Chapter 109: The Black Mountain Army

Zhang Yan, the commander of the Montenegrin Army, sits in the three counties of Changshanjing, Puwu and Lingshou, with more than 100,000 people and more than 30,000 strong! It is the largest force of the Montenegrin army, a first-class force, and there are Sun Qing, Wang Dang, Du Chang and other small marshals under its command. In addition, Qu Shuai Luo City led the crowd to live in Fangshan in the north of Puwu, so that Zhang Yan and his group could attack the hinterland of Jizhou and retreat between the mountains and mountains, which can be said to have a complete strategy and no worries.

In addition, there are several Montenegrin bandits of different sizes, such as Guo Daxian, Yu Yigen, Baique, and Fuyun, who are entrenched in the mountains in the western part of Changshan Country. Among them, Guo Daxian and Yu Yigen are the most powerful and second-class forces.

Guo Daxian doesn't need to say much, but this Yugen occupies Shangai County, the westernmost county seat of Changshan Country, and controls most of the surrounding areas! There are more than 40,000 people and more than 10,000 strong. And based on this, they invaded and watched over the counties and counties.

Other black mountain thieves such as Baique and Fuyun are like Li Damu, and they did not capture the county town as the base, but built a camp between the peaks and valleys, thinking that they were the foundation, and they were distributed between the mountains in the south of Jingcheng and the north of Zanhuang, and they were the third type of force.

Their strength is not very large, ranging from about one or twenty thousand to each unit, and the number of elite is often only five or six thousand. Originally, among them, Li Damubu was the most likely to capture the county seat and develop into a second-class force, but he didn't expect to encounter the outlier of Wen Chou.

The above is an overview of the distribution of the Montenegrin army forces in Changshan Country. In addition, Zhongshan County, Zhao County, Wei County in the land of Jizhou, Shangdang County in Bingzhou, and Hanoi County in Sili all have black mountain bandits. It can be seen that the activity area of the Montenegrin Army is in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places.

The peaks of the Taihang Mountains are repeated, and the altitude is more than 2,000 meters. The southeast of the mountain range is the Hebei Plain, and the northwest is the Shanxi Plateau, and the Hebei Plain leads to the Shanxi Plateau between the Taihang Mountains. The topography of the Taihang Mountains provides relatively convenient conditions for the mutual communication and strategic cooperation of the various units of the Montenegrin Army distributed in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains.

The Black Mountain bandits who caused trouble in the territory of Zhongshan Kingdom occupied the Wulu Department in the southbound Tang County and the Sili Department in Shangquyang County. These two departments have more than 30,000 people, and nearly 10,000 are strong! Siege its county rule Lunu from time to time! It made Zhongshan Xiang distressed. There is also a part of Pengzai, which occupies Changshan Pass in the north of Zhongshan Kingdom, with more than 20,000 people, and as many as six or seven thousand strong people, which is also a harm.

Then there are the Black Mountain thieves in Zhao County, led by Qingniujiao, who occupies Zhongqiu County, with 40,000 people and more than 10,000 strong. In addition, the Huanglong Department and the Zuoxiao Department, which belong to the third-class forces, also have 20,000 or 30,000 people each, and thousands of strong people.

There are many fewer Black Mountain military thieves in Wei County, and only the Eight Divisions of Zuo Zhangzhang, which occupies the westernmost county of Sheguo County, and the Zhang Bai Cavalry Division, which is still breathing among the mountains. As for the other departments, they were all disabled by the officers and soldiers, and then they had to be merged into the eight divisions of the left beard. It is also Zuo Zhangbachi who can defend Shiguo County, which is located in the mountains, and has 670,000 people, but there are only 13,400 elite people.

There are as many as three or four bandits in the Black Mountain of Hanoi County, including Bai Rao, Yu Poison, and Zhenggu, which belong to the second rank, and Tao Sheng, who are less powerful. Bai Rao occupies Dangyin County, Yu Poison occupies Chaoge County, and Zhenggu occupies Linshu County, with 30,000 or 40,000 people respectively, and nearly 10,000 strong. Tao Sheng is just a small poisonous force attached to it, with thousands of people.

In Shangdang County, there are many bandits in Montenegro, among which there is only Zhang Yanbu, who is second only to Daqu Shuai, and Yang Fengbu, who is also the first in power, is the largest group of bandits in the southern Montenegro. With 780,000 people and more than 20,000 strong, they occupied Gaodu and Yang'a counties in the south of Shangdang County.

In addition, there are the Lei Gong Department that occupies Hyun County and the Daji Department that occupies Zhan County, both of which are second-class forces with 20,000 or 30,000 people. At the same time, there are two parts of Pinghan and Ku built in the valley. There are many thieves.

After the fall of the Yellow Turban, so many Black Mountain thieves quickly rose up in the Taihang Mountains and disturbed the counties of Hebei! So that the Han Empire, which was already tired of coping, could not crusade against it.

Zhang Yan, the commander of his canal, sent people to Kyoto to beg for surrender, and the court took advantage of the situation to 'worship Yan Ping Nan Zhonglang General' to make him manage the administrative and public security affairs in the mountainous areas north of the Yellow River, and every year he could recommend filial piety to the imperial court, and send officials to Luoyang to report. Soon the Han Emperor sent an envoy to worship Yang Feng as the captain of Montenegro, lead the thieves, and raise filial piety and honesty. But it is the heart of letting Yang Feng and Zhang Yan contain each other.

