Daming: From the end of Hongwu

265 Chapter 263 - Hutuo River North and North 13 Soldiers and Horses
In the weather in August, the hot feeling has quietly disappeared, especially when the sun sets in the afternoon, the light of the sun becomes softer, coupled with the occasional cool wind, let the generals in armor feel a bit of comfort.

The pace of soldiers has always been relatively fast.

Therefore, even if Zhen Wu and the others broke up their discussions, Tan Yuan and Zhang Wu would still gather beside Zhen Wu, using the time they had returned to the camp to chat while walking.

"Remember to arrange the situation of the wounded properly. If you are slightly injured, you must decide whether to stay with the army according to the situation. Our next step is to march quickly. For those with injuries on their feet, how do you let them go south for hundreds of miles? And if there are any establishments If there is a lack of personnel, just bear it yourself, suppress the establishment, don't always think about supplementing it, wait for some soldiers to come back later, adjust them to make up for it, who can bear it if we keep using our soldiers."

Speaking of this, Zhen Wu remembered something again.

"But speaking of this, I'm angry. A few days ago, the old monk sent a letter to His Highness, wanting to squeeze out some more people from the family of our three guards and put them into the camp for training in case of emergencies. Your Highness Agreed, there is nothing we can do, we can only grit our teeth and squeeze, but if you squeeze, send me an order to go back, no matter Xiaoling Village, Daling Village, as long as it is in the village of our right guard, whoever dares to take Duding Or those under the age of 14 are sent to the camp, and I will beat him to death when I go back.”

Zhang Wu responded: "Don't worry, big brother, people's hearts are fleshy. If you spend your money, you will get your money. No one will smash the box. After all, you will have to live in the future, and no one will be so stupid."

Zhen Wu nodded.

At this moment, Zhen Wu just raised his head, and happened to see Li Rang coming with some people in a hurry.

Speaking of Li Rang, Zhen Wu had a good impression of him, probably because both of them were the sons-in-law of Prince Yan's mansion, and some time ago, Zhen Wu and his family were implicated in the rebellion, which made Zhen Wu I feel that I have a kind of fellowship with Li Rang.

So when Zhen Wu saw Li Rang, he smiled for a moment and took the initiative to say hello: "Li Rang, why did you rush to Xiong County from Zhuozhou? I see that your face is anxious, is there something urgent to find His Highness?"

Li Rang arrived in Zhuozhou City on the eve of August [-]th. At that time, he swore with Zhu Di that he would never compromise with Zhu Yunqi. Therefore, Zhu Di and the generals made a lot of sighs and sighs, and everyone recognized Li Rang even more. .

But when Li Rang first came to the army, he was not familiar with many things, so Zhu Di didn't let Li Rang participate in the battle of Xiongxian County, and asked him to follow the Zhuozhou defender Li Si to guard Zhuozhou City, and familiarize himself with the military affairs along the way.

At this moment, when Li Rang was in a hurry, he was stopped by someone, and when he turned his eyes, he realized that it was Zhen Wu, and his whole expression froze for a moment.

next moment.

He quickly came back to his senses, with an apologetic expression on his face, pointed to the direction Zhu Di was in and said, "Sorry, I was busy on my way, so I didn't see you, but I can't talk to you now, I have It is very urgent to see His Highness."

Zhen Wu was a little curious, what could happen in Zhuozhou City at the moment, Li Rang didn't have the time to say a few words, so he asked casually, "What's so urgent, do you need help?"

Li Rang shook his head and flatly rejected Zhen Wu's kindness, but he also flatly rejected Zhen Wu's inquiry, as if the matter was important and he couldn't say that he knew about it.

This is nothing.

He didn't want to say it, and Zhen Wu didn't force it.

However, Xue Lu on the side was a little unhappy when he saw it, and muttered in a low voice: "Is there anything else that we can't tell us?"

