Dachang has been producing salt since ancient times, so there are many salt merchants in Dachang City, Zhang Kewang tortured and interrogated the big families in the city, and in just half a day, he dug out tens of thousands of taels of silver from the secret cellars of those big households. Such a result not only did not make Zhang Kewang stop because of this, but became more and more excited, making his subordinates more tightly pressed and interrogated by those big families. Since I have made tens of thousands of taels in half a day, if I work harder, maybe I can get another tens of thousands of taels.

Zhang Dingguo's recruitment work was also carried out very smoothly, when he put boxes of freshly dug silver from Zhang Kewang at the gate of the city, opened the lid of the silver box, and constantly let his soldiers beat gongs and drums loudly to preach that they could get five taels of silver immediately when they became soldiers, which immediately attracted many people to sign up.

Although the Eight Kings and Cao Cao are both thieves in the imperial court, these days, as long as ordinary people can have food to eat, they don't care about that. Dachang produces salt, so the people here are basically salt, and they collect salt brine from the caves in the mountains and boil it to become snow-white mineral salt.

Those people have been mining salt on the steep mountain wall all year round, and they have all practiced the ability to climb rocks and climb mountains like walking on flat land, and they are obviously more suitable for serving as soldiers and eating food than ordinary farmers. Now that Dachang City has been broken, the merchants who collected salt in the city have also been taken, and the salt lads have no place to sell it even if they pick salt.

In just over half a day, Zhang Dingguo selected more than 5,000 people from the applicants, and he also incorporated Zhang Zhuokai's subordinates who had been captured before. Zhang Dingguo doesn't have too many requirements for recruitment, in short, the more the merrier, those over fifteen years old, under fifty years old, as long as they are men, and they don't lack arms and legs, he wants them.

The new recruits were formed into four battalions at once. Two of them belonged to Zhang Xianzhong, and two belonged to Luo Rucai. Now although the two ministries of Zhang Luo are united, they are still only an alliance, and the two ministries are not under their own control.

While chasing stolen goods and salaries, the thieves recruited troops and horses, and at the same time searched everywhere for Roman mules, donkeys, cloth and grain.

"Eight kings, a certain order to send troops, willing to lead the headquarters of the sons and daughters to take Daning City for the eight kings." Guotianxing Hui Dengxiang asked Zhang Xianzhong for orders.

In his early years, Hui Dengxiang was also one of the leaders of the thirteen families, and he was known as a star. Jianghu qualifications are also quite old. However, in the past few years, the luck has been bad, and the strength is getting weaker and weaker. However, three months ago, after Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, he faced the liaison messenger sent by Zhang Xianzhong. Hui Dengxiang made the wrong choice, he swore an oath with the generals of the five battalions such as Huaguansuo Wang Guangen, saying that he would never rebel again.

As a result, when Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai met for a while, Hui Dengxiang couldn't sit still and reneged on his previous oath and reversed it. Later, he also joined the coalition forces. But his status is not as good as before, and he is usually suppressed by Zhang everywhere. This time they took Dachang City, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were full of hugging, but Guo Tianxing didn't even drink a few sips of soup.

It's not like I can't sit still. He came to ask for orders to fight Daning City in the northwest of Dachang.

In the Zhang Luo coalition army, there are many anti-kings who are in an embarrassing situation like Guo Tianxing, and they are also old rivers and lakes. Now that they are rebelling again, their strength is far inferior to Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, and not only can they not continue to sit on an equal footing, but they are already equivalent to sending people under the fence, and if they continue like this, they will definitely only become subordinates of the two. Seeing that someone took the initiative to go out to fight the opportunity, two more people immediately followed and made a request.

Cao Wei, the sweeping king, and Yang Youxian, the king of the Ten Antis, took the opportunity to stand up and ask them to join forces to fight Wushan County, southeast of Dachang City.

"I think it's okay, we have to rest here for a few days, just so that they can go to sweep the two cities of Daning and Wushan respectively, and then we will go directly to the army to celebrate the festival, and save some time." Luo Rucai, who is known as Cao Cao, said.

In terms of qualifications in the rivers and lakes, Luo Rucai is much older than Zhang Xianzhong, and his strength has always been very strong, but in the past two years, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others have sprung up, and they have come to the top. However, in the previous round of encirclement and suppression by the official army, Li Zicheng's troops were completely defeated, and now they can't even hear any rumors, and Zhang Xianzhong's strength has also been greatly hit.

Luo Rucai has always wanted to have more say in the coalition army, so he also spoke for them at this time, as for Guo Tianxing, the Sweeping King, and the Ten Anti Kings, who were originally in an alliance with him, he also spoke for them at this time. Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong nodded with a smile and no longer objected.

On the same day, Guotianxing Hui Dengxiang led more than 3,000 people from his headquarters to attack Daning, and Yang Youxian, the sweeping king Cao Wei and the ten anti-kings, joined forces with more than 5,000 troops to attack Wushan.

Yunyang.

Yang Sichang received an urgent report from Zuo Liangyu, saying that the thief's trace found on the border of Hubei and Shaanxi was actually just a false shot by Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, so he was suspicious. Zhang Xianzhong made a move to enter Shaanxi, but in fact he had already entered Sichuan. Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong has annihilated the Sichuan deputy general Zhang Zuokai stationed in Dachang City and captured Dachang City.

