"Enough! In my opinion, you are not a private school gentleman, and he is not an ordinary Qing army spy, two, I don't know if I am right? Liu Ziguang looked at the middle-aged scribe and the Qing army scout, and said lightly.

Hearing the general say this, Zhong Shouyong kicked the middle-aged scribe to the ground, and the steel knife came out of the sheath on his neck and shouted: "Who are you, dare to deceive my general, and you still don't recruit from the truth!" ”

Anthony did not show weakness, the steel knife pressed against the neck of the Qing army spout, and a bloodshot came out: "Say it quickly!" What part of it are you? To spy on what? ”

Liu Ziguang grabbed the collar of the middle-aged scribe's satin robe, looked him in the eye and said: "Weishan County is a border city, and the private school gentlemen there are all poor talents, and they can't earn a few taels of silver a year, but they can't afford your Su embroidered robe, oh, it's still the most popular Wufu longevity pattern in the capital this spring, I don't know when you went to the capital to pull the fabric?" Also, I'm afraid your jade pendant is not cheap, you can't get it without a thousand taels of silver. Also~~ Yes, your Shaoxing official dialect is very authentic, when did Master Shaoxing start to be a private school teacher? ”

A drop of sweat began to appear on the tip of the middle-aged scribe's nose, and he said expectantly, "Actually... I..."

"You're from the capital, a staff member next to an adult, if I'm not mistaken, this adult may be surnamed Cui." Liu Ziguang said coldly. Ignoring the stunned middle-aged scribe, he turned to the Qing army spies.

"Well, you're good at kung fu, your attitude is hard, and your Chinese is good, you don't need to ask, what kind of lackey is the military aircraft department, right?" When the Qing army spies heard Liu Ziguang's words, they had already admitted their identities with surprised eyes.

"How do you know, who are you?" The middle-aged scribe asked in horror.

"I've made it very clear, the clothes on your body are the most popular in the capital at present, it means that you just came from the capital, you speak Shaoxing dialect, it is likely that you are a master, your jade pendant is very valuable, it means that your salary is high, your official position is very large, and it happens that it is Cui Shangshu of the military department who recently came from Beijing to patrol the border, so I think you are his master." Liu Ziguang replied lightly. I can't see such a simple reasoning anymore, and I'm too sorry for the full set of "Sherlock Holmes" I've ever watched.

"Our general is the perfect combination of civil and military, resourcefulness and bravery, God's darling, the general of the death battalion~~ Your Excellency Liu Ziguang!" Anthony introduced vividly.

As Anthony imagined, the middle-aged scribe was shocked and couldn't speak for a long time, but his later behavior was a little abnormal, and he actually knelt in front of Liu Ziguang and cried.

"General, I finally found you, hurry up and save Governor Yuan." The scribe burst into tears, and it seemed that the tension of being hunted down just now had not been released.

"If you have something to say, don't worry." Liu Ziguang soothed the emotions of the middle-aged scribe.

"The next surname is Zhou Mingmeng, and he is indeed the staff of Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and this time he went north to Shandong with Cui Shangshu to ......" Zhou Mengren told Liu Ziguang how Fan Wencheng and Cui Chengxiu secretly agreed to kill Yuan Chonghuan in exchange for the Qing army's withdrawal.

"There is no choice but to pretend that the old illness has relapsed, break away from the convoy, and seek the help of the general, expose this secret agreement, and save Yuan Dudu's life." Zhou Mengren said earnestly.

"So Fan Wencheng sent someone to hunt you down, right?" After receiving an affirmative answer, Liu Ziguang walked up to the secret agent of the military plane, and suddenly slashed him in the neck with a knife, knocking him unconscious.

"Tie it up, keep your mouth gagged, don't let him find a chance to commit suicide, he may be able to use this person." After instructing his subordinates, Liu Ziguang came to Zhou Mengren again.

"Do you know me? Why are you looking for me, and why are you sure that I will definitely help you? And why you, as Choi Seung-so's staff, are against him, I need a reasonable answer to all of this, and I want it now. ”

Zhou Mengren said: "The general's prestige is all over the world, no one knows, no one knows; Zhou was sure that the general would help me because the general owed a favor to a person, who was our mutual friend, and his surname was Qi. As for the last question, Zhou is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, not a lackey of Cui, it is a matter of national righteousness, even if Cui has a good relationship with him, he has to go against him once. ”

Oh, it turned out to be the mysterious Mr. Qi in Beixin Street, Nanjing, that guy helped me get a million taels in arrears, and now I need to repay the favor, okay, for the sake of national righteousness, this favor helps!

"Let's go back and discuss it first. Yuan Dudu is not Yue Fei, Cui Chengxiu is not Qin Hui, so many soldiers and generals on the front line are ***, it is not so easy to kill him. "Liu Ziguang's analysis is very reasonable, Cui Chengxiu has very few generals, even if he has Shang Fang's sword in his hand, it is not so easy to kill Yuan Chonghuan, after all, now the royal prestige has been almost destroyed by the Queen Mother and the nine thousand years old, Shang Fang's sword is a fart, and a general will be blocked back if he is not affected by the life of the monarch outside.

