"Report, reinforcements have come from Wuchang City."

A rogue scout ran in front of the Eight Great Kings (Zhang Xianzhong): "Wuchang City is not easy to fight, but now that reinforcements have come, it will be even more difficult for our army to capture it." ”

The Eight Kings frowned.

That's it, in a big city like Wuchang, he actually didn't think that he had to take it down, even if he couldn't beat it, it would be more cost-effective to fight some easy bones to gnaw.

While he was thinking about where to go, a middle-aged man walked in from outside.

The eight kings fixed their eyes and saw that it was Jin Shang and Zhai Tang.

Zhai Tang and the Eight Kings are also old friends, and a few years ago, after the Jin merchants were cut off from the trade routes to the north, they have been trading with the Liukou army. The Jin merchants don't care who the boss is on the side of the Liukou, it doesn't matter if you are the king or the eight kings, whoever has the money to buy things, they will do business with whom.

Since King Chuang went to Sichuan, and it was inconvenient for Jin merchants to contact King Chuang, they sold a large number of materials to the Eight Kings.

Seeing that the expression on Zhai Tang's face was not very good-looking, the Eight Kings couldn't help but wonder: "Mr. Zhai, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhai Tang said in a deep voice: "The situation is not very good. ”

Eight Kings: "? ”

Zhai Tang: "We found a large number of moving firecrackers in Henan. ”

"Mass movements? How big is it? The Eight Kings smiled and said, "Is there an army of 150,000 with me?" ”

Zhai Tang: "That's not true, but ...... I'm afraid there are only 30,000 of them. ”

He also said more conservatively, in fact, the total number of the North Route Army in Gaojia Village was 35,000, plus the logistics troops, at least more than 40,000, but Zhai Tang couldn't reconnoiter so carefully, and he could only judge the number by looking at the dust from a distance.

The expression on the face of the Eight Kings stiffened slightly: "Thirty thousand? ”

He knew what 30,000 firecrackers meant!

Of his own 150,000 troops, half of them are the families of the rogues, the number of the old and weak, the women and children who are all brought out with the team, and the number of real combatable soldiers is at most 70,000. And the opponent's 30,000 firecrackers, that is, 30,000, there is no water.

With his 70,000 troops, it is absolutely impossible to deal with 30,000 firecrackers.

The Eight Kings: "Coming at me?" ”

Zhai Tang: "Very likely! They have dispersed their army and opened a huge net, so that my stronghold in Henan can only flee south. ”

The big net spread by Gaojia Village was originally just to catch the rogues. It's not going to be good if you run into a caravan or something.

But Jin Shang himself is a thief......

Seeing the fire soldiers from Gaojia Village coming, they thought they were coming to pack up their own, so they hurriedly rolled up their bunks and fled south, they had many industries in Henan, and there were still many goods in the warehouse, and now they could only be transported to Huguanglai.

Zhai Tang: "Actually, recently, my people have also asked the origin of that group of people from the mouths of ordinary people. ”

The Eight Kings: "Oh? Where did it come from? ”

Zhai Tang said: "They are from Shaanxi, and they are followers of a sect called 'Dao Xuan Tianzun Sect'. This sect is very similar to the White Lotus Sect, they use the immortal 'Dao Xuan Tianzun' to coax the common people to become their followers, and then organize the believers and form an army. ”

Eight Kings: "Fuck, then they should be rebels like us, why do they keep staring at us?" ”

Zhai Tang snorted and said, "If you want to eat black, eat us first, and then go and eat the court." Hundreds of years ago, the Red Turban Army rebelled, and the rebels ate against each other, small fish ate big fish, and Zhu Yuanzhang ate himself into a kun and then went to eat the Yuan Dynasty. ”

The Eight Kings gritted their teeth: "Damn it! ”

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At this moment, behind the Eight Kings, a person dressed as a writer came out, who was his new military advisor, Pan Duao.

Pan Duao, also known as Pan Duao, is a member of the Pan family in Yingcheng, Huguang, and is a talent.

Because of the competition for land and property with the squires of the county, he was indignant after losing the lawsuit, dissatisfied with the imperial court, and joined the team of the eight kings.

For Liukou, Xiucai is really a rare and valuable talent.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately worshiped him as a military advisor.

This person is indeed capable, not much worse than Li Yan, the military advisor who broke into Wang Xinbai, he explained the "Art of War of Sun Wu" to Zhang Xianzhong, helped Liukou to make three-eyed guns, maces, ambush crossbows, and guided the deployment of regimental camp phalanxes and left and right battalions.

The combat effectiveness of the Eight Kings Army has increased a lot.

Secretary Shi: "Offering loyalty to great joy is quite a trick." ”

Pan Duao came out of the ranks, hugged his fists and said, "Eight kings, we must make plans early." ”

The Eight Kings: "Will the plan be released?" ”

Pan Duao said: "The north must be impossible to go, and in the west, King Chuang suffered a big defeat in Sichuan not long ago, and more than 100,000 people were wiped out, and they must have been repelled by this strange firecracker, and we can't go west." The south side is the Yangtze River, in recent days, looking down on the riverside, I saw the frequent activity of ships on the river, I don't know whether it is the imperial court or which army's fleet, constantly going back and forth on the river, it seems that there is a suspicion of blockading the Yangtze River. ”

Eight Kings: "You mean, north, east, south, we can't go on all three sides, so we can only go east?" ”

Pan Duao nodded: "To the east of us, there is a Zuo Liangyu. And Zuo Liangyu is the best bully. ”

The Eight Kings thought about it carefully: this will work.

Zhai Tang also nodded and said, "This is reasonable. ”

Pan Duao turned to Zhai Tang: "Mr. Zhai, now we are grasshoppers on a rope, and we are all surrounded by that Xuantian Zun Sect, if you don't want to be hacked by others like this, you can only join forces to fight." ”

Zhai Tang thought for a while: "Okay! ”

Pan Duao: "We send people, Jin merchants send materials, we each exert our own strength, and we all take out all our strength, break through the east road, and escape from this encirclement." ”

Zhai Tang: "Okay! ”——

On the hot air balloon flying above Wuchang City, a scout was staring wide-eyed, looking at the Eight Kings military camp stationed ten miles north of the city.

In the past, the barracks of the rogue were all chaotic and unregulated.

But this time, the barracks that the scouts saw were already in order, and it was clear that there were capable people joining the rogues.

The scout was about to write this down on paper and send it to the ground in a bamboo tube, when he suddenly saw a huge convoy entering the barracks from the gate of the north camp.

The size of this convoy was large, and the carriages and horses were so continuous that even the scouts could clearly see the convoy even if they were high in the air, and they were like a black line, winding along the yellow official road.

The Scout quickly took out his binoculars and tried to zoom in on the distant footage......

Then, he saw a flag "Zhai" floating on the convoy.

"Damn, it's the Jin merchants' convoy."

The scout's telescopic lens swept backwards one by one along the car, and soon swept a few horses pulling cannons, and the cars behind were full of gunpowder, and then there were cannons and gunpowder behind them...... There were a lot of black iron balls piled up on the car.

This time, Jin Shang made a lot of money.

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