Taishi Ci pondered for a moment, looked at me with bright eyes, and said, "Shaochong, I think it's better to go there in person, so you stay at Shangliao, clean up the team, and prepare for the conquest of Zurong."

I understand what Taishici meant. He was going to Liu Yao to find an identity for me. After all, as long as I was, those old brothers who had fought with me were obedient, but the new soldiers who came to serve would not buy it.

I held Taishici's hands and was so moved that I almost burst into tears. From the moment I met, Taishici left me with the impression of being brave and ingenious, and rarely said things as carefully as others today.

I said, "General Ziyi, I'm so tired!"

Taishi Ci smiled, patted my shoulder, and said, "Shaochong, although you are less than twenty years old, your understanding and talent are very clever. I feel that I have changed a lot when I am with you these days!"

On the day I saw Taishi Ci away, it was drizzling in the sky, and the thick clouds covered the mountains in the distance, making everything look hazy. The difficult days were always very long. Because I could not get the trust of Shangliao's clan, the army's food and grass were gone. Most of the mountain people recruited in Jingxian fled. Even some of the soldiers from Liu Yao's army who joined halfway became bandits again. Finally, there were almost a thousand people running away. The morale of the soldiers was extremely low. I knew that if this continued, the team would collapse.

We must let the people of Shangliao Sect trust us as soon as possible, otherwise we will have a way out and I am anxious.

Just as I was frowning, I suddenly heard the cry of women outside the camp. Where did the women come from in the camp? I was busy with the guards going to inquire. After a while, the soldiers came to report that the crying was from the tent of Zhang Gong, the Marquis of the Former Army. I heard that Zhang Gong brought a dozen soldiers out last night and brought a young woman back to the nearby village.

Zhang Gong is the clan brother of Zhang Ying, the general under Liu Yao's tent. With Zhang Ying's power, Zhang Gong is idle in the army and bullies the kind. No one can control him. When he was fighting with a gamble, he saw that the situation was not good, so he led his troops to flee until Taishi Ci's army launched Yuzhang. Zhang Gong, who was wandering in Shangliao and became a bandit, led five hundred subordinates to come and serve. Among the Liu Yao's defeated troops gathered over, his 500 team was the largest.

Now that Taishi Ci is not here, Zhang Gong would not take me seriously, this damn killer! He dared to do evil deeds under my nose to disturb the people and rape women.

"Come, tell me that Zhang Gong is here to see me." If such a disturbing the people and looting happens, what is the difference between us and those bandits who cause harm to the countryside, we will not be able to get the support of the people of Shangliao. If Zhang Gong is not severely punished this time, more and more people will follow us in the future.

I walked back and forth in the tent. After Taishi Ci left, my qualifications and status were not enough to suppress a soldier like Zhang Gong. Now Zhang Gong dared to do this blatantly, one was to be stubborn and expected that I could not do anything to him; the other was to test my reaction. If I could not use my skills to intimidate him, the chief of the army would be his.

"Report to the general, Zhang Junhou said he was very busy--and he had no time to see you." The soldier who was sent to the message swollen with his left face and hesitated.

My eyes swept across his face and said sternly: "You were beaten, why don't you report it truthfully!"

The little pawn's thin body trembled, then knelt on the ground, crying and said, "General——, I dare not! Zhang Junhou said, if I tell you, he will kill me!"

"Zhang Gong, it seems that you are impatient in your life." I said hatefully.

I stepped out and shouted: "Please take up the weapons and follow me!" This guard is composed of soldiers who survived the battle in Shentingling. It has extremely strong combat power and is also the only subordinate I can rely on now.

As soon as I approached Zhang Gong's big tent, a strong smell of alcohol was pouring in my face, and there was even more disgrace in the tent. The two young men guarding the tent were about to make a sound, and the personal guards behind me rushed up and pressed them to the ground.

As soon as I lifted the tent, I saw the wine jar in the tent falling to the ground. Zhang Gong was naked and hugging a panicked young woman. The woman's close-fitting pockets went all out. When I saw me coming in, I hurriedly covered my breasts with my hands, but how could this infinite spring guang block it?

