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Chapter 1093

"Is that really what he said?"

In the meeting hall of Zhenshuo General's Mansion in Xuanfu Town, Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng had an incredulous look on his face. He looked at Wei Zhice and Liu Minshen and asked, "Do you think this Mr. Sun is really physically healthy?" Sick!"

He emphasized the word "I'm sick" very strongly, which showed that he was very suspicious of this.

Liu Minshen looked at Wei Zhice, their eyes met, and both of them understood the reason. When Wei Zhice nodded to him a few times, he said: "Uncle, Minshen thinks that this old Mr. Sun Shixiang may be the real person." I'm feeling sick. But..."

After he said a sentence, he started to pretend again. He suddenly stopped in the middle of the sentence and looked at Zhang Cheng, Wei Zhice, Wang Yuanjing and others with a smile on his face.

Seeing him like this, Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng also smiled heartily, but deliberately asked: "Shenzhi, don't say half of your words and keep half of them. Don't be scrupulous. If you have something to say, it doesn't hurt to say it."

After Liu Minshen smiled, he said to Wei Zhice: "Does General Wei also see the way around here? Why don't you tell me about it?"

"Sigh... I'm telling you, our magistrate, if you don't want to say it, just don't say it. Don't involve me, a rough guy who only knows how to wield a knife and a gun."

Although Liu Minshen had resigned from office, everyone still teased him as the county magistrate. Now Wei Zhice claimed to be a martial artist, which made everyone in the hall burst into laughter.

Seeing this, Liu Minshen had no choice but to say: "Minshenqian thought that Mr. Sun Shixiang wanted to imitate the method of 'Kong Mingshi Liu'!"

"Kong Mingshi Liu?"

"He wants to imitate Zhuge Liang?"

"How capable is this man? He still wants my uncle to 'visit the thatched cottage three times'!"

As soon as Liu Minshen's words came out, everyone in the hall immediately started talking. Of course, He Biao did not participate in the discussion. He was always the most unique person. He sat upright in his seat and did not say a word. Didn't even touch the tea cup.

"Father, how about I go there myself?"

Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Chengfang, and said to him with a smile: "They are waiting for me, and it will be useless for you to go."

"Uncle, I am just a failed scholar. Why do you need to condescend to invite me in person? In my opinion, if General Zhice and I go on my uncle's behalf, it will be considered as a favor to the grandson of Toki."

Wang Yuanjing suddenly made a suggestion, but Zhang Cheng rejected it on the spot.

"Since he wants me to come and invite him personally, if you and Zhice go there, you will definitely be rejected by him."

"No."

Wang Yuanjing continued as if he was confident: "In my opinion, Prime Minister Sun is just trying to inflate his worth. He may not be willing to come out until he comes to visit him in person."

"What brother Yuan Jing means..."

After being reminded, Liu Minshen seemed to have figured this out, and he continued with a smile: "Since I am trying to get the reputation of three invitations for Prime Minister Sun Shi, I am also willing to accompany Yuan Jing, the staff officer, and Zhice General, to work together. Taking this trip will show off our dignity due to the large number of people."

"It's not like we're going to fight, so we don't need so many people."

But Zhang Cheng stopped him: "Chengfang, go see if lunch is ready. After lunch, Yuan Jing and Zhi Ce will go to Sun's Mansion, and everyone else will be busy with their own affairs."

He then said to everyone: "This time, our Yongyi Army has excelled in the three towns of Xuanda, but the subsequent aftermath is also a laborious matter.

Fortunately, there is still an excuse to help Yu suppress the bandits. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to handle. "

"Yes."

He Biao, the chief governor of the town, rarely spoke, so he continued: "Zhangjiakou has the largest number of people killed. Fortunately, it is in our town of Xuanfu. No matter what, it is still easy to cover up.

But over in Pingyao, a deputy commander of Shanxi Town and his two sons were killed. I am afraid that some people will use this as an excuse to criticize the uncle, especially Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi. It is said that this person is difficult to deal with.

Uncle, you have to make preparations in advance! "

"Hehe. Not only Cai Maode, but also Wei Jingyuan from Datong is not an easy person to get along with."

Zhang Cheng continued: "No matter how difficult it is to get along with Cai Maode, we always had a relationship with him when we first rescued Kaifeng. Now, when the matter of aiding Henan in suppressing bandits is urgent, he can always make excuses.

On the other hand, Wei Jingyuan from Datong has nothing to do with me, so it is really difficult to handle. "

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It turned out that Xu Dingguo, the deputy commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, was angry with Zhang Cheng because he failed to take over the post of commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town as he wished. Fan Yongdou promised him that as long as Zhang Cheng was brought down, he would be guaranteed to become the commander-in-chief of the first town. Even if he can't stay in Shanxi, he can at least be appointed as the general commander of Datong Town.

