Soon after, the main force of the Xiangzhou Military Government had all landed, leaving only two ships and some soldiers on the south bank of Xiangyang, patrolling and preparing to respond.

The Huotou Army's movements were very fast, and the cooking was completed in an instant, and the three armies were all feasted and ready to do a big job next. Fang Cai's hearty victory greatly boosted the morale of this "new army." The navy made meritorious contributions, and the cavalry sergeants were eager to try, unwilling to lag behind.

Qin Mubai, Pang Fei and others were in the cabin of a military ship, studying the military sand table in the area of Xiangcheng in Dengzhou. The sand table is something that people who ride a hundred horses can do. One of the important tasks of the hundred cavalry spies sent out to inquire about the military situation is to come back to make a sand table. Mountains, rivers, cities, villages, and villages are all reflected in the sand table.

"It seems that this is the only way to get to the city. But there is a forest on the right side of the mountain, and there is a shallow stream ahead, although a temporary bridge can be crossed, which will not hinder the march of our army. However, the boundary here is dangerous, and it is often referred to in military books as 'the place of ambush'. Qin Mubai pointed to a boundary on the sand table, as if he was teaching Pang Fei, and said patiently, "If the enemy knows how to use tactics to set up an ambush, cut off the river in the upper reaches of this stream to store enough water, and set up ambushes on both sides of the narrow road to prepare fires for fire attacks. Then, our army is bound to be annihilated. ”

"Yes! The army is marching on the head, and it is extremely difficult to turn around. On such a narrow road, which is low in the middle and high on both sides, if we are attacked by arrows and fire, we will not be able to retreat at all, but can only run to the stream. Pang Fei said, "When the time comes, the enemy will dig up the river and release the water to flood, and it will be really a catastrophe." ”

"Draw inferences and be smart." Qin Mubai nodded in approval.

Pang Fei said: "Since this place is the only way for our army, and the enemy army is very likely to set up an ambush, how should we deal with it, do we want to avoid this road over the mountains and mountains?" In that case, the assault would be meaningless. By the time we get to Xiangzhou, it will take at least three or four more days. ”

"No, I have my own way." Qin Mubai smiled mysteriously, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a sergeant outside the cabin shouting: "Alert to the ship!" Crossbowmen prepare! ”

Everyone was shocked: strange, is it possible that the enemy still has troops on the waterway?

Just as he was about to send someone out to check and interrogate, someone from the outsider had already shouted: "What are you yelling at in shock!" You're blind! That's our very own Divine Fish Ship! ”

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Pang Fei, take a look." Didn't the boat stay on the south bank to answer the guard, why did it sail across the river without permission? ”

"Yes!"

Pang Fei came out of the armor and came to the lookout to take a look, and sure enough, it was indeed the military government's Shenyu spaceship sailing over, and both of them came. I couldn't see it from a distance, but I could only see the light reflected from the armor of the soldiers and horses on the deck of the ship.

"Strange, where are the soldiers and horses?" Pang Fei still wondered.

At this time, a boatload of shuttle clippers took the lead in rowing over quickly, and shouted loudly to the big boat overhead: "His Royal Highness King Wu led troops across the river to help!" ”

"What, King Wu?!" Qin Mubai also heard it in the cabin and walked out in surprise.

At this time, the two big ships came closer, and Li Ke standing at the bow could already be seen. Behind him stood two generals, Xue Rengui and Yin Yang, fully armed, clasped up and stubborn, and bowed to Qin Mubai with their fists.

There is also a "general", "supporting" a heavy weapon more than one person long phoenix wings gilded bell, wearing a mighty black and bright Xuantie Mountain armor, but two trembling staggering leaning on the side of the ship, vomiting wildly and dizzy - it is that Yuwen Hongtai.

Qin Mubai glanced at it, and the two ships carried at least a thousand men and horses, most of them cavalry. The personal soldiers of the royal palace are much more advanced than those of the military government. Good horses, good armor and good weapons, armed to the teeth, make the soldiers and soldiers wearing shabby cloth and leather armor jealous.

"Your Highness, why are you here?" Qin Mubai asked on the boat.

