After the army of Zhenbei Fort defeated Wulong Village, they walked for 3 days before returning to Zhenbei Fort. On the day of his triumphant return, Ma Tianjun, together with all the government staff and the people who volunteered to be there, shouted congratulations for the army, and the scene was extremely hot.

Some people took out their home collections, such as chickens, ducks, fish, meat, and candied fruits, and stuffed them into the hands of the soldiers, while some girls threw flowers at the handsome soldiers.

Liu Renyu saw the reaction of the people in the fort, and was quite satisfied, the political development of the first army was not bad to this point, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, the soldier was just a piece of, but in Zhenbei Fort, the soldier was a golden pimple, and it was a hot commodity in the wedding market.

In fact, this is not because the people don't like to be soldiers, this year in Zhenbei Fort as a soldier, high salary, high status, after meritorious service, you can divide the field, get a reward for silver, although now you can't be promoted to an official for the time being, but as long as Liu Renyu goes up, these sergeants who have made meritorious service and have not exchanged merit points for fields and silver rewards can be promoted to big officials.

After coming and going like this, the soldiers naturally became the "fifth diamond king", not to mention the girls in the boudoir, even the who lost their husbands and still had charm wanted to hook a sergeant to be the new husband.

Originally, being a soldier in Daming was really more bitter than eating Coptis chinensis, but now it is still in Daming, but it is a soldier under Lord Liu in Zhenbei Fort, but it is sweeter than eating honey, and these soldiers are very grateful to Liu Renyu.

Liu Renyu understood these situations very clearly through the detailed work placed in the army, and he was very satisfied, what he wanted was this kind of army that was dead to him, otherwise how could he do a great cause.

This time the army went out to suppress the bandits, it took a total of 7 days, and the sergeants were also very tired, so Renyu called for a 3-day rest, and after 3 days, the army started and went to the direction of Zhangjiabao for the second phase of the campaign.

During these three days, ordinary soldiers and officers were able to rest, but the military commanders of various units could not rest, because Liu Renyu was about to have a meeting again.

In the conference room of the General Mansion, Liu Renyu was seated, and the rest of the people sat on both sides, plus the special guest Ma Tianjun, a total of 6 people attended the meeting.

According to the usual practice, everyone has an intelligence summary in front of them, and this time the information is about Hutouzhai and Zhangjiabao.

The first page of the first part of the document introduces the staffing situation of Hutou Village: Hutou Village, located on the top of Hutou Mountain, is the owner of the village "Wang Scorpion". The cottage has 368 bandits and 125 soldiers, because it absorbs more fleeing border troops, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary bandits.

The second page is attached to the topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Hutou Mountain, the layout of the houses, and the enemy buildings in the passes.

The second part of the document introduces the situation of Zhangjiabao, and the first page first introduces the staffing situation: Zhangjiabao, and the fort advocates Nancy. There are more than 700 people in the fort, more than 300 Ding Zhuang, including 58 members of the Zhang family, 20 members of Ding Zhuang, 95 members of the family population within three generations, more than 40 members of Ding Zhuang, and the rest are all distant relatives and tenant families, and the maximum number of people who can serve in the army is 300 people.

On the second page, the same attached topographic map of mountains and rivers, the drawing is detailed, the mark is detailed, from the map to see the marking, the Zhangjiabao city wall is two zhang high, and there are 5 tiger squatting cannons painted on it.

After reading this information, everyone couldn't help but sigh that it was cool to fight with Lord Liu, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other side would win all battles, isn't this the situation.

After everyone read the information, Liu Renyu began to say the battle plan: "In this battle, the enemy army is strong, and the situation is unpredictable. Tianjun, Ding Zhuang in my fort, they are called to perform when the farmers are not working, and they are all under the jurisdiction of temporary officers, and it is delusional to go out to attack in battle, and there is no problem in holding on to the city wall. Our army is fighting abroad, and the rear is all dependent on you. The rear is stable, and the sergeants can fight with all their might. This burden is very heavy, you have to pick it up. ”

Ma Tianjun stood up and bowed his hand, and said solemnly: "Tianjun will live up to the trust of adults." ”

