Chapter 169: Race to be the first

As soon as the city gate was lost, the sesame Li outside the city suddenly took the opportunity to roar and entered the city one after another. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, there was already a great chaos in the city, whether it was the White Lotus Sect or the ruffians and hooligans in Xuzhou City, they all jumped out to fish in troubled waters. Therefore, at this time, in this city of Xuzhou, there were no less than 1,000 people who killed people and set fires, and robbed homes and houses.

In this case, the only remaining soldiers in Xuzhou City are not enough to see at all, and together with the turmoil, Xuzhou Zhizhou and Xuzhou Dalu Huachi fled one after another, so this Xuzhou City can be said to be the general trend has gone.

In the morning, after a night of chaotic fighting, Sesame Li, Zhao Junyong, Peng Da and others, with the help of the power in their hands, have already controlled the situation in Xuzhou City. And after controlling the situation, Sesame Li also erected a banner of recruiting troops against the Yuan on the overlord tower in Xuzhou City. I saw two big flags written on them, "Three thousand tigers, straight to the land of Youyan; Long Fei Ninety-Five, reopen the day of the Great Song Dynasty". The courage to openly call out to the court is really majestic, and it is good to be domineering.

And this Xuzhou city is the thoroughfare of the five provinces, and because of the canal, there are tens of thousands of young and poor people in the city. And these people, because they are at the bottom, most of them believe in the White Lotus Sect and hate the imperial court, so the banner of recruiting troops against the Yuan was erected.

Xuzhou City can be said to be full of responders, in just one day, Sesame Li was able to recruit nearly 10,000 soldiers, Xuzhou red scarf can be said to be a general trend.

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Time passed, and after more than half a month, it was already the end of August. At this time, the strength of the Red Turban Army in all parts of Jiangbei can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

In Runing, Liu Futong has already waved his troops to take Gwangju and Xinyang Prefecture in the south of Runing Prefecture, and completely captured the land of one prefecture and four prefectures in Runing, and is the strongest in the Central Plains, with more than 80,000 troops under his command, and calls himself 200,000 to the outside world, and is regarded as the head of the Red Turban Army by the people of the world.

In Qizhou, after Xu Shouhui captured Luotian, his strength also expanded rapidly, not to mention the more than 10,000 troops under his command, and it also encroached on most of the land of Qizhou.

As for Xuzhou's sesame plum, it is needless to say that after the city of Xuzhou was conquered, Sesame Li sent people out to fight, and successively occupied the vicinity of Xuzhou, Pizhou and various counties. And with the help of Xuzhou to repair the Yellow River, the period when the people gathered and people's minds changed, the rebel troops under the command of the great expansion had already had tens of thousands of troops at this time, known as 100,000.

However, when the Red Turban Army was frantically expanding its territory and army, in Nanyang Mansion, Zhang Shihua was still guarding his territory in the two counties, and was not in a hurry to develop the people's livelihood and government affairs of the two counties.

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On August 27, the eleventh year of Zheng, on this morning, Zhang Shihua heard the rooster crowing outside the house, opened his eyes and stretched his waist, and then got up from the bed. Affected by his getting up, his wife Guo Weier also opened her eyes and dressed him in order to get clothes for him.

Yes, Zhang Shihua's family members have been taken to Wuyang City by him, and Zhang Shihua was finally able to reunite with his wife three months later. In fact, on the day of the reunion, Zhang Shihua still didn't know how to face his wife because of his relationship with Yang Meier.

However, it made him worry a lot, Guo Weier did not lose her temper with him because of Yang Meier's matter, not only did she not get angry, but she also took the initiative to propose to Zhang Shihua that Zhang Shihua take the initiative to accept Yang Meier as a concubine, in order to give Yang Meier a name.

His wife's tolerance and generosity naturally made Zhang Shihua feel more and more pity and guilt for his wife. Therefore, in the three days after the arrival of Zhang Shihua's wife and his parents, he took advantage of the fact that there was nothing to do in the county in the army, so he made a complete hands-off shopkeeper to accompany his family, and in order to reduce some of the guilt in his heart for his family.

