After the meal, Kong San was still busy, sorting out the account books, and informing Lao Hu of various affairs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He is in charge of the training and logistics in the battalion, and there are many affairs of all kinds, and he is often busy, but Lao Hu is an orthodox illiterate, and even if he has the heart, he is powerless. He is still a lazy person, not to mention powerless, even if he is powerful, he is too lazy to care.

Fortunately, with Kong San, everything can be handed over to him, and he can end up relaxed, which he also learns from General Wang, and lets his subordinates do all the work, which is called in the name of delegating power.

Listening to Kong San's report, Lao Hu said majestically: "Very good, you did a good job, continue to work hard." ”

Kong San glanced up at him lightly, Lao Hu immediately changed his color, nodded and said: "Kong Ye has worked hard, those who can work hard, hehe." ”

Kong San also informed Lao Hu of some personnel, and the people of the small Yuan camp that day were recruited, after these stages of observation, some big and small leaders who were willing to get close to each other should be wooed, and those who should be promoted should be promoted.

Those who don't deal with it should arrange some tasks to send them to death and consume them, he has already made a list, just wait for Lao Hu to decide.

Lao Hu waved his hand with a headache: "Okay, okay, Kong Ye will look at the arrangement." ”

He remembered something: "By the way, we have a few camps near the mountain patrol camp, and the general posts of those battalions are heroic, so they should take a visit, the jade Buddhas in our camp are very good, and Confucius asked people to take them, and I Lao Hu has nothing to do tonight, so I will visit a few masters." ”

has many friends and many roads, Lao Hu still likes to make friends very much, and although the military law of breaking into the camp is said that people can't pocket a gold, the offender will die. But the generals, especially the generals of the foreign battalion, have a lot of gold and silver hidden privately, and Lao Hu also stole some good things, preparing to return to Xuanfu Town to live a good life in the future.

Sometimes the old camp will also reward some gold and silver, such as today, although the gold, silver, pearls and jade are not worth breaking into the camp now, but it is not without people who like it, so Lao Hu is going to bring some jewelry to visit the general sentinels.

Kong San nodded, making more friends with some generals. It's good for intelligence. Especially to some disgruntled generals.

Although the camp now implements an average system, although it can allow the soldiers to work together to overcome many difficulties, after all, human nature is difficult to change, especially for the original generals. Privately, they are unhappy with the system.

Now though suppressed. I don't know when it will erupt. This can be exploited.

After Lao Hu left happily, Kong San silently sorted out the books in the account, from the outside to the inside. Extrapolating the things that broke into the camp. I also wrote some books that seemed ordinary, but were actually full of secret words, which needed relevant books to open the password, and other idlers couldn't decipher it.

After a long time, Kong San put down his pen and ink and pushed away the tent, it was dark outside, only a few torches faintly, and the sound of patrol drums came.

Looking at the dark night sky, Kong San quietly thought, in this dark camp, how many people lurk silently like themselves?

Looking at the night sky, Kong San couldn't help but miss his wife and how many children he had at home, so he didn't know his mission, when and when he could see them?

However, Kong San firmly believes that he will wait until the time when the general sends troops, everything will eventually pass, and after the night, it will be dawn.

……

The next day four watch, the patrol camp to eat and listen to the order, the sky is slightly bright, and set off with the army, this day the army arrived in Jiaxian, the patrol camp was ordered to attack the famous Linfeng village with the friendly battalion.

However, when Linfeng Zhai was in Huguang under Li Chuang, he was forced by the situation to admit the rule of the camp and set up a flag, although he still did not allow the soldiers to enter, but it was also under the rule of Li Chuang. But after the main force of the Chuang army arrived in Huguang, Linfeng Village soon pulled out the Chuang flag again, indicating that he was still a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.

But now seeing that the camp is spreading, and the soldiers and horses are spreading boundlessly, the two surnames in the village have discussed with Haoqiang, and then put up the banner again, but they refused to break into the camp and ask them to hand over a thousand stone of military rations.

Li Zicheng was furious, and decided to give the powerful gentry in the village a little color, and at the beginning ordered a foreign battalion to attack, and two hundred old battalions to escort the formation.

However, this Linfeng village is very difficult to play, this village is high in the east and low in the west, the surrounding area includes five kinds of terrain of flat, sand, mountain, gang and depression, the east and west of the village are the two waters of Lipu and Fengxi that originate from Xiangshan, the north is the mountain hill and the North Ru River, the south is still the mountain, this kind of terrain makes people powerful and has nowhere to make, the tactics of the sea of people, it is not easy to play.

The wall of Linfeng Village is still very high and thick, and the wall of light red stone masonry is more than two zhang high, and with the surrounding water flow, it is higher and deeper. There is also a city tower on the wall of this wall, there are more than 800 on the light battlement, when it comes to protective hardware, it is more powerful than the original Jiaxian county seat.

