Chapter 18 Raising the Army
"Your Highness, a letter from Palm Liu."
Yin Shenglin was overjoyed when he received the letter: "Great, take the pen and reply to Liu Zhang's envoy." ”
"What's wrong?" General Wu asked.
"King Yue defeated the enemy army in Beiling, and Liu Zhang took Linyuan by surprise, wrapped the dumplings of the Black Kingdom, and won a complete victory. Liu Zhangzun immediately collected his troops and marched west to help us. This matter can't be spread for the time being, everyone hurry up and prepare, let's take Weicheng first, plus Liu Zhangzun's troops, attack Changling, and raise troops to Qin Wang! ”
"Great!"
"Report! As His Royal Highness expected, Lei Jiaojie led his troops south, did he leave for Weicheng? Wang Fugui asked.
Yin Shenglin waved his hand: "Lei Jiaojie is a smart person, he must be left to be watched." ”
"What then?"
"Fugui, take these plasters off."
"Understood, let's go!"
"After I finished speaking, after removing the plaster, I took some soldiers to pretend to be a vanguard team to the south, and after harassing Lei Jiaojie's camp, I came back immediately and followed us to Changling. Don't forget, you still have to block the north gate with me, and you must move quickly, in order to make Lei Jiaojie think that we will really go south. By the time he reacted, we would have already taken Li Renjie to him. ”
"I'll leave this matter to me, I'm the best at finding trouble!"
……
"General! Discover the vanguard squad of the Leopard Army! ”
Lei Jiaojie stood on the beacon tower: "Yin Shenglin has sent someone to explore the way." ”
Wang Fugui picked up the bow and arrow and shot it towards Lei Jiaojie's beacon tower, so frightened that Lei Jiaojie dodged back, and when he looked closely, he found that it was a letter arrow.
Lei Jiaojie picked up the letter, and on it was Wang Fugui's crooked characters. He probably learned dozens of words from Yin Shenglin, all of which were used to greet the eight generations of ancestors, and all of them were used by Lei Jiaojie.
"Rich." Lei Jiaojie smiled: "I know him too well, you want to scold me and lure me out?" Yin Shenglin must have set up an ambush and waited for me. ”
Lei Jiaojie ordered his subordinates to stand still, and Wang Fugui took his subordinates to scold in front of Lei Jiaojie's camp.
Lei Jiaojie's subordinates couldn't stand it anymore, and Lei Jiaojie still didn't move.
Wang Fugui scolded for a while, and then took the people away.
"Wang Fugui, Wang Fugui, this is for me to provoke the law, sample, just rely on his little brain." Lei Jiaojie said: "Pass the order, as long as you can't see Yin Shenglin's army, don't care about this kind of harassment, don't waste a single arrow!" ”
At this time, Yin Shenglin had already led the army to the northeast, and Lingcheng seemed to have become an empty city.
"Keep up, keep up."
"General, our marching speed has reached the limit, I think it's better to slow it down to three and a half days, three days, the time is too tight, even if we go to Weicheng, the march is tired, and there is no combat effectiveness."
"No, the time is as short as possible, otherwise, Tong Wen will have the opportunity to support Weicheng if he knows the news. Even if you are about to get to the place where you are resting, you can't rest here. Zhang Shaoyun said.
"But the General! The cavalry is okay, but the infantry still has to carry so many things, it really can't hold on. ”
Yin Shenglin said: "Forget it, this is just in the mountain, which is conducive to hiding, everyone rests and rests, I have been to this mountain, but unfortunately it is winter, and there is no fruit to pick." Let everyone stop, eat something and then go, we people don't feel tired from riding horses, and the soldiers are not like us. ”
"Your Highness!"
Yin Shenglin and the others also dismounted to rest, and he asked Zhang Shaoyun: "General, you must be very strict in governing the army, right?" ”
"Well, these soldiers, they're tired and sleepy all day long, if you don't force them, you can't do it."
General Yang Wei said: "General Zhang, when I was young, I was like you, beating and scolding soldiers all day long. Although an iron army has been trained, which of these children who are soldiers is not the meat that fell from their parents? On weekdays, you suffer a lot and are forced to join the army, so you still need to go into the soldiers more, listen to their voices, and understand their thoughts. ”
"Old general, this is easy to say, they are afraid of me."
"There are some things that you don't try, how can you know?" General Yang said: "You ask Shenglin to give you a demonstration and learn a little." ”
Yin Shenglin said: "Understood! Then he took the flask from his horse and ran between four or five soldiers.
