Chapter Twenty-two(1/2)
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When the war horse equipment was in place and riding training began, the relocation of the Junzi Army camp was quickly put on Tao Ying's schedule - Tao Ying did not want to expose his advanced equipment and advanced tactics outside Xuzhou and let some second- and fifth-century soldiers
Tsai leaked Tao Ying's magic weapon to Xiaopei's imperial uncle. So as soon as the war horses were distributed, Tao Ying immediately decided to ask Tao Qian for permission to leave Pengcheng and station elsewhere on the pretext that the cavalry training required a large space.
After listening to Chen Deng's well-intentioned suggestion, Tao Ying had decided to choose the new camp of the Junzi Army in Wuxian County, eighty miles south of Pengcheng. However, what puzzled Chen Deng, who was secretly observing Tao Ying, was that after he said so
Under the obvious circumstances, Tao Ying still made a request to Tao Qian in public, hoping to move the Junzi Army's new camp to Xiapi, the richest and most prosperous area in Xuzhou. The result was just as Chen Deng expected, Tao Qian's overall strength was severely damaged.
Sure enough, he didn't dare to hand over Xiapi to his son casually, and flatly rejected Tao Ying's request without giving any reason, which made Mi Zhu brothers laugh hard behind his back - Tao Ying, the kid, is really a nerd who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth!
When his request to move to Xiapi was rejected, Tao Ying had no choice but to settle in Wuxian. However, Tao Qian did not embarrass his son this time and agreed to Tao Ying's request, allowing all the Junzi Army to move to Wuxian.
stationed in Wuxian County. At the same time, Tao Qian also took the initiative to delegate power to Tao Ying and let Tao Ying take over the political affairs of Wuxian County. He planned to observe his son's military talents and also casually examine his son's political talents. Tao Ying understood the idea and accepted the order with enthusiasm, and immediately began to work on the gentleman
Various matters related to the relocation of military camps.
The relocation time of the camp was set for the sixth day of April. On the evening of the fifth day of April, Tao Ying had almost prepared and arranged all the matters for the relocation of the Junzi Army. It was rare to leave the Junzi Army camp when it was getting dark and lead ten people.
Several soldiers returned to Xuzhou City to bid farewell to Tao Qian and the pottery merchants.
The soldiers around Tao Ying are all Danyang soldiers sent by Cao Hong. They have followed Tao Qian for many years. They are Tao Ying's reliable confidants and Tao Ying's spies. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to leave the camp and return to the city, Tao Ying has to go to Danyang.
The soldiers asked about the recent counter-reconnaissance situation of the Junzi Army - that is, to confirm whether there are still two or five agents who are still secretly monitoring and spying on the movements of the Junzi Army. Danyang Bing old man Li Ming, who was appointed by Tao Ying as the captain of the soldiers, replied: "
Returning to the young master, since the enemy Xizuo who was discovered by our army but was not alerted ten days ago disappeared, the villains have not found any suspicious people, and there are even fewer people watching the excitement."
"That's good." Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction, knowing that his plan to freeze Li Daitao had been successful. Brothers Mi Zhu, who believed that he was building a thunderbolt car, had relaxed their vigilance, or no longer dared to continue spying - in the previous anti-reconnaissance war
, Cao Hong had secretly killed the two Mi Zhu brothers' spies for Tao Ying, and issued a disguised warning. Unless the Mi Zhu brothers wanted to completely fall out with their honorary lord Tao Qian immediately, they would have to restrain themselves.
"Report." As if he came specially to slap Li Ming, the captain of Tao Ying's personal army, in the face, a Danyang soldier who seemed to have a grudge against Li Ming suddenly caught up with him and whispered next to Tao Ying: "Young Master Qi, my dear.
People discovered that there was someone following our team, and that person seemed to be the young master who followed us sneakily when he left the camp. He has followed us for two miles. We can conclude that this person must be a craftsman!"
"Damn, it's endless!" Tao Ying was a little angry, thinking that I was going to hide in Wu County to be afraid of you. You two young men even sent people to follow and monitor me. You really thought I was a sick cat.
