Chapter Seventy-Four: The Nightmare of the Anti-Thief
After the Zhang family meeting, the thoughts of the Zhang clan were unified no matter how good they were.
Everyone is dominated by Zhang Hongbin, and they will do their best to assist him in achieving the great cause of the king. Zhang Hongwen continued to run his chamber of commerce, and Zhang Hongwu returned to his Shanxi, where all resources were being dispatched to the maximum.
Zhang Hongbin also stayed in Chang'an for more than a day, and then hurriedly went north.
Five days later, he came to the front and flattered the soldiers at the front. Everyone knew it was going to be a battlefield, but their leader was here anyway.
"Fellow soldiers of the Salvation Army, there is an elite border army coming towards us in front of you, are you afraid?" Zhang Hongbin yelled on the high platform.
"Don't be afraid!" Everyone yelled in response as hard as they could.
"What are you?" Zhang Hongbin yelled.
"The Salvation Army! The Salvation Army! The Salvation Army!! Everyone was responding.
"The enemy is ahead, and the time to test your usual training has come! No matter what kind of environment you are in, you must pay attention to who you are, pay attention to your glory, and the family behind you! Remember, you take a step back, and what awaits them may be the enemy's butcher's knife! I ask you, do you want this to happen to your family or villagers? Zhang Hongbin pointed to the north and shouted.
"I don't want to!" Everyone replied in the affirmative that there was nothing to hesitate about.
"Armament, one last check your gear. Go, let the enemy be afraid, let the enemy fear you! The Salvation Army, march! Zhang Hongbin raised his right hand into a fist and shouted at everyone.
"Go on the expedition, kill the enemy!" Everybody was very fanatical, everybody was very excited.
Of course, this kind of slogan encouragement will not actually play a long-term effect, after all, there are still relatively few hot-blooded idiots in this world. Therefore, according to the wartime salary rule, each person is first distributed with three times the wartime salary in peacetime, and at the same time let everyone have a full meal, which is an indispensable link. The most important thing is that Zhang Hongbin personally came to every camp tent, took tea instead of wine, and offered blessings to all the soldiers.
Today's mythological movement has initially taken on a scale, and many people regard Zhang Hongbin as a god. Only he can lead himself, his family and fellow villagers to live a better life. In fact, unlike other rebels or cults who only shout slogans, the leader has always carried out the things he promised.
Seeing that the life of his family is getting better and better, seeing that the days of oppression in the past are gone, and seeing that the most unpopular soldiers are beginning to be welcomed, the soldiers are not blind, and they naturally put a piece of sincere loyalty on Zhang Hongbin.
At this moment, Zhang Hongbin toasted them, which was a supreme honor for them, even if it was tea, but many people were still intoxicated.
At the same time, the life of the rebels in northern Shaanxi was not easy.
At this moment, Lao Huihui and Cao Cao are confronting Cao Wenzhao, or the two of them are ready to go to Shanxi, who knows that on the way there, they met Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, two uncles and nephews who went south, even if they can't deal with it.
Cao Wenzhao's side came prepared, and more than 500 scouts scattered out, but they quickly locked up the two teams of Lao Huihui and Cao Cao. The two uncles and nephews also held their breath, and at first they did not directly start to eat the two teams, but carefully drove or lured them to a suitable plain area, and then the whole army set out, lined up before them, and waited for them to come to the door.
Therefore, when the two sides faced each other, Cao Wenzhao's side had already set up a formation, and the anti-thieves were in a hurry to set up a formation, not to mention, the most important thing is that they had not realized how they would be here to face the main force of the imperial court.
"Charge!" Against this kind of small shrimp, there is no need to spend brainpower on any strategy and tactics, what is needed is the most primitive charge.
Not to mention anything else, Cao Wenzhao immediately took the five hundred elite horses of his headquarters and killed them, followed by Cao Bianjiao's five hundred elite horses. After a short time, the three thousand light cavalry behind also rushed out. As for the remaining 2,000 infantry, they began to spread out in an orderly manner, forming a large net to block the way of the anti-thieves to the greatest extent.
"Come on!" Cao Wenzhao entered the thief formation with a big knife in his hand, and he didn't know how many thieves he had killed after a burst of slashing.
