lucky star girl

Chapter 158 Confrontation
Xu Yanzhu took advantage of the fact that Jiang's family had a lot of things to do during this time, so the two women who had been arranged smoothly appeared by his side as handmaidens sent by her natal family's third uncle.

Of course, in order not to expose her lies, Xu Yanzhu asked Cuihua to go to the Xu family to tell the third aunt that he had bought two girls privately before, and now they have been training for half a year, and they all have some martial arts skills, and they will follow in the future. Protect yourself by your side.

It is estimated that in another month, Cuihua will teach them what she is doing, and Cuihua will be able to return to Xu's house.

For this reason, Cuihua also happily ran to Xu's house. As for when the older girl bought the two girls, Cuihua didn't care, she just thought that she bought them secretly.

After all, he is the master, so it's not surprising that he doesn't know some things.

After Dong Shu received the news from Xu Yanzhu, she was not surprised. She had been thinking about getting Cuihua back for a long time. Now that she can see hope, it is not difficult to just help out with a lie.

Dong Shu took over the matter, which means Xu Shiqiu took over the matter.

It's just that Xu Shiqiu at this time didn't have time to deal with these trivial matters. He didn't go home after returning home that night, and only waited for the time for the joint confrontation drill.

For this day, Xu Shiqiu had prepared for a long time, and even the soldiers under him had made sufficient preparations to save face.

Especially the soldiers who were selected to be the Iron Eagle Brigade before, they knew that this confrontation exercise was asked by the general for them.

They have been training all the time before, and have not actually fought in real combat. After this confrontation drill, if the results are not embarrassing, they will go out and prepare for real combat.

This may be the last battlefield where they don't have to worry about their lives before they leave the barracks.

Finally, the agreed day for the confrontation arrived. In order to wait for King Duan and a few accompanying officials sent by Emperor Ruikang to come from the capital, Xu Shiqiu set the starting time at noon.

It starts at noon today and ends at noon the next day.

In this way, they will be able to commend the soldiers who performed well in the afternoon half a day later, and it will also give Duan Wang and the others time to return to Beijing.

King Duan and the few officials who followed him were very satisfied with Xu Shiqiu's arrangement.

As for the others, Xu Shiqiu didn't care about their opinions. Although he designed a bearded general with a long face this time, it was also to give his soldiers a chance to exercise.

According to the plan, Xu Shiqiu and his soldiers left the barracks where they were staying the afternoon before, leaving the barracks for the soldiers who needed to stay behind to re-arm.

In order to deal a severe blow to Xu Shiqiu, the remaining generals, after discussing for a long time, divided the troops into two teams.

One team stayed in the barracks, while the other team entered the deep mountain behind the barracks.

Because they separated the men and horses, Xu Shiqiu's soldiers had two tasks at the same time. One was to capture the barracks, and the other was to find another team of men who hid in the mountains and took away the 'Soldier Talisman'.

"Shiqiu, how are you doing, are you confident?"

King Duan looked at Xu Shiqiu, and just finished saying this with a smile on his face, when Xu Shiqiu who was standing under him gave a military salute and said: "The general has confidence in them!"

Hearing Xu Shiqiu's affirmative words and seeing his confident expression, King Duan nodded and said: "The emperor brother told me before this king came, if your soldiers can really win this time, they will be able to do so years ago." Let them go out."

Xu Shiqiu understood the meaning of King Duan's words, and his eyes lit up immediately. Emperor Ruikang said that going out for a trip must be an actual battle.

"Don't worry, my lord, this time they will definitely be able to go out before the end of the year!" After saying this, Xu Shiqiu smiled mysteriously, obviously he had a chance of winning.

Duan Wang didn't know where Xu Shiqiu got the confidence to win, but he didn't say much, just smiled, thinking that he would just wait and see.

Xu Shiqiu was also relieved to see that King Duan no longer asked.

Since he facilitated this confrontation exercise, he must have made a lot of arrangements, at least saving one hand, so that his soldiers will not be defeated.

While King Duan and Xu Shiqiu were talking, both sides were also getting ready, and Xu Shiqiu also left King Duan's place and rushed to the tent temporarily set up by his soldiers.

As soon as Xu Shiqiu arrived, Zhang Ping, Ye Shuo, Xu Jie, and Xu Yanhao all stood up and saluted him at the same time.

Xu Shiqiu waved his hand and told them to sit down, and then he said to the four of them, "Just follow the plan later, Zhang Ping and Xu Jie are responsible for capturing the barracks, and Ye Shuo and Yan Hao are responsible for it." Intercept and kill the other team that took away the soldier talisman."

For the two tasks, they all thought that the latter was more difficult than the former, so Xu Yanhao would also be involved, which naturally had other uses for him.

Xu Yanhao was very excited that his third uncle assigned him a task so quickly. After his cousin told him about the third uncle's arrangement, he agreed without hesitation.

"The four of you are the leader this time, but you have to bring them all. Victory is nothing, but we not only want to win, but also win them to be convinced." After saying this, Xu Shiqiu thought for a while, and finally said : "And what I said before, on the battlefield, any strategy can be used, as long as you can control it."