Ah? If I move to Wu County, do you still want to send people to chase me to Wu County to monitor him?
In anger, Tao Ying turned around and took a closer look, and saw that in the hazy night in the distance, there was indeed a person quietly following his team. Although it was too dark and too far away to see the person's appearance, just looking at him
That sneaky movement was definitely that of a criminal with malicious intentions. At that moment, Tao Ying made some calculations and deliberately raised his voice to order: "Li Ming, I have an official document that I forgot to take. It's in my bedroom."
On the desk, send a few people back to get it."
After that, Tao Ying lowered his voice and ordered Li Ming: "Pretend to go back to get the official documents, and take down the detailed work from behind!"
"No." Li Ming agreed with understanding, and asked in a low voice: "Sir, do you want to die or live?"
"Be alive!" Tao Ying ordered through gritted teeth: "After taking it, take it to my bedroom. When I come back from the city, I will personally interrogate this detailed work."
Li Ming agreed and immediately made arrangements according to the plan. The four Danyang soldiers turned their horses and pretended to go to get Tao Ying's forgotten documents and rode their horses back to the Junzi Army camp. However, because the soldier in the distance heard Tao Ying's loud order, he did not
He suspected that he did not even run away, but simply stepped aside to the side of the road, with his back to the four Danyang soldiers riding past. Tao Ying's subordinates, Lao Qiu Ba, who had crawled out of the dead countless times, were even more excited when they saw such a good thing.
He was so unceremonious that he didn't even bother to turn around and come back. A Danyang soldier quietly pulled out his shoulder knife. When he passed by the fine craftsman, he suddenly leaned on his horse, turned the handle of the knife, and hit the fine craftsman hard on the back of the head with the handle.
The Xizuo didn't even hum, and immediately fell limply to the side of the road. The remaining Danyang soldiers got off their horses, took out a rope as if by magic, tied up the unconscious Xizuo, and threw it on the roadside.
The war horse went away, simply and neatly.
"Well done." Tao Ying was very satisfied with Danyang Bing's neat work and warned: "Find a sack and put it in a sack and send it back. When I come back for interrogation, remember not to let other people see him, so as not to alert others."
After that, Tao Ying patted his horse and walked into the city, paying no attention to the life and death of the unlucky Xizhuo. Later, Tao Ying's soldiers found sacks, put the craftsman into sacks, and secretly escorted him to the Junzi Army camp.
When he met Tao Qian and the pottery merchant in the city, Tao Ying had to kowtow to Tao Qian and say goodbye, explaining that he was leaving early tomorrow morning and could not come to say goodbye to Tao Qian again. Then he had to apologize to the pottery merchant and ask his brother to forgive him for not being able to help take care of his father.
, Tao Qian and Tao Shang and his son repeatedly told Tao Ying to take care of himself and not to work too hard. They also told him about things like dressing and eating. After talking nonsense for a long time, Tao Qian sent Tao Ying away, leaving only Tao Ying alone.
Tao Ying talked in secret alone, and then asked Tao Ying straight to the point: "My son, you asked to move to Wuxian County. My father has no objection, but you decided to move to Wuxian County just to guard against those two thieves.
, is it too much of a sign of weakness?”
"Father has misunderstood. The child's request to move to Wuxian County is just one of the purposes to avoid the two thieves who are crawling inside and outside." Tao Ying replied respectfully: "The child said that cavalry training requires a wide space, and he is not looking for a place to be.
The excuse is that the terrain in Wuxian area is complex, with mountains, forests, rivers, plains and hills, and now the population has dropped sharply. The land is vast and sparsely populated. It is indeed an ideal place to train cavalry. It is far away and has ten times fewer people than Xuzhou City."
"Then why did you propose to move to Xiapi first?" Tao Qian asked two more questions, "Also, although my father was a civil servant, he has also seen how to train cavalry, which is nothing more than a few equestrian skills.
