"What is the origin of this white government?" On the way back to Huaixian, Huo Guang kept chanting Bai Zheng's name in his heart. He only remembered that the beginning of the Hanoi Rebellion was caused by this Bai Zheng, but then he withdrew after occupying Anyang for a day, and then the appearance of bandits in various counties completely drowned out the influence of Bai Zheng, and even Huo Guang didn't pay attention to this person at first.

Huo Guang rushed back to Huai County that night, and at this time, he didn't care about resting, so he hurriedly summoned the officials to start discussing. Under the news that Bai Zheng occupied the three counties, Huo Guang's victory in recovering the state counties was completely overshadowed, and as a result, the sixteen counties of Hanoi were now still under Huo Guang's control, but only four counties remained. They are the county of Huai County, and the state county and Pingao County that form horns with Huai County, and there is also a little farther away Huojia County, but there is also a Xiuwu County in the middle of Huojia County, which is also occupied by thieves.

"Li Ling said, let's see what's going on? Didn't Benjun order the counties to hold the city, I don't believe that Bai Zheng could rely on hundreds of mountain bandits under his command to connect two cities in one day? At the beginning of the meeting, Huo Guang asked Li Ling to tell how Bai Zheng captured Longxi and Gongxian County.

"Back to the king, the news we got is that Bai Zheng pretended to surrender to the two cities and counties, and then deceived the city gate to capture the county seat. The counties of Longxi and Hegong were in the north and southwest of Anyang respectively, and Bai Zheng was divided into two routes, and almost at the same time he defrauded the two cities. ”

Li Ling told the story in general, and Huo Guang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this. This move is simply a copy of his own capture of the state and county, and Bai Zheng did it more thoroughly, and boldly divided the troops into two ways at the same time. Huo Guang understood that Bai Zheng did this reasonably, as soon as these county orders were greedy, when they saw that there were thieves coming to surrender, it was easy to open the city and surrender. Second, in this era, communication is backward, and even if a city falls, it will take a while for it to be known by other places.

And the reason why Huo Guang asked Gao Buzhi to pretend to be a thief to join Wang Meng that day was actually another thought. That is to cut off the possibility of other thieves growing stronger, as long as the failure of the state and county spreads to other thieves, then these people naturally dare not accept mountain bandits and rogues. But now that Bai Zheng is doing this, Huo Guang will not dare to accept the surrender of any thief in the future, and even the bandits who are willing to recruit peace will dispel their thoughts.

"It seems that Bai Zheng has a master next to him to help him! But why did this person capture Anyang before and disappear, but now he suddenly came out again? Dongfang Shuo also saw Bai Zheng's intentions, but he was also curious why Bai Zheng was so low-key at the beginning, but now he suddenly jumped out.

"What is the background of this Bai Zheng?" Huo Guang was not in a good mood at the moment, and Bai Zheng's sudden appearance.

"Back to the monarch, Bai Zheng is a native of Anyang, Hanoi, it is said that his ancestor is the Qin general Bai Qi, and he also has a younger brother named Bai Bing, in the early years, the two brothers worked as farmers at home, and later entered the Taihang Grand Canyon for Kou." The county magistrate of Huaixian County, an old man in his fifties, immediately replied.

"Kill the descendants of the gods? This Hanoi County is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger! Huo Guang said noncommittally, and I don't know if he said this out of helplessness or really sighed?

"Your Majesty, what should we do next?" Sima Zhuwu was a martial artist, and he was also in a hurry, seeing that there were more and more cities occupied by thieves in Hanoi County, he was eager to immediately lead his troops to kill all the way.

"Let's take Xiuwu first and connect the scope of control, otherwise the isolation of Huojia County is likely to become the next target of the thieves." Huo Guang pointed to Xiuwu County, which was located in the middle of Huai County and Huojia County on the map, and said, if Xiuwu County could be subdued, the several cities controlled by Huo Guang would indeed be connected.

"By the way, how is your recruitment progressing these days?" Huo Guang looked at Dongfang Shuo and Li Ling again and asked, he left Huai County for five days, and Huai County has been recruiting soldiers these days.

"Back to the king, the situation is not very optimistic, and the current number of newly recruited soldiers has only increased by more than 300 people. In addition, the original number of people was only just a thousand, and it was difficult to form combat effectiveness, but it was enough to defend the city. Li Ling replied that these recruited recruits had not been trained or experienced battlefield battles, so they really had no combat effectiveness.

"It's enough to defend the city, and that's all for today. We will discuss other matters tomorrow. Huo Guang had no intention of continuing the discussion, but ended here, and then he returned to the pavilion alone to rest.

At this moment, outside the city of Anyang, countless people are crowded, and there are several large appliances built with bamboo that resemble siege towers. Unlike the wooden siege towers, these siege towers made of bamboo branches are lighter, and the original design of propelling them with wooden wheels under their feet has been directly canceled, and they are replaced by a few bamboo poles, and then a bamboo tower is carried forward by 32 people.

There were also rows of soldiers standing at the head of Anyang City, making the appearance of defending the city, but these people were all armed with wooden swords, bamboo swords and other things, one side attacked the city and the other side defended the city, although the momentum was huge, there were no casualties.

