Chapter Seventy-Eight: Suppressing Thieves (1)

But he said that He Yaozong saw dozens of soldiers with knives and guns running towards him, of course he didn't dare to resist, so he could only obediently tie his hands and arrest him.

But being caught obediently doesn't mean he's convinced.

He felt that he had won Liu Renjie with his ability and should not be treated like this, so he shouted: "What are you doing to arrest me? Didn't this military master just say that as long as he can win, he can join the army, you also saw it on the side, but he won the war! ”

"Shut up, you guys didn't say a word, they suddenly attacked, and they also used lime and other indiscriminate ways to compete, it's really disgusting." Sun Wuxi, who was rushing here to check on Liu Renjie's injury, did not have a good airway.

"Hehe, although this He Yaozong used some extraordinary means, but he finally won the battle, I think this young man still has some skills, and he is a material that can be made, but he still needs to be trained." Liu Renyu, who also came here, said with a smile.

At this time, when the soldiers of Zhenbeibao on the school field saw their generals coming, they naturally knelt on one knee and shouted in unison: "The little one has seen the garrison adult." ”

The other people knelt down when they saw the military masters around them, and they thought that Liu Renyu must be a big man, so they all knelt down on the ground and saluted Liu Renyu.

As for the names of the shouts, there are those who are called military masters, some are called Liu Ye, some are called General Liu, and some are called Liu Dusi.

Liu Renyu didn't bother to correct it, just waved his hand and said, "That's it, everyone is busy with their own things, don't wait and see here." ”

When everyone on the field heard Liu Renyu's order, they all got up, and then although they didn't dare to blatantly look at the guard, they would still peek a few times from time to time.

For this situation, Liu Renyu didn't want to care anymore, he just got off the horse, walked in front of He Yaozong, and Wen Yan asked, "Young man, what's your name?" ”

He Yaozong had seen Liu Renyu when he was a little red in the past, and he knew that the person in front of him was the general of Jingbian Fort, a key person who held the power of life and death, and the biggest official he had ever seen in his life, so he replied with great nervousness: "Small, small, called He Yaozong." ”

"You want to be a cavalryman?"

"Yes, it's cavalry."

"Why did you talk for so long?"

"The younger one is under the age of 18, and the recruiter does not let him join the army, and the military master just now said that as long as he can win him, he will let him join the army."

"I just saw it, you won. Of course, you can join the army, and you can be a cavalryman, but before you become a soldier, I have something to remind you. ”

"My lord, what's the matter, tell me."

"Do you know who you were stunned by a stone just now?" Liu Renyu smiled mysteriously.

When He Yaozong saw such a smile, he trembled for no reason, and then he was very nervous, and asked Ai Ai, "Who is this military master!?" ”

"He is the commander of your cavalry, and all the cavalry is under his control." Liu Renyu burst out laughing and said.

Yes!?

He Yaozong's mouth opened wide, and the emotions stirring in his heart could not be calmed down for a long time.

Woe to you! Woe to you! Before he entered the cavalry team, he beat Shangguan, which was repaid, and he was afraid that he would be miserable in the future.

Thinking of this, He Yaozong hurriedly said with a bitter face: "My lord, the little one is dead, and he has offended his own officials, I'm afraid I won't be able to see him, and I ask the adults to allow the little one to change his errand." ”

"Hey, hey, then there's no need, the cavalry team just wants to accept people like you who dare to fight and break through." Liu Renyu did not allow.

"Then, if the little one doesn't eat the bowl of rice of being a soldier, will it be successful?" He Yaozong pleaded again.

"No, you said it yourself, if you win Renjie, you will become a soldier, do you still want to regret it? If you don't want to be a soldier and want to repent, it's not impossible, then I'll have someone expel you from Jingbian Fort, how about it? ”

"Don't, don't, since that's the case, the little one should be a soldier." He Yaozong said with a bitter face.

"Then you should go to your own official to report to your own office." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"Yes, the little ones will go." He Yaozong was helpless and paced slowly in front of Liu Renjie.

At this time, Liu Renjie had already been rescued by Sun Wuxi, and the lime in his eyes was also wiped off with vegetable oil.

