Nanming Engineer

Chapter 10 Returning to the Barracks
Li Tingyu stood in place, looking at the flags fluttering in the sky, unable to move for a long time, his thoughts were like flying leaves, drifting into the distance.This is the military flag that has followed him to fight for many years. When the imperial court dispatched troops to Sichuan, it was awarded to him by the commander-in-chief Qin Liangyu, and has never been replaced since then.Under Daling City in Liaodong, outside the Nine City Gates of Beijing, in the deep mountains and old forests of Guizhou, on the thousands of miles of fertile fields in Henan, and even in this water town in the south of the Yangtze River, accompanied him in countless battles day and night, Qin Liangyu warned him before leaving: Marching and fighting, the flag is in the people's presence, and the flag is down and the people are dead.Li Tingyu never forgot, and really did it.

It wasn't until Liu Liangzuo surrendered without warning that he was forced to leave his barracks. He thought that the flag of the Ming Dynasty would be discarded, trampled under the hooves of the horses, but he didn't expect that the flag was still flying after he left for many days. Over the gate.

Li Tingyu stood still, and Wang Huan and others behind him had to stand still behind him, so the group stood quietly on the simple road outside the barracks. After a while, Li Tingyu slowly recovered from his contemplation, He turned around and yelled at everyone, "Go! Follow me into the camp!"

Wang Huan has a panoramic view of Li Tingyu's every move. He can completely understand Li Tingyu's actions. The idea of ​​taking white soldiers into his own pocket is getting stronger and stronger. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer generals who are so loyal and righteous. However, there are more and more warlords. If I want to create a world in this era and turn the wheel of history, talents like Li Tingyu are indispensable.

How can I make him work for me?Wang Huan started to think about it. Of course it was not feasible at the moment. He was still his little strategist. To put it harshly, he was just a refugee rescued by Li Tingyu. If he wanted to change his position, he would have to go through a lot of troubles.There is no rush, so we can only take it slow.

However, there is plenty of time. From here to Sichuan, there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and there are plenty of opportunities. Wang Huan secretly encouraged himself: Everything depends on human effort. With his accumulated knowledge of hundreds of years more than the ancients of this era, are he still afraid that he will not achieve his goal?

While thinking, he followed Li Tingyu's footsteps and walked into the camp surrounded by wooden fences.

The sentry at the gate, wearing the shabby Ming army's red mandarin duck battle jacket, saw the person coming from a distance, and had already entered the camp to report. When Li Tingyu walked under the gate, there was a "hula", and a crowd of people poured out of the barracks.

"It's a general, really a general!"

"General, you are back!"

"General, we thought you left us alone!"

"Don't fart your mother! How can the general ignore us?"

"Yes, yes, as long as the general comes back, as long as he comes back!"

A group of military men surrounded Li Tingyu with three floors inside and three floors outside. Everyone was in high spirits, chattering, clamoring and cheering. It was more lively than a festival, and pushed Wang Huan and others who were following behind him aside. .

Li Tingyu was also very excited. He patted this shoulder and pulled that hand, as if he had endless words and feelings. Slowly, more and more people gathered at the gate, and almost everyone in the barracks ran away. Come out and make this gate as lively as a market.

Seeing that the sun was rising, Li Tingyu stayed at the door for a long time, but Li Tingyu had no intention of going in. Standing outside the crowd, Wang Huan couldn't help becoming anxious. He walked over and whispered to Li Yan, and Li Yan had to squeeze into the crowd , Fu Er said a few words to Li Tingyu, Li Tingyu calmed down and nodded to Li Yan.

Li Yan immediately opened his throat and shouted to a group of soldiers in front of him: "Your Excellency has an order, each army should return to its own battalion, strictly observe discipline, and more than a thousand officers should go to the tent of the Chinese army to wait for the order!"

As soon as Li Yan opened his mouth, the noisy group of people immediately fell silent. When the order was given, hundreds of people replied in unison: "Yes!" There was a big jump.

Then, Wang Huan saw the military discipline of the white-armed soldiers. The crowd around Li Tingyu, with the noise of military boots, dispersed in the blink of an eye. What should they do? When they got down, there was no one idle, even the sentinel who was full of excitement just now stood still like a javelin with his chest up and his eyes fixed.

With a big wave of Li Tingyu's hand, he led the people to file towards the center of the barracks, while Li Yan called a small army and led all the monks except Wang Huan to find a tent for himself.

As Wang Huan walked and watched, he noticed that almost all the soldiers in Li Tingyu's battalion were still wearing the military uniforms of the Ming army. The bright red mandarin duck war jackets were particularly dazzling. When walking and doing things, they always held their heads high, lined up in rows, and were meticulous in every detail. When they walked to the camp of the Chinese army, they did not see a soldier sitting on the ground and yelling like the Ming army in Yangzhou City.

And the camp tent of the Chinese army in front of him is even more mighty. Two rows of twenty soldiers in fresh clothes stand on both sides. The big white tent is twice the size of ordinary tents. There are several large flags on both sides, flying in the wind. They all looked solemn and dignified.

