came with Deng She, and there were a few fresh faces that Wen Huaguo didn't recognize. After taking a seat, Deng She introduced them one by one. The Wenchen sitting on his right, under Hong Jixun and Yao Haogu, the third is an old man, about fifty years old, with three long beards, a clean appearance, and neat dress.

"This one, the left list champion of the three yuan in the eighth year of Zhizheng, Mr. Yuanju."

Wang Zongzhe, Ziyuanju.

He had earlier been ordered by Pan Cheng to go to Deng She's camp to ask for help, but Deng She detained him and did not let him go. Later, Liaodong was pacified, and Deng She and Pan Cheng made an alliance under the city and officially asked him over. To tell the truth, from a few contacts, Deng She didn't know that this person was a champion in vain, with no temperament and no ability.

So, why did he have to work so hard, not only to ask him to come over, but also to be promoted to the top position, and the civil officials were only below Hong and Yao? Deng She had a plan in mind. To put it bluntly, just like accepting He Guangxiu and promoting He Guangxiu, buying horse bones with a thousand dollars is nothing more than making a gesture to Liaodong and the scholars who entered Shimengyuan.

Speaking of which, Deng She, as his superior, doesn't need to be called by his name at all, he can be called by his name. However, since it is necessary to make a gesture, it seems disrespectful to name and name names, and the reason why it is so is to show respect.

Although Wen Huaguo is illiterate, he is good at pretending to be literate, and he especially respects talented people. What kind of character is Champion Lang? Terrific. When he heard this, he was in awe, and hurriedly arched his head, and said respectfully: "My surname is Wen, the literati's literature, good literature, and good piano and chess." Seeing the champion today, he burned high incense in his last life, and his ancestors accumulated virtue in eight lifetimes, and he must ask for advice another day. Courteous, courteous. ”

Pyongyang, Ayutthaya. There are flashy ones, and there are real talents and real learning. He was stationed in Pyongyang for many months, and he really accepted a lot of talented and learned people, close to Zhu Zhechi, these words were specially designed for him by his subordinates, and he always saw the first opening sentence of literati and ink writers. The sentence "see the champion today", the last three words have been changed, and it is suitable for anyone.

He had already spoken it well, and it sounded very appropriate.

Wang Zongzhe knew that he was Deng She's right-hand man, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up to return the salute. The two men finished their prayers and returned to each other's seats. Wen Huaguo saw that he was sitting in a strange posture, with his legs between his legs and his hands on it, which was diametrically opposed to the river light show opposite, which contrasted with each other. Ha Guangxiu spread her legs and threw her hands on the sides of the chair with a big grin.

Someone couldn't help but chuckle, Wen Huaguo was very dissatisfied, turned his head, and glared at him, so frightened that the guard trembled.

This kind of situation fell into Deng She's eyes. He remained silent, and then introduced that the people sitting on his left were all military generals. Under Wen Huaguo, Zhao Guo, and He Guangxiu, the fourth, sat a young man in his early twenties, without armor, dressed as a Confucian student, with a face like a crown of jade, and a good Fu Fan He Lang.

"This one, Liaoyang Jiaoyu. Our army defeated the Tartar Tanmachi, and Jiao Wanhu contributed a lot. ”

After Deng She's got Liaoyang, he searched for talents and got Jiaoyu. This person has dabbled in Confucian books since childhood, studied generals, and once worshipped a master as a teacher, and learned many methods of firearms manufacturing. Others are smart and good at drawing inferences from one another, and the kind of two-stage rocket that Lu Qianxi used to burn the grain and grass of the Yuan army has the credit for his participation in the production.

After the war, he was promoted to 10,000 households because of his merits.

Wen Huaguo nodded, arched his hand slightly, he was not interested in the little white face, so he didn't bother much. He has lived in the army for many years, and he has been stationed in Pyongyang as a last resort, thinking about Deng She's expedition to Liaodong, thinking day and night, and he can't hold back at the moment, and asks: "The last general listened to the general's report and killed 200,000 Tartars?" What a victory! ”

Deng She smiled and said, "Two hundred thousand is just an exaggeration. ”

Reporting more killings can boost one's own prestige, fall into the ears of the people who do not know the truth, and be in awe. In the battle of Liaodong, Deng She suffered from the lack of men and horses, and the total army he put into the battlefield was only more than 40,000 people, and such a long front could not encircle the retreat of more than 100,000 yuan troops.

