According to the road map provided by Zong Tian before, Li Luo led his army into Yunxiao Mountain. The army marched for two days in the undulating mountains before reaching Li Luo's first destination.

Nailhead Valley.

The map shows that the Nail Head Valley is open on three sides, and the middle is a low-lying valley bottom, and only the most lame generals will drive their soldiers and horses into the Nail Head Valley to station, because it is easy to be surrounded by enemy troops.

Li Luo just wants to be the most crappy general first.

He led his army into the Valley of Nailhead, and before he stayed for a moment, he ordered 10,000 unarmored young auxiliary soldiers to stay in the valley, under the pretext that they would wait here, and then carry the food and supplies of the thief army.

Then, Li Luo led 10,000 elite armor soldiers to leave the Nailhead Valley and head towards the second destination.

At this time, Mrs. Xu has led the army back to the Panlongding camp, where the mountains are steep, there is only one winding mountain road uphill, and the cottage is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, although the cottage covers an area of several miles, but only 10,000 people need to defend, and 100,000 enemy troops do not want to capture.

This place is very secret, the Yunxiao Mountains are hundreds of miles longitudinal and horizontal, and belong to the branch of Wuyi Mountain. If there is no leading party or road map, it is not easy to find.

The Yunxiao army opened a lot of mountains nearby and planted upland rice, but it could only solve 30% of the rations, and most of the rations needed to go down the mountain to "fight".

Zong Day, who was in charge of the break, finally returned to the cottage and reported a message to Mrs. Xu.

"Marshal She, the Yuan army has entered the mountain. It's just that they don't know where our army camp is at all, they just go around in circles in the mountains. Moreover, they have already divided their forces. ”

Mrs. Xu Huo Ran stood up, "Hmph, the Yuan army dared to rush into the mountain, and they must be taught that there is no return!" Special envoy, how did the Yuan army divide the art of war? ”

Zong Tian said: "I found that although there were about 20,000 people in the Yuan army, half of them were young and strong without armor. It seems that it should be used to carry war trophies. These tens of thousands of auxiliaries camped in the Valley of Nails. ”

"Camping in the Valley of Nails?" The general Qu Shi laughed, "I'm afraid that the commander of the Yuan army is a fool, how can he camp there?" ”

Zong Tian said: "It's not that the commander of the Yuan army is stupid, it is estimated that he didn't expect the auxiliaries to fight at all, but just as coolies, and did not treat tens of thousands of young men as soldiers and horses, and probably disliked the burdensomeness of the auxiliaries, so he put them in the Nailhead Valley." ”

Mrs. Xu said: "What about the soldiers of the Yuan army? ”

Zong Tian said: "I went to the direction of the Three Waterfalls Cliff, they don't seem to be familiar with the road, maybe they think that our army's camp is over there." ”

Qu Shi pulled out the knife and returned it to the sheath with a bang, "The Yuan army thinks that with 10,000 armor soldiers, it can destroy our army in the mountains?" That's crazy, isn't it? It's kind of quirky. ”

Zong Tian said with a smile: "What's strange about this, the Yuan army will have soldiers and horses entering the mountain in the future, and these 10,000 soldiers can't come in first to explore the way?" ”

Mrs. Xu frowned and pondered for a while before making a decision.

"Order, first deal with the Yuan army auxiliaries stationed in Nailhead Valley!" Mrs. Xu said.

Zong Day's eyes lit up, "She Shuai wants to capture them and replenish the soldiers and horses?" That's a good idea, and I agree with it. ”

Mrs. Xu nodded and said, "Not bad." In recent years, our army has suffered heavy casualties and insufficient replenishment. These so many Han people are young and strong, and they were also forced to serve by the Yuan army, and we will capture them, which can be regarded as rescuing them, and it won't be long before they are righteous soldiers! ”

Qu Shidao: "She Shuai, why don't you kill the 10,000 armor soldiers first?" How are they our opponents in the mountains? ”

Mrs. Xu said: "The reinforcements of the Yuan army will enter the mountain at any time, even if this 10,000 armor soldiers are destroyed, the casualties of our army will not be small, and when the reinforcements of the Yuan army arrive, what can we resist?" We can't afford it! ”

"Besides, if this fight starts, we won't be able to catch tens of thousands of young people who run away from the mountain. Capture them first, and then close the cottage and hold on, the Yuan army is 100,000 people, and there is nothing to be done. ”

Zong Tian nodded and said, "She is handsome and wise, that's exactly the case!" Get tens of thousands of young people first, and after half a year, our army will have more than 20,000 people, which is the most cost-effective and safest. ”

Qu Shidao: "The Yuan army didn't expect our army to fight the idea of being young and strong? ”

Zong Tian sneered: "What about thinking of it?" In their eyes, the Han people are military slaves, and they can be requisitioned again when they die, how can they care? It is we who care about the young. ”

Qu Shi is right to think about it. How could the Yuan army care about the life or death of the young and strong auxiliaries? Now that the rebel army is in urgent need of soldiers, it is too important for these tens of thousands of Han people to be young and strong, and they obviously have a chance to get it, why not?

