Chapter 577: Contact

After all the arrangements were made, Zilong discussed with Hu Dulu about the rescue in the south. Now it is the first step and the most critical step, but then how to rescue Ningxia and King An still has to be discussed.

First of all, how many Ming troops Liu Jin mobilized this time, where they were, and to what extent they attacked Ningxia and King An, these Zilong and others did not know.

In view of this, Zilong finally sent those guides to find a way to go south and find the beggar gang, and from the beggar gang, obtain Liu Jin's detailed deployment this time.

Those guides were originally Han Chinese, and they had stayed in both Yansui border town and Ningxia border town, so they were very familiar with the terrain of the two places.

As for finding a beggar gang, Zilong felt that this time to deal with Ningxia and King An, Liu Jin must have made his own opinion, and Li Dongyang and other courtiers must not support it.

In this way, the beggar gang must not have stood on Liu Jin's side, with the eyes and ears of the beggar gang all over the world, and in order to help the ancestors and the gang rules, they focused on developing their forces on the nine sides.

Therefore, it can be said that among the nine sides, the most well-informed should actually be led by the beggar gang. As long as he contacts the beggar gang, most of Liu Jin's deployment will definitely be exposed.

According to the previous chat messages from Wei Bin and Zhang Fu, Jiang Han, the chief soldier of Ningxia's town guard, is likely to have been wooed by King An.

In this way, King An's power in Ningxia is only afraid of no less than 60,000 troops. With 60,000 troops in hand, and the relatively favorable defensive conditions of the border towns in Ningxia, Liu Jin should not have attacked for a while.

But the news Zhang Fu brought was after he left Jingshi after all. Now where Liu Jin is going, how Ningxia is, Zilong doesn't know at all.

At the moment, after discussing with Hu Dulu, he was going to go to Ningxia City alone to understand the current situation in Ningxia.

It's just that as soon as he mentioned such ideas, he was opposed by everyone, including Wan'er. Everyone said that this army has no leader, but it is afraid that the dragons have no leader.

Zilong thought about it again and again, but he also felt that he was really reckless when he went to Ningxia to investigate the situation. But now in this army, apart from herself, only Wan'er is suitable for this task.

As soon as he thought of this, Wan'er directly volunteered and said: "Since Zilong can't go, then it's better for me to go! I'm in the army formation, I don't know much, and I can't command the army, so it's a waste to stay here!"

On the contrary, my martial arts are not bad, with the true qi of the Yi Jin Sutra and the Wuji Sword Technique, even if Liu Jin is there in person, I can also maneuver one or two. Not to mention the ...... of Ningxia"

"No......" Before Wan'er finished speaking, Zilong categorically vetoed, "If you go, I don't worry!"

"Zilong!" Wan'er saw that although Zilong's attitude was resolute, her eyes were full of infinite tenderness, and she immediately understood Zilong's true thoughts, smiled and said, "Is there anyone more suitable than me here?" Now we have worked hard to take this brother who is less than 10,000 to kill out of the Hetao, just to rescue my father and Ningxia.

If we can't know the situation in Ningxia, and if we can't get in touch with my father and them and let them cooperate with us, then how can we defeat Liu Jin and break his conspiracy with only these 10,000 people?"

"Hey!" Zilong wanted to persuade again, but what Wan'er said was indeed reasonable, he took 10,000 people south and broke Qingyankou, he had already paid for the lives of many brothers, and if he wanted to defeat Liu Jin, who was far superior to the Ordos, he was afraid that he would need to pay more.

Can't get in touch with Ningxia and King An, can't get the cooperation of Ningxia and King An, just with these 10,000 people, trying to defeat Liu Jin is tantamount to a fool's dream!

Therefore, it is necessary for Wan'er to go to Ningxia. At that moment, Zilong thought about it again and again, so he had to sigh, took Wan'er's hand, and said affectionately: "You want to go, I won't stop you, but if something happens to you......"

Wan'er didn't wait for Zilong to finish speaking, she directly stretched out her Qianqian jade finger and put it on Zilong's mouth, so that he couldn't say any more, and then smiled at Zilong: "Don't worry, I have a marriage contract with you! Now we are not officially married, and you still owe me a wedding, so no matter what, I will not have an accident!"

"Hmm!" Zilong saw Wan'er comforting himself, not wanting to worry about her, and his heart was also reluctant, so he immediately nodded, didn't say more, and directly hugged Wan'er into his arms, and didn't say anything for a long time......

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After Zilong had decided on the distribution and Wan'er had ventured south to Ningxia to investigate the situation, he couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately led the army to sneak all the way towards Ningxia.

Along the way, Zilong and others sent the sentry ten miles away, but they found no trace of the Ming army. I don't know if Liu Jin was too confident in his arrangement, or Ningxia's resistance was too fierce, so he had to concentrate all his strength to deal with Ningxia.

On this day, Zilong led the army to the vicinity of Huamachi. This is the starting point to the east of Ningxia Town, and the elite men and horses of the Ningxia border army should be stationed.

