Chapter 14: Radical General
Compared with the situation when Ma Zhen came to Suizhou when he first withdrew to Huaishan, he didn't even see an important person, Chen Hansan's trip to Suizhou in person was much better.
In addition to the few days when he first arrived, Luo Xiancheng held a banquet every day in his Changle Palace, and in the next ten days, he also asked his important strategist Wei Zhang to accompany Chen Hansan, Ma Zhen and others, and the beauties, wine, and food were all responded.
However, once it comes to substantive issues such as borrowing food and soldiers, Luo Xiancheng is vague here.
"News from the south that Chizhou has sent troops to Yicheng, and Jinghu will soon send troops to the east, leaving us a short time to go south to take Qichun!" In the hall, Ma Zhen persuaded Chen Hansan under the lamp not to delay too long in Suizhou.
The southwest foot of Huai Mountain, the turn of Chu and Hubei, destroyed by the war, and in the periphery of Suizhou, after the withdrawal of the Changle Army, Qi Chun and other remnants of the displaced people formed a community to reclaim the famine, there are Liukou between the mountains and mountains, there are river bandits and lake thieves infested, but there is no big force to enter, basically still in the vacuum of power......
Jinghu Hu Wenmu's early thoughts were on the western front, to prevent the Cao family from going down the river, and after Dongning and Cao resisted, Jinghu soldiers and horses moved eastward, but they did not dare to rashly enter the dilapidated, the territory was full of bandits and bandits, there was no city to guard, and it was in the prominent area between Jiangzhou and Suizhou.
Although Chen Hansan sent his generals to change their names and surnames as early as March and April to infiltrate Qichun with a small number of people, it was not enough to incorporate Qichun's rogue and outcast forces into his command, relying only on two or three thousand remnants of soldiers in his hands......
Chen Hansan retreated into Huaishan, and was severely blockaded by Xinyang and Nanyang, and Suizhou was also suppressed intentionally or unintentionally, and his life was very unsatisfactory.
With this amount of manpower, they rashly went to occupy the remnants of Qichun, Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu casually sent some soldiers and horses from both wings, and they could destroy them...... It's just that it's not a way to drag it out in Suizhou, just go to Qichun at this time, and you can get some money and food from the luxury family, and collect the gangsters and thieves in Qichun and other places, and the soldiers will be able to solve part of it, Ma Zhen still wants to go to Qichun as soon as possible.
Now Qichun is still a borderless land, whoever goes first gets it, but once Jinghu or Chizhou is called to send troops into Qichun first, they will undoubtedly directly declare war with Jinghu and Chizhou.
Maybe Jinghu and Chizhou will not be particularly anxious to occupy the remnants of Qichun, but there are forces that call out to them, and the situation is different - Jiangning, which is controlled by Huaidong, obviously will not see Chen Hansan comfortably occupy Qichun.
"Wait a few more days, it's really not good, I'll go to Qichun first." Chen Hansan gritted his teeth and said.
Chen Hansan's appearance is dry, his face is thin and narrow, and the scars and deep wrinkles are densely intertwined, so that he can't see the slightest bit of old age, but it adds to the sense of squealness, and his eyes are like knives flashing with cold light under the lamp, and he can dig people's hearts directly.
At this time, there were footsteps walking in the courtyard, and Sui Hu walked in and said, "General Zhong and Master Wei are here......"
Chen Hansan and Ma Zhen glanced at each other, thinking that Zhong Rong would come over at night, maybe there would be a scene, so he hurriedly walked out with Ma Zhen to greet him.
Zhong Rong is burly, although Wei Zhang is thin, he is not short, and he stands next to Zhong Rong like a child.
Zhong Rong's face is vicious, his face is full of flesh, but standing in the atrium, he gives people the feeling of standing like a mountain.
