Day and night, the soldiers of Jingbian Fort took their own dry food, ate the broth cooked by their own firefighters, and then rested in peace.

The next day, before dawn, Liu Renyu ran in the barracks, did push-ups, then did a set of military boxing, and finally had a yoga session in accordance with the habits of later generations as a soldier.

He practiced for a while, and finally warmed his body.

Then, he changed into clothes, dressed in military uniforms, washed and cleaned up the dropouts, and then went straight to the Chinese army tent where Hong Chengchou was.

When he arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, the guards who guarded yesterday saw Liu Renyu and said with a rare smile: "You came so early, the other generals haven't arrived yet." ”

"Did the military gate ever get up?" Liu Renyu asked.

"My lord got up early and was waiting for you." The soldier replied.

"Oh, Hong Junmen is really very hard." Liu Renyu said with emotion.

"My lord is indeed a hard worker!" The guard first agreed, and then asked, "Do you want to go in?" ”

"No, no, the other commanders and generals haven't arrived, so I'll arrive first, so they can see it, I'm afraid it's not beautiful." Liu Renyu responded with a smile.

"Hey, hey." The guard smiled slightly, but said nothing.

Liu Renyu also smiled when he saw the reaction of this guard, and walked around to the left side of the Chinese army's tent without saying a word, planning to wait for the other generals to arrive, and then he would go in.

After waiting for about half an hour, there were all kinds of generals entering the Chinese army's big tent one after another, Liu Renyu took a look at it and felt that the time was about the same, so he also walked into the big tent of the Chinese army.

When he entered the big tent, he saw Hong Chengchou sitting in the middle, and there was a chair on his left hand side, and on the chair sat a veteran with white hair.

In front of these two, there were seven more generals sitting on the mazar, and one maza was empty and no one was sitting.

Liu Renyu quickly swept the scenery in the tent, then stepped forward, walked in front of Hong Chengchou, bowed down and said: "Humble Liu Renyu see Hong Junmen." ”

Hong Chengchou responded, and first introduced to the generals: "Everyone, this is Liu Renyu, who killed several Jiannu Bayala elite soldiers when King Qin. ”

When the generals on the field heard this introduction, the expressions on their faces were either surprised or cold, and so on.

After Hong Chengchou introduced Liu Renyu to other generals, he then introduced other generals to Liu Renyu.

"Renyu, this is the general Du Zongzhen who was born in my Yansui from the four dynasties, and he is not ready to see the salute."

The Du Zongzhen mentioned by Hong Chengchou refers to Du Wenhuan, who replaced Wu Zimian and served as the general of the Yansui General Army. This person has been running business on the battlefield since the beginning of the Wanli period, and he dared to take the initiative to attack the Mongols back then, which shows that he is a fierce general.

"The lowly Liu Renyu has seen Mr. Du." Liu Renyu saluted Du Wenhuan respectfully.

"Since ancient times, heroes have come out of the youth, our Yansui's Qinwang soldiers and horses have gone out, except for you, almost all of them have collapsed, you have some courage, not only are you not afraid of Jiannu, but you also dare to fight, which can give us a face for the Yansui border army." Du Wenhuan praised with a smile.

Originally, it stands to reason that Liu Renyu gave the first credit to Sun Kuisheng, but Sun Kuisheng is so good, everyone is like a mirror in their hearts, they all know that Jiannu must have been killed by Liu Renyu alone, so Du Wenhuan has such a statement.

"Thanks to the praise of the general town, I am afraid of my humble position." Liu Renyu said politely.

"Hey, our Lao Tzu has always said something to say, and he can't stop talking in his heart, you have real skills, we Lao Tzu likes you, don't say these kind words to us. I can tell you, you are so powerful, you should be more responsible, kill more enemies, and protect the territory and the people. Du Wenhuan said loudly.

"Yes, Chief, I know it." Liu Renyu replied.

After seeing Du Wenhuan, and then greeting with the rest of the people.

"These two, one is Jin Xiru, the general of the Guyuan Assistant, and the other is Zhang Mingzhe, who is guarding the guerrillas, these two were sent by He Zongzhen of the Guyuan Military Town to help me Yansui suppress the thieves."

"The lowly Liu Renyu has seen two generals." Liu Renyu said politely.

The two Guyuan guest generals were not familiar with Liu Renyu, and their grades were higher than Liu Renyu, so they just sat and bowed their hands in return.

"You should know these people, right?" Hong Chengchou asked.

"I know it from my humble position, and I saw it when I was the king of Qin." Liu Renyu replied.

Liu Renyu said that the few people he knew were five guerrilla generals in Yulin City, and he offended several of them because he was too arrogant when he was in King Qin.

Ever since he entered the tent of the Chinese army, four guerrilla generals looked at him with cold faces, and only one of them looked at him with a special gaze, which made him a little puzzled.

