Fletcher's Descent into the Abyss Chapter 104

Lei Changming was from Chazhou. In his early years, he worked as a escort for others. He was a hard laborer and had never been to school. During the Yongyi period, his sister was taken as a Concub!ne by the commander-in-chief of the Duanzhou garrison army. She was quite favored in the commander's mansion, so he had a good life and went to the casino every day. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The commander-in-chief of Duanzhou was not a long-term lover. He got tired of his sister after a few years. He had no one to pay off the debts he owed, so he had to work as an escort for others again.

At the end of the Yongyi year, Lei Changming accepted the escort of the Yan family in Hezhou. On the way, in order to protect Yan Heru, the young master of the Yan family, he risked his life to fight with the villains, and from then on he won the favor of the Yan family. After Bo was defeated in the middle of the Emperor Clement year, he borrowed the money of the Yan family to recruit soldiers and horses, launched a mutiny in the Duanzhou garrison camp, killed the commander-in-chief appointed by the court at that time, and completely became a bandit in Duanzhou.

Lei Changming had only a few thousand people at first, but with the negative arrangements of the court after the defeat, Zhongbo never recovered from the heavy losses. More and more people turned from civilians to bandits, and he gradually became Duan. One state dominates. Now, the troops under his command have far exceeded the number of garrison troops in the various states of Zhongbo.

"Half a year ago, Lei Changming had a total of more than 14,000 people in Duanzhou and Dunzhou." Zhou Gui held up his sleeves and pointed to the map for Casper Xiao, "He used Luoshan between Duanzhou and Dunzhou as his base camp and established his own bandit den. When the imperial court rebuilt the Dengzhou garrison, it tried to encircle and suppress Luoshan, but failed several times, so it gave up and no one cared anymore."

Casper Xiao, with his arms tied, half leaned on the table, looking at the map, and said, "He brought 40,000 people to Cizhou, and Luoshan must have left enough soldiers to guard. So it seems that he has at least 60,000 soldiers, which is the number of garrisons in the two counties of Qidong."