Why keep it secret? Although you are smart, you have never experienced the battlefield. If you stay in Pengcheng to train cavalry, Cao Bao and Cao Hong can help you, isn't it far better than you working behind closed doors? "
"If I don't propose to move to Xiapi first, but directly request to move to Wuxian, wouldn't some people suspect that I have great ambitions and plan to try my luck on the job?" Tao Ying smiled and replied: "After Cao's Rebellion, Cao's Rebellion was the least troubled.
Xiapi is already far more prosperous and wealthy than other Xuzhou cities. Wouldn't it be unreasonable for a rich man like a child to not want to move to Xiapi?"
Tao Qian glanced at Tao Ying, with a look of relief on his wrinkled old face, and cursed with a smile: "Bold boy, even my father has been deceived by you. I thought you were not suffering enough and wanted to go to the Pi to enjoy the blessings. No wonder.
You proposed to move to Xiapi in front of those two scoundrel thieves because you wanted to make them think you have no ambition."
"My child deserves to die, but now our Xuzhou army is severely weakened and can no longer withstand unexpected twists and turns, so my child has to be cautious." Tao Ying kowtowed and apologized, then raised his head and said, "As for my father's opinion that my child can stay in Xuzhou to train, it's fine.
The two generals Cao Bao and Cao Hong, who were experienced in the battlefield, came to the rescue. Forgive me for being rude, but I believed that the tactics and army command methods of the two generals Cao were outdated and were on the verge of being completely eliminated. Therefore,
If they help the children train, not only will they not be able to help the children, it will also be counterproductive, making the children's military training plan less effective and less effective."
"Obsolete? Are Cao Bao and Cao Hong obsolete?" Tao Qian was puzzled by the strange term in his son's mouth, and was a little dissatisfied that his son looked down upon his two most trusted confidants. He said: "My son, it is a good thing to be confident, but don't be self-confident.
To despise others beyond your means is to be arrogant."
"My child said something rude, please forgive me father." Tao Ying said again: "But my child is by no means arrogant, but absolutely confident! My child can use his head as a guarantee. Within half a year, my child will definitely train an attack force for his father.
The invincible cavalry, which is invincible and invincible, will come out! At that time, the two generals Cao Bao and Cao Hong will have to ask the boy for advice on how to train the cavalry and how to use it."
Seeing is believing. Tao Qian, who has been struggling in the troubled times of the late Eastern Han Dynasty for decades, will certainly not easily believe his son's arrogant boasts. But fortunately, Tao Ying's recent actions have made Tao Qian hate this nerdy son.
He was impressed more than once, and Tao Ying had to train only a few hundred cavalry - a fraction of the more than 30,000 troops that Tao Qian lost in the Battle of Surabaya. Even if he failed, it would not matter much, and it would not matter to Tao Ying.
There is no way Tao Qian could cause serious damage. So Tao Qian said nothing more, just nodded and said: "Well, as a father, I will believe in you once. You go to Wu County. I hope you can fulfill your promise."
Promise to build an invincible cavalry for my father."
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After talking a lot of nonsense with Tao Qian, his cheap dad, it was almost the second watch. Tao Ying went out of the city and returned to the Junzi Army camp next to the small school field outside the east gate. He also returned to the barracks. Tao Ying, who was exhausted from relocating the training base, remembered that he had just arrested
However, the exhausted Tao Ying had no intention of interrogating this inconsequential detail all night. He led a few soldiers into his bedroom. As soon as he saw that the detail was tied up and placed in the corner, he immediately waved an order.
He said: "I'm too lazy to interrogate, so I drag him out, strip him naked, tie him to a wooden stake, and feed the mosquitoes all night first."
"No." Li Ming and other soldiers agreed with fists clasped in their hands, and went over to drag Xizuo away. When Xizuo, whose mouth was blocked, heard Tao Ying's words, he was frightened out of his wits. He quickly struggled and screamed desperately, trying his best to attract Tao Ying.
Due attention.