To be honest, Zhu Di has hardly concealed all the current military situation from Zhen Wu, and the people around Zhen Wu are all people who are closely related to Zhen Wu, and these people have almost no possibility of rebellion.

It is also because of this that there is really no need to hide the general military situation from Zhen Wu and others.

However, Xue Lu's words were somewhat inappropriate, so Zhen Wu frowned slightly, intending to reprimand Xue Lu.

Yet he hadn't spoken yet.

Li Rang's face froze, and he turned cold instantly. He may have felt that Xue Lu's identity was far from him. It was an offense to speak to him in such a tone, so he looked at Xue Lu mercilessly and pushed back coldly. .

"The matter is so important that you, a thousand households, really don't deserve to know about it."

The sound fell.

The scene seemed to immediately quiet down.

Zhen Wu pursed his lips to reprimand Xue Lu, but took it back.

Whether Xue Lu deserves to know, he doesn't know, but he reprimanded Xue Lu Gui, and others directly swept Xue Lu's face in front of him, that's another thing.

Xue Lu's complexion changed, and he was instantly furious. He dared to go back and forth in the enemy camp, how could he really be afraid of Li Rang, but just as he was about to speak to regain his position, Tan Yuan stretched out his hand and pulled Xue Lu back .

Tan Yuan shook his head to signal Xue Lu, and led Xue Lu's gaze to look at Zhen Wu along the way.

After all, Li Rang is the son-in-law of the palace, which is the same as Zhen Wu. If Xue Lu really offended Li Rang, Zhen Wu would be embarrassed.

Xue Lu gasped for a few breaths, and finally could only hold back angrily.

And Zhang Wu and others looked at Li Rang with unkind eyes.

They have fought side by side for many years.

Don't say that Li Rang is just a son-in-law of the royal family, even if Zhu Gaoxu is among them, he will never put on any airs of status.

Li Rang didn't seem to feel the unkindness of the crowd towards him at all, or even if he felt it, he didn't care at all, but when he looked at Zhen Wu, he smiled again and explained: "General Zhen, it's not against you. , nor is it someone who deliberately looks down on you, but the matter is really important, and I need to report to His Highness as soon as possible."

"it's okay no problem."

He didn't reach out to hit the smiling person, not to mention that Zhen Wu had a good impression of Li Rang, and he didn't want to get stiff, so he accepted Li Rang's explanation with a smile, but this matter wasn't something that Li Rang could just smile and get over. Zhen Wu always wanted to come down one step at a time, so as to explain to Xue Lu or others.

So, Zhen Wu went on to say: "However, I really want to know what it is that is so anxious. Since Xue Lu and the others can't know, and the situation is urgent, I don't want to waste your time, just whisper to me. ? Do you like it?"

This is Zhen Wu taking the initiative to ask for a step.

In his heart, Li Rang only needs to whisper a few words in his ear, and the content is not important, so that Zhen Wu can explain to Xue Lu when he turns around, that Li Rang's matter is really important, and he should not let too many people Just know it.

It was not difficult for Li Rang to do this, and Zhen Wu also protected the face of all of them, getting the best of both worlds.

However, Zhen Wu didn't know whether Li Rang was really pretending to be stupid, or because of some reason, although he still had a smile on his face, his expression became more tangled.

"I can't know either?" Zhen Wu's tone sank slightly.

Li Rang nodded.

This time, Zhen Wu's face also turned cold, and he looked deeply at Li Rang.

Li Rang still had a smile on his face, and there was a bit of apology in his eyes. On the surface, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, but at this moment, Zhen Wu suddenly felt that Li Rang's smile had become very fake.

"In that case, then I won't waste your time, please do your own thing." Zhen Wu took a deep breath and made a gesture of "please do your own thing."

Zhen Wu is not a person who can't stand it, nor is he the kind of person who will take revenge when others lose face. He can think that Li Rang has just come to the army and doesn't know the rules.

He put up with it.

For harmony.

