It just so happened that Dong Daqi came in and reported to Ling Jingyang that he was on duty last night, and saw a girl standing in front of Ling Jingyang crying, thinking that Ling Duwei was so powerful, why was a woman crying in front of him, Ling Jingyang saw him coming, and said: "Daqi, this is the eldest lady of the Wen family, you help her find a boudoir, and in the future, the young lady of the Wen family will follow us with the Chinese army." ”

Dong Daqi took Wen Yuanyang to find a room, Wen Yuanyang turned back three times and followed Dong Daqi out, Ling Jingyang can finally enjoy breakfast, the rice porridge in this era is far less sweet and delicious than the rice porridge in later generations, but it can also be swallowed, two eggs and half a piece of salted meat, so that he has an endless aftertaste and praise.

After breakfast, Ling Jingyang walked around the city of Longmen City, there were thousands of people living in the city, and it was a little crowded, but when people saw Ling Jingyang coming, they all made way for him, and Ling Jingyang was not surprised, after all, he was the commander of Shiying, and it was normal to make way.

He came to the city wall, looked at the yellow sand outside the city, and sighed in his heart, desertification has really existed since ancient times, all the way to invade, is looking out of the city, suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the city, look ahead, it is the cavalry battalion is exercising.

The cavalry battalion is the most valuable branch of the whole army, Ling Jingyang no longer easily uses the cavalry battalion for hand-to-hand combat, but gradually scouts the cavalry battalion, yesterday, he ordered the elite troops in the cavalry battalion to be divided into two parts, one part followed Zhang Luo's department to Longmensu, and the other department wandered around Longmen Guard and Baozhou, and I don't know if Leng Rutie and other soldiers have arrived in Baozhou.

The cavalry scouts who followed Zhang Luofu to the Longmen Institute arrived first, they circled around, did not see a garrison, rushed back and reported to Zhang Luofu, Zhang Luofu took more than 300 infantry troops, gnawed dry food along the way, and finally arrived at the Longmen Institute, which was desolate, as if it had been abandoned for a long time, Zhang Luofu yelled at the city: "Are there any living people?" ”

No one answered him, as if there was no living person in the Dragon Gate, Zhang Luofu ordered his subordinates to enter the city, one hundred shield bearers in front, one hundred archers in the back, others scattered on both sides, cavalry battalion scouts to the east and west sides, if there is an ambush in the city, you can withdraw as soon as possible to ask for reinforcements.

The shield soldiers cautiously approached the city, pushed open the gate, there was no one in front of them, Zhang Luofu did not dare to be careless, ordered all departments to remain vigilant, the shield man continued to walk towards the guard, the archers also followed into the city, aiming left and right, suddenly, a gong sounded, and a hundred ragged guards rushed out of the city, they carried all kinds of weapons, a better spear, the spear head could still see the edge, almost holding a big stone, ready to smash the stone camp soldiers.

Zhang Luofu Daming Wujinshi, how could he not know these border soldiers, they are a group of poor military households who can't survive, selling their sons, daughters, wives, and weapons, and they can't fill their stomachs.

He stepped forward and said to these soldiers: "I am Zhang Luofu, the banner leader of the right battalion of the Dashun Army, which one of you is the leader?" ”

An officer with a vicissitudes of life came out of the soldiers, he was dressed a little better, at least the upper half of his body was still covered with a cotton armor, but the cotton armor was also tattered.

He and Zhang Luofu clasped their fists and said, "I am Mei Shifeng, the general of the Longmen Guard, what are you doing here?" ”

Zhang Luofu smiled and replied to him, the Dashun army is fighting against the Qing army, and it is urgent to gather soldiers and horses from all over the country.

These border troops of Longmen Institute have long been deaf to what is happening outside the window, the general army surrendered to the Dashun army, they don't care, the Dashun army and the Qing army died in the fight, and they don't care, they only care about the belly, the whole guard has more than 500 soldiers, because there is no food, more than half of them have run away, and today they have been out of food for three days, that is, drink some cold water to fill their stomachs, and then there is no supply, and the rest of the men and horses will be dispersed.

Mei Shifeng and Zhang Luofu said: "I see that your equipment is also good, do you have anything to eat, as long as you give the brothers food, the brothers will follow you." ”

More than 100 border soldiers of the Ming army also responded to Mei Shifeng, as long as Zhang Luofu gave him stuttering, they would give Zhang Luofu his life, Zhang Luofu brought five days of dry food this time, and a general manager nodded, the ministry general willed, out of the city to call for troops wandering outside the city.

After a while, two soldiers came in from outside the city with a large basket of light cakes, and they were not distributed to the border soldiers, but thrown on the ground, Mei Shifeng and his subordinates looked at the light cakes on the ground, their eyes lit up, how many days have they not eaten the staple food of light cakes?

Zhang Luofu shouted: "Eat, and then come with us." ”

Mei Shifeng and his subordinates suddenly rushed forward, coaxing the light cake, there were more than 200 light cakes on the ground, enough for one person, but the punches and kicks were grabbed, the frame of the light cake had already been pulled to the sky, many people grabbed a light cake, and it was not enough to stuff it into their mouths, they still had to coax the light cake that was still on the ground and had not picked it up.

