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Yanzhou, Henan Province, Qianfeng.

Although the distance was still far away and the flag could not be seen clearly, Wang Xianzhi could still see that it was a yellow flag through the white mist.A yellow flood dragon loomed on the flag. The flag was getting closer and closer, looming in the white mist, and finally jumped out, followed by countless soldiers and horses.Behind the Yellow Dragon Banner is a huge banner with the words Wang Xianzhi on it familiar, 'Deputy General Huang of the Overseas Heroes, Deputy General of Tianbuping'.

After seeing the flag clearly, Wang Xianzhi slapped heavily on the icy battlements of Qianfeng City.Thank God, Huang Chao finally came back.

"Report, Deputy Huang led five thousand soldiers and horses to come here." Lin Yan, Huang Chao's nephew, dressed in a gorgeous golden armor, galloped to the bottom of the city and reported loudly to Wang Xianzhi on the city.

"Quickly open the city gate and order all the generals to go out of the city with the capital to welcome Vice Dutong Huang!"

Wang Xianzhi quickly walked down the tower, got on his horse and went out of the city with the generals who had already arrived to welcome Huang Chao's arrival.

In the mist, Wang Xianzhi was wearing a Luo Sha Fu head, a light crimson official robe with a round collar, a jade belt around his waist, and [***] boots on his feet.This outfit was obtained by copying the mansion of the governor who abandoned the city and fled when he captured Jeju.He liked this set of official robes that officials above the fifth rank could wear very much. Since then, even if he went to the battlefield, he had to wear this robe under the armor.

Behind Wang Xianzhi, ten votes were waiting on horseback, Shang Junchang, Chai Cun, Bi Shiduo, Cao Shixiong, Liu Yanzhang, Liu Hanhong, Li Chongba, Cai Wenqiu, Chu Yanwei, Wang Chongyin.In addition, Shang Junchang's younger brother Shang Rang has performed well recently, and now he has already won the position of general.

Wang Xianzhi's grass army now has more than [-] people, of which Wang Xianzhi directly leads more than [-].The ten earliest Piao Shuai each led one side of the army, one side and two battalions of one thousand brothers, who were appointed as Duzhi soldiers and horse envoys, Wang Xianzhi himself led three thousand 'elites', and Shang Rang served as Wang Xianzhi's bodyguard General, commanding a hundred guard cavalry.

Huang Chao's men were smaller, only 5000 people.

During this period of time, the Cao army had a great reputation. They broke through Caozhou, went down to Puzhou, and then captured Jeju, and had entered the eastern part of Yanzhou.In order to expand their momentum, Huang Chao suggested that they don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one city. They basically attacked one city and robbed one city, and then continued to sweep the next city like locusts.After they captured Jeju City, Huang Chao simply proposed to disperse the team, form a team of hundreds of people, and bloom in all directions.At the beginning, Wang Xianzhi was a little worried that this would be defeated by the officers and soldiers one by one, but the facts have proved that the deputy commander is worthy of being educated. Teams are like snowballing.

At the beginning of the Changyuan uprising, there were only a thousand soldiers and horses. Now it has only been half a year, and they have nearly 2 troops.At the beginning, each of the ten votes commanders under him only sent out with more than a hundred people, but this time when they were called back, they already had thousands of people.

Vice President Huang went out with 1000 people at the beginning, but now he has 5000 people.

Thinking that he has [-] troops under his command, Wang Xianzhi couldn't help but burst out with arrogance.

Huang Chao's 5000 men were also divided into ten battalions and five compartments, and Huang Chao's seven brothers, Huang Cun, Huang Ye, Huang Kui, Huang Qin, Huang Bing, Huang Wantong, and Huang Sihou each led a battalion. In addition, the three brothers Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, and Zhang Guibian commanded the other three battalions and were divided into military and horse envoys, while the five generals Chang Hong, Ge Congzhou, Liu Tang, Liu Shanfu, and Lin Yan were divided into Wuxiang Duzhi soldiers Ma Shi and Meng Kai were Huang Chao's lieutenants.

Although Huang Chao's troops also belonged to the grass army, there was a clear boundary between his troops and Wang Xianzhi's.

The 5000 soldiers and horses walked in front of Lin Yan's front compartment soldiers and horses. Although the [-] soldiers and horses were all infantry, they were all strong and strong, and they were not the kind of refugees and hungry people.What surprised Wang Xianzhi even more was that these soldiers and horses were all wearing uniform uniforms, uniform yellow crotch pleats, narrow-sleeved gowns on the top, wide-mouthed gowns on the bottom, a crotch-short gown and a pair of open-knee gowns on both sides. back.

