Bloody thieves damn it! Bad talk, wrong me and wrong country! ”

Sure enough, when Ma Qiu's letter reached Shi Hu, Shi Hu heard it, and even though he was furious, he angrily scolded Ma Qiu for being stupid.

As the lord of the kingdom of Qian, he naturally knew better where the authority he possessed came from, that is, it was based on the fear of the people of Hebei, and the peace and negotiation with the Jin or any form of cowardice was to shake and hurt the foundation of his rule!

It's just that after the anger, Shi Hu fell into a long silence again, even if he had a thousand kinds of resentment in his heart, but the other party was still far away, even if he wanted to vent his dissatisfaction, Shi Hu didn't have a way to vent. A few words of scolding will only make him more angry. At this time, it is still time to think about how to respond.

At present, Shi Hu is still on the way back from Xindu to Xiangguo. And the predicament he faced was more than a land. Since the beginning of summer until the late autumn now, none of the news from all sides has made him feel comfortable. Now the situation is so bad that he wants to clean it up, and he doesn't know where to start.

The defeat of Huaishang in the early years was an eternal pain in Shi Hu's heart, and he was planning to gather strength, counterattack the southern country, and be ashamed all the time! Even if the royal driver patrols the border and marches on the way, he must open a canal to drain the river and train the water army, which is not only to warn himself not to forget the shame of the past, but also to warn the civil and military ministers that they will never give up!

It's just that over the years, many internal and external troubles, coupled with the fact that the south has been brave and strong, made him unable to find the opportunity to go south. Finally seized a little opportunity at the beginning of the year, and the act of luring Saihu Nanlai made the arrogant raccoon dog in the south open up a new battlefield again, attracting a lot of power from the south, so that Shi Hu could see a glimmer of light in the southern expedition.

However, this southern expedition was full of many troubles and difficulties from the beginning of planning. One of the most basic points was that according to Shi Hu's plan, he should appear on the battlefield in southern Hebei in mid-August and end the first half of this battle before winter.

But now, it has reached the beginning of October, and Shi Hucai has just left Xindu with his army, and it is still a long way from Xiangguo. Even if there were no previous failures, according to this kind of itinerary, it is unlikely that Shihu's army will be able to reach southern Hebei in winter.

From this point of view, this use of troops to the south, although the performance of all parties in the front road is also extremely clumsy, and Shi Hu must also bear great responsibility.

The reason why he was able to prevent Shi Hu's army from rushing to the battlefield in southern Hebei and carrying out the war that he had been planning for a long time would naturally not be a trivial matter.

Originally, the overall layout of Shihu was to use Li Nong's begging army to enter and annex the state, and at the same time, the Xianbei Dynasty came down from the clouds to cooperate with the attack on Shisheng in Taiyuan. Even if Shisheng cannot be eliminated and the state cannot be recovered, it is necessary to ensure that the Shanxi side does not have any adverse impact on the war in the south.

From this point, it can be seen that although Shi Hu has been reckless in all these years, in fact, the controllable combat effectiveness in his hands has been slowly decreasing.

First of all, the force of the begging army was originally very uncontrollable and needed to be guarded against and suppressed, but now in order to have enough strength to march south, Shi Hu knew that the beggar army was not credible, and he had to entrust him with important tasks.

The second is the dependence on the Xianbei Daiguo, the overlord of Saihu, Shi Yiqian was originally supported by Shi Hu to deepen his control and restraint over Saihu, but now Shi Hu already needs Daiguo to actually send troops to stabilize his backyard.

Shi Hu is so slow to move, the problem is that Shi Yiqian is in the Dai country. Originally, Shi Hu had already ordered the Daiguo troops to assemble in the northern part of Bingzhou for use, but until the midsummer when Shi Hu was about to go south, the Daiguo army was still not in place.

What made Shi Hu even more angry was that the acting lord Shi Yiqian not only delayed his orders, but also made a wife from the Murong clan in Liaodong the queen, and his disrespectful attitude was already fully demonstrated!

Tuoba Suotou and Murong Xianbei had an old marriage, and as early as when Shi Yiqian returned to Monan from Hebei, in order to use the power of Donghu, he also proposed to marry Murong Clan, with Murong Diao's daughter as the main room. At that time, Shi Hu was still thinking of Fuli Shiyiqian as one of his spokespeople on the plug, but there was no lack of connivance. When Shi Yiqian gained a stable foothold on the plug, he really left Murong's daughter aside.

But this time, Shi Yiqian made the Murong woman the queen again, and put on a posture of being close to Murong in Liaodong, obviously expressing his dissatisfaction with Shi Hu and even protesting. As for the reason, it is most likely that Shi Hu's actions to support Liu Wuhuan and other forces of the Tiefu Department angered Shi Yiqian.

Today's Shi Yiqian is gradually becoming a general trend in the desert, and he doesn't have to pay too much attention to Shi Hu, the old benefactor and the current sect master. His people were bent on unifying Mo Nan, and they had long regarded the Tiefu Department as their subordinates, but Shi Hu suddenly crossed over to support the Tiefu Ministry, which naturally made him feel that his authority had been violated.

In the final analysis, it was Shi Hu who overestimated his prestige on the Saishang, and also underestimated the ambitions of the Bianhu chieftains like Shi Yiqian. Daiguo suddenly had such repeated signs, which should have been a help from the state of Qian, but now it has become a hidden danger and threat, which makes the beggar army that has withdrawn from Youzhou to northern Hebei all be contained, and it is difficult to attack and annex the state.

