Night.

Huang Qi led 500 soldiers and went around for half a month, and finally went around to the northwest of Bailuozhou.

There are no big mountains along the way, just small hills and flat land.

The reason for going around this big circle is that they are afraid of being discovered by officers and soldiers. In the same way, the officers and men did not dare to cross the river to loot here, for fear that the thieves would know about it and set up an ambush to attack.

The large countryside on the other side of Linjiang Mansion City was surprisingly peaceful.

When they came to the river in the dark, the five hundred soldiers took off their clothes and swam to Jiangxinzhou on the other side. Both the rattan player and the wolf pawn are very relaxed, because both the wooden shield and the wolf are buoyant, and the distance of 100 meters is easy.

After going ashore, I walked to the other side of Jiangxinzhou, where the river is 200 meters long, and it is still difficult for a man who is familiar with water.

In this way, Huang Mi led 500 soldiers and crossed the river unconsciously.

This is the narrowest place in the Ganjiang River near the entire battlefield.

Wang Siren had already taken precautions and sent 300 officers and soldiers to guard him. But recently, robbery has become popular, and the officers directly took the soldiers and ran to the villages to loot, leaving only a dozen people to stand guard by the river.

More than a dozen officers and soldiers, can you see the seven or eight miles long river?

A few miles away from the river, Huang Mi found a wheat field that had been harvested, and ordered: "Leave a few people to stand guard, and the rest all sleep!" ”

After sleeping soundly in the wheat field for an hour, the sky was bright, and Huang Mi immediately led people into the village.

He didn't have enough food with him, so he had to borrow it from the landlord's family.

"Bang bang bang!"

Knocking on the door, an old man walked out and begged: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have been here several times these days, and the old man really has no food at home." ”

"Boss," the military missionary said, "We are the Datong Army, not the officers and soldiers who are rampant. The grain borrowed by the Datong army is to be returned, and we can make a written note. As for the officers and soldiers who bullied you, when we are full, we will go and clean up those pups! ”

"Anti-...... Are you rebels? The old man trembled with fright.

The missionary asked, "Do you have pen and paper?" We have not borrowed much food, and we will definitely return it in the future. ”

Zhao Han has always refused to admit borrowing grain from landlords in "enemy-occupied areas", but at this time he can behave more benevolently.

The old man was afraid that the thieves would kill the whole family, so he had to open a warehouse to give grain.

The anti-thief really didn't want much, one person only took half a bucket, and insisted on setting up a note, throwing down the note and taking the food and leaving.

From beginning to end, the 500 soldiers were well-groomed, and they did not set foot in the landlord's house for half a step.

Seeing these thieves leave, the old man lamented: "What kind of world is this? I can't go on! ”

After another half a day, at noon a fire was being lit for cooking, when the sentry suddenly reported that an officer and soldier had appeared.

Huang Qi climbed the small hill to take a look, and sure enough, he saw two or three hundred officers and soldiers, and everyone had a harvest in their hands. Some soldiers even pushed carts full of goods looted from the countryside.

The military discipline on the side of the officers and soldiers is no longer under control.

You can grab it, why can't I?

So the generals, big and small, took turns to go out to collect grain, and some unlucky landlords were repeatedly requisitioned several times.

This is a locally recruited soldier in Jiangxi, which is relatively civilized, and it will be even worse if it is replaced by a guest soldier from other provinces. In that case, the officers and soldiers not only robbed money and food, but also killed people and slaughtered villages, cutting off the heads of good people and saying that they were beheading thieves.

Once the officers and soldiers were defeated this time, Li Maofang would definitely suggest that his subordinates would kill people, and cutting off some heads would offset the defeat.

"Blow the trumpet!"

"Doodle, ~~~~~~doodle, toot

"Doodle, ~~~~~~doodle, toot

"Kill!"

When the officers and men passed under the hill, 500 soldiers swarmed out, and 2 or 300 officers and men grabbed food, and they fled in panic and panic, completely unable to figure out what the situation was.

