Dachang has produced salt since ancient times, so many salt merchants in Dachang City. Zhang Kewang tortured and interrogated the big households in the city. In just half a day, he dug out tens of thousands of taels of silver from the secret cellars of those big households. △This result not only did not stop Zhang Kewang, but instead became more excited, making his subordinates pressuring the big households to interrogate them even more. Since he had made tens of thousands of taels in half a day, and if he worked harder, he might be able to make tens of thousands of taels.

Zhang Dingguo's recruitment work was also going very smoothly. When he placed the newly dug boxes of silver from Zhang Kewang at the city gate, opened the lid of the silver box, and kept asking his subordinates to shout loudly and gongs to promote the army that they could get five taels of silver immediately, it immediately attracted many people to sign up.

Although the Eight Kings and Cao Cao were both rebels in the court, these days, ordinary people could not care about the food they could eat as long as they could eat. Dachang produced salt, so the people here were basically salted. They picked salt brine from caves on the mountain and then cooked and turned into snow-white mineral salt.

Those people have been picking salt on the steep mountain walls all year round, and each of them has developed the ability to climb rocks and climb mountains like walking on the flat ground. Compared with ordinary farmers, it is obviously more suitable for soldiers to eat food. Now Dachang City has been broken, and the salt-collecting merchants in the city have also been taken. Even if the salt-collecting peddlers have picked salt, there is no place to sell it. Now the Eight Kings have offered such good conditions to recruit soldiers, so these original salt-collecting peddlers simply turned around and signed up to eat food and get salary.

In just over half a day, Zhang Dingguo selected more than 5,000 people from the applicants, and he also included all the subordinates of Zhang Zukai whom he had captured before. Zhang Dingguo did not have much requirement to recruit soldiers. In short, the more people are better. Those over fifteen years old and under fifty years old, as long as they are men, who do not lack arms or legs, they will.

The newly recruited soldiers were organized into four battalions at once. Two of them belonged to Zhang Xianzhong and two to Luo Rucai. Although Zhang Luo's two departments are united together, they are still only one alliance, and the two departments are not affiliated with each other.

While recovering stolen goods and providing funds, the bandits recruited troops and horses, and also searched for horses, mules, donkeys, cloth and food everywhere.

"Eight Kings, I have asked to send troops. I am willing to lead my subordinates to capture the city of Daning for the Eight Kings." Huiding, the star of the sky, asked Zhang Xianzhong for orders.

Hui Dengxiang was also one of the leaders of the thirteen families in his early years, and his bandit name was Tianxing. He was also quite old in the world. However, his fortune was not good in recent years, and he suffered consecutive defeats. His strength was getting weaker and weaker. He had joined forces with Luo Rucai and others, claiming to be the Ninth Camp. Last year, he also asked the court for surrender and accepted the recruitment. However, three months ago, after Zhang Xianzhong rebelled and raised his troops, facing the contact envoy sent by Zhang Xianzhong. Hui Dengxiang made a mistake in making a choice. He swore with the generals of the fifth camp, including King Guangen of Huaguansuo, and said that he would never rebel again.

As a result, after Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai met, Hui Dengxiang couldn't sit still and betrayed his previous vow and rebelled again. Although he later joined the coalition forces, his status was not as good as before and was suppressed by Zhang everywhere. This time, he took over Dachang City, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were full of money, but after Tianxing, he didn't even drink a few sips of soup.

This wasn't really impossible to sit still, so I came to ask for my order to fight against Daning City, northwest of Dachang.

Among the Zhang Luo coalition forces, there are many anti-kings who are in an awkward situation like Guo Tianxing. They are also old people. Now they rebel again, but their strength is far inferior to Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others. Not only can they continue to be on par, but they are also equivalent to relying on others. If this continues, they will definitely be subordinates of the two. Seeing that someone takes the initiative to go out for a fight, the two immediately followed and made a request.

The king of sweeping the floor, Cao Wei, and the king of ten anti-anti-kings, Yang Youxian, took the opportunity to come out and ask them to join forces to fight Wushan County, southeast of Dachang City.

"I think it's OK. We have to rest here for a few more days, so we can let them sweep the two cities of Daning and Wushan respectively. Then we will go directly to Fengjie and save some time." Luo Rucai, who is a bandit named Cao Cao, said.

In terms of qualifications in the world, Luo Rucai is much older than Zhang Xianzhong, and his strength has always been very strong. However, in the previous two years, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others emerged and came from behind. However, in the previous round of encirclement and suppression of the government army, Li Zicheng's troops were beaten to death. Now he can't even hear the wind, and Zhang Xianzhong's strength has also been greatly affected.

Luo Rucai always wanted to gain more say in the coalition, so he wanted to win over Guo Tianxing, the King of Sweeping the Floor, and the Ten Anti-Kings, who were originally in the same alliance as him, and he also spoke for them at this time. Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong nodded with a smile and no longer objected.

On that day, Huiden, the general of the Tianxing, led more than 3,000 people to attack Daning, while the king of sweeping the floor, Cao Wei, the king of sweeping the tenth rebellion, Yang Youxian, joined more than 5,000 troops to attack Wushan.

Yunyang.

