On this day, the camp of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation was completed, Fang Xuanzao and Shan Xiongxin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Shan Xiongxin said a little tiredly: "Hurry up, hurry up, finally repair the camp, but next, how should our army act?" ”

In the battle of Xiang'an, the Wei army lost about 40,000 people, and the advantage in strength was gone, and Shan Xiongxin only had 10,000 elite soldiers here and 20,000 people who were promoted to war. There are still 40,000 elites in Qingliu County resting, but this is the only available army for Li Mi, if Xu Shiji and Wang Bodang are not supported, they need to be urgently transferred from these 40,000 people, although there are still 20,000 in Jiangdu City, but the scale of this city is huge, and it is not enough to be apportioned to the city wall, how can it be used? There were some county soldiers in the other counties, but they also had to prevent local tyrants from causing rebellion, and Meng Haigong in the south also contained 30,000 Wei troops. This means that when the recruits have not yet transformed into combatants, it is impossible for Li Mi to take the initiative to send troops.

"Wait!" Fang Xuanzao pondered for a moment and spit out a word.

"Wait?" Shan Xiongxin looked at Fang Xuanzao blankly, and wondered: "It's that simple? ”

"That's right! Too easy. Fang Xuanzao explained: "According to the report from our army scouts, Yang Dong brought Du Jun only 15,000 soldiers and horses, this is his Son of Heaven pro-army, and its mission is to protect Yang Dong's safety, which shows that only at the critical moment, Yang Dong's army will attack, so it is calculated that Du Fuwei's available troops are still only his original army." Although our army was defeated, but Du Fuwei has experienced great battles one after another, and is definitely not better than our army, although he is temporarily victorious at this time, it is very difficult to break through our camp with his troops, we only need to guard the camp now, reorganize morale, train soldiers, and wait for Du Fuwei to attack, they rashly commit the camp, it is to kill themselves! If Du Fuwei does not come, it will leave more time for the king to recruit soldiers and train the army. ”

"Okay, the last general will follow the words of Mr.!" Shan Xiongxin nodded, as the general of the Wei State, he knew quite well about the situation of the Wei army, and now he really did not dare to send troops indiscriminately, for them, every elite soldier is quite valuable now.

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of mourning outside the camp, Shan Xiongxin and Fang Xuanzao frowned at the same time, Shan Xiongxin's deputy general Xu Shiren's face was cold, and he said sharply: "Who is making noise outside?" ”

"Back to the general, it was Emperor Sui who sent someone to play mourning music!" A lieutenant stepped in and replied.

"Bastard!" Shan Xiongxin slapped the table case, and when he saw Fang Xuanzao's eyes, he suppressed the anger in his chest and said in a deep voice: "Why didn't you shoot them to death?" ”

"General, they were ordered by Emperor Sui to return the bodies of our soldiers, it's not good to shoot arrows!" The lieutenant smiled bitterly.

"What? Also the remains? Shan Xiongxin asked loudly.

The lieutenant replied, "Exactly! ”

"Who's coming?" A cold color flashed in Shan Xiongxin's eyes.

"General Hui, the person who came is Du Fuwei's righteous son Wang Xiong's birthday." The lieutenant said in a deep voice.

"I'm going to kill him!" Xu Shiren snorted, picked up the knife and ran outside the barracks.

"Stop!" Shan Xiongxin stood up and snorted coldly.

"General?" Xu Shiren turned his head and looked at Shan Xiongxin in puzzlement.

"The two armies are fighting without slashing, this is a rule, and it can't be broken! Moreover, people are here to return the corpses of our soldiers this time, and they can't do too much in terms of emotion and reason. Shan Xiongxin walked out of the handsome position and said lightly: "Let's go!" Come with me to greet the corpses of the soldiers. ”

"Whoa!" Xu Shiren clenched the big knife in his hand unwillingly, and followed behind Shan Xiongxin, and Fang Xuanzao and several generals also followed.

Outside the camp, a stream of bloody air came to his nose, making Shan Xiongxin frown, but Fang Xuanzao's heart sank, and those people who came with the Sui army were still playing mourning.

A large group of Wei soldiers were not kind to the eyes, surrounded the two hundred Sui cavalry in the middle, but the Sui soldiers turned a blind eye, Gu Jing Bubo's face exuded a calm temperament, even if they rode on the war horse, the waist pole was still straight, the momentum was sharp and extraordinary, like a long knife out of the sheath, straight into the sky.

