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Chapter 861 The one who killed Ah Shan was Fang Sihu!
Chen Zheng was looking down at the mountains, the lights in the Qing army camp were fascinated, and he didn't realize that a gust of mountain wind blew by, and he was shocked.

At this time, the cavalry of the Chinese army took the chief Zhao Ruliang to the turret, and said softly: "General, Fang Sihu from Liao brought us here."

Although Chen Zheng was fascinated by the lights at the bottom of the mountain, he also heard the footsteps of only one person coming up just now, so he asked casually, "Where is the person?"

"Back to the general, Fang Sihu is waiting under the turret."

Chen Zheng turned his head to look at Zhao Ruliang, said with a smile, "It's not bad. Before he formally entered the camp, he killed Gu Shan Ezhen, a tartar. This kid is fine. I'm going to order him in the Dushi camp."

Zhao Ruliang smiled embarrassedly and said: "General, we can see that this Fang Sihu is not bad, he is tall, broad and big butt, he is a good cavalryman, why don't you keep it for us."

Chen Zheng took a step forward, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, feigning anger and said: "Seeing a good one, I want to drag him into your cavalry team, Zhao Ruliang, you are really greedy."

Zhao Ruliang scratched his scalp, and said with a sneering smile, "We...we don't want to help the general expand the Chinese army."

He went on to say: "General, let's see that these Liao soldiers are all strong and fighting bravely. It's really not bad. If you want me to say, why don't you recruit them all into our camp?"

Chen Zheng's eyes flashed brightly when he heard the words, but he disappeared immediately. He didn't say anything more about it, but patted Zhao Ruliang's shoulder again, and said, "Go, follow me to meet that Fang Sihu for a while. I want to take a look." , who can kill the real Fang Sihu in front of the battle with his own strength, what kind of person is he!"

Under the turret, a group of armored spearmen of the Xuanfu Army stood guard around, while Liu Jingzhu, the governor of Dushiying Town, Dakang, the commander of the chariot, Tian Mingyu, the leader of the left, Zhou Ping, the leader of the right, and Zhou Ping, the leader of the middle. Song Shanquan, Du Chungang and others are also here.

And in the open space behind everyone, there was a cart transformed from a cart, and there was a corpse on the cart, which was the corpse of Ezhen'ashan, Gushan, Zhenghuangqi, the Tartar.

Behind the cart were twenty strong men from the Liao people, the leader of which was particularly tall, he was almost a full head taller than the people around him, standing there like a giant out of the flock.

After Chen Zheng got off the turret, he shouted and asked: "Which one is Fang Sihu, let me stand up for myself."

After Fang Sihu heard the words, he walked forward with his chest raised and his head raised. He stopped and reported loudly when he was two steps away from Chen Zheng: "Villain Fang Sihu."

Chen Zheng stared at the big man in front of him, and saw that he was actually a head taller than himself, and his waist seemed to be twice as big as his own. He widened his eyes and looked carefully.

He saw the man in front of him who was a head taller than him, with a dark face, broad shoulders and round waist, just like what Zhao Ruliang, the general manager of the Chinese army, said, but his buttocks were big.

Chen Zheng looked at the big man, and said in a deep voice, "You killed the Tartar Zhenghuangqi Gushan Ezhen Ashan?"

Fang Sihu looked at Chen Zheng: "General Chen, I killed this tartar, and I only want the armor on him. If General Chen also likes this armor, I don't want it."

He immediately changed the topic, and said: "However, I really don't care about the armor on him, the thief pulls Liangtang!"

Chen Zheng smiled. He looked at Fang Sihu and said, "It's just armor. If you join our Xuanfu army, how can you lose your armor?"

When he asked such a question, Fang Sihu was stunned. He questioned: "Can you take care of the food? Let me take care of my family?"

This time it was Chen Zheng's turn to be stunned, but after a while, he thought clearly, and he said loudly to the crowd: "In my Xuanfu army, everyone is naturally fed, what's so difficult about it?"

He continued: "As for the family members, my marshal once said: Your parents are my parents, and your sisters and brothers are also like my sisters and brothers."

Chen Zheng paused for a moment, and then continued: "However, my Xuanfu army only keeps brave warriors, and does not support a single idler."

He fixed his gaze on Fang Sihu, and asked in a deep voice: "Would you like to join my Xuanfu army?"

Fang Sihu was taken aback when he heard the words, and at this moment he didn't know who was behind him, so he kicked suddenly. Under this strong push, Fang Sihu took a step forward and bowed down in front of Chen Zheng. He said in a daze: " Just take care of my food, and I will repay it with death!"

At the same time, the nineteen strong Liao men behind Fang Sihu also knelt down in unison and said: "General Chen, don't worry, we will enter the camp voluntarily, and we will obey the military orders, fight desperately, and never back down." .”