"Then according to what Marshal She said, first capture the Yuan army auxiliaries. However, although they have no armor, they have spears and tens of thousands of people, and they will not surrender obediently. Although our army has 12,000 men, the real veterans are only 8,000. ”

Mrs. Xu said: "Special envoy, did Yuan Jun really go to the direction of the Three Waterfalls Cliff?" ”

Zong Tian said: "It's true! After the next person in charge was broken, how could he not find out the movements of the Yuan army? I'm afraid that at this time, they have already gone to the Three Waterfalls Cliff. That is where Chen Shuai's previous camp was located, and they must have regarded Chen Shuai's abandoned cottage as our cottage. ”

The so-called Chen Shuai, of course, is Chen Hangyan. He has now gone to Nanyang with the small court of the Song Dynasty, and the previous military village has also been abandoned.

"Well, in this way, the Yuan army should really regard Chen Shuai's old camp as our army's camp. Then our army will have a chance. Mrs. Xu said.

The Three Waterfalls Cliff is fifty or sixty miles away from here, and the Nailhead Valley is only twenty miles away, and the righteous army has enough effort to solve the Nailhead Valley first, and then calmly come back.

Besides, it was difficult for the Yuan army to find the location of the camp in a day or two, and even if she did, she would have already returned to the camp.

"Then send 10,000 troops, and fight quickly, leaving only 2,000 men to guard the camp. Which of you wants to stay camped? Mrs. Xu asked.

Qu Shi and other generals were silent, and no one wanted to guard the camp.

Zong Day's heart said that was indeed the case, and he arched his hand and said: "She Shuai, since the generals all want to fight, let me guard the camp below." ”

"Okay, then please ask the envoy." Mrs. Xu said.

It's not that she's stupid, how could she have thought that Zhang Zhan's envoy, who had been in the mountains for a few months, would be a fake?

So as the old saying goes, if you are not afraid of external enemies, you are afraid of internal traitors.

Soon, Mrs. Xu personally led 10,000 soldiers and horses, carrying a large number of ropes, to nail head valley to arrest people.

Zong Tian looked at Mrs. Xu's back and thought, She Shuai, don't blame me, who made you have to stay here and don't want to go to sea? Lord Lang is doing this to save you.

That's right. When Zong Tian first came, he once strongly persuaded Mrs. Xu to go to "Nanyang" and serve under the command of the "official family", wanting to deceive these 10,000 soldiers and horses to Haidong.

But Mrs. Xu and others relied on the mountains and insisted on never going to sea until they had to.

So they had no choice but to make this decision, forcing them to go to sea and bring these 10,000 resolutely anti-Yuan rebels under the command of the Tang army.

Now, Zong Tian has become the one who guards the camp, so does this result need to be said?

As soon as Mrs. Xu led the army away, Zong Tian sent a special operator to act as his escort, swaggered out of the camp, and went to a place called Wan Zhulin to inform Li Luo.

Of course, Li Luo didn't go to the Three Waterfalls Cliff, but hid in the Ten Thousand Bamboo Forest more than ten miles away. Wan Zhulin is indeed the only place to go to the Three Waterfalls Cliff, but Li Luo will not leave here, and the whole army will hide.

A day of hiding.

The Einsatzgruppen came to Wanzhulin and found Li Luo, saying that Mrs. Xu had really taken the bait and had already led the troops to Nailhead Valley. Now the battalion is guarded by Zongday, and there are only 2,000 weak soldiers.

An hour later, a group of thousands of soldiers and horses swaggered to the Panshan camp under the banner of the righteous army.

Zong Day, who was guarding the cottage, ordered: "Open the floodgates. ”

Since many of the armor of the righteous army was captured by the Yuan army, it is difficult to tell whether the person who came was the righteous army or the Han soldiers of the Yuan army just by looking at the armor.

"No!" The rebels guarding the camp opened the floodgates, and then thousands of soldiers and horses entered unhurriedly......

At this time, Mrs. Xu had already solved the young and strong auxiliary soldiers in Nailhead Valley. There was no fighting at all during the whole process.

