Cao Bin said in a deep voice: "The art of war is a good match, and it is a strange victory." Those who are good at wingers are easy to win big and lose big. ”

Wang Yu stroked his palm and smiled: "Yes." The major affairs of the country of soldiers should not be neglected. In the previous dynasty, Taizong commented on the generals, saying, 'Ji and Daozong will not win or defeat if they use their troops, and if Wan Che does not win, he must be defeated', which is to praise the two generals of Ji and Daozong, and belittle Wan Che. ”

Cao Bin sighed: "Exactly, it's a pity that the world is ignorant, and for a while, the neighborhood said that he thought that person was the first general in the Central Plains." Last night, he accompanied the attendant's house to read a book, and then Dong Zunhui in the northwest reported that Wu Yingying had defeated the Uighurs in Gansu and Suzhou, subdued tens of thousands of Uighurs and Guiyi soldiers, and included the land west of the river.

Wang Yu secretly laughed in his heart that he couldn't hold his breath, and while drinking tea, he said softly: "The eyes of the world are mediocre, why should Guohua care." ”

Cao Bin stretched out his hand and put the tea bowl on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Lanzhou is barren and poor, the soldiers are less than 10,000, and the Ganzhou Uighur soldiers are at least 10,000. I want to send a group of elite soldiers to take Lanzhou. However, there are some things that require your help. ”

Wang Yu's heart sank, and he suppressed a smile and asked, "Where did Guohua come from, what can I do to help you, just say it." ”

"Let the Zoroastrian disciples in Lanzhou City open the city gate for our army and show the way, and it is best to capture his family in Lanzhou in one fell swoop before the Wu hero's left-behind soldiers find out, so that he can be held hostage in Hexi and not act rashly. ”

Wang Yu was shocked, but still a little unwilling, and asked, "Has Your Majesty allowed it at this time?"

Cao Bin laughed and said: "If Your Majesty is not allowed, how do I know that you have worked hard to deal with this person, and you are really a real person who does not show your face, but I am ashamed of Cao Bin." ”

Wang Yu couldn't refuse, so he had to agree, piled up into a smile, and didn't listen to Cao Bin tell him how to mobilize the forbidden army in southern Jinnan, how to sneak, and how to contact the Zoroastrian disciples in Lanzhou City and the army. His mind was buzzing, and he sighed in his heart: "Brother Wu, I'm really ashamed of you now." ”

Cao Yong, a disciple of the Guiyi Army, was hugged on the back of a sheep by a pair of big hands, he trembled with fear, and grabbed the curled fluff on the back of the sheep, only to feel extremely slippery, and the sheep was afraid to slip off if it was motionless. Cao Yong saw with his own eyes that the first few Uighur and Han Chinese children were tossed down in less than five or six steps before the big ram had scurried out, and he put a hard heart on his shoulder, and grabbed the sheep's neck with his thin arms, so that the ram bleated incessantly, and before he was released from the pen, he was already kicking back and forth against the wooden railing uneasily. Cao Yong didn't care about his complaining cruel father, held back his fear, and muttered to the ram's ear: "Sheep, sheep, if you let me ride ten more steps, I will cut ten baskets of tender grass for you to eat every day, no, I will give you green vegetables." ”

Outside the fence is a huge school field, next to the seats, there are many Dunhuang City to come to see the lively audience, today is the military salute of the Hexi Jiaorong Army. After Wu Yingying defeated the Hexi Uighurs and subdued the soldiers of the Guiyi Army, in order to deal with the strong enemy fed by the Quartet, he organized more than 30,000 soldiers from the Lanzhou West Expedition to the old camp and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army, and the innocent Uighur soldiers into six armies, with the Hussar Army, the White Feather Army, and the Chi Hunter Army as the cavalry army, and the Jinfan Army, the Jiaorong Army, and the Lianrui Army as the infantry army, with more than 5,000 people in each army. Today, when the Jiaorong Army was finally reorganized, Wu Yingying invited the generals of the Sixth Army, the captains, the leaders of the Hexi Uighur tribes, and ordinary people to come to watch the ceremony.

