stubborn thief

Chapter 219 Disgusting Journey

Cao Wenzhao took the water bag from his subordinates, and suddenly poured a few mouthfuls down his throat.

He looked to the west, frowning; looked to the east, with a sad face.

It's been a nasty journey.

After the conflict between his nephew and Yan'an general Yang Yanchang over the capture and killing of the bandits, Yang Yanchang did not do anything else, but became more devoted to his duties.

As a vanguard officer, Yang Yanchang led his troops to rush across the land of Shanxi like crazy.

When he sees a thief, he will fight, and it's not a fake fight, it's a real fight. As long as the thief's strength is less than five times his, he will pounce on him like a mad dog, and defeat the enemy with the fastest speed.

It's just very weird, Yang Yanchang can always keep the recruited bandits, but he doesn't have any prisoners.

At the beginning of Cao Wenzhao's sword point, where Yang Yanchang led his troops passed, Cao Bianjiao would never see a thief.

This situation is very bad, they have countless reasons to persuade themselves to kill the thief, but there is no way to convince Yang Yanchang.

Whether it was telling him that the court did not have the ability to solve the famine; or telling him that they would rebel in the future if they let the thieves go;

A soldier hangs his head on his waist, isn't that why?

But neither worked.

Yang Yanchang didn't care, he didn't want to get promoted and get rich, and he didn't want these people to get promoted and get rich.

With his own power, he blocked everyone's upward channel.

Cao Wenzhao had no other choice, if Yang Yanchang continued to attack like this, his people would mutiny.

Cao Bianjiao could only be assigned to lead the other divisions and attack on all sides before Yang Yanchang.

The most hateful thing is that Yang Yanchang also filed a complaint with the officials of Shanxi and the governor of Yansui, saying that the Guanning army took the credit for my achievements, and that I was the vanguard officer.

It was useless for Cao Wenzhao to report the problem to Hong Chengchou. Governor Hong was very happy to see a shining star rising in Yan'an Mansion, not far from Yansui Town.

What's more, Hong Chengchou couldn't directly mobilize Yang Yanchang. In theory, both Hong Chengchou and Yang He were Yang Yanchang's superiors, but Yang Yanchang only needed to listen to state affairs.

For a while, the hungry bandits, bandits, and rebels in Shanxi were crying for their fathers and mothers, and the nursery rhymes they made up were all about Yang Bodhisattva and Cao Yanwang.

When the rebels saw Yang Yanchang, they either left some delicious food for him, some looted money for his people, or they joined directly.

Seeing their Guan Ning army, they either ran away early and disappeared, or fought to the death once they started fighting.

The strangest thing is that there is always someone behind them to slow down their progress.

Cao Wenzhao believes that the problem in Shanxi is not just famine.

And they are still making troubles in the evil book cult, and they are making a lot of noise.

None of these officials and gentlemen in Shanxi, who are like rich and rich, have found out about this very important question. Ask them, they all say they don't know.

The scope of influence is very large, almost from the time they entered Shanxi, wherever they go, there will be white lotus disciples rising up!

After beating the front, I had to turn my head and go to the back of the butt to beat the White Lotus Sect.

Their general grain transport general, Wang Ziyong, was tossed miserably. The troops used by Wang Ziyong were all strong people, and the civilian men recruited in Caohe, Tongzhou, just worked hard to transport their luggage for them.

The military rations were robbed again and again. Although Wang Ziyong was properly guarded, he still lost more or less military rations and had to be recruited by the local government.

Moreover, the food transportation team lost many men. In order to replenish manpower, they had to recruit local people. This not only slowed down the marching speed, but also made a bad start.

A demon from the White Lotus Sect sneaked into the team.

It was so uncomfortable that Wang Ziyong spoke incoherently and danced with his hands.

This inland anti-insurgency war is much more difficult than Cao Wenzhao imagined.

It wasn't until the team marched to Yonghe Pass and traveled through the whole of Shanxi that Cao Wenzhao saw the first person who understood, guard Fu Renxi.

This is the only official who can clearly tell him that the White Lotus Sect has flooded Shanxi.

Fu Renxi said that he didn't dare to mention this matter to others, because the influence of the White Lotus Sect was so great and the influence was so wide that many officials pretended not to know about it.

Therefore, Fu Renxi was convinced that the White Lotus believers gathered in Shanxi must be planning to do something big in the future.

After crossing the Yellow River, Yang Yanchang returned to his hometown, but Cao Wenzhao's disgusting journey has just begun.

Cao Wenzhao always thought that the thieves were all in Yan'an Mansion, but Yan'an Mansion was quiet and deserted villages and empty houses were everywhere, and there was no one there.

Even Yang Yanchang couldn't beat anyone.

There is a posture of the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of the building.

There are no people, no bandits, and naturally no food and grass. The only good news is that the power of the White Lotus Sect seems to have not yet crossed the Yellow River.

Governor Hong wanted to see through them, so he transferred directly to Fugu County to besiege Wang Jiayin.

