"Ladies and gentlemen, I am the vanguard officer under the command of Governor Hong, and there are still hundreds of horsemen who will arrive soon, and the army of thieves will arrive soon, and the ferry can only transport a few people away at a time, why don't you go to the city, with our serious officials and soldiers here, Pinglu County is bound to be as stable as Mount Tai."

"That army of thieves is here at any time, and if you wait a little longer, I'm afraid you'll turn to powder!"

At his instigation, most of these people gave up the idea of waiting for the ferry, and followed Li Zhanchun into the city.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Shu was even more ashamed.

After entering the city, Li Zhanchun said: "There are only two gates in Pinglu County, north and south, so you can't be lazy, so we will guard it."

Yuan Shu was both moved and ashamed, and could only say, "General Bai Gaoyi, Yuan has to write a few more strokes on the post-event chapter!"

As a result, Li Zhanchun's men took control of the city gate!

In the evening, Yuan Zongdi of the Third Brigade also arrived with pikemen, and when Yuan Zong arrived first, Li Zhanchun suddenly smiled.

"The third master, the big boss of your takedown of Jiezhou has already known, and now he has sent Lao Hui to wait for the town to guard Jiezhou, and I waited until the road of the Yuhan Ancient Road was a little empty before rushing over, and the remaining 1,000 pikemen were still on the way."

"The thief who blocked the salt cart has retreated?"

"Retreated, probably because he knew the news of what I was waiting for, and ran away after grabbing half of it, so I followed the salt cart over, and after learning that I was waiting for the official army, I saw that it was getting late, so I followed into the city."

"What about Anyi County?"

"I don't know yet, but there are the first brigade of the big boss, the second brigade of the second boss, and the fourth brigade of the fourth boss, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

"Before I left, the big boss had already asked the young and quasi-young men in the team to fill the mud with straw bags in the north of the county to build two large camps, one for the old man and the first brigade and the fourth brigade of the big boss, and one for the remaining personnel and the second brigade of the second boss."

"What about Anyi County?"

"No movement yet"

"Three masters!"

At this time, there was a call from outside the door, and in an instant, the face of Li Zhanchun's personal guard appeared in the room, and Li Zhanchun scolded in a low voice: "You donkey day, now we are still pretending to be an official soldier, you are three masters and three masters, for fear that others will not know?"

The man scratched his head and sneered, "Oops, I forgot."

Li Zhanchun and Yuan Zongdi glanced at each other, and Yuan Zongdi said for a while, "How to deal with the people in the city?"

......

Anyi County, a small strong brigade and a big camp.

In mid-October, the autumn chill began.

Long 13 asked the old camp to prepare 200,000 straw bags before leaving Zhaocheng County, and this time it finally came in handy.

After arriving near Anyi County, he immediately filled the soil with straw bags and built two boxy camps, each with a wall about 1.6 meters high and 1.5 meters thick.

The circumference of each camp is eight miles, almost the same as a medium-sized state city, with an area of more than one million square meters, and if it is roughly calculated according to 10 square meters per person, it can accommodate 100,000 people.

Of course, the Xiaoqiang brigade also carried a large number of vehicles, livestock and other things, and it was impossible to accommodate 100,000 people.

However, after Li Zhanchun took over Huozhou City by mistake, Long 13 discussed with Ma Shouying and others, and asked Ma Shouying, He Yilong, and Lin Yangcheng to move into the city with a cavalry and an old battalion, and at least 3,000 young men could be transferred from his old battalion.

The four of them were enough to resist the attack of the Ming army.

There were more than 100,000 people in the old battalion of the Xiaoqiang Brigade, and more than 7,000 soldiers after excluding Li Zhanchun's Third Brigade all moved into the big battalion.

Around the salt pond, there are also several towns, large and small, and when the small strong brigade comes, all the towns are almost empty, but Long Thirteen is not ready to live in the town, because most of the towns are built of wood, and once the enemy attacks with fire, he will want to cry without tears.

