Xu Yanzhu took advantage of the Jiang family's time to have a lot of affairs, and the two women who were successfully arranged appeared by her side as maidservants sent by the third uncle of her mother's family.

Of course, in order not to expose her lies, Xu Yanzhu still asked Cuihua to go to the Xu family to tell the third aunt, saying that she had bought two girls privately before, and now she has been training for half a year, and she has some martial arts, and she will follow her to protect herself in the future.

It is estimated that in another month, Cuihua will teach them what she has in hand, and Cuihua will be able to return to Xu's house.

Because of this reason, Cuihua also happily ran to Xu's house, as for when the two girls bought it, Cuihua didn't care, she just thought she secretly bought it in private.

After all, he is the master, and there are some things that he doesn't know, so he is not surprised.

After Dong Shu received the news from Xu Yanzhu, there was no surprise, she had long been worried about letting Cuihua come back, and now that she can see hope, it is not difficult to just help round out a lie.

Dong Shu took over the matter, which is equivalent to Xu Shiqiu taking over the matter.

It's just that Xu Shiqiu didn't have time to deal with these trivial matters at this time, and he didn't go home since he went home that night, just waiting for the time for the joint confrontation drill.

For this day, Xu Shiqiu has been preparing for a long time, and even the soldiers under him have made sufficient preparations to fight for face.

Especially the soldiers who were selected to become the Iron Eagle Brigade before, they even understood that this confrontation drill was requested by the main general for them.

They have been training before, and they have not really fought in actual combat, and after this confrontation drill, if the results are not ashamed, they will go out and really prepare for actual combat.

This may be the last time they will be on the battlefield without fear of their lives before they leave the barracks.

Finally came to the agreed date of confrontation, in order to wait for the Duanwang from the capital and a few accompanying officials sent by Rui Kangdi, Xu Shiqiu set the starting time at noon.

It starts at noon today and ends at noon the next day.

In this way, they can still commend the soldiers who have performed well in the afternoon half of the day after tomorrow, and also leave time for Duanwang and them to return to Beijing.

For Xu Shiqiu's arrangement, King Duan and several officials who followed him were very satisfied.

As for the others, Xu Shiqiu didn't care about their opinions, although this time he was designed with a beard and a long face, it was also to give his soldiers a chance to exercise.

According to the plan, Xu Shiqiu and his soldiers left the barracks where they live the day before, leaving the barracks to the soldiers who need to stay behind to rearm.

In order to hit Xu Shiqiu hard, the few generals who stayed behind, after discussing for a long time, divided the men and horses into two teams.

One group stayed in the barracks, while the other went into the mountains behind the barracks.

Because they separated the men and horses, the soldiers under Xu Shiqiu had two tasks at the same time, one was to capture the military camp, and the other was to find another team of men and horses hiding in the mountains and taking away the 'soldier talisman'.

"Shi Qiu, how is it, do you have confidence?"

King Duan looked at Xu Shiqiu, and as soon as he finished saying this with a smile on his face, he heard Xu Shiqiu, who was standing under him, give a military salute and said, "The last general has confidence in them!" ”

Hearing Xu Shiqiu's affirmative words, and seeing his confident expression, King Duan nodded and said, "The imperial brother explained before this king came, if your soldiers can really win this time, you can let them go out before the year." ”

Xu Shiqiu understood the meaning of Duanwang's words, and his eyes lit up at the moment, what Rui Kangdi said would definitely be a real battle.

"Don't worry, this time they will definitely be able to go out before the year!" After saying this, Xu Shiqiu smiled mysteriously, obviously he had a chance to win.

King Duan didn't know where Xu Shiqiu's confidence came from to win, but he didn't say anything, just smiled slightly, thinking that it would be good to wait and see.

Xu Shiqiu was also relieved to see that King Duan no longer asked.

Since this confrontation drill was facilitated by him, he must have made a lot of arrangements, at least keeping a hand, so that his soldiers would not be defeated.

While King Duan and Xu Shiqiu were talking, both sides were also ready, and Xu Shiqiu also left King Duan's place and rushed to the military tent temporarily set up by his soldiers.

As soon as Xu Shiqiu arrived, Zhang Ping and Ye Shuo, as well as Xu Jie and Xu Yanhao, got up and saluted him at the same time.

Xu Shiqiu waved his hand and asked them all to sit down, then he said to the four of them: "It's good to act directly according to the plan later, Zhang Ping and Xu Jie are responsible for taking the military camp, and Ye Shuo and Yan Hao are responsible for 'intercepting' the other team of people who took away the military talisman." ”

For both tasks, they all think that the latter is more difficult than the former, and they will involve Xu Yanhao as well, which naturally has another use for him.

Xu Yanhao was very excited about the third uncle's assignment of tasks to him so quickly, and after his cousin told him about the third uncle's arrangement, he did not hesitate to agree.