"What a spirit!" Rao is Shan Xiongxin was extremely depressed in his chest, and he couldn't help but light up when he saw this Sui army soldiers, but this time, the Wei army suffered such a big loss at the hands of Du Fuwei, Shan Xiongxin naturally did not have a good face for his righteous son, and looked at Wang Xiongdan led by him indifferently, and snorted coldly: "You are Du Fuwei's righteous son, known as Wang Xiongdan of the little general?" ”

"Wang Xiong has seen General Shan!" Wang Xiongdan turned over and dismounted, bowed, and then corrected: "It's true that General Du is my father-in-law, but I'm not a little general, and now I'm just a captain in Dasui." ”

"Captain?" Shan Xiongxin was slightly surprised, Wang Xiongdan made a great name in Jianghuai, and when he arrived in the Great Sui Army, he was actually just a captain?

Wang Xiongdan's chest straightened, and he said proudly: "Thanks to the Holy Longen, I am now a captain of the first strong brigade of the Great Sui and the Xuanjia Army. ”

Shan Xiongxin suddenly realized, he knew what the Xuanjia Army was, Wang Xiong was born to this army as a captain, although he was demoted, but in fact he had an unlimited future, waved his hand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, Emperor Shengwu asked you to come, what is the matter?" ”

Li Mizun Sui is self-reliant, and Shan Xiongxin is not easy to call Yang Dong by his name.

"There is a saying on the saint: the two sides are a battle of luck, there is no selfish grudge against each other, the soldiers are fighting on the battlefield is also their own master, life and death are safe destiny, now that the soldiers of your army are dead, the saint can't bear to expose the corpses of these soldiers of the same clan to the wilderness after their deaths, so I am specially ordered to come and send the corpses of your army back, so that they can be buried in peace."

The surrounding Wei soldiers heard this, but the anger in their eyes was a lot lighter, indeed, it is the fate of soldiers to die on the battlefield, death is a very normal thing, this time it is the Wei army besieging Xiang'an, if the city is broken, Du Fuwei is probably more than lucky, can you blame people Du Fuwei did not tie his hands and capture?

Many Wei soldiers looked at the hundreds of carriages full of corpses, their eyes showed sadness, and the morale that was originally full of righteous indignation quickly fell, and even some soldiers couldn't help but cry in a low voice.

Looking at the corpses taken from the carriage and the soldiers of his own side who were frightened to the pale faces of the fragmented remains, Shan Xiongxin suddenly felt that the morale of his soldiers was not high and jumped to the bottom, he only felt a stuffiness in his chest, followed by a flash of murderous intent in his eyes, and snorted coldly: "Wang Xiongdan, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?" ”

"Why did General Shan kill me? And what reason is there to kill me? Wang Xiongdan smiled and said: "General Shan is a hero in the world, with clear grievances and fair board, how can he not distinguish between right and wrong?" If I return the remains of your soldiers, even if you don't reward them, you shouldn't kill me, right? If this is the case, next time, our army can only let the corpses of your soldiers be exposed to the wilderness, and let the birds and wild dogs gnaw at them. ”

"Okay, hahaha!" Fang Xuanzao on the side saw that Shan Xiongxin was moved by the killing intent, and suddenly laughed, the laughter was very abrupt, and the surrounding Wei military attachés were taken aback, and looked at Fang Xuanzao in confusion.

Wang Xiongdan just looked at Fang Xuanzao lightly, and the hand holding the reins turned pale because of excessive force, but his face was still light and breezy.

After a long time, Fang Xuanzao stopped laughing and said loudly: "It seems that General Wang is not only strong and resolute, but also has a clever eloquence. Someone came, took 20,000 taels of gold and gave it to General Wang, thanking him for returning the corpses of our soldiers. ”

"Sir?" Xu Shiren on the side was anxious, the 20,000 taels of gold were given to them by King Wei for emergency use, so they were sent like this? Or to the enemy?

Fang Xuanzao ignored Xu Shiren and said loudly: "In the heart of King Wei, every soldier in our army is a priceless treasure, what is the 20,000 taels of gold?" If there are mountains of gold and silver here, I will also uphold the will of King Wei and do everything I can to thank General Wang for such a righteous act. ”

Looking at the excitement and gratitude on the faces of the surrounding soldiers, Shan Xiongxin immediately understood Fang Xuanzao's intentions, the matter of giving ten thousand taels of money, and if these words spread in the army, the soldiers' belonging and loyalty to King Wei would be extremely high, and their morale would also rise steadily. Before this crucial battle, it was too cost-effective to use 20,000 gold to collect the loyalty and majestic morale of 30,000 soldiers!

Soon, forty guards came to Fang Xuanzao with twenty heavy boxes, Fang Xuanzao waved his hand, and those guards carried the boxes in front of Wang Xiongdan.

