Liu Yanqing brushed his beard under his chin reservedly, although his background was a bearded person, this made him pay more attention to his appearance and demeanor. After carefully considering the benefits and losses, Liu Yanqing still accepted Wang Yu's suggestion, but he glanced at Xin Xingzong on the side, and said with a smile: "Wang Dutong's general order, this official should be respectful, but the matter of taking Shezhou is very important, if only Liu's headquarters soldiers and horses are afraid that they will not be able to catch it, if they can get General Xin to accompany him, this official will be more certain!" ”

"Oh?" Wang Yu's gaze swept over Xin Xingzong on the side, and said with a smile: "It's okay, then the matter of Shezhou will be biased towards the two!" ”

"The subordinate obeys the order!" Liu and Xin bowed down to receive the order.

"Do you want to reply to these letters?" Xin Xingzong pointed to these distress letters on several cases.

"Naturally, I want to reply! At least it can inspire the confidence of the defenders! Wang Yu smiled, he thought for a while, and said loudly: "Come on, recruit Zhou Ping, the prisoner of Liangshanzhai in Jejuzhou!" ”

"Whoa!" The outside answered.

"What did the rulers do when they recruited him?" Xin Xingzong asked.

"Xiuzhou's location is important, if it is captured by thieves, I am afraid that it will be shocking and make Tong Shuai ugly, so I will send this person to Xiuzhou for reinforcements."

"The Western Army is like a cloud, so why use this person?"

"Most of our army are from the northwest, if they are discovered by the thieves when they are fighting with the thieves, they are afraid that the thieves will return to their lair, wouldn't it be a bad plan for us to wait. I remember that most of this guy's subordinates were from Shandong, and I selected 300 people from the Divine Arm Bow to him, and said that it was a reinforcement sent by Yangzhou, and the thief would definitely not be confused. ”

"Wang Dutong really thought carefully!"

"Xuanjeju Liangshanzhai detainees Zhou Ping to see you!"

With the loud voice of the flag officer of the Chinese army, Zhou Ping walked into the door of the mansion, and he was a little uneasy about this special summons. Before he came, he had been busy loading and unloading goods at the docks, could it be that something was wrong? With this speculation, Zhou Ping cautiously came up.

"The end will be under the control of the capital!" Zhou Ping bowed.

"Hmm!" Wang Yu's gaze swept over the officer below, and the tall and burly physique of the other party gave him a good impression.

"Prison Zhou, I have a chance to make meritorious contributions with you!"

Zhou Ping chuckled in his heart, with his past experience, it is not a good thing for a boss to say such a thing in the mouth, but no matter ancient or modern, the only thing a subordinate can do at this time is to pinch his nose and cooperate.

"Thank you for the cultivation of the general!"

Wang Yu nodded: "After you go down, you will hand over the matter at hand, and lead the men and horses of the headquarters and three hundred divine arm archers to cross the river to Xiuzhou for reinforcements, as long as you keep enough for fifteen days, it will be your great achievement!" ”

"Fifteen, less than eight hundred! If I'm not mistaken, Fang La is known as a million! Zhou Ping couldn't help but scold, but he still had to reply: "Oh! ”

Probably because of the discovery of conscience, Wang Yu smiled and said: "If there is any shortage of armor and weapons under your command, I can go down with the flag officer of the Chinese army later and make up for it with you." ”

"I finally gave a date to eat!" Zhou Ping secretly breathed a sigh of relief, bowed down and thanked: "Thank you for being compassionate to the system!" ”

"Hmm!" Wang Yu nodded, and just when Zhou Ping thought that the summoning was over, the other party's voice came from his ears again: "Remember, you are now the Huainan Recruiting Envoy, and the troops you lead are also two Huai soldiers, and the news of the arrival of the Western Army must not be leaked at all, do you know?" ”

"News of the blockade of the army?" Zhou Ping was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and hurriedly responded: "Oh! ”

"Lure the snake out of the hole? This king has a set! Zhou Ping came out of the shogunate and said to himself: "It seems that this Fang La is going to be unlucky!" But then his face darkened: "The question is whether I will be unlucky before then?" I don't remember if this Xiuzhou was beaten down by Fang La! ”

When Zhou Ping returned to his camp with a feeling of anxiety and gathered his subordinates to convey Wang Yu's orders, his subordinates showed a different mood, whether it was the former bandit Yang Wu, or the newly recruited Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng, they were all very excited. This made Zhou Ping feel very surprised, and he couldn't help but remind them carefully: "I heard that there are millions of people in that Fangla, and there are only eight hundred of us——"

The first to speak was Yang Wu, only to see him sneer: "It's just a small trick commonly used in the army, if you have gains, you will take one as ten, and if you lose something, you will take ten as one, and you will just scare and scare those ignorant rural fools!" ”

"Dare to bluff and turn defeat into victory is the old tradition of our Chinese nation!" Zhou Ping sneered: He cleared his throat and said: "Even 100,000 people are not a lot, and one of them can drown us with a spit!" ”

"Rest assured, most of these 100,000 people are old and weak, and there are no more than 20,000 strong men who can fight!" Li Bao on the side said with a smile: "When our family was in the forbidden army, I heard Lao Xingwu say that this kind of demon thief has no weapons and armor, and there is no military order to restrain it, so it is common for us to press them with a hundred people and a thousand people to fight!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Li Cheng and Kong Yanzhou also laughed toothlessly: "It must be that the ruler has taken a fancy to us, and when we come back this time, everyone is going to be promoted!" ”

Looking at the smiling faces of his subordinates, Zhou Ping didn't bother to continue, anyway, it was better than being scared before he made a move. He said to Xue Liangyu on the side: "The king has ordered it to come down: if there is any deficiency in the armor staff, he will make up for it, and he will also give us three hundred divine arm archers." You and I will go and check it out! ”

"Yes, detainee!"

