Jiegang is not a mad gambler in the end.

The people in the cottage, their relatives were all killed or captured by Xie Shence, and now Yan Jiegang has fled back, Xie Shence has caught up, and the bandits will inevitably fight back desperately.

The enemy who hit the door, didn't say it, one word, kill!

In the vicinity of Taihang Mountain, where the bandits have been operating for more than ten or even decades and for several generations, the relationship between them and the local 7 ∞, ww↗w. clans, can already be described as cold.

In such a situation, the strength of the bandits is something they absolutely do not want to see, but the complete extinction of the bandits is even more undesirable for them.

No one wants their disgraceful allies to be stronger than themselves, but no one wants someone else to be killed by someone else who can create huge financial benefits for themselves. In particular, it is your own enemies who kill your allies.

In this era, money itself symbolizes power and power, the power to dominate others, and the right not to fulfill obligations.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and they are friends in the first place, and there is no reason why the clans should not help.

If you kill your parents, this hatred is perfectly interpreted in these clans.

Xie Shence doesn't know how much benefit the thieves can get every year, but through the report of the three jumpers and the accumulation of the four surnames of Yangquan, Xie Shence can roughly calculate how rich the third- and fourth-rate small families around Taihang Mountain in Shanxi Province are.

The four surnames are considered to be the nobles of the previous dynasty, and they have been continued in this dynasty, and the background is not comparable to that of ordinary small nobles. However, heritage is heritage after all, and it is not just measured by money. However, the outbreak households are different, they rely entirely on their family property, so although the nouveau riche are looked down upon, it is undeniable that their strength on the books is very strong.

According to the previous preparations, Xie Shence's understanding of these clans is still relatively clear and complete. Although these clans don't dare to do it directly to themselves like the four surnames, it's still okay to use their hands and feet in the dark, disgust themselves, and help the bandits.

The next day, it rained, and Xie Shence requisitioned one of Ji's Zhuangzi for a temporary rest. After several days of pursuit, Tiqi and the elite of Taiyuan Mansion did not lose much, but because they were lightly armed and had no baggage, and the quantity and quality of the grain and grass collected on the spot could not be guaranteed, so there was a shortage of men and horses, and they urgently needed to rest.

The food sent by the Ji family was not much, it was just enough to eat, and the wine was sour and the meat was stinky. Wushan took the housekeeper who brought the wine and food and questioned him all the way to the Ji family, and when he came to the head of the house, Ji Zeming.

Ji Zeming said to Osan with an extremely deferential attitude: "My lord, it's not that you don't provide food under you, it's shoddy, and you are disrespectful to the Admiral, but your ability is really limited." Adults don't know, the grain harvest in the past two years is very low, and my Ji family is in Taihang Mountain, and is often harassed by bandits, so there is not much grain in stock, even if it is the father of the clan, he only eats coarse grain! The supply of 2,000 people and horses, my Ji family can't afford it! ”

An elder of the Ji family also said with a sad face: "Yes, my lord doesn't know, in order to provide enough military rations for the Admiral, even the rations of my three-year-old grandson have been squeezed out!" My lord, if it weren't for the real difficulties, who would dare to be disrespectful to the Admiral! ”

After speaking, a few tears were squeezed out.

Osan naturally doesn't believe it, how is it possible that a big clan in one place can't even get the money for 2,000 people? Did the bandits ransack your house? Wushan just didn't do it, and asked the Ji family to come up with high-quality rice grain and forage.

You can eat as much as you like to fill your stomach, but horses need to replenish their energy! Eating only hay, without the addition of legumes and chickens, the horses are overused, and it is difficult for physical strength to recover naturally. And these more than 1,000 war horses are the absolute combat power among the 2,000 people, and they cannot suffer any losses.

Osan pressed tightly, and the Ji family only said that there was no more, and in desperation, they even lifted out all the swill in the room to prove that there was indeed no surplus food.

Osan looked at the empty bucket of swill and was furious.

