Zheng Yunming nodded and said: "For several months, the craftsmen of Xiangyang have been rushing to make firearms and gunpowder day and night, if it weren't for the saltpeter and sulfur produced in Jinghu all being snapped up by the Rong Divisions in various places, the amount produced would be even higher. Gunpowder weapons are different from other weapons, they will burst into flames when they see fire, and the closer they are to the big battle, the more intense the activities of the enemy's spies will be, and at this time they must do everything possible to target our army's powder magazine. And once the gunpowder depot is set on fire by the enemy, the loss is not comparable to that of the grain depot being set on fire. The more this moment comes, the stricter the guards in Xiangyang City will be! ”

Xu Yuanjie continued: "That's right, in the process of guarding Xiangyang, Shi Wenhu and his subordinate private security societies have played a great role, these days have been cracked eleven sabotage operations against Xiangyang City's gunpowder magazine, the other party has seen the failure of things one after another, and finally recently reined in a lot." ”

Zheng Yunming frowned: "Don't underestimate the jackal, the more we think that the opponent has no tricks, the more the jackal can be surprised, and the manpower guarding the powder magazine will be doubled, without the order of the deputy commander, even if Zhao Zhizhi wants to enter, he can't let it go."

At this time, I saw Bai Yijie hurriedly rushing in from outside, and whispered a few words in Zheng Yunming's ear, Zheng Yunming was slightly surprised, he stood up and said to the generals: "Today's meeting is over, everyone go back and carefully discuss with the officers how to improve the deployment of their defense area, or that sentence, it is better to prepare for a whole day before the war than to rush a moment during the war, and break up the account!" ”

Bai Yijie led Zheng Yunming to the side room, which had been lit by Zheng Yi and Zheng Xian, and the two people sitting in the room were under the city of Huizhou to catch the boys and girls. When the two saw the general coming in, they hurriedly got up to see it.

Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said, "That's it, I'll join the army in a while, and I'll report the situation in Huizhou when the time comes." ”

After a while, the guard led Bi Zilun into the house, and Bi Zilun saw the two spies, who didn't even bother to greet Zheng Yunming and Bai Yijie, and stepped forward and asked anxiously, "How is the matter in Huizhou?" ”

The two spies glanced at each other, and the leader opened his mouth to tell the story of what happened in Jiangzhou. Zheng Yunming and Bai Yijie listened very carefully, and immediately asked if the narrative was slightly ambiguous, not letting go of any details.

The last said that Guo Shrimp Toad refused to go, but entrusted the two children to the spies dressed as Tan Ma Chi, and smuggled to the south through all kinds of difficulties and dangers. Bi Zilun was surprised at first, and then sighed: "This Guo shrimp toad really deserves to be the most stubborn man in the Dajin Kingdom, it's a pity, it's a pity." ”

Bai Yijie said: "Three days ago, an urgent military report was sent from the north, saying that Huizhou had broken the city and Guo Shrimp was killed. ”

The spy at the head said: "Yes, after we received the two children, we also ventured to hide in the Mongolian camp for a few days, and on the third day after Guo Xitoad sent the children out of the city, Kuoduan launched a general attack, attacking from the southeast corner of Huizhou City, and Huizhou was captured. ”

Hearing the seriously wounded and captured Jin soldiers said, Guo Shrimp Toad was the most stubborn and killed the cow and the horse, so that the most stubborn soldiers in the city had a good meal, and then ordered all the gold, silver, bronze and iron tools in the city to be collected and cast into iron-shelled artillery, of course, referring to the kind of explosive cannon of the Jin people, which was used as the last resistance, and then he set fire to the treasury of Huizhou and his own savings, and said to others that these things could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Mongols. When the Mongol attack became more and more fierce, and the defenders of the city began to collapse, he locked the whole family in a large house in the palace, and piled firewood around the palace, and burned it himself, and then he waited at the main gate of the palace with the last few men and horses. When the Mongol army swarmed in, these Jin troops fired arrows to block them outside the yamen, Guo Shrimp Toad also personally led the bow and shot arrows, sent two or three hundred arrows, each shot must hit, the last arrow was exhausted, and the rest of the soldiers jumped into the fire and died together. ”

Zheng Yunming exclaimed: "Although the Jin country is tyrannical, it is not a glory to have such a general's position in the country to draw the last end." He thought of Zhang Shijie, who was still locked up in the camp of the Zhenwu Army, and wondered if he would have the same ending as in history after decades, with more than 100,000 subjects loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, sinking into the sea in the south together. Or is it because of his appearance that he has a different fateful ending?

