The two battalions of reinforcements sent by the Great Commander's Mansion arrived, Li Yu went out of Ningwu Pass, and hugged Zhao Ji tightly by the Hui River, the two broke up at the beginning of the year for almost another year, and the meeting here and now was very cordial, and the soldiers of the Fengzhou Army also came out of the camp to greet the people who came home, but they found that many people who came did not know each other, but they had never been to Fengzhou's Tiger Dawei, fierce as a tiger, and those new faces talked affectionately endlessly.

"Brother Zhao, I really didn't expect you to come, I thought that the Great Commander's Mansion would send Lao Bai to command the troops." Li Yu took Zhao Ji's hand and said.

"Lao Bai's little ability can't lead the cavalry, and these two guys won't listen to him," Zhao Ji smiled and waved his hand, turned his face and shouted behind him, "Lao Sun, Haishan, don't follow a gust of wind and tiger heads, come and see the commander." ”

Meng Ke, Qiu Xian, Borshu, Hu Dawei and Fierce Tiger, a gang of former horse thieves, were talking energetically with Haishan, a Hada man under Man Dahai, and a burly man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, when he heard Zhao Ji's shout, he immediately rushed over, fierce as a tiger pointed at the big man, and preemptively introduced to Li Yu: "Yuzi, you have to get to know this guy, Thunderbolt Fire Sun Fuhu, the boss outside Jizhen and Shanhaiguan, the big horse thief Iron Eagle died in his hands." ”

Zhao Ji glared at him like a tiger, and said to Li Yu: "I brought a thousand fine horses, Datong Town gave the number of the left and right battalions of the thief army, Lao Sun was the thousand general manager of the Ming army, and the left battalion was given to him, Brother Mandahai was old, I asked him to stay at home, and the right battalion was given to Haishan, this kid." ”

Haishan hurriedly saluted Li Yu, but Sun Fuhu just arched his hand, Li Yu didn't care, and greeted them according to Mongolian etiquette, Haishan and Li Yu hugged each other, but Sun Fuhu dodged away, Li Yu was embarrassed, and suddenly two little guys got in front of him.

"Uncle Yuzi, and us," the two children hugged Li Yu and didn't let go.

"Hadari, Brother Cha, why are you here, there is a war here!" Li Yu looked at the two children in front of him, Hadari has grown a little taller, and Brother Richard is stronger than before, the two of them are like adults, carrying bows and arrows and carrying long knives, Li Yu stroked their heads and shook his head and said, "No, you are young, it is too dangerous to fight, I will send someone to send you back immediately." ”

"If you don't come back, I miss you, and Aunt Ulan also agrees with me to come, so I won't go back!" Hadari's eyes were a little red.

"Uncle Yuzi, my father and mother also agreed to let me come, you can leave us behind!" Li Fugui's stepson, Brother Richard, also pleaded.

"Just leave them behind, the children of Zhushen and Mongolia are in charge early, and they can go out at the age of fourteen, Hadari will be sixteen years old, and Brother Cha will be fourteen, so let them follow you to experience." Zhao Ji also interceded for the two children.

Li Yu thought for a while and said, "Then you stay first, just follow me, and don't go anywhere!" ”

As soon as the reinforcements from Fengzhou arrived, the morale of the Ming army in Ningwuguan was greatly boosted, and Sun Xianzu was also relieved, although there were not many reinforcements, they all looked like elite soldiers, horses and armor were also excellent, and it was enough to fight the rabble of thieves, he immediately went to the Fengzhou military camp to join in the fun, and also sent more than a dozen big fat pigs and dozens of jars of wine, Li Yu pulled him into the big tent, and the officers crowded together and chatted.

Zhao Ji gushed to Li Yu and said, the Great Commander's Office received Li Yu's letter of request for help, and soon made up its mind to increase troops in the Guannai - holding on to the Ming State and forming an alliance with Chahar, it is the basic strategy of Fengzhou to the outside world, and the thieves hit Shanxi is to stab their buttocks, of course, they can't sit idly by, in fact, the Great Commander's Office has ordered the western outpost of Wuerden to be fully mobilized, ready to support the Ming army in the direction of the Toutou Pass at any time, the only trouble is that almost all the established troops of Fengzhou are in the Guannei, Wuhai, After discussion, several admirers of the Adjutant General's Mansion decided to use the Liaodong horse thieves in Mandahai and the newly defected Sun Fuhushan Customs Raid as the team, supplement some officers and soldiers, and form two battalions of cavalry to enter the customs to suppress the thieves.

