One of them was collecting wild fruits in the bushes as he walked, and he was elated when he found one, while the other looked around on the ground to see if there were rat holes and snake holes, both of which were edible.

When he walked to the foot of the mountain, the one in front shouted twice, found a rat hole, beckoned another person to come and do it together, both of them squatted on the ground, and dug the rat hole with all their hearts, and after digging for a while, a black shadow suddenly burst out of it, and a homeless person pounced quickly, pressing the black shadow under him, and then reached in with his right hand and groped for a while, and when he took it out, he grabbed a vole with teeth and claws squeaking and squeaking.

The homeless man held up the vole in front of him and smiled, "Hahaha, look at you running, you were caught by Lao Tzu, you scream, it's useless for you to beg for mercy, ahh............h

"Uncle spare your life!"

In a bush, as soon as the cloth ball in the mouths of the two homeless people was removed, they immediately begged for mercy in unison to the two fierce men in front of them. Just as they were rejoicing, they were swooped down, gagged by a ball of cloth, and dragged into the bush by a kind of looper. The rogue who caught the rat was still holding the vole firmly in his hand, but he was frightened, and he held the vole too tightly in his nervousness, and the vole was already dying.

Zhang Wei played with his dagger, and he thought he was going to coerce, but the two of them had no stubborn intentions.

Bucktooth glanced at Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei grabbed the fruit picker and dragged him to the other side. Then he changed his buckteeth to a Shanxi accent and said to the homeless people who caught mice: "If you don't want to die, hurry up and say, what is the name of your bandit."

"The king of my family is called the scorpion block, he is from Shaanxi, we were all arrested by him, we didn't do evil, I am both coerced, and those Shaanxi thieves forced us to go......"

The bucktooth slapped the thief in the face, and a tooth flew out. He vomited blood and looked at his buckteeth with a sad face.

Bucktooth said coldly: "Grandpa asks you anything, you can say anything." How many horsemen do you have?"

"Three or five hundred, maybe seven or eight hundred."

"Smack" another slap, and the homeless man cried. Bucktooth was seen pulling out a clip from his bag.

"I'll talk about it when I'm ready. Let's talk Xing again, Lao Tzu will pull out your teeth. How many horsemen? How much younger? Where did it come from? Where are you going to fight?"

"Uncle spare his life, I persuade us, our king is called a scorpion block. There are less than 500 horsemen, and those who have just come from Licheng are young and strong...... There are so many people in the back, I haven't counted the young and strong, and I don't know where they are going. Uncle spares his life......"

"How much food do you have with you?"

"I don't know." After the rogue finished speaking, he looked at Bucktooth in fear.

"Why did you run to Henan?"

"Big and small Cao chased after me, everyone was afraid, Licheng was also robbed, and there was no food to be found anywhere, so the king brought us over."

Bucktooth looked up and down at the rogues in front of him, this person was the lowest-level rogue, and it was normal not to know this. Maybe you don't even know about the scorpion block yourself, otherwise it wouldn't be called a rogue.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything more, Bucktooth stopped interrogating, and when Zhang Wei came back, the two checked in a low voice. The answer was similar, and Bucktooth turned to the thief and said, "If you are honest, let you go now, but you are not allowed to return to the rogue." Go back to Shanxi by yourself. ”

The thief was overjoyed, and he didn't expect to be able to leave like this. At this time, he had already guessed that these two people were the night of the official army, and he was already thinking about going back to report it, if the big boss was happy, maybe he would have entered the infantry team, and immediately kowtowed to the buckteeth, and promised repeatedly: "Uncle Xie, the villain will never go back, the villain will return to his hometown, and he will not come out after being killed."

Bucktooth pointed behind him, "Take your companion with me." ”

"Hey." The thief turned his head to look back, and before he could see anything, Bucktooth stretched out his hands violently, and pulled hard in the direction he turned his head, and the neck bone clicked, and the thief immediately lost his breath and fell to the ground with a thud.

