Chapter 889

The Navy's warship arrived three days later than expected. This rarely happened to the black flag army with such strict military laws. Although it was summer, it didn't rain frequently and there were few storms on the river. It was expected that the time was quite ample, but the navy was still late, which was incomprehensible.

What's more puzzling is that Fang Xie didn't blame the Navy General Zheng Qiu.

The main generals of the black flag army all know Fang Xie. On weekdays, Fang Xie talks with these subordinates, regardless of rank and inferiority. Fang Xie has not done this once, squatting together with the soldiers and eating with a bowl. However, as long as it is designing military affairs, Fang Xie is very strict with his subordinates. This time, it is unusual, but people don't understand.

After Zheng Qiu arrived, he was called into the study by Fang Xie. He stayed in it for more than half an hour before he came out. He didn't know what he talked about.

Although many people found this unusual, Du Dingbei's mind was not on it at all. At this time, his excitement was unparalleled except tension. In the Central Plains, there has been no such example for too long.

More than 100 years ago, Emperor Taizong of the great Sui Dynasty succeeded to the throne and promoted Li Xiao, a little-known figure from a poor family, who was only a teenager at that time. At that time, the Manchu civil and military did not understand why Emperor Taizong chose this. Li Xiao was born in a poor family, and there was nothing bright on his resume.

At that time, when the great Sui Dynasty was just established, there were talented young people everywhere. Emperor Taizong chose a person who was not outstanding to be promoted, which caused an uproar at that time. At that time, although Taizu Yang Jian killed many meritorious heroes, after all, there were still many founding generals alive, and their descendants had grown up and sprung up because of the teachings of their parents.

As a teenager, Li Xiao was entrusted by Emperor Taizong with the important task of training the new army, which was only received by meritorious veterans at that time. Moreover, he has led the army for ten years. In the past ten years, Li Xiao has lived in the barracks without fighting, and the criticism in the imperial court has not stopped in the past ten years. Perhaps in order to shut up the courtiers, Emperor Taizong asked Li Xiao, who already had a military position, to participate in the entrance examination of the martial arts academy and win the first prize in one fell swoop. The excellent results of the nine doors really surprised people off their chin.

Ten years later, the Emperor Taizong promoted Li Xiao, who had not made any achievements, to the rank of a top general of the third grade, which was unacceptable to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. How many of the senior generals who followed emperor Taizu to fight in the first place did not reach this position?

A young man of low birth and no military merit was promoted to one of the 16 guards before he was 30. It was just like a dream.

After Emperor Taizong promoted Li Xiao as a general, he asked him to take 100000 people of the new army to Fanhu to train sailors and supervise the construction of warships. Five more years later, Li Xiao, who was already over the age of 30, brought his troops and horses for 15 years without waves and waves.

On the day of Li Xiao's 33rd birthday, the imperial court suddenly came again. Emperor Taizong Jin granted Li Xiao a first-class Marquis, and the whole dynasty was shocked!

But before the courtiers objected, Emperor Taizong suddenly ordered a southern expedition!

Li Xiao was appointed as the general manager of the march to the south, the Grand Marshal of various armies and horses, the commander-in-chief of the new army to the South and the ten guards who participated in the war. Some veterans should be controlled by him! Emperor Taizong's will seriously pointed out that whoever opposed Li Xiao was against him, and whoever kept giving orders was disobedience.

The next thing is well known. At the age of 33, Li Xiao led his army to the south. The Navy he built by himself defeated the so-called unparalleled Navy Nanchen. Instead, the Yangtze River, which Nanchen regarded as a natural moat, became the tomb of Navy Nanchen. After crossing the river, although the new army trained by Li Xiao entered the battlefield in a real sense for the first time, the edge of sacrificing oneself immediately showed up.

In only one month, 100000 new troops wiped out the current Huainan road and approached Jiangdu City.

It was a time when there were a large number of famous generals. After the founding heroes of the Sui Dynasty, dozens of people emerged in this war, just like the stars in the sky. These generals rushed forward like they would not admit defeat in the war to destroy Chen. The army of the great Sui Dynasty crushed the Nanchen army into powder. These young generals were impressive in the war.

However, there is no doubt that if there are bright stars behind those generals, Li Xiao is a bright moon in the sky, and no one can cover his light. Emperor Taizong was the red sun, which gave the bright moon brilliance.

Li Xiao spent five years in Jiangnan and laid down more than half of the rivers and mountains in the Sui Dynasty.

He spent fifteen years dormant and five years shocked!

Although Emperor Taizong had to withdraw Li Xiao from the south of the Yangtze River and send him to defend the bitter and cold places in the northwest because of his great work, Li Xiao's experience was undoubtedly an incentive to all the poor disciples.

Du Dingbei's mind now is just like Li Xiao's appreciation and trust in Emperor Taizong. Before he wrote to Yangcheng with the army, Du Dingbei never thought he would be so important. The first battle of crossing the river is of great significance to the expedition of Subei road!

Fang Xie doesn't care about his youth or his lack of command experience. This kind of trust can't be given by anyone. Therefore, Du Dingbei could not express his gratitude to the other party. He told himself again and again that he must not be sorry for the Lord's trust!

Fang Xie's plan to use an inexperienced 16-year-old poor family to command the war was publicized a few days ago, and the whole Xinyang City and even the people within hundreds of miles heard about it. On the day when the war was scheduled to start, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the West Bank of Luoshui to watch the war. They all wanted to see how the 16-year-old boy enabled by the Duke of the state defeated Mr. Xishan, who has achieved a long time in Subei road.