The people of Mandahai are easy to do, they have been in Fengzhou for a year, and they have been organized into a hundred households stationed in Weining Haizi, and they will be able to form an army immediately, and Man Dahai himself is eager to try to lead the troops to the expedition, but everyone disagrees, Yang Dazhi was transferred to the agricultural and animal husbandry office, and Terig followed Li Yu into the customs, and the work of the two thousand households in Weining Haizi had to rely on him to do it, and he was also old, so it was better to stay at home, so the young Haishan was selected to be a battalion officer.

Sun Fuhu's situation is complicated, he came to Fengzhou for only a month, he is a native of Shandong, in his hometown when the horse is rampant and domineering, life is good, and then Shandong made a disturbance of the White Lotus Sect, the imperial court sent a large army into Shandong to suppress, by the way, his ringing horse team also beat to pieces, Sun Fuhu saw that the situation was not good, and took his subordinates to become recruited as an official army, but he did not expect to vote for the wrong team, and was pulled to Shanhaiguan all of a sudden. This person has the ability to talk about righteousness, and he also mixed a small official in the official army, and the official army was not having a good time, he also worked part-time as a horse thief outside the border by the way, and became a horse thief Iron Eagle with a big horse thief, and became the horse thief boss outside the border of Zhenji Town and Shanhaiguan, but the good times did not last long, the Jin soldiers invaded Gyeonggi, and he also entered the king of Guanqin with the army, and as a result, he fought a big defeat in Yongping, he took his brothers as a rout, Sun Chengzong took charge of the Liao Governor of Ji, and the guest army in Liaodong was dismissed. Originally, it was good to go back to his hometown to resume his old business, but when this guy left, in order to return the arrears of wages and gather people to make trouble, he also beat the general who came to bomb and suppress half to death, this time it was a disaster, so he had to flee to the border outside the gate with his brothers, they were horse thieves all the way to the border of Xuanfu, and caused a big incident - there was a conflict with the border army of Xuanfu, and he also killed the conduct of a border fort, and the border army of Xuanfu was not easy to provoke, and made an appointment with the Chahar people to suppress this horse thief, Sun Fuhu panicked and ran to the border of Datong. It happened to be blocked by Zhao Ji and Man Dahai in the east outpost, and the two sides found out that they were acquaintances as soon as they fought each other, so what else to fight, the three big horse thieves got together and naturally talked well, they agreed that with the rise of the Jin Kingdom, the horse thieves are getting worse and worse, especially their number of people, the tree will be suppressed sooner or later, and it is enough for him Sun Fuhu to cut off his head a few times, and he must have thrown himself into the net when he entered the customs, and the lawlessness of Fengzhou is just a good place for them to hide and avoid trouble, so the big horse thief Sun Fuhu also joined the Fengzhou family.

Sun Fuhu brought to Fengzhou has more than 200 people, this group of people have been thieves and soldiers, but they have never done a good job, farming, grazing can not do, and they can only do rough work when they are assigned to the guard, one by one complaining, Zhao Ji said that he entered the customs to suppress the thief, Sun Fuhu and his gang were itching their hands, and immediately agreed, but Sun Fuhu also said that he could give Zhao Ji and Manda Hai face, and others wanted to point fingers at him, unless he won the mace in his hand, Zhao Ji was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and brought a group of reserve soldiers to make him up to 500 people, Sun Fuhu's battalion is also considered to be organized.

Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, heard that Fengzhou had increased troops to suppress thieves, and immediately expressed his full support, and opened the Hukou Fort to let the iron horse enter the pass - he was also worried about the thieves, Song Tongyin had already sent a letter to ask for help, and Wei Yunzhong, the governor of Xuanda, also wrote to say that the three towns of Xuanda were one, and they must assist Shanxi to suppress thieves, Zhang Zongheng of course understood that he would be unlucky if Shanxi Town collapsed, but Man Gui defeated all the elites of Datong Town under the Jingshi City, where did he go to find soldiers, and when he was in a hurry, Fengzhou helped a lot. Zhang Zongheng was happy in his heart, and personally inspected the Fengzhou reinforcements under Datong City, and also rushed to make a big banner of "Datong Suppression Thief Army", announcing that this Fengzhou Army was the thief reinforcement he sent.