And then again, let's talk about the present. When Zhang Shihua, who got up, saw that his wife also got up and wanted to serve himself to dress, Zhang Shihua, who was sleeping in the bed, didn't wait for his wife to move, so he couldn't help hugging his wife's slender waist from behind, put his head on his wife's ear, kissed his wife's cheek lightly and said: "It's still early, it's not dawn yet, we tossed for so long last night, you should rest more." ”

Hearing her father-in-law's words, Guo Weier's face couldn't help but turn red. And when Zhang Shihua saw this, she couldn't help laughing, and Guo Weier heard her father-in-law's laughter, and she couldn't help but stretch out her slender hand and twist the soft flesh on her husband's waist. And said: "Make you hate." ”

However, although she was ashamed, the gentle Guo Weier did not use any force on her husband, so although it was "screwing", it was more like tickling for Zhang Shihua. However, Zhang Shihua still cooperated and let out a painful cry to satisfy his wife's little coquettishness towards him.

After that, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but hug his wife harder, silently feeling the warmth between the two.

After the husband and wife were so warm for a while, Guo Weier still got up and served Zhang Shihua. Because for Guo Weier, who has received a good family education since childhood, as a wife, it is her responsibility to teach her husband and children, so she can understand her husband's love for her, but she can't do it when her husband is busy and does not fulfill her responsibilities as a wife.

Besides, her father-in-law and mother-in-law are here, and Guo Wei doesn't want to make her parents-in-law have any prejudices against herself.

And after Zhang Shihua got up again, he naturally did his morning exercise as usual, but this time after his morning exercise, it was not Li Wu, the commander of the guards, who gave him a towel to wipe his sweat, but his nominal personal maid Wang Second Sister.

And after seeing Second Sister Wang here, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but secretly say that he was stupid. When he was still the inspection of the Yuanmeng court, Wang Shihua's brother Wang 19 killed a Mongolian Lizheng for some reason, and he was just a small inspector at that time, and there was no way to help their brothers and sisters get rid of their crimes, so in order to protect their brothers and sisters, Zhang Shihua secretly shielded Wang 19, and let Wang Erjie go to his house to be his own maid.

At the beginning, this practice was completely a last resort, but now that things have changed, Zhang Shihua has become a Red Turban Army 10,000 household officials, and his brother Wang 19 has also become a hundred household generals under his command, Zhang Shihua feels that this matter should be properly resolved. After all, you can't let the relatives of the generals under your command be a maid in your own home.

So after thinking about it like this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but say to Second Sister Wang: "Second sister, it's really wronged for you to be a girl in my house these days, and now he has become a hundred household officials in our army, so I will let Nineteen take you home in two days, do you think it's good?" ”

However, what Zhang Shihua didn't expect was that when he said this, Second Sister Wang did not show joy when she heard this, but lowered her head with a slightly sluggish and sad expression, but Second Sister Wang didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but think a little strangely, "Did you say something that you shouldn't say?" But when Zhang Shihua carefully recalled what he just said, he found that "I didn't seem to say anything that shouldn't be said." ”

"Hey, a woman's heart, a needle under the sea!" After watching the second sister Wang leave with a low and sad expression, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

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Half an hour later, Zhang Shihua, who came to the army camp after breakfast, said goodbye to his three-day career as a shopkeeper. Because today, the people of Wuyang and Ye Xian have already finished the autumn harvest, not to mention the autumn harvest, and even the taxes and grains in the two places have already been paid.

And in addition to the completion of the affairs of the autumn harvest, the soldiers under Zhang Shihua couldn't help but become geared up after a month of boring daily drills. After all, other places are making great progress, and in this month's time, in addition to drills, they haven't fought a battle in Nanyang for so long.

These days, for Zhang Shihua's brave generals who have always wanted to be promoted and make a fortune, it is really too difficult.

Therefore, after the affairs and situation of the two counties were ended and stabilized one after another, and the mining of coal and iron ore in the two counties was on the right track one after another, Zhang Shihua could not help but feel the need to expand his territory. Otherwise, there are only two counties with 5,000 soldiers under his command, which is really too aggrieved.

So when Zhang Shihua came to the camp with many of his personal guards, he couldn't help but be a little impatient to let Li Wu beat the recruitment drum and gather many generals under his command.

"Knock knock~~~" three loud war drums suddenly spread throughout the entire camp, and the generals and officers of more than 1,000 households in the camp, such as Zhao Jiu and Zhang Mingtong and others, heard these three loud war drums, and they couldn't help but rush to the handsome tent in the barracks at the first time.

According to Zhang Shihua's rule, the war drums sounded three times in a row to summon the generals in the army, and the war drums sounded five times in a row to summon the officers and men of the whole army. Therefore, when Zhao Jiu and the others heard these three drums, they rushed towards the handsome tent so urgently.

