Chapter 205: A knife in hand, I have it in the world

If a person is unlucky, he will stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water. Liu Jintang at this time has a deep understanding of this truth. Originally, he also expected to become famous in these battles of the Western Expedition. However, in Happy Valley, he was pressed to the ground by Chen Ying for a while.

I don't know who admonished Dou Jiande, and actually left his less than 20,000 horses to feint to attack Happy Valley. Hearing the news, Liu Jintang felt like falling into an ice cellar, which was like a mouse being an escort for a cat. Dou Jiande's army of tens of thousands of people can't gnaw at Happy Valley, and letting himself have less than 20,000 soldiers and horses to create absolute pressure on Chen Ying is simply the biggest joke in the world.

As soon as Dou Jiande left with his front foot, Liu Jintang brought the back foot of the army back to Xingyang City, his purpose was very simple, he couldn't afford to provoke him, we could always afford to hide.

Retracted back to Xingyang City, Liu Jintang had the attitude of being drunk today, and the people of Xingyang, who had been abused in the city, suffered even more now. Last time, it was the Xingyang Zheng clan who swept Dou Jiande's face, and Dou Jiande acquiesced to the Xia army soldiers to rob the Xingyang Zheng clan's property, the target was very targeted, only targeting the Xingyang Zheng clan, and other major clans or Haoqiang, but Qiu did not commit any crimes.

Now, where can Liu Jintang, who is broken and broken, still take care of these, as long as Chen Ying's army comes to attack, he can't resist for a few days at all, so a day is a day.

As soon as the sky was dark, Liu Jintang's personal soldiers began to arrange meals, and the personal soldiers carried the dead sheep that they didn't know where to snatch from now, first peeled the skin and then shaved the abdomen, removed the internal organs, cut the mutton into large pieces and threw it into the pot to cook, peeled off the skin of the radish, cut it into pieces, and waited for the mutton to boil until the broth was boiling, and poured it into buckets. People don't worry about waste at all.

Here, Liu Jintang had just served the rice bowl and the wine was just full, when he saw his own soldiers running into the festival hall sweating profusely: "General, it's not good......

Liu Jintang didn't even have the mind to move, and said lightly: "Has Chen Ying's army called?" ”

The recruit shook his head.

Liu Jintang said: "It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have it, continue to eat and drink!" ”

The pro-soldier commander let out a long sigh and swallowed the last words into his stomach.

Originally, if Liu Jintang had pressed his troops under Happy Valley Ridge like Cao Zhan, Zheng Jian would have no way to send materials and personnel to Happy Valley Ridge, but Liu Jintang was scared by Chen Ying's Mo Dao Army, for fear that Chen Ying would catch him and beat him up and annihilate him completely.

In this year, there are soldiers and generals who are the grass kings, and the soldiers and generals are the foundation of Liu Jintang's life, once he loses nearly 20,000 horses under his command, Liu Jintang has no status in the Xia Kingdom, and it is great to look at Liu Heimin's face and give him a small official.

However, Liu Jintang was afraid and withdrew his troops to Xingyang City, and Happy Valley was unimpeded all of a sudden.

Zheng's young men drove the cart, which was carrying food, money or supplies, and the vehicle was heading towards Happy Valley.

Guo Luo looked at the convoy that was out of sight, took three steps and made two steps, and came to the tent of the Chinese army in Happy Valley. At this time, in the Happy Valley Camp, Chen Ying was very leisurely, he dug a soil pit as a stove in the open space outside the tent, put a few stones on it, and inserted a few carp with small wooden sticks, and was barbecuing.

I don't know what the rumor is, Chen Ying vaguely remembered that later generations were saying that the Tang Dynasty forbade the common people and gentry to eat carp because Li had the same sound as carp, which was pure. According to this statement, didn't Zhou Tianzi want to ban the people from drinking porridge? Comrade Lao Zhu forbade the people to eat pork? Does Yang Jian want to ban the people from eating mutton?

Chen Ying specially asked Li Xiuning, but Li Xiuning didn't know about it at all.

Chen Ying took Li Xiuning with a spear to catch fish in the stream below the mountain, but Chen Ying's skills were very scummy, and he didn't get a fish for a long time, and Zhang Shigui couldn't stand it anymore, so he shot ten arrows and hit seven fish.

Chen Ying took the carp he shot and returned to the camp to cook fish with Li Xiuning.

The fly in the ointment is that there is no chili powder and cumin, and the taste is unsatisfactory, but Li Xiuning eats it very happily.

Chen Ying looked at the grilled fish and muttered, "Chili, when did you eat chili!" ”

Li Xiuning asked curiously, "What chili?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Chili pepper is a condiment......"

America, Chen Ying thought of this, and his brain instantly activated. In later generations, I once watched "Exploration and Discovery", Chen Ying remembered that there was a current in the Pacific Ocean, which could drift from the Pacific Ocean to the Americas in a month, and the remnants of Yin Shang used this current to drift to the Americas.

There are so many things that you can only dream of in the Americas, peppers, sweet potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, potatoes, and of course, delicious crayfish......

However, I don't know the origin of the good dream, just when Chen Ying fell into his beautiful fantasy, Guo Luo was shaking Chen Ying vigorously: "General, general, wake up......"

"Don't shake it, I'm about to be shaken apart by you!" Chen Ying said angrily: "What's wrong?" ”

"Money, food, and a lot of soldiers!"

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Chen Ying received the first amount of materials from the Zheng family, more than 20,000 catties of 100 steel and about 500 pairs of refined steel armor, as well as more than 10,000 young people, although these Zheng people are young and strong under the banner of "tenants", in fact, Chen Ying found at a glance that these young men are well-trained sergeants, wearing battle armor, which can be pulled out to the battlefield, and they are somewhat murderous.