On a hillside farther away, Bai Zheng and a group of people were watching the offensive and defensive battle at the head of Anyang City, and these people commented on the battlefield from time to time. Beside Bai Zheng, an old man holding a green bamboo cane was supported by a young and beautiful young woman, and now Bai Zheng is also respectful to this person.

"Teacher, your bamboo car is really a siege weapon, and it is easy to carry and assemble, with this thing, our army will have a few chances of winning even if it goes to attack Huaixian." Bai Zheng also called the old man a teacher, and he didn't know how the two came together, but listening to Bai Zheng's words, this siege bamboo car was invented by the old man.

"Although our army has grown to more than 7,000 people in a short period of time, it still lacks battlefield training. Don't underestimate that Huo Guang, Huai County is not so easy to capture, it is best not to fight with Huo Guang in the short term, and only after our sergeants have won a few more battles can they possibly confront Huo Guang's elite head-on. The old man shook his head and said, his evaluation of Huo Guang was still very high.

"What the teacher said is that the disciples are too anxious!" Bai Zheng said respectfully, as if he was obedient to the old man's words.

"Well, if it's cold today, the old man will go back to the city first." The old man couldn't stand the cold weather, so he boarded a carriage and returned to Anyang City with the support of Zhang Qiaoshui.

After the old man and Zhang Qiaoshui left, Bai Zheng still watched the drills in the city. At this time, the white soldier behind him suddenly said: "Brother, why do you listen to this old guy for everything, these two people are from unknown origins, they are probably trying to plot against the soldiers and horses in our hands." ”

Bai Bing said so, but there was no obvious change in the expression on Bai Zheng's face, and he only said after a while: "Brother knows it in my heart, and it is not unreasonable for me to be respectful to him, the teacher is indeed very capable, and I can see that he has great plans." But I'm not going to let people be gunmen for nothing, for now we're just taking what we need, and I think he knows that too. ”

Not far away, on the carriage, the old man and Zhang Qiaoshui also said the same thing as the Bai Zheng brothers. Zhang Qiaoshui asked puzzledly: "The teacher chose to cooperate with Bai Zheng, but the students feel that this Bai brother does not completely surrender to the teacher in their hearts, and they may have their own plans." ”

"I naturally know this, Bai Zheng is indeed a hero, and we and him can only take what we need. That's why I haven't identified myself yet. The old man said that he and Bai Zheng were talking about the same, but no one knew what they needed in their mouths.

Bai Zheng is a strong soldier here, and the bandits everywhere are also thinking about the strength of the law, but Huo Guang returned to Huaixian without the slightest movement for a while.

Huo Guang stood in front of the map of Hanoi, and from time to time he took a brush and dotted on the map, but these small dots looked disorganized, and there was no pattern to follow. At this time, Dong Luwei almost walked in again, from the perspective of a subordinate, Dong Luwei did a good job, and there was nothing to be faulty about serving Huo Guanglai.

"Your Excellency, let's eat something first, my body is exhausted, but I can't do anything!" Dong Luwei said understandingly, and at this time, Huo Guang was also relieved to leave the map when he heard the words.

Huo Guang looked at Dong Luwei with a rare meaningful smile, and then picked up a piece of pastry and took a small bite and said, "What you said makes sense, no matter how big it is, you have to fill your stomach first and then take care of it." ”

"Yes, if everyone could be fed and clothed, no one would make a mess. But in this case, it doesn't have anything to do with you. Dong Luwei said with a smile, this woman always speaks so weirdly, sometimes Huo Guang can't help but laugh.

"How can you talk like that? However, there is some truth in what you said, it is not all the fault of the people that some people make trouble, and officials do have unshirkable responsibilities. Huo Guang said with a smile.

"Hehe, I didn't expect the king to say such a thing, if the Han officials want the king to think like this, then the world will be peaceful!" Dong Luwei also looked at Huo Guang with some surprise, in this era, it was really surprising that a person of Huo Guang's status could say what he just said.

"Everyone is responsible for the peace of the world, and those who cause chaos cannot be hated, but those who incite the people to cause rebellion should be cut with a thousand knives." Huo Guang said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Dong Luwei's eyes were slightly abnormal when she heard this, but she quickly asked with a naughty look: "Hehe, it seems that Bai Zhengzhen is really angry with Jun, I don't know what to do with this Bai Zhengsheng when Jun Shang catches him?" ”

"This person did give me an accident, but he won't be able to jump for a few days, and soon Benjun will go to him." Huo Guang didn't hide it in the slightest, and really talked to Dong Luwei.

This time, Dong Luwei was even more interested, and hurriedly asked curiously: "Tell me what your plans are, and the little maid also wants to see how the king cleans up Bai Zheng?" ”

"Oh, it seems that you are really interested in fighting, so I might as well tell you that you can look at the map. This is Huai County, where we are now, this is Xiuwu County, and this is Gongxian County, and further northeast is Anyang......" Huo Guang pointed to the map and said in detail, as if a teacher was teaching students, so he told Dong Luwei a complete battle plan in front of the map.