More than ten miles away, Dulingyuan was named Fanchuan, which was named after Liu Bang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, who was once named the fief of the hero Fan Kuai. Now it is a place where famous places and Buddhist temples gather in the capital. A targeted battle to clear the country has just ended.

Just one of the ancestral temples of the "Eight Great Temples of Fanchuan", one of the eight Buddhist sects, Faxiang Sect (also known as the Consciousness-Only School and Ci'en School), is located in the Huguoxingjiao Temple where Master Xuanzang buried his bones, next to the famous Great Protective Tower.

He just smoked and killed the last batch of enemies in the tower; Zhou Ben, the left-wing guerrilla commander, also sat on a corpse and ate a can of stewed canned beef brisket; it seemed that he was not affected by the smell of the surrounding meat and was happy.

There was a rice dumpling tightly squeezed in his other hand, mixed with many chopped sour melons and vinegar celery, and it was soaked with thick soup poured out of the can, and half of it was eaten away in a few bites.

Compared with the four types of food standards for A, B, C and D, the most common types of compressed biscuits, fried noodles, fried rice and fried noodles, etc.; Zhouben, who was born in Huainan and Lujiang, actually prefers rice-based food.

Especially when steamed, it was hot, and rice dumplings with a lot of oil residue, mixed beans and salted vegetables were added. Even if it was left cold the next day before eating, whether it was roasted on the fire or dried moss, or the soup buns with fried pork skin, it was very easy to eat.

Therefore, he drank three big rice dumplings with this can of soup, and then he saw a mature subordinate running out of the inner courtyard with a smile and shouting:

"The chief lieutenant, the chief lieutenant, there are so many things inside..."

Zhou Ben, who was like a big worm who was full but still fierce, shook his hands lazily:

"No, these thieves and even the mountain gates have been so bright and grand, and naturally they have received countless offerings and donations over the years."

This subordinate said with a smile

"But the nobles of the Great Qi in Chang'an City didn't know how to come and take it. Instead, they contributed a lot. Now they are all cheaper than the officers and soldiers and Hu cavalry."

"That's the rice, wheat, bean noodles piled up in several warehouses, as well as thick and thin silk and fine cloth; not to mention the gold, silver, copper and tin items in the Buddhist temple, it makes people's eyes dizzy."

"Especially the big copper Buddha and the copper-plate wall carving, those big bells; tsk tsk tsk tsk, I don't know how many ten thousand kilograms of materials it cost, but unfortunately they were all smashed by those Hu horses and mostly smashed, otherwise it would be so glorious."

"If it is used to molten it, I don't know how many cannons can be cast, and how much money can be forged will be produced;"

"Then I'll find more utensils to transport them and send them back to Lantian in batches. After all, it's not the case that I'm in the harvest."

Facing the expectant eyes of his subordinates, Zhou Ben waved his hand.

"Get the order..."

As the subordinate turned around happily, another young face came over and asked for instructions:

"The commander, finally arrested more than 140 living people in the temple... and did he also take them to?"

"What are we going to bet on? What are we going to do with these burdens? We will waste our manpower and transportation."

Zhou Ben immediately shook his head and interrupted:

"Then, do you have to deal with it all on the spot?"

The young Yu Hou said in a daze: But he remembered some rumors of this "Tiger Tearing Lord" being fierce and bloodthirsty in the battle formation; especially in the previous tower clearance, he had already rushed to the front with the arrow Peng Pai to kill several enemy soldiers;

Finally, he used his own strength to wield a captured enemy soldier as a weapon, and pushed out another team of enemy soldiers on the tower one by one, and then fell to death and injured on the ground one after another.

"What nonsense is it? We are Taiping Army and not those officials and dogs. We don't have the habit of killing prisoners by chance. Just chop off their thumbs and put them back..."

But he saw Zhou Ben waved his hand unconsciously:

"Anyway, without this thing, they will not be able to use weapons in the future, so they will be useless when they are using their strength. So they can only go home honestly to farm and make a living, which can be considered as saving their lives."

At this time, a cavalry rushed to the distance, and fell in front of Zhou Ben with sweat and gasping:

"The commander, Zhang Xiaowei of the Fourth Guerrilla Regiment, which was responsible for the northwest blocking, reported urgently that a brigade of Dangxiang Hu was approaching, so please make corresponding preparations..."

"Damn it, it's really like I'm catching up."

