Compared with the previous dynasty's governor, the position of the governor of the Xin Dynasty increased greatly. In order to adapt to the rise of domestic thieves, the county was only able to suppress the situation where the number of prefectures was insufficient. Wang Mang compared the position of the prefecture's governor, with two thousand stones in the rank, and gave them military power, and added the general to facilitate the coordination of military affairs of the prefecture and to suppress the rebels.

But Jingzhou Mu Fei Xing dismissed twice in this position and still insisted on his own opinion: "If you should be pacified or suppressed, you should be punished!"

When Fei Xing first took office a few years ago, he understood that Jingyang was vast and sparsely populated. Apart from the front team, there was no sharp conflict between people and land like the Central Plains. The mountains and forests of Daze can provide many people with food and clothing. The most serious harm to the local area was the government of Liuguan. The government taxed mountains and lakes, seized the benefits of the people, and the people were hungry and poor, so they became thieves.

Although these thieves often cost tens of thousands, they were just forced to gather together and called the commander of Qu and the three elders, but they had no banner or program. They just turned to seek food, and they still thought of returning to their hometown to farm in the year of maturity.

Fei Xing thought that if he could pass the amnesty order and persuade the thieves to return to the fields, exempt some of the rent and taxes, and the government borrowed iron plows to plow the seeds of ox to comfort the people. After the thieves were cut off, the thieves in Jingzhou would be able to settle without fighting.

The first time he made such a memorial, Wang Mang thought he was dismissed by slander. A few years later, the situation in Jingzhou was corrupt, so the emperor could only let Fei Xing put out the fire.

Fei Xing insisted on his previous views. This was the reason why he had been entrusting troops to the Han River in Xiangyang for a long time and refused to advance south. He wanted to wait for a wave of amnesty.

Now the amnesty has finally arrived, but several small and small Qu coaches in Green Forest are considered to have participated in the robbery and killing of the prince, and are extremely guilty and are not included in the mercy.

But this did not prevent Fei Xing from sending his confidants to verbally change the emperor's pardon order, ordering him to enter Green Forest Mountain, and telling him a few coaches who were ignorant of his words. Not only did he agree to pardon them, he also said that as long as he was willing to go out of the mountains and forests to talk, he could recruit everyone and give them an official.

This is actually Fei Xing's plan. He just wanted to trick the Qu coaches out and kill them!

As early as the former Han Dynasty, the censor Sang Hongyang proposed to send warriors to imitate Zhu Zhu and Nie Zheng to assassinate the Xiongnu and barbarian chiefs, to control their lives, and to blame their mistakes and support the leaders of the pro-Han, which would save the cost of the army's dispatch.

During the reign of Emperor Zhao of Han, Fu Jiezi tried this strategy by himself, leading a dozen people to kill the King of Loulan and suspended his head in the northern palace, allowing the Han Dynasty to win a country without spending military operations.

This low-cost beheading action was more popular in the Xin Dynasty. For example, the old Sima Yanyou once lured the Hou of Goguryeo and killed him, and was reported to Chang'an, which led to the small Goguryeo country falling into civil strife and could only surrender to Wang Mang.

Of course, there are also times when they are playing. At the same time, the southwest Yu-Yin also lured the king of Jucheng into the country and killed him. As a result, Jucheng's whole country wanted to regain blood revenge. The new dynasty Sanzheng Jucheng spent a huge amount of money and lost countless troops, but still failed to defeat him. The entire southwest Yi region was corrupt.

Although there was a lesson from the previous car, Fei Xing believed that the reason why Green Forest was able to become the largest thief in Jingzhou was inseparable from the fact that many desperate people were absorbed into Qu Zheng. If you want to recruit Green Forest, you must first kill them. The rest of them were forgiven and dispersed.

But Fei Xing waited for a while, but the last thing he waited for was the head of the messenger he sent!

