The ground in Pingshan Valley was very busy, and Zhang Sheng was even more busy without touching the ground.
Since he set a goal in his heart, he started working hard towards it.
It won't work without hard work. In just two months, Liu's Wubao has eaten almost half of its food rations. If it continues like this, it will probably only take two months before the food reserves will be exhausted again.
In the next two months, Zhang Sheng will lead the thieves to a new location and find a new source of food rations.
Time is really tight!
It was past noon, and on a small hill on a mountain trail at the intersection of Lingshou and Zhending, forty or fifty miles away from Ping Valley, Zhang Sheng, Zhou Chuang, Uncle Fu and others looked at the trail ahead for a long time. This is the only way they will go in the future.
The preliminary route for this trip to the north has been planned. The team will first go northeast out of Puwu, pass through the mountain road between Lingshou and Zhending and go out of Taihang, then sneak along the foot of Taihang Mountain, pass by Tang, pass by Quyang and Tangxian, and finally, From Puyin to Feihuxing, then to Taihang, turn northwest all the way to Laiyuan, the whole journey is several hundred miles long. If everything goes well, it will take almost half a month. If it doesn't go well? Only God knows.
"A Sheng, go back, it's getting late." Sun Fu, as the oldest one in the team and a fellow villager, advised Zhang Sheng.
"Uncle Fu, is there still no news about the people we sent out?" Zhang Sheng asked again without giving up.
More than a month ago, when Zhang Sheng had the idea of leaving, he asked Sun Fu to send out manpower to continuously explore this road. By now, we have basically understood the situation of the southern expedition to the Tang Dynasty. However, since the southern expedition to the Tang Dynasty, there has been no news about the manpower dispatched.
"No, there has been no news from Zhao San and others." Sun Fu told the truth and did not hide anything.
"Let's go."
Zhang Sheng showed no interest, turned his horse's head, and headed back...
What was supposed to come didn’t come, but what wasn’t supposed to come came early!
When Zhang Sheng and his party returned to the Pingshan Valley through the trail, Wulu was still silent. Chu Yan's representative, Sun Qing, had been blocked outside the mountain pass by Mazi and others for a long time.
Yu Zhong and Zeng Niu led people to guard secretly in the valley.
"Uncle Shan, how many people are here?" Zhang Sheng did not go to see the other party immediately. He wanted to understand the situation first so as to respond.
"A Sheng, it's a song of people and horses, but no cavalry." Dingshan explained the situation.
Two hundred people in two villages in one song? It seems that he is not here to raise an army to accuse him, but shouldn't Sun Qing be following Chu Yan Zhang Niujiao to attack Yitao at this moment? Could it be that the battle is over? Is Zhang Niujiao dead? Chu Yan became Zhang Yan, and General Chu became General Zhang?
Zhang Sheng was undecided.
He was able to travel through the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty. Speaking of which, it was Chu Yan's fault.
In February of the second year of Zhongping (185), a fire broke out in Luoyang, the capital, and Nangong was destroyed. Among the eunuchs, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, who often served as eunuchs, advised Emperor Ling to tax acres of land to build palaces and cast bronze figures. So Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty issued an order to the world, in addition to the normal rent and tax, a tax of ten yuan per mu should be paid to help build the palace. He also issued an order to transport timber, wood, and stone from the prefecture to the capital. The eunuchs were treacherous, and the governors and prefects also had private interrogations.
The order to increase taxes and increase taxes was passed down, and the people were unable to bear the heavy pressure. They immediately rebelled, reaching Yizhou in the west and Jiaozhi in the south. Dozens of rebel armies rose up in China to attack counties and kill officials with great momentum.
The big thief Chu Yan was no exception. He ordered the big and small bandit leaders in Black Mountain to come out one after another, create chaos, and attack Wubao. But he himself was no longer satisfied with just attacking some Wubao and the like, with some big thieves. Together with Zhang Niujiao, they began to develop ideas for the counties in Changshan Junior High School, and finally set their target on Ying Tao, who had plenty of money and food.
After receiving Chu Yan's order, Luo Si and the unlucky guy led the bandits out of Pinggu Valley to attack Liu's Wubao.
Unexpectedly, in this fight, the unlucky guy took advantage of the engineering dog. So, has Zhang Niujiao taken advantage of Chu Feiyan now?
