The sound of heavy chains mopping the floor was heard, and outside the lobby, a big man with messy hair like a bird's nest and a dirty beard had iron shackles on his hands and feet, and a wooden flail around his neck.

This person was escorted by four armor soldiers, and walked slowly with staggering steps, he was Zhang Min.

At this time, Zhang Min was no longer as indifferent as when he was first arrested, his face was much thinner, and he had completely lost his former violent and murderous state.

"My lord, Zhang Min brought it!" The soldier in charge of the escort stepped aside as soon as he reported it.

Sun Ce looked at Zhang Min, "You are the Zhang Min who killed Cao Song, the father of Cao Apu?" ”

"It's me!" Zhang Min said proudly, he was still quite proud of this.

Although he didn't think about it so much when he saw the intention of getting rich, but now that he thinks about it, who has the courage to move the Cao thief's family today?

This one thing alone is enough for him to be proud of for a lifetime.

If you don't want to be Zhang Min, who else?

Sun Ce walked over and circled around him, "You are also a good man!" Let me ask you, is Qin Feng, the head of the thief, your former general? ”

"Not bad!"

Sun Ce said: "Where does this person come from! ”

Zhang Min looked at Sun Ce with puzzled eyes, "Qin Feng is a giant deer Quzhou people, no clothes, since the great sage and good teacher raised righteousness, believers from all over the world gathered, at that time I was under the command of the general Zhang Bao, that was Qin Feng followed me, only listened to his people to tell about the situation at home, it was a local down-and-out clan, because of the landlord's clever robbery, lost all the family property, and was killed to the death of the family, at that time it was when the righteous army raised troops to attack the county, this person was coerced into the righteous army, at that time I saw that he was young, people are still smart, so let him follow me to serve!" ”

Sun Ce asked again: "How is this talent?" ”

"Intelligence?" Zhang Min was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "He is a little smart, but when it comes to intelligence, then I can't talk about it, if he is really talented, I won't fall to such a point!" ”

Sun Ce said: "After you were stunned that night, our Ling Cao led the army to attack Wohugou, but Qin Feng and the other bandits were nowhere to be found, and you were the only one left. Soon, Qin Feng led his troops to raid Anhui City, entered the city, released 2,000 Liu Xunjun prisoners, and robbed the treasury of many baggage! Yesterday, at the foot of Xiaoluo Mountain on the west bank of Anhui River, he raided a thousand elites led by Zhou Tai, which is not something that only a little clever person can do! ”

Zhang Min immediately waved his hand after hearing this, and the iron chain rattled, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" ”

"How is it impossible?"

Zhang Min said: "This person followed me at the age of ten, and it has been fifteen years now, if he has such talent, how can I not know?" ”

Sun Ce frowned, "But this series of things was done by him, how can this be explained?" ”

Zhang Min: "······"

At this time, the middle-aged scribe kneeling next to him got up and waved to Sun Ce: "Lord, before I believe in Zhang Min, if a person is really talented, it is impossible for him to endure for more than ten years without revealing the slightest flaw, and there may be someone around this person who has advice!" ”

"It is not yet known whether the men and horses who ambushed Ling Cao's army are Qin Feng's bandit army, but the troops in Anhui City are empty, and it is not surprising that Qin Feng has robbed the city gate twice, but after that, he changed the marching route several times in a row along the way, and successfully ambushed Zhou Tai's men and horses, which is not something that can be done by a little cleverness!"

"According to the speculation, there should be a strategist under Qin Feng at this time!"

"Oh?" Sun Ce was very surprised, a bandit and bandit still had a strategist in his hand to give him advice? "Can Zigang know who is giving advice to Qin Feng?"

Zhang Hong said: "The lord can still remember that after the death of Yuan Shu half a year ago, his advisers Yang Hong, Yan Xiang, Yuan Yin and Zhang Xun and others took his coffin and wife and concubine to Lujiang River, it is said that they wanted to go to Jiangdong to join the lord, but they were intercepted by Liu Xun halfway, this time the lord led the army to capture the city of Anhui, after the city was broken a large number of prisoners should have Yang Hong and Yan Xiang and others, but at that time Liu Xun returned to the army to attack, the lord did not have time to deal with the affairs of the city and hurriedly led the army to meet Liu Xun, It is estimated that Yang Hong and Yan Xiang should be among the captives who were taken away by Qin Feng! ”

Sun Ce nodded after listening, Zhang Hong's analysis was clear, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang, Yuan Yin and others had a great possibility that they were in Qin Feng's army.

"If this is the case, then it is not surprising, I have seen Yang Hong, Yan Xiang and others at Yuan Shu's place, these two people are indeed quite talented and resourceful, if it weren't for Yuan Shu to kill himself, he would never end up like this!"

After Sun Ce finished speaking, he waved his hand to the armor soldiers on both sides: "Escort him down!" ”

The soldiers stepped forward and escorted Zhang Min away.

Sun Ce looked at the back of Zhang Min who was escorted away, and asked Zhang Hong: "Zigang, what do you think should be done with this Zhang Min?" ”

Zhang Hong touched his beard, "Lord, Zhang Min is an ominous person, and he must not stay!" ”

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhang Min first followed Zhang Bao's side, then followed Tao Qian, and then followed Yuan Shu, this guy didn't end well with anyone, he was a brave and courageous person, he didn't believe in these nonsense, but he couldn't help but have a pimple in his heart after listening to Zhang Hong's words.

