After Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo arrived in Tongzhou with their army, the Red Lady still sent three days' food for the 70,000 army.
Wu Sangui also gave up completely. While waiting for the imperial edict, he tried his best to win over the three generals.
There were banquets almost every day.
On this day, the four of them got drunk, and Tan Ma suddenly came to report that another Ming army came to visit the king.
"Legislative banner? Deputy commander's rank? Who among the three is coming?"
Wu Sangui thought about it and found that he had never heard of such a famous person, so he had to look at the three of them.
"Wu Hou, the person here should be Li Dakai, the deputy commander-in-chief of Chizhou. This man is brave, good at fighting, loyal, and has made many military exploits. He suppressed bandits in Zhejiang last year and defeated more than 100,000 bandits in one fell swoop. He was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief by the Supreme Emperor at the beginning of this year.
, I didn’t expect that he would also come to King Qin.”
Huang Degong explained.
"oh?"
"How many soldiers and horses did General Li bring here?
Wu Sangui suddenly became interested and looked at the spies, while Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing remained silent and unconcerned.
"Come back to the commander, no... less than a hundred people."
"What?"
"Less than a hundred people?"
"Have you investigated clearly? Could it be an outpost?"
Wu Sangui thought he had heard wrongly, and the wine bowl fell on the table. The other three people also looked stunned.
"Back to the commander, there are indeed less than a hundred people guarding the commander's flag. There are no other soldiers and horses within dozens of miles."
"Ha ha…"
"A mere hundred people came to King Qin. Isn't Li Dakai's head caught in the door?"
"If a deputy commander behaves like this, I'm convinced. It's a shame that he still has the nerve to come to Qinwang."
Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo immediately laughed and turned around.
Huang Degong also couldn't help laughing.
"Come on, everyone, keep drinking!"
Wu Sangui also lost interest, waved his hand to tell the spies to leave quickly, and continued to invite everyone to drink.
If there were five or six thousand people, he would reluctantly receive them, but if there were less than a hundred people, he would feel it was a waste of time to even listen.
The three of them also picked up their wine glasses and forgot what happened just now.
In the eyes of everyone, all the achievements and bravery are bullshit. Only the strength of soldiers and horses is real.
The reason why the three of them looked up to Wu Sangui was not because they really admired his military record, his titles of Zhongyonghou and General.
But he was afraid of the 20,000 Guan Ning cavalry in his hands. Let alone fighting alone, if the battle was opened and the three of them joined forces, it would be difficult for them to defeat them.
So I had to accept it.
The red lady and Gao Jie in the city also received the news, and their jaws almost dropped with shock.
"General Gao, do you know which general he is?"
"never heard of that."
Gao Jie shook his head and then sneered.
"It's just a deputy general with less than a hundred soldiers, but he dares to come to serve the king. He doesn't care about life and death. It's ridiculous. The general doesn't need to care."
"No, I don't think it's ridiculous. This man has less than a hundred soldiers, but he dares to come to the king. It shows that he must be a loyal man. If they don't go, let's go and greet him. General Gao, would you like to go with me?"
The red lady waved her hands and said seriously.
"This...general, there is no need to go in person, right?"
Gao Jie was speechless.
What would a mere hundred people do here?
It's not even enough, it's a complete waste of food.
And that guy is still the deputy commander, and when the time comes to apportion the credit, he has to be given a small share no matter what, so I really don’t understand what’s wrong with this red lady.
"Since General Gao doesn't want to go, then General I can go myself." The red lady strode out.
She has no shortage of soldiers, she has plenty of them, but she happens to be short of generals.
Gao Jie had no choice but to follow.
As soon as the two of them left the city with their guards, Wu Sangui and the others soon found out.
Seeing that the red lady and Gao Jie went to greet Li Dakai, everyone laughed so much that they spurted out their wine.
If Huang Degong was not around, Wu Sangui might have sent people to rob and kill him, but now he just laughed it off.
After Hong Niangzi and Gao Jie led their guards for more than thirty miles, they discovered a small team in front of them.
The number of people was really less than a hundred, with only a dozen riders. If it weren't for the big flag they were carrying and the Ming army general at the head, they might have been regarded as a group of bandits.
This group of people also spotted the large group of people running towards them, and immediately stood on guard. Although they were nervous, they did not panic. They were all obviously elite soldiers.
"Who is coming? Tell me your name and official position immediately!"
Gao Jie reined in his horse and shouted, with an impatient look on his face.
"Li Dakai, the deputy commander-in-chief of Chizhou, may I ask who these two generals are?"