I saw flesh and blood flying, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, but in a moment, a large piece was emptied in front of Cao Wenzhao, and no one within a radius of five meters dared to step forward, because everyone who went up was dead.
"Uncle, slow down, leave some for me!" Cao Bianjiao made a spear, but the left and right stabs also assassinated a lot of thieves.
The two uncles and nephews were brave and unparalleled, giving a strong encouragement to the elite riders behind, and their morale exploded instantly. Having reached the maximum combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the border army, began their respective slaughter. With the momentum of horses, it is simply easy to deal with these thieves who have no horses, or no good horses. In just a few moments, the three thousand light cavalry had already killed nearly five thousand thieves.
"Old back, that dog day is fierce, I'm afraid we won't be able to withstand it!" Cao Cao Luo Rucai was shocked and said to the old Hui Hui beside him.
"If you don't say it, I know...... We've fallen into each other's trap this time...... No, stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood, we will break through with the elite of the headquarters, no matter how much is left in the end, at least we are still alive, so there is still hope for a qiē. If we are planted here, then we will play all the qiē! Lao Huihui gritted his teeth.
"But if I leave here, my wives ......" Cao Cao, who likes to marry wives, is naturally reluctant to give up his brides.
"You snatched it back, if you can restore your power in the future, how many brides can't get it back? Now planted here, what else can you do but be a merry ghost? "I think this girl is too late.
"Okay, before Liu Bei made a fortune, he abandoned his wife several times, and today I Cao Cao will also learn from him!" Cao Cao gritted his teeth.
"I see, you still change your name to Liu Bei!" Lao Huihui shook his head and broke through with his headquarters.
The two worked together and broke out with 30,000 horses from their headquarters, leaving the remaining nearly 100,000 coerced people as a block. Cao Wenzhao was not fooled, and left these people behind and launched an attack on their headquarters. Everywhere he passed, there was naturally a river of blood, and no one could stop his way.
"Run!" I can't care about anything when I go back, so I can only keep running away.
"Wait for me!" Cao Cao, who was not too good at riding, shouted sadly.
The two kept running, but they finally got rid of Cao Wenzhao's headquarters, and when they looked back, there were still hundreds of people left in the headquarters, and the most important thing was that the materials and everything were lost, and hundreds of people were now like lonely ghosts, and they didn't know if there was still hope ahead.
Cao Wenzhao asked people to gather the thieves who had been surrendered, count the results, and at the same time restrain the people below not to kill the good and take the risk. The coerced people are still the people, they are good by nature, as long as they have not taken the initiative to attack the troops of the imperial court, they will spare their lives. However, the thief can't go uninvestigated, go back to help repair the bridge and pave the road, and serve labor to make up for the sins.
The most important thing is that Cao Wenzhao went south this time, and the money and grain were only sixty percent, so he naturally knew who was greedy for the forty percent. Therefore, he doesn't mind letting these people go to the rear and disgust those civil officials or something.
In the final analysis, Cao Wenzhao is not only a fierce general, he also has a strong military brain, and it is still easy to trick some people with a little trick.
In the following days, Cao Wenzhao continued to go south, recaptured several towns that had been captured, killed more than 100,000 thieves, captured more than 300,000, and became famous in the first battle.
Wherever they passed, the thieves retreated, even if they received the news that Cao Wenzhao would come wherever he came, they would flee from the wind. Now there is also a bravery table among the thieves, Shang Yong is to run away when he is face to face with Cao Wenzhao; Zhongyong is sure that Cao Wenzhao will kill himself and run again; Xia Yong fled when he heard the news of Cao Wenzhao's killing.
The funny thing is that each one dares to fight it head-on.
Cao Wenzhao became a nightmare for the thieves, so he went all the way south, and finally came to the vicinity of Huanglong Mountain, and was about to enter the territory of the Salvation Army.
Everyone, including the imperial court and the rebels, are paying attention here, and everyone is curious about who will be able to win the final victory in the end. If it is Cao Wenzhao, where will these thieves go, and if it is the Salvation Army, what will be the impact on them?
All eyes are on this place.