In late February, in Fuliang County, at the western foot of Yishan Mountain, two woodcutters, an old man and a young man, carried two heavy bundles of firewood into the city from the east gate, and were intercepted by the guards of the city.

The shops along the street saw that there were people who went into the city to sell firewood, from time to time someone inquired about the price, the young people did not say anything, the old people stood on the street and bargained with people, but the old and young two bundles of firewood were sold for 400 yuan, everyone shook their heads, and asked the old and young to sell the firewood to other families.

In front of a tea shop, the shopkeeper of the tea shop was a middle-aged man, listening to the shouts of the firewood sellers, he lifted the curtain and walked out, asked the price, and said sadly: "Brother, this firewood has more than doubled compared to last month, and if it goes on like this, the family can't even afford a fire." ”

The old man replied in a hoarse voice: "The potters of Qimen have rebelled, flooded the mines, and the supply of coal has been cut off for the time being, and the officers and soldiers have gone into the mountains to rehabilitate, and they don't know when they will be able to stop for a while." It's not easy for us to enter the city, and the capitation fee has doubled compared to last month. If the price does not rise, our family can only drink the northwest wind......"

The shopkeeper of the tea shop said, "The potters of Qimen have rebelled, but the charcoal boat of Changhe has not been scuttled, brother, are you going to suppress the price of firewood?" ”

"Soon, soon, the charcoal boat in the Changhe River has been jumping for a few days, shopkeeper, haven't you seen that the boats in Poyang Lake have been capsizing and sinking one after another these days?" The young man who sold firewood was silent for a long time, and then he picked up the code, and his floating words were still a little jerky.

Listening to the code, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up, for fear of attracting the attention of the street patrolman, and he said calmly: "Yes, yes, you will carry the firewood to the backyard for me......" opened the curtain and called the old and young people selling firewood into the shop, and gave the two guys behind the counter a look, asking them to watch the door, and directly led the old and young people selling firewood into the backyard.

"Dare to ask what adults call them?" The teashop asked as he looked at the young man.

The old man smiled slightly and asked, "It is said that the fire harrier Huang Bin's eyes are poisonous, it is true, how can you guess the identity of Hu Tou?" ”

"There are quite a lot of Fuliang and Yongshan children in the army, and the Privy Council will send ordinary dark stakes, and they will not send someone who speaks jerky," Huang Bin, the fire harrier, said with a smile.

"I'm Hu Qiaozhong, how can I meet Yu Wencheng, Yu Wenbei, and Uncle Pan Wen as soon as possible?" Hu Qiaozhong said.

"It turned out to be the master of the army, and Huang Bin of the Gandong Division of the Military Intelligence Department has seen the army!" Huang Bin was startled when he heard Hu Qiaozhong's self-proclaimed identity, and hurriedly saluted.

In the traditional town army, the strength ranges from more than 10,000 to tens of thousands, and in addition to the main general, the deputy generals are all commensurate with the number of generals and the number of generals, and the distinction between generals and posts is not strict. The Huaidong armies were promoted from the battalion to the army, equal to the town, a town often governed more than a dozen brigades, and the forest was between the town and the brigade, and a new division level was set up, with two to four brigades under its jurisdiction, so as to control the army and lead it.

Hu Qiaozhong, Chen Enze and other Chongzhou boys, in the army or as a commander, city captain, in the official career, or for the government of the county, is already the backbone of Huaidong.

It's no wonder that Huang Bin was startled, Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei, who went to sneak into Ganzhou, were already brigade generals, and Hu Qiaozhong even entered Jiangxi as a military commander, not to mention that Gandong always had to do a big job?

Huang Bin couldn't hold back his excitement, and asked in a suppressed voice, "Are you going to do a big job soon?" ”

Hu Qiaozhong smiled slightly, which was an answer.

Huang Bin continued: "Wu Jingze led the kiln workers in Qimen, guarded the Huangtian cottage, and attracted the rebels from the surrounding counties. ”

Hu Qiaozhong didn't say much, many things had to be discussed in front of Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei, put Chai He down, went out of the city separately with Huang Bin, met in the small peach forest outside the south of the city, and rushed to Liangzi Cliff in the south of the city to meet Yu Wencheng who was lurking there.

