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Yanzhou, Henan Province, dry seal.

Although the distance was still far away, he couldn't see the flag clearly, but through the vast white mist, Wang Xianzhi could still see that it was a yellow flag. A yellow dragon loomed on the flag, the flag was getting closer and closer, looming in the white mist, and the most rearly jumped out, followed by countless soldiers and horses. Behind the Yellow Dragon Banner, there is a huge general flag, on which the words Wang Xianzhi knows, 'the deputy capital of all the heroes in the sea, and the deputy general Huang of the Tianbu Average'.

After seeing this banner clearly, Wang Xianzhi slapped his hand heavily on the cold battlements of the Qianfeng City. Thank God, Huang Chao finally rushed back.

"Report, Deputy Huang led 5,000 soldiers and horses to come as ordered." Huang Chao's nephew, Lin Yan, was dressed in a gorgeous golden battle armor. Horses galloped to the city. Loudly reported to Wang Xianzhi in the city.

"Open the gates. The herald will unite with Pontus and go out of the city to welcome Huang Deputy Capital! ”

Wang Xianzhi walked down the city tower quickly, and got on the horse with the generals who had already come to personally go out of the city to welcome the arrival of Huang Chao.

In the vast mist, Wang Xianzhi wore a Luo gauze hat on his head, a light crimson round-necked official robe, a jade belt around his waist, and six-fold boots on his feet. This line was obtained by copying the mansion of the assassin who abandoned the city and fled when he captured Jeju. He liked this set of official robes that only officials of the fifth rank and above could wear, and since then. Even if you go to the battlefield, you have to wear this in the armor.

Behind Wang Xianzhi, the ten commanders each rode on their horses and waited, Shang Junchang, Chai Cun, Bi Shiduo, Cao Shixiong, Liu Yanzhang, Liu Hanhong, Li Chongba, Cai Wenqiu, Chu Yanwei, and Wang Chongyin. In addition, Shang Junchang's younger brother Shang Rang has performed well recently, and now he has also won the position of general.

Wang Xianzhi's grass army now has more than 10,000 people, of which Wang Xianzhi directly leads more than 10,000. The ten earliest ticket commanders each led a box, two battalions of men and horses and a thousand brothers, and Ren Du knew the soldiers and horses, and Wang Xianzhi himself personally led 3,000 'elites'. And Shang Rang served as Wang Xianzhi's bodyguard, commanding a hundred personal guard cavalry.

Huang Chao's subordinates are fewer. There were only five thousand centaurs.

During this time, the grass army can be described as a great prestige, they broke Caozhou, then Puzhou, and then captured Jeju, and have already entered the eastern part of Yanzhou. In order to expand their momentum, Huang Chao suggested that they not care about the gains and losses of one place or one city, they basically fought one city and robbed all the cities, and then continued to sweep the next city like locusts. When they captured Jeju City, Huang Chao simply proposed to spread the team and spread out in a team of hundreds of people, which bloomed on all sides. At the beginning, Wang Xianzhi was still a little worried that this would be broken by the officials and soldiers, but it turned out that the deputy capital was worthy of being a person who had read books, and they were simply in a no-man's land in the territory of the Tianping Army, burning, killing and looting, constantly recruiting troops and buying horses, and the team was like a snowball.

At the beginning of the Changyuan uprising, there were only 1,000 soldiers and horses, but now in only half a year, they have nearly 20,000 horses. The ten commanders under him were only scattered with more than 100 people at the beginning, but when they came back this time, they already had thousands of people.

Huang Vice Capital originally had a thousand people, and now there are 5,000 people.

Thinking that he had 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, Wang Xianzhi couldn't help but be arrogant.

Huangchao's 5,000 men and horses are also divided into five hundred battalions, divided into ten battalions, five compartments, Huang Chao's seven brothers, Huang Cun, Huang Ye, Huang Kui, Huang Qin, Huang Bing, Huang Wantong, Huang Sihou each lead a battalion, in addition to Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guiben three brothers command the other three battalions, divided into soldiers and horses, Chang Hong, Ge Congzhou, Liu Tang, Liu Shanfu, Lin Yan five generals are divided into five compartments to know the soldiers and horses, and Meng Kai is Huang Chao's deputy general.

Although Huang Chao's department also belongs to the grass army, his team obviously has a clear boundary with Wang Xianzhi's.

