Several defeated soldiers in the room were still crying, Zeng Ying frowned, squinted his eyes and listened patiently for a long time, his eyes widened suddenly, and he said, "Shut up!" ”

The air in the room was suffocated, everyone was quiet, and the defeated soldiers kneeling on the ground knocked their heads on the ground, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out, and they trembled all over.

"The theory of gods and monsters is groundless, but it is just speculation, and it is not accurate." Zeng Ying said in a deep voice: "Wang Xiang's death is just a trick of the stone pillar soldiers, I think that the so-called thunder and earth fire must have been planted in the ground in advance, deliberately luring our army to go deeper, and then suddenly difficult to detonate, this kind of tactics, as early as a few years ago when fighting against thieves, some people have used it, it is not surprising." ”

Everyone in the room suddenly realized, and they all showed an expression that was the same, and the haze brought by the defeat was swept away, and they all echoed: "It must be so, it must be so, the military is wise." ”

Zeng Ying said to Jiang Li, a Jinyi guard Qianhu who was standing beside him: "Who is the stone pillar leading the troops?" Can you find out clearly? ”

Jiang Li is in charge of intelligence gathering, his minions have been all over Sichuan, since the matter of the silver mine was deflated, deliberately paid attention to the direction of the stone pillar of the secret agent spread, has already found out the situation of Kuizhou Mansion, then heard Zeng Ying asked, immediately bowed down and reported: "The humble post has been investigated, the stone pillar is almost out of the nest this time, a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses, 3,000 people left in Chongqing, in Hezhou ambush General Wang, but 3,000 people, the leader is Qin Liangyu Yizi Wang Huan, this fang heard that the year is no more than double ten, cunning as a fox, **** The defeat of the door and Tan Wen is all from his handwriting, out of the stone pillar to occupy Kuizhou, and to go down to Chongqing to destroy the king's military gate, which is also the idea of this fang. ”

"Wang Huan? I've never heard of it. Zeng Ying said lightly, and snorted in his nostrils: "But I also have some ability, I have defeated my general three or four times, is it really a hero out of a young man?" ”

When he said this, his eyes swept over the people in the room, intentionally or unintentionally, and there was indescribable dissatisfaction in his eyes, as if he was very angry that his generals had suffered losses on Wang Huan continuously.

The generals couldn't sit still.

Yang Zhan took the lead in standing up, pushed away a few defeated soldiers kneeling in the room, and said loudly with angry eyes: "Military Gate, the stone pillar barbarians are really hateful, killing my general to occupy my state capital, completely ignoring the regulations of the imperial court, is no different from rebellion!" If it is not destroyed, it will be led to the four realms, there will be a group of people with strange intentions to take effect, Yang is not talented, he is willing to raise troops for the military gate to fight, and the hanging stone pillar is against the head of the thief Wang Huan in the Yuanmen, and he breathes a bad breath! ”

As soon as he stood up, the rest of the generals and guerrillas immediately stood up and expressed their attitude, and crowded the middle of the small room, impassioned, and hated the same enemy, shouting that they were willing to make a military order and lead the troops to attack the soldiers and horses of Kuizhou.

Zeng Ying listened to a group of generals for a long time, and when the hustle and bustle subsided for a while, he got up suddenly, squinted his eyes and scanned everyone, Yang Zhan and others looked at him, all of them were arrogant and invincible expressions, Wang Xiang died, a large area of land east of Chongqing Mansion was unguarded, it was a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions to gain territory, at this time, it was able to save face for Zeng Ying, seize the land and kill the generals, and afterwards the meritorious deeds were rewarded, and Kuizhou would be distributed to others?

Zeng Ying grinned at the corner of his mouth, smiled, his squinted eyes became even narrower, becoming a line, and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, the military heart is available!" The herald ordered all the armies to have a good rest today, kill pigs and sheep and eat a full meal, and tomorrow the whole army will go out and kill Chongqing Mansion! ”

He looked at Yang Zhan, who was full of ambition, and happily continued: "Tomorrow, with Yang Zhan as the front army, this army will lead the Chinese army, so as to settle this traitor with one blow and eliminate a scourge for the imperial court!" ”

The officers stood solemnly and shouted in unison: "May the army put an end to this traitor!" ”

Early the next morning, Zeng Ying's army, which had eaten and drunk enough, went out as a whole, except for some small troops left in Shunqing Mansion to defend Zhang Xianzhong, large and small officials and generals all followed Zeng Ying to set foot on the official road, and the soldiers from all walks of life added up, a total of 45,000 people.

Zeng Ying also considered taking the waterway, after all, the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, is in Shunqing Mansion, and it is much faster to go down the river than to take the dry road, but Li Guo's army has just floated down the waterway, in case they don't go fast, it will be very troublesome to encounter it on the river. He also didn't want to provoke Li Guo's King Kong again when there was Zhang Xianzhong on the left and Wang Huan on the right.

