Chapter 144: Being a mighty and blessed

The moment Zhuo Xianchen lifted the curtain of the carriage, a sword light stabbed towards Zhuo Xianchen. What an experienced soldier Zhuo Xianchen was. With a turn of his wrist, he directly snatched the short sword in the hand of the person in the carriage. In the carriage, a girl hugged a middle-aged woman, her face full of panic.

Zhuo Xianchen, wearing a metal mask, looked so gloomy and terrifying. He really deserved the anxiety of a mother and daughter in the carriage. But Zhuo Xianchen didn't even say a word and made a gesture to make the sergeant beside the carriage pay more attention, that's all.

After a short battle, the entire 300-man team was less than twenty, most of whom were hiding in the carriage and had no movement. After some interrogation, the soldiers finally learned what the Taizhou governor's team was. It turned out that Zeng Jia, the previous Taizhou governor, was old and became tired and sick when arranging the supply arrangements of Jiang Xujing's troops. In desperation, he had to let Sun Boping coordinate the supply matters in Subei Town and was familiar with the various situations in Taizhou. The military situation was urgent, and Sun Boping had already started working in Taizhou.

Duke, but his family and his family are all in Subei Town. Because the conditions in Subei Town are relatively difficult, and it is almost unlikely that Sun Boping will have the chance to return to Subei Town after being transferred, Sun Boping immediately lets the family and the young people go to Tianxu City, the capital of Taizhou, to enjoy his happiness with him. Naturally, the property he accumulated over the years in Subei Town must be brought with him. These property are really eye-catching. Walking on the road during the day may arouse many covetous areas, and even attract some bold bandits to take a desperate bet. Therefore, they chose to wander around on the day and walk at night. Under the escort of two hundred soldiers, they took it for granted that it would be fine.

Unexpectedly, the group of people escorting his family hit Zhuo Xianchen's troops.

In the convoy, Sun Boping's wife and a concubine, two sons and a daughter. Zhuo Xianchen saw the mother and daughter, which was Sun Boping's wife Qin Shi and daughter Sun Meier.

They did not stay in place for much. Although the night raid and the battle was extremely short and the movement was not very big, they were in the enemy territory. They had to be careful. After they returned to the camp where they temporarily settled in the mountains, the soldiers guarding Sun Boping's family were still wearing masks, while the officers gathered together to discuss how to deal with the matter.

"It's really a big fish," After hearing his deputy Hu Huaijing briefly explain the situation, Zhuo Xianchen was thinking about how to put the value of these people to the limit. If Sun Boping's family could use the minimum amount of Sun Boping's family to make Sun Boping's scattered, it would make Jiang Xujing's supply a mess. And better news was that after Sun Boping was transferred to Taizhou Governor's position, no one in Subei Town had taken over his position. Now Subei Town is still transporting various supplies sent from the back according to the pace arranged by Sun Boping before. Compared to using the family of an official in a key position to blackmail the official, it is obvious that disrupting the transportation rhythm of Subei Town and causing chaos in the front line to make the supply chaos in the front line seems to be a simpler job.

"Let's find a place to stay first. Are there any suitable places nearby?" Zhuo Xianchen thought for a while. His task seemed to be much simpler in an instant.

After thinking for a while, Shang Suixun said, "There is a place. There is a clan named Li, and his family has a lot of real estate. What do you think of... Maybe everyone in his tenants want to kill him. He has a villa more than 40 miles away from here. He has built a castle with a very singularity. There are about 500 Ding soldiers guarding... The boss will not suffer any small losses after the attack."

Zhuo Xianchen smiled and said, "No need to attack. We have the family of the newly appointed Taizhou governor. It's okay to borrow a place to rest for a day, right? No matter how domineering the Li family is, they will not be careless with such powerful officials. When tomorrow night, when the inside and outside attacks, I don't believe that the castle is really iron-clad."

Indeed, with Sun Boping's real family, with the full set of official documents and other documents they seized, the castle of Li changed hands in minutes. The army of one thousand people completed this simple task under the leadership of Hu Huaijing. The remaining two thousand people launched the first strike on Subei Town, which now has great hidden dangers.

Zhuo Xianchen led two thousand people to suddenly attack two teams transporting supplies, burning all the arms and arrows and other things, burning up most of the food. In addition to the food they used as their own consumption, they sent part of the food to a nearby village where ordinary farmers and tenants lived. They did not even stop in the village, and each cavalry threw the bag of food they had borne into the village during the journey, even if they completed the task. And they also left a second clue of their deliberate mystery - they set up a triangle flag with Tianwang Village written in the middle of the grain pile. And their first clue was naturally to pile up the bodies of the Xiling soldiers who protected Sun Boping's family and lit a fire. They set up a flag next to the fire... I guess these two clues would definitely leave different impressions in the minds of different people.

