It's easy to make a decision because ...... Zhao Han is running out of food.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I went into the mountains with rations, and it is now the fourth day of the new year. Halfway through, day and night, for fear of being discovered, it is naturally impossible to grab food.

Then go straight to the barracks at night!

And at this moment, Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou, is being entangled all the way from the city to the barracks by the Yichun magistrate.

The magistrate Fang Lu complained bitterly: "Fuzun, what are you doing with many soldiers?" The big households in the city have broken the threshold of the county government. ”

Yuanzhou Mansion Ya, Yichun County Ya, in the same city.

"You don't have to worry about the war, so you can go back to defend the city, and don't be stolen by the thieves." Tian Younian didn't want to explain anything to a straw bale.

The Duchang thieves have been exterminated by officers and soldiers, and the entire northern part of Jiangxi is at peace.

Tian Younian had already made an appointment with the governor to send troops together after the Lantern Festival. Since the anti-thief took the initiative to kill, it would be better, and directly besiege the Zhao thief to death in Fenyi County.

When he came to the barracks, his staff member Hong Yan stepped forward and said, "Fuzun, the military rations have been prepared, and more than 2,300 soldiers have been assembled. ”

The 2,300 people belong to the "veterans", and the temporarily recruited soldiers are not counted as people, they are all domestic slaves from large families in the city, and there are homeless gangsters in the city.

In total, it is more than 5,000!

Another talent stepped forward, it was Zuo Xiaocheng, who had previously served Xie Xuelong. He now lives in his grandfather's house in Yichun County, and he preaches the hateful deeds of the Zhao thief everywhere, saying that the Zhao thief wants to kill all the landlords in the world, which scares the big families in Yichun County to the point of weakness.

It is precisely because of this that the Yichun clan enthusiastically donated money and grain to fund the prefect Tian Younian to recruit troops to suppress thieves.

Zuo Xiaocheng reminded: "Fuzun, the anti-thief in Fenyi County must be the Zhao thief." This thief is extremely cunning and moves quickly, so you must be careful not to steal the city. ”

"Don't worry, I left 300 elite soldiers in Fucheng, and 800 village warriors." Tian Younian has long been confident.

Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Tonight, thousands of troops have gathered in the military camp, and countless grains and grass have been piled up on the ships on the dock outside the city, so we must beware of the night attack of Zhao thieves. ”

Staff member Hong Yan said with a smile: "Brother Zuo Xian, I think you were scared by the Zhao thief. Along the Yuan River, our army has already sent many sentinels, can the Zhao thief still fly over and attack at night? ”

Zuo Xiaocheng wanted to speak and stopped, and he also felt that he was thinking too much.

Tian Younian frowned, thought for a moment and said: "Set up more sentry posts tonight, and send more soldiers to guard the military rations, and swear to start tomorrow morning!" ”

There are two Tian Younian in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the other has not yet been admitted to the Jinshi, but he is already recognized as a master of Mao poetry.

And the Tian Younian in front of him is only from a person's background, and he can quickly become the prefect, and he is promoted by his military exploits!

This guy belongs to the children of the Shaanxi military household, his father and brother are military generals, he has learned bow and horses and the art of war since he was a child, and the examination of people is only incidental. Spent money to buy a county, and every time he went to a place, he would inevitably recruit troops, either to exterminate bandits or to recruit rebels.

After lunch, Tian Younian personally inspected the barracks, constantly condoled with the soldiers, and pointed out the impropriety of the barracks.

Recapture the county seat of Fenyi?

Tian Younian has never had this kind of thought, he just wants to block the Zhao thief in Fenyi County, and then unite with the governor Li Maofang and the servant Wang Siren to kill the thousands of anti-thieves together!

As soon as he received the thief's information, Tian Younian had already sent a messenger to Nanchang and Jiujiang to contact friendly forces.

As for the sudden recruitment of domestic slaves and gangsters, it was purely to scare Zhao Han with superior forces, so frightened that Zhao Han cowered in Fenyi County and did not dare to come out. The longer it dragged on, the better the chances of victory for the officers and men, and he knew that he could only wait until the friendly reinforcements were reached.

