In the fourteenth year of Qi Jianwu, the first day of the first month.

The New Year came as scheduled, most of the people in the world were immersed in the festive atmosphere of the festival, and the people of Huaizhou were no exception, they naturally did not know that just one day ago, that is, on the last day of the thirteenth year of the founding of the military, the soldiers of the Huaizhou Army achieved a victory that shocked the north and south of the river.

Even if some people in high positions know that a big war is going to happen, it is certainly not possible to know the outcome of the battle immediately in this era of rather slow transmission of information.

The messenger sent by Xiao Wangzhi rode his horse south, which meant that it would take some time for the good news to reach everyone's ears, and the storm would show its power in the not-so-distant future.

In the early morning, Lu Shen slowly opened his eyes, and immediately felt extremely sore all over his body.

In terms of the time of fighting, the Ruishi Battalion is not as long as the Huaizhou Fourth Army.

It's just that the armies in Huaizhou can fight in turn, and Lu Shen must take the Rui battalion to do it with all his might, and the defeat of the Jing army's 2,000 cavalry and the final opportunity to break the formation are real hard battles, even if Lu Shen has the blessing of the Xuan Jing, the battle is still exhausted in the end.

Compared with physical exhaustion, Lu Shen was under more psychological pressure during this time.

Don't look at him in front of Wang Chulong, he is actually apprehensive as if he is walking on thin ice.

As a key node in the second phase of the Northern Expedition, the Battle of Razor not only affected the gains and losses of one city and one place.

If the Huaizhou army loses this battle, it will definitely not be able to fight again, because the four armies such as Zhenbei are the core combat strength of the Huaizhou army, and their defeat means that Xiao Wangzhi has no one to use. Perhaps there is a more serious consequence, that is, Yan Jing's army will take advantage of the situation and take back all the territory that was lost before.

Lu Shen couldn't accept that situation, so when planning this big battle against the main force of the Jing army, he didn't know how much effort and energy he spent, trying to calculate every detail accurately, and not allowing himself to miss a single clue.

During the more than half a month he came to Ancheng, he continued to integrate the information sent by the Warp Weaving Division and the military scouts, and on the premise of determining the strength of the Jing Army in Heluo City, he made dozens of deductions for the Battle of Razor, which had not yet taken place at that time.

According to his estimates, if the Jing army wanted to maintain control of Heluo City, it could only take out about 20,000 foot soldiers at most, while the Huaizhou Fourth Army plus the Ruishi battalion was more than twice the strength of the opponent.

Just in case, when Lu Shen asked Xue Huaiyi to treat Li Tianrun, he wrote a letter to Li Tianrun, imploring him to send the Feiyu battalion to fight together.

Such painstaking preparations were the only way to annihilate the Lei Ze victory of more than 20,000 people of the Jing army, which was the biggest victory of the Qi State in the face of the main force of the Jing army for decades, and surpassed the Mengshan victory created by Li Tianrun many years ago.

At this point, Lu Shen was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

He got up from the bed, got dressed and washed and came to the outer room, and after a while, the soldiers came in with breakfast, followed by Li Chengen.

"Congratulations to the young master for another meritorious service!"

Lee Seung-eun's face was full of reverence.

Lu Shen smiled and said, "Have you eaten?" Eat together? ”

Li Chengen waved his hand and said, "Young master, please eat, I've eaten." ”

Lu Shen didn't say anything polite to him anymore, and after sitting down, he launched a fierce attack on the food in front of him.

Li Chengen was still standing, and said unhurriedly: "Young master, the battle report has been roughly counted, our army annihilated more than 13,000 soldiers and soldiers of Sergeant Jing in this battle, captured more than 6,000 prisoners, captured countless armor, ordnance, grain and grass, and nearly 5,000 excellent military horses. ”

Lu Shen swallowed the white porridge and asked, "What about the casualties of our army?" ”

Li Chengen hesitated slightly: "Our army has lost more than 6,000 people in total, and more than 4,000 people have been wounded, of which more than eighty percent are minor injuries. ”

Lu Shen stopped moving, his eyes condensed slightly.