"His Royal Highness King Qi!" It may be an honor to be approached by the Prince.
"Five of you, sit down. This king has something to ask you. ”
"Yes."
"Your Highness."
Yin Shenglin handed the wine jug to one of them: "I don't have much wine here, two sips for one person, and the six of us brothers don't drink it, so I just took this jug to the stream in the mountains to pour water." ”
"This ......"
"Your Highness, we are subordinates of General Zhang of the Lingcheng Battalion, and he doesn't let us drink on weekdays."
"You can't miss a big deal after two sips, what's wrong with being brave when you're about to fight? Besides, I am now the commander of King Qin's army, and you General Zhang have to listen to me. You have to listen to me more, I let you drink, then drink, if Lao Zhang dares to say anything, do you think I am willing? ”
"Okay, listen to Your Highness!" The soldiers of the Lingcheng Army were very hard at first glance, and they were very happy to drink wine. Several people's faces were filled with joy.
"Hey, what's your name?" Yin Shenglin asked the older one.
"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the small one is called Qian Duo."
Yin Shenglin laughed: "This name is really good! It's good to have a lot of money. Why did you come to be a soldier? ”
"I was an orphan, helpless, originally I made a little money by taking some goods from the Western Regions, and later married a wife and had children. Ten years ago, there were some small wars in the west, the war plagued the people, my wife and children died because of the war, I didn't have any meaning in living, I wanted to die, but I was saved by the people of the Lingcheng army, after that, I came to Lingcheng, followed General Zhang to protect the family and defend the country. Although the general is a little stricter, he is really good to us, and our Lingcheng army also loves him. ”
Yin Shenglin turned around and shouted to Zhang Shaoyun: "Did you hear it, praise you!" ”
Zhang Shaoyun smiled and thought: Do I need to praise me for being so good?
"And what's your name?" Yin Shenglin asked the youngest again.
"His Royal Highness King Qi, my name is Yu Tao. I joined the army because ......"
"Stop, stop, I didn't ask you why you joined the army, I know, you are all from the people who are suffering, if I ask about your past, you will be sad."
Everyone laughed and said: "How can it be, everyone is a person who has experienced life and death." ”
"Yu Tao, let me ask you, what do you want to do in the future?"
"Back to His Royal Highness, the little one wants to follow General Zhang all the time, I want to be his lieutenant, and then ...... Give him a lieutenant general for the rest of his life, just do it. ”
"Yes, Lao Zhang is so attractive? I didn't see it! ”
"Actually, His Royal Highness King Qi, you are also very general-like, we all know what you are doing in the south, if General Zhang doesn't want me, I can be a deputy general with you!"
Zhang Shaoyun said: "No! His Royal Highness King Qi can't rob people with me. Is there still alcohol? ”
"Yes!" Qian Duo handed the wine jug to Zhang Shaoyun.
"I'll tell you a few of you, whoever has made a great contribution this time, I'll make him my lieutenant." Zhang Shaoyun drank it all and threw the wine jug to Yu Tao: "Boy, pour water for His Royal Highness King Qi!" ”
"Yes, General."
Zhang Shaoyun also sat on the ground and talked with everyone, he had always been serious, he also felt that it was time to change his attitude towards the soldiers, General Yang looked at a few of them, smiled, and thought: Young, it's good.
……
LIN Yuan,
"Zhangzun, why do you want to let them go back?"
"We are meant to warn the Black Nation not to act rashly, not to win." Liu Dehao said: "Losing too many troops is not good for us. The king of Qi has already replied, they want to attack Weicheng first, once Weicheng is beaten, Tong Wen will inevitably send troops to support, we can take advantage of the emptiness of Changling's troops to attack the capital. ”
"Report, Lord Zhangzun, King Yue sent someone to send back the talisman and gave Zhangzun a treasure."
Liu Dehao opened the gift box, and inside was a bow.
King Yue wrote in the letter, long heard that Zhangzun is good at using bows and arrows, this bow can be a bow, a long knife, a short knife, a halberd, a gun, a stick, a crossbow seven changes, is the first emperor made by his own hands, so far no one can use this treasure, since Zhangzun sent troops to the king, it is necessary to need a worthy weapon. Hope to honor the will of the emperor and recover the rivers and mountains.
Liu Dehao pulled out an arrow from the quiver and shot it in the direction of Changling in the northwest: "Order, send troops." ”