At this moment, he is simply training soldiers in a devilish manner, these soldiers are people from the surrounding poor ravines, where can they endure this ordeal?

"I only came to join the army when I said that I would be given eleven taels of silver every month, but now why has it become like this?" On the way to the training, some people began to cry out for injustice.

"It's better for you not to talk nonsense, and when the general sees it later, he will be beaten badly."

"What general?" The other man roared angrily, obviously angry, "He didn't treat us as human beings at all, even if we were captured by the Huns, we wouldn't be tortured like this?" He just wants our lives! ”

"yes!" Another person had an idea, "Anyway, now that Zhongjing is in chaos, what are we staying here for?" It's better to leave early and go back to farming. As soon as this man said this, someone immediately dropped his spear and responded enthusiastically.

"Let's go, go home, go home!" There was a commotion here, and on the other side, Du Bian had already passed the news to General Cheng's ears, and after General Cheng heard it, he sneered: "Okay! All right! They wanted to go back, and they all caught me! I put up with it again and again, and they didn't know what to do. ”

"General!" Du Bian actually had objections, but he didn't dare to say it explicitly, so he could only express it implicitly: "You have indeed been a little too late lately, not to mention the rest, you can take a look at my hand." "Du Bian is the adjutant general of the city general.

He taught fist and foot kung fu on it, Du Bian had to carry it out, General Cheng was hot tempered, although she may not be smart, but her comprehension in fist and foot kung fu was much stronger than ordinary people, he always compared each with himself.

found that this group of people was far inferior to himself, and General Cheng was really angry!

Du Bian stretched out his hand to show General Cheng, and General Cheng found the scar on Du Bian's palm, and said angrily: "The person who was a soldier has already sold his life to the imperial court, and if he wants to be relaxed, how can it be possible?" When did you start complaining about it, did you forget the battle you fought a month ago? ”

General Cheng felt depressed when he mentioned the battle, which really made General Cheng too unable to raise his head!

Speaking of this, General Cheng sighed, what Du Bian wanted to express was just the truth of "if you want to hurry, you can't reach it", but General Cheng, he doesn't seem to fully understand Du Bian.

Oh, Du Bian caught the group of deserters back, the group of deserters did not discuss how to escape in advance, they thought they could escape easily, but where did they know that Du Bian's eyes were like lightning, and they were arrested at once.

After the people were captured, General Cheng held the horsewhip and beat them hard.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Spare your life! The villain no longer dares to be a deserter. General Cheng's leather whip rained down, and he hit his head and face.

He hated deserters the most, so the strength in his hands was too great, and these five or six people were quickly beaten to death, and this was not the end. After the general beat them, he hung them on the city gate for public display, and each of them had fifty pounds of stones tied under his feet, and the wind blew and swayed.

But they were still given three meals a day, and when the day passed, they were pulled up, and each of them was colorless.

Everyone promised not to be deserters again, and General Cheng forgave them, although after this incident, it was a good deterrent to everyone, but the result was that everyone was too afraid of General Cheng, and they were even more panicked when they saw him than when they saw the Turkic leader Surdan.

The training continued.

In the Turks, the three of them sat on the floor, eating roasted whole sheep and began to talk about their next steps.

"I said a long time ago, as long as you cooperate with me, you will naturally be able to win big." After the victory, several people sat on the ground and discussed.

"If you want me to say, you shouldn't come back that day, how good it would be to go straight to Huanglong." Zhang Che is talking now, after all, the credit for the victory in the first battle is his own, and he is most afraid of being laughed at.

"No! Cannot! How do you know how powerful they are, although we won, but first, we were sneak attacked in the middle of the night, which is a prerequisite for victory! Second, although they have a large number of soldiers, they are all militiamen, how can they be compared with the iron cavalry of my steppe? ”

"If you really break into the White Tiger Gate that day, you will really have no return, there is still a large group of soldiers in the White Tiger Gate, once they are surrounded by the soldiers in the Qinglong Gate, will you not be made dumplings?"

Surdan was the king of the steppes and had more experience in marching and fighting, and although they were steppe people, although the steppes existed under the control of tribes rather than the state, the mode of management was actually much the same.

"This time, I heard that they are recruiting, but we need to grasp the timing." Liang Chaoxiong looked at Surdan, and Surdan sneered.

"Rest assured, what can those stragglers do? For me, it's a no-brainer. "Surdan has always had nothing to look for, and for him, there is only one real opponent, and that is Li Zhongxuan.

"Does the Khan have any specific plans?" Seeing Su Erdan grinning, Liang Chaoxiong immediately asked for advice.

"Come on, come on!" Surdan sneered, "You guys come closer. Surdan didn't know what he had said to them, and the two nodded their heads repeatedly.

Zhongjing, seeing that one army after another was trained, Li Zhongxuan was very happy, and after the big parade, he found that these soldiers were indeed very powerful, and compared with the sick team before, they already had a certain combat effectiveness.

"Let them be stationed in Fengzhou, Gudao and Tonggu respectively." Soon, this group of trained soldiers was placed in the three states and counties.

