"Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chonghuan, if you are unkind, I can't be unjust, yesterday you turned us away, and today I still sent you a hundred carts of ordnance." Liu Ziguang rode on a horse and muttered to himself, he led a hundred carts to follow Zu Dashou into the city for a banquet, and by the way, the ordnance was sent over, and the people who drove the cart had been replaced by soldiers from the death camp, three people per car; There are also seventy or eighty people disguised as technicians and a hundred escort teams, and all the death battalions are dispatched, because tonight's banquet is likely to be a Hongmen banquet, and it is still easy to use your own people at the critical moment.

Of course, Liu Ziguang didn't tell Zu Dashou about these things, this matter is extremely confidential, and it involves a member of the imperial court, so he can't be reckless, and Liu Ziguang still has a little selfishness in his heart, wanting to help at a critical time and show his heroic nature. However, Wu Sangui told his uncle about the discovery of Wuhu military rations in the Qing army, and it is said that Zu Dashou was like thunder, and brought rice bags and other evidence with him, and wanted to tell Yuan Dashuai in person.

Today's Yanzhou city gate is deserted, there is no yesterday's liveliness, the defenders saw that it was the generals of the East Battalion who came to the banquet, and just opened the city gate to welcome the convoy in.

Liu Ziguang asked Zamu and led people to hand over to the ordnance officer of the forbidden army, and he followed Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui to meet Yuan Chonghuan, and Zhou Mengren wore a set of armor and mixed in the team of pro-soldiers to follow Liu Ziguang. When the group came to the gate of the marshal's mansion, they were told by the guards that Yuan Dashuai had gone to patrol the city, and told the marshal that they could go directly to the governor's whereabouts.

It was almost dusk, Zu Dashou thought about it, and decided to go to the governor to wait first, anyway, this matter is not in a hurry, the subordinates should go early, Yuan Dashuai is the host and guest, and it should be late, so he took a few of his generals and guerrillas to Cui Chengxiu's line.

Cui Chengxiu stayed in the palace of King Lu of the former Ming Dynasty, covering a very wide area, which can accommodate thousands of people, the courtyard wall is extremely high, and the neighbors are also high-rise mansions, the laneway between the walls is paved with bluestone slabs, and tall trees stretch out luxuriant branches and leaves from the wall.

The gate of the palace is three bays, a pair of stone lions are placed in front, and the left and right sides are connected with the three bays of the door, forming the main gate of the nine adjacent rooms, the momentum is magnificent, and it is extremely open. The bronze nails on the vermilion lacquer door were polished extremely brightly, and the door was wide open, and eight tall soldiers stood on either side of the door. Seeing Zu Dashou and his entourage coming, an official of the Sipin Military Department who was specially responsible for welcoming the guests hurriedly came over to greet them: "General Zu, everyone is almost here, just waiting for you, hurry up and invite you." ”

Everyone dismounted, handed over the reins to the soldiers to lead, with the military attache to go inside, into the gate to the north, there are five bays of two gates, the second gate is the main palace of the former palace Yin'an Palace, but also the place where Cui Chengxiu feasted the meritorious generals of the border pass, all the way are wearing green robes and green robes, the chest embroidered with bears, biao, rhinoceros seahorses of the low-level military attaches are walking back and forth, all with a smile, seeing Zu Dashou they are respectfully saluting, a peaceful scene.

The meritorious generals entered the hall to wait, and the soldiers and horses gathered in the east and west with their own wine and meat to entertain, and the horses also had special personnel to serve, before entering the hall, Liu Ziguang gave the soldiers a look, and the soldiers nodded knowingly. After a while, he would naturally sneak out to report the location of Zamu and their palace.

When I entered the main hall, I saw that other generals were present, including Man Gui and Niu Yong from the West Battalion, Zhao Shujiao, He Kegang and others from the Chinese army, as well as dozens of generals and officers of more than 1,000 households who were not on duty. There is also a group of people under the command of Mao Wenlong, the general of the mountain pavilion, in short, almost all the essence of the Shandong front line of the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in the Yin'an Hall of the former Lu Palace. Somehow, Liu Ziguang immediately remembered the human bomb of the *** extremist organization, if one came at this time, the Ming army would be leaderless and defeated without a fight.

