Out of the small barracks, Li and Cui followed the heavily armed Chu soldiers, and couldn't help but rush towards the hinterland of the Ruzhou City barracks.

Therefore, at this time, Li and Cui, who were not allowed to go out because of their confinement, couldn't help but look around and curiously looked at everything around them.

This, is this a barracks, how is it not like it at all?

Looking around with wide eyes, Li Wu and Cui De couldn't help but have such doubts in their hearts.

Look at this barracks, clean and clutter-free roads; a well-organized barracks; The non-commissioned officers who patrol and train in the barracks wholeheartedly and the sentries on the arrow tower who hold crossbow arrows like eagles instead of lazy on the arrow tower.

Oh, my God! As the leaders of the Western Army of the Great Song Red Turban Army appointed by Liu Futong, it was the first time they had seen such a "such" military camp.

So unconsciously, these two fierce generals, who are also the only ones who lead an army, can't help but feel a little restrained.

It's like a country man who has suddenly entered a metropolis. I always feel that everything I see has an eye-opening feeling but I dare not show it.

In this way, with such a mood, he followed the Chu soldier who led the way in front of him until he walked to a large tent that was extremely heavily guarded.

Then the two of them couldn't help but hear the soldier say to them: "Please come in, my Zhou military commander is waiting for the two of you in the big tent." ”

"Zhou, Zhou Junshuai! Could it be General Zhou Tiezhou inside? When the two of them heard this, they couldn't help but look a little surprised. So I couldn't help but ask directly.

But in this regard, the soldier still nodded silently and said, "That's right, it's my Zhou Junshuai." ”

"Okay, there's little brother Lao." When the two of them heard this, they all took a deep breath, and they couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

But the man is poor and short-minded, and the horse is thin and long-haired. Now, the confidence and confidence of Li and Cui have long been wiped out by the pursuit of Chakhan Timur.

Therefore, when he heard that Zhou Tie, the general of the border army of the Chu army, and the commander of the first army, actually came to Ruzhou City to meet them in person, he couldn't help but feel a little flattered.

However, after all, the two of them are also knowledgeable people, so after taking a deep breath, they quickly adjusted their mentality and walked into the Chinese army tent where Zhou Tie was.

"The two are the two generals Li Wu and Cui De. Hurry up, sit down. When the two entered the tent, Zhou Tie, who was leaning over the table to look at the map and the sand table, looked up and saw them, and couldn't help but greet them warmly to sit down.

In this regard, after Li and Cui thanked them, they did not sit in a hurry, but hugged their fists and said: "The general of the defeated army, he was lucky to live, and he was really ashamed to come in person." ”

"Oh, hahaha. Why did the general say this, there is a saying: victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. The generals of the army throughout the ages, who can always win and be undefeated. The two generals were alone, beheading the Tartar puppet to participate in politics and Shulu Jie, defeating the Tartar puppet Pingzhang Bojia slave, and going to Tongguan twice. Such a feat, especially one defeat can be erased. ”

"Hey, Zhou Shuai's words are really heartwarming." Hearing Zhou Tie's words, Li and Cui couldn't help but seem a little moved.

After all, if they think about it from another perspective, if they encounter a defeated general like them, they will never give a good look.

"Hehe, where. Two generals, and sit down first. In this regard, Zhou Tie smiled and greeted the two of them to sit down again.

Then he looked at the two people sitting in the seats, and couldn't help but say: "Two generals, my old Zhou has always been the stupidest to speak. This time, I have something to ask directly, and I hope that the two generals will not be surprised at this time. ”

"If there is no Zhou Shuai to take him in, it is not up to us to say whether the defeated army can survive. In this way, Zhou Shuai asked, and we must also know everything. "The black-faced big man Cui De, who has been silent, is a rare opening at this time.

And after he said this, Li Wu over there also echoed the victory.

So seeing this, after Zhou Tie coughed lightly, he couldn't help but ask directly: "Two generals, what do you think of the Tartar pseudo-Zhongfeng Doctor and the Privy Council Governor Chahan Timur of the Hebei Expedition?" ”

"How is the person of Chakhan Timur?" Well, no wonder Zhou Tie asked them not to be surprised before questioning. Such a question really poked at the sore spot for Li and Cui, who were beaten by Chakhan Timur.

