Delong

Chapter 302 Tiger Row (3)

The Xue brothers' play is poor and overworked.

First of all, there are really miracles in this world.Crossing Yanshan Mountain to the north, walking down Longtan to the east, crossing the Nanling Mountains, stepping through the poisonous desert, you can see miracles... Even the Red Mountain in the southwest and the Sea of ​​​​Bitterness in the northwest are located there, and the Hanshui River Basin is even more so. Tens of millions of people survived.

You can have as many miracles as you want, there are good ones, and there are bad ones, and if someone really takes a fancy to it, it’s up to you.

At the same time, miracles are often useless.

This is because after Lord Baidi, the pattern of the four royals was formed, and the fierce competition in the mortal world, especially the failure of the ancestor emperor's eastward expedition, and the subsequent appearance of the four royals betting on their successors, triggered some conflicts among mortals. People of insight have strong resistance and disgust towards the Four Imperial Palaces.

Otherwise, where is the Trinity Orthodox Church that respects the three hui and suppresses the four royals?Where did the emperor claim to be the Supreme on the Land?

Including commanding the dragon, sealing soil, and advocating cultural cultivation, all kinds of methods, all kinds of methods since the heyday of Tang Dynasty, seem to contain the actual resistance of mortals to the four emperors behind their backs.

And the effect is quite remarkable, especially after the spread of the Trinity Orthodox Church, the middle land and cultivated land (that is, Hebei, Dongjing, Central Plains, Jindi, Guanlong, Xiliang, Bashu, Jingxiang, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Jianghuai) There are almost no large-scale divine revelations in the world...most of them are the encounters of a very small number of people.

In short, regardless of the touching reasons behind it, the final result is that divine intervention has gradually seldom occurred in the past millennia. While being a husband, he is often despised by quite a few people.

Therefore, when seeing that big white fish, not only did Chen Bin feel tired, but those who had genuinely recognized Xue Changxiong's military might could not help but sneer at this moment.

However, after all, Xue Changxiong has more experience and knows how to be embarrassed, so he waved his hands on the spot: "If you two have nothing to do, then throw the fish down and go to the front to set up a camp!"

The fourth brother Xue Wanbi was more shrewd, knowing that the matter was too much, he immediately galloped away. The third Xue Wannian was embarrassed for a moment, threw the big white fish after a long while, and ran away with a fishy smell all over his body.

Small episode, as if not worth mentioning.

And then, the army rumbled and marched continuously, but it easily covered up many similar incidents.

No matter what, Xue Changxiong's hard power is there. In terms of background, he is an orthodox Guanlong military noble; in terms of cultivation, even if he has not reached the master, he must have touched the threshold; In terms of seniority, before the Three Crusades, he was a general guarding one side, and when the Three Crusades collapsed, he was the top commander of the Wei Dynasty, second only to the few people who came to Zhan'er. He will be appointed to the Hejian camp to take charge of his own affairs.

Especially this time, because it is necessary to consider the opportunity window of the ice flood season, the troops have also marched properly, and they are moving quickly along the way. Delays in plowing and spring plowing are inevitable, but there are very few special looting operations... This kind of posture, again Coupled with the name of avenging Zhang Shiyu, they finally gradually dispelled the doubts of the local officials along the way and became cooperative.

Not only that, the army continued to move forward, and many states and counties sent more or less symbolic reinforcements.Two days later, when the troops crossed the Qingzhang River, an even bigger piece of good news came—from a political point of view, Xue Changxiong was not the same way as Dongdu, and the request for help sent to Dongdu before the war Clerks have received positive, if not strong, feedback.

After receiving the clear decree of the Southern Yamen from the Eastern Capital, Wu'an, Hengshan, Weijun, and Wuyang all responded, and messengers arrived in front of Xue Changxiong's army, indicating that the county guards would personally lead the elite soldiers to help.Wang Huaidu, the prefect of Ji County, will also dispatch local warehouses for flank support, and Qu Tuda, the general directly under the Eastern Capital, who is already in Ji County, will also lead [-] elite troops eastward.

At this time, a rough calculation, when the official army reaches Ban County, I am afraid that another [-] to [-] troops will be added.

"That's not how it works."

Unexpectedly, Xue Changxiong seemed to have maintained a certain calm until now. He entered the empty Changhe County of Pingyuan County and had a banquet in Changhe City that night. "The county soldiers are actually useless, but if the army gathers and there are too many people, it will be unfavorable to the command, and I don't know if the battle is ready after they lead the troops..."

