I want to be emperor

Chapter 38 Outing
According to Luo Zhixue's vision, if the officers and soldiers can be successfully lured away this time, then they will be more careful and low-key later. With luck, they may stay in Funiu Mountain for two or three years to continue to gain more strength.

Therefore, the surrounding villages should not be squeezed too hard, they must be allowed to live and continue to open up wasteland and farm, so that there is food to be collected and soldiers to be recruited.

But not all rebels have the same idea as them. In fact, most of the rogues go to a place, rob and burn and kill more than half of them, and finally engulf the young and strong into the army as cannon fodder.

No, another group of thieves broke into the outskirts of Funiu Mountain from Nanzhao County in Nanyang Prefecture.

After these thieves entered the southern outskirts of Funiu Mountain, they were not polite along the way. They basically robbed all the villages they encountered on the way and could beat them, and took two thousand young men by the way.

Seeing that all the food in the village ahead had been moved out, more than 100 Qingzhuang were forcibly tied up.

Ta Tianhu looked gratified.

It was not in vain that I came all the way from Yunyang to Nanyang Mansion, broke through the siege of the government and army, and finally ran here.

There are few officers and soldiers here, although the population is a little less, but there are some, and it is the autumn harvest, after running around for several days, the harvest is quite rich.

Such an opportunity, how could it be possible if he stayed in Yunyang.

Not only Tatianhu was happy, but also the people under him. One of the leaders who looked like a leader came to Tatianhu's side and said, "Boss, we are right to come to Funiu Mountain this time."

"There is a lot of food here, and there are no cities or powerful manors, so we can grab whatever we want."

"I reckon there will definitely be more villages in Funiu Mountain. The food and young people in them are all ours. If we are lucky, we may be able to pull out tens of thousands of villages."

Tatianhu glanced back at this subordinate, smiled and nodded: "It's a good place, I should have come here a long time ago."

Speaking of this, Tatianhu remembered the tragic experience when he went south.

He had long been playing rebellion with Ta Tianhu, one of the leaders of the rebels in Shaanxi, and after Ta Tianhu died, he took the title of the original leader Ta Tianhu and became a new generation of Ta Tianhu.

But Tatianhu's name seems to be very famous at first glance, but the actual shortage of these people is very small, and the largest number in the past was only 5000 people. The name of the 36th Battalion failed to get mixed up.

And after Wang Ziyong died, Gao Yingxiang became the leader of the rebel army, and the thirteen families in the rebel army did not have his share...

In fact, the two generations of Treading Tigers failed to make a name for themselves. They are just one of the contemporary thieves everywhere.

In the past two years, as the second generation of Tatianhu, he has been following Gao Yingxiang with his subordinates, repeatedly running around in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan... Last year, he followed Gao Yingxiang, the leader, all the way to I went to Yunyang, and finally went to Sichuan for a walk.

However, the main force of the rebel army led by Gao Yingxiang suffered a big defeat in Sichuan, and they were forced to return to Yunyang. In Yunyang, they encountered Lu Xiangsheng and other soldiers encircling and suppressing them. Get dangerous.

At that time, a large number of rebels began to fend for themselves, some of them fled north into the Qinling Mountains, and some of them headed towards Nanyang Mansion, trying to return to Henan.

Ta Tianhu and the others were also one of the many rebels who returned to Henan, but it was not easy to return to Henan, and they were besieged by officers and soldiers along the way.

Along the way, Ta Tianhu took his men and horses to hide in Tibet, and was defeated by officers and soldiers many times along the way. There are less than a hundred people.

There are only a hundred people left under his command, and most of the elites have been wiped out and scattered away. This kind of thing has not happened to him for many years.

In the past, although his strength in Tianhu was not very good, and he failed to get the titles of the 36th Battalion and the 72nd Battalion of the Thirteen Family, but relying on the young and strong, the men and horses under him have always been able to maintain at the same level. With a scale of several thousand people, they can be regarded as barely registered people among the officers and soldiers, and they are not ordinary rebel leaders who are not well-known...

But when he went south and fled to Nanzhao County after breaking through the official army, there were only a hundred people left under him...

With so few people under his command, he didn't feel safe at all, so he just ran to Nanzhao County, where there were fewer officers and soldiers, and when he reached the edge of the mountain, he couldn't wait to recruit troops.

Well, that's all.

It is impossible to recruit soldiers, they are all directly coerced by force.

It is impossible to buy a horse, it is all directly robbed.

As for food and so on, let alone, they shot all the villages they encountered on the road and could be taken down again.

After being busy for several days, after getting food and packing more than 2000 people, Ta Tianhu still felt that it was not enough.

When he had the largest number of people, there were tens of thousands of people, even the old brothers had hundreds of people, and he didn't pay attention to the two thousand young men now.

So he has to keep working hard!

