1303 Sibling Brotherhood
What made him even more angry was that most of the powerful ordnance in the Shui Camp that had caused great damage to his army was destroyed when he entered the camp and was confiscated, even if it could be repaired and recovered, but there was no such talent in his army at the moment.
This means that if he wants to stick to this passage in the future, he can't even rely on this kind of strong weapon!
"Aren't you all very resourceful, and you can all compare to Zhang Youhou? Did anyone teach me what to do next? ”
Shi Xuan's brutality is true, but that is when he has a powerful force to rely on.
Now he has only more than 20,000 soldiers available in his hands, and although the empty battalion is in hand, the supplies provided to him are really limited, and even the rations for the army have to be drawn from the rear, after all, the soldiers are tired from running all night and attacking a battle.
The Jin army did not leave them with any grain and grass to use and usable horsepower, and even if they wanted to go out to raid, they needed to replenish some war horses and grain from the rear.
Being in the enemy territory, the situation must be ever-changing, thinking of many uncontrollable variables, Shi Xuan felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger. But his Lao Tzu's tiger power is not something that anyone can ride casually, and it is already a crime for him to go out of the army without authorization, and if there is no enough matching achievement, you can imagine what the end will be.
Thinking of the Jin army guard who was engulfed in fire in front of his eyes, he hated it even more, and he even deliberately asked people to collect the ashes and scatter them in the opposition to vent his anger.
The eunuch's name is Zhao Sheng, who is the supervisor of the Heavenly King Shi Hu stationed in Shi Xuan's army, and when he heard Shi Xuan's question, he said: "Your Royal Highness and the Duke of Bohai, brothers and sisters are close to each other, and now His Royal Highness has created a special merit in the south, and the river defense portal of the Jin army is controlled, and it is appropriate to attract the Bohai Gong to the south, and the brothers will hunt the south......"
"You say I don't dare to kill you?"
When Shi Xuan heard this, his face was already furious, and the golden scepter in his hand waved again, and the eunuch Zhao Sheng hurriedly said: "The elite army of Longxiang controlled by the Bohai Gong is the brave leader in the country. Bohai Gong has always been proud of this, if his people are tempted to come south, life and death are in the fingers of His Royal Highness! Merge the powerhouse and regain great success......"
Although his tone was already quite urgent, Shi Xuan's movements were faster, and before he could finish speaking, the golden staff also hit his forehead, whipping him directly out. This eunuch's physique is much worse than that of Yang Bei's general, and he can't get up after covering his face and screaming a few times.
And Shi Xuan didn't listen to this person until he heard the words after beating this person out, and he didn't have the heart to take care of this person for a while, but just lowered his head and muttered whether this matter was feasible.
The eunuch Zhao Sheng said that Bohai Gong was Shi Hu's other son, Shi Tao. The reason why Zhao Sheng said that Shi Xuan was flesh and blood with his hands and feet was because of the two of them and one mother.
But Shi Xuan never felt that the two had any flesh and blood relationship, and there was no harmony between their brothers, in addition to Shi Xuan and the prince Shi Di hated each other and hated each other, the second most disgusted was this half-brother, Bohai Gong Shi Tao.
Shi Hu has many heirs, especially several sons in the prime of life, all of whom have been assigned to internal and external affairs, Shi Hu has a brutal and suspicious temperament, and he is naturally very wary of the civil and military officials under his command, among whom the Jin people are born, and those Hu generals will not be magnanimous and delegate power, especially after the old and important ministers within the Kui An clan have been killed.
Therefore, at present, Shi Hu is most trustworthy, and the sons under his knees, plus the domestic slave generals who follow the abyss like Ma Qiu, as for the others, they are all a little less meaningful.
Among Shi Hu's sons, except for the crown prince Shi Di, who established the heir early and stayed in Xiangguo, the other sons naturally have different levels of authority because of their talents and popularity. This can be seen in the respective fiefdoms of his sons.
Now although Shi Hu is doing the emperor's business, he still calls himself the Great Zhao Tianwang, and his sons are also all knights and princesses, but they are still vassal kings. Shi Xuan's feudal plain county and Shi Tao's feudal state Bohai County can be said to be the richest in the territory of the Qianguo country.
