Chapter 37 Seven Dragons and the Devil's Agreement
At a mountain pass under Black Collar Peak in Breeding Mountain, several soldiers from Tiedang Camp were chatting, and suddenly a black shadow shook behind the tree.W w★W★.
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"Who? Come out!" With the soldiers' shouts, a young man in zither came out from behind the tree, holding a knife in his hand.
"Take the knife." The archer hiding in the dark shouted. The young man slowly bent down and placed the knife on the ground. The two soldiers walked forward with their guns and vigilantly, three or four feet away from the young man. They looked at each other and rushed forward, threw the young man to the ground, pressed his knees against his back, twisted his arms and tied them up. The young man did not resist at all from beginning to end.
Everything was done, and Lao Huo, who was hiding in the dark, appeared. He bit a stick in his mouth, looked around the young man and asked, "Who are you?"
"It's your own person." The young man replied calmly.
"Your own? I think you look like a spy." Lao Huo spitted off the stick in his mouth, pulled out his waist and put it on the young man's neck: "Number, name, command."
"There is a sentry and a team of Xiaoqian Camp, Zheng Sen, and the iron cage lock Liu San." The young man replied, Lao Huo silently put away his knife and asked again: "Isn't the Xiaoqian Camp in Muna Mountain? Why did he come here?"
"We were broken up in the Heiyang Valley. I retreated into Muna Mountain with the Grand General, and soon I got separated from the Grand General. The team deputy led us through the Lianghe Valley to find General Yu. He did not want to be ambushed while crossing the bridge in Liangzhai. I jumped into the river and escaped my life. I have important military information to report to General Yu, please report to my brothers."
This young man was Yang Hao who escaped after falling into the water. The archer who set up an ambush at the bridge of Duliangzhai shot him. Because he was wearing soft armor and did not hurt the vitals, he escaped. At that time, when the spring flood in the north was in the north, the Liang River was a small river, but the water flow was very fast. After falling into the water, he swam four or five miles in one breath, and then climbed ashore. All the tokens on his body fell into the water. Without the tokens, he did not dare to tell people that he was Yang Hao, and it was a serious crime to pretend to be an official or a commander. It was not enough to cut a hundred heads.
"How do you know that our general is here?" Lao Huo suddenly became suspicious of Yang Hao's words. Yang Hao secretly complained in his heart, "If Huyangu is lost, he will retreat to the Black Collar Peak to wait for assistance." This is a plan that was planned before the war. Yu Lianwan knew about these things, and Wu Bohan also knew about them, but the officers at the bottom didn't know. Yang Hao could not explain to him.
Lao Huo stared at Yang Hao coldly: "Why can't you say it? I think you are clearly a spy." After that, he tilted his head, and the two soldiers pressed Yang Hao left and right, kicked him twice, forcing him to kneel on the ground. The third soldier pulled his head and pulled forward, and Yang Hao's neck was exposed.
"I'm fair and honest, I'm also saying you're not a spy." Lao Huo pulled out his waist knife, gestured for a moment, but did not cut it down immediately.
"I'll give you another chance, who sent you a spy."
"Don't kill me, I'm Liu Desan's person, I have important military information to report to General Yu." In a critical moment, Yang Hao had to admit against his will to be a spy. A valuable spy would not be beheaded easily.
"You are still smart." Lao Huo closed his waist and said, "Follow me to see General Wang Hu first."
Wang Hu, the Dianjun Academy Captain of Tiedang Camp, is an old man in the camp and has a high prestige in the army. It is reasonable to catch the enemy spies and hand them over to the Dianjun Academy Captain. Yu Lianwan's central army tent was stuck in a mountain temple halfway up the mountainside of the Black-Ling Peak. Lao Huo was blindfolded by Yang Hao and escorted him to the foot of the mountain. The guard came over to ask. Lao Huo said: "Please report to General Wang, we have caught a spy from Hedong Army. This person claimed that there is an important military report."
The guard glanced at Yang Hao and said disapprovingly: "Just him? Even the hair is not growing, what important military information can you know? The general of the king is in a bad mood these two days. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you can't find out the reason, you will be in trouble."
After hearing this, Lao Huo was confused in his heart. After a while, he was silent for a while, and clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for reminding me." After that, he was about to take Yang Hao away, he suddenly heard someone shouting, "Bring someone here! I'll take him to see General Wang."
The person who spoke was a central guard of Tiedang Camp. The central guard was the guard who guarded the central tent and the close entourage of the general. Although his status was special, he had no official position, and he was not his boss. Lao Huo was a little hesitant, and the guard sneered: "Why, are you afraid that I will steal your credit?" Lao Huo said quickly that he didn't dare, so he handed the person to him.
