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Chapter 237 What is Xin doing?

Since Xu Tong, one of Jin Taiping's subordinates in the rebellion army, was beheaded on July [-], Jin Taiping and Li Kui immediately realized that the soldiers and horses left behind in Caizhou had entered Yingzhou.

They were defeated twice by Chen Chubu in June and July, and the two couldn't help being cautious.

In order to prevent the troops who went out to collect grain from being divided and annihilated, the rebel army hurriedly gathered the remaining troops and slowly retreated to Shangying County in the southeast of Yingzhou.

If the situation is not good, you can escape from Shangying County to Shouzhou in the east, or cross the Huai River in the south to Zhou Guo.

However, Shouzhou has been ravaged for a long time, let alone food, there are not many living people left, Jin and Li are unwilling to return to Shouzhou unless it is absolutely necessary.

Chen Chu's side entered the city on the [-]th, and spent three days stabilizing the situation in Yingzhou. After the follow-up food and grass were transferred into the city, Chen Chu handed over Yingzhou City to Zhang Chunxiao, and left Chen Jing'an here to coordinate the logistics of the army.

On the 24th, Chen Chu led his army to continue marching southeast.

Guo Tao'er, the former commander of the left-behind division of Yingzhou, and the two armies under his jurisdiction, acted together with Chen Chu.

The defense of Yingzhou City was handed over to the Jing'an Army under the jurisdiction of Caizhou Left Behind Division.

The purpose of handing over the task of defending the city to his subordinates was to avoid the situation of "people taking over the government and extinguishing the government" after Chen Chu left.

If Yingzhou officials and the Yingzhou Left-Behind Department are still in charge of Yingzhou and Chen Chu leaves, the 'wartime rationing system' will most likely be cancelled.

He didn't want to cause trouble in the rear where he had stockpiled food, grass and weapons when he was fighting life and death on the front line.

As for Liao Siyi, one-armed Wu Degao and others, Chen Jingan, who was temporarily detained in the official residence in Yingzhou, was still arguing with Fan Gongzhi.

Fan Gongzhi wanted Chen Jingan to play the event in the name of Caizhou Left-behind Division, but Chen Jingan insisted that Fan Shangshu personally perform the performance, and the Left-behind Division and Zhang Chunxiao of Henan Road could at most jointly sign, and asked Fan Shangshu and Zhang Chunxiao to make the performance under the pretext of superiority and inferiority. People must sign before Chen Dutong
After a few days of stalemate, the court had already known about the fact that Yingzhou officials and businessmen were colluding to steal and sell official food, but Yingzhou's collection of watches had not been released for a long time.

On the 25th, Chen Chu led his army into Shangying County.

In the county, the villages scattered in the wild have long since disappeared. The people are all concentrated in the villages with walls and polder walls, or one village guards one polder, or two or three villages gather in one polder to hide from the rebels.

There is no need to be taught how to protect yourself in groups. This is an almost instinctive reaction caused by wars and displacements for thousands of years.

However, this method is feasible to resist small groups of thieves. If the thieves become large, they will inevitably destroy the fence and people will die.

The first thing Chen Chu did when he arrived in Shangying County was to temporarily relocate the people scattered in small villages to Dazhuang, a village with thick walls.

Each village left two or even fifty sergeants in charge of organizing and commanding the people.

In this way, there will be a large fair every ten miles or eight miles, which can usually gather hundreds of young and strong people, making it more difficult for the disorderly army to break through the fair.

Between the polders, they can still look at each other and form horns with each other.

Every polder has become a fortress that the rebels cannot gnaw down.

Of course, when the villagers moved to Daxu, many people did not understand, and there were even rumors that 'the government and the army are going to take us to the wild to kill us'.

Therefore, there were confrontations, and every time this happened, Chen Chu could only mobilize military officers at all levels to do the work of the elderly and squires in the village.

As long as their work is done well, the villagers will often accept it meekly.

Chen Chu couldn't help sighing that the clan and the scholar-bureaucrat class controlled the low-level people so tightly. This kind of control did not necessarily rely entirely on "violence", but was more often reflected in the spiritual control of "obedience to words".

