"If you want to say that you can go all over the world, it is best to eat Dengfeng dishes, Nanjing people don't know how to eat them at all."

Qin Dedong, Gao Chengcang, Yue Mu and a large group of people sitting together belonged to Xu Ping's personnel who temporarily lent the Guards Battalion to the armored battalion. The soldiers of the Fifth Infantry Wing could not help complaining that the general would think of them every time there was an emergency, and only when they thought that Li Ziben's troops passing through Shandong were also not allowed to rest after the war, and that the road was farther than their own, they were more balanced. Fortunately, the general informed the whole army in the morning that they had chased after Li Zicheng and would soon be able to reunite with King Chuang. Yu Shenhe complained to Xu Ping about this, believing that this kind of frequent transfer would disrupt the repair and training arrangements of the Guards Battalion. However, it is useless to complain, Xu Ping can directly point out the personnel he needs without going through the Guards Battalion, and the officers and soldiers of these two battalions are very familiar with each other, and they can be grouped together without running-in time.

"No, our Xuzhou dishes are good."

"What's so good?"

"Okay, okay," Qin Dedong came out to play a round: "It's all Henan cuisine, what's there to fight about?" To say that this Nanjing talent is useless, they don't even know how to eat nepeta. ”

"It's just that they don't even have nepeta," since they entered Nanjing, every time they eat, they would feel as if something was missing from their food: "But who would have thought that they didn't even have this?" Yue Mu said helplessly: "Otherwise, I will bring some." ”

The horn of the emergency assembly sounded over the barracks, and the soldiers who had just entered the camp to rest jumped up one after another, rushed out of the camp gate and rushed to the school field to line up.

"General, isn't this march too hasty?"

Xu Ping glanced at Li Laiheng beside him: "Aren't you in a hurry?" ”

"Of course I'm in a hurry, but our army is quite tired, and now is not the right time to meet the ambulance battalion." Especially now that it is an infantry wing, Li Laiheng is not very confident.

"If King Chuang fights Hou Ye early tomorrow morning," Xu Ping calculated silently in his heart, he estimated that Li Zicheng would encounter frontal resistance from the Jiangbei Army and the Lu Army with superior forces, and there were also about three battalions of new troops ambushed nearby - the Xiliu and Taishan battalions were not completely annihilated in the previous battle, and Li Zicheng did not attack them after entering Shandong, but was attracted by the wealth of the Jiangbei Army to lean more and more to the south. It is estimated that the Marquis of Zhendong will definitely let them follow in the footsteps of Li Zicheng and immediately move closer to the central capital, and the fire battalion is the descendant of the Marquis of Zhendong, Xu Ping does not believe that the Marquis of Zhendong will not bring this army with him when he goes south: "King Chuang despises his opponent so much, most of them will storm the past with all their might, and the officers and soldiers are bound to fight to the death with the encouragement of the arrival of Hou Ye and the reinforcements." If I were the Hou Ye, I would let the new army fight from the side that was ignored by King Chuang......"

"We must prepare for the worst," Xu Ping had already calculated, and said to Li Laiheng on the march: "They may have been able to defeat King Chuang before we arrived, it doesn't matter if they are defeated, but if we can't stop the pursuit, then we will be covered with corpses, I estimate that Zhendong Hou will use forces other than the fire battalion to defeat King Chuang, and then use the fire battalion to pursue." General Lee is right, we are about to meet the ambulance battalion. ”

Li Laiheng was a little nervous, and he asked Xu Pingdao: "The firefighting battalion is the main force of Huang Hou's lineage, even if it is not stronger than the guard battalion, it is comparable, right?" ”

"Yes, they are loyal to Huang Hou and invincible."

Li Laiheng's eyebrows furrowed: "There are actually a lot of soldiers available in the Liangxi Battalion, and there is no hurry to repair at this time; My father-in-law actually has soldiers who can be transferred, and the general seems to be a little careless; Well, even if there are still thousands of people in the two wings of the Guards Battalion, I should have borrowed more soldiers, even if it was an extra team. ”

"If there are too many people coming, I don't think Master Hou will necessarily let the fire battalion come and fight us, doesn't General Li think this is a good opportunity? Win a feather for each of your battalion's men? Xu Ping reminded Li Laiheng that he had made an agreement with the generals who broke into the camp before, as long as any battalion could defeat the battalion of the firefighting battalion, each soldier could get a black feather: "The white feathers on the heads of the firefighting battalion and the Xuanfeng battalion were given by the first emperor in the face of Huang Hou, and it was a royal gift from the Ming Emperor." ”

"What the general said is, okay, only my battalion has come to Shandong," Hearing this, Li Laiheng suddenly became energetic, and his tone immediately turned one hundred and eighty degrees, but after thinking about it, his eyebrows furrowed again, and asked Xu Ping solemnly: "General, the armored battalion has one wing instead of two wings this time, if my battalion defeats the firefighting battalion - it will defeat the firefighting battalion with one wing, but it is not like the Guards Battalion that uses two wings to defeat the Xuanfeng battalion, which has been exhausted to death, Wouldn't it be unfair for the general to give only one black feather to the armored battalion? ”

"What does General Lee want?"

