Sanshui City was occupied by the Liukou, and even a ranger appeared outside the city of Pizhou, which frightened everyone in the city of Pizhou all day long.

In the past two months, Pizhou has been attacked by three or four waves of rogues one after another, and anyone who will be the chief official of a state is panicked.

There are only a few thousand strong men in the city who defend the city, but there are thousands of rogues.

If you really want to fight, it won't be a few days before you can break through the city of Pizhou.

The rogue broke the city, and the people of the city would suffer from the effects of war.

But most of the people are not necessarily fine, and some of them may have been killed in the riots when they entered the city, but most of them survived and were coerced by the thieves.

But for the rich and the official, the rogues hated it and almost always drove them out, with rare exceptions.

Besides, even if the rogues are willing to spare his life, how can he bear the responsibility of losing his land, and he will die left and right.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao was not ready to give up Pizhou from the beginning, not only because of Hong Chengchou's military order.

It is also because Pizhou has the functions of Pingliang Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, so naturally it cannot be easily abandoned.

As soon as Pizhou was lost, the Liukou were connected to the three prefectures again, and they could either go directly south and threaten Xingping from the north, or they could go north again to re-poison Pingliangfu.

However, when they saw the prefect of Pizhou, they were terrified, and they still had the identity of the governor, and the foreign strong cadres asked them to guard Pizhou.

Cao Wenzhao felt that if he didn't blackmail a large amount of money and food, he was sorry for the sincerity of the governor of Pizhou.

As a result, Cao Wenzhao simply revealed the lack of supplies in his army, the lack of military salaries, and the low morale.

That night, a large amount of rice, grain, fish and meat were sent to the city of Pizhou, and even a lot of silver was sent.

To be precise, it should not be called salary, it should be called consolation silver.

There is not much money for the consolation army, only more than two thousand taels in total, and it must not be much to the top of everyone's head.

However, this is just a rhetoric, and it will not really be distributed, both sides know it, and they don't let others know.

The two armies led by Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu were the main forces, and both of them were able to receive full salaries most of the time, and they were rarely lacking.

The consolation silver will be used on the family later, and raising four or five hundred family members will cost a lot of money, and many times some gray income will be needed.

Naturally, there was no deduction of rice, grain, fish and meat, all these things were distributed, and the morale of the army was much higher because of the increase in supplies.

Zuo Liangyu led the Changping army of the headquarters to continue to garrison Pizhou, although Zuo Liangyu only had more than 2,000 people under his command, but to garrison the city, these people were more than enough, after all, the Liukou had no weapons to attack the fortifications.

Cao Wenzhao led his troops to continue south, stationed in Qianzhou to cut off Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong's path to the north, just like the military order issued by Hong Chengchou.

However, Chen Wang did not follow Cao Wenzhao all the way, and Hong Chengchou's military order was for him to immediately go to Chunhua to integrate Chunhua's army and resist the attack of the Liukou.

Now it is natural that you can't go northeast to Sanshui City, and you can go south from Pizhou all the way to Qianzhou, which is more than 180 miles.

Then from the Guanzhong Plain to the north to Chunhua, there are more than 180 miles all the way, a total of 360 miles.

The march of a large army, even if there were enough supplies and auxiliaries inland to transport armaments and baggage, would only be able to march at a speed of seventy or eighty miles in one day.

And if you need to maintain your physical strength and be ready to engage in battle at any time, then the distance you need to travel in a day is reduced to forty or fifty miles.

Cold weapon combat requires a lot of physical strength, not just the power to reload and fire.

But Chen Wang doesn't need to think about these things, the only thing that needs to be considered is how to speed up.

The rogue horse army and elite cavalry turned like the wind, and the speed of the old and weak infantry team will slow down a lot.

It had been some time since the Liukou captured Sanshui, and according to the reports of the night visits, most of them were still stationed in Sanshui, and their purpose was naturally to wait for the other two ways to send letters to agree on the time of the general attack.

Li Zicheng is not a stupid person, he naturally knows that only relying on the strength of Qingyang Mansion all the way, the main force of the Ming army will be crushed, and now he is stationed in Sanshui, and at the same time divide troops to check the surrounding areas, clear the surrounding rich officials, and destroy the city defense of Sanshui.

Every time they conquered a place, they would take the opportunity to destroy the city's defenses, because they could not hold the city at all.

Even if they were able to defend the city, they would have been stationed in one place, and there would simply not be enough food to feed such a large population.

In order to survive, in order to forage for food, they must constantly wander and move.

Destroying the city defenses that captured the city could weaken the strength of the Ming army to a greater extent.

Chunhua did not surround it, and it was reported that only a small number of Liukou Ma troops were operating outside the city, posing as a threat, and the main force of its army did not step out of the sphere of influence of Sanshui City.

Li Zicheng's psychology and arrangement, Chen Wang is already a calculated seventy-seven-eighty-eight.

After receiving the military order, Chen Wang did not hesitate, and directly chose to take the order to Chunhua.

Cao Wenzhao transferred another fifty horsemen to Chen Wang from among his family.

However, these fifty cavalry were not directly given to Chen Wang, but temporarily borrowed, just as guards along the way, and later to better control the Chunhua army.

Counting Chen Gong, Hu Zhili, Hu Zhiyi, and the nine family members who originally turned to follow Chen Wang after his death, there were more than 60 people in the entourage.

Tang Shiping did not follow, he led the infantry team of the original four rounds to follow Cao Wenzhao south.

After all, there are no people who are licensed, and it is indeed difficult to control all kinds of soldiers by relying only on the seal.

There are many mountain bandits and bandits along the road, after leaving Qianzhou and entering the Guanzhong Plain, it is impossible to say that they will encounter the rogue horse army wandering around, and when entering Chunhua, they also need to face the rogue rangers.

There are many dangers along the way, and naturally they need to be guarded.

Chen Wang naturally did not refuse Cao Wenzhao's arrangement, although his martial arts belonged to the upstream, he never regarded himself as a fierce general.

After all, in this era, the role of martial arts is constantly weakening.

Even the white-armored soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor couldn't withstand the close-range bombardment of the tiger squat cannons.

Under the roar of guns, even the canned knights, dressed in the finest plate armor, will fall.

Within the range of the Hongyi cannon, all beings are equal.

Chen Wang led more than 60 cavalry to rush all the way, and the standard configuration of the family members was one person and two horses, and they turned extremely fast.

Holding the documents covered with Hong Chengchou's seal, none of the officials dared to disobey, and all of them quickly handed over supplies.

If it weren't for the fact that the post stations along the way had already been burned by the rogues who crossed the border, the speed of supply could have been faster and better.

All the way south, except for a small army of rogue horses when he left Qianzhou, Chen Wang did not encounter any other bandits.

After all, there are more than 60 murderous cavalry teams, all of them are two horses, and they are still waving the flag of the army, which thief still dares to rob it, it is not that he has eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, but that he has no brains in his head.