If you want to break the various rescuers of Yuan Shu's army in accordance with the established tactics, force and mobility are actually secondary, and the most important thing is intelligence work, that is, to find out the location, distance and march path of Yuan Shu's reinforcements, and to do this, you have to look at the performance of the Xuzhou army's scouts and meticulous work.

Fortunately, when the Xuzhou army finalized the strategy of using Xiao Yuan San's public knife first, Tao Ying had already ordered Cao Hong to make every effort to strengthen the intelligence work in Huainan, and placed a large number of spies in various places in Huainan.

Maybe a friend wants to ask, hasn't Tao Ying already contacted Liu Xuan to attack Xiao Yuan Sangong? Since Liu Miao helped contain it, why was Tao Ying so worried about the reinforcements of Xiao Yuan Sangong from Liyang on the southern front? In fact, the answer is very simple, the suspicious Deputy Director Tao never expected Liu Xiang to help from the beginning, not to mention Liu Xuan's lack of strength, Liu Xuan's revenge on Wu Jing also made Tao Ying very uneasy, so Tao Ying was prepared to challenge Xiao Yuan Sangong alone from the beginning, and the alliance with Liu Xiang was not so much to find a helper, but to temporarily stabilize Liu Xuan, lest Liu Xiang take into account the cold lips and teeth to help Xiao Yuan Sangong deal with himself.

Mentally prepared for the worst, he sent scouts to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, and arranged for the army to seize the time to rest and recuperate. And in order to quickly win the discipline of the people of Huainan to the Xuzhou army of foreign households, hypocritical decrees such as protecting the people and loving the people are naturally the only laws since ancient times, so after Tao Ying negotiated with Lu Su, he quickly issued three strict orders, and those who killed and injured the people in vain were beheaded! Those who take a thing from the people in vain will be beheaded! Annihilation of the silver people, the woman is killed!

No matter how good and strict the law is, it needs an iron-faced and selfless military judge, so as to ensure that the law is strictly enforced, so Tao Ying thought about it again and again and announced Gao Shun, let the notoriously innocent and serious Gao Shun concurrently serve as the military judge, and directly told Gao Shun, "The general just let it go, I know that you will not engage in favoritism, let alone retaliation for personal gain, so when you enforce the law, no matter who you kill, no matter how high-ranking the generals and officials you kill, you don't need to ask me for instructions, you are allowed to cut first and then play!" You are not responsible for any consequences caused by this! ”

"No!" Gao Shun's words have always been very few, and he immediately hugged his fists and sang a promise, without a word of superfluous nonsense. It wasn't until Tao Ying nodded that Gao Shun said again: "Lord, there is still one thing that the last general must play, when our army attacked the city the night before, our army should wantonly set fire to various streets in Xiquyang City in order to meet our army, so many houses were burned and many people were homeless. The last general suggested that the lord should give these people a little relief to show the benevolence of our army and the kindness of the lord! ”

"It makes sense, and it should be." Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Lu Su next to him and ordered: "Zijing, you personally take care of this matter, immediately bring people to the city to investigate the fire damage, and bring some money and food to help those homeless people, you can give more relief." Oh, by the way, bring more guards, last night's scuffle, there must have been a lot of Yuan Shujun soldiers scattered in the city, hidden in the people, pay attention to safety. ”

"Thank you for your concern, and you will be careful." Lu Su thanked him and said: "My lord, when it comes to the Huainan soldiers scattered in Quyang City, Su is about to ask the lord to issue a decree, Zhang Bang informs the people of Quyang that all the old army of Yuan Shu hidden in the people is willing to join the army in our army and be incorporated into our army for use." Those who do not want to be in the army anymore can also go to our army to receive travel expenses with their waist cards and go home to farm. ”

Tao Ying was even more satisfied when he heard it, and immediately nodded in agreement, and then handed over the matter to Lu Su, after Gao Shun and Lu Su took the order to go, Tao Ying, who had only slept for five or six hours for more than five days, really couldn't support it, so he temporarily handed over the business in his hand to Chen Ying, the brother of Chen Deng, who went out with the army, and returned to the back hall to rest, but because his spirit was too excited, Tao Ying squinted in bed, saying that he couldn't sleep well - no way, Tao Ying, who fought the war of aggression for the first time, was indeed a little nervous.

