On the morning of the second day, the sky had just turned red, the gate of Puchang had been opened, and pedestrians came out of the city in twos and threes, or pushed carts full of goods out to go out to Jiajia, or carried plows and hoes to plough the fields, and talked about a few words from time to time.

"Why is it so early today?" asked a farmer.

Another peasant replied: "No, I heard that our Qing army is going to fight the Yan army!"

The farmer said excitedly: "Yes, our Qing people have been pressed by the Yan people, and today we finally came out!"

The camp outside the city was lit with bursts of wolf smoke, and the sound of horns came from here, accompanied by the shouting and killing of the Qing army's iron cavalry drills, giving people a sense of slaughter.

The word "Qing" greeted the morning breeze and swaggered in the sky half-concealed and half-raised.

Under the banner, there were bursts of drums, and a group of generals dressed in military uniforms lined up in two teams and walked into the big tent.

After the generals finished bowing, Lu Ji waved his hand, and Xu Yin stepped forward and said, "Generals, the Qi State has agreed to exchange the land of Nanzhou for our army to enter the Qi territory and fight the Yan army. ”

After hearing this, all the generals were overjoyed, and they hugged their fists and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

Lu Ji waved his hand and said: "What's so gratifying about this? If you have the ability to do something, you have to have the ability to eat it! Since the Qi State is willing to give a heavy gift, it can be seen that the Yan army is by no means an idle person, its iron cavalry is brave, and the older generation of Qing people have suffered losses, and we will fight hard with them, and if we are negligent for a moment, it may lead to the disaster of the whole country!"

When the generals heard this, they lost their previous joy for a while, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

Xu Yin stepped forward and said: "The minister thinks that His Majesty can accept the grain and grass of the Qi State, but he does not move the troops, in order to observe the changes of the times, if the Qi State still has the strength to counterattack, then send troops to help, if not, then this incident has never happened!"

Lu Ji immediately made a decision, shook his head, stood up, and said impassionedly: "If it was before, I would definitely listen to the prime minister's meaning, but now, the Qing people are no longer the Qing people of the past, and the Yan people are not the Yan people of the past. Today's Qing Dynasty is not afraid of his Yan Kingdom! I have endured humiliation for decades, and my ancestors have tasted all the hardships just to get out of this corner. Now when the world is declining, our Qing army should take this opportunity to send troops to the Central Plains, and Yan to have a life-and-death battle, lose, we will go to extinction, win, from then on my Qing Dynasty iron cavalry can step through the Central Plains, win the world. ”

Xu Yin asked, "Your Majesty really intends to fight a decisive battle with the Yan army?"

Lu Ji nodded and said, "Of course, the southern expedition of the Yan Kingdom, even hundreds of thousands of people, almost poured out of the country, and now they are mired in the quagmire of war. I, the Qing Dynasty, am willing to make a bet with him, and even all the soldiers of my Qing Dynasty who can fight with him in the Qi Realm. ”

Wen Ping led all the generals to clench their fists and said in unison: "May Your Majesty be the head of the horse, defeat the Yan army, and win the Central Plains!"

At this time, a soldier hurriedly reported: "Woe, woe! Xu Tai, the governor of the Binjiang battalion, led the army out of the camp, but was raided by the Yan army, most of the casualties were lost, and the Yan army marched to our Yunzhou!"

Lu Ji took the fold, threw it on the ground, pointed at the generals, and said fiercely: "You have all seen it, we haven't had time to fight the Yan army, the Yan army has already come to fight us!

After speaking, he said to the armor soldier again: "Quickly order Wang Yong to lead all his troops to fight with all the men and horses, replace the position of the governor of Xu Tai, and recapture the riverside for me, I want him to Yan Guo to take a look, I am not afraid of him!"

Lu Ji said to Xu Yin again: "At this very moment, I have no choice but to recruit soldiers nationwide, all men in the country who have reached the age of 20 and are under the age of 50 will be enlisted in the army, and all the materials in the country will be provided for military supplies. ”

Xu Yin took the bamboo slip handed over by the main book, looked at it carefully, and replied: "If this is the case, our army can recruit 600,000 soldiers and horses, but the domestic labor force will drop sharply!"

Lu Ji waved his hand and said: "If our army wants to defeat the Yan army, it must be several times the enemy. I have land in the Qing Dynasty, generation after generation of young people will grow up slowly, we can fight for a year, two years or even five years and ten years, we will have food supplies, and the Yan country is a nomadic people, although brave, but the food and grass are not enough, as long as our Qing army carries the early stage of the Yan people with several times the enemy's men and horses, it can also boil him to death in the later stage!"

