August 25th. Outside Wanping County.

In the eyes of Shouhan, at this time, the Lugou bridgehead had not yet stood up Jin Hongli's hand scribbled everywhere, oh, it seems that his hobby has been well inherited by some later national leaders. Shouhan remembers that he had seen an inscription in many scenic spots.

It seems that the scope of the inscription is so wide that it can be described as not being a picky eater.

After receiving the documents sent by the Ministry of War, Shouhan ordered the artillery team, baggage and those volunteers to escort the supplies and supplies slowly to the capital, and led more than 2,000 soldiers to the west, straight to Wanping County, set up camp on the bank of the Yongding River, and waited for Lu Xiangsheng's arrival.

The magistrate of Wanping County is also quite clever, seeing that the Nanzhong Army came here to greet Governor Lu, he had to prepare pigs, sheep, wine, meat, grain and rice to prepare for the labor army.

"Lord, the side horse sentry rode to report that Lord Lu's team had passed Zhu's tomb, and the striker had arrived at Changxindian, not far from here."

Hearing Huang Yishan's advice, Shouhan threw his pen on the table, "Anyone in the camp who is not worthy of duty, all those who can ride horses, all get on the horse and go to meet Governor Lu!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the horses neighed like dragons.

Shouhan led more than 1,500 of his subordinates, rode his horse and stood at the head of the Lugou bridge, facing the southwest, to meet Lu Xiangsheng, who was marching all the way from Zhending Mansion.

The smoke and dust were billowing in the distance, and more than a dozen fast horses galloped forward, rushing to the front, which was the scout of the Nanzhong army.

"Lord Lu heard that the lord is waiting here, and he has already led his own soldiers to fly horses, and it is only a few miles away!"

People's vision soon appeared densely packed with flags and honor guards. A series of titles such as "Ci Shang Fang Sword", "Squire of the Military Department", and "Prime Minister of Military Affairs of the Seven Provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi" dazzled people. Behind the official rank flag, the flag officer held a large flag, embroidered with a big Lu character in the white moonlight on a red background. Under the banner corner, Lu Xiangsheng, the new governor of Xuanda, was escorted by a group of soldiers in bright armor and dark armor, urging his beloved war horse Wumingji to fly over.

Behind him was Chen An, the leader of his own soldiers, and his younger brothers Lu Xiangguan, Lu Xiangjin, and Lu Xiangtong. Most of the cavalry behind him were the Tianxiong army trained by him.

Soon. The flag guard of honor stopped far away. Separate to both sides, revealing Lu Xiangsheng and others riding a healthy horse in the middle. Lu Xiangsheng rode his horse and walked a few steps, then jumped off the war horse and walked towards Shouhan.

"This must be Lord Li Shouhan Li who killed and injured tens of thousands of Jiannu in the canal and beheaded 6,000, right?"

Lu Xiangsheng identified at a glance Li Shouhan, who was at the forefront of the horse team like a moon held by everyone.

"It's Shouhan. The word adult is ashamed. In the eyes of everyone in the court. Li is just a mere fifth-rank hereditary garrison of a thousand households. It's not worth the word adult. ”

I can hear what Shouhan said. Lu Xiangsheng knew that the Southern Chinese Army must be angry, otherwise, as the commander of Li Shouhan's army. Never say anything like that.

At this moment, Shouhan also carefully looked at this figure who was a figure that many historical inventors in later generations did not dare to slander casually. Lu Xiangsheng and Li Shouhan are the same age, both in their thirties, and Lu Xiangsheng is the image of a standard Jiangnan scholar, fair and thin.

Shouhan is a little strange, such a body, how can there be so much strength, the history books record that he is extremely powerful, excellent martial arts, can wield a seventy-pound sword like flying, what is even more rare is to be born in the name of Jinshi, but it is to train a Tianxiong army that made Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who is still wandering in the northwest, and the later Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers pay a huge price. Being able to share weal and butter with the soldiers and charge into battle together can really be regarded as a strange person and a cow!

And Lu Xiangsheng's eyes also looked at Li Shouhan, who became famous in one fell swoop. Probably out of respect for Lu Xiangsheng's arrival, he deliberately wore a cuirass with narrow sleeves and a buttoned military uniform, and unlike the others, he did not have those stars and yellow-red strips of cloth on his cuffs. He wears a six-in-one hat made of muslin on his head, presumably for use when wearing an iron helmet.

