Delong

Chapter 94 The Golden Cone Walk (5)

Realistic difficulties turned all anti-reconnaissance methods into a joke, and as the huge and protracted fleet continued to move forward for a few days, although there was no sign of delaying the date, it had already made the upper and lower tense.

Finally, shortly after the fleet entered Pengcheng County, the county officials in the fleet finally couldn't bear it again.

"Please inspector Bai to save us!"

"If something bad happens to us, what good will it do you?"

"You guys also have so many boats loaded with stuff, how could those thieves who came here know who the boats belong to?"

"It's Jing'an Terrace's own regulations, but this time it's a serious supplement to the autumn tax and the spring plan. Once things go wrong, how can there be eggs after the nest is overturned?"

"That's right, everyone is like a grasshopper on the same rope now... It will definitely not work if it goes on like this."

"..."

"Where did Zhang Sanlang go?"

During the twelfth lunar month, in the afternoon, the weather was not so good. On a two-story ship in the center of the fleet, Bai Yousi watched the monkey show for half a day on the top of the ship, but the monkeys still had a constant desire to perform, and finally felt a little bit helpless , and then go back and ask the administrator where.

"I don't know." Li Qingchen looked a little anxious beside him. "How about I go down and drive them away?"

"You're going down to ask for bad things." Bai Yousi shook his head in denial. "Forget it, let them come up, let me see... Then you go and call Brother Hu and Qian Tang, let's discuss a countermeasure together... No matter how hopeless these people are, one sentence is right, let's go on like this Certainly not."

Li Qingchen was helpless, so he folded his hands and left, and the two knights in brocade clothes beside him were also ready to go down and lead others up.But at this time, from the far end of the east bank of Huanshui, a cloud of smoke and dust rolled up from a distance, and it was actually Liu Qiqi's regulations coming over grandiosely.

Seeing this, Bai Yousi directly raised his hand to stop the two scouts from disembarking, but Li Qingchen glanced back, and could only call for someone in a muffled voice.

Sure enough, after a while, Liuqi was standing beside him, and it was Zhang Xing who was waiting for the right wing to cover him.In the cloudy weather, Zhang Baishou's arrival was like the sun shining through the clouds, and the officials of Shangji county saw the sun at once. Two groups of people greeted each other, avoided the hard-working trackers, and immediately landed on the shore We talked for a while, but didn't know what to say.

But in the end, those county officials left with great gratitude. At this time, Zhang Xingfu handed over the team to Qin Er, and he followed the fleet directly, boarded the ship alone, and came to see Bai Yousi .

"What did you tell them?" Bai Yousi was curious for a moment.

"It's all nonsense." Zhang Xing said disapprovingly. "But there are some definite information that can be comforting for a while... I set off early this morning, took Qin Erlang and the others with two horses, and ran for seventy or eighty miles in one breath, and went to the upper reaches of Guyang City to look around."

"How?" Bai Yousi was also concerned.

"The road ahead is definitely fine. Huanshui is the main channel for transporting materials from the Central Plains to Dongdu, and the surrounding counties are basically built along the river." Zhang Xing explained seriously. "Guyang is also among them... With Guyang City as a cover, the thieves will not choose to intercept on the city side, not only that, but also the following Qixian County and Linhuan... And at that time, the superiors The reply letter will definitely arrive, and we can make a decision based on the reply letter. I just explained this to them and made a guarantee."

Bai Yousi nodded, noncommittal: "In other words, it won't be like this after Lin Huan?"

"good."

Zhang Xing was honest. "I've asked the trackers and the locals. When we arrived in Qiao County, passed Linhuan City, and arrived in Yongcheng County, the Whale Gang lost its power. We must be careful when we go there... and the reason is the terrain. Suddenly, there are several more mountains on the plain, among which Mount Ji is next to Huanshui, while the county seat of Yongcheng County is dozens of miles away from Huanshui."

"It's directly next to the Huan River, and it's also convenient to go down to the dam to stop the water." Bai Yousi felt helpless. "Do you know how many Ji Shan thieves are there?"

"It is said that it was originally only four or five hundred, but after Yang Shen's rebellion, it suddenly increased to two or three thousand." Zhang Xing answered seriously, without reservation. "But the thieves are not limited to that... the northernmost part of Yongcheng County, the Sanwu Office at the junction of Qiao County, Pengcheng, and Liang County, and a large area of ​​mountains such as Dang Mountain and Yutou Mountain... It has always been the base camp of the bandits in the Central Plains, Yang Shen After the chaos, there were even tens of thousands of people inside, and there was no shortage of good hands.”

"Understood." Bai Yousi nodded again and again. "And I've heard about it a long time ago."

How could it not be understood?One of the rare mountainous areas in the Central Plains, not to mention gathering people to be thieves, even fugitives on the black list, I am afraid that they will also use it as a base.

After a pause for a while, Bai Yousi asked softly, "Do you have any countermeasures?"