"Good." Liu Renyu encouraged Ma Tianjun and continued, "According to the usual practice, our army must not leave the defense area and walk elsewhere, but I will ask Master Sun for a military order and ask him to allow us to go out." After this military order was received, our army pulled out, accompanied by baggage as usual, and our soldiers lined up on both sides of the baggage carriage, and the rangers spread out, probing for 5 miles, and there was a situation to transmit a warning. When we arrived near Zhangjiabao, our army camped and was commanded by Ergou. I, Mr. Li Qi, Mr. Yang Qi, and Mr. Zhang Qi, went to Hutou Village to control the 'King Scorpion', and after the matter was completed, Jiye stayed in the cottage as a response, and everyone else returned to the camp with me. Wait for the king scorpion to attack Zhangjiabao, our army will send a force to help it attack Zhangjiabao, I will, send Li Qi under the command of the miners, go to Zhangjiabao, if the tiger head village can not capture Zhangjiabao, then dig tunnels, blow up the city wall, help them. The other one, then guard on the official road, to see if there is a messenger from Zhangjiabao who reported the news, if there is one, intercept it, if some messengers escape our pursuit, report to the county of Ansai, think that the old man is the big family of Ansai County, there is something in his fort, how dare the county not to save, my department can be easily modified, set up an ambush on the official road to kill the reinforcements of Ansai. The Ansai official army was defeated, our army combined forces, feints to attack the Wang Scorpion Department, the Wang Scorpion Department retreated, our army searched Zhangjiabao Collection, and returned to Zhenbei Fort. Everyone can hear clearly, do you have any opinions? ”

"Yes," Liu Renyu's voice did not fall, and Li Jiye asked: "My lord, our soldiers are less than 150 in total, even if we add the cavalry team that joined the army later, it is only less than 200 people, and how many officers and soldiers there are in Ansai, we don't know yet, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, it should be more than 500 people." Our army has to divide its troops to fight Zhangjiabao and Ansai's reinforcements, but I am afraid that it will not be enough. ”

"Yes, we just order troops like this, but we have to fight so many battles, I just don't know if we can handle it." The silly Zhang Tieniu muttered.

"Do you have any great ideas?" Let's hear it.

"My lord, there is an idea for a lowly position, do you think it is suitable?" He Ergou, who has always been known for his few words and caution (also known as timidity), is actually going to come up with an idea.

"Yo, two dogs!? If you have any opinions, let's hear them. Liu Renyu was very surprised to see that He Ergou actually wanted to come up with an idea.

"My lord, there is a great drought for many years, and there are countless displaced people. If our army doesn't want Ansai County to send reinforcements, it can choose some elites, bring some rice and flour grain, recruit hungry people, and then lead them to besiege Ansai County. ”

"Oh, mom, yes, your idea is good, I think it's okay." Zhang Tieniu high-fived and exclaimed.

"Tie Niu, the adults haven't spoken yet, how can you talk more. Quality, pay attention to your quality. Li Jiye felt that Zhang Tieniu was not polite in front of Liu Renyu, so he scolded.

"Big brother, it's okay, Tie Niu is a foolish person, don't worry. Ergou, your idea is very good, I'll leave this matter to you, you have to do it well, but you remember that you're a feint, don't come to the real thing. ”

"Yes, the lowly position is recorded." Hearing that Liu Renyu recognized his own plan, He Ergou was overjoyed.

"Okay, Ergou's opinion is very good, I think when Hutou Village fights Zhangjiabao, you can also use this trick to find more homeless people, come to an ant attached to the city, kill the homeless people to calm the civil strife, die the bandits to good security, and make a fortune in Zhangjiabao, good things, good things. That's it. Tomorrow our army will be mobilized, so let's all go back and get ready. Meeting. ”

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The sergeants rested for three days, and early in the morning of the fourth day, they gathered in the school yard as usual, swore an oath, sacrificed the flag, completed a set of procedures, and marched out. The people in the fort were still enthusiastic to see them off.

