Chapter 1258: Carrying on the Past and Opening up the Future (One Hundred and Forty-Eight) I’m Afraid It Won’t Be a Big Deal

According to Zhou Liang's estimation, this group of bandits should have taken advantage of his trip to Ningqiang County to break through the blockade of Lengshuigou and break into the county. However, knowing that they were not strong enough, they made a fortune and learned that they were back. After that, he fled back to the Xanthium Mountain and continued to be a turtle. This judgment made him feel slightly relieved. Although a magistrate and all the officials in the county were killed, he took back the county seat from the bandits. This can be considered a great achievement.

Zhou Liang had no intention of chasing the bandits. This was obviously a thankless task. As soon as his opponent fled into the mountains, he could only look at the mountains and sigh. The losses he suffered more than a year ago were still vivid in his mind. This year These mountain rats have been nesting in Xanthium Mountain for more than a year, and they are afraid that they can feel every stone and tree there. If they rush in rashly, they will probably suffer another big defeat.

Just hold on to the county seat. Zhou Liang - Zhu - Zhu - Island - Novel ww.{zhu}{zhu}{} began to issue military orders to the surrounding armies to assemble. The Lengshuigou military stronghold has been destroyed and Xang'er Mountain is blocked. It has become an empty talk. The troops currently on hand are not enough, so it is better to concentrate all the troops to prevent danger.

Ziyang County began to strengthen the city walls and arrange defenses. Zhou Liang wrote a memorial with brilliant pen, turning this out-and-out defeat into a great victory in which he defeated countless enemies and defeated them first.

But what happened next meant that he did not send out this memorial, because the bandits from Xang Er Mountain did not enter the mountain.

On the third day after Zhou Liang returned to Ziyang County, this group of bandits attacked 200 Qin soldiers who had withdrawn from the Gunlongpo military camp, and the Qin army was completely destroyed.

On the fourth day, the 300 Qin soldiers in the Longjiagou military camp were on their way back. Although they had taken strict precautions, they were attacked by bandits and lost most of them. In the end, only a hundred people escaped. The situation that these Qin soldiers who escaped back knew. Zhou Liang felt that the situation was a bit serious.

After more than a year of hiding, this group of bandits has obviously been well-trained and has transformed from a group of rabble into an elite army. This is evident from the fact that they attacked in two directions in two days. This can be seen from the Qin army. The two villages of Gunlongpo and Longjiagou are separated by dozens of miles to the south and north. Within two days, they rushed between the two places and defeated two well-trained Qin troops. military. This is not something ordinary people can do.

Instead of escaping back to the mountains, this bandit was wreaking havoc everywhere in Ziyang County. This time, Zhou Liang was put on the fire, and he couldn't attack? This became a difficult problem that tested him.

From the mouths of the residents of the county, Zhou Liang interrogated and found out that there were about a thousand bandits who attacked the county. Now, he directly controlled only 2,000 soldiers and horses. The county must have people to stay behind. These bandits are all locals. . The terrain is familiar. What if I take all the soldiers away and these bandits kill another carbine and seize the county seat? The county must leave enough manpower. But based on this calculation, the number of people he can take out of the city will not exceed a thousand at most, and he will use a thousand troops to deal with the bandits.

If Zhou Liang was absolutely confident before, but now, he is not confident enough. From the soldiers who escaped from the Longjiagou military camp, Zhou Liang could confirm that the bandits were indeed different now.

On the tenth day, Xialiang Town sent someone to the county to complain. This time Zhou Liang could no longer sit still, for no other reason, because there was someone in Xialiang Town who he would never dare to offend now. That was the person sent by the imperial court to Shu. The father of Lu Dafang, the imperial envoy who oversees the land reform in the county. If something happens to Mr. Lu's father, then I am afraid that as an official, I will really be in trouble. The most minor thing is to steal an official and lose his position. I can't do it. Well, you have to lose your head.

"How many bandits are there around Xia Liang Town?" Zhou Liang asked, staring at the envoy from the Lu government who came to ask for help.

"Returning to the general, bandits have appeared all around Xia Liang Town. I really don't know how many there are, but they must be at least several thousand." The envoy from the Lu Mansion said urgently: "General, please send reinforcements as soon as possible. If it is too late, If it doesn’t happen, our Lu Mansion will be doomed.”

"As far as I know, Lu Mansion itself has a lot of local soldiers. Lu Mansion itself is a small castle and will not be broken down by bandits so easily." Zhou Liang was a little annoyed. In just ten days, the bandits' team Is it swollen again? If it continues at this rate, Ziyang will be full of bandits in just a few days.

"General Zhou, that is Lord Lu's mansion!" Hearing Zhou Liang's words, the envoy from the Lu Mansion changed his expression. "If something happens to Lord Lu, I'm afraid the general will also be in trouble!"

The threat in the other party's words was extremely obvious, but Zhou Liang had no time to care about it at this time, "Now I only have two thousand troops in hand, Ning Qiang and Nanzheng have one thousand each. In the rush, these troops There’s no way we can gather together. I can’t abandon the county town just to save Mr. Lu, right? What if these bandits are attacking the Lu family for real?”

