"Yes, three thousand horses, how many times do we have to walk from the Jurchen to get it..."Jiang De is also red-eyed, not in ancient times, will not understand how rare war horses are, war horses are not ordinary horses, must be trained from an early age, not afraid of the sound of the golden gong, not afraid of the pain of the sword and body, it is difficult to pick out a truly qualified war horse among several horses, most of the horses can only be used as mules and horses, Liangshan's so-called war horses, put in the Liaojin two countries, many are unqualified, but this is also helpless, that is, in the Western Army, also lacking horses.

Therefore, the Huyan Zhuo Army, which has 3,000 war horses, has become the fat meat that Jiang De is bound to annex, you know, this is a war horse that can be used as a heavy cavalry, and it is a real first-class horse.

"The lord is moved by the heart of love?" Zhu Wu asked with a smile.

Love talent or love money, this is not clear.

"But that's the case, it's just that this Hu Yanzhuo has been a general for generations, and the Zhao official family is as kind to their family as a mountain, and it is not easy to rebel." Jiang De didn't think that he could have as good luck as Song Jiang, Song Jiang was able to surrender Hu Yanzhuo, half of it was to recruit an to help Hu Yanzhuo clear the crime of the defeated army in the future, not so much that Hu Yanzhuo surrendered to Song Jiang, but that Hu Yanzhuo took a curve to save the country, and used another method to pacify Liangshan, if you think about it carefully, you will find that since Hu Yanzhuo and a large number of imperial generals went to Liangshan, Song Jiang's plan to recruit an has a group of firm supporters. Otherwise, Song Jiang dared to say in front of Lin Chong that he would try Zhao'an once, and Lin Chong would not dare to fight for the second time.

Xu Guanzhong thought for a moment and said with a smile: "If you want to recruit this, it is not difficult to call Yanzhuo." ”

"Oh? Strategist, please speak clearly! As soon as Jiang De heard that there was an opportunity, he immediately said with some excitement.

"This Hu Yanzhuo is a family of Jiangmen, since the founding of the country, the prevention of Jiangmen is more useful, I think that the Yang family that is as famous as the Huyan family, if it is not for Fan Gong, I am afraid that as early as the Renzong period, I will not be able to hold the Tianbo Yang Mansion, and now it will be outside, I believe that there must be someone in the court staring at Hu Yanzhuo, as long as we use a little trick, we are not afraid that Hu Yanzhuo will not be separated from the court." Xu Guanzhong clearly understood the dispute between the Chinese and martial arts of the imperial court, and knew that the biggest danger to Hu Yanzhuo actually came from the imperial court.

Jiang De nodded, when he arrived in Bianliang, he also wanted to find Tianbo Mansion, and it was also a dream of listening to the Yang family when he was a child, but when he arrived, he realized that Tianbo Mansion was not called Tianbo Mansion at all, but Tianbo Yang Mansion, Tianbo was actually the name of the city gate, because Yang Mansion was close to Tianbo Gate, so it was called Tianbo Yang Mansion, and Tianbo Yang Mansion was completely lost when Shenzong was in Shenzong, not because of anything else, but because the Yang family had declined, and there was not a single high-ranking official in the mansion, how could you keep such a big mansion, and you are not surnamed Zhao!

You must know that Yang Wenguang, the last well-known warrior of the Yang family, was still a palace when he was forty or fifty years old, what kind of position is this? If you want to compare, Xu Ning is stronger than him.

And Yang Wenguang's later rise was half valued by Fan Zhongyan, and half was Song Yingzong's heroic complex, thinking that he was a famous family and could be used, even so, when he was in his sixties, he was still a regimental training envoy, and Han Tao had a position as the second general. It can be seen how far the Yang family has fallen.

"If you want the court to have an opinion on it, you have to fight it first, send someone to send the war book down the mountain, I'll try to see this Hu Yanzhuo and Ma Jun's catties first, and then talk about it later!" Jiang De waved his hand and decided to fight first, firstly, to practice the soldiers, and secondly, to see what the legendary heavy cavalry chain horse looked like.

For the general, when you know yourself and know the other, you can not be defeated in a hundred battles, this is a famous saying of the soldiers, Hu Yanzhuo has been familiar with the military book since he was a child, and naturally knows this truth, so that after the army set up camp, he took a number of horses, disguised as a merchant, and prepared to explore the terrain of Liangshan.

After walking around, Hu Yanzhuo saw that this Liangshan Shui Bo was really difficult to cross, and he couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself for letting the states prepare ships in advance, otherwise this battle would be difficult to fight.

At this time, several people came to a village, and Hu Yanzhuo saw that this village was spring ploughing, and couldn't help but say, "Where is this place?" We are about to go to war, but these people are still farming, which shows that the local officials are attentive. ”

"This is Yuncheng County!" The man next to him replied.

Jincai Town, where Hu Yanzhuo is stationed, is actually next to Yuncheng County, and it is normal to arrive in Yuncheng.

"Let's go, I'll wait to take a look in the village, and by the way, I will inquire about the situation in this Liangshan." Hu Yanzhuo dismounted and led him to the village, and Hu Yantong and several people could only follow when they saw this.

