Listening to Qin Liangyu's words, Wu Shigong secretly complained in his heart. Originally, he and Qin Liangyu's army acted together, wanting to enjoy the shade under the big tree, but he didn't expect to meet an old woman with such a strong desire to fight.

However, Wu Shigong, who wanted to be there, couldn't shirk it. However, Wu Shigong thought about it: "If you go to the capital, you will go to the capital." Although Tongzhou was the place where King Qin's army was gathered, there were more troops, but there were more troops in the capital to defend Emperor Chongzhen. It's safer there. It is not necessarily in front of the eyes of the army of the capital, and the Tartar soldiers still dare to wander under the nose of the army of the capital? ”

So Wu Shigong straightened his chest at Qin Liangyu, and said righteously: "It is the duty of our military attaché to protect the emperor, and it is incumbent on Ben Qianhu to follow Qin's general soldiers to the capital." ”

Hearing that Wu Shigong agreed, Qin Liangyu's face also improved a lot. She made a color to the guard beside her, and the guard walked up to Wu Shigong, handed Wu Shigong a large bag of things, and said to Wu Shigong: "This is a dumpling made by the handsome hand, and I will give you a taste." ”

Qin Liangyu's bodyguard was, of course, a female guard. Before I knew it, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve of the second year of Chongzhen. These days, Qin Liangyu took these female guards to make some dumplings to prepare for the New Year. Today, she also saw Wu Shigong agreeing to go to the capital together, and felt that although this boy was very out of tune, he was still able to remember his duty as a military general, and he was even more loyal to the emperor, so she gave Wu Shigong some dumplings made by herself.

After thanking Qin Liangyu, Wu Shigong returned to his camp. He sighed very much in his heart: he didn't expect that his New Year would be spent on the march. At night, Wu Shigong lay in bed with his eyes wide open and couldn't sleep, he missed all his relatives in the capital and the fortress of Qianhusuo.

But even during the Chinese New Year, Qin Liangyu did not let the army rest for a day, urging the army to march towards the capital at high speed. Soon, the army was still four or five days away from the capital.

At noon on this day, when the army was having lunch and resting, several spies suddenly came back from outside the camp, and after they entered Qin Liangyu's big tent, after a while, a thousand households under Qin Liangyu led two or three hundred white pole soldiers out of the camp, and ran in the direction of the spies coming back.

Seeing this situation, Wu Shigong had a question in his heart: "Could it be that there are Tartars moving nearby?" So, Wu Shigong didn't care about the cold war with Qin Liangyu, and hurriedly took a few officers and some guards to Qin Liangyu's big tent.

As soon as he arrived at the big tent, Wu Shigong happened to meet Ma Xianglin who came out of the big tent. Wu Shigong asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ma Xianglin glanced at Wu Shigong and replied with a nonchalant expression: "Oh! The spies found that some of the routs were robbing a Zhuangzi, and the marshal had already sent someone to drive them away. ”

I see, Wu Shigong also put his mind at ease. However, he did not go back to his camp, but took this opportunity to chat with Ma Xianglin.

With this chat, the two big men let go of their knots. The two of them have no enmity, they just have no mouth, and the other wants to use some small means to take advantage. In the process of chatting, Wu Shigong learned that Ma Xianglin was Qin Liangyu's son.

Chatting and chatting, Wu Shigong asked the reason why Ma Xianglin was blind in one eye? Ma Xianglin told Wu Shigong that he was blinded by Tartar arrows while fighting with the Tartars. This made Wu Shigong awe-inspired.

Seeing Wu Shigong's expression, Ma Xianglin let out a long sigh and said, "I'm still a haode, my two uncles both sacrificed their lives in the war with the Tartars!" ”

Hearing this, Wu Shigong was speechless in surprise, aren't Ma Xianglin's two uncles Qin Liangyu's two brothers? I didn't expect that although this Qin Zongbing is a woman, she is a loyal martyr like the Yang general!

At this time, Wu Shigong felt a little guilty, and he said to Ma Xianglin: "I really didn't mean to call the old lady of General Qin, I'm just, I'm just ......" Wu Shigong found that he couldn't find any reason to explain.

Seeing Wu Shigong's blushing face, Ma Xianglin laughed, he slapped Wu Shigong with his fist, and said, "You kid, you don't speak so happily, what do you have to say to the big handsome." Don't squirm around here. However, your kid's training is really good, but I am greedy for the firearms and horses. ”

Ma Xianglin's words made Wu Shigong vigilant all of a sudden. He hurriedly said, "Let my soldiers go to fight with you, there will be absolutely no problem." But I don't have any firearms or horses. ”

Seeing that Wu Shigong was nervous, Ma Xianglin smiled even more happily, and while laughing, he said: "I know, I know, you kid is a miser." An iron rooster that never pulls out. ”

Listening to Ma Xianglin's words, Wu Shigong himself laughed.