10,000 rebels appeared like a divine soldier descending from heaven, three exits and a block, a condescending surround, and then shouted the sins of the Tartars, and the 10,000 auxiliary soldiers who had not been trained took the initiative to surrender.

Even, the rebels didn't even use the ropes.

Mrs. Xu and the others were overjoyed, this harvest was really great. They found that tens of thousands of young and strong people were still young and strong peasant children, and none of them were dragged down by their families, which was simply an excellent soldier.

But before Mrs. Xu returned to the camp, she saw a fire burning at the top of the dragon.

Broken! Where did Mrs. Xu not know that something was wrong?

Immediately afterwards, I saw Zong Tian rushing over with a few guards covered in injuries.

"She's handsome, it's not good! The Yuan army attacked the camp! Zong Tian rushed to Mrs. Xu and shouted sadly.

"What the hell is going on! Isn't the Yuan army in the Three Waterfalls Cliff? How many Yuan Army! Mrs. Xu said in a disgraced voice. She had always been very calm, but when the camp was lost, she was suddenly in chaos.

The food and supplies are all in the big camp, how can this be obtained!

If it weren't for the fact that Zong Tian was an envoy of the imperial court, she would definitely have kicked it over by now.

Zong Ri pulled out an arrow from his body, gritted his teeth and said, "This is simply the Yuan army's trick!" The reinforcements of the Yuan army had actually entered the mountain a long time ago, and it was only the partial division that went to the Three Waterfalls Cliff! Not long after She Shuai left, the ambushed Yuan army went up the mountain, at least 20,000 people, the cottage is so big, two thousand old and weak can't hold it at all! ”

Mrs. Xu gritted her silver teeth angrily, it was her own idea to fight the Nailhead Valley, and it was also her idea to leave two thousand weak soldiers, how could she blame Zong Day?

Now what? The camp fell, with the loss, the Yuan army was overwhelming, how to fight this battle? Don't say anything else, just say dinner, they're going to go hungry!

"She Shuai, for the sake of today's plan, the only way is to withdraw quickly, and take advantage of the fact that the Yuan army has not yet arrived, and immediately go south!" Zong Tian said anxiously.

"To the south? Isn't it the sea to the south? Qu Shiwo roared with fire.

Mrs. Xu understood, "You mean to join the Great Song Sailors who attacked Quanzhou?" ”

Zong Ri smiled bitterly: "Shuai She, besides that, is there any other way for our army?" Now that the military rations have been cut off, how can our army maneuver? Except for going to the beach to find the confluence of the Great Song Sailors, everything else is a dead end. Moreover, the Yuan army should not have thought that our army would go south! ”

Mrs. Xu looked at the direction of Panlongding, shed two lines of tears, gritted her teeth and said, "To the south!" Go to the beach! ”

…………

Li Luo didn't burn the precious food and property, isn't that stupid? He just burned down the house of the rebels.

Two thousand old and weak rebels were captured, and even some of the recalcitrant ones were not killed.

Li Luo issued a ban on killing, just subdue them. His order made Zha Yinnan and Shangzhu very grateful, thinking that Li Luo was looking at their face and fulfilling their promise.

Li Luo stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the direction of Quanzhou, and said in his heart that Luo Yu should have achieved a "big victory", right?

He guessed correctly, Luo Yu had indeed achieved a "great victory" in a naval battle.

On June 6, the Haidong Naval Division and Luo Yu's Naval Division began to engage in battle, but Luo Yu was tightly defended, and the Haidong Naval Division did not take advantage.

In the evening, the Quanzhou officials suddenly saw a fire on the sea, and there were shouts of killing in the distance, and the fire burned for half the night.

Just when the officials in Quanzhou were worried, the "good news" came.

It turned out that Luo Wanhu took advantage of the negligence of the Song Navy Division to underestimate the enemy, and personally led the fireboat team to attack at night, and a large number of warships of the Song Army Navy Division caught fire, burning thousands of people to death and drowning, and most of the more than 200 warships on the left flank of the Song Army Navy Division were captured.

After this defeat, the morale of the Song army's naval division was greatly reduced, although the main force still existed, but seeing that it was difficult to succeed, it sailed out of the sea off Quanzhou the next day and went south, which seemed to be a withdrawal.

Luo Yu, who "won" the naval battle, was praised by the provincial officials, but his stomach almost burst with laughter.

This is just an act with his own sailors, but the acting at sea, even if it is full of flaws, these officials in the city can't see it.

Of course, Luo Yu's "losses" were more than 3,000 people, and of course these people were not killed, but were sent to Haidong's ship.