After forcing himself to close his eyes and fall asleep for the fifth time, Tao Ying also came ruthlessly, and said that he couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply didn't sleep, it was better to go to the street to see the situation, and by the way, it was not bad to perform the glorious image of Lao Tzu's pro-people and love for the people! After making up his mind, Tao Ying, who hadn't even taken off his clothes, got out of bed directly, went out to call the pro-soldier guards led by Xu Chu, and rode out of the Quyang County Ya that had just been robbed, and inspected the situation in the city all the way.

Because of the end of the battle for the city and the blockade of the city gate, the city of Quyang, which was originally a big city in Huainan, was very depressed, except for the soldiers of the Xuzhou army on the street, there was hardly a single person in the city who could not see the people in the city, and the shops on both sides of the street were all closed, and a pair of panicked eyes flashed from time to time behind the cracks in the doors and windows, and it was obvious that the Xuzhou army was full of fear of the outsiders. Seeing this scene, Deputy Director Tao, who originally planned to perform for a good life, was inevitably disappointed - he couldn't let Xu Chu lead the guards to pull out these frightened people and perform in front of them to be close to the people and love the people, right?

After turning a few more streets, Tao Ying finally found a street with a bit of popularity, but this popularity did not come from the people, but from the military law team led by Gao Shun himself, who was constantly calling out the Xuzhou army's new military order. After meeting with Tao Ying's team, Gao Shun led the army to salute, Tao Ying smiled and waved his hand, signaled the army to get up, and then asked Gao Shun, "How is it?" Have you ever been caught violating military orders? ”

"Back to my lord, not yet." Gao Shun replied respectfully: "Entrusted to the lord Hongfu, the generals of our army are very conscientious in maintaining military orders, and basically there is no matter of harming and plundering the people at will, that is, I heard that when our army first entered the city yesterday, several soldiers robbed the people's packages, and the last general has ordered a strict investigation of this matter, once it is found, it will be severely punished." ”

The team that Tao Ying brought to Quyang was basically Xuzhou soldiers, and the army discipline has always been better, far better than the Langya soldiers under the command of Zang Ba stationed in Dangtu, so Gao Shun said that the army discipline was very good, Tao Ying was not too surprised, just nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "That's good, you can also ask the military law team to tell the Chongqing army, just say that the soldiers who robbed the people's packages were committed before the new military order was transmitted, as long as the looted property is handed over, the crime can not be killed, but from the time the military order is issued, there will be another offender, Determined to be unforgiving. ”

Gao Shun nodded in agreement, and when Tao Ying asked about Lu Su's situation, he learned that Lu Su was leading a team of soldiers to survey the area of Beicheng, which was most seriously damaged by the war, and distribute money and grain to help the affected people.

The northern city of Quyang was indeed badly destroyed by the war, several streets were burned to ruins, and black smoke is still rising from many ruins, and it is estimated that at least 300 people were damaged. When Tao Ying arrived at the scene, thousands of people were gathering in an open area that was blackened by the flames, and Lu Su led a team of soldiers who were distributing money and food to the affected people according to their households.

Seeing such a scene, Deputy Director Tao, who has rarely had the opportunity to perform stunts in recent times, was of course overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward, but at this time, in the ruins of a house that was burned down by the fire on the side of the road, a mouse with smoke suddenly ran out, this unlucky mouse probably went to the ruins to find food, and was accidentally burned to the fur by the embers, rushed out of the collapsed house in pain, and ran to the opposite side of the street, Tao Ying couldn't restrain himself, so he could only scream and watch the war horse rush towards the dense victims, "Get out of the way!" Move! ”

"The lord is in a panic, Xu Chu is here!" Fortunately, there is an absolutely reliable bodyguard Xu Chu behind Tao Ying, who shouted and patted the horse to catch up with Tao Ying, reached out and grabbed the horse chewing ring of Tao Ying's war horse, and rose up with a thousand powers, and pulled Tao Ying's war horse to stand up, and the war horse looked up to the sky and neighed, before he stopped, and the deputy director of Tao, who was mediocre in riding, finally escaped a possible catastrophe - the sky has no eyes!

