On the third day in Lingzhou City, all the money and grain had been loaded into the car, and the excess food was also distributed to the people, and the families of Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were also brought in, but in order to wait for the Zeng brothers, they did not set off until the fifth day.

It's not that the Zeng brothers dragged it, but their family was too rich, and the gold, silver and jewelry alone loaded twenty carriages, which was richer than the Lingzhou Treasury.

Zhu Long was a little worried in his heart, such a large convoy and slow movement on the road would give the officers and soldiers a chance to calmly surround and ambush.

The official army was defeated, and the news of the fall of Lingzhou had already spread, and it was impossible for the states and counties along the way to let them cross the border easily.

It's not a smooth road this time!

It's a pity that it is now the dry season in winter, the water level of Jishui is dropping, and it may be difficult for the sailor ship to enter Jishui, otherwise the sailor will enter Qizhou to respond, and then borrow the north wind to return to Liangshanbo, it will be light and convenient.

Zhu Long hesitated, so he convened the generals in the state hall to discuss.

The big chair hanging below the mirror is still there, but the table has been moved, and there are chairs on the left and right below, Zhu Hu, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Hua Rong, and seven people from Wei Dingguo on the left, and Shi Wengong, Su Ding, and the five tigers of the Zeng family on the right, also seven people.

The big guard Lu Fang held the Fang Tian painting halberd and was the door god at the door. It's a pity that there is only one god in this door, and most people are a couple, but there used to be two......

However, partial generals such as Ou Peng, Ma Lin, and Huang Xin are generally not qualified to participate in military meetings and are only responsible for the daily work of the army.

Zhu Long came in a little late, his expression was cold, his eyes swept over the hall, and said: "The news that we have defeated the official army and occupied Lingzhou has spread, and we will be intercepted and ambushed by the officials and troops along the way." Let's discuss what to do! ”

The lobby was quiet, everyone was looking down and thinking, and after a while, Lin Chong proposed: "I think we should enter Jinan Mansion first, and then take the sailor boat and return to Dongping Mansion." ”

"I'm afraid not." Hua Rong shook his head and said: "This year there is little rain and drought, and now it is the dry season in winter, the water level of Liangshanbo has dropped a lot, and Jishui must be shallow and narrow." It may be okay to move empty, but if it is full of cargo and has to go upstream, I am afraid it will not work. If the government and military block the river with iron cables or scrap ships, then we will be in a dilemma. ”

Hua Rong is the deputy general of the water division and has the most say in this regard, and when he says this, everyone will no longer mention the waterway.

"Even if you don't go to Jishui, you should go to Jinan Mansion, and after Jinan Mansion is Dongping Mansion. If you return to the original, you have to go through Gaotang Prefecture and Dongchang Mansion, both of which belong to Hebei East Road, and are under the jurisdiction of Liang Zhongshu, who stayed behind in Beijing's Daimyo's Mansion, and there are many elite soldiers and fierce generals. On the contrary, Jinan Mansion is adjacent to Dongping Mansion, and the lord only needs to send someone to Pegasus to give an order, so that the Zhujia army will drive from Dongping Mansion to the border of Jinan Mansion and make an offensive momentum. ”

After Lin Chong finished speaking, many people nodded in agreement, and Zhu Hu and Zeng Kui also nodded in agreement, but their eyes were ignorant.

Lin Chong proposed to go to Jinan Mansion, that is, the capital of Shandong Province in the later generations, formerly known as Qizhou, Song Hui Zongzheng and six years, promoted to Jinan Mansion, jurisdiction Licheng, Yucheng, Zhangqiu, Changqing, Linyi five counties, governance of the city.

And Jinan is just north of Dongping Province.

Therefore, Zhu Long's thoughts were the same as Lin Chong's, going to Jinan Mansion and returning to Dongping Mansion.

Moreover, Jinan belongs to Jingdong East Road, and the governance of Jingdong East Road is Qingzhou.

According to the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jinan Prefecture only had a local army, and the forbidden army was stationed in Qingzhou, which was under the command of the commander-in-chief of soldiers and horses. But since Qin Ming was wrongfully forced away, the position of the head of Qingzhou's soldiers and horses has been vacant.

Originally, the new commander of the soldiers and horses was Dong Ping, but before he arrived, he was killed by Hua Rong.

Zhu Long asked other people's opinions again, but they did not raise any objections, Zhu Long was about to decide to march to Jinan Mansion, but saw that the second child of the Zeng family wanted to speak and stopped.

"Brother Zengmi, do you have anything to say? If you have something to say, you may as well say it, if you are wrong, it doesn't matter, one person counts the short, everyone counts the long, call everyone to come, just want you to speak freely! "Zhu Long knew that they had just descended, and he still had concerns in his heart, so he was cautious in what he said and did.

An important purpose of bringing them with him is to bring them closer, eliminate estrangement, and help them quickly integrate into the Zhu family's army.

This is also a habit of Zhu Long, all the generals he attaches importance to must always hold positions in the Guards first.

