The eldest grandson Belle's eyes flashed with a crystal light, and she stretched out a hand from the quilt, stroked his already gray sideburns, and murmured, "Xianggong, what you said is so nice......

Zhen Mingbitter kissed the palm of her hand to reassure her, "You have to believe me, with you mother and daughter, I will definitely live well, I still want to watch our daughter get married, and watch our children and grandchildren run around the house......"

The eldest grandson Belle's originally worried eyes gradually turned into longing, and the corners of her mouth stretched slightly, "You must do what you say." ”

"My husband hasn't broken his trust with you yet, has he?"

The eldest grandson Belle nodded, with gratitude in her eyes, and asked, "Then can you promise me one more thing?" ”

"You say."

"Sister Zhang has been dead for almost two years, I don't want you to think about revenge for Sister Zhang every day, making yourself unhappy every day, okay, I'm really afraid that you will get into the horns sometimes."

Zhen Mingbitter was silent for a moment, "As long as I want the Li family's father and son to pay the price, if I can fight without blood, of course I am willing to make all efforts for this, I promise you, until the last resort, I will never start a war lightly, and I will not lose my mind because of anger and let myself be in trouble." ”

The eldest grandson Belle knew that this was already his bottom line, "Thank you, Xianggong, you are tired from rushing back so far, go take a shower and go to bed." ”

"When you fall asleep, I'll wash it again, you can go to sleep......"

The eldest grandson Belle knew that he must not want her to see his back when he left at this time, looking at this invincible man on the battlefield. She is the most handsome, considerate, and gentle husband in her heart. Thinking about the bits and pieces of being with him over the years, there are sour and sweet, pain and happiness, she has been apprehensive and hesitant, but she has never regretted it, and he has never let her have the opportunity to regret it. With a happy smile on her lips, she gradually fell asleep.

……

In the spring of the coming year, Li Tang's army was heading south. The ships went down the river, and the soldiers were in the water.

The city of Hefei became a stronghold for the two armies, and the stalemate was stalemate.

In the next two or three months, the Tang army had a number of small-scale tentative offensives. In the beginning. The Jianghuai army's equipment and training were far inferior to the Tang army, and the Jianghuai army adopted a tactic that could not be held out, and did not confront the Tang army head-on, but only to delay Li Tang's army in the forefront as much as possible, wait for the end of spring ploughing, and then go out of the city to meet the attack after the harvest, and did not hesitate to risk a great loss of morale, and barely cut off the momentum of the Tang army's southward movement.

Several sentry sentries of the Jianghuai Army stood at the head of Hefei City. With a telescope, he looked at the Tang troops stationed by the river a few kilometers outside the city, always on the lookout for their movements.

"I really don't understand. These people in the Tang Army seem to be only the vanguard troops, less than 10,000 people, and the ships are all small transport ships, compared to the iron ships of our Jianghuai Army, they are not worth hitting at all, why did the king delay in giving the order to attack? ”

"Didn't the chief say that after the spring plowing in the Jianghuai region is over, an attack will be launched to catch them off guard."

"Who is the leader of the Tang Army this time?"

"It seems to be Chai Shao, the general of the Zuotunwei of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the military advisor Liu Wenjing, the left and right deputy generals Tang Jian, and Ma Sanbao."

"Chai Shao? I haven't heard much of it. ”

"You haven't heard of him? You have always heard of Miss Li Jiasan, he is the fiancé of the world-famous Miss Li Jiasan. ”

"Could it be that the third lady of the Li family is also coming to attack us?"

"It's a matter of time, his fiancé is here to take the lead for the third lady of the Li family."

When the sentry at the head of the city was whispering, a loud shout came from the city: "The king of Jianghuai has arrived!" ”

The sentries were immediately silenced and stood in danger.

Wearing silver armor and wearing a tungsten gold saber at his waist, Zhen Mingku, accompanied by Li Daliang, Pei Xingyan, Fu Gongyou and others, climbed the city tower.

It was the first time for several sentinels to see the king of Jianghuai at such a close distance, and when they saw him coming up, they were all excited and inexplicable, Zhen Mingku walked to their side, patted the snow on their shoulders one by one, and greeted them very ordinarily, they replied incoherently, and a strange feeling welled up in their hearts,

They have never believed all kinds of strange rumors about this Jianghuai king, and when Zhen Ming patted them on the shoulder and asked them to eat hot pot in the room of the city tower together, they realized that the rumors were true.

They had long heard that the king of Jianghuai had never had an emperor's shelf, and he would often be seen wielding a hoe himself, sweating like rain with those who built fortifications.

After physical work, he will follow a group of subordinates to go to the roadside stalls, eat and drink, talk loudly, laugh loudly, and rarely bring any guards around, sometimes the common people will see them, and they will mistakenly think that they are ordinary diners.