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Yu Wencheng led his troops to sneak to Liangziya for three months, and there were originally remnants of more than 100 people of the Ganzhou Army who were bandits in the mountains. occupied a dangerous place, on the one hand, it deviated from the remoteness of Fuliang Avenue, and on the other hand, this remnant was low-key and did not attract the attention of Fuliang County.

After Uncle Pan Wen went north, Pan Qifeng's old department, who had fled into the deep mountains and old forests in Shangrao, was contacted one after another. Yu Wencheng came to collect the remnants of this army, and recruited his father and brother's old troops from Yongshan and Fuliang, and now the soldiers and horses in Liangziya have gathered 600 people, more than the garrison in Fuliang County.

The early spring is warm and cold, but fortunately, people in the mountains are accustomed to burning the fire pond, and everyone sits around the fire pond. The Privy Council sent Hu Qiaozhong to sneak in, and Yu Wencheng knew that this meant that he was about to do a big job.

"Wu Jingze brought the rebels from the surrounding counties into Huangtian, and the two thousand rebels swirled in the deep mountains of Huangtian," Yu Wencheng said, "Uncle Pan Wen can gather nearly 2,000 people in Yongshan, and Wenbei has more than 700 people in the north of Huangshan, plus the manpower of Duchang and Poyang in the periphery, he can almost immediately gather 4,000 troops, which is enough to completely annihilate the rebels lured into Huangtian." As long as there is an incident, Qimen, Fuliang, and Yongshan will move, and it will be easy to recruit soldiers again, and 350,000 people will be fine! ”

"Your Excellency has gone to Quzhou to supervise the war, and the war in Shangrao will be tightened, but it is still difficult to say in Jiangzhou, Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu may leave some spare strength, so that Luxury Wenzhuang can draw a large number of troops into Jiangdong in Jiangzhou," Hu Qiaozhong said, "The enemy of Huangtian cannot exert all his strength, at least not let the Haojia family draw more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangzhou to quell the chaos for the second time, otherwise it will be difficult to form a prairie fire, and the development of the situation in Gandong will also be difficult." If you only ambush all the way, are you sure that you will defeat the enemy of Huangtian? ”

Uncle Pan Wen's side did not move, and the mountains and Liangziya could only move all the way, and there were only six or seven hundred people, and the addition of Wu Jingze's department who lured the enemy into the deep mountains of Huangtian was only a little more than a thousand people - this time only a thousand people were used, but they were not afraid of attracting too much attention from the luxury family.

Yu Wencheng thought for a while and said: "The garrisons in Fuliang counties are mostly recruited by the luxury family from the local area, and they are greedy for the money and food they give, but there are not many people who are willing to fight tough battles with the luxury family, so they are prepared to attack them unprepared, and a thousand people are enough, but it is difficult to annihilate them all!" ”

"Don't always think about annihilation," Hu Qiaozhong said with a smile, "Leave him some men and horses out of the mountain, so as to lure the second man in, and then all the troops will unite to beat him hard!" ”

"Okay, the side of Jushan and Yongshan will not move for the time being, and the side of Liangshan Cliff will go first, which can be regarded as the first success." Yu Wencheng said.

Hu Qiaozhong asked about the armor and equipment on Liang Ziya's side again-

In the past four months, through the wild trail valley road between Huaiyu Mountain and Yishan Mountain, the Privy Council has successively imported thousands of weapons to the eastern Jiangxi region, among which knives and spears are the mainstay.

There is no shortage of qualified knife handles and gun handles between the mountains and forests, even if it is a stainless steel Mo knife head, three or five people can smuggle hundreds of them in, but it is much more difficult to transport the armor in, and only more than 600 pairs have been transported in so far.

The armor was smuggled in, and how to distribute it was a matter here, Hu Qiaozhong was worried that the distribution would be too even, but it would weaken Yu Wencheng's combat power in Liangziya's department......

Yu Wencheng licked his lips, laughed, and said: "Coming from Qimen is Liangziya, I'm afraid that the other departments will be too ostentatious and pretend not to be like mountain bandits. This time we really took the lead, Wen Bei and Uncle Pan Wen wanted armor, so they could only wait for the capture......"