When the army marched to Jingbian Fort City, Liu Renyu joined hands with his officers to enter the city and meet with Lord Sun. Sun Kuisheng was quite satisfied with Liu Renyu, a sensible subordinate, Liu Renyu often sent people to bring silver taels, grain and other Ming native products to Jingbian Fort to walk around, up to now, Liu Renyu sent Sun Kuisheng a "sweat horse" brand carriage, as well as 10,000 catties of grain, 1,000 taels of silver.

Sun Kuisheng often sighed that it was good to have Liu Renyu's subordinates who eat grass and milk milk, so Liu Renyu's request, as long as it is not too excessive, Sun Kuisheng will approve it.

For example, this time, Liu Renyu wanted to cross the border for activities, and the reason he gave was to send food to Zhangjiabao. Sun Kuisheng knew that Zhangjiabao's power was extremely powerful and not easy to provoke, so he could only comfort Liu Renyu a little, and there was nothing he could do about it, so of course he would approve Liu Renyu's request for his troops to cross the border.

So, Liu Renyu, who got the military order, led the troops, crossed the Xilu River, and went south to Zhangjiabao, where the Zhenbeibao army camped on the boundary of 10 miles away from Zhangjiabao.

After Liu Renyu arranged the affairs of the army, he went to Hutou Village with Li Jiye, Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu, and a team of sergeants who responded to him. When they arrived near Hutou Village, Renyu ordered the team of sergeants to wait in a secret place, and after the deed was completed, fireworks were set off, and then the team of sergeants went to the mountain gate to answer.

Liu Renyu arranged the reception, and then led everyone to the mountain gate. There is a patrol post of Hutou Mountain here to investigate, Li Jiye called the report that it was the old man Li Jiye in the army who brought people to vote, and after speaking, he also sent the little minions a little scattered silver taels, and the minions won the silver, and they were infinitely happy, and they ran to the cottage like a wind under his feet, and reported the news that Li Jiye brought people to Wang Scorpion.

Wang Scorpion was overjoyed when he heard this, and personally took the second master's mountain cannon, the third master's smiling tiger, and the fourth master's collapse sky, and went down the mountain to greet him.

"Brother Li, I miss my brother, why are you here now? If you eat wine today, you should be fined three glasses, ah no, thirty glasses. Wang Scorpion smiled as he walked towards Li Jiye and the others.

Li Jiye followed the voice and looked over, but it was not Wang Scorpion, who was wearing a wolf skin jacket, wearing a mink hat, with a full face and beard, and he was very rough, he didn't know a few Li Jiye around him, but looking at their looks, they should be important people in the cottage.

The leadership team of the cottage all came out to greet him. That's a big face. Li Jiye was quite surprised, hurriedly grabbed a few steps, bowed, and said with a smile: "The younger brother also wants to come here to meet his brother as soon as possible, but he didn't expect some twists and turns, so he missed the schedule, the younger brother is guilty, and he is willing to be punished for eating and drinking today." ”

As Li Jiye spoke, he walked up to Wang Scorpion, and was about to recount his old relationship with him, but unexpectedly, the mountain cannon suddenly crossed in front of Li Jiye and Wang Scorpion.

The collapsed mountain cannon said in a hard voice: "Big brother, since you want to enter the cottage, the eldest brother is the owner of the village, and you are still carrying a knife, so it is too rude, untie the sword, and then talk to each other, and the same is true for the people you brought." ”

"The second child is his own brother, so he doesn't have to be like this." Although Wang Scorpion said this, he couldn't really hear this meaning in his tone.

So, Liu Renyu and the others took off their knives, swords, and sticks and handed them over to the little guy to hold.

After these efforts were completed, the mountain cannon was put aside, allowing Li Jiye to continue to be close to Wang Scorpion. After such a small episode, the look on Li Jiye's face remained unchanged at all, he is a person with good acting skills, this little thing is not enough, he is completely unaffected and chatted with Wang Scorpion, chatting happily.

The two chatted for a while, and then began to introduce the people around them, Wang Scorpion introduced the Collapse Mountain Cannon, the Smiling Tiger, and the Collapse of the Sky, and Li Chengfeng introduced Liu Renyu, Yang Desheng, and Zhang Tieniu.

When introduced, everyone naturally inevitably "looked up for a long time, looked up for a long time." "Luck, luck".