Hearing Wang Lanping's shout, the soldiers of the Fengzi battalion turned around suddenly, and the leading general saw that three horsemen were flying over, and immediately ordered the herald to wave the order flag to make a defensive posture, with the spear at the flat end, and the tip of the spear pointed directly in the direction of Wang Lanping.

At this time, it was the time of the Dashun army's southern expedition, and it was not impossible to encounter the enemy halfway, and the Fengzi battalion had to be defended, and the leading general beat the horse and stood in the team, and shouted to Wang Lanping, who was rushing over, "Who is coming?"

With a neighing sound, Wang Lanping reined in front of the team, patted the armor on his body and shouted, "Don't you know my general armor?" ”

Of course the general knows, but he doesn't know Wang Lanping, in the chaos of war, he can't tell whether the other party is friend or foe just by his clothes, he pointed with a whip, "I know, but in extraordinary times, dare to ask the general?" ”

Wang Lanping arched his hand to the north, "The protégé of the Son of Heaven, Wang Lanping, the martial champion, the deputy chief soldier of Anqing Mansion" As soon as the words were finished, the entourage sergeant took out an object from his arms, held it high in front of the team, and shouted, "The general army is here, whose subordinates are you?"

The general of the Fengzi battalion had heard of the name of the champion general, and when he heard that this person was coming, he was shocked, and looked at each other, or the general reacted quickly, waved the whip, and let the sergeants of the Fengzi battalion collect their weapons and the whole team, he turned over and dismounted, hurriedly adjusted his armor, and came to Wang Lanping's horse, half-knelt and arched his hand, "The Fengzi battalion has thousands of households Sun Zhanfang, and I have seen General Wang"

Wang Lanping didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and pointed to the team, "Where are you going?" ”

Sun Qianhu said, "On the order of General Liu, return to Anqing"

Wang Lanping snorted and laughed, behind Anqing City is the rolling river, if the enemy soldiers come to the city, there is no way to retreat, wouldn't it be a battle to defend Anqing, asking for hardships, "Huaining City is the gateway to Anqing, the portal is wide open, what is the use of returning to defend Anqing Lonely City"

As soon as Sun Qianhu lowered his head, he also knew the stakes, but the military order was like a mountain, "Back to the general, the last general is just acting on orders"

Wang Lan twitched his hand, "Take the military order and see"

Sun Qianhu turned his head and glanced behind him, "This, the last general is under the command of General Liu, and there is no paperwork."

"Where is the herald?" Wang Lanping shouted at the team, and the majesty of the general suddenly came out.

A sergeant with five flags on his back walked out of the ranks, did not dare to look directly at Wang Lanping, bowed his head and arched his hand, "Back to the general, the small one is ordered by General Liu to summon the Fengzi battalion back to defend Anqing"

Wang Lanping pointed in the direction of Anqing, "Go back and tell Liu Zeqing, I left these people, if he still cares about Daming, don't shrink in Anqing City and wait for death, let's go!" ”

That made the flag soldiers startled, and when they saw Wang Lanping's murderous eyes in a hurry, they suddenly didn't dare to have any idea of refutation, and retreated.

Fengzi Battalion Sun Qianhu never expected the military order to change in a blink of an eye, he didn't want to use this few hundred people to fight against the six thousand iron cavalry of Dashun who was rushing to kill, he pointed at the back of the herald, "You"

"Sun Qianhu, what is the number of soldiers in the Fengzi battalion?" Wang Lanping broke his thoughts.

Sun Qianhu swallowed his saliva, glanced back at the Fengzi battalion behind him, and muttered, "Three hundred sword soldiers, one hundred crossbow soldiers, three hundred spear soldiers, one hundred firearms soldiers, two hundred baggage soldiers, a total of 1,000 people in the whole battalion, but, but"

Wang Lanping can see at a glance even if he is blind, he is a martial champion, and the military formation still understands, where there are a thousand people, I am afraid that five hundred is not enough, and the military appearance is not neat, and the weapons in the hands of many soldiers are already embroidered.

"But you're lying to me," Wang Lanping thought of the wounded soldiers who stayed in the barracks and waited for death, and his heart suddenly became murderous.

"Don't dare, bandits have been rampant recently, and the last general has been cleared from time to time, so there are losses, and there is no time to replenish the source of troops, so" Sun Qianhu bowed his head and said, uneasy in his heart.