The five thousand men and horses in front of Lin Yan are the soldiers and horses in front of them, although the thousand soldiers and horses are also foot soldiers, but they are all strong, and they are not the kind of homeless and hungry people, these soldiers are all good. What surprised Wang Xianzhi even more was that these soldiers and horses were all dressed in uniform attire, all with yellow crotch pleats, narrow-sleeved robes on the top, large-mouth robes on the bottom, and a missing crotch robe and a back that was open on both sides up to the knees.

The weapons in their hands were not as messy as they were, but neat and orderly. Of the 1,000 men and horses in the front compartment, half were spearmen, all holding eight-foot spears, and a small half were sword and shield bearers, not only with long knives, but also with a wooden shield. Even if the wooden shield was very cold, and even the cowhide was not covered, just like a pot lid, but the long knife hand looked very powerful. What surprised him even more was that they were actually equipped with archers, although there were not many, and there were only about 100 archers out of a thousand people in the entire front compartment, but it still shocked Wang Xianzhi.

Moreover, beside Lin Yan, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the front compartment, there were about fifty cavalrymen, and his eyes were even brighter when he saw it. He has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and he is only a hundred cavalry, and Lin Yan alone has a team of cavalry, so doesn't Huangchao have more cavalry?

Soon another group of cavalry appeared, this time with two hundred horsemen, several of whom were tall standard-bearers with yellow flags.

Behind these cavalrymen, Huang Chao wore a set of gilded gold armor captured from the official soldiers, and wore a phoenix-winged pox on his head, and stepped on a white horse. Armed with a spear. He also wore a long cloak of woven gold behind his shoulders. The whole person is majestic, and Wang Xianzhi is not a little envious when he sees it.

Seeing Wang Xianzhi and the others personally go out of the city to greet him, Huang Chao hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted and came to pay a visit.

"Nest to meet Dutong!"

Wang Xianzhi saw that Huang Chao was so polite, and the faint unhappiness in his heart just now was gone, and he stepped forward to help Huang Chao with a smile, "Brother Huang, please get up, my own brother." It doesn't have to be how. ”

"There are clear hierarchies in the army, and the top and bottom are strict, and the nest does not dare to mess up." Huang Chao arched his hand, "I don't know what the urgency is when the capital urgently sends an order to recall all the troops?" ”

"Let's talk about it in the advanced city. Wang Xianzhi took Huang Chao's hand, extremely cordial.

Huang Chao turned his head and instructed Meng Kai to place the army, and Wang Xianzhi said that he would arrange his brothers into the city. Huang Chao did not agree to this proposal, but only said that the dry closure of the city was not big, and it could not be resettled for a while. Let Meng Kai place the soldiers and horses outside the city and raise a campfire. Take care of the horses and cook in the pot. Set up a tent. Among the generals, Huang Chao only brought Lin Yan, Zhang Guiba and Ge Cong into the city.

In March, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the earth is rejuvenated.

The ground beneath the horses' hooves was squishy and sloppy, slowly sinking as they were trampled. They passed by the smoky shacks outside the city, which were full of hungry people who were poorly clothed and looked hungry. Many of them came together when the grass army attacked the city and broke through the city, and some came from a distance. However, Wang Xianzhi didn't care much about these displaced people, let alone relief.

Every time a new homeless person came to vote, he would first pick out the strong young men among them as soldiers, and their families would allow them to accompany the army, and Wang Xianzhi would give them some rations, 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 handsomes will pick and enjoy it, both as a concubine and a maidservant. Others, young but not very beautiful, were rewarded to their subordinates.

For the other old and weak, Wang Xianzhi didn't care, if it weren't for Huang Chao's several times to put forward advice, saying that he would take out some grain to open a porridge shed every day to buy some people's hearts, and also said that these people can sometimes be useful when dealing with officials and soldiers, he reluctantly took out some food. But this food is very small, 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 flee.

Outside the city, there are now scattered shacks and helpless and desperate people. Slightly closer to the walls, they were the families of the Grass Army brothers, as well as the women who had been divided by the plunder. As long as they follow the grass army, they can at least fill their stomachs every day.

Qianfengcheng is just a small county town to the east of Yanzhou, north of Wenshui, with Jeju to the north and Qizhou and Zizhou to the east. Although this is only a small county seat, there is a very famous mountain here, and the emperors of many dynasties have been here, that is, Mount Tai.

Mount Tai is in the northeast of Qianfeng County, and there are Shexian Mountain in the north of the county seat, Tingting Mountain in the south, and Lailai Mountain and Liangfu Mountain in the southeast.

Wenshui is not far from the east of the county, and is divided into three rivers, Wenshui, Muwenshui, and Yingwenshui.

