However, in Suzhou, on the edge of the eddy water that is the frontier of preparation for the enemy on the Huai River, the people who greeted Cao Quanzhu as the head of the Tianping Army were empty camps and few figures.
"Where are Pinglu, the soldiers and horses, where are all the handsome men, Qidutong, why are you only waiting..."
Looking at these thousands of soldiers, who were obviously old, weak, sick, and disabled from the military village, and those unkempt civil servants, Cao Quanzhu only felt that the sky had fallen.
He immediately sent people to find seven camps in a row, only to find a drunk left-behind official in a corner.
"Cao Jie is a step late, wow, the Taining Army of Qidutong has fought against the thieves for several days, and each has its own victory and defeat... There are also the Pinglu Army of Qingzhou, the Probation Army of Lizhou, and Bianzhou. The Xuanwu Army and the Huazhou Yicheng Army came to assist one after another;"
After the other party was awakened, he knelt on the ground and responded.
"Under the five-way joint attack, the thieves were in a state of frustration. They quit a few miles and did not dare to fight again, so they were detained for a dozen miles from the establishment of the joint camp... However... However"
"However, what's wrong..."
The vanguard horse envoy and the capital Yuhou Cao Xiang couldn't help but step forward and press the opponent's arm to ask repeatedly.
"Just the day before yesterday, there was an urgent report. The Tianxiong Army (Wei Bo Jiedu ambassador) and the German Army (Hengji Jiedu ambassador) sent troops to cross the river, claiming that they would use Daoqing and Yan to fight the thieves for the court;"
The man was shocked and confided:
"So first, the commander An (Shiru) led the Qingzhou army to leave the camp overnight. Then, Qi Dutong retreated because of the uproar of his subordinates. The remaining four towns were fighting for their strength and each could not accept each other. They have also returned to their own towns.. Only now, there are still some Sizhou army units that have retreated and have not fled yet..."
"Seru An and Zike let this guy really hurt my generation... Father, we can't stay here anymore, we have to return to Yunzhou... just in case the second thief in Hebei wants to move east. if.."
Cao Xiang immediately shouted angrily, and then said to Cao Quanluo again.
At the same time, the thief on the other side of the river moved. Obviously, he felt the movement of the officer and army, and he was attacking in a reflexive manner.
"Don't stop, and don't enter the camp, we just let it go and flanks the thief from the side... Da Lang, you can be the first to lead the commander..."
Cao Quanzhen immediately faced his eldest son Cao Xiang.
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And a few miles away from the other side of the river, in the main formation of the rebels who had just moved over. A dusty general, half kneeling on the ground, saluted and said:
"Report to King Huang, there seems to be an ambush among the officers and soldiers on the other side,"
"The three fronts of the army who crossed the river were defeated and disintegrated..."
"You can see clearly... which man is the banner..."
The deputy manager by the side, Shang Rang, asked impatiently.
"It's the Cao character flag of the Tianping Army..."
The man responded quickly.
"It's actually the old man Cao. This is really good. The old enemies and enemies of the past have all been sent to the front of you..."
Shang let Hate screamed.
"But what do you say when the former army is defeated..."
Then there was a bit of worry about the all over Hong Lue.
"It's okay. Now that our army is strong and powerful, even if we kill a few battles for him; in addition to the headquarters of the military headquarters, I still have five armies and seven wings, more than a dozen formations of nearly 200,000 troops, let him kill. Good enough."
Huang Chao smiled instead of anger.
"Since the other party's words count, so that the officers and soldiers of several towns have retreated one after another without fighting, relying on a balance army in his district, what else can they do to upset the world, let the newly recruited army and the attached soil group , Zhenshu and his like stepped forward, the formation was ready to meet;"
"Lao Shang and Gai Lao, each of you command your team and be responsible for your back and oppressing the battle... I will send the former army and horse team to contain and support you; now we have revenge and revenge, and we must not let it go. This old thief Cao took off..."
You know, since he attacked Jiangdong and Huainan, now the men under the command of the soaring general can be described as changing shotguns for artillery, and he has become more and more talented and prosperous with plastic surgery;
Let alone other things, the food and materials used by the army alone are enough to support the expenditure for several years; not to mention the food and materials intercepted and collected by the leaders of the rebel army.