Huang Mi ran the fastest alone, stabbed several people to death in a row, and chased these officers and soldiers into the village.

The villagers, who had just been plundered, closed their doors and windows one after another to observe the situation through the cracks. Seeing that the officers and soldiers were chased and killed by Huang Mi and others, although they didn't dare to speak out, they all secretly applauded Huang Mi one by one.

Of more than 200 officers and soldiers, Huang Mi led people to kill nearly half of them, and then stopped chasing.

Instead, he returned to the ambush point just now and sent the grain stolen by the officers and soldiers to the village for the peasants to pick up on their own.

Five hundred soldiers, five missionaries.

These missionaries shouted along the village: "Don't be afraid, old cousins, we are Mr. Zhao's fellow soldiers." Datong soldiers do not harm the people, they are the masters of the people. The grain looted by the officers and soldiers was piled up in the threshing floor in the village, and whoever was robbed of grain would go to get it. ”

When I first arrived in Guibaodi, I had not yet won the trust of the farmers, so I could only do this.

When Huang Mi walked away with the soldiers, the villagers finally dared to come out and ran to the threshing floor to get back the grain. Some people take more, others take less, and naturally there is a dispute.

A young man did not go to grab food, but chased after Huang Qi's troops, and picked up a spear thrown away by the officers and soldiers on the way.

After chasing all the way, Huang Qi stopped to rest and called the young man: "What are you doing with us?" ”

The young man slurched, "I'm ...... I want to fight with you. ”

"Where's your family?" Huang Qi asked.

The boy replied, "My father has been dead for five years, my mother has been dead for three years, and my two sisters are married." I lived with my uncle's family, but my aunt didn't want to see me, and she scolded me no matter how much I worked. ”

"It's also pitiful," Huang Qi asked, "what's your name?" ”

The young man replied: "Hu Dinggui, my father's name, my father has been studying for a few years." I am also literate, I was taught by my father, and I can memorize the "Three Character Classic". ”

Huang Mi smiled: "Okay, you will fight with me in the future." ”

After cruising behind enemy lines for several days, Huang's strength increased to 536 men. One family even took refuge with the whole family, the old people all died, the family was too poor to marry a wife, and the three brothers of the family all came to join the Datong army.

In addition, there are also achievements, killing more than 400 officers and soldiers before and after, killing officers and soldiers who dare not come to this area to rob.

What's even more valuable is that the nearby villagers already know that the Datong Army is an army that helps the common people fight, which is different from those murderous officers and soldiers. Even many landlords took the initiative to lend their grain, because the officers and soldiers came to grab more.

"Bastard!"

Li Maofang was furious, and personally led two thousand governor's pacesetters to rush towards Huang Qi's troops.

At this moment, Huang Qi is near Longguang Academy, the Longguang of "Longguang Shooting Bull Fighting Ruins", the plaque of the academy is written by the long-legged emperor Zhao Gou, and Zhu Xi has lectured here for more than a month.

"General, General!"

A peasant came running quickly, panting and said, "General, you are coming into the mountains, there are many officers and soldiers coming!" ”

"Thank you, old watch!"

Huang Qi immediately got up: "Don't eat, pack up your things and go into the mountain." ”

Li Maofang chased all the way to this place, but he could only pounce in the air, and Huang Qi had already entered the Lion Rock two miles away.

Li Maofang was also tired of chasing, arranged the soldiers outside, and ran to Longguang Academy to rest by himself.

It's a pity that the gate of Longguang Academy is closed, and he doesn't pay attention to him as a governor at all.

There are five of the four major academies in Jiangxi, and Longguang Academy is the fifth largest academy. This is no longer the boundary of Qingjiang County, but the edge of Nanfeng County, Li Maofang dared to plunder the people, but did not dare to lead troops to break into the academy.

After eating the closed door, the more Li Maofang thought about it, the more angry he became, looking at Lion Rock and having no choice.

Two days later, the officers and soldiers camped.

Li Maofang, Li Ruolian, and Wang Siren were still arguing, and the former resolutely refused to cross the river for a decisive battle, believing that the training of officers and soldiers was not enough.

