Qin Jin's right-hand men, Pei Jing and Lu Qi arrived in Jinzhou City together, originally they still had a lot of doubts about going south to take the initiative to attack the rebels between Xia County and Yuan County, but with the news of Gao Xianzhi's victory in the first battle, this doubt also disappeared, and the entire Shenwu army unanimously believed that the day when the imperial court destroyed the Anshi rebels was not far away, and maybe they could return to the division in triumph before the New Year. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At the military meeting at the level of captain of the mobilization brigade before the war, Lu Qi even put forward a bold idea.

"The rebels lost the first battle, and they must retreat to Hongnong County, and the Shenwu army will go south according to the plan to drive away the enemy entrenched in Xia County and Yuan County......"

When it comes to the rebels in Xia County and Yuan County, Lu Qi specially used the word "drive away", the meaning is very obvious, that is, not to fight with the strength to encircle and annihilate, just defeat them and drive them to the south of the Yellow River. In this way, there will be no rebels south of Taiyuan in Hedong Province, and when the Shenwu army will free up its hands, it can choose calmly whether it is north or south.

Lu Qi's hand waved sharply on the screen map, and finally landed heavily on the position of Tianjing Pass.

"As long as Gao Xianggong can be invincible and undefeated with the rebels in Hongnong, we can make a detour to Tianjing Pass to cross the water and Jishui to raid Jiyuan. As soon as Jiyuan is lost, the northern gateway of the eastern capital Luoyang will be completely opened, and at that time......" Lu Qi's eyes burst with scorching sparks, and his excitement was overflowing.

"At that time, the merit of overcoming Luoyang will be our Shenwu Army!"

It's a bold and tempting idea. Since we have decided to fight a war, how can we only do things that work without merit? As for whether to steal merit or not, as long as the wood is already in the boat, let others chew their tongues!

"Okay, what Captain Lu said is right, fight across the Yellow River and recover the eastern capital Luoyang......"

The generals in the hall clapped their hands and applauded, thinking that the plan proposed by Lu Qi was simply tailor-made by God for the Shenwu Army.

Whether it is Pei Jing or Chen Qianli, they have all expressed their support for this suggestion.

Chen Qianli nodded and commented on Lu Qi's plan.

As long as the Shenwu army captures Jiyuan and the troops are under the eastern capital, Sun Xiaozhe's troops, who are fighting against Gao Xianggong, will inevitably be difficult to take care of, so that the Tang Dynasty's victory will be between the tenth month!"

Even Qin Jin admitted that Lu Qi's bold plan was extremely brilliant, although this made Gao Xianzhi gnaw hard bones, and the Shenwu army picked up the thick part of the meat to bite, which seemed a little unauthentic, but how could the battle between the court and the changes in the battlefield be polite and polite? Just as the great man of Qin and Jin said in that lifetime, revolution is not a dinner party, it is impossible to be calm and elegant, gentle and frugal. Everything must be achieved first, and as for the worldly moral constraints, they can only be left behind, and if someone talks about righteousness in this case, it can only be said that this person's brain is in water, and he is not lightly ill.

Almost unanimously agreed, and the army set out for the south on October 12.

After the brigade led the captains to disperse, Pei Jing and Lu Qi stayed. Qin Jin specially took out the edict of the Son of Heaven to reward merit, Pei Jing and Lu Qi were both promoted to the generals of the Shenwu Army after the first battle in Jiangzhou, which was already ranked third in the establishment of the Shenwu Army, and only the generals and generals of the unified army were left above the generals of the Shenwu Army. The rest of the hundreds of people in the school also have their own rewards, this time Li Longji's edict of merit was conveyed very quickly, from the expression of the merit to Chang'an to the edict of the Son of Heaven, it took less than ten days before and after, which made Qin Jin feel surprised. Since Li Longji's mutiny, he has almost delayed everything in the Shenwu Army. Now that he has suddenly dealt with it neatly, it also confirms that he attaches great importance to this large-scale eastward operation, and has even temporarily put aside his prejudice against the Shenwu Army.

The reason why Qin Jin did not announce the edict of merit in public was mainly because he did not want to use this form to stimulate morale, which would only make the army even more complacent.

Pei Jing and Lu Qi were not surprised by their promotion, after they were both famous families, promotion was not a goal to be diligently pursued, and making contributions was what they wanted.

After Qin Jin read out the edict of rewarding merit, he discussed with the two of them a specific plan for the use of troops.

"Huangfu Ke's men and horses in Anyi can move, you can let them make a tentative attack first, probe the reality of the enemies of Xia County and Yuan County, and then use the Shenwu army to ......."

Lu Qi said: "Huangfu Ke has no less than 50,000 troops in Anyi, and his strength even exceeds that of the Shenwu Army, is it a bit overkill to only make a tentative attack?"

After that, Lu Qi and Pei Jing exchanged glances, Pei Jing immediately understood, and said: "Envoy, the Shuofang army can be alone, if the emperor attacks Xia County with Huangfu and the Shenwu army attacks Yuan County, such a left and right attack will make it difficult for the rebels to take care of each other." ”

As soon as the two of them sang and harmonized, how could Qin Jin not understand their thoughts, to put it bluntly, he wanted Huangfu Ke's Shuofang army to share nearly half of the rebel army, and then the Shenwu army could not only preserve its strength, but also be in an undefeated place, so it happened to kill two birds with one stone. The reason why Qin Jin always considers the Shenwu Army first is not because he is concerned about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but only because he is not at ease with non-descendants.