In his early years, Zhong Rong was a giant who crisscrossed Tongbai Mountain, and it was rumored that he liked to eat human flesh and had infinite strength. When Bai Yuan was a coward, he had a good reputation, and the officers and soldiers suppressed him, suffered heavy casualties, and repeatedly failed to suppress it, and then gave Luo Xiancheng to subdue. Zhong Rong is greedy for money, lustful, and thirsty for killing, but he doesn't like to gain power, and he is also loyal to Luo Xiancheng, and he and Wang Xiang are attached to Luo Xiancheng as his right-hand man.
Although the Changle Army claims to have about 200,000 soldiers, it has no more than 50,000 soldiers capable of fighting; And among these 350,000 capable soldiers, the one that can be called the elite of a hundred battles is Zhong Rong's Baiyuan Wolf Army.
Although there are only more than 10,000 people in the Baiyuan Wolf Army, half of the notoriety that the Changle Army has achieved over the years is the Baiyuan Wolf Army. Whether it is attacking the city and plundering the wall, but also burning, killing and plundering, it is not willing to be left behind. Luo Xiancheng is also conniving, and like Chen Hansan's thoughts, if you want the soldiers to be able to fight, you must cultivate a fierce spirit - you can't raise 200,000 soldiers and horses as elites, and the army of more than 10,000 tigers and wolves will become Luo Xiancheng's pressure box substrate.
Wang has always been cold to Chen Hansan, and he is also angry about Liu An'er's betrayal of Chen Hansan; But Zhong Rong did not refuse, and he had received a lot of money from Chen Hansan for more than a year, and it was also convenient - Chen Hansan came to Suizhou this time, mainly to follow Zhong Rong's path.
Chen Hansan clasped his fists at Zhong Rong and Wei Zhang, and said: "Zhong Shuai and Lord Wei came over at night, and Han San didn't have any preparations, so you have to forgive me for being slack!" ”
"Between you and me, don't see each other," Zhong Rong's huge palm was like a thin fan, patting Chen Hansan's shoulder, and laughing like thunder, "The two girls you sent from the mountains are really fun, the two girls are stacked together, and the bottom is like a fish's mouth." Lao Wei said that this is a rare name and instrument, and it is rare that Chen Shuai himself couldn't help but not enjoy it, and read my brother, I am so good......"
Chen Hansan is also a figure who has officially sealed the envoy to the imperial court and led the military and political affairs of a place, but the dehaired phoenix is not as good as a chicken, Zhong Rong laughed so much, he also smiled with a scornful face, restrained the fierce aura on his usual body, and said: "Zhong Shuai likes it, and my thoughts are not in vain?" ”
Chen Hansan greeted Zhong Rong and Wei Zhang into the house, and Ma Zhen immediately went to arrange the night banquet.
Although in Suizhou's territory, Chen Hansan and the others came back this time and moved almost all the rare and foreign objects in Huaishan, and the beautiful girl also brought more than a dozen people over, intent on currying favor, in the hope of borrowing military rations.
Zhong Rong hugged a girl with slightly dark skin, but a charming face and posture on her knees, ripped off her clothes, exposed the pair of delicate bamboo shoots to the air, and slowly stopped, completely ignoring the girl's frightened face, and said to Chen Hansan: "It's not that Ben Shuai doesn't help Han San talk to you, but Wang Xiang's guy obstructs it in every way, and Luo Shuai and others can't make up their minds......"
"Are you afraid of angering Jiang Ning?" Chen Hansan asked.
"I'm afraid of him!" Zhong Rong scolded hatefully, he didn't feel the strength in his hand was aggravated, the girl's bamboo shoots were pinched so painfully, she was not afraid of crying out for pain, tears splashed in her eyes, but no one had pity, "Luo Shuai told me not to tell you what Wang Xiang's words were, but in general, you can also think of it, and Ben Shuai can't do anything about it." ”
Chen Hansan frowned, seeing Wei Zhang's eyebrows and eyes at him, he didn't talk about business at this moment, persuaded him to drink very diligently, and finally asked Zhong Rong to take the girl in his arms back together. Wei Zhang also left with Zhong Rong first, separated from Zhong Rong, and turned around and went back to the pavilion to see Chen Hansan.