"This---, cough, is there anything wrong with me coming to find this Junhou?" Zhang Gong looked embarrassed, and his mouth was filled with alcohol.

I slapped the table a few times and said in a deep voice: "Zhang Gong, do you know your guilt?"

Seeing that I looked bad, Zhang Gong hurriedly argued: "Zhang Gong doesn't know he is guilty."

I shouted, "Okay, since you can't remember it, I will recite it again for you: Article 7 of the Great Han Military Law, if you disturb the people, you will be killed immediately; Article 9 of the Great Han Military Law, if you are not allowed to drink alcohol without authorization, if you violate the order, you will be punished thirty rods, you can hear it clearly."

When he heard the slaughter, Zhang Gong's face changed drastically, and he was awakened by the alcohol. He pulled his neck and said, "Gao Chong, don't exaggerate. My Zhang Gong's identity is a military marquis. Even if you violate the military rules, what can you do to me if you are a little bitch?"

I stepped forward, kicked Zhang Gong to the ground, and said, "You guy guessed it right. Today, my Gao Chong is going to attack you, the military marquis. This is called killing Yi Jingbai, and it will be effective."

I shouted outside the tent: "Come, the general called in Chinese, list the crimes committed by Zhang Gong one by one, and tell the entire army!"

"Gao - General, I'm lucky!" Zhang Gong shouted desperately. He had long lost his energy and was dragged down by the personal guard like a dead dog in front of me.

In the cold wind, Zhang Gong's head was hung on the flagpole. Under my thunderous means, the soldiers who went out without permission were found out one by one and were severely punished. The military discipline of the entire team improved a lot, but I knew that if I could not solve the problem of military ration shortage quickly, greater riots would occur.

On this day, the scouts sent out found out that a river thief took a boat down the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, landed on the shore of Poyang Lake, and robbed the road from Chaisang to Shangliao, plundering the people and forcibly robbing property. The river thief was extremely powerful, and the leader was a habitual thief Liu Pan and Pan Lin.

Pan Lin is a habitual thief who has been hiding across Poyang Lake for several years. He was born in a fishing and was very skilled in water. He is known as "flying through the waves". It is said that there are 200 or 300 people under his command. In recent years, the governments of various states and counties have long been in name only. The Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains have emerged, and thieves have also arisen in the Yangtze River area, and the chaos has come from life.

Liu Pan is said to be the clan of Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou. He used this relationship to rob families and loot merchants. He had almost no one dared to provoke him on the Yangtze River. Those who resisted and refused to follow the clan of Shangliao were killed. Therefore, the people in Shangliao City were panicked, and many wealthy families fled to the sea with their families.

Liu Pan and Pan Linxuan came to attack Yuzhang at this time. Was it his own initiative or Liu Biao's instructing him? Liu Biao and Liu Yao were both relatives of the Han Dynasty and each led a state. It is logically unrelated to each other. However, when Liu Yao was defeated, Sun Ce was in a great way to sweep Jiangdong. Then Sun Ce and Liu Biao had a grudge against killing his father, and Liu Biao had to guard against him.

I don’t want to dig into the reason in this. For me who is in trouble, this is an excellent opportunity to gain the trust of the people.

Without further ado, I immediately selected a thousand soldiers and divided into two groups to fight against the thieves in Jiangliu. One of them was set up outside Shangliao City. When the thieves passed the road, they rushed out of Fangji and caught them off guard. The other one took a shortcut to the stop of the thieves, first took the opportunity to seize the thieves, and then when the thieves saw that the situation was not good, they wanted to return to the ship to escape, they attacked each other and captured them all in one place.

In this battle, our army can only win but not lose.

If you win, you will gain trust from the Shangliao Zong people.

If defeated, the entire army will be dispersed.

