Han Qi's heart felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly, especially when he looked at Xu Ziyuan's face in front of him, which was full of smirks, he couldn't wait to slap it over, and directly pulled the already flat face into a blank slate.

But he couldn't.

Spread in front of him was a military order signed by Li Ze, the general manager of the Northland March, which not only required him to raise grain and grass and send ordnance to Ulzhou, but also asked him to mobilize troops and send troops to Yanzhou with Li Cunzhong, and attack the Lulong rebels together with Wuwei Jiezhen.

From a legal point of view, there is no problem with this order. Even if Gao Biao was alive, the order of the Northland Marching Governor was still valid for Gao Biao, the problem was that if Gao Biao was alive, such an order would not have appeared in front of him at all.

Han Qi suddenly felt a feeling that he had lost the shade of the big tree and needed to resist the storm alone, but his body was not enough to support the situation he was facing, and he was a little shaky in the wind and rain.

Two days before Xu Ziyuan's arrival, Li Cunzhong had already sent him a message because he had received the same order. Like Han Qi's current feelings, Li Cunzhong is also extremely angry but unable to do anything.

Or Li Cunzhong will be even more annoyed.

Because he was ready to annex Zhang Jiatian's army, and he already had an internal response within it, but now, the boiled duck actually flew away with a swagger under his nose.

Not only that, but he also has to provide the other party with some necessary help to make the other party stand on his feet.

"General Zhang is really righteous and awe-inspiring!" Xu Ziyuan twisted his short beard, and his face was full of appreciation: "When I arrived in Yunzhou, I saw that General Zhang Jia's subordinates were all dressed in vegetables, with no clothes and no food, but as soon as I heard that I was going to attack the Lulong rebels, I did not hesitate to take a great risk and move to Ulzhou. ”

Han Qi could only laugh a few times.

Xu Ziyuan praised Zhang Jia openly, but secretly he was ridiculing him and Li Cunzhong for preserving their strength, and directly gave up Ulzhou's behavior.

"Xu Hujun, if it is not for us to be unwilling to send troops, it is really beyond our reach." Han Qi said: "In the past two years, but we in Hedong have been fighting with Lu Longjun, the battle of Gaoliang River, the battle of Yanmen Pass, and continuous battles. ”

Speaking of this, Han Qi was really aggrieved from the bottom of his heart. When we Hedong people fought with Lu Long repeatedly, what were you Wuwei doing? You were busy annexing Henghai and cleaning up Zhenwu, and now you have turned your face, but you want to accuse us of ineffective fighting?

"Yes, yes!" Xu Ziyuan nodded again and again: "For Gao Shuai's character and loyalty, our festival marshal is praised, Gao Shuai is gone, and our martial arts are mourned by the whole army." When the predecessor of Wuwei Chengde was in danger, Gao Shuai resolutely sent troops regardless of sacrifice, so that there was today's situation, Deputy Envoy Han, you are the host of Hedong designated by Gao Shuai, we all look forward to you inheriting Gao Shuai's will, moving forward bravely, exterminating the thief, in order to comfort Gao Shuai's soul in the sky! ”

Han Qi Huoran stood up, looked at Xu Ziyuan sadly and angrily, and said: "Xu Hujun, you don't need to say this, Han also knows it, but now my Hedong army is indeed going to take a rest." After two years of non-stop fighting, we are exhausted. The army has no fighting spirit, the people have no will to fight, and they are reluctant to fight, but they are afraid that they will be defeated, and then they will become a drag on Li Shuai. ”

"Understand, understand!" Xu Ziyuan smiled dryly: "In the first two years, Hedong fought again as the main force, and now it's our turn to fight Wuwei." However, since Deputy Envoy Han feels that he can't send troops, he can always take out some ordnance, right? ”

"Xu Hujun might as well go to my storehouse and take a look, do we have any more ordnance?" Han Qi spread his hands and said.

"There is no ordnance, so there should be no problem with the grain and grass!" Xu Ziyuan seemed to retreat again and again: "This year, the north is ripe, and Hedong is also a big harvest." ”

Han Qi also knew that at this point, if he didn't pull out a dime, he was afraid of the consequences, and he couldn't afford it, looking at Xu Ziyuan's hateful smiling and relaxed face, he suddenly thought, or this guy in front of him, really hoped that he was an iron rooster and didn't pull out a hair.

At that time, I was afraid that Li Ze would report to the emperor with a piece of paper, so that the court and the emperor would think that he had two hearts and would no longer trust himself.

"Grain and grass, naturally, there are them." He gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"Great!" The flash of disappointment on Xu Ziyuan's face was immediately replaced by joy, but he still did not escape Han Qi's eyes, and he was shocked in his heart, as expected.

"Then ask Deputy Envoy Han to raise 100,000 people for three months to send the grain and grass needed to Ulzhou to fund General Zhang Jia to rebuild Ulzhou and attack Lulong." Xu Zi walked from afar.