Zhou Ben was a rare curse and swear word.

"Come people quickly and get rid of the guys, and do not take any extra burdens. If you can't take away other items, be prepared to burn them..."

More than an hour later, Zhou Ben, who was squatting in the cracks of the stones on the west side of Dulingyuan; he began to use a mirror that stretched the single tube to watch the rolling smoke and dust in the distance.

"In such a hot weather, I also wore brown fur felt hats and my saddles were all covered with animal skins. It must be the Dangxiang Hu of Yinxia...

Then, Yu Houguan gestured to Zhou Ben with several large pictures of "Illustration of the Four Barbarians and Nine Borders" he brought out, and said to Zhou Ben:

"I don't know if it is Dongshan or Pingxia tribe, or the remnants of the original Six Prefectures, or the Shizhou tribe under Hedong...

In fact, it is different from most people's perceptions. As early as after the Taiping Army pacified Shandong, it began to use channels such as Wang Poxian, a great merchant from the Guanzhong who came to the capital, to try its best to collect news about the Hu people from Daibei and Shuofang.

For the sake of transactions, he bought and smuggled from Chang'an City, the palace, the government offices and offices, and various documents and documents from government officials at all levels;

Therefore, in a sense, the Taiping Army’s understanding and attentiveness to the Yanbian Zhuhu is actually not much worse than that of the official troops in Hedong and other places; the only thing that is lacking is the accumulation of sufficient first-hand information and the latest changes in two or three years.

Among them, in terms of data richness, these Dangxiang Qiang are second only to the Shatuo tribe; therefore, the guards who followed the army can help judge the power composition and armed scale of these Dangxiang troops through some detailed observations.

Is it the chief of the great chief, the subordinate guards in the tent of the king Changlu, the children of the leaders of each department, the guard guards formed by the small chief, and even the vassal army formed by the strong and powerful vassals, or the vast number of string-controlling men who only use bows and horses as the standard.

Therefore, under the remote observation of Zhou Ben and others, these Party Xiang troops had passed by more than a dozen formations, including more than a thousand people in the large formation and hundreds of people in the small formation; then there were the teams and large supplies of the elderly and weak.

In addition to the hundreds of sprints leading the way to the vassal cavalry, the proportion of cavalry among the various formations that followed was also very high, and there were even large numbers of mounts and pack animals that were pulled in.

In contrast, their armored ratio was a bit pitiful. Except for a small number of chiefs, leaders, guards, and tent soldiers with variegated armored clothes, most of the cavalrymen in the vassal area were gray felt cloaked or old and mottled leather sleeves.

This is also one of the current situations of grasslands with general iron scarcity or nomadic tents outside the mountain; the limited supply of iron tools makes them unable to strengthen more iron armor protection requirements beyond the needs of basic weapons and arrow clusters.

Therefore, even the most neat and strong arrays are clustered under the skull of the Maharaja and the black flag of the skull of the Maharaja, they also use thick felt blankets and fur as protective means to cover the entire body of the mount.

But when these large groups of people had already walked away, the observation team led by Zhou Ben was also waiting to leave, but suddenly stopped and stayed there. Because a burst of rolling smoke and dust were stirred up in the distance again.

However, after reducing these figures that walked out of the smoke and dust from far to near, Zhou Ben's face became solemn; because, just as they were staggering among the smoke and dust, there were many people who were faintly crying and shouting.

And Geshutic, who was once a crossbow soldier in the Shence Army, was also walking with a blue nose and a swollen face and a lame head. He was like a walking corpse, and even if he was whipped by accident, he was still indifferent.

As the saying goes, the truth that the sorrow is nothing more than death, is imprinted on him; and his decline to this point is also the result of fate.

Geshutiqi was originally a soldier in the Zuo Shence Camp in Guannei; his ancestors can be traced back to the Geshu tribe who was affiliated with the Tang Dynasty with the destruction of the Western Turks;

During the Tianbao period, one of his ancestors became a personal soldier of Geshuhan, a famous general from Anxi, who was appointed as the General of the Central Army. The ancestors, as close friends, went to supervise and annexed the Bashang troops under Yang Guozhong.

However, after Geshuhan was forced to go out to fight and defeat Tongguan, his ancestor who was responsible for guarding also brought a team of troops from Ba and went to Chang'an to serve the king. He accidentally met Li Yan, the King of Jianning at that time, and was taken under his command.

