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Ten days of training is a bit short after all. Most of the soldiers in Yangzhou refused to obey the discipline, and they could barely count their heads in the team and frighten the enemy.

However, this intimidation was really effective for Wanzhou. Wanzhou almost opened the city gate to welcome Xia Heyu's army in without any resistance.In fact, it was Jiang Linyuan who had known from Yang Pei that Shi Lengyuan of Wanzhou State was a timid person, and that's why he suggested Xia Heyu to attack Wanzhou first.

After entering the city, Yangzhou soldiers began to disobey discipline again. They had done a lot of vandalism and looting over the years. At this time, they also suffered from itchy hands. If he didn't give up, he would flirt with the girl when he saw her, and almost raped her on the street.

As soon as Xia Heyu entered the city gate, he took a small group of elite cavalry to Lengfu, leaving Zhang Ling with the rear troops. Zhang Ling heard the noise and looked back, only to find that the Yangzhou soldiers in the rear were in a mess. Even if Zhang Ling yelled, no one listened to him. It wasn't until he killed a few people that the Yangzhou soldiers learned to restrain themselves a little, but they still walked lazily in the line.

"I said you people in Yangzhou are all like beasts?" Zhang Ling walked outside the team, raised his hand to wipe the blood on the blade, and asked Xiaosha, who was sent by him to manage the grain and grass at the end of the team because of his thin body. road.

Xiaosha just gave Zhang Ling a blank look, and continued to push his grain cart.

"Is it a mistake for me to hand over the food and grass to you?" Zhang Ling put the wiped knife back into the scabbard and put it on his waist, and said, "If one day you see money and sell my food and grass, you will die Thousands of soldiers retreat, who do I cry to?"

"I saw that I was the first to sell you, at the price of donkey meat." Xiaosha murmured as he pushed the grain cart hard.

Zhang Ling pretended not to hear, and continued: "Let me ask seriously, what are you Yangzhou soldiers afraid of? I can't control it if this goes on."

"What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of death." Xiaosha said disdainfully, "But if you give them a lot of money, they won't even be afraid of death. Yang Pei uses money to manage them."

Zhang Ling rubbed his ears and sighed softly, "It's a bit difficult. How can I get so much money?"

Soldiers follow the master, Yang Pei acts recklessly, so Yangzhou soldiers are also like this, Leng Yuan is timid and weak, so Wanzhou soldiers are all like little mice, Zhang Ling is worried, right now this team is like a pot of hodgepodge, If some measures are not taken, I am afraid that there will be some bumps and bumps in the future.

Not only Zhang Ling, but also Xia Heyu had been thinking about this issue. In the end, he decided to mix Wanzhou soldiers and Yangzhou soldiers together to influence each other.In the first few days, the barracks seemed to be filled with boiling water every day. Either there was a quarrel here, or there was a knife over there.Sometimes Zhang Ling wanted to dig a hole to bury himself, and even Xia Heyu often collapsed.

However, after a few days, the conflict gradually subsided, and the battalion finally returned to what an army should look like, and the daily military training was slowly getting on the right track.

The three cities of Qingzhou, Yangzhou, and Wanzhou are adjacent to each other, and only now can they be regarded as a real line. Xia Heyu is going to rely on the strength of these three cities to meet the first batch of troops from the imperial court, and then slowly decide on the following matters.

But Xia Heyu was counting the days and saw that it had been more than a month since Yangzhou was captured, and the spies along the way had no news about the strength of the imperial court, but they received a letter from Bu Chengsi's men sent to the capital.

This letter was about Xia Heyu's father. It said that the court had ordered that General Xia would be beheaded in early August, and that General Xia's blood would be used to sacrifice the battle flag, and then troops would be sent to attack Xia Heyu.

Xia Heyu read the letter with shaking hands. After reading it, he immediately tore the letter into pieces and threw it out forcefully. Paper flowers flew all over the room.

"General..." Zhang Ling wanted to persuade, but Xia Heyu stared back at him.

"Go back to Beijing." Xia Heyu grabbed the light robe and put it on his body.

"But...General, what about our soldiers?" Zhang Ling asked.

"I'll go back alone, and the soldiers will be handed over to you. If I don't come back, you will disperse the soldiers, run farther away, and don't get involved in this kind of thing." Xia Heyu said, and wanted to go out when he took a step, but was caught by Zhang Ling. Grab it.

"Xia Heyu, I'll go with you." Zhang Ling stopped calling the general and called Xia Heyu's name directly.

"What are you going to do? During my absence, tens of thousands of soldiers still rely on you." Xia Heyu said.

"Then what should you do? If you want to rob the prison, you can't do it by yourself. As for the soldiers, there are at least Bu Chengsi here."

"Nonsense!" Xia Heyu turned around and yelled at Zhang Ling, pointing at Zhang Ling and wanting to scold.

"Report!"

Suddenly there was a notification from a distance, and a soldier ran towards Xia Heyu hurriedly with a letter in his hand, even the hat on his head was tilted, and he wobbled along with his steps. , very funny.

"Xia... General Xia, letter," the soldier knelt down in front of Xia Heyu, and said out of breath, sending an urgent letter over the heads of the whole country.

Xia Heyu frowned and began to read, but after reading, his whole body seemed to be limp. He took a few steps back and leaned against the door frame.

"General, what happened again?" Zhang Ling asked eagerly.

Xia Heyu handed the letter to Zhang Ling, and Zhang Ling recognized it at a glance. The handwriting belonged to General Xia. The letter said that he was replaced a few days ago and escaped from the prison. Under the escort of Bu Chengsi's subordinates, he was rushing to Wanzhou.

"That's great. Zhang Ling shook the letter paper and smiled, "But this replacement is..." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ling suddenly thought of someone. He looked into Xia Heyu's eyes and felt that he also Must have thought of it.

It's just that Xia Heyu didn't say that name, but faced the thick night outside the door, he took off his robe, threw it on the chair casually, turned around and walked towards the bed, and said: "Go, I want sleep."

Holding the letter in his hands, Zhang Ling sighed heavily. When he looked up at Xia Heyu again, he found that he had already got into the quilt with his eyes closed.Zhang Ling shook his head secretly, quietly put the letter on the table and pressed it, blew out the light in the room, closed the door and went out.

Of course, Xia Heyu didn't really fall asleep, but just closed his eyes and thought about the words in the letter just now.After the sound of the clapper in the middle of the night, Xia Heyu really didn't want to lie down and put on his clothes to sleep anymore, but sat up with his clothes on, grabbed some belongings under the moonlight outside the window, opened the door and went to the racecourse.

Xia Heyu's horse was tethered in an inconspicuous and quiet corner of the racecourse. The horse recognized Xia Heyu's footsteps, opened its eyes when Xia Heyu approached, and looked at him very gently.Xia Heyu untied the rope that tied the horse, stepped onto the horse's back, and ran to the outside of Wanzhou City.

At this time, there was already a person waiting outside Wanzhou City.

"You're too slow, did you take so long to save someone?" Zhang Ling asked, yawning.

Xia Heyu wanted to get angry at him, but he couldn't help laughing, and said, "Who said I was going to save him? I was going to watch someone's head fall, and that kind of scene is only one time."

"Cut." Zhang Ling disdained, "But let me tell you, you have to give me a raise when you come back this time. It's been five years, and my salary hasn't changed."

"Did you stay with those Yangzhou soldiers too much?" Xia Heyu flicked the reins, and the horse started to gallop, leaving Zhang Ling behind.

"Stingy!" Zhang Ling roared from behind, and quickly pumped his ass to follow Xia Heyu.