Chapter 115 Hand in Hand

At the same time, on the official road from Zezhou to Yangcheng, a large group of officers and soldiers are also slowly squirming forward along the official road. However, compared with the military appearance of the Xing Tianjun, it is really not worth mentioning. At most, the clothes of the 2,000 officers and soldiers are more neat, but many of the officers and soldiers are mandarin ducks. The battle jacket looks very shabby. Many people still have some patches on their battle jackets. Obviously, these officers and soldiers have not been able to replace the new battle jackets for a long time, so they can only mend the old mandarin duck war jackets.

Niu Tai is riding on a black horse, and his body is constantly fluctuating with the movement of the horse. His figure is very tall. In this era, he is absolutely tall, and he has a cross-faced face, which looks very majestic and a little fierce.

It was also his appearance. In addition, this guy was very powerful and dared to rush forward when fighting, which made him stand out in the army. In just more than ten years, he was promoted from the lowest-level pawn to the current guerrilla position. However, after reaching this level, he was also basically promoted to the end. Unexpectedly, there is no noble person covering him. If he wants to continue to be promoted, he can only get it by virtue of his military achievements.

He is still full of confidence in sending troops to Yangcheng to suppress bandits this time. Even if there is a legend that this Xingtian army in the area of Yangcheng is very powerful, but in his eyes, it is nothing.

In the first two years, it was not that he had not fought head-on with the defied civilian army. To be honest, the combat effectiveness of those defied troops was really extremely poor, and the weapons and equipment were shabby, not to mention the armor. The number of coaxing seemed to be scary, but when they really started, these the defied forces were just It's just a lot of courage. If you can't beat the officers and soldiers, your morale will immediately decline. The rest will be chased and escaped by him with the officers and soldiers. Therefore, after fighting with the civilian army several times, Niu Tai has a lot of experience. As long as he resists the attack of the civilian army in the first battle, and then counterattacks, these mob. It will immediately turn into a plate of sand.

Therefore, although it is rumored that this group of people who claim to be Xing Tianjun is very powerful, Niu Tai still doesn't pay much attention to it, and he can't blame him for his careless intentions. After all, the news of this era is blocked, and in addition, Emperor Chongzhen's decree to cancel the post station in the second year of Chongzhen has made the efficiency of domestic news transmission much lower, and Xing Tianjun is in Shaanxi. At that time, the prestige won't spread in Shanxi at all, so it's not strange that Niu Tai hasn't heard of Xing Tianjun's reputation.

At present, in addition, he controls more than 4,000 officers and soldiers under his command to deal with a pole that is said to be only one or two thousand people. In his opinion, it is already a sure thing, so he doesn't pay attention to the matter of sending troops. Instead, he is calculating how to exercise after the elimination of this group of thieves. Taking advantage of this credit, he will climb up to the top level to see if he can climb to the top level. In that case, he will be very happy.

When he was thinking about this matter on his horse, he rushed into the team one night and found Niu Tai. He reported to him: "General, Lord Jinsong, the king of Yangcheng Zhixian County, has promised to provide us with food for seven days. In addition, he prepared 20 pigs and 50 sheep for the general to use. Rem on us! No matter how much he said, he couldn't take out the financial resources of Yangcheng County. I hope the general will forgive me!

Lord Wang is still in Taipingzhuang, five miles east of the city, and ordered the local inspectors to lead the local 800 townships to set up a big camp for us in advance. We can enter the camp and rest as soon as we arrive!"

After hearing this, Niu Tai curled his lips and nodded, "It seems that Wang Zhixian is still a sensible person. At least he knows what to do!" However, it is a little too little to provide me with food for only seven days! This time I went to Yangcheng County to help them with these local officials. It is estimated that ten days and eight days will not be enough!

It will take at least a month! Just prepare food for us for seven days. It's a little too little! Although Zezhou and Taiyuan Prefecture have allocated a batch of grain, it is only enough for ten days. Why do they have to make up the rest?

You can go to Yangcheng County again and tell Lord Wang that there is too little grain in seven days. It's better to let them prepare more. You can't go back and make the brothers hungry to suppress bandits!"

There is also a reason why Niu Tai said this. Now when the officers and soldiers start, they have to pay some arrears, and they also need to give them out the money. Otherwise, it has become a practice that soldiers can't move. This has become a practice, and the court is now because it wants to defend the invasion of those Eastern Tartars in Liaodong, and most of the military pay is close to Liaodong. Military distribution, local troops like them often owe pay. It is very common for them not to get any military pay for three or five months or six months. In addition, even if it is paid, it is allocated from the household department, and I don't know how much it will be stuck along the way.

After passing a person's hand, he will be floated away. When it finally falls into his hands, he will also deduct part of it to support the family. Therefore, even if it is a payable person, when the soldier gets it, it is normal to save three.

So soldiers are not interested in going to war. If they are forced to go out to war, they may have a mutiny.

