Accompanied by Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong, Yang Fei climbed a small hill on the side of the road and looked at the marching troops, tens of thousands of troops walking on the road to the west, and the dust raised was almost swept up to the sky with the breeze.

Yang Fei squinted his eyes, looked at the distant mountains in front of him, and after a while, he turned around and said to Zuo Liangyu who followed him: "Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Mengde have merged, and now they have broken into Daning and Dachang and broken the local defenders, I am afraid that they are being proud." However, there are only a few limited roads outside Daning and Dachang. After the battle of Agate Mountain, our army was not in a hurry to chase them, and the thief only thought that our army was slow and could not keep up with them, and he also made a ballad to say, 'Good Yang Gebu, three days away from me'. He probably couldn't have imagined that this Daning and Dachang were originally given to him by us, in order to let them enter it. We catch turtles in the urn! General Ping, General He, General ......"

"The last general!" Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong immediately clasped their fists with both hands.

"Order, let the soldiers hurry at the same time, we must rush over, block the rest of the road, and when the time comes, the thief will be unable to fly! If he can arrive within three days, the governor will write to the saint and ask for credit for the two generals. General He, Zuo Ping has made great contributions repeatedly, and now that the marquis is in sight, General He must also work hard. In the end, Yang Fei gave He Dalong a special encouragement.

He Dalong hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The last general will serve the death force and serve the country." But as he said this, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know what was going on in his heart.

He Dalong lowered his head, Yang Fei couldn't see his eyes, some time ago, after he got the title of "Ping Thief General" for Zuo Liangyu, he regretted a little because Zuo Liangyu was not particularly obedient to some of his dispatches, so he said to He Dalong that if he could listen to his own dispatch everywhere in the subsequent battles, he would transfer Zuo Liangyu's title of "Ping Thief General" to him. He Dalong was naturally very happy, and for a period of time, he was also very obedient, and he was not afraid of suffering losses when he fought. However, what I didn't expect was that although Zuo Liangyu didn't listen to the dispatch in many places, he was afraid of the heavy, but he defeated Zhang Bingzhong in Agate Mountain and made a great contribution. So, Yang Fei had to say to He Dalong that the matter of giving him the title of "General Ping Thief" can only be "talked about later". He Dalong felt that the reason why Zuo Liangyu was able to win such a victory in Agate Mountain was entirely because his previous hard battle with Zhang Bingzhong had exhausted his strength, which was like managing a peach orchard, he was the one who planted trees, fertilized, and caught insects, and Zuo Liangyu was a peach picker at best. Zuo Liangyu has merit, is he not meritorious? As for Yang Fei, even if he can't transfer Zuo Liangyu's title of "General Ping Thief" to himself, he should also make a statement to the imperial court, and give himself another title such as "General Dangkou". But you shouldn't just use a "later" to perfunctory yourself. So just two days ago, he found Zuo Liangyu and simply told Zuo Liangyu about Yang Fei and his original agreement. The two of them drank a meal together, and scolded Yang Fei together for being insidious and not a thing.

Yang Fei didn't know anything about all this, so he was very satisfied with He Dalong's statement, so he hugged his beard and said: "There are two generals, that Zhang Bingzhong is a grasshopper after the autumn, and he won't be able to jump for a few days." ”

As he was saying this, he saw from a distance several cavalrymen with small red flags on their backs galloping towards this direction from a distance. Yang Fei knew that this was the cavalry who delivered the urgent message, and his heart couldn't help but sink: "Is there something unexpected?" ”

These cavalry soon approached, and Yang Fei's guards stopped them a hundred or so paces away, and after a while, his personal guard captain Tian Boguang came over with a cavalryman.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there is an expediting from the Ministry of War." Tian Boguang said.

Yang Fei frowned, he had been very dissatisfied with the work of the military department recently. The supplies allocated to him by the Ministry of War were not only insufficient in quantity, but also always failed to meet the deadlines. For this reason, he has written to each other with Fu Yuanxian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to accuse each other many times. In the words of the military department this time, I don't know what "good things" will be.

"Show me." Yang Fei said.

Tian Boguang hurriedly handed over the official document.

Yang Fei took the official document, unfolded it and looked at it, his face suddenly sank, and he said hatefully: "After several years of planning, it was ruined!" ”

"Your Excellency, what's going on?" Zuo Liangyu asked.

"Huang Zide came out and ...... in Henan" Yang Fei sighed and handed the official document to Zuo Liangyu. He Dalong also leaned over to watch it together.

"Huang Zide came out of Song County? One day he went down to Song County, and then raided and captured Ruzhou! How did Huang Zide do it? What are the local vassals doing? Zuo Liangyu said in surprise.

