Three days later, Zhuang Shaoyou led an army of 15,000 troops, 10,000 infantry, Huang Zhong and Wen Ping each led 5,000, and Tai Shici led 5,000 iron cavalry.

The army went all the way east into the territory of Juye County, and then took the boat of the Second Brigade of the Navy Division to the east and went up the Wenshui River to the south of Fenggao County, the seat of Taishan County.

At the same time, Zhuang Shaoyou's general order was passed to all counties and counties in Qingyan Prefecture, and for a while, Qingyanzhou was in a commotion, this Zhuang Shaoyou was really powerful, and he actually rebelled against the army!

Haoqiang in the Qingyan area borrowed a knife to kill people, drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, was soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, forcing Zhuang Shaoyou to be in a dilemma;

But Zhuang Shaoyou also made a move to use his own way, and he also gave his body, soft on the inside and strong on the outside, and he beat Qing Yanhao and vomited blood!

For a while, Qingyanzhou Haoqiang was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say what he was suffering from! Some people don't want to contribute, but now the situation is clear, if anyone does not send troops, it is to disobey the general's order, and Zhuang Shaoyou will definitely find trouble for him when he turns back, but all the heroes and strongmen are still waiting and waiting to see and pass the buck to each other.

Zhuang Shaoyou received the news and sneered, do these miscellaneous fish think that General Ben can't cure you? Immediately, more than ten military orders were drawn up, ordering the three counties and counties of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou near Mount Tai to send troops, naming names and indicating the date, number and place of sending troops.

What is the crime of neglecting the army and mistaking the army? Capital crime!

Moreover, it is very strange that the people who received Zhuang Shaoyou's military orders were all small princes, and none of the big princes were there! Everyone smelled something special in it, and one by one they finally couldn't hold it back and began to move.

But there are always exceptions to everything, and there are always people who are not afraid of death, such as Dongping Country of the Ono ** Department.

Onozawa has a radius of 800 li, mainly including the western part of Dongping Province, the southeastern part of Dong-gun, the northeast of Jiyin County, and the northwest of Sanyo-gun. Seventy percent of the territory of Dongping Country (County) is Onozawa, and for a long time, Onozawa has been under the control of water thieves, so Dongping Country exists in name only, and what is even worse is that Dongping Country Capital Shouzhang is located in the north of Daye**, and the Minister of State (Taishou) can govern the place of governance, of course, it is very aggrieved!

After Zhuang Shaoyou took over Onozawa, he did not mean to return it to Dongpingguo, and Dongping Guoxiang had many complaints about this, and Dongping Guoxiang took refuge in the Yuan family, and was secretly sent by Shanyang County to guard Yuan's legacy.

After receiving Zhuang Shaoyou's military order this time, Dongping hesitated again and again, but decided to listen to the background first, and as a result, Yuan Yi instructed him to wait and see what happened.

Zi said: The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop!

On the night of October 26, Tai Shi Ci led 5,000 iron cavalry to raid Shouzhang, the capital of Dongping State, and captured the Prime Minister of Dongping. There are a lot of crimes, and they are lazy in political affairs, and there is a military order for snubbing in the township!

When the news came out, the three states shook!

Sure enough, it's an example of killing chickens and monkeys, no! Kill the monkey police chicken!

Those Haoqiang, who were still lucky, no longer dared to slack off, and contributed according to Zhuang Shaoyou's instructions! Even the Taishou of Langya County, Xuzhou, also sent 500 soldiers to the southeast foot of Mount Tai.

Zhuang Shaoyou stayed in Shouzhang for a day, sorted out the government affairs, and directly assigned Dongping Kingdom to Juye County, handed it over to Juye County Taishou Xun Yu to take care of, and immediately drafted a military order, this time it was given to the great princes of the Qingyan region, including Shanyang County Shou Yuan Yi and Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai!

Then the troops were divided into two routes, Zhuang Shaoyou led the infantry to the east along the Wenshui by boat, while Tai Shici led the cavalry by land.

On 28 October, the whole army arrived at Fenggao County.

At the same time, news came from the Intelligence Department that Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin had sent troops!

Zhuang Shaoyou was a little surprised when he inquired, and a little happy, he finally had a strong ally! Zhuang Shaoyou was not the only one who was surprised, Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai and Shanyang Taishou Yuan also pondered for a long time when they heard the news, convened their subordinates to discuss for a long time, and finally decided to send troops!

For a time, the clouds in Sanzhou moved, and the eight counties of Qing, Yan and Xu sent a total of 30,000 troops, known as 100,000 troops, to jointly conquer the Taishan thieves.

Zhuang Shaoyou heard the news, but he was not surprised, and he didn't expect them to help anything! People like Yuan Yi and Liu Dai who have already made enemies are thankful if they don't put cold arrows behind their backs, and they still expect them to be able to suppress bandits?

However, Zhuang Shaoyou had already expected this, and the reason for pulling them to send troops was to make a big noise, so that the court knew that General Zhuang was working very hard here, and the revival of the army in the winter moved the people, and if there was nothing to do in the future, don't keep chirping crookedly, everyone tacitly does it, why do you keep mentioning him?

In addition to this, there is another purpose, of course, to send troops to consume military rations! Especially in winter, when troops are dispatched, the food consumption is called a big one! Zhuang Shaoyou has a deep understanding of this! A soldier consumes an average of two and a half liters of grain a day! Zhuang Shaoyou can't bear this a little, 15,000 troops, people eat horses and feed 1,500 grains a day! Half of the feed is fed to horses!

The situation of the other princes is naturally unknown, although the number of troops they send is not large, but their own strength is weak, seeing the rapid consumption of their families, everyone is in pain to death, but no one dares to withdraw first, if the food itself is not enough, if it annoys Zhuang Shaoyou, the consequences are unimaginable!