Zeng Mi was indeed a little hesitant in his heart, unlike the eldest brother and three brothers with a strong temper, he had always been thoughtful and cautious, worried that he would offend Lin Chong if he raised objections.

But since Zhu Long asked, he didn't hide it, got up and said: "I once went to Jinan Mansion, where the south is high and the north is low, the north is plain, the south is hilly, and the road is full of long steep slopes, and it is difficult for carriages and horses to travel, but we have many carriages!" ”

Hua Rong suddenly remembered something, and nodded and said: "Brother Zeng Mi is right, I also heard the third master say that when they went to Qingzhou by boat, the river in the south of Jinan Mansion was the most urgent, and when they came back, they could only travel until there was a strong north wind." ”

This Zhu Long also knew that Zhu Biao had told him when he came back, but he didn't think of this layer just now.

"Oops!" Lu Zhishen patted his head and said with annoyance: "The Sprinkle family also came to Dongping Mansion from Jinan Mansion, why didn't they think of this?" The road was indeed steep, and I was tired to death at that time! It's hard to pull an empty cart from a mule, let alone pull a cart of cargo! ”

He stared at Wu Song with wide eyes, "Brother, you secretly went to Dongping Mansion to rob the Dharma Farm alone, which way did you go?" ”

Wu Song smiled: "I am on a boat, and the boat has a rope." I'm afraid of being recognized, so I sleep in the cabin every day! ”

Hearing them say this, Zhu Long could only abandon the road of Jinan Mansion and return from Gaotang Prefecture and Dongchang Mansion by the same road!

He made a decision in his heart, stood up and glanced around, "The generals will listen to orders!" ”

The generals Huo stood up, raised his head and chest, his waist was straight, and his eyes turned to Zhu Long.

"Lin Chong, Hua Rong, Ou Peng, and Ma Lin led the cavalry battalion of the Xuanwu Army as an outpost, reconnoitring the enemy along the way, and not letting the army fall into an ambush!"

Although Ou Peng and Ma Lin were not there, Zhu Long still named them, Lin Chong and Hua Rong commanded the cavalry of the Xuanwu Army, and they must have the cooperation of the generals of the Xuanwu Army in order to command them in a short period of time.

"Yes!" Lin Chong and Hua Rong responded loudly.

Zhu Long looked at Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, and said solemnly: "Lu Zhishen and Wu Song led the Xuanwu Army and the Navy Division with 2,500 foot soldiers as the Chinese army, escorting the convoy and their families!" ”

"Yes!" Lu Zhishen and Wu Song said in loud voices.

Wu Song stayed in the water division for a long time, went to Qingzhou together, and later ambushed Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping, in Baihuling, and attacked Hu Yanzhuo by argali, so Wu Song and the water division are very friendly, plus his ability and personality charm, it is not a problem to command.

"Zeng Tu, Zeng Suo, Zeng Kui, Zeng Sheng, Su Ding, the five of you lead four hundred knights to follow the Chinese army and defeat the visiting enemy!"

"Yes!"

This time back to Zengtou City, the Zeng brothers recruited two hundred knights, all of whom were some rangers and young people who had fled from the Liao Kingdom, all of whom had superb riding skills and were skilled in bows and horses.

Among the five brothers, Zhu Long deliberately kept Zeng Mi by his side, because he found that this Zeng Mi strategy was not bad, and wanted to see what level he was.

But Zhu Long didn't have too many expectations, otherwise in the original book, Zeng Tou City would not have been destroyed by Liangshan.

"Zhu Hu, Qin Ming, Shi Wengong, Zeng Mi, Wei Dingguo, the five of you will be cut off with me!" Zhu Long nodded the names of the last few people.

"Yes!" Several people said loudly.

Originally, with Wei Dingguo's ability and identity, he was not as good as Huang Xin, Ou Peng and others, so he should not be qualified to participate.

But as a new general, Zhu Long still has to woo and appease him, and in Lingzhou, he is half a master, familiar with people, and many things are inseparable from him.

What's more, the more important person Wei Dingguo, Zhu Long is to be reused. However, it was not used to lead the army in battle, but to develop firearms.

These days, Zhu Long has talked to him a lot, and found that he, the "Shenhuo General", is not in vain. Wei Dingguo not only opened his mind and came up with such a strange thing as the "Vulcan car", but also really invented the launch of firearms.

He used an iron gourd to fill gunpowder, put iron pieces and gravel in it, ignited it and sprayed it.

Zhu Long felt that he couldn't cry or laugh, he understood why Wei Dingguo used a gourd, not an iron pipe - because the gourd was a Taoist magic weapon, and Lao Wei felt that using a Taoist magic weapon to play with fire might have the same attributes.

Don't laugh, many important inventions and creations in ancient China were accidentally made up in feudal superstitious activities - gunpowder was discovered in the process of alchemy, and Sinan was mainly used to see feng shui......

Originally, Zhu Long disdained to use firearms, but the Han and Tang Dynasties did not have firearms, so they were still powerful?

