Chapter 18, Endless Night

Zu Zhao and Li Xin led four hundred righteous braves from Xu Wuxian County all the way south along the official road. Because the horse team and the walking team walked together, the journey was not as fast as before. Even if they would travel for more than eight hours in the daytime, they would reach the Wuyi County Mirror in a whole day. As early as the departure, Li Xin had sent his men to inform along the way. Wucheng County learned that it was Xu Wuxian Yiyong transit and specially arranged for the county Yiyong to come to welcome him. At night, he also settled outside the county to rest.

The team of Wuying County's expedition to help the county government was earlier than Zu Zhao and Li Xin's side. By this time, they should have arrived at the county government.

After settling down Yiyong's camp, Zu Zhao and Li Xin came to the nearest pavilion to the camp to drink a glass of light wine without the invitation of Ding Shang. Ding Shang is more than 40 years old and conscientious, but he has never done much. He prepared some light wine and cooked a pot of dog meat in the pavilion. Unfortunately, when Zu Zhao, Li Xin and others moved their chopsticks, they found that the so-called dog meat in such a large pot was pitiful, and there were more radishes, cabbage, leaf roots and so on.

The world is restless, and it's good to have some fishy smell. Ding Shang can also see its generousness with such kindness.

Light wine pushed the cup and set the cup, and everyone's topic gradually returned from the edge of the sky to the present turmoil in the county.

Ding Shang told Li Xin and Zu Zhao that there were many Taiping disciples in the county, and there were no special restrictions in the county before, so they indulged them over and over again. Fortunately, these Taiping Taoists did not make any big deal in the county. At the beginning of February, they almost agreed to leave for the south of the county. Presumably, at this time, the thieves from Junnan Zonghai, Deng Mao and Yu Shanghai were trapped in attacking the county government.

Zu Zhao and Li Xin both believe that this matter must have been premeditated. Obviously, there is a close connection between Taiping Road and Changcheng Zhang Wan in the county. Otherwise, it would never have been so coincidental.

Ding Shang is very worried about the current situation in the county. He uses the simplest way to analyze it. After all, there are too many poor people in the county. As the saying goes, Taiping Road takes the lead and is bound to cause a wide range of reactions. Zhang Wen, a bicycle general, originally came to Youzhou to recruit troops and has recruited many young men. In addition, the government corvée in various places is too frequent. Many people would rather hide or even join the uprising than join the army. Therefore, now not only the right Beiping County lacks troops, but I'm afraid that the situation in the whole Youzhou is very worrying.

Li Xin believes that Luronse, who is stationed on the border, will inevitably transfer troops to Youbeiping County to suppress the rebellion. Unfortunately, although Luronse is a close force, he has no choice but to be an officer and army. According to the official system of the Han Dynasty, local states and counties have no right to mobilize officers and soldiers, which can only be done by order from the court.

"It's only a matter of time before the court ordered." Zu Zhao slowly took a sip of wine and said in a profound tone, "However, I'm afraid it will take a long time to know that the situation is serious."

Although Zu Zhao's words are true, after all, when it comes to the topic of **, the people present can only listen and dare not comment more. After a while, Ding Shang raised a glass to invite wine and let the matter stop.

The head of this pavilion followed Ding Shang's invitation to drink and changed the topic and said, "I heard that there are far more than 4,000 thieves besieging the county government."

As soon as this statement came out, Li Xin, Zu Zhao, Zu Cheng, Han Dang and other Xu Wuyi bravely turned their eyes away.

Li Xin was surprised and said, "When we set out from Xu Wu, we heard that there were nearly 4,000 thieves. How can there be more than 4,000 now? Just a few days have passed, where did so many thieves come from?

The pavilion chief sighed, shook his head slowly and said, "What's going on? I'm also hearsay. I heard that the team of our county rushed to the county government to help can't enter the city at all. After all, Wuyu is a small place. Several people were not recruited before and after the last year of the robbery. This time, 300 people went to the whole time, and the county has done its best. It's just... Alas, these 300 heroes went to the county and faced countless thieves outside the city. It's simply... Alas... That's called a useless thing."

Li Xin was silent. He knew that the pavilion chief had no reason to tell lies at this time. It was reasonable to get to the county government for more than half a day. He subconsciously glanced at Zu Zhao and saw that Zu Zhao's expression was not too calm, but a kind of meditation.

Zu Cheng sighed slightly and said worriedly, "Son, the thief is so powerful that it is difficult to achieve things with the righteousness and courage of our counties alone."

Zu Zhao glanced at Zu Cheng and said blankly, "Before going on the expedition, we should be ready for this. The way to use troops is not to win by the crowd. Although the thief is powerful, it is just some mob. At present, the thieves gathered to besiege the county, which is the situation of consolidation. There are few people like us, but it is easy to travel and change skillfully, and we will be able to defeat the enemy with skill.

Although these words did not say any substantive context, they were refreshing to everyone present.

As Zu Zhao said, on the surface, the thief is huge and dares to openly attack the county government. But on the other hand, the county has successfully contained most of the thieves in the county. Traitors will not dare and will not retreat easily, otherwise it is likely to cause overall dispersion. After all, these people are all mob and have no strict discipline. The reason for responding to the call is nothing more than hoping to have a bite to eat.

Relatively speaking, there are few righteous people in each county to help the county government, which is convenient to transfer and flexible. On the contrary, it is not easy to have a direct confrontation. In this way, it can not only ensure that the bravery of each county will not be used as a cushion to die, but also play a certain role in the side battlefield. It really responds to everyone's heart.

Li Xin was the first to nod and agreed, "What the ancestral brothers said is extremely true. There are not many soldiers, but in the essence. I believe that all counties are brave enough to deal with thieves all year round. Even if they are not as good as the officers and soldiers in the county, they are more than the rabbles such as Taiping Road and Zhang Wan's rebellion. I don't have to be too depressed."

Han Dang, who was sitting on the periphery, also nod and said, "That's right. With Mr. Zu's previous plan to deal with thieves and mountain thieves, I will never do nothing on this expedition.

Hearing the words of Li Xin and Han Dang, Zu Cheng knew that he was a little too ashamed and quickly said to himself, "Yes, yes, it must be so. No matter how fierce the road ahead is, my ancestors have the reason to retreat.

Ding Shang picked up the wooden bowl, slowly took a sip of steaming dog soup, and said, "Well, in any case, this county chaos really depends on you hot-blooded men. On the day of victory, it will also be the time to become famous, and then we old guys can also benefit from you.

Everyone smiled along Ding Shang's tone for a while, and then raised the glass and drank a glass of light wine.

After returning from Tingyi, Zu Zhao discussed with Li Xin, Han Dang, Zu Cheng and others. Long before leaving Xu Wu, he had already dispersed all the scouts. The most important thing in marching is to grasp intelligence and completely put the enemy in a state of **, so that you can wait for the opportunity to find flaws and then reverse the situation on the battlefield. He hoped that after receiving the information sent back by the scouts, it must be based on fighters and must not solidify the march.

Han Dang and Li Xin agreed, but Zu Cheng and others had nothing to say.

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[Tragedy, in order to install X in front of the girls in the broadcasting class, I owed the bank 7,000 yuan to buy a Stanicon, ah!]