There was a burst of laughter in the crowd, although a famous foreign emperor in later generations once said that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, but in this era, the soldiers with the ambition of becoming a general are still a minority, and most of them join the army just to eat food and fill their stomachs as soldiers.

Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly: "Ben Jiang got this official position in the imperial court because Ben Jiang made military achievements in the process of countering the rebellion in Jiangnan, and because of this, Marshal Yang, who is still in Jiangnan to quell the rebellion, can rest assured that Ben Jiang will be here to command the war in Lingnan, and he is not afraid of everyone's jokes.

There is no joke in the army, especially on this occasion of convening the whole army, the soldiers in the audience are moved, even the Suzhou Army officers who came with Wang Huaqiang are also distracted, I didn't expect that this Wang joined the army at that time There was no official position, and it was not until the day before yesterday that he was promoted to the sixth rank of lieutenant, and a trace of fiery desire gradually rose in the eyes of some people.

Wang Huaqiang saw that some people began to be tempted, and nodded: "Yes, everyone should be able to see that my Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty has clear rewards and punishments, meritorious deeds will be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished, I, Wang Huaqiang, have made military achievements in the Jiangnan Rebellion, and I can be promoted from a white-bodied civilian to a six-rank military attaché, and now I am qualified to command your three thousand athletes, this opportunity is the same for you, as long as you can do the same as this general." You too can be governors. When the captain. Even as a general!"

Pei Shiju also took the opportunity to step forward and said loudly: "Wang Duwei is right, the emperor has a will, there are those who have won the head of Wang Zhongxuan in this battle, reward the official and promote the knight, and you can also enter the capital to face the saint!" As long as you have fought the five mountains, relieve the siege of Panyu, suppress the rebellion, and make money. Your! Land, yours! Your lord!"

Pei Shiju's words ignited the suppressed passion of the soldiers, and like a volcanic eruption, all the sergeants punched their chests, waved the weapons in their hands, and let out a shocking battle cry, which vibrated back and forth in the valley between the two mountains, and lasted for a long time.

After Wang Huaqiang and the others calmed down a little, his eyes swept over the audience. said: "This expedition is not only to eliminate the traitors. I still need to do my Great Sui Kingization, so that these barbarians can see that my Great Sui Iron Army is not only a mighty army, but also a teacher of benevolence and righteousness!

From now on, the army will implement 17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings, among which the general will particularly emphasize that after entering Lingnan, it is not allowed to loot and loot the barbarian villages at will, and the captured barbarian generals are not allowed to be killed at will, let alone kill the good and risky merits, and above the battle array, it is not allowed to leave the army without permission because of the harvest of the head, which will affect the battle, our army has few soldiers, and after each battle, we will try to make everyone meritorious. ”

What Wang Huaqiang said today is a military order, although many sergeants are beating a small drum in their hearts, thinking about why they don't let people be collected, but in the past month, Wang Huaqiang has used various means to make these veterans everyone fearful, which one dares to say half a word.

Wang Huaqiang glanced at the silent audience, and his tense face eased slightly: "Don't worry, after the states and counties along the road are recovered by our army, we will open the treasury as appropriate, and share a part of the treasury silver for everyone as the income of the hard battle, and the emperor's rewards will also be endless, hit Panyu City, and after eliminating Wang Zhongxuan, I will keep everyone to get a satisfactory result!"

After Wang Huaqiang finished speaking, he glanced at the sky, and Pei Shiju on the side said in a low voice: "Huaqiang, it's not early, let's go!"

Wang Huaqiang nodded, and waved the command flag in his hand: "Now, this general will announce that the army will go on the expedition, and the target is the rebel army of the Zhou Division in Shixing City!"

Ten days later, more than 200 miles west of Shixing City, Zhou Shiju, a slang chieftain of medium height, wearing leather armor, wrapped in animal skins and feathers, and covered with tattoos, was standing side by side with a scrawny Han scholar, watching his men carry the ladder again and again, and rush towards the city in the distance, which was neither high nor strong.

There was another sound of crossbow machines rattling at the head of the city, a wave of locust-like arrows washed by, and the slangmen with broken hair and tattoos threw down dozens of corpses again, threw away the ladders they carried in their hands, and returned to the place of departure like a tide.

Zhou Shiju patted his thigh hatefully: "Damn, I retreated again, I don't believe it, this broken city can't be attacked!"

