Chapter Seventy-Three: Helpless

Ta Tianbao never understood what Wan Xinglong meant, and he didn't come up with a solution. Seeing that the people in his army were mingling with the surrendered troops, Ta Tianbao didn't dare to go out to attack anymore, so he had to garrison Bishan with Xu Shishi.

Two days later, Song Gaoju came to Bishan with a team that could not distinguish who was the surrender and who was the army. Song Gaoju and Ta Tianbao were helpless, and when they collected the prisoners, they still thought about forcibly separating the assembled army from the surrendered troops. As a result, the order had not yet been executed, and the people who had surrendered before and had been incorporated into the army heard that they were going to be separated again, and almost made the people of Song Gao's own army join the surrendered troops to make a mess. Frightened, Song Gaoju had no choice but to let the army and prisoners mix together and rush to Bishan, and then forcibly reorganize after the Restoration Army arrived.

Ta Tianbao, Song Gaoju and others waited in Bishan County for five days, and saw that Dao Zhu Dashan came to Bishan County with a large number of troops and mixed troops, and more than 40,000 troops were stationed in Bishan County for a time. Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong and others who came with them all had sad faces, not to mention the war in today's army, if the Qing army in Chongqing attacked, it was still a question of whether they could defend Bishan County for you.

It turned out that on the same day, Zhu Dashan sent Song Gaoju to take the troops of Zhenyuwei and Hezhou, and went south to Bishan to attack Chongqing with Ta Tianbao. He took the rest of the army to live in peace, Tongliang line, and then converged at Bishan. The defenders of the two places saw that the Fuming army was strong, and they did not dare to resist and surrendered one after another, but the surrendered troops also troubled Zhu Dashan, and Zhu Dashan could not find a solution in a short time, so he had to come to Bishan with the surrendered troops.

In desperation, Zhu Dashan had to convene all the generals to discuss, but before the solution could be discussed, the generals kept complaining. Jiang Chao said: "Master Hou, these Sichuan soldiers can't be wanted, as long as our previous army gives an order, there is no one who does not rush up." Zhao Yun also said: "Yes, but now these soldiers don't rush forward, forget it, seeing an acquaintance on the opposite side, they actually stopped their own people." How do you think we're going to fight this battle? Others, such as Luo Daniu and Yang Xun, all opened their mouths to demand that these surrendered Sichuan soldiers be eliminated. Li Tingming, who had surrendered, did not speak.

Zhu Dashan looked at the excited crowd, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong and others did not speak because of their identities, but the expressions on their faces were also very agreeable. Zhu Dashan said: "If we put forward all these Sichuan soldiers, how many troops do we have?" Can we take the city of Chongqing? ”

After listening to Zhu Dashan's words, everyone shut up one after another. Zhu Dashan said: "Everyone knows that with our little people now, we can't beat it at all." If our Restoration Army were, if we were, the Sichuan soldiers, would only have more than 10,000 troops, not to mention attacking Chongqing, just guarding the more than 20,000 troops would be enough for us to toss. ”

At this time, Ta Tianbao said: "But we can't just accept them, in this way, if the Qing army in Chongqing comes to attack, how can we resist?" Jiang Chao said: "Yes, Master Hou, we won the battle in Hezhou and Bishan, but our military land can no longer fight." ”

Zhu Dashan said: "So today I called everyone to think of a way to solve something, if this matter can't be solved, our destruction is just around the corner, so everyone must come up with a way as soon as possible, and now it is time for the survival of the Ming Army." Everyone couldn't think of a way, Hao Yongzhong said: "Otherwise, we only need a part of the troops, so that we will not have the problem of poor command of the army because of too many troops, and we can suppress these surrenders." ”

Luo Daniu also said: "Yes, I don't want these Sichuan troops to surrender for a long time, I don't listen to orders, I don't say anything, and I always form gangs, and even the military law team is affected." Zhang Yun, Zhang Xun and others also vomited bitterness.