They watched Zhen Mingku and several generals sitting at a table, eating hot pot, chatting and laughing, and their parents were short, as if they were in a dream, until Zhen Mingku asked them to sit down and eat together, chatting while eating, they woke up like a dream, sat down hurriedly, but did not dare to move chopsticks, and were flattered to report to him the results of their respective reconnaissance.

Zhen Mingku, however, didn't seem to be worried about the enemy's situation, but was more concerned about whether they were well fed, whether they slept well, whether they were warmly dressed, what facilities needed to be added, and how to improve the treatment of the army.

A sentry finally couldn't help but muster up the courage to ask, "King, when are we going to fight?" ”

Zhen Ming smiled bitterly and asked, "Young man, how old are you?" ”

"Eighteen."

"Have you been training for a year?"

"Just over a year, I feel like I'm full of energy, my mother said, I want to be loyal to the king, make contributions to the king of Jianghuai, and bravely kill the enemy!"

"If you want to make a contribution, your training is not enough, when I was so old with you, I was exhausted by training alone, you know, this fortification, make the city wall thicker and stronger, it is also a kind of training, first train the muscles, then marry a wife, have a son, and when you understand what responsibility is and what you need to protect, I will let you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy."

The young sentry was stunned: "Then you won't fight?" ”

Zhen Ming asked with a wry smile: "You tell me why you are fighting first?" ”

"Make meritorious contributions, shroud in horse leather, and glorify your ancestors!"

Zhen Mingku glanced back at Pei Xingyan beside him, with a displeased face: "Why are you still promoting these things?" ”

Pei Xing smiled: "Young people are filial, and the concept that they have accepted since childhood is difficult for them to reverse for a while. ”

Zhen Ming frowned, turned his head and asked the sentry who was a little uneasy, thinking that he had said the wrong thing, smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, it's okay, just let you say what is in your heart, by the way, have you ever fought?" ”

Someone nodded, someone shook their head, and the young sentry said: "How simple it is to fight, that is, you must not be afraid of pain, not afraid of death, rush forward bravely, cut down when you see people, flash when you see horses, fight for one to save capital, kill two to earn!" ”

Zhen Ming smiled bitterly: "You still have a set, the day after tomorrow I will take someone to carry out a sneak attack, you will follow me to feel what the battlefield is!" ”

The young sentry stood up with an excited face and gave a military salute: "Yes!" ”

Everyone else looked at him with envy.

……

A few days later, when the young sentry came back from the battlefield again, one hand was gone, bandaged, Zhen Mingku took more than 300 Dark Guard elites to attack for the first time, and attacked the grain and grass warehouse in the rear of the Tang Army at night, although dozens of ships of the Tang Army were burned, but nearly half of the people he brought were killed and wounded.

After returning to the Jianghuai Army, this young sentry became a logistics staff and a war correspondent of the Jianghuai Army, and became an exemplary instructor, explaining to those young soldiers who did not train seriously and fantasized about going to the battlefield to make meritorious deeds.

Later, he became a very famous war historian, and truthfully recorded a lot of cruel historical events in the founding of the country, but this was many years later.

……

After the ships of the Tang army were burned by Zhen Ming's people in a night attack, they fell into a panic, the transportation of grain and grass could not be continued, and the siege of the city could not be overcome because of the lack of soldiers and the reason that the city wall was heightened and thickened, which was originally to put pressure on the Jianghuai army, but now it was in a dilemma, Chai Shao could only order a retreat of 300 miles and retreat to the Tang army's base area by the river.

The pressure on Hefei City suddenly decreased.

Later, in several battles in Feishui, Zhen Mingku took advantage of the ship's advantages and repeatedly used the ghostly nature of the submarine to attack from the bottom of the water and scuttle through the bottom of the opponent's ship.

Finally, in a water battle, a 1,000-strong submarine naval force led by Li Daliang broke through a ship of an enemy officer and captured one of the opposing generals.

After being tortured, it was learned that this Tang Army General was none other than Chai Shao, the Tang Army's Zuotunwei general, who volunteered to lead the army as a vanguard unit to explore the road in order to accumulate military merits.

When Zhen Mingku walked into the prison, he was tortured to half death, he raised his head and found that the person in front of him turned out to be Zhen Mingku, who had already been declared dead by the Li family, and couldn't help but be surprised, like a ghost: "Yes, it's you!" ”

Zhen Mingku didn't have any impression of him at all, he only knew that the Li family's father and son were his enemies, and as for how many of the generals of the Tang Army were related to Zhang's death, he had no way of knowing.

So when he found out that this high-ranking general of the Tang Army actually knew him, and seemed to know something related to him, he hurriedly asked people to put him down, prepared wine and food for him, and gossiped with him like a friend, wanting to learn some truth about whether the Zhang family was still alive in the world, because according to his subordinates' help him recall, before falling into the Yinghe River and injuring his head, he had returned to Fuyang City alone to find out the truth of the news that the Zhang family was still alive. (To be continued......)