"PS: It's still a faint pain, but it's been a long day off, and there's no code word, it's so cool."

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The imperial court ordered Yingchuan County to send 20,000 troops to reinforce Liang County, which made Li Min, the guard of Yingchuan County, a little unhappy.

After all, the total number of troops under the jurisdiction of the county was less than 40,000, and Li Junshou originally planned to take advantage of the rebels' focus on Liang County to send Zhao Yu to take the opportunity to recover the one-third of the lost city in Yingchuan and completely expel the rebels from Yingchuan County, but this order from the imperial court disrupted his plan.

But the imperial court gave an order, and Li Junshou could only obey the order, summoned Zhao Yu, and reluctantly told him: "Liangcheng is the southern capital of my Great Jin, and it will be captured by the rebels, otherwise the rebels will be ......even more arrogant."

Having said that, Zhao Yu always felt that this county keeper was in a somewhat depressed mood when he told him, and after thinking about it, he deliberately said: "Don't worry, my lordship, the interests of the county keeper will be based on the interests of the county guard, and the interests of my Yingchuan shall prevail......"

Li Junshou was stunned when he heard this, and immediately reprimanded him on the sickbed: "Zhou Hu, you must not have such selfish thoughts......

But in an instant, the county guard changed his words, and said in a low voice: "But if Liang County really can't be saved, you don't have to sacrifice soldiers needlessly, and I will maneuver around the imperial court." ”

Zhao Yu immediately understood: this county keeper was actually very unhappy about the reinforcement of Liang County, not for anything else, just because Yingchuan County himself had not completely gotten rid of the threat of the rebels.

However, as far as he is concerned, he feels that it is not bad to go to Liang County to find out, at least, he can meet the 'Liang County Governor Tong Yan'.

Immediately, Li Junshou asked Zhao Yu: "This time to Yingchuan, which soldiers do you plan to bring?" ”

Zhao Yu pondered for a moment and said what he thought in his heart: "Returning to Lord County Shou, this time I went to Yingchuan, and I plan to bring Wang Qing, the commander of the upper department, and the three of the soldiers, Qin Yu, Jia Shu, and Zhang Ji, as for the upper captain Chu Yan, Tian Qin, Liao Guang and others, I will leave them in Xuchang to ensure that Xuchang and the surrounding counties are safe." …… Adults and rest assured, although Chu Yan is young, he is brave and decisive, if the rebels dare to attack again during this period, he will definitely fight the rebels on behalf of the humiliation. ”

"Hmm."

Li Junshou nodded slightly, and after hearing Zhao Yu's comfort, he was really relieved.

After all, he learned about Chu Yan's bravery from the people of the county guard during this time, and even summoned Chu Yan several times.

Except for muttering a little about Chu Yan's fact that he was also a bandit, Li Junshou was very satisfied with everything else—especially Chu Yan's attitude towards him after being reminded by Zhao Yu in advance.

After returning to the Governor's Office, Zhao Yu immediately summoned Chu Yan and told him about the matter.

Seeing that Zhao Yu took Wang Qing instead of taking him to Liang County, Chu Yan was a little puzzled in his heart, and said with a few twists: "Big leader, I also respect Commander Wang Zuo, but when it comes to conquest, I think I will never drag down the big leader......"

"I know."

Zhao Yu said helplessly: "You also want to take you to Liangjun, but I don't worry about letting Wang Qing sit in Xuchang, his broken mouth, one mouth can anger people, how can I rest assured that he will stay by Li Junshou's side?" ”

Chu Yan suddenly realized, and finally accepted the arrangement of 'staying in Xuchang' with a smile.

Immediately, Zhao Yu told Chu Yan again: "This time I will only take Cao Wu and leave Ju Sheng to you, you might as well listen to his advice." …… Li Jun guards this person, he is jealous on the outside and lenient on the inside, as long as you can win his favor, like before I arbitrarily appointed cronies, he can also acquiesce. …… Now that I am in Xuchang and Yingchuan, I can be regarded as able to stand firm, and I must strengthen the relationship with Li Junshou, you can discuss this matter with Ju Sheng Haosheng later, remember not to ignore Li Junshou. …… Before I leave, I will also say hello to Chen Lang and tell him to take care of you more. ”

"My subordinates understand." Chu Yan nodded solemnly.