There are mainly two surnames in the city, marrying each other, the same clan and the same clan, and the unity is very very, and there is absolutely no saying that the door should be opened, and the rich families have come to invest, which increases their financial resources.

On the wall of Linfeng Village, there were even more than a dozen Franc machine cannons, as well as a large number of bows, arrows, birds, and guns, all of which were sophisticated weapons, so the outer camp fought for a day, and even did not touch the wall, so it failed and returned.

The next day, the patrol battalion and two foreign battalions attacked Linfeng Village, and more than 10,000 troops attacked at the same time, mainly hitting the "Linfeng Gate" in the West Village, the "Pubin Gate" in the East Village, and the South Village Gate, and even pulled a few artillery pieces to help with difficulty.

However, the terrain of Linfeng Village made them unable to show their troops, and the resistance in the village was very tenacious, and in the end, even women and children went into battle, and the three battalions suffered thousands of casualties, and they still couldn't even climb the wall.

Li Zicheng is helpless against this powerful village, could it be that all the army stays here just to fight a local village? Fortunately, the people sent by Linfeng Village to negotiate were willing to supply 200 stone of grain and grass to the labor army, and when they broke into the camp and had steps, they pushed the boat down the river and left the village depressed.

After that, the march to collect food is not a good memory for the camp, Jiaxian County goes west, generally is a long and narrow river valley, except for some belonging to the camp forces, the general county and state city, all into ruins, there are no residents.

With the choice of nearby mountains, forests and ridges, the remnants of the people of Pingchuan have fled, the plains are empty, the villages and towns are all wasteland, and there are very few villages, and the mountains on both sides of the river valley are all built villages, all of which are local heroes and gentry.

Their stockade is based on the terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is also internally united and has sufficient financial resources, just like Linfeng Village, all of them are not easy to provoke, and they are even more difficult to fight.

In addition to attacking some small villages, the camp is basically helpless against the big villages, and at most threatens them to supply some grain and grass.

These heroes watched indifferently as the camp passed by, they didn't care whether it was the flag of the village or the banner of the imperial court, for them, no matter which force came. are invincible. They will not allow any force to enter their village.

They are also sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, and after the troubled times, the prosperous era comes. A new dynasty has arrived. Everything starts from scratch. If you want to govern the place, which government can do without them? They are also the great clan that controls one side.

broke into the camp and swept all the way, and the small and weak villages suffered one after another. The rest of the truly powerful people stand. Those who are weak and small, those who have no self-protection people, see what happened to them, but let them be more united in the village, and the whole village will fight to the last person, not casually.

……

In late April, Li Zicheng's army finally came not far from Tongguan and forced to the gate of Shaanxi County, which, like all parts of Henan Prefecture, was empty, with ruins everywhere and basil continuous.

However, what made Li Chuang's army overjoyed was that the county seat was actually inhabited, but after Li Zicheng's army went south to Huguang, Li Zhen, the new magistrate of the county, recruited people to cultivate and cultivate the fields near the city to make a living.

Li ordered the siege of the city since its establishment, Shaanxi County is half Outuo, the inhabitants are less than 5,000, and the young and strong are even less, even if the terrain of Shaanxi County is not conducive to attacking in the west, north and south, but the army is densely spread in front of the east city, a charge, a drum to attack the city, open the city gate.

The patrol camp was also set up in the front, but before it was Lao Hu's turn, he heard the joy in front of him, and there were faint frightened cries in the city, and then saw the tide of horses surging in from the east gate, and the city was even more crying, obviously the old battalion soldiers were killing in the middle.

It seems that in this battle, the upper echelons of the camp deliberately indulged these sergeants, and they also had the intention of forcing Tongguan, which meant to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys.

Although Li Yan and other literati joined in, they began to strictly enforce military discipline when they broke into the camp, but there were also sayings that those who surrendered during the siege did not kill, but kept three out of ten killed on one day, seven out of ten on two days, and slaughtered on three days.

In the cry of the city, there was also a cry of joy: "I have caught the old man of the county." ”

Lao Hu looked over and saw dozens of old battalion soldiers pouring out of the city gate, and they were pulling a middle-aged man in an official uniform.

The official hat on the man's head was gone, and the official uniform on his body was also scattered, his hands were firmly tied, and he was dragged by everyone along the way, unyielding, and scolding all the way.

Then Lao Hu saw that the big flag behind him moved, followed by a brave knight, layer after layer, and the flag-bearers all held white tasseled and black satin flags, which were the symbols of the standard camp. Then there is a special big flag, the flag tassel seems to be made of horsehair, and the tip of the flagpole seems to be made of silver, which is shining silver and extremely valuable, which is Lao Hu's idea.

Then he saw Li Chuang for the first time, a middle-aged man with a very much color-like eye, a beard, a white and red tasseled felt hat on his head, an old blue arrow suit, and a cloak on the outside, he was riding on an oolong horse, his hair was many and curly, and his sword and gold-painted quiver were sometimes exposed at his waist.