It was precisely from this that Xu Dingguo's extinguished desire was rekindled, and he was willing to work as a tiger, and tried his best to protect Shanyou's slave-trafficking profiteers, so that everything would come true.

However, although he had this idea in his mind, the reality was a slap in the face, and he was tortured to pieces, and even his property and life were lost in it.

Xu Dingguo originally had a battalion of soldiers and horses under his command, but he had been transferred to Shanxi for nearly three years. Since there had been no major wars for a long time, he now only had more than [-] servants and elite cavalry and more than [-] infantry with some fighting strength. There are more than a thousand troops, almost all of them auxiliary soldiers.

This is no wonder. In fact, when Xu Dingguo was a guerrilla in Henan, he was quite capable of fighting, and he defeated Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits several times.

But as soon as he took up his post in Shanxi Town and no longer had the threat of bandits, he followed the example of other town generals and began to earn free wages. The number of capable warriors in the entire association was less than a thousand.

Therefore, although this time, at the request of the Eight Great Families of Shanyou, they agreed to protect them from being raided by the Xuanfu generals, the actual number of troops they could mobilize was limited, so they had to temporarily recruit garrison soldiers and garrison troops from surrounding fortresses as a last resort. .Not only did his eldest son Xu Er'an go to Taigu and his second son Xu Erji sit in the city of Jiexiu, but he himself led his servant Ding Jingqi and the five hundred infantry to sit in the middle of Pingyao County and command everything.

However, many years of stable life have already worn away the fighting will of his soldiers, especially the soldiers and guards in their respective forts. They can bully some poor people on weekdays, but even the bandits and bandits in the surrounding areas are unable to exterminate them. Not to mention fighting against the Yongyi Army.

Although Xu Er'an also wanted to resist in Taigu, he faced Zhang Guodong, the commander of the Qinglong Battalion. After only one round of shelling, he no longer had the fighting spirit. After the magistrate of Taigu ordered the door to be opened, he had to lead more than ten servants from the other side. One side of the city gate ran away.

The person in charge in Jiexiu City was Xu Erji. Under the operation of him and the Fan family, Jiexiu County Magistrate Chen also agreed to stand by and wait for help, but he never thought about the other three wealthy families in Jiexiu City, but took the opportunity to add insult to injury.

Although they have always been oppressed by the Fan family, even if the three families work together, they cannot fight against them. However, this time is different from the past. More than a thousand Xuanfu troops are in position outside the city, as long as the city gate can be opened.

Han Guangqing did not want to be oppressed by the Fan family anymore. He saw the right opportunity to persuade the Zhang family and the Meng family to jointly control the city gate before going to the county government office to force the county magistrate, Mr. Chen.

Seeing that the situation was over, Xu Erji led his servants and fled out of the city without even saying hello.

But in Pingyao City, Xu Dingguo met Tian Mingyu, the deputy general of the White Tiger Camp of the Yongyi Army. Xu Dingguo, who was already very arrogant, became even more trustworthy. For the junior outside the city, the new guerrilla Tian Mingyu, that was a hundred A disdainful one.

Not to mention opening the door to welcome him, he even responded impatiently, and just said lightly: "You are not qualified to talk to us, go...go back and ask your uncle Yongning to come to the city to answer!"

This is really "tolerable, but what is intolerable"!
If Xu Dingguo just looked down on Tian Mingyu, refused to have more contact with him, or even belittled him, he could endure it. But now Xu Dingguo is insulting his most admired coach in his words, how can he endure it? have to?
If there is a disagreement, let's fight!
Tian Mingyu didn't have any ink marks at all. He went directly to the battle with artillery vehicles and launched a saturation bombardment at the head of Pingyao County.

In an instant, artillery fire was pouring into the sky, and smoke filled the outside of the city. Cannons and gravel were flying across the city, and screams and lamentations continued. Those guards who were not injured for a while did not care about others and fled down the city to hide. Enter the houses in the city.

Xu Dingguo sincerely looked down on Tian Mingyu outside the city. There was actually a reason for this. When he was a guerrilla and general in Henan, he often fought with bandits, and most of them won.

That's why he prided himself on being a veteran on the battlefield and did not take Tian Mingyu, who was not yet older than his son, into his eyes.

Even now, he still insists on his opinion that the Xuanfu army outside the city is just relying on fierce artillery fire. If the two armies really come into contact, they will definitely collapse at the first touch.

What's more, his two sons were defeated in Taigu and Jiexiu, which also caused him to lose face in Pingyao. Just imagine, if his dignified deputy chief soldier of Shanxi Town can't even deal with a Xuanfu guerrilla, how can he? Become the chief military officer of Shanxi Town?
At that moment, Xu Dingguo gathered his troops, including the profiteers and gangsters in the city, as well as all kinds of gangsters and beggars raised with money, plus the officers and guards in Pingyao City as the central army, and went out of the city to fight.