Returning to Duwei Zhou's mansion that night, Zhao Yu told Jingnu about it.

Don't look at Jing Nu who has taken care of the house in an orderly manner during this time, as if she has a bit of the bearing of a lady in the main room, but when she heard this, Jing Nu was still excited, and she must go with Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu dissuaded: "In the past, everyone didn't know your identity, and it didn't hurt for you to follow me, but now, your reputation as 'Mrs. Zhoufu' has gradually become known, so it's not appropriate to follow me all the time, otherwise there will inevitably be gossip." Moreover, in the future, our business focus will gradually shift from Kunyang to Xuchang, so it is necessary to establish a 'chamber of commerce' in Xuchang as soon as possible...... I have informed Huang Fu of this matter, but I don't think I have time to deal with this matter personally, so when I am not there, you will negotiate with Huang Fu to open up the trade routes of Kunyang, Runan, Xiangcheng, Yingyang, Yingyin, Xuchang and other counties, so that the counties can communicate with each other. …… I will send Chen Cai to assist you. ”

At the end, he told Jingnu again: "Whether it is the Black Tiger Village or the Chamber of Commerce, I can only rest assured if I leave these two things to you." ”

"But......" Jingnu stopped talking.

As if seeing through her thoughts, Zhao Yu said with relief: "Don't worry, if I can catch that Tong Yan this time, I will quietly take him to the cottage and take his life in front of you......"

Hearing this assurance, Jingnu agreed.

The next day, Zhao Yu gathered the army of 'reinforcement Liang County' in the name of the Governor of Yingchuan.

In view of the fact that the current army in Xuchang has expanded to more than 20,000 people, Zhao Yu decided to transfer 10,000 people from it.

For the remaining 10,000 soldiers, he decided to transfer 3,000 people from the second battalion of Ju Sheng and Cao Wu, and then immediately transferred 2,000 county soldiers from Runan and Xiangcheng counties - to put it bluntly, he requisitioned the county troops under Huang Ben, the county lieutenant of Runan County, and Zou Bu, the lieutenant of Xiangcheng County, who are now stationed in Yingyang.

What about the remaining 3,000 places?

Zhao Yu weighed it and finally decided to transfer 1,000 people from the brigade camp under Chen Mo's command, and another 2,000 people from the Liken Army.

After all, at this time, Xu Shen and Xu Ma had been pardoned for their past crimes by Yingchuan County for their 'meritorious work in recovering Yingyin', and they had become generals of Yingchuan - or to put it simply, they became generals under Zhao Yu.

In order to respond to the surrender of the two generals, or to further win them over, Zhao Yu named them Dubo - equivalent to a thousand generals.

The governor of the Jin army was probably not as good as the Qu general in the righteous division, but Xu Shen and Xu Ma still felt very lucky, and on the day they arrived in Xuchang, they immediately came to Zhao Yu to show their loyalty, and made an oath such as 'only the leader of Zhou, Ma Shou is Zhan', which made Zhao Yu quite satisfied.

For example, Wang Qing maintained a not optimistic view of this 'reinforcement army': "Can this kind of improvised patchwork army fight a war?" ”

In fact, there is some truth to this.

After all, Zhao Yu's 20,000 reinforcements were pieced together by the county army, the county soldiers, and the rebel soldiers, and the soldiers were uneven, if you take this army to fight Kunyang, I am afraid that even Chen Mo and Ishihara's eight thousand Kunyang soldiers will not be able to beat them - these eight thousand Kunyang soldiers are all Black Tiger and Kunyang County soldiers, that is, the so-called 'black turban soldiers' and 'green scarf soldiers' in the mouth of the rebels, in terms of combat effectiveness, they are second to none in Yingchuan County, and they can be described as the elite sharpened in the war.

