After a hard night's work, Wan Lei lay down on the mat and closed his eyes to rest. The soldiers were seizing the time to recharge their batteries. The entire military camp was quiet, except for the occasional slight footsteps, which were patrolling back and forth.
Patrol team.
"Brother, are you asleep?" A low voice came from Wan Lei's ear, and a gust of soft wind blew on his ears, tickling him. He immediately lost his sleepiness. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Zhao Xueer's naughty face.
Smiley face.
"Is something wrong?"
"I can't come here to find you if I have nothing to do?"
"If nothing happens, go back and rest. We may have to fight again in two or three hours. We can't do it without replenishing our energy."
"You didn't let me go into battle. There's nothing wrong with me following you. What's the point of resting?" Zhao Xueer pouted, very unhappy.
"Girls, how do you behave in fighting and killing? Your sister Wei'er asked you to protect me, not to risk your life on the battlefield. If you accidentally get hurt, your sister Wei'er will not be punished.
I can't sleep in the study."
"Go away, you don't cherish your wife. You deserve to be punished by sleeping in the study." Zhao Xueer glared at Wan Lei, slapped the letter in her hand on the table, and said angrily: "This is what Sister Zhang sent you.
I sent you a secret letter with good intentions, but I didn’t say anything nice about it, so I will ignore you from now on.”
"Then you didn't tell me earlier." Wan Lei climbed up, took the letter sealed with wax clay, and opened it directly. "The letter came so quickly. It seems that there are quite a lot of things."
As one of the commanders of the Jingzhong Guards, Zhang Yan is responsible for intelligence work. When Wan Lei is away from Peking, she will send at least one secret letter to Wan Lei every day to summarize and report the big and small intelligence. If there is an emergency military situation, she will also
Send an urgent letter. This kind of confidential letter is sealed with wax and stamped with the official seal of the loyal guard. Except for Wan Lei, no one is allowed to open it privately.
Wan Lei took out the thick stack of paper and flipped through it hurriedly. The first piece of information was about the battle situation. The night before yesterday, Zhou Tianshou led the 20,000-strong Peking Army First Group Army to fight against the 30,000-strong Ming Army coming from the direction of Yongping Prefecture.
In the battle around Jizhou, 8,000 of the enemy's troops were wiped out, 4,000 were captured, and the rest dispersed. After this battle, there was no longer any war pressure in the direction of Yongping Prefecture.
The second piece of information was about the navy. Navy Commander Liu Wenxiu sent someone to report that the navy's five main warships had left Huwei Island and headed south to the Shandong coast. They could reach Weihai, Shandong and other places within five days. In addition, there was a warship escorting five merchant ships.
It went to southern Korea to transport weapons and armor to support the Korean anti-thief "rebels"; at the same time, it also sent three warships and seventeen merchant ships to form a caravan, riding the northeast wind to the Japanese country to enter trade.
The third piece of information is about the Mongolian Tatar tribe. Yesterday morning, the Mongolian Tatar tribe sent envoys to tell about the war between them and the Duoyan Sanwei. They mentioned that the Duoyan Sanwei actually had artillery, and there were more than one, which had severely damaged them.
The Tatar tribe. The leader of the Tatar tribe, Guilichi, asked the Peking Army to give a reasonable explanation and sell artillery to him. Tie Xuan naturally would not agree.
The fourth intelligence mainly recorded some trivial things that happened in Beiping City, such as a congressman taking a concubine, a senator marrying a wealthy businessman, a business assistant starting a business, in short, it was all-encompassing, even
In the recent market, the price changes of rice, noodles, meat, vegetables, cloth, cotton, yarn, sauce, vinegar and other commodities have been recorded.
...
After flipping through the dozen pieces of information above, when Wan Lei saw the piece of information at the bottom, he was shocked, jumped up suddenly, and hugged Zhao Xueer who was standing aside to peek. Zhao Xueer was shocked by this sudden
Strong arms hugged her, allowing her to perform well, but her mind was empty and her body was completely unresponsive.
"Haha, as expected, sir, those guys are just tough-talking, but they are all afraid of death. They gave them poisonous wine..." At this moment, Zhao Quanjie opened the curtain of the tent with a smile,
When he suddenly saw this scene, he was dumbfounded for a moment, and then he wisely stepped back and murmured: "I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything."
Zhao Quanjie said this, but he was smiling in his heart. You know, Zhao Xueer is his cousin. If his cousin becomes a young lady, wouldn't the Zhao family be...
The so-called brothers fighting the tiger, father and son fighting in the battle. As a member of the Zhao clan, Zhao Quanjie certainly hopes that his clan will become stronger and occupy more power and wealth. If sister Xueer really becomes Mr. Wan’s pillow, then what will happen?
It would be great if the pillow wind blows. If a nephew is born in the future, it will be even more amazing.
Zhao Quanjie was even more happy when he thought of this level. He is now the commander of the Second Army. Although his status in the army is a little lower than Zhou Tianshou, he is still at the top. Of course, people who have reached his level care.
It is no longer about my own little power, but about cultivating factions.
Zhao Quanjie, the daredevil, left happily, but Wan Lei was miserable. Because the "scandal" was exposed, Zhao Xueer, who looked embarrassed, took her anger out on Wan Lei. When she broke away, she hit dozens of "
"Heavy punch" hit his chest with a bang. If he hadn't practiced and had good bones, he would have suffered internal injuries.
