The next day, as soon as the sky was clear, a trumpeter in the barracks played the wake-up trumpet.

When the soldiers in the barracks heard the call to get up, they all got up, got their hair straightened, brushed their teeth and washed their faces, and wore armor.

For those displaced people who moved with the troops, Liu Renyu found new tasks for them, asking them to play the role of auxiliaries and civilian husbands, helping to carry the equipment for the construction of camp tents.

When the army walked for two hours and approached Suide City, Liu Renyule stopped his horses and said to Liu Renjie: "Go and slip Wang Zuojiao over there." ”

"Yes, sir." Liu Renjie received the order, so he turned back and entered the rear brigade.

After a while, Wang Zuohang, who was tied with a rope all over his body, was brought to Liu Renyu.

"Untie." Liu Renyu ordered.

His own soldiers untied the ropes.

Wang Zuohang was tied up for a long time, his blood was not smooth, and he was suddenly loosened, and the first thing he did was to knead around to refresh his muscles and bones.

Liu Renyu waited for Wang Zuo to move for a while, and then said: "There is still 1 mile ahead of Suide City, Miao Mei is there, you go and ask them if they are willing to accept Zhao'an." ”

"The little ones are going." Wang Zuohang agreed with a low mood.

"Give him a horse." Liu Renyu commanded.

His own soldiers brought a horse and handed it to Wang Zuohang, Wang Zuohang caught the reins, turned over on the horse, and greeted Liu Renyu: "The little one is gone." ”

"Well, go and get back." Liu Renyu nodded.

"Rack." Wang Zuo hung a clamp on the horse's belly, urged the horsepower, and soon disappeared.

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In Suide City, a middle-aged man dressed as a civil official dressed in a small cyan flower official robe, tied with a black horn belt around his waist, wearing a lacquered veil on his head, and soap boots on his feet, looked at a large number of displaced people under the city who were about to attack the city with a beautiful face.

A middle-aged man dressed in old armor, a little rich, and dressed as a military commander beside him was constantly asking: "Li Zhouzun, the thieves in the city are clamoring, I'm afraid that the city is going to attack the city, what do you say we should do?" ”

When Li Zhizhou heard these questions, he replied angrily with great impatience: "Zhao Honglie, you stupid and stupid Qiu Ba, are you a martial artist?" The thieves want to attack the city, and a guerrilla general in your dignity actually asked me what to do with a civilian official? ”

"Hehe, it's true that the little one is a martial artist, but we are usually Suide, no matter how big or small, we are all at your command." Zhao Honglie replied with a smile on his face.

"What time is it, you actually told me this, this official is not a person who knows soldiers, and now that the army of thieves is pressing, it is naturally time for you to preside over the overall situation. Okay, this official has entrusted you with the important task of defending against the enemy, and you can tell me that you have a strategy to defend against the enemy. Li Zhizhou asked.

"Even if the state venerable trusts the little one so much, then the little one will talk about this strategy to resist the enemy. Zhou Zun, there are not many soldiers under the small men, except for 10 family members in hand, there are only 100 soldiers to use, and in addition, there are really no soldiers available. ”

Zhao Honglie first put Suide's strength out.

"Wait a minute, you greedy Qiu Ba, when you usually look for our army salary, you say that you have 500 people under your command, and now when the war starts, you say that you only have ten family members and 100 soldiers, and the officer asks you, where did the money you used to raise soldiers go?" Li Zhizhou asked sharply with a glaring eye.

"Half of it is with you." Zhao Honglie first muttered in a low voice, and then pretended to be stupid, just smirking and not speaking.

"Humph! I have long known that you have been falsely paid as soldiers, and you have hired scoundrels in the market as soldiers to deal with the inspection of the superiors. Now is the time to employ people, the official will not care about you first, you had better make meritorious service and repel the thieves, otherwise the city will be lost, I will walk on the Huangquan Road, and I will definitely pull you as a companion. Li Zhizhou threatened.

"Hey, the little one knows. Zhou Zun, for today's plan, is to first recruit the people, stick to the city with the small ones, and then wait for reinforcements from Yulin. Zhao Honglie said in advance.