"Zhang Jia is now at most thirty or forty thousand, how can he come to one hundred thousand!" Han Qi said angrily.

"Deputy Envoy Han doesn't know anything!" Xu Ziyuan said with a smile: "This time I came from Wuwei, but I went to Ulzhou first, where it has indeed become a blank land, but there are still countless righteous people, they spontaneously organized to resist the Lulong people, and even went deep into the territory of Lulong to harass and attack, after General Zhang entered Ulzhou, these people have the backbone, and they will naturally vote, in fact, when I passed through Ulzhou, there were many people who expressed this meaning, plus some of the corners still hid a lot of surviving people, and when the time came, 100,000 will only be more, not less! ”

Han Qi almost wanted to scold, what righteous people, are they all bandits, okay? They did go to Lu Long to rob, but they often went to Daizhou to rob, okay? That is a group of outright bandits, and when they get to Xu Ziyuan, they become righteous people.

"The food and grass needed for three months for 100,000 people is difficult to raise for a while, so we can only come step by step." He bit his cheek and said word by word.

"It's okay, it's okay, as long as there is a steady stream of food to be transported over, our Jieshuai didn't expect these grains to be in place at one time, three months, three months, Deputy Envoy Han can do it, right?" Xu Ziyuan likes to see Han Qi look a little angry now.

"Do your best!"

After receiving Han Qi's affirmative reply, Xu Ziyuan nodded with satisfaction: "Since this is the case, I won't stay here with Deputy Envoy Han, I still have to go to the Kelan Army and the Xinzhou Army." Everyone is contributing money and efforts, and they can't just watch the excitement from the sidelines! ”

Han Qi was slightly shocked in his heart, whether it was the Cao Lan army or the Xinzhou army, they were now overwhelmed by him and Li Cunzhong, the next step was to completely take them down and integrate them all into one, so as to build a strong Hedong army.

"It's not that they don't Han Qi, nor Li Cunzhong, Xu Hujun is just afraid that he will go on a trip and get nothing." Han Qi said with a sneer.

"yes, yes, that's what I thought." Xu Ziyuan nodded again and again: "But, the order of the marshal is with me, I also have to go, in the words of the marshal, that is, we must give them the opportunity, but whether they can seize the opportunity depends on their own." If they really don't listen to the order, hehe, hehehe, then at that time, it will be no wonder that the commander marches the law, don't you say, Deputy Envoy Han? ”

The muscles on Han Qi's face twitched a few times, but he finally couldn't hold back and didn't ridicule him.

A few days later, Li Cunzhong came to Taiyuan City from Yanmen Pass.

"To give, or not to give?" Li Cunzhong asked bluntly: "Or I just send troops and kill Zhang Jia?" ”

Han Qi smiled bitterly: "If we do this, in the eyes of the imperial court and the emperor, what have we become?" The same anti-thief as Zhang Zhongwu? What else do we use to win the trust of the imperial court? ”

Li Cunzhong looked at Han Qi with annoyance: "As long as the imperial court is not blind, it will always be able to see our loyalty in the future." ”

"But now everyone's eyes are on the extermination of Zhang Zhongwu." Han Qi said. "Gao Shuai's painstaking and lonely arrangement, how can it be ruined by you and me?"

Li Cunzhong stumbled and said: "Being a loyal minister, why is it so difficult!" ”

"Because we have too many scruples." Han Qi sighed. He had no choice but to tie his hands and feet. Cunzhong, you can't wait any longer, you and I will join forces immediately to take down the Kelan Army and the Xinzhou Army, there is already a mess of Zhang Jia, and there can be no more accidents in other places. ”

"You just said ......"

"It's different, give the two of them a hat for colluding with the Lurons." Han Qi gritted his teeth and said.

"Will Li Ze agree?"

"Compared with the Cao Lan Army and the Xinzhou Army, we are now much more important to him than they are. For Li Ze, these two people can also add chaos to us, as long as we are more decisive, we will have a lot less trouble, didn't Zhang Jia go to Ulzhou now? If Zhang Jia can't stand in Ulzhou and is defeated by Lu Long's army in Yanzhou, it will inevitably attract the Yanzhou army to Daizhou and form a threat to Yanmen Pass, and you won't be able to come out at that time. ”

"Okay, let's do it." Li Cunzhong said. "What about Shuozhou? Li Ze explicitly ordered Shuozhou to be handed over to Zhang Jia? ”

"If you don't give it, can he come and rob it?" Han Qi sneered: "Yunzhou, Ulzhou has become a white land, Zhang Jia wants to take it, but Shuozhou, but you must not give up." ”

Li Cunzhong nodded, Daizhou, Shuozhou is the gateway to the hinterland of Hedong, of course, it can't be handed over to Zhang Jia, the anti-bone boy of Hedong. Li Ze stretched out his hand to Hedong so blatantly, if they didn't return the color, they were afraid that people would force them up step by step.