"General Chen, how are these young people?" Zheng Jian was very proud to introduce to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Not bad, very good!" ”

The physical fitness of these young people is quite good, they are all over eighteen years old, under thirty-five years old, very few young are about forty years old, most of the physical fitness is even better than the physical fitness of the soldiers of the left and right guards and the left and right Si Yu rates, in fact, although the Xingyang Zheng family is heirloom with poetry and books, but they have money, people and food, as early as the beginning of Li Yuan's army, they also began to establish their own private soldiers, the composition of these private soldiers is very complex, there are both rebel soldiers who fled during Yang Xuangan's rebellion, There are also Sui Dynasty fugitives when Yang Guangdong conquered Goguryeo, and there are also Wagang troops taken in by the Zheng family when Wagang Li Mi was defeated.

Zheng Jian said proudly: "Our Zheng family treats the tenants well, although in recent years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, and the grain has not been harvested, but our Zheng family has never deducted the food of the tenants, and has been practicing the sword and bow since childhood...... Recently, the bandits have been in serious trouble, and they often fight with bandits and rogues with knives, and they are not only strong, but also fierce. ”

Of course, Zheng Jian didn't say anything, as long as he was weaker, he was killed by the rebels!

Zheng Jian continued to show off: "The most rare thing is that they are very individual, ordering them to move forward, even if there is only one person left, they will rush forward; Let them break off, even if they hit the last person, they will not surrender! ”

When Chen Ying heard this, an unnatural look appeared on his face. There were also turbulent waves in his heart, and no matter what fight to the last person, he would rush forward, this was not an ordinary tenant at all, nor an ordinary private soldier, but a real dead soldier. Chen Ying felt that it was already very exaggerated for Hou Mo Chen's family to secretly raise three thousand tigers, but compared with the Xingyang Zheng family, Hou Mo Chen's family, who started with military and martial arts, was simply a pediatric.

Tens of thousands of dead soldiers, what is this concept? It costs about ten times a year to feed an ordinary soldier, or even at least ten times that of an ordinary soldier. After all, the dead soldiers did not jump out of the cracks in the stones, if you want the dead soldiers to work hard, you must give them enough settlement expenses, so that the wives and children of these dead soldiers do not have to worry about food and clothing, that is to say, these 10,000 dead soldiers will consume as much as one million dollars and food every year.

In fact, Chen Ying was wrong, most of these dead soldiers of the Zheng family were actually adopted orphans or children of the Zheng family, and not only were they very loyal to the Zheng family, but also had a lower price. They are almost a one-time buyout, and they don't spend much money, and the tens of thousands of dead soldiers, Zheng's annual expenses are not about two or three hundred thousand.

In fact, Xingyang Zheng's abacus is more shrewd than anyone else. Chen Ying is a famous general in the world, known for his bravery and training, as long as it is a soldier led by Chen Ying, he will not die in a battle, and all of them are elite. Therefore, the Zheng clan obviously knew that Dou Jiande's army had all retreated, leaving only Liu Jintang with less than 20,000 horses to defend in Xingyang.

The materials and wealth to be given to Chen Ying are not two jujubes, this is no less than 300,000 yuan, and there are 20,000 young people. Thinking about it, Zheng feels painful. However, Zheng still gritted his teeth and fulfilled the contract, of course, not because he was afraid of Chen Ying's retaliation, but because he wanted to use Chen Ying's hand to train an elite army for Chen Ying. Only with one block of ten elite soldiers in hand, the tragedy of Dou Jiande's army sacking the Zheng family will not be repeated.

After getting this material and manpower, Chen Ying was not polite, although he knew that the Zheng family had the ingredients to use Chen Ying, but Chen Ying didn't care, the dead man, the dead man was a hair. Under Chen Ying's ideological education and spiritual bombardment, only God knows how much loyalty they can retain to the Zheng family.

Of course, what surprised Chen Ying the most about these young men was that he could actually pick out more than 1,300 big men with a height of eight feet and a powerful force, although there was no armor and Mo knife on hand for the time being, and there was only a very small part of the spare Mo knife and Mingguang armor, which was not enough to meet Chen Ying's needs at all, Chen Ying was also unceremonious, and with a wave of his hand, he pulled out more than 1,300 giant men with a height of eight feet to form four reserve regiments of the Mo Sword Army.

There are a lot of people who can ride horses in the Central Plains, especially in the Sui Dynasty, the people's homes are very generous, almost similar to later generations, as long as the general family background, every household has a horse, so there are also a lot of people who can ride horses. These people are all treasures, and Chen Ying also unceremoniously used more than 2,400 people as cavalry reserves.

The other dead soldiers all served as jumping soldiers and shooting soldiers, so that in a short period of time, Chen Ying's troops have expanded by more than 10,000 people.

With the follow-up 8,000 war horses and horses in place, Chen Ying's hooked and sickle lancers grew legs again.

As the saying goes, a knife in hand, I have it in the world.

Chen Ying had the materials and manpower supported by the Zheng family, and immediately started preparations for war, preparing to recover Xingyang and end this troubled era by the way. As long as Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong are eliminated and the world is peaceful, Chen Ying can live the peaceful life he wants, and most importantly, he can hold the beauty.

The reserve of the archery army follows the training of the archery army, and the cavalry reserve army follows the hook and sickle cavalry for restorative training, the old rules, with the old leading soldiers. The reserve army of the Modao Army followed the Modao Army for training, but there was really no way to solve the equipment of the Modao Army.