Outside the gate of Dingyang City, the Song army barracks.

The general Li Rongsheng had already fallen asleep, and several lieutenants were patrolling in full armor, and while inspecting, they said to the army commanders who were accompanying them: "In our place, the enemy's bows and arrows are enough, do you have a defensive strategy?"

The captains looked at each other and said in their hearts: Let's take the initiative to camp within the range of other people's attacks, how can we defend ourselves?

A lieutenant general saw that the surrounding commanders were silent, and scolded angrily: "It's all fucking rice buckets, if the forward battalion is there, Chen Wu Chang will definitely be able to come up with a strategy to defend against the enemy." ”

"Yes, yes, yes. The captains agreed.

The deputy general said even more angrily: "It's a fart, give you a stick of incense time to think, I can't think of a feasible way, one person and ten military sticks." ”

The captains of the army were suddenly gloomy, and they gathered around to use their brains.

After a while, a military commander stepped forward and said, "General, I'll wait for the result to be discussed." We have estimated the next distance, the enemy's bows and arrows are probably just able to reach the edge of our camp, in the case of not being able to move the camp, we can set up a layer of shields on the edge of the defense, send 100 people to patrol day and night, once the enemy launches an attack, we can respond immediately. ”

The adjutant sneered: "That's why I said that you are all rice buckets, which is not wrong at all." Don't beat the baton, although you are stupid, but you are also attentive. Let me tell you, there are 20,000 defenders in Dingyang City, and although we only have 1,000 people, all of them are elite soldiers, oh, except for those 100 people. In the case that we can't retreat, we only have to fight, but the enemy on the opposite side is inside the city, we are outside the city, and we can't do anything if they don't come out. But we can bring them out, and we camp so close to them, do you think they will think that our generals will not lead the army?"

"No, it won't. The captains shook their heads and looked at the black Li banner.

The adjutant general was stunned and scolded: "Fuck! I'm assuming the battle situation with you, don't you fucking have such a dull brain, okay? Look at you one by one, tell you to read more often, have you read? Fuck! I tell you, when the enemy thinks that our army has made a mistake, the enemy army will be paralyzed and careless, and with the number of soldiers several times that of our army, they will definitely rush out, and then we can annihilate them all under the city. Do you understand?"

When the army commanders heard this, they were all dizzy, and after thinking about it for a long time, they seemed to understand a little, and they all gave thumbs up and praised the general's good strategy.

"All right, go down, read more books in your free time, and don't think about women and drink all day. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. ”

Head of the city.

The guard general Shan Yongkui looked at the camp of the Song army below, holding the official document of the military department that had just arrived, and the military department said that the purpose of this Song army was Xiliang, just passing by, and in addition, let him strengthen his defense at the same time, and not take the initiative to start a war. Shan Yongkui smiled bitterly: "I dare to take the initiative to start a war, don't you want to live?"

The young general next to him was a young man and said, "General, the Song army is only a thousand people, and we have 20,000 people." ”

Shan Yongkui glanced at this young general and said, "That's Li Ziqi, a thousand elite soldiers led by General Li himself." Do you think that I will destroy my prestige because of others' morale?"

The young general said: "The last general will not dare." The last general just doesn't understand, why are we in the Liang Kingdom afraid of this Li Rongsheng, does he have three heads and six arms?"

Shan Yongkui said: "Three years ago, a businessman was killed in our Dingyang City, and the murderer was the son of the former guard, and the reason was just that the guard's son was greedy for the businessman's wife. And that merchant happened to be from the Song Kingdom, and the person who saved his life fled back to the Song Kingdom and reported the matter to the Song people. In the end, His Majesty wrote a letter to the Emperor of Song to explain the matter, and handed over the murderer and dismissed the guards, so the matter was calmed down. ”

The young general was puzzled: "It's difficult that Li Rongsheng dares to start a war?"

Shan Yongkui said: "The order to attack Dingyang City was ordered by the Emperor of the Song State to let his subordinates. ”

The young general exclaimed: "For the sake of a small people, he Song State did not hesitate to start a war with my Liang State?"

Shan Yongkui smiled bitterly: "So the monarchs and ministers of their Song Kingdom are all crazy, and if it drags on for another three days, Dingyang City will be broken, at that time I was the deputy general of Dingyang City, and I fought with the Song army for three days in a row..." Scold... I hope that in the future, when you fight against the Song army, you can maintain your current courage. ”

With that, Shan Yongkui patted the young general's shoulder, and then walked down the city.

Early in the morning of the second day, General Li Rongsheng of the Song Kingdom rode alone in front of the gate of Dingyang City for half an hour, and then led a thousand people to leave the camp and go west.

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Compared with the bustle of the capital, the Huangchang Valley in the west of the Great Song Dynasty is much quieter.

But because there are many rare beasts in Huang Changgu, it is not peaceful.

Although it belonged to the Song Kingdom, horse thieves from the Xiliang Kingdom still haunted it from time to time. The so-called horse thieves of the Xiliang Kingdom are just a disguise of the Xiliang army, taken by the soldiers of the Song State, the Xiliang army did not dare to blatantly come here to hunt strange beasts, but turned to disguise and go into the valley to hunt.

Xiliang's careful thoughts, the Jincheng prefect who ruled the Huangchang Valley knew that as long as the Xiliang army pretending to be horse thieves did not disturb the residents of the valley, Jincheng would turn a blind eye, after all, the poor land of Xiliang was dispensable to the Great Song Dynasty, and a mountain full of strange beasts was a treasure mountain for Xiliang.

