"Shopkeeper Li, shopkeeper Li! You must tell Boss Xue about the slave family's requirements! Tang Mei pleaded bitterly.

"Got it! Got it! Shopkeeper Li waved his hand impatiently, "You better go out quickly." Don't arouse the suspicion of your subordinates at the door. ”

Seeing the woman with the veil reluctantly leaving, Shopkeeper Li was in turmoil.

This shopkeeper Li was one of the first local veterans recruited by Wu Shigong after he arrived in Henan, and he was injured on the battlefield and was not suitable to stay in the army. But his brain is relatively active, and he is loyal to Wu Shigong, so he was selected by Xue Zhinong to the Shanchuan Division to become the leader of the spies in Kaifeng City.

Externally, the shopkeeper Li opened a grocery store in Kaifeng City, which had no connection with the Runing Army or even the Runing Army's industry, the Sihai Commercial Bank. But internally, he has all the power to deploy spies from the mountains and rivers in Kaifeng City and collect information.

However, Shopkeeper Li also has a mission, which is to contact Tang Mei in a single line. If it was general information, Tang Mei might have contacted another point through her illiterate maid. But for important information, she will go directly to the grocery store of Shopkeeper Li.

So today, Shopkeeper Li was taken aback when he saw Tang Mei, he knew that there must be an emergency situation. But even if he was mentally prepared, Shopkeeper Li was still on the spot after listening to Tang Mei's information, and this news really decided the life and death of the Runing Army!

So when Tang Mei begged to get rid of the Shanchuan Division later, Shopkeeper Li was already unintentionally entangled, so he thought about sending Tang Mei out earlier, and then arranging for people to send this important information back to the Runing Army as soon as possible.

"Pillars!" Shopkeeper Li shouted loudly.

A young man who was watching the counter at the door immediately answered and ran into the back room. This is the nephew of the shopkeeper Li, and this grocery store takes care of these two people on weekdays. Shopkeeper Li didn't have any children, so he thought about handing over his Shanchuan Division's errand to his nephew to take over in the future, so now he also took his nephew with him to hone his skills.

Shopkeeper Li took out a piece of paper. He wrote the names of more than a dozen people on it, handed them to the pillar and instructed: "Go and run around, if these people find all the ones they find, call them over, forget about those who are not there, don't delay the time." ”

Half an hour later, the pillar sweated profusely and led six men to the grocery store. When they entered the inner room, they were surprised to find that the shopkeeper had placed two handcuffs and some short blades on the table in the inner room.

Seeing the arrival of these people, Shopkeeper Li didn't talk nonsense, and immediately arranged: "There is a 100,000 urgent letter to be delivered to the house." We divided into groups, a group of five. I led the team and went straight home through Kaifeng Mansion. A group of three," Shopkeeper Li hesitated for a moment, then continued, "led by the pillars." Take a detour back home. We all know that there are bandits on the road, so everyone must take care. Guys take it all. Immediately go to the carriage shop outside the city to pick up the horses. ”

Then the shopkeeper Li gave each person a small bamboo tube with a note, and then said: "You can walk together or separately, as long as one person sends the news home, it will be a great achievement." ”

The eight people in the house silently took the small bamboo tube, and then followed the shopkeeper Li out of the grocery store. When you go out. Zhu Zi asked, "Second uncle! Won't the door panel of the grocery store be closed? ”

Shopkeeper Li shook his head with a wry smile and said, "What are you doing with this grocery store?" ”

Shopkeeper Li knew that this trip was quite dangerous. Because if you want to hurry up, you need to ride a fast horse. They can pass through areas where peasant rebels, bandits, and rioters are rampant, and the small teams on horseback are like lights in the night.

Shopkeeper Li can only take the more dangerous straight road by himself. And let his nephew take a safer detour. As for the handcuffs and short blades, they are just a strong man. And Tang Mei's matter of asking for herself has long been left behind by Shopkeeper Li.

November 25, the seventh year of Chongzhen. The secret agents arranged by the Yamakawa Division in Kaifeng City learned of the three-way attack of the peasant rebel army. They sent eight messengers, each of whom took different paths.

Among them, the shopkeeper Li and the five of them were all missing when they passed through Kaifeng Mansion. And Li Zhu and the other three only survived, and the two of them made a detour to Guide Mansion and sent the news back to the Runing Army Headquarters.

Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli, who stayed in the headquarters, were shocked when they learned the news. They immediately sent a messenger to deliver this important news to Wu Shigong, who was leading the army to fight in Ruzhou, but by this time six days had passed, and the time had already reached the second day of the lunar month.

The gates of the camp were opened. A troop of cavalry roared into the camp. The horsemen ostentatiously threw their heads and captures on the ground, causing cheers and whistles from the cavalry and the soldiers in the large battalion.

"My lord! Morale is high! Zhou Xun looked at the cavalrymen who were still juggling on horseback, and said to Wu Shigong happily.

"These bunnies!" Wu Shigong also shook his head with a smile.

Now this battle has all fallen into the rhythm of the Runing army. It had been eight days since they had met the peasant rebels on the South Road, and the Runing Army had completely entangled them.

The reason why the peasant rebel army is called a bandit is that their power is embodied in the word "liu"; if they cannot escape, then the peasant rebel army, which has no base area and relatively low combat effectiveness, will immediately abandon its martial arts.

This is also the reason why the Weishenme peasant rebel army fled to the mountainous areas whenever the situation was not good, because after entering the mountainous areas, it was difficult for the Ming army to entangle the peasant rebels.

And the Ming Dynasty court also knew this, so no matter who presided over the encirclement and suppression of the peasant rebel army, he would put forward a strategy similar to the one proposed by Wu Shigong before - regional defense and full-field pressing, and the main purpose was to prevent the peasant rebel army from wandering.

Moreover, this strategy is also a panacea, and dealing with the rebellion of the displaced people is simply a cure. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Hunan army encircled and suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this strategy was adopted.

But although the strategy is good, it still needs the commander of Haode and the troops to implement it. This also reflects the fact that the actors will change, and each has its own subtle differences. For example, the last time Chen Qiyu had already forced the peasant rebels into a desperate situation, but in the blink of an eye, it was the change in the carriage gorge, so he also played this trick.

The main reason why the peasant rebel army on the southern road could not get out of the country was that they were now in the great plain of the hinterland of Henan, and they were still facing a strong army like the Runing Army. (To be continued......)