Liu Chengzong's camp is preparing for a banquet.
In the evening he was going to entertain the leaders from all over Qingyang.
The leaders in Yanqing could not be said to be old friends at first sight, and many of them had conflicts themselves.
For example, Li Laojiao and Tian Jinan disliked each other because of the uneven spoils from the last attack on Heshui.
In fact, it sounds silly to say it.
Li Laojiao and Tian Jinan did not capture Heshui County. They spent two days besieging the city to discuss how to divide the spoils after the city was broken. Both of them were dissatisfied with the conditions proposed by the other party.
As a result, He Huchen came.
Tian Jin'an fled back to Malan Mountain to hide, while Li Laojiao withdrew and headed east.
The siege could be withdrawn, but the unequal distribution of the spoils of the siege in Heshui County resulted in acrimony that continues to this day.
Of course, there are also people with good connections, such as Ningzhou Hu Sanzha, He Zijie, and Wang Mancai.
They are all small leaders, divided into seven groups, totaling more than 600 people.
But these little leaders have the closest relationship with the Lion Camp. Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu were with them before they defected to Liu Shizi.
Moreover, Wang Mancai was a relative of Wang Wenxiu, the post commander, and Hu Sanzha was the brother of Hu Sanhuai, the leader of the work sentry soldiers. Many soldiers from the two sentry posts were also related to them.
Faced with the news that the imperial court might mobilize Guan Ning's troops to quell the rebellion, they rarely sat together and put aside their disputes for the time being.
The reason why the thieves in Qingyang Mansion put aside their dispute was not Guan Ningjun, but him.
Liu Chengzong always thought that he should be a god of war in the eyes of these people. If everyone knew him, it would be easier for them to cooperate in future battles.
But I didn't expect that everyone regarded him as the God of Wealth.
Liu Daojiang, Liu Daohai, and Han Dynasty Prime Minister Tian Jinan are not fuel-efficient lamps.
He Huchen's handsome tent was not light-tight. He lit several oil lamps, but it was still dark.
Their demand is simple: food.
The Liu brothers of Qingyang had four thousand troops stationed in the mountainous area of Huanxian County. They were quite strong and had fought several times with the local officers and soldiers, winning and losing each other.
However, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, was in Huanxian County to talk to them about recruitment.
Originally, Yang He planned to create a general staff, but the brothers made too many demands.
They demanded that the imperial court pay money and food first, and that they should not disband their troops after paying the money and food. They also refused to give the imperial court money and food to suppress the peasant army after recruiting troops.
Even the direction of our own military deployment was explained to the Trilateral General Administration. Our brothers are not going anywhere. We will be transferred to Ningxia. Regardless of guarding the border wall or going into the desert to fight Mongolia, if we have enough money and food, we will fight until death for the imperial court.
Liu Chengzong felt that this was beyond the scope of sky-high asking prices and was a daydream.
First of all, Mongolia is not a big problem, at least it is not a problem that cannot be solved by the imperial court. There may be people like Du Wenhuan at the rank of chief military officer who avoid fighting, but the grassroots border troops have not been deterred in dealing with the northern barbarians who have lost countless lives every year.
Just sending an order to the side wall to provide enough money and food, it doesn't take much, it can feed people in six days.
There is no need for vegetables or meat. With thirty-six kilograms of dry food per person and four horses, countless heroes are willing to go deep into the vast sea and turn Mobei upside down.
There are four generals in Ningxia Town directly guarding one road, the West Road Left General, the Donglu Right General, the North Road Pinglucheng General, and the Lingzhou Left General. Each of them is a critical point. How can we give them a move? Troops that refused to reorganize after surrender.
There is no such basis for mutual trust.
So the two sides are still negotiating. Yang He's current conditions are that he can accept that they will not suppress the peasant army, but they need to streamline two-thirds of the troops.
Give the general establishment of two generals, leaving 880 people, who cannot go to the border wall, and are transferred to the north of the Huai'an Inspection Department of Qingyang Prefecture, next to the Great Wall of Qin, to guard the fort built by Fan Zhongyan.
The two brothers also thought that the chief officer was too young. Anyway, the agreement has not been reached yet, so Liu Wu and Liu Liu did not come.
The two of them didn't dare to speak loudly to Liu Shishi, but they just said that they couldn't hold on anymore and they were unwilling to disperse their troops. In the long run, they could only surrender to the army and accept the recruitment.
If the Lion Camp can provide them with food and grass, they can guard the north gate of Qingyang Mansion in Huan County.
Liu Chengzong had to be kicked in the head by a red flag eight times a day before he would let them guard the North Gate.
Han Chaozai is an honest man, he came in person, and his attitude is the most normal among all the leaders.
He told the truth about the difficulties in food and grass, and that his troops were poorly equipped and poorly trained.
Military discipline is still far from human standards, but it has not completely degenerated into a beast.
When there was no food, they had robbed, kidnapped, killed officials, and killed families in feuds. When there was food, they had done relief, divided the fields, and adopted widows and orphans to go up the mountain alone.
If the Lion Battalion looks like a frontier army in every aspect, then Han Chaozai's team looks like bandits in every aspect.
