Chapter 30 No wind and rain or sunshine

Zhang Ergou quietly poked his head out, looked around, and then quickly retracted his head back.

Yang Ping, who was leaning back in the pit, said: "What did you see?"

Zhang Ergou said, "I saw nothing."

Yang Ping sighed and said, "We are almost arriving in Changsha. If we can't catch enough thieves, the captain will not spare us."

Zhang Ergou said helplessly: "How about we enter Changsha City?"

Yang Ping glanced at Zhang Ergou and said, "Nothing is true. If we could enter Changsha City, the general would have been in there long ago. It wasn't our turn. Let's go and go back."

Zhang Ergou whistled, and seven or eight Lantian soldiers dressed in black stood up in the field. Following Yang Ping's instructions, he held his musket and ignored the panicked crowd outside Changsha City.

"Boss, what do you say the general wants so many prisoners to do?"

"Farm, work, and renovate Wuchang City."

"You said, why are the people here so afraid of us? We are obviously better than Yang Wenxiu."

"The main reason is that our county magistrate has a bad reputation and the people are frightened."

"No, what a good person is the county master."

"We know, do you expect these people to know? When the county lord sent someone to kill Zuo Liangyu's daughter in Wuchang City, everyone in the city knew about it. This left the people with a seed that the county lord prefers to kill people."

"How did you kill?"

"The eleven secret spies in the Secret Spy Division killed the long street, and it is said that many people were injured by accident."

"Oh, it's time to kill!"

A group of people walked and chatted. After walking out of Yang Wenxiu's sight, they returned from the straggler line and lined up toward the sunset.

As soon as I returned to the barracks, I found that today's barracks were very different from usual. Even the brothers on various posts passing by stood straight and looked ahead and ignored the people who returned to the camp.

The messy appearance in the military camp was completely invisible, and there was no grass on the mud.

Captain Baihu, who usually likes to sleep on a recliner, is standing at the door of a house in neat military uniforms. The captain of Qianfu is lined up in front of the captain, who looks the same as his captain.

There were some strange guys in the military camp. These people were also wearing black clothes, but there was only a brass plaque on their chests, without any marks on them.

An elderly man in black saw that they were returning to the camp with weapons, and walked up to him and glanced at Yang Ping and the others with a spy-like gaze.

After confirming that they were their own people, he arrogantly pointed to the left, indicating that they would walk there and not continue moving forward.

Yang Ping, Zhang Ergou and others were angry at the rude appearance of this unmarked man in black.

"Where are your auxiliary soldiers?"

When the elderly man in black saw that Yang Ping was angry, he smiled and shook his breasts with his fingers and said, "Yushan City's auxiliary soldier Yun Da has seen the team leader."

"You didn't salute!" Lei Heng's army has always attached great importance to etiquette. The auxiliary soldiers still need to stand attentively and salute when they see the right soldiers. No matter who the person in front of them is, Yang Ping feels that he will not be wrong if he sticks to the rules.

Yun laughed and said, "Don't cause trouble. Come back to the camp from the left. See you have been busy outside for a day, so go back and have a rest."

Yang Ping wanted to continue questioning, but Zhang Ergou pulled his sleeve from behind. Following Zhang Ergou's gaze, he found that his captain was glaring at them.

Yang Ping suddenly remembered some legends in the army, and his heart was shaking. Without saying a word, he was about to take his subordinates back to the barracks.

"Come back?"

A peaceful voice came from the door.

Yang Pingxun looked at him and saw a young man in a black military uniform walking towards them, and the person following the young man was General Lei Heng.

"Report to Shangguan, the seventh team of the 7th team of the 6th team of the 7th Battalion was Yang Ping who returned to the camp."

Yun Zhao looked at the ten soldiers covered in mud and water. He didn't see any spoils they brought back, so he smiled and said, "Why, there is no harvest?"

Yang Ping shouted: "Report to Shangguan, there are all people outside the city, and no bandits were found."

After hearing Yang Ping's words, Yun Zhao turned around and looked at Lei Heng and said, "It's not bad, at least he hasn't developed the bad habit of killing good people and taking credit for me."

Lei Heng smiled and said, "Why is this not popular in the army?"

After saying that, he said to Yang Ping: "Go back to the camp."

After Yang Ping and others saluted solemnly, they ran from the left to return to the camp.

Yun Zhao walked two steps in the camp with his hands behind his back and said to Lei Heng: "It's good to take Wuchang, why did you run to Changsha City?

There are seven hundred miles between here."

Lei Heng smiled and said, "The county master doesn't know anything. After we entered Wuchang, the enemy troops in Yueyang also retreated. Wang He occupied Yueyang with some of his own friends. Since they are all his own people, they naturally have to incorporate Yueyang into the circle of guarding the army.

Isn’t there only 300 miles left in Yueyang to Changsha? Our sentry arrived to monitor the enemy troops in Changsha. Isn’t the camp ahead thirty miles away from Changsha?”

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "Zhang Bingzhong's adopted son Yang Wenxiu has not caused trouble for you? Or are you deliberately causing trouble for Yang Wenxiu?"

Lei Heng said: "The army is very expensive and expensive. If there is no inch of progress, it will be entrusted by the county magistrate."

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Forget it, if a soldier is not enterprising, he cannot be considered a good soldier. However, you must be prepared to be complained about by Zhang Guozhu, Han Lingshan and others.

The land has been taken down. If the governance cannot keep up, it will be a big trouble. What is the difference between taking down and not taking down?

