The fine autumn rain, like an invisible small leather whip, whipped on the faces of the people standing outside the palace of Nanjing, and the rain penetrated through the gaps in the armor, invading people for bursts of dampness and cold. Autumn in Gangnam is coming.

Although the rain made people extremely uncomfortable and suffering, the more than 2,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners who stood under the golden dragon silk on several sides still stood there as if they were cast in steel and iron. They were all dressed in heavy armor, armed with spears and axes, and carried firearms on their backs, and orange cowhide medicine boxes were carefully guarded out of the reach of rain; Or with a bow and a bow on his back, and a quiver full of wolf's fangs and arrows at his waist. These more than 2,000 people are either white-armored soldiers or Bayala soldiers, which are the most core and elite part of the hundreds of thousands of horses under the command of Pingnan General Le Kedehun and Belebolo, so they naturally want to set an example for the whole army, so that they can show the soldiers who have surrendered to them next to them, so that they can be deeply in awe of the Eight Banners Force.

Behind the Bayala soldiers, twelve eight-pounder guns were lined up, and the gunners had already placed the guns in place. At the command of the commanders, the heavy cannon filled with gunpowder can be unleashed with a loud sound to strengthen the army's might.

"General, judging from the minion, it is still the minion who goes to fight Songjiang Mansion and pacify Li Huabao. Hangzhou can send the Eju Turge to lead the army and horses. You are the general of Pingnan of my Qing Dynasty, and you must not be moved lightly. Before the departure ceremony, Bolo was still making a last-ditch effort, trying to get the Pingnan general Luck Dehun to defend the city of Nanjing, which had just surrendered, and let him attack Li Huabao's troops stationed in Songjiang Mansion and controlling the Yangtze River waterway. In addition, Turge led his men and horses to reinforce Hangzhou to deal with Shi Lang's troops who attacked from the west of the river. The forehead of the Qing Dynasty against the horses of the Southern Yue Army, this is the way of fighting soldiers against generals and generals.

However, Luckedhun is still stubborn. "It is precisely because this king is the general of Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty that he wants to personally lead the troops and horses to Songjiang Mansion. If the nail of Songjiang Mansion is not pulled out, the southeast half of the Qing Dynasty will not be able to have peace for half a day. The Yangtze River water transport, the canal transport, and Shandong and other places cannot have a stable day! ”

Seeing that Luck Dehun insisted on this, and said it righteously and strictly, Bolo was also speechless for a while. had to quietly summon Luckedhun's Baya Lama Zhangjing and ordered him to be sure to protect the general's thoughtfulness.

Luck Dehun's abacus is also very fine, at present, Hong Chengchou and Duoduo have left Jiangnan, and whenever there is a little victory in Jiangnan, the credit is his, the general of Pingnan. At present, the autumn grain in various parts of Jiangnan has begun to be collected, and the government treasury is full, so he does not have to worry about food and salary for at least half a year. In his opinion, half a year, a maximum of three months, before the onset of winter, taking advantage of the continuous autumn rain climate in the south of the Yangtze River, when the firearms in Nanyue are not working well, he can pacify the south of the Yangtze River and drive Li Huabao to the East Sea to drink water. Then, with the grain, grass and military pay equipment seized in Songjiang, he turned around and dealt with Shi Lang's department, which did not have the convenience of water transportation and supply on the Yangtze River. Without Shanghai's grain, grass and military salaries, the Lumahong Department entrenched in Shandong and Denglai is just a group of lonely souls and wild ghosts, can they withstand the thunderous blow of the Qing Dynasty's soldiers and horses? ! At that time, the county king hat on his head may be able to be replaced with a bigger one, and even the hereditary **** master may not be able to say. It's best to be able to get a flag master in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, that's to live up to your life!

"Shoot! Sacrifice the flag! ”

Twelve eight-pounder guns, under the control of the gunners, spewed smoke and fleeting flames from the muzzles, and in the rumbling sound of the cannons, some people carried the sacrifices of pigs, cattle, sheep, three animals, and dried and fresh fruits. Dozens of prisoners of the Southern Yue Army were tied up with ropes and escorted to the front of the queue.

"You barbarians, who don't know the mandate of heaven and resist the heavenly soldiers, will take your heads to sacrifice the flag after a while, and then go to copy your Songjiang Mansion lair!" An officer of the Green Battalion under Li Chengdong was half flattering and half serious and scolded at the captives who were stumbling in.