So, Luo Yu reported the battle losses of 3,000 people, and justifiably began to recruit troops to supplement the losses.

The Haidong Navy Division led by Zheng He personally sent more than 200 ships to Luo Yu, went south to the waters of Zhangzhou, and then waited there.

If the lord's plan goes well, Mrs. Xu of the Yunxiao Mountain Range should be almost at the beach. If it doesn't arrive within three days, it's an accident in the plan.

Zheng He waited until the third day, and finally received the news sent by Zong Tian that Mrs. Xu's soldiers and horses, with 10,000 young men, had arrived at the beach.

"Dock! The empty ship is ready to pick up people! Zheng He immediately ordered.

This time he came to Minhai, Zheng He brought thousands of ships, but there were actually only 20,000 soldiers and horses, and many ships were empty.

"She's handsome, look! Great Song Water Master! Zong Tian pointed to the sea in surprise, "Flag, flag!" ”

Mrs. Xu and the others were embarrassed at this time, they hadn't eaten for a day or two, they were all hungry and dizzy, and when they saw the Great Song Sailor at this time, although they felt too coincidental, they were all cheering.

Soon, Zheng He landed surrounded by sailors and came to Mrs. Xu, he first smiled at Zong Day: "Zhang Yuhou, don't come to harm." How did you end up here? ”

Zong Tian hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It turned out that Zheng Tongzhi had arrived!" It's a coincidence. Alas, it's hard to say a word... Does the official family have a will? ”

Zheng He shook his head: "The official family has no will. This time I came to Quanzhou, but I only boosted the hearts of the people of the southeast Han Dynasty, but I didn't really want to fight Quanzhou. ”

Zong Tian said: "Zheng Tongzhi, this is Mrs. Sheshuai Xu!" ”

Zheng He immediately clenched his fists: "It turns out that Mrs. is She Shuai, rude and rude!" She Shuai's loyalty, but the official family has praised her, and she is a heroine who makes men ashamed! ”

Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "Zheng Tongzhi is falsely praised. What a heroine, now she is just a defeated general. "I told me about the process of losing the grain and grass of the camp.

Zheng He comforted: "Don't worry, Shuai She. In the end, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Now that the Yuan army is strong, how long can it hold out with only mountain risks? Sooner or later, the Yuan army will succeed. It's better to go to sea just like that, there is always a chance to make a comeback. ”

Mrs. Xu smiled bitterly: "That's the only way, I will ask the official family for guilt." On this ship, it is thanks to the care of Zheng Tong. ”

Zheng He said: "Where to speak! She Shuai said seriously. The same is the anti-Yuan robe, how to divide each other! Let's get on board! ”

Zong Tian said unceremoniously: "Zheng Tongzhi, I lost my food, and after a long trek in the mountains, I was dizzy from hunger, and when I got to the boat, I had to fill my stomach first." ”

Zheng He laughed when he heard this, and said, "That's nature! Even if you are hungry, you can't be hungry! ”

Half an hour later, all 20,000 people boarded. Mrs. Xu and the others had a full stomach beautifully, and because they were extremely tired, they all fell asleep on the boat.

Although Zong Tian was also tired, he cheered up and came to Zheng He's flagship room to talk to Zheng He.

"Brother Zheng, the clipper boat that delivered the letter to Madame has already been dispatched, right?" Zong Tian yawned.

Zheng He nodded, "Send it out, Brother Zong rest assured." By the way, with your understanding of the Xu family and the generals under her command, will they make trouble when they go to Haidong? After all, they have 10,000 elite soldiers. ”

Zong Tian smiled: "Brother Zheng can rest assured. Xu's family, naturally, is towards Zhao Song in her heart, but she is anti-Yuan, but she is for the hatred of her family and the country, and she has little to do with Zhao Song. Otherwise, she would have gone to sea in the first place, and she would not have delayed. This is a woman who understands righteousness. ”

Her subordinates looked down on Zhao Song, but in order to oppose the Yuan, they had to use the banner of Zhao Song. With Madame's means, it was easy to appease them. ”

Zheng He's expression was relieved, "Then I'll rest assured." This time it was really not in vain, 10,000 elite soldiers, 10,000 young and strong, and they returned to me Tang so lightly. ”

Zong Tian said: "The methods of the lord and the lady are very powerful, everything is planned and then moved, interlocking, one stick down, will never hit only one rabbit." I believe that it won't take too long for me to be able to send troops to the Central Plains. ”

Zheng He said solemnly: "The longer I spend with the lord, the more I feel that the lord is unfathomable, and he is really a person favored by the old monarch. ”

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At this time, outside the city of Quanzhou, the provincial officials were lining up to welcome the triumphant return of the Pingzhang officials.

