With the arrival of Changbai, Gu Er left all the stalls in the rear behind, concentrated on the front-line war, joined forces with the rest of the imperial court soldiers and horses, surrounded Haozhou for seven days, and sent the cavalry of the headquarters to set up an ambush on the road that must be passed, and came to an old routine that had been used in Luzhou.

However, the thief was eager to save Haozhou, knowing that there might be an ambush on the road, but he had to save it.

Haozhou is the place where the anti-thieves started to fight, and there are more than 10,000 anti-thieves in Haozhou City, and nearly half of them are the veterans who followed the anti-thieves at the earliest, and they are the elite of the anti-thieves.

Previously, the thieves were defeated in Dingyuan and Zhongli, and they lost more than 10,000 people one after another, and the losses were not heavy.

More than 10,000 people in Haozhou City, some of them stayed in Haozhou to resist the official army, and some of them were the defeated troops who fled to Haozhou after the defeat of Dingyuan and Zhongli, and the remaining recruits were Maitreya believers who had just joined the anti-thief team after being bewitched by the Maitreya Sect.

Gu Er thought that Haozhou, which had become a lonely city, could go down, but he didn't want to be under Haozhou City, and encountered unprecedented strong resistance.

Each of them had a pattern painted with some kind of paint on their faces, and they wore yellow scarves tied to their heads, shouting in their mouths, "Maitreya has come to the world, and all living beings have been purified!" The slogan, who rushed to the officers and soldiers without fear of death, was pierced through the body by a spear and spear, and shouted with a hideous face and stabbed the blade in his hand at the officers and soldiers.

According to the information that his scouts came back, there are several high-ranking members of the Maitreya Sect in Haozhou City, and those anti-thieves who are not afraid of death are the guardians of the Maitreya Sect, all of whom are carefully selected elite disciples, blessed by the light of Maitreya Buddha, and can enter the Elysium and vacuum their hometown after death.

Gu Er led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses from the headquarters, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers from other prefectures and counties, fought hard under the city of Haozhou for seven days, losing thousands of men and horses, and climbed the city many times, but they were all driven down by those thieves who were not afraid of death.

However, the anti-thief teams near Haozhou were swept away by the official army, or became prisoners, or fled into the city of Haozhou, only a few escaped into the mountains and forests, and did not know where to flee.

Haozhou couldn't be attacked for a long time, Gu Er simply stopped fighting, let the thieves occupy the city, and only led people to move all the surrounding people into the territory of Dingyuan and Zhongli counties, cut off all the roads leading to Shouzhou, cut off the news of Haozhou and Shouzhou, and quietly sent people to Shouzhou to spread the news, saying that the imperial army had arrived, and Haozhou City was in danger and could be broken soon.

Gu Er has never liked to play cards according to common sense, since he can't gnaw on the hard bones of Haozhou City for the time being, he simply came up with some conspiracy and tricks to give this gang of thieves a taste.

Gu Er was sure that the rebels would never give up the five or six thousand elites in Haozhou City, and sure enough, the rebels in Shouzhou no longer expanded their territory around, but mobilized soldiers and horses, divided into three routes, and headed towards Haozhou.

Dingyuan County Ya, Changbai, who had already begun to grow beards, was dressed in a green official uniform, embroidered with emu, sitting behind a bookcase full of official documents, carefully reviewing, and from time to time picking up a pen to annotate.

"Xianggong!" The close-fitting sweat cow walked in quickly and said hello.

"What?" Changbai didn't raise his head, and asked directly.

Khan Niu said: "General Gu sent someone back a group of people, the villain asked, they are all people from the left side of Haozhou, about 3,000 people, most of them are women and children, old and weak, and few are young and strong!" ”

Changbai thought for a moment and said, "Isn't the temporary military camp on the edge of the Yao River empty?" Put people there first! As for the grain and grass, I will allocate 200 stone first! ”

As he spoke, Changbai suddenly raised his head and looked at the sweat cow: "For the matter of grain and grass, you go in person, bring the personal soldiers left by Zhong Huai, if anyone dares to deduct the greedy ink, it will be punished according to the collusion with the thief." ”

"No!"

Khan Niu gave up his hand and took the handwritten letter of Changbai with the big seal of the county and left directly.

Time passed minute by minute, Changbai looked out the window, the sunlight was already a little dim, walked out of the room, stretched his waist, raised his eyes to look at the fireball that was already waning, and squinted his eyes by the dazzling sunlight.

"Xianggong! Master Youyang is here, and he has been waiting in the front hall for a while! ”

"Uncle Vida?" Changbai immediately glared at the sweat cow: "Why didn't you say it earlier!" ”

Han Niu hurriedly saluted and explained: "It was the eldest lord who heard that the prime minister was handling official business, and he was not allowed to make a small report, so as not to disturb the prime minister!" ”

"In the future, Uncle Wei will report as soon as he comes, and next time, he will go and get the board himself!"

