The time is already the first day of March in the second year of Chongzhen, according to the original plan, it is the day when Yan'an Li Deputy General and Zhang Yuan jointly set off artillery and send troops, early in the morning, Zhang Yuan was anxious to go to Li Yuanhao again to ask for instructions on sending troops, but what he got was that Li Yuanhao was still hangover.

After being ridiculed by Deputy General Li's personal soldiers, Zhang Yuan returned to his mansion depressed. Although he was infinitely depressed in his heart, in the face of these brothers who were eager for revenge, his big brother had to try his best to be refreshed and refreshed, but looking at the eager eyes of those brothers who were eager to make contributions, he was speechless, and could only tell the truth; "The deputy commander-in-chief is still from a hangover, and sending troops has become empty talk, so what can I do?"

Seeing that his brother was so decadent, a son of the Zhao family stood up and said; "Brother, the enmity of breaking the family and destroying the clan is not shared, I can't wait for a day, this time the extermination of the thieves was originally funded and planned by my brother, so how about we leave Li Yuanhao's house and send troops alone? Brother, you just give the order. ”

"Yes, my brother will give an order, let's fight together to break into the thief's lair, share the worries of the court and avenge the family." A group of relatives shouted and shouted, and their blood was boiling and eager to try.

"Brother, I've long seen what kind of bullshit deputy chief soldier is a talented horseman, there is no more than him, there is no less, it should be a good time for us to monopolize the great achievements, and when I return victorious, that guy can't say that he is still drunk and hasn't woken up, hahaha." This is the proud voice of the children of the father-in-law's family.

Zhang Yuan looked at him tiredly, and then supported his forehead with his hand; "After all, we are Xiangyong, we need to belong to the banner of the deputy commander-in-chief, if we go out alone, a bad one is the crime of overstepping, which is what you and I can bear, or wait for the deputy commander-in-chief Li to wake up and wait for his transfer order." Then he sat up straight weakly, waved his hand and said tiredly: "All the brothers go down to take care of the troops first, I also need to think about it quietly." ”

The brother wanted to say something, but he was pulled by a brother next to him, so he had to retreat to the queue sullenly, looking at Zhang Yuan, who was already emaciated, everyone began to be sad and indignant.

In fact, Zhang Yuan was even more sad and indignant in his heart. Not to mention that in order to avenge the vendetta of killing his father and killing his son, he did his best and scattered countless silver coins, and he went to great lengths to arm those guards that had long been dilapidated, not only to make up for the military salaries and food for those military households, but also to satisfy the appetite of those officials below 1,000 households. There are also the endless pickled goods of Governor Dusi and Li Yuanhao, and the cost is also huge, but in fact, the effect is indeed very small, and the only thing that is relied on and relieved is the Xiangyong recruited by his own brothers, which is the strength he has accumulated with all his efforts.

To put it bluntly, it is the guarantee of oneself and such brothers, without these three thousand townspeople, then he and these brothers who follow him still have nothing, so these three thousand townsmen cannot be easily lost, but they know this thing, but they can't tell their brothers, they only have blood and strength but lack some officialdom slippery, this is not to blame them, officialdom and reality are like an ivory tower and a big dungpit, slowly hone it.

A group of children who shook their heads and sighed had no choice but to retreat in turn after saluting, and Zhang Yuan was too tired to say hello.

The next day, Zhang Yuan got up early to rectify and stop, made a sedan chair and rushed to Li Yuanhao's mansion, but was told that General Li woke up and woke up, but he had a splitting headache after a hangover, and he couldn't send troops today, so he could only wait for the coming day.

When Zhang Yuan asked again, he couldn't even enter the door, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but sigh, it seems that the guards of Luochuan and Ganquan can only ask for more blessings.

Li Yuanhao since that day, in the restaurant for the big banquet brothers to be strong, by one by one of the pro-army brothers bowl of wine, at that time poured unconscious, was carried back to the mansion, to the next day when the time of the expedition was not awake, everyone waited until noon did not wake up, they were all depressed and scattered, the next day again, Li Yuanhao woke up but woke up, but the whole head is about to explode, where can you get up? How can you, who boast of drinking the same amount of alcohol, get drunk like this? And those brothers are all in good spirits, like no one, I think I was too careless, and recruited these boys, see if I don't find an excuse to let them drink up one by one. Think about it, now you can't even ride a horse, how can you talk about going on an expedition? So everyone dispersed and waited for the official launch of the expedition tomorrow.

On the fourth day of the new year, Li Yuanhao finally recovered, waved a stone lock in the courtyard in the cold spring, sweated through, and took a hot bath, and then rode to the barracks in good spirits.

He didn't get off the horse in front of the camp gate, so he shouted and drank directly into the camp, which frightened the villagers who had already set up the queue to scream, stirring up the already not very neat queue even more unbearable, Li Yuanhao saw those crooked guys, he was even more comfortable, laughed and dismounted in front of the Chinese army's big tent, threw the horse whip reins in his hand to the pro-soldier Ma Ben who was standing on the side, and went directly into the hall and entered the Chinese army's big tent.

Now, he has finally led the army independently, and he no longer has to be like before, like a little daughter-in-law, dismount outside the camp gate, walk into the camp, and sign up outside this big tent to see, and suffer from that pickled anger, now, this big tent is in his own hands, look at the general standing in the big tent, full of excitement and respectful looks, and his heart is happy.