"Since you are acquaintances, there is no need to introduce them, you can sit down first. Now, let's get down to business. I'm looking for you to gather here today, but it's for the sake of the big plan. At present, I Yansui thieves swarmed, these thieves gathered in the mountains and wilderness, slaughtered the county, killed very badly, the people were killed, I waited as the official of the court, how can we sit idly by, so we should punish the thieves, appease the place, and return the people to a peaceful world. Hong Chengchou said impassionedly.

"What the military gate said is that we have already had this intention, and I also asked the military gate to make a strategy as soon as possible and send us to fight." The generals said in unison.

"That's not necessary, my duty is only to supervise the battle, record the merits and deeds, and march and fight, which is not my forte. The matter of strategy will be talked about by Mr. Du. After Hong Chengchou said this, he said to Du Wenhuan: "Mr. Du, please." ”

When Mr. Du heard this, he arched his hand at Hong Chengchou and said: "Then my old Du will say a few words, if there is something wrong, please also ask the military to correct it." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled and motioned for Du Wenhuan to continue.

Du Wenhuan and Hong Chengchou were polite for a while, then got up from the chair, and then said loudly: "Go to the map." ”

Hearing Du Wenhuan's call, he took out a map from the person and unfolded it.

When this map was hung on the pillar of the big tent, Liu Renyu looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, this object hanging on the pillar is not so much a map, but a freehand landscape painting, which is really the modern idea of the Queen Mother.

The reason why it is postmodernism is because of this kind of map, Liu Renyu is a little confused and a little laborious.

And Du Wenhuan looked at this map like a landscape painting and began to talk about the enemy's situation.

"According to the report from the night detective horseman, we have these thieves under the eyes of Yansui, one of which is the rebel thief Wang Jiayin, who is the king of Fugu, is said to have more than 30,000 people, and the other is in Yan'an, Suide, Yanchuan and other thieves who killed and plundered Wang Zuohang, Miao Mei, Wang Zishun, Ji San'er and other thieves, it is said that they also have tens of thousands of soldiers."

He added: "Since my thieves in Yansui are mainly divided into two parts, then I mean that our soldiers are divided into two roads, one way to attack the Fu Valley to level the giant thief King Jiayin, and the other way, to go south to seek the king Zuohang and other thieves." As for how to divide the two groups, I haven't thought about it yet, so I'll ask anyone here who wants to go south to suppress the thieves. ”

"Mr. Du is gentle, and he humbly invited himself to lead the troops south to suppress the thieves." Before the other generals could speak, Liu Renyu answered.

"It's you, you're a good candidate. Your Jingbian Fort is close to each other, and it is also very convenient to receive grain and straw, so let you go to the south to suppress the thieves. But first, how many soldiers do you have? ”

"There are 400 soldiers in the lowly position."

Haha, when the generals in the tent heard it, they all laughed, 400 people dared to fight tens of thousands of thieves, even if the thieves had poor combat effectiveness, they couldn't underestimate people like this, people now have broken troops into the gang, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

In the first year of Chongzhen, dozens of border troops dared to chase thousands of thieves running around, but now, they really dare not do this.

"You are really a tiger general, but there are some Meng Lang, the thieves are powerful, and there are routs into the gang, 400 people are too few." Du Wenhuan shook his head and smiled.

"The general town is good, and the lowly position thinks that even if there are tens of thousands of thieves, they are not gathered together all the time, and now that we have a serious famine in Yansui, how can there be a place for tens of thousands of horses to eat, so they will definitely go their separate ways to eat, if they divide the army, the lowly position can be broken individually." Liu Renyu said.

"Well, there is still some truth in what you said, but your department is still too few, so let's ask you, who is willing to follow Liu Shoubei south to beg for thieves, say it." Du Wenhuan asked.

After a long time, one of the assistant guerrillas of Yulin Town responded and said: "Liu Wuguo, who is lowly and lowly, is willing to take the soldiers and horses of his headquarters and go south with Liu Garrison to fight for thieves." ”

Liu Renyu heard that Liu Wuguo was willing to go south with him to suppress the thieves, so he looked at Liu Wuguo a few more times. As a result, it was okay that he didn't look at it, but after a look, he found that Liu Wuguo was the general who had been looking at him with strange eyes.

That Liu Wuguo also found that Liu Renyu was looking at him at this time, and immediately reported it with a smile.

"What kind of name is he doing!?" This smile made Liu Renyu inexplicable.

"There are 600 people in your department, and you just have a thousand people with Liu Renyu's department, although it is not too much, but it is not too little, and it is enough to deal with thieves, so you can go with Liu Renyu." Du Wenhuan agreed.

"Yes, Headquarters." Liu Wuguo responded happily.

"What is he happy about!?" Liu Renyu looked at Liu Wuguo's expression, and became more and more puzzled.

"Okay, the generals who will go south to beg for thieves have been decided, then the rest of us will go to meet the giant thief king Jiayin who dares to be the king for a while."

"Yes, Headquarters." The generals in the tent, except for Liu Renyu and Liu Wuguo, all responded in unison.

"Well, today I am only here to determine the direction of the march, the specific strategy of the march, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life need to praise and paint their own pictures as appropriate."

