Three years ago, the mighty rebel army coerced 200,000 people in an attempt to take Kaifeng directly from Yingtianfu. However, a sudden outbreak of civil war made the rebels gradually lose momentum.

At the beginning, more than half of the 200,000 rebels were speculators, and most of them were bandits who ran out of various cottages, wanting to take this big ship to see if they had a chance to become an emperor, or a general, marshal or something.

But their own values are very different from the backbone of the original rebel army, and the civil war three years ago can be regarded as the rebel army cleaning the door. Although the timing was not very good, among the rebels, those bandit elements were finally kicked out.

The rebels were also greatly injured by this, and only more than 30,000 people remained, and they fled to Qingdao and Mi Prefecture to recuperate and lick their wounds.

Based on this information, Liu Ling's initial judgment was that the rebel army would not attack the officers and soldiers who entered the country. Because they are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and in the past three years of dormancy, they have integrated into the local environment.

If you pretend to be an ordinary person, you may not be able to find the clues without careful observation.

In that case, why not just keep it pretending? Therefore, Liu Ling judged that these rebels would definitely continue to lurk.

The first circumstance that he did not expect was that the rebels actually gave up the lurking and set up an ambush on the road of the officers and soldiers. This is a very risky move, not only does it reveal its identity, but the probability of winning is slim to none.

Once they fail, have they thought about the consequences?

Then a second unexpected situation followed, before the Chinese army reached the battlefield, the vanguard troops had already raised their hands and surrendered to the enemy.

It is said that because Fang La, the leader of the Dayi Gang, was captured, the rebels panicked and had no intention of fighting again, and they couldn't escape, so they simply surrendered.

It sounds like no problem, but Liu Ling's head is full of question marks.

Why was Fang La arrested? In the past three years, the officers and soldiers have not thought about eradicating the threat of the rebels, and the same is true of Wu Desi. But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find any clues about the rebels.

Wu Desi even found that the reason why they were able to provoke the rebel army to fight in the past was entirely because they themselves needed this matter. The spies they planted must have been exposed a long time ago.

But Fang La didn't point it out, and even reused the spy - in other words, Wu Desi was used by Fang La.

Why did Wu Desi find out about this? Because in the past three years, Wu Desi sent forty officials to try to infiltrate the rebel army, but they were all killed by Fang La, without exception.

This made Liu Ling feel a deep sense of frustration, but today, this guy who made him suffer from failure was caught like this, and it was so easy that people couldn't believe it was true.

Liu Ling racked his brains and couldn't think of a reason, and he inadvertently caught a glimpse of Tang Ning, who was talking to the pro-soldier commander.

Could it be ...... Liu Ling looked at Tang Ning's back and fell into deep thought.

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The seat of Qingzhou is Yidu County,

There is still some distance from Sencheng Prefecture. I don't know how the war in Michigan is going, but Tang Ning has already made a decision in his heart.

The main force was stationed near Qiancheng County, and the people outside the city in the entire Qiancheng County together were less than 120,000.

With such a large army stationed nearby at once, the people of Qiancheng County were very panicked.

They supported the rebels, and the reason for this is a little laughable.

In recent years, it has been very difficult to make the county order of Qiancheng County, because the rebels are either hiding in the nearby mountains, or they are disguised as ordinary people to live in the county seat.

Whenever there was a slight injustice under his men, a rebel army of one or two thousand people surrounded the county town.

Qiancheng County is only a small county within the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, and the garrison force in the entire county is only 300 people, which includes the 50 officials in the county government.

Don't say that it is one or two thousand people, even if five hundred righteous troops come, they will also be anxious for a while. asked the Qingzhou Governor for support, and when the regular army arrived, the county seat was about to be breached.

Therefore, the county order is very harsh, and if his subordinates show the slightest bit of bullying or corrupting the law, he must quickly punish them as soon as possible.

In addition to this incident, he lived with the rebels in peace.

The people know how to be grateful, and they know that their lives are good not because the county order is clear, but because the county order is afraid of the rebels, so they are very grateful to the rebels.

Some people even went to the mountains to look for the rebels with food, wanting to give them some assistance within their ability.

