After many days of sunshine, the mud on the official road became dust again.

"Boom..."

Dust is flying.

A tide of teams surged on the official road.

In front of them was a horse team, with blue and red clothes, basically wearing felt hats and cloaks, and some elite riders wearing cotton armor were still coming out in a stream.

They not only searched for both sides of the official road ahead, but also searched for the surrounding areas of miles and tens of miles to avoid being ambushed again.

Behind the horse team were infantrymen, each wearing felt hats or wrapped in a headscarf, and various weapons were equipped with swords and shields, spears, bows and arrows, bird guns, three-eyed guns, etc. The number seemed to be twice that of the horse team in front.

There were still some artillery in their team. Although they were all Xiao Folang machine cannons, there were dozens of them.

Finally, there was a huge team of servants and hungry people. People dragged horses and pulled them, and the number of people was more than the infantry and horse teams in front. Then there were countless vehicles, mules, donkeys, oxen and other animals, transporting a large amount of food, fodder and supplies.

The number of people in the team exceeds 10,000, and the amount of food and grass required is a huge amount.

This man ate the horse and chewed it, and the amount of food and grass consumed every day was hundreds of stones. It is conceivable that the size of the baggage team was huge.

Longtou Mountain.

This mountain is twenty-five miles southwest of Suining County. There are red soil mounds on the mountain. It looks like a dragon from a distance and is named after it. There are Shigu Temple and Qingyun Temple on the mountain, and there are villages around it. At the foot of the mountain is the Guan Road, Guanshan Mountain in the southwest, and Guanshan Gathering in the southeast of Guanshan.

At this time, on Longtou Mountain, in addition to the characters "Chuang" and "Luo", there are also several flags that fly high. The surroundings are all exquisite horsemen wearing thick iron and cotton armor.

They looked fierce and cruel, and they were all skillful in horse racing, spreading a violent and bloodthirsty atmosphere. Many people had more than one war horse around them.

In front of the flag, three thieves stood together.

These three thieves, one of whom is younger, may be around twenty years old, wearing felt hats, blue arrow jackets, thick felt cloaks, and riding a yellow horse.

He rode a war horse, his young face was full of fierceness and aura, and he had a temperament of a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger. However, he was the nephew of the drama thief Li Guo and the rebel thief Li Zicheng. In history, he was once a general of the Houchang system and was awarded the title of Bohou.

A middle-aged man in his forties was riding a black horse, dressed in the same felt hat and arrow clothes, and a steel whip hung on the saddle. He had a thick and black face and deep eyes. He had a steady and steady taste when he was on the horse, which was quite cunning and wise.

However, he was the thief Yuan Zongdi, one of the eighteen cavalry in Nanyuan. Like Liu Zongmin and others, he killed his wife and followed Li Zicheng to death. He was the backbone of the camp and the former camp general, Mianhou.

Finally, there was a thin thief general about thirty years old. He was wearing a red dress and covered with a thick gray felt cloak. His face looked frivolous, arrogant and vicious, and he looked like a thief general at this time.

There was a hint of cunning in his eyes, but it was Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long.

Luo Rucai is the other name Cao Cao, and he is the most cunning and resourceful. His nephew Wang Long is quite like him in all aspects, even his hobbies and sensuality are the same.

Luo Rucai had a lot of wives and concubines. Every time he captured a place, he would take up opera troupes and dancers from all over the place, and Wang Long was the same. There were at least dozens of dancers in his tent, all of whom were silk and satin, and the branches were waving. At this time, the army went north to take revenge, and the dancers from the opera troupes were brought with him.

There are also thieves such as Xie Junyou, Tian Hu, Zhang Neng, and Li Rugui, who are all important generals who will break into the front and back camps in the future, or important leaders in Cao's camps.

Especially Xie Junyou, he was ambushed a few days ago, with an army of 1,800 people and a few hundred people left to escape back.

At this moment, he kept silently braced his horse, staring at the team that was heading northeast like a tide, and saw the smoke and dust like a dragon, surging.

