At the foot of Changbai Mountain in Zizhou, the Pinglu Army camp.

"The last general is waiting to welcome the commander!" Kang Chenghui shouted, in front of the large camp at the foot of the mountain, all the officers lined up to greet each other, and a cavalry team of about 500 people appeared in front of the barracks, and the first banner to be waved was the banner of Song Wei, the commander of the Pinglu Army.

The generals of the Pinglu Army watched Song Wei arrive, and they all lowered their heads and looked uneasy.

Since the beginning of the first month, Song Dashuai's old body has relapsed, and he has been infected with current diseases, and he has to return to Qingzhou after the worst illness. Before leaving, Song Wei handed over the command of the front line to Deputy Marshal Kang Chenghui, but this battle to quell the chaos was fought from last year to this year, and there was no progress in the war.

In April, after seeing the convergence of the grass thief and the traitor king Jingwu, the marshal was worried and offered to serve as a solicitor. Song Wei, who recovered a little, came to the front line of Ziqi from Qingzhou again, commanded the Pinglu army to attack the rebels, and at the beginning of several consecutive victories, when the momentum was in full swing, Wang Jingwu actually sent a dead assassin to assassinate Song Wei, although the guards found the guards in time, but Song Wei was still hit by a crossbow, although it was only injured in one arm, but the crossbow arrow was poisonous, and after several treatments, it could not be completely cured. After the worst incident, Song Wei had to return to Qingzhou again, but Wang Jingwu spread rumors that Song Wei was dead, which caused the morale of the Pinglu army to plummet. Wang Jingwu led his army to take the opportunity to fight several counteroffensives, and recaptured the cities of Linji and Zhangqiu in Qizhou, which had been captured by the official army.

Since then, the war has become more and more difficult, and until now, Kang Chengyu has not been able to invade the territory of Qizhou again.

On the contrary, it was other towns that had frequent good news, first Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to destroy Wang Xianzhi and 100,000 grass thieves in Songzhou with 20,000. Subsequently, the capital eunuch Ximen Sigong led the soldiers and horses of the six towns to defeat the grass thieves Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi's 160,000 troops in Juye, Yunzhou.

There were frequent successes from all walks of life, but the Pinglu army was ineffective. Not only failed to exterminate Wang Jingwu's rebels, but now Huang Chao led his army into Qizhou to join Wang Jingwu. Hear this. Song Wei, who was far away in Qingzhou, disregarded his physical weakness. Hurried to preside over the overall situation. Now Song Wei is worried about not only being the coach of various provinces, but it is useless. Instead, he was worried that Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu would join forces to attack Zizhou or even Qingzhou.

"Greetings!" The generals of the Pinglu Army greeted in unison.

As a veteran of the battlefield, Song Wei did not ride a horse this time, but came in a carriage. When he lifted the curtain of the carriage and got out of the carriage, he even almost fell. It wasn't until he approached that the generals saw that Song Wei was actually wearing a leather robe on June Day, and even wore a fur hat on his head. After only a few months of not seeing him, he was extremely weak, his face was pale, and his eyes were blank. The lips are even a little blue. The originally straight back was also a little rickety, and the hands that used to hold knives and lances were now on crutches.

Seeing this, all the generals of Pinglu did not change their color, and no one thought that Song Dashuai's injury was so serious, it had reached such a level.

"Vice Marshal Kang, Cui Sima, Judge Lei" Song Wei coughed a few times, and the whole person seemed to rely on the crutches in his hand, and his cloudy gaze swept over everyone. Say hello one by one.

"Dashuai!" The generals replied in a low voice.

