"No matter how the old man in charge of the official talks about all kinds of big truths, but in the eyes of me, a little soldier, this Great War between the North and the South started in a hurry, the countries participating in the war fought in a hurry, and the course of the war was very strange, it was really chaotic. Therefore, it is not surprising that this war was at its worst! This is a sentence of Hu Yan Chengrui, the "immortal soldier" of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in "The Brilliant Army of a Little Soldier", although it was dismissed as nonsense by high-level people on both sides of the war, but it was highly recognized by many lower-level soldiers.

The challenge episode before the start of the Shouzhou War was talked about endlessly before the war, calling it a "Lin Hong-style challenge", and later generations were rumored to be mixed with words such as "arrogant" and "confident".

At noon on September 22, when the vanguard officer Li Chongjin led 3,000 cavalry to Linhuai Town, the scout who was exploring the road in front of him turned back with a strange look: "General Li, there are three people on the river embankment who have come to deliver the war letter on behalf of Shouzhou, and the leader is ......."

"What do you do, what is it?" Li Chongjin roared angrily.

"It's a little girl of six or seven years old......" The scout's expression was even more strange, and he looked completely wry.

In an instant, a strange feeling of anger and laughter came to Li Chongjin's heart at the same time, and he threw out the horsewhip at the scout, and the horsewhip spun around in the air, and at the end of the day, it hit the horse's buttocks. The warhorse neighed and slammed forward.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" The other horsemen also shouted, and their horses followed.

When he arrived at the embankment on the north bank of the Huai River, Li Chongjin really saw a picture that made him cry and laugh: 200 soldiers stationed in Linhuai Town were fully armed and surrounded on the east and bottom of the embankment, and two adults and a child were surrounded in the middle. Behind the three of them, a Southern Tang Black Dragon banner was hunting in the autumn wind.

The two adults were both dressed in the black military uniforms of the Southern Tang Dynasty, fully armed, and all of them sat on the edge of the river embankment with their hands on their chests, chattering about long straw poles in their mouths, looking bored. The little girl leaning on the flagpole is at most seven years old, wearing a very well-fitting red cheongsam, wearing a jacket on her upper body, combing a pigtail on her head, and holding a letter in her hand that is bigger than her small face, it is Lin Hong, the "ghost elf" of Shouzhou Junior Military Academy.

Seeing Li Chongjin coming over, Lin Hong suddenly came to his senses, trotted two steps to the riverbank, raised his little face and shouted, "Is this person who came back a person?" Do you dare to take our Shouzhou challenge book? ”

Li Chongjin's nose was almost crooked, where did the wild girl who ran out, talking too annoying!

An adjutant rushed out and replied loudly: "Little girl, you have to be respectful!" This is our Great Zhou Pioneer Officer, the General of the Camp, and the Inner Temple, all know General Li Chongjin! ”

Lin Hong pursed her lips, her little finger cocked her orchid finger, and said disdainfully: "What is positive, what is straight, I haven't heard of it!" I just don't know if you are big enough, are you qualified to accept our challenge? ”

Li Chongjin was ruined, he had never been reprimanded by someone pointing his nose like this when he was so old, and he couldn't help but say loudly: "I command 20,000 Great Zhou elites, do you think I am qualified?" ”

Lin Hong's mouth widened, and he still said with full disdain: "I have more people in the Tang Dynasty who can lead 20,000 soldiers, and I have hundreds of people, what's the big deal?" Then I'll give it to you for now! ”

Lin Hong raised the letter in his hand into the air.

Feng Jingyun, who was originally sitting on the edge of the river embankment, suddenly moved, his right hand was propped up on the ground, his body flicked back, he gently took the letter, and with a light step, he rushed straight to Li Chongjin from the riverbank that was one person high.

Several guards were shocked, or hit their horses forward, or jumped off their horses and rushed here, but it was too late, and the wind and clouds jumped in front of Li Chongjin's horse like a ghost, and gently patted the horse's forehead with his right hand, and handed the letter to him with his left hand.