But there are policies and countermeasures, and this has been the case since ancient times!

After the princes were ordered to send their troops, they refused to move, and found a warm place to camp directly, except for a small number of patrolling sentry posts, most of the soldiers received the same order: sleep! It's okay, don't move! Those who run around will not be given food!

As a result, a strange scene was displayed around Mount Tai, and tens of thousands of troops hibernated in front of Mount Tai!

Zhuang Shaoyou has also heard of it, but he laughed at it, hibernate and hibernate, let them test it well, if they can really evolve this skill, it will also be a great contribution to mankind! In the future, we will promote it so that humans can hibernate in winter! In the future, the consumption in winter will be much smaller! Energy efficient and environmentally friendly, why not?

Fenggao County, Zhuang Shaoyou lived for five days, and Zhuang Shaoyou did not make any big moves in these five days, and he was like that group of small princes, letting his soldiers rest and recuperate, of course, there was no rule that they were not allowed to move, and there was no restriction on rations.

In the past five days, Zhuang Shaoyou ordered the Second Brigade of the Navy Division to transport 100,000 pieces of grain and countless military supplies from Juye County before the freeze, which was enough for the army to spend extravagantly for more than two months, putting on the appearance of fighting a protracted war.

On the third day of November, the first snow of the year came, the northern land was vast, the Yellow River valley and Liaodong had been completely frozen, and the cross-sea trade had also stopped.

However, the construction of Liaonan County, Juye County, and Puyang in East County has been in full swing.

The snow didn't fall much and didn't last long, it only lasted a day before it stopped, and less than an inch of snow accumulated on the streets of the county town.

Two days later, a county order came to report that a town forty miles west of the county seat had been sacked, and thousands of its inhabitants had been slaughtered. Zhuang Shaoyou heard the news and started the case, it was too much!

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhuang Shaoyou ordered Tai Shici to lead his troops to the place of the incident and act cautiously.

At night, Zhuang Shaoyou received a report from Tai Shi Ci that the bandits had fled north, and Tai Shi Ci was leading his troops to pursue. Zhuang Shaoyou pondered in his heart, although Tai Shici is belligerent, he is not a reckless person, otherwise Zhuang Shaoyou will definitely not let him deal with this matter alone, there will be no big problem in the future, five thousand well-equipped iron horses, even if they encounter a large number of bandits, they have the power to fight!

Zhuang Shaoyou didn't care too much, but Xun Yu suddenly said: "General, Taishan County is located in the hinterland of Mount Tai, surrounded by a group of thieves, the population of Fenggao City is only 30,000, the defenders are less than 2,000, and the combat effectiveness is impossible to talk about, but it can survive alone in this group of wolves' den so far, this matter is quite incomprehensible!" ”

When Zhuang Shaoyou heard this, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he began to think.

There was nothing to do overnight, and the next day, Zhuang Shaoyou received news that the county seat of Yingxian County, fifty miles northeast of Fenggao City, was captured by bandits! As soon as he received the news, Zhuang Shaoyou made a decision and personally led the soldiers of the three brigades to Mu County, leaving only one infantry brigade under the command of Wen Ping in Fenggao County.

On the sixth day of October, Fenggaocheng.

Fenggao City is located at the intersection of Muwen Water and Gradually Wenshui in the upper reaches of Wenshui, the county seat is surrounded by water on three sides, the terrain is not bad, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the city wall is only one zhang high, it is easy to climb. The rivers around the county have been frozen for three days, and occasionally people walk back and forth on them.

Zhuang Shaoyou's army set off at noon, and now five hours have passed. The night was deep, the weather was cold, and the people fell asleep early.

The four gates of Fenggao City were closed, and Zhuang Shaoyou had already taken over the garrison of the four gates when he entered the city, and the garrison in the city had been driven to a military camp in the city. Now there are only Wen Ping and an infantry brigade in the city, but this brigade is the elite of the first division, and it originally belonged to the Luoyang Tiger Army!

Each of the four gates was garrisoned by a battalion, and Wen Ping sat in the middle of the city, holding a battalion of reserves in his hands, ready to deal with any contingencies.

The soldiers at the head of the city are even sparser than usual, and they are cold and snowy, why are they patrolling so diligently?

As soon as the hour arrived, the moonlight dimmed a little, and a large number of black figures were pressed two miles north of the city, silently, quietly wading through the ice.

A quarter of an hour later, there were several muffled "poofs" outside the north gate, and the trap worked!

The patrol soldiers at the head of the city immediately discovered the movement, and immediately sounded the gong to warn, and for a time the gate barracks in the north of the city were in a commotion, and a group of soldiers quickly rushed to the city, and a loud signal arrow rose into the air.

In the barracks to which Taishan County Taishou belonged, Wen Ping personally led 500 soldiers, pushing 50 crossbow carts, and suppressed nearly 2,000 soldiers inside.

The battle at the head of the city in the north of the city was fierce, and the bandits below climbed the city with hooks and locks, and the one-zhang high city wall looked a little thin, and the five hundred defenders at the head of the city struggled to resist.

The battalion commander slashed down a bandit who had climbed up to the top of the city with a sword, and shouted: "Brothers, hold on!" Reinforcements are coming soon! Our battalion is the first to participate in the war since the restructuring, this is a godsend, after this battle, our battalion will also be promoted one level ahead of the brother troops, kill! ”

With the words of the captain, the morale of the soldiers at the head of the city suddenly rose, after the restructuring, all the soldiers were first-class soldiers, and everyone was eager to try, counting on the promotion of their exploits after the war, although the group of bandits in front of them was extremely vicious, but the weapons and equipment were relatively simple, and they were much worse than the previous Yuan Shaojun, the opportunity was rare, cut people well, and then upgrade to a level first!