Yang Sichang received an urgent report from Zuo Liangyu, saying that the thief tracks found on the Hubei-Shaanxi border were actually just a fictitious shot by Zhang Xianzhong and others, so they set up a suspicion array. Zhang Xianzhong made an act of entering Shaanxi, but in fact he had already rushed into Sichuan. Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong had annihilated the troops of Zhang Zukai, the deputy general stationed in Dachang City, and captured Dachang City.

Looking down at the urgent report in his hand, Yang Sichang was so angry that he was about to smoke. The things he was worried about day and night actually became true. The thief did not escape to Shaanxi and entered Sichuan instead.

He was wrong in the expectation, and Mei Zhihuan was right, and this result was unbearable for him.

However, Yang Sichang was unwilling to admit that Mei Zhihuan was better than him, and he blamed Zhang Zukai for all the blame. If this guy was a little more alert, and then he could not defend a Dachang City with five thousand soldiers? If this guy was a little more powerful and Zhang Luo and the other thieves could not defeat Dachang, he would have to go to Shaanxi.

Everything was blamed on Zhang Zukai. Yang Sichang gritted his teeth and issued an order, immediately dismissed Zhang Zukai's position as deputy general, and sent someone to capture him and imprison him.

However, after issuing this order, there is a more realistic question before him. What should I do next?

"Immediately, Immediately send an order to Mei Zhihuan Li Changgeng to block the two thieves in eastern Sichuan. You must not let the two thieves go south to the middle of Sichuan." Yang Sichang sneered and stared at the map on one side. Since Mei Zhihuan is in eastern Sichuan, then hand over the task of blocking the two thieves to Mei Zhihuan. If Mei Zhihuan can really block the two thieves, then when he leads his army to surround and capture the two thieves, he will still be the biggest contributor to this battle in the end. If Mei Zhihuan cannot block the two thieves and let them break into the middle of Sichuan, then he can put the responsibility for the failure of this encirclement and suppression on Mei Zhihuan's head.

In short, no matter what, he can turn passive to active.

In his mind, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng must be unable to stop him. Just relying on Liu Jun’s camp of Huguang recruits, how could he stop Zhang Luo’s two thieves?

Fengjie.

While waiting for the troops to come down from the boat, Liu Jun arranged for Feng Sheng to continue to take Ye Busu to stare at the bandits in Dachang City, and even sent out several horse teams that had just come down from the boat. Zhang Xianzhong had just broken into eastern Sichuan, but he didn't know that they had taken a boat from the Yangtze River to Fengjie.

The two places are more than 100 miles apart. Although Mei Zhihuan is now in a tight seal of news about the arrival of the official army, this news will definitely not be concealed for long.

Mei Zhihuan insisted on waiting for the troops to get off the ship and rested for a while, and immediately rushed to Dachang City. Liu Jun hesitated a little. He was not afraid of the bandits, but did not want to fight such a war.

At dusk, all the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Camp Huguang had already disembarked and set up a temporary camp on the north shore.

"Teacher, I just received the information. Our opportunity has come." Liu Jun hurriedly entered the commander's tent. "The bandits divided their troops. A group of three thousand soldiers led by Guo Tianxing to attack Daning, and a group of five thousand soldiers attacked Wushan by sweeping over the king and the ten anti-ghost kings."

Mei Zhihuan was also a soldier, so he suddenly heard the reason why Liu Jun was happy from this information. Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other bandits broke into eastern Sichuan from Huguang, and the total number of bandits in each division was 40,000 to 50,000. Although there were many mobs, the number was large.

Especially after they captured Dachang City, they were very difficult to deal with. But now that the thieves have divided their troops, they can defeat them one by one.

Liu Jun thought further, "This is a good opportunity for heaven. The bandits don't know that we are here yet, so we can take the lead and ambush the thieves. Teacher, please see, Wushan is also on the edge of the Yangtze River, and even downstream of us. Now our ship has not left yet. We can board the boat and go down the river. At most two hours, we can reach Wushan County. Then land and ambush the thieves halfway to Wushan, and catch them off guard. We can even come to a circumvention point to fight the help, ambush the sweeper, and then send a few people back to Dachang to report the message and attract Zhang to rescue him."

If they come to rescue them, then they will stay away from Dachang City and lose their support. If they don’t come, then Liu Jun can wipe out the troops of the Sweeping King first.

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng also agreed with Liu Jun's plan. It is better to set up an ambush to fight for help than to go directly to Dachang.

"I will take the middle camp first, and you will take the other camps and then come."

Liu Jun planned to set off immediately. Although it was already dark, the boatmen were very familiar with this channel. They could also sail at night if the speed was slower. As long as the speed was slightly faster, they could even arrive at Wushan before dark.

The officers and soldiers of the Jiutouzhao Fighting Barracks who had just had supper suddenly received an emergency order and the whole battalion boarded again.

Everyone was confused. Why did they have to board the ship just as soon as they got off the boat? After getting on the boat, many people still didn't know where they were going.

Since the war barracks were ahead, they did not need to load bags on the ship. Each soldier carried a bag of dry food for ten days on his body. The archer brought sixty arrows and the gunman brought two hundred fixed-load paper bullets, which was enough.

More than 3,000 people boarded the ship quickly, and more than 30 river boats went downstream.

Although the King of Sweeping the floor, the King of Ten Antis and Kings came to attack Wushan County with 5,000 troops, Liu Jun believed that his first battalion of war soldiers was enough, and they just took one step first, and the rest of the battalions would arrive later.
Chapter completed!