Let’s talk about the Green Forest Qus, many people are really moved by the conditions proposed by Fei Xing. After all, they came from the bottom of the class before the rebellion, and many short-sighted people took the bait with a little bit of bait.

But there are also smart people, such as Ma Wu, who just returned from the previous team, and Wang Chang, a native of Yingchuan.

Wang Chang's courtesy name was Yan Qing, and he was from Wuyang County, Yingchuan County. His family was also a small landlord. He was a literate person. He became a hero in his hometown and was fled to righteousness. He avenged his brother, fled to Jiangxia, joined the Green Forest Army, and served as a minor commander.

Wang Chang was one of the few more knowledgeable people in the green forest. He knew that he had been gathering in Xiaoshan Forest and had no future and had certain plans for the future. Seeing that the Qu coach was quite relaxed, he called Ma Wulai, and the two of them decided to think: "The emperor's orders were changed every day, and this order of pardon was not credible."

Ma Wudao: "Even if it is true, once we come out to accept it, the tribes will be separated from home. At that time, the government will turn against us and kill us. There is no one in our hands to protect ourselves, so we can only wait for death."

Now that the imperial army is approaching, this battle must be fought. In order to cut off Daqu general Wang Feng, Wang Kuang and others' wish to accept pardon, Ma Wu made a quick decision and directly led people to kill Fei Xing's envoy!

After a bloody change, the messenger's head fell to the ground, and there was no chance of pardon. Wang Chang took the opportunity to propose and announced to all the tribes: "The envoy sent by the emperor said that all the people in the Green Forest will be killed and executed, the followers will be beheaded, and the commander of Qu burned the car and cracked the car, and they are not included in the pardon!"

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After the Green Forest Army gave up its fantasy and prepared for the battle, Fei Xing also knew that the battle had to be fought.

I originally thought that in August, the group of thieves went to the periphery of Green Forest to harvest food and then suppress them, but the court urged them tightly, so Fei Xing could only forcibly marched at the end of June.

As one of Wang Mang's confidants in the Han Dynasty, Fei Xing offered advice to govern the people, but asking him to lead troops to fight was completely blind. He could only follow the proposals of the subordinate orders of the county under his command, and first attack the land planted by the green forest thieves, destroying the soon-to-be-ripening and rice, and trying to tempt them to come out.

Many people really felt sorry for the harvest and came out to send out a few waves, but the rest learned to be smart, followed Qu Shuai and stayed in the mountains without moving. Fei Xing then set fire to the mountains, but this wet southern fire was not so good, and it would be wiped out by a rain.

So we could only tentatively advance into the mountains. The green forest was located in Jiangxia, Nanjun, and the front team, and the three-region area was vast. Although there were no peaks, there were many continuous ridges. In addition, the forests were dense, and the official army's chariots and horses were difficult to move forward, and the huge force was cut by the terrain to be extremely scattered.

Green Forest is familiar with local roads and uses the terrain to deal with the government troops flexibly, which has led to Fei Xing's lack of anything. Sometimes, when he followed the surrendered people for several days, he found that he had already gone to the sky and was attacked on his return journey.

On the branches, beside the rocks, and in the grass, the Green Forest Army, as its name suggests, seems to be integrated with the surroundings and is everywhere. Without good armored soldiers, they use fishing nets, pitchforks, dung rakes, stones, and wooden sticks to fight, but they also beat the officials and soldiers to throw away their armor and run in a mess.

After ten days, Fei Xing's troops had lost 2,000 people. It was raining heavily and the morale of the officials was low. Seeing that they were anxious and unable to succeed, Fei Xing planned to pull the troops out of the mountains and forests and evacuate the city. After resting, they fought again in autumn and winter.

As a result, he was taken by Ma Wu, who liked to strip the enemy's clothes and pretended to be an official army. He brought people into it and suddenly rose up in the official army that had been evacuated by the elders of the team, and directly cut them into two sections!

