"Report to the commander-in-chief, there are traces of thieves in front, and the number is about 100,000."

A herald knelt in front of Niu Jizong.

There was a woman sitting in Niu Jizong's arms, which he snatched yesterday in Shuijun Town, California, Niu Jizong's pair of thick black hands formed a stark contrast with the woman's snow-white and smooth skin.

"Wine." Niu Jizong shouted loudly.

The woman didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly fed the wine glass in her hand to Niu Jizong's mouth, Niu Jizong took a big mouthful, and drank the wine in the wine bowl cleanly, "Haha, cool!" ”

Outside the camp tent, many soldiers set up wooden frames to hold a barbecue meeting, and the entire barracks was filled with smoke and fire.

There are all kinds of animals roasted on the wooden frame, chickens, ducks and geese, pigs, cattle and sheep, these are all searched out from the villagers' homes, and the people who roast meat for them are also some of the old, weak, sick and disabled who are not clothed, these were originally the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty under Fangshan County, they escaped the sweep of the slaves the year before last, and escaped the cleaning of the day, but they did not expect to be searched out by the imperial soldiers and horses, and were forced to become slaves.

Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates.

Officers and soldiers will not only rob the people's property, but also kill the good and brave the merits, cut off the heads of young and strong, and then declare to the court that this is a thief who has been killed, this kind of thing is not uncommon, and has even become the unspoken rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty army.

Therefore, wherever the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty went, the people were all fearless like tigers, and those who ran fast had long since hid in the mountains, leaving some old, weak, sick and disabled women with nowhere to run, so they could only wait for death at home.

After Niu Jizong listened to the herald's report, he didn't take it seriously, took a sip of incense in the shoulder socket of the woman in his arms, and said: "The rogue is the rogue, I am afraid of my Jingying, and we are chasing him like a lost dog, and he is not in a hurry to eliminate, and he will talk about it for two days." ”

Sitting at the bottom is Wang Ren, the head of the Shenji Battalion, who is the eldest son of Wang Ziteng and Wang Xifeng's own brother.

It's just that this person has a poor character, after the fall of Jiafu, Wang Ren actually sold his niece Sister Qiao to a brothel, if it wasn't for Grandma Liu's rescue, Sister Qiao's fate would have been to live a miserable life in Fireworks Willow Lane.

At this moment, Wang Ren laughed wildly, and said with a shy face: "General Niu is smart, although we belong to the Beijing camp, we are trapped in the capital all day long, and our military merits are not ours, and we rely on that salary every day, and the court treats us as Huazi, and that salary is not enough to even visit the kiln, how can we be happy now." ”

The Shenji Battalion has been out of the capital, looting all the way, and doing a lot of evil things, the supervising army in the Beijing camp is Gao Qiqian, in the face of the misdeeds of this group of old soldiers in the Beijing camp, Gao Qiqian chose to turn a blind eye and did not interfere.

Gao Qiqian was resting in his tent, and he scavenged a lot of people's fat and ointment along the way, and Gao Qiqian alone divided more than 1,000 taels of silver, and Gao Qiqian and others didn't care about the life and death of ordinary people at all.

In the eyes of Niu Jizong, Wang Ren, and Gao Qiqian, they didn't treat ordinary people as human beings at all.

Niu Jizong squinted his eyes slightly, his hand reached into the woman's arms, the woman's face was flushed, but she didn't dare to squeak, for fear of angering the other party, her predecessor was because she caught Niu Jizong, and Niu Jizong rewarded his subordinate soldiers on the grounds of not wasting it, and it took three days before he died, and he was thrown directly into the wild after death, and let the beast bite him.

The woman forced a smile, how awkward it looked, fortunately, Niu Jizong's attention was not at all in her god flower girl, "But we can't have no record, and we can't say it when the time comes, so you let the Chinese army and the right outpost, send two thousand people, cut off some heads, and then it will be easy to make a difference." ”

Wang Ren praised: "General Niu is mighty, those rogue gangsters will be scared when they see our Shenji Battalion, and they will never dare to fight, to be honest, I want to kill the two thieves myself, this hand is itchy." ”

Niu Jizong patted the woman's buttocks and laughed: "Pour the wine quickly, I want to drink another 300 cups from Brother Wang!" ”

On the other side, Zhou Tianyi's sentry cavalry came to report, saying that the officers and troops from the northwest had sent troops to fight.

Zhou Tianyi had been in the border army for a long time and understood the importance of sentry cavalry, so he selected a dozen clever boys among the refugees, trained them a little, and sent them out to guard posts.