"Phew!" When the captive heard this, he spat on him with blood. "Although Lao Tzu was unfortunately captured, he also fought to the last moment on the battlefield and was captured with all his strength. Under Lao Tzu, you shaved heads, dozens of you died! Lao Tzu has already made a fortune! As for you, wait and see! My father-in-law also has a saying that he often says, don't look at today's fun, be careful to pull the list in the future! ”

"These people are all good men. Tell the minions below, when you can do it, be smart under your hands, don't let them suffer. Turg, who was in charge of today's expedition ceremony, quietly handed over to his henchmen and housekeepers, and asked him to arrange it for the executioners.

Dozens of broadswords were raised and fell. Dozens of bloody arrows flew up in the autumn rain, and after a while, they were washed everywhere by the rain.

The second round of artillery sounded, the handsome banner of the Pingnan general Le Ke Dehun was in front, the handsome banner of the general Bolo of the expedition to the south was behind, and the banner of Meler Ezhen Zhuma Mala and Hetuo, Gushan Ezhen Tulai, Turge, Azig, Nikan, Nushan, Mele Ezhen Zhuo Butai's weaving golden dragon silk, and Li Chengdong and many other generals recognized the flag, the banner was like a forest, and it went out of Nanjing, all the way to the east, to Songjiang Mansion. All the way to the south, ready to enter Suzhou to aid Hangzhou.

For a time, the land south of the Yangtze River was filled with hundreds of thousands of horses, soldiers and horses everywhere, and flags everywhere. Rivers, official roads, and country roads, nowhere are people shouting and neighing, and towns, villages, nowhere are not chickens flying and dogs jumping, crying and shouting.

"Qinggou really moved?"

Shi Lang, who had just settled down in the county government of Wannian County, was pleasantly surprised to receive the latest military report from the forward scout. Wannian County, like Lead Mountain, Yushan and other places, is subordinate to the Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division. It's just that at this time, it is not Shangrao City, but Guangxin Mansion. It is adjacent to Quzhou Mansion in Zhejiang.

Shi Lang's tens of thousands of horses, with the 12th Garrison Brigade of his headquarters and the four land battalions of the Navy Division as the backbone, supplemented by the four towns composed of soldiers and horses of the Dashun Army, were stationed in Guangxin Mansion on the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, ready to cross the border at any time, enter Quzhou Mansion, and advance to Hangzhou Mansion.

In Shi Lang's view, the change in the enemy situation of the hundreds of thousands of people in Boluo's department not only could not create difficulties for his campaign plan to attack Hangzhou, but helped him to complete the task of capturing Hangzhou from another angle.

"The Qing army in Hangzhou is only tens of thousands, and they are divided into various places, and we have to gnaw through the fortresses with the city. Now that the general Bolo has led more than 100,000 people, the original garrison plan has to be adjusted. And the new troops are not familiar with the terrain, they are not familiar with the fortifications, and the cooperation between the new and old troops will be a problem, what is this not for us?! ”

Shi Lang's words were approved by all the generals and officers present. They all fought all the way from south to north and from north to south, or followed Li Shouhan to start from Hejing, pacified the Tusi Sultan who didn't know how much chaos along the way, and also braved the shells countless times to charge out of the village. Or accompanied Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai to fight in the north and south for more than ten years, experienced countless battles and kills, and survived a hundred battles from the swords and guns. The grasp of the battlefield situation is as familiar as his own kang.

"However, after all, the enemy army has increased by more than 100,000 people, and we must treat these hundreds of thousands of people as sick cats, but we must treat sick cats as tigers." The one who said this was Li Derun, the soul of Shi Lang's think tank.

Although Li Derun complained in his letter to Liu Zuoyuan Yuancai, complaining that the work tasks here in Shi Lang were heavy, he was also a little uneasy. For him, Shi Lang has achieved full trust and full delegation of power. Because, the Li family's education of their children has always been to be good at listening to the opinions of others, even if it is a person with a humble status. According to Li Shouhan's words to his children at home, "Who is more stupid than whom?" You are not a thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Guanyin, there is no supreme wisdom, there must be something that you can't see and can't imagine, so what to do, find a way to let others see and think for you! ”

Shi Lang basically did this to Li Derun and the staff office in his army. He reminded Luo Hu and others who were adapted from the Dashun Army countless times, "You can question my Shi Lang's orders, but you must listen to the orders of the General Staff Office and Mr. Li, and implement them to the letter!" If there is any problem, you can reflect it while executing, but you can't fail to execute it! ”

Therefore, Li Derun's mood during this time was quite comfortable. At this time, he was more than nine feet tall, and his face was full of smiles.