After the vegetable oil washed away the lime in his eyes, Sun Wuxian summoned Lang Zhong again, prescribed an eyewash prescription, and washed Liu Renjie's eyes several times before giving up.

After Sun Wuzhi and Lang Zhong's care, Liu Renjie could barely see.

Between the light and shadow, Liu Renjie saw that He Yaozong walked to himself, Ying Ying knelt down, and pleaded again and again: "The little one doesn't know your identity, and I used some indiscriminate methods to rush your big driver, and I also ask you to have a large number of adults, bypassing the small one." ”

After He Yaozong finished speaking, seeing that Liu Renjie had no reaction for the time being, he thought that his sincerity was not enough, so he hurriedly opened the bow left and right, slapped his own face, and slapped him even in the face, only hitting his own cheeks high and swollen, as if he had been stung by a bee.

"Enough, enough, stop." Liu Renjie was dizzy for a while, and he didn't understand the situation all the time, but now that he has recovered his vitality, he happened to see He Yaozong being masochistic in his own style, so he spoke out to stop him.

"Yes, sir." He Yaozong stopped as he said.

"If you win, you will join my cavalry division from now on, and I think you are still a little resourceful, so let's be the captain of the management team first."

"Captain!? How can the little ones have this ability? He Yaozong was about to refuse.

Liu Renjie cut off his words and said: "If you want to do it, you will do it, what are you talking about?" ”

"Yes, sir. Well, this ..........., my lord, is not very glorious to win, so this is compared to the adult. ”

"No, you can report to the cavalry recruit barracks, and don't say anything else." Liu Renjie said with a cold face.

"Yes, the little ones will go." He Yaozong said.

Looking at He Yaozong's distant back, Liu Renjie was a little depressed.

Just kidding! At this time, you He Yaozong already know my identity, and if you fight with me, you will definitely stay, I will win, and I will be considered by others to win the battle, so it is better not to fight.

However, this time he was successfully attacked by He Yaozong's gang, and he lost face in front of his subordinates, especially Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu, and Ma Wenshan's subordinates, and this field must be recovered no matter what.

After Liu Renjie finished thinking about it, he said to Sun Wuxian: "Wuxian, you go and talk to the instructors who are training, and you have to do a good job of playing He Yaozong's house." ”

"I see." Sun Wuxian agreed, and then turned his horse and went to the barracks.

After Liu Renjie and Sun Wuxian finished talking about rectifying He Yaozong, they let out a sulk and walked to Liu Renyu's side.

"You've underestimated the enemy!" As soon as he walked to Liu Renyu's side, Liu Renyu said solemnly.

"Despicable is indeed a light enemy." Liu Renjie said embarrassedly.

"If Fang Cai is on the battlefield, you are already a dead man. If you're the Front's Boss, your army is already gone! Liu Renyu said coldly.

"The humble duty will definitely remember the lesson of this time, and will no longer despise any opponent and let the enemy have no chance." Liu Renjie said word by word.

"You learned some Spring and Autumn righteousness from your Uncle Ma, don't use it when you are fighting, those benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith, you can only use it for self-cultivation, and you still have to be harsh in commanding the army, do you understand?" Liu Renyu said.

"Humble duty understands."

"It's very good to be sick and love you like brothers, but after all, you are a Shangguan, sometimes you still have to pay attention to proportion, don't get used to him, otherwise you dare to joke with you today, and dare to disobey tomorrow, you understand." Liu Renyu reminded.

"The lowly official understands that in the future, the lowly will share this matter with him." Liu Renjie replied.

"Well, that's all I'm going to say, you're thinking about it. But before that, you need to do this first. ”

"Please show me."

"A month ago, I ordered you to send someone to reconnoiter the distribution of our Yansui thieves, how did you check?"

"All the expeditions have returned, the news is too complicated, and the lowly duties are being sorted out."

"Then you go to Haosheng to sort it out first, and report back to me tonight."

"Yes, my lord, I will do it." Liu Renjie took the order and left.

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It was day and night, in the main hall of the Jingbian Fort Garrison Mansion, Liu Renyu sat in the middle of the hall, and on the chairs on both sides sat Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu, Ma Wenshan and others who were going to accompany the expedition this time.

This time, Liu Renjie did not stand beside Liu Renyu, he was facing a map of Shaanxi and a map of the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and pointed and poked on it with a push rod to indicate the distribution of thieves to everyone in the hall.

