In the middle of the first month, spring returns to the earth, and the snow melts.

Hepu City, the seat of Hepu County, is about sixty or seventy miles away from Danzhou Bay to the south, and the cold wind blowing every day carries a smell of sea.

In the early spring of last year, Pei Yuanqing led 50,000 Guishan troops, and Wei Changhui and Li Xiucheng led the remnants of the 110,000 Taiping Army to sweep over.

At the end of April, the vanguard team led by Mu Guiying, Fan Lihua and Joan of Arc quietly arrived in the north of Hepu, and adopted the strategy of night and day travel hundreds of miles away, quietly approaching the flank of the Kushan army and attacking it unprepared. Xu Huang and Su Lie took the opportunity to send troops from the city to attack, annihilating more than 20,000 enemies in one fell swoop, and Pei Yuanqing, who had been killed, retreated eighty miles to the south before curbing the decline.

After that, the 150,000 reinforcements led by Wang Ben arrived at the front line in Jiaozhou, and Wang Ben sent his general Jabbar to lead 20,000 people to assist Pei Yuanqing, and regrouped to march to Hepu, and fought more than ten battles with the Han army, winning and losing each other, and the situation has been stuck until now.

It is not uncommon for the Son of Heaven to drive in person, but it is rare for the princess to be in charge, and I heard that Concubine Mu Xian personally led the army to help, and the morale of the Han army in Hepu City was very high. Xu Huang repeatedly invited Mu Guiying to enter Hepu City to sit in the town, and he and Su Lie and others went out of the city to camp, and they were horns for each other, but Mu Guiying politely declined.

"Outside, there is no need to talk about dignity and humility! General Gongming is the main general, so you should sit in Hepu, and I and General Fan and General Joan of Arc are reinforcements, that is, guest troops, and they should be encamped outside the city, echoing inside and outside, and resisting strong enemies together. Mu Guiying said.

That's it. Mu Guiying led the two female generals Fan Lihua and Joan of Arc, as well as the 2,000 female soldiers formed in Jiangdong. 30,000 reinforcements camped ten miles northwest of Hepu City, and Hepu City was a horn to each other.

Xu Huang was afraid that Mu Guiying would lose. After all, she is the emperor's woman, a daughter, and if there is a mistake, her future will inevitably be overshadowed. He left Su Lie and Lu Xiangsheng to defend the city, and he took Guo Wei to raise 20,000 troops, and stationed them seven or eight miles across Mu Guiying's camp so that they could rush to help at any time.

The weather is getting warmer, the snow is melting without a trace, and scouts on both sides are becoming more frequent.

"Meng Liang. Ben Shuai allocated you 3,000 soldiers and horses to cruise around Hepu to guard against Guishan scouts! ”

Liu Wei was reluctant to launch a large-scale campaign, and Mu Guiying and others had no choice but to be patient and hold their troops. However, Guishuang's scouts moved around Hepu like fleas, which made Mu Guiying very angry, and seeing that the weather was getting warmer, he allocated a soldier and horse to Meng Liang and sent him out to patrol.

Raw, five big and three coarse, dark skin. Meng Liang, who was rude-looking, immediately surrendered his hand to the order: "Niangniang, don't worry, as long as the Guishan scouts dare to come to spy on them, Meng Ye promises to kill them one by one, and kill them or bury them!" ”

"General Meng...... You're not rude! "All in military uniform. With long blond hair and a shawl, Joan of Arc said in slightly broken Chinese, "How can you speak to the marshal like this?" ”

"Hey...... Get used to it! Meng Liang scratched his scalp. Embarrassed to laugh, "The nature of the country is easy to change, and it is difficult to change." The old man doesn't know so many rules! ”

Mu Guiying didn't mind, and said with a straight face: "Don't call me Niangniang in the barracks." Marshal is it! ”

In Chinese history, the word "marshal" appeared for the first time in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the general Xianzhen under Jin Wengong became the first general in history to win the title of marshal and make great achievements. But after that, the marshal was not used much, and was more of a title, similar to sir, envoy, lord, etc., rather than a real position.

In order to show the difference between men and women, Liu Wei canonized Mu Guiying as the "Marshal of Zhengnan" to distinguish the governors of the major legions. Mu Guiying likes this rank very much, and has always been dressed in military uniforms in the barracks, and requires the soldiers under his command to call themselves "marshals" instead of "mothers".

"The last general knows, Marshal Mu!" Meng Liang is now learning and selling, and he hugged his fists and agreed.

Fan Lihua, who was dressed in white next to her, couldn't help but laugh, and laughed out loud: "General Meng is really funny, and the children can be taught!" ”

Mu Guiying pointed to the sand table and solemnly admonished Meng Liang: "The total strength of the Kushan coalition army is about 150,000, although the Taiping army is mostly a rabble, but it is better than the number of people. That Pei Yuanqing is brave and good at fighting, His Majesty is not allowed to fight head-on, so you can't go too far south, just patrol the range of dozens of miles around Hepu, so as not to be attacked by the Guishan army. ”

"Cut...... I think this Pei Yuanqing Lang is just famous! Meng Liang looked disdainful at Pei Yuanqing, "Isn't it just a guy with a double hammer?" I Mengliang still uses a double axe, if he bumps into it, he will not be able to eat and walk around! ”

Mu Guiying glared at Meng Liang sternly: "General Gao Xianzhi has been on the battlefield for a long time, and General He Yuanqing is the leader of our army, all of them suffered big losses under Pei Yuanqing, one dead and one wounded. If you can't do it, don't go on patrol at all, I'll send someone else! ”

"Oops...... Mother, Marshal Mu can't help it! ”

Meng Liang naturally refused to miss this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and hurriedly admitted his mistake, "The last general is just to cheer himself up, doesn't the art of war say that it is taboo for soldiers to increase the prestige of others and destroy their own morale!" I Mengliang naturally won't come nonsense, marshal, you can rest assured! ”

Listening to Meng Liang's earnest words, Mu Guiying bowed slightly: "Since this is the case, then you should order troops, don't make your own opinions, and report the military situation at any time!" ”

"Order!"