However, Li Rang didn't think so in his heart. He only felt that no matter how famous Zhen Wu was, no matter how good he was at fighting, in the end, he didn't want Zhen Wu to be deflated, so he could be deflated.

If you come out to hang out, you will eat your brains.

He, Li Rang, didn't need to give Zhen Wu's subordinates face, so he led them contentedly, walked past Zhen Wu and others politely, and then walked away slowly.

Zhen Wu watched him walk away, and finally withdrew his eyes, but the coolness on his face did not diminish, and his heart was still slightly angry.

Xue Lu didn't expect that because of him, Zhen Wu's face would also be swept away, and the previous indignation immediately turned into guilt, and he said to Zhen Wu apologetically: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have spoken indiscriminately. "

Zhen Wu shook his head, not in the mood to say anything, and took the lead to go forward.

Looking at Zhen Wu's back, Xue Lu felt even more guilty. He thought fiercely, if he could make everyone look at him, how could Li Rang underestimate him? If so, how could Zhen Wu Following him, he was also belittled and neglected by Li Rang.

He gritted his teeth.

He swore that next time he would make a big contribution.

Zhen Wu didn't know what Xue Lu was thinking, but at this moment, he was more concerned about what happened in Zhuozhou? !But even if the matter is so serious that Zhuozhou is occupied by the imperial army, it will not be hidden from him.

As Zhen Wu thought more deeply, Zhen Wu, who didn't care much at first, felt more and more depressed.

Tan Yuan suddenly said at this moment: "Commander, you still need to pay attention to some Lijun horses in the future."

Zhen Wu looked at Tan Yuan.

Tan Yuan glanced in the direction where Li Rang was leaving. After looking back, he lowered his voice a little and said, "We shouldn't talk about people behind their backs, but I don't understand Li Junma. We can't figure out how to be willing to disregard the safety of the whole family and follow His Highness wholeheartedly. If His Highness has the winning ticket, it can be explained, but the current situation is exactly the opposite. Besides, His Highness once said that he is allowed to come and go freely , don’t stop him from saving his relatives, but how did he decide, if you say he is loyal, that’s fine, but if you say he is not a good person, you can’t be wrong.”

Zhen Wu hadn't thought about it from this angle before, but after hearing Tan Yuan's words now, he took it seriously.

This is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Han family.

Hundreds of good filial piety first.

If Zhen Wu's family members were caught by Zhu Yunxuan, it would not be surprising that Zhen Wu would go to the capital, the cave of dragons and tigers, and commit suicide to protect his family.

Thinking of this, Zhen Wu couldn't help shaking his head.

Forget it, how other people choose has nothing to do with him. If you have the time to think about Li Rang, you might as well think about how to fight Geng Bingwen in the south.

However, beyond Zhen Wu's expectation, Li Rang came to see Zhu Di because of an extremely important matter. To surrender Zhu Di.

surrender? !
What a fucking rarity.

What is the current situation, Zhu Di does not think that Zhang Baohui knows people with his eyes, different from ordinary people, he can see that he will win the world in the future, so he came here to surrender.

In this regard, Zhu Di himself did not have the confidence.

Zhu Di would not think that when he was shocked, everyone would worship him as the master, especially this Zhang Bao, who had no friendship before and was still under Geng Bingwen's subordinates.

This made Zhu Di not only unhappy, but also broke out in a cold sweat.

He immediately began to think about what Zhang Baosuo meant by coming here, and how it would affect their strategy of rushing southward tomorrow.

Geng Bingwen sent to test?then what?
Where and how should he accept the move?

After much deliberation, Zhu Di was in a mess and couldn't figure it out. He said impatiently and decisively: "I'm thinking about it, grandma, I'll see you first and then talk about other things."

After speaking, Zhu Di got up and walked out with Li Rang.

However, just after walking a few steps, Zhu Di stopped again.

Li Rang looked at Zhu Di suspiciously.

