The moon is dark and the wind is high.

Separated by a river from Qi County, the south of the plain county, Lujiao Pass.

Liu Zhen will ignore the cold wind, dressed neatly and lead the team to the ferry to meet, I don't know when, a pontoon bridge has been erected on the Yellow River.

In the darkness, a little bit of fire snaked in, like a fire dragon.

This fire dragon came to the north shore through the pontoon bridge, and they were all tall and strong, all of them were dressed in armor, and the well-equipped ones made Liu Zhenjiang envious.

"General Liu Zhen, meet again."

"The last general will meet Luo Shuai." General Liu Zhen saw that it was the young man who was famous all over the world who greeted him, and hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted to meet him.

"Lao Liu, we are all old friends, so we don't need to be so polite."

Liu Zhenjiang quietly looked at Luo Cheng, he hadn't seen him for more than two years, and Luo Cheng didn't seem to know him. People are still so domineering, but they used to think that half of that domineering was arrogant, but now they only feel that this domineering is all self-confidence exuded from the inside out.

"The eight hundred town soldiers of Lujiao Pass have all been assembled, and they will listen to Hou Luoshuai's orders at any time."

Lao Liu didn't know what Luo Cheng, Henan's Henan, was doing to comfort and arrest the ambassadors and soldiers who crossed the Yellow River, but since Luo Cheng sent someone to say that he wanted to lead the rear to cross the river, he didn't dare to stop it.

Although according to the system, Luo Cheng led his troops across the Yellow River, that is, he crossed the border and used troops and horses without permission. But who doesn't know that Luo Cheng is the most popular general in front of the emperor today.

Not to mention stopping Luo Cheng, even if Luo Cheng wants to transfer his soldiers in Antler Pass, he will not say a word.

"The matter is urgent, I didn't come before to tell you in detail, Ben Shuai has detected several bandits, recently they have crossed the river into the plain county, according to my reconnaissance, they are uniting together, preparing to attack the plain county, the military situation is urgent, Ben Shuai personally chased across the river."

This explanation made Lao Liu smile helplessly, what kind of reason is this.

The thief is in Henan, so Luo Cheng can chase and fight as much as he wants, but the thief crossed the Yellow River to the border of Hebei, so he should not chase him across the border anymore. However, Luo Cheng now has a high status, and he said that he was chasing bandits, and he also said that the bandits were going to fight Pingyuan County, so chasing him over can be regarded as a reason.

"These bandits are too bold to do this."

Luo Cheng didn't plan to talk more with Liu Zhenjiang.

"There are more thieves this time, and as far as I know, there are dozens of bandits linked together, claiming to have 100,000 horses. However, in fact, there are at least 20,000 or 30,000 old thieves and bandits, so they should not be underestimated. Pingyuan County is a canal to the north, the Yellow River to the southeast, these two eastern crusades have begun, the grain to the north of the eastern crusade must be transported by the canal, once the bandits occupy the plain, cut off the canal, then it will be quite troublesome, so we must eliminate this bandits. ”

Then Luo Cheng said to Lao Liu very unceremoniously, let Lao Liu take his 800 town soldiers to be the forward guide for his soldiers and horses, and as for the Antler Pass, it will be handed over to Guo Xiaoke of Luo Cheng's department to be responsible for guarding the town.

"I wonder how many people the marshal brought here?"

"Not much, only eight thousand." Luo Cheng said with a smile.

In fact, Luo Cheng can be regarded as pouring his troops into a fight, his five thousand directly subordinate soldiers and horses, plus the soldiers of Qi County and Zhangqiu, except for Zhao Gui to lead an army to be stationed in Beihai, the remaining soldiers of Qi County were brought by Luo Cheng.

Lao Liu didn't refuse, and he didn't dare to refuse, although this was not in line with the rules, but how could he be reluctant to pass Luo Cheng in his small town.

Eight thousand Henan soldiers were crossing the river through the pontoon bridge in a steady stream, and Wei Zheng didn't know when he would come behind Luo Cheng.

"You're taking a risky step."

Without the will of the edict, it is indeed a very bold thing to lead 8,000 soldiers out of Henan and into Hebei. Before Luo Cheng privately recruited soldiers and horses, he hadn't passed the imperial court, and now he led his troops across the border, I don't know how many people will impeach Luo Cheng.