Zhang Wei sighed and said to the corpse: "Brother, it is better to leave quickly than to live without people and ghosts." Don't complain about Brother Bucktooth when you go over there, Brother Bucktooth has already exempted you from suffering, who called you a thief, we are soldiers. ”

"What do you have to say to a dead man, the captain will sue you on the day you enter the team, and those caught behind enemy lines will be interrogated on the spot, and they must be killed afterwards, otherwise when they go back and report it, we may be able to confess to them." If we guess the intentions of our army again, we will call it a sin. Bucktooth clapped his hands, "Let's go, let's go back to Linzhang first." ”

After saying that, Bucktooth hunched over and walked back, Zhang Wei squatted down to look at the thief, he was still open, his eyes were turned up, and he still had the dead vole in his hand.

"Brother, no one will eat you if you die here, leave a whole corpse and have a good birth for the rest of your life." ……

Linzhang County, here is the junction of Zhangde Mansion and Daimyo's Mansion, the county seat is on the border, Dengzhou Town's army has marched from Daimyo's Mansion to this place, and set up camp tents outside the city.

The trading company purchased a batch of grain from Linqing, made zuò into dry rice, and transported it to the Daimyofu via the Wei River to supplement the consumption of the march in Dengzhou Town. During this long-distance internal march, food procurement was very convenient, nutrition was comprehensive, and there were no epidemic areas along the way, and there were only more than 50 non-combat personnel in Dengzhou Town, and the wounded and sick were left in various trading companies, which greatly reduced the pressure on the march in Dengzhou Town.

In comparison, the state of the cavalry was much worse, because the road was far away, and there were no dense trading strongholds in Henan, Chen Xin did not bring many cavalry in order to reduce the pressure of animal service, that is, more than 100 people from the two cavalry bureaus and the cavalry section crash course, plus more than 200 special service teams, Chinese army reconnaissance cavalry, and sentinel cavalry of various departments, and the total number of war horses was more than 500. The miscellaneous horses of other artillerymen, officers' mounts, baggage, and heavy weapons flag corps added up to several hundred.

Although he was feeding black beans and other concentrate feed all the way, after walking down for thousands of miles, the war horses and miscellaneous horses had lost a layer of fat, and there were more than 100 raw jackals that could not be supported, so Chen Xin had to buy some better miscellaneous horses all the way to replace them.

After spending a lot of money, the army of 5,000 men finally reached its destination. After entering the Daimyo's Mansion, the land was abandoned very strictly, and the fields that were inconvenient for irrigation were full of cracks. The number of people fleeing on the official road increased dramatically, and most of them went in the direction of Linqing. The missionaries accompanying the army took the opportunity to publicize and let them go to Denglai to Tunbao.

Linzhang County is the assembly point of the vanguard team, after arriving here, the reconnaissance cavalry and special service team that entered Henan in the early stage sent back information one after another, and Chen Xin and others were discussing in the big tent to see which one to find.

"According to the information obtained by the special service team, there are currently three large rogue groups in Wu'an. They are girls, scorpion blocks, and stars, and there should be dozens of small shares. The Sichuan soldiers and Lu Xiangsheng guarded the northeast of Wu'an, preventing them from entering the prefectures of Zhending, Quang Binh, and Daimyo in Beizhili. ”

Wang Mafu: "The three sides of Shaanxi and the Xuanda departments are surrounded on three sides in Shanxi, and the governor of Xuanda, Zhang Zongheng, has changed his residence from Yanghe to Pingyang, and he has been under the control of all walks of life in Shanxi. Taiyuan as the center. Gradually pushing forward the area of activity of the Liukou, the governor of Shanxi went to the vicinity of Yangcheng and was responsible for blocking the passage of the Liukou to the west to Shaanxi. Among the Qin troops on the North Road, Cao Wenzhao's troops advanced the fastest. At present, he rushed all the way from Pingding Prefecture to the border of Lu'an Province, and broke several large and small bandits along the way. Cao Wenzhao and Ai Wannian's troops were the most brave Qin troops, and all the bandits were very afraid of them, so they forced the thieves in Licheng, Shexian and other places to speed up their escape to Henan. In terms of Liukou, the largest Zijin Liang, Chuang Wang, Chuang General, and Chuang Collapse Tian are all in Zezhou. The Eight Kings and the Sweeping King are in Pingshun, and the various streams that have broken through Pingshun are flowing to Shexian, Linxian, Zezhou and other places. Zuo Liangyu led the Changping soldiers to the south into Linxian, but the left was repeatedly frustrated, and it seemed that the losses were quite large, and our special service and reconnaissance cavalry were caught twice, originally thought to be thieves, but they were caught as deserters in the Changping army. ”

Chen Xin touched his nose when he heard this, shouldn't Zuo Liangyu be very powerful at beating the Liukou, how could he be beaten by the Liukou again and again. I don't know if I lost a lot of elites because of the battle in Changshan.

