The possibility of Zhang Zhihai being the main general was not high before, so he never deliberately understood the miscellaneous forces outside Fangling City, and he didn't know the specific details very clearly.

But one thing is for sure, those motley forces are not something that can be dealt with casually.

This is one of the reasons why Zhang Zhihai is not optimistic about this trip.

Hearing Zhang Zhihai's question, the strategist hurriedly replied: "Several forces, similar to the king of cottages, are mostly concentrated in the north of Fangling City, with more than 2,000 men under his command, and seven or eight hundred fewer people, if they all add up, it will be close to 25,000 people.

Before, they were invited by Lu Xifa to destroy Fangling City together, and the general situation was similar to the previous Hongnong City.

Such mountain kings are not uncommon in Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, and Jizhou, usually blocking the road and robbing houses, robbing homes and houses, and occasionally uniting to deal with the material escort team of the imperial court, extremely greedy and brutal. ”

Zhang Zhihai frowned and said, "There are as many as twenty-five thousand?"

Is there so much oil and water to be fished in the relatively barren Fangling County?

Could it be that a very wealthy caravan or a large family is passing by at any time on the road?

It's impossible, there haven't been many caravans and relocated families along the way, and there are quite a few civilians who have fled.

It's not enough to just rob the fleeing civilians, right?

The strategist explained: "There were really not so many before, but since the chaos in Xiangyang County, there have been more such people, most of them are green forest gangsters, and there are desperate civilians, which is somewhat similar to the previous scene in the southwest of Feng Yi and the west of Hongnong, Fangling is still few, and there are more counties in Jingzhou." ”

The crowd was silent.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Jingzhou is now called a quagmire, such as where hundreds of people were killed and wounded, where thieves gathered more than 1,000 people, etc., this kind of news was numb to hearing in Chang'an City.

The strategist continued: "These mountain kings in the north of Fangling have washed some farms and towns in the chaos before, and they have obtained a batch of gold and grain from Lu Xifa, so they don't need to come out to do business for the time being, just hide and watch the excitement.

This time, they must want to see us and Lu Xifa fight to lose, and then they will come out to take advantage.

Wishful thinking is a good one!"

Most of you here said to you, "If I were to change it, I would do the same."

Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!

An adjutant general snorted coldly: "If you want me to say, the three county guards are all dry food, and they all have so many soldiers under them, but they have not been able to settle the bandits who have gathered at the junction of the three counties."

I've heard that a few Taishou are far more enthusiastic about intrigue than thieves, thinking about how to fight for their own interests all day long, and have no intention of suppressing thieves at all, and have been confronting thieves and bandits, wasting the court's silver grain.

If it weren't for that, what round would the northern part of Fangling get a gang of rabble to be demons?"

When the other deputy general heard this, he immediately echoed and said: "This statement is reasonable, just a few days ago, Badong Yuntaishou asked Qiu Yue for grain, grass and other materials, and it was clear that he was pulling some more things on his plate, and this kind of behavior is really arbitrary and shameless!"

The young Zhuang faction was speechless, although they were all noble children, but the grade was there, and it was really not appropriate to publicly comment on the Taishou level figures.

The strategist snorted and said, "After all, Yun Taishou successfully ransomed more than 2,100 captives under Lu Xifa, and made a great contribution, which was originally the responsibility of Fangling County, but Lei Daneng died...... Yun Taishou settled the matter, and it wasn't too much to order something......"

The adjutant general sneered: "His surname Yun is an official of Dayan, not the Tu Emperor of Badong......"

"Enough!"

Zhang Zhihai waved his hand and interrupted, "Don't talk about things so far away, for how to deal with these copycat kings, you still need to come up with a charter, after all, their total number is five thousand more than ours."

If we are slapped by them, it is not a joke. ”

The strategist nodded and said, "You really have to be careful!"

After a pause, he continued: "However, their combat strength is average, according to the previous intelligence, they are not much stronger than the rabble, with the strength of our troops, a random guerrilla general should be able to easily level more than 4,000 thieves in the field."

Moreover, it is unlikely that they will attack us in a group, after all, we are not the kind of small team that escorts supplies. ”

There were about 1,500 guerrilla generals under the imperial court, and the words of the strategists meant that the imperial army's army could easily fight against the troops of the mountain kings.

When Ma Kun heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately said: "General Zhang, these guys have done all kinds of evil in robbing homes and houses, and they once helped Lu Xifa's thief to obtain Fangling City, they should be killed and killed, and their subordinates asked to go to war, first give him a chicken to make an example!"

Li Wuchang is shrinking in the city and can't move for the time being, but those mountain kings can't move yet?

Let's take some credit for slaughtering some mountain kings first!

Zhang Zhihai shook his head and said: "We don't have many troops, and it is very reluctant to break through the Fangling City defended by Lu Xifa, and it would be unwise to spend our troops on those mountain kings again." ”

Although there is no optimism, what needs to be done is still to be done and carefully planned.

"Everyone can express their opinions casually......" Zhang Zhihai swept the Shaozhuang faction.

In order to improve morale, the imperial court was very generous, and most of them hung up the post of guerrilla general.

Since you have hung up your position, you have to make a contribution.

This time it's not like the original counterinsurgency army.

Mu Tianfeng spoke first: "General Zhang, for such rebellious ministers and thieves, it is really difficult for the people to be angry if they don't kill them!"

However, General Zhang's concerns are not unreasonable, and his subordinates think that we can send the most elite troops to choose the right time to break through one by one and reduce losses. ”

To say it is to say nothing.

However, Mu Tianfeng's identity is not trivial, and his opinion has to be taken seriously.

Liu Qizheng interjected in time: "General Zhang, his subordinates also have this view! As for the battle damage, the general can rest assured, as long as the plan is right, those rabble will not be able to turn the sky." ”

A yin and yang strange voice sounded: "What General Liu said is very true, in my opinion, those rabble are just like Lu Xifa in the southwest of Feng Yi at that time, they don't have the slightest combat power at all, heh!"

"Huang Ni, what do you mean?" Liu Qizheng was furious.

The young man known as Huang Ni is also a son of Xungui, but he is not very famous, and he belongs to the kind that is not of high grade.

He didn't pay attention to Liu Qizheng.

"It's not interesting, I just agree with you, I think you can not only easily defeat those so-called rabble, but even Lucifer can't get on the stage in front of you. Huang Ni didn't care about Liu Qizheng's anger in the face of it.

"You ......" Liu Qi was choking.

"Noisy and noisy, what kind of system!"

Zhang Zhihai snorted coldly with a gloomy face, then looked at Lin Zheng and asked, "What does General Lin think?"

Lin Zheng has always looked like he has nothing to do with himself, which makes Zhang Zhihai very unhappy.