Long Thirteen finally came to his senses.

He nodded, but his mind was open again.

"200,000 stone grain and grass can only meet the needs of 100,000 soldiers and civilians for half a year, so our troops must quickly go south, and then occupy Nanyang Mansion before the start of spring, and reclaim it in the local area, in which case half a year will pass."

"Therefore, even if you occupy Nanyang Mansion, on the way south, it is best to occupy one or two larger cities on the way to Nanyang Mansion to replenish grain and grass, otherwise you will not be able to hold on."

"In that case, we won't be able to reach through Lushi County near Shaanzhou, but in that case, we will have to pass through Luoyang and Ruzhou, and we will definitely face the encirclement and suppression of the swarming officers and troops."

"Alas, you can only choose one, the mountain road is rugged, and it is winter, it must be a heavy snow covering the mountain, and people and horses don't know how much to lose along the way, forget it, let's take the main road."

So, he stood up.

Long Xiaoshi and Long Xiaoju were standing behind him, and as soon as he stood up, the two of them quickly opened a black curtain behind them, and then revealed a large map!

This map was found in Huozhou, and it was the "Geographical Map of Daming Mountains and Rivers" drawn by the Ming Military Department, in which important cities, mountains, rivers, bridges, ferries, post roads, and passes were all at a glance, and it was originally only one meter square.

When Long 13 saw this, he found ten women who were good at embroidery in the old camp, and they spent two months working together to re-draw a large piece of white silk cloth with various silk threads.

After the painting is completed, the city is blue, the mountains are black, the river is green, the post road is yellow, the pass is red, and the ferry is emerald green.

The distance between the cities on the map drawn by the Ministry of War is also marked, but it is just an approximation, and it is marked with the words "one day" and "half a day" on it, and Long 13 reluctantly converted it into miles after understanding it.

"Ladies and gentlemen", at this time he had a thin wooden stick one meter long in his hand.

"This is Lingshi County, this is Huozhou, this is Zhaocheng County, and this is Xingtang Temple."

"Tomorrow, all the people who need to migrate will gather in Lingshi County, Huozhou Prefecture, Zhaocheng County, and Xingtang Temple, that is, all the people north of Lingshi County will be concentrated in the county seat, and Huozhou, Zhaocheng, and Xingtang Temple will be similar."

"According to our previous arrangement, we have organized peasant households from all over the country, such as the first township, the first village, etc., one village with one hundred households, one village, one township with ten villages, one thousand households, one township household, and a total of more than two peasant households under our command, and they will be in the county."

"Li Xin and others have already arranged for the county commander, the county lieutenant, the chief bookkeeper and others in advance, and designated the township chief and village head, and when they act, they will take the county, township, and village as the settlement to act in a unified manner, and the chief will command him."

"The craftsmen who returned to their homes also acted under the unified command of the field manager and workshop manager in accordance with their respective mines and workshops."

"The rest of the medical halls, shops, schools, martial arts halls, old camp managers, etc., as well as large households, followed the old camp to act together, under the unified command of Li Xin."

"At the beginning of the operation, after the Second Brigade was broken, it was under the unified command of He Jinlong, and from today onwards, the Second Brigade will take over the defense of the strongholds including Lingshikou Pass and Jingsheng Fort.

"Yes!"

He Jinlong stood up and took the token handed over by Long Thirteen.

"The Fourth Brigade will be dispatched to Xingtang Temple from now on, and will escort the old battalion there to advance."

"Yes!"

Wu Dading stood up and took the token.

"The 3rd Brigade took up the forward mission, and the reconnaissance rode forward for 30 miles to clear the way for us."

"Yes!"

Li Zhanchun solemnly took the token.

"The First Sojourn of Ben Dang"

This time he took out two tokens, one for Li Xin and the other for Li Zhong.

"The affairs of the old camp will be coordinated by Li Xin, and the military affairs will be taken care of by Li Zhong for the time being."

......

Early in the morning of the third day, the people and horses of Lingshi County took the lead in setting off, and it took them a day and night to arrive in Huozhou, and in the early morning of the fourth day, the people and horses of Huozhou went south again, and it took another day to arrive in Zhaocheng County.

