In Mingling Village, Wang Yuntang held a banquet to entertain the envoy of the Jin Kingdom, Valatu, several delicate girls danced in front of the banquet, danced with wide sleeves, fluttered and flew, Valatu's eyes stared at those girls, their eyes emitted green light, and they looked like they were going to swallow people alive.

Wang Yuntang had a slight smile on his mouth, but there was a look of disdain in his eyes, and he said secretly: "Sure enough, it's a barbarian from the north, I haven't seen anything, but a few ordinary dancing girls can make him lose his color like this." At this time, someone brought a pot of mutton to him, and Wang Yuntang said with a smile: "Lord Messenger, please try this mutton and see how it is different from the sheep on your grassland." ”

Valatu replied casually, but did not move the chopsticks, Wang Yuntang laughed and said: "The envoy doesn't have to be like this, since you have taken a fancy to it, then these dancers will be sent to your room in a while, and this mutton is rare, and it will be hard to eat when it is cold for a while, so you should taste it first." ”

Valatu retracted his gaze and said disapprerovingly: "Wang Zhizhai, the sheep you people in the Central Plains have seen are only a few of them, so I think that mutton is very precious, but in our grassland, mutton is as ordinary as your rice, and there is really nothing to taste." He casually took a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and then his face changed, and he tasted another piece, and couldn't help but exclaim: "This is definitely not mutton, I am used to eating mutton, where is this taste." ”

Wang Yuntang smiled and tasted a piece, and said: "I don't know, this is a ewe fed with a variety of precious herbs, before it gives birth, kill the belly and take the lamb, and then feed it with human milk, every eleven or two-year-old girl uses a variety of cooked medicine, to massage its body, when the lamb is half a year old, it is going to enter the dish, at this time its meat is the best, one day too tender, no chewing, one day later to be old, eating the mouth, and slaughtering is also particular, to put it on the steamer, under the fire steaming, not covered on the top, under the heat, the lamb will keep sweating, and then every half an hour to take it down with water rubbing, and put pepper water on the side of the steamer, the lamb is thirsty, naturally will go to drink water, and then add steam, those seasonings will enter its body, after that, can be bloodlet to take meat, and meat can not take more, as long as the back of the one, cooking without any ingredients, this is the best meat. ”

Valatu was dumbfounded, and only said in a half-loud voice: "That...... In this case, this mutton is too rare, and this sheep may die at any time. ”

Wang Yuntang said: "Yes, this sheep is a difficulty from birth, to it is on the table, to go through five difficulties, the first birth to take the young, this is a difficulty, the girl kneading medicine, this is the second difficulty, steamer overnight, this is the third difficulty, killing sheep and bloodletting, this is the fourth difficulty, the meat is not good, this is the fifth difficulty, the five difficulties are a little wrong, then it is in vain, and you have to start all over again, a thousand sheep, there can be one, two are available, it is not bad." ”

Valatu was even more surprised, and said, "Where is this eating sheep!" ”

Wang Yuntang smiled: "Why isn't it a sheep, otherwise show it to adults, the sheep's head." He beckoned downward, and someone had already come up with a tray covered with a red cloth, and the vara group couldn't help shaking his head, and said in his heart: "It's just a dead sheep's head, what's so beautiful." But in front of Wang Yuntang, he still reached out to remove the red cloth, after all, this must be Wang Yuntang's kindness, he felt that it was not easy to refuse, but as soon as the red cloth fell, a sheep's head carved entirely of gold appeared in front of him, and Valatu saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but show a greedy light in his eyes again.

"Envoy look, is this a sheep's head?"

"It's a sheep's head, it's a sheep's head, it's really a sheep's head!" Valatu said in a loud voice, his mouth was talking, his eyes were on the sheep's head, and he didn't even blink.

