Chapter 10 Fate?

"The marshal, the scout team has found the area of Xingzhou, and there have been Taranian riders. Since yesterday, the scouts have begun to fight with these Taran riders. Both sides have their own wins and losses. Our scouts will suffer more. The Taran's riders are really very powerful. They are not only brave, but also very cunning, more Very good at riding and shooting, one person and two horses, our scouts don't take advantage! Up to now, half of the scouts sent out a few days ago have not come back on time!" Lin Luo said to Xiao Tianjian.

Now Lin Luo is already a battalion commander-level officer. This time, Xiao Tianjian led his northern expedition and temporarily brought together the scouts of each battalion. He set up a temporary scout brigade and handed it over to Commander Lin Luo, who was responsible for exploring the enemy in front of and around the army, so Lin Luo naturally knows the current situation.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian nodded and asked, "The tartar has really penetrated into the territory of Zhending Mansion. This time, the scale of the tartar has far exceeded the previous several times. This time, the people in the north are really pitiful! Alas!

So has the scout found the main force of Jiannu? After Xiao Tianjian sighed, he asked Lin Luo.

"The general, the scout brothers have found something. In the northeast of Xingzhou, the scouts have found a Qing army of thousands of people. In addition, there are also a large number of signs of Taranian activities in the north of Xingzhou. Unfortunately, many of the scouts under the last general have not returned, and the specific number of the surrounding slave forces is not very clear! General, please forgive me!" Lin Luo replied with a face of shame.

Xiao Tianjian also knows that Lin Luo can't be blamed for this kind of thing. After all, although they went north this time, although there were detailed work, because many people fled to the south, many of the original detailed work also lost contact. Only relying on scouts, once they encounter the Taran riding, it is inevitable to lose, and the Taran's riding is also the elite among the Jiannu, very It's not easy to deal with. Lin Luo's scouts have actually tried their best to detect so much news, and they have paid a lot of price, so he waved his hand to show that there was no problem, so that Lin Luo did not have to be uneasy about it.

"So have you ever found the officers and soldiers? Especially the soldiers and horses under Lu Xiangsheng's command?" Xiao Tianjian continued to ask.

Lin Luo immediately nodded and said, "It has been found that there are two officers and soldiers heading south from Zhending Prefecture. First of all, there should be the Guanning army led by Gao Qiqian. The strength is about 20,000 to 30,000. Now it is now moving towards Jize, and the other brothers should be under the command of Lu Xiangsheng. Soldiers and horses, but it seems that the number of officers and soldiers under Lu Xiangsheng's command is not large, at most about five or six thousand, and he is very tired! They are marching towards the giant deer, and there is no contact between the two armies!"

Xiao Tianjian looked at the sky. There was a haze in the sky and suddenly asked, "What day is it today?"

The generals were stunned for a moment, and Li Xin immediately replied, "General, today is the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month! Where are we going next?

Xiao Tianjian looked up at the sky and said to himself, "Giant deer, Jia Zhuang, it seems that everything has not changed!"

Li Xin couldn't understand what Xiao Tianjian was saying, so he then asked what to do next.

Xiao Tianjian just cleaned up his mind, so that the iron head of his middle-aged officer spread out the map, pointed to the map and said to the generals, "The first battle between us and the Jiannu army this time is here..."

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was leading less than 6,000 soldiers and horses, struggling against the cold wind and slowly marching in the direction of the giant deer. To this day, Lu Xiangsheng was already frustrated, although he tried his best to save a little national fortune for the court and led these generals to follow the construction repeatedly. The slave army fought to the death. In the past two months, they lost nearly half of their soldiers and horses.

However, the result of his efforts was the rebuke and demotion of the emperor today, and even took back the Shangfang sword given to him at the beginning.

Although the court later sent his old friend Yang Tinglin to his army and made his praise painting, which made him a little more old friend around him, which was a little gratified, what could this do for him?

Today, he used the excuse to spend Yang Tinglin in the army for the reason of seeking food, and he led Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and other soldiers and horses under his command to continue to move towards the giant deer.

But by this time, the grain in his army has already been cut off. Since he was ordered to leave Baoding, Baoding has stopped the supply of grain and salaries to his army. He sent people to Baoding City to ask for food. As a result, the governor of Baoding only left a thousand taels of silver from the city and asked him to buy grain with this little money by himself, but At present, the slaves are raging in the land of Beijing. The people are either killed, arrested, or fled. He has no place to buy food if he has money.

So he had no choice but to lead his troops south and chase the construction army that had bypassed Baoding Prefecture and sought to fight with it. Along the way, he first tried to write to the military department for food, but after the letter was sent out, it sank into the sea. He also made people take his hand to Qingyuan County Lingqingyuan County to supply him with grain, but the magistrate of Qingyuan County had already known Lu Xiang. Sheng and Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian were at discord. They were afraid of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian's **wei and did not dare to provide grain to Lu Xiangsheng at all, so he closed the gate and did not allow Lu Xiangsheng to enter the city one soldier, and at the same time did not give any grain.

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to rush the army to grab food, so he had to lead this group of soldiers to continue on the road to Zhending Mansion, hoping to get some supplies from Zhending Mansion. However, after the soldiers arrived at Zhending, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Zhending, was also afraid of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqi, and refused to lose to Lu Xiangsheng. Even if it was a day's grain, it was also closed. At the gate, Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers were not allowed to enter the city one by one.

At this time, the government of all local governments were abnormally unified, helping Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian to deal with Lu Xiangsheng, and cutting off all the support for Lu Xiangsheng's grain, for fear of offending Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, so that Lu Xiangsheng and the thousands of soldiers under his command will basically cut off food and fodder at this time. At the most every day, That is, he could drink a bowl of porridge, and some grass roots were mixed in it. Several soldiers were hungry and robbed the people's food. As a result, they were sued by the people to Lu Xiangsheng's army.