Zhu Di didn't explain to Li Rang, he called the guards directly, and said, "Go and call Zhang Yu and Zhen Wu." After finishing speaking, Zhu Di watched the guards rush down to deliver the order, and muttered while thinking: "Zhang Yu is good at planning, Zhen Wu is a ghost, mother, if you don't believe me, you can't see what Zhang Bao is here for."

Li Rang behind him couldn't help but uttered in surprise: "Zhen Wu?!"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Di looked back.

Li Rang quickly concealed his expression, and said: "It's okay, it's just that I have a relationship with my brother-in-law, and I'm a little surprised to hear that my brother-in-law is going with me."

Zhu Di hummed, and said with satisfaction: "The family really should get closer. Zhen Wu stayed in the army very early, and Gao Xu was brought out by him back then. If you want to make a name for yourself in the army, what's the matter?" If you don't understand, you can ask him more, I know that guy's temperament, relying on his high martial arts skills, he generally disdains others to hide his secrets."

"My son-in-law, please remember." Li Rang leaned over and said.

However, he said obediently in front of Zhu Di, but he thought in his heart that when he met Zhen Wu outside before, he deliberately concealed the military situation from Zhen Wu, which made his embarrassing face hot for a while, and even It was so hot that he couldn't stand it.

He was hiding something, but Zhu Di didn't hide anything from Zhen Wu, so what he did before was like a clown?
Thinking of this, Li Rang felt a little uneasy again.

Seeing Zhu Di's appearance of trusting Zhen Wu so much, and even notifying Zhen Wu to come here at the first time, he couldn't help feeling a little jealous.

He inexplicably thought that in terms of devotion, only one grandfather died in Zhen Wu's family, and his whole family is still alive and dead in Zhu Yunwen's hands. No matter how he is, he is more painful than Zhen Wu's devotion, so why can't he compare with Zhen Wu.

Li Rang thought fiercely, one day, he must replace Zhen Wu, earn honor for Yongping, and make him highly respected in Beiping City and all Zhu Di's troops.

But Li Rang is not stupid. Knowing Zhen Wu's current position in the army, he would not be able to challenge him at this stage, so he turned his eyes and said: "Father, my son-in-law wants to go to meet brother-in-law."

Zhu Di didn't know what Li Rang was thinking, he was only thinking about Zhang Bao's affairs, so he waved him to let him go.

Seeing this, Li Rang left the room.

When he saw Zhen Wu approaching from afar, he immediately put on a smile and greeted him proactively, and then said apologetically, "Brother-in-law, please don't blame me for not telling you just now, the main reason is that it was my first contact with Zhen Wu." I can't make up my mind about such a big matter, and I need my brother-in-law to remind me from time to time in the future."

Zhen Wu looked sideways in wonder, and immediately understood in his heart that Zhu Di called him over because of the military situation that Li Rang brought. After thinking about this, Zhen Wu looked at Li Rang with a smile that was more meaningful.

Li Rang didn't seem to notice, he was still very kind to Zhen Wu, and began to tell Zhen Wu about Zhang Bao's surrender.

Zhen Wu didn't bother to argue with Li Rang too much, so he listened carefully.

By the time the two of them entered the room, Zhen Wu had already fully understood the matter.

Zhu Di glanced at the two of them, and asked Zhen Wu, "Do you know the matter?"

Zhen Wu nodded.

Li Rang interjected, "I just told my brother-in-law outside."

Zhu Di hummed, and then asked Zhen Wu: "What do you think about this?"

Zhen Wu smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "I really want to believe it. Not only will it increase our strength, but the most important thing is to know the situation of Geng Bingwen's barracks, but the problem is that I can't believe it."

Who would dare to believe this.

Zhu Di thought the same way, scratching his head anxiously.

At this moment, Zhang Yu also ran over in a hurry, Zhu Di slapped the table and said: "It doesn't matter so much, go and see Zhang Bao first." After finishing speaking, he looked at Zhang Yu and said, "There is no time to delay. you say."