When the horses are defeated, they are like scattered sheep.

At the beginning, the Yuan army could barely maintain its formation, act together, and organize a so-so counterattack. Later, he was attacked by Deng She several times, completely messed up the formation, and lost the channel of commanding up and down. The mountains are all over the wilderness, hundreds of thousands of miles in a radius, and there are fleeing Yuan soldiers everywhere, some to the south, some to the west, and some to the north.

In order to prevent the Yuan army from jumping over the wall in a hurry, breaking through to the east, and harassing Liaoyang, which had just gone through a vicious battle, Yang Wanhu's troops did not pursue, but were ordered to pull the nets from east to west. Deng Sheqin led more than 10,000 cavalry, from south to north, from north to south, chasing back and forth for five days and five nights.

Lu Qianxi and Tong Shengyang are simply crazy.

If there is no formed army, is it still called an army? just lambs to the slaughter. Each cavalryman had at least one or two Yuan soldiers in his hands. How many enemies are destroyed? No one knows. Because no one has time to cut off people's heads and count their heads. The clearest results of the battle were Yang Wanhu and others, who killed more than 6,000 enemies in total. Deng She estimated that 200,000 was definitely not, and the total Yuan army was only 100,000, but there were always tens of thousands of kills and wounds.

In addition to killing, there are also prisoners.

The number of kills and casualties of Yang Wanhu and other troops was not as good as that of the cavalry, and the number of prisoners was the largest, and the cavalry was far inferior to the foot soldiers. Yang Wanhu and other troops captured a total of more than 13,000 Yuan troops, not counting some of the killings by Li Ye. Taken together, the cavalry captured less than two thousand people.

That is, tens of thousands of kills and wounds, and fifteen thousand prisoners. After the battle, the casualties of our own army were counted, and the infantry and cavalry were added together, but there were only more than 2,000 people. Wen Huaguo called it a big victory, and he was right. Only this battle was comparable to Zhang Shicheng's retreat from a million enemies in a lonely city, and Deng She's strategic intention was completely realized. The Yuan army that was killed was frightened, and before it recovered its vitality, it would never dare to enter Liaodong half a step again.

Wen Huaguo was excited, sighed, and said: "It's only a pity, how did they run away?" ”

It's a long story. With the experience of Gao Jianu, Deng She's idea this time was to capture the thief and capture the king first, and sent Tong Shengyang directly into the Yuan army marshal camp. Who would have thought that both Nang Jialu and Ye Xian were cunning, and learned Cao Cao's old wisdom, dressed up in disguise, cut his beard and robe. Tong Shengyang worked hard, and in the end he grabbed a bamboo basket to draw water.

It's easy to catch one, the first trial, it's a Xibei goods, fake.

If it was an accident that both Nang Jialu and Ye Xianhu ran away, then the escape of the prisoner was purely intentional. In fact, not long after the start of the war, Lu Qianxi joined the cavalry going to Haozhou, led the way by the guide, crossed the mountains and took the trail, killed the horse pistol, and attacked the camp of the Yuan army in Yizhou.

Out of some consideration, after Deng Shemi met the Governor of Thought, he learned from Zhu Yuanzhang to let Naha go out, and even though he returned to Dadu.

"The general returned to Guangning, what did Pan Cheng say?"

After chasing and killing the Yuan army for five days and five nights, after seeing the remnants of the Yuan army either fleeing into the north or running out of the border of eastern Liaodong, Deng She returned to Guangning.

Before the start of the annihilation war, he gave Yang Wanhu an order, telling him to take the opportunity to take Luyang before he started. At this time, Pan Cheng only survived a city in Guangning, with more than 10,000 remnants, and when Deng She pursued and annihilated, he did not come out and stepped up time to repair the city wall. Helplessly, the time was in a hurry, and the repair could not be completed.