In fact, Chen Zheng had long intended to recruit a large number of Liao people, and he even wanted to transfer the [-] soldiers recruited earlier to soldiers in his battalion.

However, Zhang Cheng had extremely strict control over the Xuanfu army. According to the rules, each battalion had no right to recruit troops, and the loss in each battle was replenished by Zhang Cheng's central army from the new bravery trained by Wu Zhizhong.

Like Chen Zheng, it has never happened before that he independently recruited Xinyong during the war.

Therefore, he hesitated at this moment, he had already violated the military regulations by recruiting new braves, even though there was a need for the battle, it was definitely not allowed by the military regulations.

But after this battle, Chen Zheng also found that the Liao people were indeed useful, they were not only physically strong, but also full of hatred for the Tartars for generations, and no one would back down before the battle.

That's why he dared to directly make decisions for Zhang Cheng, only to hear Chen Zheng yelling and asking: "I only ask once, are you willing to join our Xuanfu army and be coerced by my military rules and regulations?"

"willing……"

"Yes...General..."

"General... I will wait... I will wait..."

Behind the cart carrying Ah Shan's body, twenty strong men from Liaodong followed behind Fang Sihu, bowing down to Chen Zheng. Even in the distant mountains, their roars echoed everywhere.

Chen Zheng looked at them, and softly asked Liu Jingzhu, the governor beside him, "Liu Zhenfu, how should we deal with it?"

"The people of Liao are so enthusiastic, how can we go against the will of the people?"

Liu Jingzhu questioned at first, and then said again: "In my opinion, General Chen should put the hearts of the people first, and order the scribes to register and make a book for him. government."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Zheng again, and after a while, he continued: "However, each battalion of our Xuanfu Army has a fixed number of personnel, and it is not easy for us to expand the battalion without the commander-in-chief's order.

It's just that today is for our Xuanfu to win the hearts of the people and gather excellent warrior seedlings, not to expand our army of the Dushi Battalion.

What does General Chen think? "

When Chen Zheng heard this, he couldn't help sighing in his heart, after all, it must be the twists and turns of the scholar!
With just a few words, I resolved my worries, and immediately said: "Go back and tell the Liaomin brothers on the mountain, as long as anyone with a clean family background, my Xuanfu will take it in."

Chen Zheng pondered for a moment, and then continued to drink: "But everyone who went out to fight today is already a soldier of our Xuanfu. Go back and tell the news so that all the Liao people on the mountain will know."

When the twenty Liao people heard this, they were all very excited.

The reason why they were selected to guard Ah Shan's body and meet the leader of the Dushi camp, Chen Zheng, was that they all had the responsibility to intercede for many Liao people.

At this moment, seeing that Chen Zheng's words had already revealed his intention to take everyone to Xuanfu to live in peace, how could he give Chen Zheng a chance to repent?

In fact, these Liao people are themselves military households in Liaodong. If they want to join the army, they have a lot of opportunities.

If he joined the army by himself, he would not be able to support his family by relying on the military pay and food that was deducted and exploited layer by layer, so he relied on selling his strength to support his relatives instead of joining the army.

But the Xuanfu army is different. Through the contact in the past few months, they have seen with their own eyes that the Xuanfu army has ample food and wages, and they never have the feeling of deducting and exploiting.

Moreover, the rewards promised before the war were always fulfilled immediately.

Such a military team, in Daming, is a good place that they can't even pick a lantern. In fact, they have long been yearning for it, but they didn't have the chance to speak.

Now, taking advantage of the good opportunity of Liao Minfang's four tigers killing Ah Shan with one shot, they tentatively expressed their wishes, and after receiving a clear answer from Chen Zheng, there was no doubt about it.

I saw a middle-aged man in his forties walking out of the Liao people's team. He came up and knelt down and said, "Cheng Zhijin, a small man from Liao people, pays homage to General Chen."

After Chen Zheng received the ceremony, he heard Cheng Zhijin continue to say: "General Chen, everyone like me admires the majesty of the Xuanfu army, and seeing them today is a true story.

Now that I am on Changling Mountain, besides the new army that was incorporated into the department before, there are still nearly a thousand strong men. They also want to join the Xuanfu army, make contributions to Marshal Zhang, and fight desperately.

Unknown, does General Chen dare to call the shots? "

Looking at the middle-aged strong man named Cheng Zhijin, Chen Zheng also said loudly: "This mountain is not defended by my Xuanfu army."

He glanced at the twenty Liaodong men, especially Fang Sihu, and continued: "Although you are soldiers and civilians, you have helped me protect Changling Mountain. The sun can learn from it. It is a great contribution to the country. towards.