The neat beard couldn't hide his weakness at this time. After greeting him, Song Wei didn't have too much cold noise, but said bluntly: "The old man knows that time is running out, and this time I came here in the hope of exterminating Wang Jingwu, a traitor to the Pinglu Army, and exterminating the grass thieves together. ”

Cui Yunqing, who looked at Cui Yunqing with his deep-set eyes, was a little uncomfortable, although Song Wei was already a sick tiger, he still had momentum. "Ji Yu has recovered the three prefectures of Pu, Yun and Ji, and has now reached the north of Qizhou, and can enter Qizhou at any time. Just received a letter from him, Ji Yu said that he would obey the commander's dispatch at any time! ”

Hearing Li Jing's name, a complicated look flashed in Song Wei's eyes. At the beginning, he thought that he could subdue this kid by means. When he couldn't control it at the end of the year, he also gave in and accepted Li Jing as his righteous son, originally thinking that he would use this to entrap him and make him his right-hand man, and when he died in the future, the position of Pinglu Marshal could be handed over to him. But Li Jing's life experience was far beyond his expectations, not only established the Zhenguo Army, but also became a festival envoy side by side with him in such a short period of time. Now he is also the commander of the three towns, and he is the third public. Whether it is an official position, a reputation or even a title, Li Jing, the hairy boy at the beginning, has already thrown him away thousands of miles away.

"You've taken in a good apprentice!" Song Wei sighed.

"He is also your righteous son, Dashuai, when you accepted him as your righteous son, your relationship was unchangeable. Li Jing is not a ruthless person, he used to be the righteous son of Dashuai, and he still is. ”

"What happened at the beginning, I'm afraid that Li Jing didn't really want to. Now, those things are not mentioned. ”

Li Jing agreed, he is the handsome son, no matter how humble his original identity was, and how noble his current identity is, he will never forget these. What's more, the current matter is the matter of the imperial court. Yu private, he is the son of the handsome, Yu Gong, he is the commander of the handsome. As long as the marshal gives the order, Li Jing will inevitably receive the order. Cui Yunqing believes that Li Jing is a person with affection and righteousness. What's more, the letter was written by Li Jing on his own initiative, which proves this even more.

"Is Ji Yu really willing to obey the old man's military orders?" Song Wei turned his head to look at Cui Yunqing, his eyes burning!

"Yes, I promise!" Cui Yunqing's gaze did not retreat in the slightest.

"If so, it's a big victory!" Song Wei said bluntly, the strength of the Zhenguo Army is obvious to all, "Take the map!" ”

The guards brought a huge sheepskin map, and Song Wen pointed to the map, "Look, generals, at the moment, the yellow thief and the king are in a joint army, with about 50,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 100,000 young and strong auxiliary soldiers. Although they claim to be 200,000, the actual number of soldiers is estimated at about 30,000. At present, the two of them are guarding Qizhou, with the Yellow River to the north, and the Yichang Army to the north of the Yellow River. ”

"To the west of them is the elite of Li Jing's 25,000 Zhen troops stationed north of Qizhou along Jishui. The Zhenguo army of 25,000 men and horses, but it can block 100,000 thief troops, and the yellow thief and the king will never dare to go west. ”

"Ahem, ahem!" After Song Wei coughed violently, he wiped his mouth with a hand towel, and Cui Yunqing's eyes were sharp. When I saw Song Wei put it away. There was a shocking bloodshot on the handkerchief.

Song Wei continued: "It is not feasible to go north or west. To the east is our Pinglu army, although our army has been at a disadvantage in the battle against Wang Wei in recent times. But to the east, the green and dense, both sides are the sea, and to the east is the peninsula, as long as Wang Yi is not stupid, he will never dare to break into the east. ”

"The meaning of the big handsome, the two thieves will go south?" Kang asked.

"Yes, the two thieves will not only go south. And I'm sure they'll go to Yizhou again. Song Wei said very confidently, south of Qizhou are Yanzhou and Yizhou. However, there is still the Taining army in the southwest of Yanzhou, and further west is the official army of the six towns in Caozhou, and the two thieves dare not go there again. Then, you can go to Yizhou, the two thieves have broken through Yizhou before, and they are very familiar with Yizhou. Moreover, after they entered Yizhou, they could also immediately go south to Sixu to avoid the officers and soldiers of the towns at present. Keep flowing.