Dunshe returned, speechless.

The old brother who had a horse thief privately suggested that Deng She should simply not do anything and annex him. The position of a general manager in Dengshe District, Pan Cheng's justifiable Pingzhang, he was afraid of the reaction of King Xiaoming, and knew that although Liu Futong was defeated by the hands of Chakhan Timur, he still had tens of thousands of elite soldiers, entrenched in Anfeng and other places, and his prestige had not fallen. Liu Futong was the first to advocate and deserves to be the leading figure of the northern red scarf; Han Shantong, the father of King Xiao Ming, the head of the White Lotus Sect in the north, their words have a great influence.

More critically, Shandong, Huainan and other places are still nominally the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and Xiao Mao Pingzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang are still nominally the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Although I have defeated Tanmachi today, Liaoxi is still in the hands of the Tartars; Shenyang is less than 100 miles away from Liaoyang, like a fish in the throat. There are many Tartar tribes in the north, connecting Mongolia and Mobei, the Tartars are good at riding and shooting, both old and young can fight, they are warriors on horseback, and there are no less than 100,000 people who control the strings.

"The Chakhan Timur Department in Henan is all fierce in a hundred battles, and it can be used at any time to break the power of Bianliang's great victory and transfer to western Liaoning. The Polo Timur Department in the abdomen and Hebei can go north and east at any time, and in the battle of Fengzhou, he is a strong opponent. Liaodong seems to be a big victory, but in fact it is full of dangers, at this time, how can it be bad for small profits and big things? It is not difficult to annex Pan Cheng, but what is the benefit to our army? It is not worth it to get more than one city, and to fall into the dead end of one's own isolation in vain.

"Besides, Luyang is already in my hands. Pan Cheng relies on a Guangning, far and near our city, surrounded by our army, he is like a tiger into a cage, no matter how capable he is, it is difficult to turn over the wind and waves. Yes, he still has more than 10,000 remnants, but how can he raise more than 10,000 troops in one city? Just wait and see. ”

Deng She thought twice and did not agree. At that moment, a messenger was sent to invite Pan Cheng out of the city and come to the camp for a while.

He won tens of thousands of troops and stationed outside the city, and if he wanted to attack the city, he could decide with one blow. Pan Cheng can't come out if he doesn't come out. When the two met in the camp, Deng She was very courteous, regarded himself as a subordinate, and did not mention the matter of the great victory over the Yuan army. Set up a wine banquet, and the name is its shock. In the end, Pan Cheng couldn't bear it, took the initiative to speak, and offered to ask for credit for Deng She, and gave it to King Xiao Ming.

He was not subject to Deng She's salute, and treated each other with equal courtesy, saying: "The merit of the general, everyone can see, tens of thousands of people have broken 200,000 tartars, killed and injured countless people, and corpses are everywhere. The battle of Liaodong has greatly increased the ambition of my Great Song Dynasty, and the lord will not hesitate to reward him, and the post of Liaoyang Pingzhang is none other than the general. ”

In the words, there was a faint temptation of Deng She's mind.

Deng She smiled without saying a word, and persuaded him to drink. Pan Cheng punched an empty fist, feeling uncomfortable, he had something in his heart, and the wine was hard to swallow. After three rounds of drinking, he finally lost his patience, made a look, and a staff member who came with him took out the prepared rhetoric and said: "The famous general Huo Qu of the Han Dynasty was sick, and he was not yet able to weaken the crown, and he broke the five parts of the Huns in six days, killed its king, captured its prince, and obtained its golden man who sacrificed to the sky, and his name was passed down through the ages, and he was known as the champion Hou."

"Today, there are generals and Tartars who will hunt Liaodong, fight for thousands of miles, break millions of enemies in five days, and do not let the ancients specialize in beauty, and fame is just around the corner."

