Light and four years, May.

This day is getting hotter and hotter, and the doorkeepers on the gate tower of Dongpingling City, Jinan, gather together in three or two hedgehogs, without any spirit.

There was only one halberd-wielding doorman, wearing armor, sweating profusely, but still meticulously patrolling the downstairs.

Suddenly, a Zhu car and more than a dozen attendants appeared at the end of the road.

It was too hot, and the heat on the ground was so hot that the road looked distorted. A few of the gatekeepers thought they were faint from the heat, but only the armor-clad doorman was clever and hurriedly got up and reported to the city gatekeeper.

The other doormen were slow to react, and could only hum inwardly with jealousy of this person.

This team came from Kyoto, and they took the order of the state Liu Hong, and entered the Dongping Tomb in the waist of the city gate captain.

In three moments, they came out again, with a chariot behind them and one person imprisoned.

The captain of the city gate looked at it and was surprised, because this person happened to be the prime minister of Jinan, Feng Chang.

This will Feng Chang looked depressed, paused in the prisoner car, his eyes were full of disbelief, as if to say, what kind of identity am I, so how can Liu Miao participate in himself.

Indeed, although Liu Miao is a child of the Gong family, he has not been in office for a long time in the end, how can he participate in his 2,000 stone officials, but the result of one more person is different.

Liu Kang, the king of Jinan who was in Beijing at the time, also made a move.

When he learned that his Shaofu was assassinated in Mashi, he probably guessed that Jinan Xiang did it, and with hatred, he sued the country for many years of illegality since he was enthroned.

The emperor was furious, ordered the servant to hold the festival, dismissed his officials, and drove into the court.

Soon, the news of Feng Chang's dismissal spread all over Dongpingling, and the whole people rushed to tell each other, and everyone in the market and countryside wept with joy. But a mansion in the city is gloomy at the moment.

It was Tang Zhou and his henchmen who were in the house, he looked to the west and muttered:

"Who would have thought that?"

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Yanzhou, Mount Tai, Wangzhou Feng, Zhang Chong Daqi.

Since Zhang Chong issued a convening order three days ago, Zhutun, which was scattered everywhere, has successively gathered in Zhang Chong Daqi.

This year, although Zhang Chong was trapped in Mount Tai, the core part was constantly expanding.

Thanks to the support of the children of his hometown and the army that absorbed the shantytowns and land division of the surrounding mountain people, Zhang Chong now has 400 soldiers, which is a song.

The number of people has increased, and the original generals have naturally expanded, plus Xi Shen and Xie Bi, Zhang Chong now has a total of six generals, each leading fifty soldiers.

They are Chen Huan, Heifu, Ding Sheng, Li Damu, Xi Shen, and Zhang Dan.

In addition, Zhang Chong's own Qu headquarters has infantry team Yang Mao, cavalry team Tian Jun, and all units of Hu team Renyun have warriors to choose forwards, which can be said to be strong generals.

The reason why everyone couldn't deal with the mountain people of Mount Tai before was not because of their lack of combat power, but because they were not good at mountain warfare.

These mountain people are familiar with geography, and they pull up the mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, and often Zhang Chong leads people to attack in front, and they are attacked at the end of the formation.

Moreover, after those mountain people knew that Zhang Chong and their combat strength were extraordinary, they no longer fought hard, and began to resort to guerrilla warfare that constantly harassed them, which made Zhang Chong and others anxious.

But now Zhang Chong has found a way to break the people of Taishan.

At this time, in the hall of the inner hall, the generals were listening to Zhang Chong's military strategy, only to see Zhang Chong on the ground, making mountains with rice, and drawing the peaks of Mount Tai to the bottom of their eyes.

Zhang Chongdao:

"You see, Mount Tai where we are now is not only Mount Tai, but the entire mountainous area across the Qingyanxu Prefectures.

It probably has Taishan Mountain Stream, Mengshan Mountain System, Yishan Mountain System, Culai Mountain, and it can be said that the surrounding thousands of miles are all mountainous areas.

I estimate that there are no less than hundreds of thousands of mountain people living in this mountainous area, and if we can subdue these mountain people and recruit them to form an army, it will be a great cause.

Now, after more than a year of absorbing the surrounding mountain people, we have roughly figured out the situation of the forces in the vicinity.

First of all, let's talk about the vicinity of our big block.

We sit near Wangzhou Peak, the easternmost peak of Mount Tai, after more than a year of bloody battles, capture and behead six mountain gatherings, we finally stand firm here.

So what other mountains are around us?

If you go into detail, how many peaks and mountains there are in Mount Tai, no one can say. But there are a few things that matter.

First of all, we are in the west of Wangqinfeng, where the Kui surnamed Gongsun is said to be the descendants of the rebel Gongsun Ju twenty years ago, and we don't know how many of them there are.

Then there is Wangwu Peak to the south of us, where we don't know who the leader of the mountain is and how many people there are.

But to the southeast of us, on the carved hill, we met old acquaintances.

I learned from Xu He of Qingzhou Road that it was our beloved Zhang Tiehu's second son Zhang Suo who occupied this place, but I didn't expect their family to have this hand. ”

As soon as he heard Zhang Suo, the second son of Zhang Hong, the leader of the carved mountain, Du Man's eyes lit up, and he and Zhang Chong glanced at each other, everything was silent.

Then Zhang Chong continued:

"This year in the mountains, we have suffered a lot. I summarize it in three points,

One said, unknown geography. Although we are all people near Mount Tai, few of us have really survived in this Mount Tai, let alone have a lot of treasures about the geography of Mount Tai.