Zhou Ping and Xue Liangyu went to the rear army together, and the flag officer checked Zhou Ping's Fu Xin, and he happily gave him one hundred iron armor, two hundred leather armor, and other weapons and bows to make up. These scepters are all military weapons, not only in the private sector, but also in the Jeju treasury. When everything had stopped, and as soon as he returned to his residence, an officer on duty told someone outside that he was asking to see him, and it was the leader of the three hundred divine arm archers who went to Xiuzhou with him. Zhou Ping hurriedly ordered to come in, and after a while, a burly black-faced man came in, and sang a fat song to himself: "Xiaguan Qinfeng Road Zhenrong Army Yu Waiting for Chang Zongtian, under the order of the capital commander, led three hundred divine arm archers to listen to the dispatch of the prisoner!" ”

Zhou Ping hurriedly got up and returned the salute, and said with a smile: "Chang Yuhou, why be polite, this time I will go to Xiuzhou for you and me, and please borrow more!" ”

"The prison is serious!" Chang Zongtian arched his hand and said: "The capital has already explained that you are the main force to send troops this time, and the army has its own law of upper and lower classes, and I will definitely obey the order." It's just that there is an ugly saying in front of a certain family! ”

Zhou Ping was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Before a certain family sent troops, the king had mentioned it, and everything was subject to Zhou Prison, but this divine arm bow should not be used lightly, at least after the thieves attacked the city for two days!"

"Why is that?"

Chang Zongtian said with a smile: "Zhou Prison Detention does not know, this god arm bow was originally owned by the Western Xia, during the Xining period, the party Xiang Qiang chief Li Ding dedicated it, like a bow and has stirrups, with stirrups from the ground and open it, shoot three hundred steps, two hundred steps away You can be re-tied in the hole, and the army is called the god arm bow." This kind of military weapon is the first class of militaristic weapons, my Great Song Dynasty in addition to the Tokyo Forbidden Army is the border army, its arrows are different from ordinary bows and arrows, not ordinary feathers and wooden feathers, if there are knowledgeable thieves, you will know that my army is the best at first sight. ”

"I see!" Zhou Ping nodded, it seems that this Wang Yu is not careful, even this little detail has been taken into account, presumably he will be equipped with his own divine arm bow and first show the enemy weakness, and then suddenly use it to frighten the enemy's purpose, thinking of this, Zhou Ping smiled: "It's okay to be arrogant first, and then hit it, which is also in line with the soldier's intentions!" ”

When Chang Zongtian heard this, a hint of brilliance flashed in his eyes, and he said with a smile: "What the prisoner said is very true! ”

Xiuzhou, now known as Jiaxing. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the name of this place is Changshui, also known as Mai Li, which is the place where Wu and Yue compete for power. During the Warring States period, it was also the land of Chu. Qin is the county of Huiji. Han because of it. Later Han Yongjianzhong, belonging to Wu County. Three Kingdoms Wu later because of it. Sui is the land of Suzhou. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to Suzhou. At the beginning of the fifth dynasty, it belonged to Hangzhou. In the third year of Shi Jin Tianfu, the Qian family began to play Xiuzhou, and Song was because of it. Its land bears the sea control river, and the river is fertile. Five dynasties, Yang Wu and Wu Yue many times clashed with this place, after the Fang La incident, the land of the two Zhejiang has fallen, if Xiuzhou is lost again, its soldiers can go straight into the Wu land, with the river to defend themselves, the southeast land is only afraid that it will no longer be owned by the Zhao family.

Xiuzhou, the state affairs of the military state.

"So, the only reinforcements sent by Wang Dutong are 800 of you?" Prince Wu asked, although he was dressed in military uniform at this time, but from the outside, he was not so much a military general, but rather a scholar who had been pampered for a long time, and it was not difficult to see a look of disappointment on his face at this time.

"Exactly!" Zhou Ping replied in a deep voice: "When they all sent me to wait, there were words, and when the thieves heard that the army was coming, they retreated to the corner of the lair, and injured many soldiers. When you show weakness first to lure it to Xiuzhou City, first break its lair, and then break it with a drum! ”

"I'm afraid of hurting more soldiers?" Wang Ziwu had a wry smile on his face: "Can Wang Dutong know that after Fang La broke through Hangzhou, the treasury of the Great Open Mansion recruited thieves, and there are already as many as one million?" If he raises a large army to attack Xiuzhou, we will have to sit and wait for death? If Xiuzhou is broken, there will be no place to defend south of the river, and at that time the south of the Yangtze River is erosive, I see how the child explains to the official! ”

"The words of the unified army are wrong!" Chang Zongtian on the side said in a deep voice: "Xiuzhou City is intact, there are no less than tens of thousands of strong men in the city, and there are sufficient food, money, and equipment to defend the city. There are also thousands of sergeants. Although there are many thieves, there is no armor and no moderation, but they are just a rabble, and it is not difficult to repel them! ”

"Chang Yu waits for what you said lightly!" Wang Ziwu smiled bitterly: "Do you think that these soldiers of mine can be compared with those soldiers of the Western Army under you?" They can't practice twice a year, and at most they can shoot arrows at the head of the city, but they can't fight in the field at all. What's more, the thief is quite good at demagoguery, in the city-" Wang Ziwu said this, and found that what he said was a little wrong, so he hurriedly shut up, Zhou Ping also heard the meaning of the other party's words at this time, obviously there are likely to be many people in the city who are quite dissatisfied with the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, once the situation is not good, it is very likely that the inside and outside will cooperate and respond to the Fang La army outside the city. (To be continued.) )