Early in the morning, the people and horses of Zhaocheng County and Xingtang Temple started to act together.

In addition to Wu Dading's Fourth Brigade on the Xingtang Temple, there are also households, which are obviously used as partial divisions.

And the people and horses here in Zhaocheng County are mighty and magnificent, when all the people, horses, vehicles, and livestock set foot on the main post road, stretching for dozens of miles before and after.

Since Zuo Liangyu's troops were annihilated and the Zhuangzi Gu troops that went north to reinforce were also destroyed, almost everyone, including Hong Chengchou, would not think that their army could win against the small strong brigade in the field, so the self-defense of the infant city became their most suitable choice.

When passing by Pingyang Mansion City, Hong Chengchou's eyes on the city wall were on fire, and he was not angry that the thieves had gone away, but that once such a situation spread to the capital, he was charged with "sitting back and watching the thieves escape".

Of course, with the birth of Dragon Thirteen, history has been changed, not to mention anything else, with the cavalry of Cao Wenzhao's department gone, it is impossible for him to kill the Quartet again, and the fall of Zuo Liangyu's department has a profound impact on the trajectory of history.

Li Zhanchun's forwards have arrived near Anyi County.

Along the way, the small strong brigade just walked on the avenue, occasionally took water from the river, and fetched firewood in the mountains, never disturbed the countryside, and encountered the city and also passed around the city, so these days, all the Jinnan cities are closed city gates, and it is not allowed to enter and exit.

At present, there is at least a month and a half before the Yellow River is completely frozen, and it is impossible for Long 13's troops to sleep in the wilderness, so before crossing the river, it has become the top priority to take Anyi County near Yanchi, Xie Zhou, and Pinglu County, the county seat on the bank of the Yellow River.

Anyi County, as the largest county in the south of Binh Duong Province, is also the location of Si Yancheng, which is directly under the Ministry of Households, is actually two counties, and as a county close to Yanchi, commerce is very developed, and the county has a large number of young and strong people from salt workers, caravan guards, and wealthy merchants.

What's more, with money, they can form a group training with a larger number of people.

However, Long 13 had to take this city again, although there was still Pinglu County in front, but the county was too small, and it was mostly mountainous, and its harvest could not meet the consumption of 100,000 people in the small strong brigade.

Just in case, Long 13 still sent Li Zhanchun to lead the third brigade to continue to move south quickly, along the Yuhan Ancient Road to Pinglu County, if it is unfavorable to attack Anyi County, the whole army will be crowded in Pinglu County, it will be the last choice.

Of course, it is ideal for Li Zhanchun to take Pinglu County first, then move all the old camps there, and then rely on Anyi County to have a final battle with the Ming army in Shanxi.

Therefore, whether Pinglu County can be successfully won is the top priority.

Can Li Zhanchun successfully complete this task?

Thinking of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, Li Zhanchun, who led the cavalry to the Yuhan Ancient Road first, was also a little anxious.

Li Zhanchun is the same age as Long Thirteen, and he is only nineteen years old this year, but unlike Long Thirteen, who doesn't like to grow beards, Li Zhanchun already has a handful of goat's whiskers on his chin.

"Li Zhanchun, Force Value 85, Domination Value 64, Intelligence Value 70"

Today, Li Zhanchun, who was originally the fourth leader of the Lantern Battalion "Song Jiang" Wang Zhongxiao's fierce general, has actually become a figure second only to Long 13 in the real strength of the small strong brigade.

Later, Wu Dading, who was famous above him, came from other camp heads, Bai Wenxuan, Yuan Zongdi, etc., because they were only sixteen years old, and the various assignments were rising through experience, and they had not yet reached the highest.

And at the moment, Li Zhong is the one who can be compared with Li Zhanchun in the Xiaoqiang Brigade, but Li Zhong is new after all, although the various assignments are better than him, but after all, he is a member of the Eight Families, and his qualifications and prestige are far inferior to him.

However, Long Thirteen seemed to be more willing to use Li Zhong in normal times, and deliberately pressed Li Zhanchun, which Li Zhanchun thought.

"The small strong brigade is getting bigger and bigger, and the people are gathering more and more, if the big boss blindly reuses the elderly, then there will be no newcomers coming."