"Hit someone! Hit someone! The matter was not over yet, at this time, the people who were watching the excitement around and the victims who were sending a team to receive relief suddenly screamed, and someone shouted out the words that made Deputy Director Tao almost pee his crotch, "Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu was knocked down!" ”

"Mrs. Xu? No way? I bumped into Mrs. Xu? My officialdom future is over! The three houses I just gave the down payment for are also finished!! ”

In a panic, Deputy Director Tao, who almost misunderstood that he was still in the 21st century, hurriedly lowered his head, and saw that there was indeed a ragged white-haired old woman lying in front of him, with her cane on one side, and she was crawling on the ground face down. Tao Ying was even more shocked, and hurriedly got off the horse to pick up the white-haired old woman in person, over there Lu Su saw that the situation was not right, and quickly led the run, and Tao Ying joined forces to pick up the white-haired old woman, carefully turned her over, and shouted and ordered the soldiers to invite Lang Zhong, but the white-haired old woman who was at least eighty years old was already bleeding from her mouth and nose at the moment, and before Lang Zhong arrived, she lost her breath with her head crooked, leaving the stunned Deputy Director Tao in the world, "Old man, don't be kidding, I just ordered the death of those who hurt the people, Why did you get out of breath with me? ”

After a long pause with Lu Su's big eyes and small eyes, Tao Ying stood up and asked the people of Quyang around him, "May I ask you, where does this old man live?" What other relatives are at home? Where are her relatives at the moment? ”

The people around you pushed me and didn't dare to answer, until Tao Ying asked again, a few people stood up and said cautiously: "My lord, this Mrs. Xu is our neighbor of the grass people, her son and man died early, only one grandson was dragged to be a soldier three years ago and died in Runan, I heard about it, and the daughter-in-law who lived with her also hanged herself, and there was no one in the family." ”

"It's good that there is no bitter master." Tao Ying quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly instructed Xu Chu next to him: "Quick, prepare a good coffin, bury this old man, and set up three sacrifices." ”

Xu Chu agreed, and when he was directing the guards behind him to act according to the order, a yin and yang strange voice came from the crowd of onlookers, and said with a sneer: "Sure enough, the military order is strict, those who kill and injure the people in vain will be beheaded, and those who kill and injure the people in vain will be beheaded." ”

"That puff is farting? Dig it out! Xu Chu waved his hand angrily, and Tao Ying's guards behind him immediately rushed forward, and the onlookers retreated, revealing a tall and strong man in his thirties, in addition, there was also a young man in his twenties with a scar on his face standing beside him, who seemed to be his companion, and he stood up together to face Tao Ying's guard team, with no fear on his face.

"What? Want to kill someone? The tall and strong man's expression was very relaxed, and he continued to smile sarcastically: "I'm preaching military discipline for you, didn't your military law team just now preach military discipline everywhere, saying that those who kill and injure the people are beheaded?" Is there anything wrong with me preaching military discipline for you? ”

"Piff! So bold! ”

Xu Chu was furious, and he stepped forward to theorize with the tall and strong man's fists and feet, but Tao Ying next to him grabbed Xu Chu, shook his head and said: "Zhongkang, no, this strong man is not wrong, he killed himself and injured the people, this is the military order I personally ordered, I violated the military order formulated by myself, if I don't punish the crime according to the order, how can I serve the public?" ”

"But the lord ......." Xu Chu was in a hurry, but Tao Ying shook his head again, did not allow Xu Chu to speak, and ordered Lu Su next to him: "Zijing, send someone to give Gao Shun an order, and let him immediately lead the military law team here." ”

"My lord, no!" Lu Su was shocked and opposed, but Tao Ying insisted again and again, and directly skipped Lu Su and ordered his guards to go to find Gao Shun's order, but the guards did not dare to receive the order, until Tao Ying threatened to behead those who violated the military order, and the guards trembled and led the order to find Gao Shun. And the tall and strong man and the young man with the scar had already been escorted to Tao Ying by the guards, and there were more and more people watching around.