Second, there is a shortage of grain and millet. As more and more of us have more and more people, we can't help anything by relying on these thin fields in the mountains, so we can only go out of the mountains to collect grain, which has caused us internal and external difficulties.

Third, the strategy is not clear. This is actually caused by the second point. For more than a year, we have been blindly gathering with the surrounding mountains without caressing. It's not that I don't know, it's that we don't allow it.

But now, I have become a disciple of the Taiping Daoist Gong, and my teacher gave me the six scepters, and allowed the nearby Taiping Daoists to send food and equipment to us, so there is no need to worry about it.

Suffice it to say that, at this point, we can already change our strategy.

After that, we will absorb more of the surrounding mountain people, soothe the people, and suppress the stubborn. And the first mountain gathering I set to kill was this person. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Chong pointed heavily at the pile of rice on behalf of Zhang Suo.

Afterwards, the generals stood up and responded, and they went to reorganize the army.

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Fifty miles away, carved mountain.

Zhang Suo was frowning and thinking about something, and a pawn rushed in with a square flag on his back, reporting that Da Langjun had entered the mountain.

Zhang Suo was irritable, but in the end, his eldest brother went up the mountain, or walked out of the fence to greet him.

In front of the fence, Zhang Qiuzheng commanded his servants to move grain, straw and wine into the wall.

After more than a year, his bun has grown, but compared with the long hair he has grown since he was a child, it is naturally much inferior.

Since that day when he was sacrificed to his grandson, he went to the affairs of the pavilion chief, and concentrated on training the troops at home, but he trained the stubborn troops to be capable.

This will Zhang Qiuzheng and Qingnu talk:

"Qingnu, you are sure that the news is true."

Qingnu is a strong part of the knife that he lost with the sacrifice grandson before, and after more than a year of hard practice, now the knife skills are not what they used to be.

Qingnu listened to Da Langjun ask, and was busy responding:

"Da Lang, this matter is undoubted, how dare Zhang Yu lie to me. He said that he saw Zhang Gouzi and his third brother more than a year ago, and that person went to practice the watch, saying that he was killed by water bandits. But strangely, the man was still alive. ”

Zhang Qiu nodded and asked again:

"Then you say, is the second child of the Zhang family dead?"

Now the young slave is not sure, and Zhang Yu didn't say anything, so he is talking nonsense.

Without waiting for the Qingnu to be organized, Zhang Qiu said:

"It doesn't matter, it's dispensable anyway, don't mention him. By the way, looking at Zhou Feng's team called General Shi, have you inquired clearly? ”

Qingnu hurriedly inquired about this time and told Zhang Qiu.

"Da Lang, no one knows the real name of General Shi, from some mountain people, they only know that this person is brave and sharp, and he is a fierce general. Within a year of entering the mountain, every battle has taken the lead, and six or seven settlements with names and surnames in the mountains have been broken.

Some time ago, the shantytowns in the mountains had already gone to Wangqin Peak to find Gongsun Dakui, saying that they would unite and destroy this bureaucracy together. ”

Zhang Qiu was still asking, but at this time, his younger brother Zhang Suo had already come, so he stopped talking.

Zhang Qiu changed his smile and stepped forward to hold his younger brother Zhang Suo, which was a greeting.

Zhang Suo asked people to put all the grain, straw and wine sent from home into the warehouse, and took Zhang Qiu into the hall.

Along the way, Zhang Qiu was smiling and talking about family affairs, but when he saw that Zhang Suo had been ignoring him, he changed his words and was about to ask how he was doing.

Zhang Suo said in disgust:

"How is the old thing now, don't play with the slave all day long, it is a day to live one more day."

The old thing, it is his father Zhang Hong, and I don't know how the father and son became such enemies.

Zhang Qiu's face turned pale and reprimanded his younger brother:

"What an old thing, this is our father, how dare you say such a thing."

Seeing Zhang Qiu posing as a brother, Zhang Suo snorted directly:

"Zhang Qiu, you don't come to give me this set, who are you? I do not know. Ye is in the mountains, he is such a happy person, you don't pretend to be kind to me. ”

Zhang Qiu's anger flashed, and he rejoiced, and put his brother's arm:

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this, we brothers don't want to make such a fuss."

Who knows, Zhang Suo came up, directly shook off Zhang Qiu's hand, and scolded:

"My Zhang family has always been light and dark, but why can you be the eldest man of the Zhang family in Licheng, with brocade clothes and jade food, and I can only be thrown in the mountains, bathed in the rain and wind, and only called the name of 'mountain ghost'.

Phew, what a mountain ghost, Lao Tzu's name is Zhang Suo, Zhang Suo of the Zhang family. ”

Zhang Suo said here while smashing everything he saw.

When the thieves outside heard the sound, they immediately rushed in, but when they saw that Kui was losing his temper and no one dared to move, he still begged them to let them go.

Seeing that Zhang Suo had lost his temper, Zhang Qiu stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Suo's hand, and apologized warmly:

"Little Er, it's my brother who can't stand you, my brother compensates you and compensates you."

Zhang Suo didn't push Zhang Qiu away this time, but his face turned to the right, pretending to be calm, but his red eyes had betrayed him.

The two sat down again, Zhang begged to change the topic, and suddenly said to Zhang Suo:

"Brother, everyone is blessed today. Yesterday there was a lame cow in the house, and the adults asked me to kill the cow and send it to the mountains. said that you have loved beef since you were a child, and Xiao Er must love to eat it.

You see, adults have always had you on their minds. In this way, I am now a good drinker, and I have brought wine, which will make the brethren in the temple happy in a moment. ”

Xu is: "My lord has always been concerned about you." These words moved Zhang Suo, and he nodded in agreement.