Wang Xu was originally a butcher, his family had some money, and when he had nothing to do, he often went to the teahouse to listen to the story, and his favorite thing to listen to was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he admired Zhang Fei the most, maybe because Zhang Fei was a butcher before.

After listening to the book a lot, Wang Xu had an idea in his heart, thinking that he was a talented person, and he would definitely make great achievements in the future.

Huang Chao rebelled for many years, Wang Xu had a certain touch, and later Huang Chao suffered a big defeat in Luoyang, exiled to Huainan Province, occupied most of the place in Gwangju, Wang Xu also thought that he could organize an army, after defeating Huang Chao, maybe he would be able to get an official and a half position, but unfortunately his idea, there was no chance to implement it, there was an army of Gao Yu stationed in Gwangju City, he did not dare to act rashly.

After the withdrawal of the garrison troops, the people in Gwangju City panicked, and rumors also appeared, saying that Gao Yu had suffered unfair treatment, and the troops stationed in Huainan Province lost their morale, and all of them withdrew to Yangzhou, abandoning other places in Huainan Province.

Many people just participated in the discussion and talked about it, and the shrewd people began to prepare, once the chaos came, they would leave Gwangju City, or go to Yangzhou, or enter Shannan Dongdao, and avoid the disaster, but Wang Xu's thinking was different.

Only five days after the army had withdrawn, Wang Xu began to implement his plan.

The first thing Wang Xu did was to gather a few hundred people and occupy the state city.

This process is very simple, most of the patrols in the city are very familiar with Wang Xu, thanks to Wang Xu's benefits, with their support, Wang Xu easily occupied the Assassin Yamen.

As for the Gwangju Assassin Shi and other officials, when Wang Xu began to act, he fled with his family and went to Yangzhou City. These officials knew very well that if they continued to stay in Gwangju, they would definitely not have a good life.

Recruiting troops is certain, and there are many people who come to take refuge, Wang Xu occupied the state city, as if he thought he was the history of the Gwangju assassin, and he was very generous, after occupying the state city, he also occupied the treasury and the granary, and he opened the granary. Let the people who take refuge have food, and this kind of thing has spread, and many people are willing to come to take refuge.

It's a pity that Wang Xu's heart is very big, and his actual ability is generalized, and his understanding, that is, what he knows from listening to books on weekdays, as for how to manage people's livelihood and how to maintain expenses, these are not his key considerations.

With the increase in the number of people under his command. The expenses are increasing more and more, and in less than a month, even Wang Xu, who doesn't care much about these things, found that the situation is wrong. If it goes on like this, it won't be long before he can sustain it.

At this time, Huang Chao sent an envoy to contact, hoping that Wang Xu would obey the order.

The conditions for Huangchao are still good. Let Wang Xu become the general under his command.

Of course Wang Xu didn't do it, what people thought of was that he would be a general and a glorious ancestor, how could he become a general under Huang Chao. So he scolded the envoy of the Yellow Nest away, but fortunately, he was still sober and knew that the strength of the Yellow Nest was huge and he could not compete with it, so he did not kill the envoy.

As a result of this, Huang Chao strengthened his control over the areas already occupied in Gwangju, and Wang Xu's army was confined to some places near the city of Gwangju.

The crisis of lack of food and grass is approaching step by step.

There are already more than 10,000 people under Wang Xu's command, and the expenses of maintaining more than 10,000 people require a lot of grain, grass and money.

It was the autumn harvest season, Wang Xu, like everyone else, set his sights on the grain in the fields, and in the name of collecting taxes, he began to exploit the people on a large scale, even the gentry and wealthy households, after all, Gwangju is too small, and it is very difficult to feed more than 10,000 people.

At this time, Wang Xu did not find that the danger was quietly approaching.

The autumn harvest season is coming, Huang Chao is not idle, after all, he has an army of 100,000 under his command, and it is very difficult to rely on the territory he occupies to feed, and Huang Chao has been in mobile combat for a long time, and there are not many means to manage people's livelihood, plus he suffered a crushing defeat in Luoyang, and his main strategists and generals were killed in that battle, which also made Huang Chao extremely anxious, considering where the way out of the army was.

The 100,000 army under his command, most of them are homeless, these people are under the command of Huang Chao, and they can have food to stabilize, but to say that these people are at ease, it is not possible, and the combat effectiveness is impossible to compare with before, Huang Chao once thought about whether he could leave Huainan Road and go to Lingnan, after all, it is located in a remote area, and there is almost no army in the imperial court, and Lingnan Road is much farther away from the iron-blooded army.

After the Iron Blood Army occupied Shannan East Road, Huang Chao has always been panicked, he knows very well that with the 100,000 troops under his command, he must never think about confronting the Iron Blood Army, and the outcome of that encounter is even worse than Luoyang.

It's a pity that Huang Chao is also powerless, almost all the recruits under his command are homeless, most of these people are farmers from Shannan East Province and Huainan Province, because the government is too exploitative, there is no food to eat, and they are forced to join the army, at least they will not starve to death, and they want them to quickly become qualified sergeants and be able to travel long distances, which will take time.