"What's your name? If I hadn't chopped you up and thrown you into the Yellow River, you would have been the Amitabha Buddha." Tao Ying scolded him angrily. When he took a look at the carefully crafted appearance, Tao Ying was suddenly stunned, and then hurriedly
The order was: "Stop, put him down!" It turned out that the sneaky follower of Tao Ying was none other than the first deserter of the Junzi Army - Lin Qing!
By the way, because of Tao Ying's perverted torture, the number of deserters in the Junzi Army has now increased to more than 20 people. However, the deserters later were not as lucky as Lin Qing. Most of them were captured alive, and two of them were even chopped.
After losing their heads, the rest were all sent to the Dadongshan hard labor camp to work as laborers. If they didn't work for three to five years, they would never be able to get out.
After driving the confused soldiers out of the bedroom, Tao Ying helped Lin Qing with great consideration, helped Lin Qing to sit on his bed, and then took out the torn linen cloth from Lin Qing's mouth, and
As soon as Lin Qing's ruddy little mouth was free, she immediately bit Tao Ying's claws, her silver teeth piercing her flesh and bleeding. The pain made Tao Ying scream like a pig, "Smelly..., stinky boy, I
I kindly let you go, will you repay the favor with a grudge?"
"Repaying kindness with vengeance?" Lin Qing loosened his teeth, spat out a mouthful of dirty blood, and said angrily: "You sent someone to knock me out, then put me in a sack and took me here, and finally you took my clothes... and fed me to mosquitoes.
!What favor can you do to me?"
"Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding." Tao Ying rubbed the bleeding wound and said with a bitter smile: "I found you following me and thought you were spying on my work, so I sent someone to arrest you."
"Bah! It's just too careful to follow you, so why don't you arrest everyone on the street?" Lin Qing's little face turned red with anger, and she screamed: "Thank you for having the nerve to call yourself a gentleman and have the nerve to do so."
Playing the banner of benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, trust, gentleness, respect, thrift and humiliation? Bah! Hypocrite! Idiot!"
"You really can't blame me." Tao Ying said with a wry smile: "Some time ago, there was Xiaozuo hanging around me every day, and you have been sneaking around with me today, so I am afraid of everything."
Of course Lin Qing didn't understand what Tao Ying's idiom from later generations meant, so he just struggled and cursed: "Then you sent someone to arrest me? And you knocked me out, put me in a sack and took me here? You are so indifferent to human life.
, I must go to the government to sue you and let everyone in Xuzhou know your true face!"
"Brother Lin, don't tell me. I'm really not afraid of you suing me." Tao Ying said with a playful smile: "Brother Lin, have you forgotten? You also have another identity. You are a deserter from my direct line of gentlemen! I will catch the deserters in my own team.
, it is a matter of course, I will take care of you wherever you go."
Lin Qing was stunned, and then he remembered an important issue - he seemed to be a deserter wanted by the Gentleman Army! While admiring Lin Qing's deflated and aggrieved appearance, Tao Yingze leaned in front of Lin Qing's face and said with a smile:
"It was a mistake. Although I didn't catch Xizuo, I caught a deserter. Today's hard work is not in vain."
"You..., what do you want?" Intuitively discovering Tao Ying's evil intentions, Lin Qing subconsciously shrank her body and tried to stay as far away from Tao Ying as possible.
"What do I want?" Tao Ying said with a sly smile: "The morning after you became a deserter, I announced your punishment in front of all the officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army. After catching you, you will be beaten with a hundred military sticks. Military order
Rushan, of course I will take you in front of all the gentlemen's soldiers and beat you with a hundred military sticks."
"How dare you!" Lin Qing said tremblingly: "Do you know who my father is? If you hit me, he will definitely not let you go!"
"Who is your father?" Tao Ying was thinking about this question the most, and he deliberately provoked the general: "I don't believe it. In this city of Xuzhou, besides my father, who else can not let me go?"
"My father is..." Lin Qing was almost fooled, but luckily she changed her words in time: "I won't tell you."
"Then there's no other way. I have no choice but to hit him with a military stick." Tao Ying smiled even more wickedly and stretched out his claws, trying to touch Lin Qing's charming little face.
To be continued...