At noon, a few miles northwest of Fucheng.

Zhao Han was marching quickly, and suddenly a horse appeared in front of him. Seeing them coming, he immediately retreated dozens of steps, but he always blocked there to observe the situation.

The target is exposed, and someone must have gone to Fucheng to report the news.

There are not many horses in Jiangxi, there are water nets everywhere, and riding a horse is far less convenient than taking a boat.

can send a sentry to investigate, obviously the government has been alert!

"Eat!"

Zhao Han was not in a hurry to leave, and ordered eight hundred soldiers to gather for dinner.

Fei Ruhe nibbled on the cake and said worriedly: "We missed our whereabouts, and the gate of Fucheng must be closed." ”

Huang Mi also said: "I used to send grain to the county government, and I was left behind to build a city. The city is very tall and large, with the Gan River in the east and moats in the south and north. There was no moat to the northwest, but there was a hillside in the distance, and there was a depression down the road. ”

Jiang Dashan said: "I have also been to the county government with grain, if there is no warship, I can only attack the city from the north and south." But the outside of the city is full of street houses, and when we pass through the market, the city can quickly close the city gates. ”

Stealing a city is not so easy to steal, especially a big city near the water like Ji'an.

Even if there are no soldiers to defend it, as long as the city gate is closed, you will have to climb the wall for a long time, and you will have to get a lot of ladders.

Filling his stomach, Zhao Han patted his ass and stood up, and suddenly said, "Go north!" ”

The eight hundred soldiers suddenly turned around, and as soon as they had eaten their meals, the march was very slow, as if they were on an armed outing.

The sentry rode far behind, trailing all the way until it was getting dark, and then galloped back to Fucheng to report: "Master Fuzun, the thief has gone to the north and west, probably to Anfu County." ”

"It's good if you don't come to Fucheng, it's good if you don't come to Fucheng!" Xu Fusheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, although Anfu County was also under his prefect's control.

After calming down a little, Xu Fusheng ordered again: "Hurry up and report to the governor by boat, just say that there is a group of thieves and go in the direction of Anfu County." ”

Zhao Han's marching speed was too fast, although his whereabouts were exposed, no one knew his details, only that he was a gang of thieves in Xuanhua Township.

In fact, thieves are now running all over the place.

……

Yongyang Town.

Xie Xuelong received reports from various departments, his face was very ugly, and his initial combat intentions had been declared a failure.

Except for Zhao Han, he didn't take other thieves seriously, so he divided his troops to expel him from the north and south. drove those thieves who were not in the climate to run in the direction of Wuxing Town, the purpose was to get the big and small thieves together.

When the time comes, the anti-thieves seem to have many soldiers, but in fact, the source is complex, and there will inevitably be many internal contradictions.

Moreover, gathered in the direction of Wuxing Town, there are mountains on three sides, and it is more convenient to catch them all, and the worst situation is just to escape into the mountains.

If it is replaced by other leaders of the peasant army, if anyone has great prestige, they will definitely gather troops in tandem and join forces to fight against the government. The two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi have always been engaged in this kind of anti-thief, because they can't play with officers and soldiers alone.

But Zhao Han didn't accept the move, not only did he not come forward to gather thieves, but he also played disappearance.

The thieves in the neighboring towns thought that Zhao Han had run away with people, so they also thought about running away.

The peasant army north of Heshui dragged their families and mouths, climbed over the mountains, and went straight to Anfu County. The peasant army south of Heshui bypassed the mountains and headed for the western part of Taihe County.

Killing the landlord and dividing the land is an act of sitting on the throne.

As soon as the officials and soldiers came, the thieves were frightened and became two gangsters, the north and the south.

Zhao Han also miscalculated, he wanted those thieves to help him block the officers and soldiers for a few days. But others are not stupid, since they can't beat the officers and soldiers, they just play the tactics of wandering and go to the neighboring states and counties.

"What do you think?" Xie Xuelong asked.