Now, all of you are even more determined to join our Xuanfu military camp, in order to continue to serve the country, so that your useful bodies will not be buried. This is a righteous deed in the world, how can I, Chen Zheng, refuse it! "

Chen Zheng continued: "It's just that my Xuanfu army has strict discipline, and without the permission of the commander in chief, although I, Chen Zheng, love Liao people a lot, I dare not promise in private."

Afterwards, Chen Zheng saw the tears of disappointment in the corners of Cheng Zhijin's eyes, and he couldn't bear it, and said again: "However, the commander of my family is also a person who cherishes talents and loves talents, especially for those who have a bright heart. People, it is even more regrettable.

Rest assured, everyone, when the fighting here is over, I, Chen Zheng, will be in front of the town commander, and I will do my best to plead for you, so that everyone on Changling Mountain today can join our Xuanfu army. "

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From the foot of Changling Mountain, along the Songxing Avenue to the northeast for five miles, you can see a wide ditch. On the southwest side of the ditch, a wide and low earth wall has been stacked, making it impossible for people and horses to pass through.

The appearance of this trench completely hindered the traffic between Songshan Fort and Xingshan Fort, and on the southwest side of the trench, there were more than a thousand Mongolian cavalry, constantly patrolling, blocking anyone who dared to cross this trench.

And on the opposite side of the ditch, there are more than [-] elite Daming infantry stationed at this moment, and it is the army led by Zhang Cheng, the general soldier of Xuanfu Town, to return to Xingshan.

"Commander, there are only a thousand Tartars, and they can drive the enemy with chariots, so that our infantry can concentrate on filling the trenches, and we can advance to the foot of Changling Mountain before dark."

Hearing Zhang Guodong's words, veteran Guo Yingxian also pointed to the mountains to the north and said to Zhang Cheng, "Shuai Zhang, there is a small road in the mountains to the north, which can pass people and horses, and can bypass the trenches of the Tartars. However, the road is narrow and winding. No armies or chariots can pass."

Zhang Cheng remained silent. He stepped onto the top of a chariot next to him and looked across the trench. In the setting sun, some Mongolian sentry cavalry could be seen faintly, and they kept coming and going.

After a while, he came down and said to the crowd: "The Tatar bandits have arrived with four banners, there are thirty to forty thousand soldiers and horses, they are gathered at the foot of Changling Mountain, and they must be attacking day and night.

However, although Chen Zheng's troops had brave soldiers, excellent guns, and plenty of medicines and food, their numbers were far from those of the Tartars, so they might not be able to last. "

Zhang Guangda has the closest relationship with Chen Zheng, he leaned forward and said: "Commander, why don't I lead the light cavalry to rush along the mountain road, cover this side with guns and artillery, fill in the trenches with infantry, and then use cavalry to crush the northern captives.

In this way, with a two-pronged approach, you can drive to the foot of Changling Mountain before dark. "

Zhang Cheng nodded to several people and said, "Let's do it like this."

At that moment, the generals went back to prepare separately. The cavalry led their horses for a walk, and fed some beans to the horses from time to time. The infantry battalion formed a team behind the trench, especially the gunmen carefully checked their firearms. pistol.

The most eye-catching one is naturally the Chariot Battalion. The chariots have been unloaded and pushed forward by the soldiers of the Chariot Battalion. They stop only when they reach the edge of the ditch, and the thick boards have also been erected.

Under the playing cards, black holed muzzles protruded, and the five chariots in the middle also opened their rocket boxes, as if they were going to use rockets to drive back the northern captive cavalry.

The gunners and loaders hid behind the cards and were nervously busy with ranging and loading, while the bargemen were behind watching the mules and horses pulling the carts.

At this time, Zhang Guodong's chariot of the Chicheng Battalion had already unloaded the artillery and sub-drugs loaded on it, and temporarily changed it into a cart for use, filled with sand and soil for trench filling.

The [-] soldiers of the Chicheng Camp were also nervously packing their soil bags, as well as some planks and freshly felled trees, so they were well prepared.

With such a movement, it was naturally impossible to avoid the observation of the Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassal. Sure enough, they also found something unusual, and nearly a thousand Mongolian soldiers gathered here.

They rode on war horses, stretched their bows and set arrows, looking eager to try, and some of them were obviously generals of the northern captives, and they kept gesticulating at the chariots here, opening and closing their mouths. non-stop.

Suddenly, the Mongolian cavalrymen of the Outer Domain seemed to have discovered something. They galloped back quickly and stopped at a distance of forty or fifty steps from the trench, staring at the chariot of the Xuanfu Army.

Looking at the performance of the Mongolian soldiers from the foreign vassals, Zhang Cheng couldn't help snorting, and secretly laughed at the Beilu as a fool. Did he want to escape his own artillery bombardment after escaping such a distance?

(End of this chapter)