After learning the news of Xiahou Kuanfu's retreat, Xu Ping also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although the combat effectiveness of the Hebei army was low, but in any case it was an army of 100,000, as long as the Hebei army did not leave for a day, he had to leave a force to monitor them.

"King Chuang and they are all here, King Cao and King Ji are also here."

"Alright," Xu Ping needed the close cooperation of these allies so that he could carry out his plan.

……

"The new army has withdrawn three battalions, and more troops may be transferred back to Beijing at any time, I don't understand why the Inspector wants us to continue the attack on Henan." Yu Dong's current argument is no different from the argument of other Jiangbei army generals, after getting the news that the northern captives have entered the Kou, the morale of the Jiangbei army, which was already not interested in attacking Henan, has become even more depressed, and the order to continue the offensive makes Yu Dong angry.

There were only two people in the study, Yu Dong and the master, so he didn't have any scruples about speaking: "The master said that the opportunity was rare, and he wanted to fight for merit behind the new army, and the general did agree at that time." But at this time and at that time, now the new army was suddenly reduced by a quarter, and it was not much stronger than that of Xu Ping's direct team. If we want to win, we must at least carry down the troops directly under King Chuang...... Master doesn't need to say any more, Ben will not want to die. ”

The more Yu Dong spoke, the louder his voice became, Wu Wei was still full of smiles, patiently waited for Yu Dong to finish shouting, and then asked unhurriedly: "Dongjia, how is our army's combat strength compared to the new army?" ”

Yu Dong's eyes widened, and he looked at Wu Wei's expression as if he was looking at an idiot: "Do you still need to ask?" ”

"Then how are the soldiers of the owner compared to Zuo Shuai?"

"It's also a big deal." Yu Dong's face was not ashamed.

"In that case," Wu Wei shook his head and asked, "If the owner is Xu Ping, who broke into the camp, how will he arrange it when he encounters such a three-way army?" ”

Yu Dong twisted his long black beard under his chin and fell into deep thought.

The next day, Yu Dong summoned his generals and announced that he would respond to Hou Xun's order to immediately send troops to Henan to cooperate with the new army to fight against the Chu army.

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden sound of complaining and bitterness in the tent, and a general who was close to Yu Dong jumped out with a sad face and shouted: "Dashuai, the first brave general under the command of Zhendong Hou, He Dashuai, has been transferred back to Beijing, and the invincible fire battalion has also gone back with him; The last general heard that the elite cavalry of the Marquis of Zhendong was all guarded by the new army, and they were also transferred by the imperial court; Although Yang Dashuai is also a close confidant of Huang Hou, he heard that he is not lightly ill, and it is estimated that there is not one in ten brave warriors in the past. Their new army insisted on attacking because there were brothers who were surrounded in Kaifeng, but they were not related to us, so why should we take the risk? ”

After the general finished speaking, everyone shouted together, and Yu Dong spent a lot of effort to quiet his subordinates. He asked everyone: "Brothers, which one is the worst of the New Army, the Chu Army, and our Jiangbei Army?" ”

"Do you need to ask? Of course, our Jiangbei Army is the worst. The generals in the tent replied in unison: "If other towns in Jiangbei also followed, maybe our army would not be the worst, but now that they are not going, we must be the softest persimmons." ”

"That's right!" Yu Dong shouted excitedly, and waved his right arm vigorously: "Let me ask you brothers again, what is the benefit of defeating our army to that thief?" ”

"It's no good." The generals below shook their heads one after another: "If we win, we won't scare away the new army or the Chu army." Besides, we are already poor, and we will never send troops to Henan with valuable armor and weapons, and they will not be able to grab anything from us. ”

"That's right!" Yu Dong raised his hands and waved them on his head, further inspiring everyone: "If both the new army and the Chu army are defeated, will our army escape?" ”

The subordinates looked at each other a few times, and replied in unison: "The new army and the Chu army are finished, so what are we waiting for if we don't run?" ”

"Not bad, not bad. If I were King Chuang or Xu Ping, I would definitely not spend effort to fight our Jiangbei Army. As long as the new army is defeated, most of the battle will be won, and the main force of the thieves will definitely be used against the new army; The Chu army is also a trouble, and breaking into the camp may divide part of the forces to deal with the Chu army. However, no matter whether they fight the Chu army or the new army first, as long as these two families are not dead, they will never divide their forces to fight us. ”