Ji Zeming said: "My lord, you have also seen it, even the swill bucket is empty, my Ji family really can't get more food, you just let my Ji family go, my Ji family's only little ration, but it is the little food that will be handed over to the treasury If you are filial to the Admiral, but you have to be beheaded all over the house, please leave a way for my Ji family to live, don't kill it all."

The men, women and children present at the Ji family shouted in unison, begging Ti to spare the Ji family and not force the Ji family to ignore the national law.

Wushan Qiqi smoked, and he hated to cut off Ji Zeming's head on the spot to relieve the hatred in his heart. He just came to borrow food, and he didn't want to become a killer in Ji Zeming's mouth.

Ji Zeming made it clear that the Ji family still had a little grain, but that grain was tax grain handed over to the national treasury, and it was impossible to take it out. If you must come up with "filial piety" to thank the gods, then you will not be able to pay taxes and grain, that is, you will deceive the king, and you will be wiped out.

In the meaning of Ji Zeming, Wushan did not come to beg for food, but forced his Ji family to rebel and bully the king. If Osan is strong, the Ji family will die.

In this case, no matter how angry Osan is, he doesn't dare to touch the people of the Ji family, otherwise if it spreads, it will become a rider who forces the local clan to bully the king in order to please Xie Shence.

Once this crime is opened, if everyone knows it, it is impossible for Xie Shence to continue to serve as the commander of the Tiqi Division no matter how favored by Emperor Jin is. The good image that Xie Shence has worked so hard to erect will be ruined, and if he doesn't die, he will lose his skin.

Wushan didn't dare to move, even the granary of the Ji family didn't dare to check it, otherwise under the crowd, Tiqi's reputation would stink. So Osan could only return with hatred.

Xie Shence saw Osan return empty-handed, and he knew what was going on. After Osan recounted the matter, Xie Shence smiled slightly.

Sure enough, it was exactly what he expected.

These local clans are worthy of the title of cancer, and they are even more sophisticated in playing with intrigues.

Xie Shence said, "Let them go." Let the soldiers have a full meal first, and the horses will not be left alone for the time being. First, let the wounded be escorted back, and some of the horses were taken with them, leaving the mules and donkeys, which had good endurance. Since Yan Jiegang has escaped, it is impossible for us to really go into the mountains to search for him, wait for two more days, and when the rain stops, we will go back. ”

Wushan was shocked and said, "Here, Lord Admiral, will you let Yan Jiegang go back?" If you don't die, you will suffer from it! Lord Admiral, lowly duty, lowly duty, willing to lead people to search and arrest, lure the enemy out, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop! ”

Shaking his head, Xie Shence said: "This method doesn't work, Yan Jiekun finally picked up a life, and he won't come out so easily." Unless there's something worth it for him to give up his life and you can't, I."

Osan exclaimed: "Is it possible that adults are going to put their lives in danger?" No, I will never agree to it! ”

"Eh" Xie Shence was stunned and said, "I mean, I can't do it either." ”

Osan language stop.

"His weakness, the cavalry has not been able to find, it was not in the previous intelligence, and I did not find it during the battle. Therefore, for a person like Yan Jiekun who is afraid of death, after a big defeat, he will inevitably hide, and he will not come out until he fully recovers Since this is the case, it is really difficult to lure him out."

Osan stomped his foot remorsefully and said, "I knew that I would draw the people from the south to the northeast last time, so that I could completely surround him." ”

"It's not such a simple addition and subtraction." Xie Shence said: "Yan Jiegang is desperate, even if you transfer the manpower from the south to the northeast intersection as you said, it will still not be able to surround it, and Yan Jiegang will break through from the south." The situation at that time was too complicated and changing rapidly, and no one expected that Yan Jiegang would make such a counterattack before he died. In other words, no one expected that Yan Jiegang's counterattack before his death was so ferocious. ”

Osan was still unwilling, but he couldn't, so he could only say hatefully: "I hope that the arrow of the Admiral will kill him!" ”

"He couldn't die, the arrow missed and didn't hurt his vital point."

Looking at the drizzle in the sky and feeling the coolness, Xie Shence then went to check on the condition of the wounded.

