Outside the Changsha City, the city of Tanzhou, which was covered with clouds, the former site of Taoguan City, located five miles southwest, has become a place with flags like forest camps and tents; during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Du Rang rebelled in Xiangzhou and appointed Tao Kan as the commander to attack him, and now it is the base camp of the central army where various rebels gather.

I saw countless fast horses and rovers sending messages, like hard-working bees, and frequent trips were densely packed with and many other materials on the gatehouses in Changsha, which were waiting for battle, and there were crowds of figures and piles of high-quality instruments and materials.

Compared with the several big cities that have been fought before, this Changsha City, which is a natural observation in Hunan, is undoubtedly even more grand, and the Hunan River surrounds both sides of the river. Therefore, these rebel generals who do not have much experience in conquering the big cities have to be solemn and cautious.

However, relying on the momentum and scale accumulated by conquering several states in succession, the rebels now gathered under Changsha City are often 100,000, and there is a terrible scene of flags and clouds all over the mountains, swords and guns, and joint camps keep sayings and sounds shook the sky, and they are like tides.

Moreover, in addition to the joint camps of these rebels, there were a steady stream of teams and different flags joining in every day; this also made the Li Shi, the deputy guard of the south camp, who were following the enemy in the city and watching the enemy, and were shocked. Even the Li Shi himself tried to calm down and said a scene of accumulating morale. After giving Ruoduo rewards to the nearby defenders, he hurriedly took people away from the city.

In fact, seeing this scene reminded him of some Taining Jiedushi who passed by the king without much pleasure; it was a nightmare in Yanzhou. The army he relied on for Gancheng. In front of Wang Xianzhi, a mud leg with only sticks and door panels, he almost won lightly and then lost again and returned to the city. Not to mention the terrifying number of mountains and valleys.

He has ordered the officials, civilians and people in the city to do their best, regardless of the high and low, to contribute their efforts to the army to help defend the enemy. Therefore, if they are distributed according to the household registration level, each household will take out one-third of the stored grain, or one of the three men will pay one or the same discount on the service of the service; and all merchants and owners will also have to donate 30% of their wealth to ensure that they are not worried.

Although the thief's large-scale attack made him feel a little numb, he was at a loss and made many tricks. However, in fact, as the director of the Taining Jiedushi, he still had his experience in serving as the governor of the town. With the joint assistance and suggestions of the generals and staff brought by his family, at least with the deployment of various measures, there are still no problems or mistakes.

He could also take advantage of this legitimate opportunity to make money; and he had even thought about how to make a fortune with the reasons of protecting the country and protecting the people in the future after he defeated these thieves in the future.

As for the 50,000 troops handed over to him by the court, he also needed enough wealth to win over and drive them to work hard at present; but he was too ruthless in his previous efforts to hold money, but he had long ignored the rewards and supplies of these soldiers under his command. In addition to the 1,000 soldiers he brought out from Taining Town, which was beaten by Wang Xianzhi, the 3,000 Shence Army rationed by the court, and the unity of the 2,000 local Tanzhou, which could ensure that he had priority for food and clothing;

There were still several other soldiers including Jiangling, Qingzhou, Yunzhou, Nanyang, Yicheng, etc., which were originally elite troops taken out of the imperial court from various towns. After Wang Duo, who was leading the troops from the town, was delivered to him, he basically asked these people to find land and eat. Although it was inevitable that the local people would be filled with complaints, the observations he was in charge also greatly reduced the possible bleeding and expenses, so he turned his left hand and his right hand to put the bag in his pocket.

Moreover, even if someone sued Wang Duo, who was benefactor and advocated by his benefactor, guarding Situ, Shizhong, Jiangling Yin, Jingnan Jiedu, military commander of various camps, and Duke of Jin, was also criticized by the saying "not knowing the general situation" or "taking the overall situation first".

Therefore, the people who bought bribes and fled into the army to seek to avoid disasters and avoid disasters have made a fortune, but they have made his subordinates make a fortune in the important tasks; many people who followed him for free even bought houses and bought property in the local area, and became the newly released owner of the house, Tian Weng.