"Will there be officials and soldiers in Yulin to help?" Li Zhizhou's face was happy, and he asked in a low voice.

"Yes, the small ones sent out to explore the horses reported that the reinforcements from Yulin just killed the thieves besieging Mizhi yesterday, and now they are rushing towards our Suide." Zhao Honglie replied.

"That's good, that's good." Li Zhizhou rubbed his hands with joy.

"Zhou Zun, before the reinforcements from Yulin come, we still need to defend the city, otherwise the reinforcements will come, but the city will be breached, then we are only afraid that we will be impeached by Hongjunmen." Zhao Honglie reminded.

"Yes, yes, you're right, you should hurry up and set up defenses." Li Zhizhou commanded.

"Hey, that's good." Zhao Honglie agreed first, and then said to Ai Ai: "Hehe, Zhou Zun, in this extraordinary period, you still need money and food to motivate the soldiers to work hard, do you see if it's .........." ”

"You!" Li Zhizhou's face darkened when he heard such a request, but he thought for a while, and finally nodded: "There is still some money and grain in the treasury, which was originally to be handed over to the imperial court, but now that the military situation is urgent, you should first go to the master to get some to spend." ”

"The little soldiers have thanked the state for their generous rewards." Zhao Honglie thanked Li Zhizhou, and then changed his majestic face to his subordinates: "Go and call all the people in the city to the city, and prepare to resist the thieves." ”

"Yes, yes, the little ones will go." The subordinate should call up, and he will lead people to collect the people.

When this Zhao Honglie's subordinate had just walked to the staircase, he suddenly heard someone in the city shouting: "Oh no, there are thieves who have set fire to it." ”

As soon as this person's voice fell, Li Zhizhou and Zhao Guerrilla at the head of the city saw that there were fires in several places in the city, and bursts of smoke were rising.

Seeing this, Li Zhizhou was immediately shocked and said: "Zhao Honglie, there are thieves who have mixed into the city, why don't you hurry up and suppress it." ”

"Your mother, if you hadn't been hypocritical and righteous before, you had to let the hungry people into the city, how could there be such a disaster." Zhao Honglie scolded Li Zhizhou more than a hundred times in his heart, but he responded in response: "The little one will go." ”

After Zhao Honglie dealt with Li Zhizhou, he shook his spirits and said to the guards beside him: "Zhao Zelin, you take a few of our capable people, find some people to help, and go to plug the city gate with bricks and stones, don't let the thieves open the city gate." ”

"Order." When Zhao Zelin got the order, he took 30 soldiers and walked down the city to find Minzhuang and fill the city gate.

After Zhao Zelin left, Zhao Honglie ordered again: "Zhao Zechu, you quickly take a few knights to the market, and if you see someone with suspicious deeds and raising fire everywhere, you will immediately kill him." ”

"Yes." Zhao Zechu took the order and left.

"Zhu Inspection."

"The little ones are here."

"You quickly take the officials to lead the neighbors to get water to put out the fire, and if you encounter the thief's meticulous work, you will also be killed on the spot."

"The little one understands." Inspector Zhu agreed, and then took his subordinates to the city.

"Zhou Zun, what do you think of the small arrangement?" After Zhao Honglie finished the arrangement, he asked Li Zhizhou.

"Very, very good. Hey, let me ask you, you said that there are thieves in the city to make trouble, and there are thieves outside, can we hold on? Can you wait for reinforcements to come? Li Zhizhou asked tremblingly.

"Cut, guts scholar." Zhao Honglie secretly despised a few words in his heart, and then said with relief: "The state is respectful and relieved, some small works in the city can be eliminated in a blink of an eye, and the small ones are here to stay for a few days, and the reinforcements from the imperial court will arrive soon, so Suide is worry-free!" ”

"That's good, that's good." Li Zhizhou said as he took out his handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead.

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Under the city of Suide, a young man who was holding a Yanling knife and had a fierce look on his face, dressed as an ordinary person, saw the fire in Suide City, the corners of his mouth curled, and he smiled: "The spies sent in are raising the fire, I think there must be some chaos in the city, you go quickly, talk to the big leader, the spies are starting to act." ”

"Okay." Another young man said yes, and hurried towards a land temple not far away.