In order to pretend to be merchants, several people did not wear battle armor, but the iron whip was carried, but it was disguised, and there were still a lot of goods on the backs of the accompanying mules, which were decent.

Hu Yanzhuo walked to an old farmer resting on the ridge, arched his hand and asked, "Old man, I am waiting for a merchant from the west, I heard that there is about to be a war here, I want to ask if the road to Yunzhou can still be walked?" ”

The old farmer glanced at Hu Yanzhuo, was suddenly startled, stood up and looked at it suspiciously, and then said with a strange face, "I have been living here for a long time, male farmer and female weaving, self-sufficient, but I don't know what is going on outside, what?" Going to war? ”

Hu Yanzhuo was stunned for a moment, after a long time, the people here didn't know that this neighborhood was about to become a battlefield, and he thought that these people were too confident in themselves, so he said kindly, "Yes, old man, I came from Caijin Town, there are all big military camps, and there are many horses, I don't dare to approach, so I took a detour to this side." ”

The old farmer sighed, turned his back, rolled his eyes and said, "Little Lao'er doesn't know if this road can be walked, but this is a plain, and there is always a way to go." ”

Hu Yanzhuo said yes, and took out a small gourd from his arms, as soon as he opened it, a smell of wine wafted out, he took a sip of it himself, and then said to the back, "Let's rest first, old man, I'll talk about it later, come, you also have a sip?" ”

The old farmer was a little impatient and said, "You wait for the merchants, I want to farm, but this is the time for spring ploughing, where is there so much time to talk to you, go quickly, don't quarrel with me." ”

As he spoke, the old peasant went down to work in the fields.

Hu Yantong was about to get angry when he saw it, so he rushed forward and grabbed the old farmer and threw it on the ridge, scolding, "My brother hasn't spoken yet, what are you going to do?" ”

Hu Yantong is a military general, his arms have the strength of a thousand catties, the old farmer only felt dizzy and was thrown to the ground, and Hu Yantong saw that he was old and collected some strength, otherwise this fall, the old farmer should also prepare for the future.

"Hit someone! Strangers beat people! Hurry up!! Several farmers who had been watching next to him saw Hu Yantong move their hands, and Hu Yanzhuo was also a tall man, so he didn't dare to step forward directly, but shouted to each other, and then surrounded them with farm tools.

A young man pointed at Hu Yantong and shouted, "That black thief, you are about to let go of Uncle Huang!" ”

Hu Yanzhuo saw that there were more and more people, there were already twenty or thirty numbers, knowing that Hu Yantong was in trouble, he kicked Hu Yantong angrily, then helped the old farmer, and said to the surrounding farmers, "We are all merchants and good people, but my younger brother is reckless, don't be surprised... So, how about I wait and go now? ”

"You want to leave when you hit someone? You must apologize to Uncle Huang! Uncle Huang, are you okay? Let me tell you, Uncle Huang is the deputy director of our agricultural technology station, and if you want to break him, you have to drag you to see Master Chen! ”

When Hu Yanzhuo heard this, he was a little puzzled, what is this agricultural technology station? But he also understood that the person his brother fell to was not an ordinary farmer, probably a squire or something, but he also had his own pride, so he said to Huyan Channel, "The person you beat, quickly apologize and solve it." ”

Hu Yantong suddenly jumped up: "Big... Shopkeeper's! I.. How could I possibly apologize to him? Great, I'll just have some money with me. ”

As he spoke, Hu Yantong took out some broken silver from his arms, handed it to Uncle Huang and said, "Here you go, we've cleared the two!" ”

Uncle Huang gritted his teeth and shouted in pain, while borrowing money and waving to the people around him, "Hurry.. Let them go! ”

Hu Yantong snorted and said, "That's it, hurry up and get out of the way, I'm not a Liangshan thief, what are you doing around?" ”

One of the people in the crowd laughed and said, "If you are a good man in Liangshan, where will you treat Uncle Huang like this?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo also smiled and said, "What the little brother said is that if I wait for the Liangshan thieves, I'm afraid you will all die." ”

"Phew! What kind of unconscionable are you waiting for the dog to say? The heroes of Liangshan are in the sky..."

"Let them go!!" Uncle Huang, who had not yet recovered his breath, was anxious, and hurriedly shouted, scaring the man's words back.

Uncle Huang said to Hu Yanzhuo with a gloomy face, "This military master, we are all law-abiding people, I can't help you anything, please leave." ”

Military master?

The farmers, who had just gathered together, suddenly took a breath and took a step back.

Hu Yanzhuo looked at the expressions of the people around him, and only felt extremely weird, why weren't you afraid when you just said that Liangshan was a thief, but when you talked about the officers and soldiers, you were so afraid, and then turned around and asked, "How do you know our identity?" ”

Uncle Huang said hehehe, "Little Lao'er has lived for sixty or seventy years, but there are many people who have seen it, but I have never seen a trader who can have such a good horse." ”

Hu Yanzhuo looked at his horse, and couldn't help laughing, indeed, when he went to visit the official family by himself, the official family heard that he was a famous family, and he specially rewarded it, and there is also a name, called Kicking Snow Black Horse, it is said that it is the same breed as Xiang Yu and Zhang Fei's war horses in the past, because Hu Yanzhuo is also extremely cherished, and he never wants to leave lightly on weekdays.

