Lei Gongshan, Li Yan Xingyuan.

Li Yan has already left under the pretext, only Monk Zhang and Jing Maocheng are left in the line, the cups and plates on the table are messy, both of them have eaten red faces, full of alcohol, these two people are from a bandit background, and the other is from a ringing horse, it can be said that they smell the same, after eating a meal, the two have hooked their shoulders and are like brothers.

In the end, Jing Mao Chengyi proposed that the two of them simply worship the son, and Jing Mao became an adult and became a brother.

"Brother." Jing Maocheng affectionately put his arm on Monk Zhang's shoulder, squinted his eyes and said, "If you want to say that you are also from a horse thief, and the official army is not a person at all, it is not my brother who scares you, when the time comes, there will be something, Wang Pu will definitely make fun of you, but if you take your brothers to Li Dashuai, it will be different......"

"Brother, you've drunk too much." Monk Zhang smiled, "I must have drunk too much." ”

"Brother didn't drink too much." Jing Maocheng said seriously, "Brother is down to business, brother, if you can bring your 1,000 musketeers here, Li Dashuai can expand your musket team into a firearms battalion!" ”

"Oh, don't talk about this, we don't talk about this." Monk Zhang shook his head, although he was already drunk, he still remembered what Wang Pu had said, and quickly staggered the topic, "Let's drink, drink, brother, let's talk about you being the king of the mountain in Lao Ya Mountain, you haven't thought about finding a lady in the village?" Hey hey ......"

"Mrs. Crush? Didn't think about it. ”

Jing Maocheng shook his head, but the figure of the red lady suddenly floated in his mind, picked up the wine jar and shook it, and found that it was empty, so he got up and shouted: "Come on, bring the wine." ”

"Oops." Monk Zhang suddenly slapped his head and shouted, "Brother, I can't drink anymore, I have to go back today." ”

"What's the matter?" Jing Maocheng said unhappily, "I bowed today, I must have a good drink." ”

"Another day, brother." Monk Zhang said, "Today, I still have to bet the horses and silver back to Datong, and I can't drink anymore." ”

"Okay." Jing Maocheng saw that Monk Zhang had made up his mind, so he no longer insisted, and said happily, "Brother will take someone to send you." ”

"That's a good idea." Monk Zhang was overjoyed and said, "When I arrive in Datong, my little brother will have a good drink with you again." ”

"Okay." Jing Mao said, "Then it's decided." ”

A moment later, Jing Maocheng led two thousand cavalry to escort Monk Zhang's two thousand musket team straight to Datong.

Monk Zhang's 2,000 musket team was infantry when he came, because he was afraid of Jiannu interception, he secretly came from the west gate at night, but when he went back, these 2,000 infantry became cavalry, and Jing Maocheng was escorted by 2,000 cavalry, and he was no longer afraid of Jiannu interception, so he swaggered back to Datong.

At this time, Jiannu had fallen into the predicament of having no horse to ride, and he was powerless to intercept it.

That night, Jing Maocheng and his 2,000 cavalry were all settled in the camp in the west of the city, and Wang Pu asked Monk Zhang to hold a feast in the camp and entertain the rebel brothers.

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The town guards the residence of the eunuch Zhang Zi'an.

A little eunuch hurriedly entered the warm pavilion and reported to Zhang Zi'anyu: "Godfather, my son has inquired clearly, the leader of the thieves, Jing Maocheng, has really arrived at the camp in the west of the city with 2,000 cavalry, and General Soldier Wang is asking Monk Zhang to hold a feast in the camp in the west of the city, eating and drinking to entertain those thieves." ”

Zhang Zi'an's brows tightened for a moment, and he whispered to himself: "It's too bold for Master Ma to do this, right?" ”

"Godfather." The little eunuch lowered his voice and asked, "Don't you want to join the thieves?" ”

"You know the." Zhang Zi'an's face changed, and he scolded, "Master Ma has a deep mind, he knows that the officials and troops in Datong City can't deal with Jiannu, so he wants to borrow thieves, but ...... This is a big deal, but you can't hide it from the ancestor and the long live lord, yes, our family will take a letter of resignation, and you will let people send it to Jingshi in an expedited manner of 600 miles, and face the old ancestor. ”

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Datong, the general army marches.