Heshuo, who was regarded by Shi Hu as a backyard, suddenly had such a change, how could Shi Hu dare to lead the army to the south with peace of mind? So he had to continue to stay in northern Hebei and impose restraint on Shi Yiqian.

However, Daiguo has not been properly pacified here, and the news of the defeat of the southern Hebei army came, and Shi Hu had not digested it, and the bad news that Xiangguo was broken followed one after another!

With so many evil things accumulating and erupting one after another, Shi Hu can be said to have been tortured and restless during this time. He is no longer a strong middle-aged man, as he gets older, his body becomes more and more fat, but in this short period of ten months, under the internal and external difficulties, his body is visibly emaciated, his cheeks and neck are drooping with loose flesh, and even the robe belt around his waist has to be changed every few days.

The state affairs are so difficult, and today's Shi Hu can be said to be an oil drum that will explode at any time, but there are many hidden dangers inside and strong enemies outside, how dare he break out at will? After all, he is over fifty years old, and his heroism in his prime is long gone!

"Could it be that the heavens are really going to lose me?"

No matter how strong Rao is, Shi Hu at this moment is facing many dangers that he doesn't know where to start, and he will inevitably have a little self-abandonment.

In the old years, there were all kinds of heroic deeds, and their Shi family rose all the way from the humble people in the miscellaneous huzhong, like divine help. The first lord Shile started with more than a dozen horses, crisscrossing the north and south, devouring the old master several times, and achieving the hegemony of unifying the north.

And he was a stone tiger and a horse for half his life, and he was also the enemy of the war, which was not the leader of the Jin and Hu dynasties at that time, and was all broken by his army! It is precisely because of such a smooth rise that Shi Hu is arrogant, thinking that he is enjoying his destiny, and the world is nothing more than this, and the big position is at his fingertips!

However, since he led his troops to the south, Shi Hu felt as if he had fallen under a spell, and his many defeats were innumerable. If it's just a temporary event, but the defeat of Huaishang in the early years is like this, and this time it is like this!

But in any case, Shi Hu has no energy to beg God and Buddha at the moment, and has to face the real danger. In addition to scolding Ma Qiu, he did not immediately express whether he really wanted to negotiate peace with the Jin army, because he had no opinion.

The envoy who swept over Yedi didn't mention it, and Shi Hu turned to ask left and right: "Did the son of a son confess?" ”

The son of evil in his mouth is naturally Shi Xuan. After Shi Xuan defected to Xindu, he had his own set of rhetoric about why southern Hebei was defeated so hastily and ugly, and many words naturally exonerated his own guilt almost nothing.

Shi Hu has been going on for a long time, how can he believe Shi Xuan's rhetoric, he is angry, and he no longer has love and pity for this son in his heart, and he can't immediately cut off his belly to vent his anger.

Originally, according to Shi Hu's temperament, he never had to consider whether the evidence was conclusive, as long as he had the slightest suspicion or even just anger, Shi Xuan should have died a long time ago. But the reason why Shi Hu still had to spare his life was because he had to understand and grasp the most real situation of the war in southern Hebei in order to make more accurate judgments and responses later.

As for Shi Xuan, he is probably also aware of this, in order to save his life at this time, no matter how much punishment and torture he endured, he absolutely refused to reveal the truth, and he was still stubborn in his previous confession.

Seeing that he was still silent, Shi Hu couldn't help but feel even more resentful in his heart, gritting his teeth, and his face was hideous. Right now, in addition to resentment towards Shi Xuan, he also has a strong disappointment.

If you are born as a human being, how can you be free from love. Although Shi Hu is tyrannical and especially tiger wolf, even if the tiger wolf has a temperament, he will have a little bit of tenderness. His love for Shi Xuan has lasted for many years, and it is really not a fraud, otherwise he would not have placed it in such an important position, which shows that he has more or less hope for this son.

But not to mention the guilt that this son of evil should bear for the defeat in the battlefield of southern Hebei, the most disappointing thing for Shi Hu is that this son of a bastard still doesn't know what he lost in this war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their entire Hebei hegemony was ruined in this battle, and this son of evil still hopes to be able to pass the test in the dark!

For this battle in the south, Shi Hu has been planning and building momentum for several years, but the result has not fully begun, and he will encounter such a big defeat! The matter of the southern expedition has become a stubborn knot in Shi Hu's heart, even if he doesn't say anything else, as long as he is given the opportunity to lead his troops south, even if he loses in the end, he is considered a matter of heart.

But it was precisely because Shi Xuan's son was good at asserting that he didn't fight alone, but he was even defeated and lost, and Shi Hu didn't even have the opportunity to go into battle in person, so he had to face such a situation. According to the current situation, I am afraid that this kind of opportunity will not be available again in the future.

After several years of accumulation, once it was empty, the huge loss and frustration in Shi Hu's heart could no longer be expressed.

"Put that son of a wreck in a manger, and eat with the horse, and refuse to recruit him for a day, and not let him go for a day! In addition, he led his subordinates to be imprisoned separately, and whoever confessed first could be exempted from responsibility, and if he still refused to recruit, he would behead his hands and feet every day! ”

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