After a while, Gao Shun led the military law team to hurry up, saw the scene, and heard Tao Ying's crime of surrendering, Gao Shun was dumbfounded no matter how iron-faced and selfless he was, but the tall and strong man next to him laughed weirdly, and said with a smile: "This general, the villain just now heard it with his own ears, you took the military law team to preach military discipline everywhere, and the first one is to kill the person who injures himself and hurts the people!" The villain can testify that your lord just killed a common man on horseback, now please enforce the law! ”

Gao Shun angrily turned back to look at the tall and strong man, and when he inadvertently glanced at the tall and strong man's scarred youth, Gao Shun's body was shocked, and he strode to the scarred young man, staring at the scarred young man, the scarred young man was very silent, looking back at Gao Shun without fear, Gao Shun suddenly flew out of a palm, patted on the left lower abdomen of the scarred young man, although Gao Shun's palm was not strong, the scarred young man was so painful that his face was blue and white, and when he glared back at Gao Shun angrily, Gao Shun also laughed, and said: "Sure enough, it was you, the night before yesterday on the north gate wall, What does my knife taste like? ”

"General." The young man with the scar finally spoke, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's a pity that the head of my gun was broken at that time, otherwise, you wouldn't want to stand here today." ”

"yes!" Gao Shun fell down and confessed, stroked his left chest, and said with a sneer: "At that time, I thought I was going to lose my life, but I didn't expect that your gun head had been broken, allowing me to save my life." What I can't imagine is that after killing no less than ten soldiers of our army, you would dare to stay in Quyang City. ”

"The vicious dog guards the door, and he can't get out!" The young man snorted and closed his mouth to stop talking. Gao Shun didn't bother to talk to him, just signaled the guards to guard the scar youth closely, and then turned to Tao Ying and said: "Lord, this scar face is a senior of Yuan Shupifu, when our army attacked the city the night before, he fought to the death on the city wall, and killed many of our soldiers, until the last general personally went out and fought with him for more than 20 rounds to cut him down, which forced him to retreat. ”

Tao Ying blinked his triangular eyes and remained silent, and only after a while did he say: "I have an order, as long as the enemy soldiers lurking in Quyang City lay down their weapons, come and go freely, and first take care of my violation of military orders, he will stay if he is willing to join our army, and if he is not willing to stay, he will be given thirty yuan for travel expenses and three days of dry food, and let him go home." Okay, let's talk about it, I killed innocent people, what should I do? ”

"My lord, your accidental injury." Gao Shun cautiously reminded.

"It's true that I was injured by mistake, but in my military order, there is no one who accidentally injures the people and can be exempted!" Tao Ying suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Gao Shun, you are a military judge, and now I ask you as the assassin of Xuzhou and the commander of the whole army, how to punish those who hurt the people to death, according to the law?!" ”

The scene was quiet, and in front of everyone's eyes, Gao Shun, who was unfortunately pushed to the cusp, was extremely embarrassed, and hesitated for a long time before he said hard-headed: "According to the law, you should be beheaded." ”

"Good!" Tao Ying nodded and ordered loudly: "Military Judge Gao Shun, take me down immediately and behead me on the spot!" ”

"Lord-!" All the Xuzhou soldiers present screamed, and Gao Shun knelt down on his knees and shouted loudly: "Lord, the last general will not dare to obey the order!" ”

"Shut up!" Tao Ying shouted angrily: "I let you work part-time as a military judge because you are innocent, upright and selfless, do you want to bend the law for personal gain and break my military order?!" ”

Gao Shun lowered his head, not even daring to take a breath of air, Tao Ying pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted: "Okay, since you don't dare to enforce military law against me, I won't embarrass you, I'll do it myself and maintain the strict military law by myself!" ”

yelled, Deputy Director Tao really returned to the sword to wipe his neck, Xu Chu and Lu Su and others next to him were so frightened that they hurriedly held down Deputy Director Tao together, and the surrounding people also screamed, and the people shouted: "Lord, we have all seen it, it was your horse that was frightened and killed Mrs. Xu, it has nothing to do with you, Lord, don't do this." ”