Wang Yuntang couldn't help but smile a little, and said: "It's good that the envoy is satisfied, you see that although I have less than 3,000 people here, and it is not convenient to march and do things, but my heart is towards the emperor of the Jin country, so I refused to be ordered by Yun Biao and did not do the position of the head of the seven towns, but with a village of soldiers and horses, blocking the soldiers and horses of the six towns from advancing north, the emperor of the Jin country made me a soldier and horse supervisor, and I was really unable to recruit men and horses to fight against the enemy." ”

Valatu laughed and said: "I understand what Wang Darao means, I tell the truth to my lord, the biggest official given to you by the wolf lord of my Jin Kingdom is actually the jurisdiction of Bozhou soldiers and horses, and the seven towns west of Bozhou are all allocated to you, but ...... You don't have any credit now, that's why I asked you to give you the position of capital eunuch first. ”

Wang Yuntang laughed and said: "Isn't it just the credit, you wait, my credit will come soon!" ”

Varatul said a little strangely: "Oh, how do you say that? His voice fell, and an army rushed to the hall and said, "Back to Zhizhai, the son is back!" “

Wang Yuntang smiled and said, "Let him come up!" Then he said to Valatu: "The old man has no children for half his life, so it is easy to make a wish in front of the Buddha, and he has this son, but he has a good martial arts, and he is nicknamed 'Ma Chao' with a single name, and all the glory of the old man is on him." ”

As he spoke, one of the generals walked in quickly, and he was born heroic, so he saluted Valatu and Wang Yuntang respectively: "I have seen the envoy, I have seen my father." He untied a leather bag from his waist, took out a human head from it, and said: "Back to my father, the envoy, will run all the way to Boping Town, where the guard general Shi Antong welcomed the general into the town, was robbed by the general, and then ransacked the whole town, got all the money and food in the town, and then came back all the way." ”

Wang Yuntang walked over, lifted the human head, put it in front of Valatu, and said: "This is the credit of the last general, Boping Town replaced our Qingping Village and joined the Seven Towns Alliance, and now we have taken this town, which is our gift to the Golden Emperor." ”

Valatu looked at the head and laughed, "Good! The prince is really a brave man, and with this head, I can protect the prince as the ...... of Bozhou. Before he could speak, an army rushed in and shouted, "Report! ”

As soon as Wang Yuntang's eyes moved, he gave Wang Cheng a look, and Wang Cheng said coldly: "It's so bold, you dare to disturb the envoy!" Drawing his sword back, he didn't know what was wrong with his sword, but he couldn't pull it out, Wang Yuntang said: "My son is not worried." Then he said to the army: "What's the matter, it's not fast!" ”

The army was frightened, and said tremblingly: "Back to Zhizhai, the envoy of the Song Lianghe system, Zhao Zhen, the king of letters, led an army of 100,000 people, and has arrived at my Mingling Village." ”

"What are you!" Wang Yuntang exclaimed in surprise, grabbed the army, and shouted: "Didn't Zhao Zhen lead his troops south, and Wu Wenping, the magistrate of Tangyi County, surrendered without a fight?" Why did it come to me again? ”

The army said: "Don't dare to lie, that Zhao Zhen's former soldiers and horses have arrived at the gate of the village, and the vanguard general has called what 'Zhen Sanshan' Huang Xin, within three hours, we will not open the door to welcome King Xin, we will regard us as having betrayed the Song Dynasty and will attack the city immediately." ”

Wang Yuntang's father and son looked at each other, no one spoke, but Valatu threw his chopsticks on the ground and shouted: "This Zhao Zhen is rampant in Hebei, and he has angered my big golden wolf master, General Wang can send troops to annihilate them, and at that time I will protect General Wang as the general manager of Bozhou." ”

Wang Yuntang secretly rolled his eyes, and said in his heart: "Our father and son are only three or five thousand people, and there are no generals, so Zhao Zhen crisscrossed Hebei, killing Liu Yu in several battles, and the famous generals were beheaded by him, let our father and son go to kill him, how can our father and son do it." ”

The Hala regiment didn't see that Wang Yuntang was afraid of battle, but they kept urging: "General Wang, what are you waiting for, so-and-so will fight with the general." ”

Wang Yuntang said with a smile on his face: "Wait a minute, our father and son will go to gather people first, and then go to battle." At this point, he gave the dancing girl a mouth, and the dancing girls came around, and the warbler came to coax Valatu, who wanted Valatu to wave his hands, and pushed several dancing girls to the ground, and shouted: "We have a rule on the grassland, and the hunter who travels secondly, in this last night, is not able to touch the female Rao, so General Wang's kindness, I understand it, or wait for me to kill Zhao Zhen, and then come back to enjoy it." ”

Wang Yuntang was so angry that he wanted to go up and bite him, but Wang was clever and said, "The envoy waits, and our father and son will go and gather people." After that, Wang Yuntang hurriedly went out.

