Chapter 295: The Posture of a Strong Army
With Lu Xiangsheng's order, the antlers and horses in front of the camp were hurriedly moved away by the guards, and finally with a tooth-souring "creaking" sound, the heavy wooden door was opened, and the gate of the Ming army camp was finally opened.
The men and horses who were standing quietly in front of the camp gate like sculptures also began to move, and with a loud shout, the soldiers and horses that were originally standing still began to move.
Although it was raining heavily in the sky, the movement of this group of soldiers and horses was not chaotic at all, and they still formed a neat formation and walked into the camp with a unified pace.
"Boom"
A flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, and a bright bright light shone on the head of this team in an instant, shining the figure of this muddy team, as if it was a demon out of hell, looking at the expressionless grim looks of those soldiers who gradually walked in, all the generals, including Lu Xiangsheng, were shocked, the military might of this soldier under the command of Pang Gang was so strong!
When the team came to the middle of the camp, a tall general in red armor shouted: "The whole army stops! Stand by now! ”
"All stopped!"
"All stopped!"
"Bumper bump!"
With an order, the soldiers behind them stopped, except for the sound of iron armor hitting each other, there was not a single murmur, and a column of soldiers patted the neat queue and stood up.
As the queue was completed, the burly general led by him got off his horse and stepped on the mud to Lu Xiangsheng, Gao Qiqian and the generals, only to see his eyes wide, and after glancing at everyone with his eyes like lightning, he took a few steps in front of Lu Xiangsheng and knelt down on one knee, clasped his hands into fists and said loudly: "Qi Lu Dudu, the last general Nanjing Right Governor, Dingguo General, and Pang Gang, the general of Shandong East Road, was ordered to lead five thousand soldiers and horses to report as scheduled, please Lu Dudu Governor!" ”
Pang Gang's voice was very loud, big enough for Lu Xiangsheng and dozens of generals and generals behind him to hear clearly, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Pang Gang, who was wet all over his body but still imposing, and secretly marveled in his heart that he hadn't seen him for a year, this little Qianhu in the past had become a general who could not be despised as a general, and it seemed that he had to reconsider his attitude towards Pang Gang.
However, Lu Xiangsheng's thoughts only flashed, he smiled slightly, and said to Pang Gang: "Hehe, Chaodong, you have worked hard from afar, come and come, I have seen the new prison army Gao Qi Qian Gao Gonggong." ”
"Oh!" Pang Gang took advantage of the situation to stand up, and his sharp eyes turned, only then did he notice that Pang Gang in Lu Xiangsheng was still standing a tall eunuch dressed in light blue eunuch clothes, with a white face and beard, who was looking at him without blinking, with a trace of unhappiness on his face.
"This is a high dive?" Pang Gang was slightly stunned, and then he carefully looked at the arrogant eunuch in front of him, and then arched his hand towards Gao Qiqian and said, "The last general has seen Gao Gonggong!" ”
Gao Qiqian's preconceived impression of Pang Gang was not good, but now he saw that Pang Gang gave a big salute to Lu Xiangsheng, but he was standing and saluting to himself, and he looked like he was ignoring it, he couldn't help but feel on fire, and he laughed a few times and said: "It turns out that you are Pang Gang, the emperor often mentions you, and our family has long admired your name in the palace,!" ”
"Don't dare!" Pang Gang said quietly: "The name of Gonggong Gao has long been admired, and it can really be described by the phrase "no one in the world knows the king". ”
Pang Gang is telling the truth, in later generations, as long as people who have read a little bit of Ming history have heard of the name Gao Qiqian, Pang Gang is also famous for a long time, after seeing the real person at this moment, it made Pang Gang look at him a few more times, of course, there will naturally be no "admiration" in his eyes, and such a look in Gao Qiqian's eyes also made him more and more angry in his heart......
Gao Qiqian said gloomily: "General Pang, the Tartars invaded my territory, the emperor was worried about this, and gathered a large army to come to King Qin, all the generals came, but the general was late, why is this?" ”
Pang Gang felt wrong when he heard it, he obviously arrived on time, how do you look at the posture of this dead eunuch who seems to be unforgiving, he doesn't seem to have sinned against him, what does he want to do here?
Pang Gang's face also sank, and he said coldly: "Gonggong Gao, today is the eighth day of the fourth month, and it is also the last day of arrival deadline given by Governor Lu Dudu to this official, and this official has not arrived after the deadline, and this official does not know what Gao Gonggong means by this." ”
Pang Gang was so angry that he didn't even use the self-effacing title of "last general", but changed it to the word "this official", which was only used when colleagues were at the same level or when superiors called themselves subordinates, and the intention was that everyone could see that Gao Qiqian was not a stupid person, and he could naturally hear it clearly.
"You, you are bold!" Gao Qiqian, who had always been used to rampant, heard Pang Gang's sarcastic words, the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and he roared loudly, and his sharp voice miraculously became hoarse because of this, pointing at Pang Gang and trembling: "You dare to be disrespectful to our family!" ”
Pang Gang shook his head, "Father-in-law Gao, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, when did this official disrespect you, please point it out!" ”
"You, you" The orchid pointed at Pang Gang, so angry that her whole body trembled and she couldn't say a word.
