Wang Lin felt that Huyangu had lost a bit of a bag.

Because of the problem of leading the army to line up for food, the two groups of soldiers fought, and fighting was the most common thing in the army, they were all at the age of blood and passion, and they were all together all day long, and if they didn't make a little spark, was it still called a man? Therefore, Wang Lin has always turned a blind eye to the private fights and brawls of the soldiers.

But this time the fight was a bit outrageous, first the two groups of people who received the food beat each other, and soon it developed into two teams of men and horses attacking, and then two brigades, and finally even the captains of their respective regiments went into battle with their arms.

The army stationed in Huyan Valley is very special, it does not belong to the powerful Tiande Front Army, nor does it belong to the Tiande Hou Army, which specializes in the old, weak, sick and disabled, and has no chance with the arrogant Tooth Army. They were originally stationed in the patrol battalion of the three cities of Fengzhou, the patrol battalion belonged to the second-line troops, the salary was very low, and most of the soldiers were filled by the children of local wealthy families.

After Meng Chu took Fengzhou, the gentry and wealthy who were loyal to Wang Qian moved to Zhongshou City, and the three patrol battalions also moved westward, first in the area of Muna Mountain and Datongchuan. Because of the lack of military salaries, the soldiers often went out in groups to loot, and the local people complained bitterly and jointly sued the dental department. As a last resort, Wang Qian had no choice but to withdraw the tooth army of Huyan Valley to the city and transfer three battalions to garrison Huyan Valley.

Huyan Valley is surrounded by mountains, and the young masters and soldiers of each battalion have nowhere to have fun, so they have nothing to do and train their own people. Just when the battalions were in full swing, a hundred-man squad of the White Water Fox climbed over the steep mountain wall and suddenly launched an attack after going around the North Pass. The Beiguan garrison originally had a regiment of 200 people, but because there was going to be a fight, the captain took out three teams and only more than 50 people remained. The team sent by the White Water Fox is the elite of the army, and the defenders were suddenly attacked, how can they not be defeated?

The Tiande sergeants who were fighting suddenly saw wolf smoke burning at the head of Beiguan City, and they were all dumbfounded. By the time they came to their senses and returned to the camp to get their weapons, the cavalry of the White Water Fox had already rushed through the North Pass and killed them. The armies were caught off guard and were defeated. Huyan Valley was lost in a daze.

Wang Lin was angry, annoyed and ashamed, and after retreating back to Lezhai, he planned to severely punish the people who provoked the fight, Wang Zeng persuaded: "Now that the people are unstable after the defeat, if you go to get them again, you may not be in chaos." Wang Lin said: "Is it difficult to forget it like this?" Wang Zeng said: "This matter ends here, the third brother must make it clear to his face and never pursue it again." But this military discipline is to be rectified, let's talk ahead, if anyone wants to harm our business at the moment of crisis, don't blame us for being ruthless. Wang Lin accepted his proposal, stationed troops back to Lezhai, and waited to see how things changed.

Baishui Fox received a letter of alliance drafted by Liang Yangu and transcribed by Wang Feng. Because Qu had judged the situation and offered a trick to help him capture Huyan Valley, Baishui Fox became more and more respectful of this thin cold-faced old man. He took the letter of alliance to the bedchamber of the Qu Chuji.

Qu Chuji sat in the tent alone, with a game of Go in front of him, and he held both white and black. The white water fox laughed unconsciously, and said: "I have seen people fighting with the sky, and I have also seen people fighting with the earth, and it is more common to see people fighting with people, but it is rare for someone like Mr. to fight with himself." ”

Qu Chuji said: "Fighting with the sky, fighting with the earth, and fighting with people are not as interesting as fighting with yourself." May I ask Khan a question? ”

The white water fox said: "Sir, please speak." After speaking, he sat down on the opposite side of the machine.

Qu Jiji's bright little eyes stared coldly at the face of the white water fox: "What is a hero in the world?" ”

The white water fox smiled and said: "Single-handedly, crisscrossing the battlefield, fighting 10,000 people with one person, and taking the head of the general in a million army; Thousands of troops under his command, conquering cities, killing people, and swallowing mountains and rivers; Those who sit on a high platform, look at the world, turn their hands over for the clouds and cover their hands for the rain, and play the world for hundreds of millions of trillions in the applause, can be called heroes. ”

Qu Chuji snorted in his nose, "They are the heroes of men, but they are not heroes?" ”

The White Water Fox sneered: "According to Mr. Will, the person who can suffocate himself to death on the chessboard is a hero?" ”

Qu Chuji: "Only those who are pure in their hearts and desires, not for profit, and not confused by force, can be called heroes." ”

The white water fox laughed and said disapprerovingly: "According to Mr., isn't it full of heroes?" Such a hero is really worthless. ”

Qu Chuji smiled, lowered his head and immersed himself in the chess game. The white water fox looked anxious, but he didn't dare to interrupt, so he gently placed the alliance book in his hand next to the chessboard. The bend machine turned a blind eye. Bai Shuihu was anxious, and couldn't help but say: "Sir's chess will be played later, there is a major matter to ask Mr. to decide." ”

"There's a letter from the city asking for peace," Qu Chuji didn't raise his head as he spoke.