The father and son ran outside the door, and Wang Yuntang said: "Son, no matter how brave our father and son are, it is impossible to defeat Zhao Zhen's 100,000 army with thousands of soldiers and horses, how can it be good now?" ”

Wang Cheng said: "Daddy, don't worry, according to the child, Zhao Zhen does not have an army of 100,000, and even if he has, it is impossible to press us." ”

Wang Yuntang calmed down and said, "You mean that one of the ones who took Tangyi is the one who came to take my Mingling Village?" ”

"Yes, Zhao Zhen should have divided his troops."

"But it's always him who divides his troops, and we don't have the ability to deal with it."

Wang Quandao: "Daddy, don't worry, Qingping County, not far from us, there are Jin General Tulu's men and horses, let's go over and see now, if Zhao Zhen sent not many people, we will defend the village first, and then ask Tulu to send troops, two ways to attack, Zhao Zhen's men and horses are broken, if Zhao Zhen's men and horses are strong, then we will kill Valatu, and immediately go out of the city to meet Zhao Zhen, that is." ”

Wang Yuntang said: "You have to be light, then Shi Antong was killed by you, and Boping Town was swept away by you, if Zhao Zhen knew, how could he let us go." ”

Wang Cheng smiled slightly and said: "Daddy, don't worry, when the child went out to the army, the whole army changed into golden clothes, only Shi Antong saw the child's real body, and no one else saw it, those women who were killed by us were scolding the golden dog until they died, as long as we found out that Shi Antong colluded with Valatu, first ransacked Boping Town, and then came to persuade my father and son to reduce the gold, my father and son should not, isn't it." ”

Wang Yuntang couldn't help but pick his finger and said: "Okay, the child understands, let's go and see Zhao Zhen's people." ”

The father and son went to the walled wall to look down, and saw that outside the range of bows and arrows under the wall, there was a team of men and horses, at a glance, there were only seven or eight hundred people, although they were all cavalry, but the outfit was not very neat, Wang Yuntang couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile, said; "Child, it seems that Zhao Zhen has no intention of taking us here, but he just sent such a few people to come over and go through the motions, why don't we order all the people to kill them and capture them all."

Wang Quan didn't think it was right, so he looked down, and didn't say anything, Wang Yuntang couldn't help but shake his head when he saw him so hearted, and just about to speak, Wang Quan suddenly said: "Daddy, take a look, is there a Khitan cavalry here." ”

Wang Yuntang was stunned at first, then looked at it, carefully identified it, and couldn't help but gasp, and said, "Sure enough, it's the Khitan cavalry!" He was a general in the north, and he was afraid of the Jin people and the Khitans, so he said: "How can there be Khitans in this Zhao Zhen's army?" ”

In fact, Wang Yuntang didn't know that Zhao Zhen's soldiers and horses, according to the distribution, each battalion of cavalry was 500 people, 500 horses, five battalions of cavalry (plus the cavalry of the pro-battalion Qiongying) was a total of 2,500 people and 3,000 horses (including the horses ridden by other people in the army), Fu Hong commanded the cavalry, extremely strict, those mules were eliminated, and it was easy to get together so many horses to use, because the horses were few, so the number of cavalry was so little, there was no expansion, and the infantry was 2,000 people per battalion, The eight battalions of infantry (including the first battalion of infantry managed by Wang Yin, the pro-military battalion), have a total of 16,000 people, and Zhao Zhen's men and horses, in addition to these regular soldiers, there are more than 3,000 auxiliary soldiers, with a total of about 20,000 people.

After the previous army was far away from the Daimyo's Mansion, the Chinese army and the rear army were united, and Li became the left outpost instead, so Huang Xin was transferred as the vanguard, and came towards Mingling Village, because Huang Xin had few soldiers, Zhao Zhen divided the newly surrendered five hundred Khitan knights into three hundred to Huang Xin.

Wang Cheng looked at those Khitan soldiers and said: "There are not many Khitan soldiers in this northern land, even if he Zhao Zhen is famous, so that the Khitan soldiers will also come to surrender him, but it can't be falling, right?" Where did this come from? ”

Wang Yuntang said in a solemn tone: "As far as I know, there is only one Khitan Rao Ranger in the area of the Daimyo's Mansion, which fled into the Central Plains after the defeat of the Khitan soldiers, and their leader is the privy envoy of the Great Liaoning Southern Court, Yelu Servant!" ”

The muscles on Wang Quan's face twitched, don't look at what Ma Chao he thinks he is, but he has self-knowledge, if he encounters Yelu's servant Gushen, then he will only have a dead end.