Therefore, after a period of "free-raising", these military troops now have a large amount of infringement; some are routinely deficient in wages (conscientious); some are the result of the soldiers who are unbearable and flee privately but deliberately do not make up for the military quota, but they cannot hide the consequences of continuing to eat short-term food and stealing military quota on the spot, and both ends need to eat the benefits;

So after some troops were promoted to the tent and beat drums, less than three or four could gather in the schoolyard. Then, after hearing that some troops were going to fight the enemy, they scattered in horror on the spot. And some soldiers from local backgrounds were even more time to take off their robes and take them back home.

In the end, even if he turned a blind eye to the point, not counting the Tumen soldiers who came to those places with their own swords, guns and drums, the number of officers and soldiers was only more than 30,000. So he decided to open the military treasury of the prefecture town and arm these miscellaneous Tumen troops to serve as a deficit in the army.

In this way, you can collect a tax-drawing project that can be collected. Once the war is on the city, you can eliminate the deficit weapons and armor, as well as false posts on the grounds of war damage. You can also ask the court for money and food to reward, and even more to confess your future...

All this is perfect, and there is nothing wrong with it. Apart from the thieves who are uncontrollable factors outside the city, why not send an envoy to delay the negotiations with the Snake? In this way, I have more capital to organize the internal affairs and stick to it. Well, I will send Fan Zhongchu, whom I hate the most. You must know that he has relied on the identity of the imperial court to the Censorate, and has repeatedly pointed out his actions.

He also said that the enemy should pity the people's big talk at the moment of sharing the same hatred with the enemy. Now he will give him a chance to practice what he said, and see if he still has the face to refuse. The thieves who can deceive this day by day, even if they are cut off by these mud legs, they will not be careless. Instead, they will get a trouble of being irritable all day long.

He thought so, and heard a mountain whistling and screaming. Then several black dots visible to the naked eye swept across the city with arcs breaking through the air, and fell into the residential area in the city, and another sensation of roaring. In an instant, his face was like earth and he shouted in a duck-like voice:

"Where is the guard? Come and take me to the shelter..."

.........

In Guangzhou City, in the Fanshan Villa, which was originally the governor's mansion, the main hall used to entertain guests had long been emptied, and only the four walls were painted with cranes and pine paint.

On a sand table that represents the southeast half of the world on the southeast of the Rebel Army’s strategy route, among the undulating mountain and river geographical models, large and small prefectures, counties, passes and village buildings have been successively planted with small flags marked as various units of the Rebel Army.

Especially now, as the main attack direction of the army, the Hunan Observer's jurisdiction is under the jurisdiction of Yong, Shao and Heng, and almost most of the states are filled with dense signs. Even Lianzhou, Daozhou and Binzhou, which are the strategies for division of troops on the side, are no exceptions;

However, the different colors of the logo also represent the complete occupation of the rebel army, partial occupation, and the state of tug-of-war with local land groups and government troops, and even the siege of key points or being trapped in the middle.

The response and correspondence of the court can only be described as slowness, stupidity, mediocrity, weakness and incompetence; the state and county soldiers and unity that local governments can organize, and train troops in unity, will become many jokes of fleeing in front of the rebel army with a strong morale;

His fighting will and determination were even worse than that of the Turkish troops established in various places, and the likes of the rural soldiers; so before the rebel army reached the level, there were also strange examples of established government troops turning into bandits and then being disarmed and annihilated by local Turkish troops. Of course, this is somewhat related to the long-term failure of military wars in Jiangxi.

Under this great momentum of rapid progress, in fact, not long after the Northern Expedition, various spoils from the front were flowing, and were transported to the rear in a car. What was sent back together were successively news about the front, as a reference for Zhou Huaian to grasp the movements of the rebels and materials for daily deductions.

