Although the Huainan Army has not had any large-scale military operations in the past few years, the generals such as Chen Mu were not doing nothing. The Central Plains are a completely different combat environment than Jiangdong.

The so-called four-war land means that the battle may break out at any time and anywhere. There are almost no dangers in the four directions, and it is a very suitable area for bandits to commit crimes. Moreover, the development level of the Central Plains is much higher than that of Jiangdong. Often, a rioter may grow rapidly if a slight neglected by a rioter, and the bandits may plunder and gain both human resources.

Chen Mu was in Qiao County earlier, and his main opponent was the Chen Guang army entrenched in the western border of Yanzhou. After several years of stalemate, he also knew the survival rules in this territory. Because there is no danger to defend, there is no need to stick to one place. The army was scattered in the countryside and fed everywhere. Unless there is a big goal to fight together, it will not gather together most of the time, and rashly enter the suppression and even cannot figure out where the main force of the army is.

For example, birds lie in thorns, and if they do not fly, they will be difficult to catch. If they want to enter the thorns, they will be blocked by miscellaneous thorns. As for the so-called miscellaneous thorns, they are complex rural relationships. This relationship network itself is not very harmful, but once it is woven into shape, it can play a great role.

Those rural people explained the righteous principles or the rise and fall of the king's business were wasted. They would only choose relatives and closeness to each other to help each other. Even though Chen Guang was a traitor who was subordinate to Jiehu, he looked friendly in front of the villagers. Even if he was robbed, he would not invade the villagers within the sphere of influence. He even helped them protect the local family business. Therefore, he was supported by the villagers and even took the initiative to donate wealth to make use of the thief.

When Chen Mu first arrived in Qiao County, he sent people to travel around the countryside and declared that the king's army would restore this territory. However, some villagers directly robbed Huainan army of cattle, horses and animals and supplies and rations. After being caught, they were still very polite, saying that when the ancestors governed Yuzhou in the early years, they mostly used cattle, horses and animals to support the villagers. Since the Huainan army regarded himself as the king's army, they naturally had to benefit the local area, otherwise it would be no different from those Jie traitors who were levied and levy.

Chen Mu also knew that these thieves incited the people to show their power to the Huainan army. At that time, he was still young and energetic, and caught the thieves and beheaded the public. On the day of the execution, thousands of villagers even surrounded the execution ground, and some villagers were elected to negotiate conditions with Chen Mu. In fact, his original intention was to invite the local feelings and coerce Chen Mu to surrender and divide the power.

Chen Mu was originally from the Jiangdong sect's thieves' portal, so why wasn't you clear about these rural sect's tricks? At that time, the Huainan army also defeated the power of Jiehu, and simply killed all the leaders of these rural sects together with the thieves.

He was happy at that time, but the situation in Qiao County collapsed as a result. The village sects promoted the tyranny of the Huainan army and the indiscriminate killing of innocent people among the countryside, and encouraged the villagers to escape in groups. Fortunately, there were no strong enemies around at that time, which gave Chen Mu a room for suppression. In addition, the wind and snow were strong at that time. After killing a group of overly escaped villagers, the situation stabilized.

However, in this way, the relationship between the Huainan army and the local villages and clans also fell to freezing point. When the cold was at its peak and all the Huainan garrisons shrank to Qiaocheng, the riots of the villages seduced Chen Guang directly to the city of Qiaojun! If it weren't for the fierce and brave Huainan army, Chen Mu was also a fierce general who was young in the military brigade, and he would almost die in Qiaojun and at the hands of these villages and clans!

After the spring, Huainan added another army, giving Chen Mu greater strength to clean up the countryside. He investigated the attacks in Qiao County, but the number of villages involved was as many as 27 households. Hundreds of people were killed just by directly participating. As for other villagers, there were thousands of them.

In the end, the Huainan Neishifu gave Chen Mu a great support, and thousands of households were all given criminal record and were sentenced to hard labor in Huainan. If the Huainan Neishifu was a little afraid of the local feelings, even if he did not judge Chen Mu for his crime, he would have to take his post and transfer him back and send a moderate person to the county to guard the county. The consequence of this persistence was that a large number of households fled north, as if Chen Guang's entrenchment in the north was a land of benevolence.

Later, the Huainan Governor's Office issued an order, and all those who were impersonated and abused the people would be killed immediately. This also caused an uproar in the entire southern part of Henan. For a time, a large number of rural areas fled, and even simply supported the crowd and refused to accept the orders of the Huainan army.

The reason why southern Henan has stabilized is the rise of Runan's market trade. Although the Huainan Governor's Office did not give these village sects political privileges, they made a lot of profits through trade. While induced profits, they also used force to eliminate those who were unrestrained and recruited food and settled on a large scale. It took nearly two years to digest the area in southern Henan.