Li Ke laughed, and after the two boats approached, he stepped on the sampan and crossed the boat, and turned back and said: "Rengui, Yin Yang, you throw that guy who has no interest on the shore, don't be embarrassed here." told him not to come, but to come. ”

"Yes." Xue Rengui and Yin Yang smiled at Qin Mubai, and Yuwen Hongtai landed first on the left and right.

"Let's talk in the cabin!"

Li Ke motioned for Qin Mubai to come with him, and when the two entered the cabin, Li Ke smiled and said, "I think clearly." If you want to resist the purpose, then fight together. Even if I don't know how to resist, then I have to help you privately. These thousand cavalry are all the belongings in my palace that can be used, and the rest are all useless recruits. There are also three generals, all of whom are now under your command. ”

"Your Highness, isn't this appropriate?" Qin Mubai wrinkled his brows and said, "Chu Suiliang is still here, let him know, it's not good." ”

"Don't worry, he won't know." Li Ke smiled mysteriously and said, "Even if he knows, he will pretend not to know." ”

Qin Mubai understood, nodded and smiled: "Chu Suiliang, he is a reasonable and smart person." ”

"Yes! As early as when we were in Jiangzhou, didn't we know? Li Ke smiled, "Your men and horses are a little thinner after all." Although I know that you may have a hand in fighting, there are many people after all, but after all, there are not a bad thing. Moreover, Xue Rengui, Yin Yang, and Yuwen Hongtai are all familiar to you, and you must be handy in using them. Moreover, a soldier who does not fight a tough battle is not a good soldier. I also took this opportunity to let my group of soldiers who spent a lot of money temper it well. If you don't just look good and don't use rice buckets, you can let them rush to the front and die, but save me some money and food. ”

Qin Mubai knew that he was deliberately laughing at Gu Zuo, nodded and said gratefully, "Your Highness, thank you." ”

"Thanks for what." Li Ke smiled slightly, "Share the blessings and share the difficulties." You have blocked the big stake of resisting the decree and raising troops, what is it for me to fund you with a little soldier? Even if my father wants to blame me at that time, I will fight with you. A sin is shared between two people, and it will always be easier to do so. Of course, if there is no blame or credit, then it is better to follow you to get some benefits! ”

Qin Mubai laughed: "These thousand cavalry are almost all your belongings." In the past, if I asked you for a horse or a pair of armor, you would be stingy and refuse to give it, as if you were more serious than your own wife and concubine. Now they send a thousand men at once...... Are you really willing to do it? ”

Li Ke grinned indifferently: "What are these things for?" Isn't that what happens at this time? Stop talking nonsense, use your troops well and win as soon as possible! Actually, I really have itchy hands when I see you fighting, and I really want to fight side by side with you. But I also know that I am not this material for marching and fighting. Staying here is a burden. So, I have to support you behind you. You can rest assured, you just have to rest assured to gallop and fight, the grain, grass and armor, and the Thorn Shifu have arranged an unlimited supply for you, and they are responsible for sending them to your army! ”

"Okay, thank you so much!" Qin Mubai said gratefully, "I'm worried about this!" There has not been much cash in the military cantonment, which can last for ten days at most. I sent people to Wu Meiniang to borrow grain, but at this time, it was too difficult to find mule, horse, and horse vehicles and people who transported grain. If the time is prolonged, the follow-up supply is prone to problems. As long as the Assassin Mansion is willing to help, it really solves my worries! ”

"So, I'm still a little useful?" Li Ke raised his eyebrows and smiled playfully, and said, "Don't be kidding." Wu Meiniang's grain and grass had just been loaded into the treasury, how could it be poured out again? …… We want to get rich, but we can all count on that little thing! After the autumn, the Assassin Mansion collected a lot of official grain taxes, so it was not used at this time, and when was it stayed? ”

Qin Mubai smiled, and his heart was a little moved.

Although Li Ke said it lightly and humorously, his decisions were not easy to make. From this incident, Qin Mubai felt Li Ke's righteous anger.

Qin Mubai can resist the decree, because he is a general in command of the army, and he will not accept the orders of foreign monarchs, no matter how big the crime is, it will not be great, and this time he has found out Li Shimin's heart before resisting the will. Li Ke is different, he is a prince, he is suspicious and sensitive, and it takes great courage and courage to disobey his father's order to advance and retreat with Qin Mubai. He was unwilling to sit and let Qin Mubai clarify the facts and bear everything, so he chose to stand in the same trench as him.

