Qi County, guarding the yamen, has now been occupied by Wang Pu, the right jade general of Datong.

In the Ming generation, the highest proportion of cavalry configuration is Datong Town, which can account for half of the highest, and although it is a little decadent at the moment, it also has a proportion of forty percent.

Although Wang Pu is only a general of the guard, his family members and a serious border army foot cavalry, it is not an exaggeration to press the hat of a general soldier on his head.

Twenty-four years old, tall and straight, handsome face, and the Ming soldiers at this time like to wear phoenix-winged helmets, he and Long Thirteen like the wide-brimmed hats handed down from the Yuan Dynasty, black wrapped in brown hats, the top of the middle of the convex part inlaid with jade.

A red ribbon is tied at the chin, and he is wearing a blue robe that only the Ming Dynasty scholars are qualified to wear (as the grace of the hereditary brocade clothes and hundreds of households), and he is sitting in the reception room with a fine porcelain cup from the Ru kiln carefully tasting the autumn tea that has just been produced.

A big white and powerful hand pinched the tea lid like mutton fat jade and gently skimmed the tea foam, then blew it slightly and then took a sip gently.

There were two people sitting beside him, one was about forty years old, dressed as a landlord and an old man, and the other was in his thirties, looking like a literati.

When Wang Pu was sipping tea, the two of them stared at him intently, for fear that he would say half a bad thing after drinking.

Wang Pu took a few sips and put down the teacup, "Very good, I felt a little astringent at first, and then the aroma began to diffuse, although it was, the bitterness was still strong, but the more it came later, the sweeter it became, it was really a good autumn tea, and it needed to be tasted slowly."

Wang Pu, in addition to being a good and famous horse, dressed in gorgeous clothes, is also very fond of tea and wine, because of his fame, he got a "Anything that has been tasted by Wang Lang must be good, elegant, and will be a big seller"

Of course, this kind of high-grade autumn tea is not the largest material operated by the Fan family, but the Zhai family, for the Fan family, it is only true to transport the shoddy tea to Chahar through Zhangjiakou, and to Tumut through the mouth of the tiger, and the high-grade tea is nothing more than a bribe to each Dataiji.

By the way, this thirty-year-old scholar is called Fan Yonghe, Fan Yongdou's cousin, and he is the big shopkeeper in charge of the direction of Tumut.

And the forty-year-old wealthy businessman needless to say is now one of the eight major Jin merchants, Dongguanbao Zhai Tang.

Although Zhai Tang also had a welcoming smile on his face, his heart was dripping blood.

Although his Zhai family has at least seven or eight strongholds and mansions in the land of Sanjin, this is the "Land of Longxing" after all, although it is for the sake of "suppressing the overall situation of thieves", but once the nest is abolished, no one will be reconciled.

But he was helpless, this was a matter decided by Xu Dingchen and Wang Pu, the governor of Shanxi, and he had no room for beaking.

Although Wang Pu is young and frivolous, he is a smart person after all, and he doesn't know Zhai Tang's thoughts, so he smiled and said, "It is said that the Jin merchants are rich, but there are not many places in Datong? If the proprietor Zhai doesn't dislike it, he might as well open a stronghold in Datong City......

Zhai Tang was naturally overjoyed when he heard this, because most of the eight Jin merchants at this time were located in Taiyuan Mansion and Pingyang Mansion, and although there were many merchants in Datong, none of them could achieve the strength of the Eight Families.

Datong Mansion is almost the forbidden territory of the Wang family and the Jiang family, and some people say that in a few years, this Datong general soldier is Wang Pu's bag, he said this, it is definitely not him who has the final say, but the people in the family have already been ventilated.

"Thank you, General."

Zhai Tang hurriedly bent down to thank him.

Wang Pu said, "Tell me, if the thief chief Dragon Thirteen learned that Dongguan Fort had been burned down, what would his family members have in the flames?"

Fan Yonghe said with a smile: "I am like thunder, but unfortunately I can't find anyone to fight with, so I can only vent in place."

Wang Pu nodded, "It's not bad, marching and fighting, the most jealous and impetuous, they are stumbling near Dongguanbao, and sandwiched between the two county towns of Qi County and Taigu County, they are in a dilemma, at this time they can only find nearby villages to vent, but unfortunately we have long been prepared to clear the wilderness."