Although he had not achieved any great military achievements in his guarding Qiao County for several years, Chen Mu's personal abilities and vision were greatly expanded, especially when he realized that everything should not be subject to military tactics, and he should be gentle while being tough. Just as the Huainan Governor's Office operated southern Henan, strong troops should be shocked and generous.

A few years later, the Huainan army fought against Shihu's army. The Jiehu army was powerful, while the Huainan army was at an absolute disadvantage. At that time, a large number of refugees fled in southern Henan, and the Jie army could not be stopped because of the powerful force. Therefore, even if there were strong soldiers in hand, they could not be arrogant with this.

The truth can be explained clearly in just a few words, but it may not be possible to say it. With the experience of guarding Qiao County for several years, he almost paid the price of his life, so Chen Mu is really unforgettable about this.

He also knew the significance of his departure from Pengcheng this time. Even with the premise of communicating with Xi Jian and Shen Zhezi, the Xuzhou army might not be happy to see him pass through. Therefore, whether he can successfully intercept and annihilate Liu Zheng is related to whether he can successfully gain a foothold in Pengcheng in the future.

As a guest army, although it solved Xuzhou's own problem, because Chen Mu was about to enter Pengcheng in the subsequent town, he did not have to hope to get much help from the Xuzhou army. At least in terms of information communication, the Xuzhou army should not over-allocate and cooperate.

So when Chen Mu arrived in Pengcheng a few days ago, although the small number of Xuzhou troops stationed here were happy to hand over the city defense, they were unaware of the news of Liu Zheng's chaos army. As for the fact that this statement was true or false, there was little significance for discussion. Chen Mu believed that the Xuzhou army would not dare to conceal it specifically to harm him, and at the same time, he could guess that the Xuzhou army probably wanted to complete the final chaos by himself.

After all, Liu Zheng's rebellion army was entrenched in Xuzhou for several years, but in the end it was destroyed by the Huainan army, which was really unacceptable to the Xuzhou army. They were probably more happy to see themselves staying in Pengcheng so stupidly. Even if they remained behind in the future, they would definitely not dare to speak loudly because they failed to complete the first half of the agreement between the two towns.

Chen Mu knew in particular that his departure from Pengcheng was related to whether his cousin could take over Xuzhou in the future, so he naturally would not wait for the battle. The Huainan Army's guest army arrived, and even the terrain around Pengcheng was unclear. Without the notice from the Xuzhou Army, there was no need to arrange an early interception.

So when he entered the town, he invited the village sects around Pengcheng to pay a reward for the movements of Liu Zheng's chaos army. This was also considered to have paid full attention to the power of these village sects. Therefore, when Liu Zheng's chaos army moved to Pei County, Chen Mu probably grasped the movements of his army. Although the subsequent movements of the chaos army became unpredictable, Chen Mu did not need to grasp the specific movements of the chaos army in real time at all, but directly led his army to set up defenses around Dangshan.

The Xuzhou army may still be worried that they did not know where the riots were going, so they had no way to set up defenses and intercept them, but Chen Mu did not have such trouble. After the riots entered Pei County, they either turned to Peize through Dangshan, that is, the direction he had set up defenses, or continued to flow northwest into Suiyang, Liang County. In short, it was impossible to return to the same route and rush into the arms of the pursuers in Xuzhou.

If his army chose the former, there was nothing to say. Chen Mu had already prepared troops in this position to wait for the rabbit. If his army chose the latter, it would have completely entered the Yuzhou area and was very likely to have contacted Chen Guang of Chenliu.

After Chen Mu entered Pengcheng, Qiao County replaced him with the last general Han Huang and 5,000 Huainan cavalry, hoping to use Liu Zheng as bait to draw a part of Chen Guang's troops and wipe out the thunder! So if Liu Zheng chose the latter, he would only die faster, and he would also bring some Chen Guang's troops to be buried with him.

After the scattered cavalry found the traces of Liu Zheng's chaos army, Chen Mu was still a little lost. He really hoped that Liu Zheng could collude with Chen Guang and provide Han Huang with a fighter jet. After all, he had been guarding Qiaoliang for several years, and the existence of Chen Guang's chaos army had become a resentment in his heart. If he could use this to eliminate some of them, Chen Mu would be very pleased even if he didn't take action.

"It's really annoying that the old thief asked for death!"

After the Ranger reported the enemy's tracks, Chen Mu immediately led his army to come. Liu Zheng was lucky, and the range of Dangshan was hundreds of miles wide. As long as there was a blank area of ​​more than ten miles, Liu Zheng's army could allow Liu Zheng's chaos army to pass quietly. If Chen Mu had not spread the Rangers in the area, he might have been passed quietly by Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng chose Xiang County as the gathering place, but it was not arbitrary. There were some lush wild ze reed ponds on the east and north sides of Xiang County as shelter, which was not conducive to the large-scale gathering of the army. Moreover, although the city was broken, Gaogang in the north could effectively prevent the cavalry from charging. Even if he was unfortunately surrounded here, he could make a little tug of war based on the terrain and find a way out.

