The thieves are not afraid of these newly recruited villagers rebelling, because the next few looting tasks are on them, so repeatedly, after a period of time, the originally innocent villagers began to succumb to survive, and they embarked on a career of "falling into the grass for the coward".

The method adopted by the thieves is simple, but it is very practical. The power of the thieves has also increased, resulting in a situation where "the imperial court cannot levy". This is why there is a danger of "thieves and thieves messing with Hebei counties".

Here, the Black Mountain thief Kou Qu Shuai Guo Daxian led an army of 30,000 to Gaoyi County, wanting to deal a heavy blow to Wen Chou and others. Although he lost the vanguard, but with 30,000 troops in hand, he would not be afraid of Wen Chou's thousands of soldiers, as long as he was not like the vanguard officer, he made stupid moves to make Wen Chou break through, and there would be no big problem in thinking.

Guo Daxian has taken action, and Wen Chou will naturally not wait for the arrival of the army.

He took the following measures, first sent people to Gaoyi County again, wanting to fight for it again, hoping that they could draw out some people to assist one or two, after all, with more manpower, Wen Chou would have more room to choose and strategies, otherwise, there would always be a feeling of clumsiness.

In addition, it is suggested that the leaders of the two townships of Jihe and Daying should quickly gather and relocate the old, young, women, disabled and other non-combat personnel to the county, preferably Shahe Township, for refuge. With this strategy, Wen Chou has always been a little restless recently, and always feels that something bad is about to happen. But I can't say why. But it's good to be on guard.

There is also a thousand county soldiers sent by Pingjian County. He also asked them to speed up the march and try to meet with the headquarters of Wenchou under the county town of Gaoyi within two or three days. "The joint force is strong, and the division is if the force" is the truth, Wen Chou still knows it well.

Again, after thinking about it again and again, and after repeated discussions with Sima Jiang Xuan, he still called You Liu Zhong and gave him a top-secret task, so that he could lead a tun of elite soldiers and a tun of elite soldiers. This mission may be useless, or it may be the vitality of Wen Chou and others! It's not unimportant.

The reason why Liu Zhong was chosen to be in charge of this matter is because Liu Zhong is quite stable; Second, it has the ability to make decisions, and has an overview of thousands of people in the township, who are strong and not chaotic, and have a strong sense of autonomy; third, there are not many frontal attacks on thieves; Fourth, his loyalty is commendable, and there is no possibility of rebellion. It was these four things that contributed to his order, which may be related to the top-secret mission of the two counties and eight townships here. And the source of this task is also based on Wen Chou's restlessness in recent days.

In this way, these four things go hand in hand. Only God knows what the results will be in the end. In any case, there is only one sentence "planning things are in people, and things are in heaven" can annotate Wen Chou's mood at this time.

Two days have passed in the blink of an eye, and the time has come to the fifth year of Zhongping, February 24. The weather is still cold, but the good weather in the past few days has caused large areas of snow to turn into fertilizer and water to flow, and you can see that the wheat in the fields is green and green, and the growth is gratifying. Without this war, this season would have been another bumper harvest.

It was this attack of thieves, there were many of them, but they did not spoil the fields and seedlings, perhaps because they thought that this battle could be won! They are also from peasant households, so they naturally know the value of grain. Besides, as long as they occupy this place, then the wheat that will soon ripen will naturally be their own property, and they will be even more reluctant to destroy this field.

Of course, this is only if the thieves are victorious. If they were defeated, they wouldn't care. When the time comes, it will be said that with their thoughts and methods of persecuting the villagers, will these wheat fields be destroyed? Wen Chou didn't believe it even if he was killed.

Although in recent days, I have been restless, and I always feel that something big is about to happen, maybe it is that his army has suffered major damage, maybe the county and township here have been completely broken by thieves, or maybe Taolinsai has been disabled, and so on. But Wen Chou never thought that he would be so defeated, and he was obsessed with everyone from then on.

If he loses this battle, then he will definitely make a comeback, and the hundreds of thousands of Qiantou in these two counties and eight townships will definitely support him, and the worst of all, the 20,000 or 30,000 people in Shahe Township will inevitably advance and retreat with him. This is the capital of Wen Chou who is not afraid of failure. In a year, I tried all my strength to get the foundation.

Therefore, he believes that the final victory must be that of him and the villagers.

On the evening of February 24, the stars were dim, and the moon was light and the night was dark. The thousand-strong county guards of Pingjian County finally came down to the outside of Gaoyi County under the leadership of another county official and joined the Wenchou headquarters.

The villagers of Daying and Jihe townships also began to take refuge in Shahe Township one after another yesterday, and until tonight, the people left behind in the two townships were all strong in the township. However, compared to the total population base of the two townships of nearly 20,000, the number is not too much, and only more than 1,000 elites chose to stay behind to assist the Wenchou army. But it's all elite.