"Hey!"

An old man stroked his beard and said: "In my life, I have experienced two major wars. The first one was that the army of the great Sui Dynasty destroyed business. At that time, I was still young and saw the momentum of the army of the great Sui Dynasty. This is the second time. The great Sui Dynasty has been in chaos, but with the black flag army in our southwest, who dares to do it? Only people like the Duke of the state will use people from poor families. Have you heard of it, and so will the Duke of the state Poor family background! "

"Why didn't you hear?"

A man next to him held his jaw high and looked proud, as if Fang Xie was his acquaintance and good friend: "Who in the whole Central Plains doesn't know about the Lord of the state? Chang'an made a great success in his teens. Don't say he won the nine excellent results in the entrance examination of the martial arts academy. That is the small character calculation method that has been circulating all over the world. If the Pinyin annotation method is not a genius, what demons and ghosts dare not come here if the Lord of the state is in our southwest!"

"In the past, when there was a war, we could hide and run. Where would we talk and laugh like this?"

A young man said with a pipe in his mouth, "today I've put down all my work in the field. I just want to see how the young man used by the Lord grows a face for the Lord!"

"Beat the drum!"

At this time, bursts of drums came from the riverside. The people looked at the riverside from a high place. A man in a big red cloak rode to the front of the array and shouted loudly.

"Forward!"

"Forward!"

"Forward!"

The black flag soldiers waiting on the shore burst out deafening roars, like a group of tigers.

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Du Dingbei clenched his fist and wiped the sweat from his hands on his clothes. He quickly climbed onto the platform built by the river and took over the big flag in the hands of the messenger soldiers around him. Behind him, 36 huge cowhide war drums had been beating, and the soldiers were ready to go to the other side to let the enemies taste the black flag Sabre and gun.

"Ask the Navy General Zheng Qiu to clean up the river!"

Du Dingbei shouted.

The horn sounded. Soon the flagship of the Navy responded to the horn. Immediately after that, dozens of Yellow Dragon warships and two big boats began to move slowly. On the warships, the Navy archers were ready. Before crossing the river, the Navy had to clean up the northern Jiangsu military fleet on the river and suppress the archers on the other side.

Standing in the bow of the flagship ship, Zheng Qiu's expression is also very dignified. This is the first war after he led the army to surrender to Fang Xie. He is worried about Du Dingbei. This war must not be ugly, otherwise his future status will be worried. If Du Dingbei fails to live up to Fang Xie's trust in this war, he will never be able to stand out in the black flag army again.

It's about the future. No one dares to be careless.

"General"

Deputy General Xu Shubao stood beside Zheng Qiu, pointed to the northern Soviet Army on the other side and said, "the enemy are small boats. It seems that they want to rely on flexibility to come and destroy the ship."

Zheng Qiu raised his eyes for a thousand miles, then sneered: "water ghost? I haven't been scuttled by water ghost for so many years. Let him see what's the difference between a real Navy and a patched up miscellaneous army! Let our water ghost go down from the other side of the ship first, don't be seen by the people on the other side, and use a new flag!"

"Here!"

Xu Shubao turned around and ordered a few words. The flagman standing on the mast immediately waved the command flag.

Across the river, in the northern Jiangsu army.

A middle-aged man with a thousand li eye frowned and couldn't help muttering, "what's this flag? Why is it different from the flag of the water division of the great Sui Dynasty?"

Sun YINGDIAN sat beside him and looked at the middle-aged man: "Mr. Xishan, what are you talking about?"

The elegant middle-aged man in his thirties shook his head: "nothing, just some usual tricks. Zheng Qiu's Navy thought that a big ship could run rampant on the river. I have recruited hundreds of fishermen with excellent water properties to prepare. He would not dare to be so arrogant when he scuttled his two big ships."

Sun YINGDIAN nodded and asked after a while, "Mr. Xishan... You can't lose this time! The black flag military solution is so arrogant that it uses a hairy boy to command the river crossing. If they win this war, not only do you look bad, but I don't have the face to see people!"

Mr. Nishiyama said coldly, "I thought Fang Xie was a great man, but from this incident, we can see that he is just a man with a false reputation. He just wants to use this young man to annoy us, and he also wants to force us to fight a decisive battle by the river. He has a water division and thinks he can defeat our team in the first battle. It's more beautiful."

"It's all up to you."

Sun YINGDIAN looked worried, but there was no other way at this time.

west bank

Seeing the start of the warship, the people at high places cheered, and the sound even overshadowed the sound of the war drum. Even the officers and men of the black flag army experienced this scene for the first time. Never before, hundreds of thousands of people cheered along the coast when the team went on an expedition. The fighting spirit of the soldiers was summoned by the cheers, and everyone was rubbing their hands.

"Dingbei"

Fang Xie went to Du Dingbei, stopped, pointed to the northern Soviet Army line opposite and said, "what's the other side?"

"It's the enemy!"

Du Dingbei replied.

"No"

Fang Xie shook his head: "on the other side is the gold plaque outside the front door of your house. It is a pen that can write in history books. It is the cheers of your relatives in your old hometown and the first stone step you climb the mountain."

"My subordinates understand!"

Du Dingbei was completely inspired by this sentence. He looked at Fang Xie and said in a loud voice: "Lord, subordinates should shine on the lintel!"