Chapter 4: A Thousand Miles of Wolf Smoke is on the verge of erupting

Lu Ji asked Li Zhong to settle down, and called the imperial doctor to guard him day and night. Wen Ping was a little relieved, and Lu Ji hurriedly pulled him into the camp. As soon as he entered the camp, Wen Ping suddenly "fluttered" and knelt on the ground, knocked a song to Lu Ji, and said: "The last general is guilty!" Lu Ji hurriedly went to help him and asked, "What is your crime?" Wen Ping replied: "The last one is guilty of two crimes, one is to abandon Ningzhou, and the other is to let General Li Zhong be injured." Lu Ji helped him up, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "I know, it's not your fault, Ningzhou has been in disrepair for many years, it is a wise move to give up Ningzhou and preserve its strength, General Li Zhong was injured, I have already said that it was the Jin army who did it, it has nothing to do with you, this debt should be counted on the head of the Jin army!" Wen Ping said angrily: "I must let the Jin army pay for the blood debt!"

Lu Ji nodded, walked up to the handsome case in a few steps, and said: "The Jin army is several times larger than our army, although I am familiar with military books, but I have no experience, so I plan to let General Wang Yu come to help, the messenger I have already sent it earlier, and it is estimated that General Wang Yu should arrive tomorrow." Wen Ping was a little puzzled, and said: "In the whole country, it is not the king's land, and His Majesty is arbitrary, so there is no need to tell his subordinates." Lu Ji said with some embarrassment: "You also know that the general is a must-fight, I'm afraid that he will have some complaints about your abandonment of Ningzhou, you had better be mentally prepared and don't worry about him." Wen Ping understood now that Lu Ji was giving him a vaccination to prevent the situation from getting out of control, and hurriedly replied: "The last general understands that he will not quarrel with General Wang Yu!"

As Lu Ji expected, the next morning, Wang Yu led the army to arrive. In order to welcome Wang Yu, Lu Ji also specially prepared a grand welcoming ceremony for him. I only heard a sound from outside the camp, "The general has arrived!", and suddenly the horn sounded, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the battle flag fluttered. More than a dozen armor soldiers were the first to enter the camp and lined up in two rows. Then, a high-spirited young general rode into the camp gate on a war horse, followed by a group of generals who followed him. I saw that the young general was combing his hair in a bun, wearing a copper crown engraved with tiger stripes, wearing a white tight robe inlaid with tiger stripes, a pair of gray battle armor shining with silver on the outside, a white robe on his shoulders, and a handsome sword at his waist, riding a war horse leisurely, stepping on the red carpet that had been paved. As Tong Duolun greeted him, he shouted, "All the generals kneel to welcome the general!" The generals on both sides knelt down one after another. In the army, the generals bowed to the emperor, and this kind of etiquette of only kneeling and not kowtowing was also for very prestigious generals.

Seeing Tong Duolun coming over with a smile, Wang Yu got off the war horse, handed the war horse to the general beside him, and bowed to Tong Duolun. Tong Duolun saluted him and said with a smile: "The old man has been waiting for the general here for a long time at the behest of His Majesty! Look, Your Majesty has arranged such a big pomp for you, and he is very important to you!" Wang Yu smiled, ignoring the kneeling generals, and walked straight to Lu Ji's Chinese army tent. Tong Duolun hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's better to let the old man go to report to Your Majesty, it's not too late for the general to go in again!" Wang Yu laughed and said: "Hey, I am as close as brothers to Your Majesty, so this little false courtesy will be waived!" After speaking, he quickened his pace and directly entered the big tent with the armor soldiers.

He opened the door of the tent and entered the big tent, only to see that inside the big tent, there were four generals Wen Ping, Kang Chao, Pu Kuang, and Zhang Shun standing on both sides, without saying a word, looking at him silently. Lu Ji was wearing armor, hurriedly got up, greeted him with a smile, and said: "I look forward to it day and night, and finally look forward to Brother Wang!" Wang Yu also smiled, walked up quickly, took Lu Ji's hand, and said: "As soon as I went to Qingzhou, I didn't see Your Majesty for many days, I really missed you, as soon as I received Your Majesty's letter, I rushed here non-stop, I can't wait to put on my wings and fly over!" Lu Ji looked at the armor behind him, and hurriedly said to them: "I have something to say to the general, you all retreat!" I thought that these armorers would retreat safely, but who knew that these armorers would not move at all. Lu Ji fell into embarrassment all of a sudden, Wang Yu hurriedly turned his head, scolded these armorers, and said, "Are you deaf! Your Majesty asked you to retreat!"

