"You have to send troops to have a good drink!" Chen Zhe said with a smile: "I didn't expect that it would be the turn of a certain family to be a pioneer officer, and under Wang Wuzhou, I have long heard that Jiangnan is a splendid land, and there are gold and silver beauties all over the place, and I will definitely make a lot of money this time!" Speaking of this, Chen Zhe stretched out his right hand and clenched his fist fiercely, as if he had grabbed the gold and silver of the beauties in Jiangnan.

"This is under Tong Shuai's Day, it's not good for us to go drinking before we go out to the army!" Zhou Ping pointed to the mighty guards in front of the yamen not far away.

"Prison Zhou, you don't understand this!" Chen Zhe patted Zhou Ping's shoulder with a smile and said with a smile: "Tong Shuai is different from those big turbans, he is the most generous, as long as you can fight, everything else is to turn a blind eye and give him a generous reward, otherwise so many soldiers in the Western Army are willing to give him their lives?" Don't worry, we all have to have fun before we send out the army, as long as we win the army, no matter how big the trouble is, Tong Shuai will cover it up for us! ”

"What about Fang La?"

"Fang La? Relying on cults to confuse the people is a great credit to us! Chen Zhe slapped his waist knife and said with a smile: "This time I will let Zhou Prison detain you to see how powerful our Western Army is!" With that, he grabbed Zhou Ping's arm and walked forward.

The next morning was early in the morning.

"My head hurts!" Zhou Ping struggled to get up from the bed, only to feel as if his head had been split in half, and thousands of wasps were stuffed inside, buzzing. He stood up and tried to find a glass of water to drink, but his feet shook and he immediately fell to the ground.

"Prison, prison!" Li Bao came in from the outside and helped Zhou Ping up, and asked with concern, "Didn't you fall just now?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Zhou Ping sat on the bed with Li Bao's support and sighed: "I don't know how much I drank last night, and my head is still buzzing now, just now I only felt that my feet were shaking, but it seemed that the floor was moving!" ”

"That's right, prisoner, the army has already departed, and we are on the ship now!"

"Ahh Zhou Ping grew his mouth in surprise, and then he also heard the sound of water outside: "I didn't do anything excessive yesterday, right?" ”

"Don't worry, I'll help you back after you got drunk yesterday!" Li Bao laughed when he said this: "Besides, even if you are a little out of line, it is not a big deal, at least four or five Vasher were smashed last night, and they were all done by Shengjiejun!" ”

"What?" Zhou Ping couldn't help but grow his mouth: "This, this is too much!" ”

"What's this, soldiers and even Yang's move, tens of thousands of men don't know if they can come back alive if they want to go out, it's strange if they don't make trouble!" Li Bao poured a glass of water for Zhou Ping, and said with a smile: "This is just in Chuzhou, and it was common to kill people and set fires in Bianjing in the early years?" ”

Zhou Ping was already stunned when he heard this, and he almost couldn't believe his ears: "In the early years? In Bianjing? Murder and arson? You're not kidding, are you? ”

"Who is kidding, when grandpa Tai was there! It was even more excessive in earlier years! ”

"Grandpa? Years earlier! Zhou Ping came back to his senses at this time, the "grandfather" in Li Bao's mouth should be the "Chenqiao Mutiny", a few years ago, it was not the time of the Five Dynasties, at that time, don't talk about killing people and setting fires, even if the surname of the emperor's ministers is rebellious, it may not be able to save the lives of the emperor's ministers. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face, and he almost forgot what kind of era he was in.

"Where are we now?" Zhou Ping asked.

"I've already entered the canal, and I'll be able to get to Gaoyou at night!"

"Okay, order all the officers and soldiers of the ship to prepare well, and they may encounter thieves after crossing the Yangtze River!"

"Whoa!"

Three days later, the vanguard of the Song army had arrived in Yangzhou, across the river from Jingkou on the opposite bank, confirming that Jingkou was still under the control of the Song army, and Wang Yu was relieved that the leading former army was under the control of Wuzhou. Regardless, the worst they had expected didn't happen.

"There is no one among the thieves! I didn't know how to divide the troops and refuse to defend the river first, so that I could not cross the river. Liu Yanqing's face was full of arrogant smiles, unlike the rest of the generals in the hall, he did not have armor on his body, his light robe was broad, and he looked like a scholar. In fact, everyone here knows that Liu Dashuai, who has been a general for generations, is actually a Hu man, but he has been fighting in the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty for several generations, and there are many such people in the Western Army, but there is no one like Liu Yanqing who is so deeply sinicized.

"It's all about relying on the blessing of the Son of Heaven!" There was no smile on Wang Yu's face, and his front was full of thick stacks of letters, all of which were emergency distress documents from various states and counties. It is no wonder that the guards of various prefectures and counties are so panicked, the people in Jiangnan have always been weak and boundless, many prefectures and counties do not even have intact city walls, and most of the people in the Fangla army are poor people, and they hate the officials to the core.

"What's so nice about these distress papers! Just wait for our army to cross the river, and go straight to Hangzhou to break the thieves. As long as the thief leader Fang La is captured, the rest of the people should be frightened! As Liu Yanqing spoke, he stretched out his big hand and clenched it fiercely, as if the square wax was in his palm.