Seeing this, Li Chengen comforted: "Young Master, the opponent in this battle is the main force of the Jing army after all, and it is impossible for our army to defeat the enemy with very few casualties. If the Jing army was so vulnerable, how could the Jing Dynasty attack from all sides and occupy an incomparably huge territory. Since more than 30 years ago, this was the first time that Jing's army suffered a crushing defeat with 20,000 casualties. ”

"I know."

Lu Shen said a word, then looked up at him, and said with a solemn expression: "Before the start of the war, the Metropolitan Governor handed over the right to supervise military law to me, and now you have transferred a group of people from the Rui Shi Battalion to be responsible for supervising the pension of the dead and wounded soldiers in the army. If anyone dares to encroach on the blood and sweat of the soldiers, you must report it to me immediately whenever and wherever you are. ”

"Obey!" Li Chengen responded awe-inspired.

Lu Shen picked up a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, then got up and walked out.

Li Chengen hurriedly said: "Young Master, the Metropolitan Governor sent someone to inform him last night that the army will not act in the past few days, and it is necessary to deal with the aftermath of yesterday's battle first." The Metropolitan Governor also said that you have been working too hard recently, so you have taken a few days off to recuperate and recuperate, and you don't have to pay attention to military affairs for the time being. ”

"I'm not going to the Governor."

Lu Shen was still walking out, and when he came to the courtyard, he suddenly turned his head to look at Li Chengen who was following and asked, "Where is the station of the Flying Feather Battalion?" ”

Li Chengen was slightly stunned, and then lowered his head and said, "In Beicheng." ”

"You go and do things, you don't have to follow me."

"Yes, young master."

Lu Shen led several of his own soldiers to ride their horses towards the northern city, and from time to time there were soldiers passing by or patrolling to salute him.

The area of Ningling City is not large, and there are not enough ready-made barracks for tens of thousands of Qi troops to be stationed, so the people in the city are naturally uneasy. However, what shocked them was that these armies were very disciplined, although they looked fierce and murderous, they would not bully the people as often as the Yan army.

Compared with the armies in Huaizhou, the Feiyu Battalion was a guest army that traveled thousands of miles to help, so Xiao Wangzhi allocated the camp in Beicheng that originally belonged to the Yan Army to settle down.

In the small courtyard in the central area, Li Bingxue sat in front of the window writing and drawing, and from the lines on the paper, it could be seen that she was reviewing the details of yesterday's battle.

"Captain Yudu, Captain Lu of the Rui Shi Battalion asks to see you!"

The loud voice of the pro-soldier sounded outside, and Li Bingxue's hand holding the pen shook slightly, and immediately smudged an ink ball on the paper.

"Got it."

She sensed that her tone of voice was unnatural, and she couldn't help but laugh at herself.

Last night, she led the army back to Ningling, and on the way, she kept thinking about what she would say after seeing Lu Shen, but she only saw Xiao Wangzhi. The Metropolitan Governor of Huaizhou smiled and told her that Lu Shen went back early to rest because of his exhaustion in hard fighting, and Li Bingxue's mood at that time was both relieved and a little unknown loss.

She knew that Lu Shen would definitely not deliberately hide from herself, but many things in this world could not be determined by a single glance.

For example, sudden mood swings.

Li Bingxue thought that he couldn't take the initiative to find him, but he didn't expect him to run over early in the morning.

You can't leave him out to dry, that's not hospitality.

Li Bingxue thought so, so he got up and came to the porch outside the door, just as Lu Shen walked into the small courtyard.

The four looked at each other, and they were speechless for a while.

"Captain Lidu, thank you for your tireless efforts and leading the brothers of the Flying Feather Battalion to help thousands of miles-"

"Captain Lu, thank you for inviting Divine Doctor Xue to travel through mountains and rivers to treat my father's illness-"

The two spoke almost in unison, and then closed their mouths very tacitly.