Because on the battlefield is not afraid that the enemy is too strong, but is afraid of the cowardice and stupidity of pig teammates. Giving his flank to the Shuo Fang army, whether it is possible for the Shuo Fang army to have problems at a critical moment is something that Qin Jin has to consider. After all, he and Huangfu Ke are not subordinate to each other, and half of the current Shuofang army is enriched by local unity soldiers, and it is more than enough to confront the rebels to scare and scare people.

However, fighting in battle is like a gambler's bet, when the cards are equal, there is no victory and defeat, and in the end it is just who has the courage to fight and whose luck is better.

Therefore, when Pei Jing and Lu Qi repeatedly said that they wanted Huangfu Ke's Shuofang Army and Shenwu Army to fight left and right, Qin Jin nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Seeing that in the second half of the night, Qin Jin was not sleepy, and invited Pei Jing and Lu Qi to drink together.

Hearing the word wine, these two people didn't frown on the battlefield, and they actually showed tangled expressions. It turned out that these two guys had been drinking until dawn last night, and they were so drunk that they didn't wake up until late afternoon, and now they suddenly heard the word wine, and instinctively felt like vomiting.

However, Pei Jing and Lu Qi's alcohol consumption was between the two and the middle, and they did not distinguish between the winners and losers, and now they could neither leak each other's cowardice, nor could they admit their cowardice in front of Qin Jin.

As a result, a table of wine and meat was quickly prepared. In fact, the wine and meat are very simple, Hedong is rich in good wine, and then two pots full of stewed mutton, and then accompanied by pepper and coriander to eat. There was also a pot of fat and thin meat in the middle of the two pots of mutton, and Lu Qi couldn't help but smile when he saw this:

"It makes the gentleman very fetish, and prefers to eat such fishy meat. ”

The wine table has no size, Qin Jin rarely smiled, cut a piece of pork with a silver knife and stuffed it in front of Lu Qi, and then pointed to the black soy sauce in the pottery bowl, which contained mashed garlic and walnut nuts, and only threw out three words.

"Dip and eat!"

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, not only have there been obvious differences in the color of the clothes and crowns according to their status, but even the meat eaten has obvious hierarchical boundaries. The "Chinese" records, "The Son of Heaven eats too fast, cattle, sheep and pigs are all three livestock, the princes eat cattle, the Qing eats sheep, the doctor eats pigs, the Shi eats fish, and the people eat vegetables." ”

However, after the Warring States period, etiquette collapsed, and all nobles were proud of eating beef and despised. It's just that cattle were used to plough the fields in the farming era, and it was strictly forbidden to kill cattle without permission in all dynasties, so the nobles ate mutton most of the time. As a result, the status of pork is embarrassing, those who have money and status don't like to eat it, and those who don't have money can't afford to eat it.

Qin Jin once heard that the ancients did not eat pork because the pigs at that time had not been castrated, so there was a kind of fishy atmosphere, which was difficult to swallow. However, after he came to the Tang Dynasty, he found that in fact, there were already gelding pigs in this era, but there was no market for eating because of the inherent class concept.

Qin Jin is used to eating pork, and after eating mutton for a few months, he almost has nothing to love, and he always feels that there is a smell of mutton inside and outside his body. Therefore, after leaving Chang'an, the land of right and wrong, he completely gave up eating mutton, and specially asked the cook to specialize in pork.

Lu Qi is used to being in the Shenwu Army, and those clan habits have been imperceptibly lost a lot, especially in food and clothing. The reason why he said this was just to tease Qin Jin a few words with the rare banquet. Therefore, he raised his hand to pick up the piece of pork, dipped it in the black soy sauce a few times, and then stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, chewing it full of oily and fragrant.

Seeing Lu Qi eating pork, Qin Jin picked up a large piece of fat and thin and put it on the copper plate in front of Pei Jing. But seeing Pei Jing's bitter face, Lu Qi laughed with the strength of the wine, and ridiculed him for not even daring to eat a piece of meat, and he would not be convinced again in the future.

It turned out that Pei Jing didn't mean that he couldn't eat pork, but that he couldn't eat pork fat, but after being stimulated by Lu Qi, he could only pick up the piece of meat with his eyes closed and stuff it into his mouth, chew a few times and take a big sip of wine, trying to swallow the wine. But he was only halfway swallowed, and he couldn't help but tilt his head and spit it all in the copper basin containing the filth at his feet.

Lu Qi couldn't stop laughing, Qin Jin couldn't help laughing, for him, he almost forgot what it was like to have a relaxed day. I saw Pei Jing's face flushed after vomiting, and he still defended himself: "I'm in a hurry to eat, see ...... laugh, see laugh."

In the midst of the staggering, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside, which made Qin Jin's heart tense.

If someone rushes away to report the news at night, it is undoubtedly an urgent military report, otherwise ordinary affairs will wait until after dawn to report.

After a large bowl of wine was slicing, the door opened, and the voice of the person who followed it sounded outside the screen.

"Envoy Jun, Xia County and Yuan County are in urgent charge!"