Meng Liang raised his voice and agreed, and commanded three thousand soldiers and horses, carrying a pair of plate axes, and walked out of the village gate with great martial arts, patrolling and cruising in the wilderness around Hepu, searching for Guishan scouts and spies.

Winter in the south is very short, since the heavy snow fell in the lunar month last year, it has only been about a month since spring returns to the earth. The big sun hangs on the head, and the sun makes people's bodies warm, and the heaven and earth are already full of life and green grass.

Meng Liang took 3,000 men and horses into six small regiments to search for Guishan scouts in the mountains and fields of Hepu, and worked hard all morning to catch more than a dozen disguised and sneaky spies. All of them are natives of Hepu, who were coerced by the Taiping Road to be traitors a few years ago, and now they have become spies for the Kushan Army.

"All of them are brought up by the uncle, General Meng, I will interrogate me personally!" Meng Liang shouted and ordered his subordinates to bring more than a dozen scouts up for interrogation.

These scouts were originally the people of the Han Dynasty, and they were only forced to serve Guishan, and now they are scouts in exchange for rewards, and they have no backbone at all. Without waiting for Meng Liang to torture him, he immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube and summoned him truthfully, knowing everything and saying everything.

After listening to it for more than half an hour, Meng Liang didn't get any valuable news, so he couldn't help but be quite disappointed, lifted the board axe, chopped off the head of a scout with a "click", and roared with bared teeth: "Lord Ma is not powerful, you bastards don't know how many eyes Lao Tzu has?" It's useless to talk about cats and dogs to Meng Ye, if you don't tell Lao Tzu something valuable today, line up to cut off your head! ”

As Meng Liang spoke, he walked behind the second spy with a bloody plate axe, put the axe on the other party's neck, and asked murderously: "Tell Ben some valuable things, otherwise the head will fall to the ground!" ”

"General...... It's all that the villain knows! The scout was crying and almost collapsed to the ground.

In a flash of cold light, Meng Liang's axe fell again, and another head hit the ground.

Then he walked up to the third scout, like a Yaksha demon, and viciously asked, "Say! ”

"Half a month ago, General Pei was infected with a wind chill, is this valuable information?" The third scout was frightened and began to talk nonsense.

"Your grandma!"

Meng Liang raised the axe in his hand, and another human head rolled to the ground.

The fourth was directly frightened and fainted, rolled his eyes, and lay straight on the ground without moving.

"Want to play dead with Meng Ye?" Meng Liang didn't have any sympathy, but instead intensified it, stopped his waist with an axe, and chopped the scout who fainted to the ground into two pieces, "Haha...... I think it's you traitors and traitors who have a hard mouth, or Meng Ye's axe! ”

The fifth thief-eyed scout kowtowed and begged for mercy: "General Meng spares his life, Meng Ye spares his life, and the ancestor spares his life!" I have important information to offer! ”

"Haha...... I'll just say that you miscellaneous toasts don't eat and drink, say it quickly! Meng Liang proudly put the big axe on the scout's neck, "If you dare to play tricks with Meng Ye, Lao Tzu promises to dismantle you in eight pieces, and you can't survive and die!" ”

"The grain and grass supplied by Lord Li Si will be delivered to the Shagang camp tonight, is this important information?" The scout kowtowed like pounded garlic and begged for mercy as he spoke.

Meng Liang touched his beard: "Hmm...... Grain and grass? How many stones, how many centaurs to escort? ”

The scout snorted, "The villain is just a small spy, how can he know so much." It's just that according to the previous rules, the grain and grass transported from Cochin are about 50,000 stone each time, and the number of troops escorted ranges from about two or three thousand. ”

"Fifty thousand stone of grain? Two or three thousand escorted soldiers and horses? Meng Liang suddenly smiled, thinking that he had obtained valuable information.

Pressing the sharp axe against the scout's neck, he continued to ask, "Which path to take?" ”

"It is estimated that I will go to General Ridge!" The scout replied with a sad face, "The road for our army to transport grain and grass is to choose between Shemalin and General's Ridge, and I walked Shemalin half a month ago, and I will definitely go to General's Ridge this time." ”

Meng Liang was overjoyed, took the axe, and ordered his subordinates: "Keep this scout, and kill all the others!" After burying the pot and cooking on the spot, after eating and drinking, I quietly rushed to Jiangjunling with me to burn the Guishan military rations. ”

The adjutant general gave up his hand and advised: "General, this place is only thirty miles away from our army's camp, you can send someone to ask Marshal Mu, and then it's not too late to make a decision!" ”

"Get out of the way!" Meng Liang's face was impatient, "Rich and noble are in danger, don't dare to take this risk, and come to the battlefield to mix balls?" reported to the virtuous concubine, how can he show Meng Ye's ability? ”

Meng Liang arbitrarily ordered the whole army to bury pots and cook in the wilderness, and after eating and drinking, the people kept silent and picked up the bells, followed the scouts to the small road and quietly touched the general's ridge, ready to do a big job, so that the people of the world were impressed. (To be continued.) )