Chapter 61 Xu Jingzong's first appearance
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It is common sense that infantry is slower than cavalry. It is also common sense for cavalry to raid and harass, and infantry to attack the city. But common sense is sometimes unreliable. For example, now, Zhang Huaiwei led his subordinates to rush in a hurry, with the purpose of conquering Shenchi City before Liu Wuzhou's Tianju army came to help.
However, when Xu Jingzong arrived at Shenchi with Zhang Huaiwei's infantry, Yu Guni was already sitting in the lobby of the county yamen of Shenchi County. I heard the sound of a woman crying and crying. Zhang Huaiwei glared at Yu Guni angrily and said, "You dare to disobey the general's order?" โ
As early as the beginning of the army, the Lingwu Army and the Dingyuan Army had an iron law, whoever touched it would die: "Those who rape silver women will be killed!" This is an iron law set by Chen Ying.
Yu Guni said lightly: "The master's order, Yu Guni never dared to disobey!" โ
Zhang Huaiwei ignored Yu Guni and rushed to the back hall. In the main hall of the back office, Zhang Huaiwei looked at a middle-aged man lying on the mat, which should be a corpse to be precise. The three of them lay down beside the corpse and wept in a low voice. One of the three was about thirty years old, the younger woman was supposed to be her son, Mo was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and a boy was eight or nine years old.
Seeing that these women were not violated, Zhang Huaiwei breathed a sigh of relief. As a veteran soldier, what he hates most is to cut his robe.
When Zhang Huaiwei looked at the older woman, Zhang Huaiwei's heart unconsciously accelerated. The older woman, just relatively speaking, is actually only in her thirties. However, the women of this era were married too early, usually the women of the Shi clan were married at the age of sixteen (two years old) and the Xianbei clan was even earlier, such as the eldest grandson Wujian, who was only thirteen years old when she married Li Shimin. The woman's daughter was in her teens, and she was actually only thirty.
Zhang Huaiwei opened his mouth and made a low voice: "Madame, please mourn!" โ
The beautiful woman said pitifully: "The deceased husband has to be a thief, and I hope the general will be gracious." Pity the deceased husband and a pair of daughters. โ
Zhang Huaiwei said: "Each is its own master, Mrs. don't worry, we are the Tang Dynasty king, and we will not embarrass women, children, old and young." Zhang Huaiwei turned around and shouted outside the door: "General Ben's military order, the people of Shenchi are not allowed to go out until the ban is lifted." No soldier is allowed to enter the house to disturb the people, and the offender will be killed! โ
The soldiers outside the door bowed and said, "No! โ
The beautiful woman kowtowed to Zhang Huaiwei and said, "General Xie protects the great grace!" โ
Zhang Huaiwei stepped forward to hold the beautiful woman's hands, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. Quickly stopped, but only a moment's contact made Zhang Huaiwei feel his heart beat faster.
Zhang Huaiwei smiled and said, "Madame, please mourn, General Ben...... Retire! โ
Zhang Huaiwei left the back office, but the shadow of the beautiful woman in his head lingered.
When Zhang Huaiwei came to the county hall, he found that Xu Jingzong had a gloomy face. Zhang Huaiwei asked: "Xu joined the army, what happened?" โ
Yu Guni said angrily: "The Shenchi County Treasury is so clean that it can run mice!" โ
"This ......," Zhang Huaiwei also frowned slowly. This time they carried half a month's provisions. Originally, I wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the divine pool and consume supplies.
In fact, Yu Guni said that the Shenchi County Treasury is so empty that it can run mice, and there are more than a dozen stones of grain in the Shenchi official warehouse, and there are hundreds of five baht coins in the treasury. This little wealth, for their army of tens of thousands, is barely enough for a day's consumption. Although the people of Shenchi may have some food in their homes, they can't rob the people of Shenchi County like bandits.
"What now?" Zhang Huaiwei suddenly ran out of ideas, looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "What is Xu's plan to join the army?" โ
Xu Jingzong smiled and said disapprerovitically: "I don't know if the two of you want to do a meritorious solution or a reactive solution." โ
Zhang Huaiwei said: "How is the solution of merit, and how is the solution of reactive??"
