Li Zhiyun's New Army barracks is not too far from his second brother's Chinese Army camp. After everything was arranged, the next morning, he came to the Chinese army camp to find his second brother. When he walked into the Chinese army's tent, he found that his second brother was not there. The guard told him that King Qin led people to inspect the barracks. Li Zhiyun sat and waited for a while. Seeing that his second brother hadn't come back yet, he planned to go back. As soon as he walked out of the military tent, he saw his second brother and several generals walking from the camp gate and hurriedly greeted them.
There were four generals following the second brother, two of whom he knew. One was his brother Qu Tushou's father, Zuo Pushe Qu Tutong, the other was Yin Kaishan, the Minister of War, and the other two generals He looked very unfamiliar. One of them is about five feet seven inches tall, with a muscular build and a muscular build. He has fair skin, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a pair of piercing tiger eyes. The other one is of medium build, with dark skin, leopard eyes, an eagle nose, and a big mouth. The man, with his full beard, looks like Meng Zhang Fei in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
When the second brother saw him, he smiled and said: "Fifth brother, are you here?" Li Zhiyun pulled the second brother, kissed the two generals who were lagging behind, and whispered: "Who are those two people?"
"Oh, these are the two new generals I got. Let me introduce them to you." After the second brother said that, he pulled him to the two generals. "Two brothers, let me introduce them to you. These are My fifth brother is Li Zhiyun, King of Chu."
Upon hearing this, the two people quickly clasped their fists and saluted, and said in unison: "I will not see the King of Chu!" Li Zhiyun quickly returned the salute. The second brother pointed to the fair-skinned general and said to Li Zhiyun: "Fifth brother, this is Qin Qiong, the general manager of the horse army."
When Li Zhiyun heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, stared at the man blankly, and stammered: "What? You...are you Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao?" Qin Qiong smiled and nodded, and said: "Why, the King of Chu knows what will happen next. Will?"
"I know, I know, I know so much! Your name is so resonant!"
"Okay," the second brother pointed to another person and introduced: "This is Cheng Zhijie, the Third Army of the Left Army."
Cheng Zhijie? never heard of that. Li Zhiyun looked at the other party blankly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Are you Cheng Yaojin?" He asked this question, firstly, because the other party's surname was also Cheng, and secondly, because this person was related to Qin Shubao Together, that is probably Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Zhijie chuckled and said, "Back to King Chu, my name used to be Cheng Yaojin, but now I have changed my name to Cheng Zhijie."
ah? It was indeed Cheng Yaojin! When Li Zhiyun heard this, he quickly said: "Hey, how about calling me Cheng Yaojin? What name should I change?" Cheng Zhijie still smiled and said: "Zhong, I listen to the King of Chu, I will still be called Cheng Yaojin from now on."
Everyone walked into the Zhongjun tent talking and laughing. Li Zhiyun was so happy today. He finally met the two famous heroes on Wagang Mountain. After everyone sat down, he came up to Cheng Yaojin and said, "Cheng Yaojin, have you been to Wagang Village? Have you ever been a demon king?" Cheng Yaojin shook his head and said, "Wagang Village? I haven't. Been there. The Demon King? I don’t know either.”
Why, haven’t you been to Wagang Village? Have you ever been a demon king? Are these all made up in novels? Li Zhiyun was a little unwilling and continued: "Cheng Yaojin, everyone in our place knows you. They say you only know how to fight with three axes. They also said that you went to Wagang Mountain and were fooled..." Cheng Yaojin became anxious when he heard this. He shouted, "Who arranged this for me, Lao Cheng? I am a fierce general, and I can fight with more than just three axes!"
"That's right, that's right, everyone there knows that you are a good person and a great hero!" Li Zhiyun quickly changed his words.
"That's pretty much it!"
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Soon after the army was stationed in Baibi, Song Jingang led the army to challenge. On this day, Li Zhiyun was chatting with his subordinates in the military tent. His second brother sent someone to call him to the Chinese army camp. He walked into the second brother's military tent and took a look, oh, there were so many people. It was full of neatly dressed generals, and the second brother was sitting on the main seat. The second brother saw him coming in and waved him to sit next to him.
After Li Zhiyun sat down, the second brother glanced at the generals below and said: "Generals, according to the report from Tanma, Song Jinjiang has led 40,000 troops to capture Jiang County and surrounded Wenxi County. Currently, his army is far away from The wall is less than forty miles away, and they may attack us at any time. After all generals return to camp, they must be prepared for battle and strengthen defenses. If Song Jingang launches an attack, he must be driven back and he must not be allowed to break through a camp!"
After the second brother finished speaking, Cheng Yaojin stood up, clasped his fists and said, "King Qin, if Song Jingang launches an attack, how uncomfortable would it be for us to huddle in the camp? Can we take the initiative to attack and drive back the enemy?"
"No!" The second brother said resolutely, "We can only stick to the camp and strengthen the defense. We are not allowed to step out of the camp gate. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished according to military law! Do you hear me clearly?"
When Cheng Yaojin heard this, he touched his head and said angrily: "Oh, I understand."
After Li Zhiyun returned to the New Army Camp, he also made some arrangements. Although his barracks is in the center of the army and will not be attacked under normal circumstances, he must be prepared in case of any eventuality.