"The little one knows it's wrong!" Khan Niu didn't defend himself, and admitted his mistake as soon as possible, saying that he would never do it again.

Changbai didn't chase after him, but asked as he walked out, "Uncle alone?" ”

"And the eldest son!" Sweat Cow Road.

Changbai nodded, and couldn't help but speed up a little.

came to the front hall, saw Sheng Wei, and after saluting, exchanged a few words, Changbai also began to ask Sheng Wei's intention: "I don't know why Uncle Wei came?" ”

Sheng Wei said: "It's not for you Brother Changwu!" I wanted him to follow Zihou to Quanzhou and find an errand to do, but I didn't want this evil obstacle to run back by himself, saying that he was going to the front line to join the army and kill thieves to serve the country! also asked Zihou for a letter recommendation sticker, and he wanted to go to the Wuwei Army. ”

Sheng Wei sighed, and said helplessly: "I can't resist him, I can only obey his wishes, it just so happens that your father wrote to say that he had found an errand in Ningyuan Zhixian for you, so I thought of stopping by to see you!" ”

"Thank you Uncle for your concern." Although Changbai has entered the office, as a self-patriarch, in front of Sheng Wei, Changbai still behaves as before, respectfully.

"The battlefield is dangerous, Brother Wu really wants to go to the front line?" Changbai frowned slightly and looked at Changwu.

Changwu said: "The man's husband, if you can't protect your family and defend the country, you can make meritorious contributions!" Wouldn't it be a waste of this martial art? ”

Changbai looked at Sheng Wei, and Sheng Wei's eyes were full of reluctance.

Changbai immediately understood why Sheng Wei wanted to run this trip in person, why he wanted to come to find himself first, instead of letting Changwu go directly to Gu Er.

In an instant, Changbai had an idea in his heart: "Now the front-line war has fallen into a stalemate, the officers and troops have attacked Haozhou for seven days in succession, and the soldiers have been defeated, and the losses have been heavy, but they still failed to break through Haozhou, according to the battle report from the front, the anti-thieves in Haozhou City are all the elite of the Maitreya Sect, all of them are not afraid of death, they are very brave, and they still insist on rushing and killing with knives and axes, and their morale is strong, and they even beat our army.

Although Brother Wu has martial arts, but he has never been on the battlefield, the battlefield is changing, swords and guns have no eyes, if you go directly to the front line at this time, if you can make war achievements, it is fine, but if you encounter danger, or lose your life, Brother Wu has considered Uncle Wei and Uncle Wei? Brother Wu just got married last year, have you ever considered the sister-in-law who just entered the door at home? ”

"That's true!" Changwu's expression changed slightly at first, but he quickly turned firm and said straightforwardly: "Since I have decided to join the army, I am ready to die!" Since I decided to go to the front line, I have long been mentally prepared to pin my head to the waistband of my trousers. ”

Changbai looked at Changwu and couldn't help but be a little moved, but then looked at Sheng Wei with a helpless face, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"It's just that the war ahead is stalemate now, if you go alone, it's easy to run into thieves, just a few days later, a batch of grain and grass will be sent to the front line, it is sent to the Wuwei army, how about Brother Wu go with the army at that time?"

"That's great!" Changwu smiled and thanked Changbai.

Changbai said: "It's all my own family, so I don't need to say these words." ”

"In the past few days, I have wronged my uncle and brother, and I will live here for the time being!"

It was night, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and the bright moon was hanging high.

Sheng Wei couldn't sleep left and right, and after watching the light in his son's room go out, he quietly put on his coat and walked out of the room.

"Big Master!" Khan Niu bowed respectfully.

"Sweat cow? Why are you here? Sheng Wei was very surprised.

Khan Niu said: "Xianggong specially ordered the little one to wait here for the big master!" ”

"Is it Bo'er?" Sheng Wei was very surprised.

"Master, please take a step to speak!" Khan Niu pulled Sheng Wei aside and said, "Xianggong specially sent me to pass the word, please rest assured, Xianggong knows the concerns of the eldest master, and has already thought of countermeasures." ”

Sheng Wei couldn't wait to ask, "What countermeasures?" ”

"Presumably, the eldest lord also knows that our Xianggong and General Gu are close friends, and after dinner, Xianggong has already sent a letter to General Gu, and sent someone to General Gu's place overnight, and in a few days, when Wu Gongzi goes to General Gu's account, General Gu will arrange it properly."

"It's just that in the past few days, the lord must not let Wu Gongzi see the clues!"

"It's nature, it's nature!"