When they returned to Li's castle with almost 3,000 people who had consumed about a month of food, they didn't even make any stops at the entrance of the castle to confirm whether the castle was indeed in their own hands. They were too confident that if they couldn't even do such a small thing well, then what did they do in Xiling?

It has been seven days since leaving the brigade of troops and horses to march towards Xiling under the order of Ye Tao, meeting Shang Suixun, sneaking into Xiling territory until robbing Sun Boping's family, capturing the Li family castle, attacking two baggage teams in a row and then returning to the Li family castle. In these seven days, the imperial guard Zhuo Xianchen's troops have been marching and fighting in a row, and have not had a good rest. Now, except for leaving more than 200 people to ensure the defense of the castle and guarding the small number of people captured in the Li castle and Sun Boping's family, the rest of the people can rest. Although the design of the Li castle can only accommodate one thousand soldiers, the luxurious houses originally used for the Li clans are completely fine to use as dormitories. What is more troublesome is their more than 3,000 horses, the raising grounds and forage consumption, which is a super severe challenge.

While the soldiers were resting, the officers searched the Li Castle very seriously. In addition to finding that the castle built on the hillside was very luxuriously, there was a spacious secret passage that allowed two people to lead horses to run parallel, and there was a dungeon. Although Zhuo Xianchen and others were not familiar with the law of Xiling, they at least knew that Xiling was the same as Dongping, which was separated from the previous unified kingdom. The basic laws were similar, but Dongping was much more advanced and perfect in commercial and tax laws than other countries. In any country, private detention was a crime. And when they spent two days quietly gathering the hearts of the surrounding tenants, they could

The people who could go to inform the Xiling government to control the identities of various people locked in the dungeons were carefully investigated. Then, they found that people needed in their immature plans began to appear one after another. A middle-aged man who was jointly exploited by Li and the local government, causing his family to be destroyed; a middle-aged man who had no background and was determined to ask the people to take out a little insignificant grain to help the surrounding tenants and self-cultivated farmers who were exhausted after being recruited by the army, but were thrown into the dungeon by the domineering Li family. Their background is very consistent with Ye Tao's requirements for two kinds of people, one leader of the peasant movement, and the other secret spy who could be trained for a long time lurking into the Xiling official system.

After spending a few days to completely control the Li's Castle and the surrounding farms, it seemed that everything had not changed much from the beginning. While quietly radiating the tentacles around, making various preparations, the nooses on Subei Town and the entire Xiling army's supply line would rather be slower. Zhuo Xianchen's troops still adhered to the principles of night marching and strict hidden tracks. They would rather go around a long way than let Xiling pursue them when they suspect that they were in the area of ​​Li's Castle. To the north of Taizhou, the entire Zhenbei Army may be difficult to find a better base.

Although Sun Boping had learned that his family had been robbed, the robbers were silently, and no one came to ask for ransom or ask for any other information. What bothered him even more was that various abnormal situations began to occur near Subei Town, and from time to time, the baggage team was attacked or officials who counted materials in several yards outside the town were assassinated, which had gradually affected the supply efficiency of Jiang Xujing's troops.

But for the Xiling army, this was not the most worrying issue. When Jiang Xujing felt that he could attack at any time and defeated the Yunzhou army in front of him in a battle to expand a large territory for Xiling, he received extremely reliable news: the Dongping army had arrived. Not only that, the location of the Dongping army's camp made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and it happened to be stuck between the Zijing Valley camp and the Mengnan Banner Army. If the Yunzhou army dared to set up a camp here so arrogantly, Jiang Xujing would have pounced on it long ago, but the Blood Qi army did not give him this opportunity. The Blood Qi army set up a camp at an astonishing speed. A military camp with a very complete defense was completed in just one day, and the outer edge of the camp was equipped with long-range weapons such as divine arm bows, crossbows, catapults, and other long-range weapons. Moreover, the Blood Qi army showed obvious preparations for attack.

Jiang Xujing was extremely angry as he listened to the general scout under his command reporting on the situation. Did the Blood Qi Army think he was a dead person? He was indeed shocked by the Blood Qi Army's well-equipped and well-trained army, but at best, only 20,000 people in front of him had to stand out. He realized that with the arrival of the Blood Qi Army, the morale of the Yunzhou army also improved greatly. Jiang Xujing felt that instead of waiting for his own preparation, it would be better to start fighting when both sides were in high morale and were not fully prepared. He believed that he would definitely wipe out the arrogant young people.
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