Lu Ji saw this scene in his eyes and was angry in his heart, a group of small armor soldiers turned a deaf ear to his words, but obeyed Wang Yuyan, this is simply a humiliation of the imperial power, but think about it, Wang Yu and himself have been friends for many years, share weal and woe, have always been his brother in life and death, and he has always treated him as a brother, and he will ask him if he doesn't understand anything, although he is a little arrogant, but he is still very loyal to himself, and he can only laugh at it. Wang Yu paused, walked in front of Wen Ping, and said: "I want to ask General Wen Ping, why do you want to abandon Ningzhou!" Wen Ping felt ashamed, lowered his head, and said: "Because Ningzhou City is in disrepair, it is difficult to defend..." Wang Yu immediately interrupted him, and said sharply: "Ningzhou is in disrepair, can't you tighten up defenses? In doing so, you surrender Ningzhou to the Jin army, not only can not win time for our army in the future, but also fuel their arrogance!" Wen Ping closed his eyes, lowered his head, and said, "All this is my fault!" Wang Yu smiled coldly and said, "And Li Zhong, I heard that he suggested that you withdraw the army, what about others?" After speaking, he glanced at the general who was standing. In order to cover his evacuation, he was hit by more than a dozen arrows, and his life and death were uncertain. After a period of silence, Lu Ji's deep voice came. Then, there was a longer silence, Wang Yu was stunned for a while, he didn't speak for a long time, for a long time, sighed, patted Wen Ping's shoulder and said: "That's it, you guys did your best, it was my fault just now!" Lu Ji said: "All this is owed to us by the Jin army, and we will let him pay for it with blood!" Everyone was furious for a while, and said loudly: "We must kill the Jin army and avenge General Li Zhong!" Wang Yu stepped forward, hugged his fist at Lu Ji, and said: " Your Majesty wait, I must let the Jin army also taste the power of my Qing army!"

Let's say that after the Jin army repelled Li Zhong's defenders, they successfully entered Ningzhou City. The current city of Ningzhou has experienced the baptism of war and is already a ruined wall. The people of the city have fled for their lives, leaving only some widows, old and young to keep their homes alone. The iron cavalry of the Jin army poured into the city one after another, and for a time it was overcrowded, and as a last resort, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty ordered that the Jin army be allowed to plunder the people's wealth everywhere. The soldiers of the Jin army were unrestrained, and suddenly they frantically looted the people's property. Accompanied by Xu Chao and others, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, dressed in military uniform, walked on the streets of Ningzhou, watching these tens of thousands of men and horses burning and looting everywhere on the streets, making a mess, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "Watching my tens of thousands of troops behave like bandits, the widow is also uncomfortable, but it will take several days for the military rations to be transported all the way, and if I don't rob these people, my Jin army will starve to death!" Xu Chao was on the side and suggested: " Your Majesty, our army has been stationed in Ningzhou for a long time, which will not only arouse the dissatisfaction of the common people, but also make the soldiers slack off, we should find the Qing army as soon as possible, fight a decisive battle with them, and increase our supplies by defeating them!" When Emperor Wu of Jin heard this, this was a good way, nodded and said: "The widow thinks that it is okay, the granaries in Ningzhou have been emptied by the Qing army, and they are now very rich, so I will order the whole army to let the soldiers have a full meal, and then the whole army will go north and attack Fanyang Mountain!" After speaking, he turned his head, looked at the plaque engraved on Ningzhou City, and said to himself: "It seems that it is time for our Jin and Qing families to compete!"

After Emperor Yuanhua of the Jin Dynasty gave the order, the Jin army had a full meal. After that, the whole army was assembled at ten o'clock in the evening, accompanied by the generals, Emperor Yuanhua of Jin Wu inspected the army and did the pre-war mobilization, only to see that he had a bun on his head, put on a cylindrical hair crown inlaid with red jade, a square face, sharp eyebrows, with thick and slightly curly hair, domineering, wearing a red robe, a pair of black armor on the outside, and a red robe on his shoulders, because he himself was tall and burly, he looked particularly powerful. All the soldiers fixed their eyes on him, waiting for his instructions. Yuan Hua looked at everyone and said loudly: "The Qing army is less than 50,000, our army has more than 400,000, they want to stop us, it is completely a mantis arm as a car, as long as we attack the Fanyang Mountains with Mount Tai suppressing the momentum, we will definitely be able to level everything, and when the Qing army is defeated, there will be thousands of jars of wine and 10,000 catties of pork, waiting for you!" As soon as the soldiers of the Jin army heard the reward behind, they all began to imagine the scene of drinking and eating meat after defeating the Qing army, and the smaller soldiers all drooled. These soldiers were also recruited from their hometowns, and since they were all children of poor families, they had never eaten meat a few times a year, so the temptation of wine and meat was still great for them. The soldiers were in high spirits, eager to defeat the Qing army immediately, and shouted one by one, "We must win!" This was not only a response to Emperor Wu, but also an encouragement to themselves. As Yuan Hua mounted his war horse, drew his sword and shouted, the soldiers of the Jin army set off overnight.

Throughout the wide road leading to the Fanyang Mountain Range, the sound of the Jin army's soldiers' footsteps and the thick sound of horses' hooves of iron tools could be heard everywhere. By the moonlight, you can barely see the fluttering battle flags and those bright blades of the Jin army. Yuan Hua asked Xu Chao beside him, and said, "How long will it take to reach the Fanyang Mountain Range?" Xu Chao said: "I estimate, it will take several hours!" Yuan Hua waved his horsewhip, slapped his war horse fiercely, and said loudly: "Let the soldiers hurry up, move forward quickly, and catch the Qing army off guard!" Xu Chao nodded hurriedly, raised his spear, and shouted to the Jin army behind him: "Advance quickly, if you slack off, you will be killed!" The Jin army, which was carrying the baggage, could not go fast, and the military orders were like mountains, and there was no way but to move forward desperately.