Tong Duolun nodded and said, "Your Majesty's ambition is admired by the minister!"

The generals also shouted in unison: "Your Majesty Ten thousand years!"

Lu Ji suddenly frowned, a little embarrassed: "It's just that these 600,000 people and my 100,000 Qing Dynasty iron horsemen should be in command?"

Tong Duolun replied: "Wang Yu, even millions of people, fighting for thousands of miles, the battle will be won, and the attack will be defeated! The minister thinks that if Wang Yu is in command, the Qing will win!"

Xu Yin stepped forward and stopped: "The old lady said falsely, Wang Yu has contradicted His Majesty and has been removed from all powers, how can he send troops?"

Tong Duolun shook his head and asked, "Is Wang Yu a Qing person?"

Lu Ji nodded and said, "Wang Yu is not only a Qing person, but also a nobleman surnamed Wang!"

Tong Duolun said: "In this case, when the life and death of the Qing Dynasty are at stake, how can Wang Yu ignore it?"

Lu Ji nodded and asked, "Then who is going to invite him?"

Tong Duolun said with a smile: "The bell must be tied to the bell, and His Majesty needs to invite it personally!"

Lu Ji looked puzzled, pointed at himself, and asked, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate for me to invite him?" ”

Tong Duolun said to Lu Ji: "Those who achieve great things are not informal, if you want to win the Central Plains, Your Majesty must have this kind of mind!"

Although Lu Ji was a little reluctant, he had to nod and said: "I will deal with the matter of the handsome position, and you must practice more and not slack off." ”

Since Wang Yu was refuted by Lu Ji and dismissed from all military posts, he stayed at home all day, concentrating on leisure and not interested in political affairs.

On this day, Wang Yu was at home, sleeping soundly on the straw mat.

The servant stepped forward and reported: "General, Your Majesty is here." ”

Wang Yu turned his body and replied, "You go and tell Your Majesty that the criminal minister is sick in bed and it is difficult to see him, let Your Majesty go back." ”

The servant went down for a while, then entered the bedroom again, and reported: "Your Majesty said that he will wait in the study until the general is well from his illness." In addition, His Majesty also said that he knew the illness of the great general, and if the general did not dislike it, he could treat the general. ”

Wang Yu slowly got up and said to the servant, "Take me to see." ”

The servant looked at Wang Yu dressed in linen and simple clothes, and asked, "My lord, are you changing your armor and going to see Your Majesty again?"

Wang Yu waved his hand and said, "I am already a person in cloth, if I put on armor again, wouldn't it be indecent." ”

The domestic servant knew that Wang Yu's move was just to be angry with Lu Ji, and he didn't dare to say much, so he could only silently lead Wang Yu to see Lu Ji.

As soon as Wang Yu entered the study, Lu Ji, who was flipping through the book, immediately put down the bamboo book, turned to look at Wang Yu, and said with a smile: "The general is in good health, I took the time to come and see you." ”

Wang Yu didn't have the slightest smile on his face, and hugged his fist at Lu Ji and said, "Your Majesty Xie cares, in the reckless body, the old wound recurs." ”

Lu Ji sat down at the desk with a smile, pointed at Wang Yu, and said, "The general is laughing! Who in the world doesn't know that you Wang Yu has fought a hundred battles without defeat, and with the presence of a great general, I have no worries in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Wang Yu hugged his fists and said: "The old things are no longer worth worrying about, Jinyu is old, and he is no different from a peddler's pawn, like a rotten wood in the mountains. ”

Lu Ji asked, "How old is the general, why is he old?"

Wang Yu replied: "I am already old, and I have no intention of being fame." Maybe it's because I've seen through everything, fame and fortune come and go quickly, it's all up to the number of qi. ”

Lu Ji suddenly had a cold face and said: "Wang Yu, you keep saying that you have no intention of being flashy and famous, but the study is full of military books, I also know that you study the art of war at home every day, and you can't release the scroll, are you dull in the twilight? What you are doing now is clearly deceiving the king!"

Wang Yu bowed his head and replied, "The last general will not dare!"

Lu Ji got up slowly, walked to Wang Yu's side, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "General, do you know that my Qing country has entered the time of life and death, the Yan people are raging, and my Qing people want to have a glimmer of life and win the world, so they need to fight with it." I plan to join all the soldiers of our Great Qing Dynasty and start a north-south war with the Yan army in the Qi realm. General, you are even a million people, you will win the battle and conquer the battle, and you will be one of the pillars of my Qing Dynasty. Now that the peddlers and pawns still have to fight and fight, how can you stand idly by, general?"