Therefore, after crossing the Huaihe River, there is no need to do much looting, but to maintain a fairly good military discipline, and sometimes to distribute some money to the civilians, but to recruit and entrain some young men on the spot to expand the army. Therefore, for a while, "the poor and suffering" "cloud followers".
However, he couldn't help but think of that cheap son-in-law, Zhou monk who claimed to be the Taiping Army; it can be said that the Rebel Army can have this situation now, but it has a great relationship and influence with it. At least for the moment, many of the systems, strategies, and regulations of the General's Mansion were derived from him.
It's a pity that things in the world still inevitably part ways. It's just like the difference between the great general Wang Xianzhi, who was dedicated to make peace during the changes in Qizhou, and himself on the way to the rebels; if not, his subordinates will help, and it will be free from many worries about transportation and supplies. .
Despite this, after he made the decision to unify his mind and lead soldiers to the north, he still did not send anyone to take the initiative to fix it or bridge it; because he seemed to see himself from the opponent, the shadow and trace of himself who was still younger;
You know, when I split from Wang Xianzhi's army, there were only 6,000 people. It's not even the leader of the rebels who left from other places. For example, Liu Yanzhang, who claimed to be the governor of Jiangzhou, claimed to have 20,000 horses on land and water.
But now he is sitting on tens of thousands of horses, and occupying many cities outside the ridge and outside the ridge, and one has to be afraid and beware of a powerful force. Although he has always received a steady stream of benefits from the opponent, Huang Chao does not want to be easily controlled by others.
This trip to the north does not mean to get rid of its influence and infiltration; although they are all under the banner of the rebels, the stakes of whoever is in control are not allowed to be allowed or compromised in the slightest.
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In Yuanzhou, Pingxiang County, which is adjacent to Tanzhou, is outside the Taipingtun Encirclement of Luxi Township. Crowds of fierce and evil people holding knives and guns are also watching the wooden doors with many cracks gradually exposed under the many axes.
As their leaders, dozens of relatively decent and well-protected squires and tycoons also gritted their teeth.
"You don't know what the people who escaped are eating, it's so thick that they won't get there even with chopsticks upright..."
"As long as you are willing to work hard, you will have two big picks and a big pickle clapper for every meal."
"It is said that the villagers bought by these thieves are all fat and rich."
"All people have to eat three groups a day. The meal is replaced by the famous dry food with rice and wheat, and it is served with a large pot of vegetables and nongjang soup..."
"Every family uses leftover food to raise pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, rabbits and dogs..."
"I still gather in the illuminated ancestral hall every night to listen to lectures and learn Chinese characters."
"Everyone still has chicken eggs and drinks to eat when they are busy with work at night..."
"It's unreasonable, these poor sticks and mud legs are better than the masters..."
"Be at ease, when you break the encirclement and slaughter these poor sticks, don't you want to eat whichever you want, and whichever you want to sleep? Why don't you come back after a good day is justified..."
"If it weren't for the peaceful thieves, why bother to lose our family property and hide in the mountains, and join the barbarians, mountain folks, and bandits... this time we can finally get back all of them..."
And behind the dirt fence separated by a wall. Deng Liao, who squatted behind Mucha with a knife for cutting rice, was restless from time to time looking at the barbaric wife who was holding the half-big piglet tightly not far away.
Although he was brought back from a stockade that had been robbed and robbed of his house, the remote mountain barbarian who even spoke Chinese was unsuccessful, but he was now living in all of them. Not only did she endure hardships and stand hard work, she could do everything from plowing the fields, cutting rice, feeding pigs and raising chickens. She also conceived a child for him, and she also had the hope of inheriting the family in the future.
I still remember the first time she saw the brown rice that Zhuangzi had handed out according to her work, holding and crying like a child, she kept talking to him muttering gestures. To be honest, when he tasted the rice without any bran for the first time in the collective work shed, it was no better than her.
Immediately there was a large and big one that leaked out, tears streaming down his face and weeping; because he thought of the home he once owned, even his parents who only wanted to be able to taste food before starving to death, and gradually in his arms. There is no breath, with thin hands and feet like siblings like firewood.
Then the small family formed by the two, in the midst of these language barriers, in the long night of mutual comfort, slowly added more items, raised piglets, chickens and ducks. There is more hope after being able to eat half full.
