When this was a very special time, even during the Chinese New Year, the city of Jinzhou was not very lively. After walking around the city, Luan Qingshan and others felt bored and returned to the inn outside the city. Drink and eat meat, and wait for the third year of the Chinese New Year to pass.

On the third day of the first lunar month of the second year of Shaoxing, Luan Qingshan went to the inn to meet Mr. Peng. Mr. Peng sent a man to take them to the south of the city to see.

After leaving Jinzhou, we walked south along the Fen River. In the evening, we arrived at a place where mountains and rivers meet.

The man said, "This is the main road from Quwo north. There is a mountain village called Leopard Tai Village, which guards the place. The Jin thieves invaded the south, and the soldiers in the village fled unknown where they were. A Sun Liulang in a nearby village gathered the villagers to protect the mountain village and fought against the Jin thieves. He was lonely and finally the mountain village was captured by the Jin thieves. In order to vent his anger, the Jin thieves killed all the people in several nearby villages, leaving no one in the old or young, and the place became a piece of white land."

Luan Qingshan looked and said, "The plain at the foot of the mountain is vast and the Fen River can be irrigated. It is really a Feng Shui treasure land. I don't know where the village on the mountain is?"

The man said, "The village is three miles away. It's too late today, let's see it tomorrow."

Luan Qingshan and everyone set up a tent in the leeward place and lived there.

The wind was howling at night, and although it was covered with a quilt, it was still as cold as iron. Luan Qingshan couldn't sleep, so he put on his clothes and walked out of the tent. The sentry sat behind a large stone nearby, curled up there and dozed off. Seeing Luan Qingshan coming out, he hurriedly cheered up.

There is no moon in the sky, with stars raying on the earth. The Fen River next to it has frozen, shining with white light under the starlight.

Luan Qingshan walked under the starry sky and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

This time, with Luan Qingshan coming to Jinzhou, there were seven or eight groups and more than one hundred and twenty people. Currently, they were arranged by Mr. Peng to be arranged in various places, waiting for Luan Qingshan to make a reservation and come to join us. This is not the guerrillas of the Dengzhou army behind the enemy, and they have no way to compare with Jiang Min of the sacred mountain. This is just to disrupt the rule of the Jin people and provide a place for intelligence personnel who have exposed their identities. The personnel are really mixed.

Luan Qingshan originally thought that he was an abnormal person and could not stand the rules of Wang Xiao's hunting army, so he would rather come to a place like Hedong. Unexpectedly, among the more than a hundred people who came, he was the most normal one. Among the people who came, there were people who were born to kill and set fire, some were cunning and cruel, and there were people who were completely brainless and only thought about their own pleasure, and there were many kinds of people. Compared with Luan Qingshan, many people were scumbags.

Wang Xiaoli's occupation of Xiangyang was too smooth and he did not encounter great resistance. When the power developed, it was even more unfavorable. In most cases, when the army in Dengzhou arrived at a place, the defenders surrendered. Most of these troops were incorporated into Wang Xiaoli's army.

Who was the army of the Song Dynasty? Of course, it was wrong to say that the thief was a military force. The army refers to the prison camps of each city, which belongs to the wing army. The imperial guards of the Song Dynasty were well treated with good salaries and not low, so it was not that easy to do it. But since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu took in powerful and illegal people in the army according to the customs of the Five Dynasties. The army is the minions of the court, so what good people can the minions be? Moreover, the atmosphere in the army is mainly to command soldiers and implement class laws, and oppress them layer by layer. It is not easy to live in this environment to be a normal good person.

All the troops recruited by Wang Xiaoli were disbanded and organized into the recruit battalion for training. Soon he found that this was not enough. Many people came out of the recruit battalion, but did not change their old habits, and they were unrepentant after being organized into the army, making it difficult for officers to manage. For veterans of the imperial guards, new troops were organized after the recruit battalion came out and trained for another year. All qualified people were disbanded and then organized into the various armies, which was considered to be the digestion of these people.

Luan Qingshan estimated that only 60% of the original imperial guards were actually incorporated into Wang Xiao's hunting army. The remaining 40% were either divided into land except for military membership and became a farmer. Or they escaped from the army like themselves, and then did everything. But the most were robbers.

In the past one or two years, Wang Xiaolie began to expand his territory. In the places he used to do not care about, such as Yingchang Prefecture, Chenzhou, and Yingzhou, officials were also sent. These robbers had no soil for development and could only find another way out. Some of them defected to Liu Yu, some fled to Lianghuai, and some of them worked for Wang Xiaolie like themselves.

It is not easy to take them behind enemy lines to build a copycat. It is not easy to suppress them without some real skills.

The next morning, everyone had breakfast and followed the man sent by Mr. Peng to the Leopard Tail Village on the nearby mountain.

Most of the village walls had collapsed and were broken everywhere, which showed the tragic war at that time. When entering the village, corpses that had become bones could be seen from time to time. The cold wind blew over from above, which was shocking. Several wild hunters were lying in the grass, and when they saw people coming, their eyes were glowing.

After walking around the village, it was desolate, and only the north wind was sobbing gently.

The man said: "Since the Jin thieves broke through the village and slaughtered the surrounding villages, few people have come here. If you want to settle down here, you have to clean up your house."

Luan Qingshan said: "There is nothing to clean up, there are enough people. It's just that there are many bones here and no one is burying them. These are all heroes in nearby villages. When the country is in danger, they will take up swords and guns to fight against the enemy and protect the country, and finally get rid of the wilderness. How can a country face them? Well, we will stay in this Leopard Tail Village and make a career. Let's put these bones in peace."

The man said, "This is the best. In the past two days, you can buy some supplies and live at the foot of the mountain first. There are 10 or 20 miles around, and there will be no people. You are not afraid of people discovering it. Taiping County, the closest to here, is still thirty miles away. If you want to buy goods, you can go there. It is under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, and it is not as restrictive as Jinzhou."

Luan Qingshan agreed one by one. Seeing that there was nothing else in the village, they went down the mountain together.

The man said, "If you decide to live here, go back and answer. In a few days, the heroes around will gather to wait for the general's orders."

Luan Qingshan said: "Peng Yuanwai——"

The man said: "The general was sent by Guanren Wang, and Mr. Peng will not take care of it too much. Unless it is urgent, the general can decide for himself."

Luan Qingshan thought for a while and said, "It's not easy to establish a foothold in a strange place. When I came, I didn't bring too much gold and silver. Moreover, I saw that Jinzhou didn't use Xiangyang Huizi, so I wonder if Mr. Peng could move some money to use it?"

The man said: "I will report this to Mr. Peng. However, Mr. Peng has to spend money everywhere in Jinzhou, so it may not be easy to move it out."
Chapter completed!