When he received the military order, Liu Renzhen, who was wearing full armor, was writing a military situation excerpt to be reported to Jinling in front of his desk.

Liu Renzhen, whose name is Shouhui, was born in 900 A.D. in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and this year is the year of knowing the destiny of heaven. According to history, Liu Renzhen is a good soldier, from Yang Wu to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he has served as the general of the right prison guard and Huang, Yuan Erzhou Assassin and other official positions, and the places he governed are praised for their good governance. When Li Jing ascended the throne, he had been in charge of the pro-army for Li Jing, so he was promoted to the envoy of Wuchang Jiedu and governed the border town of Ezhou.

Ezhou chokes the throat of the Yangtze River, and its geographical location is extremely important. More than 200 miles north of Ezhou is Shenzhou (now Xinyang, Henan), an important border town of the Northern Han Dynasty; 200 miles to the west of Ezhou, that is, into the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, another inconspicuous small secession force - Nanping (Jingnan), and then less than 100 miles, that is, Jiangling Mansion (Jingzhou, Hubei), the place of Nanping; 200 miles southwest of Ezhou will enter the territory of Chu State, and then obliquely more than 100 miles, which is Langzhou (now Changde, Hunan), which is the range of power of Ma Xicao, the brother of Ma Shuguang, the current lord of Chu State. The day before, according to the report of the scouts sent to the Chu State, from time to time there were ethnic minority soldiers advancing towards Langzhou, and it seemed that they were assembling towards Langzhou.

Liu Renzhen carefully read the emergency military order, immediately stood up, and ordered the guards in the house loudly: "Go and ask the lady and the young master to come over." He walked over to the large military map on the wall and observed it for a moment, then folded back to his desk and continued writing.

After a while, Mrs. walked in quickly with Liu Chongzan and Liu Chongji.

Liu Renzhen put the fold he had written into the letter, carefully put it in his arms, looked up and said to Mrs. Liu and the two children: "King Qi has an urgent order, I must rush to the capital within six days. During this time, there is Mrs. Law, and you two must listen to your mother's teachings. ”

Mrs. Liu was stunned when she heard this, and Liu Ren's fifteen-year-old youngest son, Liu Chongji, immediately stepped forward and reluctantly hugged his father's waist.

Liu Renzhen stroked Liu Chongji's hair lovingly, and continued: "I will get up and go to the barracks immediately, and after making a little arrangement, I will set off immediately and will not return home." ”

After speaking, Liu Renzhen broke free from his beloved son's embrace, turned around and walked out of the house, ignoring the tears in his wife's eyes and Liu Chongji's crying voice.

On the afternoon of the sixth day, just after passing the straight road in Fuliang County, Raozhou (now Jingdezhen, Jiangxi), a group of cavalry shouted again and again, ordering passers-by to get out of the way and gallop eastward. The first was a sturdy soldier in his early forties, dressed in ordinary soldier's attire and shouting louder than anyone else.

A general beside him suddenly shouted in surprise: "General Chen, there is a tea shed ahead!" ”

The General Chen looked back at the sweaty followers behind him, laughed, and opened his mouth to shout: "Then let's rest here!" ”

When they came to the tea shed, they were surprised to find that there were more than ten military horses tied to the stone pillars of the tea shed. Before they could get off their horses, a slightly old voice in the tea shed shouted: "Dare to ask, but is it the envoy of Yong'an Festival, Chen Juxun General Chen?" ”

The General Chen immediately looked at him in surprise, and found that there was a kind old general in the tea shed who was looking at him with a smile, and immediately grabbed off his horse and bowed deeply: "The junior Chen Yu has seen Master Bian!" ”

The old general, known as Master Bian, handed over a string of black Buddhist beads in his right hand to his left hand, made a gesture of invitation with his right hand, and laughed loudly: "I haven't seen you for three years, and General Chen's demeanor is even worse!" General Chen, please be seated! ”

"That's true, it's been three years in a flash, and the Buddha is solemn, even more so, Chen Zhi worships!" Chen Yu handed the reins to the personnel who followed him, strode into the shed, and sat down opposite the old general.

This Chen Juxun was originally a general of the Jianzhou of the Fujian State, and is now the envoy and servant of the Jianzhou Festival of the Southern Tang Dynasty. And that Bian Da is Shinshu Thorn Shi Bian Ho. During the battle of Fujian in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Bian Hao recruited for the camp, and the two changed from enemies to colleagues who sympathized with each other, so they were naturally acquaintances.

The reason why Chen Zhi was able to mix so well in the Southern Tang Dynasty as a general of the Fujian State is not unrelated to the two wars he experienced.

The first was in the second year of Min Yonglong (940 AD), Chen Yu led thousands of people who dared to die under the Jianzhou Assassin Wang Yanzheng under the city of Jianzhou, and broke the army of Wang Xi, the king of Fujian. In the second year of Kaiyun in the Later Jin Dynasty (944 AD), Jianzhou was besieged by the Southern Tang soldiers, and Chen Xu had gone out of the city several times to challenge, and the Tang soldiers were afraid of their courage and did not dare to fight. Later, when the city of Jianzhou was broken, Chen Zhi was captured, and when he was about to cut off his head, Chen Xu, who had already undressed and lay on the ground, suddenly shouted violently, broke the rope, broke the rope, kicked down the prison officers and soldiers, and ran all the way, and fled into the tent of Cha Wenhui, the leading general of the Southern Tang Dynasty at that time. Cha Wenhui was shocked by his might, absolved him of his crimes, and instead used it as the commander of Zhan Yi, and ordered him to lead the original troops to follow and attack Fuzhou. When the famous stupid general Feng Yanlu's army was defeated, all the camps of the Southern Tang Dynasty were defeated, and there were thousands of dead. After Chen Yu led the army hall alone, he collected 200,000 abandoned gold silks, and was later awarded the history of Jianzhou for this merit.