"Sir, what a man of God." The White Water Fox praised heartily. After that, he took out the letter and respectfully pushed it in front of Qu Chuji, who did not read the letter, but only said lightly: "The Khan has already made up his mind in his heart, so why should he ask me?" ”

The white water fox piled up a smile and said: "Without Mr. guidance, I still don't feel solid in my heart." ”

Qu Chuji picked up a chess piece in his hand and was about to land, but when he heard the words of the white water fox, he stopped and said, "What I should have said has been said." Seeing that the white water fox was at a loss, he impatiently threw the chess pieces and explained: "Pure heart, restraint, no confusion, no confusion, remember these eight words, Tiandejun is yours." ”

The white water fox smacked and touched it for a long time, and suddenly realized, and said, "Thank you, Mr. for your advice." ”

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Ma Yue's first match with the White Water Fox was barely a draw.

This is the statement of Ma Yue and his cronies, in the eyes of the White Water Fox and the Wang brothers, Ma Yue is defeated, and the two battalions of his henchmen who relied on him are also wiped out.

Ma Yue did not expect that Wang Feng would form an alliance with his old enemy White Water Fox to give up his former suspicions, and it is said that the conditions for the alliance of White Water Fox are very relaxed: ask for 200,000 taels of silver, pay it off in five years, and make a down payment of 50,000 taels; asked for 150,000 stone of grain, which was paid in three years, and the first installment was only 20,000 stone; Ask for 10,000 horses of silk, pay it off in five years, and make a down payment of 500 horses. In terms of territory, Wang Feng officially recognized the ownership of Datongchuan by the White Water Fox.

The annual tax revenue of the Tiande army was one million taels of silver, two million stones of grain, and ten thousand horses of silk (cloth). With this little thing, he sent away the white fox who broke into the house, which was really a big advantage. This is the legendary greedy and cunning white fox? This is a fucking white bodhisattva!

Wang Mian's chief think-tank, Feng Qingfeng, asserted that this was a strategy used by the White Water Fox, and he would not contribute if he took the benefits. Ma Yue never believed Feng Qingfeng's words, but this time he felt that the old guy's words seemed to have some truth. Feng Qingfeng took the opportunity to suggest that Ma Yue give the White Water Fox a head-on blow with all he had, and won the first battle, defeating the White Fox's arrogance in one fell swoop, forcing him to retreat in the face of difficulties.

Ma Yue took Feng Qingfeng's advice, and he sent two thousand-man troops from the elite (including two battalions that he regarded as his confidants) to the northwest of the surrendered city, Tethered Horse Village and White Water Fox. The military system of the Murwei people is quite chaotic, the so-called thousand-man army actually does not have a thousand-person army, and the two armies are only **100 people together. There were nearly 3,000 soldiers on Ma Yue's side, three against one, and this was almost a battle without suspense.

However, Ma Yue underestimated the strength of his opponent or overestimated himself, and the battle of Tethering Mazhai lasted two hours, with more than 2,500 soldiers killed, wounded, captured and scattered, and 300 killed by the White Army. The loss ratio reached a terrifying eight to one! As old enemies, the two have clashed many times in history, each with its own victories and defeats, and overall, the Tiande army still has a slight advantage. Ma Yue couldn't believe that everything in front of him was real. The Tiande front army, which was killed and chilled, retreated for dozens of miles.

Ma Yue's excellence lies in not admitting defeat to death, this character is flawed, like a double-edged sword that can harm others and oneself if used poorly, and as the main general, this character will sometimes even bury the whole army. However, at this time, Ma Yue's character of not admitting defeat played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and avoiding total collapse. He announced to the armies that the battle of Tie Ma Zhai was generally a draw, or a small loss. The soldiers were confined in the barracks, and it was easy to deceive, and the officers were a little difficult to deal with, so Ma Yue's method was to send a team of overseers to deal with the wavering officers mercilessly.

The morale of the army was finally stabilized temporarily, but the situation on the battlefield became unfavorable to itself. What made Ma Yue even more troublesome was that the Wang brothers, who originally looked at each other as enemies, suddenly looked like a person. Both brothers were short of food, but they both transported the grain from their own grain depots to the other party's military camp, and they looked like they had food to eat, clothes to wear, and helped each other to overcome difficulties.

