As soon as Gong Chengkang looked at it, Wu Chang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Be careful, that is the big camp of the official army, and there are 20,000 horses in it!" ”

Gong Chengkang nodded, and saw the soldiers in the official army camp coming and going, and there were countless bonfires in the camp.

Wu Chang led Gong Chengkang and a few people through a small forest, and then came closer to the official army camp, and hid behind a small dirt slope.

The small dirt slope is just on the east side of the official army camp, and the altitude is a little higher than that of the big camp.

Wu Chang said to several subordinates around him: "Our task tonight is to keep an eye on the movements of the battalion, as the boss said, no matter how many soldiers and horses go out in the battalion tonight, they must all be reported, everyone cheers up, but don't fall asleep!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone answered.

Gong Chengkang had just joined the rebel army, and he couldn't help but feel lost when he carried out such an extremely boring task on the first night.

In his heart, the soldiers of the righteous army should all be heroes, fighting with the officials and soldiers of the court every day, this is the heroic nature of a manly man.

But as soon as he joined the rebel army, he was actually sent to the scout team, doing such a trivial thing as monitoring and detecting the enemy's situation, which made Gong Chengkang a little unhappy.

He thought that with his own skills, coupled with the heads of four officers and soldiers, he could at least be a thousand when he joined the rebels, and he couldn't be a thousand generals, and a hundred households could also do one!

Hundreds of households can't get it, so at least there is always a flag officer, right?

As a result, there were no officials, and he directly became a big soldier.

Gong Chengkang felt a little lost in his heart, but he was not discouraged, he was convinced that he would definitely be able to get ahead in the righteous army with his kung fu.

At this time, it was the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and there were a lot of mosquitoes in the wild in the south at night, and Gong Chengkang was lying on the ground and was bitten by mosquitoes for a while, and his hands and face were all packed, itchy and red.

The monitoring mission lasted until late at night, and the comrade-in-arms next to him said to Gong Chengkang: "Brother, you can sleep, I will call you again in an hour, you keep an eye on it for me!" ”

Gong Chengkang shook his head and said, "No, I'm not sleepy now, you can sleep first, I'll call you in an hour!" ”

When his comrades-in-arms saw him say this, they didn't force him much, and said briskly: "That's okay, then I'll squint first, and I'll do it for you later!" ”

The five members of their squad gradually fell asleep, and even the captain lay on the ground and fell asleep, only Gong Chengkang was lying on the ground staring at the camp under the hillside.

At four o'clock, the gate of the officer's tent suddenly opened, and it turned out that a group of cavalry had returned to the camp from outside.

Gong Chengkang squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that there were more than a hundred cavalry in this team, and they seemed to have just gone on some mission, and each of them had a tired look on their faces.

Gong Chengkang silently wrote down the number and characteristics of this cavalry, and remembered it in his heart.

As soon as the hour passed, a comrade-in-arms woke up from sleep, he patted Gong Chengkang on the shoulder and said, "Brother, it's my turn, you can sleep!" ”

This time, Gong Chengkang did not rob his comrades-in-arms of the work again, handed over the shift with his comrades-in-arms, and told his comrades-in-arms what he had just seen.

After hearing this, the comrades-in-arms said: "That is the ranger of the official army, there are about 100 people, these people are not good birds, they are robbing houses in various villages every day, they return so late, it must be that they robbed distant villages and towns during the day today, we have been staring at them for seven days, every day they will come back at night, but the time to return is getting later and later!" ”

When Gong Chengkang heard that they were going to rob the house, he couldn't help but clench his fists, and a monstrous hatred surged into his heart.

He thought of his parents, of his brother and sister-in-law, of his sister, of his two nephews and nieces, and of the whole village.

They all died tragically under the butcher's knives of the executioners down the hillside.

Gong Chengkang couldn't help but want to rush down and kill all those beasts when he thought of this.

After changing people, Gong Chengkang retreated, found a piece of grass to lie down, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he would remember the tragic death of his relatives and couldn't sleep for a long time.....

One night, there was no special hostile situation, and before dawn, Commander Wu called them up, packed up the east and west, crossed the Ganjiang River and returned to the camp in Zhangshu Town.

Back at the barracks, the commander reported the enemy situation he had detected last night.

At this time in Qingjiang County, Mo Qian and a general army were at a loss, Liu Liangzuo did not attack the city since he was outside the city, but became a turtle with a shrunken head, and the turtle did not come out in the camp.

Mo Qian was not afraid that he would attack with Liu, but he was afraid that he would not be able to shrink out, and as soon as he shrank up, Mo Qian really had nothing to do with him.

The first is that the rebel army has no cavalry, and can only rely on two legs to fight a war, and its mobility is far inferior to that of an officer army with 3,000 cavalry.

Mo Qian didn't dare to use his family background to fight with Huama Liu, although Huama Liu was a bastard, but his group of generals who were loyal to him were very powerful, and their combat effectiveness was better than that of Jiangxi's soldiers.

Once you lose, it is not a simple matter of starting all over again, it is very likely that you will be defeated and captured, and you will be captured in Beijing and let Chongzhen cut it with a thousand knives.