After that, after listening to the spies, Wu Yue's soldiers who came to aid Fujian gave up Fuzhou, and Cha Wenhui was greedy for merit and led Chen Zhi to attack Wu Yue's soldiers in Fuzhou. Chen Xu, who was familiar with the nature of water, infiltrated the Minjiang River and scuttled through Wu Yuelou's boat, and Wu Yue's soldiers were defeated in shock. After the war, Cha Wenhui did not listen to Chen's persuasion and insisted on entering Fuzhou City, but he was captured in Zhongfu and fed poison and released. Chen Xu, who did not enter the city, led the remaining Southern Tang soldiers to successfully retreat from Jianzhou, so the merit was crowned as the envoy and servant of the Jianzhou Festival.

"Everyone in the world calls Juxun a famous general, and now I see Juxun himself and his department, and this impression is even greater!" Bian Hao pointed to the three young generals behind Chen Xu, and opened his mouth to praise. Chen Yu himself has bulging muscles, and the three lieutenants behind him are all the same muscular people, and they look really majestic.

During the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Jianzhou army led by Chen Xu was mostly composed of mountain people in northwest Fujian, who were strong and good at fighting, and were strong in water and land battles, and were known as the strongest troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Because of the courage of Chen Xu's department, the Southern Tang Dynasty court commissioned the southern affairs and named his army "loyalty". Later, when the Zhou soldiers invaded Huainan, Chen Zhi sent his son Decheng to lead thousands of soldiers to Shouchun. At that time, the generals were unfavorable in battle, but Chen Decheng's troops were in and out of the enemy, and almost never tasted defeat, and saved the inevitable defeat with their own strength. After Zhou had no choice but to withdraw his troops, Chen Decheng's class was called "Baisheng" by Li Jing's army, and Chen Decheng was honored with the history of Hezhou Assassination.

"It's just brute force, otherwise, my father wouldn't have privately called Ah Tie, thinking that I was just suitable for striking iron!" Chen Yu said with a smile. This is also an interesting story contained in history, this Chen Zhi was born with a strong physique, born a few months, the little feet are full of strength, can wear shoes, his father is different, sighing that this son has great strength since he was a child, at least he can play iron to cross the day, because of the name of Ah Tie.

"Alas, my father gave me the nickname Kang Le when I was a child, but I didn't have much happiness in my life, so I could only ask the Buddha for peace!" When Bian Ho heard this, Ha Lu Ha Da Lu replied with a smile.

"Lord Bian joined the army with a Buddha, and he is really the upper realm of leading the troops, and the giant training is not as good as it! Lord Bian, these juniors are Zheng Yanhua, the deputy general of my loyal army, and Chen Decheng and Chen Desheng, the dogs, you can meet the old general! Chen Yu laughed loudly and introduced the three people behind him to Bian Hao. Zheng Yanhua was also a general of the Fujian State and surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Battle of Fuzhou.

Chen Xu's life was prestigious, he resigned due to illness in June 962, and the later lord Li Yu personally came to the door to condole, and his grace was prominent. After Chen Xu's resignation, his younger brother succeeded as the Jianzhou Assassin History and the Loyal and Righteous Army Festival Envoy, and his son Decheng was later the Hezhou Assassin History.

"Meet General Bian." The three of them stepped forward in unison and bowed. Bian Hao hurriedly picked it up, and looked up at Chen Yu and smiled: "General Juxun, you strictly obeyed the military order, and only brought three young generals; I have a soft heart and can't afford to let these children pester, so I brought seven generals with me. ”

Subsequently, Bian Ho introduced the generals standing in a row behind him to Chen Yu one by one.

Bian Hao was originally a person from Jinling, and when he was young, he followed Li Yu, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and started from the Tongshi Sheren, and was known for his sensitivity. In the first year of Li Baoda (943 AD), Bian Hao sent troops to suppress the uprising of Zhang Yuxian in Xunzhou as a supervisor of the army, and became famous in the first battle; In the third year of Baoda (947 AD), Bian Ho concurrently served as the Marquis of Fu, Xin, Yuan, Ji and other states in the name of the camp recruitment, and succeeded in the invasion of Fujian with the Southern Tang army.

However, it is precisely because of his "bodhisattva" character that he has no quarrel with things, when he led the army to pacify the Chu State in 951 AD, Bian Ho ruled the army unfavorably, lost control of the military and politics, and the whole army was annihilated, fled back from Hunan, and was reduced to the people. When the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Zhou Huainan War, Bian Hao was reappointed as a general, but was captured by the Later Zhou army, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong had appointed him as the general of the right Qianniuwei, but when the two sides negotiated peace, Bian Hao was repatriated and was not reused.

"This just shows that there are too few selectable generals in our army, so it is better to have a lot of talents under the command of Lord Bian!" Chen Xue laughed a few times, picked up the tea bowl that had been cooled in front of him, drank it all, and then wiped his mouth, and said to Bian Hao: "Lord Bian, it's too early, you and I will join forces now, gallop one hundred and forty miles, and how about you and I talk about it again at Chizhou Station?" ”

"Great idea! The sons and daughters of Shinshu, let's go, shake up my spirits, don't let the Jianzhou athletes look down on you! Bian Ho also drank the tea bowl in front of him, put it heavily on the table, threw the usual money on the table, and took the lead to walk out of the shed.

"Let's go!" A large crowd scrambled to get out of the door, jumped on their horses, shouted wildly and laughed and beat their horses away.