Lu Xiangsheng didn't see it well, so he hurriedly came over and stopped Pang Gang and said: "Okay, Chaodong, you just came, and it's raining again, and there is still open space behind the camp, so you better quickly find a place to set up camp, and then come to the handsome tent to see the governor after you are done." ”
"Yes, the last general obeys!" Pang Gang hugged his fist at Lu Xiangsheng, put his feet together, took the heel of his left foot as the axis, turned the toe of his right foot as one, turned one hundred and eighty degrees backwards on the spot, and shouted loudly to the people behind him: "All of them, turn to the right, and walk in unison!" ”
"Boom Boom"
With Pang Gang's order, thousands of stationary soldiers were like horses with sudden force, walking in unison to the back of the camp at a neat pace, behind these soldiers were neat carts were pushed over by the baggage soldiers, looking at the neat formation of these soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but praise: "Its speed is like the wind, its Xu is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and it is not moving like a mountain, I didn't expect Chaodong's training talent to be so good!" ”
At this time, Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, also praised: "The last general once heard that in the past, Grandpa Qi was transferred to Jizhou for military training, and he felt that the military law was lax in the border years, so he transferred 3,000 soldiers from Zhejiang. In the heavy rain, 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers Chen in the suburbs, from the dynasty to the day, planted and immovable, the border army was shocked, and the military order was known. Ping said that the end of the general always thought that this was made up by later generations, and now he said that he knew that there was something to do, and there was indeed his soldier, it seems that this Pang Zongbing had the style of Grandpa Wei back then. ””
"Humph! It's raining so hard, let's go back to the tent to change clothes first! Hearing Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Guozhu compliment Pang Gang in unison, he snorted coldly and walked towards his big tent, but when he walked towards his tent, the heavy rain in the sky suddenly stopped. Such a scene stunned the generals.
Pang Gang walked all the way to the back of the camp with his soldiers and horses, only to find that the camp of nearly 100,000 troops stretched for several miles and was very huge, and countless tents were densely built, but they were out of order, and Pang Gang frowned secretly.
Pang just walked for a long time, until he came to a forest behind the camp, only to find that there was a vacant land is still empty, and then ordered the soldiers to start setting up tents, with an order, the 1,000 heavy soldiers with the army immediately began to unload the truck, unloading the tent and other things from the car, another 1,000 soldiers began to bury the pot to cook, and another 1,000 soldiers went to the woods and began to cut down trees to prepare to set up tents, and the rest of the men and horses began to guard around, everything was so orderly.
In fact, speaking of Lu Xiangsheng's codex, it is said that Pang Gang should lead 5,000 troops to help, but Pang Gang is not so rigid and only brings 5,000 soldiers and horses to help, in addition to a battalion of 5,000 regular soldiers, there are also 1,000 baggage soldiers and more than 1,000 personal soldiers, a total of more than 7,000 people.
The baggage soldiers built the barracks, naturally the big tent of Pang Gang, the supreme leader, was set up first, their movements were very fast, and the tent had been set up in less than two moments, Pang Gang walked into the big tent, changed into clean clothes, and wiped the armor dry before walking out, leading the soldiers to the big tent of the Chinese army.
Lu Xiangsheng as the commander of the whole army, the tent is naturally located in the center of the whole army, when Pang Gang came to the big tent of the Chinese army with dozens of personal soldiers, he happened to see a general coming out of the big tent, and after seeing him, Pang Gang stepped forward and stopped: "Brother Liu, don't come to harm!" ”
The visitor was slightly stunned when he saw Pang Gang, and then smiled bitterly: "Brother Pang, it turned out to be you." ”
The person who came was Liu Zeqing, the former Shandong commander-in-chief, since he was defeated by Pang Gang that time, he was almost removed from his post by the angry Chongzhen, and later Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, interceded and transferred him to Henan as the chief soldier, which can be regarded as a flat tone, at this time seeing Pang Gang here, Liu Zeqing couldn't help but feel a trace of bitterness in his heart, he didn't know whether to be grateful to him for showing mercy on the battlefield, or to resent him for driving him out of Shandong.
Pang Gang hugged Liu Zeqing's shoulders and said with an apologetic smile: "Brother Liu, my brother was really helpless last time, if I didn't lead the troops to resist, I was afraid that Inspector Yuan would be a lesson for my brother, and I could only offend my brother in order to save my brother's life." ”
"Alas" Liu Zeqing smiled bitterly, he knew that what Pang Gang said was also the truth, judging from the situation at the time, if Pang Gang did not resist, his life would be ten out of ten after being escorted into Beijing, and it was not uncommon for him to do those things in order to survive, and the dog would jump over the wall if he was in a hurry.
"It's okay, brother, I understand your distress, Lu Dudu and Gao Gonggong are waiting for you inside, go in quickly, but be careful!" Liu Zeqing sighed, patted Pang Gang on the shoulder and left.
(To be continued)