Of the 18,000 officers and men, more than 3,000 were newly recruited, and the training lasted only two or three months. Li Ruolian's 5,000 soldiers were brought by guards from all over the country, and all of them were weak military households who put down their hoes. There are about 2,000 other people, who are recruited by the governor of Linjiang. There are also more than 2,000 people, who are Wang Siren's sailors, and it is impossible for them to go ashore to fight. There are another 3,000 people.

There are less than 2,000 officers and soldiers who can really fight!

Is this still a hair?

Although Li Maofang is greedy, she is not a fool. His original plan was not to fight with the anti-thief, but to rely on Wang Siren's water army to suppress the anti-thief from a decisive battle.

When the anti-thieves run out of food and grass, they will naturally choose to withdraw their troops.

And Li Maofang himself, not only was he unharmed, but he was able to take the opportunity to make money. Part of this silver is used for military training to train real elite soldiers. Part of it was used to bribe the officials, either to transfer him to another position, or to allow him to continue training to suppress thieves.

Left and right, both horizontally and vertically, are beneficial to Li Maofang.

Wang Siren is very stupid, making a decisive battle with the anti-thief, rushing to send him to death?

The shaft is not enough and conspiracy!

This sentence is the attitude of Li Maofang and Wang Siren towards each other, they both feel that the other party is a retard.

"Fu Shuai, Fengcheng County is gone!"

"What?"

Li Maofang jumped up in surprise and hurriedly asked, "Fengcheng Zhixian, didn't you recruit a thousand townships to defend the city?" ”

The spy replied, "Those villagers have gone to the countryside to collect grain." When he returned to the city, he was killed by the anti-thieves, and he chased all the way into the county and disappeared. ”

Li Maofang, Li Ruolian and Wang Siren, the three of them looked at each other.

Fengcheng County is behind them, and it is on the edge of the Gan River. If the thieves coerce the people in Fengcheng County, they will directly cut off their back road.

Li Ruolian sneered: "You did a good job! ”

Li Maofang was speechless, because the order to requisition grain was indeed issued by him.

But who would have thought that Fengcheng County was so awesome that he would let the villagers go to the countryside to collect grain, and hundreds of thieves took advantage of it to seize the county.

It wasn't to collect grain at all, but Fengcheng Zhixian himself wanted to make money, and sent troops to rob in the name of suppressing thieves!

Wang Siren sighed and said: "Now there are only three ways, one is to immediately cross the river for a decisive battle, the second is to immediately withdraw the troops back to Nanchang, and the third is to recapture Fengcheng County and station the battalion there. ”

"It's impossible to withdraw the troops, if you don't suppress the thieves in front of you, you and I will all lose our black hats." Li Ruolian shook her head and said.

Li Maofang asked: "Can't you send troops to recapture the county seat, and then leave people to garrison?" ”

Wang Siren said: "There are hundreds of thieves who have been hiding behind us. These thieves are accustomed to demagoguery, and if they are allowed to develop, I am afraid that there will be two or three thousand people next month. There are two or three thousand enemies hiding behind you, and you dare to fight such a battle? ”

Li Maofang pondered: "You can't withdraw from Linjiang Mansion, you can't just withdraw to Fengcheng County." Linjiang Mansion is a major tax town, once lost, the court is furious, and we will lose our official positions lightly! ”

"Let's fight, then." Li Ruolian sighed.

Wang Siren sighed: "This Zhao thief is so cunning." ”

Wang Siren thought that Zhao Han might send troops to go around the rear, but he never expected that after the anti-thieves went around the rear, they did not come to attack the camp of officers and soldiers at night, but helped the peasants drive away the plundering officers and soldiers!

There were only a few hundred anti-thieves, and the officers and soldiers wanted to clear them, but they couldn't even touch the ghosts.

Not to mention the peasants who reported the news, even the local gentry secretly provided food for the thieves, just because the officers and soldiers were too ruthless.

Wang Siren has the illusion that he is the thief......