In addition, the grain output in the area of Lingnan Road is far less than that of Huainan Road.

Because of this reason, Huang Chao temporarily settled down in Huainan Province, and always paid attention to the situation in Shannan Dongdao.

Wang Xu of Gwangju rebelled, which surprised Huang Chao, he occupied a lot of places in Gwangju, and considering the difficulty of maintaining the cost of maintaining the city, he did not attack the city of Gwangju, so after Wang Xu's rebellion, Huang Chao sent an envoy to contact.

The result made Huang Chao angry and angry.

But Huang Chao did not attack Gwangju, he knew very well that attacking Gwangju at this time would definitely pay a great price, and he didn't want to suffer such a loss, besides, it was the autumn harvest season, and his army needed to hoard a large amount of grain and grass at this time, and only after the autumn harvest was over, could he start moving quickly.

But Huang Chao will not let Wang Xu go, in fact, he also needs to let Wang Xu try to loot Suizhou and other places when he woos Wang Xu.

At the suggestion of his subordinates, Huang Chao came up with a brilliant solution, which was to firmly control the rest of Gwangju and let the soldiers under Wang Xu's command huddle near Gwangju City, so that Wang Xu would be difficult to maintain for a long time, and he would inevitably find a way to break through.

The breakthrough place is Shannan Dongdao.

Huang Chao will let go of a big road, let Wang Xu go towards Shannan Dongdao, let Wang Xu's army enter Suizhou and other places to plunder, and let Wang Xu's army directly encounter the iron-blooded army.

After so many years of conquest, Huang Chao, who has reached the age of the sixtieth year, must have understood a lot of things, such a plan, he can come up with it, and doing so has great benefits for him, to say that he does not covet the grain in Suizhou and other places, it is fake, if Wang Xu can really confront the iron-blooded army, then he will have the opportunity to loot Yingzhou and Fuzhou and other places, anyway, after this raid, he is also ready to leave Huainan Road and go to Lingnan.

Huang Chao's plan was accurate.

In August, Wang Xu really encountered difficulties.

Wang Xu has no management experience at all, the 10,000 soldiers under his command are eating and drinking every day, in the name of defending Gwangju, Wang Xu does not care, he is proud of having 10,000 troops under his command, but unfortunately because of the blockade of Huangchao, the source of Wang Xu's army is limited, and the old book can not eat for a long time, with the quartermaster's report, Wang Xu understands that he needs to find money, grain and grain.

The scouts were quickly dispatched.

The information returned from the reconnaissance is clear, Gwangju, Huangzhou, Shenzhou, Anzhou, Qizhou, Shouzhou and other places, all the grain has been harvested, it is impossible to raise grain and grass in these places, and there is no way out for the army in Shouzhou, Huangzhou and Shenzhou, which are close to Gwangju, as for Dugi Province and other places, Wang Xu does not dare to take risks, and the only places that can go are Tangzhou and Suizhou, which belong to Shannan Dongdao.

Shannan Dongdao belongs to the Iron Blood Army, Wang Xu, who used to be a butcher, does not know the situation in these places at all, and he does not know the situation of the Iron Blood Army very well, but he knows one thing, if the army continues to stay in Gwangju and cannot find grain and grass, it will be a dead end, even if there is a great difficulty, he must break through.

Wang Xu originally planned to attack Huangchao, and if he succeeded, he would be able to directly ask the court for credit, but unfortunately the army under Huangchao was waiting for him, and the strength of the people was extremely strong, which was by no means comparable to Wang Xu today.

After thinking about it again, Wang Xu decided to personally take 8,000 soldiers to Tangzhou.

After making this decision, the scouts immediately began to reconnoiter the route, and to Wang Xu's delight, Huang Chao's army began to assemble towards Anzhou and Chuzhou, and Shenzhou had almost no troops deployed, which indicated that Wang Xu could lead the army through Shenzhou and directly reach Tangzhou.

After the scout investigation was over, Wang Xu couldn't wait to start arranging, there were only more than 2,000 people left in Gwangju City, as long as these 2,000 people did not take the initiative to attack, the problem of defending the city was not big, and these soldiers would not go out of the city easily.

On the 10th day of the eighth month, Wang Xu led the army to leave Gwangju City and go in the direction of Tangzhou.

When Huang Chao recruited people, Huang Chao arranged for his henchmen to get in, and when he came to Wang Xu's side, he could even influence Wang Xu to make many decisions, otherwise Wang Xu would not easily decide to go to Tangzhou to plunder.

After learning that Wang Xu had begun to act, Huang Chao was extremely happy, and he also began to deploy, if the iron-blooded army stationed in Suizhou went to Tangzhou to exterminate Wang Xu, he would take this opportunity to enter Suizhou and loot on a large scale, and when the iron-blooded army that exterminated Wang Xu found out, it was too late.

Of course, Huang Chao still paid attention to it, he knew that the officers of the Iron Blood Army stationed in Suizhou were Huang Biao and Zhu Wen and others, especially that Zhu Wen, Huang Chao still knew something. (To be continued......)