Thirty miles outside Shangliao City, Mufu Mountain. I leaned in the waist-deep thatched grass, staring at the road at the foot of the mountain. This road is the main road from Chaisang to Shangliao. After Liu Pan and Pan Lin robbed Shangliao, they would ship the plundered property to the pirate ship on Poyang Lake. Walking from this road is the closest road.

The sun in winter always settles a little early, and it turns dark before Shenshi. We waited on Mufu Mountain for nearly two hours, but we still did not see the arrival of the bandits.

"Why hasn't the news come from the scout yet?" I was a little anxious. After all, this was my first time in command of a military war, and I was inevitably nervous.

After waiting for a while, the soldiers who went to contact ran back in a flash and shouted in panting: "Report——, the scout team has rebelled against the enemy."

"What's going on?" I was shocked and asked quickly.

The soldier gasped and said, "As soon as I arrived at the hidden place of the scouts, I saw the bodies of five or six soldiers. Later, I found a dying scout. I realized from his mouth that most of the scouts went to join the thieves in Jiangxi, and the rest of those who were unwilling to go were killed by these traitors who were willing to be thieves.

After hearing this, I closed my eyes and was speechless for a long time. I didn't expect that the first battle of leading troops would encounter the tragic incident of killing each other. If this matter spreads, the morale of the army would inevitably be in chaos. In this way, not to mention war, even mutiny is possible. No, no matter what, I must not let the army that has been established finally collapse like this.

I snapped, "Who else knows about this?"

The little pawn replied: "There is no one anymore. As soon as I found out the news, I rushed back."

I said, "Okay, you must keep a secret of this matter strictly and not tell anyone anymore. If you violate the order, I will definitely not be lucky. You can hear it clearly."

"Yes, general." The pawn agreed to retreat.

I tried hard to calm myself down and sorted out my chaotic thoughts. I had never expected the scouts to collude with the enemy. Since this is the case, the thieves of the river will definitely know about the ambushing in Mufu Mountain, and their choice is only one - take a boat into the river from Poyang Lake.

"Tell the entire army to quickly rush to the shore of Poyang Lake." I ordered loudly.

Although this section is not far from Mufu Mountain to Poyang Lake, it is more than five miles away. It will take half an hour to walk with both feet. According to the inference of the itinerary that was turned back from the scout site, the bandits are probably not far from the lake.

Fortunately, I still have a lot of ambushings to delay for a while. The military situation is urgent. I no longer care about the complaints of the soldiers and hurriedly urged the soldiers to hurry to the Jiang bandits' boat stop. As long as I can meet with the ambushing soldiers waiting there in time, things can still be done.

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This rush was so tired that I was about to vomit blood. Behind me, the sparse team almost landed for a mile. When they arrived at the ambush site, these mobs fell to the ground. No matter how I scolded them, it would be useless.

Fortunately, the Jiang thieves have not arrived yet. They probably have brought the captured property. They have not walked fast all the way. We have finally not eaten up this time. Wait, Liu Pan, Pan Lin, you bandits, and the few soldiers who are cooperating with the enemy. If my anger doesn't come out on you later, I will write the word "high" upside down.

Just as I was gritting my teeth, I suddenly saw a team that was even more embarrassed than us. At least we were still holding weapons and flags in our hands. Many of these people were still wearing flowers. The weapons in their hands were already lost, they were not dressed, and they looked like they were running away with their heads in their arms.

Needless to say, it must be Liu Pan and Pan Lin, the group of Jiang thieves, but for some reason they look like this?

Don't worry about it.

"Kill!" I shouted and rushed out first. Behind were a thousand soldiers who had been holding back their anger for a long time. Like me, they were so angry that they were so angry that they were so angry that they had let themselves run away. This run made these soldiers angry. Now, I don't need to mobilize them when they go into battle, and they are all full of energy.

The morale of the army is available. It is time for this group of thieves to be bad.

This battle was a real relief. I was very furious and I was very flirting with the powerful Jiang thieves. In a short while, there were no less than ten Jiang thieves who reported to the King of Hell.
Chapter completed!