Chen Hansan asked, "What is Luo Shuai's attitude?" ”
At night, Wang Xiang and Zhong Rong were arguing in the palace about borrowing troops, Zhong Rong had Wang Xiang's mouth so good that he opened his mouth and stammered, and then he made a mistake, almost wanted to beat and scold Wang Xiang in the palace, and reprimanded Luo Shuai, sulking, thinking that the matter of borrowing troops was hopeless. Although there was a lively debate in the palace tonight, Luo Shuai remained silent......"
"Oh, really?" Chen Hansan asked happily, seeing Zhong Rong like that, he should have fallen behind when he was debating with Wang Xiang, and he was holding back his anger, but Wang Xiang's mouth was neat, but obviously Luo Xiancheng had another opinion.
"Please tell Luo Shuai that my family has lived in Suizhou for more than half a month, and I miss my brothers, so I will leave and go back ......the next day," Ma Zhen said.
"Are you really leaving?" Wei Zhang asked in surprise, "This matter looks like there are eyebrows, Luo Shuai's ears are soft, maybe he will agree in two days." ”
Chen Hansan thought that Luo Xiancheng was an old scalper, and without whipping, he wouldn't go south at all.
When Liu An'er led his troops east into Xusi, Luo Xiancheng hesitated in Xiangyang and Nanyang, and in his opinion, he escaped and became more and more indecisive; When the luxury family invaded Jiangning, they also sent people to Suizhou to invite Luo Xiancheng to join the army, and when Luo Xiancheng made up his mind to send troops south, the luxury family soldiers and horses had already been expelled from Jiangning, maybe Luo Xiancheng was lucky not to move early in his heart - don't look at the matter of borrowing troops and food, Luo Xiancheng's mind is also loose, but he can't make a decision within three or five days.
"My three or five thousand people have a problem eating now, and they can't afford to spend it in the mountains. Suizhou has been silent, I can only take people to cross the east to Jiangzhou! Chen Hansan said, "I hope to come to Suizhou again in the future to see Lord Wei and Luo Shuai!" ”
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Chen Hansan asked Wei Zhang to resign on his behalf, and Luo Xiancheng set up a banquet for Chen Hansan and Ma Zhenyang in the Changle Palace that he occupied and rebuilt with the state government, and he did not make a big noise, only a few henchmen such as Wang Xiang and Zhong Rong were invited to accompany him, which was also an important tribute to Chen Hansan.
After Han San voted for Jiangzhou, he could be regarded as flying to the high branch again. This king didn't say anything else, Han San remembered to go back to Suizhou often in the future, and there weren't many old guys left! Luo Xiancheng was squeezed on the couch, and the two maids on the left and right almost gave him a fat body to squeeze his breath.
Chen Hansan was also a little confused for a while, and he couldn't figure out whether his agitation plan touched Luo Xiancheng or not, and it was possible that Luo Xiancheng was indifferent to himself for leading his troops to Jiangzhou! Could it be that Luo Xiancheng still has worries about the old things in Xuzhou?
"I'm handsome and willing to go back to Suizhou often, but I'm afraid that Suizhou won't be able to keep peace for a few days; I'm going to return to Suizhou in the future, I'm afraid I won't see the old man! Ma Zhen sat down and said loudly.
Luo Xiancheng's face darkened instantly, and Chen Hansan slapped the table and reprimanded Ma Zhen: "Presumptuous, Luo Shuai has room for you to speak!" ”
Luo Xiancheng's black face also passed in an instant, squinted and laughed, and said: "It's all said and listened to it, and this king still has the stomach to listen to different opinions; Ma Ye is Han San's brainstorm, if you have anything to teach Suizhou, please tell me! His squinted eyes were full of coldness, and in his fat body, the hidden killing intent was not weak.