Wang Huan was both emotional and happy, feeling that in the current Ming army, there is actually such an orderly army. I have read in history books how white soldiers can fight, and seeing it with my own eyes today is even more shocking. It has the demeanor of the iron army of the later generations that is invincible all over the world.It's a pity that the number of people is too small. A team of hundreds of people is thrown into a battlefield where tens of thousands of people fight at every turn, just like a small stone thrown into the sea, it can't splash much waves.

Before they knew it, everyone had entered the central army tent, Li Tingyu sat on the handsome chair in the middle without hesitation, Li Yan stood behind him holding his sword, and several officers naturally separated on both sides.Wang Huan looked east and west, and gently stood on the side of the big tent near the door.

Everyone stood still, and Li Tingyu asked, "Ma Quan, how is the situation in the army these days? Is there enough food and grass? Is the morale of the army stable?"

An officer stopped in the middle and replied loudly: "My lord, since your lord left, Commander Liu has not supplied food and grass, and it has been ten days. day, mark the daily calculation, and barely support until today.”

Li Tingyu nodded: "I'm not here these days, so it's hard for you, the general manager and quartermaster."

Ma Quan cupped his hands and said, "I'm just doing my duty under the bid."

Li Tingyu slapped his big hand on the long table in front of him, stood up, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, on the day of Liu Liangzuo's surrender, I was going to resent Liu Liangzuo's betrayal of the Lord and ask for glory, and go away with his seal. In fact, it was to paralyze the Qing army. Waiting for the opportunity to lead the whole army back to Sichuan is not just ignoring the whole army, although I did not inform the whole army about this matter, I have told some of you."

Several officers cupped their hands together and said, "Remember the mark."

"But now there is a better opportunity." Li Tingyu couldn't hide his inner happiness and smiled: "This general came back early and brought back Liu Liangzuo's general order and the Qing army's military order. Tomorrow, we will act as The baggage camp will escort all the family members of the army to Xuzhou for resettlement."

All the officers were overjoyed, they were all battle-tested generals, and the meaning of these words was obvious.Ma Quan immediately asked: "My lord, do we want to take this opportunity to escape? This is a great opportunity!"

Li Tingyu touched the shaggy beard with a smile, nodded and said: "This general has exactly this intention. I am going to Xuzhou, crossing the county and passing through the state. There are many places on the road that the Qing army does not have time to fully occupy. We can take the opportunity to arrange them. The army returns to Sichuan!"

After hearing this, the officers became more excited and went home!This is such a tempting word. Although the horse leather is wrapped in loyalty, the loyalty is in the history.Everyone is not afraid of death, but it is even better if they can go home alive.

An officer stood up excitedly, and said in a trembling voice: "Great, my lord, please give me an order, I will obey the general's order, and I will never hesitate to die!"

Li Tingyu smiled and waved his hands: "Everyone, I did the work. I didn't come up with this plan. I, Li Laosan, don't have that kind of brain. How to implement this plan has to be told by him."

After saying that, Li Tingyu pointed his hand in the direction of the door of the tent. The officers were stunned for a moment, and when they looked back, they discovered that there was a young monk standing at the door.

Li Tingyu smiled and said, "Wang Huan, what are you doing hiding there? Come up."

Wang Huan saluted the officers who stared at him. Shi Shi ran through a group of tall and burly soldiers, came to Li Tingyu, and said in a loud voice: "Boy Wang Huan, I pay my respects to all the generals."

Li Tingyu said to the officers: "From today onwards, I will order Wang Huan to return to the secular life and join our army. He will be a member of the marching army and follow this general."

A group of officers obviously couldn't react, they stood there for a while, and then responded in a messy way: "I've seen the councilor."

Seeing the disapproval of the generals, Li Tingyu knew that Wang Huan's appearance as a young monk would definitely not be appreciated by the group of fighters, so he deliberately let Wang Huan show his face, took out the map in his arms, spread it on the long table, and told Wang Huan Said: "Come on, you come and tell everyone in detail."

Then he yelled at the officers: "Come here, listen carefully!"

The generals were stunned again, and then reacted and swarmed up, surrounding the long case.

In this way, Wang Huan stood in the middle of the crowd, like the stars arching the moon. He cleared his throat first, and then said seriously: "Generals, this plan is called secretly crossing the Chencang. Our army currently has no weapons, no food, and we will go north tomorrow. The Qing army must have Eight Banners accompanying them. They are called protection, but they are actually surveillance. If we act rashly, we will only kill ourselves. Therefore, our actions must first follow the Qing army's military order, and go north along the official road in an orderly manner. If there is any sign of disrespect or disobedience, we must act as if the army is dispirited and loyal to the Qing army, so as to paralyze the Qing army and make them lose their wariness against us."

"Then." Pointing to the map, he drew a line along the ink-colored road on the map with his finger, and settled on the two small characters "Huai'an". "Here, we took advantage of the night to attack them in groups, killed the Qing army who was watching us, seized their weapons and uniforms, changed their appearance, disguised themselves as the Qing army, and rushed to Hongze Lake that night."

(End of this chapter)