"Let's go back to Xiaopao Town for a while, there is still a courtyard of our family, you will live in it for a while."

Chen Mo picked up the carriage and explained to Zhao Yu in the carriage.

The courtyard of Xiaopao Town is a thatched house, and the environment is slightly worse than the bluestone courtyard of Zhuniuji.

However, Zhao Yu only stayed there for a short period of time this time, at most a month or two, and there was no need to buy a yard.

Even if you buy a new house, you have to do repairs and relocation, which is more laborious.

Just stay in the old mansion for a while.

"Is something going to happen?" She leaned out of the carriage and spoke in a slightly worried tone.

She could guess that Chen Mo, as a salt transport envoy, suddenly wanted to leave the station and return to Xiaopao Town, so there was something big about happening.

"It's not a big deal, you can stay at home and wait for me to come back." Chen Mo smiled at her and pulled the reins to make the inferior horse pulling the cart change direction.

As for the war horse he was going to ride, he had some things on his back this time, but it was only a pair of heavy armor.

There is a high probability that Chen Mo will not be able to use this horse when he suppresses bandits, at most, it will not be able to play much role in order to save physical strength for transportation, and it will not play much role in real battles.

It can indeed be called a good horse, but it is not enough to carry the heavily armed Chen Mo.

Even if it can move it on its back, it can't rush up.

After rushing for several days in a row, Chen Mo did not go to the barracks first, but sent Zhao Yu back to Xiaopao Town first.

The thatched hut was uninhabited for months, but before they left, they closed the doors and windows, and now the house is only a little old and miscellaneous, and the whole thing is still clean.

Chen Mo first removed the heavy objects on the carriage one by one, and then helped Zhao Yu bring two jars of clean water, and was about to leave immediately.

"I won't help you tidy up the house, I have to go to the barracks as soon as possible."

He explained softly, and as he spoke, he had already boarded the carriage.

The war is now on the line, and I don't know when it will be dispatched, so I have to hurry back to the camp.

"Be careful, I'll wait for you at home." Zhao Yu was worried in his heart, and he didn't know what to say, but he still told him as before.

"Don't worry." Chen Mo gave her a reassuring smile and drove away in a hurry.

Martial law has begun in the barracks, and Chen Mo has arranged the defense of the barracks, and it can be seen at a glance that the barracks at this time are too different from usual.

The personal soldiers who were in charge of guarding the camp gate, even though they knew Chen Mo, did not dare to let him into the camp privately.

hurriedly went to report, and only after being instructed to open the camp gate and welcome Chen Mo inside.

The training of many pro-soldiers in the barracks has also stopped, and all pro-soldiers are preparing for battle.

Packing up the armor, putting the bows and arrows in order, and maintaining the weapons, many of which were usually done by the auxiliaries, now they have to re-examine them.

Only when they go to the battlefield with what they have personally inspected can they feel at ease.

Even if there is occasional training, it is only to ensure that the body is not loose, and it will definitely not tire them.

Ordered people to send armor and weapons into his barracks, and the carriage and war horses were put into the stables to take care of, and Chen Mo went straight to the study.

There was already a person in the study, it was Xu Dabao, he saw Chen Mo coming, and showed a simple and simple smile.

"Alright, you go down first." Seeing Chen Mo walking into the study, Sun Shouren ordered Xu Dabao.

He knew in his heart that some things were not good to be handed over to himself, and he had to hand them over to Chen Mo to do.

Xu Dabao didn't have any intention of listening more, nodded lightly to Chen Mo, turned around and retreated.

Just do your own thing in the barracks, and it's not a good habit to ask people what they want to do.

"The army will start in three days, go to Anyang Mansion, encircle and suppress the Heavenly Dao, you are ready."

As Xu Dabao left, Sun Shouren slowly spoke.

"The other troops in our house, don't you go with you?" Chen Mo had actually guessed the answer

Since the father-in-law only let himself come back, and did not let himself be in charge of a box army alone, there is no doubt that this encirclement and suppression will not mobilize the box army in the palace.

"That's right. This encirclement and suppression did not use those van troops, only 400 personal soldiers and 800 soldiers under my account. ”

Sun Shouren opened his mouth to explain that the so-called soldiers are those soldiers who have not succeeded in selecting their own soldiers, but still have a certain training value.

In the follow-up training, if there are outstanding results, they can be promoted to the pro-military camp.