There are two columns of generals standing clearly in the big tent, one side is Li Yuanhao's cronies, and all the way is Zhang Yuan's children, all of them are looking at each other like fighting cocks, although they abide by the rules of the big tent, one by one without making a sound, but each of their mouths are closed one by one, as if they are still scolding.

Li Yuanhao didn't care, laughed and ran directly to the back of the handsome case, sat on the tiger skin chair, felt uncomfortable, and folded his feet on the handsome case.

Picked up the brass seal on the table and looked at it, picked up the governor's edict, shook and shook at the Xiang Yong who was standing on the side led by Zhang Yuan, looked at those indignant eyes, and couldn't help but laugh proudly again: "Generals, this general soldier is ordered to take you pickled things out to encircle and suppress those bullshit thieves. A township leader who squinted his eyes and pouted lightly, Li Yuanhao said with disdain: "I know that everyone is like a mouse seeing a cat, and he has already peed his pants before he sees him, hahahaha." ”

When the brother behind Zhang Yuan heard this, he almost exploded his lungs at that time, is this one pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man, if we are afraid of the thief, then what are we all fighting for? I said that it was your 50,000 border troops who were defeated at the beginning, and those were all your partners, now, why are you embarrassed to talk about us?

At that time, several young and vigorous Zhang Yuan brothers were about to come out of the crowd and reason with this general soldier who looked down on people.

Zhang Yuan felt the panting sound of his brother behind him like an old cow, and his heart was not good, seeing that the troops were about to be dispatched, once everyone argued, what kind of troops would be dispatched? Besides, what is the place now? This is the big account of the Chinese army, the result of the dispute can be known without asking, it must be that he and others have suffered, in the past many months, the rules of being an official have been thoroughly understood, and the upper level is higher, that is, shouting and killing, shouting and beating, and you have not yet reasoned.

So, without waiting for the brothers to stand up, Zhang Yuan hurriedly stepped out of the ranks, gave Li Yuanhao a deep salute to the two-legged sky, and said respectfully: "What the chief soldier said is that the thieves are just a group of rabble, and the last time in the battle of Yanchuan was only among the border brothers, they escaped by luck, but they were already frightened. Now, please arrange for the cannon to be fired. ”

Zhang Yuan's words can be regarded as a gun and a stick, but when he was called by a general soldier, Li Yuanhao's eyebrows immediately danced, and he took down his feet with a swish, slapped the table and said: "Boss Zhang said well, the battle of Yanchuan, that is not where I am here, if I am here, where is there any Lu Shi to claim the king?" ”

Suddenly got up and shouted loudly: "Little guys, let's order troops with our school now, let's kill Penfu County, and take the head of the Lu Shi dog to celebrate." After that, Jia Ye was sonorous, strode out of the account, and went straight to the school to order soldiers.

A group of Li Yuanhao's personal soldiers agreed to the promise, and Hululu followed out of the big tent together, leaving only a group of township leaders to be lucky there.

Zhang Yuan looked at his brother left and right, and shook his head helplessly, "Let's go, let's follow this master and set off." "After that, the first one stepped out of the account and kept up with Li Yuanhao's team.

Standing on the platform of the generals, looking at the screaming pro-troops of the headquarters who were stimulated by the military exploits, and the villagers who waved their flags and bright armor, Li Yuanhao was full of hesitation in his heart, and led Zhang Yuan and other generals to worship the gods of heaven and earth, did enough of the procedures required for the expedition, and ordered the artillery to be fired, so he took the lead in running out of Yan'an City.

At the beginning, Li Yuanhao and his subordinate soldiers could still hold down the speed and maintain the whole with that Zhang Xiangyong, but slowly his subordinate brothers began to complain, disgusted that the speed of the infantry army was too slow, dragged everyone back, and kept scolding those Xiangyong straw bales.

Of course, Zhang Yuan's brother is not convinced, we are mainly an infantry army, this time the troops are different from the past, the states and counties along the way do not follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and the loser is the grain and grass of the army, and Zhang Yuan, the unjust big man, can only take a big car and a small car, thousands of conscripted masters, haul those materials and ordnance, how can he go fast? At that time, the resentful Xiangyong master in his stomach also kept scolding back, and if it wasn't for Zhang Yuan's bullet pressure several times, both sides would have to move.

As a result, the whole army began to become chaotic. Just noisy and scolding each other, they didn't go out of twenty miles for more than half a day, Li Yuanhao and Zhang Yuan both frowned, one was irritable and the other was slandered, they were still walking together at the beginning, but then Zhang Yuan simply retreated to the back team, out of sight and out of mind.

When Li Yuanhao's army came to a fork in the road, he took the war horse to stop the brigade, and called the Chinese army to the road; "Go, call that boss to me."

The Chinese army agreed to beat their horses and went to the rear, and soon arrived with Zhang Yuan and one of his brothers.

This time, Zhang Yuan no longer sat in a sedan chair but changed to riding a horse, but although the war horse was strong, it was also crumbling and painful when it was pressed by Zhang Yuan, Li Yuanhao saw Zhang Yuan like this, and frowned and said in disgust; "Boss Zhang, I don't know that such a march will only arrive in the Year of the Monkey, so I decided that we will divide our troops. I took my pro-army horse team to carry three days of grain and grass to Nanniwan and directly kill the Black Tiger Village for a surprise attack. Boss Zhang took your rabble to meet Ganquan Guard, and walked the road with great fanfare to confuse the bandits. ”

"General, no." When Zhang Yuanyi heard this, he hurriedly stopped Li Yuanhao's reckless decision.

"Why not?" Li Yuanhao asked with a glare.