"It's all your fault!" Zhao Xueer blushed and attacked with another random punch.
"Haha." Wan Lei still had a silly smile on his face, and let his fist hit his chest, as if he didn't notice it at all, and said happily: "I have a son, Xue'er, I have a son."
Zhao Xueer was stunned for a moment, and her eyes fell on the piece of information. She saw it read: "My wife has been feeling a little unwell recently. Please ask Dr. Liu for a diagnosis. I know she is pregnant."
"What kind of son? You are a patriarchal guy. Who knows whether he is a boy or a girl before he is born?" Zhao Xueer tried to calm down and poured a basin of cold water on her.
"Hey, no matter if you're a boy or a girl, I'm going to be a father!" Wan Lei was still overjoyed. He danced around in the tent, as if he had been hit by a big ingot falling from the sky.
, the brain is already in a short-circuit state.
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On the border of Baoding Prefecture, about forty miles away from Baoding Prefecture City, an army marched eastward in a mighty manner, with a total of 80,000 people. The scene of a forest of military flags and spears looked very scary. However, Baoding
The people in the western part of the government had already moved into the city, and the country was truly solid and clear, so the appearance of this army did not cause any shock.
"Report, a cavalry has appeared from the north." A sentry rushed to a gorgeous carriage and reported loudly.
"Send a team of cavalry to fight." The curtains in the carriage were not even opened, but an impatient voice came out.
The general outside the carriage received the order, said nothing more, and immediately sent people to fight. After a while, the two cavalry met, and then they discovered that the people coming were their own troops, who had "escaped" from the front army, and there were
Ten thousand people came. But looking at their miserable condition with all their armor missing and in such a miserable state, they must have suffered a defeat.
In fact, this cavalry team did not hear that they were defeated, they were just being chased. They were chased for a whole night, and they got rid of the pursuit of the Peking Army just before dawn. Only then did they have the opportunity to return south to look for friendly troops, but they found that
The former subordinate army disappeared without a trace. They marched eastward again, and finally found the large Chinese army, which immediately came over to defect to them.
When a 10,000-strong army returned, the number of Chinese troops and horses immediately increased to 90,000. However, the head coach of the Chinese army, General Chang Sheng, who swept the north, could not find a trace of joy on his face, because the return of this 10,000-person army also brought him
News came that "the former army was defeated".
In order to confirm the authenticity of the news, Chang Sheng took the rare opportunity to get down from the gorgeous carriage and personally meet with the defeated general, Lin Zong.
"My lord, my subordinates were originally dispatched by Lord Mu. As the vanguard army was ambushed by the Peking rebels, Lord Mu sent his subordinates with 10,000 troops to rescue them. But who would have thought that when the subordinates arrived with their troops?
, the vanguard army has already
We were defeated, and even our subordinates were ambushed. Our 10,000 men and horses were surrounded by tens of thousands of Peking thieves. If our subordinates had not fought hard to break out of the encirclement, I feared that the entire army would have been destroyed." Lin Zong told himself with a miserable look on his face.
tragic experience.
Of course, there is a lot of water here. The so-called 10,000 people surrounded by tens of thousands of people is pure talk. The so-called struggle to break out is being chased. As for the number of pursuers, he does not know, because
I spent the whole night running desperately, not even daring to fight with anyone.
"Ambush by tens of thousands of people?" Chang Sheng was shocked when he heard the news. "Didn't the intelligence say that the Peking bandits only have 60,000 troops at most? Could it be that they are all in Baoding Prefecture and no one is left in Shuntian Prefecture? This is not right either.
Ah, earlier, Lord Guo sent someone to report that the elite troops he sent had just entered the Shuntian Prefecture and were defeated by the Peking bandits."
"My lord, everything my subordinate said is true. There really are tens of thousands of thieves in Peiping. Otherwise, how could they ambush my subordinates and surround Lord Mu at the same time? Lord Mu has 40,000 horses at his disposal."
, and there is also a firearms camp." Lin Zong said hurriedly.
"According to what you said, there may be more than 60,000 Peiping thieves. It seems that the ministers in the court underestimated the Peiping thieves." Chang Sheng frowned and ordered to the staff around him: "Send the order, and the whole army will be suspended before
OK, send more troops to explore where the front army is."
Although he heard the rumbling of artillery last night and received no military intelligence report from the former army for another morning, Chang Sheng still did not believe the news of the total destruction of the former army. After all, there were tens of thousands of troops. No matter how strong the Peiping army was,
It is impossible to eat this army in one night.
However, if you don't believe it, for the sake of safety, Chang Sheng still asked the army to stop and find out the reality of the Peking Army.
As soon as the army stopped and set up camp, another group of fast horses came from the north, and this group of cavalry came from the direction of Datong Prefecture. As soon as they arrived at Chang Sheng's Chinese army camp, they sent a military report to Chang Sheng.
When Sheng opened it and took a look, he was even more stunned.
"Datong Town Commander-in-Chief Liu Sheng reported urgently: Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yu Gui led 20,000 elite cavalry from Zijing Pass to attack Shuntian Mansion. Last night, they were ambushed by artillery fire from Peking rebels. Yu Gui died in battle. The West Route Army suffered heavy losses and most of them died in the battle.
The small army has returned to the west, and our army is no longer able to send troops to the east for reinforcements."