Because Zhang Shihua stipulated that all generals in the army are not allowed to leave the camp without the approval of Zhang Shihua, the chief general, at any time unless they are on leave. Therefore, when the war drums sounded, that is, in less than a quarter of an hour, Zhao Jiu and others rushed to the tent of the Chinese army camp one after another.

After the generals arrived, Zhang Shihua, who was wearing armor, also slowly walked out from behind the screen of the handsome tent, and many generals in the tent saw Zhang Shihua, and they all knelt down on one knee for the first time, and bowed to Zhang Shihua: "The last general will wait to meet the general." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua sat down with a dignified face, and then waved his hand and said aloud to the many generals kneeling under the tent: "Wait and sit down without courtesy." ”

"Your Excellency General Xie." When everyone in the hall heard Zhang Shihua's words, they first thanked them loudly, and then sat down one after another according to Zhang Shihua's words.

And after all the generals sat down, Zhang Shihua looked at them, and couldn't help but say to them in a loud voice: "I don't know if you still remember?" When he first arrived in the land of Nanyang, the general said to you and others that as long as Wuyang and Ye Xian, the situation in the two places would be stabilized, and the sergeants and soldiers of the army would be fully trained. This general will lead you and others to the south to conquer Fangcheng and take the entire territory of Yuzhou in one fell swoop. ”

"Therefore, a few days ago, even though Marshal Liu led the army in Runing Mansion to take the entire territory of Runing in one fell swoop, the general's side did not move, and the reason was not because the general was cowardly, but because the time had not come."

"But now, in the land of the two counties, the autumn harvest is over, the land of the two counties is stable, and our soldiers and soldiers are all well-trained and eager for war, and it can be said that the time has come. Therefore, the general decided that the Japanese general would send troops south, conquer Fangcheng, and go south to the entire territory of Yuzhou in one fell swoop. ”

"So today, Ben will summon you and others to come, in fact, I just want to ask, you wait for the pioneer who is willing to be the general?"

And the generals sitting under the tent couldn't help but show joy when they heard their general say that they would lead their troops south tomorrow, so when Zhang Shihua asked who was willing to be the vanguard officer of this battle, all the generals under the tent stood up violently, but these people rushed to ask Zhang Shihua for battle.

"General, the last general is already familiar with the terrain of Yuzhou at this time, so the last general thinks that it is most suitable for the last general to serve as the vanguard, and ask the general to appoint the last general as the vanguard of this battle."

"I, Zhang Mingtong, you are shameless in what you say, what is most suitable for you, I, Guo Yu, am also familiar with the topography of Yuzhou for a long time. Generals, those who read often say that they should not give up, and the last general should also ask the general to let the last general serve as the vanguard of this battle at this time. ”

"General Guo, all the troops under your account are raising troops, this Fangcheng City is built on the mountain, and its north is Fangcheng Mountain, how can the soldiers under your account make up this excitement, besides, let's go to attack the city this time, forget about your cavalry." We foot soldiers are the main force in this battle, so let me do it for nothing. ”

"General, the last general Xu Ming is willing to be the vanguard." Seeing that everyone was vying for this vanguard officer like this, even Xu Ming, who wanted to intervene in military affairs, couldn't help but shout like this at this time.

"Presumptuous, how can there be noise in the big tent, the last general Shi 13 asked the general to treat Zhang Mingtong, Guo Yu and other four people for the crime of disrespect." Just when a few of them were about to fight for a vanguard officer, Shi Shisan, who was a military judge, made the big tent quiet again.

Because they all know that Shi Thirteen, a guy with only one tendon in his head, will never joke.

However, Zhang Shihua did not cure Zhang Mingtong and the others of their disrespectful crimes, on the contrary, Zhang Shihua himself is actually very willing to see such a scene appear, after all, it is much better for everyone to fight than for everyone to avoid war and fear death, at least the military heart can be used.

Therefore, Zhang Shihua did not pay attention to Shi Shisan's request, but waved his hand to let the generals in the tent sit down again. And after they all sat down, Zhang Shihua looked at them majestically, and couldn't help but say: "All the generals are vying for the first, the military heart is available, and the generals are very happy." This time, the pioneer has already been selected......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Shihua paused for a moment, glanced at the people under the tent who showed anticipation, and then continued: "Bai Xi, Bai Qianhu, you know how to fight well, and you will be the vanguard in this battle." ”