Without a well-established grassroots organization, even the heavenly king and Laozi came, and the elderly and gentry had the final say in this vast rural area.

On the 28th.

In the north of Shangying County, Li Kui, a rebel army, besieged Niujiadi.

Villagers from six nearby villages happened to be gathered here. Under the leadership of Laomeng and Maotou, the chiefs of the Quanzi Yingshi of the Wuwei Army, hundreds of young and strong people repelled the rebellious army several times by relying on the power of the polder wall, and sent signals to the Chinese army and wanderers. Ride for help.

The rebel army failed to siege for half a day, and the reinforcements from the government army arrived again. They had to leave more than a hundred corpses and wounded soldiers in a panic, and fled south in embarrassment.

The next day, Jin Taiping's rebel army attacked Xushui village fifteen miles south of Niujiadi. Xushui village was a village that was unwilling to move to Daxu.

Due to the lack of young and strong guards and the lack of unified command and dispatch, the wall of the village was broken in half an hour.

After the rebel army broke the stronghold, they looted, slaughtered the village and destroyed the temple, and then went south.

Only a dozen women and children in the whole village survived by hiding in the well.

Within two days, the two Zhuangzi were successively harassed by the rebel army, but the results were very different.

This was more useful than any mobilization. In the next few days, villagers from various small villages moved to Daxu under the protection of the government and army.

By the beginning of August, in the north-central part of Shangying County, there was no village that could be easily captured, and the rebel army gradually ran out of supplies.
The sixth day of August.

In the southern part of Shangying County, Fanjiawei, shouted to kill and shook the sky.

Outside the wall of the polder, on top of a dozen ladders, a group of chaotic soldiers in different clothes held sharp knives in their mouths, quickly alternated hands and feet, and ants attached themselves.

Seeing that he was about to climb to the top of the wall, he poured a pot of boiling gold juice over his head.
After a scream, the chaos army fell one after another.

On the top of the wall, a young man in his twenties stood tall. This place was obviously a dirty and smelly battlefield, but this young man was wearing a moon white shirt.

Sao Bao reappeared.

'whoosh~'

Pretending to be struck by lightning, such a conspicuous attire attracted a cold arrow.

The young man twisted his waist and retracted his hips, and even his posture of flexibly dodging arrows was full of arrogance.

Dodging the cold arrow, the boy couldn't help being furious, stretched out his hand to grab his carved bow from his companion, and yelled at the place where the hidden arrow was shot under the wall: "Grandpa, you dare to use a hidden arrow to shoot grandpa!"

"Tell you to shoot!"

"Call you to cum~"

"call you to cum"

The young man is like the old woman Luo Yao, while muttering to himself, he has shot three arrows in a row. Every time the bowstring is sounded, a thief must fall to the ground and die under the wall.

"Tanfu, so powerful and accurate!"

Seeing the young man's bravery, the young man guarding the village immediately cheered.

He was clearly dressed as a scholar, but he did not expect to be so mighty.
The young man smiled and made a square bow to the surrounding youths, using this dangerous battlefield as a stage for performance.

These few arrows drained the last bit of courage from the rebel army. I don't know who took the lead. The rebel army retreated like a tide.

In the distance, there is a high hill.

Li Kui sat on the horse's back and looked at Fan Jiaxu with an unfriendly expression, "When I destroy Fan Jiawei, I will surely divide this boy in white clothes into five horses, and this Zhuangzi will not leave any chickens or dogs behind!"

Jin Taiping next to him didn't make any response, such cruel words are completely meaningless.
"General Li, if the Fanjiaxu is not broken today and tomorrow, we can't delay, we need to leave as soon as possible." Jin Taiping said worriedly.

"How could I not know!"

Li Kui glanced to the north, spat first, and said: "The dog officer drove us from Caizhou to Yingzhou, and now he is running the railway in the north and middle of Shangying County, and the navy cut off our Huai River South." The way to retreat. We can only escape to Shouzhou, if we don’t destroy this Zhuangzi before we leave, let’s go to Shouzhou to eat soil!”

