Zhang Rong sorted out his troops and set out towards the valley north of Xuping, and rushed to see Xu Ping.

When he arrived in front of Xu Ping, Zhang Rong crossed his hands and said, "Zhang Rong, the inspector of Xiaguan Siling Village, has met the Tongzong. The 256 subordinates of this village have been arranged. Please give orders to the Tongzong!"

Xu Ping nodded and replied: "Previous inspectors, come back to the formation and follow my instructions. I am all local soldiers here, without flags, golden drums, and if there is a real conflict, you will still be the leader. I will lead you. I will take someone to hold you in the back. Remember, follow my orders, and those who violate the orders will engage in military law!"

Zhang Rong responded to his promise and pulled his horse back to his formation.

The Song Dynasty was banned, and informal soldiers were not allowed to have crossbows, armor, spears, and flags. Xu Ping's rural soldiers were organized in the name of self-protection and maintenance of local public security. They were not regular troops. Although there were all this in Yongzhou's armored warriors, Xu Ping did not dare to send them down, and it was not a trivial matter to raise troops without authorization.

The weapons of the military funds are second to the second, and the most serious ones are flags, which have strong symbolic meanings. Cutting wood into soldiers, lifting up the pole into flags, and building flags is a prominent sign of the regularization of the army. In this year, the battlefield command is relying on the flag and drums. It is good to rely on the voice to shout that you can command a hundred people. If you ban the flag and drums, a unit will lose its soul, and no matter how many people there are, it will be a mob.

Although the more than a thousand people behind Xu Ping were all military training, they were not in command and could not fight in a coordinated manner. Xu Ping's original plan was to use a unit of hundreds of people, so that Deli's subordinates, such as Gao Daquan and Tan Hu, would command the troops to take turns to rush forward, and he held the large army and stood up. With more than 200 regular wing troops in the inspection camp, they just took the lead. This army system was sound and much better than his subordinates.

Xu Ping and Zhang Rong waited at the entrance of the valley for more than half an hour. The sun had already set in the west, bringing a long shadow on the ground.

The heat gradually faded, and the dead forest slowly came to life. Unknown birds were flying around singing songs, and the roe deer jumped and grazed in the forest. Occasionally, two little monkeys secretly poked their heads out of the dense forest and looked at the dark crowd in front of the mountain curiously. A gust of wind made the leaves thunder. The two little monkeys screamed, suddenly climbed onto the branches, swung for a few times, and no longer saw any shadows.

Duan Fang had no expression and stared at the exit of the valley, suddenly his eyes glared.

Huang Chengxiang finally appeared.

Although Huang Chengxiang grew up in the mountains since childhood, he was anxious to walk. As soon as he came out of the valley where there was no sunshine, the hot sun shone on his body and his mood suddenly became bright.

As soon as this feeling of comfort came to my heart, Huang Chengxiang looked up and saw Xu Ping at the entrance of the valley and the army that had already set up its formation behind him.

The servants and soldiers in Zhongzhou did not have any decent organization, and there was no reconnaissance vanguard or something. Suddenly, they followed Huang Chengxiang and several leaders. The leader stopped and they spread out in the back.

Looking at the large army behind Xu Ping, Huang Chengxiang's face changed and clashed with the prepared imperial army. The barbarian leaders had no precedent for gaining advantage. They fought with the army, relying on the terrain. The miasma in the mountains and forests was everywhere, and the troops from other places were quickly dragged down. At that time, the bravery of the barbarian army was shown, and the tiger that could not move was no better than a sick cat.

After calming down, Huang Chengxiang said loudly to Xu Ping: "Prime Minister Xu Tong, what does it mean to bring people here? Isn't it that I want to be unfavorable to our Zhongzhou?"

Xu Ping did not answer him, stared at Huang Chengxiang coldly, and waited until all the soldiers behind him left the valley and set up a formation behind him, and then said loudly: "Huang Chengxiang, you have brought your troops out of the state and entered Ruhe County without authorization. Do you want to rebel?!"

Huang Chengxiang shivered when he heard this.

Tuzhou magistrates have a high degree of autonomy, and they are all local emperors, but that is limited to their own territory. Not to mention leading troops out, it is a taboo to run around without a single horse. Especially Huang Chengxiang led the territory soldiers into the prefectures and counties directly under the court. Not to mention that he was a riot, even going out to travel and hunt could be considered a rebellion. When Cao Keming first established his authority when he first learned Yongzhou, he was recruiting barbarian chiefs to Yongzhou City to teach, establish the authority of the court, and the Lord Ruhongdong who hid at home was later beheaded by Cao Keming. Since that incident, the barbarians under Yongzhou regarded Cao Keming as a god, and no one dared to disobey.

In recent years, the power of Jiaozhi increased greatly. The barbarian forces at the junction of the Song Dynasty were now on the rise. Some of the barbarian chiefs became confident again, and some became unruly, but no Tuzhou dared to rebel. Huang Chengxiang's wishful thinking was to get some benefits in Ruhe County and quickly return to his territory. Afterwards, as long as he refused to admit his account, the current situation would not do anything to him.

As a result, as soon as I came out of the mountain, I met Xu Ping and others waiting here, and the nature of the matter changed. Now it was not about getting any benefits, but whether I could go back to the ground well.

Seeing Xu Ping's face sinking like water, Huang Chengxiang changed his mind and said, "Recently, there are constantly fleeing in our province, and it is said that they have come to Ruhe County. People are the foundation of the state. As the head of a state, I have to bring people out to see it, and I have no other thoughts."

Xu Ping opened land and farmed in Ruhe County, so he naturally had to attract the population. Zhongzhou was closest to him, so there were naturally the most people coming from there. Xu Ping knew all these things.