"My lord! Lord! Lu Su was also anxious, and quickly knelt down on Tao Ying's knees, and said loudly: "Lord, the righteousness of the ancients' Spring and Autumn Period, the law is not respected!" How can the army of the lord and president kill themselves? Besides, the Han law is clear, and the courtesy is not inferior to the common man, and the punishment is not to the doctor! As a prince, the lord should have his crime reduced by one according to the law! Lord--! ”

"Lord-!" The Xuzhou soldiers present also knelt down together, shouting miserably, and the people of Huainan who were watching also knelt all over the ground and kowtowed.

Of course, Deputy Director Tao, who cherished his life, didn't want to die, and wanted to surpass Boss Cao and ask for a military stick by himself, but he was afraid of pain, so after thinking about it for a long time, Deputy Director Tao could only sigh and said: "Since "Spring and Autumn" has the righteousness of not adding respect to the law, and the Han law also has a clear code that cannot punish the doctor, then I will avoid death ......." ”

After speaking, Tao Ying stretched out his left hand on the top of his head, untied the hair scarf, then pulled up the hair bundle, returned to the sword to cut off the hair bundle, and handed the cut hair bundle to Gao Shun, and shouted: "However, the military order is like a mountain, I can avoid the death penalty, and I should also cut the hair as the head!" Military Judge General Gao Shun, please check the sentence! ”

"My lord......." Gao Shun's lips trembled slightly, and it took a while for a while to take Tao Ying's hair and love silk with both hands, stood up and shouted loudly: "Xuzhou stabbing Shi Tao Ying accidentally injured the people to death, the crime should be cut off on behalf of the head, the hair has been cut, and the sentence is correct!" ”

"I will send a summons to the officers and men of the three armies to reiterate the military order!" Tao Ying also shouted: "Those who kill the people indiscriminately, behead!" Plunderers, behead! Annihilation of the silver people's women, slash! ”

"No!" Gao Shun knelt down on one knee and agreed, and carefully handed Tao Ying's hair to the soldiers of the military law team, and ordered the military law team to send a message to the three armies, reiterating the military and civilian discipline, and the surrounding Xuzhou soldiers also sang in unison, keeping Tao Ying's military order in mind. And when the tall and strong man and the young man with scars saw each other, they inevitably secretly admired - after all, in this era of etiquette and religion when the body hair and skin were not damaged by the parents, cutting off the hair in public was a great deal for an ordinary person, let alone Deputy Director Tao, the commander of the three armies?

It was also at this time that Xu Chucai pointed to the two culprits, the tall and strong man and the young man with a scar, and asked, "Lord, these two horsemen are both thieves and soldiers, do you want to take them down and behead them?" ”

"I have already said that as long as the enemy soldiers in the city of Quyang lay down their weapons, they can choose their own way out, they have no weapons, and they have no intention of resisting, so they cannot be harmed." Tao Ying obviously didn't hold a grudge against these two culprits, and asked the two culprits: "The two generals have good appearances, dare to ask the surname Gao?" Where's the people's name? ”

The tall and strong man hesitated for a moment, and arched his hand and said: "The villain's surname is Jiang Mingqin, the word Gongyi, a native of Shouchun in Jiujiang, after being conscripted into the army by Yuan Shuqiang, he served as the Dubo under Liang Gang. The villain is arrogant and arrogant, and he has offended Tao Jun, please punish him. ”

The young man with Scar was still very concise, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Zhou Tai, the word Youping, the Cai people under Jiujiang, and the chief under Jiang Dubo, offended." ”

"Oh, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, I've admired the name for a long time." Tao Ying returned the salute very politely, and said as if he was not excited at all: "General Gongyi, General Youping, should be familiar with the two generals at first sight, and they are also very amazed by the martial arts of the two generals. ”

(To be continued)