Under the instructions of Lu Yu's Fire Ding, Jiang Han quickly placed the boat on the other side, but the man had already left before he landed. Fortunately, Lu Yu's Fire Ding and Jiang Han were both locals in Yin County and were quite familiar with the streets and alleys outside the city. After a while, the two of them were decorated with the man who had worshipped on the river bank before, until he walked into a dilapidated thatched hut.

When he got closer, the door was closed. Lu Yuhuo Ding reached out to knock on the door, but Jiang Han stopped him. After listening to the movements in the room for a while, it was silent and as if there was no one. Jiang Han shook his head at Lu Yuhuo Ding, then took out a sharp wrist-removing knife from his arms and lifted it in his hand.

It was implied that after Lu Yu's fire tripod was slightly opened, Jiang Han pushed open the door. When his eyes were stained with the dark environment in the house, a lightning light came from the depths of the darkness and headed straight to Jiang Han's vitals.

At this moment, Jiang Han's first step back was pulling his body with the force of his backwards, but the second step was just around the corner. But at this moment, the man rushed up from the darkness. The remaining strength of the first knife was not exhausted, but the second knife in his other hand slashed Jiang Han's face at a faster speed.

It is difficult to practice the double sword, and the longer the blade, the more difficult it is to use it. However, the length of the double sword is far beyond what Jiang Han usually saw. At this moment, one in front and one behind, one in the future, one in the fast and one slow, and all his reactions were included, which made him lose the hope of getting out of nothing at the moment he pushed open the door.

Jiang Han never expected that the man they followed would be a fighting man. But at this moment, the aftermath of the long sword slashing the air had already hit his hat.

The long sword arrived in an instant, and with the lightning flash, Jiang Han's first reaction was to cut off his arm, in order to delay the time he was killed on the spot. However, before his left hand could move, the knife had already split his hat. After that, the man's sword force did not slow down at all, and he was about to cut his head in half like the hat.

Life and death were only in an instant, but a sound not far away suddenly sounded, revealing the silence at the source of the blade.

"General Mao, keep someone under the knife!"

The rapid extortion sounded, and the knife in the man's hand seemed to have stopped as time had stopped, and it stopped at the moment when the sound reached its eardrum. When the man turned his head and looked at the source of the sound, it seemed that in that moment it evoked some long forgotten memories.

"Lu Observation?"

"It's just that I didn't expect General Mao to have seen him for many years. His style remains the same."

"Don't dare."

The long sword stopped and condensed between only about an inch from Jiang Han's forehead. He only left Jiang Han when Lu Yu's fire tripod and the man recognized each other for a moment. From launching the attack to putting the knife into the sheath, the man was like flowing water throughout the journey, and at first glance he was a martial artist who had been immersed in this way for many years.

His breathing had stopped for a moment, but Jiang Han found the feeling of returning to the world like a drowning person breathing a breath of air. Although the knife had been sheathed, Jiang Han was still in fear. After all, the blade was only about an inch away from him just now. As long as Lu Yu's fire tripod shouted for a second at night, or the man lowered the knife even half a breath. At this moment, Jiang Han was just a corpse with brains gushing out.

Seeing that the two sides were familiar with each other, there was no reason to continue fighting. The man glanced left and right, led Lu Yu's Fire Ding and Jiang Han into the broken house, and then bowed and apologized to Jiang Han.

Jiang Han was originally a generous person. He followed Lu Yu's Fire Ding before, and the other party would naturally be prepared after discovering it. If he had any, he would have fought. Seeing that the man bowed and apologized, Jiang Han hurriedly gave in, but he did not introduce Lu Yu's Fire Ding. Jiang Han's attention shifted from the two long swords to the man's appearance, and then he thought about the title of Lu Yu's Fire Ding. He immediately recognized the identity and origin of the man.

"You are, you are Mao Mingshan?"

“That’s right.”

Seeing that Jiang Han recognized Mao Mingshan's identity, Lu Yuhuoding introduced Jiang Han to Mao Mingshan. After seeing the ceremony again, Mao Mingshan talked about his experiences after the Ming army's crushing defeat in the Battle of Siming Lake under Lu Yuhuoding's inquiry.

The Ming army of Dalan Mountain was the result of Wang Yi's close friend of Lu Yu's fired dinner. Another friend of his is Wang Jiang, who was also in the remnants of the remnants of the army, so Lu Yu's fired dinner was particularly concerned. However, after that war, in addition to hearing that the Qing army was defeated by the remnants of the Ming army during the pursuit, the general who led the team made a big fuss outside Xinchang City, it was not until the chaos in Taizhou that he regained the news of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain.