As soon as he arrived in Fugu, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, moved to Ningzhou with [-] Han troops. Fifty miles away from him was Liu Chengzong, a giant bandit from Yan'an who led an army of nearly [-].

Can scare people to death.

Hong Chengchou had no choice but to send this army and the guerrilla general Zuo Guangxian to Ningzhou.

The local supply capacity was very poor, so Zuo Guang first led 500 people to walk along the Great Wall, passing through Huanxian County and going south to Qingyang Mansion to Ningzhou.

Cao Wenzhao's army brought their own dry food, and then went to Yan'an Prefecture and Yanzhou, from Ziwuling to Heshui County and went south to Ningzhou.

In fact, Liu Chengzong's early warning system composed of many people did not go wrong anywhere.

The only ones who made a mistake were probably Yang Yanchang and He Yong. He Yong followed He Renlong to Fugu to besiege the city, so he couldn't pass the news to Liu Chengzong.

As for the others, they all knew that Yang Yanchang was one of them, so they saved another trip and let Yang Yanchang report the news.

Yang Yanchang also wanted to report, and when he arrived in Heshui County after crossing Ziwuling, he planned to report the news, but Hong Chengchou's transfer order came again.

Wang Jiayin colluded with the northern captives to invade the country and attacked various fortresses along the way. Governor Hong wanted to transfer them back.

Before Yang Yanchang could send the message, the offensive was cancelled, and naturally there was no need to send any more news to Liu Chengzong.

They returned to Yan'an Mansion via Ziwuling, and returned to Yansui Town by the same route.

The soldiers in Guanning became war-weary.

Even if they didn't walk all the way from Beizhili to Yansui Town, just running from Yansui Town to Heshui County, and then back to Yansui Town from Heshui County, they had traveled two thousand miles.

A governor and a governor walk their dogs here.

Cao Wenzhao was exhausted, so he discussed with Yang Yanchang, "Aren't you running around like a mad dog? Liu Chengzong in Ningzhou is defeated by your veteran. You go to deal with him, and I will go to support Yansui Town."

Yang Yanchang quit, he has a strong control over his own strength, before his opportunity to fight, Liu Chengzong will not lose to him.

When Liu Chengzong plans to transfer, his fighter will arrive.

A group of troops arrived in Yansui Town full of complaints and joined the war against the Mongols.

This means that Wang Ziyong went to the county government in various counties in Shanxi to steal some food, so that the sergeants were not hungry, otherwise the army would have collapsed.

After two months of walking and fighting, there were thieves in the front and Bailian disciples in the back.

It often happens that when the soldiers gather on the second day, the horse soldiers will not get on the horses if they want to mount them;

The horses couldn't stand it anymore. They just changed horses with the garrison in Shanxi, and they changed the army's war horses twice.

Exchange a good horse for a bad horse, and exchange two bad horses for a bad horse.

Finally, the Mongols were repelled by the Great Wall, Wang Jiayin ran away, and Yang He issued an order to Hong Chengchou, with strict words, Guyuan was captured, Han Fan was broken by thieves, Cao Wenzhao must be transferred to Pingliangping Rebel.

But for Guan Ningjun, they actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

At least when fighting in the customs, you don't have to worry about the enemy's reinforcements coming before your own reinforcements, and you don't have to worry about your own reinforcements coming and standing by.

Not to mention that there is no one to collect the corpses when they die outside the pass. The enemy feeds their flesh and blood to dogs and builds new cities one after another.

But Yang Yanchang's people couldn't stand it, and Wang Ziyong's people couldn't stand it even more.

The two of them had to think of a way after discussing, they can't be walked around like being walked with a dog, let Guan Ning play by himself.

The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came when they crossed Meridian Ridge for the second time.

Wang Ziyong called Gao Yingxiang, the farming king, from Shiziwan. It was originally planned that Gao Yingxiang would cut off the retreat, communicate with Liu Chengzong, and bury the Guanning army in Qingyang Mansion.

Unexpectedly, Yang He changed his mind.

It was said that Liu Chengzong saved the Han Palace, and the emperor wanted to confer Liu Chengzong to Qinghai, and everyone went crazy all of a sudden.

Yang Yanchang was about to run to Ningzhou, but immediately turned around and ran north, even ignoring Cao Wenzhao, and took Wang Ziyong all the way through Heshui County, across Ziwu Ridge, and ran back to Fuzhou.

Cao Wenzhao wondered how fast this grandson ran.

But there was nothing surprising, ever since Yang Yanchang got into trouble with him over killing the thief, this guy kept running forward, and as for Wang Ziyong, he probably didn't want to leave.

He never expected that after the vanguard officer and his luggage crossed Ziwu Ridge, the bandit soldiers he hadn't seen for a long time were waiting for him on the mountain road!
Gao Yingxiang blocked him to the west, preventing them from returning to Yan'an Mansion.

