After taking off the military order, he went directly into his handsome tent, and one of the army masters was sorting out the copywriting, and when he saw the detachment striding in, he quickly got up and saluted.

He didn't return the salute, and went around to his seat, which was covered with a colorful tiger skin, which was offered by Miao Jun Yang Tongguan. "There have been changes in the recent transportation of grain and grass, will it be enough?"

"Back to Dashuai, the grain and grass sent today is only 20,000 stones, and the day before yesterday there was a shortage of 600 stones. At present, the grain and grass in the barracks can still meet the needs of the army for ten days. ”

"What does the Privy Council do? None of these things can be done well! Send a letter to the Privy Council and the Ministry of Letters, if the supply of the army is delayed, after the commander returns to Beijing, someone should change positions! ”

"Yes. Now hundreds of thousands of our army are gathered here, and the burden of the rear baggage transfer is very great, but the south of the Yangtze River is full of beacon fires, and it is impossible to raise food nearby, so it can only be transferred from the north of the river. The number of people needed in various places alone is as high as one million, and the vehicles and livestock needed are not counted, and it is difficult to complete such a heavy task if there is no competent person in the center to dispatch them. Therefore, the battle of Gaoyou should not be protracted. ”

"How many days can a thief and mustard live? This battle will be over in a few days! Totok said casually, and in his heart, he had already begun to think about how to continue to go south to exterminate Guo Zixing, Zhao Junyong, etc. after the Gaoyou War.

"Slaughter the city? It's really a slaughter! Yang Zhengheng, Yang Tongguan father and son gathered the young and strong in the township to form the Miao army, in response to the Yuan court to fight everywhere, because the Miao army fought bravely, repeatedly rewarded by the imperial court, the official positions of the father and son jumped rapidly, Yang Zhengheng has been awarded the right of Huguang, Yang Tongguan is the deputy marshal of Huguang.

It's just that the awards are rewarded, but there are not too many gold and silver benefits, and the Miao soldiers don't get much money and rewards, so after the war, the soldiers wantonly plundered the place is the Miao army's favorite way, and the Yang family father and son are just conniving, anyway, they are all the people of the Han family, what does he have to do with the Miao people?

Therefore, the military discipline of the Miao army has always had a very poor reputation, and many local officials hurriedly wrote to ask for reinforcements as soon as they heard that the Miao army was coming to help.

The Miao army was jubilant, as if Gaoyou City had been taken by it. Since it is a slaughter of the city, the gold and silver women in it are whatever they want. This kind of battle to encircle and suppress the enemy in a lonely city is the most loved by the Miao people, and as for the hard battle in the field, it can be avoided.

The soldiers of each battalion were smiling and flocked to the wooden fence of the camp, looking at the towering and heavy walls of Gaoyou City, looking forward to the good days of wanton plundering after entering the city.

"My lord, good news, the marshal has ordered the slaughter of the city, this time the sons and daughters can have a good meat!" Goryeo generals Li Quan, Lian Yichen, Quan Qian, Yuan Hao, Luo Yingjie, Jin Yong and several others rushed into the big tent in high spirits and told Liu Zhai, the chief general who was reading the copywriting before the case.

Before the right Cheng took off the southern expedition, he sent a special letter to Goryeo, and the letter said: I was ordered to go south, and Wang Yi left Yongrui to help him. When the lord of Goryeo was the king of Gongchou, in the early years of the Zheng Dynasty, the king of Gongchou had entered the capital of the Yuan Dynasty as a guard of the capital of Beijing, and later married the daughter of Polo Timur, the king of Wei in the Yuan court, and the eldest princess of the Lu Kingdom. In the 11th year of Zhizheng, he was named the lord of Goryeo by Emperor Yuan and returned to his homeland.

In order to repair the relationship with the Yuan court, King Gongchou sent Liu Zhai as the main general and Li Quan as the deputy general after receiving the order in August, and sent more than 20,000 Goryeo soldiers to Jianghuai by sea ship and joined the army of the marshal Tokto.

The Goryeo army traveled a long distance, expeditioned to the Central Plains, the soldiers were homesick, after joining the Jianghuai battlefield, they had fought hard several times, although the damage was not great, but as a guest army of the subject country, its status was far inferior to the Mongol and Semu army, only slightly higher than the status of the Han army, and the various baggage food rations were just to meet the food and clothing. Now, after more than a month, there are many complaints from top to bottom of the Goryeo army.

The Han Chinese were foreign people, and these Goryeo soldiers were not concerned about their life and death and the current situation, and it was not uncommon for them to be abducted and plundered after the war. Part of the intention of Tokhtar's military order today is to encourage these guest troops to fight more actively.

"I already know the order to slaughter the city, so why are you so excited?" Putting down the Chinese volume, Liu Zhai was not stunned.

