The first to narrate is Hei Baoyi: "The last time King Chuang besieged Kaifeng, I heard that the Bianjun borrowed 500 soldiers from the Li Guo brothers, and paid 1,000 taels of silver as a thank you gift. ”

Chi Shude also echoed: "Before attacking Baofeng, in order to deal with the prefect of Ruzhou who came to review the troops, Baofeng also borrowed 1,000 troops from General Liu, and General Liu couldn't trust them, so he sent 1,000 old and weak people to fill the number. As a result, the prefect of Ruzhou was very angry when he saw it, and the general of Baofeng was angry and did not pay the honorarium, and later attacked Baofeng, and General Liu slaughtered them all. ”

It took Xu Ping a long time to calm down the emotions in his chest, and he asked slowly: "In other words, this is a common thing, and the officers and soldiers of Henan are trustworthy?" ”

"Yes, we have been fighting with the Bianjun army for almost ten years, we beg for survival, they beg for pay, everyone looks up and doesn't look down, the officers and soldiers don't want to do things too desperately, and they are also afraid that if one day it will fall into our hands, our side...... At least we broke into the camp, and we have always been true to our word, and we have never betrayed the alliance, so we have a good reputation in the Henan official army. ”

Xu Ping pondered for a long time and said to the staff officer: "Bring the messenger in." ”

"The villain has seen General Xu, and the head of the family, General Yu, greets His Excellency Mr. General Xu." After the envoy came in, he politely greeted Xu Ping.

"Your envoy is exempt." Xu told the envoy frankly that he didn't understand the rules here, and it didn't hurt to let the envoy talk about it.

"The head of the family will vacate the big camp closest to General Xu, there will be no other camps of our army within ten miles of the vicinity, and General Xu can send someone to occupy it by himself. When the governor of Henan, Lord Gao, came to review, the head of the family would send a team of soldiers and horses to accompany him, no more than 200 people, General Xu was relieved, but the head of the family needed General Xu to swear a poisonous oath not to deceive and betray the alliance. The messenger looked calm as he spoke, clearly trusting the camp.

According to Yu Dong's plan, the camp only needs to bring the army out to stand for a station. If the governor is satisfied, Yu Dong is willing to pay 3,000 taels of silver and 400 pigs to Xu Ping as a thank you gift. Half of this thank-you gift will be paid first, and the other half will be paid after Xu Ping returns the camp to him.

"I'm going to think about it."

"General Xu, this thank you gift is already very rich, and no matter how many generals of my family can't take it out." The messenger said: "General Xu, the head of my family is fair, and Tong Su is not bullied, who doesn't know this......"

The two guards took the chattering messenger out, and Xu Ping asked his men, "What do you think?" ”

"It seems that Yu Dong's subordinates have at least two thousand vacancies," Zhou Dongtian was the first to speak: "But his quota is only three thousand." ”

"If we attack suddenly, we have a great chance of catching the governor of Henan." The second speaker was Yu Shenhe.

"Is a governor of Henan worth three thousand taels of silver and four hundred pigs?" Before Yu Shenhe's words fell, Hei Baoyi asked rhetorically: "Breaking into the camp has always been true to words, if Brother Xu is unwilling, tell them bluntly that they are unwilling, anyway, I don't agree to cheat them out of their money, and then suddenly attack them, this kind of deceptive thing is not easy to do." ”

Chi Shude agreed, and he obviously didn't approve of the sudden attack: "Not to mention a governor, even an empty battalion is not worth so many pigs." ”

"Well, that's a good point." Xu Ping asked the guards to bring the envoy in again, telling him that he had agreed to Yu Dong's proposal, and that he would send troops to receive the camp tomorrow, and that he would send a staff officer to go back with the envoy to discuss the details of the specific operation. However, Xu Ping insisted that Yu Dong pay a deposit of 20% first, and then pay 40% after the review was completed before returning the camp, and the rest would be paid off after the Ming army took back the camp.