"My lord, although he successfully infiltrated the enemy camp, he could not see the effective thief leader due to his short time in the industry and his low level, so he could only know the name of the thief leader, the approximate number of people, and how many people there were in the department."

"As far as you know."

"Yes, my lord, there are a lot of thieves who are active in my Yansui at the moment, large and small, many have tens of thousands of soldiers, and only a thousand people are few, dare to ask your lordship, do you want to explain all of them, or explain the situation of those giant thieves?"

"Those cats, dogs, only a small role of a thousand people, forget it, don't offend my realm, I don't even have the interest of extermination, you just focus on the giant thieves with more than 10,000 people."

"Yes, my lord, there are a few shares that are relatively close to us at present, Wang Zuohang, Miao Mei, Wang Zishun, Zhang Shusheng, Ji San'er, a total of more than 10,000 people, in Yan'an, Yanchuan, Ansai, Anding and other activities."

"Right under our noses."

"Yes, my lord, in addition to this unit, there is also Li Laochai, who has more than 10,000 troops alone, attacking and plundering Heshui, Qingyang, and Juzhou."

"They're just south of Yan'an, and they're not very far from us."

"Yes, my lord, these may come to my realm."

"Well, this is true, so you have to pay more attention, if they attack my Jingbian Fort again, you must warn in advance." Liu Renyu advised.

"Yes, sir. At present, our manpower is limited, and in the west and south, the lowly position only knows so much, and the lowly committee really doesn't know what the situation is in Guanzhong. ”

"It's okay, it's still far away from us anyway, so let's focus on the one in the east."

"Yes, my lord, the thief we are spying on this time is the strongest Wang Jiayin in the east."

"Really, how strong?"

"My lord, Wang Jiayin's gang had an incident as early as the first year of Chongzhen, and the anti-thief Wang Er of Chengcheng County, who was earlier than him, brought his subordinates to meet with the people, and got more than 6,000 thieves, and now it has developed for more than a year, and has more than 30,000 thieves and more than 100 thieves."

"I heard that he also proclaimed himself king."

"Exactly, this rebellion is a bit unique, so it occupies a county in Fugu, and calls itself the king, and also seals a right prime minister Bai Yuzhu, a left prime minister for his own use, and there are many officials below, there are too many names, and they are not very important, so they are not recorded."

"Hehe, once the villain gets his will, he will swagger. Don't you know that this is just a castle in the air, and when my soldiers will be killed tomorrow, he, the king, will be afraid that he will go to the earth to do it. ”

"What my lord said is that as long as we do our best, meet with the elite soldiers of Hongjunmen and Du Zongzhen, and fight hard to defeat these thieves."

"Well, everyone, the situation of the thieves in our Yansui is basically like this, they are widely distributed, and the number is extremely large, there are tens of thousands at every turn, I want to ask you if you have the confidence to win against them?" Liu Renyu asked.

"Hey, my lord, those thieves used to be mud legs that were cut in the soil, and they must not be familiar with the craft of fighting, even if there are 10,000 people, Etie Niu led his soldiers and horses, found their leader, rushed over, and took the head of the thief among the ten thousand armies, and the rest of the rabble must have collapsed." Zhang Tieniu said confidently.

"My lord, we have been killed by the northern captives, what are these rebels! If we attack with a thousand elite troops in Jingbian Fort, it will be 20,000, and 30,000 thieves will not be invincible. Yang Desheng also said proudly.

"My lord, we haven't fought thieves, there were more than 5,000 thieves besieging our town north fort that day, and as a result, they were chased by our 200 regular army for more than 10 miles. Because the thieves are too weak, even Ma Wenshan, who has always been cautious, is optimistic.

Liu Renyu listened to the suggestions of several subordinates, and said with a chuckle: "It's a good thing that the monarchs have the confidence to win, but don't underestimate the enemy too much, after all, there are many of them." As the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat four hands, if they use 5 to 60,000 horses to surround us in the field, even if we have 1,000 elite regular troops in hand, what will the result be? ”

When everyone heard this, they were silent.