The other canal commanders in the green forest, such as Wang Feng, Wang Kuang, Wang Chang, Zhang Ju, Cheng Dan, Zhu Yu, etc., took the opportunity to lead their troops out of the mountains and forests and fight with the official army.

In terms of military strength, Fei Xing's "running" was as high as 20,000, several times that of Green Forest. In terms of equipment, they also used the armored soldiers in the arsenal. However, their morale was completely different. There were many strong men in the official army who had forcibly captured by former teams and other counties. Although they had been trained for several months, in addition to training many people to death, their military discipline and combat effectiveness did not improve. They did not fight to the death after being attacked and ran in a mess.

However, the Green Forest Army thought that this official army was here to kill it and fought very hard. As a result, it beat 20,000 people to run away with thousands of people. Fei Xing, the musket of Jingzhou, ran north only under the escort of his confidant, and was intercepted by Ma Wu. The brown-faced coach hooked Fei Xing's chariot with a long halberd and assassinated his chariot.

Ma Wu was about to attack Fei Xing, who was obviously the high-ranking official, but Daqu general Wang Kuang sent someone to pass on the order and shouted: "Don't hurt the governor of Jingzhou!"

Taking advantage of Ma Wu's hesitation, the personal guards defeated Green Forest with short force. Fei Xing waved his whip and rushed out of the encirclement in a car.

The grass and trees behind them seemed to have become green forest troops, swaying in the wind like soldiers waving their swords and soldiers, and the official army completely fell into the vast ocean.

When their remaining troops arrived at the Han River, they counted the number of people, lost thousands, died or fled, and even surrendered to join the Green Forest Army on the spot. As for the baggage and armored soldiers, almost all of them were captured by Green Forest.

"Your Majesty has entrusted me with great responsibility, but I am defeated by the thief. I have no face to see the emperor!"

Fei Xing said that he was about to commit suicide by joining the Han River. He was rescued by his personal guards and only took charge of his troops and retreated westward to Nanjun.

He is only worried about one thing now: "Jingzhou's troops are empty. If Green Forest takes the opportunity to conquer the city and territories, he is afraid that most of Jiangxia County will be out of protection!"

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As expected by the Jingzhou Mu Feixing, the Green Forest Army did start attacking from all directions after winning a big victory.

Daqu general Wang Feng and Wang Kuang rushed straight to their hometown Yundu County (Hubei Mountain), and sent participants Zhang Ju, Cheng Dan and Zhu Yu to attack Anlu County (Yunmeng, Hubei) in the southeast of Green Forest.

As for Wang Chang and Ma Wu, who were not very compatible with these local Qus, were sent to the Han River to guard against the return of the official army.

The main purpose of these three routes is not to expand the results of the war, but to open up new bases, but to an extremely simple purpose: the land around Green Forest Mountain was destroyed by the government army, and there was no food, so they could only go out to the mountain to search for food.

All Qu Shuai said that he would not touch the poor people, but others would not know what to do when they aimed at the granary of the county town, but Wang Chang and Ma Wu did this. More than 10,000 people from the remnants of the official army were stationed in Ruo County, Nanjun. They could not defeat Green Forest in the forest, but if they were in a siege, Green Forest would not be their opponent.

So they avoided the hard-to-bite bones and followed the Han River to the empty Jiangxia hinterland. The two of them fought all the way to eliminate the townships, but these places were only plundered by the official army. There was very little surplus in the township warehouse. Even Haoyou looked poor and could not scrape too much oil and water. He could only continue to travel south and fought all the way to Jingling County (Qianjiang, Hubei).

When the czar of Jingling County heard that the green forest had arrived, he had abandoned the city and left. When Ma Wu was avoiding hatred, he stayed nearby. He was famous. They took two thousand people and took the county town without much effort.

After entering the city, Ma Wu asked someone to control the granary and arsenal and was about to move things and evacuate him, but Wang Chang persuaded him to stop.