There are dozens of tables of eight immortals in the main hall, on which refreshments are placed for people to enjoy, and the servants of the Zhejiang army are shuttling back and forth serving tea and water, and they are very attentive.

The generals are all wearing gauze hats and round necks, and one by one the beasts on their chests are connected everywhere, so there are not many opportunities for everyone to gather, so everyone greets each other very affectionately, and the titles of "Brother Nian, Brother Nian, Lord General" come and go, only a group of bandits in Shanting Town are ignored, sitting in the corner and looking around, obviously they have never been to such a high-end place.

Liu Ziguang has no official position, only wears a red robe, he is not familiar with the generals, but the generals of the Xuzhou Army are very clear about Liu Ziguang, Yuan Dashuai asked the owner of Peng Factory several times for this fierce general who broke the chain of horses, and was even willing to take 3,000 prisoners of war in exchange, but he was politely declined, and the small stories behind these are not known to Liu Ziguang.

Wu Sangui accompanied Liu Ziguang and kept introducing him to the generals of the Xuzhou Army, which made Liu Ziguang feel like a star, and the generals were very polite to him, not only to see the face of Yuan Dashuai and the iron factory, but more importantly, the respect of the martial artists for the martial arts. was greeting, and suddenly heard someone shouting outside: "Yuan Dashuai is here~~"

The generals hurriedly took a crown and went out to greet each other, and Cui Chengxiu, who had been resting in the back hall, also came out and personally brought a group of military officials to the gate to greet him.

Yuan Chonghuan has just come down from the city wall, and the Tartars have been a little calm in recent times, which makes people feel that there is an atmosphere before the storm, I don't know what kind of fame they are doing, and at this time it is necessary to step up precautions, but Cui Chengxiu wants to arrange a banquet and gather all the generals to distribute the rewards of the court in public. This is obviously a troublemaker, and after his own arguments, he won the deputy generals of each battalion to stay behind, just in case.

He is wearing the scarlet robe of the second-grade officer, the rhino belt around his waist, the black veil on his head, and the lion embroidered on his chest, today is not as good as yesterday, and he can't say anything nonsense that he has no time to change clothes.

Yuan Chonghuan dismounted at the gate of the palace, Cui Chengxiu and all the generals were already standing there waiting, Yuan Chonghuan stepped forward and was about to kneel down in his robe, but he was already supported by Cui Chengxiu, and said with a smile on his face: "Yuan Gongshan is late, and the official will punish you with three glasses of imperial wine later." ”

The governor and the handsome seemed to be intimate and walked into the Yin'an Hall side by side, taking advantage of the work of welcoming the guests just now, the servants had already put the wine and vegetables on the cloth, all of which were authentic Lu dishes made by the chef brought by Miao Kejian, frying and frying, boiling and steaming steak, boiling and smoking, and pickling in the sauce, there were sweet and sour Yellow River carp, soup fried double crispy, roasted conch, roasted oyster locust, grilled prawns, clear soup bird's nest, dry steamed Jiaji fish, fried conch, nine turns of large intestine, grilled original shell abalone, stir-fried vegetables fragrant, fresh and tender, thick taste; The soup is clear and fresh; The seafood is original; Jinan cuisine, Confucian cuisine, Jiaodong cuisine are all available. In addition to two pots of imperial wine at each table, there are also several jars of various good wines such as Daughter Red and Jian Nanchun.

After everyone sat down according to their grades, Cui Chengxiu began to announce the list of rewards for this time: the Xuzhou Army and the Shanting Town Army will be rewarded with one tael of silver, one stone of rice, and one horse of cloth for each soldier; Officers doubled; The generals of more than 1,000 households will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver each, and they will also ask for credit for everyone, as long as they work hard, they will be added to the rank of knight just around the corner.

Hearing that the reward was so rich, the officers present were very happy, Cui Chengxiu took a glass of wine and accompanied by Yuan Chonghuan, toasted to each table one by one, and each general first introduced the name, official rank, and military exploits by Yuan Chonghuan, and then Cui Chengxiu encouraged each person to give one to three glasses according to their official rank and military exploits. The two of them only had wine in their glasses, and every time they toasted, they tasted it lightly.

