"One-two-one...... One-two-one...... One, two, three, four......"

With the sound of slogans, a group of sergeants with fire guns on their shoulders and full armor lined up in a neat queue under the leadership of an officer with a small blue flag hanging behind his neck, these sergeants shouted slogans while striding on the road with their heads held high, looking at the energetic sergeants walking by and the fine armor covering their bodies, Xiong Tingbi's face became even more unpredictable.

"Master, these sergeants are really well equipped!"

"Is it just equipped?" Xiong Tingbi just brushed his beard and was silent, there were some things that he naturally didn't want to tell his servant.

Although Xiong Tingbi was silent, but in fact, there were already waves in his heart, this army was so well-equipped that he had only seen it in his life, the iron armor covering the whole body and only revealing his face, the fire guns shining with cold light on his shoulders, and the long knives on the waists of the sergeants all told others that this was an army armed to the teeth. Regardless of the combat effectiveness of this army, Xiong Tingbi can be sure that the equipment of this army is definitely the best and most extravagant in the entire Ming Dynasty, and there is no one.

"If the combat strength of this army can be fifty or sixty percent of that of the border army, it will be a very remarkable thing, and it will definitely play a major role in Liaodong."

Xiong Tingbi groaned while leading the horse slowly, after a while they followed the guidance of the sergeant at the door to the location of a mountain bag, where stood a huge tent, the area is nearly 100 square meters, and the house where people usually live is not much different, at the door of the tent stood a row of sergeants are looking at the passing people, when Xiong Tingbi and the two led the horses over, the eyes of this row of people immediately looked over, the officer headed by the eyes were particularly sharp, He stretched out his palm upwards and made a blocking motion, and said loudly.

"Stop coming, no one in the army is allowed to enter!"

Xiong Tingbi didn't speak yet, but the servant next to him was already angry and angry, thinking that his master was the right attendant of the military department and the Liaodong Jingluo, in addition to being unjustly imprisoned, how could he have suffered such neglect, and now even the family members under the command of a commander dared to question them like this, and he was angry for a while, and he shouted and scolded loudly without waiting for his master to speak: "Blind your dog eyes, this is the right attendant of the military department, the Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi Xiong, you don't want to come to worship quickly!" ”

"The right attendant of the military department, Lord Liaodong Jingluo Xiong?" The officer at the head was slightly taken aback, and looked at Xiong Tingbi carefully before he clenched his fists and said, "Please show this lord a seal letter or an official seal!" ”

Xiong Tingbi had no choice but to show the official seal and the official document of the Ministry of War again, and the officer looked at it for a while, and then solemnly hugged his fists and said: "Song Ye has seen Lord Xiong, let me go in and report it, please command the Lord to come out to greet him." ”

"No need!" Xiong Tingbi waved his hand: "This official is not here to be a guest, what to greet, you get out of the way!" After speaking, Xiong Tingbi strode into the tent.

Song Ye hesitated, seeing that Xiong Tingbi was about to collide with him, he had to take a step back and watch Xiong Tingbi walk in, he had no choice but to shout outside: "Master Xiong Tingbi of the Military Department and Liaodong Jingluo has arrived!" ”

Xiong Tingbi walked into the tent and found that this huge tent was not as dim as he imagined, and he didn't know what material this tent was made of, the light transmittance was unexpectedly good, and the sunlight outside could shine through the surroundings of the tent and the top, when Xiong Tingbi strode into the tent, he found that a group of officers strode out with a group of generals, and after seeing Xiong Tingbi, Yang Feng bowed to Xiong Tingbi and arched his hand: "The last general Jiang Ningwei commander and Jiang Ning general Yang Feng have seen Lord Xiong!" ”

"Humble rank, see Lord Xiong!" The officers behind Yang Feng didn't dare to learn from Yang Feng, a bold guy, because their official positions were too low, and they knelt down on one knee to salute.

Xiong Tingbi ignored these officers who saluted him, but looked at Yang Feng standing in front of him with a blazing gaze unabashedly, as if he didn't care at all about Yang Feng not kneeling down to him. And Yang Feng also looked directly at Xiong Tingbi unabashedly, without the slightest fear in his expression.

Everyone shook their heads helplessly when they saw this scene, their own commander made the adults everything else good, but it was too tactful, especially in terms of etiquette. Xiong Tingbi is the right attendant of the Ministry of War and the Liaodong Economic Strategy, in other words, in later generations, he is the vice minister of national defense and the deputy commander of a large military region, Yang Feng is at best only a division commander of the agricultural reclamation corps, seeing that his superiors just arched his hand, if he had changed to a more critical boss, I am afraid that he would have been angry and punished.

However, things did not develop as everyone did, and Xiong Tingbi did not get angry because of this. He looked Yang Feng up and down, and found that this commander looked at himself without fear, this alone surprised him, you must know that now he has been reinstated, but any military general who sees him will be half a short cut when he sees how old the official is, let alone kneel down on one knee to salute, even if he kneels down on both knees and kowtows, the other party is just a commander and general, and he dares to bow to himself, this courage can no longer be said to be big, but eats the gall of a leopard.