"Why do you have to return to Green Forest? Why do you do something here?"

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After all, Wang Chang was a small landlord, and his future plans were clearer than those of Daqu coaches who only knew how to grab a wave and eat next month. He only secretly told Ma Wu: "Now we have defeated the official army and are famous. The heroes from far and wide will definitely compete to vote."

There are two forces in Yunmengze, Nanjun Zhangba and Jiangxia Yangmu, known as ten thousand people, but in fact only a thousand people can fight. If he occupied Jingling, gathered them together, and then pulled some locals to join, Green Forest will surely increase its strength.

"The north is backed by Lulin Mountain, and the south is the benefit of Yunmeng Daze. The west is blocked by the Han River. You can go out of Anlu County to the east, conquer the city and capture the Xiling of Jiangxia County!"

In this way, half of Jiangxia can be taken into his hands, and with this rich place with a population of more than 100,000 as the foundation, there will be many more choices in the future: you can attack Jiangling, Nanjun in the west, and go north to return to their hometown Nanyang and Yingchuan, and great events are expected!

Ma Wu happily agreed and hit it off with Wang Chang. The two ordered their subordinates not to abuse the people. Wang Chang even made an appointment with several local tyrants and persuaded them with kind words, hoping to cooperate with them.

But unexpectedly, in early July, the retreating official army was supported by the front team, Zhen Fu, and counterattacked very quickly. The new army followed the Han River to recover Jingling County. Wang Chang and Ma Wu originally planned to fight with the official army and defend this important base, but unexpectedly, they sent Yundu and Anlu to ask for help from the other messengers who came back, but told them the two news.

First, Wang Feng, Wang Chang replied, saying that he would not want other places and could not hold on to them even if he occupied them. Only their hometown Yundu is enough. Yundu and the party in the village of Yundu have happily decided to join the Green Forest.

The second one made Wang Chang and Ma Wu feel heartbroken, but the Qu Commander Zhang Ju and others who went to attack Anlu County. Because Anlu resisted a little, they were furious and indulged thousands of men to massacre the city and plundered in Anlu for three days. The Green Forest Army general Anlu officials and men killed almost the same as the men, and only robbed thousands of women, and the food and cloth they had obtained were plundered, and proudly returned to Green Forest Mountain.

In this way, they are isolated and helpless.

Wang Chang and Ma Wu had only more than 2,000 people. After losing the geographical advantage, they could not compete with tens of thousands of official troops. The local tyrants felt that the Green Forest thieves were not much better than the official troops, so they began to gather privately to attack them with arms, and the two could only retreat in a hurry.

Wang Changquan took Jiangxia's grand plan and broke it. When he returned to Yundu Lulin Mountain, he saw the coaches of the big and small Qu live in the county temple and the homes of the powerful men, fighting for the good house. He wore fancy silk and satin, and drank drunk as a drunken woman. He held the powerful women he snatched into the village and became the wife of the village, satisfied with this kind of life.

On the contrary, because he and Ma Wu had a great plan, they went south to restrain their soldiers and finally retreated in a hurry, but they didn't get much. Instead, they were ridiculed by them: "Ship Wang Qu, Ma Qu, and Ship Wang, ran to Jingling from a long distance, and thought they could have more captured, but they returned empty-handed?"

The subordinates didn't understand, and some even secretly changed their homes that day and ran to other hills to join Zhang Su and others, hoping to get a few pieces of caricature and a wife, and a few people could share...

Seeing this situation, Ma Wu and Wang Chang couldn't help but feel disappointed. They could only look at each other and finally cursed in a low voice: "I am not good at conspiring with him!"

A few days later, the news of Anlu County being slaughtered reached Chongling on the northern foot of the Green Forest, which made the Liu Xiu brothers give up their unrealistic and beautiful fantasy of the Green Forest heroes.

Liu Xiu sighed and said, "Thieves, they are thieves!"

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Chapter completed!