With Mao Mingshan's story, Lu Yu's Fire Ding has some preliminary understanding of the current situation of the remnants of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, especially the emergence of Nantangying and Chen Wen, as well as Chen Wen's planning before the Battle of Siming Lake and the inclination within the Ming army.

But he never expected that so many things would happen during this period, especially after Li Rong was captured alive, Chen Wen and Wang Jiang planned to exchange him for Wang Yi but failed, which made him sigh.

After learning that Mao Mingshan's purpose here was the same as that of him, and even the difficulties encountered were roughly the same, Lu Yuhuoding thought for a moment and saw that Mao Mingshan was indeed trustworthy, he told the plan he and Jiang Han had previously formulated.

"I have made a successful conclusion to Wanxun, but I just need to take some risks!"

……………………

The next morning, Xu Lei got up early as usual and began to supervise the training of his soldiers.

Since escaping from the previous defeated investigation in the southern part of Siming Mountain and transferred to the reconstruction of the Thunder Camp under the name of making meritorious service, Xu Lei has studied military books with diligence, researched formations, trained soldiers, and even formed a close relationship with Wang Sheng, the surrendered general, in order to understand Chen Wen, the newly rising freak Ming army general.

Since then, Xu Lei finally outlined some traces of the combat effectiveness of Nantang Camp with the scattered information obtained from Wang Sheng and the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army in Dalanshan. But the more he understood, the less he understood, the less he understood. Chen Wen formed such an army and was always swallowing up and abolishing the selfish interests of the chief general and officers at all levels.

After thinking about it, Xu Lei felt that Chen Wen was probably planning to usurp the throne, so he took it in advance and gave it first to mobilize the strength of the soldiers. But if this continues, how could the officers under his command always tolerate it without obtaining their rights?

Putting aside these random thoughts, Xu Lei had to focus more on studying the mandarin duck formation used in Nantang Camp. With Chen Wen's successful example, he felt that as long as he copied what he saw in that battle and the organization of Nantang Camp obtained from Wang Sheng and the soldiers surrendered in Dalanshan, even if he was under the same force, he might not be the original opponent. With the human, material and financial resources of the Qing army, he could always overwhelm it by quantity.

After reporting these ideas to Tian Xiong, Xu Lei immediately obtained Tian Xiong's support. The more than 200-year-old veterans used to reorganize, the best weapons, firearms, war horses, and armor in the arsenal. Then, relying on continuous discussions and research with Wang Sheng, he finally received a strong soldier that could stand out at the Extra Biao Battalion, even if it was just a small army of more than 200 people.

Relying on this army, Xu Lei made a stolen appearance in the battle to encircle Siming Mountain again this year. In the internal competition of the Extra Balance Battalion after the war, he also crushed the other reconstruction troops and became an elite force that was truly valued by Tian Xiong. He also successfully regained his post and regained his position as General Qian.

When he arrived at the Battle of Zhoushan, although there was almost nothing in the battle that could show his skills, at the end of the battle, in the narrow terrain that the Ming army was more familiar with, Xu Lei's small army still lived up to what Tian Xiong expected and easily wiped out the remnants of the defending army that had repelled the Qing army's many attacks.

After the war, Xu Lei was promoted to garrison and officially took over the more than 200 people under his command. However, news of large-scale unrest erupting in Taizhou and Jinhua came. He thought he could return to Hangzhou to enjoy for a while, but he was sent to Yin County, Fucheng, Ningbo to cooperate in defense.

In fact, it was nothing to be sent here. At least there was a friend who could drink, visit prostitutes, and discuss the battle formations of military books. But who knew that shortly after he went to Zhoushan, Wang Sheng, who was originally stationed here, was transferred to Ninghai County, Taizhou to assist in defense, and has not returned until now.

Xu Lei, who had no intention of making fun, had to train the troops according to his previous style of making meritorious contributions. After all, he was not as confused as he had ever been about promotion and wealth. At least in his opinion, as long as he could reach the level of Nantang Camp, wouldn’t it be easy to wipe out some bandits?

In this way, he will definitely be able to go further in the army, and there will always be a chance to serve as a general, deputy general, or something to shine on his family.

With this idea, Xu Lei trained his soldiers more carefully. Anyway, with the rule of the Qing Dynasty, there would be no shortage of rebellious Han men. It would be normal to use their blood to dye the top red, just like his general Tian Xiong, just like his uncle Xu Xin, just like his father-in-law Yu Fenqiu.

As usual, after practicing the formation for half a day, Xu Lei saw that the time had arrived, he ordered the officers to lead the soldiers to have lunch. When lunch was over, he also learned the system of Nantangying to let the soldiers rest at noon so that they could better complete the afternoon training.
Chapter completed!