The central army guard took Yang Hao up the steps and reached the hillside. He whispered in Yang Hao's ear: "Master, don't blame him. He is under the command of the Captain Guan. If you have important matters, please ask the commander to speak in the military tent." After entering the inner military camp, he cursed and pushed Yang Hao into a military tent in front of the guards.
There was a middle-aged civil servant in his forties in the military tent. He was short and obese, with white face and five strands of beards left. After tying Yang Hao, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Tie Dang Camp measures Lu Benqing to meet the general." Yang Hao hurriedly helped Lu Benqing up and said, "You are an elder, how dare I accept your worship?"
Lu Benqing said seriously: "There is no father and son in the army. You are my Shangguan, so I will worship you."
Yang Hao did not argue with him, but thought to himself that my distant relative was indeed a pedantic person. Lu Benqing was the cousin of Lu Rui's adoptive father Lu Benzhong. He served as a county school teacher. Later, he was dismissed because he couldn't stand the various drawbacks of the officialdom. He was pedantic, not good at management, and lived a poor life. When Yang Hao held the Fengzhou Economics School, he recruited talents from many sources. Lu Rui recommended Lu Benqing to him.
Yang Hao met him once and felt that although this person was a little talented, he was not suitable for teaching in the school. However, he was not easy to refute Lu Rui's face, so he handed him over to Guan Suo. He did not ask about the matter after that, but after a while, he became the measurement officer of Tiedang Camp. The measurement officer was responsible for checking the accounts of money and grain exchanges in the camp, and his position was very urgent.
Lu Benqing said excitedly: "I have all my secrets connected to Hedong, and my rebellion has emerged. The general must not see him again."
Yang Hao looked at Wan Duan and said, "Last night, the secret envoy of the Hedong Army arrived in the camp, and Yu Lianwan talked with him for an hour. When the secret envoy of the Hedong Army left, he personally delivered it to the door."
Yang Hao smiled bitterly, and he was neither surprised nor angry at all. In this world, vassal states share the world with troops, and generals in vassal states have troops to stand on the mountain, and they are dying in Qin and Chu. Rebellion in this era is nothing new.
Tiedang Camp was an old subordinate of Han Sui, nominally affiliated with the Tiande Right Army, and actually formed a system. Han Sui was killed, Baishuihu defected, and Zhuang Yunqing was transferred to the Military Justice Department. This army lost its backbone, and Yang Hao took the opportunity to reduce it into one battalion. The Xining Army had eighteen battalions, and the base number of battalions was usually 500, and only three battalions had passed. Tiedang Camp was 655, the Fire Camp was 600, and Tiedang Camp was 800. Even so, compared with the 3,000 people at the time, it was reduced by two-thirds. Now an ordinary soldier in the camp may have been the commander of the sergeant and the commander of the team. This is a unit full of bones. As long as they encounter a suitable opportunity, they can instantly magnify several times without sacrificing quality.
Because of this, after Zhuang Yunqing left, it took Yang Hao a lot of thought to choose who to serve as the commander. In the end, Yang Hao took a fancy to Ling Tong and did not make any contribution to military achievements. Li Tong's Yu Lianwan was known as a "fox" in the Tiande Right Army. This person is resourceful and cunning, but he never formed cliches. This was a great temptation for Yang Hao. But Yang Hao ignored one thing: foxes are foxes, and disguise and transformation are their nature.
"Please go north immediately and meet General Jiang Tao." Wan Duan begged.
"Yes, I can only go to his place." Yang Hao thought helplessly, "I hope he hasn't gotten along with Liu Desan yet."
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Jiang Tao did not get along with Liu Desan, but did not follow the original plan. After assisting Jin Mili in regaining the scepter of Wutu, he immediately rushed south to help. He remained silent and watched the situation. After Yang Hao's defeat in Heiyang Valley, Jiang Tao, on the grounds that there was insufficient supplies, ignored the strong opposition of the supervisor Mirovo, stationed the army at Jinsha Beach 120 miles northwest of Huyan Valley.
Yang Hao went directly to Mahshang's camp and met with two military captains and three whistle commanders of the Leopard Camp. Then he sent an order to let Jiang Tao come to see him. Jiang Tao came to Fengya Camp with fear, and there was only a central guard at the door to greet him. After he dismounted, his guard was blocked outside the door and asked to hand over his sword.
Jiang Tao failed to see Yang Hao, and Mahshang announced Yang Hao's order to remove his position as the chief officer of the Leopard Camp, and be renamed the Supervisor of the Xining Military Food and Grass, and immediately return to Feng'an to take office.
