Chapter 49: The Contest (Part 4)

"Choke." The Yanling knife, which had just been sheathed, jumped out of Wu Yongchun's waist again.

A few local gentry are not terrible, no matter how many families they have, the Fourth Army can send a battalion of auxiliaries to quickly crumble, and the terrible thing is that Liu Ji Liu Bowen, although the Mingli Academy in the hands of this person is a private school, but it has attracted many depressed scholars in the new policy to go to the place, and a force has been faintly formed in Yangzhou City, and most of the people who have made friends are Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, Chen Ji, Ye Dexin and other senior civil servants in the shogunate, In case one or two of them were pulled by him, it would be tantamount to adding insult to injury to the situation in front of him.

Almost instinctively, Wu Yongchun planned to send his personal guards to follow Old Master Lu to wipe out the group of people who had a secret gathering in the afternoon, but when he saw the angry appearance of the old Jinshi, his heart suddenly slammed again, and the words that had already surged into his mouth were swallowed alive.

The old master's mind is fragile, but he is famous in the entire Huai'an army, if it is just a paper talk, or a sand table deduction, as long as the real chapter is not moved, I am afraid that even the Metropolitan Governor himself is not his opponent, but if it is a simulated actual battle with each army, there is no need for Wu Yongchun to go out by himself, even the fourth army has just joined the long history Song Ke, can easily take him down, so although this old man and the Metropolitan Governor have a son-in-law, the Metropolitan Governor never let him be alone, I am afraid that this old man will be confused at the critical moment, Do something to dig a hole for yourself.

"Why, twenty-two, do you still doubt that the old man will be bad for the chief manager?" Seeing that Wu Yongchun was slowly recovering the waist knife that he had pulled out, Lu Luzeng became more and more anxious, stomped his feet, and asked with red eyes, "The old man is the one who is buried in the loess to his neck, even if Meng Yuan promises great benefits, the old man can enjoy it for a few days." ”

"It's not." Wu Yongchun shook his head, and he couldn't give up in his heart, "You are not a harmful person, you are old"

was searching his stomach and thinking about how to calm down the old man, when he was thinking about it for a long time, there was a sound of boots stepping in the water outside the door, "Bang, bang, bang!" Bang bang, bang bang, bang bang. Immediately after, Wu Si, the head of his own soldiers, pushed the door in, "Report to the commander, Luo Zhifu, Shi Xuezheng and Liu Shanchang, ask to see under the city. ”

"What, it's just the three of them." Wu Twenty-two frowned, and his palm gripped the handle of the knife tightly.

"You quickly send someone to take a look around, and there are no ambushes around." Lu Zeng's face instantly became extremely excited, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If they come with their minions, they will just catch them all." ”

"Just the three of them, and there's a driver who drives the car." Wu Si, the head of the pro-soldiers, was confused when he heard it, thought about it, and responded in a low voice, "The subordinates are afraid that they will get wet, and they have already taken it upon themselves to let them hide in the doorway, and if the commander doesn't want to see them, the subordinates will tell them that you have already fallen asleep, let them come back tomorrow morning." ”

"No, you don't." Wu Yongchun smiled and gently let go of the handle of the knife, "You go and invite them to come up, and then let the cooking class cook a big pot of strong tea, the rain is so heavy, don't make the three of them drenched." ”

"This" Lu Lu thought about it, and stopped talking, Liu Ji and the others came together on a rainy night, they must have other plans, but with just three scholars, it is impossible to get Wu Yongchun at all, after all, the latter followed General Manager Zhu and killed the commander with a knife and a shot, and if he fought in close quarters, he said that Liu Ji and other three scholars, and thirty scholars may not be his opponents.

Just as he was hesitating, Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an and Liu Ji had already rushed in, and when they saw that Lu Luzeng was also present, they were stunned for a moment, and then greeted with a smile, "Commander Wu, Lu Changshi, disturb late at night, please forgive me for being presumptuous." ”

"Okay, okay, I happened to be discussing the enemy situation with Lu Changshi, you guys are here, maybe you can help with the details." Wu Yongchun arched his hand at the three of them and responded with a smile.

"But the situation on the other side of Jiangwan has changed." When Shi Nai'an heard this, he immediately took over the conversation and inquired unceremoniously.