Around him was a thin donkey grandson, wearing pure cotton armor, stalking war horses, looking at the surging people on the official road, and a very excited expression appeared on his face. This battle would definitely break the city and pull out the thousand-kill Yang Xiucai, who had killed thousands of swords, out and beheaded.

The sound of horse hooves "stepped" came, and another spirit rode a horse.

He "Xilulu" in front of everyone, and immediately reported: "Report to all the big leaders, the old master, the head of Guanshanji family, the head of Guanshanji did not want to surrender to our rebel army, nor did he allow his brothers to enter the village. He only wanted to give out 100 stones of grain to reward. The brothers who harvested grain traveled around, but there were too few small villages here. The surrounding terrain of those big villages was dangerous and it was difficult to attack. The brothers borrowed at most some grain, and each village had dozens of stones, ranging from one hundred stones."

Yuan Zongdi asked carefully and learned that although there were many grain harvesting teams, he had only "borrowed" more than a thousand stone grains and grass after walking around more than a dozen villages, which was a drop in the bucket.

Li Guo beside him was very angry. After letting the spirit ride away, he cursed loudly: "It's really poor, bad water, and some dirty places, donkey balls, and even the food and supplies for the troops sent by themselves."

After Li Guo and other teams entered Suzhou and other places, they discovered a phenomenon. In this area of ​​Huaibei, due to the frequent breaking of the Yellow River, there were too many muddy lakes in various prefectures and counties here, especially in Suining, where ponds and lakes were densely populated.

If the villages here live between plains, the villages will stand in a mud pond, leaving only a winding small dirt road to travel. Such a terrain cannot be arranged at all, and no matter how many people attack, it is meaningless.

Especially many large villages, several or dozens of villages merged, with a population of thousands, and they are very united. Men, women, young and old join forces to attack such villages, and if they are forced to chew copper peas that will lose their teeth.

With their arrogance of bandits, they could only force them to borrow some food and grass to deal with such local tyrants.

Some big villages that build villages on the mountain are even harder to fight, just like this Guanshanji, with mountains behind them and lakes and ponds around them. After observing them, Li Guo and others didn't know how to get down.

Moreover, the Guanshan Collection seems to echo the leading collection here, which is even more difficult to deal with.

A phenomenon has also been formed. The prefectures, counties and small villages have suffered one after another, leaving great powers to stand in the countryside.

Seeing Li Guo angry, Wang Long beside him laughed and said, "Why are you angry with brother Li Guo? Didn't this situation be expected? It's best to borrow food. If you can't borrow food, the food and grass in our army are enough for half a month. A small county town can be captured in three or five days or at most ten days, and there will be food and grass supplements in Jieshi."

Seeing that it was Wang Long who spoke, Li Guo squeezed out a smile on his face, and he laughed and said, "Brother Wang Long is right. Our army of 15,000 people is really not worthy of conquering a small county."

Wang Long laughed again, "A tiger is coming out, a mere village hero must have escaped by looking at the wind. I don't know what kind of beautiful lady there is after breaking the city. I don't know how different this little lady from the Suining girl is from the little lady from Lingbi? Haha..."

He smiled and his behavior was frivolous and exaggerated, as if this battle was about traveling around the mountains and rivers.

Li Rugui and other generals behind him laughed likewise.

Li Guo's face flashed with disgust, and then disappeared. To be honest, everyone in the camp was very unsightly to the Luo Rucai camp, and he was a drunkard and a slut! It was not like them, his wife and children would kill him as soon as they said they could kill him. This is the person who did big things.

However, at this time, Li Chuang and Cao Cao formed a coalition army. The emperor wanted to be the left and right hands, and was in the honeymoon period. Luo Rucai's troops were even more impressive at this time. "There are five horses and soldiers, each with three thousand thirty thousand infantry, and they cannot support 400,000 or 500,000."

This east attack team, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long, combined a team of 5,000 horses and 20,000 infantrymen. Wang Long, under the command of this inner king, had two,000 horses and 5,000 infantrymen, and there were many places to rely on.