"Let the villagers be in the morning

Avoid entering the county seat, so that they can only cry out in vain."

Zhai Tang also smiled: "If the thieves see that they can't save their old camp, it won't be good to retreat quickly."

Wang Pu said with a smile: "Xu Junmen has long expected this section, and there are already arrangements."

......

Outside the Dongguan Fort, Long 13 saw a villager who was caught by the detective cavalry nearby and couldn't dodge.

The man had a dark complexion, a furrow on his forehead, and a gray beard, and he looked like a local farmer who had been digging in the fields all day long.

"Everyone else has run away, so why are you the only one staying here?"

"Returning to the Great ...... Wang, a few days ago, fell ill, and was just a little better, but he was too tired to run, and when he wanted to run, it was too late."

"Well, do you know where the families of the rebels in Dongguan Fort have gone?"

"This ......"

"Do you know?"

"I don't dare to say"

"When you come to such a field, what else dare you not say? Aren't you afraid that I will kill you with a sword?"

"The king spares his life, I say, I say, my lord, the families of this rebel army are not all in the Dongguan Fort, only the old and weak are left in the fort, young men, young women, and children have been transferred out early in the morning."

"Oh? Where did it go?"

"I also heard about it, it's Xugou County."

......

Xugou County.

Sun Chuanting came to Xugou County again, but this time he deigned to come here as an assistant to Fu Shan as an assistant as a Lang Zhong and Jinshi.

In addition to Jiang Wuqi, Fu Shan also brought a regiment of training infantry troops, when Li Zhanchun was fighting with Jiang Wu on the west side of the Qingxu Wooden Bridge, at the east end of the wooden bridge, he also practiced the infantry army.

However, in an instant, Li Zhanchun's two hundred cavalry broke through the cavalry training led by Jiang Wu, which is the difference between soldiers who have been in battle for a long time and civilian rabble masters, and the gap between them is that they will collapse at the touch of a button.

After following the scattered regimental training cavalry across the wooden bridge, the regimental training infantry stationed on the east side was also dispersed at the same time, and then followed the pace of the rout all the way to the east!

Soon, Li Zhanchun and hundreds of other horsemen arrived near Xugou County!

Xugou County, is a very small county in Jinzhong, there is no moat, the height of the city wall is only two zhang, the square circle is not, after seeing the regimental training that has dispersed here, Fu Shan, the general soldier of the regimental training in the city, was shocked.

However, now was not the time for him to be shocked, as a large number of fleeing cavalry and infantry troops poured near the west gate of the city, he had to make a choice as soon as possible.

Do you open the gates and let the routs in, or do you ignore them and watch them be killed by the thieves?

Li Zhanchun obviously saw this scene as well, he himself led the fighting cavalry to follow behind the rout soldiers who were gathering at the West Gate, and let Ou Mubu take the light cavalry to kill everywhere, and for a while, the sound of shouting and crying resounded outside Xugou County!

Fu Shan clenched one hand tightly, the back of his hand was bruised, and he trembled slightly, and after a while, he shouted, and was ready to go down the city wall to fight to the death with the thief army, but he was soon caught by Sun Chuanting beside him.

"Qingzhu, how does your martial arts compare to that Jiang Wu?"

Although Fu Shan was strong in martial arts, he thought that he couldn't compare to Jiang Wu, so he shook his head.

"Jiang Wu took away hundreds of cavalry, none of them are the opponents of the thieves, and now you only have horses around you, how can you be their opponents? Do you want to use infantry against them? If the infantry army is defeated again, won't the entire Xugou County be in jeopardy?"

"But there are still hundreds of soldiers in the regiment outside the city, and these people are all trained by our painstaking efforts, how can we sit idly by?"

Sun Chuanting shook his head, "Since it is already a defeated army, it will be difficult to make a difference if you continue to practice, it is better to give up, once you open any city gate, what if the thief cavalry follows?"

When Fu Shan heard this, he had to sigh and give up.

Seeing that the enemy showed no signs of opening the city gate to let his rout enter the city, Li Zhanchun simply joined the pursuit, and it didn't take long for him to wipe out the rout outside the city.

Of course, only a few people were killed, and most of them surrendered voluntarily

。

Jiang Wu was not among them, it seemed that he had sneaked away in the melee.