Afterwards, Zhu Di got up and strode outside, Zhen Wu and others hurriedly followed.

Several people led a group of people and rushed to Zhuozhou City. When they saw Zhang Bao, Zhang Bao kowtowed to Zhu Di and bowed, shouting to see King Yan.

Zhu Di also lost the look of entanglement and doubt before, as if he was very moved and excited, he stepped forward to help Zhang Bao himself, and the two immediately started chatting and exchanging greetings back and forth.

One said that he had heard of Zhang Bao's bravery and martial arts, and Zhang Bao joined the army, like joining the three armies.

One said that he couldn't get used to the injustice of the imperial court for bringing King Yan, and now he was able to worship King Yan, like a good tree, and he was lucky for three lives.

The two had a great taste of seeing each other and hating each other late.

It's as if Liu Bei accepted Zhuge Liang.

Zhen Wu and Zhang Yu took advantage of this time to carefully scrutinize Zhang Bao's expression, trying to judge the credibility of Zhang Baolai's surrender, but they couldn't find anything wrong with it. There was no sign of Zhang Bao's false surrender.

Zhen Wu was a little discouraged.

Even if Zhang Bao pretended to surrender, he must be a performing artist if he was sent by Geng Bingwen. The probability of seeing through it is really low.

Zhang Yu and Zhen Wu looked at each other, Zhang Yu understood Zhen Wu's meaning, stood up and decided to step up the test, so he said with a smile: "General Zhang, since we are all on our own now, can you tell us about Geng Bingwen's current situation? How about the barracks? How many soldiers? And how are they arranged?"

Zhang Bao said solemnly: "Even if you don't ask, I still want to tell you that the imperial court plans to mobilize a total of 30 soldiers in Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places to enter Zhending, and now 13 have arrived first, and they are divided into camps on both sides of the Hutuo River. To be stationed, Geng Bingwen led his son-in-law Captain Li Jian, Gu Cheng and others led the northern camp, commanded Liu Sui to guard the southern camp, and Wu Jie was in charge of arranging the camp defense for the soldiers."

13?
Zhen Wu, Zhu Di, and Zhang Yu almost lost their balance.

Grandma's, I always thought it would cost 30.

Now when I listen to 13, I feel like it's really fucking easy to beat.

But immediately, the three of them stabilized their minds. Now is not the time to be happy. Zhang Bao's words are not sure whether they can be believed.

Afterwards, Zhu Di and Zhang Baoshun chatted about this topic for a while, and then made an excuse and asked Li Rang to entertain first, while he, Zhen Wu and Zhang Yu went to another room to negotiate.

"What do you think?" Zhu Di asked.

Zhang Yu frowned in embarrassment, and said exactly the same thing as Zhen Wu: "I really want to believe it, but I can't believe it."

Zhu Di was in a hurry, and glared angrily: "You two don't talk to me with such fucking nonsense, otherwise why did I bring you here? To see a play?"

"Your Highness, don't worry." Zhen Wu persuaded, what Zhang Yu said was in fact, the problem was that he couldn't believe it.

But Zhu Di didn't listen to advice.

"Aren't you in a fucking hurry? It might be 13 now, but it will be 30 in the future. If you missed this opportunity, you can give me 17?" Zhu Di was very irritable, even when facing Zhen Wu, he directly Just cursing.

Zhen Wu choked for a moment.

17 people, not to mention that he can't make up for it, and he can't support him if he makes up for it.

"What do you think, His Highness?" Zhen Wu asked.

Zhu Di looked at Zhen Wu, then at Zhang Yu, and said his plan: "Regardless of what Zhang Bao said is true or not, our strategy of going south remains the same, and we will march straight to Zhending as usual tomorrow. If Geng Bingwen is really only 13 Wan Xianzhi, we fight easily, if there are 30 people, no matter how difficult it is, we still have to fight."