Then he became one of the guards of the Northwest court where Ling Wuxing was in the northwest. Although he had never achieved the military achievements and opportunities to fight against the thieves in the Central Plains, he also gained the origin of scattered branches and leaves among the imperial guards.

After the Jingyuan Incident, Emperor Dezong no longer trusted the original army of the Northern Yamen; but began to select elite border troops and specialize in the Shence Army, which was considered as the choice for the guards of the capital, and also made close to eunuchs as the leader and the supervisor.

This opened up the era of the eunuchs who were the tyrannical power and established the emperor; and his ancestors also had their own experiences; even in his generation, they were among the few small and medium-sized generals in the Shence Army from beginning to end.

Therefore, as a branch child, he was born with the purpose of refusing to commit suicide; then he did not practice martial arts since he was a child, and after becoming an adult, he even took his daughter, who was also a young general, as his wife.

Therefore, in this difficult world where famine and famine have been chaotic for years, he relied on the identity of "three no questions" under the jurisdiction of the Shen Ce Army, coupled with the contribution of his neighboring family, and the help of the Yue family's industries in the city.

Although he did not become rich and prosperous, he was able to save his wealthy family business in front of those clerks and tax officials who were as numerous as cows and locusts.

Therefore, no matter how much time criticizes the court and the Holy Lord, it cannot shake his loyalty and patriotism at all. When he and his wife went to the temple and temple to enjoy incense, they would always pray more: "Only because the Tang Dynasty is prosperous."

He would also be happy to drink a glass of wine with his colleagues for the auspicious auspiciousness of the country that happened by chance, or the good news of the fight against thieves somewhere. Therefore, in his eyes, as long as everyone in the court and the country can keep their duties as he does, then what will happen in the world be better?

However, it was like a big joke with fate. The court's Lubu was defeated and fled to Lingnan and was about to be driven into the sea, and suddenly swept out of the ridge in a revival. No matter how many loyal ministers and generals the court had, it could no longer stop these people.

Therefore, as a vast number of Shence soldiers in the capital, a few were still considered candidates for military service; Goshutiqi also became the command of the Jinwu General Zhang Chengfan, and went to assist the three thousand Shence crossbow soldiers in the army of Qike Rang.

However, although they had the determination and ambition to kill the enemy and serve the country and turned the tide for a while, they were soon beaten by reality. When they arrived at Tongguan, Zikejen's defenders fled because of lack of food.

Then, Zhang Chengfan was encouraged to save all his family wealth and stabilize his position; however, the following days were in a vicious cycle of gathering powerful enemies in front of him, but no reinforcements or resources behind him.

Until the arrows were shot out, they were only at the point of falling from the stone, but were killed by the thief army bypassing the forbidden pit and reached the level of completion. Even if the reincarnation of Wuhou was reborn, it would not be able to restore the collapse of Geshuhan.

He could only follow the footsteps of Zhang Chengfan, who was disguised as he absconded, and wanted to escape to Chang'an City and make plans; however, when he fled to Nanba Bridge, something worse happened immediately.

The Zuo Shence, who came to support him one step late, even mutinized and surrendered to the thief because he was resentful of the treatment of Shence's new army in the capital. He even took him away.

Then he was forced to witness it with his own eyes, and the thief army, dressed in beautiful clothes for dozens of miles; his old Shangguan Zhang Chengfan personally led all civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the "grand occasion".

Geshutiqi felt that he had no face to treat his old friends, and he despised himself from the experience of being used by the thief; he secretly took his wife and fled back to Meixian Township, but he was not subject to any investigation or search.

Then they settled down and maintained it with the accumulation of years. Although they could not have enjoyed the same benefits as in the past, they could also protect their whole life without worries and wait for the coming year in such a bitter way.

Then, he found that these thieves were very careless about the disposal of the local area, and basically did not ask for the household registration, as long as they could collect a fixed amount of money and grain.

Therefore, on the grounds of establishing production, Goshutic also gathered a group of local villagers on the spot. While farming and making livelihoods openly, he secretly manipulated guns and rods to expel thieves. He thought that the response would be prepared for the court to recover in the future.

He waited for the whole year, and his experiences and waves of thieves and pseudo-Korean officials who went to the countryside to challenge him. He also heard one desperate or anticipated news and rumors after another.
Chapter completed!