Chaohu Lake, also known as Jiaohu Lake, is one of the five major freshwater lakes in China in later generations, although it is not as wide as Dongting Lake, it is also hundreds of miles large. Its waters are cross-flowing, the lake network is dense, and it is also the famous "land of fish and rice" in the two Huai, and the so-called wealth of Huainan is also because of this. Most of Chaohu Lake is in the territory of the Wuwei Army, only a small part of the west lies across Luzhou, the distance between the two places is not more than 100 miles, but at present, two different flags of the Song and Yuan Dynasty have been erected.

The Wuwei Army itself has a small territory, and in the third year of Jingding, the then Lianghuai System Division divided Chaoxian County and Chaohu Lake in the territory of the Wuwei Army on the grounds of "forming shì to win", and set up a separate army, and the name was very majestic called "Zhenchao Army". Here in the Three Kingdoms is the junction of Wu and Wei, there have been several wars, from the battle of the wet beard to the battle of Zhang Liao Xiaoyaojin, if it is dozens of miles further, the water that makes a generation of male lord Fu Jian lose his will is even more famous, so it is said that here is "the shape wins", but it is not a lie.

It's just that the smallest army in the Song Dynasty lived up to its name when the Tartars marched south, and Cao Wang, who knew the military, was the same as the neighboring Hezhou and Wuwei armies, and he had to send people to surrender early before the Yuan people pressed the border. At that time, it was the army of a county, but there were a lot of people and horses, and the 5,000 men and horses of the Xiongjiang Army of the Huaixi Powerful Brigade were all here, and at this moment, the entire Chaoxian County was only more than 3,000 households, and tens of thousands of Dingkou.

Strange to say, it is only a day's journey from Xia Gui's old nest Luzhou, but the two armies are as peaceful as they have agreed, not only do they not interfere with each other on the border, but even the caravans coming and going are still in and out, as usual. This apparent calm was not broken until the Yuan people were defeated and retreated.

On the south side of Chaoxian County, close to the triangle of Chaohu Lake and Weixushui, a large area of dense camp tents stretches endlessly, and here is the new attached army camp of the original Great Song Xiongjiang Army. Because it is located on the plain, the large camp is set up near the water, and only controls the direction of the county town to the south line, and today somehow, the sergeants in the battalion have neither drilled nor gone out to patrol, except for a few sentry points, all the people are restrained in their respective camps.

A big tent not far from the camp gate looks no different from other places, but the elite standing in front of the door, the weapons lined up on both sides, and the big banner standing high in front of the tent all indicate that this is where the Chinese army of the whole battalion is located, a few steps in front of the battalion, a medium-sized general stands under the flag, frowning and looking at the tooth flag that hangs down, and after a while, a strong wind blows, unfolds the flag, and writes the word "yuan" on it.

"Someone!" Suddenly, the general shouted, and the soldiers in front of the camp were frightened, and they hurriedly ran behind him in three steps and two steps, waiting for his order for some reason, who knew that after a long time, there was no movement, and the soldiers looked at him and did not understand what was so beautiful about the flag?

"Qianhu, what happened to call us?" The soldier looked at it in a daze for a long time, and then asked in a low voice. Who knew that when the general heard his name, he suddenly turned around, staring at him up and down with his brass bell-like eyes, and his own soldiers were forced by his gaze and did not dare to look at him, so they had to bow their heads.

"What was your name?" The general's voice was not loud, but the soldiers had been with him for a long time, and when they heard it, they knew that he was unhappy in his heart, and his expression became a little panicked, and his words became a little more worried.

"Thousand, all of them." As soon as the word "thousand" came out, the soldiers immediately realized what they were doing wrong, and quickly changed their words, hearing his words, the general's face turned slightly pale, raised his hand and knocked on his iron helmet, no longer stared at him, and turned his body back to the direction of the flagpole.