Although Lu Xiangsheng knew that the soldiers and generals were hungry and had to do it, in order not to lose the hearts of the people, he still ordered to kill these officers and soldiers, and the people who complained also found that Lu Xiangsheng had cut off food in his army and knew Lu Xiangsheng's situation. After going back, he found some people and spontaneously raised a little food. Food, sent to Lu Xiangsheng's army, wanted to help Lu Xiangsheng, but this amount of food is simply a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough for each officer and soldier to drink a bowl of porridge.

In the past few days, Lu Xiangsheng has completely ran out of food. He can only let the officers and soldiers kill a few thin horses. In addition, he sent people to dig some grass roots to cook soup along the way to make the officers and soldiers full, and he himself also endured hunger and starved, accompanying all the soldiers and generals to march with empty stomachs.

If it were someone else to lead the troops, these officers and soldiers would have changed long ago, but because Lu Xiangsheng is a rare good official in the world, these officers and soldiers would rather be hungry and work hard with Lu Xiangsheng. But by this time, everyone has been completely disappointed with the court and other officials, one by one. Secretly scolding the emperor is not a good thing. Yang Sichang is not a good thing. The officials in those prefectures and counties are not good things. They follow Lord Lu and the Tatars every day, but these bastards are watching them starve and want to drag them down. If Lord Lu hadn't taken them, they would have been If you don't have a home, you can simply fall down for the grass. If you don't have a home, you can just fall down.

Lu Xiangsheng also heard this, but at this time, he didn't want to punish these soldiers. At this time, he just wanted to meet the Tarot and end his life on the battlefield. He was also a human being. At this time, he was also extremely disappointed with the current court.

Speaking of which, he is a governor, but now he can't even find a bite of food for his officers and soldiers. Everyone wants to see him die. It's not because of his main battle, which is at a disagreement with today's emperor and important ministers Yang Sichang and eunuch Gao Qiqian, so all the people in the officialdom crowd him together. Even the thousands of officers and soldiers under his command wanted them to be martyred with him.

Looking at the gloomy sky, Lu Xiangsheng was in a bad mood, and he silently said in his heart, 'Come on! Come on! While I, Lu Xiangsheng, still have a lot of strength, to kill a few more shards, which is also a kind of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty! The Emperor! Why did you do this to me? If it goes on like this, will it really be over?'

At this time, Hu Dawei, who had become black and thin, came to Lu Xiangsheng and said with a black face, "Your Excellency, the people sent to Gao Dajian have come back. Gao Qiqian didn't agree to provide us with a little food at all. They want to starve us all to death!" If it goes on like this, not to mention the war with the tazis, even if we are hungry, we can all starve to death! My lord, let's go back to Shanxi if we can't! There is no way to fight this battle!"

When Hu Dawei spoke, Yang Guozhu also came over with an angry face and intervened in to Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Your Excellency, more and more people have been found around. They have decorated us from Zhending Mansion. It seems that the Tarot wants to find an opportunity to defeat us in one fell swoop! If it goes on like this, I'm afraid we won't have much time!"

After listening to it, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly took a deep breath and said angrily, "Shut up! As ministers of the Ming Dynasty, this is the time for us to serve our lives. How can we say such a discouraged word? Let's go down and prepare the soldiers and horses. We are looking for the Tarots on this trip. If we want to die, we will also die for the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a great glory behind us. Now we go back to Shanxi? How to go back? If anyone disturbs my army here again, don't blame me for Lu Xiangsheng's military inadmissibility!"

Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu looked at each other, so they had no choice but to intervene to give a gift. Both of them retreated. After Lu Xiangsheng watched them retreat, their bodies shook and almost fell to the ground. His family Gu Xian quickly reached out and grabbed Lu Xiangsheng and said urgently, "Master! You'd better eat something! What should we do if it goes on like this! Today, you haven't eaten any rice. Even if the master wants to fight with Jiannu to the end, at least you have to eat something and have strength!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The soldiers have no food. How can I, Lu Xiangsheng, eat alone? What's more, what's there to eat now? That's all! Don't say it! Keep going!"

And at this time, Li Qi also said angrily, "Sir, it's okay not to be an official! The master fought with Jiannu and the civilian army for the death of the imperial court all day long. Isn't he just to work for the current emperor? But now look at the whole court, who is like adults? Like Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, and even Xiao Xingtian is not as good as that. Now that Daming is in a time when the country is in danger, even Xiao Xingtian knows that he should let go of the past grudges and help the court fight against foreign bandits. However, the court only knows that they are afraid of the enemy like tigers and avoid war everywhere. Now in order to be afraid that adults will gain credit, it is cut off. The stalks of the adults want to put the adults and so many soldiers to death. In this way, it seems that the official of the court is not good! The little Lord Ningke went to help Xiao Xingtian fight down! You don't have to suffer from such bird gas here!"

Lu Xiangsheng was as if he had been electrocuted. He quickly turned his head and looked around. Fortunately, only Gu Xian and Li Qi were by his side at this time, and there was no one else. So he pulled out his waist knife in anger, waved Li Qi and said angrily, "Bold Li Qi, do you want to reverse it? I'll kill you today. Let's see if you dare to say such rebellious words!"

But Li Qi was unexpectedly tough today. He did not dodge or beg for mercy. He stretched out his neck and stared at Lu Xiangsheng's knife falling towards his neck. A layer of water mist flashed in his eyes. At the same time, he also showed a trace of pity to Lu Xiangsheng, and the knife waved to his neck in an instant. At this time, Li Qicai closed his eyes.

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