Resisting the decree and disobeying the yang and the yin, these are all risky things after all, especially for a prince like him.

At this time, it is not so much that Li Ke provided a thousand soldiers and horses, but rather a "promise" sent - advancing and retreating together, sharing glory and disgrace!

At this point, Qin Mubai didn't want to say more, just looked at Li Ke solemnly and nodded seriously: "I will use the soldiers well, don't worry." ”

"Haha, many people praise you as a general, I really don't believe it." Li Ke said with a smile, "I seem to have heard that there are not many soldiers, but the application of the law." Li You has 30,000 horses, I gave you 1,000, and you only have 3,000. Everyone has to block ten ...... Hey, can you do it? No, don't be stubborn, I don't want to cross the river to collect your corpse when the time comes. ”

"It's unlucky!" Qin Mubai took a sip, "You better go back quickly, don't bewitch the people here and confuse our army." Those who confuse the hearts of the army, kill! You don't want to test if my military orders are strict, do you? ”

"Haha, General Qin is so majestic, I'm really a little afraid." Li Ke patted his chest and laughed, nodded, and said, "Then I'll leave." In a word...... Take care! ”

"Hmm......" Qin Mubai smiled and nodded.

Li Ke boarded the ship and headed for the south bank. He stood on the bow of the boat and looked at Qin Mubai, the two of them smiled tacitly, and there was righteousness in their eyes.

"It's a godsend." Pang Fei walked over and said with a smile, "Our military government is short of cavalry, although there are four hundred cavalry, but only fifty elite cavalry can really charge and sweep the formation. The rest are mediocre warriors. These cavalry in the palace are really good, at least they are well equipped and the horses are good. The three fierce generals who commanded the army were also very powerful, and they were brave enough to win the three armies. Belch...... It's just that Yuwen Hongtai has vomited like that, and I'm worried about whether he can ride a horse. ”

Qin Mubai said with a smile: "That bear is actually seasick, and he vomits as soon as he gets on the boat, which is even more difficult to serve than a woman or child." Let him rest for a while, and let him fill his stomach with good wine and meat, and he will be alive and kicking in a moment. ”

"Good!"

At this time, Xue Rengui and Yin Yang were on the boat, walked up to Qin Mubai, hugged their fists and bowed: "General Qin, the last general is waiting for the reprimand!" ”

"It's so good, I'm just employing people." Qin Mubai said with a smile, "One white, one red, one black, as soon as the three members of the palace stand up, they will first suppress the prestige of the enemy puppet army!" ”

Xue Rengui and Yin Yang laughed.

Xue Rengui was dressed in bright silver armor, a snow-bright silver silk robe, a steel helmet sprinkled with white tassels, and he was riding a white horse like snow; Yin Yang is dressed as a traditional palace general, with blood-red Mingguang armor and Chu red cloak and robe, riding a jujube horse; Yuwen Hongtai, a behemoth, has always been difficult to find a suitable Mingguang armor, and it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive to find someone to order it. With that spare money, he was willing to drink more. Anyway, he didn't pay attention to it, so he wore a set of black iron mountain armor, and the horse was also black and shiny. From head to toe, including the horse, it was blackened, and then carrying a phoenix-winged gilded bell that was more than one person long and weighed more than 100 catties, it was like a god King Kong.

Qin Mubai and the two of them chatted on the deck for a few words, and then saw Yuwen Hongtai running over on the shore and shouted, "Hey, General Qin, I'm fine!" When will the troops be dispatched, I can't wait! ”

"Haha!" Everyone laughed together. Qin Mubai said: "You eat and drink enough first, and someone will notify you later." ”

"Whoa! Hurry up! Yuwen Hongtai answered, and simply turned back and ran back.

At this time, Pang Fei said: "General, it's less than an hour before departure, so you still have to make a strategy, right?" Didn't Fang just say that the enemy puppet army might set up an ambush by the stream and river ahead? ”

"Okay, let's go into the cabin and watch the sand table!"