But unfortunately, he encountered the Huainan Army. Especially the front-line combat troops of the Huainan Army, the battle between special terrain and extreme environment was the main content of training in the past few years. After the front-line battle formation of the Huainan Army was prepared, a total of two thousand swords, shields and armored soldiers slowly advanced to Gaogang. Several huge arrow towers were built from the ground in the army formation, and the soldiers boarded one after another.

Until this time, the five hundred knights who were used to shock the rioters who did not dare to attack were evacuated. They waved a horse spear of more than meter long to break out of a road in the reed marsh and walked around the flank of the rioters. Once the rioters were shaken, they immediately launched a charge.

"Stop your hands and avoid death, and act rashly without mercy!"

The loud snare drums were beaten, and the shouts of the Huainan army also resounded through the sky and the earth.

"Yi Nian Jilong is cruel and trapped me in a desperate situation. If I hadn't fought hard, my corpse would have been buried in the river and my flesh would have been feeding fish. Today, I have had a small disaster. Can you be willing to kill with me and seek survival? As long as I have killed this place, I can reach Hebei. My husband's career will be strong, and it depends on this moment, kill!"

He fled all the way to this day, and thought that his life was in sight, but he did not expect that the death situation would come. At this moment, Liu Zheng no longer dared to have a chance. Surrounded by hundreds of direct troops, he looked back at the broken city of ragged soldiers and dim and looked dull, cheering up his spirits and shouting to boost morale.

However, although his tone was high and his voice spread throughout this small remnant city, there were few responders. Nozawa was in a difficult situation for several years, and suddenly left Nozawa Kok and ran away for several days. He thought he had escaped from the sky, but he did not expect to rush directly into such a strong army, and both strength and ambition had been exhausted.

Seeing that the soldiers were so depressed, Liu Zheng rushed into the crowd and kicked and beaten. However, those who would rather hug their heads and whine or simply lie down and refuse to respond. Some people even threw the rusty and many gaps in their hands far out of the broken wall, and howled in their mouths: "Let's live, live..."

Seeing this scene, Liu Zheng felt even more ashamed. He staggered onto Gaogang, threw down the cap above his head, and his scattered gray hair swelled in the wind. He faced the Huainan military formation that had advanced more than ten feet away, and held the knife on his neck, with a tone full of sadness: "Duke Liang of Huainan, the expression of benevolence and righteousness! I beg for a mere body to be full of innocent people!"

After saying that, his blade turned and blood suddenly surged on his neck like an arrow.

"Master..."

When Liu Zheng's men saw that he committed suicide, many people were already full of their eyes. Even a dozen people rushed forward to help his body, and several others also pulled out their swords and committed suicide and followed them.

When Chen Mu saw this scene, he looked at this scene and then laughed and asked someone to come forward and shout: "Although Liu Zheng was a traitor and had been chaotic for a long time, he could use his life to beg for the rest of his life and live a life. The king and the princes were sympathetic to this heroic spirit and specially recruited loyalty and righteousness to donate their own moral integrity. If there are hundreds of soldiers, they will be fully covered with their corpses and bury them with courtesy!"

Similar shouts continued several times. Liu Zheng's men all looked angry after hearing this. However, seeing the lord and his comrades-in-law were corpses, they had no courage to resist for a while. Then someone picked up the knife one after another and yelled before dying: "Thank you, please, please comfort me!" Then they also committed suicide.

Within half a quarter of an hour, nearly thirty people committed suicide. Then the rhythm fell. After all, not everyone could treat death as if they were home. More divisions, including their children, knelt on their knees and covered their faces and cried loudly.

The Huainan Army ascended Gaogang one after another, and Chen Mu finally arrived at the bloody suicide scene at the top of Gaogang. Seeing more than thirty corpses falling on the ground, he felt very emotional for a while. It can be seen that Liu Zheng has his own unique features, otherwise he would not have persisted in such a dangerous environment for such a long time. If the Huainan Army had not joined the encirclement and suppression, this person might have really been fled from Xuzhou.

"Pick up these strong bones and bury them all."

After sighing, Chen Mu ordered, and then turned to the surrendered soldiers of the riots who were full of sadness, and his expression was quite interesting. The reason why he had made people call out a hundred people was just to destroy the ambitions of these people.

Even if there are crazy and perverse people who want to gather people to rebel in the name of Liu Zheng in the future, people will recall that this man is greedy for life and fear of death, and would rather be dismembered than commit suicide to follow him. Naturally, the person is overwhelmed and cannot make any waves. At least, Liu Zheng's riot army will not leave any hidden dangers to Xuzhou after this battle.
Chapter completed!