"I'm indeed an official soldier, so don't be afraid, uncle, this matter is what I'm waiting for, I want to ask, is this Liangshan thief powerful? How many soldiers and horses are there on Liangshan? ”

Uncle Huang lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said, "Master Hui, I am waiting to farm here, but I haven't seen any Liangshan thieves, so I don't think there are many." ”

"Nonsense! Didn't that person just say Liangshan or something? Hu Yantong shouted, frightened Uncle Huang's face changed a few times, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "The child heard about some ups and downs outside, so he bragged here, where can he take it seriously, if the military master hears such a news, I am afraid that he will be punished by the officials." ”

"What did you say?" Hu Yantong wanted to make a move again, but was grabbed by Hu Yanzhuo, Hu Yanzhuo glared angrily, "Do you still want to get into trouble?" ”

Hu Yantong saw that Hu Yanzhuo was really angry, so he snorted, turned his head, Hu Yanzhuo arched his hand to Uncle Huang, thanked him, and then left with someone. Uncle Huang looked at the back of Hu Yanzhuo and the others leaving, and said to a young farmer next to him, "Quick, pass the news of the appearance of officers and soldiers spies to the shopkeeper Zhu, don't miss the big things on the mountain." ”

"Uncle Huang, Liangshan is in trouble this time, can I go up the mountain? Or you can talk to my father, and I'll go up the mountain. ”

"You! Just thinking about going up the mountain... No, your family is the only seedling of you, if something happens, how can I explain to your ancestors and ancestors! Go and come back quickly, if your father and I don't agree, do you think the mountain will accept you? ”

The young man sighed helplessly, and after being kicked by Uncle Huang again, he left quickly.

Hu Yanzhuo on the other side, walking on the road, suddenly sighed and said, "It seems that the Liangshan thieves are really difficult to deal with." ”

"Why did the general say such a thing?" A soldier next to him asked puzzled.

"Didn't you just see that? The people here are not afraid of Liangshan but afraid of officers and soldiers, it can be seen that Liangshan has won the hearts of the people here, what do ordinary bandits want to do in people's hearts? I expect that this Liangshan thief will have great ambitions, so I guess it's not easy to deal with, let's go, let's go back first! ”

Back in the military village, Hu Yanzhuo saw that the second general Han Tao was waiting for him, so he asked, "What?" What's going on? ”

"My lord, Liangshan sent someone to pass down the war book, and about three days later, he will hunt fifteen miles east of Yuncheng County." Han Tao took out a letter and handed it to Hu Yanzhuo.

Hu Yanzhuo opened it and looked at it, and said with a smile, "I was still worried that this Liangshan thief wouldn't come down on the mountain, but I didn't expect to dare to take the initiative to fight, I came just in time, I want to see how capable they are!" Command the three armies, trim for three days, and prepare for a decisive battle! ”

Peng Xi arched his hand and said, "General, the thief reacted like this, I'm afraid of fraud." ”

"It's all right, I've seen that place today, but it's a plain, only a few hills, and there will be no ambushes."

When everyone saw that Hu Yanzhuo had an idea, they prepared to go.

Three days later, Hu Yanzhuo ordered several generals of the Xiang army who came from the prefecture and county to lead 3,000 people to guard the village, and sent another 2,000 people to guard the water village to prevent Liangshan from grabbing ships, and he took 15,000 soldiers and horses to the agreed battlefield.

After walking for a while, he saw a large array lined up, Hu Yanzhuo estimated it, and said, "Good guy, there are actually 10,000 people, it's really a giant." ”

Looking at this big array again, I found that there were three big flags in the middle, one side was written for the heavens, one side was written to protect the people, and the word Liangshan was written on the middle side, which was also majestic.

Jiang De was in the formation at this time, and when he saw Hu Yanzhuo's army marching, the formation was not chaotic, and thousands of cavalry echoed left and right, so he couldn't help nodding secretly, and Zhu Wu next to him sighed, "I originally wanted to let the head of Qin raid it, but fortunately, the owner of the village stopped it, otherwise it will definitely fall into this army." ”

"Tens of thousands of troops are fighting, and hundreds of cavalry can only be used at critical moments... Xu Jiaotou, there are a lot of enemy cavalry, and this battle is not easy, but you have to rely on your sickle hook gun. Jiang De said to Xu Ning with some apprehension, although in the original book, Xu Ning is the nemesis of the chain horse, but after all, on the real battlefield, few people can stabilize the formation and cut the horse's legs in the face of the impact of thousands of heavy horses.

"Please rest assured!" Xu Ning said confidently, at this time, Hu Yanzhuo had already set up a formation, the two armies slowly approached, and then each shot his own position, Xu Guanzhong said, "Lord, this is going to shout to you." ”

Jiang De looked at it, and sure enough, he saw a general leading the troops out of the formation, only to see that this would be about thirty years old, riding a yellow horse, holding a jujube mallet, and said with a smile, "This is Han Tao, let's see what he can say." ”