"Huzi, ask someone to find rocks. In addition, notify Yu Zhong and Zeng Niu, and ask them to immediately withdraw their soldiers to the training ground, and train with shouts and kills on the training ground. Remember, pretend to be lazy, and the team should not be too Make it tidy and scattered, and go quickly." Zhang Sheng thought about it and started to make some arrangements.
"Here!" Zhou Chuang responded and trotted to make arrangements.
Everyone looked confused when they heard Zhang Sheng's instructions, pretending to be lazy in training?
"Uncle Fu, arrange for people to ride on all the horses in the valley to the hiding place. If they don't receive any news, ask them not to come back for the time being." Zhang Sheng had no time to pay attention to everyone and began to arrange for Sun Fu again.
There were only a few dozen horses in the valley, and they were treasures. He didn't want to give others an advantage in vain.
"I know, I'll go now." Sun Fu left in response.
"Brother Asheng, what do you want from me?" Shitou hurriedly came to the cave and asked.
"Shitou, how much food is left outside now?" Zhang Sheng asked directly without being polite to Shitou.
"About a thousand stones, the rest was not taken out." Shitou reported a number.
"Hurry and prepare today's meal. Add another 20% to the meal. After the meal is ready, don't pay attention to us and let the brothers eat and drink freely." Zhang Sheng told Shitou.
"I know, Brother Sheng." Everyone has become accustomed to this kind of weird order, and Shitou responded.
"Brother Zhou, Ah Zhong, come with me to welcome the guests." After things were arranged, Zhang Shengli sat down, adjusted his leather armor, and took Yu Zhong, Zhou Chuang and other guards who had come over to greet the guests...
Outside the entrance of Pinggu Valley, Sun Qing was riding on a war horse. Looking at the group of soldiers carrying guns and clubs in front of him, the anger in his heart slowly rose.
A group of people came to this flat valley on the order of the general. It has been nearly an hour. No one has been seen or spoken. They can't even enter the valley. They are cowards, they are really cowards! Zhang Sheng actually has such a big air? Could it be that, as Wang Dang, Wulu and others said, this guy's strength has greatly increased since he robbed Liu's Wubao, and he no longer pays attention to the general?
No matter what, even if he broke the general's order, Weng Weng couldn't wait any longer and had to go in and find out clearly.
Having made the decision, Sun Qing lowered his face and pointed his horsewhip forward, "Yang Mazi, this Commander-in-Chief came to see Zhang Xiaoshuai under the general's order to convey the general's order. If you are sensible, get out of the way quickly. Otherwise, don't blame someone." The swords and guns don’t have eyes.”
"Sun Qushuai, don't be anxious, really don't be anxious, the valley has sent people to look for the young commander, they will be there immediately, really they will be there immediately, I hope you will have a lot of them, don't embarrass the younger ones."
Yang Mazi shook his hands wildly and begged, but he made up his mind, before Xiao Shuai comes, you can't even think of entering the valley.
People must not be let in without a fight. Otherwise, with Zhang Xiaoshuai's smiling and tiger-like temperament, he will definitely not get any good results.
As for letting people in and following Sun Qushuai himself, he immediately rejected the idea as soon as it arose.
These days, living in this flat valley is really comfortable. Although the training is very hard, since the smiling tiger took power in the valley, there has been no more unreasonable fraud or strife. He has three full meals every day. It is so good. Days, where can I find the smiling tiger without him? What does the difficulty of training mean?
"Line up and prepare to attack the valley. Anyone who stands in the way will die!"
Sun Qing was really angry when he saw Yang Mazi's rogue behavior. With an order, he raised the spear stuck on the ground.
It's been nearly an hour, and I've been getting the exact same answer, blaming myself again and again. Could it be that I think Weng Weng's gun can't kill people?
"Stand up to meet the enemy. Anyone who dares to break into the valley entrance will be killed!"
When Yang Mazi saw that the other party was serious, he stopped trying to fool people, shouted, and picked up his own spear, pointing the tip of the spear diagonally...
Gun forest against gun forest!
Seeing the situation in front of him, Sun Qing became furious and started to slowly raise the spear in his hand.
If you want to fight, then fight!
Weng Weng didn't believe it. Two hundred versus two hundred, couldn't we enter a valley?
"stop……"
"Sun Shuai, please show mercy..."
Just when Sun Qing half opened his mouth to issue an attack order, a shout came from the mouth of the valley. Immediately, a group of people turned out of the foot of the mountain and trotted forward...