The sentinels or spies in the Liaodong border defense army of the Great Zhou Dynasty were called "night no-collection", and these night-no-no-nos could go deep into the enemy's territory to conduct reconnaissance activities, and the elite of the non-border army could not be used.

Zhou Tianyi himself can't meet the standard of not collecting at night, but it is very good for ordinary homeless people to have this awareness.

"Lord Zhou, the officers and soldiers are twenty miles away from the northeast, marching along the official road, but they are not much stronger than us, burning and looting all the way, and the speed of the march is not fast, it is estimated that they will arrive in the afternoon."

This sentry was more than six feet tall, relatively thin, with two dark eyes, very agile, and a natural scout.

Zhou Tianyi frowned and said: "Since the uprising, I haven't fought with the official army, and it's not a way to run away like this, what do you think?" ”

He asked about the two thousand households under him, the left thousand households were called Chu Fei, who were authentic people from the capital, but they did not live in the city, but in a farm not far from the city.

When the rebel army broke through Gejiazhuang, he also played with one of Ge Yuetai's concubines.

The right thousand households are called Yan Xiaoer, this person is not simple, he is Ge Yuetai's nursing home, a military household who fled from Xuanda, and later came to Gejiazhuang, because Ge Yuetai recruited nursing homes, he lived in Gejiazhuang, don't look at Yan Xiaoer's name is inconspicuous, but he is an elite night not to collect.

Gejiazhuang was broken, Yan Xiaoer took advantage of the situation and followed the mob to bring down the old club.

Chu Fei shouted: "The officials don't care if we live or die, and now they still want our lives, then fight!" ”

There are many people who have the same idea as Chu Fei, and Xu Housheng is one of them.

Zhou Tianyi asked Yan Xiaoer again, "Commander Yan, what do you think?" ”

Yan Xiaoer pondered for a moment and said: "Fight still has to be fought, the military camp of the Great Zhou is erosive, although the equipment is better than ours, but the training is negligent, of course, this is just the situation I saw when I was in Xuanda, what kind of regulations the Beijing camp is, you have to fight to know." ”

Zhou Tian nodded, and Yan Xiaoer's answer was not leaky, because he was such a cautious person.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on themselves, Zhou Tianyi: "This is our first battle with the official army, although it is important, but it is not necessary to win, the main purpose is to see how the combat effectiveness of the official army is."

Two commanders, which of you is willing to be the vanguard in this battle? ”

Chu Fei got up suddenly, clenched his fists and said: "Guests are free to host, I am from the capital, I am familiar with the surrounding terrain, I am willing to fight!" ”

"Good!" Zhou Tianyi was very satisfied with Chu Fei's performance, he took out a pennant from the flag box, "You lead 2,000 men, remember, it doesn't matter if you can't fight, the most important thing is to preserve your strength, if the officers and soldiers are powerful, protect yourself first, and I and Yan Tonghui will answer you later." ”

Niu Jizong brought more than 6,000 horses this time, in addition to auxiliary soldiers, baggage soldiers, and gang soldiers, there were 5,600 soldiers, including 3,200 infantry and 2,400 cavalry.

The Shenji Battalion has five armies, a total of sixteen divisions.

Wei Ruolan is in the Fourth Division of the Chinese Army, and she is also among the bandits on this expedition.

As the commander of the fourth division, Wei Ruolan rode a horse, and his command was also cavalry, but Niu Jizong looked down on the liukou, and only dispatched the cavalry of one of their divisions, with only 200 people.

However, 200 cavalry is enough, there is a saying that one cavalry is a thousand, which is the gap between cavalry and infantry, although it is not so exaggerated, but a cavalry on horseback has no problem against ten infantry.

"How many enemies are there?"

Wei Ruolan's cavalry was fast, and they had already left behind the more than 1,000 infantry at the right post.

Ye Bushu replied: "The number of people should be more than two thousand, but they are all peasants, unclothed, and some of them are carrying sticks. ”

Wei Ruolan was also speechless, and at the same time, a strong sense of superiority surged in her heart, "Brothers, the opportunity for meritorious service has arrived, everyone will cut off the heads of more thieves, this time we will also have military promotion!" ”

The cavalry behind Wei Ruolan raised their spears and let out a strange scream.

Twenty minutes later, Ye Bushu rode back again, and the horses were followed by a dozen thieves, and behind the thieves were peasants all over the mountains, dressed in colorful clothes, some men and some women, in a strange shape.