"The four of you are the leader this time, but you have to take them all with you. Victory is nothing, but we must not only win, but they must win. After saying this, Xu Shiqiu thought about it, and finally said: "And what I said before, on the battlefield, any strategy can be used, as long as you can control it." ”

Xu Jie and Ye Shuo smiled when they heard Xu Shiqiu's words, although the two of them are considered to be different in age according to Xu Shiqiu, but they are both rare good hands in the use of strategy, and the relationship has become better with Professor Xu Shiqiu's way of strategy.

The most important thing is that the two of them feel that what Xu Shiqiu said is right, as long as they can win, it is really nothing to use some small tricks.

As for Zhang Ping, maybe because of his background, he didn't dare to use too many schemes, so Xu Shiqiu would distribute the four of them like this.

When the four of them made a military order in front of Xu Shiqiu, they left the camp quickly in pairs.

After the four of them left, Xu Shiqiu also recruited a team of soldiers, and then quickly left the camp.

He won't wait here for someone to send someone to 'assassinate' him.

As I said before, each side has a main general, and once the main general has an accident, the other team will win even if both missions fail.

No one knew about Xu Shiqiu's departure, because Xu Shiqiu had already found a soldier with a similar figure to him before, wearing the clothes he usually wore in the barracks, and pretending to stay in the camp tent as him.

As for him, he naturally changed into the clothes of an ordinary soldier and disappeared in front of everyone.

On the afternoon of the first day, the soldiers who stayed in the barracks did not wait for Xu Shiqiu's soldiers to attack, they thought that they were afraid or had not yet figured out their arrangements, but when it was time for dinner, rows of cauldrons were set up on the opposite side.

In the pot, there are either large pieces of pork cooked in Dong Shu's prepared package, or freshly harvested lamb stewed with radish (radish).

In addition to these two meat dishes, the auxiliaries also busily began to make cakes made of white and bean flour and steamed white rice mixed with sorghum rice.

Although the staple food is not pure white flour and pure white rice, those two meat dishes that drift in the wind are attractive enough.

The soldiers in the barracks opposite, smelling the smell wafting from the opposite side, and then looking at the soup in their bowls, and the dinner with almost no trace of oil and water, they couldn't complain.

They also all know that they can eat these on the other side, not because of the money allocated from above, but because of the additional subsidy from Xu Shiqiu, the main general.

For this matter, their main generals have made trouble, but Xu Shiqiu has long made it clear that the soldiers under his command are trained hard, and it is not good to eat some good food often.

What's more, Xu Shiqiu said every time he said that it was sent by his own lady.

Then why does my own lady have these? That's because the Holy God gives many rewards.

So in the end, the credit was pushed to the saint.

Rui Kangdi was naturally happy, and because of this, he also specially selected a lot of things from his treasury to reward Dong Shu.

Let him give the silver directly, there really isn't much cash in his private treasury.

As for letting the imperial court allocate funds, before the soldiers under Xu Shiqiu had not made any contributions, it was not easy for him to let the household department allocate funds.

Let's not mention these things for the time being, let's say that outside the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing, the soldiers under Xu Shiqiu quickly chopped the large pieces of braised pork into thick slices with finger thickness by the auxiliary soldiers after they came out of the pot.

Then the sauce was specially prepared and poured over the thick slices of meat.

With the thick slices of pork out of the pan, the lamb soup is also ready.

In addition to these two meat dishes, the auxiliaries also mixed a wild vegetable cold, and if they eat too much meat, they should also eat some vegetarian food.

The soldiers who stayed in the barracks just watched the soldiers on the opposite side eat meat, and the dry food was not controlled, and they ate it casually.

They began to envy the meat from the opposite side, and it was not until they finished eating that they sighed and prepared to continue the defense.

But just as they were about to continue the defense, the first batch of well-fed soldiers on the opposite side had already set up a posture, obviously, they were ready to attack the barracks.

In the barracks left behind on the opposite side, neither the generals nor the soldiers expected that the soldiers on the opposite side would choose to attack at this time.

They thought they wouldn't attack until the middle of the night.

It's just that now that they have seen that they are preparing to attack, they naturally can't sit still, and one after another orders have also been issued from the camp tent of the main general here.

After all, it was already autumn, and after dinner, the sky quickly darkened.

Because the soldiers under Xu Shiqiu eat well, they can occasionally eat an egg in the morning per person, and often eat some livestock and poultry offal, even if it is dark, it has no effect on their eyesight.

But not on the other side.

They don't eat well, and the generals will deduct their military salaries, and as soon as it gets dark, they can't see it very clearly.

Although there were many fires lit in the barracks, they still couldn't get too far away from the fires.

It was only now that the soldiers who stayed behind here understood that the other party chose to attack at night, because they didn't see it too clearly at night.

In addition to the military camp left behind, although the two teams of men and horses in the deep mountains have not yet met in large units, small detachments have still met.

Xu Shiqiu's soldiers were ruthless, as long as they found the opponent's people, they would immediately shoot directly and 'exterminate' them, and then special people would take the people who had been judged dead out of the battlefield.

And just when the two of them were fighting, two figures, taking advantage of the fact that the sky had not yet darkened, quietly found the camp deep in the mountains, and rode horses to rush towards the capital.