At this moment, the white pole soldiers who had gone out of the camp to drive out the rout returned. They captured seven or eight of the routs and brought back a steward from the looted Zhuangzi.

After these people were escorted into Qin Liangyu's big tent by the white pole soldiers, Ma Xianglin also walked into the big tent, and Wu Shigong also followed Ma Xianglin in. Qin Liangyu saw Wu Shigong behind Ma Xianglin at a glance, and she looked at it without making a sound.

The white pole soldiers pressed these defeated soldiers to the ground and knelt down, and the steward also knelt down to Qin Liangyu on the side. Qin Liangyu asked sharply to those defeated soldiers, "What army are you soldiers in?" Why rob in the countryside? ”

Those defeated soldiers kowtowed to Qin Liangyu again and again to beg for mercy, and told their origins. It turned out that they were soldiers in the army of King Qinwang of Shanxi.

After receiving the edict of Emperor Chongzhen Qinwang, Shanxi Governor Geng Ruqi and Shanxi General Zhang Honggong took the lead and led 8,000 men and horses to the capital, but it was said that the first few local Qinwang troops to arrive in the capital.

However, due to the haste of the incident, the army of King Qinwang in Shanxi did not prepare logistics support at all, and the situation was chaotic, so no one bothered to ask about the food of the soldiers. Moreover, when they arrived in Beizhili, they also encountered the problem that Qin Liangyu and Wu Shigong encountered, and the local government refused to supply these Qinwang troops.

After all, the Qinwang army in Shanxi relied on the limited grain and grass they carried, so that their soldiers were half full, and rushed to the capital. They thought that the court in the capital should solve the grain and grass for them.

However, because the Tatars entered the customs very suddenly, and the court was not prepared at all, it was difficult for the court to raise a large amount of grain and grass in the short term.

In order to solve the problem of grain and grass, at this time, the people in the court remembered a rule of the Ming Dynasty army. In the Ming Dynasty, there were many rules that seemed ridiculous in modern times in order to detain soldiers. One of the rules was that the soldiers were not allowed to eat on the day they arrived at the station, and they could only serve it the next day.

So, a certain genius official came up with such an idea, he asked the Qinwang army in Shanxi to be constantly mobilized, and did not let them stay in his station for more than a day.

When the army of King Qinwang of Shanxi arrived in the Jifu area, the military department first ordered them to be stationed in Tongzhou, the second day and then transferred to Changping, and the third day to Liangxiang, the soldiers ran three places in three days, circled around the capital, did not eat a meal, and their intestines were hungry.

Think about it, these soldiers from Shanxi who came to the capital to come to King Qin came to risk their lives to save the driver, but now they are half starved to death, and they have also carried out an extended version of the marathon. So their hearts were extremely indignant.

And they certainly couldn't do without food, so they began to loot food near the station, scourging the local people. But those soldiers don't know, are the people near the capital really the common people? Almost all the Zhuangzi in the vicinity of the capital were powerful.

The actions of these soldiers were immediately told to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court through the mouths of the magnates. As a result, the imperial court believed that Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong had failed to restrain the troops, and ordered the two to be arrested and imprisoned.

When these 8,000 soldiers saw that their commander had been arrested, they scattered in a hurry and fled back to Shanxi. But in order to have food to eat on the way back, they plundered along the way. Just now, it was these Shanxi routs who looted grain in that Zhuangzi.

Listening to the words of those routs, the people in the big tent were dumbfounded. They never imagined that such a ridiculous thing would happen. There was not a single shadow of the Tartars, and the army of the 8,000 Qin Kings in Shanxi disappeared like this.

But the people in the big tent didn't know that the imperial court later executed Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong. The two of them ran the fastest to King Qin in the capital, but Zuihou became the fastest to run to the capital and was beheaded by the imperial court.

The people in the big tent didn't know that in the army of King Qin of Shaanxi, a similar situation had happened. led to a large-scale flight of the soldiers of King Qin of Shaanxi. After they returned to Shaanxi, most of them joined the peasant rebellion. And because of the addition of this group of soldiers with military experience, the strength of the peasant rebel army in Shaanxi has also been greatly strengthened.

After listening to the words of these routs, the people in the big tent were waiting for Qin Liangyu to deal with these routs. Qin Liangyu frowned, thought for a while, and then waved his hand and ordered: "All of them are cut off, and the heads are hung around the camp to show the public." ”

Qin Liangyu, as a general who was very loyal to the imperial court, although she also had some sympathy for the plight of these defeated soldiers, she would never tolerate any deserters, no matter what reasons those deserters had.

The white pole soldiers around them immediately dragged down the routs who were begging for mercy and screaming, and soon, after cutting off their heads, hung the heads of these routs around the camp for public display.