In other words, Xiong Tingbi a year ago must have punished him without saying a word, at least he had to refer to him. However, after this prison turmoil, Xiong Tingbi has already seen a lot, but he doesn't pay much attention to these vulgar etiquette. He carefully looked at the commander and general in front of him, and saw that the other party was a head taller than himself, more than twenty years old, five or six years old, and the most impressive thing was that his eyes were unusually bright and full of a look of non-anger and self-authority, and his expression was also very calm when he looked at himself, and he did not see the excitement or panic of his superiors.

And Yang Feng was also looking at this Liaodong Jingstrategist who had already been cut off and passed on the nine sides, only to see that he was in his fifties, and at first glance his very kind face faintly revealed a solemn expression, his eyes were gentle, and his eyes revealed curiosity and expectation. Seeing this, Yang Feng couldn't help but be a little curious, according to what was said in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Xiong Tingbi had a violent personality, and now he doesn't look like this, it seems that the prison disaster in the past few years has changed him too much.

Seeing that Xiong Tingbi didn't speak, the officers around him were also a little nervous, these two wouldn't have to make trouble as soon as they met. But fortunately, this situation didn't last long, Xiong Tingbi nodded with some satisfaction, "You are Jiang Ningwei's commander Yang Feng?" This official has heard of your name for a long time, and I thought that you dared to lead troops to fight with Xu Hongji, and the commander who could fight Tartars must be a good man with a big waist and a waist circumference of three feet and a height of three zhang, but I never thought that he would be such a handsome and outstanding young man, which really surprised this official! ”

Listening to Xiong Tingbi's words, Yang Feng smiled slightly: "My lord has won the award, the reason why the last general can make some small achievements is due to the efforts of all the soldiers and His Majesty's sage, and the last general is just a little luckier." The last general this time to visit the Beijing division and stationed here, is to pick up the adults to go to Liaodong together, to listen to the teachings of the adults on the road is really the honor of the last general, and I hope that the adults will not hesitate to teach. ”

Everyone likes to listen to flattery, Xiong Tingbi is no exception, although he knows that most of what Yang Feng said is polite words, but he still feels very happy, and the trace of dissatisfaction with Yang Feng just now also dissipated, he asked casually: "General Yang, can you tell this official what you were talking about just now?" ”

Yang Feng replied: "Back to my lord's words, the last general is suitable for the matter of discussing how to counterattack the Houjin Tartars after arriving in Liaodong. ”

"Fight back?"

Xiong Tingbi was stunned for a while, since the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Salhu, the weakness of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be exposed all of a sudden. The Ming Dynasty, whose national strength was already weakened, became timid when facing the Jurchens, and basically focused on defense, and few people dared to take the initiative to attack the Jurchens during Xiong Tingbi's tenure as the Liaodong Economic Strategy. The only time the biggest counterattack was that Wang Huazhen, who was ambitious and talented, led the army to lead all the troops stationed in Guangning to attack the Jurchens, but they were beaten by the Jurchens just after the battle, and even the city of Guangning was lost.

In history, Wang Huazhen was beheaded by the imperial court after his defeat, and Xiong Tingbi was also involved, but in this historical time and space, with the appearance of Yang Feng, Xiong Tingbi was spared. Now Xiong Tingbi heard the sensitive word of counterattack again, and he couldn't help but feel a little weird. If it was before, Xiong Tingbi would have drunk Yang Feng, but now that he has been tortured for several years in prison, his original burst temper has changed a lot, he just looked at Yang Feng deeply and asked quietly: "I don't know how Lord Yang is going to fight back." ”

Yang Feng shook his head and said, "If Lord Xiong wants the last general to tell the specific situation, how can he say it now that the last general has arrived in Liaodong." But the general thinks that the war between the two countries is nothing more than you coming and fighting each other, fighting for the size of the national strength, the strength of the troops, and the courage of the soldiers, and the rest such as strategy can only be a small road. ”

"What we fight for is the size of the country, the amount of materials, and the courage of the soldiers."

Xiong Tingbi muttered to himself, and his expression became a little displeased: "General Yang's words are bad, the art of war is cloudy, and the husband is counted as the winner without a fight, and he has to count it as a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing happens, how can General Yang make such a nonsense? ”

Seeing that Xiong Tingbi was a little angry, Yang Feng smiled: "Lord Xiong, don't be impatient, the last general is not saying that the strategy is useless, but that the strategy is based on the similar strength of the two sides, if the strength of the two sides is different, even if Zhuge Kongming and Sun Wu are resurrected, it can only be in vain." For example, why is our army frequently losing in Liaodong now? It was not because our officers and men were negligent in training, even the firearms were shoddy goods, and the decline of national strength could not train enough well-trained troops to carry out a continuous attack on the Manchurian Tartars, so that the Tartars were able to run rampant. Imagine, my lord, if it was replaced by the Yongle period, when my Ming Dynasty was full of national strength, I would not dare to blow up the stab with ten dares from Nurhachi, an old thief. ”