The generals below nodded yes one after another, and Yu Dong continued to persuade: "And we are between the Chu army and the new army, as long as we are not finished, we will occupy the middle road, as long as we occupy these roads, the new army and the Chu army will not be used." If I were that Xu Ping, I still wish there was a tattered army occupying the middle road, so I wouldn't take the initiative to fight it, in case it was beaten away, these roads would be requisitioned by the Chu army or the new army, wouldn't it be more passive? Brothers, we are so safe, how can we say that we are going to die? ”

A general asked, "Marshal, what if the Chu army and the new army decide to join forces?" Didn't they just squeeze into the middle of us? ”

"First of all, we can make excuses not to let them come over; Secondly, the new army and the Chu army will go to the battlefield with artillery and firearms, they will not be empty-handed like us, they need a lot of road transport baggage, and they are all crowded into the middle, and the roads are not enough. Besides, even if they all go from the middle road, then we are under the protection of the Chu army and the new army, and we are still very safe. What's more, no matter who walks with us, they will certainly not be comfortable letting us take the lead. We are pressing the formation in the back, and Yang Shuai or Zuo Shuai is in front of us, how can we call it unsafe? ”

All the generals felt that what Yu Dong said was very reasonable, and they nodded one after another. Yu Dong hit the railway while it was hot: "Brothers, we will take the middle road and approach Kaifeng, and the main force of the army will definitely divide the troops into two ways to fight the new army and the Chu army." If our officers and soldiers win, the army must cover the retreat of the camp or reinforce the front line, then the great merit of relieving the siege of Kaifeng and the king of Zhou is not in our pocket? We can grab the first credit without much effort, where can we find such a good thing? ”

"What if our officers and soldiers are defeated?"

"Needless to say, of course we immediately anointed the soles of our feet. Even if the thieves beat away the new army and the Chu army, they will definitely be exhausted and will not be in the mood to chase us. In such a big defeat, if only we can bring the army out of the thieves' lair unharmed, then the court will not have to brag for us to cover up the defeat, if this is the case, I am afraid that the credit for Kaifeng to relieve the siege will be greater. ”

There was a cheer in the camp, and Yu Dong's subordinates were gearing up, determined to follow the boss to Henan to do a big job. Immediately, the people reached an agreement that tomorrow they would mobilize the whole army at the school yard in Maozhou, kill the ox and sacrifice the flag, and swear to set off.

Seeing that the morale was so high, Yu Dong was also very happy in his heart, but he did not forget the words reminded by his master, and after the boiling crowd calmed down a little, Yu Dong instructed again: "You must remember that the thieves don't beat us just because they are too lazy to fight, not because they can't fight." If they really want to beat us, it will be easier than killing a bed bug, so we must not provoke them, and don't let the thieves have the intention of beating us. ”

The people were puzzled by these words, and asked, "If we do not bring gold and silver with us, nor can we bring cannons or muskets, how can the thieves have the intention of beating us?" ”

"I don't know much about King Chuang, but I heard that Xu Ping is good to the people, and he also has many Henan people under him. Yu Dong analyzed to his subordinates: "This time we go to Henan, as long as we can come back alive, it will be a great achievement, and we must not make extraneous branches." ”

"Don't worry, Dashuai." The generals in the camp are all old brothers who have followed Yu Dong for many years, and they patted their chests to Yu Dong one by one and assured them that they must take strict military discipline and never do anything to make the thieves angry.

"Tomorrow we will go out on the march, and we will pull up the banner, and the thief will use the words 'kill one person as killing my father, and adulterating one person as adultering my mother'. We used Grandpa Yue's "freeze to death without demolishing the house, starving to death without taking food." ”

Yu Dong and his generals knew that in order to achieve this, they had to feed their soldiers, so they unanimously agreed to suspend the deduction of military salaries and fill the stomachs of the soldiers when they operated in Henan, so that they would have the strength to run in case of emergency.

After discussing properly, Yu Dong added another sentence: "Give the soldiers two more steamed buns every day; When I saw a child in Henan, I stuffed one for them; If you meet an elderly person who is lonely, help them repair the roof. Anyway, we are not in a hurry to march, we must make Xu Ping feel that our army is going to Henan to do good deeds, and we will never have the slightest intention of making trouble with him. ”

……

At this time, in addition to Yu Dong, another friendly army of Yang Zhiyuan was in the camp.