They looked at each other again, and they laughed at the same time.

Li Bingxue turned sideways and said, "Please." ”

Lu Shen walked into the main hall with a smile on his face, Li Bingxue personally poured tea for him, after all, it was impossible to take a maid with her when she was out on an expedition, and she was not used to those hairy soldiers doing these things.

After the two sat down, Li Bingxue looked at Lu Shen's face and quipped: "I haven't seen you for a year, you have lost some weight and darkened, but fortunately it is not ugly, but it is a little sharper." ”

With just one sentence, the slight estrangement between the two who had just reunited disappeared without a trace.

Lu Shen remembered that when she was separated in Baimadu, Xinzhou, she once said with a smile that "Gentle Township is a hero's mound", and confidently said that he was "a red face and a bad water", and then linked to her joke at this moment, she couldn't help but feel the vicissitudes of life, and at the same time secretly sighed that Li Bingxue's coolness was indeed different.

Let him have the feeling of eating popsicles in the cold winter month in his previous life.

He looked at Li Bingxue's face and said with a smile: "Miss Li is becoming more and more heroic, yesterday I saw you leading the army to kill, I knew that the Jing army would be defeated." ”

Li Bingxue was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked with interest, "What have you experienced in the past year?" How do I feel like the taciturn and honest Lu Shen before. ”

Lu Shen was surprised: "Why do you say this? ”

Li Bingxue said leisurely: "Whether it was in Guangling or Jiangbei last year, or later when we went to the capital together, you have never praised me so bluntly, at most it is just a cliché on some scenes." ”

"I see."

Lu Shen smiled freely, and then said: "This is not a hypocritical compliment, but a sincere compliment." ”

"Thank you."

Li Bingxue's eyes were bright, and he changed his words and said: "My father said the importance of this battle, so it is incumbent on me to lead the troops to support. It's a pity that we didn't catch His Royal Highness the county lord yesterday, if we can capture this person alive, we will definitely be able to tear off a piece of meat on Jing Chao's body. ”

Lu Shen was slightly shocked, and hurriedly asked, "County Lord?" You mean Qing Yu Huaijin? ”

Li Bingxue bowed his head and said: "That's right, it's Qing Yugong's pearl Qing Yu Huaijin." This person usually likes to walk the world in disguise as a man, and I fought her on the battlefield yesterday, and I can confirm her identity. ”

Lu Shen led the cavalry of the Ruishi Battalion and the main cavalry of the Jing Army yesterday to pass by, and then went deep into the opponent's infantry array, naturally not knowing that there was a big fish hidden on the opposite side.

As soon as he thought of this, he also said regretfully: "It's really a pity, with Qing Yugong's attention and preference for Qing Yu Huaijin, we may have the opportunity to force Jing Jun to completely withdraw from Heluo City." ”

Li Bingxue sighed softly.

Yesterday's opportunity can be described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because Qing Yu Huaijin's identity is destined to be guarded by countless masters, and the usual scope of activities must be within the area controlled by Jing Jun, and the assassins of the Warp Weaving Division will not be given the opportunity to make a move, otherwise Qin Zheng and Qin Tiju would have already found a way to capture him to Yongjia City.

After a brief conversation about yesterday's war, there was silence in the room.

Lu Shen took the initiative to come to the door today, first of all, of course, to thank you, if the Feiyu Battalion did not appear in time yesterday, the Huaizhou Army was very likely to fall into a disadvantage. Secondly, in the past year, he has never contacted Li Bingxue, and he inevitably feels a little guilty.

In the past, he could use the excuse of being far away, but now that he is in the same Ningling City, he is half a landlord, so he naturally can't turn a blind eye.

Li Bingxue didn't pursue these questions, and took the initiative to say after a while: "Can you tell me about your experience in Baotai Mountain?" ”

Her voice is crisp and beautiful, and her eyes are clear and calm.

It's hard to think about refusal.

(End of chapter)