Li Quan and the others were a little embarrassed, relieved the eagerness in their chests, and saluted in a deep voice: "The sons and daughters of the army have been out for many days, and in addition to marching and fighting every day, they are faced with some coarse grains and light rice, and the rewards and salaries in the army are all pitiful, everyone has been tired for a long time, and today's order of the commander has made our army uplift the spirits, and it is the time when the morale of the army is available!" ”

"The next time we attack the city, our department is willing to be the forerunner, not to take this city, and to accept military law!" The Lian Yichen, Quan Qian and other generals on Li Quan's side stepped forward one after another, vying for the errand of attacking the city.

Liu Zhai silently looked at the excited faces of the generals, and asked Cui Ying quietly: "What do you think of Lord Cui, the Great Protector?" ”

At this time, Cui Ying was promoted to the post of protector because of his meritorious contribution to pacifying Zhao Rixin's rebellion in the twelfth year of Yuan Zhizheng, that is, the first year of King Gongchou. In the fourteenth year of Zheng, he was promoted to the Great Protector, and because of his resolute temperament and courage to do things, the main general Liu Zhai attached great importance to him.

"The expedition of our army was originally in response to the call of the Shangyuan court, and I saw that Zhang Thief was already trapped in a lonely city, and the art of war cloud: the city is not defended without help, and the day of breaking the city will not be far away. As long as the armies take turns to attack, there will be no shortage of military exploits. Cui Ying said slowly, "The key is that the role of our army here is not just as simple as helping Yuan suppress bandits!" ”

"Hey, what do you say?" The generals were puzzled and turned their heads to look at Cui Ying.

"The last general is also unknown, please ask Lord Liu to solve your doubts." Cui Ying ignored the gazes of the generals, but looked straight at Liu Zhai, the main general sitting at the back of the case.

"Oh, what did General Choi find?" Liu Zhai's face was unwavering.

"Four days ago, the subordinates happened to be on shift duty at night, but suddenly a group of fresh faces came from outside the camp, and the subordinates inquired about their identities, and the other party just gave a waist card to the subordinates to present it to the adults immediately, and then the adults immediately called them into the camp at night to enter the account for secret talks, but an hour, these people quietly went out of the camp overnight. In the past few days, the adult's attitude towards how to break the city as soon as possible has obviously changed, and his subordinates dare to speculate whether it has something to do with the person who entered the camp? Cui Ying looked at Liu Zhai's face and said slowly.

"And what? Why didn't Master Cui mention it? ”

"My lord, is there something going on in my country?" The rapid rotation of the brain has been associated with the changes in domestic politics.

"Why did the Great Protector ask such a question?" Liu Zhai was noncommittal, and asked Cui Ying rhetorically.

"After all, my subordinates have served the Maharaja in front of the emperor for several years, and they are quite impressed by the burning man beside the Maharaja. The voice of the person who came was sharp, and although he tried his best to hide his voice and face, it was still difficult to get rid of the smell in the uterus. Goryeo is tens of millions of miles away, and it can't be from the country, so his subordinates dare to guess that it should be the fire man in the Dadu Palace. ”

"There are people from the palace here? Could it be that the queen has some secret edict? When the generals heard the news, they were all shocked, and they looked at each other, they didn't know what this Queen Qi was thinking, why did they want to send eunuchs in the palace to come here secretly?

Since Qi became the queen of Emperor Yuan, his family's status in Goryeo has skyrocketed, and his brother Qi Zhe has been appointed as the great Situ, which can be said to be the power of the government and the opposition, and many of the generals in the tent are taking his way, Liu Zhai is quite close to Qi Zhe. King Gongcho, the lord of Goryeo who returned to China at the beginning, was able to gain a firm foothold in the country with the help of the power of the Qi clan.

Only then did someone find that the curtain of the big tent had been lowered by Liu Zhai's personal guards, and two personal guards stood at the door with knives.

"Generals, please take a seat, what General Cui said is true, and the person who came the night before was a subordinate of the Senior Minister's envoy. Since you are all here today, I will tell you one by one, and whether this matter can succeed still needs your help! ”

The generals were confused for a while, and when they heard Liu Zhai's words, they sat down in the order of respect and inferiority, staring at Liu Zhai with their eyes, not knowing what could make him so solemn.

"There is a secret order from the Dadu Palace, asking me to wait for the secret preparations, one is to delay the progress of the siege as much as possible, the longer it drags on, the better, and the other is to make contingency preparations as soon as possible, and the main opponent of our army will no longer be the thief!" Liu Zhai smiled bitterly.

"What! Why is that? The generals were shocked, Liu Zhai's contrast between the front and back was so fast that he was caught off guard, in addition to Zhang Thief, who else could be the enemy of the Goryeo Army?

Cui Ying also frowned, could it be that there was another hidden meaning in this army expedition? I remembered that since the expedition, there have been several groups of unknown messengers in and out of the commander's tent in the camp, and the messengers have come and gone in a hurry, and they have not interviewed others, only Liu Zhai is alone. Cui Ying's heart became more and more uneasy.