Zhao Ji said with a smile: "The governor gave us a month's worth of ordnance, grain and grass, and also rewarded each person with five yuan of silver. ”

"It's time for him to be in a hurry, the thief will take another step to the east is Datong, he doesn't want his nest to catch fire, okay, I have some money in my hand now, you rest for two days first, and then let's do something to the thief." Li Yu replied.

The Fengzhou military camp was jubilant when it was time to eat, and the soldiers had wine and meat for the New Year, Li Yu and the officers also came out of the big tent, mixed with the soldiers and had a lively time, and Hadari and Li Chage were excitedly scurrying around in the camp. Li Yuzheng and Zhu Shen from Asari, Haishan and Jin Guo were happy to eat, and Chen Erzhu ran to report: "Great Commander, it's not good, the tiger head and the fierce tiger are fighting with the new Sun Yingguan again." ”

"Why do these two guys like to fight with people!" Li Yu put down the wine bowl angrily and hurried over.

Li Yu arrived to see that Sun Fuhu was chasing Hu Dawei and fighting as fierce as a tiger, the two guys were obviously not opponents, they were beaten and screamed, and when they saw Li Yu coming, they quickly hid behind him.

"Elm, it's really not our fault this time." Hu Dawei said pitifully, fierce as a tiger on the side, they drank a few more bowls of wine with Sun Fuhu, and shouted Sun Fuhu a few times "Sun Erniang" carelessly, but Sun Fuhu beat them like thunder.

"Actually, everyone usually shouts like this, and we can't be blamed for this." Fierce as a tiger touched his back and said very aggrieved.

", everyone knows the name of my thunderbolt, you can shout casually, teach you two a lesson is to make you remember it for a long time." Sun Fuhu said disdainfully.

"You think a mace is a bolt of fire, don't you just want to find something to fight alone! I'm a big head here, so what if I call you Sun Erniang? Li Yu just wanted to speak, but Meng Ke suddenly rushed out to make trouble, followed by Hadari and Richard two little guys.

"You are a dog fighting a dog with a gust of wind, and Lao Tzu will fight alone, let's draw a path first." Sun Fuhu said with a sneer, but his eyes were fixed on Li Yu.

"Bold, you dare to disturb the camp, come here, take down this ruffian!" Sun Xianzu pointed at Sun Fuhu and shouted angrily.

"I saw that this guy didn't change his thief nature, my lord, let me teach him a lesson." Sun Shoufa quietly went to Li Yu's side and said.

"He's coming at me, don't worry about it," Li Yu stopped Sun Xianzu and Sun Shoufa, and said to Sun Fuhu, "Brother Sun must be good at kung fu, of course I have to ask for advice, this is my big camp, just ask Brother Sun to set rules." ”

Zhao Ji walked over and sneered and said: "Thunderbolt Fire, I have already seen that you have this idea, I don't care, you are definitely not an opponent, but I advise you not to compete with the kung fu on the horse, but to fight with a gun and stick on foot, so that you can block for a while." ”

Sun Fuhu nodded, compared with the generals on the grassland, it is indeed a loss, it is still more secure than foot combat, the two walked to a clearing in the camp together, said hello and each carried a long stick and moved his hand, the soldiers in the camp immediately cheered around in a circle to watch, Hadari pulled Brother Richard, and cheered Li Yu loudly: "Uncle Yuzi, you will definitely win!" ”

Sun Fuhu has learned martial arts since he was a child, practiced a good gun and stick, and also experienced bloody actual combat in the army, with exquisite moves and endless changes, and the moves were directly aimed at Li Yu's vital points, forcing Li Yu to take a few steps back from time to time. In contrast, Li Yu's tricks are simple, basically those methods commonly used in the army, but the moves are as fast as lightning and powerful, and every time he makes a move, Sun Fuhu has to fight back to block it, and the advantage he just got lost in a blink of an eye.

Both of them are tall and have long arms, and their strength is about the same, Sun Fuhu has good moves, while Li Yu makes quick and fierce moves, the two of them are indistinguishable from each other, and the people next to them are dizzying, Hadari and Brother Richard are even jumping and shouting, Sun Fuhu is more and more irritable, Li Yu turns over and over with just a few tricks - stabbing, picking, smashing, pumping, but he can force him to be in a hurry, he has practiced kung fu for more than ten years, and there is no way to take Li Yu. Li Yu also secretly scolded this guy for having too many tricks, which dazzled him, I really don't know where he learned so many messy things, not just a few tricks to be a soldier, just practice well.

