Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 4: The Heroic Soul Returns Home

Chapter 1: It is difficult to leap thousands of miles into Shudao

Section 6 Regression

In the middle of November of the forty-seventh year of Wanli (the fourth year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate), the Hanwei camp outside Yiyang City.

Lu Ying was reviewing the documents in the army in the big tent, Wu Xing and Gao Hongguang were assisting Lu Ying on the side, and several people had been busy from this morning until almost noon, and they still hadn't finished their work, and the three of them were a little overwhelmed when they arrived.

Gao Hongguang put down the pen and paper in his hand, stood up and stretched, and said a little tiredly: "Now I know how tired my eldest brother is, this errand in charge of military affairs is really tiring." ”

Lu Ying also nodded and said, "I think that after the eldest brother comes back, we should persuade the eldest brother to recruit some staff, if there is no scholar to help deal with these cases, it will be really annoying." ”

While he was talking, Wen Poyu suddenly ran in happily and said loudly: "Don't do it yet, come with me to the gate of the camp to greet you!" ”

Lu Ying, Wu Xing and Gao Hongguang couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this, they all looked at Wen Poyu suspiciously, and Gao Hongguang asked, "Who will you greet?" Is Big Brother back? ”

Lu Ying took over and said, "It won't be the eldest brother, why does it take about a month to come back from Sichuan, how can you come back so quickly?" ”

Wen Poyu said with a smile: "It's Lord Yuan who is back, everyone has already arrived at the gate of the camp, let's go and greet it!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly followed Wen Poyu to the gate of the camp, only to see Zhao Kaishan, Li Tianhao, and Wang Dangdang talking happily with Yuan Mingxuan and Cheng Shiyong at the door, and Huang Fuming was also saying a few words from time to time.

After Lu Ying and the three of them quickly stepped forward to meet Yuan Mingxuan and Cheng Shiyong, they said, "Lord Yuan, it's great that you are rushing back now, we all think about Lord Yuan all the time." ”

Yuan Mingxuan also smiled, pointed to the group of people behind him and said, "You see, these people are the firearms craftsmen I found from Hao Jing Ao. After meeting the little general for a while, I'll be able to make a deal, haha. ”

Hearing this, Lu Ying knew that Zhao Kaishan and the others had not yet told Yuan Mingxuan that Liu Yunwei had returned to Sichuan, so he said: "Lord Yuan, eldest brother, he is not here now, eldest brother, he has escorted the coffins of the old general, the young general and his wife back to Sichuan." ”

"What!" Yuan Mingxuan was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Then why are you still here?" What the hell is going on? ”

Lu Ying and the others all sighed, and then Lu Ying said: "Lord Yuan, let's take a rest in the tent first, and we will tell you about the matter in detail." ”

So, Yuan Mingxuan returned to the Chinese army tent with everyone. After everyone sat down, Lu Ying and the others told all the things about the Hanwei camp from Dengzhou to Yiyang in detail: exterminating the Wenxiang Sect, exterminating the Gu family, co-opting the displaced people, gathering and annihilating Zhao Zhenren's army of thieves, and finally to the imperial court's holy decree ordering the Hanwei camp to stay in Henan, as well as the news sent by Li Linbin, Lu Ying and others told Yuan Mingxuan everything in original and very detail.

After hearing these things, Yuan Mingxuan didn't say a word for a long time, obviously calmed by the situation of Liu Yunwei and the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion, Lu Ying and the others saw that Yuan Mingxuan was silent and didn't say anything, they were all quietly waiting for Yuan Mingxuan to digest these news.

After a long time, Yuan Mingxuan let out a sigh of relief and said, "I really didn't expect that the little general would encounter so many things and dangers along the way. Fortunately, with the blessing of the old general and the young general's spirit in the sky, our soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion can turn danger into danger and turn evil into good fortune every time, and can continue to defeat the enemy and strengthen themselves in the duel again and again. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Mingxuan asked again: "By the way, how many troops do we have in the Hanwei Battalion now?" ”

Lu Ying thought for a moment and said: "Now there are eight thousand headquarters in the whole battalion, plus the Long Xiang Tieqi and other horses directly under the eldest brother, there are more than 33,000 people in the whole army; In addition, there were more than 180,000 thieves and more than 100,000 displaced people in the camp. ”

After hearing this, Yuan Mingxuan hurriedly asked, "How much grain and grass is there in that camp?" ”

Lu Ying said with a smile: "Haha, it's still Lord Yuan who sees things to the point, and directly sees the crux of the problem, and asks about grain and grass." Lord Yuan, don't worry, the imperial court has already ordered, and now the surrounding areas of Yiyang and Jingshi are transporting grain one after another, and there will be no problems in the supply of grain and grass for the time being. After all, there are so many thief captives here in Yiyang who need to eat, and the imperial court doesn't want another thief rebellion. ”