Everyone was discussing countermeasures in the cabin, and suddenly heard that the scouts sent to Dengzhou made a report and sent back important military information.

Qin Mubai unfolded the military report and was taken aback!

The secretary of the military department and the governor of Bingzhou were ordered by the emperor to lead 20,000 light cavalry to travel more than 300 miles in a day, galloping to Dengzhou to quell the rebellion. Within one day, that is, at the same time that Qin Mubai captured the Xinye Military Port, Li Tao's troops were divided into five routes, respectively by Xue Wanjun, the general of the Left Tunwei, Xue Wanche, the general of the Right Wuwei, He Li, the commander of the North Gate Garrison Inspection School, Qu Tutong's son Guo Yiduwei Qu Tuquan, and himself.

"Moving like a swift wind sweeping the forest, Mount Tai pressing the top, Li Tao, really powerful!" Qin Mubai was sincerely amazed, and he was really a little embarrassed.

People galloped from Chang'an, plundering troops thousands of miles to sweep the city, only in the blink of an eye; He is only separated from Dengzhou by a river, and he is actually lagging behind!

"Why did Li Tao come so quickly? The information report we received three days ago also said that there was no shadow of the Tang Dynasty officials and troops in Dengzhou. Pang Fei said in surprise, "Why did you suddenly smell it today, Li Tao swept Dengzhou in an instant, just waiting for the last urn to catch the turtle?" ”

Qin Mubai furrowed his brows, shook his head, and said: "This is like a hammer smashing tofu, when that hammer will be smashed down, and when the tofu will become sloppy, there is no suspense." ”

"That's right. Li Tao was a famous general of the dynasty, with great military achievements, supporting half of the northern Xinjiang alone, and was deeply relied on by His Majesty the Emperor, known as the 'Great Wall of the Tang Dynasty'. Pang Fei said, "Moreover, the person who served as his deputy, except for Qu Tuquan, a rising star, is not very famous, and the other three are all fierce generals who are brave and champion of the three armies!" No wonder, Li You's scattered rabble, where can they beat these people? ”

"Even the last general has already heard the names of those three generals." Xue Rengui said, "Especially Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche, two generals of the same sect, who are famous and have outstanding military achievements. I have long heard that these two brothers are both brave champions of the three armies, and they all rushed to the forefront immediately with swords, and the courage of the enemy was invincible! ”

Qin Mubai raised his hand to signal that they didn't need to say any more, and said, "It doesn't matter who is coming, the current situation is, what should we do next?" ”

Pang Fei thought for a while and said: "General, since the officers and soldiers sent by the imperial court have already cleaned up Li You, his fate can be imagined, is it necessary for us to continue to fight and compete with Li You?" It's better to leave it to them. Anyway, we also sent troops to attack the Xinye puppet army port, proving that we did not collude with the thief army! ”

Xue Rengui and Yin Yang were silent, waiting for Qin Mubai to decide.

Qin Mubai pondered for a while, and said secretly: I didn't expect Li Tao to come so quickly! I didn't expect that the emperor would make such a heavy hand and send a henchman and mainstay like Li Tao to gallop thousands of miles to quell the rebellion. It can be seen that Li Shimin most of them have an explanation for Li Tao. But the matter has come to this point, it is impossible to quietly retreat, and if it is traced afterwards, it can escape a charge of "rebellion" or "resistance to the will". Then I had to keep doing it, kill to the head of Xiangcheng, and let the facts prove to Li Tao! - Besides, there is still Ling'er in Xiangcheng, and the bandit leaders who are making trouble are his brother and uncle, if he doesn't go in person, how can he rest assured?

"Great army, march towards the city!"

Pang Fei was stunned, but didn't say much, and hugged his fists with Xue Rengui and Yin Yang: "No!" ——”

A military order is a military order, and it is meant to be obeyed. What's more, Pang Fei and the others have always had no doubts about Qin Mubai!

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[Lately, why are there only a few vexatious and vexatious book reviews left in the eggs?] Even the one who taught me how to make sentences and give me Chinese lessons came (it seems that it was the first time I encountered it, and I couldn't cry or laugh). There were few valuable book reviews, which led to the inability to send the essence, and it affected my passion and motivation to write books. Boredom and Thinking......]