The Jinming Station in Yan'an, the Garden Station in Ansai, and the Gangu Station in Yanchuan were all attacked.
Shilipu, Ershilipu and Sansanlipu in Fucheng and three counties were all burned to the ground.
The fire spread across three counties and stopped briefly until it burned into Yanchuan and destroyed Wen'an Station and all the express stores in the north.
Yanchuan is not safe.
It was only because of a heavy rain that people returned to farming, and there was a brief period of peace.
Although the land here is still bare, the people who work in the fields have a bright future.
In northern Shaanxi, people who are willing to work in the fields are not afraid of hard work.
Liu Chengzong's team grew in size during the plunder and recruited nearly 200 good seedlings.
These people include post soldiers who can ride horses and shoot arrows, and soldiers who are accustomed to running ten miles in three quarters of an hour.
And we also got more than 300 horses and more than 600 donkeys and mules.
He did not disturb the tranquility of Yanchuan, and even did a lot of good things.
In several villages in the southern and northern plains, they used the food obtained from Wen'an Station to keep the people alive.
In Jingjiagou, Huoshao Kiln and other places, he helped the people resist taxes, surrounded them on the spot, and collected and surrendered the government officials.
I also spent two days digging a canal for the local people at Crouching Mountain in the south of the county.
He is not a good person, and he has two purposes for doing these things.
First, it is to summarize and improve one's own thoughts.
In arid areas and non-arid areas... Liu Chengzong crossed out the non-arid areas in his notebook and wrote the rainfall-dry areas.
Use different strategies.
In arid areas, you can use force to fight, recruit people with bulk supplies, destroy county towns, plunder large households, and attack post shops to destroy the grassroots power of the court.
In areas with rainfall and drought, this method does not work.
As long as the people see a glimmer of hope, most people will not put their heads on their waists to rebel. Even big loan sharks can win the support of the people.
Liu Chengzong wrote these words in his notes and further thought about the solution.
Another memory told him that everything must be viewed in two.
In this case, you need to do good things for the people, distribute food, carry water, take the opportunity to resist taxes, and build canals. Even if you are a thief, you must appear in people's eyes as a righteous thief.
In this way, as long as you show slightly higher morals than normal people, you can also achieve the effect of destroying the power of the grassroots government and gaining the hearts of the people.
Because even if the people escape the drought, they cannot escape the tax collectors and government servants after the drought. If they escape them, they cannot escape the thugs who want debts.
Even if you are lucky enough to avoid all these, wherever he is, the army will come sooner or later.
Drought, big households, government and army.
This set of combos is so powerful that it once knocked down Liu Juren from Black Dragon Mountain.
Liu Chengzong didn't believe that anyone could completely block it.
As long as you can't catch a move, you are either a dead ghost or a traitor.
As for the second purpose of doing good deeds, it is much simpler.
He wanted to exchange the horses from the station for the donkeys and mules of the wealthy farmers.
The horses were so good that Liu Chengzong could not bear the consumption of rations brought by more than 300 horses.
Bing can be raised as a son. If he eats one and a half pounds a day, no one will complain. If he eats two pounds, he will be happy.
The horse should be regarded as an offering to the ancestors. Five kilograms a day is considered half full. Only eight kilograms a day will he be willing to run with you.
Mules are much more comfortable. They can eat two kilograms of food and do whatever they are told.
One horse for two mules was a very good deal for Liu Chengzong.
Soon, the entire team had two mules per man, and the Lion Camp became a Mule Camp.
Of course, more than 80 horses were left. Except for the more than 20 horses for officers, the remaining horses were allocated to postmen who were good at riding and formed a pond cavalry team to cover the battlefield.
On the day when the Mule Camp was completely redressed, Liu Chengzong gathered all the commanders in charge and asked each of them to pick up a short stick and tie it around their waists.
The first order of the Mule Camp is that except for special orders and the sick and wounded, no one is allowed to ride pack animals while marching.
If you're caught, prepare to be slapped with a stick.
In general, until July, Liu Chengzong lived very comfortably in the mountainous area of eastern Yanchuan.
Anyway, I have grabbed enough food, so I march with my people in the mountains every day, walking here and there, fifty miles every day.
Apart from marching in formation, there was no training such as changing military formations.