Early in the morning, Wu Yingying boarded the school parade platform early in the wake of the newly appointed commanders of the various armies and the officers at and above the rank of captain of the Jiaorong Military Academy. In order to show the greatest respect for the sergeants participating in the parade, Wu Yingying set a rule for the senior officers who watched the ceremony, that is, the highest-ranking officers who watched the ceremony must be the first to arrive at the parade ground and witness the whole process of preparing for the entrance of the parade. Originally, this was just a small means by Wu Yingying in an attempt to shorten the distance between the officers and men and strengthen the cohesion, but he did not expect that two unexpected consequences would occur after that: First, this military regulation greatly increased the time for senior officers to participate in a military parade, thus greatly reducing the number of military parades that were not necessary; second, all the troops under review must complete a series of actions under the noses of the generals, from entering the army to forming a whole team, so that the generals can better see the true level of the troops under review.

To set the mood around, Wu Yingying suggested that the children be given a sheep race, and that hundreds of Uighur and Han Chinese children be divided into ten groups, each of which would be mounted on the back of a ram, and that the parents of the children who stayed the longest would be rewarded with 20 yuan. Cao Yong's father, Cao Shang, who was less than six years old, was an alcoholic, and when he heard that the children who participated in the competition had 500 yuan to receive, he immediately stuffed him to the officers of the Jiaorong Army who organized a military salute despite Cao Yong's objections.

The stands were full of noisy people, although most of the Mongolian and Uighur children started to practice riding from sheep riding, but this time the Lanzhou chose to compete not the docile ewes, but the shepherds deliberately fed and teased the tempered rams, from the moment the fence was opened, these rams kept jumping wildly, even the Mongolian and Uighur children who had a little experience in sheep riding, most of them were thrown to the ground within ten steps, fortunately, the strength of the sheep was much smaller than that of cattle and horses, and the sergeant of the Jiaorong army who protected the children next to him was quick and quick-eyed, so he saved the danger several times。 The Uighur nobles who were accustomed to begging for a living on horseback did not feel anything, they practiced riding since childhood, tamed inferior horses, which did not break their buttocks into eight petals, but many Han Chinese parents who sent their children to the field were worried, and many of them had secretly regretted that they had put their own blood and blood in danger for small profits. However, Cao Shang first made a pot of wine with the money that his son had earned in exchange for his life, poured the yellow soup down, his eyes were drunk, and he made it clear which of the dozens of children in the small fence on the sidelines was his son.

A group of children who had already appeared were smashed by the ram, which was both funny and pitiful, which greatly stimulated the interest of the audience on the sidelines, and everyone turned their eyes to the people waiting on the sidelines, "My lord, can we start?" The new commander of the Jiaorong Army made Chase turn around and say, Wu Yingying smiled and nodded, and turned sideways to Xin Gu and Yu Furen who were sitting on his left and right: "The grassland boy has been riding sheep since he was a child, shooting pikas, and growing up to be warriors, and we children can't lose to those children on the grassland from now on." They are the hope of our army's long-term prosperity. ”

With the sound of a gong, dozens of fences were opened together, the audience on the sidelines cheered together, dozens of rams carried the children on their backs to rush out of the fence together, jumping around the school yard like a child, almost a few breaths, there were more than a dozen children were thrown off the sheep's back, the fast-eyed Jiaorong army sergeant rushed up to knock down the ram, and the other protected the child and took the child out of the field, many children were dull-eyed, scared stupid.

The exciting game aroused the enthusiasm of the audience, the cheers were higher and higher, and after a few breaths, there were several children riding on the back of the ram, one of them was Cao Yong, the whole world seemed to be a slippery and crazy bumpy sheep's back, the audience's huge cheers were more like a kind of intimidation in his ears, Cao Yong was almost scared to cry, he tried his best not to be upside down under the sheep's back, because he was more afraid of being kicked by the thick sheep's hooves. The ram jumped and ran desperately with bumps and undulations, one step, two steps, three steps, and in the end he couldn't count at all, Cao Yong's head was only blank, desperately grabbing the long hair under the sheep's neck, and his legs were unconsciously stuck tightly on the sheep's back, knowing that the sergeant of the Jiaorong Army pulled him off the sheep's back. Cao Yong, a six-year-old Han child, was the champion of this sheep riding competition.