"Minmin, you don't understand." Liu Cheng laughed proudly: "You say, what is the most important thing now if you want to defeat Lin Dan Khan?" ”

"Naturally, I want to appoint someone to supervise the armies, but that old man Lu has no ability, and anyone who changes him is better than him!" Speaking of this, Min Min's eyes suddenly rolled, and he clapped his hands and smiled: "I understand, Inspector Hong asked this old man Lu to supervise the armies must be to make you work hard, right?" ”

Liu Cheng smiled and nodded, as Min Min guessed, originally according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the guest army came to help, and the main army should be the commander, but Du Wenhuan, the general soldier of Ningxia, was injured and was surrounded in the city, isolated from the inside and outside, and could not be the commander. In this case, a civilian official is usually sent to serve as a governor, governor and other official positions, to lead and coordinate the battles of the Ming army, and among the reinforcements, Liu Cheng's department is the strongest, reaching almost one-third of the total force, and has always been known for its resourcefulness and good warfare. Instead of finding an inexplicable civil official, it is better to simply find someone who has a good relationship with the number one military general in private, at least he can be harmonious with the civil and military, and he can work together. Anyway, looking at the relationship between the two and Lu Boqi's personality, he will definitely obey Liu Chengyan, and there is no problem in being a rubber stamp.

"Are you sure?" Min Min's voice suddenly deepened, no matter how indifferent she pretended to be on weekdays, but after all, she was still a girl who was not yet seventeen years old, and when she thought that her lover was going to fight Lin Dan Khan, a direct descendant of the Golden Family and a cavalryman with tens of thousands of cavalry, she couldn't help but feel a burst of weakness in her heart: "Why don't you ask Lord Lu to wait, Master Chesang has been gone for a month, and he must be able to bring the combined forces of my father Khan, Khalkha Mongols, and Gushi Khan here, wouldn't it be more certain to have a decisive battle with Lin Dan Khan at that time?" “

"No way!" Liu Cheng's voice was not loud, but his tone was very resolute: "It's been delaying for a long time, and if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid that the guards in the fort over there won't be able to hold on." ”

"Hmm!" Min Min nodded. Lowering his head, his expression was a little gloomy, and he lowered his head and sang, his voice was low, as if the pine waves in the forest, the flowing water of the waterfall, the gale wind passing by the mountains, the galloping of wild horses on the grassland, and the roar of deer in the mountains and forests, if you don't see it with your own eyes, people can't believe that this is just a person's voice simulation.

"Minmin, what is this?" Liu Cheng asked in surprise, he didn't know that Min Min would make this move.

"Hoomai! I learned it when I was a kid when I heard the old shaman in a sacrifice. It is said that our ancestors imitated all things in the heavens and the earth when they were in the forest. Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Min Min's face: "If I'm not in a happy mood on weekdays, I can sing a paragraph and I'll be in a better mood." ”

Seeing the sad Mongolian girl in front of him, Liu Cheng couldn't help but feel a trace of apology in his heart, he just refused Min Min's delay in waiting for help, in addition to saying it, there was also an unspoken concern: although these Mongolian tribes that believed in the Gelug sect were the enemies of Lin Dan Khan, they were not necessarily allies of the Ming Dynasty. Don't be intimate. If they arrived, they saw that the overall situation had been decided and the Ming army was heavily guarded, so they would naturally be honest. But if the Ming army confronts Lin Dan Khan, it is likely that they will watch from the wall, watch the two armies fight, and reap the benefits of the fishermen. Now that the Zhulu Ming army has been united. The equipment in his army is sufficient, and the non-commissioned officers are well-trained, and if he delays any longer, it will only be a change.

Five days later.

The street where the Yamen of the Senhu Imperial Palace is located was made a quiet street. At both ends of the street, guards in iron armor and armed with weapons were guarded, prohibiting pedestrians, and people in the neighborhood closed their doors one after another, and did not even dare to go out of their homes for fear of causing trouble.

The yamen of the Imperial Palace has been given up as a guide to the newly arrived governor. Outside the gate, there were soldiers of the standard battalion, the armor leaves on their bodies and the weapons in their hands flashed in the cold light in the early morning mist, and on both sides of the gate, a pair of flagpoles three or four feet high hung two apricot-yellow flags. On the outside of these two large flags, there are two rows of flags, each row has five, standing oppositely, the flagpole is one foot three feet high, the flag is seven feet, all are flame-shaped apricot yellow flag edges, and the center of the flag is according to the color of the five sides, the center is embroidered with a flying tiger, these flying tigers are prescribed according to the principle of the five elements, for example, the representative of the east is cyan, the representative of the middle is red, and so on. These 10 flags are the gate flags of the line, which occupy a long part of the road, and the civil and military officials who come to meet the governor must dismount and enter on foot outside the range of the gate flags to show respect for the newly arrived governor.

