One hundred and sixty-four chapter papers

Zhang Hu tossed the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to the bottom, except for a limited number of fortified city guards, there was nothing to grab, so he led 100,000 rabble to the southeast again, and ran back to Ganzhou Zhongwei (Lanzhou) to temporarily entrench himself to make the next plan.

Zhang Hu, Fang Ge and Niu Youtian were all afraid of the rich Sichuan Province, but they were beaten by Sun Jie, especially Ma Qiancheng, and they were afraid to the core. Although Sun Jie is fighting with the two families of Luxury, no one can say whether this guy will suddenly turn around and vent his evil fire on his head again, and he will really not dare to go back for a while. Besides, if you want to go back to Sichuan, you have to go through Taozhou - unless you go crazy, who wants to provoke Yan Minwang again? Zhang Hu was born in the border army, and when it comes to cutting people, there are a few dozen lives under his hands, but ...... The kind of fighting style of Yan Manzi's gang is not something that his current gang can bear, so Sichuan should not worry about it for now.

There are only two roads left, north and east. To the north is Zhang Hu's lair: Ningxia Wei. It is a little similar to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, full of fortresses, and it is terribly poor. But there are differences: although the former boss Cao Xiong has been confiscated, Qiu Yue is still there! That old man is not only Zhang Hu's benefactor, but also really able to fight - Zhang Hu knows too well in his heart that Ningxia Zhuwei is not the capital of Shaanxi, Ning'an Fort, Jinji Fort, Wuzhong Fort, and Lingzhou...... After the farce of King Anhua, the court has been wantonly rectified, the defenders in every place are poor and poor, and now they are the fat sheep sent to the door in their eyes, and they can't earn anything except lose some lives if they win, and if they lose any small battle, they have to be bloodied!

So we had to go east.

To the east, there are three roads: North Road, Middle Road, and South Road. The north road is poor, and there is no oil and water left in the places where Guan Shengyun has swept, and the middle road is strong, Fengxiang Mansion, Baoji, Yixian, Xi'an Mansion, Lintong...... This road is full of officers and soldiers, and every step will encounter a bloody battle in Jiancheng, so let's take the south road: go straight to Hanzhong Mansion along Gongchang Mansion, and then see if you can have the opportunity to enter the equally rich Huguang.

The reason why Zhang Hu is in a hurry to leave and become big is because he is poor. The land in the northwest of Shaanxi Province is so barren that many places rely on blood transfusions from the imperial court to survive. Although every time you take a walled fort, you can capture a lot of food, but at the same time, you will add a lot of mouths to eat food! The vast majority of them are women, children, old and weak who can't be soldiers, so you have to support them! On the one hand, every guy who is pulled into the barracks often has a large family of waste behind him, and on the other hand, these people can at least make a strong momentum if they can't beat them, and if they can't beat them, they can be thrown down and dragged down by the pursuers. These guys used to be scattered in the stockades and could barely hang on to the bark of wild vegetables, but now they have such a big pile, where they stop for a while, they will be cut into white ground in three or five days, and then they will have to consume precious food...... That is to say, every time you take a place, you will make a small fortune, and you will make money in the first few days, but once you stay for a long time, you will start to eat Zhang Dashuai's old book.

So Zhang Hu can't stop.

There were many places to be plundered, and Zhang Hu invented a very useful method: let the scouts step on it in advance, and suddenly dispatched elite soldiers to surround the place and rob it. First kill a few unlucky ghost Liwei townspeople, and then pick out the strong ones and pull them directly to be soldiers or auxiliaries, grab things and put a fire to burn everything clean - the rest of the people, you can only follow Zhang Dashuai's old camp, otherwise you will starve to death! Zhang Hu also discovered a particularly interesting thing: when he arrived in a new place, the most fierce and ruthless robbers were often those victims not long ago! Zhang Hu realized the truth after a little pondering: the weak can only achieve psychological venting and balance by committing violence to groups weaker than themselves! If I have been harmed, and I cannot afford to provoke those who have harmed me, then no one will be happy, and let you also taste the taste of victimization!

This kind of situation, of course, was what Zhang Dashuai was most happy to see: those former "victims" who ruthlessly brandished butcher's knives against the weak fell deeper and deeper into the mire of crime, and finally could not extricate themselves - on several occasions, on the way to Gongchang Mansion, the vanguard encountered what can be called stubborn resistance at Jinxian (now Yuzhong) and Qingshuibao, and these people died on the ground. Will Zhang Dashuai feel distressed? Oh, that's weird! On the contrary, Zhang Dashuai is very happy: they are not those "own people" brought out from Sichuan, and they will die when they die...... Oh, and not only that, but the families they left behind in the old camp, the young women, were immediately divided, and the rest, mercilessly, were kicked out to fend for themselves, so as not to waste precious food in vain!

This tactic invented by Zhang Hu is indeed very useful. The guy who rushed to the front knew that his family was following in the old camp behind, and if he didn't work hard, the officer who supervised the war would not only not spare him, but would also settle accounts with them, and he would risk his life to open a way for them no matter what, and the family members who followed behind only knew all his hopes, and the pillar of the family was in front of him, so he had to keep up no matter what...... In this way, Zhang Hu does not need to waste much manpower to watch the old battalion, and can calmly send more fresh troops to the forward.