When Jin Taiping heard this, he frowned and remained silent.

Although Li Kui's words were rough, he said them well.

In late July, after the officers and soldiers forced them into Shangying County, they gathered the people in the north-central part of the country to form a stronghold, step by step, and pushed the method of village fortress southward, gradually eroding the space for the rebel army to operate.

Now the rebellious army can still move, only the area in the south of Shangying is less than a hundred miles away.

In such a large place, it must be difficult to maintain the food, chewing and supplies of more than 1 rebels.

In recent days, all the Zhuangzi that can be captured in the southern part of Shangying have been captured, leaving only Weizi with high walls and wide walls like Fanjiawei.

Even if they want to retreat to Shouzhou, they need to lay down a few large fairs to supply food and grass.

What's annoying is that this brat in white clothes in Fanjiaxu not only took the iron pass run by the village as normal, but also dared to lead people to attack the rear team of the "rebel army" when the "rebel army" captured other big fairs.
It's like eating the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard.

Since the incident, Li Kui has encountered people who were forced into a desperate situation and had no choice but to resist, but who dared to take the initiative to attack, so far he has only met Fan Jiawei.

He couldn't help itching his teeth with hatred.

Now nearly Qianerlang has been lost in Fanjiawei, so Li Kui is not reconciled to retreating like this.

"Commander Jin, don't say anything! I'll wait for Erlang to attack again tomorrow, and I don't believe that I can't take down his little Zhuangzi!"

Li Kui said harshly. Jin Taiping knew that the two of them were grasshoppers on the same rope. After thinking for a while, he said: "Let the brothers continue to build the ladder tonight. Tomorrow, I will lead my own headquarters and attack the village from the east and west sides at the same time." , After breaking the Fanjiawei, he took the food and grass and quickly retreated to Shouzhou. In the current situation, Chen Chu in Caizhou made it clear that he wanted to force us to a decisive battle, and we must not be led by the nose by him."

The decisive battle is the decisive battle!Is Lao Tzu afraid of him?

Li Kui wanted to say a few tough words to build up his momentum, but then he thought of the embarrassment he had to ride alone for hundreds of miles in the battle of Xiaojialing, and his momentum couldn't help weakening, "Okay, I will listen to Jin's command."

At [-] hour that night.

Caizhou stayed in Si Daying, Chen Chu read the military information sent by the Marquis Yu of each battalion, and wrote a letter to Chen Jingan who stayed in Yingzhou City.

As soon as I finished writing, White Haired Mouse and Wu Tong, the scout team from the personal barracks, came to report.

He called the two of them into the camp, only to see an arrow stuck diagonally on the shoulder blade of the white-haired rat.

Chen Chu couldn't help being taken aback, and said, "Are you injured? Is it okay?"

The white-haired mouse clasped its fists first, and then said with a firm face: "Go back to the boss, and the subordinates will not get in the way!"

Wu Tong on the side lowered his head, wanted to laugh and held back.

This old man is really a showman!

Today they went to Shangyingnan to investigate the enemy's situation. When they encountered the enemy's sentry, Lao Bai was shot by the enemy when they retreated.

The arrow was far away, and Lao Bai was wearing armor again, the arrow just slipped in through the gap of the leather armor, causing at most a little flesh injury.

On the way back, when the brothers who went out to investigate together wanted to help Lao Bai pull out the arrow, Lao Bai said nothing.

Just now Wu Tong didn't understand why, and he didn't understand until now. Lao Bai kept this arrow for Lord Du Tong to see!
Look how brave I am, see how dedicated I am.
"If the injury is serious, tomorrow we will go back to Caizhou with the food escort team to recuperate." Chen Chu looked at the trembling arrow feathers on the back of the white-haired mouse, which might fall off at any time, and said with a half-smile.

"Hey! My old Bai's life has already been handed over to the boss, this small injury is nothing! I won't go back to the rear, I will continue to stay in the army to serve the boss!"

Lao Bai took the opportunity to show his loyalty. Chen Chu laughed and said, "Don't ask for credit. After this battle, your reward will be indispensable."

"Hey, Boss, it doesn't matter if you reward me or not. I have something I want to ask Boss."