Zhou Liang paced back and forth in the room, "The bandits this time are completely different from last year. Judging from their attacks on Lengshuigou, Gunlongpo, and Longjiagou, they are completely a well-trained force. "

"General Zhou, are you going to let the bandits do whatever they want? If the bandits completely destroy Ziyang and other places, even if the general can defend the county, won't the superiors punish the general for his crimes? Everywhere has fallen, and only one county is like a lonely boat in the angry sea. How long can it last?" The person from the Lu family was obviously not just a servant, so he asked questions directly, pointing to Zhou Liang's biggest concern.

"It's not that I don't want to send troops, but I have to defend the county and save the Lu government, but I am unable to do so." Zhou Liang stopped and looked at him, "I have a plan, and I will send troops immediately. As for you, then Immediately go to Zhongshan Town and find Mr. Zhong Hou. Mr. Zhong has hundreds of rural soldiers. Their quality is no less than that of the regular army, and their equipment is also good. This is specially approved by the king. If you can fight with Mr. Zhong, If you help me, I can leave half of the soldiers to guard the city, and with a thousand people, I can sweep away this group of bandits."

"Master Zhonghou?" The envoy from Lu Mansion was stunned.

"Yes, Mr. Zhong, but Mr. Hou has a great reputation, so I can't move him. Maybe you can have some effect if you go." Zhou Liang said.

"Okay, please prepare General Zhou to send troops immediately. I will go to Zhongshan Town right away. Mr. Zhonghou will definitely send troops. Mr. Zhong, who is such a person, naturally knows the truth of death and coldness. If this banditry is allowed to continue to rampage, the next one will Then it will be the Zhong family's turn." The envoy from Lu Mansion bowed his hands, turned around and left quickly.

In the darkness, four or five heads gathered next to a weak lamp. They were all staring at the map under the oil lamp.

"Specific information has arrived. Zhou Liang of Ziyang County has led a thousand Qin troops out of the city. Another group of troops is from the Zhong family in Zhongshan Town. This Zhong family is not ordinary. Their head is the Guannai Marquis of Qin State, and he is famous. According to what we know, he has as many as five hundred soldiers, which is comparable to the elite of the Qin army." Niu Teng pointed at the map and said: "These two troops are on the left and the other. Right, rushing toward Xialiang Town."

"Who is Zhongli? The boss said he is very famous, why haven't we heard of him?" He Yong asked with some confusion.

"Of course you haven't heard of it." Niu Teng laughed. Zhongli was commanding the Black Ice Platform, and most people would not know his name. "But this person is very, very powerful."

"No matter how powerful they are, with thousands of us here, it's easy to take down a small Lu Mansion. By the time they arrive, the day lily will be cold." He Yong said dismissively. "Then we will follow the boss's will and attack them at a leisurely pace, that is, without confronting them head-on. What can they do to me? There will be more and more of our people, but they will become less and less fighting. The final victory is our."

Although it had only been more than ten days since they came down the mountain, the rebel army's team had rapidly expanded from more than a thousand people at the beginning to more than five thousand people.

"Although there are many people, not many can actually go to the battlefield to confront the Qin army." Niu Teng shook his head and said: "Zhou Liang is very cautious. Once he has gathered the two thousand troops from Ning Qiang and Nan Zheng, we will We are no longer our opponents, and we have to be driven back to the Xanthium Mountains again, so we have to find another way. He Yong, you lead these four thousand people to besiege Xia Liang Town. Remember, the time must be grasped. When these two enemies attack, you must not be eager to fight. Don't think that you will fight the enemy head-on because you have more people. In a war, you cannot win with more people. Once the enemy is approaching, immediately follow the plan we have made and calm down. to zero, immediately retreated into the nearby mountains.”

"Remember!" He Yong was a little depressed, "Master, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to kill someone." Niu Teng smiled, "I believe that if this person is killed by us, Zhou Liang's position as an official will come to an end."

On this night, hundreds of well-trained veterans of the rebel army quietly left the large army, sneaked into the mountains, and quietly ran toward their goal. The person Niu Teng wanted to kill was none other than Zhongli, the former supreme commander of Black Ice Platform, the Marquis of the Great Qin Pass.

Although Zhongli resigned, he still has unparalleled influence in the Qin court. It is for this reason that the current King of Qin will force him to resign. If he dies, the government and the public will be shaken, and the local generals will no longer be able to Only by covering up the incident in Ziyang County will the matter really become a big deal, and making the matter big is the starting point for Niu Teng's other plan. If he wants to completely mess up Shu County, the first thing he must do is let Zhou Liang's thousands of Qin troops fall into his hands. With Niu Teng's current strength, it is really beyond his power to fight hard. Head-to-head confrontations would most likely end with him being tortured, while guerrilla warfare would not be able to shake Zhou Liang at all. This person was very disciplined in his military use and would not give Niu Teng much chance. Once he gathers Ning Qiang and the Qin army in Nanzheng, this uprising in Ziyang County will most likely end in a disastrous defeat.

When Niu Teng sneaked towards Zhongshan with hundreds of troops and gathered another group of action teams sent by the National Security Bureau in Zhongshan, the soldiers of the Zhong family, led by the contemporary head of the family Zhong Kui, marched all the way to the aid of Xia Liang To suppress the Lu family, at the same time, Zhou Liang also led a thousand Qin troops out of Ziyang County, and the target was naturally Xialiang Town. (To be continued...)