After sending off the envoy, Xu Ping ordered: "Tomorrow, Brother Yu will lead the first wing to receive the camp with a spear, and the Black Brother will lead the second wing to build a bridgehead on the opposite bank, and if there is anything abnormal, go to reinforcements immediately." Brother Yu, you should be careful, if you are seen to have a flaw, you will act immediately, don't hesitate. ”

"Yes, my lord." Yu Shenhe was still a little unwilling after receiving the order: "If I hadn't been seen, would I have watched the governor of Henan leave?" ”

"I'd rather ask for three thousand taels of silver and four hundred pigs," Xu Ping laughed: "If you can't see it, then the governor of Henan might as well be a pig." ”

On April 20, Yue Mu walked out of the camp with a spear in his hand, followed closely behind Qin Dedong, the fruit chief, wearing not the green cloth clothes that broke into the camp but the red clothes of the Ming army that had just been issued, and the Ming army's standard hat on his head. Yue Mu's fruit was located in the front row of the whole army, and the distance from the parade platform was less than ten meters, so when the governor of Henan came to the stage, Yue Mu could even see his eyebrows.

"Long live Daming! Long live the Emperor! ”

Yu Shenhe, who was draped all over his body, drew his sword and shouted towards the review stand.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

Yue Mu shouted loudly with all his strength, the shouts of the majestic mountains and rivers made the governor of Henan Gao Mingheng slightly stunned, after chanting several times, the governor of Henan showed a smile on his face, and praised the Ming general on the side: "This momentum!" It's really a good soldier, General Yu leads a good soldier. ”

The Ming general standing next to Governor Gao was full of smiles, hunched over his waist like a big shrimp and nodded again and again: "Lord Governor has won awards, awards." ”

The next process is exactly the same as what I was told in advance, first by the high governor to give a lecture, and after the lecture is over, it is to receive the reward and disband.

But there were unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and Governor Gao only read a few words, and the sky suddenly became cloudy, and then the rain fell sparsely. Yue Mu saw the regretful expression on the face of the governor of Henan, stopped speaking, and retreated to his seat, and several soldiers of the standard battalion behind the governor immediately raised umbrellas for him. And several of the accompanying generals also fell to their feet and sighed, looking up at the sky, their faces full of disappointment.

Yu Shenhe, who saw this scene, was a little inexplicable, when discussing it in advance, Yu Dong didn't say what to do in case of rain, and Yu Shenhe didn't think it was a big deal. Yu Shenhe, who felt strange, decided to respond to the changes with no change, holding his sword and standing tall, and the 2,000 officers and men of the Guards Battalion also remained as solemn as their commanders. The actions of the guards camp seemed to make the governor of Henan a little puzzled, and Yue Mu clearly saw that the eyes of the governor Gao were round, and the person also got up from the chair.

The rain fell loudly, and the intermittent raindrops soon connected into lines, and the rain hit Yue Mu's hat and rolled down the edge of the hat. This was not the first time that the Guards Battalion had lined up in the rain, and at this time, if you wiped your face with your hands, you would be ruthlessly whipped, so Yue Mu stood still and let the rain flow freely on his face.

There was already a white mist in front of him, and in the haze, Yue Mu saw a person stumbling over, and the cry of "adult, adult" could be vaguely heard in the rain.

The figure of the governor of Henan rushed out of the rain curtain, and his long face stretched out in front of Yue Mu's eyes, the tall man was soaked, and the big red official uniform on his body was awkwardly pasted on his body. The governor of Henan put his hand on his forehead and observed Yue Mu closely, his head was almost under his hat, but Yue Mu turned a blind eye to this, and his immobile gaze shot into the rain over the shoulders of the governor of Henan. Several standard battalion guards ran behind the tall man with umbrellas to hold the umbrella for him, and shouted: "My lord, beware of the cold." ”

The governor of Henan slowly took his gaze away from Yue Mu's face, swept over the cheeks of the soldiers in the first row of the Guards Battalion, and then threw himself at his companions behind them, the two thousand soldiers of the Guards Battalion stood still like rocks, and the raindrops fell on them, stirring up countless splashes, and shrouding the entire army in a mist.

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Yue Mu heard the loud laughter of the governor of Henan in his ears, and he saw with his spare eyes that Master Gao was already laughing backwards.

After the review, Yu Dong sent a thank you gift as promised. Yu Shenhe brought the first wing back to the barracks and chatted with Xu Ping about what he had seen today. When he talked about Gao Mingheng's abnormal performance, he still looked puzzled: "My lord, I almost ordered it to do it at that time. ”

"Haha, this rain was really unexpected by me. But Brother Yu, don't you read military books? Xu Ping also laughed out loud after hearing this.

"Please make it clear."