With Zhou Mengren and the secret agents of the military aircraft department, as well as the shell, the group returned to the barracks of the death camp, just a guard was waiting there, and when he saw Liu Ziguang, he greeted him and said: "Vice General Liu, the factory owner has an order, the death camp escorts the baggage to the front line in Yanzhou, please send someone into the city to take over the convoy." ”

What a coincidence of this order. Liu Ziguang ordered his own soldier company to enter the city to take over the baggage team, and at the same time asked the other four companies to gather and prepare to set off.

The convoy in the city was loaded, a hundred carts of mules and horses, each with two mules drawn by carts, a charioteer and a groom, loaded with armor, swords, guns, arrows, fire oil, alcohol, buckshot for chariot machine guns, thistle terrestris for the retarded cavalry, crossbow machine parts of various types, etc. When the Ming army fought, the bow and crossbow were the most important weapons. In defensive battles, arrows are consumed the fastest, so the largest number of arrows in the cargo is the arrows, which are fully loaded with sixty vehicles.

The owner of the Peng factory handed over the loading list to Liu Ziguang and explained: "These are all ordnance produced by our iron factory working overtime, and they must be safely delivered to Lord Yuan in Yanzhou." If Yanzhou can't hold it, the Qing army will go straight to the iron factory, so I have sent the ironclad chariot and 3,000 iron guards to assist the imperial army, and you must be careful of the sneak attack of the Qing army along the way, and after arriving in Yanzhou, the 3,000 iron guards will be under your command, and you will come back after beating Dolgon back. ”

This is the first mercenary mission carried out by the death battalion, fighting against foreign captives and recovering lost territory, which is very meaningful. But his own gang of men themselves are composed of foreign prisoners from all over the world, and for them, war is just work.

"How is such a large amount of materials handled in the accounts? Do you want Lord Yuan to make a white slip or something? Liu Ziguang has not forgotten his other job as the premier of the bookkeeper. A hundred carts of military funds are worth more than 100,000 taels of silver.

"It's enough to let the ordnance officer sign for it, my Ming Dynasty is at a critical juncture of life and death, how can I still care about these things outside my body, they are all hit on the Tartars, not in Yanzhou, are they still beaten under the iron factory city?" Their Xuzhou army has not even paid their military salaries for several months, and this batch of military funds should be sent by us. I didn't expect that the owner of the Peng factory was still such a person who understood righteousness, and Liu Ziguang secretly admired it.

Let the pro-soldier company escort the convoy out of the city slowly, Liu Ziguang rode out of the city alone and came to the camp to give a lecture. The soldiers of the death battalion were all veterans, and in a short time they packed up their belongings, loaded the marching tents and grain and grass on the carts, carried their own weapons and armor, and prepared the ballista and gun carriages. The infantrymen also put their shields, armor, spears on their carts, and sat on their carts wearing only soft armor and carrying swords. Thanks to the efforts of Zamuhe, the small force of 500 people has realized the full mobility of mules and horses, and the infantry is no longer infantry in the pure sense, but chariot infantry and dragoons who move on horseback and dismount to fight.

Looking at the well-equipped, high-morale troops, Liu Ziguang was a little excited, this is his brother who suffered together, was born and died together, in this troubled era, these foreign prisoners of war are thousands of miles away from home, and can only rely on the swords and guns in their hands to fight for a world and a future. Their eager gaze fell on them, it was worship, trust, gratitude.

I can't let them down. Liu Ziguang said to himself secretly. He jumped into a carriage, stood on top of the carriage, glanced around, and spoke:

"Brothers, let's escort a batch of ordnance to Yanzhou, and by the way, stay there to fight with the Qing army, and see whose sword is faster and whose head is harder! Whoever cuts off the most heads, whoever rushes to the front, will be rewarded! ”

The soldiers listened quietly, and no one spoke.

"Our death camp is all veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead people, this battle is the first battle since we became an army, whether it is a hero or a bear, it is a battle, brothers cheer me up!"

"I don't want to say anything else, we haven't been together for a day or two. In a word: come and go together! Live and die together! ”

The last sentence resonated with the soldiers, who raised their weapons high and shouted: "Come and go together!" Live and die together! ”

Liu Ziguang, who was very satisfied with the effect of his speech, stretched out his two hands and pressed down as if the secretary was holding a meeting, and his voice suddenly calmed down.

"Okay, that's all I have to say, and now the company commander will arrange the march." After saying that, he jumped out of the cart, and for the marching formation, only Zamuhe, who had been a centurion, still had some experience.

Zhamuhe, who was now acting as a battalion officer, jumped into the carriage and shouted: "The cavalry company scouts will open the way in front of the faction, and the second and third platoons will be divided into left and right flanks to reconnoitre. The rest of the infantry was escorted with the vehicle, and each company and platoon were assigned by themselves and disbanded! ”

There was a pleasant sound of horse bells, the transport convoy went out of the city under the escort of the personal soldier company, and the iron factory equipped each carriage with a coachman, a groom, four or five officers sent by the Xuzhou Forbidden Army to be responsible for liaison matters, and a dozen or so mechanics rushed to Yanzhou to repair the ironclad chariots and steam boilers. The death camp left more than a dozen sick people with bad stomach and ten soldiers who stayed in the battalion, most of them dispatched, and the entire convoy was a total of 700 people, 500 mules and horses, and drove towards Yanzhou.

At the same time, an elite force roared out of the Qing army camp outside Yanzhou, made a big circle, and penetrated deep into the south of Yanzhou, and their mission was to intercept and kill the Ming army's grain transport teams and messengers.