On the street outside the flag gate, the generals have basically arrived, and they are gathered into several small circles according to their usual kinship and official positions, and they are gossiping. And Liu Cheng, who has the highest official position and the most troops in his hands, has vaguely become the core of a certain circle, and everyone gossips with him with an attitude mixed with vigilance and envy.

"Lord Liu, I heard that you once served as an envoy under the newly arrived Governor, I wonder what this Lord Lu is like?" An officer in his fifties asked, this person's surname is Hu Mingke, he is the garrison of Jinji Fort of the Ming Army, although the troops in his hands are not much, but the geographical location is very important, controlling the entrance of an important local river canal, Qin Canal, which flows into the Yellow River, and is not far from the exit of Qingtongxia, if Lin Dan Khan wants to cross the river to the east, the greatest possibility is to go here, so Liu Cheng sent a team to support, and the relationship between the two is good among the generals.

"Huh!" Liu Cheng snorted: "I did run an errand under Lord Lu, but I don't know what you are asking, Lord Hu?" ”

"This-" Hu Ke was stopped by Liu Cheng, in front of everyone, he naturally had some words that were difficult to say, after all, it was the new boss, in case a bad one was reported behind the back of a villain, I am afraid that he would not be able to turn over.

"Lord Liu!" One person next to him was very anxious, and said, "What else can he ask?" Aren't we Qiu Ba just trying to meet a good waiter? This governor is not such a thrifty person. ”

"Not bad!"

"Exactly, Lord Liu, you have been an errand envoy under the Governor again, so let's talk about it first!"

Seeing the eyes of the generals, Liu Cheng couldn't help but smile dumbly in his heart, the "Qingjie frugality" that the person said just now was originally a compliment, saying that someone was honest and self-controlled, but in this context, it had another meaning, implying stubbornness and unreasonableness.

"Hehe, you're too worried. Lord Lu is not an unreasonable person. Liu Cheng laughed: "I have been under Master Lu for so long, and I haven't delayed being promoted to make a fortune, right?" “

Hearing Liu Cheng say this, everyone's faces showed a look of sudden realization. At this time, there were three cannon shots from the door, and the generals hurriedly lined up in a sequence according to the size of their official positions, passed through the flag gate, and walked towards the line, and everyone passed through the two courtyards and came to the bottom of the lobby steps, and next to the stone lion on the left, there was a large banner of the Chinese army. This large flag, made of the finest dark green satin, is inlaid with white silk flame-shaped edges, and the flagpole has a five-foot-long apricot yellow tassel, decorated with beads, and the tassel head reveals a silver-white flag spear, and on either side of the big silk are two leopard tail flags. This is a sign of the military location, unless there is an order from the commander-in-chief, no one is allowed to enter without permission, and it is a violation of military law. Lu Boqi's fanfare rectification of the honor guard was obviously aimed at letting the generals under his command know that he was afraid. Get ready for the big battle that follows.

After another cannon fired, Lu Boqi was dressed in a four-grade civil official Yunyan supplemental uniform, with a jade belt around his waist and a black veil on his head. He slowly walked out from behind the screen, and sat down behind the public desk in the middle, with a dignified deacon standing on each side, and several staff members also standing solemnly on either side. With the paging of Cheng Qiguan. The generals rushed in, and according to their own grades, they signed up for the worship ceremony to Lu Boqi in turn, and bowed solemnly. Awaiting instructions.

Lu Boqi, who was sitting behind the public case, was still in a state of semi-dizziness, and Hong Chengchou's words to himself not long ago seemed to be echoing in his ears: "According to Liu Cheng's strength, the matter of Ping Northwest is still echoed!" "Since I met this unusually martial artist, I have prospered in official and financial fortunes, from an unambitious old bureaucrat waiting to retire and return home to become a farmer, to a high-performing stock with a promising future. An important sign of this change is that several of the same year of the Jinshi suddenly became better, remembering that there has been more than ten years of not much contact in the same year, have written letters to give gifts to cousins, one of them in the world's first fat shortage of two Huai Yandao in the same year is still in the letter half flattering, half ostentatiously mentioned that even the Son of Heaven knows him, and once praised him for knowing the army and fighting, is a solid minister, and left his name Lu Boqi on the warm pavilion screen of the Qianqing Palace, which will be of great use in the near future, and finally said at the end of the letter" With my brother's great talent, when he is on the rise, don't forget the love of you and my brotherhood! “

