Chapter 689: Swinging the Army to the North (17)
"Okay! Today, a few of us will not get drunk with the generals of your Tang Army!" Guli Feiluo laughed heartily, and at the same time patted the shoulders of several of his personal guards, meaning that it depends on your performance if you can give us the face of the clan leader back to us later.
The trust from the leader is the best motivation for these subordinates.
Immediately, Wang Zhongsi led everyone to the camp tent he had already arranged, only to see that a luncheon had already been prepared here, a person under his name was busy going in and out, serving food and wine, and the generals of the Tang Army had already taken their seats and were chatting with each other.
Behind Wang Zhongsi and Ye Chengcheng, there are a few Hui people such as Guli Feiluo, but on the way, they discussed it, thinking that his identity is not suitable for the time being, there are many generals of the Tang Army here, and they belong to several border towns, the situation is complicated, if the identity of the leader of Guli Feiluo Hui is exposed, I am afraid that things will become very troublesome. Therefore, he also instructed his two pro-soldiers just now, no matter what, not to reveal the matter, with his trust in his pro-soldiers, this should not be a problem, as for Huan Chenyu and Bai Quan, he is even less worried, these two cold guys want them to talk to other people, let alone reveal the identity of Guli Feiluo.
Therefore, as soon as he entered the camp, Wang Zhongsi smiled and introduced Gu Li Feiluo and a few people behind him to the generals, but naturally he used a pseudonym and a fake identity, but after all, he was a Hui envoy, even though the generals were disdainful of them, but Wang Zhongsi and Ye Chengcheng were on the spot, they couldn't be too presumptuous, so they secretly agreed to take the opportunity to humiliate these so-called Hui envoys.
Only An Sishun refused the invitation of several of them, which made Li Xuan and Han Xiulin, who were familiar with him, feel a little puzzled, with An Sishun's usual unruliness and arrogance, he actually chose to remain silent at this moment? But they all thought that An Sishun was selling the face of Wang Zhongsi and Ye Chengcheng, after all, he received a lot of favors from the two of them in the Battle of Sanggan River, and it was normal to repay it. How did they know that An Sishun was jealous, he privately found a few Hui Tang soldiers among the tens of thousands of people under his command, and finally got some things about Hui from them. When he knew the strength of Hui Hui, he was immediately discouraged, and he didn't dare to be arrogant, in the face of such an existence that could sweep all the border towns in the north, even if he was arrogant on weekdays, his current confidence was not enough. In other words, instead of offending such a powerful emerging force, it is better to show goodwill with them, so that their Hexi can also be stable in the future, and there is no need to worry about hidden dangers from the north.
In fact, An Sishun's ambition can be seen here, he has even regarded Hexi as his bag, completely ignoring the current festival to make the emperor Fu Weiming, but this raising can also be regarded as a kind of foresight, no matter who it is, the position of the festival envoy is not long, today is you, tomorrow is me, generally by the other towns of the festival to change the guard, after a certain number of years is the deputy envoy promoted. However, even if he counts the merits of the Battle of Sanggan River, it will be difficult to correct it in the past few years, unless he ...... Unless he finds a strong backing, and steps on Huangfu Weiming in the court, at least he has to get his position down, so that he can have hope of straightening up, as for this backing, his eyes will naturally be on the Hui Hui that he has just discovered.
After everyone took their seats, what surprised the Tang generals was that Guli Feiluo and several of his personal guards behaved a little sven, and they were not as rude as they guessed, so that they didn't even have a chance to laugh.
The atmosphere of the whole banquet was a little relaxed and pleasant, not at all as they expected, no, to be precise, the generals of the Tang Army were at a disadvantage at all, and the Hui envoys pretended to be Gu Li Feiluo were not only good at communicating with people, rich in knowledge, but also quite powerful in reasoning, and even a few generals who boasted of their kung fu could not talk about him at all, and they were not interesting to themselves. Among the people fighting on the side, his personal guards are indeed heroes in the wine, and the generals of the Tang Army can't even drink a few of them, and in a fit of anger, including the personal soldiers behind them, they also joined in, and as a result, they drank until the afternoon, and everyone was drunk, and then they drank the Hui guards to the ground, but they still couldn't change the fact that they couldn't win these people at all.
And Ni Fuguo himself did not appear, Ni Fuguo and Wang Zhonghe, who were pretended by Ye Chengcheng, did not discuss any questions about the three Turkic divisions with Guli Feiluo, even if there were occasional generals who raised it, Wang Zhongsi would pretend to be drunk, waved his hand, and said that he only talked about banquets, not about military affairs, and he reacted like this after everyone mentioned it twice, and no one dared to mention it anymore in desperation, they knew that Wang Zhongsi had already planned to return to Hui, at least the war might not be able to be fought.
However, although Gu Li Feiluo was ostensibly entertaining these Tang army generals and Wang Zhonghei, Ni Fuguo and others, he also drank quite well, even if he drank a lot, he still kept a clear head, but it was precisely because he was sober that he felt worried. These Tang army generals in front of him, although they are only at the wine table, but they all have the demeanor of a general, and Wang Zhongsi is even more so, there is a faint style of hegemon, those generals in his own clan, although they are all well-trained, coupled with their own bravery, can undoubtedly take on one side, but compared with these Tang army generals in front of them, that temperament is simply one heaven and one underground...... Even if the soldiers are strong, if the generals who lead the team can't do it, it will be in vain. In his impression, there are countless examples in history of winning more with less because of the problem of generals, and the key to whether an army can fight or not depends on the generals, and if the army is strong, it can only make the army stronger; if the troops are weak, if the generals are powerful, they can still achieve the effect of turning things around, but under their own command, there is no material for a general at all.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, as if he wanted to vent, he just hated that time was not waiting, the collapse of the Turkic Khanate was not the time, if it could be five to ten years later, then his strength would be enough to allow him to take his place, and now, it was still too early, which made him have to bow down to the Tang Dynasty, although this was not his intention, but this was undoubtedly a correct choice.