The weapons in their hands are not as messy as Shi Piaoshuai and the others, but neat and orderly.Among the 1000 people in the front compartment, half were spearmen, all holding eight-foot spears, and a small half were sword and shield hands, who were not only equipped with long swords, but also equipped with a wooden shield.Even though the wooden shield is very cold, not even covered with cowhide, just like a pot cover, but the long sword is in both hands, it looks very powerful.What surprised him even more was that they had archers. Although there were not many, there were only about a hundred archers out of the 1000 people in the front compartment, but it still shocked Wang Xianzhi.

And in the front compartment, it is known that there are about fifty cavalrymen beside Lin Yan, the envoy of soldiers and horses, and his eyes are even brighter when he sees it.He has more than 1 soldiers and horses, but only a hundred cavalry, and Lin Yan alone has a team of cavalry. Doesn't Huang Chao have more cavalry?

Soon another group of cavalry appeared, this time there were [-] cavalry, and several tall standard bearers were holding yellow general flags.

Behind these cavalrymen, Huang Chao was wearing a set of gilded gold battle armor captured from Guan Junci, with a phoenix wing pox on his head, stepped off a white horse, held a long spear in his hand, and wore a long lance behind his shoulders. Wearing a gold-woven long cloak, the whole person is majestic and majestic, and Wang Xianzhi can't help but feel a little envious.

Seeing Wang Xianzhi and others coming out of the city to meet him in person, Huang Chao hurriedly got off his horse and came to see him.

"Meet you, Du Tong!"

Seeing Huang Chao being so polite, Wang Xianzhi let go of the faint unhappiness just now, and smiled and stepped forward to help Huang Chao, "Brother Huang, please get up quickly, my brother, there is no need to do anything."

"The ranks in the army are distinct, the top and bottom are strictly guarded, and the nest does not dare to mess up." Huang Chao cupped his hands, "I don't know what the urgent matter is, the command sent an urgent order to recall all the troops?"

"Let's talk about the city first. Wang Xianzhi held Huang Chao's hand with the utmost kindness.

Huang Chao turned around and ordered Meng Kai to arrange the army, and Wang Xianzhi said to arrange all the brothers into the city.Huang Chao did not agree to this proposal, but said that Qianfeng City was not big and could not be resettled for a while.He asked Meng Kai to place the soldiers and horses outside the city, light a campfire, take care of the horses, bury pots for cooking, and build tents.Among the generals, Huang Chao only brought Lin Yan, Zhang Guiba and Ge Cong Zhou into the city.

In March when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the earth returns to spring.

The ground under the horse's hooves was wet and soft, slowly sinking with the trampling.They passed the sheds outside the city where the smoke was curling up, and there were starving people with scantily clad clothes and emaciated faces everywhere.Many of them came with the grass army when they attacked the city and broke the city and the countryside, and some of them heard the sound from afar.But Wang Xianzhi didn't pay much attention to these refugees, let alone relief.

Every time a new refugee came to vote, he would first pick out the strong young ones to serve as soldiers, and their families would allow them to join the army, and Wang Xianzhi would give them some food, although it was not much, but it was enough to survive.As for others, there is no such benefit.If it is a young and beautiful woman, Wang Xianzhi and his ten-piaoshuai will pick and enjoy it, both as concubines and maidservants.Others who are young but not very beautiful will be rewarded to their subordinates.

As for the other old and weak, Wang Xianzhi didn't care about it. If Huang Chao hadn't proposed Jianyi several times, saying that he would take out some food to open a porridge shed every day in order to buy some people's hearts, and also said that when these people dealt with the officers and soldiers, they would sometimes It would be useful, so he reluctantly took out some food.But this food is very little, compared to the countless hungry people who follow the grass army, it is just a drop in the bucket, but this little food still attracts many helpless hungry people to defect.

Outside Qianfeng City, there are now messy shacks and helpless and desperate people everywhere.The ones near the city wall are better. They are the family members of Brother Cao Jun and the women who were plundered.As long as they follow the grass army, they can at least fill their stomachs every day.

Qianfeng City is just a small county in the east of Yanzhou, located in the north of Wenshui, with Jeju to the north and Qizhou and Zizhou to the east.Although this is only a small county, there is a very famous mountain here. Emperors of many dynasties have been here, and that is Mount Tai.

Mount Tai is in the northeast of Qianfeng County. There is Sheshou in the north of the county, Tingting Mountain in the south, and Culai Mountain and Liangfu Mountain in the southeast.

Wenshui is not far to the east of the county seat and is divided into three rivers, Wenshui, Mouwenshui and Yingwenshui.