The young man ran for a while, and then entered a temple of land.

In this land temple, I saw two men in brocade clothes sitting next to a desk, grabbing Shaanxi's special meat buns and munching on them.

At this time, one of the men in Chinese clothes saw someone coming in, so he threw the meat bun in the porcelain bowl, picked up a pure gold wine cup, took a sip of Qindi bitter wine, and then squeezed his facial features into a ball and sighed: "Cool." ”

After the man in the fancy clothes finished speaking, he wiped his hand that had just grabbed the flesh on the brocade clothes, and the clothes he wiped were full of oil, and he did not feel any pain.

"What?" The man in fancy clothes asked.

"The big leader, the second leader sent the little one to tell you that the spies we sent to the city are raising fire, do you think the inside and the outside should be together, and then start attacking the city?" The young man who reported the news asked.

"This matter, you have to ask Tang Ye to do it?" After the man in Chinese clothes finished speaking, he said to another man in Chinese clothes: "Master Tang, you used to be an official and soldier, you are familiar with the war, you look at this city, can you attack it?" ”

"Since there is a fire in the city, there will be chaos in the city, and the situation in Suidezhou, we Lao Tzu also knew when he was an official in the past, the guerrilla Zhao Honglie, the name of drinking the blood of the soldiers is very loud, the soldiers who can fight in the city are two hundred, let's send people to the wheel battle later, and when the defenders are exhausted, the 600 strong men under our Lao Tzu will rush, Miao Da Leader, Suide is ours." Tang Ye smiled and described a bright future.

"That's natural, you have 600 people, but they are all former border troops, and they must be much stronger than the local chickens and dogs in Suide Prefecture." The leader of Miao said flatteringly.

"Hey, that's nature." Tang Ye stroked his beard and laughed.

"Come, Master Tang, let's finish eating these meat buns, and after drinking these wines, let's go watch the battle, how about it?" Miao Datou said.

"Okay," Tang Ye picked up a pure gold wine cup and laughed, "Come, let's go." ”

"Okay," said the Miao leader, who was about to have a drink.

Suddenly, another person outside broke into the land temple, knelt on the ground and said: "Big boss, there is a person named Wang Zuohang outside, saying that he knows you, and he is looking for you for something, can you see it?" ”

"Wang Zuohang!? Isn't he in Mi Fat? Why did you get here? Go and call him, ah no, call him in. Commander Miao commanded.

"Okay, let's go, little one." When the subordinate received the order, he walked out of the land temple and asked the king to hang on his left.

After a short time, Wang Zuohang was taken to the land temple.

"Wang Zuohang, it's really you, aren't you in Mizhi? Why did you get here? ", Miao Da Leader was surprised.

"Brother Miao, I had no choice but to come to you." Wang Zuohang smiled bitterly.

"What's going on?" The leader of Miao Da wondered.

Wang Zuohang did not immediately answer the question of the leader of Miaoda, he saw that there was something to eat on the table, and he didn't care whether people invited him to eat or not, so he grabbed it and munched on it.

When Wang Zuohang eliminated a meat bun and drank a cup of bitter wine, he said with some sadness: "A team of officers and soldiers came from the north and arrested us all, and the leading officer and army called to persuade you to surrender." ”

"What!? All of them are caught, how can it be, you have more than 200 cavalry! Miao Da Leader's eyes widened in disbelief.

"This team of officers and soldiers is different from what we have encountered before, they are relentlessly chasing, and the armor soldiers are sharp, very powerful, in addition, they neither want the head, nor the money, they can't get along with us, we can't beat them, so we have to surrender." Wang Zuohang said again.

"So!?" The leader of Miao listened to Wang Zuohang's words and was speechless for a long time.

"Brother Miao, after the officers and soldiers recruited us, they still gave us a few full meals, you see if you should also be recruited, after all, the officers and soldiers this time are different from the past, but if you are serious, you have to weigh it." Wang Zuohang persuaded.