Of course, it is precisely because it is an elite and Zhao Yu's 'family background' that Zhao Yu does not plan to take it to Liangjun.

After all, he didn't really have the idea of reinforcing Liang County, first, it was just an order from the imperial court, and second, he just stopped by to see that Tong Yan.

In his heart, he is even more inclined to ask the rebels to defeat Liang County, after all, the two rebel armies that are mainly attacking Liang County this time, Chen Miao's Jiangxia Yishi is left alone, but Zhao Zhang's Jiangdong Yishi has some connections with him - in terms of seniority, he has to call Zhao Zhang a cousin, even Zhao Yu's brother Zhao Yin, is now in Jiangdong Yishi, and is called 'Bohu Gongzi' by the soldiers of Jiangdong Yishi.

With such a deep Jiangdong righteous teacher, Zhao Yu naturally didn't want to compete with them.

Since you don't plan to really fight, it's nothing to bring some weak soldiers, just gather 20,000 soldiers to Liang County to support the scene, anyway, the rebels will not stare at his army to fight - after all, Zhang Ji has already told his brother Zhao Yin and the Mr. Ram, although Zhang Ji left early, Zhao Yu had not yet become the captain of Yingchuan, but he 'pseudonym Zhou Hu', Zhao Yin and Mr. Ram already knew, as soon as they heard 'Yingchuan Captain Zhou Hu', the two naturally understood what was going on, how could they stare at his army to fight?

Of course, the premise is that his brother Zhao Yin and that Mr. Ram are in the army, otherwise it will be a vain talk.

On September 28, Zhao Yu, together with Wang Qing, Zhang Ji, Cao Wu, Qin Yu, Jia Shu, Legui, Liu Tu and other generals, as well as Niu Heng, He Shun and others, led 20,000 troops to Liang County under the banner of 'Yingchuan County Army'.

Since Yanling was still in the hands of the rebels, Zhao Yu could only pass through Henan County, pass through Changshe, Xinzheng, and Zhongmu, and finally arrive in Xuchang.

This section of the road is only a hundred miles away, and if you are marching at a speed, you can reach it in one or two days, and if you want to come to the deadline of 'arriving before November' given by the imperial court, I am afraid that it is to leave time for Yingchuan County to raise troops and grain and grass.

It is worth mentioning that on the way to Henan County, Zhao Yu met the army led by Li Meng, the governor of Henan.

"Presumably it's Yingchuan's new Lieutenant Zhou, right?"

When he saw Zhao Yu, Li Meng was very enthusiastic, quite familiar, never mentioned the matter of Cao Suo, the former governor of Yingchuan County, and blindly praised Zhao Yu's exploits in repelling Xuchang.

was too enthusiastic, but Zhao Yu felt that this person had something else to ask for.

Sure enough, after saying a few words, Li Meng, the governor of Henan, opened his mouth to ask about the grain harvest in Yingchuan County this year, and even said in a very intimate tone, hoping that Zhao Yu would say a few kind words to Li County and pull the 'brother county' - I don't know when Henan County and Yingchuan County became brother counties.

didn't want to offend people, Zhao Yu naturally said: "Yingchuan will try its best to help Henan." ”

This commitment and guarantee made Li Meng very happy.

It is worth mentioning that through the conversation with Li Meng, Zhao Yu learned that Handan not only sent an order to Yingchuan, but also sent reinforcements to Liang County to Henan County, and the force requirement was a full double that of Yingchuan County - 40,000 troops.

Looking at this alone, it is obvious that Handan also knows that Yingchuan County is the hardest hit area by the rebels.

On the third day of October, after a slow journey of four or five days, Zhao Yu and Li Meng led a total of 60,000 troops and arrived in Liang County on the same day.

"We're finally going to meet, Captain Tong Yan of Liang County!"

Looking at the Liang City in the distance, which was becoming more and more visible, Zhao Yu slowly exhaled, curbing a certain emotion in his heart.

He had been waiting for this day for nearly eight years.