Looking down at the urgent report in his hand, Yang Sichang was so angry that he was about to smoke, and the things he worried about day and night actually came true, and the thieves did not flee to Shaanxi but entered Sichuan.

He was wrong, and Mei Zhihuan was right, and this result was too much for him to bear.

However, Yang Sichang was unwilling to admit that Mei Zhihuan was better than him, and he blamed all the blame on Zhang Zuokai. If this guy is a little more vigilant, and then he can't hold a Dachang city with 5,000 soldiers and horses? If this guy is a little more powerful, and Zhang Luo's two thieves can't beat Dachang, then they can only go to Shaanxi.

Zhang Zuokai was to blame for everything, Yang Sichang gritted his teeth and issued an order to immediately remove Zhang Zuokai from his post as deputy general and send someone to arrest him and take him to prison.

But after giving this order, there is a more realistic question in front of him, what to do next?

"Immediately rush Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng to block Zhang Luo's two thieves in eastern Sichuan, and the two thieves must not be allowed to go south to Sichuan." Yang Sichang sneered, staring at the map on the side, since Mei Zhihuan is in eastern Sichuan, then give Mei Zhihuan the task of blocking the two thieves. If Mei Zhihuan can really block the two thieves of Zhang Luo, then when he leads the army to arrive, encircle and capture these two thieves, and in the end he is still the one who has the greatest credit in this battle. If Mei Zhihuan can't stop the two thieves and let them break into the middle of the river, then he can put the responsibility for the failure of this encirclement and suppression on Mei Zhihuan's head.

In short, no matter what, he can change from passive to active.

In his heart, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng must not be able to stop it, just rely on Liu Jun's battalion of Huguang recruits, how can they stop Zhang Luo's two thieves?

Bongjie.

While waiting for the soldiers and horses to get off the ship, Liu Jun arranged for Feng Sheng to continue to keep an eye on the bandits in Dachang City with the night of non-repression, and even sent out several horse teams that had just come off the ship. Zhang Xianzhong had just broken into eastern Sichuan, and at this time he didn't know that they had taken a boat from the Yangtze River to Fengjie.

The two places are more than 100 miles apart, and although Mei Zhihuan is now asking people to tightly seal the news of the arrival of the official army, this news will definitely not be hidden for long.

Mei Zhihuan insisted on waiting for the soldiers and horses to disembark for a short rest, and then immediately went straight to Dachang City. Liu Jun was a little hesitant, he was not afraid of bandits, but he didn't want to fight such a battle.

At dusk, all the soldiers and horses of the six camps had finally disembarked and landed, and a temporary camp was set up on the north shore.

"Teacher, I just received the information, and our chance has come." Liu Junxing hurriedly entered the handsome tent. "The bandits have divided their troops, a group of 3,000 men and horses led by Guo Tianxing to attack Daning, and a group of 5,000 men and horses from the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings to attack Wushan."

Mei Zhihuan is also a person who has led soldiers, so he suddenly heard the reason why Liu Jun was happy from this information. Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other bandits broke into eastern Sichuan from Huguang, and the total number of bandits in various departments was 40,000 or 50,000 people, although many of them were rabble, but the number was very large.

Especially after they captured Dachang City, it was very difficult for them to deal with. But now that the thieves have divided their forces, they can be broken one by one.

Liu Jun thought further, "This is a godsend, the thieves don't know that we are here yet, so we can completely preempt the thieves and ambush the thieves." Teacher, please see, Wushan is also on the Yangtze River, and even downstream of us, now our boat has not left, we can board the boat again and go down the river, at most two hours, we can reach Wushan County. Then land and ambush the thieves on the way to Wushan, kill them by surprise, and even we can come to a surround point to help, ambush the sweeping king, and then put a few people back to Dachang to report the news, and lead the thief Zhang to rescue. ”

If they come to their rescue, then they will be far away from Dachang City and lose their support for the city. If they don't come, then Liu Jun can annihilate the soldiers and horses of the sweeping king first.

Regarding Liu Jun's plan, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng also agreed. It is better to go to Wushan to set up an ambush for reinforcements than to go directly to Dachang.

"I'll take the middle battalion to go first, and the other battalions will come later, teacher."

Liu Jun planned to leave immediately, although it was already dark, but the boatmen were very familiar with this channel, and they could also sail at night if the speed was slow, as long as the speed was a little faster, they could even rush to Wushan before dark.

The officers and men of the Nine-headed Bird Battalion, who had just had dinner, suddenly received an urgent order, and the whole battalion re-boarded the ship.

Everyone was confused, how could they board the ship again when they just got off the boat. After getting on the boat, many people still don't know where to go.

Since the barracks went first, they did not need to carry any more baggage on the ships, and it was enough for each soldier to carry ten days' bags of dry rations, and the archers with sixty arrows, and the gunners with two hundred rounds of paper bullets.

More than 3,000 people quickly boarded the boat, and more than 30 river boats went down the river.

Although the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings came to attack Wushan County with 5,000 men and horses, Liu Jun thought that his battalion of soldiers was enough, and besides, they were only one step ahead, and the rest of the battalions would arrive later.

Liu Jun didn't want to fight a battle of 3,000 against 30,000, but more than 3,000 against 5,000, with more than 10,000 reinforcements behind him, he was naturally not afraid of thousands of bandits at all. (To be continued......)