"Alright. Don't think about it too much, these hundreds of thousands of clear dogs are here, no matter what, they have to fight, it depends on how we fight! Lao Lu, what are we going to eat at night? "Li Derun can be regarded as a talented and brilliant character. However, they are not very particular about the way they eat. Even in Shi Lang's opinion, it was quite rough. Other readers are the so-called "never tired of eating, not tired of being fine", and pay attention to what kind of food and beauty. When you have to eat, you have to play and sing and dance to cheer up.

But this Mr. Li is a different kind of person. "Don't make the dish very thin, you can have meat, it must be large! Then put more chili peppers! It's the same with fish, put more spicy seeds in me, the more the better! As for the poetry and wine that other scholars pay attention to, he also thanked Busen, and his face became red when he drank a glass of wine with his drinking. Therefore, whenever there are celebrations, dinners and other activities, others drink and drink hotly, but our Mr. Li only cares about big pieces of meat and chili peppers, and he eats a lot of food.

Hao Shaoqi was once quite dissatisfied with his style, and at the banquet to send his family south to Guangzhou, he came with a wine bowl that was half provocative and half ridiculous, and wanted to do three bowls with Li Derun. As a result, Li Derun proposed a compromise solution, "Hao Tong system drinks a bowl of wine, I eat a piece of meat, how many bowls of wine you drink, how many pieces of meat I eat." Hao Shaoqi looked at the big pieces of meat piled up like a hill in the big basin on the table, each piece was not three taels or a lot worse, when he nodded in agreement, "I think you can't eat so much meat!" ”

Unexpectedly, Hao Shaoqi, who has always been famous for his huge amount of alcohol, has lost his eyes on this matter. He drank three bowls of wine in a row, and Li Derun also ate three pieces of meat with chili peppers slowly, and licked the oil flowers on his mouth with some unfinished thoughts.

"Come again!" Hao Shaoqi became angry, and ordered someone to bring a jar of wine, and drank face-to-face with Li Derun. As a result, that time, Hao Shaoqi drank more than 20 bowls of wine, drank so much that Venus appeared in front of him, unconscious, and the whole person fell to the ground from the table with a pop, and was carried back by four pro-soldiers and slept for three days before he woke up. And Li Derun, since then, has become famous in the army, and no one dares to gamble and drink with him anymore.

Shi Lang also specially ordered this matter, "Drinking is a celebration, but it is a pleasure." But if you accidentally injure yourself for the sake of drinking, then there is a military justice department to take care of you! In the future, alcohol abuse was forbidden in the army! It is forbidden to gamble with Li Derun and drink alcohol! ”

The one who was called by Li Derun to be the old way was Shi Lang's chief secretary, and he was also the old man who had been following him since he was in Fujian, and his qualifications and loyalty were no problem, but this person could not go to the battlefield, and every time he went to war, his legs trembled like chaff. However, he is a good hand at handling general affairs in the camp. Shi Lang also applied according to his aptitude, so he made him a big secretary by his side, taking care of some general affairs such as food procurement.

Lao Lu also has a full understanding of Mr. Li's eating habits, and even smiled: "Mr. Li, we have a cured dog leg at night, I asked the kitchen to tear the dog leg into shredded meat, and stir-fry it with dried chili peppers, garlic slices, and green vegetables we brought from the south, which is very fragrant!" In addition, we are now in this Guangxin Mansion, not far from Jinhua Mansion. This Jinhua is famous for its ham! The commander has already instructed, I must let Mr. Li and the generals have a good taste, I let the little ones use a few hams to deal with a table of noodles, what stewed ham, steamed ham, gold and silver hooves, ham pigeon soup, honey above, ham stewed fish head, at night is a variety of ham dishes. ”

"That's it?" Li Derun was a little disdainful, his temper has always been more despised and less appreciated for all kinds of things that are admired by those who read.