Li Zongxue, a staff member, said: "Fu Shuai, immediately send an order to Anfu and Taihe counties, and order the magistrates to unite with the gentry and recruit villagers to defend the place as soon as possible." Rogues, rogues, you can't let them run around, otherwise the thieves will get bigger and bigger. ”

Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Zhao thief is the big trouble, but regardless of those rogues, take a boat to attack Huangjia Town!" ”

Li Zongxue also suggested: "Break through Huangjia Town first, and then return to the army to chase and kill the thieves." By then, it was already winter, and there should be villagers in Anfu County and Taihe County, so we sent troops to chase and intercept them, and we had to freeze the thieves to death. ”

Xie Xuelong thought for a long time, and said: "According to this strategy, immediately send troops to Huangjiazhen!" ”

Everyone else was ordered to do things, and Xie Xuelong sat alone in the tent, with a deep worry in his heart.

According to the confession of the anti-thief captive, "Mr. Zhao" refused to join forces, completely disregarding the lives of the other anti-thieves, and seemed to have led his troops into the mountains to become bandits.

However, Xie Xuelong always felt that something was wrong.

Because Zhao Han's style in Huangjiazhen doesn't look like he wants to be a bandit at all, he is going to change the dynasty!

Thousands of officers and soldiers set off by boat from Yongyang Town and soon came to Lijiagui to land.

Xie Xuelong sent a path-opening spy and waited for news on the warship himself.

Another half a day passed, and the spies came one after another to report that there was no one near Li's house, and many animal footprints were left on the way into the mountain.

Xie Xuelong's face was gloomy, and he simply sent several small troops to investigate the villages on both sides of the river.

It's all in the mountains......

Xie Xuelong moved to Huangjia Town, which was also empty, and there was not even a single hair in the town.

What to do?

Xie Xuelong didn't dare to go into the mountains to pursue at all, because the soldiers under his command had too low training. Once there is an ambush in the mountains, the slightest wind and grass will surely collapse.

Staff member Li Zongxue came up with an idea and said: "If there is more than a month, it will be winter, how can the bitter cold land in the mountains be chaotic for a long time? Just Chen Bing and Huangjiazhen, while training the soldiers, wait patiently. Let those thieves freeze to death and starve to death in the mountains. Until the beginning of spring next year, when the village warriors are more elite, the anti-thieves will be demoralized, and they can be broken in one fell swoop! ”

Xie Xuelong closed his eyes and meditated hard, he always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, a speedboat suddenly came, but it was a sailor who stayed in Yongyang Town to supervise the grain.

"Fu Shuai, Meitang Town was captured by thieves, and the thieves crossed the river to the east. Before leaving Meitang Town, the thieves killed several landlords, and many tenants took the opportunity to get into trouble. ”

Xie Xuelong was suddenly startled and shouted, "Go back to Fucheng quickly!" ”

Meitang Town is on the edge of Lushui, and the report should have been fast.

But Xie Xuelong requisitioned all the boats, resulting in Zhao Han not being able to grab the boats, so he could only use the door panels to build a raft across the river. In the same way, the gentry who reported the news did not have a boat, so they had to gallop all the way on mules, and the news has not been brought until now.

That mule, or Zhao Han grabbed the left......

Xie Xuelong quickly took a boat back to his teacher, and received a report from the prefect Xu Fusheng halfway.

That's right, it's a success!

There are thousands of thieves who want to attack the city of Ji'an, but they are easily defeated by the wise and martial Xu Zhifu, who leads the young people in the city, and the thieves have already turned the road and fled towards Anfu County.

This news made Xie Xuelong feel a little puzzled.

After reading the letter, Li Zongxue pondered: "The Zhao thief is bold and wants to surprise the city. But he leaked his whereabouts halfway, and the Xu Governor's Mansion closed the city gate, and the Zhao thief could only return in vain and fled to Anfu County to be a rogue. The thieves north of Heshui also went over the mountain to Anfu County, and the Zhao thieves must have gone to merge with the thieves. ”

Xie Xuelong agrees with this explanation, because the city of Ji'an Mansion is really not easy to capture, and it can be defended by relying on the officials of Ji'an Mansion and Luling County alone.