"Hehe, they are officers and soldiers, didn't our Lao Tzu also be officers and soldiers in the past, your name is Wang Zuohang, right, let me ask you, how many officers and soldiers are there, where is the accent, and who is the chief officer?" Tang Ye, who had been silent all along, suddenly said.

"Who is this?" When Wang Zuohang saw a fresh face, he asked.

"This is Tang Lichen Tang Ye, who has only recently joined the gang, he used to be a serious Yansui border army, and he is also a general, because there was no military salary when King Qin, and he was not angry, so he fell into the grass, and he had 600 former border troops under him."

The leader of Miao Da just heard that the officials and soldiers who came to suppress the thieves were powerful, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy, and now that Tang Lichen spoke, he remembered that there was such a trump card in his hand, and he immediately regained his confidence, and introduced Tang Lichen with his eyebrows.

"There are about six or seven hundred officers and soldiers here, all of them are cavalry, Yishui'er red armor, red dazzling, all with local accents, and the leading military attache is quite heroic, and is called Lord Liu." Wang Zuo hung up.

"Lord Liu with a local accent, I'm afraid it's not Liu Wuguo who is called Liu Laocai, it's not that we haven't seen the soldiers under this guy, and the most powerful ones are just his dozens of family members, you can be defeated by them, I can only say that you are too useless." Tang Lichen said with a smile.

"Tang Ye insists on saying this, but there is nothing to say." Wang Zuohang saw Tang Lichen looking down on himself, and he was inevitably a little depressed.

"The so-called two armies are fighting, don't kill them, leave your life, go back and tell that Lord Liu, we are not recruited, and ask them to come and make two moves with someone in Etang."

Tang Lichen first replied to Wang Zuohang arrogantly, and then asked the leader of Miao Da in a fake manner: "I'm sorry, we didn't ask you, so we made a statement first, if you don't agree, you don't say anything." ”

When the leader of Miao heard this, he first waved his hand, and then said: "What Tang Ye said is exactly what I want to say, Wang Zuohang, you can go back and tell that Lord Liu, we will not be recruited." ”

"Okay, Brother Miao is cool, I'll go back to my life." After Wang Zuohang finished speaking, he walked out of the land temple without looking back.

The leader of Miao Da waited for Wang Zuohang to go away, and said to Tang Lichen with a worried face: "Tang Ye, Wang Zuohang's strength is really not weak, and he also has more than 100 former border troops under him, they were defeated so cleanly, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers of that group are a little prickly, we might as well leave the homeless people behind, let some homeless people drag the officers and soldiers, let's hurry up and run away by ourselves, and then go to another place to eat?" ”

"Big leader, don't worry, there are 600 former border troops in your forehead, and there are only 600 officers and soldiers in that group, and it is not certain who will lose and who will win in the fight, don't you be afraid, let's go to meet the officers and soldiers, if we win, can't we fight Suide nearby with peace of mind, if you can't win, it's a big deal to drill into the ravine, and when the officers and soldiers are gone, they will come out to kill and plunder." Tang Lichen suggested.

"But the spies in the city are already raising fire, if we don't attack the city, I'm afraid they will be finished." The leader of Miao couldn't bear to say.

"If we attack the city and the official army comes to attack, we will be defeated, so it is better to abandon those spies and fight the official army first, in case we win the official army, it is a big deal to fill in a few more lives to attack the city." Tang Lichen didn't care about the Tao.

"Then you can only blame them for their misery." The leader of Miao Da sighed.

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"Lord Liu, the little ones went to Miao Mei to persuade them, but they didn't want to be recruited. Moreover, there was a man named Tang Lichen on his side who also said wildly, saying that he wanted your lord to lead the troops to go with them in two moves. ”

Wang Zuo rode back to the official army, and when he saw Liu Renyu, he reported.

"Yes! There are strange things every year, especially this year, and the thieves still dare to go to war with me, which is very good, very good. Liu Renyu first sneered for a while, and then smiled at Yang Desheng and other subordinates: "Let's go and meet them, remember, this time, kill all the real thieves, and leave no one behind." ”

When Yang Desheng and the others heard this, they all responded with smiles on their faces: "I'll go to Haosheng and greet them later." ”