Chapter 195 Jianbi Qingye

"Okay! Although we are not afraid, it does not mean that we do not attach importance to the officers and soldiers this time! After all, this time, there are a large number of officers and soldiers. For our Xing Tianjun, it is also the most serious test we have faced since we became an army!

Once the quantity reaches a certain scale, it can change qualitative, so the quantity is also an advantage that cannot be ignored! This time, the officers and soldiers want to crush us with an absolute advantage! So we can't ignore it!

Through the analysis of the news received, the officers and soldiers are suppressing us this time. Because of the lack of food and salaries and the mobilization of the officers and soldiers are too much, the possibility of launching before the year is not very high. Many officers and soldiers who have been transferred need to rush to their assembly points from various places, and they have not yet finally completed the assembly, so even if they completed it a year ago. After gathering, with the style of officers and soldiers, they will not do it during the festival! In this way, it is speculated that the most likely time for officers and soldiers to take action is around the Shangyuan Festival, so we still have nearly a month to prepare. It is expected that we should have been ready when they do it!

Now let me report the situation of the enemy. This time, Shanxi mobilized a large number of officers and troops south of Jinzhong, gathered at the intersection south of Fushan and Jiang County, and also gathered around Lu'an Prefecture, led by Wang Dingguo, the general of Shanxi, and Hu Dawei, respectively, to prepare to attack us from the two lines of Qinshui and Zezhou.

Hong Chengchou sent two generals under his command, He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, who were divided into 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers and horses respectively. Chen Bing planned to attack us from the west of Wenxi County and Yangcheng.

In this way, it is very bad for our situation. If we still want to break them like last time, it will be difficult, so this time we will focus on defense and assist with attack!

Although our troops are far less than those of the officers and soldiers, we also have our advantages. This time we can say that we are fighting locally, but the officers and soldiers have become long-distance attacks, and the areas we control basically belong to the mountains. Although the officers and soldiers have a lot of troops, it is not easy to expand.

At the same time, the vast majority of the people in our jurisdiction are with us. There is a good saying in the world that those who win the hearts of the people get the world. The government has already lost their position in the hearts of the people. The people have long regarded them as enemies, so as long as the officials and soldiers enter our territory, the people will not Willing to deal with us with them!

In this way, it has created a lot of opportunities for us, so we will not be at a disadvantage because of the great disparity between the two sides in strength in this battle!

After discussion with Mr. Fu and Feng Gouzi, we have made a combat plan, and I order it!" As Xiao Tianjian said, he pointed out the positions of the officers and soldiers on the sand table with a baton, and finally put away the baton and shouted harshly.

The generals followed Xiao Tianjian and looked at the sand table. When they heard Xiao Tianjian say my order, the generals immediately tightened their bodies, stood straight and shouted loudly, "I would like to listen to the general's orders!"

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The time of this pre-war mobilization meeting was very short. In less than an hour, Xiao Tianjian finished the arrangement and announced the dissolution. The generals led the troops. In a short time, they walked out of the Juyi Hall and began to prepare one by one.

Soon, in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, a batch of messengers rushed to various places and transmitted Xiao Tianjian's orders to various places.

All places under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army were immediately busy under the leadership of the chief security chief, chief security officer and others. A township army organized people from all over the world and began to move towards the mountains, looking for caves or hunch shelters, building nests to live in, leaving their original residences as much as possible, and Bring all the grain that can be carried. If you can't take it away, find a place to dig a hole and bury it on the ground. Even the door panel of the door is removed and find a place to bury it. It's really a hard wall and clear field, and not even a grain of grain is left for the officers and soldiers.

Many people everywhere are not happy with this transfer, especially some old people. They are unwilling to give up their homes where they have lived for a long time and refuse to leave their village without saying anything. The chiefs repeatedly do their work, persuaded them to leave, and made it clear that after the officers and soldiers came this time, It will definitely burn, kill and plunder the people. I hope that they will take care of their lives, hide in the mountains with others for a while, and then return to their homes after the war. If the house is burned by the officers and soldiers, it can be rebuilt in the future, but if people are killed, there will be nothing.

But even with such persuasion, some stubborn old people still refused to leave, so the chiefs had to give up them, leave them a small amount of food, take the villagers into the mountains, and lead the villagers to guard the key roads in the mountains and protect the people who hid in the mountains.

But most of the people still follow the arrangement of the security chiefs. After all, in addition to some of the food they have just been allocated, the vast majority of people are family members and have nothing valuable at all, and they also know the brutality of the officers and soldiers. Under such circumstances, the officers and soldiers will definitely burn and rob them. Like the popular saying at this time, the bandits are like combs, the soldiers are like grits, and the officials are shaved. Once the officers and soldiers pass, they guess that they can't even keep their lives. Now at least there is a chief to command them to go into the mountain to avoid, so they are very willing to cooperate with the action and clean up the soft grain and pots and pans of things one after another, followed. The security chiefs fled into the mountains.