Fengzhou is the closest to Zhongjing, it is the first place of four wars in ancient times, after passing the Furong Pass, as long as Fengzhou is taken, the imperial capital will be in danger. As for the other two small county seats, the old road and Tonggu are scattered on both sides of Fengzhou, like a protective umbrella guarding Fengzhou.

All in all, these three county seats, regardless of their size and distance, are the hubs of the Imperial Palace, and once one of them is broken, the Imperial Kyoto will be in danger. As a result, the number of troops in these three counties is twice as large as that of ordinary counties.

At this moment, everything is settled, Li Zhongxuan can finally rest and rest, as for General Cheng, he asked Li Zhongxuan for analysis, "Your Majesty, where do you say this group of Turks is?" ”

According to Li Zhongxuan's understanding of the grassland people, their group of guys and wolves are generally social animals, and they will take care of each other when they are in danger.

Seeing that autumn was about to begin, he was afraid that the steppe people would be about to call the soldiers obedient again, Li Zhongxuan thought for a moment, "I heard that the Turks have been near Qilian Mountain for many years, who knows how they approached my Zhongjing?" ”

"According to me, it is very likely that the Turks are stationed near our Zhongjing, and further investigation is needed to determine where they are." Shen Qiaoan said.

"Leave it to me, the training has ended anyway."

On the second day, Li Zhongxuan went to look for the Turks, but the search was fruitless, and it was always a mystery where this group of Turks was hiding, but Li Zhongxuan's actions were accidentally exposed to the eyes of the Turks.

Even Li Zhongxuan himself didn't know how he was exposed.

It was still a dark night when he couldn't see his fingers, the Turkic Khan Surdan led an iron cavalry to approach Fengzhou, Liang Chaoxiong approached the old road, and Zhang Che approached the smallest Tonggu.

This time, they divided Liang Chaoxiong's original soldiers and the Turkic soldiers into three routes, and each of them secretly led the way.

"Zhang Che, the soldiers Ben Khan gave you are the largest of the three of us, I don't want you to win, but you have to hold them back, so that they don't rush to Fengzhou, you can drag them for as long as you want, once I or Lao Liang win, we will immediately rush to your aid, you know?"

Before leaving, on horseback, Surdan admonished Zhang Che.

Zhang Che is the most incompetent of the three of them, he has been pampered for many years, especially this Zhang Che is still a person who is very happy, they have been kind for a long time, and naturally decided to give him the best county town.

Zhang Che nodded, "Khan! Eldest brother! Rest assured, I will return victorious. When he said this, both of them were relieved.

"Lao Liang, I believe in you, I hope you also believe in me! I don't expect you to win a big victory, you drag them, once the soldiers from the surrounding two states and counties can't come to help, I can easily take Fengzhou, and at that time, trying to get Zhongjing is like digging for something. He smiled.

"Khan rest assured."

The three of them entered three different counties at the same time, and it was night, where did everyone have any precautions? Second, they came prepared, and naturally they had a thorough plan, and third, the overall quality of Li Zhongxuan's soldiers was indeed improved compared with before, but they were still short of actual combat experience.

Therefore, the brave and warlike Khan Surdan easily took Fengzhou, as for Liang Chaoxiong, as soon as he started the war, he found that those people were unstable, and even many people came to surrender in groups, and asked why they surrendered, it was just to be less beaten.

After less than half an hour of fighting, Fengzhou and Gudao had been taken, and the two of them thought that Zhang Che had miscalculated, so they hurriedly found soldiers to deal with it, but how did they know that Zhang Che did not fail, but also won a big victory.

The three of them celebrated each other, and Zhang Che was very happy, "I am also a general in battle now, and Khan and my eldest brother can't laugh at me in the future." ”

"After today, you will also become a general, hahaha, hahaha! Naturally, that won't laugh at you. All three laughed.

As for Li Zhongxuan and Qiao An, they didn't know that Fengzhou, Gudao, and Tonggu had been taken down, and the next morning, someone sent a "gift" over, and Qiao An stared at the agarwood box and wanted to open it, but after all, he still held back.

"Your Majesty, who sent this?" Qiao An was surprised and approached Li Zhongxuan to ask.

Li Zhongxuan glanced at the soldier who was half-kneeling in front of him, "Who sent it?" The soldier couldn't understand it, and after a long time, General Cheng had already burned up and kicked away the soldier kneeling in front of him.

Qiao An hurriedly went to help, "You are also an anxious person, presumably the person who asked him to give the gift did not want to expose himself, but he was playing tricks, how could you treat him like this?" Joan patted the footprints on the soldier's chest and soothed, "You go down, I'll come to him." ”

"Grind, grind! If you don't know a word, you still come to be a soldier, so it's better to go home and plant sweet potatoes. General Cheng scolded and approached the wooden box.

"Your Majesty," Du Bian next to him whispered: "In our hometown, agarwood is used to make precious furniture, but the real use of agarwood is to be a coffin." Du Bian felt that something was wrong.

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