Three days later, Changwu set off with the soldiers and horses escorting grain and grass.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Gu Er looked at Changwu, who was somewhat similar to Changbai, and asked: "Although Brother Changwu is Zecheng's cousin and has been recommended by Zihou, but the army is not elsewhere, I don't know what skills Brother Changwu has?" ”

Since he was a child, Changwu followed Sheng Wei and invited the martial artists back home to practice gun and stick shooting, and then followed the teaching to read the military book and passed the martial arts test.

"So, Brother Changwu has never been on the battlefield and has never led a soldier?" Gu Er pinched his chin, revealing an embarrassed expression.

Changwu was stunned for a moment, and then arched his hand: "It is true that I have never been on the battlefield, and I have never led a soldier." ”

Gu Er asked again: "Have you ever had the experience of fighting?" ”

Changwu said: "When Zihou took Minglan's sister to Quanzhou at the beginning of the year, he encountered a rogue in Jinling, and I killed a few rogue with Zihou at that time. ”

This is Changwu's only record.

Gu Er said, "That's not easy!" The Changwu brothers have no fame, and they have no experience in leading troops to fight, if they rush to a high position, I am afraid that the generals and soldiers in the army will not be convinced! ”

"Zihou has already made it clear to me when he came, even if he is a big soldier, it doesn't hurt!" Changwu said calmly.

"Brother Changwu Wen Taowuluo, wouldn't he be wronged if he was only a big-headed soldier." Gu Er pondered, pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, Brother Changwu might as well go to Houying first, and temporarily follow General Ruan, who is responsible for escorting grain and grass supplies, how about being a leader?" ”

"Huh? Escorting grain and grass? Changwu looked at Gu Er with some puzzlement.

Gu Er said: "Brother Changwu has read the book of soldiers, I don't know if you have heard of 'the three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first'?" ”

"Of course I've heard of it!"

Gu Erdao: "This is leading the troops to fight, the supply of grain and grass is the top priority, if the soldiers are hungry, how can they have the strength to fight with the thieves, Brother Changwu thinks, is the grain and grass important?" ”

Changwu said with a serious face: "Nature is important." ”

Gu Erdao: "A few days ago, I have ordered to implement the policy of clearing the wilderness near the left side of Haozhou, and move all the people to Dingyuan, just to trap the thieves in Haozhou City, but there are tens of thousands of thieves in Shouzhou, if they know the news, they will inevitably come to the rescue, and the thieves will inevitably send soldiers and horses to attack our army's grain road." ”

"Brother Changwu, do you dare to take on such a heavy responsibility?"

"Why don't you dare!" Changwu immediately held his head high and replied loudly.

"Good! Whether my thousands of soldiers can fill their stomachs and defeat the rebels depends on the Changwu brothers! Gu Er also applauded loudly, and called to the side: "Stone, take Brother Changwu to find General Ruan!" ”

"Subordinates take orders!"

The stone next to the pestle immediately replied, and then led Changwu away, and not long after, the stone in military uniform ran back.

"General, I guess I can't sleep tonight!" Stone said with a smile on his face.

Gu Er glanced at a stone: "Can you fall asleep?" Haozhou City can't be beaten, can you sleep? ”

"Aren't we not strong enough! There are 10,000 people in Haozhou City, even now, there are seven or eight thousand, isn't it said in the Art of War, ten rules surround it, just our people, bullying and bullying those rabble, but those anti-thief elites in the city are really not easy to fight! ”

"Yo! Do you still know the art of war? Why don't I let you do it? Gu Er said angrily.

Shi hurriedly waved his hand again and again: "The general said that he laughed, how can I have the ability to do the command." ”

"Hey!" Gu Er sighed, looked at the map on the table and said, "Tell me, the anti-thief soldiers came to save Haozhou in three ways, which way should we eat first?" ”

"If you want me to say, let's pick the soft pinch of persimmons first!" Shi suggested: "With the reinforcements that have come from Dingyuan in the past few days, there are more than 3,000 people under our hands, we just want to gnaw hard bones, and we don't have that strength!" ”

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the elite of the Wuwei Army were all buried by the former commander Xie Bingde with one move, and now these horses and horses are still put together by Gu Er in the past half a year before they are pulled up again, and more importantly, the ordnance in the hands of the Wuwei Army led by Xie Bingde at the beginning has also fallen into the hands of the anti-thieves, and they have become accomplices in the anti-thieves' attack on the city and the rapid expansion of the results.

Now that more than half a year has passed, although Gu Er is steadily fighting and is about to recover the entire territory of Haozhou, the thieves who should have been a rabble have gradually transformed in the wars again and again, and those young men who had only held hoes and firewood knives before have gradually grown into veterans who have experienced a hundred battles.

"Then let's eat the south side first!" Gu Er's gaze fell on the map and asked, "Does the scout have a reply?" Where did the South Road Bandit Army go? ”

Shi said: "Two hours ago, there were only forty miles left from Xihaoshui, and with the speed of the rebels, they will definitely be able to reach Xihaoshui by this evening." ”

(End of chapter)