For the sake of safety, Xie Xuelong divided the 800 guards and asked them to take a boat back to Ji'an Mansion to defend the city.

These guards have low combat effectiveness, they are not as good as the townspeople, and they like to loot, and they are just right to throw them back to defend the city, and they don't dare to rob in the city.

As for Xie Xuelong, he sailed into Lushui with the main force.

There are tributaries in Lushui, and you can go to Yongxin County to the west, that is, Li Banghua's roundabout route. To the north, go to Anfu County, where you can pursue the Liukou, or you can wait for Zhao Han to come and send him to death.

Xie Xuelong sailed towards Anfu County for a day, and again received military information from the clipper: Eighty miles north of Ji'an, the thieves ransacked Baisha Town by the river, looted the landlord's livestock and grain along the way, and fled in the direction of Anfu County. In the villages and towns he passed, many tenants were instigated to rebel, and the governor was asked to send troops to suppress them.

There are all kinds of indications that Zhao Han really went to Anfu County and tried to join up with the Liukou of Xuanhua Township who fled there.

Xie Xuelong suddenly made up his mind, no longer returned to the Ganjiang River, continued to take a boat along the Lushui, and accelerated his speed to go straight to Anfu County.

He was not afraid that Zhao Han would steal the city at all, because he sent eight hundred guards to help, and it was more than enough to defend the city with those wastes.

……

The junction of Luling County and Anfu County.

Zhao Han's more than 800 soldiers have expanded to more than 1,300.

Most of the new recruits are young people who have no worries at home, and there are also some poor people who secretly leave their families to join the army.

When sacking Baisha Town on the edge of the Ganjiang River, Chen Maosheng recruited a few actors to join the gang, and Zhang Tieniu recruited more than 20 coolies to join the gang.

They now have many donkeys, mules, and oxen to carry grain borrowed from the landlord's family. Well...... The cattle were also borrowed from the landlords.

"What? Go back again? ”

Fei Ruhe said depressedly: "Let's go around here for a few days, I'm about to be dizzy!" Didn't you go to Anfu County? Why did you go back to the city of Hitfu? ”

"You are all dizzy, the officers and soldiers must be even more dizzy," Zhao Han said with a smile, "Now the villages and towns around Fucheng are full of rebels, let's go back and be afraid of showing our whereabouts again." ”

Huang Shunde, the chief secretary of the army, muttered: "I am indeed not afraid of revealing my whereabouts, but there are people everywhere outside the city, and the city is not heavily defended?" ”

"Who said that if you go back to Ji'an Mansion, you must attack Fucheng?" Zhao Han asked rhetorically.

Huang Qi asked, "Then what are we going to fight?" ”

"Money!" Zhao Han laughed, "There is a lot of silver in the banknote, and there are also a lot of boats, so you can take the boat and slip away if you grab the silver." ”

Jiang Dashan scratched his head and said, "But when we set off from Wuxing Town, didn't we say that we would attack Fucheng secretly?" ”

Zhao Han explained: "In this war, you have to be improvised, how can you say that you can do whatever you want? We have revealed our whereabouts, and the prefect has closed the city gates, so we can only go somewhere else. After messing up the villages and towns, the government was very confused, and only knew that we were going to Anfu County. I have already asked someone, the nearest way to Anfu County is to take a boat from Lushui. That governor Xie Xuelong must have been lured to Anfu. At this time, let's kill the horse pistol again, how can Ji'an Mansion stand it? ”

Fei Ruhe also learned the art of war and realized: "This is called attacking the east and the west, and it is also called attacking the enemy unprepared." Fiction and reality, fiction and reality, next time I am asked to lead the troops, I can do the same. ”