That night, Liu Qi and his entourage greeted Zhang Zhaozhi's officials and returned to the county seat.

stayed in the county seat Fang Zhen, and brought the officials to visit.

Then, the welcome feast prepared at the dining house began.

At the right time, Zhang Zhaocai, supported by the attendants, returned to the rear of the county office.

Although the county dormitory is smaller than the county order (long), it is also a small courtyard.

After Zhang Zhao stepped in, he could see that the inside was cleaned up, and the bedding in the house was also brand new.

And it came to know from the attendants that this was the case before they came.

Obviously, this must be arranged by Liu Qi, the county magistrate, before it will be so.

From the small to the big, it can be seen that Liu Qi, who is the chief of Chang, attaches great importance to him Zhang Zhaozhi.

After Zhang Zhao cleaned it, he felt that the whole person was in good spirits.

Returning to the small desk in the room, he looked into the bookcase next to him, and the books that his attendant had arranged for him. For some reason, tonight, my heart can't be still.

Listening to the sound of insects outside the house, Zhang Zhao picked up the goose feather fan on the desk, swayed it gently, and said to himself: "Liu Xide, Taishan, is in Xuzhou, and over the years, the world has not heard of its reputation.

After he was King Lu Gong, although his family was poor, he was involved in all military and political affairs, and he had unique insights in government affairs, and he was a capable man who did not value his reputation!

Like the pawn of the cold mountains and rivers, after I watched it, it was almost the same as the county soldiers.

For example, the generals of the Sun family, and the generals surnamed Xu, feel even more extraordinary.

Although today is the beginning of the journey, it gives me this feeling, that is, it is very different.

Jingxing has a saying, which can make me in the locality, in many places, and this trip is really appropriate! ”

After meeting the recruitment trained by Liu Qi, Zhang Zhao, a celebrity from a wealthy family, has already admired Liu Qi. Yu Liu Qi wanted to exterminate the bandits of Changxi and other parties, and good morning the local people's livelihood, but he no longer objected.

The next day, Zhang Zhao began to work with the county temple on the first day.

Zhang Zhao had never stepped into the official career before, and he was a little jerky at the beginning, but in the next half month, everything in the county government was already in order.

Seeing this, Liu Qi had to sigh in his heart, Zhang Zhao is not a person who is used by Sun Ce and can be entrusted with internal affairs.

June 23, the sky was overcast.

After a light rain, Liu Qiqin led 600 villagers, with Sun Guan, Sun Fu, Xu Case, and Wang Wei as commanders, divided the water and land routes, and killed the Lingshan bandits in the northeast of Changxi.

Zhang Zhao, Fang Zhen, Dong Wei, Xu Hui and other important members of the county temple, led by Zhang Zhao, continued to stay in the county office, handled the official duties normally, and recruited people from the countryside to transport grain and grass for the front-line township.

June 25.

Liu Qi led Xu Case and Sun Guan's men and horses, a total of 400 people, and took the lead in reaching the foot of Lingshan Mountain.

It is different from the gentleness of the cold mountains.

The terrain of the mountains is very steep.

In addition, the mountain bandits in this place built a camp according to the mountain terrain and connected with the waterway.

Like the cold mountain thieves, they often rob passing merchants, and even more often loot the nearby Meixiang.

Due to the complex terrain, the mountain bandits occupied this place three years ago, and recruited local pavilion soldiers with the county government, and cleared them many times, but they were not eliminated.

This time, Liu Qi was the thief who exterminated the mountain in the mountains, and he was also the largest bandit in Changxi, and he made careful preparations.

With the previous envoy Sun Fu and more than 100 sailors to investigate, there are also clues provided by merchants. Knowing that there are nearly 800 bandits gathered here, they are guarded inside and outside, and they are very tight.

In the upper reaches of the waterway, that is, in the direction of Liushuize, the bandits built camps along the water, and there were a large number of boats. In this way, there is a large army in the imperial court to suppress the bandits, and the mountain bandits can also quickly evacuate from the waterway.

Once the imperial army leaves, it will leave again, half a year ago, thousands of county soldiers came here, and this is how the mountain thieves escaped.

Liu Qi came to clean up this time, because he wanted to leave the Lingshan bandit leader who robbed his house and tried to harm countless innocent people, stay here forever, how could he let him escape first? Let it continue to be a hidden danger?

Therefore, counting the pavilion guards he summoned from the place, the people available to him are more than a thousand. However, in order to show weakness to the mountain thieves, he only brought six hundred training troops to fight.

Sun Fu and Wang Wei, led 200 sailors, a total of more than 30 ships, which had been transformed to fight on the water, had quietly sneaked last night, obstructed in front, and cooperated with Liu Qi's infantry to launch an attack by land.

On that day, when they were traveling by land, five miles away from the bandits' lair, the bandits who were exploring outside had already discovered that most of Liu Qi's men and horses had arrived.

The lurking strategy failed.

Seeing that Liu Qi picked up the map, he and the ministries will make another adjustment to the plan.

With the critical situation of the war, Sun Guan, who was wearing armor, took the initiative to ask for orders: "County Jun, since the thieves have discovered us, they must take precautions, and with this terrain, the thieves have the advantage."

And our people are in good spirits.

Please take the county ruler as the vanguard, lead the two hundred troops, and kill lightly.

The soldiers in the rear should be led by Xu Jun and quickly support.

In addition, Guan suggested that on the waterway, we should quickly send a signal to the sailors led by my brother and Wang Jun, except for one part of the men and horses, which are surrounded by the river, and the rest of the troops should cooperate with our land attack from the southeast according to the existing map, and set fire to the ships in advance! ”

Sun Guan was an extraordinary martial artist, and when he was young, he also read military books.

Although this was the first time he participated in the war against bandits, he was trusted by Liu Qi and led 200 men and horses together with Xu Case, but he had a unique sensitivity in military affairs.

As soon as his suggestion fell, Liu Qi was easy to punctuate on the map, and it took less than half a moment to readjust the route, and agreed to Sun Guan's plan, so he said with a serious face:

That is, as Zhongtai said, time is pressing.

In addition to the foot soldiers, Huang San, you lead thirty cavalry, when you cooperate with Zhongtai, when the two sides are fighting, cooperate with our men and horses to disrupt the bandit formation. ”

The thirty horses in his hand are exactly Liu Qi from the Jizhou battlefield, the captured war horses are composed, and all of them belong to the villagers, and in a few months, the charge and other horse combat training have not fallen, which can be regarded as a cavalry.

"Whoa!"

After Huang San responded, most of the men and horses who came lurking this time quickly divided their troops.

At the same time, several scouts, holding huge firecrackers made by Liu Qi and the craftsmen, stepped on a hill in front of them and lit them.

Knock knock!

Three huge firecrackers sounded on the top of the hill.

Spread along the mountain and river channels.

This firecracker signal is also an agreement between Liu Qi and Sun Fu, Wang Wei and other generals in advance.

Gathering at a river seven miles away, Sun Fu was squinting at the bandit camp in front of him.

Suddenly, I heard a muffled noise in front of me.

The sounds, three in all, were clearly a signal of an attack from the southeast.

"The county gentleman and Zhongtai and others should be exposed!

Therefore, this time the thief was killed, and the only way to attack was from the front.

We, the sailors, are to destroy the bandit ships, and to support them from the southeast! ”

Sun Fu had a plan in his heart, and immediately found Wang Wei.

After the two of them combined, they summoned all the Hidden Water Divisions from the reeds on the riverbank, and then went forward to fight.