Beside Li Chuang, there are many generals who also ride horses, Lao Hu only recognizes one Tian Jianxiu, one Li Guo, and the others don't know the others.

There are also many literati who also ride horses, and Lao Hu doesn't know any of them, he only looks at Li Zicheng with his eyes, and thinks: "The men and horses of each battalion blew King Li Chuang into the sky, and now it seems that there are no three heads and six arms." ”

Beside him, Kong San paid more attention to observing everyone on that side and kept it in mind.

Then the standard camp passed by the patrol camp, stopped not far ahead, Li Zhen of Nazhi County had been escorted to Li Chuang, he was covered with blood, as soon as he saw Li Zicheng's face, he scolded him, the figure was sufficient, Lao Hu couldn't see it really, but he still tried his best to probe.

At this moment, Nazhi County seemed to have scolded a lot, but Lao Hu only heard one sentence clearly: "...... Thieves, those who drive the people to defend to the death, know the ears of the county, what is the purpose of wanton killing? ”

Li Zicheng said something, Nazhi County was extremely strong, just scolded loudly, and then saw that Li Zicheng was furious, and ordered to take off the official uniform of Nazhi County and hang it upside down on a tree next to him. Na Zhixian was hung from a tree, still scolding, he shouted bitterly: "Emperor Gao has a spirit, I will sue God to kill the thief!" ”

Everyone around Li Chuang scolded together, a literati who was dressed very valuable, Lao Hu didn't know who it was, but Kong San knew that person was Niu Jinxing, and he laughed loudly: "Tianxin is tired of Ming, Haotian God, he no longer cares about the Ming Dynasty." ”

However, Nazhi County still scolded, scolding Niu Jinxing speechless, scolding Li Chuang and the people around him were annoyed and angry, and ordered that Li Zhen's tongue be cut off, and finally cut him into more than ten pieces. still didn't understand the hatred, and ordered to search for this Li Zhen's relatives, and heard that his mother Qiao's and his wife had already committed suicide, so he hated and hated.

Seeing the tragic death of Nazhi County, Lao Hu sighed in his heart: "Alas, good officials always have to die well. ”

Lao Hu still has his own criteria for judgment, in his opinion, those who recruit people to cultivate in troubled times, and would rather die than give in, are naturally good officials, and the scene just now, if it was him, he would have surrendered a long time ago.

Kong San lowered his head and said silently in his heart: "Heroic martyrs through the ages." ”

……

Conquering Shaanxi County also made the camp change their minds, originally they planned to put the logistics grain and grass in Luoyang, but looking at the terrain of Shaanxi County, it seems that it is better to stock up on grain here. Moreover, Luoyang is also quite far away from Tongguan, more than 500 li, and from Shaanxi County to Tongguan in the west, but more than 200 li.

At this time, Li Zicheng personally led the army, 40,000 horsemen, 150,000 infantry, and about 100,000 hungry people. Even some of the old battalions supervised some of the outer battalions and hungry people to gather food everywhere, and artillery and some chariots and horses were left behind.

In addition, there are more than 10,000 horses to monitor the movement in Kaifeng, and by the way, they collect grain and coerce the hungry people in Kaifeng Mansion, and then transport them into Henan Mansion from Hugaoguan and other places.

On 25 April, Li Chuang's army once again marched westward, and the torrent of crowds spread on the dirt roads of various official roads.

There are two counties of Lingbao and Ruxiang in the west of Shaanxi County, both of which are located by the Yellow River, and the county seat also has people and county orders. However, after Shaanxi County was broken, both officials and people fled, and along the way they were killed by the sentry horses, and most of the people fled into the mountains, and only a small number fled into Tongguan.

The dense army of people and horses is just marching westward, like a torrent wave, and the patrol camp is also a wave of flowers, but in addition to the excitement of seeing the Yellow River for the first time, the rest of the march is so boring, especially into the road of Shaanxi, how to say.

There are ravines everywhere, fragmented soil plains, earth beams, and earth ditches stand in all directions, sometimes the distance between the two plains seems to be very short, but it is not easy to walk, so that some soldiers who have thrown in Henan and Huguang are extremely uncomfortable, and deeply feel what it means to be close at hand, far away in the world.

Lao Hu is also a very uncomfortable member, he has long been accustomed to the North China Plain, Henan Plain that kind of flat river, even if he encounters the mountains and posts, it will not be like here, a deep ditch suddenly appears in front of him, and then he has to take a detour for a long time, which makes him scold all the way.

Of course, for Li Zicheng and the generals of the old battalion, they are used to the roads of Shaanxi, and the closer they are to Tongguan, the more their hearts are pounding. Ah, hometown, hometown, I am finally going to see you, and the expectation of returning to my hometown is finally coming true.

By the way, when I met an acquaintance, what should I say in the first sentence?

The army went all the way to the west, and finally, in April and May, the torrent of people forced to Niutouyuan, not far ahead, is the first pass of Tongguan Jinshuguan. (To be continued.) )