"That's the truth." The No. [-] Zhonglang of Youzhou Daying put Luo Shu down the bowl of warm wine and blurted out almost instinctively. "At present, it seems that the most effective reinforcement is General Qu Tuda of Ji County. , the most useful ones should be the local soldiers of the three counties of Pingyuan, Qinghe, and Bohai, but it is only to use their familiarity with geography and climate to be scattered among the armies as guides and guides..."

This is a big banquet before entering the battle state. The whole army is here. Under the bright lights, many state and county reinforcements and local officials who heard this remark were dissatisfied. They all looked at Luo Shu coldly.

But the latter didn't care at all.

"General Luo said well." Xue Changxiong also looked at Luo Shu, but he was full of appreciation. "However, one sentence is still wrong. Isn't the eight thousand Youzhou iron cavalry the most effective reinforcements? This battle is about to rely on General Luo."

Luo Shu was overjoyed, and quickly got up to toast, and Xue Changxiong also received it grandly.

But this time, even the generals of the Hejian Camp were dissatisfied, including the eldest son of Li Cheng, the general manager of Youzhou, and Li Li, the first Zhonglang general of the Youzhou Camp, just sneered and sneered, but Luo Shu still pretended not to see it. .

After a lot of excitement, Luo Shu sat down, but Chen Bin, the supervisor of the army, mentioned another thing: "Since we have arrived in Pingyuan, why don't we see Pingyuan Tongshou Qiantang? According to General Luo's words, it is time to use him , Bohai and Qinghe didn't arrive either."

"Not to mention, Qian Tang probably hated us because of Zhang Shiyu's affairs." Xue Changxiong seemed to have had a few more drinks, but he had no scruples.

But when you think about it, from Xue Changxiong's cognition and perspective, only those strong men with military skills and cultivation will be recognized by him. However, even though there are many people at the banquet, the ones he really values ​​are the Hejian soldiers. In the Youzhou reinforcements, Li Li is the son of his rival Li Cheng, who is both an opponent and a junior, and the other Luo Shu is obviously speculative, so what else should he care about?

"If this is the case, how should we deal with it?" Chen Bin continued to ask earnestly.

"Don't worry about him." Xue Changxiong blurted out. "After all, it is a prefect of a county. If he doesn't come, let him die in Ande City... When the army enters, we will directly recruit the county soldiers and civilians, and we will occupy the city. Can he stop it?"

"That's true." Chen Bin laughed. "What about Qinghe and Bohai?"

"The new prefect of Bohai is a scribe. He took up the post temporarily, and he was scared out of his wits by what happened to Zhang Junshou before." Xue Changxiong was thoughtful. "It's not intentional to be angry. Wait until Ban County to recruit...Qinghe...Qinghe can send a document to remind Cao Shancheng to come earlier."

Chen Bin nodded.

However, although there is no Cao Cao in this world, there is no delay. Only about two quarters of an hour later, when I was in the middle of drinking, I suddenly heard the announcement that the Tongshou of Pingyuan and Tongshou of Qinghe had arrived.

It's just that they didn't bring a large team.

Everyone flattered them again and again, saying that it was due to General Xue's prestige, but Xue Changxiong drank too much wine, so he didn't bother to refute this time, and just waited for the two guards to come in.

After a while, I saw the two of them enter the hall. I saw that the two of them were relatively young, one Qian Tang was less than [-] years old, and the other Cao Shancheng was only [-] years old. It's hard to hide the contempt in my heart, but I just took advantage of the wine and pretended not to know, I didn't even salute, and no one gave up the front seat.

The two of them didn't have much to say, they just saluted with Xue Changxiong, and hurriedly added two more seats at the door of the lobby, and after they were seated, Qian Tangwu drank his own wine and didn't speak, only Cao Shancheng got busy.

"General Xue." Cao Shancheng didn't drink any alcohol, but he was serious in his seat with a chill all over his body. "Have you ever received documents from Dongdu and the counties?"

Xue Changxiong frowned.

It was still Chen Bin who took the initiative to interface: "Of course I received it."

Cao Shancheng knew that the other party was the Sima of the Supervising Army, but he ignored it. He just continued to talk to Xue Changxiong: "In this case, I want to ask a military order to go to the west alone to meet General Qu Tuda and several other county guards. Joining forces together..."

