"No matter how the great masters who are officials talk about various principles, in my small soldier's opinion, this war between the north and the south was in a hurry, and the countries participating in the war were in a hurry, and the war was very strange, and it was really chaotic. Therefore, it is not surprising that this war ended up like that." This is a sentence by Hu Yan Chengrui, the "undead soldier" of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in "A Brilliant Army of a Soldier". Although it was denounced as nonsense by the senior officials of both sides of the war, it was highly recognized by many lower-level soldiers.

The challenge episode before the beginning of the Shouzhou War has been talked about continuously before the war, and it is called "Lin Hong-style Challenge". Later generations have been rumored to be mixed with words such as "being arrogant" and "confident".

At noon on September 22, when the vanguard Li Chongjin led 3,000 cavalry to Linhuai Town, the scout who was exploring the way forward turned back with a strange look on his face: "General Li, there are three people on the river bank representing Shouzhou to deliver war letters, and the leader is..."

"What are you doing hesitantly?" Li Chongjin roared angrily.

"It's a little girl of six or seven years old..." The scout looked even more strange, and he looked like he couldn't smile bitterly.

For a moment, the strange feeling of wanting to be angry and laughing surged into Li Chongjin's heart at the same time. He threw out the whip to the scout. The whip turned around in the air, but finally hit the horse's butt hard. The war horse roared and rushed forward.

"Let's go and take a look." The other cavalry also shouted and followed him on horseback.

When he arrived in front of the river embankment on the north bank of the Huai River, Li Chongjin really saw a scene that made him laugh and cry: the two hundred soldiers stationed in Linhuai Town were fully armed around the east and below the river embankment. In the middle, there were two adults, one child, and three people, and a large flag of the Southern Tang Heilong was clattering in the autumn wind.

Both adults were wearing black military uniforms in Southern Tang, fully armed, sitting on the edge of the river bank with their hands in their chests, with long straw poles in their mouths, and bored. The little girl leaning against the flagpole was at most seven years old. She was wearing a very fitting red cheongsam, wearing an outer mat on her upper body, a small braid on her head, and a letter larger than her little face in her hand. It was Lin Hong, the "ghost elf" of Shouzhou Junior Military Academy.

Seeing Li Chongjin riding his horse, Lin Hong suddenly felt energetic. He trotted two steps to the river bank, raised his face and shouted: "Is the one who came back this time a human being? Do you dare to accept the challenge letter from our Shouzhou?"

Li Chong's nose was almost pissed. The wild girl who ran out of nowhere was so angry that she spoke.

A deputy general rushed out on a horse and replied loudly: "Little girl, please give me the key point. This is our vanguard officer of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the commander general of the camp, and the inner palace is the master of General Li Chongjin."

Lin Hong curled her lips, raised her little fingers with orchid fingers, and said disdainfully: "What are the straight and what are the straight. I haven't heard of it. I just don't know if you are old enough and are you qualified to accept our challenge book."

Li Chongjin was ruined by anger. He had never been scolded by pointing at the nose like this before, and he couldn't help but say loudly: "I commanded 20,000 elite Zhou dynasties. Do you think I am qualified?"

Lin Hong's mouth sagged and said disdainfully: "I can lead 20,000 soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. I have led hundreds of people. What's so great about it? Let's give it to you for now."

Lin Hong raised the letter in his hand into the air.

Feng Jingyun, who was originally sitting along the river bank, suddenly moved, and supported his right hand on the ground, bounced back, gently took the letter, and tapped under his feet, and rushed straight from the river bank that was one person high.

Several personal guards were shocked, either hitting the horse forward or jumping off the horse and rushing towards him, but it was too late. Feng Jingyun rushed to Li Chongjin's horse like a ghost, gently slapped the horse's forehead with his right hand, and handed the letter to him with his left hand.

As soon as Li Chongjin's hand touched the letter, Feng Jingyun shrank, shook his body from among the several guards, and returned to the edge of the river bank with a few steps. He hit Liu Qi on the other side to celebrate.

At this moment, a "bang" sound was heard, and a small bell on the horse's forehead fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. It turned out that Feng Jingyun had skillfully pulled off the bell when he just stroked it, and he pinched it with a secret force and threw it on the ground.

Li Chongjin looked at the bell on the ground, snorted coldly, and shook his hands, only to find that the letter in his hand was not sealed, and he was stunned.

Lin Hong saw his movements and his unforgiving little mouth began again: "Mr. Lin said, "Anyone can read the challenge book. Can you, a little boy, not even have the courage?"

Li Chongjin snorted coldly, took out the paper from the letter, and looked at it in a tight manner.

"Incoming for no reason is to invade, coming uninvited is to robbers. I dare to ask the commander of the invading army and dare to fight with our 100,000 military and civilian gentlemen in Shouzhou."

There is only one sentence on the paper, and Lin Feng’s seal of the Central Governor’s Office is stamped below.

"Hey, little white-faced, I'll ask on behalf of our Shouzhou people, what does it mean to be so many soldiers to the south?" Lin Hong's sharp voice sounded again.

"Our Great Zhou represents the country in the world to attack Lin Feng, who is doing the opposite, as the saying goes, to do the way for heaven." Li Chongjin shouted back with righteous words.

Lin Hong narrowed her eyes and said in a sharper voice: "Oh, what did my brother Lin do? The people in Chu did not object, and the officers and soldiers in Qingyuan did not object. Why do you come here to coax me?"

Li Chongjin was suddenly stopped by Lin Hong's sharp teeth. Yes, the main parties had no objection. Why should you stand up? It represents Wu Yue, Southern Han, and Wu Yue had a territorial dispute with Southern Tang. Southern Han even took the initiative to invade the Gui-managed area first. Why should you stand up for these two countries?

One of them jumped out of the back, showed off his steel knife, and shouted: "Okay, you little girl, you are uneducated, believe it or not, I will slash you with one knife."

"Oh... so majestic. It turns out that you will bully children. It's so shameless." Lin Hong put her hands on her hips and slapped her feet, cursing with her voice even sharper.

Li Chongjin suddenly threw a whip and hit Du's head, whispering to him and retreat.

"This little guy is not bad. I remember you. Okay, the challenge book has been delivered. I am going back. We are waiting for you in Shouzhou. Be careful that you have the fate to come, but you have no chance to go back." Lin Hong said loudly, patting each other with his two little hands and pulling up the banner with force.

Feng Jingyun walked over, carried Lin Hong and his men and flag on his shoulders, and walked down the river bank with great strides. Liu Qi stood up leisurely and patted his butt and followed behind.

Several incredible cavalry of the Later Zhou Dynasty wanted to attack the horse, but Li Chongjin glared back fiercely.

Li Chongjin stuffed the challenge book into his arms, rushed to the river bank with his horse, and looked at it, and his heart immediately sank.

Looking into the distance, starting from the center of the Huai River, you can vaguely see groups of ships swimming on the south side of the Huai River; behind those ships are three or four-story water camps, full of soldiers; and further to the Nanhe River embankment behind are a row of towering trees.

Li Zhi, who was following Li Chongjin, was confused. They went to the river every day to inspect and knew that the sentry tower was built two days ago, but could these water villages not be built one night last night?

Li Chongjin listened with his ears, and there was no other sound except the wind. The other party, who was nearly 200 meters apart, seemed to be performing a pantomime, performing on his own, ignoring the soldiers here at all.
Chapter completed!