Thinking of this, Ta Tianhu waved his hand and said: "Let the children be quicker in their hands and feet, and try to grab another village in the afternoon!"

When Tatianhu marched towards Funiu Mountain with more than a hundred backbones and more than 2000 young and strong men, he attracted the attention of others within two days.

Sun Chengli frowned after listening to the sentry under his command that a group of thieves with more than 2000 people came in front of him, that is, from the southwest of Funiu Mountain.

In order to confuse the officers and soldiers as much as possible and keep the officers and soldiers in the outskirts of Funiu Mountain, I have worked hard these days to deliberately lure the officers and soldiers to the west.

But he didn't expect that a group of thieves came ahead, and he was only a day's away in front of him.

How to do?
Sun Chengli did not decide on his own, but called Wang Xiazi, Lin Dongsheng, and Wang Dazhuang to discuss together. Although these people have never read military books, they don't even know a single character.

But one counts as another, all of them were officers and soldiers, and they were senior officers and soldiers who had fought for many years. Before Sun Chengli was a junior officer.

They don't understand too advanced theories, but they still have basic common sense and cleverness.

After some discussion, they decided that they could use this bandit army to divert the targets of the officers and soldiers, and let the two of them fight while they hid aside to see the situation.

The more the four discussed it, the more they felt that it was reliable.

So it started.

They continued to lure the officers and soldiers to the west, but lured them away halfway...

At this time, Huang Guangmao, who was slowly saying that he was chasing after him, but in fact, who drove the bandit army west all the way, also got the news from the sentry.

More than ten miles ahead, a large number of bandit troops appeared, about two thousand in number, and many of them were exiles.
"There are so many thieves, are we catching up with their main force?" Huang Guangmao's first reaction after hearing the news was that he had chased too hard all the way, leading to directly catching up with the main force of the thieves.

In fact, Huang Guangmao didn't think about catching up with the main force of the bandit army. He just wanted to expel these bandits to the west. As long as they were driven away from Lushan County, would those bandits later harm the Lu family? He doesn't care about Song County and the like.

But, the chase was too fierce, and it was a bit embarrassing to directly catch up with the opponent's main force.

Because Huang Guangmao didn't plan to catch up and fight the bandits!

Furthermore, the number of this bandit army seems to be a little small, and there seem to be too many refugees in their arms. It is not like a bandit who can pull out dozens of fine cavalry and one or two hundred infantry as a broken army.

In the past few days, his sentry had been in contact with the vanguard of the bandit army many times, and he knew that there were at least dozens of cavalry and about 200 unarmored infantry in the bandit army that he had been chasing or expelling.

And for a brigade of thieves with dozens of fine cavalry and two hundred infantry, the scale of the main force is definitely not that small, and there will be more elites.

But, the sentinel said that the bandit army in the front only had more than 2000 people.

This made Huang Guangmao suspicious.

The strength of this bandit is a bit small!

It doesn't match the elite power it showed before.

Could it be that the thieves set up suspicious formations to show the enemy's weakness?

Huang Guangmao had doubts in his heart, and immediately became cautious, and ordered to send more sentries to investigate.

At least find out the situation of the bandit army ahead.

If there are more main force of the thief army nearby, then he has to slow down and stabilize.

After all, he now has limited troops. It seems that there are thousands of officers and soldiers in his army, but the recruits who can fight are only more than 300 soldiers led by him.

Half of the remaining [-] or [-] people are local guards or county warriors with little combat effectiveness, and a few hundred people are simply recruited temporarily, without weapons, to transport luggage.

With limited troops, he naturally didn't want to fight with too many bandits. There was no need for that. Even if he could win the soldiers under his hands, he would lose a lot of them.

Thinking of this, Huang Guangmao wanted to be steady, take it easy!
But, there is not only Huang Guangmao in this team of officers and soldiers, but also Wang Jida, a county lord who wants to make military exploits and get promoted.

This person heard that he had already caught up with the bandit army, and that the bandit army was only two thousand, so he didn't care about letting others spread the word, but came to look for Huang Guangmao himself.

Of course, as Wang Jida, the county lord, it is impossible to walk here in person, and he can't ride a horse, so he came here in a sedan chair carried by two people.

In fact, when there was still a big road to go before entering the mountain, he took four big sedan chairs, but when there was no big road to go into the mountain, only small roads, he would switch to two sedan chairs and go with the army.

There are more than ten bearers who carry the sedan chair for him in rotation.

And not only that, Wang Jida also had more than [-] people in his entourage, including Muyou, long-term attendants, book boys, personal maids, rough envoys, and even cooks.

Along the way, some people poured hot tea and water, some held umbrellas to shade them from the sun, and some beat their backs and rubbed their legs.

There are big tents for camping at night, and there are maids and maids sleeping in the tents.

People who didn't know saw it and thought he was out for an outing.

(End of this chapter)