As soon as Li Chongjin's hand touched the letter, Feng Zhenyun's body shrank, and he shook past several guards, and returned to the edge of the river embankment in a few arrow steps, and high-five Liu Qi on the other side to celebrate.

At this time, only a soft "bang" was heard, and a small bell on the horse's forehead fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces. It turned out that the moment Feng Jingyun stroked it just now, he had already used his strength to tear off the bell, and pinched it with dark force and threw it to the ground.

Li Chongjin looked at the bell on the ground, snorted coldly, and shook his hands, only to find that the letter in his hand was not sealed, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Lin Hong saw his movements, and his unforgiving little mouth began again: "Our Lord Lin said, anyone can read the challenge book!" Don't you even have the guts to do this? ”

Li Chongjin snorted coldly, pulled out the paper in the letter, and stared at it.

"Entering for no reason is an invasion! Uninvited is for thieves! Dare to ask the commander of the Kou, dare to fight with my 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Shouzhou? ”

There is only one sentence on the paper, and Lin Feng's Zhongdu Governor's Mansion is stamped below.

"Hey, little white face, on behalf of our people in Shouzhou, I ask, what do you mean by so many soldiers going to the south?" Lin Hong's sharp voice rang out again.

"On behalf of all the countries of the world, I Da Zhou crusaded against Lin Feng, who was perverse, and the so-called way for heaven is also!" Li Chongjin shouted back solemnly.

Lin Hong's eyes narrowed, and her voice was even sharper: "Yo, what did my brother Lin do?" The people of Chudi did not object, and the officers and soldiers of Qingyuan did not oppose either, what are you doing here? ”

Li Chongjin was suddenly stopped by Lin Hong's sharp teeth. Yes, the two main parties have no opinion, why do you come out? On behalf of Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty? Wu Yue originally had a territorial dispute with the Southern Tang Dynasty over Fuzhou, and the Southern Han Dynasty took the initiative to invade the Guiguan region first, why did you stand out for these two countries?

A head jumped out from behind, showed a steel knife, and roared angrily: "Okay, you little girl, you are uneducated and uneducated, believe it or not, I slashed you with a knife!" ”

"Yo...... It's so majestic, it turns out that you will be bullied by adults and children, it's really shameless! Lin Hong crossed his hands on his hips, jumped on his feet and scolded, his voice sharper.

Li Chongjin threw a whip over, hit Du Tou's head, and whispered to him to retreat.

"This little white face is not bad, I remember you! Okay, the challenge book has been delivered, this girl is going back, we are waiting for you in Shouzhou! Be careful that there is a life to come, and there is no life to go back! Lin Hong said loudly, patting each other's two little hands and pulling up the banner vigorously.

Feng Jingyun walked over, carried Lin Honglian with the flag on his shoulder, and strode down the embankment. Liu Qi got up leisurely, patted his ass and followed.

Several angry Hou Zhou cavalrymen wanted to beat their horses and rush up, but Li Chongjin glared back fiercely.

Li Chongjin stuffed the challenge book into his arms, hit his horse and rushed onto the river embankment, and looked at it, and his heart immediately sank.

From the center of the Huai River, you can vaguely see groups of boats cruising on the south side of the Huai River; Behind the ships was a three- or four-story waterhouse, full of soldiers; Further back, on the South River embankment, is a whole row of watchtowers like towering trees.

Li Cheng, the head of the capital who followed Li Chongjin, immediately became confused, they went to the river every day to inspect, and knew that the sentry tower of Ludao was only built two days ago, but could these water villages not be built last night?

Li Chongjin listened attentively, there was no other sound except the sound of the wind, and the other party, which was nearly 200 meters away, was like playing a pantomime, acting on his own, and did not pay attention to the soldiers on this side at all.

At this time, the three of them had rowed a small boat across the middle of the river, entered the gap in the fleet, and disappeared.