"Mr. Liu, don't worry!" Wang Yu carefully put a letter back on the case, and looked at the pictures on the case. Seeing Wang Yu's appearance, Liu Yanqing's heart couldn't help but rise a breath of anger, it turned out that although he and Wang Yu were both from the Western Army, his rank and qualifications were still above Wang Yu, but the degree of closeness with Tong Guan was very different, Wang Yu was from Kaifeng, and he was from Hu; Wang Yu was in the Shengjie army, commanding Tong Guan's pro-army, and he was the head of Yan Yanlu. In his opinion, Tong Guan's appointment of Wang Yu to take charge of the current military capital is to make his cronies take advantage of his military exploits, after all, in Liu Yanqing's view, Fang La's thieves are just a rabble, and they cannot be compared with the western thieves who have been fighting with the Northern Song Dynasty for decades.

"All the controls, as the saying goes, 'soldiers are expensive and fast', the thieves have captured Hangzhou, and they are arrogant, so they should immediately send troops to extinguish the thieves and thieves, so as to appease the sacred heart!" Liu Yanqing stood up, and the tone of his speech this time was completely the attitude of a general formally making suggestions to his superiors.

"Mr. Liu, slow down!" Seeing Liu Yanqing speak like this, Wang Yu also stood up, opened the curtain, pointed to the map behind him and said, "Please look at the map!" After the Fang thief uprising, he fell into Qingxi in November, and fell into Mu and Sheerzhou in December. Trap Qu in the south and kill Peng Rufang, the county guard; The counties of Xincheng, Tonglu and Fuyang were swept in the north, and Hangzhou was taken. There are also Lanxi Lingshan thieves Zhu Yan Wu Bang, Qiu Daoren of Yan County, Xianju Lu Shinang, Fang Yanshan Chen Shishi, Suzhou Shisheng, and Gui'an Lu Xing'er are all in line with the party. As Wang Yu spoke, he stretched out his finger to point out the key points on the map, drawing a large circle.

"That's why we should march into the army as soon as possible!" Liu Yanqing couldn't hold back and asked loudly.

"General Manager Liu, Wang Guan is under the control of the former army, and the former army, regardless of the size of the official position, is under its supervision!" Xin Xingzong, who was on the side, couldn't get used to Liu Yanqing's appearance, and reminded in a deep voice.

"Brother Yang doesn't have to be like this, Manager Liu is also eager to break the enemy!" Wang Yu said with a smile: "As far as I can see, with my elite soldiers, it is not difficult to break the thief, but it is not easy to capture the thief, if he is broken by me, or retreats into the lair, or wanders around, then the war will inevitably be delayed, I am afraid that I will miss the big marshal to restore Yanyun's plan!" ”

Listening to Wang Yu's words, Liu Yanqing and Xin Xingzong couldn't help but nodded, both of them are also generals, they know that it is easy to defeat the peasant army, but it is difficult to eliminate the peasant army, after all, the mountains in western Zhejiang are dense and the climate is humid, the western army under their command is not adapted to the local climate, nor does it understand the local terrain, now the winter is fine, if the war drags on until the summer, I am afraid that there will be no war, and a bunch of people will die from the epidemic alone, not to mention the war in the north. Several of them were generals under Tong Guan, and they all knew the real purpose of the imperial court's concentration of the Western Army. Rao is Liu Yanqing heard this, and he didn't secretly admire Wang Yu's foresight, beyond his own reach, Tong Guan chose his current military capital to command, not just by virtue of personal relationships.

"What do you think the king should do?" Liu Yanqing asked.

"I thought that I should block the news first, send the division to cross the river in quarrying, and then raise the division to the southeast, first take Shezhou, until the thief's lair, a certain leader of the elite soldiers slowly south, and the thief confronted, the thief heard that the nest was attacked, he must be panicked, and a large army will attack it, there will be no reason to win!"

"It's really a good plan to control the capital!" Xin Xingzong, who was on the side, couldn't help but high-five when he heard this: "That Fang La is a million people, and this time there is a good plan to escape the control of the capital!" Liu Yanqing couldn't help nodding again and again. It turns out that the mouth of Wang Yu in Shezhou, is today's Huizhou, located in the southeast of Anhui Province, the upper reaches of the Xin'an River, if the Song army occupies this place, it can go down the river, straight to Fang La's old nest Muzhou Qingxi County, Fang La's subordinates are mostly local farmers, knowing that the nest is threatened, will definitely abandon the occupied state and county to return to the rescue, Wang Yu led the main force to pursue the situation, will be able to easily defeat the enemy. Wang Yu's army blocked the news of their arrival, and let the partial division cross the river from the quarry in the upper reaches of Jinling, so that Fang La's army could not be released and attack the prefecture and county with confidence; Second, quarrying is farther away from the mouth of the Yangtze River than Jingkou, the wind and waves are smaller, the river surface is narrower, and the risk and loss of crossing the river are much smaller. So militarily, it's a very clever strategy.

"Mr. Liu, can I borrow you from this partial teacher?" Wang Yu still had great respect for Liu Yanqing, the general of the Western Army who was above him, and did not adopt the tone of order. Xin Xingzong looked at Liu Yanqing with envy, in his opinion, this is a beautiful difference, if this roundabout task can be completed, it is very likely that he will go straight to Fang La's lair before the generals, and the credit he has made is naturally much stronger than serving as an ordinary general under Wang Yu, but his qualifications and position are lower than Liu Yanqing, so it is naturally difficult to speak. (To be continued.) )