On the day of October 24, Xie Shence caught up with Yan Jiegang, and then designed to encircle three missing one, and ambushed five hundred Mo knife men on the northeast road, Yan Jiegang was forced to have no choice but to flee to the northeast trail, and was entangled by five hundred Mo knife hands.

In the melee, Yan Jiegang was hit in the left chest by Xie Shence, and the horse was set off with an arrow, and the bandits were suddenly leaderless. Just when everyone, including Xie Shence, thought that Yan Jiegang would die, unexpectedly, Yan Jiegang actually cut off the arrow that passed through his chest and got back on the horse! The bandits were full of momentum, and finally broke through the encirclement of the Mo Dao Men at a heavy price, and hundreds of people fled into the mountains with Yan Jiegang in tow.

Modao is a type of army that can maximize combat power in the plain position, and setting up an ambush on the mountain road is not the best choice, but Xie Shence's subordinates except for Modao are ordinary foot soldiers and cavalry, and they can't serve as the "missing one", so they can only drive ducks to the shelves.

But this is already the best match, cavalry drive, Mo knife interception, is already a textbook design, how can Yan Jiegang be fateful after all, dodged Xie Shence's killer arrow, and escaped.

In the afternoon, a team of 100 cavalry escorted nearly 300 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers to Jincheng. Xie Shence demanded that as long as the wound was more than two inches long and the wound on the whole body was more than two wounds, he should go back for treatment, so that night, the team of nearly 2,000 people remained, and there were only more than 1,500 people left.

In the fierce battle, the Jin army also suffered casualties, but compared to the bandits, it was almost negligible.

In the evening, Yin Zhonghe returned with a hundred crow troops.

Yin Zhonghe's vanguard has now become a scout, and in the morning, Xie Shence sent him to scout the surrounding movements.

In this pursuit battle, Yin Zhonghe and the black army crow made a lot of achievements, not only found the traces of Yan Jiegang in the first two times, but also played the role of an arrow in the last battle to surround Yan Jiegang.

Xie Shence just wanted Yin Zhonghe's knife to be stained with the blood of the bandits, and only in this way could he completely break with the bandits and truly submit to himself.

Yin Zhonghe is worthy of the name of the military commander, in this pursuit, whether it is judgment or execution, it is very in place, and the hundred black crow troops under his command are also extremely brave and good at fighting, which is even stronger than the Zhifu soldiers. The casualties of the Black Crow Army were also extremely low, and under Xie Shence's intentional "training", only a dozen people died.

There is no abnormality within a radius of ten miles, but this time, Yin Zhonghe also failed to find the specific traces of Yan Jiegang, and entered the mountain, as long as he ran down the mountain, everywhere was the direction, the black crow army was a cavalry, even if he was familiar with the terrain, he could not enter the mountain to investigate, and there were many traps in the mountain, this was not his mountain, and he didn't know where the specific traps would be placed, so he only investigated the situation around ten miles, and did not dare to go deeper.

Xie Shen thought for a moment and said, "Leave it alone." Wait another two days, and we'll leave when the weather clears. ”

Two days later, the sky cleared, but Xie Shence didn't make it.

A large number of the horses fell ill.

Whether it was because of the weather, or because of disease, or because of food, in short, dozens of war horses fell ill like this.

Hundreds of soldiers fell ill together.

It was just one day's work that so many people fell. The people in the Jin army were panicked, for fear that they had done something wrong and angered the gods.

Of course, it won't be a haunted thing like a mountain god or something, or **.

The problem is that it's the food that's being delivered.

Before every food was cooked and eaten, it was tested by the big housekeeper of the Ji family and Ji Zeming's youngest son, and they were all right before they dared to eat it, and they didn't find anything abnormal in the past few days.

It's just that after the sky cleared, someone fell.

Xie Shence let Osan go to see it, no one in the Ji family fell, and Ji Zeming's youngest son was still happily on the swing in the company of the big housekeeper.