Many villages in Yangcheng, Yuanqu, Qinshui, Zezhou and other places are basically ten rooms and nine empty during the Spring Festival. Only some stubborn old people who are extremely stubborn have not left their village, but still stick to their village.

Originally, the area under the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, which was lively because of the division of fields, was silent and became lifeless in just a few days. It can almost be said that it has reached the point where people have disappeared. Only at the junction with the territory controlled by the government, and there are also some township soldiers of the Xing Tianjun are patrolling to prevent the government. A large number of people entered the area controlled by Xing Tianjun.

Even the lively Dongye Town in the past year has begun to be deserted. All the refined iron materials have been transferred to the mountains and hidden. All kinds of tools, bellows and other things that can be dismantled and transferred, have also been dismantled under the command of Fang Dashan, who has been promoted to the garrison of Dongye Town, and transferred by cart. The mountains were hidden, and then the iron furnaces in the whole Dongye Town were extinguished and silent. Several important large iron furnaces were even buried by the furnace workers in the town with cinders or ore and coal. After completing these things, everyone in the town evacuated from Dongye Town.

Including the local people in Yangcheng County, they also took away their grain that should take away. If they couldn't take it away, they put it in the cellar and hid it. Before leaving, they also sealed the mouth of the cellar and covered the mouth of the cellar with things, so that it was difficult for outsiders to find food even if they entered the village. Waiting for supplies.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian did this is that their Xing Tianjun has left the scope of the mobile civilian army and has become an army with a fixed base. This time, the troops mobilized by the government have exceeded their ability to resist it outside the control area of the Xingtian Army, and they are impossible for them. Like other Rebels, if they can't defeat them, they will leave. This is the foundation of their foothold in the future. They will never give up here and the people here. Therefore, since they can't stop the large number of officers and soldiers this time, they can only reduce losses as much as possible, evacuate the people to the mountains to hide, and give the officers and soldiers a Jianbi Qingye makes it unable to rely on looting to get supplies on the spot after entering the Xingtian Army's control area. Although the area under the Xingtian Army's jurisdiction is not large, there are only three more counties at present, but this area is mountainous and foresty, and the area is not small. If the Jianbi Qingye is carried out, there will be at least more than a hundred miles. As long as the officers and soldiers come in, they can only rely on their rear to provide support for them.

Although Yangcheng County is still nominally controlled by the government, it has already become an enclave. People in the city can only hide in the city all day and dare not take half a step out of the county. In such a half a year, the people in Yangcheng County have almost run away, and even some rich people have to give up in order to survive. With the family property in the county, he dragged his family to escape from the boundary of Yangcheng, so that the whole Yangcheng County almost became a dead city in half a year, with less than 2,000 people left. If it hadn't been for Xing Tianjun's permission from the people in the city to take money to buy food, it was estimated that in the past six months, the people in Yangcheng County would starve to death.

Poor Wang Jinsong and other officials in the city. The life they have lived in the city in the past six months can be said to be worse than death. It turns out that the days of big fish and meat are gone forever. It's good to have enough to have three meals a day. They are also afraid that Xing Tianjun will attack the county and kill them all day long, although the second time When the officers and soldiers entered and subjugated Yangcheng, they brought them a glimmer of hope, but because there were people from the Xing Tianjun outside the city staring at Yangcheng County, they could only lie dryly in Yangcheng County and wait for the officers and soldiers to come over, but they did not dare to act rashly.

But the result of their hardships made them extremely disappointed. The second attack of the officers and soldiers ended in the defeat of the officers and soldiers. They still had to live their kind of life like trapped beasts in Yangcheng County.

Although they had also ordered not to open the gate, the people in the city could not make a living because of the lack of food. In the end, even the recruited villagers and the limited garrison almost changed in order to eat. Then they hurriedly opened the door and let the hungry people out of the city.

And Xiao Tianjian did not take the county seat of Yangcheng County, which was also based on the fact that he did not want to excessively touch the nerves of the imperial court. What he wanted was the land and population. He was not interested in the gains and losses of a county, but this time the situation was different. The official and army's large-scale invasion was determined to destroy the Xing Tianjun. If he kept this Yang In the case of cities and counties, once the officers and soldiers arrive here, Yangcheng County will become an important advance and rest base for them.

So when all parts of the Xing Tianjun's jurisdiction began to retreat, Xiao Tianjian organized a large number of rural soldiers in Yangcheng and drove a large number of people to the county of Yangcheng County.