Yuan Mingxuan relieved himself and said, "I didn't expect our Hanwei Battalion to be able to support tens of thousands of troops in such a short period of time, it's really good." However, what is the combat power of the soldiers? Presumably, it can't be compared with the combat power of Liaodong, right? ”

Everyone nodded, and Zhao Kaishan shouted: "Lord Yuan, don't you know, before the fight with that Zhao Zhenren, there were more than 40,000 soldiers in our camp, although that Zhao Zhenren had an army of 250,000, but those were all thieves, some rabble." But even so, our Hanwei battalion still lost more than 10,000 soldiers, which shows how the combat strength of the soldiers in the battalion is now. ”

Wen Poyu also said: "Indeed, if it is placed in Liaodong, it would be unimaginable to lose 10,000 people in the first war. You must know that when our Hanwei battalion fought against the tens of thousands of troops of all the main forces of Jiannu in the battle of Salhu, it was also a good fight. ”

Yuan Mingxuan smiled and said, "But you don't have to worry too much, after all, our Hanwei Battalion is expanding too fast, and it is expected that the combat power will decline in a short period of time, as long as we hurry up and train strictly." Aren't the soldiers recruited by the Hanwei battalion at the beginning also displaced people around Liaoyang? As long as there is strict training, I believe that these tens of thousands of soldiers will definitely become tens of thousands of tigers and wolves! ”

After listening to Yuan Mingxuan's words, everyone's morale was very high. After that, Yuan Mingxuan asked Lu Ying and the others about the content of the holy decree read by the imperial court, as well as what Li Linbin said, after thinking carefully for a while, Yuan Mingxuan sighed heavily, and said: "This holy decree of the imperial court is very strange, why do I think that the imperial court seems to be very anxious, logically speaking, we have just experienced a big war, and we should be allowed to rest for a while, or let us continue to go south; But the imperial court seems to be eager to let us rush to Tongzhou immediately, is there anything else on the imperial court side that we don't know? ”

At this moment, everyone was a little worried, not knowing what the future of the Hanwei Camp would be.

Li Tianhao asked, "Lord Yuan, what will be the secret of the imperial court?" Won't it be bad for our Hanwei Camp? ”

Yuan Mingxuan shook his head and said, "The holy will is unpredictable, and now with a holy decree and Lord Li's words, I can't think of what Your Majesty and the imperial court want to do in the future, or what else is hidden." However, one thing is almost certain, we should not have a chance to return to Sichuan, and the plan we set before to return to Sichuan to continue our strength is estimated to be unattainable. ”

Hearing this, everyone was very depressed.

Lu Ying took over at this time and said: "Since the imperial court does not let us go back to Sichuan, it is to transfer us to other places, according to Lord Li Linbin's meaning, it must be Tongzhou." Lord Yuan, when the imperial court orders us to go north in the future, how will we deal with it? To go or not to go? ”

Yuan Mingxuan shook his head and said, "Let's wait and see what kind of orders the imperial court will give us, now the situation is not clear, we can't make a countermeasure to the symptoms." What's more, the little general hasn't come back yet, and we don't know what the little general's plans for the future are, but I think we are going to make a decision on this Tongzhou, after all, the holy will is difficult to violate. ”

Everyone was silent when they heard this, and after a while, Lu Ying saw that it was not too early, so he said: "Okay, let's talk about the future later, I think let's eat first, let's have a big meal of wine and food, and let Lord Yuan pick up the wind and wash the dust!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang Bo hurriedly ran into the big tent, and after saluting everyone in the tent, he said: "Lord Yuan, President Lu Yingqian, my lords, the military department is here, it is a cronie sent by Lord Li Linbin, and he said that he has to tell him." ”

Everyone was taken aback, and they all secretly said in their hearts: "It's coming!" The next move of the imperial court is now arranged. ”

Yuan Mingxuan said to Lu Ying: "I think bring people in, and at the same time, do you send out a search near the camp at night?" ”

Where did Lu Ying not know what Yuan Mingxuan meant? This person was sent by Li Linbin privately, to put it bluntly, he leaked the orders of the imperial court to the Hanwei camp in advance, if anyone listened to the news near the Hanwei camp, not only would the soldiers be in trouble, but also Li Linbin's lord.

"It's still Lord Yuan who thinks thoughtfully, and I'll send it out right away. Brother Wang Bo, bring people in. ”

After a while, after Lu Ying finished arranging the night, Wang Bo came in with Li Linbin's henchmen.

"The villain has seen the generals." After the man finished speaking, he handed a copy of Li Linbin's personal seal to Lu Ying.

After Lu Ying checked it carefully, he saw that there was no problem and asked, "Master Li has something to tell us, please tell Mr. ”

"My lord asked me to tell the generals that the prisoners of the thief army should be sorted out as soon as possible, and prepare to go north to Tongzhou, the imperial court has given an order to Liu Guerrilla, asking Liu Guerrilla to take the order and immediately rush to Tongzhou New Army Battalion to take charge, and the Hanwei Battalion army will also go north with it, and the day Liu Guerrilla returns to Yiyang is the time when the army goes north."