Robben's cousin was much calmer than his teacher, smiled, and quickly stopped his words, "Teacher, don't guess, General Wu is a veteran of a hundred battles, and he has his own decision in his heart, and the three of us who have never even been on the battlefield will help if we come up with random ideas." ”

"That's fine." Hearing that Robben took the initiative to make it clear that he would not interfere in military affairs, Wu Twenty-two became more and more suspicious of Lu Luzeng's previous judgment in his heart, waved his hand, and said with a smile, "Anyway, there are staff officers, but they won't make any wrong decisions because of one or two sentences, the three of you are so late, do you have anything important to do with Wu, or did you hear some messy rumors,." ”

"There are indeed two things that need to be discussed with you, the commander." Shi Nai'an was anxious, and once again responded first, "This afternoon, Zheng Shopkeeper, Director He, and Hu Tent Fang and they asked my junior brother to discuss together, and they and more than 20 other Yangzhou gentry plan to donate 100,000 copper coins and 100,000 stone grains to the Grand Governor's Mansion to help Commander Wu help. ”

"Ah,,。h Not only was Wu Yongchun taken aback, Lu Luzeng simply exclaimed, this is too far from the news he got, it is simply heaven and earth, if it is true, how will he, the old master, raise his head in front of his colleagues in the future.

"The second thing is about the strategy of breaking the enemy, my junior brother said that he has a plan that can make the enemy army chaos without a fight." Shi Nai'an didn't notice the other party's reaction at all, and continued to add in a hurry.

"A strategy to break the enemy." Lu Zeng's brows immediately wrinkled again, and he looked Liu Bowen up and down with a sideways face, yes, first take out 100,000 guan money and 100,000 stone rice grain, paralyze Wu 22, make him lose his guard, and then find an opportunity to cooperate with the enemy army outside the city, in the end, this 100,000 guan money and 100,000 stone rice is equivalent to going around in the treasury of the Huai'an army, and then it will return to the hands of the gentry, maybe you can earn back a lot of interest, this idea is also very clever.

didn't wait for him to remind Wu Yongchun not to be fooled, but the latter had already smiled and gave his hand, "In this way, Wu will thank the fathers and villagers of Yangzhou City, with this extra 100,000 yuan and 100,000 stone rice, at least Wu can recruit more than 10,000 people, as for the strategy of breaking the enemy, if Liu Shanchang is willing to give one or two advice, Wu can't ask for it." ”

As he spoke, he turned his body to Liu Bowen again, and reached the ground with a long stroke.

Seeing that Wu Yongchun was so respectful to himself, Liu Ji, who had not rolled his eyes up and down at the Grand Governor's Mansion, suddenly became a little embarrassed, clasped his fists with both hands and returned the long wave, and then said with a red face: "Actually, in fact, Liu Mou is also talking about war on paper, whether it is feasible or not, please ask the commander to consider it carefully." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Wu Yongchun waved his hand lightly again, "Shan Chang Liu doesn't have to be polite, most of my family governors have said it in person before they set out on the expedition, but it's a pity that I can't let the mountain chief go with me and give him advice at any time." ”

This is also one of the reasons why the Huaiyang Grand Governor's Mansion has always treated Liu Bowen with courtesy, even Zhu Chongjiu, the Grand Governor, has been very respectful to Liu Bowen, not only does not care about this person blowing the cold wind and saying strange things, but also quietly signaled the firm to take out a large amount of money from his own dividends to fund the other party to open a academy, and other civil and military affairs, it is even more inconvenient to be too serious with Liu, and Liu Bowen usually just likes to find fault with the various decrees issued by the Huaiyang Grand Governor's Office, in fact, he did not do anything too excessive.

Hearing this, Liu Bowen's face turned even redder, smiled curtly, and said in a low voice, "Commander Wu has a good reputation, the chief manager is around, Wu has Xu Da, Hu Dahai and General Wu, Wen has Chen to join the army and Zhang to join the army, why do you need Liu to add to the chaos again, if it is not for the current war, Liu is really worried in his heart, Liu should not even take the liberty to give advice to the commander, so as not to mess up the general's mind." ”

"Where did that come from?" Seeing that Liu Bowen had become so modest, Wu Yongchun was so uncomfortable, he quickly waved his hand and interrupted in a low voice, "I can get the help of the mountain chief, Wu can't ask for it, the mountain chief should be polite again, what is the clever plan, although I will teach him in person." ”

"Then, Liu is welcome." Liu Bowen was not a restrained person in the first place, although the bend turned a little big today, but since the other party did not take his past behavior seriously, he himself would not beg others to entangle, "Liu thinks that the most difficult thing for the commander is that there are few soldiers in his hands, and there are too many cities to defend, but the enemy army is pouring in, ten times more than me, which is overwhelming." ”

"Exactly." Wu Yongchun nodded and responded frankly, what the other party said was the truth, as long as people with eyes could see it clearly, there was no need for him to deny it.