However, it is still possible to dismantle the timber from the town closest to the county seat, and then have the carpenters in the camp make strips that can be driven into the ground against the earthen wall to make a strong straw bag earthen wall.

Since the end of last year, Dragons

Thirteen successively won Jiaokou Fort, Linxian County, Jiexiu County, Lingshi County, Huozhou Prefecture, and Zhaocheng County, and already had a large number of craftsmen at hand.

The largest number of them were carpenters, about 1,000 households;

The blacksmith is second, and the covenanter is the householder;

The cobbler and the stonemason add up to the household;

The most gratifying thing is that the imperial court has set up a gunpowder workshop in Lingshi County, and harvested about 200 gunpowder craftsmen who boiled nitrate, boiled sulfur, and made black powder in caves;

There are more than 2,000 families of the remaining miners.

There are also more than 100 households such as doctors and merchants, all of whom have read books, but in fact, their use is far from being as simple as making medicinal materials and seeing patients.

Long Thirteen did not let his family live in Jiezhou City or Pinglu County, and he also considered it.

It's already October, and winter is about to begin, and generally speaking, the Yellow River will slowly freeze from November onwards, and by the end of the year it will be very solid.

It is the Xiaoice River period, and it may freeze at the end of November or the beginning of December.

As a result, he had another month to fight the enemy and continue to prepare food and grass.

In fact, he could have carried more grain and grass, but first, his manpower is limited, and the cart is also limited, and second, if he carries too much grain and grass, he must need special personnel to protect him.

And at present, he only has more than 10,000 people, and he has to be stationed in two places, so he is naturally stretched.

He is not an ordinary thief, he eats all the way, and when he is almost finished, he will fight another city, and if there is really nothing to eat, he will completely sacrifice the old camp and keep only the cavalry.

Such a thief, for the Dragon Thirteen of later generations, it is okay not to do it.

So, at present, there are more than 10,000 people and horses, 20,000 young and strong, 70,000 or 80,000 old camps, and the level of grain and grass for half a year is already the best scale he can think of.

Moreover, the small strong brigade and the old return are divided into two places, and one can be kept in case of a mistake, judging from the current ability of the Ming army, it would be good to arch off one place, but it can't help but think about everything.

Also, he asked Ma Shouying and other generous parties to erect the banner of the "Three Battalions of the Hui Revolution" in Jiezhou City, and he also erected his own banner in the camp, the purpose is nothing more than:

"Lao Tzu is here, the old camp is also there, if you attack our camp with all your might, then you can't ask for it, and it doesn't hurt if the old Hui Hui on one side comes out or not."

"Once the enemy feels that the old man of Jiezhou City is easy to bully and attack him with all his might, he will be able to wait for the opportunity to move, and now that the enemy is coming from everywhere, he must not be unaware of this."

"Right now, Lao Tzu has probably become the most powerful thief in the eyes of the imperial court, and he finally seized an opportunity to encircle him on the plain and annihilate him, and he will definitely not let it go."

"If Hong Chengchou and Zhang Zongheng alone are estimated to be no opponents of the small strong brigade, but once they continue to draw men and horses to besiege Dengzhou, such as the Guanning Iron Cavalry of Zu Dabi's Department, and Deng Xi's white pole soldiers, plus Hong Chengchou and Zhang Zongheng's men and horses, it will be quite powerful."

"And there are at least half of their cavalry, such a scene will only appear after the Central Plains War, although the small strong brigade has some names at the moment, but there are so many elites in the official army together, they must also take the initiative to attack."

"This is only a mile away from the bank of the Yellow River, and there is a Zhongtiao Mountain in the middle, once this battle is over, it must not be that our troops are all annihilated, then there is nothing to say, if the official army is defeated, according to their nature, it will definitely collapse in an instant, and then scatter as birds and beasts."

"At that time, Lao Tzu will be able to cross the Yellow River generously!"

