Ten days later, the Silver Protector finally arrived at Juyanhai, and Zhang Yanjun, the second son of Zhang Chongjun, led 2,000 soldiers to meet Juyanhai, still a hundred miles away.

After two months, the Silver Protectors finally arrived at their destination, and the soldiers immediately cheered.

Surrounded by dozens of soldiers, Zhang Yanjun rode to Lu Hanfei on horseback, clasped his fists and saluted: "Zhang Yanjun, the deputy governor of Xiazhangye, is it General Lu?" ”

Lu Hanfei knew that His Royal Highness King Liang had already sent someone to Xiliang to deliver the letter, and the messenger must have arrived before him through Guanzhong, so it was not surprising that the other party knew that he had arrived.

He saw that this Zhang Yanjun looked quite like his brother Zhang Yannian, so he returned the salute and smiled: "I have a good relationship with Brother Ling, he often mentions you to me, and the young general is really a talent." ”

"It's over, General Lu has worked hard all the way, this area is the territory of the Xiliang Army, please rest assured that no one will disturb you."

Zhang Yanjun and Lu Hanfei were side by side, and he asked in a low voice: "There is news on the grassland, I heard that you were attacked by the Mughu, right?" ”

Lu Hanfei nodded, "On the Swan River, tens of thousands of people attacked. ”

"Tens of thousands!"

Zhang Yanjun exclaimed, "It was the Mugwu people pouring out, I thought it was the harassment of hundreds of people." ”

Zhang Yanjun thought for a moment and said: "I understand, this must be the Khitan people to inform them that the eleven tribes of the Mengwu people have been dispatched, this is the first time in thirty years, the Mengwu cavalry is very fierce, do you have heavy casualties?" ”

Lu Hanfei smiled faintly and said, "It's okay!" After about half an hour, we were wounded 31 people, 17 killed, more than 2,000 Mughal people were killed and 1,000 wounded, and all the wounded soldiers were killed by us, and not a single one was left. ”

Zhang Yanjun was stunned, how could this be possible, even the sharpest Xiliang Army couldn't do it, the casualties were so disparity, how did they do it?

"General Lu, why is that?"

Zhang Yanjun gave him his flintlock pistol, and said with a slight smile: "This is called a flintlock pistol, and the brothers call it a musket, which is ignited with flint, fired with gunpowder, shoots lead bullets, and can pierce armor within a hundred steps, so that Brother Ling is a master of using it." ”

He pointed at the mortar again and said with a smile: "There is also this kind of iron cannon, one cannon can shoot hundreds of small iron sand, it is a killing weapon against the grassland cavalry, this time the Mughal people are too dense, and when the cannon hits, a large number of people will fall, and they are mainly killed and wounded on this kind of artillery." ”

Zhang Yanjun became more and more suspicious, he gently stroked the flintlock pistol, and then looked at the mortar cannon, what kind of weapons are these, even the fierce Mughuls have been beaten so badly, so as long as there are 5,000 people, with 500 cannons of this kind cannon, can't they sweep the grassland?

He finally couldn't help but say, "General Lu, can you show me this?" ”

"The artillery is too dangerous, the gun is fine!"

Lu Hanfei quickly loaded and reloaded, he used the latest rifled flintlock pistol, the bullet still could not be reloaded, so he had to use a small hammer to knock the bullet into the barrel, while explaining with a smile: "There are two kinds of guns, one is called a smoothbore gun, the bullet is smaller than the barrel, it is easy to load, but it can't shoot far, I call it a rifled gun, the bullet is exactly the same as the barrel, it is troublesome to load, but it can penetrate the armor two hundred steps away, this kind of gun is rare, the Chu army does not advocate the use of this rifled gun, I personally like it, only one one." ”

Zhang Yanjun was confused, he was not interested in the type of gun, he only cared about the power, he ordered someone to release a sheep.

Lu Hanfei galloped on horseback until he was two hundred paces away, and raised his gun on his horse to aim at Aries, he was extremely obsessed with guns, and he was a burly man with long arms and strong arms, so he could shoot on a horse, only 'bang! Two hundred paces away, the Aries fell to the ground.

aroused the applause of the soldiers, Zhang Yanjun was extremely envious, and stepped forward a little embarrassed: "General Lu, can you give me such a musket?" ”

Lu Hanfei threw the gun in his hand to him and said with a smile: "I have three rifled guns, and this one is for you." ”

He ordered three more ammunition belts, "These are two kinds of ammunition and bullets, I'll teach you how to use them." ”

Zhang Yanjun shook his head and smiled: "Another day!" I will receive the salary first, the Xiliang army has cut off the military salary, and the marshal will die of sorrow, and he will wait for you all day long, five million taels, which is exactly the military salary of 200,000 Xiliang army for a year. ”

Lu Hanfei waved his hand and shouted to Sima of the army: "Sima Li, bring the list of documents." ”

He said to Zhang Yanjun again: "General Zhang, let's handle the handover now!" ”

．．．．．．．．．． At the same time that the grassland tax money was delivered to Juyanhai, a serious incident also occurred in Poyang County, the southernmost part of Chuzhou, where the soldiers of Poyang County and the garrison of Linchuan County, which belonged to the Lingnan Five Military Governments, clashed, killing and wounding nearly 100 people, and the Governor of Chuzhou, Liangwang Huangfu Wujin, was furious, and at the same time strictly ordered Zhao Lu, the governor of the Lingnan Five Military Governments, to hand over the murderer, he began to dispatch troops and generals, increasing the troops to Yongjia County and Poyang County by 100,000, and transporting millions of stone grain from Jiangning Mansion to the south, and the clouds of war began to shroud over Lingnan.