Relatively speaking, the plain is adjacent to the big river and close to Qingzhou, and it is frequently harassed by the Jin army in the south. After the plains, the Bohai Sea has the benefits of salt and iron, and the Bohai Sea is better than the plains from the wealth of the feudal country alone.
From the division of their respective feudal countries, it can also be seen that Shi Xuan and Shi Tao, the brothers born of their mother, are both deeply loved by their father Shi Hu. These two brothers, the relationship is already close to the brothers, plus their respective forces are not shallow, once they are gathered, even the crown prince Shi Di is not enough to compete with them at all.
And the two brothers, who were supposed to be close, had a close relationship. As for the reason, it is very simple, it is still to compete for fame and fortune.
Among Shi Hu's sons, if anyone has an unquenchable desire to pursue the crown prince's heir and wants to replace him, it is none other than Shi Xuan.
He was originally the oldest under the crown prince, and after Shi Hu entered the Xiangguo to determine the heir, the crown prince Shi Di often stayed in Xiangguo because of his identity to replace his father who was fighting abroad to deal with state affairs, and Shi Xuan followed his father in and out of the expedition all the year round and participated in military affairs for a long time.
Especially when Shi Hu's energy moved north and was placed in the border barbarians of Donghu and Saihu, the main ones blocking the Jin military in the south were Shixuan in the southern Hebei Plain and Maqiu in Yedi.
Shi Hu also loves this son who is brave and has no shortage of scheming, and even said several times publicly or obscurely that he is a better candidate than the prince, and if the prince has any accidents, he will be the natural choice for the heir.
Shi Xuan, a person with a cool temperament, has never known why he is humble, and since his father has already expressed his position like this, of course he also thinks of himself. Over time, he and the prince Shi Di naturally gradually became enemies.
Shi Di, this guy, has a bad character than Shi Xuan, and he has been in the storage position for a long time, and his behavior has become more and more absurd and indulgent, and he has also revealed murderous intent several times for Shi Xuan, who obviously poses a threat to himself.
However, in recent years, Shi Hu has been busy fighting on all sides, and at the same time eradicating all kinds of internal constraints, what he said was also an accident for the prince whom Shi Xuan had been eagerly waiting for, but it still didn't happen after all.
Although Shi Xuan doesn't take Shi Di in his eyes, Shi Di is also the heir after all. If he wants to replace him, he must also use frequent means, in addition to taking advantage of the fact that he is outside to manage his descendants' forces and invite his father's favor, he also has to buy off Shi Hu's cronies to speak well for him, etc., these things require a lot of money and food.
Although Shi Xuan is also known as Fengmei, after all, he is on the front line along the river, and every time the Jin army comes to disturb each other, he will suffer a great loss. The money is gradually stretched thin, and Shi Xuan will inevitably hit others with his ideas. Shi Tao is his brother-in-law, and the Bohai Sea is also rich in property, and when Shi Xuan is tight, it is inevitable that he will open his mouth to borrow.
But their brother is a jackal by the root, and Shi Tao doesn't care about him at all. This inevitably made Shi Xuan very embarrassed, not to mention the kinship between their mothers, just their respective feudal arrangements, if it weren't for his plain feudal state blocking the front, blocking the iron hooves of the Jin army's northward sweep, how could Shi Tao enjoy peace in the future?
Since you can't borrow it, grab it! Although Shi Tao is a little more loved by his father than Shi Xuan, after all, he is a little younger than Shi Xuan, and Shi Xuan himself is guarding along the river, and if he really wants to rob it, he has no power to parry.
Originally, in Shi Xuan's opinion, this was also a small dispute between brothers, and when he enjoyed the throne, and then survived Lao Tzu, he would not treat Shi Tao, a brother-in-law, badly, and now it is only temporarily borrowed.
But I didn't expect Shi Tao, the little king and eight lambs, to be really ruthless, on the birthday of the Queen of Heaven and Queen Zheng, the sons of the foreign army returned to the country to congratulate. As a result, Shi Tao, a bastard, actually led a group of raised dead soldiers, and took advantage of Shi Xuan's passing through his feudal country to directly attack and kill him in person!