"However, before that, we must take Anyi County and other counties, and then replenish the grain and grass, before the enemy gathers, the grain and grass that has just been stored in the surrounding counties will definitely be transported to the vicinity of Anyi County with the army."

"So, as long as our troops defeat them, they will be able to control at least a month's worth of food and grass!"

Thinking of this, Long Thirteen's eyebrows, which were still twisted, suddenly soothed, and there was only one problem now.

"Do you want to take Anyi County before the enemy arrives?"

At this moment, the curtain of his tent was lifted - before leaving Zhaocheng County

He has asked the women of the old camp to sew a large number of tents, basically one big tent for every twenty people, and 100,000 tents are enough.

Almost all the coarse cloth seized by the Fan, Wang, Huang, and Zhai families was used to sew tents.

It's late autumn and early winter, and if you don't have a tent, you can't get through it at night.

At this point, the small strong brigade of Long Thirteen was much stronger than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, whose strength had risen sharply in the future, and at that time, their old battalion could only sleep together in the middle of winter, and it was common for them to lose more than half of their personnel in a month.

What's more, although Long 13 himself did not officially marry a wife, he did not prevent his subordinates from doing so, so after nearly a year passed, there were a large number of babies in the old camp, and if there were no tents, it was creating evil.

This kind of cost and drag is huge, but that's why he Long Thirteen has also gained people's hearts.

At this point, the adult men of the Little Mighty Brigade finally returned to their normal human level.

"Lao Tzu is willing to die for the big boss!"

It is said that this dream sentence is the most common word spoken by the men of the old camp of the Xiaoqiang Brigade, although it is rough, but it firmly reflects the loyalty to Long Thirteen, the leader of the bandits.

"With these people, Lao Tzu is also willing to die for you!"

Dragon Thirteen from later generations is also enthusiastic.

Just thinking about it, Long Xiaoshi came in.

At this time, sixteen-year-old Long Xiaoshi finally figured it out completely.

"In this generation, officials are not like officials, the army is not like the army, and the people are not like the people, only in the small and strong brigade, here in the big boss, there is a trace of gentleness and frugality, or gentleness and frugality under the light of great martial arts, isn't this what I am pursuing?"

Fortunately, he is still a sixteen-year-old boy, a young man who has not yet married a family, if he follows the footsteps of the scholar at this time, he will soon take the township examination, according to his talent, it is a sure thing to be admitted to the examination, and then whether he can pass the examination or not, he is a family of scholars.

At this time, most of the county orders were held by people.

Then he will marry a wife, have children, become an official, and slowly dip in the dye vat of Daming, and finally become a person full of "benevolence, righteousness and morality", but inside he is full of selfishness and selfishness.

In the last days of the Ming Dynasty, isn't this the case for the vast majority of the Donglin party?

Words and deeds are consistent, poverty is the pleasure, no friends and no party are proud, but the national affairs, major events, and serious things are the responsibility of their own responsibility?

Long Thirteen also looked through the history of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, and he almost didn't find one, and some of them were also empty and full of loneliness, and they were extremely lacking in real talent.

"Big Boss"

Seeing that Long Thirteen fell into deep thought again, Long Xiaoshi was also thoughtful.

"According to the Xiao family's daughter, the big boss is called Long Yin, no wonder he doesn't dare to use this name, it's too scary, but in addition to leading troops to fight, the big boss is not a thief in any way, but a ......."

"Tell me, is there news from Anyi County?"

"Yes, the big boss asked the three bosses to bury the nail in Anyi County, and now the nail has finally delivered the news."

"Before the arrival of our army, there were 6,000 households in the county seat of Anyiyi, and when our army arrived, most of the surrounding towns with salt boiling fields as the core went south, and some went west to Guanzhong, and most of them went into the county seat to take refuge."

"As a result, the city has almost more than 10,000 households."

"The county order here is called Yang Yilong, who was originally the last person in the township test list at the end of the Apocalypse, and in normal years, it is difficult to obtain such a position as the county order, but the main book and the county can be obtained quickly."