......

In the evening, Yuan Zongdi came to Xugou County with all the infantry troops: two pikemen, firearms, and one hundred artillerymen.

This naturally made Li Zhanchun overjoyed.

The arrival of the army of thieves made Fu Shan, Sun Chuanting and others in the city feel like pins and needles.

.......

Under the city of Qixian.

Dragon Thirteen drove here with a thousand horsemen, and unabashedly beat out the banner of his golden dragon with a red background!

When the king of the city saw this, his heart was opened.

"Right now, the thief Kou infantry army has been sent to Xugou County by me, and why is the leader of the thief still here, well, most of it is to cover the actions of his infantry army, and they probably also know that the general still has considerable military strength in Qi County and Taigu County."

"It's a pity that half of my cavalry is still with Jiang Jiu, if all of them are here, how can they let the thieves be so arrogant?"

However, seeing that the thief Kou Long Thirteen had already arrived here, he couldn't do nothing, so he sent a fast horse to Pingyao County further south.

Long Thirteen soon learned the news of Kuama, but this time he did not intercept it, but sat back and watched it go away.

"Big boss", Long Xiaoshi came over again, "Soon after I left Jiexiu County, Cao Wenzhao's department in Jiexiu County also went north, and now it is stationed in Pingyao County, Wang Pu's fast horse is obviously to inform Cao Wenzhao and let him flank our army overnight."

At this time, Long Thirteen had already learned of Li Zhanchun's battle situation, and his heart had already made up his mind, so he said, "Cao Wenzhao still has a hundred horsemen in his hands at most, what can he do?"

"I did remember something."

"What's the matter?"

"It is said that the Black Harrier has defeated Jiang Hao and completely annihilated his Jiading team, and Xu Dingchen of Fenzhou can still sit in the state city after losing the only army he can rely on?"

"The big boss means ......"

"It is said that Wang Pu, Cao Wenzhao, and even Fu Shan from Taiyuan City are here, and a few groups of people are stationed on the east bank of the Fen River, and it must be necessary for a large number of people to sit in charge, but I only saw Jiang Huang, who has been regarded by Xu Dingchen as an envoy of the Chinese army, and I did not see Xu Dingchen."

"The big boss, Zhang Yingchang, Zhang Quanchang, and Zhang Dechang of the Zhang family in Shanxi are all subordinates of Xu Dingchen, Zhang Yingchang has died in the hands of our army, Zhang Dechang is also following Hu Dawei to survive, and it must be Zhang Quanchang who is following Xu Dingchen now, and he should have some horses in his hands."

"I know this, my question is, where are Xu Dingchen and Zhang Quanchang now? It can't be in Fenzhou City, and it can't be one of the three cities of Pingyao, Qi County, and Taigu County."

"Could it be Xugou County?"

"It's possible, but it's more likely to be near Qi County."

"Boss, why is that? Xu Dingchen is the governor of Shanxi, so why didn't he directly enter Qi County or Taigu County to take command, but stationed outside the city?"

"I don't know why, but not long after Li Zhanchun and the others went north along the west bank of the Fen River, the bridge between Wenshui County and Qi County was demolished.

"Does the big boss mean that when Li Zhanchun and the others went north, Xu Dingchen and the others happened to be between Qi County and Wenshui County?"

"Yes, according to the geographical location, if the enemy wants to use the family members of the old battalion to send us to Dongguanbao, the best command post should be located in Qi County, if the bridge is not demolished at this time, it can be convenient to communicate with Fenzhou, but now it is demolished, obviously there are important people near the bridge, and orders can be issued quickly."

"By the way, in addition to the county seat, what other big castles are there near this Qi County?"

Long Xiaoshi thought for a while and said, "I remembered what the big boss said."

"To the west of the county seat of Qixian County, between the Fen River and the county seat, there is a city Zhao Fort, which was built on the site of the city built by Zhao Xiangzi in the Spring and Autumn Period

It's almost the same for a thousand households."

"To the north of the county seat, there is also a Jia Ling Fort, which was originally the old city of Qi County, and according to legend, it was also built by Jia Xin, a Jin doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is also a hundred household forts, but it has not been expanded, but the city wall is quite high."

"There it is!" , Long Thirteen suddenly shouted.