More than 100 kilometers away from Taihu County, there is a village called Bailong. There are about 100 households in this village, with about 400 or 500 people.

Perhaps such a village can only be considered ordinary in modern times, but in this era it has become an absolute big village.

There is a vacant land covering several acres in the middle of the village. This is the place where the village used to thresh mills, which is commonly known as the thresh mill.

In the past, the threshing farm was also the most lively place in the village. Whether it was busy or slack farming, the villagers could be found on the threshing farm. However, today, the figures of children who always play on weekdays cannot be seen in the threshing farm. Instead, rows of dark green tents and busy figures of a man wearing green military uniforms were replaced by rows of dark green tents and a busy figure in a green military uniform.

In the largest tent in the middle, dozens of lit candles were distributed around, illuminating the entire tent. Yang Feng, dressed in military uniform, was staring at a wooden table and slapped on the wooden table and looking carefully at the map. Opposite him were Gou Xingma, two guerrilla generals, Yan Di, and there were also a circle of officers of all levels such as Qian Zong.

"Look at it."

Yang Feng pointed to the map and said, "According to the news we have received, as of today, three of the six counties under Anqing Prefecture have been occupied by bandits, and Taihu Lake is the largest and richest among these three counties and the most convenient transportation."

After the bandits occupied Taihu County, they could rush straight to Qianshan County to the east and then take Anqing Prefecture, and to Jiujiang Prefecture to the south, they could rush straight to Jiujiang Prefecture. They could be said to be able to attack and retreat or defend. So in order to realize our plan, our task this time was to take back Taihu County and then force the bandits to the east.

Gou Xingma looked at the map for a while before saying, "Mr. Master, now Li Zicheng has attracted a lot of refugees to surrender with the slogan of not paying food. Now he has tens of thousands of soldiers. The last general even heard that many military households and officers and soldiers from the garrison have surrendered to them. We cannot underestimate it."

"Of course I know."

Yang Feng sneered.

"If Li Zicheng's strength is too weak, I'm not relieved."

"Hahaha……"

All the generals laughed, and Yang Feng did not hide anything about the next plan. In addition to senior generals such as Gou Xingma and Yan Di, officers above the Thousand Generals were also informed of all this.

This is not because Yang Feng does not have a sense of confidentiality, but in his opinion, the actions of Jiangning Army cannot be concealed at all. It is better to say it out earlier, as this will make the officers below understand the strategic intentions of Shangfeng.

Of course, Yang Feng did not yell at his strategic intentions so that the whole army knew. If he did this, he would be a pure fool. Just like now, only the officers above 1,000 generals in the tent were qualified to know Yang Feng's strategic intentions.

To be honest, when Gou Xingma, Yan Di and other officers heard Yang Feng express his strategic intentions for the first time, everyone's first reaction was that their lord was crazy.

The local forces of the gentry and landlord class in Jiangnan, let alone them, even the local people understand how terrible it is, because the gentry and landlord forces of this era have a very deep control over the people.

For example, if there is any dispute or even a murder in a private village, the first thing the people think of is not to go to the government to report the case or call for justice, but to find clan elders, clan leaders or local gentry to conduct arbitration.

The clan elders in the clan are extremely powerful. They have the right to punish the village, from marriage to marriage and rape and stealing, and are not uncommon to beat boards, expel family genealogy and even invade pig cages. People who can serve as clan elders or gentry are generally people with wealth and power. From this we can see how much rights the gentry has in the people.

What Yang Feng has to do now is to use the bandits to attack the gentry forces in Jiangnan. Even if he cannot be wiped out, he will at least hurt them.

This was a bold idea, which scared everyone. Even if the officers of the Jiangning Army were brought out by Yang Feng, they felt that their boss was going crazy. If this plan was known, Yang Feng would definitely become the public enemy of the entire Jiangnan gentry.

However, afterwards, everyone thought that Yang Feng’s relationship with the gentry of Jiangnan was very bad. It can even be said that due to the relationship between the Donglin Party, the two sides had long become a life-and-death relationship. Now, even if they are bad, how bad can they be?

At this moment, they no longer have to worry about this problem. Instead, they felt a surge of heart because they were witnessing all this.

"Dude."

Yan Di suddenly raised a question: "If the gentry in Jiangnan saw that it was not good, and wrote to the court to order the Jiangning army to rush to Jiangnan to suppress the bandits, what should we do?"

"What should I do?"

Yang Feng snorted lightly.

"It's no problem for us to suppress the bandits. Let them raise millions of taels of silver as military expenses first, and then bring in more than ten or two hundred thousand stones of food and grass. Otherwise, why should we get the chestnuts for them?"

"What if those people really put the food out?"

"It doesn't matter if we really get it together. We can start immediately. But it's hard to say how to fight where we first and how much we hit it?"

Everyone looked at each other and was shocked by the shamelessness of their boss. It didn't count the extortion of other people's food and supplies, but they even destroyed them. But they said it for granted. No wonder they were the Duke of the State, but they could only be a thousand general or a guerrilla general.

"Report..."

A sound came from outside the tent.

Soon, a thousand general walked in and shouted: "Your Majesty, Ye Bugu, Ye Bugu report. An hour ago, they met a bandits' post a hundred miles away from Taihu County. The two sides fought fiercely. Ye Bugugu team wiped out sixteen people, and chased the remaining post arriving at Taihu County.

After being angry, the bandits sent more than 100 people out of the city to pursue them, and then they were annihilated by us over fifty miles away. However, the bandits had already learned the news of our army's arrival and are now repairing the city wall to fight stubbornly."

Yang Feng asked without hesitation: "What is the situation in Taihu County now?"

Mr. Qian replied: "According to the confession of our captives, there are now more than 3,000 bandits in Taihu County. The leader is a commander of the bandits, named Yuan Datou.

Yuan Datou has always been brutal. Before attacking Taihu County again a few days ago, he issued an order to reward the county after taking it down for three days. When Taihu County was taken down, the entire city was killed and corpses were everywhere. At least thousands of people were slaughtered and countless women were insulted. Now the remaining people are forced to repair the city wall by Yuan Datou."
Chapter completed!