Wang Lanping understood that these soldiers in the Fengzi Battalion had followed Sun Qianhu for a long time, and their personal relationship must be good, and if they wanted to replace them, they had to use ruthless moves.

"If you do something, you will be effective, eat empty amounts, hum, everyone in Huaining City knows that in the past year, there has been no battle in the Fengzi Battalion, how can we reduce our personnel, but the big war is again, and this account will be counted in the future" Wang Lan Pingcheng angered him.

Sun Qianhu saw that the deeds had been defeated, and he expected that if he was under the rule of Wang Lanping, he would die in the future, and now that the emperor is dead, there are more than 500 brothers behind him, and he is afraid that you will be the champion of the anger, and now this time, even if the first assistant of the Chongzhen Dynasty is just a hundred useless scholars, and the head king is the head with military power, thinking of this, Sun Qianhu stood up, straightened his waist, snorted lightly, and said, "General Wang, even if the last general has been, it should be sent by General Liu

Wang Lanping raised his eyebrows, "You dare to defy General Ben?" ”

Sun Qianhu raised his head, gradually retreated, and said, "Don't dare, but the military order is like a mountain, and the general is in charge, so I will leave."

Wang Lanping sneered, "I order you to withdraw to Huaining City."

Sun Qianhu was fearless, and walked towards his mount without looking back, throwing down a sentence, "Forgive me"

Wang Gangping turned his head to his entourage and said indifferently, "Disobey the military order, and there will be no mercy for killing."

The entourage understood, with a long knife in his hand, he urged the horse under his legs and rushed towards Sun Qianhu.

As a pillar of blood sprayed into the sky, Sun Qianhu's head had already rolled down in front of the Fengzi Battalion, and there was still an incredible expression on his face before he died, the troops of the Fengzi Battalion were stunned, everything happened too fast, and under the horror, everyone held their weapons and stayed in place at a loss.

Wang Lanping hit the horse forward, pulled out the long sword on the horse's belly, and shouted, "You are the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, you eat the grain of the Ming Dynasty, get the salary of the Ming Dynasty, and guard the city of the Ming Dynasty.

Fengziying saw that this Wang Zhuangyuan was really a master, and he didn't blink an eye when he killed a thousand households, and everyone didn't dare to come out, let alone someone who dared to come out, so he turned around and drove towards Huaining City.

For this hard-robbed army, Wang Lanping did not have too much hope, but Li Laixiang's 6,000 iron cavalry had already been killed, even if he hit the stone with an egg, he had to break his head to break through, he was a martial champion, and his reputation was outside, if he fled without a fight, how could he talk about rebuilding the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Back to the county seat, the street is already in chaos, all kinds of carriages and ox carts are vying to go out of the city, crowded, each cart is full of wooden boxes, Wang Lanping ordered the Fengzi camp to stop at the gate of the city, send people to inquire, it turned out, today a large number of refugees poured into the city, the news that the emperor of Beijing was broken and the Dashun army was killing Ben Huaining spread to the whole city, so that the rich households in the city were moved when they heard the sound, and they were going to escape from the city by picking up some valuable things.

The rich households in the city are panicked, but the small people in the market are rare to keep a calm in the war, and then inquire deeply, it turns out that Li Chuang's slogan spread all over the world has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, "welcome the king, do not pay grain", in contrast, the Ming tax has been received from Chongzhen fifty years later, such a Ming in the hearts of the people who are overwhelmed by the tax is not as good as death.

Wang Lanping heard such a reply, just smiled, such a foolish slogan can also deceive the ignorant people, at this time China completely relied on agriculture to build a country, did not levy taxes and pay grain from the hands of peasant households, where did the country's construction, water conservancy projects, disaster relief, border defense and other expenses come from, Li Chuang is known as a million soldiers, thousands of generals, what these people eat, what they spend, all rely on robbing rich households to support a country, in the long run, the Dashun Dynasty can exist for a few days.

Wang Lanping didn't want to say anything, wanted to appease the people, and had to start from himself, so he ordered the Fengzi Battalion to reorganize its morale, and marched calmly on the streets of Huaining City with his head held high.

The Fengzi camp was lined up in two rows, and the team of more than 500 people simply pulled out a momentum of more than two miles, from the gate of the east city to the gate of the county government.

