And beside the honest-looking Zhang Juyan, an investigating team officer dressed as a peasant in the dust, is also reporting in a heavy tone:
"Zhengjiang, the locust infestation in the Central Plains has never ceased since the beginning of spring, and all the prefectures and counties that have passed by have been bald."
"Nowadays, many people outside of the city are still hungry and dying. What's worse is that it's hard to live even if you grab young crops at this time."
"So the people inside and outside the city are like the two heavens of the hell on earth. The guards and soil groups everywhere are also guarding against outsiders..."
"It is conscientious to drive out with knives and guns, and those who directly robbed the refugees who passed by. Afterwards, the corpses of the red tutu were piled into the dry ditch..."
"If it weren't for my generation to always be careful, I'm afraid that I will be watched for three times and can't get out. That's how it hurts several brothers, and I almost can't come back..."
"It's just that we split up and headed east, but we still couldn't get in touch with the Zhu Liushou headquarters. Seeing that there is chaos everywhere in Jidao, true and false news flies randomly..."
"Today some people said that he was in Xingyang, tomorrow, and some people said he was in Biancheng; and then he rushed to Biancheng, but he almost ran into the Cai thief's men head-on..."
"It is even more rumored that he has passed away in the army, so all the ministries under his command have been doing their own things, and fighting and attacking each other around the food stored in Luodu Hanjiacang..."
"Therefore, my brothers rushed down these days and never had the opportunity to get close to Luodu, so they were blocked at various passes. They also couldn't get in touch with the familiar tribes in the Duji Army..."
Speaking of this, the detective team officer from the Central Plains old rebels paused and said:
"On the contrary, those brothers who went to the east have paid off; it is said that they traveled along the Wuzhang River all the way through Hua and Pu, and successfully reached the shore of Ohyeze in Yunzhou..."
"It's just that the local area is also fighting turbulently on all sides, and even after the locust plague has passed through the terracotta thousands of miles, you can no longer see any crops. Villages and towns are also ruined and ruined, wandering and wild dogs. More than living people..."
"And there are several banners for the hedgehogs gathered in the feudal towns on both sides of Onozawa. The explorers cannot approach and enter Yuncheng. They can only spy one or two from a distance, confirming that the besieged state city still hangs on the Tianping army. banner.."
"Thank you so much..."
Zhang Juyan sighed secretly while encouraging.
He was a native of Linpu, Puzhou (now southwest of Juancheng, Shandong), and was the first person from the same county to follow Wang Xianzhi. His family was a well-off family that had been farming for generations. If it were not for years of disasters and levies, he would be served by the fleeing farmers. I really can’t live it anymore, so why give up the food, clothing, and livelihood in the soil.
Although it is inevitable to worry and miss his hometown, there is not much he can do right now. Stabilize the situation in most parts of Ruzhou, and at the same time receive, select and transfer those refugees and refugees who have fled like a tide; at the same time, they must resist and clean up all kinds of armed forces that are desperate or desperate;
At the same time, we must also work with Zhu Cunsuo, who is deploying defenses and fortifications on the south bank of Huaishui River, to prevent and block the tide of refugees crossing the water and the flow of armed forces; form corresponding cooperation and response; ensure the restoration of production and production on the new site that has not been settled for a long time. The infrastructure construction will not be greatly affected and impacted. It is already the limit of his ability.
For this reason, he had to break the routine and began to select strong personnel from the armed forces in the local gathering and reorganization to fill the fortresses and strongholds transformed from Wubao and Guanshi;
Select laborers from the refugees to fight off and contain pests, and then use the freed several heads of the camp as emergency and standby firefighting teams to meet the stray armed forces in the criminal world.
However, judging from the status quo, one of his main tasks of inducing troops into the Henan realm (receiving and supporting the Duguidao and Tianping forces that tend to favor this side, and looking for opportunities to contain some external threats and pressures), has already failed by a half. Up.
The remaining tasks, including looking for opportunities to attack and contain the Cai thief forces, preventing the spread of the locust plague, etc., need enough time to arrange and advance. In this case, after Sanchuan has settled down one after another, he will not be able to catch up with the next Raiders inside the pass; this is undoubtedly a regrettable thing.
But from another perspective, he only needs to work hard and operate here to prepare and prepare enough for the future; once the Taiping Army needs to pacify the Central Plains/Kantung, he will be the corresponding leader and the most familiar with the local situation. The coach of the field, but who does he choose
At this time, a general ran under the high platform where he was watching the formation and announced loudly:
"Zhengjiang, in the area of Mengyang Mountain in Songzhou, I found the traces of Cai thief... The banner name is the Baitiao Army of the earth group under the command of Sun Ru..."
—I am the dividing line —
At the border between Guannei Road and Shannanxi Road, in Guancheng on the half-slope of Dasanling, Gao Renhou, who has become depressed because of sleepless nights and restless sleep and food for several days and nights, has finally waited for the long-awaited number one. Support army; wearing two gear armors, ear caps and round helmets, and holding the banner of the Feiyun White Horse (Qinzhou) Tianxiong Army.
Although standing on the wall and looking around, this Tianxiong army from the north vaguely has only about a thousand people; but it is finally a great boost to the morale and morale of the 8,000 old and new people in the Great Sanguan. Therefore, the defenders in the pass can't wait to open the door to greet them.
However, the next moment, in the thief camp on the other side of the city, there was once again the sound of golden drums shaking the sky and the loud whistling of the mountain shaking; Gao Renhou had to give up his negotiations with the reinforcement horses and hurriedly brought them. Turning his head back to supervise the battle and command one or two in front of the soldier, he was afraid that those soldiers whose morale had improved a little, would once again give birth to more mistakes.
However, just as Gao Renhou rushed to the south side of Dasan Pass, he watched with his own eyes the barriers and gun carts slowly advancing along the tortuous mountain valley road of Dasanling; there were also groups of people holding them. The short spears, the cards raised across the swords, in the fine drum beat, flooded the Taiping army array on the mountain gorge like a gray torrent;
Then, at the same time that the first artillery car that retreated to the front blasted, the Tianxiong army from the north, as if it had received a urging order, almost rushed through the gatehouse of the North Gate. And a rush of brains flooded into the market in the north of Dasanguan.
The next moment, while they talked with the general staff who came to approach Guannei, they casually spread out and approached the bottom of the Guan wall one after another. Then, suddenly, amidst a sharp whistle, they swarmed with anger. Going up to the north wall and gate tower of Guancheng, the defenders who were dumbfounded or who were not aware of the reason were chopped and smashed into a river of blood.
Soon after, as those rushed back figures were knocked down among the chaotic squares, several more colorful flame arrows rose up into the sky from the gate tower of Beiguan, and a crisp sound erupted. Come;. .
Therefore, just after a short half-day battle; from the Dachang Pass, the moment when Wang Xingkong, who led the team to venture across the foothills of Taibai Mountain, and Li Hanzhi, who was in charge of the first attack, met at the head of the city.
It was formally announced that the four important points of the ancient Xiongguan Pass, it fell and changed hands under the influence of the landslides that fought inside and outside, and healed the enemy. (End of this chapter)