The reason why Niu Tai stopped in Zezhou for so many days is that he is raising the pay for the soldiers. If he wants to work for the officers and soldiers, he must first pay them some arrears, and then issue some money, so that the officers and soldiers will be obedient and set out. On the way, it is more important to ensure that they eat and drink. Otherwise, if they are a little hungry, the officers and soldiers will make a mutiny. There are too many.

Therefore, even if Niu Tai brings ten days of grain, he still needs to get as much food as possible out of preparation. Everything that can be given to him in Zezhou has been given to him. At present, he can only knock from Yangcheng County for more, so he is so greedy that he wants to force Yangcheng to take out more food for them. .

Since his thoughts were interrupted, Niu Tai no longer continued to dream of his promotion. Le Ma stopped, looked behind him, and shouted loudly, "It's all like frost. It's stingling. Can't you hurry up?"

Niu Tai felt angry when he looked at the officers and soldiers in the team who were shrinking their necks and unable to rush forward. After cursing, his men came to ask, "Didn't you send some spies to Yangcheng the other day? Why is it like meat buns beating dogs? There is no news?"

A personal soldier under his hand shook his head and couldn't explain it clearly, so Niu Tai had to urge the horse again to drive in the direction of Yangcheng.

Although when the Xing Tianjun set out, the distance between the two armies from the north was basically the same, and even the officers and soldiers were a few miles away from the north, about 40 miles, but the speed of the two armies was very different.

The marching speed of the Xingtian Army is probably the strongest team in the world. It may not be comparable to the Tari cavalry, but in the speed of the infantry, they absolutely dare to take the lead.

It's all a day. From the morning, Xing Tianjun crossed the Qin River on the road, and arrived at Beiliu at about three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

And along the Qinhe River is no longer the control area of the Xingtian Army. In the early four years of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin once led his troops to fight in the mountains and Shaanxi, and then followed the south of Qinhe River and swept through this area. Cao Weanzhao once led his troops to chase the rebels along the Qinhe River, and Wang Jiayin died in the area of Yangcheng, which was attacked by the rebels. To a large extent, some villages were almost razed to the ground by the Rebels. Therefore, on both sides of the Qin River, today's villages have basically built strong wall and built forts to protect themselves. After Xing Tianjun came to Yangcheng, they only occupied the area west of Dongye Town. For the Zhuangbao village along the Qin River, they did not There is an attack.

And when the Xing Tianjun marched here, it came out of their sphere of influence. It was basically impossible to continue the hidden march.

Before and after crossing the river along the river, several village forts along the river found traces of Xing Tianjun. They closed the gate early, sounded gongs to warn, and transferred the villagers to the wall and made a posture of strict guarding, for fear that Xing Tianjun would break their village by the way and copy their old nest.

But this time Xiao Tianjianzhi was not on these village castles. He just sent someone to warn these village castles. He could not secretly communicate with the government. Like the officers and soldiers, he crossed their village castles and continued to rush on his way. The military power of Xing Tianjun also shocked the big families in these villages, which scared them so much that they did not dare to take the villagers to attack and disturb Xing Tian. The army let Xing Tianjun pass through their territory safely, but someone immediately sent someone out of the village and hurriedly sent the news to Yangcheng County.

At this time, it was impossible for Xiao Tianjian to take a secret action, so he simply ordered the soldiers to advance with great fanfare and held another armed parade in this area.

Although the rich people are scared, the ordinary people are not afraid of Xing Tianjun. After all, it is relatively close to Dongye Town, and there are still a lot of people. The people here are very envious of the fact that the people around Dongye Town can be divided into fields, and the poor people simply abandoned him. Our rented land ran to the area under the jurisdiction of Xingtian Army, so that many small tenants of large families here have run a lot in the past few months, and even the villagers they organized have run away a lot. Therefore, ordinary people can't wait for the Xingtian Army to come to this area to occupy this area, so they can also follow Like the people in Dongye Town, they have their own fields to grow, and the rich rich can hate Xing Tianjun into their bones. They can't wait for this time Xing Tianjun to eliminate all the officers and soldiers to solve this powerful threat around them.

Beiliu is a big village near the official road from Zezhou to Yangcheng. In the early years, it was robbed once by Wang Jiayin's subordinates. Since then, it has declined and become a dilapidated small village.

After Xing Tianjun came here, he took Beiliu Village without much effort and took the camp with Beiliu Village as the center. Because it was the village as the camp, the camp saved them a lot of energy. Before it was dark, the people in the camp were all hot. The rice bowl is starting to have dinner.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian also held a bowl of rice and squatted with the generals to eat and chat, discussing the problem of tomorrow's battle deployment. A scout rushed into the camp and ran to Xiao Tianjian and said to Xiao Tianjian, "General Qi, we have found the officers and soldiers twelve miles away. They have stopped. After moving forward, he began to camp on the spot. The stone whistle general is leading the Li team and the Situ team to clear the officers at night, and the two sides have begun to have a fighting!"