Xu Shishi, who had been sitting in the corner and had never spoken, whispered: "The soldiers of Sichuan are not useless, they also killed the Mongol Khan. If you want to say it, it won't be so unpopular. Because the generals were too loud, no one heard Xu Shishi's words at all. But Ta Tianbao, who was sitting next to him, heard it, turned his head and refuted loudly: "Don't listen to that bullshit county order nonsense, just believe it, he is boasting." ”

This time, everyone heard Ta Tianbao's words, and they all fell silent, Zhu Dashan sat far away and didn't hear it, only to see everyone looking at Ta Tianbao and Xu Shishi, and said: "General Ta, what are you talking about?" Say it and let's see it in detail. Ta Tianbao said: "It's nothing, it's just a madman's nonsense." Zhu Dashan said: "It's okay, anyway, now everyone can't think of a way, listen to the words of the madman, don't we still have the final say on what to do?" ”

Ta Tianbao saw that Zhu Dashan must listen, so he pulled Xu Shi and said, "You said it, you caused it." Xu Shishi was also a little worried: "This is actually what the Bishan County Order said, he said that the army in Sichuan is very powerful, killing hundreds of thousands of Mongolian soldiers, and also killing the Mongolian Great Khan." ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately laughed and staggered, Jiang Chao said: "I said Xu Shishi, how can you believe this, look at those Sichuan soldiers who surrendered to us, can they go to the battlefield?" He also killed hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops, and also killed the Great Khan of Mongolia. Hahaha, you want to laugh at me. Song Gaoju also said: "If they really have this ability, they can let us have more than 10,000 troops and capture more than 20,000 people?" ”

This tower Tianbao and Xu Shi both belonged to the Zhengwei guard, and He Zhen also felt that Xu Shi was a little confused. When some of them scolded: "You are also a deputy thousand households, how can you listen to such baseless words?" It's too ignorant of the importance of this army's deliberations. ”

Seeing that everyone was laughing, Xu Shishi also made a big red face, and now he was reprimanded by He Zhen, and he felt even more ashamed, and immediately said: "It's the chief soldier, his subordinates are confused, and they listen to and believe indiscriminately." Since this deputy position was arranged by Zhu Dashan, He Zhen was not too accusatory, and immediately said: "Pay attention in the future, don't make such jokes again, sit down first." ”

At this time, everyone saw He Zhen scolding Xu Shishi, and they didn't laugh anymore at the moment. When He Zhen turned around after reprimanding Xu Shishi, he saw Zhu Dashan bowing his head and pondering, and heard Zhu Dashan say alone: "Wasn't this Mongolian Great Khan killed in Xiangyang?" How could he die in Sichuan? "It's a pity that none of you here are people who know history, all of them are rude generals, and it's already very difficult to know a few words, who has time to read history books.

No one could answer, so Zhu Dashan didn't want to care, and said to Xu Shishi: "Since this thing can't be done, don't be too careful, just pay more attention in the future." Everyone thought that Zhu Dashan didn't want the person he arranged to be too ugly, so he said this to Xu Shishi. Xu Shishi was immediately very grateful, and he was about to get up and thank him.

At this time, the voice of the guard came from outside the door and said, "Miss Tan, you can't go in, the Hou masters are discussing it." Then Tan Shuanghua's voice said: "Deliberations? I should be called the council, and I am also your general. ”

It turned out that Tan Shuanghua was scolded by Zhu Dashan in Hezhou that day. At that time, Tan Shuanghua was crying heartbroken, and Zhu Dashan and others thought that in two days, Tan Shuanghua should obediently return to Wanxian County. Who knew that after Tan Shuanghua thought about it all night, he came to Zhu Dashan the next morning, saying that he wanted to join the army and become a general. The depression in Zhu Dashan's heart yesterday had passed, and now that he saw Tan Shuanghua coming again, he didn't want to scold her anymore, but he persuaded her with kind words: "Miss Tan, how can you walk in this army and join the army as a general, how can there be a woman who joins the army as a general." ”

But Tan Shuanghua's family background is good, and he has read a lot of books, and said: "Why not, in ancient times, Mulan joined the army for her father, and later Princess Ping Zhaoyang of the Tang Dynasty formed a women's army." Zhu Dashan didn't expect Tan Shuanghua to know a lot, and immediately said: "This Mulan joining the army for his father is just a folk miscellaneous story, and it can't be taken seriously." This is a princess who was a thousand years ago, who can say clearly. Tan Shuanghua said: "It's Princess Ping Zhaoyang, and she is the third daughter of Tang Gaozu's Li Yuan, why can't I tell clearly, have you ever read a book?" ”