The more than 1,000 cavalry behind him were all helmets and armor, leading their horses to stand on both sides of the road. The horse was quite fat, and it seemed a little incongruous with the generally short soldiers of the Southern Central Army.

And his personal general Chen An and several younger brothers were attracted by the military appearance of the Nanzhong Army, whether it was the horses that could be judged to be high-grade war horses at a glance, or the armor on the soldiers' bodies and the knives and guns in their hands, they all silently showed that this army could give Jiannu unprecedented killing, and it was definitely not in vain. What's even more amazing is that Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates have always boasted that the Tianxiong Army is the best soldier in the world, but when they are lined up, they often laugh and talk endlessly. And the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Nanzhong Army in front of them, except for the occasional neighing of war horses one or two, turned out to be silent, if it weren't for the fact that these people's eyes moved with the pace of Lu Xiangsheng and Li Shouhan, they really thought that this was a group of clay puppets.

The three armies do not know how many horses are numerous, and it is suspected that Yinshan is moving.

In a short period of time, this poem from his predecessors suddenly appeared in Lu Xiangsheng's mind.

Back then, I thought that Qi Shaobao's training of Qi's army was already the best soldiers in the world, but I didn't expect that there were more elite soldiers besides elite soldiers.

"Lord Lu, this is my barracks, I have ordered someone to arrange the barracks of your department, such as food, tents, forage, etc., so I ask your subordinates to temporarily aggrieved these days and hand it over to Shouhan to handle the supply."

Lu Xiangsheng and Li Shouhan had just walked into the gate of the camp, and listened to Shouhan guide him to the camping place of the Tianxiong Army and his own soldiers. Following Shouhan's fingers, along the open space between the Yongding River and Wanping County, a large camp has been set up. A road runs through it, and it is thought to be the boundary between the two armies. Hundreds of tents have been erected in the open space south of the road, and from time to time there are people who look like auxiliary soldiers coming in and out. I think it's to perfect some details.

"This, Lord Li is really too polite."

If others treated Lu Xiangsheng like this, he and his subordinates would probably think that they were deliberately arguing in their hearts, but what did this Li Shouhan in front of him ask for a governor of Xuanda who had not yet had time to take office?

It was Chen An, the pro-general, who scolded in a low voice in his heart. "Spicy Block Mommy! With so many tents and so many horses, they can really be looted! ”

Before everyone had time to take a closer look at the camp, a terrible shout suddenly sounded in their ears.

"Lord Lu! Help me! ”

"Help! Lord Lu! ”

"The next official is the soldier Langzhong, my lord, please save me and wait for help!"

In the camp on the side of the Southern Chinese Army, several people in official robes were tied to several wooden stakes, and more than two dozen people who looked like soldiers knelt on the ground around the wooden stakes.

There were more than a dozen Nanzhong soldiers around with guns or guns in their hands, and they were beaten and beaten from time to time.

"Brother Shouhan, what is this?"

"These people claim to be Lang Zhong of the Ministry of War and the Imperial History of the Imperial Historical Observatory, and they went to my camp in Tongzhou to inspect the heads."

"Lord Lu. Xia Guan and the others went to Lord Li's camp to test the first level of military merit by holy order! was innocently tied up and beaten by General Li. Please make decisions for your subordinates! ”

Because Lu Xiangsheng has the title of squire of the Ministry of War, and he can be regarded as the boss of these officials of the Ministry of War, he feels the need to understand this matter. It's also good to pave a step down for Shouhan.

"What the hell is it for?!"

Although the tone is peaceful. But there is a hint of majesty.

"Lord Lu. This group of thieves and birds arrived at the Tongzhou camp of our army, and it happened that my lord arrived in Wanping to greet you, and this group of birds acted recklessly in the camp. It is also said that the weapons, mules, and horses captured by our army should be handed over, and it is also said that the heads we have captured are not real slaves, and they should belong to killing good and risking merit. He also insulted the coffins of the dead of our army, and then extorted bribes, and the brothers of the baggage battalion could not be the master, so they invited them to come here to discuss with the lord of my family. After not thinking about this, these silverfish became even more violent, and even asked my lord to kneel outside the camp gate to greet him with the courtesy of his subordinates. and a filial piety of at least two hundred taels of silver for each person. ”