The wine is the imperial wine brought from the capital, and it is personally respected by the Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War, everyone is sincerely afraid, and the wine is drunk to the bottom of the glass, Liu Ziguang has no official grade, so he sat with the thousands of households in the Dongda Camp, he had drunk the imperial wine in the Guogong Mansion before, and his keen sense of smell felt that today's wine seemed to be mixed with something, so when Cui Chengxiu was about to salute this table, he bit his ear and said softly to Wu Sangui beside him: "This wine is weird, don't touch your lips later, pour it in your sleeve!" Wu Sangui was taken aback, seeing that Liu Ziguang's serious face was not like a joke, and asked softly: "Could it be....Hongmen... Feast? "Don't forget that Miao Kejian is Cui Chengxiu's cronies, so it's better to be careful." Liu Ziguang also replied in a low voice, and the other thousands of households looked at the approachable Cui Shangshu excitedly, not noticing the conversation between the two of them.

Soon Cui Chengxiu came to the table where Liu Ziguang was, Yuan Chonghuan introduced him to the thousands of households present one by one, and when he introduced Liu Ziguang and Wu Sangui, he specially praised the young courage of the two, Wu Sangui once led 20 cavalry straight into the Qing army's 10,000 horse formation to rescue his father Wu Xiang; Liu Ziguang once broke a chain of horses and chased the Qing Emperor to take off his boots and escape. Cui Chengxiu bowed his head to express his appreciation, raised his glass and said: "Sure enough, the hero is a young man, Wu Qianhu is lonely to save his father, General Liu is terrifying, you are all good sons of my Ming Dynasty, this official respects you three cups, and the rest of you will also be together." He raised his glass and took a sip.

Everyone hurriedly raised their wine glasses and drank three glasses in a row, only Liu Ziguang and Wu Sangui secretly poured the wine into the sleeves of their robes.

Cui Chengxiu finished the last table of wine, returned to his seat with satisfaction, and said: "All the generals are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, in order to recover the homeland of Shandong, you threw your heads, spilled blood, climbed ice and snow, and shrouded in horse leather. Shandong Kefu, it is necessary to place a position of Shandong general soldier, and it is up to you who can become this official position. ”

The generals were overjoyed when they heard this, especially Man Gui and Zu Dashou, the two usually compete in secret, and now they are even more riveted to grab the position of the Shandong general soldier.

Cui Chengxiu continued: "One day this official came to Yanzhou, I heard that the military salary of the Xuzhou army has not been paid for three months, and the military food is also very poor. As he spoke, he bowed to the end and gave a deep salute to all the people below.

The generals were immediately grateful, and they bowed down to thank them, and the scene was very sensational. Only two people pouted unmoved, one was Yuan Chonghuan and the other was Liu Ziguang.

Cui Chengxiu saw that the time was ripe, and changed his words: "Where is the three-month military salary?" After a careful investigation, the Ministry of Finance (called the Ministry at the moment, emphasizing the dual identity of the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate) has already had some eyebrows, and all this money has been greedy for ink by your marshal Yuan Chonghuan! ”

Yuan Chonghuan was at a loss by this sudden blow, and he didn't have time to distinguish it, and the generals were also in an uproar, Yuan Shuai has always been honest and honest, and he loves soldiers like a son, how can he be greedy for military salaries, this is really ridiculous.

Cui Chengxiu didn't give everyone time to react, and then said loudly to Yuan Chonghuan: "The headquarters has talked with you for one night, and it is not too late to return the stolen money in time." Who knows that your wolf ambition is always a deception. If you don't take the ministry in your eyes, you can tolerate it, but you can't tolerate it without the imperial court! How can it be tolerated without the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Xuzhou Army? Nine thousand years old and the emperor's eyes are like torches, they have long noticed your many crimes, and specially gave the sword of Shangfang in the headquarters of the academy, just to kill you, an arrogant person who deceives the Son of Heaven and the soldiers! ”

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Last night, I had a small outbreak, and I started writing 26 chapters at 22 o'clock, and I rushed out 3 chapters and 10,000 words at 6 o'clock in the morning

I'm a little sleepy now, contribute your flowers, comrades, and those who have vests can also use them, and help add a collection