Then he was "escorted" by Mahshan's personal soldiers and went back to Feng'an to take office.
Jin Mili was grateful to Yang Hao for helping him regain power. He wanted to send troops to help Yang Hao defeat the Hedong Army, but his strength is very limited now. Except for the 1,000 cavalry brought back by the three surnames of Datongchuan, he only had hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled people. Jin Mili suggested that Yang Hao borrow soldiers from the five divisions of Manhei. The five divisions of Manhei are also Shiwei people, but they belong to the Cissai Wei, and they are of the same origin and different sect as the Mengwu Wei. Mengwu Wei has dated the surrounding Tang, Xi, Uighurs, and even the Khitan, but the Cissai Wei is very closed and the social development level is far less than that of the Mengwu people.
According to Jin Mili, the five members of the Manhei suffered a snow disaster last winter, and the cattle and sheep suffered heavy losses. At the beginning of this year, they were invaded by the Xi people and the Khitans, so they had to move south to the border of the Tang Dynasty. They were preparing to join the Tang Dynasty through the Tiande Army. However, they did not expect the Tiande Army to die of illness, so they lost their place. Originally, they were expected that the Wutu tribe could give them some help for the sake of the same tribe, but were flatly rejected by the Baishui Fox. Now nearly 20,000 people of the five members were stationed in the north of the Qingshan Mountains, and they were out of control.
Yang Hao didn't know these situations. What he was most concerned about now was the combat effectiveness of the five Man Blacks and whether he could compete with the elite Hedong Army on the battlefield. Jin Mili patted his chest and promised that the five Man Blacks and all were warriors. They had defeated the Uighur Royal Court many times. The reason why they lost to the Khitan and the Xi people this time was because the losses of the snow disaster last year were too great. As long as they were equipped with enough weapons and horses, they were definitely a strong brigade on the grassland.
Yang Hao has weapons. Since the establishment of the Ordnance Division, various excellent weapons have been equipped with battalions. The eliminated weapons are enough to 7,000 people. At this time, they are all sealed in the military depot. With just one order, the weapons can be taken in five days. As for the horses, the Wutu tribe can solve 40%, and the remaining ones are drawn from various places in Fengzhou will only last three or five days.
Yang Hao was overjoyed and decided to join forces with the five ministries to deal with the Hedong Army.
Jin Mili immediately sent someone to inform the Five Divisions. When the Five Divisions heard the news, they all came to Wutuo Division to join the alliance with gifts. When Yang Hao saw the first meeting of everyone, he couldn't help but be stunned, and he couldn't help but feel relieved for a while. These Five Divisions were all unkempt and dirty, and the animal skin clothes they wore had never been washed. You could smell a disgusting smell seven or eight feet away. When you get closer, you grin at you. The smelly bad breath and the big yellow and black teeth that make people with bad hearts unable to eat for half a month.
Let’s look at the soldiers and generals behind the five people, and they can play the orcs in the fantasy movie without using makeup.
The five leaders greeted Yang Hao with what Yang Hao didn’t understand at all. It’s fine, after all, they had never been to Chang'an to study. What’s strange is that Jin Mili, their fellow tribe, couldn’t understand their words, and they could only communicate with each other by translating them.
The leaders of the five ministries agreed with Yang Hao's request for alliance, and they put forward their own requirements: First, they must provide three thousand armies and horses to equip their troops. Second, they are willing to join the Tang Dynasty, but they hope that Yang Hao can report to the court and demarcate the land of several counties for them to graz. Third, they provide ten thousand stones of food to help them overcome the famine. Fourth, they need a thousand young women who can give birth to them.
Yang Hao could understand the first three requests, but was very disgusted with the fourth condition. Jin Mili explained on behalf of him: "At the beginning of the year, the Xi people broke through their camps and plundered many of their women, and many families had no women, so they urgently needed to replenish the population." Jin Mili suggested that Yang Hao allocate the women from the middle of the forest to them.
Jin Mili's suggestion cannot be said to be unreasonable. After the central part of the forest was calmed down, a large number of men died in battle, and widows and orphans were everywhere. Hundreds of stones were spent every month to provide relief for food. Not only that, military soldiers were also sent to prevent fire, theft and wild men.
Yang Hao asked how many troops the five divisions could send to assist the war? The five people discussed for a while and replied that they could send 5,000 troops. Yang Hao felt that there were too few and asked them to send 8,000 troops to assist the war. After the five divisions discussed, they agreed, but asked Yang Hao to add 1,000 troops to armor and 500 war horses. Yang Hao agreed.
The discussion has been decided, and the five people will be in an alliance with blood, and the troops will go south in five days.
Chapter completed!