"Meet the marshal."

"Hurry up."

"Xie Dashuai."

Huang Shouque jumped up. Sitting in front of him was Zuo Liangyu, the commander of the Chu army, and the general standing beside him was named Li Dagui.

This time, under the three orders of the imperial court, Zuo Liangyu mobilized 800,000 Chu troops to aid Kaifeng. At the beginning, the Chu army was quite hesitant to send troops, because they all knew that Li Zicheng was very brave, and he could fight with the Chu army if he didn't have good armor in the camp, and if it wasn't for the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou with the Qin army, it would never be possible to suppress the camp so quickly. Now that the camp is no longer Wuxia Ameng in the past, even the Qin army is not their opponent, and Zuo Liangyu is even more uncertain. The first few times he confronted the Chuang Battalion, Zuo Liangyu had all the ideas to avoid fighting the Chuang Army head-on.

However, this time the troops were not fought alone by the Chu army, and the new army would fight with them in the north and south. After the Chu army entered Henan a few days ago, it was found that the intruding troops along the way had retreated without a fight. According to the news from the inquiry, Li Guo and Sun Kewang, the generals of the camp, both led their troops north early and had left the southern front for many days.

"Although the emperor transferred back three battalions, there are still nine battalions of nearly 40,000 new troops in the north, and there are still more than 50,000 direct soldiers in the Governor's place, and with these 100,000 troops pressing, the thieves have no time to look south." Zuo Liangyu's face was full of color, and he waved his arm heroically: "Our army can take the opportunity to drive straight in, go straight to Kaifeng, and relieve the siege for King Chitose of Zhou." ”

Huang Shouque saw that Zuo Liangyu was in high spirits, and hurriedly clasped his fists and said: "Dashuai, we should not go deep alone, the thieves are cunning, don't fall into their ambush." ”

"Do you still need to be reminded of this kind of thing?" Zuo Liangyu was obviously in a very good mood, he smiled and put the map away: "The Jiangbei Army has been ordered to enter Henan to participate in the meeting, I have already found out, they sent troops ten days ago, take the road from Haozhou to Kaifeng, in our north, closer than we left Feng, even if they are beaten, they must be beaten first." ”

"This is really handsome Hongfu." Huang Shouque was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "Who is the leader of the Jiangbei Army, and what is the combat power?" ”

Li Dagui said with a smile: "The handsome man is in a hurry to see you, precisely for this reason." The leader of the Jiangbei Army is Yu Dong, he and Brother Huang are old acquaintances, and the marshal wants to ask you what you think of this person. ”

Huang Shouque pursed his lips, and made no secret of his bad feelings: "Incompetent rats." ”

After Zuo Liangyu carefully asked about the last battle of Xixian, he first nodded, and then shook his head and said: "Yu Dong is quite brave, when Xu Thief made trouble in Henan, all the departments of the Bianjun army were about to collapse at the touch of a button, only Yu Dong had a few small victories, and when he was finally expelled from Kaifeng Mansion, Yu Dong's army did not collapse. ”

"This, I guess it's his luck." Huang Shouque still had a disdainful expression.

"But after that, Yu Shuai also fought very well in Bozhou, and for more than a year, the lone army blocked Sun Thief's attacks in turn," Zuo Liangyu and Yang Zhiyuan corresponded, knowing that the other party also paid attention to Yu Dong, and hoped that Yu Dong and Zuo Liangyu would work together to attract a part of Li Zicheng's troops, and even win the battle.