At this time, the northeast attacked Suining, and Wang Long also brought one thousand horse teams and two thousand infantry soldiers. Li Guo was disgusted in his heart and integrity on the outside, and he still had to make a move, otherwise Wang Long would go back to complain, fearing that the King of Chuang would not be able to explain.

They joined forces to retaliate north, and there were 2,000 elite horse riding teams, 4,000 infantry soldiers, 4,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 5,000 hungry people and digging soil. There were 15,000 people and horses, claiming to be 30,000, which could be said to be vast.

When Xie Junyou returned with great defeat, it was not long before Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others captured Lingbi County.

Xie Junyou led a team of elite horse riding teams to the north, all of which were elite, and they also raised up to 1,800 people. In ordinary county towns, there were 1,200 strong men. They drove some strong men to the city, with a maximum of more than a thousand people, and they had to defend four gates.

Such troops could easily conquer some hungry people, with thousands of people. To be honest, ordinary counties could easily be captured. But they returned with less than 300 people running back, but they were ambushed and defeated in the wild.

At this time, the bandits were in a rampant state, how could they not take revenge?

After hearing Xie Junyou talk about his experience at that time, how could Li Guo and others not be curious?

The firearms used by Suining Township Yong were quite strange. As Xie Junyou and others recalled later, it might be that the thunder-removing guns used for breeze loading made Li Guo and others even more curious.

Because there were too many surrendered officers and soldiers in the camp, the firearms in the army naturally increased sharply. They mostly used bird guns loaded with bores. Like the Bolang machine, there were thunder guns loaded with bores. However, they were rough and simple, and the fire often leaked out, causing casualties to the users.

Only some people transform themselves, and occasionally some people in the army use it, but they cannot form a scale.

However, Suining Township Yong used breech guns on a large scale. Li Guo was young and energetic and curious about many things, so he strongly advocated coming to take revenge and see through the experience.

Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long was as curious as he came with him.

Yuan Zongdi was deep and steady, and had always advocated not to raise troops because of anger. In the small place of Suining, he had no choice but to fight.

Even if the army is invincible, it will be nothing if it fails once or twice.

But Li Guo and others strongly advocated revenge, and it would be fine if he could not dissuade him. However, he was cunning and the main force advancing east was still in Lingbi, Suzhou, and especially the important generals left behind. He siege the Suzhou City. The 25,000 soldiers are now 24,000, and only 6,000 people are dispatched.

Even so, they were both raising and hungry people, and they had vengeful people, and they needed a huge amount of food and grass.

They came and there were about 4,000 horses and mules. The food and grass they ate were almost the same as the population. The man ate horses and chewed it, and the food and grass they consumed in a day was more than 300 stones. Everyone prepared food and grass for half a month, which was nearly 5,000 stones.

Fortunately, the army went north and "borrowed" grain everywhere, and borrowed more than 1,000 stones of food and grass, which was sufficient supply.

The army set out from Lingbi, and the infantry dragged down their speed. They had to search all over the place to prevent them from being trapped again. After walking for two days, they finally got not far from Suining County. Seeing that the terrain was good, Li Guo and others stopped here to wait and see.

Looking at the vast team, the thieves had a high-spirited look in their eyes, as if they had entered Chongzhen for fifteen years, and the army had been invincible every battle.

Yuan Zongdi held the reins in one hand, looking at the endless team heading north, with contemplation in his eyes.

So far, the possibility of setting up an ambush on the Yong Road in Suining Township has been ruled out.

The whistle cavalry came to report that it was difficult to fight on the north and south sides of Suining City, and troops could be arranged outside the west gate, but the township warriors in Suining County seemed to be preparing to fight along the city, digging trenches outside the city and building earthen walls, and there seemed to be clues on the city walls.

They posed for tough battles, which was very different from the prefectures and counties they encountered along the way.

Their whistle detectives could not tell their defense, because if they approached, they would be bombarded by their muskets and driven away by the whistle cavalry.

Especially their whistle and horses are very sharp, and their own sterns can ride and shoot, and when they face their firearms, they are completely at a disadvantage.

They were also three horses alone and ran very fast. They were siege by them in many situations, and then they saw that the situation was not good, so they left.
Chapter completed!