This is also part of the private agreement reached by Zhou Huaian and the rebel generals who participated in the northern expedition; in addition to maintaining the rear food route and routinely transferring some military supplies; they obtained all kinds of goods that they could not get out of hand, or materials and specialties that they could not use for the time being, as long as they were transported to Guangzhou through the return transport team, someone would distribute their valuations as a value;

Then it is turned into various light, expensive and portable gold, silver and treasure goods, or food, grass, armor, machinery and materials needed in the army, and people can pick it up or escort it back. This is also a special environmental product derived from the flea market that was once convenient for military personnel.

During this process, the Sanjiang Patrol Army successively sent escort teams in several regiments to deal with the refugees and bandits who were born due to war along the way. This is also a disguised training and practical atmosphere experience.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian now holds two different sets of accounts. One set is placed on the surface and is easy to understand. It is specially used to correspond to Meng Cai, a left-behind envoy who is specially led the army and garrison, and Lin Yan, who has begun to indulge in the entertainment and has been fishing for three days and has not been able to do much to meet their most basic needs for support and dispatch;

Another more complex and meticulous set of internal accounts is used to maintain the daily operation and operation of local military farming and governance, as well as to accumulate secret materials and financial resources. It is also the fundamental reason for his governance of these places.

As a peasant uprising army that was used to wandering, naturally they would not care much about these details; but as a potential emerging force base with the Five Dynasties Southern Han regime as a model, it is completely indispensable.

At this time, someone announced the news and walked carefully to Zhou Huaian who was standing by the sand table, holding the push rod and watching while operating.

"You reported to the deputy leader, you have discovered something about the spy's actions in the city..."

Now, Zhong Yi, who is the third captain of the Guangzhou City Patrol Brigade, whispered

"Oh, but what's going on, let's talk about it quickly..."

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but put down the deduction pole in surprise;

In fact, after capturing the remnants of the government from Dongke Village, he was quite concerned about arranging people to investigate. In terms of the candidates, he completely abandoned the leaders of the old rebel army and allowed these surrendered troops who had little to do with great importance to be responsible. However, the General's Office was somewhat dissatisfied with this, and there was no further information, which made the investigation stop.

But when he now regained the governance power of Canton in disguise, he sent more personnel and resources to restart the work without hesitation. After a fierce move, he did indeed clean up many filth-hiding places in the sub-car style, but the main person who was chasing still lacked a critical clue.

"Didn't you always doubt that there are internal thieves who secretly communicate with the government in the left-behind department, but you have been unable to find the key points...

Zhong Yi said cautiously.

"So, I just left a few live baits below... let the people from the Investigation Team and the Census Team stare day and night... and then I made people check the situation around them and make the move to shock the snakes."

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sighed slightly. This subordinate had learned to enforce the fishing law without a teacher.

"As a result, several of them were secretly suspicious of being a ghost, and they couldn't help but run away overnight, and four of them tried every means to get out of the city."

"The last one left, but the company who set up the suspicion array went to several places, and finally disappeared in the Qingyuan Mansion in the Great East Gate..."

Speaking of this, he took a breath and said.

"So, because the humble man dare not be proficient, I came to ask the deputy leader for his next move..."

"It turned out to be the Qingyuan Mansion..."

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sigh.

If he remembers correctly, this is the commander in charge of military supplies, grains, and military equipment in the General's Mansion. Huang Xin, the nephew of one of the "Eight Sons of the Yellow Sect", occupied it specifically in the city as a place to keep concubines and entertain guests; a special garden originally belonged to a naturalized Hu Dajia who spent a lot of money to manage...

The Huang Du Division was once considered the nominal direct boss of Zhou Huaian, the grain judge. No wonder even if he was so brave, he would be afraid of his own thoughts. However, since Huang Xin and his relatives went north with the General's Mansion, there were only some old and weak people who were used to guard the family. In this way, the scope of investigation has been greatly reduced.

"Continue to check, why not...you must not condone it"

After this calculation, Zhou Huaian said righteously to Zhong Yiyi
Chapter completed!