The current Li Zhanchun is not the famous general who followed the general Zeng Ying in Chongqing Mansion more than ten years later, nor is he Li Zhanchun, one of the "Thirteen Yellow Shakers" who once occupied the lower reaches of the Jialing River after Zeng Ying's death.

Follow Dragon Thirteen to continue to win

After the battle, at least for now, he was obviously loyal to Long Thirteen, and he also cared very much about Xiao Qianglu.

And Long Thirteen asked him to go to Pinglu County instead of He Jinlong, obviously because he also took a fancy to his cunning.

"Pinglu County, the county seat is about a circle, due to the control of the Maojin Ferry, there are three hundred regiments stationed in the city, but because of the depth of the interior, the city wall is not high, only two zhang."

"However, because it is one of the main ferries of the Yellow River section of the 400 miles south of Binh Duong Province, there is a large population inside and outside the city, so we can quickly dispatch a group of 1,000 or 2,000 young men to help defend the city."

This is the information of Pinglu County provided by Li Zhong after serving as the leader of the reconnaissance cavalry, but he did not leave a detailed work in this city, and he could only rely on Li Zhanchun to find a way to capture it.

Yuhan Ancient Road, from the Spring and Autumn Period, is the main road to transport the salt of Shanxi Yanchi to Henan through this road, its total length is less than ten miles, but because it is located in the Zhongtiao Mountain, it is extremely steep.

Although the road can also pass an ox cart, there is no guardrail on one side, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the canyon on the side, so Li Zhanchun can't get up fast even if he wants to.

When the time came to October, the weather quickly cooled down, and at this time, it had been some time since they left Zhaocheng County, and their whereabouts had already spread all over Pingyang Prefecture, Zezhou, Luzhou, and it was estimated that even Shaanzhou, south of the Yellow River, had been known - this was exactly what Li Zhanchun was worried about.

Li Zhanchun's worries are justified.

Just when the army of the Xiaoqiang Brigade arrived near Anyi County, a figure appeared.

This person's name is Yuan Shu, the son of Yuan Keli, the former governor of Denglai, and now he is the right political envoy of Henan Province to participate in politics and according to the Liang Bing Dao of the Inspectorate Division, in the words of later generations, that is Henan Province, and the commander-in-chief of the defense area along the Yellow River.

Upon learning that the army of thieves had arrived in Anyi County, Yuan Shu immediately realized that they were most likely crossing the river from Maojin in Pinglu County.

At this time, Yuan Shu happened to be patrolling in Shaanzhou, Henan, which is separated from Pinglu County by a river, and Shaanzhou is where Hongnongwei is located, although Hongnongwei has long been out of the rated 600 soldiers, but there are still 3,000 people, so Yuan Shu urgently made an appointment with Hu Rugui, the commander of Hongnongwei.

But Hu Rugui obviously would not agree, if Yuan Shu was the governor of Henan, maybe he would reluctantly agree, but a mere Liang Bingbeidao obviously could not command him - although Bingbeidao had the responsibility of inspecting the local army in peacetime, it was not enough to mobilize the army.

What's more, even if the governor of Henan came in person, Hu Rugui would not necessarily obey, after all, Henan and Shanxi were under the jurisdiction of different capitals, and the governor of Henan could only command Henan's army.

A few years later, Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, led the army to the north without authorization for the sake of "King Qin", and then he was naturally imprisoned in Fengyang, even the royal family, not to mention the local guards.

Of course, unless there is a "governor of Shanxi and Henan" who is enshrined by the emperor at this time, under the order of this official, Hu Rugui naturally has no reason not to obey orders.

Yuan Shu was anxious when he saw that Hu Rugui could not move, and continued to persuade: "I am friendly with Hong Chengchou, who is now serving as a supervisor in southern Jinnan, and if the general Rong sends troops to Pinglu County and stops the thieves north of the Yellow River, I will ask Hong Dashuai to perform the merits of the general army afterwards......

"Don't", Hu Rugui hurriedly waved his hand, "It's not bad if you don't send out Dongchang Fanzi to lock you up, the military is really worried about national affairs, it's better to quickly patrol around and strengthen the defense lines south of the Yellow River."