Butcher Chen's bravery was second to none in the entire Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would not be called the most powerful general in the Tang Dynasty.
And his bravery was once again proven when he intercepted the Fengjiazhuang spies!
Half a month after leaving the mountain, he returned to Huangzhu Mountain with seven prisoners of the Feng family, so that Zhang Laosan, Shan Pao and the others had companions.
According to Butcher Chen, he led more than 30 people out of the mountain from the trail and lurked for half a month. Finally, he successfully intercepted two groups of Fengjiazhuang spies on their way back to Fengjiazhuang.
And because it was an ambush, the spies from Fengjiazhuang did not expect to be ambushed halfway, and they began to collapse when they were hit by the first wave of arrows from the ambush.
When Butcher Chen came out with more than 20 fierce bandits, they had no resistance at all. Except for three people who stubbornly resisted and were accidentally killed, the rest chose to surrender and became members of the Tang Dynasty.
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When he saw Butcher Chen escorting the prisoners back to Huangzhu Mountain, Cai Erhu, who claimed to be the second most powerful general in the Tang Dynasty, was drooling at the sight.
He is envious!
After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, he also wanted to be as popular as Butcher Chen, but unfortunately he never had the chance.
After Butcher Chen successfully completed his mission, it meant that Huang Zhushan's location could continue to be kept secret for a short time, because from the prisoners in Fengjiazhuang, Li Xuan once again confirmed that Fengjiazhuang only sent more than ten spies this time.
Three groups went into the mountain to search for the location of Huangzhu Mountain.
Now these three groups of people were all captured by Butcher Chen and the bandits, and no one was allowed to escape. Even if the people in Fengjiazhuang were suspicious, they could not be sure what kind of danger these spies encountered in the mountains.
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Even if you can guess it!
Moreover, more than ten people left without returning, which would also make the people in Fengjiazhuang fearful. After all, Fengjiazhuang was not an army, and it could not sustain the loss of dozens of people in a row.
Even if we force others to come, I am afraid that the guards from the Feng family will not come. You must know that the guards who entered the mountain before are not ordinary people, but are martial artists who are proficient in boxing and kicking kung fu. After entering the mountain, one
None of them came out alive. This will definitely make those nursing homes regard the mountain as a tiger's mouth, and they are willing to die there!
People are afraid of death and have their own selfish motives. But if you say you want to send people into the mountains again, those people will foolishly come and die.
Although these are Li Xuan's own guesses, Li Xuan thinks that his guesses are quite reasonable. Even if Fengjiazhuang will send people again, it is estimated that they will not send people again in a short time. Even if they send people
Come on, if the number of people is small, Huangzhushan can catch these spies who enter the mountain one by one just like last time, so that they never come back.
Even though Huang Zhushan's location was exposed in the end, Li Xuan felt that the Ming army would definitely come after spring plowing.
Now it’s the Spring Festival soon, and in one month it’s the Waking of Insects, and after the Waking of Insects it’s spring plowing!
In this short period of one month, the Ming army was unable to gather a large number of troops into the mountains. The most likely possibility was that the Ming army would enter the mountains after spring plowing, as they had previously expected.
This time is probably after mid-February, maybe the end of February, or maybe March, but it won't take too long. After all, Li Xuan guessed that the local officials in the Ming Dynasty would also be under pressure and it was impossible to take this matter to task.
If we delay for too long, or if we delay for a few more months, it will be the busy summer season, and then it will be even more impossible for the Ming army to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress.
Based on this speculation, Li Xuan finally felt relieved. It was impossible for the Ming army to enter the mountain for at least one and a half months, or even two months. With this time as a buffer, the Tang Dynasty standing army and Guards at Huangzhu Mountain
Even if the training progress is slow, it can still be barely formed.
By then, if the number of the Ming army entering the mountain is less than a thousand, it may not be impossible to defeat them. Even if the number of the Ming army reaches more than a thousand, then the Tang Dynasty King's division will still have a chance to deal with it!
If the number of the explanation army reaches two to three thousand or more, then why fight? Just run away!
Li Xuan would never be so stupid as to think that the three to four hundred bandits of the Tang Dynasty could fight against thousands of Ming Dynasty regular troops!
After the threat of the Ming army came to an end, Li Xuan also ushered in the first Spring Festival after coming to this time and space!
The ancient Spring Festival rules were obviously much more complicated than modern ones, even in the bandit den of Huangzhu Mountain. Starting from the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, the entire Huangzhu Mountain has actually entered the Spring Festival holiday.
On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Tang Dynasty began to seal the dynasty, which meant that daily routine meetings were no longer held, and those officials who did not receive salaries no longer worked to handle government affairs. Whether it was the Li Xuan royal family,
The same ministers, just like the ordinary bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, went back to their homes to prepare for the New Year.
The palace was also busy. Li Xuan wanted to write couplets, not only for his own family, but also to express the emperor's great kindness. He also had to write couplets for Fang Dongquan and other important ministers, with the word "Fu" in them.
Queen Mother Bai brought stickers, lamps, food, new clothes, etc. that Dong Yunyun and Ye had prepared for the New Year.
Although it was said to be preparations, in fact they only gave verbal instructions, and the actual affairs were naturally not carried out. Instead, the four or five old ladies and several young maids in the palace did it.
During this period of time, Li Xuan also had a few more contacts with Ms. Ye, and during this period he learned that this woman's fate was quite bumpy.
Ye's life experience is somewhat tragic. According to her, her father was a scholar in his early years, so their family could barely be considered a scholarly family in the local village.
However, her father died early, leaving them orphaned and widowed, and the family situation gradually became not so good. Especially as she grew up, she became more and more beautiful, attracting the prying eyes of many prostitutes.
Two months ago, her village was robbed by bandits from Huang Guishan. It was inevitable that she, a beautiful woman, would be captured and taken back to Huang Guishan.
If she was average-looking, she would probably be defiled on the spot, but it was because she was so beautiful that the bandits' eyes lit up when they saw her.
This is not the kind of squinting eyes, but the kind of greedy eyes that see gold, silver and jewelry!
Such a beautiful woman costs a lot of money to sell. If she is a virgin, the price will be even higher.
Therefore, the bandits in Huang Guishan regarded her as a rare commodity. Not only did they not taint her body, they even provided her with delicious food and drink just to buy her at a good price!
Unfortunately, before Huang Guishan's people could sell her, Huang Guishan was attacked by the Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and finally the Ye family fell into the hands of the Huangzhu Mountain bandits.
Beautiful women always receive special 'treatment'. When Qian Mengjiu and others saw this woman, their first reaction was to send her to the harem.
Then Empress Dowager Bai saw that this girl was not only good-looking, but also had a curvy figure suitable for childbearing, so she took her back to the palace that day, and then implemented a series of her plans!
After the Spring Festival is the Lantern Festival. After the Lantern Festival, people in Huangzhushan basically start preparing for spring plowing. This spring plowing is very busy, and it will be busy until late February.
After finishing the spring plowing, everyone in Huangzhu Mountain did not relax. Instead, they became increasingly nervous, because they all knew that after the spring plowing, the day when the Ming army entered the mountain was not far away!