But later, Zhu Long studied the stories of the art of war of the past dynasties, and found a fact - that is, many famous generals who swept the world in the past dynasties not only reached the peak of command art, but also created a new mode of war to crush the enemy!

For example, Xiang Yu pioneered the cavalry rush tactics and Hitler's lightning tactics.

Moreover, during the Han and Tang dynasties, the weapons and equipment and metallurgical technology in the Central Plains were far superior to those of the nomads, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, whether it was the Western Xia, the Great Liao, or the Jin Kingdom, their weapons were no worse than those of the Great Song Dynasty, and even surpassed the Northern Song Dynasty in many aspects.

Therefore, Zhu Long has re-emphasized the firer.

The earliest musket in the world was the assault musket of the Southern Song Dynasty a hundred years later, using a bamboo tube, cough cough, yes, it is a bamboo tube!

Zhu Long decided to let the assault gun appear a hundred years in advance, of course, he would not use a bamboo tube, it must be an iron pipe! With a bamboo tube, he will be ashamed.

And artillery, too!

Who will do these arduous tasks, and I wish the senior officials to fully preside over the rebellion work, and it is impossible to personally carry out these technical work, so they can only be handed over to Wei Dingguo, and let him serve as the leader of the assault rifle project research team in the future.

There is also the position of the leader of the artillery project research team, which is reserved for "Thunder" Ling Zhen, and he is currently serving as the deputy envoy gunner of the armor warehouse in Tokyo, what kind of bullshit position is this, so that the gunner still has a deputy!

It can be seen that Ling Zhen's status is low, an excellent technical talent, in the system is so excluded, can not be reused, the Great Song Dynasty is not the king, where is the reason?

Think about it, if a hundred cannons were set up on the head of the city of Tokyo—technically speaking, it was not a difficult task—when Wan Yan Zongbi brought a large army to the city, a hundred cannons would be fired at once, and Wan Yan Zongbi would doubt his life. Of course, it is more likely that Yan Zongbi's life will end.

Although Zhu Long had always looked down on Song Jiang and Wu for their despicable behavior of forcing people to get on the thief ship with tricks, he didn't mind being despicable for the sake of a technical talent like Ling Zhen.

Of course, everything has a second time when there is a first time, and Zhu Long's second preparation is left to An Daoquan.

It was because Wei Dingguo was so important that Zhu Long took him with him, and also told Zhu Hu and Qin Ming to be careful to protect his safety!

At the end of the meeting, all the generals left to make preparations, but Zhu Long was idle and walked around the yamen, where there were guards standing guard everywhere, heavily guarded.

He compared the yamen of Lingzhou and Dongping Mansion, the layout is similar, but Dongping Mansion is a little newer, probably a few years ago when it was upgraded from Yunzhou to Dongping Mansion, it was renovated and repaired once.

What's the difference? Suddenly Zhu Long stopped, there was a person in Dongping Mansion, a woman named Shen Niang, she was originally Cheng Wanli's concubine, but later he was occupied, after a few Spring Festivals, he was going to leave Dongping Mansion to fight, but Shen Niang still stayed in the mansion.

Zhu Long could see at a glance that this was a watery Yang Hua woman, but he didn't mind, he himself was not a chaste man, what qualifications did he have to ask others.

He just thought the woman was interesting, and she seemed to like the mansion more than the man. Whoever occupies that mansion, she will be her woman, and she is very virtuous!

Isn't this the same as the minister in the history books? They are only loyal to the emperor, and whoever sits on the dragon chair is their loyal courtier!

So with ministers, so with women!

In the eyes of the world, you are not who you are, but your identity, your power, and your wealth.

As for you as a person, your joys and sorrows, your joys and sorrows, who cares?

Zhu Long suddenly had a feeling, and felt that he had a better understanding of the emperor's technique.

A king must not indulge in conspiracy, but he must not be unproficient in it.

Those who are not good at this way will surely betray their relatives and leave them.

He walked aimlessly, immersed in his own thoughts, and suddenly found that the road ahead was gone, it was a courtyard, and there were more guards soldiers at the gate than elsewhere, so he asked a captain: "Liu Scar, where is this?" ”

This captain was rough in appearance and had a scar on his face, he was originally the small leader of Liangshan, but later followed Lin Chong into Zhujiazhuang and was ambushed, so he surrendered. The scar on his face was the injury he suffered when he followed Qin Minghuarong to attack the east gate of Dongping Mansion, he didn't feel ugly, but was very proud, and changed his name to Liu Scar.

Zhu Long has a benefit, he will never forget to see people, and the soldiers under his command, as long as they chat a few words, no matter how long it takes, he will remember each other.

Liu Scar was very happy, and he wished that the officials would recognize him, and said with a gun in his chest: "It's Qi Zhizhou who lives inside!" ”

Zhu Long's heart moved, and he suddenly wanted to go in and talk to this Lord Zhizhou of the Great Song Dynasty.