Liu Chengzong just tried his best to imitate his brother and reiterated to his subordinates some of the precautions his brother had taught him in the past.
Because Liu Chengzong knew how to arrange people for military training, but he was not familiar with actual military training.
Cao Yao knows how to practice, but this man is too lazy to practice. He feels that training the peasant army is a thankless effort. These people will die sooner or later. If they can survive a few battles, they will be familiar with war.
It’s not too late to teach people when the time comes, so you don’t waste your emotions. You have to work hard to teach people well. After a battle, there are no more people, and you feel so uncomfortable.
This led to a gap in the Mule Battalion's understanding of military issues.
The purpose of Liu Chengzu's words and deeds is to teach Liu Chengzong the common mistakes that ordinary people make.
Liu Chengzong also studied very well.
But Liu Chengzong didn’t know about the mistakes that most people wouldn’t make.
He was only busy recording the mountains and terrain so that he could fight guerrillas later.
By the way, I also took the old brothers in the team who have never been outside of their hometown ten miles away to see the scenic spots, ancient stone carvings, the flourishing Baijiada Temple and the cemetery.
They walked southeast along the Qingjian River until they reached Shequ, where they saw the rolling waves of the Yellow River.
Further north is Yanshui Pass.
That place was a ferry in the Qin Dynasty. From there, it only took half a day for the entire team to cross the Yellow River and enter Shanxi.
Under the current regulations of the court, the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi can only fight against the thieves in Shaanxi. If they escape to Shanxi, they will be suppressed by Shanxi.
These ferries along the Yellow River can serve as bridges for them to flow back and forth.
But the problem before Liu Chengzong now is that the reason why this place is called Yanshui Pass is because the imperial court set up a pass here.
It is guarded by a general.
Liu Chengzong did not dare to lead the team closer, but took a few people to watch from a distance on the mountain.
The situation here is much better than most places in northern Shaanxi. Perhaps it is because of the convenient transportation. Not only are there sufficient troops, but judging from the smoke, the soldiers can eat two meals on time every day.
Occupy the pass, have enough troops, and have enough to eat.
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Such officers and soldiers are very capable of fighting.
Liu Chengzong had no intention of provoking them, but he did not expect that a tiger has no intention of harming others, but others are harmful to a tiger's heart.
On the evening of July 12, the Mule Camp was resting in the mountains. Tang Qi, who was on guard outside, quickly reported the news back by retreating and waving flags.
Some cavalry officers and soldiers turned from the official road to the direction of Yanshui Pass. They seemed to be reporting military information. No movements of the officers and soldiers have been found so far.
Immediately after the second news came back from Tangqi, villagers who had been helped in Jingjiagou, Yanchuan County risked their lives to report that a troop was stationed in the west of the county.
This unit is led by a guerrilla general named Lu, and is spreading his men to four villages to beg for food.
It is said that this army came here ten days ago. Because the inn and express delivery shop were all destroyed, they thought Yanchuan was captured, so they withdrew back.
This time they brought more food and grass, but they didn't have many horses and mules, so they still had to rely on Yanchuan County for supplies.
The county government has been troubled by Monk Wang for a year, and there is no village to support them, so they can only play tricks on the people.
People came to report the news, which made Liu Chengzong very happy.
I cried in my heart that the food was not wasted and the water was not wasted.
But he didn't expect that the people's next words almost made him faint: "General Tiger, go and wipe them out quickly. If you take the village again, there will be nothing left."
This world is so magical.
I am a thief, the biggest thief in Yan'an Prefecture. It is reasonable for you to ask me to kill people and set fires.
Can you let me destroy the army?
It's obvious that I'm the one who's going to be killed, but it sounds like I'm really excited. Why?
Cao Yao patted Liu Chengzong and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense, we should run away."
"But Brother Cao, this army is here to find us. If you are lucky, you can escape by hiding in the mountains. If you are not lucky, you will be caught up and you will still have to fight them."
Liu Chengzong analyzed: "While they are gathering food and have dispersed, concentrate your forces and destroy some of them. Even if you can't defeat them, make a sneak attack and then run away."
He had a premonition that after Li Bei's pursuit of Lao Huihui, the second marathon in northern Shaanxi during the Chongzhen period was about to begin.