According to our plan, you must wait for Zhang Bingzhong to take over Jiangxi completely before you can march south of the Great Lakes."

Lei Heng smiled and said, "If we don't force Zhang Bingzhong behind, these bandits will not be willing to attack Jiangxi."

Seeing that Lei Heng was a little scoundrel, Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Okay, come back to Yueyang with me, don't put too much pressure on Zhang Bingzhong. You have to be polite to others, the officers and soldiers of Jiangxi, and the gentry are gritting their teeth to resist this time.

For a while, Zhang Bingzhong could not capture Jiangxi."

Lei Heng gritted his teeth and said, "I thought that we should take over Hunan and Jiangxi as soon as possible and strive to open up connections with Fujian. In this way, the enclave of Chaozhou will be alive.

I heard that Shi Lang and Zhuque are not having a good life in Chaozhou now. The Southwest Sea Merchants have formed an alliance to prepare to deal with them together."

Yun Zhao gave Lei Heng a blank look and said, "Shi Lang, Zhuque and others' situation is better than you. You have never thought that once we penetrate this path as you said, Emperor Chongzhen will lose more than half of the country, and the southwest places will become a land of uninhabited before our power has completely settled.

At that time, there will be the Caotou King everywhere, and the Jiaozhi people of the Annan Commander Command have now broken away from our Ming Dynasty. Once the southwest loses contact with the Ming Dynasty, the Annan area will be in chaos.

Now, the guards of Zhennan Pass are quite diligent, and the guards of Suwei work diligently. The envoys who have little money have already gone to Zhennan Pass. Most of the guards there are old subordinates of the Qi family army, hoping to motivate them.

So, organizing is very important, don’t worry, when you attack like sparks."

Seeing that Yun Zhao had only criticized his aggressive progress, but did not say that he had made the front thicker, Lei Heng had a scheming in his mind. Since he could not lengthen the front line, he would expand it.

After dealing with the thieves for so long, Lei Heng has seen clearly the nature of these thieves being fierce and cowardly.

Not only are the bandits who are harsh and weak on the inside, but even the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Since leaving Guanzhong, nearly 80,000 people in the entire legion have not even fought a decent battle. This is what makes Lei Heng the most depressed.

Lei Heng is invincible in the world, but Hong Chengchou is struggling to support him.

Seeing the Jiannu infantry pounce on him like a tide and retreating like a tide, every time he fought, many corpses left under the city, making Hong Chengchou's eyes red.

Because, the soldiers who died in battle on both sides were Han people.

The artillery was still ringing sporadically, and each sound would leave a bloody gap in the retreating enemy group.

"The commander-in-chief, Kong Youde's men retreated, and Wu Sangui's cavalry chased him out."

Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, came hurriedly to report.

"Wu Sangui's troops should not leave the city a hundred feet long. Is this explanation?"

Hong Chengchou sat upright and dusted the dust on his body.

Yang Guozhu nodded and said, "General Wu should understand this."

Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "If we can make Jiannu shed blood in this Songshan Fort, our previous efforts will be worth it."

Yang Guozhu said: "Kong Youde, a dog thief, was devoted to working hard for Jiannu. He attacked the city six times in a row and fought to the death. When he was fighting with Jiannu under Mao Wenlong's command in the past, he did not see him working so hard."

Hong Chengchou sneered and said, "It's just a dry bone in the tomb."

The sound of cannons stopped, and Wu Sangui's cavalry had already appeared at the city. After chasing the enemy for a while, he saw that the Jianzhou cavalry was approaching slowly. After hearing a gong, he withdrew his troops and returned to the city.

At this time, the sky gradually darkened. Hong Chengchou looked at the dark clouds in the sky and said to Yang Guozhu: "There may be heavy rain tonight, which is not good for artillery and bird guns. You need to beware of Jiannu's sneak attack."

Yang Guozhu said: "The last general understands that Jiannu will not succeed."

Wu Sangui's cavalry returned to the camp, and the Jiannu cavalry on the opposite side slowly retreated, and the call from the opposite side could be vaguely heard. It seemed that today's war should come to an end.

When he returned to the commander's tent, Hong Chengchou washed up, and the old servant Hong Fu came over and said, "My husband, someone is here in Lantian."

Hong Chengchou sat in front of the table and picked up his job and said, "Who is here?"

Hong Fu said: "Chen Dong, the leader of the Liaodong Secret Spy Department."

Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "Why is he here? Yun Zhao said he would not easily use the people from the Spy Department to contact me."

Hong Fu smiled and said, "It will not be harmful to listen to what the county master said."

Hong Chengchou nodded, and Hong Fu walked out. After a short while, a smiling young man walked in. He first clasped his fists and saluted, and then quickly said: "The county master asked the governor."

Hong Chengchou put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand and said, "What do the county master want me to do?"

Chen Dong smiled and said, "The county magistrate said that how to fight is the affairs of the commander-in-chief, and he will not interfere. However, the two hundred black-clothed people from the Secret Spies Department have entered Liaodong, and this force is completely assigned by the commander-in-chief.

Beiyi came to deliver tokens."

After saying that, he took out a ring-shaped jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Hong Chengchou, and whispered: "The Qinglong ascends to heaven is the last incision."

Hong Chengchou played with the jade pendant in his hand and looked at Chen Dong and said, "It seems that the county master believes that I will lose in the next battle."

Chen Dong smiled and said, "The county magistrate has no intention. He does this just to prevent it."

Hong Chengchou nodded, then put the jade pendant in his arms, sat down to have a meal again, but said nothing.
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