"Mr. Li, don't worry. This Jinhua's ham is famous, and that is because of the local 'two black' pigs. Not to mention anything else, just this pork belly, the pork belly of the general pig, with five layers of meat and fat and skin and flowers, so it is called pork belly. However, the two-headed black produced here, as long as the weight is more than 200 catties, the two-headed black can reach seven to eight layers. It tastes moderately fat and thin, fragrant but not greasy, even if you don't like to eat fatty meat, it is probably difficult to refuse. ”

Sure enough, at dinner, the dishes were made with ham and two black pork as the main ingredients. Shi Lang, Li Derun and others all praised each other.

"Even for this ham, we can't give Zhejiang to the Tartars!" Hao Shaoqi grabbed a ham hoof in his hand, and shouted indistinctly while biting.

Li Derun used a large coarse porcelain bowl, full of a bowl of multigrain rice mixed with rice and sweet potatoes, and feasted there with the unusually sweet and delicious braised pork.

(Look at your little bit of interest!) A bowl of braised pork and a few hams will make you eat like this! Another reader expressed disdain. However, it's not that the author has shallow eyelids and hasn't seen the world, but the pork with two black heads is really good! Not to mention, in Japan, the two black heads are called "phantom dolphins", and have been pushed to the altar higher than the local famous pigs, Japan's Hirata Ranch commented on the two black heads: "There is a silky and delicate snowflake flesh that does not lose the Wagyu beef." "With the super narcissistic national character of the Japanese, they all have such respect for this pig, which can be seen. Today's Jinhua ham is reluctant to use it as an ingredient. If someone invites you to eat pork with two black heads, it means that your status in his mind is definitely different, because this kind of pork is sent to the international high-end conference table of the G20 Hangzhou Summit in Zhejiang. ）

In the blink of an eye, Li Derun's bowl of multigrain rice had reached the bottom, and he couldn't get enough of a loud burp, and went to the big wooden barrel full of rice with a big bowl to fill himself with a bowl. "Braised pork with rice, don't change it for a fairy!"

"Mr. Li, eat slowly, we have some braised pork, and there is a lot of rice!" Shi Lang is well aware of the behavioral characteristics of his right-hand man. Ask him what he drafted on what day, and he can immediately recite it to you, and at the same time, find out the original manuscript from a corner and show it to you. The comparison between the two can almost be done word for word. In addition, at a certain time, a certain unit, the combat situation, the key points of a certain city to conquer, how many enemies are destroyed, how many prisoners, as soon as the number is reached, it will also come as soon as it is opened, and the upper and lower levels will not exceed two digits.

However, just like the computer you play the chicken game, the speed and high-definition effect are bound to occupy a lot of memory space, and the same is true for this Mr. Li, who can't do without braised pork. According to his words, a bowl of braised pork is in the stomach, and the heart is immediately clear as a mirror.

In Shi Lang's opinion, this is probably like the new king Yangming of the previous dynasty, who howled in the middle of the night, and the whole army was shocked. Raising a group of heroic righteousness in the chest will also be able to achieve a great cause. However, there are many children of Confucianism and Confucianism, such as the sand of the Ganges River, and those who can really achieve Wang Yangming's achievements, even if it is about half, from the Ming Zhengde period, Chinese and foreign countries can be counted with only one hand.

In a blink of an eye, Li Derun ate twelve bowls of rice in one go, and the big pot of braised pork in front of him had already seen the bottom, gnawed half a ham hoof, and a few chili peppers were used by him to eat. The twelve bowls of rice alone, if you don't count the sweet potatoes in it, just take the rice, there are as many as five liters of rice.

This amount of food is all astonishing to everyone.

"A few days ago, Uncle Shaking Flag talked about Mr. Li, and we were still not convinced, thinking that Uncle Shaking Flag was old and the amount of alcohol was a lot worse. I met Mr. Li today, and then I realized that Mr. Li was Uncle Shaking the Flag at the beginning! Otherwise, with this amount of food, I am afraid that Uncle Shaking Flag will vomit blood from drinking, and he may not be able to win him! Several young officers couldn't help but be a little stunned when they looked at the pile of coarse porcelain bowls stacked high in front of Li Derun.

"Mr. Li, have you ever eaten enough?" Shi Lang saw that everyone present had gradually put down the dishes and chopsticks, and began to take out cigarette pouches and pipes, and put tobacco on them, only Li Derun was still there. That's when he asked.

"Eight points full. It's time to get to work! Li Derun rubbed his stomach with satisfaction.

"Then, Mr. Li, how should we fight this battle?!" A young officer asked him eagerly.