Zhen Youcai said to Wang Pu: "General, the monk's 2,000 cavalry, and Jing Maocheng's 2,000 thieves, swaggered from Lei Gong Mountain to the camp in the west of the city, and Jiannu did not send cavalry to intercept it at all, and in the past few days, Jiannu has been shrinking, and has successively transferred the troops of the south and east camps back to the north camp of the city, all kinds of signs show that Jiannu is really recruited!" ”

"Hmm." Wang Pu said, "This is expected. ”

Zhen Youcai said: "It seems that the time is ripe for a decisive battle with Jiannu. ”

"Hmm." Wang Pu said, "It's indeed time. ”

Zhen Youcai said: "General, how are you going to fight this battle?" ”

Wang Pu said: "Even if Jiannu has no war horses, they have 30,000 people after all, so we have to cooperate with Li Yan in this battle, otherwise even if we can win, we will suffer heavy casualties." ”

Zhen Youcai said: "But this time is different from the past, if Jiannu dies, we and the thieves should become opponents again, this time it is a decisive battle with Jiannu, will this kid Li Yan still help us?" ”

Wang Pu said: "Yes, he will definitely be." ”

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The next time.

Jing Maocheng returned to Leigong Mountain with 2,000 cavalry, and also brought back a handwritten letter from Wang Pu to Li Yan.

Li Yan Xingyuan.

Li Yan raised the letter in his hand and said to Li Hu, Li Xuan, and Jing Maocheng: "Wang Pu said in the letter that he drugged the batch of horse materials that were intercepted by Jiannu last time, and now all of Jiannu's war horses have been drugged, and the official army is ready to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu tomorrow, and invites us to send troops together." ”

"Big brother, let's ignore him." Li Hu said, "Since Jiannu's war horse has been poured out of medicine, we just take this opportunity to return to Mizhi, so let the official army and Jiannu fight." ”

Li Yan asked Li Xuan and Jing Maocheng, "What do the two generals mean?" ”

Li Xuan thought for a while and said, "Dashuai, the last general thinks this is a good opportunity. ”

Li Yan said happily: "Oh, let's talk about it." ”

Li Xuandao: "If Jiannu loses the war horse, it is like a tiger losing its minions, there is nothing to be afraid of, Dashuai, this is a rare opportunity for military training, and it is even more rare that Jiannu can be used as a training object. ”

Li Xuan's words can be regarded as speaking to Li Yan's heart, this is indeed a rare opportunity for military training.

If Jiannu can really be defeated from the frontal battlefield, the confidence and morale of the soldiers of the righteous army will be greatly improved, and this kind of training effect can not be practiced behind closed doors, it can only be refined in the test of iron and blood.

Li Hu said: "But eldest brother, what if the official army is behind the black hand after the destruction of Jiannu?" ”

Li Yan said: "No, Wang Pu won't do this." ”

To this day, Li Yan has also figured out his true intentions from Wang Pu's unscrupulous actions, Wang Pu completely ignored the rules of the imperial court, and twice helped the rebels to tide over the difficulties, and wanted to rely on the rebels to contain the slaves for only one reason, and another reason was to raise thieves for self-respect.

As long as Li Yan's rebel army is active in Shanxi, Wang Pu can stay in Datong in a grand manner and become his soil emperor.

Li Xuan also said: "Even if the officials and soldiers want to do something behind their backs, it is not so easy. ”

Li Hu's eyes showed a fierce light, and he suddenly said: "Big brother, when the fierce battle between the official army and Jiannu is in full swing tomorrow, wouldn't it be better to give them a ruthless attack from behind and clean up Jiannu and the official army together?" ”

"Nonsense!" Li Yan's face sank, and he shouted and scolded, "Huzi, do you want your eldest brother to be an ungrateful villain?" ”

Li Hu retorted: "Big brother, this is called a soldier who is not tired of cheating. ”

"Shut up." Li Yan shouted sharply, "Don't mention this matter again." ”

Li Hu snorted, he didn't dare to say anything more, and the matter of sending troops tomorrow was decided.