"It's not far off, go find a few people and tear down the flag on it." The general pointed to the flagpole and ordered, and when the soldiers saw that they had not been punished, they did not dare to question anything, so they hurried to the camp to call for someone, and after a while, the flagpole became bare and left. The general waved his hand at the soldiers holding the flag, signaling them to take it away, but he sighed with a sign in his hand.

The bronze sign was very bright by him, shining with a dazzling metallic luster, and it was written in several flat fonts that read "The Great Song Dynasty Xiongjiang Military Capital Command", so that although the flag that was an eyesore was taken away, can this brand, which once symbolized his reputation and status, still be tied to his waist with peace of mind?

Speaking of which, this person has a very happy name, Hongfu, very much like the name of a domestic servant in a noble family, in fact, his background is indeed a domestic servant, his old master, that is, Xia Gui, the Huaixi system envoy a hundred miles away, although there is no paper contract now, but the name of this master and servant will not change in this life.

Thinking that a few months ago, the Zhijun Cao Wang wanted to raise the city and reduce the Yuan, and he went to Luzhou to ask for the opinion of the old owner, and was told to "adapt to the times, don't let the lives be ruined", and most of the subordinates were locals, and they didn't want their hometown to cause war, so they agreed to the request of the Cao Zhijun, changed the banner and became the new annex of the Yuan people.

But who would have thought that the Yuan people didn't know what they fancied, unlike elsewhere, they just let the old official change his name and continue to serve in office, such a small county place, it is not enough to have his own 5,000 men and horses to garrison, and he actually transferred two thousand households of colored cavalry from the headquarters, although the total is only more than 1,000 people, and it has become a nightmare for the local people.

Those people who are called "Asu Army" are not only strange-looking, all red-haired, blue-eyed, high-eyed and deep-nosed, but they are even worse than beasts, burning, killing, and plundering everything. In just a few months, no one dared to live in the vicinity of the county, and I heard that even the merchants and residences in the county town were harassed.

Hong Fu knew that there was already a resentment in the army, but the matter was very important, not only implicating the lives of his own family, but also the life and death of the people in the whole army, the tyranny of the Tartars had long been heard, and one bad thing was the danger of slaughtering the city, so he had been trying to suppress it and wait for a more favorable time to come.

The county seat of Chaoxian County is not like other inland cities, it is very strong, if the soldiers are good enough to eat, and there is no shortage of water, it is not easy to be breached. However, Cao Wang, who was newly appointed as the governor of Chaozhou by the Yuan people, looked at the people who walked by in the city from time to time, but he was very big, and when he surrendered, he didn't expect the Yuan people to send such people to this small place.

Walking all the way out of the city along the bluestone paved streets, his destination was Hongfu's camp, when he received the invitation, he didn't think much about it, this kind of banquet was not the first time, but when he walked into the camp with a few retinues, he still felt a little uneasy for no reason.

There was nothing abnormal in the camp, Hong Fu took a few generals to greet him at the gate of the camp with a smile on his face, and led him and his subordinates into the big account with great diligence.

"The chief manager, please take a seat, the camp over there has already been sent wine and food, and he will not be asked to wait for trouble." Hong Fu saw that he was a little hesitant, and said in his ear beside him, Cao Wang listened to his words, but still felt that something was wrong, and looked back at the outside of the tent, but found nothing, so he turned around.

"Lao Hong, what day is today, you have to spend so much, and you have invited a few nobles to come, if you don't say a word, you won't drink your wine." Cao Wang was playing haha with him, and walked towards the seat in the middle, and said hello to each of the two thousand households before walking into place.

As soon as he sat down, a pro-soldier came over with a wine jug to help him fill it, Cao Wang looked at the banquet below, in addition to the two thousand households, there were more than a dozen Yuan people in the tent, and there was a person by everyone's side to accompany him, and there was a pro-soldier who looked like a waiter standing behind, and the same was true for himself and Qianhu.