"Only we can't hold it." Zhang Xing shook his head. "There are so many people in the mountains, there must be a shortage of food in winter, so what if you risk your life for a bite of food? It's rare to see such a wave of food in winter that didn't keep up with the big team of autumn grain, and the conditions are so favorable. If you don't come to rob, the houses of those cottage leaders will be annexed by fire... But if you come to rob, just wait for our fleet to pass Linhuan City, build a dam in front of Jishan, force the team to stop, and tens of thousands of people will swarm up at night, can we rob? How much is how much... even let us kill, they don't care."

Bai Yousi nodded, then shook his head again: "I'm asking about your countermeasures."

"There is only one countermeasure." Zhang Xing met the opponent's gaze calmly. "Reinforcement is needed, and it is reinforcement from the brigade!"

"To be more specific?" Bai Yousi couldn't ask in time.

"Forty miles west of Huanshui, sixty miles south of Jishan, there is a ready-made army in Chengfu County." Zhang Xing answered with arms in his arms. "It is said that there are [-] fine armor... that is a force that the imperial court stayed in the local area to prevent the victims from fleeing to the east after Yang Shen's rebellion. They also did the autumn food protection... Originally belonged to Xuzhou, it was Lai Gong and Zhou Xingfan Father's old department now directly belongs to Nan Ya."

At this point, Zhang Xing couldn't help but sneered: "Actually, if it weren't for this army and their location, the thieves wouldn't have just gathered in those mountainous areas... The leader of this army is definitely a cunning... And we were in the On the Huaihe River, the 'reinforcement army' was recruited, regardless of whether they went to Jing'antai or Nanya, I'm afraid they would all fall on this cunning army in the end."

"So, it's better for the county magistrate to take care of it now." Bai Yousi said with a smile. "The key is whether we can dispatch this army to save the scene?"

"Scheduling over, we can't save the scene." Zhang Xing answered calmly. "The people in the cottage will come to grab food no matter what... The successful deployment of this army is nothing more than being able to drive away the dam in advance, keep the food, and then kill more bandits to ensure that our family can do business... And, This is not something we can decide, the people in Jing’antai cannot be dispatched into an organized army, anyway, there is enough time, so it’s better to wait quietly for the reply from Nanya and Taichung.”

Bai You thought about it for a while, then shook his head again and again: "Zhang Xing... This is the way you talked about in the system... Even if the imperial court didn't reply, that army is also responsible for stabilizing the place. In other words, as long as you can For example, if you talk to this army in Jiangdong, they can help us in the circle...for sixty miles, I don't believe their generals don't even have the authority to do so."

"so what?"

Zhang Xing was too late to ask. "What do inspections mean?"

"I would like to ask you and Qian Tang to switch the left and right wings, and then you will take Qin Erlang's group, plus Zhou Xingfan, to visit Chengfu together and contact that army in advance." Bai Yousi stared at Zhang Xing with piercing eyes. "I'm not forcing you, but I'm saying that this kind of thing is your Zhang Sanlang's ability, and I can only count on you."

"Then I'll go." Zhang Xing finally laughed. "Why are inspections so tense?"

The two knights in brocade clothes on the deck turned their heads in surprise, but they didn't make a sound.

"However, since I want to go to the father of the city, I can't go directly." Zhang Xing continued to laugh.

"I know, you can take gold and silver as gifts." Bai Yousi was extremely frank. "My name, it doesn't matter if it's majestic or tempting...you can use it whatever you want."

"This is something that already exists." Zhang Xing said awe-inspiringly. "I mean, after I leave, the inspection must have two guarantees..."

The two patrol riders didn't even look back this time.

"Tell me." Bai Yousi responded seriously.

"First of all, the people in the Whale Gang are half black and not white. Once they encounter chaos, they may act like taking advantage of the fire. Don't trust them during the inspection, and do it when it's time to do so." Zhang Xing reminded earnestly.

"It's natural." Bai Yousi laughed.

"Secondly, the Whale Gang is the Whale Gang, but the trackers and the icebreakers are the trackers and the icebreakers. The former are rentiers, half black and half meat eaters, and they have never been lawless. They won't lose anything if they fight or kill them." , but the latter are all living people who come to beg for food in Dongxian, and they are first-class good citizens, and the inspectors must treat them as human beings!" For some reason, Zhang Xing's tone seemed a little bit serious. "On weekdays, we need to give them enough food and drink, so as to prevent them from defecting to the thieves' side because of dissatisfaction... and once there is a disorder, unless they openly defect to the thieves to steal and rob, otherwise please inspect Show mercy."

"It's natural." After a moment's pause, Bai Yousi still answered like this.

"That's it, I won't delay any longer, I'll go now." As he said that, Zhang Xing disregarded Li Qingchen and Hu Yan approaching from afar, and got off the boat instead.

PS: It's the 24th of the twelfth lunar month!Happy New Year to everyone!Then I would like to thank the two legendary classmate Lao Wang for being cute on the same day!

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