Many wealthy families who have planned to go out of the city have counted how many Ming soldiers have entered the city, but seeing such a scene makes them feel a lot more at ease, and gradually some people do not leave, and run to tell each other, the Ming King is coming.

Although the poor people of the lower class have no good impression of the Ming Dynasty, they worship Wu Zhuangyuan who came out of Huaining City, and Wang Zhuangyuan said that whoever is good is good, and there is a role of celebrity endorsement nowadays.

Kong Zhi County welcomed Wang Lanping into the county office, and was about to say that there was a puppet Shun Dynasty army attacking, but only to learn that Wang Zhuangyuan had already known all this, so Kong Zhi County said about the resettlement of refugees, there were too many refugees, in just one morning, more than 3,000 people had poured into the city, including hundreds of defeated soldiers, and the refugee team in the north of the city was still coming here in a steady stream, and if it continued like this, even Beijing City could not withstand such a toss.

Wang Lanping does not have much experience in civil affairs, Wuke background, all this has to rely on the discretion of Kong Zhi County, who has been an official for many years, he only has one instruction, try to starve refugees to death, once Huaining City is besieged, it will be difficult to guarantee the food supply in the city, and it is actually a big drag to let refugees into the city, but he can't see death without help, he now realizes that the legend of Liu Bei would rather take the people across the river than leave the people's suffering, and the people's will is also a burden.

When everything was arranged, Wang Lanping found out that Zhou Zhifu was not in the county office, so he asked Kong Zhixian, "Where is Zhou Zhifu?" If you want to hold Huaining, you need the integration of the government, the people and the army, and having the prefect sitting here will definitely greatly boost morale."

Kong Zhixian frowned, "General, Governor Zhou has already left, go back to Anqing"

Wang Lanping hummed puzzled, "Gone?" Why don't you stop him?"

Kong Zhixian was very aggrieved, "This, the prefect is leaving, where can I stop a small county, I heard that a large army was coming to attack in the morning, so he took more than ten officers from the county back to Anqing in disguise."

Wang Lanping smiled bitterly and shook his head, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all these people, how can the country not die, he said, "Kong Zhi County, then why don't you leave?" ”

Kong Zhixian immediately straightened his waist when he heard this, "Although I Kong Rusong is a scholar, I am deeply favored by the country, I have been an official for nearly ten years, and I can't make a rich party, I am already ashamed of the emperor, without the decree of the imperial court, the lower officials will not go anywhere, the country rises and falls, the husband is responsible, die, I will also die in Huaining City"

Wang Lanping was very surprised, it is rare for a weak scholar to have such lofty ambitions.

"Okay, I, Wang Lanping, will fight side by side with you"

As soon as he heard this, Kong Zhixian was a heavy face, and sighed, "Champion Gong Young Hero, although I don't know the military situation, but I also understand that Huaining City can not be defended, the general should make plans early, find another way, now only Jiangnan is abundant, the people's livelihood is rich, and it has not been a war for a long time, and the Yangtze River is dangerous, the general should cross the river as soon as possible, with the general's name, as long as he raises his arms, those who are loyal to the Ming court must gather, and the revival of the Ming Dynasty is hopeful, and he must not lose his life in this small city."

If you don't have your own innate knowledge of history, then this kid is a Ming version of Longzhong, right, talent, of course, Wang Lanping didn't think about defending this little Huaining, but this battle had to be fought, how to raise his arms in the future and flee from the wind, this battle must be fought, and he must win, and play the prestige of the world's first martial champion.

Wang Lanping hugged his fist at Kong Zhi County, "Kong Zhi County is high, don't worry, my life is big, I won't tell you that this battle will be won"

Kong Rusong smiled indifferently, how could hundreds of Ming troops who had not been in battle for a long time face the six thousand elite soldiers and iron cavalry who fought all the way, he was ready to die with the city.

Subsequently, Wang Lanping changed the county government into a temporary military camp, posted a notice calling on the people of the city to strengthen the city wall, sent sentinels to all directions outside the city, and announced that Huaining City was under martial law, the administrative order was changed to a military order, the city gate was closed, and the refugees were all detoured to find another place.

Wang Lanping was dressed in a majestic armor, and his horse was running back and forth in the city, and he wanted to tell the people of the city that the champion was still in the city.

For a while, the crowd in Huaining City, where everyone was in danger before, was furious.

A great battle of unequal strength is about to be fought to the death in Huaining City.