This time, the official suppression of the soldiers and horses of the luxury family entering the mountains to quell the chaos, if Yu Wencheng's department wants to hide it, it is impossible - as long as this side is officially started, the luxury family will definitely be able to guess that Yu Wencheng's department is sent by Huaidong. What is being done in every possible way at the moment is to underestimate the scale of the infiltrated soldiers and horses and the source of the troops, so as to prevent the luxury family from sending a large army to suppress the border for the second time.

As long as the soldiers and horses sent into the nest by the luxury family can be defeated twice in a row, on the one hand, it can create a greater momentum in Gandong, on the other hand, it can give the luxury family a greater blow, and on the other hand, more seizures can also organize more people to join the resistance army in Gandong, and there is no need to rely on Jiangning to go to Yishan for supplies.

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It's not that Luwenzhuang hasn't noticed the abnormal situation in Jiangxi since the beginning of spring.

At the beginning, the extravagant Wenzhuang did everything possible to instigate and promote Liu An'er and other Hongzepu Shuizhai forces to launch a popular rebellion in the Huaisi area, but in fact, it was also to disrupt the heart of the Hehuai and Huai provinces, contain the troops of the Vietnamese Dynasty on the southern front to move north, and create powerful conditions for the Luxury family to invade the two provinces in the north.

At this time, Huaidong wanted to do a luxurious plan, how could Luwenzhuang not notice it at all?

It's one thing to be aware, but it's not easy to extinguish banditry everywhere!

At the invitation of Wu Jingze, Pan Wenshu led the remnants of the Ganzhou army to the north, but after Pan Wenshu left southern Gansu, the resistance movement in southern Gannan did not stop, but under the banner of Pan Wenshu, it became more and more intense.

The strength of the luxury family in the southern Gan region was already extremely weak, and more than 4,000 soldiers and horses were gathered in the city of Ganzhou in the lower reaches of the Gan River to defend the important place of Jiangxi.

The idea of Haowenzhuang is no different from the previous prediction of the Privy Council: as long as Ganzhou is held and the people are not disturbed to the lower reaches of the Ganjiang River and both sides of Poyang Lake, even if the control of more than 20 counties in southern Gan is temporarily abandoned, it will not affect the overall situation of Jiangxi.

The retreat of the luxury family in the southern Gan region made the popular resistance movement in southern Gan more and more turbulent, and in just three or five months, the resistance army grew to the scale of 10,000 or 20,000 people. Although the luxury family was not afraid that the 20,000 resistance troops with children and daughters would break through the blockade of Ganzhou, they never dared to take it lightly.

In addition to southern Jiangxi, the banditry in western Jiangxi is also becoming more and more serious, and there is also a tendency to burn the plains, seriously affecting the liaison between Jiangzhou, Yuzhang and Yuanzhou - luxury Wenzhuang considered that the focus of Huaidong's plan was likely to be in eastern Jiangxi, but the situation in western Jiangxi also made him unable to take it lightly!

Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou are in Yuanzhou, and they have always called luxury Wenzhuang not to rest assured, if Huaidong sends people to contact Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou, it is difficult to guarantee that the two of them will not have the heart to repeat.

The possibility of Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou immediately switching to Jiangning is not high, but the banditry in western Jiangxi has become a prairie fire, and Huang Chen and the two must connive at it behind their backs. Once the rebels cut off Yuanzhou from Yuzhang, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou could stand on their own according to Yuanzhou and not listen to the orders of the luxury family - the two of them also had bargaining chips with Jiang Ning in the end, and they didn't have to hang themselves on the tree of the luxury family.

In contrast, although there was some movement in the mountainous area of eastern Gandong, Haowenzhuang also noticed that the movement in the mountainous area of eastern Gandong was more likely to be directly led by Jiangning, but it did not have the spare strength to send more troops to defend the eastern Gandong region.

Crises in Jiangxi, internal and external difficulties - the offensive of Chizhou and Jinghu faced by Jiangzhou and the offensive of Shangrao facing Huaidong were two difficulties that the luxury family had to survive, and the luxury Wenzhuang did not realize for a while that the civil unrest in the eastern part of the river would soon spread like a prairie fire.