At this time, the wood-panel door that had been chopped with hundreds of holes and sore was finally torn apart unbearably; those thieves who had been clamoring and roaring outside the Weizi for most of the day finally appeared in the Weizi along with the smoke and dust. Familiar faces.
It's just that at this moment, the neighbors, who are usually kind and kind, are filled with resentment, hatred, and hatred like being possessed by evil spirits, making the descriptions become distorted and hideous.
Only after they ran a few steps, they screamed and rolled around with their feet, but the ground was hurriedly covered with sharp and dense bamboo sticks; and at this time, the one in Zhuangzi who was in charge of training everyone Xu Dumu also stood up and yelled at the thieves who were struggling all over the floor.
"If you are a man, just follow me..."
However, before he ran a few steps away, Deng Liaochang suddenly weakened his legs and knelt on the ground. No matter how the people who rushed to get by his side called out, he couldn't stand up for a while. The courage seemed to be from this sentence. The body is leaking dry. .
No matter how many truths he is usually touched by ears and eyes, he can only watch the men in these villages, fighting and killing them in a mess with the culprits, while screaming and roaring endlessly. And he could only kneel on the ground unconvincingly, and let out a meaningless roar.
At this time, he suddenly heard a familiar scream, but it was his barbaric wife who was walking in with a thief who was climbing in, dragging the piglet's legs and feet desperately; this was what she had fed him since childhood. My heart is full, and I named it "Hua Luoluo", so even if the other party threatened and yelled at him, he wouldn't let go.
Then, the rags came, he put his foot on his stomach and curled up like a shrimp, but his hand was still holding the pig’s hind legs and was dragged to the ground; at this moment, Deng Liao rushed his head with blood. His eyes were red, which was the last hope of his family after they died.
Suddenly, he was seen jumping up, knocking the culprit to the ground like a gust of wind, and rolled into a ball with all his might. When Deng Liao stood up again in the panic call of the woman, a knife was already inserted in the other's neck, and blood splashed out like a spring.
Then in the woman's gestures, more heads were exposed on the Wai Zi; at this moment, Deng Liao seemed to have fallen off some burden, and grabbed a stick of bamboo in his hand, and stabbed it in front of him. .
After another, I don’t know how long, looking at the many corpses and wounded outside the surrounding area, and the leader Xu Dumu led people to chase down, all kinds of sparse figures who fled hurriedly; Deng was covered in blood and mud. Pimple, can't help but hug the woman and cry.
However, they hadn’t waited long before they rejoiced, and they saw Xu Dumu and his party hurriedly retreating in front, and a large group of gangsters rushed behind them; they were like a full stream, coming from all over the mountains, rocks, and trees. There are so many that appear in the gaps, which makes people a little frightened.
Then, when Deng Jiulao and the others were hurriedly trying to use various objects to re-plug the broken door, they were stopped by Xu Dumu:
"Don't panic, listen carefully... but the whistle of our army..."
Then, the Ding Zhuangs in Zhuangzi noticed that behind the noise of these thieves who were running over, there was a shrill whistle that had been heard in the past but was more orderly; the mountains and plains seemed to be as beautiful and sweet as a stream flying by. .
There were sporadic dull roars in the meantime, and then a little trace of fireworks rose up. At this moment, Deng Liao and the others only felt that warm things were pouring out of their eye sockets.
Hearing the numbers of various array cuts and subsequent executions that were reported back along the way, the multiple attacks and subsequent executions, Zhou Huaian was already a little numb; but what surprised him a little.
In Huainan and Jiangdong, there was no chance to use the firearms. In the flattening of the rebellion and suppression of the military here, they were actually able to show their power; although there are some overkills.
The reason is also very simple. When a mixed clearing and suppression unit equipped with a corresponding fire-throwing grenadier has toiled a long distance to reach the target; all it takes is to summon the energy to set up a firearm and blast the enemy. .
Basically, there is no enemy culprit, the mob, who are not frightened and disintegrated and chaotic, and then a whole team kills it is extremely simple. Even if the rioters were taken over the checkpoints, fortifications, and buildings that wanted to resist, they would be expelled from the burnt objects and poisonous smoke balls thrown in.
Especially the poisonous smoke ball, it is a miraculous effect to deal with the crowds of riots; after throwing one at a crowded enemy, all kinds of bombings are scattered and fled; even if they can stay in place, they will be smoked. Basu lost his mobility. (End of this chapter)