"And the second thing that the commander is embarrassed by is that the news is not transmitted smoothly, not only Yangzhou is a little far away from Huai'an, if there is any change on the side of the chief manager, this side may not be able to know immediately, even if it is Jiangwan New Town, now the commander wants to know the details of his safety, I am afraid it is extremely difficult." Liu Bowen cleared his throat, and his words became more crisp and neat.

"That's true." Wu Yongchun glanced at Luo Ben, and then nodded slightly, since Liu Bowen still thought that the Metropolitan Governor was in Huai'an, it means that Luo Ben did not disclose the secrets of the Huai'an Army to him, and the inference that the three of them colluded to conspire to dedicate the city would not be established, otherwise, at least Liu Ji should know at this moment that the Metropolitan Governor had set sail to Jiaozhou five days ago on the night, and has not returned any news so far.

"However, the commander has ever thought that it is inconvenient for you to transmit news from Huai'an here, and Dong Junxiao is farther away from Hangzhou, and the news exchange is even less timely." Liu Bowen's voice suddenly turned high, and it sounded like a slap in the face.

Wu Yongchun was immediately woken up, gave a deep salute to Liu Bowen, and asked eagerly: "What does the mountain chief mean, but let Wu spread rumors and disturb the hearts of Dong thieves and soldiers." ”

"This is just the first step." Liu Bowen nodded, revealing a teachable expression, "Dong thief is just blindly attacking Jiangwan, ignoring Yangzhou City, what he is doing should be a plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements, so the general you can completely ignore his actions, and take the opportunity to send a detailed work to spread the news that Zhang Shicheng and Wang Kerou have invaded eastern Zhejiang. ”

"The second step, the commander can send an envoy to enter Fang Guozhen's army, bribe him with generous gifts to work and not contribute, that Fang Guozhen is a pirate, has never had any ambitions, the rebellion was just to be recruited as an official, and now he is helping Meng Yuan to enter Kou Huaiyang, but it is just a promotion to the official wealth, the commander will take some Yangzhou specialties and treasures to him, which will naturally make him slack, and between Dong Thief and Fang Thief, they originally distrusted each other, one side passively avoided the war, and the other side suffered heavy casualties, and it didn't take a few days, You have to have a suspicion. ”

"Good." Without waiting for Wu Yongchun to respond, Lu Luzeng was already cheering loudly next to him, and after praising him, he suddenly remembered that he had just decided that the donor had a bad plan, and he didn't realize that his old face was slightly red, and his eyes were dodging left and right.

"Thank you Lu Changshi for your compliment." Liu Bowen arched his hand lightly and continued to talk, "Liu has a third step here, if the first two steps go smoothly, Dong thief and Fang thief have a dislike for each other, they will no longer be willing to fight side by side with each other, at that time, the commander only needs to take an elite army out of the city and go straight to Fang Guozhen's camp, that Fang Guozhen is good at water warfare, 6 battles are not good at this, and there is no defense between them, it will definitely be a big collapse of the whole army, and as soon as the Fang thief collapses, my Huai'an Navy Division will be able to re-block the river, making the Dong thief's military food and equipment unsustainable, It won't be long before it will follow in the footsteps of thieves. ”

"Good, this plan is very good, thank you for the mountain chief's guidance, if you can solve the current dilemma, the last general will definitely write a letter to the governor of the capital to ask for credit for the mountain chief." Wu Yongchun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he bowed down and thanked him loudly.

Lu Lu had listened to it on the side, and only had to stroke his palms frequently, and he never had the courage to mention the accusations against Liu Bowen and others, if the latter was really ready to plot against him, he should at least take the opportunity to persuade Wu Twenty-two to accept some gentry's family members into the Fourth Army in the name of assisting in defense, and Liu Bowen did not mention the matter of troop deployment, and always made a fuss about the two opponents in front of and behind him, so that any malicious inference could not find a place to stand.

And Liu Bowen's words followed, which made Lu Luzeng even more embarrassed, "Liu didn't dare to take credit, the chief manager didn't blame Liu for being frivolous, but he repaid his grievances with virtue and funded Liu to open a college.

looked at Lu Zeng, he seemed to have something to say, "Although Liu usually looks at the new policy of Huaiyang, there are many unpleasant things, but after all, there are countless living people in this policy, and it really makes Tofu and Dong Xiaoxiao succeed, Liu doesn't know how many people are going to die in the three places of Huaiyang, one side is alive, one side is killed, even if Liu is stupid, he knows how to choose." ”

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