Cao Wang had an indescribable uneasiness in his heart, and he couldn't suppress a full glass of wine, but Hong Fu on the side smiled and gave another glass, and then raised it towards the big tent, everyone laughed and responded, and those people with colored eyes said some incomprehensible language in that coaxing, and the big tent suddenly became noisy.

"Lao Hong, if you don't say why, I won't drink it anymore." Cao Wang pressed the wine glass with one hand, but his eyes were on Hong Fu, Hong Fu didn't care, turned to look at the account, at this time, a personal soldier came in from outside the tent, secretly glanced at him, Hong Fu saw it, and knew that things had been prepared.

"Sir, what did you just ask? Why do you want to have a drink here? Hong Fu poured wine into his cup, turned to Cao Wang and smiled.

"Yes, today is not a New Year's Day, and you don't have any happy events, so you have other intentions for this banquet for no reason?" Cao Wang pressed the wine glass and said with a smile.

"The manager is right, today is indeed not a New Year's Day, but there are still happy events. You heard clearly, today is the day when the town's nest army returns to the Great Song Dynasty, tell me, is it worth drinking to celebrate? In order for him to hear clearly, Hong Fu leaned forward and leaned into his ear when he said the next few words.

"What did you say?" Cao Wang was shocked by his words, and was a little overwhelmed for a while, but he just stretched out his finger and pointed at him, without waiting for Cao Wang to make a move, the two personal soldiers immediately moved to hold him, Hong Fu stepped forward, a sharp blade had slipped into his hand, and with a soft sound, it stabbed into Cao Wang's abdomen.

"Boss, if you want to go back to the Great Song Dynasty, you have to borrow your head and go all the way." As he spoke, the strength of his hand pierced the blade deeply, Cao Wang only felt a huge pain, his eyes slowly diluted, and the person also weakened, and he remembered that when he entered the camp, the flagpole standing in front of the camp was empty.

"Do it!" Putting down Cao Wang's body, Hong Fu turned around and smashed the wine glass hard, the sergeant in the tent had been waiting for his order, and when he heard it, he took out the blades hidden in his body and waved them towards those drunk people, and for a while, the screams filled the entire big account.

"Command, the whole army attack, do not let a single Tartar escape." Hong Fu didn't look at the miserable appearance in the tent, strode out of the tent, ordered loudly, and after a pause, he said as if he remembered something: "Raise the banner of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

As a result of the well-preparedness, the matter quickly calmed down, and in the evening, several envoys set out from the camp and galloped in the direction of Luzhou, Hezhou, and Jiankang on the other side.

"Hong Fu is quite different from others, and if he wants to act in Huaixi, he may be able to borrow one or two." In the government of Jiankang City, Yang Xingqian took the military report that had just been delivered and reported the name on it to Liu Yu before the case.

"Hong Fu? Isn't he Xia Gui's 'houseservant', how can he believe it? When Liu Yu heard this name, he still had some impressions, because the biography of this person in the history books was attached to Jiang Cai's back, and he was able to look at it at the time, and he could be regarded as a loyal martyr, so he didn't expect to be mentioned here.

"It turns out that Ji Yi already knew his details, this person is indeed from the Xia Mansion, but he is not Xia Gui's cronies, since he led the Xiongjiang Army out of the Zhenchao Army, the relationship between the two is only general, and there is nothing special about the annual etiquette table, I have seen him when I was in the company." Yang Xingqian pointed to the map and talked eloquently,

"Oh, why is that?" Liu Yu was a little surprised, the Zhenchao Army was located in the hinterland of Huaixi, and there were places such as Hezhou and Wuwei Army in the middle, not to mention the big river.

"Without him, the Zhenchao Army was led by the Yanjiang Establishment Division." Yang Xingqian said a little sneeringly, Liu Yu understood as soon as he heard it, in the plan at that time, in addition to Hezhou and Wuwei Army, this small town nest army was also in it, but the jurisdiction was too small and became no longer a sense of existence, but here in the town it was located, it was a traffic hub, R1058