Xie Shence checked all the food sent in the past few days, and finally concluded that none of these things were poisonous, but after eating them for a few days, the temperature would rise, and it would cause symptoms.

Xie Shence himself can judge it, but he has been really tired and difficult to rest in the past few days, and there are too many things for him to think about, so he didn't pay attention to this layer.

If Mr. Yang had been here, this kind of thing would not have happened.

Some people couldn't walk, and the horses were sick a lot, so Xie Shence was stranded.

This degree is not difficult to understand, as long as you don't eat any of these things in the next half a month, you will be healed naturally, but at this time, it is impossible for Xie Shence to stay on the Ji family's territory for long.

Yan Jiegang is sure that he has not recovered, but the Heavenly King Fang Nongshi and Xiao Wu Qiwenshan are still there, and with them, the bandits will not be chaotic. Once Xie Shence wants to stay for half a month, the bandits will definitely retaliate before the Jincheng reinforcements arrive.

At this time, the Jin army may not be able to stop thousands of red-eyed bandits who want revenge.

Xie Shence gave the order to withdraw the troops that afternoon

On October 29, in Baiyan Village, it seems that the whole cottage is full of strong medicinal smell.

The big leader, Yan Jiegang, lost the battle and was seriously wounded.

The whole cottage was a sensation from October 28 to October 29.

Tens of thousands! I didn't even succeed in laying down a small Jincheng! Didn't you say that you would definitely be able to knock it down? Didn't you say that good days were about to end?

But actually defeated?

Why defeated?

This is the question of hundreds of thousands of bandits, old and weak, women and children.

This question, since the news of the big boss being seriously injured and unconscious came out, has become the hottest and most worrying topic in Baiyanzhai.

Some people saw the big leader Yan Jiegang's face like gold paper being carried into the Juyi Hall, some people saw the majestic and square Fang Tianwang's beard burned, some people saw that Xiao Wu Qiwenshan, who was in the wind of Yushu, lost one eye, some people saw the black man Hengniu's chest wrapped tightly, and some people saw Lai Sheng, the second brother of the Lai family, holding a cane.

This is what I saw, and there are still things I haven't seen, such as the military marshal Yin Zhonghe, the military god Huan Shi, the jade lion Han Zhilin, and the dark lord Zhao Changba

Half of the seats in the Juyi Hall, known as "a hundred warriors", are now without owners, and half of the chairs can only lie on the bed.

Baiyanzhai has been expanded several times, and now the scale is still no less than that of medium-sized cities, although the environment is bad, mostly low thatched houses, but also in the mountains to build a wall, there are Wu forts, there are granaries, there are silver warehouses, there are similar to the imperial court official system of various "yamen", there are also various institutions, specializing in dealing with the daily life of bandits.

The people of Baiyan Village are talking about this defeat, worrying about their husbands, brothers and fathers, and asking if their son (baby) is still alive. Every day there are people crying and crying, and every day there are people clamoring to hang themselves.

As soon as the defeated soldiers returned, they would be carried home by their families as quickly as possible, and then boil water to bathe and worship the Buddha and thank God, give the people who came back good food and drink, and regain their smiling faces.

Some people are happy, and some people are sad. Some people didn't wait for their relatives, and when they saw that the people who were in the same camp as their relatives came back, they hurriedly ran up to ask, some people sat on the ground and patted their hearts and rejoiced, while others looked dull and dull.

After a few days of rescue, Yan Jiekun's injuries stabilized and he picked up a life. Wen Shan lost one eye, and his originally handsome face was covered with terrifying knife marks at this time, but the knife marks were covered by bandages, and outsiders couldn't see it.

In the Juyi Hall, Heavenly King Fang Nong temporarily took Yan Jiegang's place, sat on the main seat, and looked at the dozens of people who were carried in, helped in, and limped in, and his heart was full of bitterness.

Once upon a time, the cottage that was once flourishing quickly declined to this attached appearance in a month and a half.

(ps: Well, the weekend is over, I'm looking forward to a holiday tonight, go home and sweep the tomb of Baiyan Village's newly added clothed mound)