After Song Jingang arrived with his army, he sent some troops and made several tentative attacks, but they were all easily repelled. Song Jingang was an expert and knew that the Tang army was well prepared and that the defense of the camp was impregnable and impossible for him to break through. So he gave up his plan to attack, retreated thirty miles to camp, and confronted the Tang army.
The camp of the New Army was next to a small river. Every day after dinner, Li Zhiyun would go for a walk by the river. That evening, when he walked out of the camp, he saw a man standing by the river. When he got closer, he saw that it was his second brother. The second brother stood on the river bank, staring at the slowly flowing river in a daze. Under the reflection of the setting sun, the river shines with stripes of golden light, like leaping golden dragons. Li Zhiyun walked up to him and said, "Second brother, what are you thinking about?" The second brother looked up at him and said, "Of course you are thinking about how to defeat Song Jingang."
"Are you sure you can defeat him?"
The second brother shook his head and said: "Song Jingang is good at using troops, and his army is strong and his morale is high. If we fight with him now, I have no confidence in winning. Therefore, I can only use the dragging technique." Li Zhiyun nodded, Said: "Song Jingang came all the way, and the supply of food and grass was a big problem. I heard that they relied on robbing the people's food to ensure military supplies. If we continue to confront them and wait until they run out of food before attacking, we can easily Win." After hearing this, the second brother sighed and said, "Having said that, our army's food reserves are not much, and I'm afraid I won't be able to use up Song Jingang."
"Then, have you ever thought about raising food on the spot?"
"Why haven't you thought about it? However, when Pei Ji was in charge of Jinzhou, in order to fight against Liu Wuzhou, he carried out a large-scale clearing of the country and burned all the people's food. In addition, the enemy robbed the people. The people were afraid of being invaded and hid in the castle. Even the people who didn’t leave hid the remaining food. It’s difficult for us to collect food!”
Li Zhiyun thought for a moment and said, "It's better to organize a grain requisition task force." The second brother looked at him and asked strangely, "What is a grain requisition task force?"
"It means organizing small teams, ranging from twenty to thirty people to forty or fifty people, and sending them to various villages and towns to inform the people about the king's teachings and mobilize the people to donate surplus grain. We can write IOUs to the people to ensure that we defeat Liu Wuzhou and the Queen The borrowed grain must be returned in full or used to pay taxes for the coming year.”
After hearing this, the second brother's eyes lit up and he nodded: "This method is not bad. If you can really collect enough food, you can help the second brother solve a big problem."
The second brother did what he said, and the next day he ordered each camp to send grain collection teams to collect grains from towns near and far. Li Zhiyun followed suit and led dozens of people to drive the cart to a town about thirty miles northwest of the military camp.
This is a common market town in rural areas. Judging from the number of houses, there are about five to six hundred households. It is smaller than an ordinary town, but larger than a village. One side of the town is close to the mountains, and the other three sides are fertile fields.
Because the town is too small, there is only one street in the town, and there are only a handful of shops on both sides of the street. Judging from the plaque, there is a rice shop, a cloth shop, a grocery store, and a drug store. After Li Zhiyun led the people into the town, he asked everyone to spread out and go to each house to collect grain.
He led Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu into a courtyard, where a woman was weighing grains in a dustpan. After seeing them, she quickly ran into the house and closed the door. Li Zhiyun walked over, knocking on the door and shouting: "Sister-in-law, we are Tang Jun, we are here to fight Liu Wuzhou, and we want to borrow some food from you..." Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu also left the yard and went to the house next door to the left and knocked on the door. , explain the situation to the owner.
Li Zhiyun knocked for a long time, but the other party wouldn't open the door. Helpless, he had no choice but to walk out of the yard and onto the street. After a while, Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu also walked out of the neighbors' yards and shook their heads at him. Li Zhiyun stood on the street for a while, and the people he sent out came back one after another. They were all turned away, and everyone complained about the grievances they had suffered. It seemed that the people in this town did not welcome their arrival. Perhaps collecting food would be more difficult than he originally thought.
"What should we do?" Zhang Zheng looked at him and asked.
Li Zhiyun raised his head and looked at the sun that was already setting in the west, and said: "Go and set up camp outside the town, and settle down first." In order not to disturb the people, they brought their tents, found a piece of flat land outside the town, and pitched the tents.
In the next two days, there was still no progress in collecting food. As soon as they entered the town, as long as the people saw them from a distance, they would hide in their houses and close their doors in panic. No matter how hard they knocked, the other party wouldn't open the door, and no matter what they said, the other party wouldn't respond. Occasionally, one or two people would talk to me, saying that we don't have food at home and you should leave quickly.
At night, Li Zhiyun walked out of the tent and came to a nearby stream. The crescent moon hung in the sky, the faint moonlight sprinkled down like mist, and the stream flashed with silver light like fish scales. He looked up and saw that the mountain opposite was shrouded in darkness. Apart from the shadows of the trees, nothing else could be seen clearly.
Zhang Zheng followed him and stood beside him, neither of them spoke. After a while, Li Zhiyun finally said: "Zhang Zheng, tell me, is there any other way to make people willing to donate food?" Zhang Zheng sighed and said, "There are wars everywhere now, and the people are living a good life. It's hard, it's so difficult to get them to donate food." Li Zhiyun was silent for a while and said: "No matter how difficult it is, we still have to collect food, otherwise, we won't be able to consume Song Jingang, and there will be no way to defeat him... "