Those who are not excellent, after a long period of training, can be regarded as soldiers with the strength to fight, and when they arrive on the battlefield, they can provide support for their own soldiers.

"It's okay not to mobilize the van army, but it will be troublesome to really use them."

Chen Mo made a judgment, he knew a lot about the Xingyuan Mansion Army, and there was basically no training, and they might not be able to do a good job of stationing in place, let alone going on an expedition.

If you really want to take them to fight, just rushing from Xingyuan Mansion to Anyang Mansion, you don't even know how many people will be missing, maybe they will be dispersed before they reach the place.

What's more, there are a considerable number of van troops, in fact, they only live on the ledger.

The military department takes another bite of empty salary, his father-in-law eats another bite, and his lieutenant eats another bite.

Big officials eat big portions, and small officials eat small portions.

Of the 35,000 registered van soldiers, it would be good if they could really pull out 123,000 in the end, but there must be many old, weak, sick and disabled among them.

Like this, an army that has never been trained and is no different from ordinary farmers, let alone 3,000 people, even 5,000 people are not comparable to 400 personal soldiers.

"Yes, it saves a bit of effort." Sun Shouren nodded in agreement.

The box army is a confused account.

Not only did he eat empty salary, but the former town guard, the former town guard, and the former town guard also ate, and none of the soldiers did not eat.

If you really want to mobilize, everyone may be more troublesome, so it's better not to move.

"In addition to us this time, the town guards of Baoning and Leye will also lead their own troops to encircle and suppress Dutiandao.

And the local town guard of Anyang Mansion will also mobilize his own soldiers and the army in the mansion to assist, but it is difficult to say whether he can believe it. ”

Sun Shouren lowered his voice when he said this, the Dutian Dao Gate is growing in Anyang Mansion, and most of the forces are also in Anyang Mansion.

The town guard of Anyang Mansion is an indispensable crime of negligence in any case.

Even the imperial court has doubted whether he has any dealings with the people of the Dutian Daomen, but no evidence has been found yet, so it is not easy to investigate directly.

This time, letting him participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Heavenly Dao is also a chance to give him a chance to make up for his mistakes.

And if this town guard shows a trace of hesitation during the encirclement and suppression, then there will be a strong person who surveys the sky and kills him on the spot.

"With your strength, it is inconvenient to lead the troops, so how about putting on heavy armor and being a vanguard to charge into battle?" Sun Shouren didn't plan to let Chen Mo lead the troops, because his strength was too strong.

Letting him lead a team of men and horses to fight is not a help but a burden to him.

Unless his men and horses must have at least Mo Hu's strength, otherwise no one will be able to keep up with him as soon as he rushes into battle.

"It's all up to my father." Chen Mo bowed.

It is dangerous to be a pioneer, but the harvest is also great, looking at the entire pro-military camp, it is most appropriate to be a pioneer with your own strength.

"But don't get carried away when you charge. I'm asking you to be a pioneer, not sending you to death. ”

Sun Shouren's expression was very cautious, this sentence was not an entrustment, but a pure order.

"Understood." Chen Mo is colorful.

With his strength, even if he is a pioneer, as long as he doesn't meet that Dao Master head-on, then his life will not be in danger.

What's more, being a pioneer is not to charge when you go up, and there will be two or three rounds of arrow rain as cover before the charge.

"Okay, you can also go down and prepare, there is nothing important in these days, and you must not leave the barracks without permission." Sun Shouren waved his hand.

Although it is not a big war, as the head of an army, he still has too many things to do before the war.

Two days passed in a flash, and the army officially started, and thousands of people rushed to Anyang Mansion together.

From the simplest hurry, you can see how effective an army is.

Whether it can be banned or not, no one will be left behind.

Thousands of people walked more than 10 days across more than 700 miles, all the way to Anyang Mansion, due to accidental injuries to hang the lottery, but no one left behind, enough to see its elite.

"Everyone rests in place, and after an hour buries the pot and cooks."

Sun Shouren looked at the soldiers who had worked hard all the way and hurried, and his expression was quite satisfied.

There are some veterans in the battalion, but most of them are new recruits, and they have only been trained for more than a year, and this performance is quite good.

After the next battle, those who are still alive can be called old pawns.

"Mo Hu, you go and set up a guard to prevent the enemy from attacking." Sun Shouren ordered to Mo Hu on the side.

The movement of the army could not be concealed at all, and the Dutian Dao Sect must have known that they were coming now.