This is a very dangerous place, and because it is close to Wang Jingwu's army in Qizhou, the Cao army joined the Tianping army from Yicheng, fought from Caozhou to Puzhou, and finally invaded Jeju, all the way to the east of Yanzhou.Although they have won many territories, in fact, the Cao army is now fighting in accordance with the mobile tactics that Huang Chao suggested to Wang Xianzhi.

Every time a land is captured, money, food, weapons and other materials are immediately robbed, and then the young and strong are coerced into the army.Then, before the arrival of the officers and soldiers, continue to flow and attack the next place.

Huang Chao's mobile tactics were of great help in the early stages of the grass army.If it weren't for this mobile tactic, they wouldn't be able to grow rapidly and have so many soldiers and horses, let alone solve the problems of food, clothing and even weapons, armor and horses for these soldiers and horses.Moreover, the mobile tactics allowed the grass army, which was still fragile in the early stage, to avoid head-to-head confrontation with the official army and maintain its strength.

However, now Wang Xianzhi didn't want to see the officer again and ran away.

As soon as he entered the city, Wang Xianzhi immediately said to Huang Chao: "This time the brothers from all ministries are summoned to come back. I have something important to tell everyone. First of all, the Shatuo people who rose up in Daibei have been suppressed by the imperial court's coalition troops from all towns."

This news surprised Huang Chao, "Shatuo people have always been fierce. Li Guochang is a veteran in the battlefield. Although his third son Li Keyong is only eighteen, he has already won the three armies. He is called Feihuzi, and his crow army is even more impressive , how did you lose all of a sudden?"

"No matter how strong the Shatuo people are, the imperial court has many soldiers after all." Wang Xianzhi said: "Let's not talk about them, there is another more important news. According to our scouting, this idiot Xue Chong of the Tianping Army is actually planning a war. Big move, this move is aimed at us. Gao Pian, the former Jiedu envoy of the Tianping Army and now the Jiedu envoy of Xichuan, beat up the Nanzhao people several times in Xichuan. Now, the Tianping army that was originally transferred to Xichuan has returned to town Now, these are the elite soldiers of the Tianping Army. Now this Xue Chong has mobilized all the Tianping Army with a total of 8000 troops, and is ready to come to encircle and suppress us."

All the generals were a little surprised, but they didn't care too much.They used to divide their troops to fight, and each of them took one or two hundred people with them, but they also attacked cities and land, broke counties and attacked villages.In their eyes, the officers and soldiers of the Tianping Army were just a bunch of idiots, just like Xue Chong.

Wang Xianzhi said solemnly: "A large army must not underestimate the enemy. Previously, the soldiers we dealt with were mostly soldiers from the lower counties. But this time the soldiers we have to deal with are different. Let's not say that the Tianping soldiers who came back from Xichuan are elite soldiers. The elite of the army, and the others, are also the tooth soldiers of Yunzhou, the tooth city of the Tianping Army."

Huang Chao listened carefully, and said at this time: "General, since the visitors are not kind, we don't have to fight hard with them at all. We will be the same as before. We will bring all our soldiers and horses to go around with them. When he comes to Yanzhou, we will fight with them." Go to Yunzhou, go to Yizhou. It is impossible for officers and soldiers to chase us all the time, and when they retreat, we can come back again. We are a rebel army and we can go anywhere.”

General Shangjun and other generals also had the same idea. Huang Chao's mobile tactics are very suitable for them, just rob everywhere.

But Wang Xianzhi didn't want to be run around by the officers and soldiers anymore. The Cao army now has 2 horses, and the soldiers are strong and strong. How can they be chased and run around?Then he, who is the leader of all the heroes in the country, is too shameless as a general of Tianbuping.

What's more, although there are few Qianfeng cities, he feels good staying here.In the general's mansion, there are more than a dozen delicate and beautiful girls, and it may be difficult to take these beautiful girls away after running away.

There is another one, in fact, after hearing that even the Shatuo Army, which is known as the most powerful army in the world, has been wiped out by the imperial court, Wang Xianzhi is now not optimistic about the future of this great cause of rebellion.Now he has an idea in his mind, that is, while he still has so much capital in his hands, he will beat up that idiot Jiedu Envoy Xue Chong, and then he will have the capital to negotiate with the court.

The rebellion was just a last resort.

Now, it's time for murder and arson to be recruited!

However, this is just a thought in his mind.He still doesn't know what the other brothers are thinking, especially Huang Chao, the deputy governor.Before making a decision to be recruited, he had to listen to his brothers' opinions. (To be continued.)