Tian Younian didn't dare to underestimate Zhao Thief, and those who could send troops in winter were ruthless.

What's more, Zhao Thief also sneaked up on Binjiang Town and swept away hundreds of elites he had trained for two years!

After the patrol camp, Tian Younian returned to the house to rest, and took out a copy of "Ji Xiao's New Book" to read, which he had been reading for 20 years.

This product seems to be a Wenchen, but in fact, he doesn't have much knowledge, and he is enough to take the test in Jiangxi. But he was well versed in the art of war, and he was skilled in bows and horses, so he could take the lead and lead the charge when fighting.

Reading and reading, Tian Younian suddenly put down the military book and went out to observe the mountains behind him.

It was already in the afternoon, Tian Younian ordered: "Cut down the woods under the Yuegong Ridge and send a few people into the mountains to search for the enemy!" ”

Yuegongling is very big, it is the southeast of Fucheng, a big mountain that rises abruptly, and Yuegongling is only its highest peak.

It would definitely be useless to send a few people to search the mountains, and it would be feasible to cut down the woods adjacent to the barracks.

In fact, the barracks were thousands of paces from the foot of the mountain, and it was not right next to the mountain.

This barracks is fixed, and many barracks have been built, all of which are mud houses built of rammed earth, and it is pure nonsense to want to attack and burn down the company camp at night.

In all corners of the barracks, several guard towers were also built, which could be used as sentry posts and arrow towers.

After nightfall, Tian Younian personally inspected the military camp and ordered the sentry soldiers and archers on the sentry tower to cheer up.

After doing all this, Tian Younian finally went back to sleep, exhausted and soon snoring like thunder.

……

Zhao Han set off on the third watch, and when he arrived at the foot of the mountain, it was close to the fifth watch, which was equivalent to walking from zero to four o'clock.

Slow down the army to save energy.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, there is no moonlight, and it is even darker before dawn.

The night raiders often fall down accidentally, how can the sentries in the camp see clearly? On the contrary, in order to keep out the cold, they placed braziers in the watchtower and became a guiding beacon for anti-thieves.

Huang Mi took 800 people around the north, Huang Shun took 800 people around the south, and Zhao Han led 900 people in the east.

It's a pity that there is no watch, and I can't pinch the time to attack together.

After the two of them went around to the attack site, they both waited a little longer. Huang Mi took the lead in lighting torches, two torches per person, and 1,600 torches rushed to the barracks.

Hearing the shouting of killing, Zhao Han and Huang Shun also lit torches, and a total of more than 5,000 torches were lit up in the three ways.

Because Tian Younian's arrangement was too tight, he couldn't touch the camp quietly. They were all two or three hundred steps away from the camp, and they would light a fire and start attacking, and if they got closer, they would be discovered by the sentries.

"Thief...... Thief Attack! ”

The sentries were shocked and blew their horns one after another, and the archers in the watchtower hurriedly wound them.

The officers and soldiers in the barracks panicked, and the temporarily recruited house slaves and gangsters ran out without getting dressed. Seeing countless torches lit on all sides, they were so frightened that they set up camp and fled for their lives, rushing to the west where there were no enemy troops, and they even knocked down the gates of the camp.

The soldiers who have been trained for about half a year are not much better, they put on their clothes and run for their lives.

There were only more than a thousand real veterans, and they didn't need to be ordered by their superiors at all, so they spontaneously took their weapons and moved closer to Tian Younian's residence.

This prefect, there is really a set of military training!

It was Xie Xuelong's subordinates, if he encountered this situation at the beginning, he would definitely be scared that the whole army would lose its organization.

Each tower has six archers.

Huang Qi was the first to rush to the periphery of the camp, and the wall of the wall was more than one person high. The man threw away the torches, used his spears and pestles, easily rushed through the wall, and then killed the two soldiers guarding the gate and opened the gate to the south.

"Woohoo!"