Zhen Wu and the two nodded, there is nothing wrong with this.

but…

"If Zhang Bao was really sent by Geng Bingwen to find out our truth, once we go south, Zhang Bao will send someone to inform Geng Bingwen immediately, and Geng Bingwen will definitely be ready. When the time comes, we will bump into each other head-on, and we are afraid that something big will happen." Zhang Yu worried.

Zhen Wu also turned his head sharply, thinking of countermeasures.

After Zhu Di thought for a while, his eyes were fixed, and while he continued to think, he said in a deep voice: "Then let's tell Zhang Bao directly that we are going south to beat Geng Bingwen, no, no, this is not enough, I want Zhang Bao to send the news back Geng Bingwen’s military camp, I don’t care if Zhang Bao faked his surrender or not, we can’t keep him in the army, I will let him go back to be my spy, no matter if he is sincere or not, I have nothing to lose anyway, let Geng Bingwen have a headache.”

Zhang Yu frowned and said, "It's just like this, but why did you ask Zhang Bao to bring back the news of our going south? No matter whether Geng Bingwen believes Zhang Bao or not, after hearing this news, he will definitely be more prepared, so how can we catch him by surprise?"

Zhen Wu thought for a while, but seemed to understand Zhu Di's train of thought.

He couldn't help admiring Zhu Di's military accomplishment before the battle.

Seeing Zhen Wu's expression, Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and asked Zhen Wu: "Do you understand?"

Zhen Wu said: "A little bit, I think that although His Highness asked Zhang Bao to go back and tell Geng Bingwen to guard against us, he is determined not to let Zhang Bao know that we will follow Zhang Bao to the south early in the morning. Geng Bingwen was prepared, but in fact he was alerting the snake, and Geng Bingwen would inevitably mobilize his defenses. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we were still unprepared when we killed him, and because we alarmed this old snake, Geng Bingwen, let him show his flaws."

Zhu Di nodded and said: "That's right, even though Geng Bingwen has been told, he will never know our true truth, and he can still cover up the truth, and if what Zhang Bao said is true, Geng Bingwen's army will be divided into two battalions, the north and the south, and Geng Bingwen will definitely make him The Nanying crossed the north and moved to the north, resisting me with all our strength, plus letting Zhang Bao bring back the results of the battle in Mozhou, Xiong County, and taking Geng Bingwen's momentum, how can we be invincible?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Di paused, and then said: "You may wish to think about it, if Geng Bingwen is really divided into two battalions, it will be troublesome, because even if we can successfully raid and destroy the northern camp, the southern camp will take advantage of our fatigue. At that time, cross the river to attack and kill us, so what should we do, so we must find a way to get Geng Bingwen's army together, then let Zhang Bao bring the news back, so that we can frighten the snake, maybe we will be blessed by God, Let us coincide with the time when Geng Bingwen's southern battalion moved northward, if this is the case, then it will be a chance for our army to win a big victory."

Zhang Yu understood half of what he heard, and when Zhu Di finished speaking, he immediately said excitedly: "Your Highness, then it's all up to you, you must let Zhang Bao go back honestly."

Zhu Di raised his head proudly and said, "The Strategist Xiao Daoer."

"Your Highness is mighty." Zhen Wu flattered him.

Afterwards, the three discussed briefly.

After all the discussions between the three of them were over, Zhu Di returned to the room where Zhang Bao was. Zhu Di and Zhang Bao had a cordial conversation again in an instant, and Zhu Di was indeed as he said, and Zhang Bao, who was blocked by a few words, had to obediently agree to answer. Geng Bingwen's barracks acted as a double agent.

This made Zhen Wu understand a little more, Zhu Di's ability to fool people is really profound.

So Zhang Bao, who came here in a hurry, brought the news that Zhu Di was going south to beat Geng Bingwen, and the results of the battle in Mozhou, Xiong County, and went back quietly overnight.

It seems to be lonely for a stroll.

However, for Zhen Wu and the others, this matter had a chance to break the situation.

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