"Joke! No matter how small the official position is, it is also a fifth-grade official, you are only a sixth-grade official, and you dare to ask Lao Tzu to kneel to you?! After waiting for Wang Bao to finish talking about the antecedents, the guards on the side opened his mouth coldly. A certain family ordered his subordinates to show the silverfish led by these people in this flail to set an example. It's okay to insult me, you can't insult the heroic souls of our army who died in battle, and you can't use the achievements of our army to ask me for bribes! ”

"That's it! If you want money, let your wife and daughter come and sleep with Lao Tzu for one night, and Lao Tzu will have silver dollars for you! ”

Several soldiers waved the guns in their hands and made a gesture to whip, but Huang Yishan stopped them with his eyes.

Lu Xiangsheng and the others had a clear heart, and they also guessed seven or eight points about the origin of this matter.

Since the civil engineering change, the three-legged situation of Chinese officials, military generals, and honorable nobles in the power structure of the Ming Dynasty has been broken, and a situation of civilian officials being the dominant family has gradually formed. is a petty officer in charge of grain of six or seven grades, and he dares to accept the bow and kowtow of the second-grade general soldier.

The Ming army falsely reported the merits of the war, killing the good and risking the merits is common, these soldiers Langzhong, the chief, the imperial history want to guess according to common sense, that even if the Nanzhong army really won the number of up to 6,000 Qing soldiers, there are few of them must be used to shave the heads of women or Ming people after shaving their hair, if the investigation will come out, just can knock on the Nanzhong Army a filial piety, each head first look at the braided hair, then look at the face, and finally look at the teeth, but also to the sun left and right, carefully pondered. I didn't expect that one was a real slave, and another was still a real slave, so the adults of the imperial history began to pick bones in the eggs, but such a trick is naturally invincible when used on others, but when it is used on this master, it is a tragedy.

"If that's the case?"

"Not only that, but when these lords of the military department saw that a certain family refused to bend their knees, they made threats, threatening that if they refused to give money, first, our army's military exploits might not be confirmed, and second, there would be no food and salary supply. Joke! Lao Tzu traveled 8,000 miles to King Qin, but has he ever eaten a grain of rice from you? Have I used a penny of your money?! Your military rations mixed with 30% of sand and gravel, you might as well keep them for yourself! ”

Shouhan's words aroused the resonance of the Tianxiong army, for these officials and silverfish, they also hated it to the bone, bleeding and sweating desperately on the battle array, and the military merits obtained were also blackmailed by them, and they were twisted and deducted. The eyes of everyone looking at the military department and others were full of schadenfreude.

Lu Xiangsheng coughed, "Master Li." There is indeed something wrong with everyone in this generation, and Lu will also be impeached. However, after all, they are under the emperor's order, and it is inappropriate to treat them like this. It's better to send them back to Beijing, and after staying in Tianjin, I will definitely give them tomorrow and give my brother justice. How is it? ”

Lu Xiangsheng opened his mouth, and Shouhan naturally knew the meaning of the song when he heard the strings, and motioned to the soldiers to untie the ropes of the group of people.

"Insulting Sven. Degrading ......"

"The lower official is the imperial history. has always been as clean as water, but today he was beaten so indecently, and after returning to Beijing, he must impeach you as a vulgar martial artist! ”

There is a way that the meat is rotten and the mouth is not rotten, and there is Lu Xiangsheng here. Of course, Li Shouhan will not let them be tied up and beaten again. Naturally, this group of people had to get the scene back on their lips.

"Stop them!"

Order. A dozen pikemen crossed the barrels of their guns, blocking the group's path. The soldiers on the side also drew their swords in their hands, just waiting for the Shouhan to give an order.

Behold, another calamity comes out of the mouth. This group of people who were still pretentious with iron bones suddenly collapsed to the ground.

"Are you as clear as water? Are you the Iron Mask? ”

Shouhan bent down, a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Liang Tingdong blackmailed me that day, I sued him, let him be careful, don't ask for a knife, today Lord Lu and I are going to take his head to correct the law of the country. You Qing officials, beware of the clamping stick of the pacification division in the future! If you are still a clean official in front of that thing, I admire your bones! ”

"Get out!"

The confused Yushi and Langzhong were driven out of the gate by the Nanzhong Army.