"Two!" Li Laiheng stretched out two fingers, stood straight in front of Xu Ping's eyes, and said confidently: "At least two are fair, the armored battalion has no one else to help, it is the firefighting battalion that it defeats instead of the Xuanfeng battalion." ”

"It's as if it's true...... I like it though. Xu Ping laughed, and after laughing, he asked, "If you use a team to defeat the ambulance battalion, will you be given eight feathers?" ”

"What if I use a squad to break down a fire battalion? Will the general give each of my men eight black feathers? Li Laiheng didn't seem to understand that Xu Ping was just a joke, but seemed eager to try: "If it's two teams, is it four?" ”

"I wished I had 10,000 soldiers under my command just now, but now it's too much for a wing." Xu Ping approvingly: "Not everyone in the fire camp has three heads and six arms, we can't despise it, but we don't have to be afraid." ”

……

At this time, the camp of Mount Tai and Xiliu was still hanging near Xuzhou.

Because of the rush of time, Zhendonghou did not have time to rush to the Shandong New Army in person, but sent them an urgent order to hurry to the direction of Fengyang.

The two battalion officers were not very interested in this, and at the beginning, Zhou Xuzu openly expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhendonghou letting his battalion stay: "The ministers in the court will talk nonsense, when did we see the Jiangbei Army and the Lu Army come to help when we were fighting hard in Henan?" Now why should we help them? ”

"There are villains around Hou Ye, this is definitely not what Hou Ye meant." Ji Xinghui is also unwilling to continue to stay in Shandong to fight, the camp is in full swing, he is unwilling to take his battalion to participate in the hard battle, a large number of officers in the Taishan battalion are the children of Ji Xinghui's relatives and friends, when the new army was formed, the parents of these people sent their children in the hope that they could be promoted and made a fortune under the protection of Ji Xinghui's wings. The loss of this dispatch made Ji Xinghui also frightened, if he encountered another bitter battle and buried so many relatives and friends on the battlefield, what face would he have to go back?

Zhou Xuzu had the same concerns as Ji Xinghui, when he said that he was the battalion officer appointed by Zhendong Hou and helped Zhendong Hou command the new army, what a scenery and glory it was, and the people who came to him to hope that he were about to break the threshold. In the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer people who have sent their children to join the army by favoring favors and pulling connections, and the war in Henan has made more and more people wake up: even if they are squeezed into the new army, merit can not be obtained in vain without bloodshed. Before this time to send out the army, Ji Xinghui's family came to a lot of crying people, begging him in every possible way to take care of the children in the new army.

Zhendonghou's order was to follow Li Zicheng's footsteps and not relax, but Ji Xinghui and Zhou Xuzu both felt that this was thankless: "The new army failed to relieve the siege of Henan, we defeated Li Zicheng, and the court will never have any rewards. ”

When he received the order of the Hou of Zhendong to go south for the second time, there was also the news of the reopening of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and Zhou Xuzu spoke at the collective meeting of all the officers of the two battalions: "Hou Ye has returned to power, so our top priority is to help Hou Ye rebuild a strong army, and the order for us to pursue Li Chuang is mostly a chaotic order of the imperial court." ”

"That's right," another battalion officer, Ji Xinghui, also agreed with Zhou Xuzu's opinion, and he then Zhou Xuzu said: "Master Hou handed over the two battalions to us, which is to trust us to do an excellent job of fulfilling his old man's intentions and resolutely carry out his old man's orders. Ji Xinghui shook the military order in the air with disdain: "This is just the hypocrisy and misfortune of the Hou Ye and those civil officials who do not understand military affairs, we must resolutely implement the true orders of the Hou Ye, and do not misunderstand the meaning of the Hou Ye." ”

The Lu army had already scattered and fled, and the two battalions of the new army slowly followed behind Li Zicheng, never challenging or interfering with Li Zicheng's march with a thousand troops. Ji Xinghui and Zhou Xuzu both liked this strategy very much, and there was no risk and no need to worry about the imperial court's blame: "We have preserved the strength of the Hou Ye, and we will not give the imperial court a chance to blame the Hou Ye." ”

Until this evening.