Some of the generals in the Han army camp outside the city had dark faces, and when they heard the order of the three armies, they were all in a heavy mood. As a general of the Yuan Court, he was ordered to suppress the thieves, but the marshal was so powerful that it was too bloody.

Gong Bo sighed secretly in the face of Gaoyou City, Xuzhou has been slaughtered, the city is full of barren grass in a few years, there are more wild dogs than people in the city, a prosperous city has become a hell on earth in a blink of an eye, and now this Gaoyou City will also follow in its footsteps.

Deputy generals Zhang Kai and Yun Dahe walked over, and the three of them looked at each other speechlessly, just smiling bitterly.

"Da Shuai's move is also helpless, I just hope that the future thieves will not forcibly resist Wang Shi again!" Gong Bo muttered to himself.

"My lord's words are wishful thinking, I have traveled all the way, and I have seen with my own eyes that this rich land in Jianghuai should be rich in food and fish, but in fact, what is the difference between the people's livelihood and the north?" Deputy General Zhang Kai said in a low voice, "The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense! This is a military camp, be careful of the trouble coming out of your mouth! Deputy General Yun Dahe hurriedly persuaded.

"What Dahe said is that you have a reckless temperament and are open-mouthed, and you have suffered many losses before, why haven't you changed?" Gong Bo Zhengse said, "Last time in Xuzhou, you insisted on asking for the people of Xuzhou in public, but you committed a handsome tiger, if it weren't for your outstanding military achievements, the brothers pleaded for you, I was afraid that you would be killed by the rod on the spot." ”

"My lord, you also know very well, where those people are, they are clearly ordinary people, but some people only think about killing good people and risking their merits!"

"Shhhh The marshal didn't say anything against it at the time, so let's not be annoying! Yun Dahe looked at the left and right roads.

"If the city is broken this time, let's pay attention to capture more people, instead of being slaughtered, it is better to be a slave, and you can still save your life!" Gong Bo sighed, "If you save one person, let's do our best to obey the destiny of heaven!" ”

Yun Dahe said to Gong Bo: "The previous battle of Xuzhou. Brother Gong also persuaded the handsome to keep people under the sword and take back the order to slaughter the city, which only made the handsome man displeased, so that even the several great merits that should be included in the merit book were not included in the imperial court assessment, otherwise why would he still be condescended to a senate now? This time, everyone's hearts are cold, let's see how the battle develops. ”

Gong Bo smiled bitterly: "The two brothers also know the origin of so-and-so. After the reinstatement of the handsome, he was able to ask the emperor to reopen the imperial examination in the world, so that hundreds of millions of students in Shenzhou had the opportunity to serve the country and show their ambitions. Later, seeing the chaos in the world, the handsome man was worried day and night, so he resolutely switched to the Privy Council. After a few years of hard work, I have also done something. The sage cloud, the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by the spring, both read the sage book, and know the honor and disgrace, no matter how the handsome man treats, Gong will never abandon the handsome and go! ”

"We might as well send a message to ask Master Dong about this matter and hear his opinion?" Yunda River Road. The Lord Dong he was talking about was the Privy Council Judge Dong Junxiao.

Dong Luxiao's character Meng Qi, a native of Cizhou. Born by the son of the country, Shaanxi Xingtai Peng. In the eleventh year of Zheng, in addition to the general manager of Jining Road, he was ordered to follow the Pingzhang of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to attack Anfeng, during which he recruited his troops and fought with Liu Futong's department at night in Weishui. Because the official army rushed forward to cross the river, Liu was defeated. Dong Junxiao led the cavalry, don't cross the shallows to attack the thieves. After the big break, Fu'an Feng.

In the twelfth year of Zheng, Dong Junxiao attacked Haozhou again, and his fighting spirit was very strong. In Yanqiao, Fan Seven Battles, chased and killed the Red Turban Army to Qinghefang. Then Hangzhou was restored. Yuhang, Wukang, and Deqing are the first to be flat.

Until the fourteenth year, Dong Luxiao removed the water army and 10,000 households, and was promoted to the judge of the Privy Council. In the early stage, he and Zhang Shicheng fought in the water village between the two lakes of Dazong and Desheng.

This Dong Junxiao was born in the country, and he can be regarded as a person who abandoned his pen and followed Rong, and he has a close relationship with Gong Bo, and the two have a good relationship, Yun Dahe wants to hear his thoughts on Tu Gaoyou. Tokhtar attaches great importance to him, and perhaps he has some words of advice that can make the marshal change his mind a little.

There are many Han scholars gathered under Totoku, among which Jia Lu is the first to recommend the first, but unfortunately died of illness in Haozhou, Gong Bo specializes in military strategy and articles, while Dong Luxiao is capable of both civil and military affairs, Totoku praises his bravery, and wants to be of great use, if there is no accident, this time the suppression is inevitable, and Dong Luxiao's promotion is inevitable.