However, the effect was not obvious, and Yang Feng did not have much influence on other thieves except for a few bandits that were close to him. I think it's the reason why Zhang Niujiao, who was a self-proclaimed general at the time of the incident. The horn of the ox was hit by a flying arrow, and was wounded and died, so that everyone worshiped Yan and said, "Yan will be handsome." "'There is even Chu Feiyan who changed his surname to Zhang, and regarded Zhang Niujiao as his father. The son inherits his father's business, it is best to explain it, all the thieves are gathered with horns, so how can they obey Yang Feng's dispatch!

To say that this bull's horn is also an amazing character. The incident called itself 'General Engagement', but it borrowed the residual power and remnants of the Yellow Turban's 'Tiangong General' Zhang Jiao and others, and gathered the defeated Yellow Turban Army for his own use.

The person who has always caused trouble is either self-proclaimed 'Son of Heaven' or 'General So-and-so'. So who calls himself 'a general'? Those who are engaged in soldiers, and those who follow others to lead soldiers! Whom will you follow? Of course, it is the three brothers of the Zhang family, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army. In this way, the Yellow Turbans who were originally defeated and scattered in various places and mountains found the backbone and gathered one after another, which gave rise to the power of the Black Mountain Thieves' 'Millions to Millions'!

In the north, there is Zhang Yan, the general leader of the Black Mountain thieves, and in the south, there is the danger of Yang Feng's troubles in three counties and eight counties. It can be said that the Black Mountain Bandits are already a force to be reckoned with, if it weren't for the fact that they didn't unite in the real sense, I'm afraid that the two states would have long been out of the possession of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, this information is not something that can be known by the current ugly, only the black mountain thieves in the territory of Changshan Country can touch him. As for the bandit forces in other counties, it would not be more than Changshan where Zhang Yan, the commander of the thief Daqu, is located. As long as the Black Mountain Bandits in Changshan County can be contained, then it is only a matter of time before all the Black Mountain Bandits can be exterminated.

Here, Guo Daxian has obtained Zhang Yan's permission and is vigorously arming and preparing for war. When Wen Chou got the news, he also stepped up military training, and sent people to inform the surrounding counties and townships to be on guard.

The reason why Wen Chou was able to receive this news so quickly is also the credit of taking precautions. Since he defeated Liu Min in the war and occupied the camp of thieves, he deduced that there would be such a day. At that moment, several scouts and scouts were dispatched to pay close attention to the movements of Guo Daxian's bandits in the direction of the house county, so as not to be caught off guard by the thieves.

But he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

The first month is over, and February is coming.

The head of Qiantou in Shahe Township was a little nervous because of the news that Guo Daxian's thieves in Fang County would soon attack. Even the original plan to relocate the nearly 20,000 captives in the camp of the thieves after the first month had to be put on hold for the time being. so that manpower and material resources can be used to guard against the attack of thieves.

After another ten years, Shahe Township and Taolinsai finally made all the preparations. The moats, horse piles, watchtowers and other buildings that should exist in the county town have been preliminarily completed, and only the city wall is missing. This was all the defenses that Wen Chou and the generals could think of. If they can't keep the thieves out, then it's not something they can control.

At this point, Guo Daxian's thieves have not come. The relocation of the prisoners in the camp was once again on the agenda. First, some humble dwellings were built in the open space that had long been circled for these captives to live in.

Even though it's February, the cold is still cold and the snow is still there. But Wen Chou didn't dare to delay the relocation of the captives any longer, in case Guo Daxian came to attack, he didn't have the extra troops to assign to protect and guard these captives. But we can't let them fall into the den of thieves again, and we can't let them fend for themselves, so they can only suffer from the cold.

However, Wen Chou will also try to make the dwelling resistant to the cold, and give them as much as possible to make a fire to keep warm.

The great migration of tens of thousands of people cannot be completed in a day or two, nor can it be organized by three or five hundred people. For this reason, Wen Chou specially selected two or three thousand strong men to be responsible for the migration of these captives.

On February 11, the fifth year of Zhongping, the weather was sunny. The breeze is blowing, there is no longer the cold meaning of the past, there is quite a bit of spring breath, but the snow has not melted, the temperature is still cold, reminding people that the cold winter has not passed.

Early in the morning of this day, Zhao Yun dressed neatly, pretended to be in business, and then found a number of people in the township, rode along the official road, and went south from Zhending County to Shahe Township.

Zhending County is located in the central east of Changshan Country, and Shahe Township is located in the south and east of Changshan Country, and the two places are quite far away. If you are fast, it will only take two or three days, and if you are in a hurry, you may not be able to finish it in ten days and a half months.

Zhao Yun and the others were invited by Wen Chou, so they naturally would not rush as slowly as ordinary people, and they all hurried up, raising a cloud of smoke and dust on the official road, and then walked away, quite happy. All the way through Luancheng, Pingjiao, Jianpu and other counties and townships, it is not a problem to come to the hotel late to play sharp, wake up and ride a horse and run wildly.

It is also seen that the closer to the south, the more numerous the villagers and the gradually prosperous market, and there is a comparison in the heart. For the rumored 'chivalrous filial piety', I became more and more curious.

If you inquire about one or two, you can hear the admiration from the mouths of the villagers. Wen Chou has won the hearts of the people so far!