"If you don't say it, I'll tell you, then even if we can break through, we will suffer heavy losses. So let's go to the account of Hong Junmen this time to listen to it, if he lets us kill the thieves alone, you remember, don't underestimate the enemy, you must find out the enemy's situation, you can only fight when you encounter a small share, and if you encounter a large share, you still have to avoid the enemy's sharpness, and you can't attack Meng Lang. ”

"Yes, my lord, the rank has been recorded." The crowd responded.

"Well, that's good. Please remember one sentence, arrogant soldiers will be defeated, everyone must be cautious, soldiers, major events, not Meng Lang. ”

"Yes, sir." And they all agreed in unison.

Among these promises, Liu Renjie's voice is the loudest, but this is because Liu Renjie heard the words that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and thought of today's school field, and felt that it was very reasonable, so he promised very loudly.

Seeing that his military attachés had somewhat restrained their arrogance, Liu Renyu began to arrange arrangements for tomorrow's troops.

"Gentlemen, after I finished the battle of Zhangjiabao, the batch of recruits recruited with the money and food of Master Zhang's family have already passed the three-month recruit training period, and those recruits have all experienced the battle of defending the city of Zhenbei Fort. I mean, this expedition, let's take them out with me. ”

"My lord, please let me report it." When Ma Wenshan heard this, he didn't immediately nod yes, but he had something to say.

"What?"

"My lord, the recruits you recruited were killed in the battle to defend the city, and a number of them were wounded in battle, and those who died in battle were returned, and some of those who were wounded in battle were transferred to become instructors. There is a shortage of people in the army, but you said that we can choose people to fill them, and some time ago, we selected a group of brave men from among the young men who participated in the defense of the city, and they were incorporated into our team. ”

"Yes, are these young men still powerful?"

"My lord, according to your idea that all people are soldiers, these young men have received some training when they are slack, and they still have some foundation, plus they have experienced the polishing of actual combat, and they can be regarded as having some combat power."

"Oh, yes, that's beautiful. Then let's go on this expedition, and you will bring all the people you can with you. If I had brought them all, I would have more than 400 soldiers. ”

"Exactly, sir." The people should be in peace.

"That's good, we have more than 400 elite soldiers, and the combat power is really considerable, because my more than 400 soldiers are all at the family level, looking at Yansui, who can compare?" Liu Renyu said with a smile.

When everyone saw Liu Renyu laughing, they all laughed more than once.

"Well, there is one last thing for you to hear today. Tomorrow, we will pull, according to the custom, of course, we have to pay the Anjia silver, the grain, in addition, I don't know if he can provide us with grain and straw when we get to Hong Junmen, so we still have to bring our own grain and grass for this expedition. In this matter, you go and inform the soldiers and ask them to go to the logistics department to receive money and food. ”

"Yes." The people answered.

"As for the armor, the ordnance, and the horses, I have issued them for their own care, have you checked them in the past few days, the armor of the soldiers is still in good condition, the ordnance is still sharp, and how the horses will be raised."

Everyone couldn't answer in unison, so they answered separately, and the meaning of what they said was nothing more than that they had been checked, the armor was intact, the armament was sharp, and the horses were fat and thick.

"Very good, very good, you are all tired, let's go down and rest, let's go early tomorrow morning, swear to go out."

"Yes." The crowd agreed.

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On February 20 of the third year of Chongzhen, the school field of Jingbian Fort in the Ming Dynasty, the spring cold is steep, the north wind is calling, the goose feather snow falls from the sky, and falls on the body of more than 400 horseback soldiers, these soldiers do not pay attention, they are as silent as statues.

Today is the swearing-in meeting, it is a big day, according to Liu Renyu's requirements, these soldiers are neatly arranged on the school field, people and horses are one, standing in a horizontal line, vertically looking at a line. When viewed from above, it is a bit beautiful.

Liu Renyu, who was standing on the review stand, looked at the more than 400 soldiers under his command with satisfaction, and then said aloud some words about serving the country, sharing worries for the monarch's father, relieving the people from hanging upside down, and eliminating thieves, and so on, and then ordered the sheep to be killed and sacrificed to the flag, and the army was pulled out.

Before leaving, Liu Renyu told Ma Tianjun and Li Jiye to work together to guard Jingbian Fort, and then he turned his horse away and went straight to the direction of Yulin.