"Yes, the general town, the lowly (last general) and so on." All the generals in the account responded in unison.

"Well, that's all I have to say, Hong Junmen, you see if you have anything else to add." Du Wenhuan asked.

"How to please the thief, how to enter the army, Mr. Du has already said it very clearly, I won't say more, I have to talk about this matter. First, Yang Zhishuai is the main appeasement, so let's suppress the thief, we still have to fight and kill, and we can't forget to appease it, otherwise Yang Zhishuai heard that I don't respect his will to do things, and kill the thief too much, I'm afraid it's not beautiful. ”

"Dare to ask the military gate, thieves always have to kill, if you are bent on appeasement, the soldiers can't let go of their hands and feet to kill, then how can they fight?" One of the generals in the tent was dissatisfied.

"It's okay to do this, Yang Zhishuai wants to be appeased, we can do this. The first letter asks the thief if he wants to be appeased, and if he is willing, he is appeased; If you don't want to, then kill the thieves, and then appease them. Otherwise, if we don't do anything to conquer and blindly appease us, wouldn't it make the thieves look down on us, and let those thieves think that there is no one in our court. ”

"The end general knows the meaning of the military gate." The general listened to Hong Chengchou's explanation and understood.

If you don't kill all the thieves, just kill a little bit, just make a show of Zhao'an, and coax Yang He.

"Second, I still have a military record to affirm it. This time to suppress the thieves, I hope that you will do your job honestly and do not tolerate the cowards. If you let me know that when you fight, you don't fight hard to kill the enemy, fear the battle and avoid the war, and tolerate the traitor, then Yuan Chonghuan can kill Mao Wenlong, and I can also kill you, do you understand? When Hong Chengchou said this, his face suddenly changed.

As soon as Hong Chengchou's words came out, the needles in the big account were suddenly heard, and the generals and officials were silent for a long time before they promised in unison: "The lowly post (the last general) and others have been recorded, and we will definitely do our job with sincerity, get rid of the thieves as soon as possible, and delay a bright future." ”

"Well, that's very good." Hong Chengchou nodded.

After Hong Chengchou said this, the big tent returned to tranquility.

At this time, Du Wenhuan, who was sitting on Hong Chengchou's left hand, was eager to try for a long time, and finally made up his mind to speak: "Military Gate, as the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. This army is pulled out, you see if you can solve this, this salary, and Anjiayin first. ”

As soon as Hong Chengchou heard this, he immediately aimed at Du Wenhuan. Du Wenhuan was stared at by Hong Chengchou, and he was suddenly very embarrassed, he laughed twice, and didn't know what to say.

"It is customary for the army to open and issue a family silver, which is no problem, and it is also a matter of course to be paid as a soldier, and it is even more problem. It's just that at this time, most of the world's wealth is imported into Liaodong, and even some soup has not been able to spread to our Yansui, and the court has difficulties in this regard. Hong Chengchou sighed.

"Oh, if that's the case, then there's no way." Du Wenhuan said with great disappointment.

"However, I have already played to the imperial court, saying that now Yansui bandits are rampant, and the officials and soldiers are unwilling to go to war because they have no salary for a long time, so they will pay 14,000 taels of Liao, intercept it, and never hand it over, in addition, there is a total of 6,000 taels of expenses saved by the abolition of the post station, a total of 20,000 taels, you take it down and send it first." Hong Chengchou said lightly.

"The subordinate officers and soldiers thanked Hong Junmen." Du Wenhuan was naturally very happy when he heard that the money had been paid.

"Well, these salaries are not easy to come by, you must distribute them all, and you must not be greedy for ink. If you let me know that you are greedy for this money, don't blame me for being ruthless. Hong Chengchou said coldly again.

"Hey, I see." Du Wenhuan said that it was the way.

"We have 3,500 soldiers, and 20,000 taels are not a lot. The shortfall part, let's do it, let's go out to beg for thieves, there will always be seizures. And the thieves are killing and plundering everywhere, and there is always a collection, so the soldiers do not have to hand over their captures, and let them dispose of them themselves. Hong Chengchou said again.

"Captured before the army, it has always been in the pocket, why do you need to say so." Du Wenhuan thought so in his heart, but his mouth was full of smiles and said: "The military gate is sympathetic to the soldiers, and the officials are obedient." ”

"It's easy to say, the soldiers do things for the court, and they can't let them have no ideas. Oh, by the way, the matter of the silver money is finished, and the matter of military rations is still not said. I have prepared the rations for the army, and when the time comes, I will go to the commissar to take it. ”

"In this way, my army can finally stop being trapped by money and food, and can kill thieves with peace of mind." Du Wenhuan smiled.

The generals in the tent were also smiling, and they all had such a voice at this time: "Finally, you don't have to worry about the mutiny, we are all going to burst into tears." ”

"Okay, our plan to send troops has been drawn up, everyone should go back to prepare for the good life first, and swear to go on the expedition tomorrow." Hong Chengchou said.

"Yes, Junmen." The generals in the tent answered in a loud voice.