Yu Guni's Tang Yan at this time only reached the level of daily spoken English. Like Xu Jingzong and Zhang Huaiwei's tongue twister-like dialogue, he was suddenly confused.
Xu Jingzong also intended to show off his knowledge in front of Zhang Huaiwei, and said with a slight smile: "Back then, Han Gaozu and the overlord of Chu competed for the world, and sent the mansion to eat it. It has been said that the Qi State has surrendered, but Han Xin has a heavy army in the Qi realm and refuses to give credit to a scholar. Therefore, the battle of Suishui was moved, and the work of the poor February was to destroy the Qi country, so Han Xin once again made great achievements in building the main battle. If the two are willing to learn from Han Xin, they can advance into Yanmen Pass with a large army, cut off Liu Wuzhou's grain route, and at the same time attack Liu Wuzhou with the general in the north and south. But if Liu Wu and Zhou soldiers see that the way back has been broken, I am afraid that they will take refuge in the Turks or Dou Jiande in desperation, at that time, the land of Hedong can be recovered, and it will return to the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the general will also have the merit of recovering Hedong, but there is still a big trouble in Hedong. โ
Zhang Huaiwei didn't actually feel that there was anything wrong with doing this, but he still wanted to know the solution to the reactive power, so he tried to ask: "What about the reactive solution?"
Xu Jingzong said: "The solution to the vain is to ask General Yu Gu and Zhang to two generals, one to guard the Shenchi, and the other to Chen Binglou. However, he sent a person into the barracks of the Loufu army, and if it was successful, he could take his military horse and descend under the Loufu Pass. With Liu Senjun and General Ashina, the two armies were combined to conquer Taiyuan, and Liu Wu and Zhou were wiped out in a battle. If it doesn't go well, it will still make the Yanmen pass through, and the general's soldiers and horses will break through the Yanmen Gate, take Taiyuan, and recover Hedong. โ
Zhang Huaiwei is not an arbitrary person, nor is he a handsome person who can stand alone. Xu Jingzong asked him to make a simple choice, but he didn't know how to choose. Zhang Huaiwei looked at Yu Guni, but Yu Guni vaguely listened to Lianmeng, and roughly understood what Xu Jingzong meant.
After all, Yu Guni is a person who has been a tribal leader, and his ideas and vision are much higher than Zhang Huaiwei's, after all, Zhang Huaiwei, who is a gang leader, has a limited vision.
Yu Guni looked at Zhang Huaiwei's face uncertain, and said lightly: "Xu joins the army, if you make a meritorious solution, I'm afraid it is really not easy, if Lou Fu has enough troops, and Yanmen Pass has enough troops, they can send troops from Lou Fu Pass, Yanmen Pass, Taiyuan, and Xinzhou to encircle and annihilate us under Shenchi City." โ
Xu Jingzong was also taken aback when he heard Yu Guni say this. He really didn't expect Yu Guni to have such insight. Xu Jingzong said lightly: "There is indeed such a possibility. โ
Zhang Huaiwei said: "What kind of meritorious solution and no solution are actually not important. General Chen did not hesitate to commit the danger of cutting first and then playing, and sent troops to Hedong, just to rescue the princess of Pingyang Yu Weize Pass, now we still protect their views, I sit in the battle of Shenchi, General Yu Gu led the cavalry to attack Lou Fu Pass, after the Lingwu Left Army and the Lingwu Right Army will meet, we have many soldiers and horses, and we can attack and retreat, and we will be invincible.
Xu Jingzong gathered the gentry with heads and faces in Shenchi County, and at the same time asked Zhang Huaiwei's troops to take over the defense of Shenwu County. Zhang Huaiwei didn't dare to be careless, after all, it was surrounded by Liu Wuzhou's troops, and once Liu Wuzhou learned the news, he would definitely take advantage of his unstable foothold to take back Shenwu City.
Now that he is separated from Yu Guni's soldiers, he needs to rely on more than 1,800 men and horses under his command to resist the first wave of counterattacks of Liu Wuzhou's army, and it may take several days to hold out.
Although Zhang Huaiwei was cautious, there was still a problem.
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