"A new book." Xu Ping stopped laughing and said to Yu Shenhe: "This is written by Qi Shaobao. ”

Yu Shenhe was a little puzzled: "My lord, this is not a teaching material for the new army. ”

"Yes, I saw it myself, and I didn't mean to blame you." Xu Ping's face was full of smug smiles. He told Yu Shenhe that decades ago, when Qi Jiguang took the world-famous Yiwu Iron Army to be inspected in Jizhen, he also encountered an unexpected heavy rain. In front of Elder Tan Lunge, Premier Qi Jiguang and countless border army commanders, the other northern border troops who were under review at the same time fled back to the camp in a blink of an eye, and when they saw that the three thousand Yiwu soldiers could line up in the rain without breaking up, they were so shocked that they couldn't take it back.

"On that day, the Yiwu army braved the rain and stood at a station, and was exclaimed by the northern border army as 'the divine army is alive', and since then the army of Qi Shaobao has been like a ghost. Do you think, the border army in the north is still unable to restrain the troops in the rain, let alone the Bianjun army? ”

Yu Shenhe said with some puzzlement: "Don't talk about lining up in the rain, even marching in the rain is nothing to do, what's so difficult about this?" ”

"Brother Yu, we have been in the new army, and we feel that there is nothing, and others may not be like this." The Guards Battalion was strictly trained, and the soldiers were paid a full salary, a large amount of meat, and a variety of means of entrapment, and the morale was comparable to that of the new army. Xu Ping sighed: "You know, 'rain and snow do not leave the camp' is the golden rule of the Ming army in various places." Xu Ping's face showed some envy and reverence: "Zhang Da once told me before his death that when Hou Ye personally led the fire battalion to the southwest to suppress bandits, the rain road marched, several provinces were shocked, and countless local officials called the Funing Army the strongest army in three generations, which is really fascinating to think about." ”

Yu Shenhe was also moved: "What else did Master Zhang say?" ”

"Lord Zhang also said that the white feather soldiers are fierce and stubborn." Xu Ping laughed self-deprecatingly: "We are now the fierce in the mouth of Lord Zhang, but Lord Zhang must not have thought that there will be a fierce army that is also built in accordance with the way of training and governing the army of Lord Hou, and one day later, we will definitely encounter the fire battalion on the battlefield, let's see who is restrained." ”

Xu Ping no longer continued to talk nonsense on this topic, but told his subordinates about his plan: "There are gods in the head, since I swore not to attack Yu Dong, then naturally I can't betray the alliance, but after Yu Dong gives the thank you gift to our army and completes the transaction of borrowing troops, it will be another matter." This rain was a bit unexpected to me, I had planned to raid Yu Dong the day after tomorrow, but now it looks like it may drag on for two more days, you must not slack off, you must be prepared, and we will attack as soon as the ground is dry. ”

……

At this time, the governor of Henan had just sent Yu Dong away, and in addition to the scheduled reward, Gao Mingheng also gave an extra 2,000 taels of silver.

"Iron soldiers!" Gao Mingheng's left arm pushed a large arc, recalling the feeling of the parade in front of the staff, and the two thousand officers and soldiers seemed to be standing in front of him: "Yu Shuai's son, that's really a tiger and wolf army!" The more Governor Gao said, the more excited he became: "There is one to be ten...... No, with a hundred male soldiers, why worry about the thief not breaking? ”

……

"Oh, oh, oh......" After listening to Yu Dong's words, his subordinates hummed and chirped one by one, and they couldn't say half a word.

In the camp tent, these generals and cronies gathered around Yu Dong were all as pale as earth, most of them had seen the military appearance of the guard battalion, and the remaining few who did not go also learned what had happened from others.

"The governor wants us to take the lead and attack Xu Ping?"

I don't know how many times this question has been repeated, Yu Dong still replied meticulously: "Yes, the governor said that this reward is just a small meaning, and after the big break into the camp, his old man will be more rewarded, and he will personally ask the court for me." ”

"Why don't you postpone it?" Now that it was time to burn his eyebrows, Yu Dong's subordinates looked very impatient, and even their words had a somewhat disrespectful tone.