But Han Chaozai's demands were higher and more demanding than others. He first hoped that Liu Shishi could provide him with some food supplies, not much, just for five hundred people.
Secondly, he also hopes to have equipment for a hundred people. Finally, he hopes Liu Shizi can send some border troops to help him train his team.
The ideals are very full, and they are also very pursuitable.
But there is no point in pursuing it, because his team Liu Chengzong cannot train well.
He is not a son of a good family, and he is hungry and cold when autumn comes. How can he talk about training and discipline at this time?
Looking back, I have to cause Han Chaozai's team to have internal strife.
In fact, the unit Liu Chengzong wanted to support most was Tian Jinan, who had the smallest number of troops.
But Tian Jinan, who lives in Malan Mountain in Ziwu Ridge, is the most outrageous.
Tian Jin'an is twenty-eight or nine years old. According to Li Laojie, this man's real name is Pu. He used to be the hereditary governor of Qingyang Guards.
It was similar to Yang Yanchang's attempt to test hundreds of households. He was frustrated when he couldn't find anything, so he secretly became a bandit.
Later, I found that being a bandit was so comfortable that I didn't go back at all and even pulled a group of people from the guardhouse.
Tian Jin'an has a dozen Qingyang Guard officers and more than 300 Guard soldiers under his command, with a total strength of 600. He is considered a good fighter in the peasant army.
He was probably stationed in Ziwu Ridge and knew something about the Lion Camp's defeat of He Huchen, so his attitude was particularly respectful, his posture was very low, and he almost bowed his head.
The conditions were also very clear. Tian Jin'an did not have the ability to attack the city, and hoped that the Lion Camp could provide some food and grass funding.
In fact, at this stage of the exchange, the atmosphere was very harmonious. This was a serious hereditary officer. No matter the composition of his subordinates, it was not a big problem for him to support six to seven hundred more people.
Although he is also short of food, Gao Yingxiang may be the only leader in Shaanxi who is not short of food.
But the food shortage at Lion Camp is not due to lack of food.
Each sentry went out to plunder a handful, and obtained more than 40,000 dan of grain.
It is probably enough to feed the two camps of the Liu family for four months, and the animals can be fed for two more months by grazing.
But they didn't have a fixed base, and it was unrealistic to have 5,000 grain trucks follow them. Even if they only took two months of military rations with them, they still borrowed hundreds of trucks from Gao Yingxiang.
So at least here, it doesn't hurt to use the remaining food to support the friendly forces.
But Tian Jin'an, who wants to tell Liu Chengzong that this guy's former military officer background is fake? He is the first to disagree.
This guy wanted Liu Chengzong to help Sanyue with food and grass, so he reported a strength of 2,400 troops.
Lion Xunsi, you bastard came to my place to get free money?
In a few breaths, Liu Chengzong decided that he would never let anyone take advantage of him, but on the other hand, refusing on the spot would make other leaders have a stingy impression of him, which would be detrimental to the subsequent unity.
He doesn't need these people to fight, but he can't let these people stab him in the back and cause trouble during the war.
Liu Shizi looked at Tian Jin'an steadily, half-smiling but not smiling: "Two thousand four hundred people?"
Tian Jinan took a careful look at Li Laojiao, pursed his lips and did not dare to confirm the number again.
The captains of the Lion Camp sat upright in silence, and then the generals of the Yuzi Camp also stood upright.
The atmosphere was tense.
At this moment, Wei Qian'er signed up outside the camp tent, then came in and walked to the side, whispering: "Commander, a leader named Bai Liuxi came to see him. She is a woman."
"There are seven to eight hundred soldiers in the team, and the Tang soldiers have already surrounded them."
"Bai Liuxi?" Liu Chengzong pondered the name, wondering why there were still soldiers coming, so he asked everyone: "Do you know this leader?"
"Bai Liuxi is coming!"
Han Chaozai was familiar with this person. He patted the small table and said, "She is a famous beauty from Huan County. She is good at using tricks and has both talent and appearance."
As soon as he said these words, the atmosphere in the tent became relaxed.
Tian Jinan even let out a sigh of relief. Liu Shizi stared at him just now and almost choked him to death.
In fact, Liu Chengzong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Wei Qian'er and Bai Liuxi teamed up to create a moment of thinking time for him. By now, he had already thought of how to solve the problem.
So he easily raised his interest and said to Han Chaozai: "It's rare. There are not many Shaolin players in the Northwest. Wei Qian'er, please invite Chief Bai in."
Han Chaozai's expression was a little weird. He wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.
He thought to himself, everyone said that Marshal Hengtian was born as a student, but why did he feel like a country bumpkin who had never heard of opera?
Flower guns, the kind of vaudeville guns.
What kind of Shaolin flower gun is there?
From this aspect, Liu Chengzong is really a bumpkin.
His life before the rebellion had been extremely fulfilled by Mr. Liu, who hoped that his son would succeed.
His background is higher than 99% of the country, but he is at the bottom of the one percent.
Carrying the expectations of his family, he started reading the Four Books and then passed the Five Classics since he was four years old. He had no hobbies until he was admitted as a scholar.