The army stretches for ten miles on the official road, hunting with flags, horns in the sky, the cold light on the blades of the soldiers and the scorching sun, looking from afar like a flowing steel giant snake, the big red uniforms are bright and dazzling, reflected in the various flags that almost cover the sky and the sun, and the momentum of Zeng Ying's officers and soldiers is set off more majestic.

Zeng Ying is much calmer than Wang Xiang, the march pays attention to the rules, the day is only fifty miles, the exploration of the horse shuttles back and forth, every dangerous place must be explored clearly, and then drive the army over, the closer to Chongqing Mansion, the more careful the reconnaissance, almost step by step, so that he has been walking for nearly ten days before entering Hezhou.

Zeng Ying's horse's hooves had just stepped into the boundary of Hezhou, and Wang Huan learned about it.

Chen Xiang's spy work is also sharp, the number of his subordinates has greatly expanded during this time, there are everyone, roadside peddlers and pawns, farmers in the fields and hoes in the fields, woodcutters who cut wood and wood in the mountains, as long as they are not conspicuous, the profession that can hide in the shadows and spy can become his eyeliner, although Wang Huan did not give him many horses, he used them on the blade, and formed a horse team dedicated to delivering news, free-range along the official road, relying on some big car shops and roadside shops as strongholds, can find out where Zeng Ying's army goes every day.

This is the power of money, without silver, Chen Xiang could not recruit so many fine people, nor could he set up a large team in a short period of time, although Chen Xiang was a little bad at words, but he was not stupid, on the contrary, there were some clever people who had been in the market since childhood, and after being mentioned a few words by Wang Huan, he immediately drew inferences from one another, and managed the messaging system and the secret agent system separately, and imitated a famous spy organization in the secret agent system in later generations, with a group of ten people, the team leader was the person in charge, and the other nine secret agents had a one-line contact. Each is responsible for their own territory, and they are not subordinate to each other, and the team leader is directly responsible to Chen Xiang, and the command is parallel and effective, providing a very large source of information for Wang Huan's decision-making.

At this time, Wang Huan was sitting on the mountainside of Chunyang Mountain in Hezhou, listening to Zeng Ying's movements reported by Chen Xiang in a low voice.

"Zeng Ying is really patient, Wang Xiang was slaughtered by me, and such a big hatred didn't stimulate him, he still followed his own pace step by step, just by virtue of this, he is much stronger than Yang Zhan and Wang Xiang." After hearing this, Wang Huan said with heartfelt emotion, and his fingers began to gently tap a big bluestone beside him again.

His action meant that he was thinking about it, and everyone understood this habit, so Zubian waited for a while before he spoke: "Isn't that also expected by adults?" Changing the plan, letting Ma Xintian train for a few more days, and then rush over after our summons, it was the adults who estimated that Zeng Ying would procrastinate. ”

Ma Wannian also said: "His delay and delay are just right, Ma Long has more time to run the defense of Diaoyu City, and Ma Xintian's training can be more sufficient, which is beneficial to us." ”

Wang Huan nodded, frowned, and said: "That's what I said, but for Ma Long, it's definitely not the gospel, the calm person will attack the city, and he will definitely be all-encompassing, although Diaoyu City is dangerous, but he is trapped in the lack of troops, if Zeng Ying attacks day and night, Ma Long is under a lot of pressure." ”

Zu Bian said angrily: "My lord is worried, Diaoyu City is surrounded by water on three sides, and one side is facing a cliff, even if he has thousands of troops and horses, he can only climb the mountain in line, the city wall on the mountain is strong, and Zeng Ying has no red-clothed cannons, I'm afraid of him as a bird!" ”

"The city is strong and good, but it also has to rely on people to defend it, Ma Long's men are all new soldiers, whether they can hold it under heavy pressure is related to whether the adults' plans can be implemented, and most of the adults are worried about this aspect." Ma Wannian reminded that in the past few days when he was by Wang Huan's side, Brother Huan had changed his name to adulthood, Wang Huan is now the chief soldier, one level higher than the consolation envoy, not to mention the heir of the consolation envoy, so Ma Wannian immediately followed everyone to call "Adult".

Wang Huan stood up and looked out of the mountain, across a few peaks, the hazy shadow of Diaoyu City loomed in the mountains, at this moment the mountains are green and green, birds are singing and green valleys, a pleasant scene, Wang Huan knows in his heart that Diaoyu City is a great enemy The current tense situation, Ma Long is leading people to strengthen the city defense with sweat, waiting for the black clouds that will come soon.

"I hope Ma Long can persevere, otherwise, I, the chief soldier of Kuizhou, may be the end." Wang Huan looked at the void in the distance steadily, and muttered softly to himself.