Xu Jie and Ye Shuo laughed when they heard Xu Shiqiu's words. Although the two of them are considered to be of different generations and ages according to Xu Shiqiu's position, they are both rare masters in the use of strategies, and their relationship is even more along the lines of Xu Shiqiu's. The professor's strategy has become better.

The most important thing was that both of them felt that what Xu Shiqiu said was right, as long as they could win, it was really nothing to use some small tricks.

As for Zhang Ping, perhaps because of his background, he didn't dare to use too many tricks, that's why Xu Shiqiu allocated the four of them in this way.

When the four of them issued a military order in front of Xu Shiqiu, they quickly left the tent in twos.

After the four of them left, Xu Shiqiu also recruited a group of soldiers, and quickly left the camp.

He will not wait here obediently, waiting for the other party to send someone to 'assassinate' him.

It was agreed before that each side will have a leader. Once the leader has an accident, even if the other team fails in both missions, it will still be a victory.

No one knew about Xu Shiqiu's departure, because Xu Shiqiu had found a soldier who was similar in stature to him long ago, dressed in the clothes he usually wore in the military camp, and stayed in the tent pretending to be him.

As for him, he naturally changed into the clothes of an ordinary soldier and disappeared in front of everyone.

On the afternoon of the first day, the soldiers staying in the barracks did not wait for Xu Shiqiu's soldiers to attack. They thought they were afraid or hadn't figured out their arrangement, but when it was dinner time, a row of soldiers was erected on the opposite side. cauldron.

The pot is either a large piece of pork boiled with Dong Shu’s prepared ingredients, or stewed mutton with radish (radish) that has just been harvested.

In addition to these two meat dishes, the auxiliary soldiers were also busy making pancakes made of white flour and bean flour, and rice mixed with steamed white rice and sorghum rice.

Although the staple food is not pure white noodles and pure white rice, the two meat dishes blown by the wind are attractive enough.

The soldiers in the barracks on the opposite side smelled the smell coming from the opposite side, and then looked at the clear soup in their bowls with little water, and there was almost no trace of oily dinner, so they complained.

They also knew that what they could eat on the other side was not the money allocated by the superiors, but an additional subsidy from Xu Shiqiu, the chief general.

Because of this matter, their chief generals had made a fuss, but Xu Shiqiu had already stated that the soldiers under him had been trained hard, and it was impossible not to eat something good.

What's more, Xu Shiqiu always said publicly that it was sent by his wife.

Then why does my own wife have these?That's because the Holy One has given many rewards.

So in the end, the credit was still on the Holy Majesty.

Emperor Ruikang was naturally happy, and because of this, he specially selected a lot of things from his warehouse to reward Dong Shu.

Let him give money directly, he really doesn't have much cash in his private treasury.

As for appropriating funds from the imperial court, before Xu Shiqiu's soldiers had made any contribution, it was difficult for him to allow the Ministry of Households to appropriate funds.

Let's not mention these things for the time being, let's say that outside the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing, Xu Shiqiu's soldiers, after the large pieces of stewed pork came out of the pot, were quickly chopped into finger-thick slices by the auxiliary soldiers.

Then there is the specially prepared sauce, which is poured on the thick sliced ​​meat.

With the thick pork slices out of the pan, the mutton soup is also good.

In addition to these two meat dishes, the auxiliary soldiers also mixed a wild vegetable. If you eat too much meat, you should eat some vegetarian dishes.

The soldiers staying in the barracks just watched the soldiers on the opposite side eating meat, and they didn't control the dry food, they ate whatever they wanted.

They started to envy the meat from the opposite side, until they finished eating, they sighed and prepared to continue to defend.

But just when they were about to continue their defense, the first batch of full-fledged soldiers on the opposite side had already taken up their posture. Obviously, they were about to attack the barracks.

In the barracks left behind, neither the generals nor the soldiers thought that the soldiers on the opposite side would choose to attack at this time.

They had thought they would not attack until after midnight.

It's just that now that they have seen them preparing to attack, they naturally can't sit still and order after order is also sent out from the general's tent here.

After all, it was already autumn, and the sky darkened quickly after dinner.

Because Xu Shiqiu's soldiers ate well, they could occasionally eat an egg in the morning, and they often ate some offal of livestock and poultry, even if it was dark, it didn't affect their eyesight at all.

But it won't work on the other side.

They didn't eat well, and the chief generals would deduct their military pay. Once it got dark, they couldn't see clearly.

Although many fires were lit in the barracks, they still couldn't get too far away from the fires.

Until now, the soldiers staying here realized that the opponent chose to attack at night, because they couldn't see very clearly at night.

Except for the left-behind barracks here, although the two teams in the deep mountains have not yet met with large troops, small groups still have.

The soldiers under Xu Shiqiu were ruthless in their attacks. As long as they found the opponent's person, they would immediately attack and 'kill' them, and then special personnel would bring the person who had been judged dead out of the battlefield.

And when the two sides were fighting, there were two figures, taking advantage of the darkness of the sky, they quietly found out the camp in the deep mountain, and they rode their horses to head towards the capital.

(End of this chapter)