The city is no longer an isolated city. Ma Yue decided to change his strategy and march by water.

The Tiande Water Division suddenly became the main force from an inconspicuous partial army. But this change did not bring any benefit to Zhu Gong, the commander of the water division, as a close confidant promoted by Wang Mian, Zhu Gong was not regarded by Ma Yue as his own person. As a partial general, Ma Yue can still tolerate it, but now that the sailor has become the key to victory, Ma Yue decided to use his own people to master the sailor. He ordered Zhu Gong to be promoted to join the former army, and his cousin Ma Jia was appointed as the chief general of the water division. Marca once served as a lieutenant in the naval division, but because of a disagreement with Zhu Gong, he left his post soon after.

Zhu Gong did not dare to disobey the order, but he did not go to any generals, he used the excuse of an old illness and stayed in Henan to recuperate. Ma Yue knew that he had a prejudice against himself, but he didn't care about it. Ma Jia took office and gathered the ships of the navy division near Baitiao in the south of Muna Mountain, while Ma Yue gathered the main force of 3,000 men on the western front to prepare to attack from the south of the city along the river.

In order to confuse the Wang brothers and the White Water Fox, Ma Yue ordered the battalions on the eastern front to move north to seize Huyan Valley. The main general of the Eastern Front of the former army is named Ma Crossbow, and he is Ma Yue's younger brother. After receiving the order, he led a thousand cavalry to make a roundabout movement towards Huyan Valley. What he didn't expect was that the defenders of the White Water Fox garrisoning Huyan Valley were only three hundred. The horse crossbow took advantage of the situation to attack and unexpectedly captured the Huyan Valley.

The situation that had just changed in his favor took a sharp turn for the worse, and with the advantage of the terrain, the horse crossbow defeated the Baishui Fox under the surrendered city in the garrison three times in a row. The battered White Water Fox begged Wang Feng to open the city gate and let hundreds of wounded soldiers under his command enter the city to recuperate, but Wang Feng refused on the grounds that the city was small and there was not enough food and grass.

Liang Yangu was very dissatisfied with this, as the main promoter of the alliance, Liang Yangu did not allow his hard work to die halfway, he wanted to persuade Wang Feng to take back his fate, but Wang Feng hid and refused to see him. As a last resort, Liang Yangu, who did not have any official position, broke into the meeting hall, Wang Feng sat on the chair with a gloomy face, and when he saw Liang Yangu enter the door, he didn't even raise his eyelids. Liang Yangu had a conflict with Wang Feng for the first time, and what surprised him was that Wang Feng, who had always been submissive to him, did not save any face for himself in public this time. He was completely condescending, talking to himself in an official tone.

Liang Yangu's strong character does not allow him to lose to his junior, even though this junior is his master. At first, he only argued that Wang Feng did not accept the harm of the strategy of wounding soldiers, but when it came to the excitement, the former chief strategist of the Tiande Army forgot his identity, and he reprimanded Wang Feng loudly, once to the point of being unscrupulous. Finally, the embarrassed Wang Feng slapped the table and yelled at himself: "You shut up for me!" ”

Liang Yangu immediately closed his mouth, and his face was like dust, and he couldn't remember how he got back to the mansion. Liang Yangu's resignation was placed on Wang Feng's desk the next day. Wang Feng did not comfort him as usual, and even the pension he gave him was no different from that of an ordinary guest.

Wang Lin wrote to Wang Feng asking him to put the overall situation first and allow the wounded soldiers of Murowei to retreat into the city in order to maintain the existence of the alliance. Wang Feng sent people to the White Water Fox camp to negotiate and revise the originally agreed terms of the alliance: the silver was reduced from 200,000 taels to 50,000 taels, and it was paid in five years; The grain was reduced from 150,000 stone to 20,000 stone, to be paid in two years; 10,000 horses of silk were abolished and replaced by 500 horses of linen. The White Water Fox promised that in the future, the Vulture would withdraw from Datongchuan and would not go south for grazing without permission. After bargaining, except for the addition of another 500 sackcloth to the vultures, the other conditions were accepted by the white water fox.

The first batch of 300 wounded soldiers of Murowei entered the city under the strict supervision of the Tiandeya army. Wang Feng stood on the newly repaired urn city, quietly watching more than 300 unarmed remnants of the Murwei soldiers passing through the city gate with each other's arms. A smug smile appeared on his face, in order to be able to let out a breath of evil breath held in his heart, and also to insist on his own ideas for himself to be able to straighten his back. He, Wang Feng, no longer needs to look at other people's faces to act.