The Pingzhang officials recovered Zhangzhou, and then smashed the thieves' nest, captured the camp of the thieves, killed tens of thousands, and captured 2,000. Only the thief leader Xu fled to the sea with a small number of thieves, and fled to Nanyang with the thief army sailor.

The Yunxiao Thief Army, which had plagued Fujian for several years, has been wiped out.

And Li Zhongtang commanded three battles within a month, defeated the rebel army Huang Hua, exterminated the Yunxiao thief army, and defeated the thief army and sailor, three battles and three victories.

Since then, Fujian will be much more stable.

It is no wonder that the Pingzhang officials were able to make great achievements when they conquered the sun, it turned out that it was really not a fluke, but because he was indeed a good general.

Li Luo entered the city amid the congratulations of the officials, and then wrote a recital for Kublai Khan.

It's nothing more than a show of merit. In addition to expressing his own credits, he also expressed the credits of Luo Yu, Zha Yinnan and others, that is, the civil official Sappler and others, and also shared some credits.

And the recitals of Sappler and others also say good things about Li Luo. Of course, bad words will not have a chance to be delivered to Dadu, and they will definitely be detained by the agents in the post station.

In the past six months, Li Luo has almost controlled the entire post system in Fujian, and Li Luo is clear about what his colleagues have written.

It's so capricious, it's so absolute.

…………

Cui Xiuning of Haidong also received the news at this time.

It's finally a successful ending.

10,000 elite soldiers, 10,000 young and strong recruits, are about to arrive in Haidong.

Cui Xiuning couldn't help but be a little excited.

In the past two months, more than 100,000 immigrants have been sent in batches, bringing the population of the Tang Kingdom to more than 500,000, and it has been basically settled.

The number of soldiers and horses has also expanded to 780,000, including 25,000 new soldiers. If the new 20,000 people are taken for their own use, then the Tang army will be close to 100,000!

When all the immigrants are over, the Tang State will be able to have an army of more than 100,000 people! If there were 30,000 more firearms among them, it would really be able to cause trouble.

"Order all major battalions and the whole army to be on alert, just in case!"

"Prepare food and drinks to entertain the rebels!"

"Set up a banquet tent and divide the banquet..."

Cui Xiuning issued several orders in a row, which was not only a precaution, but also a reassurance, and the arrangement was not leaky. Then, Cui Xiuning wrote a "decree" to reward Mrs. Xu and others, and stamped it with the seal of Tang Hou.

"Sister-in-law, Zheng'er is hungry again, wow wow crying non-stop." Li Yuan came in with poor Li Zheng in his arms and said with a smile.

"Little Ancestor! He's not hungry, he's hungry! Cui Xiuning reluctantly took Li Zheng, and nodded the little man's nose while feeding, "Feed you now, I don't know if I remember me when I grow up!" ”

Li Yuan sneered: "Sister-in-law is his mother, he doesn't remember his mother's goodness." But my aunt, who was carried in and out, was urinated on by him every day, and it is estimated that he will not remember it in the future. ”

Cui Xiuning smiled lightly, "How can it, he is just your aunt, maybe he will be closer to you than to me and his father." ”

Li Yuan sat down in front of Cui Xiuning, scratched Li Zheng's little feet, and said, "Sister-in-law, shouldn't Zheng'er have a title?" ”

Cui Xiuning shook his head, "His father is just a Hou, you are a pavilion master, what title can he have?" He is the son of the Tang Kingdom, and this is enough. ”

Li Yuan gritted his teeth and said: "Sister-in-law, although my brother is wholeheartedly devoted to my sister-in-law, even my little sister admires it. However, I can't stand the worries of others, my brother is in the Central Plains, and those bureaucrats do everything they can to curry favor. In case ......"

"In case any woman outside really gave birth to a son for Brother A, it will be bad for Zheng'er. Zheng'er is a son-in-law, if there is another title, it will take all the righteousness, and there will be no wavering in the slightest. ”

Cui Xiuning knocked on Li Yuan's forehead, "You, at a young age, think a lot." Don't worry, I know you better than anyone else. Not to mention that he is difficult to calculate, even if he has other sons, he will definitely not be able to replace Zheng'er, there are some things, you don't understand. ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Since my sister-in-law is so relieved, then my little sister can only rest assured." ”

At this moment, Li Zhi came in and reported: "Teacher, Zheng He and Zong Tian have come back and are disembarking. ”

Cui Xiuning stuffed the well-fed Li Zheng into Li Yuan's arms, and said with a smile: "The show is coming!" ”

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