When I got to Mizhi, I found a bunch of martial arts masters because of the external pressure of the Northern invaders.
In addition to visiting the prison, leisure activities include completing various extracurricular assignments.
For example, I massaged each other's necks with my elder brother and became familiar with the human neck bones; I went to the butcher's to chop off pig heads and practiced the decapitation knife; I went to help the police catch a thief and became proficient in using a meteor hammer.
According to the normal development of things, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he should be able to get more spare time.
Write and paint, study drama, teach and educate people, sharpen and forge, do business, and do all the jobs in the world. All jobs can become side jobs for scholars.
Go sightseeing, listening to books and watching plays, tasting tea and playing cards, playing football and hunting, planting flowers and admiring rocks, and playing the harp and sheng. All kinds of fun in the world are open to readers.
Master Liu will first buy him two maids to let him know that love is really just that, so as to avoid being depressed about love in the future.
Then when the opportunity is right, he will introduce a girl from an official family to get married.
But this life process was interrupted by drought.
There were ten thousand doors open to him in the world, but he chose to engage in the profession of rebellion.
Just when Liu Chengzong was thinking about it and wanted to talk to Bai Liuxi about Shaolin Huaqiang techniques, he heard Wei Qian'er announce: "Commander, Bai Liuxi has arrived."
After that, Liu Chengzong's guards entered the tent and added a Kang table to the last seat on the right.
There was a carpet in the tent, and all the leaders were sitting on the floor, so there was no need to move stools. Only Liu Chengzong had a piece of tiger skin under his feet.
Liu Chengzong frowned as soon as he saw it. The small table was placed on it, and the guards didn't use their brains.
He Huchen's handsome tent is so big. It's several feet away, which is no different from hundreds of miles away. He can just ask Ren Quan'er to set up a table at Ansai Qianhu Station.
How to communicate about Shaolin Flower Spear?
Liu Chengzong sighed, this was not the right time to talk about this.
He didn't know that Wei Qian'er had been struggling with this matter for a long time. When he first saw Bai Liuxi, he also thought about pushing Tian Jin'an to the side to make room.
But then I thought about the fighting power of this group of people, and thought that setting up a table in the handsome tent would already be a great honor.
Don't go back and make your own decisions and get scolded by the commander again.
Being scolded is not important, the main thing is that Wei Qian'er feels that he has been scolded enough so that he can not talk back.
Talking back is the big problem.
Unable to control himself, Wei Qian'er would often look at his reflection and sigh while drinking his horse by the river: What a wonderful person, but it's a pity that he has an open mouth.
After such a long time, Wei Qian'er has already figured out that he may not be able to control his mouth in this life, but at least he can control his hands.
The moment Bai Liuxi opened the curtain in a black arrow-sleeved round-neck robe, although everyone in the tent paused for a moment, Liu Chengzong actually didn't feel anything special.
Liu Shizi was young. He was busy growing up and went to the frontier fortress. The beautiful girls he talked to were Cao Sister-in-law and Fan Sanlang. Although he had not received the normal basic emotional education of a scholar, he had a lot of beauties in his mind and was extremely resistant to the beauty of women. .
I just think it looks good.
It's like looking at the mountains and listening to the rain. To see something beautiful, you have to look at it openly and generously.
Bailiuxi was born with a trademark, handsome eyebrows and charming eyes, her hair was tied in a three-bun bun, and her body was toned and agile. She was dressed in a black robe that made her look even whiter. The light from the curtain opened was cast into the dark handsome tent, as if there was an extra light source.
She stepped forward and bowed straightly. She was not ashamed to be looked at by so many people, but she was a little uneasy. She said: "The Bailiuxi of the slave family, see the Grand Marshal Hengtian, and pay my respects to all the kings."
This was not the first time that Bailiuxi saw soldiers from other leaders, but this time it felt like he was marching into a military camp, and he didn't dare to show his anger on the road.
Even if Dai Daozi didn't give any instructions, the people on horseback in Bailiuxi didn't dare to go fast, and their steps were as steady as the loess was frozen.
Liu Chengzong said in his heart, this girl's name is really correct, she is so white that it is a bit reflective.
As soon as he stretched out his hand to invite Bai Liuxi to sit down, he saw a woman also wearing a black robe with a round collar holding the curtain and lowering her head to enter the tent.
Most people lower their heads when entering the tent, even Chengyun would lower his head even if he was half a foot away from the tent door beam, let alone Liu Chengzong who was half a head taller than Chengyun.
This is a subconscious reaction.
But this woman was different. She had a high ponytail, sword-shaped eyebrows on her temples, and a straight bridge of her nose. When entering the tent, her red phoenix was lowered and she bowed in salute. The most important thing was that she really couldn't enter the military tent without bowing her head!
Liu Chengzong couldn't move his eyes away.
There are many women in the world with dark skin and many with white skin; some are rare in being tall, and some are in good shape; some are heroic and beautiful, and some are charming and graceful.
But together, do you still have a foundation in martial arts?
The lion was thinking bad.
I am sick.