At first, Zilong also ordered the army to pay attention to secrecy, and wait until it was clear whether the garrison near Huamachi was friend or foe, and then deal with the Huamachi garrison.

It's just that when there were still thirty miles away from Huamachi, the sentinel who was running fast in front reported that Huamachi was empty, and a Ming army didn't see it.

This is a big surprise to Zilong, since Ming Taizong set up nine sides to prevent the Mongol invasion, every village in this nine-sided town, in the military fort, there will be more or less manpower.

Even when Ordos attacked Ningxia on a large scale and almost broke through the Great Wall of Ningxia and reached the city of Ningxia, as far as Zilong knew, this Huamachi still retained a certain number of soldiers to guard this vicinity.

But now that even the defenders of Huamachi are gone, it can be seen how hot the battle between Ningxia and Liu Jin has reached at this moment.

At this moment, the brothers have not eaten and slept well for several days since they went south, and when they heard that there were no defenders in Huamachi, Zilong immediately made a decision, so he took the army of Hetao and settled in the walled fort near Huamachi to repair it.

In the evening, Zilong arranged the duty matters and was about to go to see Hu Dulu, but someone reported that the brother who had gone out to contact the beggar gang had rushed back, and he also brought an old beggar with him.

Zilong was in a happy mood when he heard this, and immediately personally greeted him outside the wall, and from a distance, he saw his old friends from the beggar gang, Elder Xu, who was following a few brothers, standing near the gate of the walled fort.

At that moment, Zilong took three steps and two steps, turned into a wind, came to Elder Xu's side, opened his arms, gave Elder Xu's bear hug, and said, "Haha! When I saw Elder Xu, my heart finally fell into my stomach!"

Elder Xuan was originally waiting at the gate of this walled fort, thinking about things, but before he could react, he vaguely saw a figure rushing in, and he habitually wanted to dodge, but found that he couldn't dodge no matter what.

This time, the quilt Zilong hugged him upright, and while marveling at Zilong's martial arts in his heart, he also reached out and patted Zilong's back, and said happily: "Zilong, don't come unharmed!"

"Thanks to the blessing of Brother Ren and Elder Xu, I'm not fine!" Zilong suppressed his excitement, let go of Elder Xu, and then looked at him and said, "It's just that Elder Xu, you seem to have a bad complexion!"

Originally, as the elder of the beggar gang, although he could not be said to be pampered, he was also a high-level member of the beggar gang, and he didn't have to do many things himself, so it should be easier.

But now, at first glance, Elder Xu, only found that the patched clothes on his body had been broken several holes, some were pierced by swords, some were pierced by arrows, and even the clothes were full of bloodstains, I don't know if it was Elder Xu's or the enemy.

Even Elder Xu's gray hair had become completely white at the moment, and on his wrinkled face, the wrinkles seemed to have become cracks, carved deeply!

"It's okay!" Elder Xuan waved his hand, lifted his clothes with holes and patches, and said self-deprecatingly, "Now that this big thing has happened, I'm okay like this! Don't you see, the helper is running around now, but he is more tired!"

"Brother Ren......" Zilong originally knew that this time, Liu Jin blatantly started a war with Ningxia, one of the important towns of the Nine Sides, in the name of the imperial court, which was an extremely important event in the Ming Dynasty in recent decades, but he did not expect that this matter had already involved the beggar gang, and it was so deeply involved.

At that moment, he muttered a word, then came back to his senses, pulled Elder Xu, and said, "Okay, since I have arrived at the realm where I have temporarily settled, then I am half a master, and I must treat you, a distinguished guest from afar, well!

As he spoke, Zilong walked in front to lead the way, and walked back with Elder Xu, who also smiled and followed Zilong backwards without any rebuttal.

After a short time, Zilong led Elder Xu to a mud house, which was regarded as a temporary place to receive guests, and after inviting Elder Xu to take a seat, he did not serve him good tea, and only after Hu Dulu, Asli and Lakshen were also seated, did they begin to get into the main topic.

Last time he overthrew the Heavenly King Sect, Elder Xu once followed Ren Bufan to Hetao, and naturally had a relationship with Hu Dulu and others, so there is no need to deliberately introduce it at this time.

Zilong was also worried about the situation in Ningxia at the moment, so he immediately asked directly. After hearing this, Elder Xuan sighed, and then began to slowly explain the situation in Ningxia.

It turned out that Liu Jin persecuted King An very deeply, and asked King An to exterminate the Fengyue Gang within a time limit to prove his loyalty to the court.

But how could King An agree to this, he actually started in advance, killed the eunuch Li Zeng, and after sacrificing the flag, together with Jiang Han, the chief soldier of Ningxia Town, played the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and gathered more than 40,000 troops in Ningxia, plus the army prepared by King An himself, as well as the Fengyue Gang and other Jianghu people, a total of 60,000 people, and they were ready to kill out of Ningxia and attack the Beijing Division.