Zhang Luofu looked at a group of border soldiers who fought for the light cake, and felt inexplicable shame, this is the border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, a basket of light cakes made a group of border soldiers who couldn't eat enough, but were still holding on, crazy,

Mei Shifeng grabbed a light cake, did not continue to grab it, but stood aside, silently ate the light cake, and waited for all the soldiers to eat the light cake, Zhang Luofu saw more than 20 thin soldiers, poor Baba looked at the soldiers who grabbed the light cake gobbling up, Zhang Luofu and the general manager said: "These did not grab the light cake, each person will share half." ”

The commander of the department ordered the soldiers to carry a basket of light cakes, this time he gave half a light cake to each of the soldiers who did not grab the light cake, and after all the soldiers ate the light cake, Zhang Luofu said: "Brothers, take your guys and go to the dragon gate guard with me." ”

Mei Shifeng shouted loudly, and Zhang Luofu said: "Zhang Zhangqi, in the future, more than 100 of my brothers will be the soldiers of your Dashun army, and we will fight wherever you say." ”

The soldiers also screamed, Zhang Luofu got a side of the multilateral soldiers in Longmen, he took these border soldiers to Longmen City, and met dozens of stragglers on the way, as long as they were stuttering, these border soldiers followed together, Zhang Luofu's heart was infinitely sad, how did the Ming Dynasty fall to this point, the border soldiers were the elite troops of the imperial court, as long as they stuttered, they would follow others without hesitation.

Zhang Luofu shed tears as he walked, maybe the Dashun army was able to break through the capital, not because of good luck, nor because the Ming army had poor combat effectiveness, but because they really fed the stomachs of the soldiers.

The group returned to Longmen City, at this time in Longmen City, a lot of laughter, Ling Jingyang in order to make the whole army and the people have a harmonious relationship, thought of a brilliant idea, that is, to hold a tug-of-war competition in the army, and finally the winning team, each person can get ten light cakes.

The rule is that the whole army and civilians are divided into ten teams, each team has twelve people, including seven soldiers, five people, and three men and two women among the five people, so that if the army wants to win the game, it must form a team with the people.

Ling Jingyang gave an order, and the army was immediately divided into ten phalanxes, the strongest soldiers in each phalanx, as well as the most stocky men and sturdy peasant women, formed a team, and began to compete, Ling Jingyang and Wan Liyun served as referees, and after a morning of competition, the two teams that participated in the finals were finally decided.

One team is the logistics baggage tug-of-war team led by Lao Mantou, and the other team is the tug-of-war team of Li Rufeng's cavalry battalion, the two teams will have the final in the afternoon, Ling Jingyang saw Zhang Luofu leading a group of ragged border soldiers back, he knew that Zhang Luofu had completed the task, and hurriedly beckoned him to rest together, Zhang Luofu also introduced Mei Shifeng to Ling Jingyang.

Mei Shifeng gave Ling Jingyang a military salute, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers under his command is also very good, but he is hungry, and after eating a full meal, he is definitely an elite division, he waved his hand, and let Mei Shifeng follow Zhang Luofu in the future.

Zhang Luofu was very happy, Ling Jingyang supplemented Zhang Luofu's soldiers and horses, because he got a large number of border soldiers in the Longmen Guard, and the military strength of the stone camp increased unprecedentedly, Ling Jingyang equipped each flag with 500 infantry soldiers, as for the cavalry battalion, because the war horses were not enough, there was no expansion for the time being, Ling Jingyang also selected 50 personal soldiers from the whole army to serve as his guard, and added 200 soldiers to Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou, so as to strengthen the direct force, and almost completed the reorganization of the army in a short period of time.

Zhang Luofu asked Ling Jingyang if he was so happy in the city, could it be a happy event, and without waiting for Ling Jingyang to speak, Wang Chengen scolded indignantly: "It's all old steamed buns and shameless, fat heads and big ears who eat in the logistics baggage camp, look at his team, which one is not a sturdy man, and two fat women, how can our artillery battalion get by." ”

He was very dissatisfied with the logistics baggage team of the old steamed buns, and eliminated the artillery battalion in the first round, so angry that he didn't want to eat lunch, Zhu Youzhen also had a black face, because he looked stronger than other soldiers, so he was also selected by the soldiers to the tug-of-war team, and the logistics baggage team competed, in the tug-of-war, the logistics baggage team pulled the artillery battalion away in one go, and Zhu Youzhen also flew to the logistics baggage team with other team members.

After Zhang Luofu heard this, he was a little dissatisfied, but the old steamed bun ran over and said: "Du Wei, you have to talk about it, the winning team has ten light cakes per person." ”

Zhang Luofu suddenly pricked up his ears and said to the old steamed bun: "Wait, wait, if we don't participate in the competition, is it still called a competition, we also want to compete." ”

The team that lost to the logistics baggage battalion in the morning was not convinced, and said that he agreed with Zhang Luofu to participate in the game, and there were other teams that lost the game, and they couldn't wait to see the excitement, and they agreed that Zhang Luofu participated in the game in a wild card way, and the old steamed bun was not false, and he was not afraid of the logistics baggage tug-of-war team, and Zhang Luofu said: "We have three teams, how to compete?" ”

Li Rufeng also squinted his eyes and looked at Zhang Luofu, his cavalry battalion was well fed, all of them were in good physique, whether it was the logistics baggage battalion or the Zhang Luofu battalion, come one by one, come one by one.

He said very arrogantly: "Both of you have come to our cavalry battalion to make moves, my cavalry battalion will lose to you, and I Li Rufeng will have your surname." ”

Old Mantou and Zhang Luofu nodded almost at the same time, and said.

"Okay, old as the wind."

"Well, Zhang Rufeng."

Before the two of them competed, they changed Li Rufeng's surname, Li Rufeng's face suddenly turned green, and his subordinates all looked at Lao Mantou and Zhang Luofu angrily, and they had to pull their team to run to the edge of the sky this afternoon.