The Han scholar looks like he is about thirty years old, with a horse face and a long beard, and he is Ren Zhong's nephew Ren Gui, among all Ren Zhong's nephews, he values not his own son the most, but this Ren Gui, once said: "All my Ren Zhong's sons are not worthy of the big responsibility, and the hope of the Ren family lies in this Ren Gui." ”

Ren Gui lost his father when he was a child, was raised by Ren Zhong, became the Lingxi County Commander before he was twenty years old, and became the Sima of Hengzhou after a few years of training.

When the Sui army destroyed Southern Chen, Ren Gui once persuaded Wang Yong, the governor of Hengzhou, who had a heavy army at that time, to find a Chen Dynasty clan to continue to resist, but Wang Yong still did not adopt his idea after thinking about it, but moved the city to surrender to Wei Huan's crusading army, Ren Gui was different from his uncle who was the leader of the party, but he was an out-and-out loyal minister of the Chen Dynasty, seeing that Wang Yong was unreliable, he fled alone, flowing through the poor mountains and bad waters of Lingnan, and going back and forth to various barbarian tribes.

Relying on his clever tongue, Wang Zhongxuan, who had a good personal relationship with Ren Gui and had ambitions to dominate Lingnan, finally raised troops, while Ren Gui keenly saw the importance of Shixing and Donghengzhou (now Shaoguan) as the gateway to Lingbei, and strongly persuaded Wang Zhongxuan to divide 20,000 people from the troops besieging Guangzhou City, and hand them over to Zhou Shiju, the commander of the Nanhai Slang Daqu, to go north to seize Shixing and Donghengzhou.

The defenders of Shixing fled without a fight, and gave up this Lingnan gateway in vain, and Zhou Shiju began to hear that Pei Shiju was recruiting troops in Changsha in Shixing, and he did not dare to divide his troops to attack, and later saw that Pei Shiju's department did not move for several months, and there was no new person to join the army in the barracks, and it was expected that the 3,000 people could not do anything for the time being, so under the persuasion of Ren Gui, 5,000 people were left to guard Shixing City, and the remaining 15,000 barbarians all rushed to Donghengzhou.

When Wang Huaqiang was training the troops last month, he kept it strictly secret, and there were sentry spies all around the big camp in the valley, and the spies sent by Ren Gui had no way of knowing that the military camp was in full swing to train and prepare for war, but judging from the unhurried and unhurried atmosphere of Changsha City, as in the usual atmosphere, there was no war on the northern front, so he went back to resume his life with confidence.

Donghengzhou city is weak soldiers, only one Xiazhou assassin Shi Li Feng, with more than 500 old and weak soldiers in the city to defend, because of this period of time Zhou Shiju barbarians in Shixing and Donghengzhou everywhere burned and looted, dozens of Han villages around it have been poisoned, many Han people nearby have fled into Donghengzhou, Li Feng also picked out more than 2,000 strong men full of hatred from the middle, relying on a city in the people, the city is broken and people are dying, plus the role of a strong bow and crossbow when defending the city, this small Hengzhou city repelled Zhou Shiju's attacks again and again, Standing for more than 20 days.

At this moment, Zhou Shiju was on fire in his belly, seeing that he had no way to take this small Hengzhou City for more than 20 days, there were one or two thousand corpses of his subordinates piled up under the city, and there were countless wooden poles of cloud ladders that were discarded and burned, he roared fiercely: "Order the front army, reorganize the formation, and after half an hour, give me another attack!"

Ren Gui's brows were tightly locked, he waved his hand, and said: "Zhou Shuai, I'm afraid that this siege will have to be changed, this kind of hard fight will not work, and it will only damage the morale of our army in vain, you look at the cheering enemy troops at the head of the city, their morale has risen, and it will be useless to attack again after half an hour!"

Zhou Shi raised his brows and frowned, and the muscles on his tattooed face jumped: "Ren Sima, this Donghengzhou was originally your city, and this method of forcible attack was also made by you, and now you tell Ben Shuai that this method doesn't work, are you playing with Ben Shuai?" ”

Ren Gui shook his head and sighed: "Zhou Shuai, I only blame your subordinates for killing too hard and robbing too fiercely around this Donghengzhou, so that everyone in this city has the heart of death, and the human heart is the most powerful defense of a city. (To be continued......)

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