"In that case, I will order him to be killed!"

Zhang Hong suggested at this time: "It's not a pity that Zhang Min died, but his head is still of some use!" ”

Sun Ce asked, "What's the use?" ”

"Let me ask my lord, who hates Zhang Min the most today?"

Sun Ce didn't think about it and said, "Cao Apu, who else is there?" And so on······ Zigang's intention is to give Zhang Min's head to Cao Cao? ”

Zhang Hong stroked his long beard and nodded with a smile: "Now the lord occupies Jiangdong, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and the official position of rebelling against the general and the Huiji Taishou is no longer worthy of the lord. ”

Sun Ce's eyes lit up, three years ago he was named the rebel general, Wu Hou, at that time his power was not as good as now, and the rebel general is just a miscellaneous general, General Pingdong is different, this is a permanent general position with an official title in the imperial court, and there is a world of difference between the two.

"This ······ Can it be done? Sun Ce was a little unconfident.

"The lord avenged Cao Cao's murder of his father, shouldn't he thank the lord? The official position of a general in Pingdong is nothing more than a matter of words to him! Zhang Hong said with a smile.

Sun Ce immediately clenched his fists: "In this way, there is Mr. Lao!" ”

Soon, Zhang Min's angry scolding came from the prison, but it soon came to an abrupt end, and Zhang Min's head was brought out in a tray.

Juchao County.

Qin Feng brought all the bandits to the nest to avoid the pursuit and encirclement of the Jiangdong Army, and there was also a plan to let these people recuperate for two days, but it was definitely not for them to enjoy the blessings.

Early in the morning, Qin Feng rushed to the barracks and ordered people to beat drums, gather the three thousand men and horses, and let them run around the barracks for an hour before breakfast.

"Run, speed up, you can't run fast, if you are caught up by the enemy, won't you be hacked to death? You can't fight a war, don't you even want to learn the ability to run for your life? ”

Qin Feng followed the team, jumping up and down and shouting as he ran.

In the distance, Yang Hong and Yan Xiang watched Qin Feng drill the men and horses, and talked in a low voice.

"Brother Yan, have you ever seen such a method of military training?"

Yan Xiang shook his head: "No! Isn't he practicing this specifically for the purpose of escaping for his life? ”

Yang Hong touched his beard and said, "I think that this method is not completely used for escaping, if the war is urgent, the soldiers' marching speed is fast enough, it can also play a miraculous effect!" ”

After an hour of running drill training, Qin Feng asked his men and horses to rest for a cup of tea, and then gathered them together and arranged them into a phalanx, lined up in a column, a tun had ten columns, arranged into a small phalanx, a total of twenty small phalanxes formed a large phalanx.

There were also 600 cavalrymen, divided into six small phalanxes, three on each flank of the large army array, and the other 500 men were used as baggage soldiers, responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, and lined up in the rear.

Qin Feng held the small order flag in his hand, waved it to the left, and the entire army formation moved slowly to the left, these people just started practicing, and they did not cooperate tacitly, the team walked in a mess, and the commander, the military Hou and others scolded and corrected angrily in the team.

"Captain, Du Junhou is back!"

During the training of the men and horses, a soldier came to report to Qin Feng.

Qin Feng turned his head and handed the order flag to Huang Yi: "Yi, you come!" ”

"No!" Huang Yi took over the command flag and began to command.

Qin Feng turned around and walked towards Juniper, who was walking quickly.

"I've seen the Captain!"

Qin Feng grabbed Juniper: "It doesn't have to be like this, what's the situation?" ”

"Captain, I found a few sentry horses six miles outside the city, and I led people to surround and kill them, and I think the outfit should be the outpost of the Jiangdong Army! Before we returned, we erased all traces of where the army had passed! Juniper said.

Qin Feng pondered, "The Jiangdong Army can't find any trace of our army, so they will definitely send people to investigate, and the place where we ambushed Zhou Taijun is only a day's journey away, they will definitely send someone to investigate!" ”

"Therefore, we can't be careless, and we have to send people to set up secret posts near the main roads outside the city, and once we find the figure of the Jiangdong Army, we must report it immediately!"

Juniper clenched his fists and agreed: "No! ”

Qin Feng patted Juniper on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work, distribute more warm clothes and food to the secret sentinels sent out, and the warning range must be extended outward to ten miles away, otherwise once the Jiangdong Army appears, we will not have time to respond in time!" ”

"No!"

For two days in a row, Qin Feng ordered the county to collect more cured meat and dried meat in the city, and taught the men to make naan from the flour grinded out, and grind the fried rice and millet into powder, so that it was easy to carry and could be eaten anytime and anywhere.

In order to reduce the burden of transportation as much as possible, Qin Feng ordered the county order to forcibly expropriate horses, mules, horses, donkeys and other livestock in the city, and in two days to collect all the livestock in the city that could be used to transport materials.

This time, Qin Feng did not order the bandits to rob directly, but asked the county order to take out the money in the county treasury and buy it at a price lower than half of the market price. The cattle merchants and those who have cattle can only complain about one or two.