"The difficulty lies in the fact that Shexian, Pingshun, Linxian and Wu'an are connected by mountains and rivers, and there are mountain roads everywhere, but there is a lack of dangerous places to intercept, and the flow of people is uncertain. Often when they found the traces, they had already run elsewhere, and their horsemen moved quickly, and Wu An found scorpion blocks and stars in the sky. He was defeated by the official army many times, but his elite horsemen escaped again and again. Soon, tens of thousands of displaced people were coerced. ”

The officers present were a little worried, not that they were afraid that they would not be able to fight, but this time there were not many cavalry in Dengzhou, and they might not be able to catch up with those horsemen.

Chen Xin knocked lightly on the table, "Has the person sent to contact Xuan Mo come back?"

Xuan Mo is the current governor of Henan, the previous governor of Henan was Fan Shangjiao, because he did not hold the border of Shanxi, he was dismissed not long ago, and Xuan Mo was just replaced.

"Before I came back, Lu Daotai of the Daimyo's Mansion got in touch, and three days ago, they were intercepting the Celestial Star in the west of Wu'an."

According to the shape of this time, the scope of Liukou was limited to Shanxi, Shaanxi, and there were no governors of several provinces in the future. The only cross-provincial one is Cao Wenzhao, Chongzhen asked him to control the soldiers and horses of Qin and Jin, but in fact it was only a name, and he didn't care about money, food, or people. Operationally speaking, this general system also has no practical significance, Cao Wenzhao is chasing the enemy every day, the garrison is changing at any time, the friendly army cannot find him, he cannot find the friendly army, there is no way to command such a vast battlefield, so it is still the civilian officials in various places in command.

When the guest soldiers who assisted in the suppression arrived at a certain place, they listened to the command of the civilian officials who led the local troops, Wu'an belonged to Henan, Chen Xin should first report to the governor of Henan, it is said that he should be in the vicinity of Kaifeng, but in the middle of Linxian and Zhangde are raging again, Tangma needs to take a detour, and there will be news back for a while and a half. Now the border between the two provinces is a pot of porridge, and the governor may not still be in Kaifeng.

There is a Lu Xiangsheng next to him who is a civilian official, but he is a famous soldier, and he also belongs to the guest army in Wu'an, and it is not in line with the military system to listen to his command, and Chen Xin does not plan to join others. Therefore, he did not stop at the Daimyo's Mansion, and did not stop until he crossed the border of Zhangdefufu, so as not to be counted as a guest army of the Daimyo's Mansion.

"Continue to contact the governor of Henan, and before we receive the order, we will fight ourselves. What are the most famous of the 36th Battalion right now?"

"They are Zijin Liang, King Chuang, General Chuang, Lao Huihui, Eight Kings, Breaking the Sky, and Sweeping King. Ten days ago, Zijin Liang, Chuang Wang, and Lao Huihui were still near Zezhou, Shanxi, and their current locations were unclear. ”

Zhu Daichun interjected and asked, "Then who is closest to us?"

Wang Mafu remembered very well, and replied without looking at his intelligence records: "The Eight Great Kings and the Sweeping King, the whereabouts of the Eight Great Kings after conquering Pingshun are unknown, but there is news that the Sweeping King may be heading to Lin County, these two big rogues are not within the scope of our sentry direct investigation, they are all interrogated news, it is difficult to believe, and it is probably impossible to track them at present." Among the smaller rogues, the nearest ones are the scorpion block and the girl, the girl has just been defeated by Lu Xiangsheng, yesterday the scout found that they were moving south, and seemed to be preparing to flee to Cixian or Linxian, only a hundred miles away from Linzhang, with about four thousand people. ”

Chen Xin patted the table with a smile, "Then this girl, she has walked thousands of miles, let's fight first, let's see what kind of rogue he is." (To be continued.) You are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info to vote for recommendations and monthly passes. For mobile phone users, please go to read