This is a very dangerous place, and because it is close to Wang Jingwu's army in Qizhou, therefore, the grass army self-righteous into the Tianping army, from Caozhou to Puzhou, the most Lu after the attack into Jeju, all the way to the east of Yanzhou. Although it has fought a lot of territory, in fact, the grass army is now fighting completely in accordance with the mobile tactics that Huang Chao suggested to Wang Xianzhi at the beginning.

Every time he captures a place, he immediately grabs all the money, food, weapons and other materials, and then coerces the young and strong to join the army. Then, before the arrival of the officers and soldiers, they continued to flow and attack the next place.

Huang Chao's mobile tactics were of great help in the early stage of the Grass Army. If it weren't for this mobile tactic, they would not have been able to grow rapidly and have so many soldiers and horses, let alone solve the problem of food, clothing, and even weapons and armor for these soldiers and horses. Moreover, the mobile tactics allowed the grass army, which was still very brittle in the early stage, to avoid a hard confrontation with the official army and maintain its strength.

However, now Wang Xianzhi doesn't want to run away when he sees the official army anymore.

As soon as he entered the city, Wang Xianzhi immediately said to Huang Chao: "This time I summoned the brothers from all departments to come back, there is an important thing to tell you. First of all, the Shatuo people in Daibei have been put down by the joint forces of the imperial court. ”

This news surprised Huang Chao, "Shatuo people have always been fierce, Li Guochang is a veteran of the battlefield, although his third son Li Keyong is only eighteen, he has already won the three armies, known as the Flying Tiger, his crow army is even better, how did he lose all of a sudden?" ”

"No matter how strong the Shatuo people are, the court has a lot of soldiers after all." Wang Xianzhi said: "Don't talk about them, there is now a more important news, according to our horse exploration, Xue Chong, the straw bag of the Tianping Army, is actually planning a big move, and this action is coming at us." The former Tianping Army's Jiedu envoy, and now the Xichuan Jiedu envoy, Gao Yu, beat the Nanzhao people several times in Xichuan. Now, the Tianping Army that was originally transferred to Xichuan has returned to the town, and these are the elite soldiers and horses of the Tianping Army. Now this Xue Chong has mobilized all the Tianping Army, a total of 8,000 men and horses, and is ready to come to encircle and suppress us. ”

The generals were a little surprised, but they didn't pay much attention to it. They had previously divided their troops to fight, and each of them brought one or two hundred people, but they could attack cities and lands, break counties and towns. In their eyes, those officers and soldiers were simply a bunch of straw bales, just like Xue Chong.

Wang Xianzhi said with a solemn face: "The army must not be underestimated, the soldiers and horses we dealt with before were mostly some soldiers under the counties. And the soldiers to deal with this time are different, not to mention that these Tianping soldiers who came back from Xichuan are elite elites, but these others are also the tooth soldiers of Tianping Army's Yacheng Yunzhou. ”

Huang Chao listened carefully, and then said: "General, since the comers are not good, then we don't have to fight them hard at all, let's just do the same as before, let's bring all the soldiers and horses to go around with them." If he comes to Yanzhou, let's go to Yunzhou and Yizhou. It is impossible for the officers and soldiers to chase after us all the time, and when they retreat, we can come back again, we are righteous troops, and we can go anywhere. ”

Shang Junchang and other generals also had this meaning, Huang Chao's mobile tactics were very much to their liking, just grab them everywhere.

However, Wang Xianzhi didn't want to be run around by the official army anymore, the grass army now has 20,000 horses, strong soldiers and strong horses, how can they be chased everywhere again? Then he, the lord of the sea, is in charge, and the average general of the heavenly supplement is too faceless.

What's more, although there are few dry lockdowns, he feels good to stay here. In the general's mansion, there are more than a dozen delicate beautiful girls, and it is difficult to take away these beautiful girls this time.

Another one, in fact, after hearing that even the Shatuo Army, which is known as the strongest army in the world, has been exterminated and pacified by the imperial court, Wang Xianzhi is now not optimistic about the future of this great cause of rebellion. He now has an idea in his heart, that is, when he still has so much capital in his hand, he will beat Xue Chong with that straw bag, and then he will have the capital to negotiate with the imperial court.

The rebellion was only a last resort.

Now, it's time to kill people and set fires!

However, this was only in his mind. He still didn't know what the other brothers in the Dao were thinking, especially the idea of Huang Chao, the deputy capital commander. Before making the decision to be recruited, he had to listen to his brothers' opinions. (To be continued......)