Zhu Dashan is not afraid of anything, but he really can't say anything about this reading. In later generations, I just finished nine years of compulsory education, and in this life, I haven't even seen a private school, if we don't all come from refugees and immigrants, we don't know the details of each other. Zhu Dashan now says that he is literate, which may not be easy to explain. Seeing that Tan Shuanghua said that he had never read a book, he immediately said: "What does this have to do with whether you have read a book or not, no matter how much you read, you can tell the Manchu Qing Dynasty to go back to Liaodong?" Even if you say this flat anything. Tan Shuanghua said angrily: "Princess Ping Zhaoyang"

Zhu Dashan said: "Okay, just that Princess Ping Zhaoyang, that was also a thousand years ago, do you see that there are still women who join the army and lead the soldiers to fight?" Tan Shuanghua shook his head and said: "Hey, it seems that you really haven't read a book, I don't know how you survived to this day, and you also said that you are a member of the Ming Sect and a marquis." ”

Zhu Dashan saw that Tan Shuanghua said that his life was only a waste of food, and he said angrily: "You read a lot, so you can tell me, there are those women who are soldiers." Tan Shuanghua was not angry at this time and said: "Look at the spirit you scolded me yesterday, it seems that there is nothing in the world that you don't know, you listen to this girl and only say it once." ”

Zhu Dashan really doesn't know much about this world, and no one has told him about these things, and he used to do things when things happened. What happened outside and how the situation changed could only be asked and inquired little by little, but none of the people Zhu Dashan met knew these people very well, plus Zhu Dashan had always been busy with the conquest and the army. So Zhu Dashan has a desire to know everything in this world, and now he listens to Tan Shuanghua's willingness to say, and he doesn't care about her mockery, so he said at the moment: "Okay, talk about it, I'll remember it." ”

Tan Shuanghua was not angry when he saw Zhu Dashan, so he said: "If you want to talk about women joining the army, but there are a lot, there were female generals of the Yang Sect in the Song Dynasty, Fan Lihua, you should always know." Zhu Dashan nodded and said, "I know this Yang Sect female general, Yang Eighth Sister." Tan Shuanghua frowned and said, "The female general of the Yang Sect remembers a Yang Eighth Sister?" and Han Shizhong's wife, Liang Hongyu is also an anti-gold hero. Zhu Dashan said: "These know are known, but the age is too far away." Still can't promise you. ”

Tan Shuanghua said angrily: "Okay, I won't talk about the distance, I'll talk about the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Dashan was shocked: "There are still female generals in Daming? Tan Shuanghua held his head high, like an arrogant peacock and said: "Of course there is, I won't talk about Tang Sai'er, Qi Jiguang's handsome wife Wang Ying is also a heroine who can lead the army to fight." During the Chongzhen period, Lin Siniang, the concubine general of the Hengwang Mansion in Shandong, really led the women's army to fight. The red lady in Li Zicheng's camp also led the troops to fight. Do you think it's less? ”

Zhu Dashan said: "These are also legends, and this red lady has some eyebrows." Tan Shuanghua saw that Zhu Dashan still quibbled: "Okay, if you want to be real, then I will tell you a heroine of our Sichuan, who is in Chongqing Mansion." Zhu Dashan was startled and said, "What, this Chongqing Mansion?" Don't you want to say Duan Feihong, isn't she in Kuidong Daning? ”

Tan Shuanghua said disdainfully: "Duan Feihong I know, but he is just a thief." Compared to the one I said, she doesn't even have the qualifications to lift shoes. At this time, Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yongzhong came over, and when Tan Shuanghua said that Duan Feihong was not worthy of lifting shoes, he immediately said angrily: "What a big breath, then tell me who has such great ability." ”

Tan Shuanghua was not afraid to see the two of them coming: "Of course, it is General Qin Liangyu, the loyal Marquis of Shizhu Tusi." Zhu Dashan hadn't remembered who this person was, and he didn't think that this person was amazing, but Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yongzhong instantly shut up and didn't dare to say a word. Zhu Dashan asked Yuan Zongdi curiously: "This Qin Liangyu is very powerful?" ”

Yuan Zongdi was a little embarrassed, just now he said that he wanted to see who it was, but now when he heard this name, how dare he speak. Tan Shuanghua said even more domineeringly: "The two generals were very unconvinced just now? Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yongzhong kept shaking their hands and said: "Don't dare, we also admire it very much." Although the two of them were the generals of the Dashun Army, they admired this loyal marquis very much, and they fled one after another when they said it, and they didn't even come to say hello to Zhu Dashan.

Zhu Dashan looked at Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yongzhong who fled strangely, and turned his head to Tan Shuanghua and said, "Who is this loyal marquis?" They were so afraid of this woman. ”