"You want to form an independent army?" Xue Changxiong quickly became alert.

"Yes." Cao Shancheng answered boldly. "The lower officials want to do things cheaply..."

Xue Changxiong immediately turned cold.

Chen Bin glanced at it, then turned his head to look at Cao Shancheng: "Did Cao County Sheriff get Dongdu's private order? Or is the Dongdu document we received different?"

Zhang Shiyu was gone, and Xue Changxiong didn't need to worry about anyone in the Hebei land. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and unceremoniously stared at Qinghe Tongshou who had just arrived.

Cao Shancheng had no choice but to suppress his dissatisfaction, turned to look at Chen Bin, and slightly cupped his hands: "Chen Sima, I haven't received any special documents, it's just a personal suggestion... You must know that the bandit army is deep in the trenches and barriers, and they are afraid of peace in Banxian County. In Changjian, the camp is strong, and when the army gathers, time is tight, so it is not easy to dispatch it easily, and waste the army power for nothing. Instead of this, it is better to divide the troops early, pass through Douzigang, and attack from the side and rear..."

"Why is Governor Cao contradicting himself?" Chen Bin laughed when he heard this. "Since you said that the bandit army has set up a large camp between Ban County and Pingchang, and the front line is tens of miles wide, why are you worried about wasting troops? Since you know that time is running out, why don't you use my Hejian The main force of the army made a breakthrough, and the follow-up county soldiers swept deeper, instead of wasting time to gather in the west? As for the hard work of crossing Douzigang, don't you know that they are alone under the flood, why bother, go from the rear?"

Cao Shancheng was slightly taken aback, but before he could refute, many generals of the Hejian Army laughed out loud, full of sarcasm.

Amidst the laughter, Qian Tang turned a blind eye and continued to drink, but Cao Shancheng was so angry that he snapped at the table and asked, "What is Chen Sima playing with? The waste of military power is to worry about the inconvenience of commanding because of the large number of people. What does it have to do with the width of the front?" The next few counties set off late, if there is no supervision and urging, let them go their own way, I am afraid that they will not catch up at all, and it is a waste of time not to assemble! As for the subsequent raids, it is to catch them off guard!"

Chen Bin's eyelids twitched, his heart froze, and he immediately went to see Xue Changxiong, only to find that Xue Changxiong's face was already pale, and he wanted to continue talking when he turned around.

Cao Shancheng also suppressed his anger, ready to argue with the other party.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Qian Tang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up, smashed a bottle of wine on the ground, and burst into flames: "The court guard came to pay a visit to the chief of the army, how dare a group of Zhonglang generals act like monkeys?" Stopping in the middle like laughing and laughing, is there no class law in the army?! Or is the Great Wei court already dead?!"

The noise suddenly disappeared, and the whole room was silent, and then many people's faces turned red, ashamed and angry.

Xue Changxiong also stood up slowly, staring at Qian Tang: "Qian Tongshou has such a big temper. Since you know the class law, let me ask you, why are you being rude when you come to my camp?"

"Am I coming to your camp for your personal sake?" Qian Tang sneered, without any fear, instead he stood up to meet him, but skipped the topic of class law. "General Manager Xue led the army to quell the chaos. We local county guards came here as subordinates. One is for the Wei court; the other is for the responsibility; the third is for the people living in the territory... What is the private matter of Chief Xue? How can we do it? Obedient as a domestic servant?"

At this time, Xue Changxiong already regretted knowing that the two had resentment but still underestimated them so much that they caused trouble.

When Chen Bin saw it next to him, he sighed helplessly: "Everyone, everyone, let me say a few words... I am Sima of the Supervising Army. This is a serious military banquet. It is so noisy and disorderly. Of course it is my fault. I failed to give the two counties It's my fault to keep the seats that complement each other, and it's my fault that everyone disturbed the words of the two county guards... But the two county guards have to be reasonable. Mi, if you want to make room for the two, you need to move back together? What is this? Please forgive me."

As soon as the soft words came out, the atmosphere calmed down a bit, and Cao Shancheng seemed not to care about it, but just went to see Qian Tang who stood up for him.

But Qian Tang sneered, but made a jaw-dropping move. Without hesitation, with a wave of his sleeve, he directly swept away the wine and meat on the temporary table in front of him, and then carried it on the spot. Get up, walk to the middle opposite Xue Changxiong's cases, and put it down again.