To put it nicely, they are called the Chinese Army, but in fact they are using them as cannon fodder!
In order to succeed in the battle, he and his youngest son Xu Erji personally led more than two hundred elite cavalry under their command. After the miscellaneous cannon fodder troops in the middle engaged Tian Mingyu, they rushed out from the flank and went straight into Tian Mingyu's middle army.

At the same time, he ordered his eldest son Xu Er'an to lead the [-] infantry troops to hold the formation behind the cannon fodder troops and supervise the battle. After the cavalry rushed into the Xuanfu army formation on the opposite side, they would then cooperate with the Xuanfu army and horses from the front to defeat the enemy.

Xu Dingguo's strategies and tactics are almost impeccable, but he is unfortunate because he chose the wrong opponent today!
Tian Mingyu was completely angered by Xu Dingguo's disrespectful words towards Uncle Yongning. The formation of the cannon fodder troops here after leaving the city was not rigorous at all, and they were completely unable to launch an immediate charge.

Xu Er'an spent a lot of effort to get them into a fighting formation, but he never expected that the Xuanfu army on the opposite side had no intention of defending at all.

"Charge, defeat the enemy in front of you in the charge!"

The arrest operations of the Yongyi Army's Qinglong Camp and Baihu Camp in Shanxi were not only to punish the Zhangjiakou slave traders, but also to increase financial resources for the Yongyi Army, and to establish their prestige in Shanxi.

Here, Xu Dingguo led his servants to rush out from the flank. Over there, the Yongyi Army's fire cannons exploded and roared. In the rising smoke, lead pellets shot out.

They were just cannon fodder without any military training. Each of them didn't even have a decent piece of armor, so how could they withstand the sharp guns and cannons of the Yongyi Army.

The [-] infantry troops on Xu Er'an's side had just begun to form a team, but the cannon fodder in front had already collapsed. They were running like flies on the brow, smashing Xu Er'an's place into pieces.

On the other side, Xu Dingguo and Xu Erji led their troops to rush out. They had just turned back and were preparing to attack the flank of the Xuanfu army. They saw the same cavalry of more than a hundred people in front of them, rushing towards them at the same time.

Comparing the two, the judgment is judged!
Although both sides are on horseback and appear to be elite men, one side's armor is uneven and the formation is scattered, while the other side's armor is neat, the weapons are well-organized, and the array is well-organized. Even Ma Tou Mountain is covered with a layer of fine armor. Leather armor to prevent innocent horses from being injured in battle.

Before the battle, the morale of Xu Dingguo's side had already been hit. When the two sides were close to a distance of twenty steps, the Yongyi Army cavalry held the reins with their left hands. They easily took out their right hands from the sides of the horses, and each picked up a dark-colored gun. The iron lump looks like its movements are both skillful and neat.

"Bang bang bang..."

There was a deafening sound of gunfire. Xu Dingguo and his servants had never seen such a battle before. The cavalry in the front row fell off their horses one after another.

Many war horses were also disturbed by the explosion and roar at close range. In panic, they ran away in all directions uncontrollably.

Perhaps the servants riding on the war horses did not want to control their mounts from the bottom of their hearts, or maybe they secretly guided their mounts to escape to nowhere.

Instant collapse!
In this battle, the troops at the rear of the White Tiger Camp of the Yongyi Army led by Tian Mingyu won without any doubt, and the Xu family's father and son were all captured.

Before leaving, Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng gave their battalion commanders and deputy generals the right to make decisions on the fly. However, he also had other instructions, that is, this operation of arresting profiteers and searching for profiteers should try not to affect innocent people. Anyone who is not on the list , if it is not necessary, the main thing is not to kill.

The reason why Zhang Cheng ordered them like this was mainly to control the impact within the acceptable range of all parties, especially Datong and Shanxi.

Fortunately for Xuanfu, the entire place is a solid military base, and it is within the jurisdiction of his Wanquan Command and the Chief Military Officer of Xuanfu Town. Even if he goes too far, whether it is to cover up or report in the future. There are arguments for the court's ruling.

But Datong and Shanxi are, after all, outside their own jurisdiction, and they are non-official Tuwei areas where military and civilians are mixed. Military households are intertwined with civilian households, and there are many officials, gentry, and merchants.

However, there are many variables when the army is traveling far away, and it is impossible to return Yong Ning Bo's decision in everything, so Zhang Cheng granted them the right to make decisions on the fly and act expediently.

Xu Dingguo is on the list, but he is in Category B and can be killed or not. If he can repent in time and actively cooperate with the Yongyi Army's actions, it is not impossible to be friends.

However, he has been dazzled by the benefits, and he is willing to be an accomplice of profiteers, which is actually no different from being a slave and betraying the country.

Therefore, the first thing Tian Mingyu did after entering the city was to behead the Xu family's father and son in public as a warning to others!
(End of this chapter)