Now they have no more than two choices, to sneak attack when the army is sleepy and lacking, and the other is to retreat in the cave and hold on.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with releasing scouts to be on alert in advance.

"Come, this is the talisman issued by the Heavenly Supervisor, and if it is pasted on the weapon, it can break the evil law of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and each of you will take two of them."

Sun Shouren took out another hundred and ten talismans and distributed them to Chen Mo and other martial artists with a certain strength in the barracks.

There are qi refiners in the Heavenly Dao, and the imperial court naturally has them, so they can naturally come up with talismans to counter the evil law, and there is no need to let martial artists like Chen Mo use their qi and blood to break the evil arts.

Chen Mo got the talisman and wore it carefully on the weapon at the moment.

The crowd rested for just over an hour, and then there was a scout in return.

In the northwest, there were a large number of rebels, numbering at least three thousand.

In fact, now the entire Anyang Mansion is already relatively chaotic, and the chaotic army of the Dutiandaomen is like a wildfire, burning everywhere.

Although the imperial court was prepared in advance, it could only control most of the county seats.

The rest of the township wilderness and the two county towns are now filled with a large number of rebellious soldiers from the Heavenly Dao.

Many soldiers in the barracks quickly reorganized, and Chen Mo also put on heavy armor and held a bright silver spear in his hand, standing in front of the army for the vanguard.

And the rebel army is only a mile away from them at this time.

The rebellious army is really chaotic, most of them don't even have a serious weapon, and as for the iron armor, it's even more impossible, they don't even have leather armor.

When marching into the army, there was no command discipline, and it was completely rushing forward with his head stuffed.

Only the three or four hundred young men who charged ahead could be regarded as having the strength to fight.

Chen Mo swept it at a glance, and found seventeen or eighteen Heavenly Dao wrestlers, as for whether there were Taoist people present, he couldn't see it for the time being.

"Shoot!" Sun Shouren ordered loudly.

Thousands of soldiers set up bows and shoot arrows, and a volley is a hundred taels of silver.

Although some of the arrows shot can be recovered, they can only be used for projectiles.

After the three rounds of arrow rain, before Chen Mo could move, the rebellious army was on the verge of rout.

Only those invulnerable wrestlers dared to continue to charge.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The snare drum sounded three times in a row, which means that the vanguard rushes into battle, and the rest follow it.

Chen Mo was wearing heavy armor and suddenly moved forward to kill, his goal was very clear, that is, those Heavenly Dao Warriors.

Sun Shouren couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he saw Chen Mo's speed, and with his eyesight, he could naturally see that Chen Mo's current strength was by no means more than the original two thousand catties.

Of course, he can't judge the exact amount in detail, and he can't see this with his eyesight.

It seems that in the past month or so of hard work, his righteous son has not been idle, and his strength has actually improved.

But this is also normal, after all, he bought a few bottles of pills last time, plus he still has a lot of remaining mirages in his hands.

With all these things exhausted, it is normal for his strength to grow.

And the rest of the soldiers, whether they were familiar with Chen Mo or not, were all surprised.

Only Mo Hu's expression was indifferent and calm, he had already known Chen Mo's true strength.

Looking at the unaware expression of the companion beside him, Mo Hu couldn't help but show a smile, it seems that except for his father-in-law, only he knows the true strength of the thirteenth brother in advance.

Chen Mo killed very quickly, killing two wrestlers with one shot, and the spear swept away and cut off several rebels.

Qingzhuang, who was originally walking in the forefront, ran for his life at this time, but it was still too slow compared to him.

More than 3,000 rebels were finally beheaded 672, and the rest surrendered.

Chen Mo alone killed nearly 100 people.

This is still when he has some spare hands, and most of the rebel troops surrender relatively quickly, otherwise he will only kill more people.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the weapons of the rebel army were collected, divided into small units, and handed over to the local army or county government for temporary care.

The killing and surrender are ominous, and these surrendered troops must be dealt with by the imperial court in a unified manner.

After this battle, many soldiers made a little repair, collected the bodies of several unfortunate comrades, and then rushed to the next battlefield.

For the next ten days, there was a fight every day or two.

Sun Shouren also led the army to recover a city, and Chen Mo was the first to climb the city wall, remembering the merit of ascending first.

In the end, the imperial army gathered in front of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land of the Dutian Daomen, intending to launch a general attack.

(End of chapter)