For the sake of Qingqing's life, Mo Qian didn't dare to take risks, but it was not a way to confront Huama Liu all the time, he had to find a way to lure Huama Liu out.

Early in the morning, Qian Dayou presented the information he had probed last night to Mo Qian, Mo Qian took a look, and found that the cavalry that went out every day in the intelligence returned to the camp later and later.

Mo Qian immediately asked Qian Dayou: "Does Huama Liu send cavalry out to rob every day?" ”

"Yes, there are pies every day, more than three or five hundred, less than one or two hundred, these dogs, riding fast horses, every day at sunrise out of the camp to rob, and only return to the camp at night, the villages in the north have been plagued by them, and many people have fled south to us."

Mo Qian slapped the table and said angrily when he heard this: "Hmph, this is the management of the imperial court, even the bandits are not as good, no, we can't let this guy harm the people so much here, we have to lure him away, otherwise we will have no good fruit to eat if the confrontation continues!" ”

Qian Dayi heard it and said: "Dashuai, that guy can't go out of the camp to attack the city, let's take him at all, what can we do?" ”

Mo Qian stared at the map for a while, and suddenly looked at the place of Fengcheng, he sneered: "If he doesn't come out, let's lead him out, if I'm not mistaken, Zhu Changwei, the king of Fengcheng, has been arrogant and domineering in Fengcheng County, and the local people hate him to the bone, right?" ”

"There is such a thing, this Zhu Changwei is the fourteenth son of Zhu Yijun, King Xuan, and he was very favored during his lifetime."

"Okay, then take the kid and open the knife, and give the order, tonight the second battalion and the third brigade will go out of the city at night, and take Fengcheng County for me before dawn tomorrow!"

"Yes!"

......

In the afternoon, Gong Chengkang, who had just made up for his sleep, was woken up by the commander of the army and ordered him to put on armor immediately, and there was a military operation tonight.

Gong Chengkang rubbed his eyes with his hands and asked, "Chief Wu, do you still go to investigate the enemy at night?" ”

Wu Chang said to him excitedly: "No, let's go to the county seat tonight!" ”

"Hit the county seat?"

Gong Chengkang came in spirit all of a sudden.

"Captain Wu, where are you fighting?"

"I don't know, I only know that Baihu said that he was going to attack the county seat, get dressed quickly, and have dinner immediately, after eating, our brigade will rush to the night tonight!"

"Yes!"

Gong Chengkang hurriedly got up and put on his leather armor, and wiped the saber and spear issued to him again, he was so excited in his heart that he was finally going to fight.

He stared at the long knife in his hand, and said secretly in his heart: "If you don't kill a few of his officers and soldiers this time, you will not give up!" ”

At the first moment, Gong Chengkang's brigade of 3,000 men and horses had dinner early, and after reorganizing the equipment, at three o'clock, when the night was just dark, Qian Dayou, deputy commander of the second battalion, came to the camp of the third brigade and announced that he would attack Fengcheng County at night tonight and rob the palace!

"I'm a good girl, Wangfu! I haven't seen the palace like yet! One of the recruits shouted.

After hearing this, everyone laughed, and said that they had never seen what the palace was like, but they were very excited.

General Niu Ji replied with a smile: "Don't say it, I haven't seen anything like the palace, but we can see it tonight, brothers, I said ugly things ahead, tonight, whoever wants to be a bad seed and dare not rush, don't blame me for not giving him face, our second battalion is the army personally led by the marshal, if anyone dares to lose the face of my third brigade, it is to lose the face of the marshal, dare to lose the face of the marshal, then I will let him have no face, don't talk nonsense, go!" ”

At two o'clock, the army went east out of the city gate, boarded the warship that had been prepared for a long time, and rushed to Fengcheng County by flowing down the river.

Fengcheng County is only more than 40 miles away from Zhangshu Town by waterway, and it only takes an hour to get there by boat.

In the evening, a brigade of 3,000 soldiers arrived at the city of Fengcheng County.

As soon as the army arrived at the city, Niu Ji drew his saber and shouted, "Brothers, kill me!" ”

"Kill!"

The siege team carried the ladder prepared in advance and rushed directly to the city wall, and the defenders at the head of the city were awakened from their sleep by the sound of shouting killing.

"It's not good, the anti-thieves are attacking the city!"

Feng Qilun, the magistrate of Fengcheng, was holding the concubine sleeping Zhengxiang, and suddenly the yamen vigil came in and knocked on the door and said that the thieves were attacking the city.

Feng Qilun hurriedly asked: "Anti-thief?" Where did the thief come from? Isn't the Mo thief of the camphor tree confronting the army of the imperial court? ”

The official replied: "Master, I don't know, the West City has been broken, and thousands of thieves have already entered the city!" ”

"What? Quick, get me a horse! ”

Feng Qilun didn't even get out of the yamen, but he was blocked by the righteous army, and the people who were responsible for blocking him happened to be Gong Chengkang's banners.

Gong Chengkang saw that a few people ran out of the county office, and without saying a word, he picked up the spear and stabbed it, Feng Qilun was shot through the abdomen and died on the spot.

Xu Jingfang, who escaped with him, did not run away, just wanted to run back to the county government and was caught up by Gong Chengkang, a shot pierced into the back, penetrated the chest, and was desperate on the spot.