Of course, the third division of Shaanxi has already gotten the news of the thief Zhang Hu, but don't look at the fierce noise on the surface, the adults are actually not really anxious: indeed, Zhang Thief used to be a soldier in Shaanxi Province, but hasn't he been beaten by the old Qin soldiers and fled to Sichuan, who dares to say that it is wrong? You can't handle a few stragglers in Sichuan Province by yourself, do you blame Shaanxi Province? After that, they did run back to Shaanxi Province again, hehe, don't forget, is the five or six hundred first-level Gong of Yan Commander from Shaanxi Province? You just say that Taozhou Wei and Lintao Mansion are not from our Shaanxi Province! It is true that the imperial court only rewarded Li Yao and Yan for commanding, but that is because the adults of our Shaanxi Province are not greedy for merit! Twenty-level merit, isn't it only achieved by adults who strategize and praise military affairs and educate the people? After that, where did the thief run away? Hmph, Shaanxi Xingdu Division! There is a governor there, there is a line of capital division, our three divisions of Shaanxi Province are neither greedy for merit, nor overstepping their authority, but you were so like a thief into a no-man's land, and now you are running back, we have to settle accounts with your line of capital division!

Fighting such a verbal battle, the adults in Shaanxi Province are all experts, and no one is afraid! The only thing to do is to grasp all the forces that can be gathered in your hands, and strictly defend them along Weishui Baoji, Yixian, Wugong, Xingping to Xianyang Xi'an Mansion...... Anyway, no matter how bad it is, it won't be worse than Shaanxi Xingdu Division! Of course, it is best to find a way to get Zhang Thief out as soon as possible, as long as he leaves Shaanxi Province, everything will be all right - not without precedent before......

The test paper in front of Zhang Hu on what to do, the adults of the three divisions of Shaanxi Province also did it. The answer is the same: nine out of nine, the next step Zhang thief will choose to run east along the Hanzhong Mansion on the border of Sichuan and Shaanxi. As for going to Huguang or Henan, or to Shanxi, it doesn't matter, who is unlucky, as long as you don't go to Shaanxi Province and don't go to the adults to find it unpleasant.

The commander of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Mansion, Tongzhi Bao Zhicai-well, at this time, Lord Bao had already received the merit because of the huge "Qin Soldiers' Great Exercise", and was promoted from the commander of the third rank to the commander of the second rank - first cooperated with the Second Division of the Domain to send an extremely sternly worded warning to the Gongchang Mansion in the name of the Metropolitan Mansion, telling him that he was about to face the military situation of the thief going south, and at the same time issued an order without a trace that a discerning person could understand the mystery if he tasted it carefully, but it was interpreted in a purely literal and seamless manner:" With all guards, thousands, and hundreds of operators on guard, everything is in accordance with the orders of Gongchang Mansion, and every inch of the government is engaged in military law! ”

You can't fault this command no matter where it is placed, right? But if you are an old fritter official, for example, Xue Chengye, the prefect of Gongchang...... The subtext he could read was: You can mobilize all the guards in the jurisdiction, even if you drain the troops of other states and counties, it will be fine, as long as you can protect the city without loss, there will be no big incident! As for the officers of the guard, I have already told you clearly: everything is up to the prefect! Does the prefecture in this "lost government and inch of land" refer to the city of the prefecture, or any county in the entire Gongchang Prefecture in a broad sense...... Hehe, guess for yourself! Don't ask, ask is "not an inch of land can be lost!" "—Adults are right, right? As a result, Anding (now Dingxi), Huining, Ningyuan (now Wushan), and Qinzhou (Tianshui) ...... Following the most likely route of Zhang Hu's march predicted by the adults, the defenders of this line were all drawn to Gongchang Mansion City, and if Zhang Hu really came down from this road, he would have walked easily.

Then, Lord Bao raced against time to rush to Hanzhong Mansion in person, and stayed in Fengxiang Mansion for two days on the way, and made full arrangements: nearly half of the troops of Fengxiang Mansion were arranged in Baoji and Erli Pass, digging trenches and setting up hard camps, and waving flags for more than ten miles.

After arriving at Hanzhong Mansion, Lord Bao had a secret conversation with the prefect Lin Xiaojing for a long night. Subsequently, Lord Lin ordered with a black face: Xing'an Station, as well as all the garrisons east of Hanzhong Mansion, galloped to the aid of Fucheng and the defenders of Maling Pass in the starry night, and went to Dasanguan adjacent to Fengxiang Mansion to guard it, and the defeated soldiers who were temporarily placed in the area of Ningqiang Prefecture (now Ningqiang) and Chuxian (now Mian County) where Lu Guangyu was dispersed and contained, all went to Hutou Pass and Jitou Pass in the north of Hanzhong Mansion to deploy defenses - Hanzhong Mansion City, and Fengxiang Mansion in the north can be said to be impregnable, but the price is: there are no defenders on the border line between the entire southern part of Hanzhong Mansion and Sichuan Province, If Zhang Hu marches along this, it will be unimpeded!

In order to ensure the safety of Fengxiang Mansion, Lord Bao not only personally spent two days in Dasanguan when he returned, but also left more than 100 elite commanders before leaving, led by Zhao Ergou, the horse soldier who was guarded by Andong in Pingliang Mansion.

[Do you remember Zhao Ergou? ^_^】