"This time, we're going to surprise the two thieves." Song Wei coughed a few times. Fist slammed into the map.

"What's the arrangement?"

"Cui Sima, write a letter to Ji Yu on behalf of Ben Shuai, asking him to lead the army to continue to march east along Jishui, and make preparations to outflank the thief army in Qizhou with our army. Keep it big, but remember not to really bite the thieves. Ben Shuai's wound to him was to make a big show and drive the thief army from the west, but not to engage in battle. Song Wei said.

Cui Yunqing didn't ask the reason, picked up a pen and paper and began to write a letter. After writing it, Song Wei personally looked at it and nodded, and asked Cui Yunqing to add another sentence, Ben Shuai was poisoned by arrows, and the arrow poison had invaded his lungs, and time was running out. The commander died, and Ji Yulai took over the position of the Pinglu military festival.

Cui Yunqing's hands trembled, and she still added this sentence after the last sentence.

After writing this letter, Song Wei asked Cui Yunqing to give him the pen again, and this time he wrote two excerpts with trembling hands himself. The first excerpt was written by Song Wei to the imperial court, in which he indicated that he was seriously ill, and he asked the imperial court to appoint Li Jing as the envoy of the Ziqing Festival. Another excerpt is a testament, hoping that the emperor will take care of the Chang'an Song clan after his death, and ask the emperor to allow Li Jing to take over as the envoy of the Ziqing Festival, and then Cui Yunqing to take over the post of Qingzhou Assassin.

After writing this testament, Song Wei took out his official seal and private seal and pressed it together, and also pressed his handprint, and handed over the letter to Cui Yunqing after the end. This letter was kept by Cui Sima for the time being, and after the old man closed his eyes, he immediately sent it to Chang'an.

Both letters were written publicly in front of the generals, and no one objected to Song Wei's arrangement. Cui Yunqing and Kang Chengyu, who are most likely to take over as the commanders of the Pinglu Army, have no opinions, and the rest of the generals naturally have no opinions.

After seeing that everyone did not object, Song Wei's face looked much better.

"Passing on the military order of the commander, Deputy Marshal Kang led 3,000 elite soldiers to garrison the camp, and left 30,000 auxiliary soldiers to help, plant more flags, bluff, and not let the thief army discover the truth. The remaining 20,000 soldiers and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers are led by the commander himself, and tonight the rank of the person, the horse is wrapped in hooves, and the light equipment advances, and immediately rushes to Yizhou, ready to wait for the thief army to throw themselves into the net, and then sweep it all together! ”

At this time, the generals understood Song Dashuai's entire plan, let the Zhenguo army drive the thief army in the west, and then let Deputy Marshal Kang blempty in the east, make a posture to clamp the situation, and force the thief army to flee south. However, Song Dashuai had already expected that the thief army would go to Xinzhou and enter Yizhou in advance to set up an ambush and wait for work, which was indeed a good move.

However, what worries Cui Yunqing is whether the two thieves will really flee to Yizhou as Song Dashuai expected? Even if they really fled to Yizhou, with the 20,000 soldiers of the Pinglu army, could the 40,000 auxiliary soldiers defeat the two thieves and horses?

"Marshal, do you want to pass on the probation army in advance and let them also send troops to Yizhou? In addition, Ji Yu's side, did he also tell them the detailed plan, and let them follow the thief army and go south to attack the thief army with us? Cui Yunqing asked.

Song Wei was silent, no one knew what he was thinking, but after a long time, he still shook his head and vetoed the proposal.

"The movement is too loud, and it may arouse the suspicion of the thief army. Besides, just a thief, it's enough for me to level the Lu army! ”

"Is it really enough to level the Lu Army?" Cui Yunqing was a little worried, or was the marshal still a little unwilling in his heart, and wanted to use this battle to leave a heavy mark on his life's battle? (To be continued......)