The compliment of the same year undoubtedly gave Lu Boqi's vanity great satisfaction, and the gift that came with the letter was also quite expensive - five thousand salts, according to the market at that time, one salt could be transferred to six dollars and five cents of silver, and the five thousand salts were at least three thousand taels of silver, which was already quite a gift in the same year. But although Lu Boqi is mediocre and incompetent, he has another advantage - he is self-aware. He knows very well that everything he has today is inseparable from Liu Cheng's talent and martial arts. He looked at Liu Cheng, who was standing at the head of the class, felt a little relieved, and said in a deep voice: "This governor is favored by the emperor, trusted by Inspector Hong, and entrusted with important tasks, and he vows to break the captivity." Either you have received the grace of the country in the world, or you have been recognized by the present world, you should work together to repay Your Majesty. If there is any neglect of military orders and ineffective fighting, the governor will be severely impeached and punished, and will never lenient the loan! ”

Hearing Lu Boqi's fierce reprimand, Liu Cheng couldn't help nodding secretly, it seems that his previous investment in this person was not in vain, not to mention anything else, this official kung fu is really not ten days and a half months of kung fu. He is a military general, as long as the political order of the Ming Dynasty is not corrupted for a day, he will not want to enter the central decision-making level for a day, and an obedient marionette like Lu Boqi is really easy to use.

At this time, Lu Boqi had finished speaking, and ordered the generals to go down and rest, and wait for the separate meetings to be given instructions, and then he stood up, bowed his hand to the people, and retreated to the inner courtyard surrounded by his staff. The generals hurriedly bowed and saluted, and after a while, Cheng Qiguan walked out of the hall and shouted loudly: "Please Lord Liu, deputy chief soldier of Yansui Town!" ”

When Liu Cheng walked into the study, Lu Boqi waved his hand impatiently, signaling the attendant to withdraw from the house, and without waiting for Liu Cheng to bow and salute, he rushed forward, held Liu Cheng up, and said very kindly: "Lord Liu, don't be polite." ”

"Congratulations to Lord Lu for being promoted again!" Liu Cheng bowed with a smile and stood up: "It's just that I'm in a hurry, I haven't prepared a gift, and after I finish playing Tartar this time, I will definitely make up for it." “

"No, no!" Lu Boqi said with a smile: "I want to thank you for being the governor this time, and I still rely on you a lot for the matter of pacifying the captivity!" ”

"Don't dare!" Liu Cheng smiled: "I just don't know if you have a strategy in mind, my lord?" ”

"Where do I have a strategy?" Lu Boqi smiled and took out a list from his arms and handed it to Liu Cheng: "When Mr. Yu heard that I was coming to Ningxia, he asked me to bring these things over, saying that you urgently need to get out of the factory, and they are all in my accompanying team, you can see if there are any shortcomings!" “

"Thank you, sir!" Liu Cheng took the list, and at a glance, he found that it was all replenished to his armor equipment, the most important of which was 2,000 rockets.

"Lord Liu, what do you think of coping?"

"Hurry up!" Liu Cheng's answer was very refreshing, he walked to the map on the wall, pointed to the map on it, and said: "Our army should immediately build a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River near Wuzhongbao, and then advance northeast along the Yellow River to relieve the siege of Ningxia Mansion!" ”

"Then, what if the Khan leads troops to attack?"

"Then fight the Khan!"

Liu Cheng's simple answer made Lu Boqi hesitate a little, he thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "Lord Liu, I heard that there are sixty or seventy thousand captives, and there are many flat places in this river loop, and the enemy is riding on me, should I be more serious?" ”

"Master Lu, then how do you say you should take care of it?"

"This-" Lu Boqi asked Liu Cheng at this time, he thought about it a little, and said in a low voice: "Then, how should you deal with it if the Tartars attack?" ”

"Lined up with the river." Liu Cheng saw that Lu Boqi's face showed a trace of uncertainty, so he explained with a smile: "Our army was originally composed of six or seven parts, if it wasn't for the formation of the back river, I am afraid that as soon as the Tartars arrive, the generals will have the heart of self-preservation. Besides, there are many Tartar cavalry, and I am arrayed on my back to the river, so naturally I don't have to worry about the vest being detoured, and I can give full play to the advantages of my firearms and crossbows. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's time to fight a big battle, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a reward