Therefore, at this time, the faces of Li and Cui couldn't help but look a little embarrassed.

However, since Fang Cai had already said that, after Li and Cui were silent for a while, the black-faced man Cui De couldn't help but say: "Chakhan Timur, although he is a Tartar general. But I have to say that this person's talent is far better than ours. ”

"Hey, yes!" Li Wu also sighed at this time and said, "I still remember the battle half a month ago. Chakhan Timur personally led the soldiers and horses, captured the pass by night, and then led the soldiers and horses to the city of Shaanzhou the next day.

The method of encirclement and reinforcement was easily routed by our coalition forces. As a result, Lingbao City, our old nest, was easily taken by him. In desperation, Lao Cui and I had to choose to cross the river to the north, but we didn't think that he knew what we would do next.

An ambush was laid between the two cities of Pinglu and Anyi, and once again they routed us. Fortunately, we desperately captured Yangjin, the ferry port where we crossed the river, and we were able to break through the encirclement by luck and save this life. ”

"This ......" After hearing Li Wu say this, Zhou Tie groaned, and then he didn't ask anything.

But in his heart, the evaluation of Chakhan Timur couldn't help but be a little higher. Although Li Wu did not know the process of his defeat in detail, Zhou Tie also heard it from Li Wu's concise words. From the beginning of the battle, Li and Cui, as the defending side, unknowingly lost all the initiative.

Everything is simply being led by the nose by Chakhan Timur.

So when he thought that he would be a neighbor next with such an enemy who was extremely superb in terms of strategic layout and tactical command, Zhou Tie couldn't help but subconsciously frown his brows.

Therefore, he found that if he wanted to bring himself into the roles of Li Wu and Cui De, then in the face of the traps and timing set by Chakhan Timur tactically, he Zhou Tie really did not have much confidence in breaking the game.

Therefore, at this time, Zhou Tie couldn't help but have a premonition, that is, Chakhan Timur is very likely to become the biggest enemy of the world's righteous army to overthrow Yuanmeng in the future.

This is not an exaggeration, but the deeds of Chakhan Timur are too legendary.

At the end of the twelfth year, Chakhan Timur had just started his army at that time, and even for Yuan Meng, he Chakhan Timur was just a small four-rank official with thousands of brave soldiers and horses under his command at that time.

But then, this person was almost like he was blessed by a god. First, he fought alone, and fought in the south and north in Runing Mansion, where Liu Futong started, and had to ask Zhang Shihua for help.

Later, after being transferred to the north of Badulu, he sniped at the soldiers and horses under Liu Futong who tried to cross the river to the north in a vain manner in Mengjin.

Later, in the land of Lianghuai, it was even more brilliant, with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, it defeated the 300,000 Huaixi Red Turban Army under Zhao Junyong's command in one fell swoop. The Red Turban Army in the land of Lianghuai who was killed saw the banner of Chakhan Timur and ran away.

Now, Li Wu and Cui De have been defeated. was a small fourth-grade official back then, but now he has still become a feudal official of the Yuan court from the second grade. Moreover, it is also a matter of the Privy Council of the Governor of the North Bank, so that he can lead an army alone.

This person has risen so fast that he is almost the same as his own king.

So in the next, Zhou Tie appeased Li and Cui, and after greeting them for a long time. He couldn't help but send the two out of the big tent, and then immediately drafted a letter to his own king.

This time, on this letter, Zhou Tie first truthfully reported everything that had happened here in the past few days.

Then he couldn't help but focus on the person of Chakhan Timur, believing that this person knew how to fight and was good at war, and in a few years, it would be possible to take the place of Badulu and become the most formidable opponent of the northern rebels. Therefore, it was suggested that Zhang Shihua had better strike first and mobilize an army to assist Liu Futong to march to Henan Fu Road together.

It is better to completely capture the Henan Fu Road, and completely sever the connection between the western province of Shaanxi and the southern province of He. Then divide it and divide it into equal parts of the river with Liu Futong [] southbound province.

I have to say that Zhang Shihua's training of his generals really played a great role.

Now even Zhou Tie, a former blacksmith's son, now has a good strategic vision.