However, Xu Ping did not intend to argue with Huang Chengxiang, and shouted loudly: "Huang Chengxiang, do you want to rebel if you lead troops out of the state and invade the court and counties?!"

Seeing that Xu Ping didn't say anything else, he just bit him to rebel. No matter how much he thought, he was not very familiar with the court system. He didn't know how to answer, but just said loudly: "I brought people out to chase the fugitive household--"

"Huang Chengxiang, you are going to rebel without scheming?!"

"I--"

"Say, are you going to rebel? Is Zhongzhou going to rebel against our Song Dynasty court?!"

Speaking of this, Xu Ping is already stern.

If you are a person who can watch the limelight, you should understand that you are no, turn your head and take the people to quickly retreat to the mountains, and don’t say much. No matter how Xu Ping is, he will not lead his troops to Zhongzhou. He will write a letter to tell you his reasons afterwards. Big things turn into small things and small things turn into small things.

Huang Chengxiang rushed out of the mountain with his men and horses, and was very excited along the way. He had not turned around yet. He was forced to ask Xu Ping's words and was immediately anxious and sweating profusely.

The knight beside him was furious when he saw the master being embarrassed and said that the young official spoke aggressively and did not give the master a chance to distinguish. It was obvious that bullying them was not good at speaking, which was too much.

This person is used to being rampant in Zhongzhou and has never dealt with the government. Except for the owner, he never bowed to anyone. Thinking of this, he shouted angrily: "This young man slanders people. If we don't rebel, we will be forced to rebel! Take me an arrow!"

As soon as the words fell, he opened his bow and shot towards Xu Ping.

Huang Chengxiang was worried and had no time to stop him. He watched the arrow head straight to Xu Ping, and was slapped on the ground by Gao Daquan beside him.

"It's over, it's over-"

Huang Chengxiang murmured to himself, his face was ashamed, and he added a murderer to the imperial court, and he would die even if he didn't die. In name, he was the governor, and in terms of rules, he had to be respectful when he met the county magistrate, let alone use force against the magistrate.

Xu Ping looked at the arrow branches on the ground coldly, turned around and looked at Zhang Rong on the other side, raised his arm, and waved it suddenly: "Kill!"

Zhang Rong took a breath, held the spear in his hand, and jumped out word by word from his mouth: "The whole army obeys the orders and follow me to rush!"

As the voice of the words, the handsome flag beside him rolled lightly and slowly pointed at Huang Chengxiang.

The soldiers pointed to the flag and the soldiers were in a position, and more than 200 soldiers were excited. The flag hand pointed to the flag hand, and the soldiers followed the flag hand, holding the long sword behind, pressing Huang Chengxiang and his group at a not-fast speed.

As the entire army started, drums sounded from behind, and they controlled the rhythm of the entire army's march. After only a dozen steps, the people in the army could no longer hear other sounds, only the drums accompanied their footsteps, and even the drums had controlled their hearts and even their lives.

The servants behind Huang Chengxiang saw that the Xiang army was pressing up and wanted to set up their wings to spread out, but were blocked by Xu Ping's large group of people, and they couldn't help but panic.

Even if the two armies were normal, Huang Chengxiang could not deal with more than 200 regular training soldiers. At this time, he was killed from the side, and could not even face the enemy head-on, and he was almost slaughtered.

Huang Chengxiang turned his mind and said to the knight beside him: "Take your elite troops and go and fight with the coming wing army for a while. I will be in line with my troops to protect you!"

The knight also realized that he had caused trouble today and did not dare to talk back. He brought about fifty or sixty people to Zhang Rong's troops with his men who usually followed him.

The two armies were fifty or sixty steps apart, and the drums suddenly stopped. The knights were confused and hurriedly strangled their mounts.

The marching army stopped standing with the sound of drums and squatted down together. Before the knight could understand, the rain of arrows that had already reached the sky and earth had already reached the top of his head.

When the arrow rained in mid-air, the drum sounded louder again, and the drum beats became more dense. The speed of the wing army suddenly increased. Within a few breaths, the fifty or sixty people rushed up were already submerged.

At this time, Gao Daquan had already brought a hundred people to the other side to complete the whole team, and wanted to rush behind Huang Chengxiang's formation and intercept the retreat of the five or six hundred people.

Huang Chengxiang immediately understood the situation, sighed, stopped talking, and ran towards the valley behind him.

As soon as the commander ran away, the barbarian soldiers scattered and rushed into the valley in a mess.

Xu Ping breathed out a sigh of relief and asked Gao Daquan to lead his men to chase the valley with Zhang Rong. At this time, the number of people was meaningless, it was purely the number of people who were chasing them.

Huang Chengxiang ran into the valley by horses. He couldn't walk much distance and was blocked by the defeated soldiers who rushed over and could no longer move.

Huang Chengxiang got off his horse, squeezed to the side of the road under the escort of several personal soldiers, turned around and crawled into the forest, and shouted loudly: "Everyone is in the mountains, the Han people are not good at walking on mountain roads. Let's go back to Zhongzhou and then argue with them!"

With this reminder, the panicked barbarians rushed into the mountains and forests and quickly disappeared.

Duan Fang next to Xu Ping looked a little melancholy and sighed: "It's a pity that Huang Chengxiang ran away. He has been operating in Zhongzhou for many years, and it is a disaster after all!"

Xu Ping smiled: "Run? Where did he go? Zhongzhou is there. After today's incident, how could the court still tolerate the existence of this Tuzhou? Without Zhongzhou territory, he is just a dog of a family. Wherever he runs, he will be beaten and killed and eat meat!"
Chapter completed!