A burly general came out of the house and looked at the red lady and Gao Jie with his hands raised. Especially when he looked at the red lady, he had a look of surprise and confusion on his face.
"This is Li Ying, your Majesty's personal protector general, and I am Xingpingbo Gaojie, your majesty's personal name. Why don't you get off your horse and pay homage?" Gao Jie snorted softly after speaking.
"ah?"
Li Dakai was confused and looked at the red lady in shock, obviously unable to believe that she was a general.
But Gao Jie had heard about this kind of thing, and Gao Jie was too brave to talk nonsense. So after he came to his senses, he got off his horse and bowed: "Li Dakai, a humble official, comes to see the general!"
"General Li, please get up!" Lady Hong admired him even more when she saw that he was neither humble nor overbearing, with a resolute look on his face, and no fear on his face when facing the hundreds of cavalry guards she and Gao Jie had on him.
"Thank you, General!"
"I've seen Uncle Xingping!"
After Li Dakai stood up, he raised his hand to Gao Jie with a light tone, clearly looking down on Gao Jie, who responded with a slight snort.
"Where did General Li come from? But he came to King Qin?"
"Back to the general, I will be coming from Zhejiang in the end. A month ago, I heard that the bandits were besieging the capital. I was anxious, so I took my servants and traveled all night long...
Ten days ago, I was in Shandong and heard that the bandit army had been defeated. May I ask, General, if this is true?"
Li Dakai clasped his fists and asked nervously.
"Yes, the intruders were defeated more than 20 days ago. Now they have become a lost dog and fled to Henan!"
The red lady nodded and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that our Ming Dynasty would have such a loyal and righteous man as General Li. I really admire him!"
"This general will tell your majesty that if your majesty learns that General Li has traveled thousands of miles and led his family to come to King Qin all the way at night, he will be very happy!"
"I am ashamed of myself. I would never dare to be praised like this by a general."
"General Mo originally only wanted to kill a few more intruders in the capital to repay His Majesty's grace, but who would have thought that he would be a step too late." Li Dakai looked ashamed.
"General Li doesn't know something. Although the intruders have been defeated, the slave slaves broke through Shanhaiguan and attacked again more than ten days ago, so the general came at the right time."
The red lady explained.
I thought to myself that this man only wanted to kill the enemy and serve his country without caring about his own life. He was indeed a loyal and righteous man.
"What?"
"Jiannu actually broke through Shanhaiguan?"
Li Dakai was shocked, and then his face was filled with anger.
"General, it's getting late. Let's go back to the camp first."
Seeing that the two of them were chatting animatedly, Gao Jie had no choice but to remind them.
"Well, General Li, come with me back to the camp first. I have prepared a banquet in the camp to welcome the general!"
The red lady nodded, then looked at Li Dakai.
"Thank you so much, General. It's just the subordinates like you..."
Li Dakai looked at the servants who were not riding horses with some embarrassment, obviously unwilling to leave them here. After all, there was no peace anywhere along the way.
"Well, how about I leave two hundred cavalry behind, general, to protect your men?" the red lady thought about it and asked.
"Thank you so much, General."
Although Li Dakai didn't know what extraordinary feats this red lady had performed to earn her the title of general, she came to greet her in person and it was hard to refuse, so she nodded and thanked her.
Just as the three of them were about to ride back, several horses came rushing from the north.
"Report!"
"General, your Majesty's imperial edict has arrived, and all the generals are waiting for you to go back to receive it..."
"What, His Majesty's imperial edict has arrived?"
Both Red Lady and Gao Jie were shocked.
Then Gao Jie's expression changed and he whispered: "General, your Majesty will most likely appoint Wu Sangui to control the armies. We have to make plans early."
If Wu Sangui's 20,000 cavalry hadn't been watching with eager eyes, Gao Jie would have encouraged the red lady to run away.
"We'll talk about it when we go back first. At worst, we'll give him money and food. If he's right, we'll obey his orders. If he deliberately tries to frame him, we're not afraid of him with 150,000 people."
The red lady waved her hand.
Li Dakai on the side heard it in confusion, but when he heard about 150,000 troops, he suddenly took a breath of air.
The three of them galloped all the way back to the gates of Tongzhou City. Hundreds of generals from both sides had been waiting for a long time, and the incense table had been laid out. It was obvious that only the Red Lady and Gao Jie were waiting.
"snort!"
Looking at the belatedly arriving Red Lady and Gao Jie, Wu Sangui put his hands behind his back and snorted coldly, as if to say, wait and see how the governor will deal with you.
Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong all looked very ugly.
As for Li Dakai, the four of them just ignored it.