But after such a letter of tens of thousands of words was submitted, Zhang Shihua read it, but he still vetoed Zhou Tie's proposal at the first time.

But it was Zhou Tie's proposal to divide the Central Plains with Liu Futong first, which was too taken for granted.

You must know that the northern part of the Central Plains is different from the land of lakes and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River. In the Central Plains, where the uprising began in the eleventh year of Zheng, after five years of melee, if you find a small army leader in this place, there will definitely be a soldier who will survive a hundred battles.

Although Zhang Shihua's tens of thousands of troops easily occupied the land of Huguang in a year, if they wanted to replicate such glory in the Central Plains, they didn't even think about it.

And if the war can't be resolved quickly, then fall into such a mud pit, and within three or five years, Zhang Shihua will want to get out.

As for dividing the Central Plains with Liu Futong later, it is even more natural.

It's not that Zhang Shihua hasn't seen Liu Futong. Liu Futong is a person with a strong desire to control. Especially in the past few years, after he used his strength to call Han Lin'er the emperor Jianji, he gradually became more intolerable to anyone to oppose him.

This point can be seen just by looking at how Liu Futong engaged in the warlord Zhao Junyong, who did not obey orders, and Du Zundao, who vainly tried to compete with him for power.

first found an excuse to occupy Bozhou, Zhao Jun's old nest, and then directly kicked Zhao Jun to Huaixi.

This was not the end, and then he forced Zhao Jun to lead an army of beggars to assist him in fighting against Badulu, and then he was killed by Chakhan Timur. Even if it weren't for the fact that on the battlefield, Zhao Junyong slipped away quickly when he saw that the situation was not good, and even his own head would have become the military merit of Chakhan Timur.

That's it, it's good.

Du Zundao, who vainly tried to win the power with him, was his fellow villager, and the two had known each other for nearly ten years. As a result, not long ago, Liu Futong found an excuse to slaughter him.

So if Zhang Shihua really mobilized a large army to go north as Zhou Tie said, then don't say anything about dividing the Central Plains equally. At that time, Liu Futong is estimated to be the first to turn his face with Zhang Shihua.

even dared to secretly unite with the Yuan Court and attack him together.

In this way, on the second day after Zhou Tie presented the fold. Zhang Shihua couldn't help but order Zhou Tie, 'Without an edict from the center, you must not take the initiative to provoke a war, and the situation in the north must be safe. ’

And in this regard, although Zhou Tie was a little unwilling in his heart. But at this time, given him a hundred guts, he would never dare to play any tricks behind Zhang Shihua's back, which would not affect the lives of the military abroad.

Because if he dared to do this, Zhang Shihua would definitely kill him.

However, although Zhang Shihua doesn't want to intervene in the chaos in the Central Plains now, if he just hides behind his back and is a fisherman's promoter, Zhang Shihua is very happy.

Therefore, for Li Wu and Cui De, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but want them to complete their mission according to the original history.

That is, in January of the following year, from the city of Nanyang to the north, take the Shangnan official road, break the city of Shangzhou, and attack the Wuguan into Shaanxi [] westbound province. In Shaanxi, the last pure land of Yuan and Mongolia, riots were set off, and the last strength of the Yuan court was consumed.

Historically, Li Wu and Cui De have done just that.

Although in the end, these two guys still failed and finally chose to surrender. But in order to solve them, the Yuan court still paid a lot of effort.

So Zhang Shihua wanted to replicate this matter again. After all, Shaanxi Province is really a bit beyond his reach for him.

Moreover, if the Shaanxi Province does not fall into civil strife, Zhang Shihua and his subordinates have set the next strategic goal, and it will not be so easy to send troops to Sichuan Province next year.

Therefore, in the next step, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but generously transfer 3,000 sturdy convict miners from the Pingdingshan mine to Li Wu and Cui De as a source of soldiers.

and equipped them with basic weapons.

Of course, Zhang Shihua will inevitably be mixed with some private goods among the soldiers. As a backhand of a secret door, but now Zhang Shihua doesn't know how much of a role such a backhand can play in the future.

But after all, you have to be prepared. After all, for people like Li Wu and Cui De, Zhang Shihua has no confidence at all.

And this is the end of the matter.

(To be continued.......................................... ）