Chapter 23: Robbing the grass alarms the police and bandits
As soon as Xiao Jianxia heard it, he felt that Uncle Zhou Fu's words were very reasonable and far-sighted, so he appointed him as the money and grain manager in charge of the entire Cuiping Mountain peasant rebel army.
As a college student and Zheng Erhu, who has extraordinary abilities, has put forward a lot of novel suggestions and opinions and extraordinary ideas in governing the army, and has = some novel and unique ideas and concepts for governing the army, and has lost no time in putting forward some novel and unique ideas and concepts of governing the army, and has gradually adopted them.
For example, in military training, he studied and worked out a set of methods on how to train strictly and how to train elite soldiers and strong generals on the basis of and draw on some experiences and theories he learned in Yucai Middle School, and on some ways and methods of military training, he worked hard to cultivate and forge an iron army and a civilized army that fought bravely, was strictly disciplined, and did not commit any offence to the people.
At the same time, Zheng Erhu is also stepping up the construction of his own camp. Because he liked white horses, he gradually replaced all the horses in the first battalion with white ones, and gradually turned into a cavalry battalion of white horses.
These days, in addition to discussing with Xiao Jianxia in the Juyi Hall on the mountain, Zheng Erhu personally pulled the white horse team out of Cuiping Mountain as soon as it was lit up every day, came to the outside of the mountain, ran around Cuiping Mountain for a while, and taught the brothers to practice horse fighting, archery and other items hand in hand. Due to the strict requirements and good training of the two tigers for the brothers, in less than two months, the combat effectiveness of the White Horse team has improved by leaps and bounds, which has shocked the entire Cuiping Mountain.
Xiao Jianxia also often watched the training and horse performances of the White Horse team. He secretly admired Erhu's talent. Think of him as a rare genius and a man of God.
On this day, he watched the horse performance of the two tigers and one battalion at the bottom of the mountain, and had just returned to his big tent on the mountain. Suddenly, Shang Tianying of the Lucao County Government sent a message through secret channels, saying that the grass laid by the prince of Tengger in the Taiping Ranch in the northern part of Lucao County was robbed by a group of bandits on the way to the capital to pay tribute, and the county magistrate Liu Ziwen had already led the land dragon of the Lucao County Government and some of the soldiers of the garrison of the Zhao battalion chief of Lucao County on the way to hunt down the grass.
Shang Tianying meant to ask the chief leader to send someone to take the opportunity to beat Liu Ziwen's troops, and "pick up the grass and beat the rabbits - with a piggyback" to snatch those foreign grasses. As fodder for the horses of the rebels......
Xiao Jianxia felt that this information was too important. Because he knew that the grass north of the camel's neck was the territory of King Tengger, a descendant of Genghis Khan, a generation of Mongolian Tianjiao, the court gave those grasslands to King Tengger in order to alleviate the contradictions between the Mongolian and Han tribes.
This time of year. King Tengger himself came to the pasture and ordered the grass to be laid and bundled into bales, leaving a part to be stored for the winter. The rest were all shipped to the capital as tribute. Then. The main means of transportation for people is horses, and the main feed for horses is grass, so the grass at that time was very expensive, not much inferior to gasoline now.
This green grass land, the vast grassland, has been the most famous place for the production of foreign grass in the country since ancient times. And it is a place where the Mongols and Hans live together. With so much gold and tribute grass gone, the court will definitely condemn Liu Ziwen, so it is of great significance to rob this horse.
Xiao Jianxia hurriedly sent people to summon Zhou Dajun, Lan Zhentian, Zheng Erhu and others to discuss countermeasures. Everyone discussed for a long time and expressed their opinions. In the end, it was unanimously agreed that this was an excellent opportunity to attack the government, not to mention that the more than a thousand horses on Cuiping Mountain were also in urgent need of foreign grass.
Zheng Erhu thought that he had come to the mountain without accomplishment, so he volunteered to lead his battalion of white horse cavalry to carry out this glorious and sacred mission.
The next day after obtaining everyone's consent, he ordered a battalion of 300 white horses, fired three cannons on Cuiping Mountain, and set off on horseback. He roughly calculated that the distance from Cuiping Mountain to the Taiping Ranch, the territory of Tengger north of the camel's neck, was about 300 miles, and the road had to pass through the camel's neck, a terrain complex and dangerous boundary, and the road was long and full of dangers. Fortunately, more than a dozen brothers who were familiar with the topography of the camel's neck led the way, and they quickly advanced towards the set goal.
After receiving the task yesterday, he said goodbye to his mother in the evening, and returned to his residence to spend the night with his newlywed mother, Hong Xuefei. Now, riding on that high-headed white horse, walking on the prairie, he was a little desolate, lonely and helpless, and he made a mistake in his heart: this was the first time since he joined the Cuiping Mountain Peasant Rebel Army, and he was on a mission alone, but he encountered such a tricky errand. The foreign grass paid tribute by King Tengger was robbed, the details are unknown, and that place is the northernmost place of green grass where Han and Mongolia live, and it is also a place where bandits and Mongolian bandits often haunt. It is said that there are more than a dozen bearded gangs with a number of reports, and the bandits are in the dark, but we are in the open, so how can we deal with them to grab the grass? Moreover, we have to guard against Liu Ziwen's officers and soldiers, so you can imagine how difficult this task is!
The white horse team of the first battalion of the Second Tiger walked for a day to get out of the camel's neck that was mysterious and extremely complicated terrain. By this time, it was already dark, and he ordered his troops to stop their advance, find a suitable position, and set up camp on the spot, and remained silent all night.
The next day, they passed through a long piece of grassland, passing through Yandang Mountain, Weizigou, Jiapigou, Datu Mountain and other places, and came to a village called Taiping Village near Taiping Ranch.
In order not to arouse the panic and suspicion of the villagers, Erhu decided to set up camp at a large sandbag ten miles away from Taiping Village. That night, he sent four or five cavalry spies to reconnoiter in disguise, and went to the Taiping Grassland to reconnoiter the enemy's situation and inquire about the robbery of the grass.
At the same time that the two tigers were approaching the Taiping Ranch, the territory of King Tengger, Liu Ziwen, the magistrate of Lucao County, also received a report from the fast horse sent by King Tengger. He was shocked when he heard that the grass for the tribute court had been robbed.
Liu Ziwen did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly found the Zhao battalion commander of the imperial court garrison in the green grass, discussed countermeasures, and hurriedly dispatched troops, and then ordered some of the 200 soldiers of the garrison and 50 policemen of the county government, a total of 250 people, Liu Ziwen personally took command, led a deputy battalion commander of the green grass county garrison and Lu Long, the director of the county police station, on the way to Erhu, they also stayed overnight in Xiaoxing, and marched non-stop to the Taiping Ranch of King Tengger, and must exterminate the bandits and recapture the foreign grass......!