Then he turned back again, prepared several cases of Cao Shancheng in the same way, and placed them opposite to Chen Bin, the supervisor of the army, and then sat down opposite to Chen Bin, and turned around to ask Cao Shancheng to go face to face with Xue Changxiong.

The crowd was stunned.

But Cao Shancheng paused, walked over, sat down, and then continued to say in front of Xue Changxiong: "Mr. , Even if the soldiers are strong and strong, there are some characteristics that cannot be changed... First, the life in the barracks is small, and they are afraid of surprise attacks; The training days are short, and the allocation of materials and personnel is always based on human feelings, not laws... So, what I mean is, we don't have to attack from one side and the whole front, but Director Xue and I are divided into two groups, and then each concentrates the elite and takes turns to attack day and night. Don't stop, wait until it is exhausted, it will definitely break through, once it breaks through, go deep into it, and if you don't let it go, the whole army of thieves will be defeated! In this way, you can be worthy of the country and the court."

After saying this, Cao Shancheng worshiped each other with a big gift after a few cases, as an entreaty.

On the other hand, Qian Tang didn't say a word, just went to look at Chen Bin in front of him.

Chen Bin looked at Qian Tang, then at Cao Shancheng on the ground, his thoughts were delicate, but he didn't speak.

After a long while, Xue Changxiong suddenly laughed, his eyes swept over his confidant Chen Bin who was being watched, his several sons who were at a loss, and finally looked at Luo Shu in the seat: "General Luo, you have always Zhibing, what do you think?"

Luo Shu naturally understood the other party's intentions, sighed immediately, and then replied solemnly: "Reporting to the general, I think what Cao Junshou said is reasonable...but his plan may not be appropriate...Don't say anything else, if you talk about dividing troops On the other hand, if we concentrate our elites to make breakthroughs, is there a better choice in the world than our Youzhou Tuqi? Even if we want to dismount and fight, we are faster than them! So, I really don’t know why it must be at this time Then divide the troops? Can't wait until the army is overwhelmed and let the general adjust his subordinates according to the battle situation?"

Xue Changxiong nodded in satisfaction, and went down to look at Cao Shancheng in front of him: "Governor Cao, did you hear that? It's not like I can't divide my troops to flank or go around... But now that Youzhou Tuqi is here, even if I go around, I can't use it You come to organize a few counties to act."

Cao Shancheng raised his head and finally found it difficult to speak: "But it is inconvenient to move a large army in the front, and it is easy to go wrong from logistics to command to dispatch troops."

"It doesn't matter." Xue Changxiong answered boldly. "That's because you haven't fought a big battle, but I'm used to it. To me, the more troops you have, the better."

Cao Shancheng finally couldn't go on talking.

He was not convinced, but realized that if he continued speaking, it would be counterproductive... Some of the words that the dragon thief said in the leaflet were true. Without Zhang Shiyu, there would be no effective cooperation with Xue Changxiong at the local level.

Even, just because I was promoted by Uncle Cao in the Eastern Capital, and because I was born in a humble background, people were naturally unwilling to listen to me.

On the other side, when Xue Changxiong saw this, he only thought that the other party was subdued, so he showed his face again, and asked someone to set up several cases for Cao Shancheng, serve wine and food, and emphasized that all the armies on the West Road must come to him to join him and listen to orders. .

Chen Bin stood up and was about to have Qian Tang rearranged.

However, Qian Tang sneered, stood up, turned around and left before Xue Changxiong turned blue again without saying hello.

Walking out of the lobby of the private house where the banquet was held, there was excitement again behind him, Qian Tang looked at the double moon above his head, feeling at a loss.

The reason why he came here was essentially because he received a letter written by his old boss Cao Zhongcheng, asking him to be patient and help the country as much as possible. After arriving, he saw a farce triggered by Cao Shancheng's words, and in the farce From the coach to the reinforcements, everyone has their own calculations, and I can't help but feel contempt again.

Only when he came out, he suddenly realized that what he has done today, that is, the so-called forbearance for the country and sudden outbreak, isn't it also caused by pure selfishness?Has it ever been considered fundamentally and out of some principle?
The most difficult thing in the world is public and private, right?Especially at this moment, when the building has collapsed, everyone has considerations, and even the public can't say anything.

(End of this chapter)