In the two watchtowers nearby, twelve archers fired arrows, and in a panic, they only hit four targets.

"Capture the Tower!"

The two chiefs who rushed in first immediately took the nearby soldiers to capture the guard tower according to the predetermined plan, and the rest of the people followed Huang Mi to continue to kill inside.

"Mother!"

"Spare your life!"

Some of the officers and soldiers who fled were killed back by Huang Mi and his troops, and they only ran with their heads covered in the dark.

Zhao Han in the east was hit by an arrow and was not injured. An arrow hit the cotton garment under the ribs, piercing the garment diagonally downward, almost sticking to the flesh.

He led his troops to the depths of the barracks, and Zhang Tieniu and Li Zheng led their troops to capture the tower.

Zhang Tieniu had also thrown away his torches, didn't bring his shield, and frantically climbed up the ladder. The enemy archers were more panicked than him, their hands trembling and hanging their bows, one arrow hit Zhang Tieniu's shoulder, the other shot down the soldiers behind him, and the other arrows all missed.

"Kill!"

Zhang Tieniu had already climbed up, and was confronted by the spears of the sentinels.

This thing was really reckless, stretched out his right arm to block, his sleeve was pierced by the head of the gun, and his arm was cut out of the gap. Another spear stabbed, Zhang Tieniu dodged short, took out the axe and pounced between dodging, and cut off half of the enemy's palm with an axe.

Two sentinels with guns, plus six archers, Zhang Tieniu rushed in with an axe. He slashed one man, then killed another, then charged sideways, knocking an archer off the watchtower.

Eventually, his teammates rushed up and killed all the remaining enemies.

"Kill!"

Zhang Tieniu held his axe aloft and roared down from the watchtower and rushed to the main battlefield in the barracks.

Tian Younian didn't take off his clothes at all, and he was even wearing armor. When he woke up, he immediately took off his bow and sword and walked out of the barracks to let the trumpeter blow the trumpet and gather his troops.

More than 1,300 elite veterans quickly surrounded Tian Younian, and they also formed a military formation.

Fortunately, Zhao Hanqi attacked Binjiang Town and took hundreds of veterans with him, including more than a hundred archers. Otherwise, the elite around Tian Younian would definitely exceed 1,800 people at this time.

This goods govern the army very strictly, and military salaries are never deducted.

To be able to support so many soldiers, in addition to donating money and food from large households, there must be an extraordinary method. For example, in Pingxiang County, he killed two big landlords, claiming that it was a good thing done by the thieves, and robbed a large amount of money and grain as military salaries.

In the face of the tight formation, Huang Mi did not dare to approach at all, and formed a formation far away to wait for the arrival of friendly troops.

Tian Younian didn't dare to attack, although both sides lit torches, but it was easy to mess up the formation when rushing to kill in the dark, and there were thieves to the north and east of him.

The thieves were surrounded on three sides, and there were more than 2,400 people.

In the besieged camp of Tian Younian, there were only more than 1,300 soldiers, but there were more than 800 archers.

Zhao Han couldn't help but admire: "Governor Tian is really powerful, just in terms of military training, he is comparable to the famous generals of the past dynasties!" ”

"Are you Luling Zhao Yan?" Tian Younian asked.

"Exactly." Zhao Han replied.

Tian Younian said with a smile: "You are not bad, you can lead the troops to step on the snow and climb the mountains." ”

"Come down." Zhao Han was reluctant to attack, and the opponent's archers were a headache.

"Okay." Tian Younian immediately agreed.

"Huh?"

Zhao Han was a little surprised, it was really Tian Younian who surrendered too quickly.

Tian Younian said: "My hometown is in Shaanxi, and my whole family died at the hands of rogues. Some time ago, news came that my father and brother were also killed in battle. The Tian family has repaid Jun'en, and the rest should be considered for themselves. I have a concubine in Yuanzhou Mansion City, and she gave birth to an heir who is almost two years old, which is the only incense left in the Tian family. ”

Okay, thank you for Shaanxi Liukou, who has cut off Tian Younian's worries.