"Brother Han, what kind of soothing division, clamping stick?"

Lu Xiangsheng asked Shouhan in a low voice.

"It's nothing, just some threatening words."

Shouhan secretly said, will I sue you that Li Zicheng entered Beijing and established the Biyu Zhenfu Division, made 3,000 pairs of clamping sticks, and plundered countless silver taels from these officials?

"The husband only holds the Wu hook in his hand, and his spirit is higher than that of a hundred-foot building; Who has written history for 10,000 years, and wants to be a marquis 8,000 miles away; The ambition of going out of the mountain is to climb to the top, and when will he enter the phoenix pond; If there is no horse high car day, swear not to return to the hometown car; Today's pavilion must be the day, and it is when I serve the country with blood; The horse is out of the group and the love stack, and the old base of Yan is more new; Friends with well-known people at home and abroad, and go to visit Beijing to have Taoists. ”

In Shouhan's big tent, Lu Xiangsheng picked up a letterhead on the bookcase with great interest, on which was a poem written by Shouhan with crooked brush characters, which was his shameless plagiarized work. However, this time it was Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang who were plagiarized.

"The artistic conception in the poem is good, it can be described as heroic, but it's a pity that the taste of fame and fortune is too heavy." In front of a jinshi like Lu Xiangsheng, the poem plagiarized by Shouhan is naturally difficult to get into the eyes of the law.

However, in the face of Shouhan's affection, Lu Xiangsheng was not good at criticizing Shouhan.

As soon as they settled down, the auxiliary soldiers of the Nanzhong Army brought hot dishes and hot rice, buckets of rice, baked flatbread, fragrant stewed meat and fish, which made the eyes of the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army shine.

Even the forage of the war horse was carefully placed in the manger, how could Lu Xiangsheng open his mouth to point out the shortcomings of the poetry for Shouhan?

In this mood, Lu Xiangsheng's generals had dinner with the generals of the Nanzhong Army in the big tent of guarding the Han Dynasty.

Contrary to the ideas of Lu Xiangsheng and his younger brothers, Chen An and others, since ordinary soldiers are all rice pipes, a big bowl of stewed broth, and such a luxurious military camp dinner, then Li Shouhan, as the commander-in-chief, should be entertained?

However, when dinner was served, it was a big surprise to Lu Xiangsheng and others.

Compared to the food outside, it is no different. The slight difference is that it is made more delicately, and it is not restricted, and you can eat as much as you want.

This point was greatly appreciated by Lu Xiangsheng and others.

The Tianxiong Army itself was formed by many social relationships such as relatives, friends, teachers and students, which was very similar to the Xianghuai Army in later generations. Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng himself is also able to lead by example, and truly achieve that the military cooks will not be hungry. When fighting with the peasant army in the south, there was a three-day food shortage, and he took the lead in setting an example and starving together with the soldiers.

Not to mention the Liaodong Governor who went from extreme poverty to the rich in Guangdong.

Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiangguan put down his rice bowl and breathed a long sigh of relief, "Since going north, this is the best and most comfortable meal." ”

Lu Xiangjin on the side, Lu Xiangtong also nodded yes.

Chen An, the leader of Lu Xiangsheng's personal army, stared at the cuirass on the generals of the South Central Army opposite without blinking, and then looked down at the meat and rice on the plate and in the bowl.

"Don't be surprised Lord Li, this group of subordinates of Xiaguan followed Xiaguan in the wind and rain, and in the water and fire, and they were also arrogant and indulged by someone Lu."

Shouhan raised his head and looked around the generals of the Tianxiong Army in the tent, all of these people were weathered, and most of the armor on their bodies was dark, it could be seen that the supply of Lu Xiangsheng's elite soldiers trained by one hand was not very good, and the sound of frantic chewing and swallowing came from outside the tent, which also explained this from another direction.

Alas! Shouhan sighed quietly.

He called Wang Bao in a low voice, and the low voice commanded a few words in his ear, and Wang Bao took the order to leave the tent.

During the banquet, some of Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates praised the great military exploits of the Nanzhong Army, and Shouhan also smiled and accepted these praises one by one.

However, Huang Yishan, Tang Chang, Gao Liu and others on the side were secretly anxious, and they had a premonition of the inner thoughts of these people from the almost fiery eyes of the officers of the Tianxiong Army. (To be continued......)