Bi Zilun listened, and tears flashed faintly in his eyes. After the spy finished talking for a long time, he said with a slight choked up: "Life is like this, what more regrets?" Alas, compared with Marshal Guo, I can be said to have no backbone at all"

Bai Yijie said with a smile on the side: "Be generous to righteousness, some fleshy men can do it, what's the difficulty?" In order to do big things, he lives a life that is temporarily forbearance, which is the real husband. ”

Bi Zilun snorted and asked again, "Where are those two children?" Marshal Guo valued them more than his own life, and I want to see who made him pay so much attention. ”

Zheng Yunming commanded, and Zheng Xian and Zheng Yi walked in with their two children in their arms.

Bi Zilun walked up to the boy first and asked his name, and the child was no longer panicked and scared after being teased by Zheng Xian and Guo Dachun, and said his name by himself.

Bi Zilun pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Who are you Guo Shrimp Toad?" ”

"It's my daddy!" When the boy talked about his father, he couldn't help but dance.

Bi Zilun nodded, didn't say more, turned around and came to the girl, and before he could ask, he stared at the golden lock around the girl's neck.

As if he had been struck by lightning, Bi Zilun stood for a long time, then immediately knelt down, grabbed the girl's shoulders tightly with both hands, and carefully looked at her face. He muttered, "How could this be impossible!" How could anyone stay."

The girl was overwhelmed by his sudden action, and the tears in her eyes were holding back, and she stiffened and didn't know what this red-faced, yellow-bearded uncle wanted to do.

Zheng Yunming hugged the little girl in the past, touched her head, and said to Bi Zilun: "Why did you lose your temper when you joined the army, don't scare this child." ”

Bai Yijie shook the feather fan on the side and asked casually: "Is there anything special about this child's life experience?" ”

Bi Zilun looked at his deep and unpredictable eyes, and was a little frightened in his heart, so he avoided his eyes and asked instead, "Little doll, do you know your name?" ”

"King Cat." The kid buried his head in Zheng Yunming's chest and replied timidly.

Zheng Yunming laughed: "Cat, cat, this name is very appropriate, it looks as cute as a kitten." ”

"It's not a cat. It is the name of the nakshatra. Bi Zilun groaned: "Cat is right, your nickname should be called Pleiades." The Pleiades in the sky, the stars of fortune on the earth. ”

"Good sign." Bai Yijie said with a smile: "I don't know if the fortune star of Lu Dao can bless us and successfully win the windfall of Xuzhou Horse Supervisor." ”

Bi Zilun turned his head and said, "The eldest husband is full of promises, but I also have to see if you can survive this winter." ”

In the winter when the Tartars are howling like a north wind, it is still unknown whether they will survive or not, and who will worry about buying and selling next spring?

When Zheng Yunming saw Chen Jiao on the dock outside the north gate, Chen Jiao's face was full of exhaustion, he leaned on the pile of grain and rice in a daze, and didn't want to say a word, which was very different from his relaxed and witty appearance before.

Seeing Zheng Yunming leading Wang Deng to the dock, these extremely tired soldiers stood up with each other and bowed to the general.

"Thirty-four days of battle, 27 battles with the enemy, 89 captives were captured alive, 230 horses were captured, weapons, armor, banners, golden drums, grain and grass were not counted." Zheng Yunming could not hide his excitement: "For the practice of the first guerrilla warfare, such an achievement is really unexpectedly outstanding. ”

This was originally the time when Chen Jiao wanted to cheer happily, but he couldn't be happy, on the one hand, the continuous combat consumed the most powerful strength, so that he had no remaining energy to rejoice. On the other hand, the generals in Xiangyang City will not understand the story behind these achievements, how to pretend to be the enemy to investigate intelligence, how to rack their brains to design an ambush plan, how to find that the situation is different from what was expected, how to make adjustments on the spot, and how to escape under the enemy's powerful reinforcements. For the first time in the Jinghu Theater, a guerrilla operation was organized by regular officers and soldiers, and nearly 50 people were killed and seriously wounded.

"If you want to take the first step, that's the price you have to pay." Wang Deng said: "Even if I lead the team to fight this battle, it may not be better than you, but after suffering losses and suffering, we cannot bear it in vain, and we must use our brains to improve and find out step by step a method suitable for guerrilla warfare." ”

Chen Jiao didn't even have the strength to listen to such pertinent opinions, he arched his hand and said to Zheng Yunming: "Please send me some more men and horses, we can't rest here for too long, and we will set off immediately after replenishing food and ordnance." ”

Wang Deng was stunned and said, "When the battle of Xiangyang Guard is imminent, where are you going?" ”

"We only added one or two hundred soldiers to stay in Xiangyang." Chen Jiao replied in a low voice, "But our activities outside can play a much bigger role than this. When the Hu army surrounded the city of Xiangyang into an iron barrel array, the significance of guerrilla warfare was completely lost. Therefore, we must leave this place before the enemy arrives in Xiangyang, and we will not be able to use Xiangyang as a supply base for a long time in the future. ”