This sycophancy, flattery is flattery, quite appropriate. Deng She is not very old, when Huo Qu was sick in the army, he was not very old, the first expedition, only seventeen years old, with 800 people deep into the desert, long-distance travel hundreds of miles, more than 2,000 enemies, the two uncles of the Huns Shan Yu, the eldest father was killed, Ji's father was captured, went back to Chang'an, was named the champion Hou, and took the three armies of righteousness and bravery.

What the staff told was the story of Huo Quai's illness and then going out of Longxi to fight against the Huns. Deng She read the "Book of Han", smiled slightly, and said: "The Xiongnu have not been destroyed, why do you want to be at home?" Champion Hou, I have always admired. ”

Pan Cheng coughed, and the staff returned to the truth, saying: "Today, the general has defeated millions of enemies and recovered my lost territory in Liaoyang, which can be described as the first credit." Pan Cheng became anxious, raised his glass and drank, the staff didn't dare to go around in circles anymore, stubbornly said, "May I ask the general, when does the general plan to hand over to our army in Luyang and other places?" ”

At the height of Pan Cheng's heyday, he occupied more than a dozen prefectures and counties around Quang Ninh, and now all of them are in the hands of Deng She.

Before the staff's words landed, Tong Shengyang and Yang Wanhu attacked at the same time. Yang Wanhu Huo Ran got up, crossed his waist and glared, and shouted: "Bold! Tong Shengyang pretended to be drunk with wine, took the saber out of the sheath, threw it on the desk, knocked off the cups and dishes all over the ground, and reprimanded: "Rude!" ”

The staff's face was as pale as dirt, and Pan Cheng almost couldn't hold the wine glass.

Deng She frowned, motioned for Yang Wanhu to sit down, asked Tong Shengyang to adopt the saber, apologized, and said: "These subordinates of the last general don't know etiquette, and Lord Pingzhang is not to blame." Ignoring the question raised by the staff, he raised his glass and smiled, "This wine was obtained from the tent of the tartar marshal." Passionflower, grape wine luminous glass, gentlemen, please drink. ”

Until the end of the party, no one dared to mention this topic again. This alliance under the city was not explicitly stated, and the two of them knew it in their hearts. Quang Ninh, Deng She don't; Don't think about anything else.

Deng She briefly told Wen Huaguo about this kind of experience.

Wen Huaguo laughed, when he came to the army, he never thought that he would be on an equal footing with Pan Cheng, or even a head above him, and he couldn't help but be satisfied. After laughing for a while, he remembered what he was most concerned about and asked, "Nangjia is defeated, and our army occupies Liaodong." General, where are you going next? Hit Liaoxi? Hit Shenyang? ”

He shouted: "No matter where the general goes, this time you need to bring the last general." Zi said: Isn't it fun to learn and learn it? This big golden hammer has not been used for a long time, and my arms are a little rusty! As he spoke, he touched his thigh and sighed, "The flesh on this leg is resurrected, resurrected." ”

The flesh was resurrected, and Liu Bei was pawned. He heard it from nowhere. The military generals were puzzled, and the civil officials laughed when they heard it. Deng She said with a smile: "It is almost the middle of winter, our army has been fighting many fierce battles, and the brothers can't bear it, and the consumption of grain, grass and equipment needs to be replenished. Liaoxi and Shenyang will talk about it later, the top priority is not to fight, but to recuperate. ”

His face turned straight and asked, "A few days ago, I explained your affairs, how did you do?" ”

After Deng She returned to Shuangcheng, he listened to the opinions of Hong Jixun and Wu Henian, and issued several decrees, involving many economic and cultural aspects, and the reduction of taxes was one of them. In addition, Pyongyang is an important town that has a major role in mobilizing the overall situation, and its implementation is very important. Wen Huaguo was about to speak, and his footsteps outside the door were hurried, and a guard rushed in.

Wen Huaguo's face sank and shouted, "What's the alarm? ”

"The messenger has come to report, and Anfeng has come to the angel."

King Xiao Ming sent a messenger to deliver the holy decree.

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1, Dunshe called him by his words to show respect.

The so-called "name is called by self, and people are called by words", the name is only for the elders to call themselves, and the self-proclaimed name indicates modesty; Words are used for others to be called.