Li Zhiyun's New Army barracks was not too far from his second brother's Chinese Army camp. After everything was arranged, he came to the Chinese Army camp to find his second brother the next morning. When he walked into the Chinese Army tent, he found

The second brother was not there. The guard said to him,

The King of Qin led people to inspect the barracks. Li Zhiyun sat and waited for a while, and when he saw that his second brother had not come back yet, he planned to go back. As soon as he walked out of the military tent, he saw his second brother and several generals walking from the gate of the camp, and hurriedly greeted him

Go up.

There were four generals following the second brother, two of whom he knew. One was the father of his brother Qu Tushou, Zuo Pushe Qu Tutong, the other was Yin Kaishan, the Minister of War, and the other two generals

He looked very unfamiliar. One of them was about 5 feet 7 tall.

He is tall and strong, with a fair face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a pair of piercing tiger eyes; the other is of medium build, with dark skin, leopard eyes and an eagle nose, a big mouth, and a full face of whiskers.

He looks like Zhang Fei from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

When the second brother saw him, he smiled and said: "Fifth brother, are you here?" Li Zhiyun pulled the second brother, kissed the two generals who were lagging behind, and whispered: "Who are those two people?"

"Oh, these are the two new generals I got. Let me introduce them to you." After the second brother said that, he pulled him to the two generals. "Two brothers, let me introduce them to you. These are

My fifth brother is Li Zhiyun, King of Chu."

Upon hearing this, the two people quickly clasped their fists and saluted, and said in unison: "I will not see the King of Chu!" Li Zhiyun quickly returned the salute. The second brother pointed to the fair-skinned general and said to Li Zhiyun: "Fifth brother, this is Qin Qiong, the commander-in-chief of the horse army."

When Li Zhiyun heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, stared at the man blankly, and stammered: "What? You...are you Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao?" Qin Qiong smiled and nodded, and said: "Why, the King of Chu knows the future

Will?"

"I know, I know, I know so much! Your name is so resonant!"

"Okay," the second brother pointed to another person and introduced: "This is Cheng Zhijie, the Third Army of the Left Army."

Cheng Zhijie? Never heard of it. Li Zhiyun looked at the other party blankly, hesitated, and said: "Are you Cheng Yaojin?" He asked this question, firstly, because the other party also had the surname Cheng, and secondly,

It's because since this person is with Qin Shubao, he is probably Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Zhijie chuckled and said: "Back to King Chu, my name used to be Cheng Yaojin, but now I have changed my name to Cheng Zhijie."

Ah? It turned out to be Cheng Yaojin! When Li Zhiyun heard this, he quickly said: "Hey, how about calling me Cheng Yaojin? What should I change my name to?" Cheng Zhijie still smiled and said: "Zhong, I listen to the King of Chu.

I will call you Cheng Yaojin from now on."

Everyone walked into the Chinese military tent talking and laughing. Li Zhiyun was so happy today. He finally met the two famous heroes on Wagang Mountain. After everyone sat down, he came up to Cheng Yaojin and said: "Cheng Yaojin

, have you been to Wagang Village? Have you ever been the Demon King?" Cheng Yaojin shook his head and said: "Wagang Village? I have never been there. The Demon King? I don't know either."

Why, have you never been to Wagang Village? Have you ever been a demon king? Are these all made up in novels? Li Zhiyun was a little unwilling and continued: "Cheng Yaojin, everyone here knows you, and they say you only fight in wars.

He knows three axes, and he said that you went to Wagang Mountain and became a pawn..." Cheng Yaojin became anxious when he heard this, and shouted: "Who arranged this for me, old Cheng? I am a fierce general, and I am not only good at fighting.

Three axes!"

"That's right, that's right, everyone here knows that you are a good person and a great hero!" Li Zhiyun quickly changed his words.

"That's pretty much it!"

…

Soon after the army was stationed in Baibi, Song Jingang led the army to challenge. On this day, Li Zhiyun was chatting with his subordinates in the military tent. The second brother sent someone to call him to the Chinese army camp. He walked into the second brother

I looked at the military tent and thought, oh, there are so many people. It was full of neatly dressed generals, and the second brother was sitting on the main seat. When the second brother saw him coming in, he waved for him to sit next to him.

After Li Zhiyun sat down, the second brother glanced at the generals below and said: "Generals, according to the report from Tanma, Song Jingang has led 40,000 troops to capture Jiang County and surrounded Wenxi County. Currently, his army is far away from

The wall is less than forty miles away, and they may attack us at any time. After all generals return to camp, they must be prepared for battle and strengthen defenses. If Song Jingang launches an attack, he must be driven back and he must not be allowed to break through a camp!"

After the second brother finished speaking, Cheng Yaojin stood up, clasped his fists and said, "King Qin, if Song Jingang launches an attack, how uncomfortable would it be for us to huddle in the camp? Can we take the initiative to attack and push back the enemy?"

"No!" The second brother said resolutely, "We can only stick to the camp and strengthen the defense. We are not allowed to step out of the camp gate. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished according to military law! Do you hear me clearly?"

When Cheng Yaojin heard this, he touched his head and said angrily: "Oh, I understand."

After Li Zhiyun returned to the New Army Camp, he also made some arrangements. Although his barracks was in the center of the army and would not be attacked under normal circumstances, he must be prepared in case of any eventuality.