In addition, as early as the day before yesterday, on the day Wen Chou handed over his task, he had already selected his entourage. Strong, set off. In this way, three of the four things planned by Wen Chou have been successful, and only the matter of sending troops to Gaoyi County to assist is still in the process of being argued.

Early the next morning, Wen Chou went to the Gaoyi County Official Temple again, and led people to the hearing hall with a knife, wanting to force the officials of Gaoyi County to compromise with military might. He didn't ask for much, just one or two thousand strong assistance, why was it so difficult? He was very puzzled, if he hadn't found any clues, Wen Chou would have suspected that all the officials in his county were undercover agents of thieves!

With this decision, Wen Chou was also forced to do so. He contributed his efforts to protect Gaoyi County from being attacked by thieves with all his might, but the officials of Gaoyi County wanted to choose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! How can you not make Wen Chou angry! After repeatedly tolerating and saying in a low voice was ineffective, there was a matter of taking troops into the official temple.

In the end, the magistrate of Gaoyi agreed to send 1,000 heavily armed county guards to assist Wen Chou. Wen Chou saw that he had regressed, and he was not too pressing, so he agreed to this matter. However, the command power of these county officials needs to be completely on Wen Chou, and the personnel on both sides have regressed, and this is the end of it.

At noon, Wen Chou stood in front of the camp, looked at the camp that stretched for several miles in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that it was only two or three months since the last time I led the army for nearly 10,000 people, and I once again commanded these many people. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. ”

So far, the composition of Wenchou's army has more than 1,200 Taolin elites, more than 2,000 Shahe Township elites, more than 1,000 Jihe Daying Township elites, 1,000 Pingjian County soldiers, and 1,000 Gaoyi County fully armed county soldiers, a total of about 7,000 people and horses, and the quality is much more holy than the 9,000 people and horses a year ago, and it is also a large force.

Even with these 7,000 people, Wen Chou would not dare to be careless. Hundreds of scouts are sent out every day, and the movements of Guo Daxian's headquarters must be in control. Only by knowing oneself and knowing the other side can we win all battles.

Guo Daxian didn't make Wen Chou wait long, but after another day, he led an army of nearly 30,000 to kill.

Hunting flags, dragons and tigers are churning, swords and guns are numerous, and the forest is terrifying. Even between the team's behavior, it is quite neat, although there may not be many formations to speak of, but in the thief army, it is also commendable, especially in such a short period of time, the newly incorporated thieves are also so standardized.

Since there is going to be a war, Guo Daxian will naturally not be stingy with food, as early as two or three days ago. and he fed all the thieves. In addition, the rewards for exterminating the army of Wen Chou are also rare and rich. It can be seen that it has ambitions for this war.

That is, fighting against most of the thieves, Wen Chou will not carry it head-on. Instead, they chose an ambush plan, and in the way they had to go, they were ambushed. As long as his army arrives, he will not be able to retreat with his whole body. But if this kind of ordinary strategy wants to cause too many casualties, it is wishful thinking.

Just because, judging from the horse exploration reports these days, Guo Daxian is definitely a very cautious person. Besides, he is the only one who has scouts and horse scouts, didn't Guo Daxian send horse scouts? The answer is definitely impossible, and there is also Liu Min in his department, who has been entrenched around here for two or three years! Are they unfamiliar with the topography of this place? Therefore, Wen Choujun does not have a geographical advantage.

In the afternoon of the same day, the two armies officially met! Unfolded, the first great war.

Guo Daxian led his army to a place in a dense forest. But as far as the eye can see, there is no boundary. This is a dense forest with a radius of about dozens of miles, and if you go around it, it will take another one to two days, which Guo Daxian can't bear. Along the way, it was because the marching speed was too slow that the Wen Chou army had an opportunity to take advantage of! It also makes Wen Chou have a time to be prepared!

Although there may be an ambush in this forest, it is not a big problem, on the contrary, I am happy! As long as you are cautious, not only will you not suffer much loss, but you will definitely be able to take advantage of the situation to defeat the army of Wen Chou.

Because in his intelligence, Wen Chou only has more than a thousand elite soldiers, and the others are farmers who have just put down their hoes and picked up their weapons! How could it be his opponent of thousands of elites! And what about an army of more than 20,000? Unless he really had time to prepare everything and burn it on fire, it would not be so easy to do, even if he had 30,000 men, he thought it would be impossible to prepare it all in a matter of days.

Therefore, he gave an order, first sent thousands of elites, lightly armed, and swept away, so as to be a pathfinder army, not long apart, so that the army followed into it. Although I don't necessarily have to be afraid of Wen Chou's ambush, I can't be wrong if I'm careful.

After a while, the sound of killing sounded in the dense forest. But it was the soldiers ambushed by Wen Chou who were swept away by Guo Daxian's soldiers, which exposed the whole army to the thieves. Wen Chou immediately resolutely launched a battle.