"Thank you, sir, for the reward!" Wang Xiongdan waved his hand, twenty Sui soldiers dismounted, under the horrified eyes of a group of Wei soldiers, easily carried a box, strode to the vacated carriage, and when they came back, their faces did not change, as if they had done a sparse and ordinary thing.

Wang Xiong saw that the carriage had all been vacated, so he arched his hand and said: "The last general still has to go back to hand in the decree and retire." ”

"General Wang, please wait!" Fang Xuanzao suddenly spoke again.

When Wang Xiongtan heard this, he frowned and looked at Fang Xuanzao, "What does this gentleman command?" ”

"Don't dare to do it!" Fang Xuanzao twisted his beard and smiled: "I have had several relationships with Emperor Shengwu, but now I want to meet each other on this battlefield, it is really a trick!" Please say hello to the Holy One on my behalf. ”

"Does this gentleman recognize the saint?" Wang Xiongdan's attitude was a little more respectful.

"Hmm." Fang Xuanzao nodded.

"I don't know what the name of Mr. is, but the last general will repay the saint." Wang Xiongdan, the general, bowed and said.

"You just say......" Fang Xuanzao said this, and suddenly asked in a circle, "Emperor Shengwu is going back to Beijing, right?" ”

Wang Xiongdan's eyes shrank, how did this person know that the saint was going back to Beijing?

Seeing Wang Xiongdan's changing face, Fang Xuanzao smiled slightly: "General Wang said that the old man of Luoyang, the saint will know." ”

"The last general remembers, farewell!" Wang Xiongdan nodded, seeing that Fang Xuanzao was not speaking, and then slowly left with the team of people.

After Wang Xiongdan left, the smile on Fang Xuanzao's face gradually dissipated, the corpses in front of him, as well as many mourning and weeping soldiers, made him depressed in his chest, and a thick melancholy appeared in his eyes.

"Go to the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss matters!" Shan Xiongxin willingly ordered.

"Whoa!" The generals silently followed.

"Fang Shangshu, Wang Xiongdan is Du Fuwei's righteous son, he has repeatedly been enemies of our army, and he is a fierce general, why don't you let me cut him?" Xu Shiren sullenly followed Fang Xuanzao and Shan Xiongxin, and asked in a low voice.

"After our army moved south, the battles continued, and the soldiers were already war-weary. Now our army has been defeated in Xiang'an, and its morale has taken a big leap. Yang Tong is not kind enough to send Wang Xiongdan to return the corpses of our soldiers now, he is trying to further damage the morale of our army. Yang Tong's plan is to attack the heart, which is more vicious than killing people directly, and what is even worse is that we can't be fooled. Wang Xiongtan is now just a lieutenant under Yang Tong, sooner or later he will have to return to Luoyang with Yang Tong, whether he lives or dies will not affect our army, if he is killed, although he can vent his anger for a while, but it is very unfavorable to the morale of our army, how can I fall for his strategy? ”

"Fang Shangshu, since the corpses of these soldiers are a ploy of the enemy, do you want to return them?" Xu Shiren was shocked.

Fang Xuanzao, Shan Xiongxin: "......"

Xu Shiren smiled and asked again: "Send so much gold to Wang Xiong's birthday?" Can you resolve Yang Tong's scheming? ”

"At least it will do something!" Fang Xuanzao thought about the grateful and excited looks of the soldiers, and said with a slight smile: "This gold is a dead thing that cannot be eaten, but it has been exchanged for a loyal division for King Wei, and it is worth spending." ”

Xu Shiren looked confused.

Suddenly, Fang Xuanzao smiled heartily and said: "Although Wang Xiongdan is a fierce general, after all, he is young and knowledgeable, and I tricked me to let me know that Yang Tongyong is going back to Luoyang, as long as he leaves, I don't worry that Du Fuwei will be able to break our army's camp!" ”

"Why is the gentleman so sure?" Shan Xiongxin asked curiously, since he learned the formation, he admired Fang Xuanzao's profound knowledge very much, so he took the honorific title of 'Mr.'.

Fang Xuanzao smiled, his face was much more serious: "Du Fuwei is a thief who is young and unlearned, he and Fu Gongyi, in the current situation of the rise of the heroes, organized a rebellion of bandits, brave and wise, but it can't change the fact that he is weak in knowledge. Under normal combat conditions, he can rely on his keen insight to make a big difference, but when it comes to a formation that he doesn't know anything about, he can't do anything at all. ”

Shan Xiongxin smiled bitterly when he heard this, this is a congenital gap, why is he?