"Didn't you say that Huang Zide went south?" He Dalong said, "No wonder he didn't know where he had gone for so many days. When was the last time Shang Nan reported his whereabouts? It seems that it has only been nine days since they conquered Song County, and there are 800 miles of mountain roads from Shangnan to Song County. Before they launched an attack, they had to repair it for one day, so that they could complete the 800 miles of mountain road in only eight days! ”

In this era, the mobility of the army is quite poor. Generally speaking, an army that can march thirty miles a day is not bad - and this is still on a flat road. And Huang Zide's army continued to march hundreds of miles a day for eight days, and it was a mountain road.

"Where did Huang Zide get so many mules and horses?" Zuo Liangyu said in surprise, "And he is really willing!" ”

Indeed, by the standards of this era, there was only one possibility of being able to march continuously at such a speed in such an environment as a mountain, and that was that their entire army had mules and horses to ride, and more than one. Even so, a hundred miles a day on the mountain road would kill many animals. That's why Zuo Liangyu said, "He is really willing."

No matter how Huang Zide had so many mules and horses, in short, Huang Zide's thief army walked 800 miles of mountain roads at an astonishing speed, captured Song County by surprise, and then attacked and captured Ruzhou with the same astonishing speed. The fact that they were able to achieve such results was of course related to the lack of troops in Henan and the lack of defense in Songxian and Ruzhou. But even with these things in mind, the astonishing marching speed of Huang Zide's troops still made Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong feel quite stressed.

"Supervisor, is the military department planning to transfer us to Henan?" He Dalong hurriedly asked. He has fought more than one or two battles with Huang Zide before, and in general, he has won more and lost less. But now, he is very reluctant to turn around and go back to deal with Huang Zide. First of all, it is naturally because Zhang Bingzhong has basically been put in a cage here, if he can stay here, against Zhang Bingzhong, how can he get a lot of military exploits. And went all the way to Henan to fight Huang Zide, but it is difficult to say whether he succeeded or failed. Under such circumstances, who would want to go to Henan? In addition, the last battle with Liu Jiexuan also made He Dalong very jealous, although he believed that the number of Huang Zide's men who could fight with the Mandarin Duck Formation should not be too much, but this battle at least showed that the combat effectiveness of Huang Zide's army could not be underestimated. Besides, Huang Zide's army can march at such a speed and launch an attack operation so quickly, to say that such an army cannot fight, He Dalong does not believe it, so now, He Dalong is very reluctant to go to Henan. Of course, He Dalong knew that most of the troops that Huang Zide could fight in his hands were limited, but now that Henan was in a catastrophe, the displaced people were everywhere. Relying on these displaced people, Huang Zide can quickly pull up tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people. Although the combat effectiveness of these temporarily pulled soldiers must be very poor, they can at least be used to consume the strength of the officers and soldiers, and when the officers and soldiers are exhausted, these elites of his will suddenly be killed, which can really kill people.

What He Dalong can figure out, Zuo Liangyu won't be unable to figure out. So Zuo Liangyu immediately spoke: "Supervisor, we can't withdraw at this time, we continue to march into the army, as long as there is another month, we can completely eliminate Zhang Bingzhong, at this time, if we divide the troops, Zhang Bingzhong will most likely be able to kill again, and then we will urgently return to Huguang?" Wouldn't we be able to rely on both ends? The last general felt that at this time, the imperial court should grit its teeth and let us eliminate Zhang Bingzhong first. Besides, the Ministry of War can also mobilize Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo to deal with Huang Zide, and now this opportunity in front of us can't just be let go of in vain. ”

Yang Fei let out a long sigh, and from his own consideration, he was also reluctant to go to Henan. Because as long as these troops are transferred to Henan, it means that all his efforts over the years have become useless. And if he stayed in Huguang and Sichuan, he would be able to supervise the teacher personally, but if he ran to Henan immediately, it would be much more difficult to catch Huang Zide there. If you really want to do this, you will probably work for nothing. So he said: "Two generals, this governor immediately sent a letter to the imperial court and asked the military department to transfer troops from Shandong and Anhui, and we still rushed to Daning according to the plan......

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Almost at the same time, in the mansion of Su Jiashu, the richest man in Daning County, Zhang Bingzhong was having dinner with Luo Mengde while discussing the current situation.

"Huang Zide of dog days, where did he run to? Why is there no movement at all? Zhang Bingzhong stuffed a pig's trotter into his mouth and took a bite, scolding indistinctly.

"I'm afraid that Lao Huang didn't think about coming to us at all." Luo Mengde took a sip of wine, "I didn't see it before, Lao Huang is so yin." He probably relied on us to absorb the officers and soldiers, and then went to Henan by himself. ”

"This guy isn't a good thing!" Zhang Bingzhong said, "He ran to Henan, I heard about the disaster in Henan, and now Henan must be full of displaced people, this is a soldier!" He asked us to absorb the officers and soldiers here, but he went to Henan to eat fragrant and drink spicy food, which is really not a thing! Hey, I want to say, this guy's hand is more like Cao Cao than you! ”

I went out to dinner today, I was late for the update, sorry. Tomorrow I will take a day off and take a day off.