As Zuo Liangyu took out Yang Zhiyuan's letter, as well as the outstanding achievements won by Yu Dong during this time, Huang Shouque was dumbfounded when he heard it, and finally bowed down and apologized: "Yu Dong must have lost a lot of elites in the first few battles, so he seemed so incompetent in the later stage, and the last general was ignorant, please punish the commander." ”

"Yes, that's what I thought." Zuo Liangyu groaned: "Later, Yu Dong was really alone in Bozhou, and he was also very bold, he was from Henan, and he must want to go back to his hometown day and night." He and Sun Kewang fought many battles without suffering any losses, and the military strength is definitely recovering, and it seems that he is quite good at training troops in the past, and now his vitality should be almost recovered. But listening to your words, his courage to attack was not too big, or rather more serious, it seems that this time he must have trained another elite soldier, otherwise he would not dare to take the avenue and go straight to Kaifeng. ”

Huang Shouque was very unimpressed by this: "The last general thinks that it may not be. As soon as Yu Dong heard that a new army had entered the war, his courage became extremely strong, and it was the same last time. If the new army loses, he will run faster than anyone else. ”

"That's fine." Li Dagui boldly made his own judgment: "Dashuai Mingjian, this Yu Dong has been fighting with thieves for many years, and his hatred must be as deep as the sea." As the marshal said, Yu Dong and his subordinates are all from Henan, and now they are ghosts in a foreign land when they die in Nanjing. This time, the new army participated in the war, and they were even more courageous, maybe before the new army fought, Yu Dong and the thieves would do it. ”

"Not bad, not bad. The thief and Yu Dong have a deep hatred, and seeing him menacing, I am afraid it will be difficult to sleep, Xu Ping and he still have an enemy, no, a hatred of many arrows. Zuo Liangyu nodded vigorously, his face full of appreciation: "This guy is a wall to block the wind." ”

"The handsome man is inevitably too exalted by this guy," Huang Shouque shouted and complimented: "How many people in this world dare to say that they can shield you from the wind and rain?" Isn't Huang Hou begging you? ”

"That's it, this Yu Dong can be regarded as a good substitute for the dead." Li Dagui saw that Huang Shouque had snatched his lines, and hurriedly went to the next level: "Dashuai, you have millions of soldiers in your hands, you are the center of the world, you are the optimus jade pillar of the imperial court, even the Zhendong Marquis back then is far from being comparable to you." ”

"It's over, it's over." Zuo Liangyu laughed, and after laughing, his face sank and he ordered: "Our army must not get too close to Yu Dong's headquarters, so as not to suffer from the pond fish." ”

"Handsome and wise!" Huang Shouque and Li Dagui replied in unison.

"Send more detectives to find out Yu Dong's whereabouts, and make sure that he is always between us and Kaifeng. If he is routed by the intruding army, our army will know it immediately. Zuo Liangyu looked at the map and paused for a moment, then made up his mind: "After our army enters Zhuxian Town, we don't have to continue to the north, just stay here and watch the battle between the new army and the Jiangbei army." If they win, we will wipe out all the defeated intruders; If they lose both, we will have time to get out of danger. ”

"The last general understands, Marshal." Li Dagui agreed loudly, and then walked out of the camp quickly to deploy the mission.

The last time he was defeated by the Chuang army, Huang Shouque was deeply ashamed, and he has been training the troops hard all these days. Huang Shouque's army set off late, forced to march for ten days, and only yesterday caught up with Zuo Liangyu's large army. After the joint venture, there were still a lot of chores to deal with in his camp today, and seeing that Zuo Liangyu seemed to be fine, he had to leave and go to inspect military affairs again.

"I'm not in a hurry at this time," although Zuo Liangyu persuaded him with good words, he didn't force Huang Shouque to see that he was restless, and before letting him go, Zuo Liangyu asked: "You forced the army to come, how many sons are there in the department now?" ”

In the past ten days, Huang Shouqing's troops have forcibly marched for 120 miles, and the Chu army comrades have all praised each other when they heard about it, and even the big handsome people also applauded with their thumbs. After hearing Zuo Liangyu's question, a look of pride and complacency appeared on Huang Shouque's face: "So that the marshal knows that there were 13,000 men and horses before the last general set off for the whole town, and now there are more than 7,000 miles." ”

Zuo Liangyu was surprised and delighted: "You forcibly marched for ten days, and more than 7,000 of the 13,000 soldiers and horses were saved?" Really? ”

"It's true, how dare the last general deceive the marshal." Huang Shouque straightened his chest: "This morning, the last general personally counted it, a total of 7,836 people, how can there be more than 7,000 now." ”

"Good, good, good, worthy of being my confidant." Zuo Liangyu couldn't stop laughing: "Hurry up and make up for the soldiers, this time I must let the thieves know that I am Jing Chu Erlang." ”

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