Now that the officers and soldiers have arrived, the people are afraid that this is the official government's reckoning after the autumn. Especially after they heard that the commander of this army was the famous killer Tang Ning, they were even more afraid.

I didn't dare to go out all day, and I had to be afraid to work in the fields.

However, they soon found that the officers and soldiers did not seem to have reprimanded them, and did not even inquire about the whereabouts of the rebels.

As a result, they became emboldened, and sometimes they would take the initiative to come up to greet the officers and soldiers.

Tang Ning has always been strict in governing the army, but he didn't find out before that it was because the Zhenguo Army was very disciplined, and there was no need to deliberately restrain it at all. But if you take a closer look at the military regulations of the Zhenguo Army, you will find that there are many requirements in it.

For example, fifty people in each team, no matter where they are or what situation they are in, must send five people to keep vigil every night. If any violation is found, the whole team will be punished with ten military sticks per person.

This alone made the Jingxi Army and the Jingnan Army miserable.

They are used to being casual on weekdays, and they are suddenly restricted by such strict military regulations, which really makes them uncomfortable.

And Tang Killing Star is really fighting, he is not just talking. During the march, some people did not follow this military rule, and as a result, they were beaten in the buttocks.

Originally, these people's ability to eat and take cards was first-class, and when they arrived in the place, they were not embarrassed, and the people were uncomfortable. Downing

They were asked not to harass the people, so that they did not dare to speak to them.

The people were very confused, what were the officers and soldiers doing here?

Ten days later, their confusion was answered.

After Fang La was captured, he was personally guarded by Tang Ning's personal soldiers, and Liu Ling wanted to interrogate him, but Tang Ning refused. He can spy on Fang La, but he can't have any contact with Fang La.

Tang Ning's request further confirmed Liu Ling's conjecture, if there was no cat, why didn't he let himself touch Fang La?

Ten days ago, when Tang Ning arrived in Qiancheng County, he let out a message, saying that as long as the rebel army surrendered within half a month, everything in the past could be blamed.

As the supervisor of the army, Liu Ling naturally couldn't sit idly by, and as a martial arts envoy, he sternly made it clear to Tang Ning that these people were all thieves and rebels.

Unlike those bandits and robbers, they must be severely punished to set an example, how can they be recruited?

Without saying a word, Tang Ning began to write a small report on beating Liu Ling, saying that Liu Ling was interfering in his military orders, and he couldn't take this army anymore, so he would either change the prison army or change the commander.

This is a hooligan, how can the coach be so easy to change? Isn't it child's play to change the coach after only one month of sending troops? So the change can only be the prison army.

Liu Ling was so angry that he vomited blood, and he was angry and said that he wouldn't do it. After thinking about it, he remembered Zhao Ji's earnest entrustment to himself, and he wanted to monitor Tang Ning well, so he held back the fire in his stomach to apologize to Tang Ning, and this matter was over.

Ten days later, a large armed force came out of the mountain, and after encountering the officers and soldiers, they claimed to be the rebels and surrendered directly.

Liu Ling was able to conclude at this time that all this must have been Tang Ning's arrangement.

Fang La used to be Tang Ning's right-hand man, and he obeyed Tang Ning's words. If Fang La led the people to surrender, Liu Ling had nothing to say, the key is that now that Fang La has been captured, why should the rebels surrender?

What about their beliefs? What about their unwavering faith? Didn't you say that you would overthrow the imperial court? Don't give up here!

So there is only one possibility for the answer, this rebel army may have been an armed force formed under the command of Tang Ning from the beginning.

The situation was a little out of control, so a civil war broke out in accordance with Wu Desi's idea, and then retreated to a remote place, waiting for Tang Ning's arrival.

In this way, it makes sense, from Fang La's inexplicable ambush, to Tang Ning's generous Zhao'an, and the righteous army's acceptance of Zhao'an and the surrender of the people, all of this can be strung together.

But Liu Ling had no conclusive evidence, it was just a guess he made based on his own understanding and intuition of Tang Ning.

If you want evidence, Fang La is undoubtedly the best evidence, what you want is definitely hidden in this person's stomach.

Thinking of this, Liu Ling secretly planned, preparing to find an opportunity to rob Fang La from under Tang Ning's nose......