Lao Bai suddenly twitched.

"What's the matter?" Chen Chu asked strangely.

"that. that"

"Let go if you have something to say, say fart if you have something to say!"

"Hehe, let me tell you this, boss. I'm already in my twenties this year. I go home and do nothing, and I don't even have anyone who understands the cold and the heat. Could you please ask someone to tell me? A mother-in-law."

"Pfft~" Wu Tong, who was standing aside with his head bowed, couldn't help it.

Chen Chu couldn't help being amused, now that the white-haired rat is serving in the Zhenhuai Army, the salary is not low.

It's just that this guy is thin and small, with a pair of sneaky mouse eyes, two protruding front teeth, and a naturally wretched appearance.

And now that I'm older, it's really hard to call me a daughter-in-law.
"This matter." Chen Chu nodded with a smile, and said: "When we get back, I will tell my wife to help you pay more attention. But there is no guarantee of success, and this matter cannot be bought or sold by force."

"Hey, good. If you have a boss, you can do it!"

"Okay, let's get down to business, go out to investigate today, what did you get?"

Chen Chu asked carefully.

On the side, Tang Jing'an, who was helping Chen Chu sort out and classify the official military documents, glanced at the white-haired mouse, thinking that this old white is really a clever ghost!

Who is there who can make people say goodbye now?
The wife of Yang Dalang, commander of the Zhenhuai Army, was a matchmaker, and the wife of Yao Yuhou, who had never been in the military camp, was once a servant girl.

There is also Liu Erhu, the deputy commander of the Zhenhuai Army, who went to his house to say that he broke the threshold, but Erhu's mother said that for his son's marriage, he had to rely on Zhao Ren to be a matchmaker.
At the beginning, Lao Bai shamelessly called Du Tong's boss, if he was asked to make a marriage proposal for him again, it would be to brand the iron seal of "Du Tong's own people" on his ass.

This old man can really do it!
On the other side, Chen Chu concluded based on the situation after the white-haired mouse and others came into contact with the chaos army outpost today, "So, the chaos army's combat power has improved."

"Going back to my boss, that's true. Compared to a month ago, the distribution and alertness of today's chaotic military outposts are much stronger than last time."

"That's right. In the battle of Xiaojialing, although we won a big victory, they also got rid of a lot of burdens that they were not good at fighting and couldn't fight. With Jin Taiping, the former general of the army, commanding, I think it will be much stronger."

Chen Chu analyzed, and the white-haired mouse flattered him a little, "My boss has sharp eyes, and he saw the truth at a glance."

"Stop flattering." Chen Chu smiled, and said, "How is the southern part of Shangying County?"

"Back at my employer's house, the rebels did not gain much advantage in the south of Shangying County. They were held back for two days by Zhuangzi, a place called Fanjiawei."

"Oh?"

"Boss, I don't know if this Zhuangzi has heard about the 'Village Fort Law' that we are promoting in the north of the county. We guarded the manor together, and even gathered more than a hundred horses to form a team of knights."

When the white-haired mouse talked about this village, it was amazed.

'Collecting seven or eight villages and organizing nearly a thousand young and strong' is easy to say, but Chen Chu knows the difficulty. Several villages are gathered in one place, and supplies are bound to be in short supply. How to arrange housing, how to distribute food, how to let untrained Young and strong obey orders
Every incident is troublesome, especially when it comes to the distribution of rations. If it is not done well, not only will the several villages fail to form a joint force, but internal strife will appear instead.

It must be someone who can arrange all these well.

"Then what's the name of Fanjiawei's owner?" Chen Chu couldn't help asking.

The white-haired mouse made a clear inquiry, "Back home, the patriarch of Fanjiawei is named Fan Yan, and he has a good reputation in the local area. However, the person responsible for dispatching and directing various matters of Fanjiaxu this time is The son-in-law of the Fan family is said to be originally from Jinan Prefecture on Shandong Road, and his name is Xin Qiji."

"Oh"

Chen Chu responded casually, and suddenly became agitated, "What's wrong with Xin Xin?"

(End of this chapter)