Of course, Li Yan's vision is not comparable to Li Hu, Li Hu only knows that Wang Pu is an official army and a sworn enemy of the righteous army, so he wants to do everything possible to kill Wang Pu, but Li Yan keenly found that Wang Pu is different from Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Yang Changsi, Hong Chengchou and those people are the eagle dogs of the imperial court and the real enemies of the righteous army, but Wang Pu is not.

Wang Pu is not the eagle dog of the Ming Dynasty, he is nominally the general soldier of Datong, but in fact he is a separatist prince!

There are princes like Wang Pu guarding in Datong, there is only good and no harm for the Shaanxi righteous army, since Wang Pu's existence is only good for the righteous army, then why destroy Wang Pu?

Although Wang Pu and Li Yan did not sit down to talk, the two had formed a tacit understanding when they fought against Jiannu together, Li Yan helped Wang Pu to be a good prince of Datong, and Wang Pu gave the necessary assistance to the Shaanxi rebels, they were enemies on the surface, but they were friends in private.

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Datong, the general army marches.

Zhen Youcai said worriedly: "General, do you think Li Yan will take advantage of the fact that we are in the middle of the fierce battle with Jiannu to fall into the lower stone and carry out a sneak attack from behind?" ”

"No, it won't." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "Li Yan is a smart person, he can definitely feel our kindness, with my Wang Pu guarding Datong, it will only be good for him and the Shaanxi Righteous Army." ”

Zhen Youcai thought about it, and then said: "General, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" ”

Wang Pu said: "What else can't be said between you and me?" ”

Zhen Youcai said: "General, Li Yan is not a good stubble, so you are not afraid of raising tigers?" ”

"Hahaha......" Wang Pu laughed, "Even if Li Yan is really a tiger, he can't bite us now, even if he has to worry about raising tigers, it won't be our turn." ”

Zhen Youcai's expression moved, and he suddenly said: "I understand the humble position." ”

Wang Pu smiled and said in a low voice: "This is called taking precautions, and when you cooperate with a powerful character like Li Yan, you have to be careful at all times, otherwise you don't know how you will die in the end." ”

Zhen Youcai said: "General, what should be the way to fight tomorrow's decisive battle?" ”

Wang Pu said: "In the decisive battle with Jiannu tomorrow, we can only send 4,000 muskets to participate in the attack, and the remaining 3,000 border troops must stay to defend the city." ”

"Where's Li Yan?"

"Li Yan should send all 8,000 cavalry to participate in the attack, that is to say, our army and the thieves combined are only 12,000 people, compared to Jiannu in terms of strength, it is still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, however, Jiannu's side is not monolithic, once the war does not go well, those Mongolian cavalry will definitely be the first to escape."

Zhen Youcai said: "I'm afraid that the eight thousand cavalry of the thieves will not be useful." ”

Wang Pu said: "I didn't expect the eight thousand cavalry of the thieves to play much of a role, they just need to protect the two wings of our army, as long as the two wings are not counterattacked by Jiannu, with the four thousand brothers of the firearms battalion plus two mortars, it is enough to break through the Jiannu camp." ”

Zhen Youcai said: "But in this way, this decisive battle can only be a rout, when Li Yan's 8,000 cavalry can seize the opportunity, they will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, Jiannu's weapons, armor or something will all become the spoils of the thieves, the thieves have no strength, but they have picked up so many trophies for nothing, it is too cheap for them." ”

"It doesn't matter." Wang Pu said, "We only need Jiannu's war horse, that is the real treasure, as for the other tattered things, let the thieves pick them up." ”

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Lei Gongshan, Li Yan Xingyuan.

After Li Xuan, Li Hu and Jing Mao left Chengdu, the red lady asked softly: "Xianggong, tomorrow the official army will have a decisive battle with Jiannu, do you really decide to send troops to help?" ”

"Of course." Li Yan said, "Why don't you send troops?" ”

The red lady asked puzzledly: "Is sending troops really good for our rebels?" ”

"There are so many benefits." Li Yan said patiently, "First, we can train our troops, and secondly, we can capture a large number of weapons and armor and grain and grass baggage, with these weapons and armor, we can equip more rebels, and also, I want to take the opportunity to touch the bottom of Wang Pu's firearms battalion to see how they fight?" ”

(To be continued)