The terrain of Ziwu Ridge was similar to that of Huanglong Mountain. Since the Taihang Mountain, the Guan Ning Army had been attacking wildly all the way without any heavy equipment. Wang Ziyong had all the artillery, soldiers and rations, and only carried small cannons weighing [-] to [-] catties.

The ten large lion cannons in Gao Yingxiang's hands fired in turn, and the ball cannons couldn't get in the range of the narrow mountain road.

Even if they couldn't touch anyone, they were beaten and retreated steadily.

In desperation, Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to withdraw from Ziwuling, thinking that anyway, there is Heshui County behind, and he can supply it for a short time. If not, he will go to Huan County and return to Yansui Town via the Great Wall in the north.

Who knew that Jiang Yingchang, the magistrate of Heshui County, who invited him to dinner two days ago, saw that he had lost the battle, so he immediately closed the city gate and did not allow them to approach.

Cao Wenzhao was so angry that he wanted to attack the city. He stood outside the moat suspension bridge and scolded him for a quarter of an hour, a duplicitous bastard.

Gao Yingxiang didn't go out of Ziwu Ridge, he just took advantage of the terrain and weapons to trap them on the mountain road, there was nothing he could do.

Suddenly the good situation is gone.

Measuring the distance, if you go north, you will reach Huan County after two days of starvation, and Huan County may not necessarily provide them with luggage.

It is more feasible to go south and find Yang He to find a way to get some food.

But one day before the journey, Yang He sent a message that Ningzhou was so poor that they had no food and grass, so they were asked to go north.

Going north now, they need to starve for another three days.

Originally on the Ningzhou Dayuan, there was also a team of Han Chaozai, allowing them to plunder food and grass, but Zuo Guang shot through Han Chaozai's people first and hid in Zhenyuan County.

The most embarrassing thing is that in the territory of Ningzhou, it is impossible to even plunder the people.

The common people are poorer than them, all of them are buried in the ground, but without heavy firepower and siege equipment, their ability to attack the fortress is not much better than Li Laozheng.

There is only one place around that has enough food and grass - Pingliang Mansion.

Cao Wenzhao didn't want to rob Pingliang Mansion.

He felt that Pingliang Mansion was robbed by thieves earlier, and there were Yang He and the army practicing state affairs in Ningzhou in the southeast. He came from the east, and Liu Chengzong belonged to the west.

So the gang of thieves who robbed the palace must have not left this place.

He had wiped out this bandit army in the past, and now that he had sufficient supplies of food and grass, wouldn't he be able to go back to Yansui Town to listen?
Unexpectedly, the gang of bandits disappeared.

It can't be said to have disappeared. In fact, the two generations of Jin Chanzi are all near Ningzhou.

Some time ago, Yang He gathered the refugees, and a group of refugees led by a blacksmith settled in Tianyuan Mountain by the Malian River. The blacksmith stopped drinking.

These people have enough money and food to reclaim the land. Yang He welcomes such people very much. That place is now called Ningzhou Hanchanli.

And in the mountains not far from Hanchanli, Zhu Quanyu, the second-generation golden cicada who had been beaten by Lian's state affairs, was recharging his energy and looking west with hatred from time to time.

He is planning to rob Han Fan Lumi's job.

It's just the real behind-the-scenes black hand who disappeared into the vast mountains with money and food.

But Cao Wenzhao's troops did not lose anything. They still found a group of small thieves who took advantage of the chaos to loot, and got food that could last for a few days.

But before they left with their troops, someone attacked their Tangqi.

Judging from the way they arrange the pond riders, it should be a serious frontier army. In the valley with a width of five miles, a pond soldier is set up every one mile.

Layers upon layers of semaphores were fought westward, and the Tang soldiers of the Guanning Army pressed up, and they fought with them. retreat westward.

Cao Wenzhao deliberately sent troops to report, but the person who reported the letter was shot and killed directly.

They've never seen such a thing: Does Lao Tzu look so much like a bandit, or is it that the Western Army is like this and doesn't communicate with people at all?
Very strange.

It's not that Cao Wenzhao didn't think about Liu Chengzong, but just thinking about it makes him feel funny. Is this possible?

He has seen Gao Yingxiang's soldiers. It is not surprising that bandits have frontier soldiers under their command. It is normal for them to understand military formations, know how to use weapons, and be organized.

But Tang Bing is a very professional unit, and it is extremely necessary to cooperate. With the messy semaphore, if one Tang Bing is not fully incorporated, it is difficult for a few Tang Bing to accomplish anything.

If you play a semaphore, others can't understand it, which means there is no semaphore.

Not to mention this kind of reporting that stretches for ten or twenty miles or even farther in the valley. This is not something that a few soldiers can do. It requires the cooperation of more than 24 soldiers.

This shows that there is at least one battalion of the Northwest Frontier Army in the west.

"If I find this general, I'll hang him from a tree and smoke him!" Cao Wenzhao slammed the water bag on the ground viciously: "After entering Shaanxi, what the hell are these bastards doing? The counties don't care about food. , the officers and soldiers are still covering Lao Tzu's battlefield!"

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