"Daddy!" Wang said astringently: "We ......." Wang Yuntang still looked down, he didn't know whether he should go back and slaughter Valatu, or touch the letter army first, after all, whether it was 100,000 letter troops or 10,000 gold soldiers in Tunzha in Qingping County, it was not something that their father and son could deal with.

But the father and son of the Wang family didn't know that now Yelu Gushen was not here, but in Zhao Zhen's Chinese army.

"Daddy." Wang Cheng said suddenly: "It's better to be so hesitant than ...... Gamble on it! Without waiting for Wang Yuntang to speak, he took out a handful of money and said, "If it's all literal, then drop Zhao Zhen!" After throwing it hard, this game was the most popular in the Song Dynasty, Wang Yuntang had no idea, so he didn't stop Wang Quan, but stared, the father and son saw that the nineteen copper coins kept turning, one after another fell, they were all literally up, the last one couldn't turn around, and it slowed down, it was not a word, the father and son were just about to breathe a sigh, the copper coin jumped, and they turned it over, or a word up, Wang Yuntang's eyes were round, and his heart said: " Emperor Taizu Wude has become a gambling god, isn't this the manifestation of Taizu? ”

Wang Cheng left without pressing the sword, Wang Yuntang still wanted to call him, but finally shook his head and followed.

When they returned to the hall, they saw that the dancers had already gone down, and that Valatu and his four guards, all in armor and carrying scimitars, were waiting there, and when they saw the father and son of the royal family coming in, Valatu exclaimed, "Have you gathered the men and horses?" ”

Wang Cheng strode forward and said, "The ...... have been assembled." "The moment the word 'go' came out, the sword in his hand followed out of the box, and a sword pierced the chest of one of the guards, and before they could react, they drew their swords and swept them out, splitting the other guard in half.

The remaining two guards shouted at the same time, and the wheel knife slashed towards the king.

Wang Cheng stepped back, and the two knives were split into the air at the same time, and he kicked on a dead knife, and flew over, slashing at the face of a guard, and the guard fell backwards with a scream, and Wang Quan's sword was thrown through the neck of another guard, and then he dodged over, grabbed the guard's knife, and made up for the guard who was stabbed in the face.

Valatu was shocked, angry and stunned, he stood there with a scimitar, but he also knew that although he had the courage to fight, he was only a civil servant, although the Jurchen Rao Wenchen was not inferior to the Han Rao soldiers, but it was far worse than the four guards, Wang Quan's efforts to kill four people in a row were definitely not something he could contend with, so he would already be a dead end, but Valatu was extremely unwilling, and shouted loudly: "Wang Yuntang, haven't you already accepted the appeasement of our wolf master?" What does that mean? ”

"Hmph." Wang Yuntang snorted coldly and said, "Hu Gou, who and I Wang Yuntang have already surrendered you, it is just to prevent your Jin Kingdom army from going south, and temporarily use the strategy of delaying the army, I think that my Wang Yuntang seven-foot man, how can I surrender you!" Now that my people and horses of King Xin of the Great Song Dynasty have arrived outside the village, I want to use your head to present a gift to King Xin! ”

"Whew!" Valatu spat hard and said, "You shameless person! You killed Shi Antong, plundered Boping Town, and dare you be Song Chen! ”

Wang Yuntang sneered and said, "That's why you want to use the head of the envoy to whitewash me!" "Stepping forward, he opened his sword and fought with Valatu.

Hala himself is just a businessman, although he is a Jurchen, but he does not practice martial arts much, plus he eats nonsense, his body has long been out of shape, and his flexibility is not enough, and he can't fight with Wang Wutang, he was stabbed to the ground by his sword, lying there, gritting his teeth and shouting: "Wang Yuntang!" I'm a ghost, and I won't let you go! ”

Wang Yuntang sneered and said, "You go to be a ghost first!" A sword cut off his head, then grabbed his braid, lifted his head, and said, "Go, our father and son go to welcome the king!" ”