About 30 years ago, a Xiliang team of 50 or 60 people entered the Huangchang Valley to hunt beasts and accidentally killed a villager. The villagers' families reported to the prefect of Jincheng, because of the involvement of other countries, the prefect of Jincheng reported to the imperial court, and as a result, the imperial court came down with a holy decree, the prefect of Jincheng did not hesitate, and the commander of the envoy talked with the speaker of the secret for a night, and at sunrise on the second day, the commander led the envoy to lead a thousand city defense soldiers to go straight to the gate of Xiliang country, and at the same time, sent ten post soldiers to the northern army camp to ask for help.

Five days later, as soon as the 10,000 northern troops arrived at the gate of Xiliang Kingdom, they saw that Xiliang Kingdom was half-covering the gate of the country, and the soldiers in the city drove out a group of ragged and yellow-skinned people, and handed over a letter of state at the same time. Only then did Song Jun know that the gang was the horse thief who accidentally killed the villagers of Huangchanggu, and they were real horse thieves, but this wave of horse thieves was established less than half a decade ago, and they were all villagers who took risks and pretended to be horse thieves to hunt in Huangchanggu in a small village on the Xiliang border due to natural disasters and unsustainable life. After consulting with the generals of the Northern Army for half a day, the commander of the Jincheng Metropolitan decided to send these poor villagers to the capital for the ruling of the court.

Ten days later, the Great Song Dynasty issued a decree to only punish the murderers of the villagers by mistake, and release the rest of the victims named horse thieves who were actually victims of the Xiliang Kingdom, and ordered the Xiliang Kingdom to major in writing a letter to the victim's family in Huang Changgu.

Therefore, the lord of Xiliang once again personally took up the pen and wrote a letter similar to a letter of petition, and the prime minister of the court and the central government held the letter and brought eight gold and silver chariots to Huang Changgu to apologize.

It is said that the family later made a fortune and moved to the capital with their family and started a big business.

At this time, it was dusk, east of the canyon, horses' hooves were arrayed, and a team of 1,000 people was slowly passing through the Huangchang Valley, and a large banner with a Li character was set up in the rear of the team. Scouts weave back and forth through the procession, sometimes delivering messages to a black carriage under the banner.

Liu Dan is a standard-bearer, specializing in carrying the handsome flag, although he still looks like he still has his head raised and his chest is broken, but the eyes that keep glancing at both sides of the canyon betray his not calm heart.

"Liu Dan. The curtain on the carriage window was lifted by a calloused hand, revealing a diamond-angled face.

Liu Dan, who was walking in front of the car, immediately stopped and straightened up: "Here!"

"What's absent-minded?"

"Uh... Back to the General, I miss home..."

"Waste. ”

"Yes, the Great General taught me. ”

The curtain of the car was lowered, and the youngest general of the Great Song Dynasty in the car looked down expressionlessly and continued to look at the letterhead in his hand. At the age of fourteen, his parents both died, and he joined the army alone without relatives in Bianjing, at the age of eighteen, he was promoted to the general of Xiaocai because of his military merits, and at the age of twenty, he was promoted to the general of Zhennan, and at the age of twenty-four, he was recalled to Bianjing by the saint, and was personally named the general, and was appointed as the marquis of the south and commanded the northern army. Killed countless enemies, and wandered countless times in the Ghost Gate, formerly known as Li Gengyu, since the army changed his name to Li Rongsheng, it only took him ten years, and he seemed to have completed the life that the military soldiers most yearned for.

At this point, what more can the husband ask for?

However, he is not satisfied, the world is not really peaceful, the Liang State in the north and the Wei State in the northwest are already slowly raising their heads that were stepped on by the first emperor of Jian'an; the Shu Kingdom in the southwest is still struggling to breathe, and it is not stiff when it dies; there is no big pattern of the father and son of the Xiliang Ma family, and the pit Meng is happy to steal and rob, and the eighteen countries of the Western Regions that are in a mess of porridge. Looking farther away, there are red-haired, yellow-haired, blue-eyed and black-skinned people on the other side of the vast Western Ocean.

"If you want peace, it's still early..." General Li Rongsheng put down the letterhead in his hand, raised his head and sighed softly.

Li Rongsheng's trip was ordered by the emperor to inspect the Xiliang army, at the Jindian court meeting, His Majesty said this: "General Li, I heard that Xiliang has not been very peaceful recently, saying that the Ma brothers have fought in the nest and fought a few times, as friendly neighbors, we should still go to mediate and mediate, so let's go, General Li, you go to the Xiliang border army for me to see, if the Ma brothers make a lot of trouble, you can persuade it." ”

When the military officials under the throne heard the words of the saint, their faces were silent, but their stomachs had already been slandered.

"Your Majesty's words are very beautiful."

"Your Majesty is making fun of General Li again, if this Xiliang border army sees my Song army, even if a few brothers are bloody, they have to pick up their spears and go out in unison."

"People brothers quarrel, Your Majesty, if you want to go and rob while the fire is burning, just say it, why do you turn so many corners?"

"Your Majesty is worthy of being the Son of Heaven, and such an indecent remark is very righteous and awe-inspiring!"

However, General Li, who could go to the palace with a sword and go to the court in civilian clothes, did not feel that there was anything wrong with His Majesty's words, and with a natural expression on his face, he replied with his fists folded: "The minister obeys the order." That demeanor is enough to break the hearts of the girls in the entire Bianjing City.