After Song Jingang arrived with his army, he sent out part of the army and made several tentative attacks, but they were all easily repelled. Song Jingang was an expert and knew that the Tang army was well prepared and that the defense of the camp was impregnable and could not be broken by him.

.So he gave up his plan to attack, retreated thirty miles to camp, and confronted the Tang army.

The camp of the New Army was next to a small river. Every day after dinner, Li Zhiyun would go for a walk by the river. That evening, when he walked out of the camp, he saw a man standing by the river. When he got closer, he saw that it was his second brother.

The second brother stood on the river bank, staring at the slowly flowing river in a daze.

Under the reflection of the setting sun, the river shone with streaks of golden light, like leaping golden dragons. Li Zhiyun walked up to him and said, "Second brother, what are you thinking about?" The second brother heard the sound and looked up at him.

, said: "Of course I am thinking about how to defeat Song Jingang."

"Are you sure you can defeat him?"

The second brother shook his head and said: "Song Jingang is good at using troops, has a strong military, and has strong morale. If we fight with him now, I have no chance of winning. Therefore, I can only use the dragging technique." Li Zhiyun nodded.

Said: "Song Jingang came all the way, and the supply of food and grass was a big problem. I

I heard that they rely on robbing the people's food to ensure military supplies. If we continue to confront them and wait until they run out of food before attacking, we can easily win." After hearing this, the second brother sighed and said: "Then

Even so, our army's food reserves are not much, and I'm afraid I won't be able to use up Song Jingang's supplies."

"Then, have you ever thought about raising food on the spot?"

"Why haven't you thought about it? However, when Pei Ji was in power in Jinzhou, in order to fight against Liu Wuzhou, he carried out a large-scale clearing of the country and burned all the people's food. In addition, the enemy troops looted wantonly. The people were afraid of being invaded and hid in the castle.

Even the people who didn’t leave hid all the remaining food. It’s difficult for us to collect food!”

Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "It's better to organize a grain requisition task force." The second brother looked at him and asked strangely: "What is a grain requisition task force?"

"It means organizing small teams, ranging from twenty to thirty people to forty or fifty people, and sending them to various villages and towns to inform the people about Wang's teachings and mobilize the people to donate surplus grain. We can write IOUs to the people to ensure that after Liu Wuzhou is defeated,

The borrowed grain must be returned in full or used to pay taxes for the coming year.”

After hearing this, the second brother's eyes lit up and he nodded: "This method is not bad. If you can really collect enough food, you can help the second brother solve a big problem."

The second brother did what he said, and the next day he ordered each camp to send food collection teams to collect food from villages and towns far and near. Li Zhiyun took the initiative and led dozens of people to drive a cart to a location about 30 kilometers northwest of the military camp.

In a town inside and outside.

This is a common market town in rural areas. Judging from the number of houses, there are about five to six hundred households. It is smaller than an ordinary town, but larger than a village. One side of the town is close to the mountains, and the other three sides are surrounded by mountains.

Fertile farmland.

Because the town is too small, there is only one street in the town, and there are only a handful of shops on both sides of the street. Judging from the plaque, there is a rice shop, a cloth shop, a grocery store, and a pharmacy. Li Zhiyun led people in

After reaching the town, let everyone spread out and go to each household to collect grain.

He led Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu into a courtyard, where a woman was weighing millet in a dustpan. After seeing them, she quickly ran into the house and closed the door. Li Zhiyun walked over, knocked on the door and shouted:

"Sister-in-law, we are the Tang Army. We are here to fight Liu Wuzhou. We would like to borrow some food from you..." Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu also left the courtyard and went to the house next door, knocking on the door and explaining the situation to the owner.

Li Zhiyun knocked for a while, but the other party wouldn't open the door. He had no choice but to walk out of the yard and onto the street. After a while, Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu also walked out of the neighbors' yards and shook their heads at him. Li Zhiyun was there

Standing on the street

After a while, the people who were sent out came back one after another, and they were all rejected. Everyone was complaining about the grievances they had suffered. It seemed that the people in this town did not welcome their arrival. Perhaps, collecting food

It was more difficult than he originally imagined.

"What should we do?" Zhang Zheng looked at him and asked.

Li Zhiyun looked up at the sun that had set in the west and said: "Go and set up camp outside the town, and settle down first." In order not to disturb the people, they brought tents with them, found a piece of flat land outside the town, and pitched the tents.

In the next two days, there was still no progress in collecting food. As soon as they entered the town, as long as the people saw them from a distance, they would hide in the house in panic and close the door. No matter how they knocked on the door, they would always be there.

They didn't open the door, and no matter what they said, the other party didn't respond. Occasionally, one or two people would talk to me, saying that we don't have food at home, so you should leave quickly.

At night, Li Zhiyun walked out of the tent and came to a nearby stream. The crescent moon hung in the sky, and the faint moonlight sprinkled down like mist. The stream flashed with silver light like fish scales. He looked up and saw the mountains opposite.

Shrouded in darkness, nothing could be seen clearly except the shadows of the trees.

Zhang Zheng followed him and stood beside him. Neither of them spoke. After a while, Li Zhiyun finally spoke: "Zhang Zheng, tell me, is there any other way to make people willing to donate food?" Zhang Zheng sighed.

He took a breath and said: "There are fights everywhere now.

During the war, the people's lives were very hard. It's really difficult to get them to donate food." Li Zhiyun was silent for a while and said: "No matter how difficult it is, we still have to collect food, otherwise we won't be able to consume Song Jingang.
Chapter completed!