"I know, but Pingyuan County is just north of my Qi County, across the river. This time, all kinds of signs revealed that these bandits who wanted to fight the plains were actually Yang Xuangan and Li Mi's people, and they gathered in the plains at this time and attacked Pingyuan County, just to prepare for Yang Xuangan's rebellion. ”

There are Wuyang and Qinghe counties between the plain and Ji counties, but the two counties are connected by the Yellow River and canals, so it is easy to connect. Once Yang Xuangan rebelled in Ji County, these bandits in Pingyuan County could not only block the canal and intercept the Sui army in the direction of Zhuo County in the north, but also quickly converge with Yang Xuangan.

Another one, guarding the plain, can also block the soldiers and horses of Qi County from going north.

"I can't let Yang Xuan feel successful, if you let this guy take advantage of the situation, then Hebei and Henan will be empty, this guy will be able to turn the world upside down, and now the Central Plains will be in chaos, if he does it again, he will have to make the terracotta thousands of miles uninhabited, we people, at least, have to think about our families, right?"

Yang Xuangan wants to rebel, although he has been operating secretly for many years, and the power of the Hongnong Yang family is also great, but after all, it is a rebellion in Liyang, here, no matter how strong Yang Xuangan's reputation is, but after all, there are not many available soldiers here, so he still needs these thieves that Li Mi contacted for him.

With the rice in Liyang's warehouse, plus the soldiers of all kinds of anti-thieves, and then Yang Xuangan climbed high and shouted, he would be able to gather thousands of troops and horses.

Luo Cheng estimated that Yang Xuangan might make an incident around May, and at that time, he Luo Cheng estimated that he was also in the Yalu River, so he was not at ease. Originally, the counties of Henan were messed up by bandits, and if Yang Xuangan was allowed to do it again, it was estimated that the Central Plains would really be in chaos.

In this chaos in the Central Plains, how can Qi County and Zhangqiu become that place outside the world?

Pingyuan County, Douzi Gang.

One group after another drove in, crowding this piece of salt and making it very lively.

Du Yanbing, Wang Yan, Li Deyi, Ge Qian, Gao Kaidao, Sun Yaxuan, Shi Yiyan, Hao Xiaode and other anti-thief leaders led their troops one after another.

Sun Yaxuan, the king of Qi, is a fat Hebei man like a ball, with a big belly and a big beard is his logo, he has been active in the plains and the Bohai Sea for the past two years, taking advantage of the emptiness of Hebei in the east, and now he is known as 100,000 soldiers and horses, but there are seven or eight thousand old thieves who can fight, and he is indeed strong.

After having so many soldiers and horses, Sun Yaxuan couldn't wait to call himself the king of Qi.

And with him, how can the other thieves still live under people.

So Gao Kaidao called himself the King of Yan, and Geqian also called himself the King of Yan, so in the green forest, everyone had to call Geqian in the north the King of Northern Yan, and Gao Kaidao in the south called the King of Southern Yan.

In addition, Li Deyi inherited Liu's domineering uncle army, and also called himself King Zhao.

Hao Chide, who originated in Henan, called himself the King of Lu, while Gao Shida called himself the Duke of the East China Sea.

For a time, there were seven or eight anti-kings and more than a dozen anti-princes, so it was not lively.

"A certain led 20,000 troops to meet the alliance." Sun Ya, the king of Qi, preached.

"This king also came with 20,000 troops." King Lu He Xiaode patted his chest and said, the two Yan kings over there did not show weakness, and each said that he had brought 30,000 horses.

Even Gao Shida, the Duke of the East China Sea, said that he brought 10,000 horses.

After everyone finished reporting, a simple plus, the people brought by each family were as high as 200,000.

"Then we will claim to be 500,000 righteous troops, and the eighteenth anti-king alliance will go together to attack the plain county."

"Okay, it's called 500,000, and I'm going to scare those dog officials in Plains City."

Li Mi did not sit with these anti-kings and anti-princes, he was accompanied by his student Wang Bodang and sat under a grass hut in the distance, drinking tea while watching the lively scene over there.

Listening to those King of Qi, King Lu, King Yan, King Zhao boasting there, Li Mi shook his head disdainfully, although he wanted to take advantage of these recklessness, he still really looked down on these guys in his heart.