In the world's nine states, the southernmost state is Guangzhou, although it occupies a large area, but the population of the prefecture and county is not much, at present Guangzhou belongs to the territory of Huang Fu Heng, after Huang Fu Heng occupied Jingzhou, sent pacification envoys to the counties and counties of Guangzhou to pacify the officials, and also obtained the allegiance of the governor of the five armies in Guangzhou.

There are 50,000 troops in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and there was originally a 10,000-strong naval army, but when the Phoenix Society was attacked thirty years ago, the Guangzhou naval army was merged into Chuzhou, and now there is no naval army, and even the shipyard has been moved to Yongjia County, Chuzhou.

However, because of the high temperature in Lingnan all year round, rice can be harvested three times a year, and basically the military can be self-sufficient, and two months ago, the counties of Guangzhou also supported Jingzhou with 6 million stone of grain.

But no one thought that Huangfu Wujin did not turn a blind eye to Guangzhou, and after stabilizing his control of Chuzhou, he began to transfer troops southward on a large scale under the pretext of the conflict between Poyang County and Linchuan County, and it was obvious that he was going to start annexing Guangzhou to the south.

Baixia County, Jiangning Prefecture, which is another subordinate county of Jiangning Prefecture, is located in the east of Jiangning County, is a county with a population of more than 100,000 people, the population of the county is only more than 30,000 people, the business of Baixia County is far less prosperous than Jiangning County, it is basically an agricultural county, is the most important grain production area and silkworm production area of Jiangning Prefecture.

Every night after falling, Jiangning City is still brightly lit, all kinds of night entertainment activities are available, but the night in Baixia County is basically dark, only the commercial street in the east of the county is still a little light, the brightest light is Qi Ruifu's miscellaneous store, covering an area of ten acres, which concentrates all kinds of items operated by Qi Ruifu, from silk to grain, from tea to pig iron, is the premier shop in Baixia County, the shop next door opened a county Qi Dafu small money village a month ago, It is mainly convenient for nearly 100 shops in Baixia County to save money.

In the night, two men on horseback galloped from outside the city, and slowed down when they ran into the county, Suo surnamed dismounted and led the horse, the horse was too fast to attract attention, they were like merchants from afar, and walked into a restaurant called 'Gucheng People', they did not eat in the store, but went directly into the backyard.

Compared with the heavily guarded Jiangning Mansion, Baixia County is very quiet, there is no army and plum blossom guard patrols, although a battalion of thousands of soldiers is stationed outside the city, but the soldiers have no obligation to patrol, and officially because of the security here, Luojing, Yongjing and Qizhou all coincidentally selected the intelligence here, and the restaurant of this 'ancient city family' is the intelligence station set up by the King of Qi in Chuzhou.

The restaurant has three floors, covering an area of three acres, this kind of restaurant can only be regarded as medium in Jiangning City, but it is in the top five in Baixia County, and the business is also good, the restaurant shopkeeper is called Tan Ju, is a white and fat middle-aged man, kind and sincere, is a typical restaurant shopkeeper, but his background is not simple, he is one of the three staff members under King Qi, and also one of King Qi's most trusted henchmen, he served as the head of Chuzhou intelligence, which shows the importance of King Qi to Chuzhou.

In the past few months, Tan Ju has been paying attention to the movements of Chuzhou, he likes to infer the layout of Huangfu Wujin from every detail, it is obvious that Huangfu Wujin occupies Chuzhou, so what will he do first and what will he do later?

First attack Guangling, push the defense of Chuzhou to the line of the Huai River, this is a very clever strategy, lead the bow to the Huai River, the west can attack Yuzhou, the north can take Qizhou, but Huangfu Wujin left a tail, Pengcheng County and Xiapi County, this is the buffer of Chuzhou and Qizhou, it is obvious that Huangfu Wujin did not want to take Qizhou when he captured Guangling, and then Huangfu Wujin led the division westward, taking the opportunity of pacifying the white-clothed army to consolidate the occupation of Chuzhou, consolidate the command of the Chuzhou army, and then go to Yuhang County to clean up Yang Ting'an, very orderly, He then visited the counties to win their support for him.

After taking a few months to fully control Chuzhou, what should Huangfu Wujin do next, this is the most critical point, Tan Ju considered three possibilities, taking Jingzhou in the west, attacking Qizhou in the north, or taking Guangzhou in the south, at this time, the conflict between Poyang County and Linchuan County broke out.

This made Tan Ju very proud, because he expected that something would inevitably happen to Poyang County or Yongjia County, and as he expected, something happened in Poyang County, and Huangfu Wujin made an excuse to send troops, and began to transfer troops to Poyang County and Linchuan County on a large scale.

In the room, Tan Ju sat in front of a map of the Daning Dynasty and pondered, although he had already guessed the strategic layout of Huangfu Wujin, he would not make a decision easily, he couldn't just report to the King of Qi, Huangfu Wujin was going to attack Guangzhou, he needed a lot of specific evidence to judge the correctness of his analysis.

Tan Ju was anxiously waiting for information from the south, and he wanted to know, to what extent had Huangfu Wujin's preparations for war?

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, "Sir, we are back!" ”

This is the return of his subordinates sent to Poyang County.

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(To be continued)