"Two lords, this is a secret letter from the marshal."

In the tent, there were only two camp officers and three messengers.

"The two lords really make it easy to find the lowly position," the Marquis of Zhendong waited for the two battalions of Taishan and Xiliu to arrive, so he sent some scouts to look around, these scouts were all members of the direct guard who accompanied him, and only those who were absolutely trusted by the Marquis of Zhendong could be sent out to carry out this kind of mission - they all knew the true whereabouts of the Marquis of Zhendong, and the Marquis of Zhendong explained a lot of specific military situations to these envoys.

Therefore, the number of these search envoys was quite scarce, and the Xiliu camp and the Taishan camp camped in secluded places to avoid the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and the envoy finally found them in this ravine.

Hearing that Zhendonghou had rushed to Fengyang, the two battalion officers looked at each other, and they thought that Zhendonghou had not yet left Shandong.

"Two adults, I humble you to lead the way, please leave the camp immediately, and rush to Zhongdu immediately."

"Yes, let's prepare immediately, you can go down for a meal first." The two battalion officers told the tired guard to eat and rest first, and told him not to talk nonsense to others so as not to shake the morale of the army.

"The two lords can rest assured that the marshal has already confessed his humble duties and can only report to the commander." This direct guard searched repeatedly along the way, and he was so tired that he couldn't open his eyelids, so he immediately went down to eat some hot food, and these two battalions of new troops were still waiting for him to lead the way.

"It's not good, I didn't expect Master Hou's order to be true." Sweat immediately flowed down Zhou Xuzu's forehead: "How is this good?" ”

"Even if we rush over now, it may not be too late," Ji Xinghui thought that the Jiangbei Army must have fled, and the news from the south said that there was infighting within the Jiangbei Army before the camp was rushed: "Zhongdu must be finished, Hou Ye has direct protection and should be safe and sound." ”

"What if the middle school is not finished immediately?" Zhou Xuzu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, if Zhendonghou escaped safely, these two battalions could protect him and return to Shandong, but it was still a possibility, that is, Zhendonghou really planned to use two battalions to fight against Li Zicheng's army, and the direct guard envoy just now said very clearly, Zhendonghou only had nearly 100 direct guards around him, and there were no other troops. "I heard that Xu Ping has also rushed to Zhongdu," the direct guard just now also reported that a force under the banner of Xu Ping was rushing to Zhongdu, and the defenders of Xuzhou also reported finding a similar situation: "We don't even know how many thieves we have to fight against." ”

Ji Xinghui calmed down first: "I'm afraid that Master Hou's judgment is wrong, now is not a good opportunity to fight with the thieves." ”

"It's really not," Zhou Xuzu said with a snort: "But Master Hou ordered us to rush to Zhongdu immediately, and that straight guard was waiting outside, what should we do?" Disobedience? ”

"Master Hou handed over the position of battalion officer to you and me, so that we can take care of these two battalions?" Ji Xinghui showed a slightly uncomfortable expression on his face: "Didn't Lord Yang say last time that the front-line commander should dare to be responsible?" ”

That time, Yang Zhiyuan took Xu Ping as an example, and Ji Xinghui and others were against Yang Zhiyuan's statement, and Ji Xinghui also said to Zhou Xuzu behind his back: Zhendonghou's orders should be implemented to the letter, and there should be no disobedience, Xu Ping is a big rebellion.

After seeing the strange application on Zhou Xuzu's face, Ji Xinghui said angrily: "We are different from Xu Ping, he is a fledgling soldier, of course he can't talk nonsense about Hou Ye's regulations!" We're a battle-hardened general! ”

"I didn't say that what you said was wrong, the art of war is cloudy: a hundred miles of profit will be a general, we have fallen behind, and now we are hurrying to Zhongdu to die in vain, if these two battalions are lost in vain, who will protect Hou Ye to return to Beijing? Is it just that less than a hundred straight guards? After Zhou Xuzu said this, he coughed lightly: "But even if the Hou Ye gave an order without thinking in anger, we can't openly disobey in front of the direct guard." ”

Ji Xinghui and Zhou Xuzu looked at each other for a moment, and they both saw themselves in each other's eyes: "Take his clothes and wallet, if no one finds out, it will naturally be the best, even if he is discovered by the local government, he will also think that he has encountered a thief or a thief." Saying that, Ji Xinghui shook his hand and put Zhendonghou's secret order on the candle and lit it.

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