Li Yu secretly sped up the movements in his hands, Uncle Kulu said to him, don't look at the tigers, bears with teeth and claws, you just have to aim at the key points according to what you usually learn, as long as you are fast, accurate, and ruthless, you can also kill it, Sun Fuhu was forced to speed up his moves, but the faster he moved, the more chaotic he became, and gradually he couldn't keep up with Li Yu's rhythm, and began to retreat constantly, almost falling down several times, but fortunately, Li Yu's men showed mercy, so he didn't let him make a fool of himself in public.

When Sun Fuhu was sweating and panting, Li Yu suddenly stopped and said with a smile: "Brother Sun has worked hard all the way, let's rest early today, let's stop at the point, Brother Sun's moves are exquisite, and if I continue to fight, I will lose face." ”

Sun Fuhu nodded, threw away the stick in his hand, and said to Li Yu: "You Fengzhou people hug your brothers, why did you miss me?" ”

Li Yu smiled and opened his arms and hugged Sun Fuhu, and the audience immediately burst into cheers, and Sun Fuhu's Shandong brothers immediately followed suit, grabbing the people around them and hugging them.

Li Yu is about to make a move, first of all, the Ming army officers in the area of Ningwuguan are called together to announce that the officers and soldiers of Shanxi Town will be recruited to suppress thieves, and those who are not afraid of death and dare to play with their lives can apply, and the number of places is limited. As for Li Yu's reselling of military funds, he didn't even let out a fart - they couldn't help it, Ning Wubing, who was also in charge of food and salary, hid and didn't show up, and the soldiers who had no food below were clamoring for food, and if they didn't send money and food, they might mutiny, but fortunately, this bold acting general soldier got the money, and it was his business for the court to investigate it in the future.

Waiting for everyone to calm down, Li Yu pointed to the map and said, the thieves are currently entrenched in Baode, the narrow strip of the river meander, this place is cold and barren, they have a large number, no food and clothing can not last long, so we must develop outward, to the north of the head of the pass is dangerous, and there is Fengzhou West Outpost can be reinforced at any time to garrison the Ming army, the thieves are difficult to get, they probably will not delusionally go out of the pass to find a way out, to the west is to go back to their hometown Yansui, then we will save trouble, the most troublesome is that they go south to bypass Ningwu Pass into the hinterland of Shanxi, I have asked the governor to transfer troops to strictly guard Xingxian to the front line of Lanzhou, but it is difficult to say whether we can hold it, so we can't continue to hide in Ningwu Pass, we must push forward, until we push to the vicinity of Baode and Hequ, and point the tip of the knife at the throat of the thieves, you don't have to worry, we don't fight a tough battle with them, but build a village and dig a ditch according to the terrain, they want to attack, we will concentrate our forces to defend it, just use guns, bows and arrows to fight hard, you will defend the camp to the death, that's good, we trap the thieves, and use iron cavalry to constantly harass and fight them, When they run out of food, we'll find another chance to crush them in one fell swoop.

The officers in Shanxi Town were excited, they were easy to do things if they had money in their hands, and the soldiers were still reasonable, although the arrears were definitely not enough, but it was the fault of the civilian officials who were also in charge of the salary, and the general soldiers of the people took the risk to give them two months' salary, and what was not satisfied, as long as they did not fight a tough battle, and there were iron horses to support them, everyone was still willing to make military achievements, Sun Xianzu patted his chest and expressed his willingness to lead the troops to suppress the thieves, Li Yu generously handed over the five thousand men and horses he had conscripted, and sent him to threaten Hequ from the direction of Shenchi, And the Fengzhou army marched into Baode from the direction of Wuzhaibao, and at the same time blocked the passage of the thieves to the south - it is unlikely that the thieves will invade Datong in the east, and going south to the hinterland of Shanxi is their way out, Li Yu feels that it is more practical to stay in the south.

As soon as the general military palace issued money, the soldiers were immediately mobilized, and the guy who dared to fight happily took the money and followed Sun Xianzu away, and the rest of the people were very frustrated to find Fan Erxi, Fan Erxi immediately cheered everyone up, what are you worried about, the court will not pay you food, but I still gave you a knife, this knife is the capital of everyone's life, you follow me, there are skilled shops, workshops, no skilled escort goods, dart card, whoever dares to stop you will use a knife to talk to him, Don't be afraid if the court officials come out to stop you, they won't let you do it, so you will ask them for arrears, and you have the support of the chief soldier, just wait to get rich.