Fortunately, Shi Xuanjiu was in the Rong Brigade, and there were many brave soldiers around him, so he was not caught by Shi Tao. Immediately, he did not return to Xiangguo, and returned directly to the plains, preparing to attack Shi Tao with a large army.
In the end, Shi Tao, the kid, was frightened and fled back to Xiangguo and did not dare to return to Fengyi. Coupled with his father Shi Hu's reprimand, Shi Xuancai resigned the army, but since then, in his mind, the prince Shi Di is the first target that needs to be eliminated, and then Shi Tao, the little king who eats outside the grill!
After that, Shi Tao also stayed in Xiangguo, and he was afraid that he would be directly led by Shi Xuan to block and kill him after returning to the country. Shi Hu took pity on his weakness and helplessness, and simply appointed him as a lieutenant to lead the elite army of Long Xiang and Long Teng, which were newly formed by Xiangguo.
This time, Shi Hu was in Henan, and the scale of the troops invested was very large, and the Long Xiang army under the Taiwei Mansion was also among the levies. Shi Tao is now in military power, so he is naturally no longer afraid of Shi Xuan, as early as before the tenth month, he led his troops to the assembly place and deliberately showed off outside Shi Xuan's camp.
Although Shi Xuan hated it in his heart, he also knew that the matter of this southern plunder was very important, and if he dared to fight inwardly at this time, his father Shi Hu would never spare him. If it weren't for the fact that the Jin army in the south treated their Shi family very unkindly, he even thought of directly attacking and killing Shi Tao, and then led the Jin army to the south, and also let his old and dim-eyed father understand what martyr ambition is, and it should not be curbed!
Although he didn't dare to attack Shi Tao for the time being, Shi Xuan wouldn't give him a good face, and took advantage of the ministry to drive Shi Tao's troops to the Qinghe shell mound outside the assembly center, which could be regarded as out of sight and out of mind. However, due to the turning of the Yellow River, the shell mound is closer to the mound than the plain.
Aside from anything else, now people from all walks of life in Hebei, the one with the most opportunity to reinforce the mound is first of all the Shi Tao Department of Beiqiu.
Shi Tao's troops are not much, but there are only 5,000 people, but they are the black cavalry dragon horses that have been created by the country's financial resources and manpower in recent years, and there is no need to doubt the combat effectiveness, and they are all cavalry with high mobility, and there is no shortage of heavy armored cavalry with men and horses. Once this army comes south, you can imagine how much turmoil it will cause among the young people!
Shi Xuan resisted Zhao Sheng's proposal because he spent such a big price to capture the skull, how could he be willing to share it with Shi Tao. However, Zhao Sheng's words reminded him that in fact, the situation was far inferior to what he had imagined before, and the so-called great achievement was more like a trouble that was forcibly taken into his arms and difficult to ride a tiger.
But Shi Tao didn't know these inside information. This kid can only be in charge of the elite army because of his father's doting, and he has a deep understanding of the strength of the southerners between Qingyan and Shi Xuan, and once such a sign is revealed, it is very likely that he will be tempted over.
If the Black Cavalry Dragon Xiang Army can come south, on the one hand, it will increase Shi Xuan's current strength, and on the other hand, the retreat of the Black Horse Dragon is still in his hands, and he wants to get Shi Tao, which is much easier than in Hebei!
Thinking of this, Shi Xuan showed a slight smug smile on his face, and after raising his eyes, he found that the eunuch Zhao Sheng had already climbed up, prostrate on the ground side by side like Yang Bei, his head and face were wounded, and it looked quite symmetrical.
He couldn't help laughing: "You lowly slaves, if you weren't lucky enough to follow my family's destiny of the heroic father and son, where would you be lucky in being a prominent person." If you can lure him south to get rid of him, I have all the southern Hebei provinces, and the storage space is at my fingertips, how can you lose your wealth! ”
When the two of them heard this, they showed a humble smile on their faces, ignoring the pain in their foreheads, and frequently kowtowed to swear allegiance to His Highness.