"Of course I desperately refused, but I really can't refuse," Yu Dong said slowly: "The governor made a decision immediately, he has already promoted me to the general army, he even wrote the Baoju chapter, and he showed it to me just now, hey, if you want to say that I have worked hard for so many years, I should be promoted." ”

"My lord," his subordinates were already sweating profusely, "What else do you want to be promoted at this juncture, let's run quickly." ”

"Not really." Yu Dong shook his head: "In the past, so many general soldiers and deputy generals ran together, and we ran with it, but now I am on the cusp of the storm, and it is not easy to run." ”

At this time, another soldier rushed into the tent and reported: "My lord, they have crossed the river by breaking into the camp!" ”

After the military parade, Yu Dong sent a large number of relatives to closely monitor Xu Ping's every move, and strictly ordered that he should know at the first moment that a mosquito flew across the Shahe.

"Thief - Xu Ping's house," this pro-ding man stayed in the water and grass by the river for most of the night, and his hard work paid off, and the behavior of the second infantry wing smuggling across the Shahe River fell into his eyes: "The group of people who lent us for the parade went back in disguise, but the other 2,000 people secretly ambushed us next to the camp......

"Or not!" A subordinate suddenly gritted his teeth and shouted: "Simply, Dashuai, we will take out a sum of money to buy Xu Ping's subordinates......"

"It's not proper, it's inappropriate," Yu Dong shook his head and said, "Although General Xu and I have never known each other in our lives, how can we do such a deceitful thing?" He looked at his subordinates, who were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and said unhurriedly: "We still owe General Xu forty percent of the silver and pigs, right?" We have to send it to others first, and we can't let people say that we are not trustworthy. ”

……

After Yu Dong's envoy drove the pig into the camp of the invading army, he came to visit Xu Ping, who immediately ordered the wine to be served for reception, which he had prepared for the last pre-war paralysis work.

After the envoy presented the gift list, Xu Ping frowned and asked, "Why is there one thousand taels more?" ”

The smiling envoy nodded and said, "General Xu's troops are mighty and majestic, and the governor was overjoyed and rewarded an extra two thousand taels of silver. The head of my family said that friends should be righteous and angry, so he added this thousand taels. ”

"Haha, General Yu is really a friend." Xu Ping laughed heartily: "Go back and tell your general, saying that I am very grateful." ”

"The head of the family has already transported all the military salaries back to Kaifeng overnight, and the rest are also loaded into carriages and can set off at any time, and General Xu will not have any oil and water if he sneaks into our camp."

The envoy's words suddenly made Xu Ping's smile disappear, and he asked coldly, "What does your envoy mean by this?" ”

"The meaning of the head of the family is that he will never dare to be the enemy of General Xu, if General Xu must beat us, we also have long legs on our bodies and will run." The envoy replied honestly: "Didn't General Xu want to attack us by moving thousands of soldiers and horses to the north bank of the Shahe River?" ”

Since the other party has said it so explicitly, Xu Ping can't pretend hypocritically anymore: "Zhongmu and I are bound to win, and if your army stays on the edge of Zhongmu City for a day, I won't be able to sleep peacefully for a day." ”

"The head of the family said that if General Xu doesn't beat us, he will have a big gift."

"What gift?"

"It must have been something that General Xu didn't expect," the envoy said, "Lord Gao, the governor of Henan, has decided to take the initiative to attack General Xu." ”

"Oh." Xu Ping sneered, he didn't expect that borrowing soldiers would have such benefits: "Let him come." ”

"The governor of Henan sent an urgent report to Zhengzhou last night, ordering the Heyin garrison to go south in the starry night and attack General Xu with the Zhongmu Bian army."

Xu Ping pondered for a moment: "Doesn't Governor Gao want to be locked up in a tiger prison?" When did he become so bold? ”

"It's all the blessing of General Xu, after the governor saw the military appearance of your army, he immediately made a decision to transfer troops from the front line of Heyin, planning to spend a month to destroy General Xu and recover the southern counties.

Xu Ping stood up and walked to the map and looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Lord Gao is really a good calculation, he must have felt that our army in Luoyang has been attracted to the southwest by Yang Sichang, and he is unable to attack the Heyin area for a while." ”

"General Xu's high opinion."

"Hmm." Xu Ping turned around a few times, and Yu Dong's messenger looked at him quietly, patiently waiting for Xu Ping to stop. After calculating the pros and cons in his heart several times, Xu Ping turned his head to look at Yu Dong's military envoy: "What kind of gift can your general give me?" What else does he want me to do? ”

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