Lu Ji walked up behind him and continued, "I know that the general has some mischief against me. The past is my fault, and I have made amends to you, the general. ”

Wang Yu listened, "Plop-" knelt on the ground with a sound, kowtowed: "It's the last general's fault, it's the last general who deserves to die, the last general confronts His Majesty in front of everyone, and it is the last general who should make amends!"

Lu Ji sighed, stretched out his hand to pull Wang Yu up, and said: "As a man, who doesn't have an impulse, after the impulse, you and I are still brothers in life and death!"

Wang Yu looked at Lu Ji, with tears flashing in his eyes, and nodded.

Lu Ji said: "From now on, I will worship you as the general of the Zhu Kingdom, and lead all my soldiers and horses in the Qing Dynasty!"

Wang Yu immediately knelt down, hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty will use the last general regardless of the previous suspicions." Even if the last general is full of liver and brain, he will repay His Majesty's kindness!"

Lu Ji shook his head and said, "I have never blamed you, I and you are both kings and ministers, and brothers!"

In the middle of the night, a waning moon rose into the night sky, and the soft moonlight sprinkled on the Yunzhou camp that stretched for hundreds of miles. There was silence between the barracks, and from time to time soldiers patrolled the lookouts, and the flag that had been flaunted was also extinguished, only to be slightly opened when the breeze blew.

"Who's ?——," the silence broke with a sentry's snap.

The sentry held a torch and took a closer look, and in the light of the fire, outside the camp were a group of iron horsemen, white and black armor, all holding Changge, looking at the camp.

The general led by the head was wrapped in a black woman, dressed in black armor and white robes, the light was too dim, although he couldn't see his face clearly, he could feel the powerful momentum from his vigorous posture, only to hear the general shouting upstairs: "I'm the general Wang Yu, open the door quickly!"

When the sentry heard the word "Wang Yu," he was overjoyed and said, "General, it's a general! I'll report to the general!"

After a while, the camp gate was opened, and Wang Yong rushed out with a group of generals, and when he saw that it was really Wang Yu, he quickly knelt down.

Wang Yu looked at everyone and said, "Get up, this is not the place to talk, go back to the camp and talk about it." With that, he waved his whip and rode his horse into the camp, and the iron cavalry behind him followed.

Wang Yu entered the tent, and Wang Yong and others also followed.

Wang Yong asked, "The general came in the starry night, did something happen?"

Wang Yu took a sip of water and said, "I am ordered by Your Majesty to recover Binjiang." ”

Wang Yong nodded and said, "The general is in charge of the army personally, and the last general believes that the lost territory will be recovered in a few days." ”

Wang Yu said: "Has the Yan army been on the defensive in recent days and has never taken the initiative to attack?"

Wang Yong nodded and asked, "That's true, how does the general know?"

Wang Yu replied: "Our Qing army declared war with the Yan people, and the decisive battle was fought in Qidi, and the Yan people naturally gathered most of the Yan army in the Binjiang area, and the Yan army here was lacking in troops, so it was naturally mainly defensive. ”

When Wang Yong heard this, he asked, "Then how do we deal with it?"

Wang Yu said to Wang Yong: "Without further ado, early tomorrow morning, our Qing army will be surrounded on all sides and take Binjiang with lightning speed." Still, you're still the nominal boss during this time!"

Wang Yong nodded and said, "It's okay, as long as you can paralyze the Yan army, the last general is willing to do anything." ”

On the morning of the second day, the sky was still bright, and the commander of the Yan army in the camp tent of the Binjiang camp was still asleep, but he was awakened by a drum noise, and hurriedly shouted: "Who is making noise, isn't it time for drills yet?"

An unkempt soldier of the Yan army hurriedly came in and reported: "Commander, it's not the soldiers who are making noise, it's the Qing army, and the Qing army is coming up from all directions!"

Yan Jun Coach Chong Mingjaw is a reckless man, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a beard, and a tiger's back. When he heard the news, he didn't care about his physique, and rushed out of the camp in a nightgown.

However, I saw that the riverside camp was in a mess, with arrows raining down and flames soaring to the sky, and there were corpses of Yan soldiers everywhere, and some Yan soldiers were either hit by arrows* or rolled in the sea of fire.

The earth-shattering shouts and drums of the Qing army outside the camp were heard in the ears, and Chongming roared angrily: "Who gave Wang Yong the courage to attack without authorization?"

The adjutant general replied: "Or the Qing army found that our camp was empty and poured out!"

Chong Ming's jaw pulled the adjutant general and said, "You immediately break out of the encirclement and ask the emperor for help!" I will lead the army to block the Qing army!"

The deputy general went down with a "bang", and with a loud roar, he picked up his shirt, picked up his long knife, and rushed to the camp gate.