It took an hour for Xun Yi to tell Li Min the process of the Battle of Kunyang.

In order to take credit for Zhou Hu in front of Li Junshou, Xun Yi made a lot of preparations in advance - a few days ago in Kunyang, he asked Zhao Yu in detail about the battle, and also wrote a detailed battle report, which he believed could shock this Li Junshou.

Sure enough, looking at the 'Battle of Kunyang' written by Xun Yi in his hand, listening to Xun Yi's narration in his ears, Li Junshou was shocked for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses.

According to Xun Yi, the scale of the Changsha rebel Qu Shuai Guan Shuo's attack on Kunyang actually had about eight armies, three of which he personally commanded, and the remaining five armies were led by five generals, Huang Kang, Xu Bao, Liu De, Zhai Shang, and Tian Xu. In addition, the Green Forest thieves led by Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu and their pseudo-thieves are enough to fight an army.

In other words, the size of Guan Shuo's attack on Kunyang consisted of a total of nine armies, roughly 90,000 troops.

However, the nine armies of Guan Shuo can be said to have sunk in the sand and suffered heavy losses in Kunyang.

Xu Bao, Zhai Shang, and Tian Xu, the three armies were almost completely annihilated;

The green forest thieves led by Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu were also almost wiped out.

In addition, the two armies of Huang Kang and Liu De lost more than half, and even the three armies led by Guan Shuo himself also lost at least half.

Roughly calculated, Guan Shuo lost more than 50,000 troops in this battle, plus more than 10,000 green forest thieves.

Even Li Junshou felt unbelievable about this result: Could it be that Kunyang is the tiger's den of Longtan, which actually caused Guan Shuo to lose so many troops?

After being shocked, Li Junshou immediately asked Xun Yidao: "What about the casualties in Kunyang?" ”

Hearing this, Xun Yi, who was still with joy on his face, seemed to be shrouded in a haze, and sighed: "As far as I know, Kunyang has lost nearly 20,000 strong men, of which 70% are between the ages of fifteen and thirty-...... Although there are still 8,000 guards left in Kunyang, they have almost accounted for the strong men of the appropriate age, and the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 people are all old and weak women and children. ”

“……”

Li Junshou's face was moved.

Even if he didn't witness it with his own eyes, he could guess from Xun Yi's description how difficult it was for Kunyang to defend the city.

In fact, he also understands that it stands to reason that a small county like Kunyang basically has no way to stop Guanshuo's nearly 100,000 troops, and defeat is common sense, and it seems strange to win.

The most crucial player in this battle is none other than Zhou Hu and his black tiger thieves.

While Li Junshou was pondering, Xun Yi said softly: "My lord, with Zhou Hu's merits, the county should give a reward......

Li Junshou glanced at Xun Yi and asked, "Is it Zhou Hu who invited you to ask me for credit?" ”

"Nope."

Xun Yi shook his head and said, "Zhou Hu never mentioned it from beginning to end, it was his subordinates' own judgment. ”

Li Junshou glanced at Xun Yi with some suspicion, after all, he knew that his subordinate, who had always been in the right, had met the former bandit leader for some reason, and the relationship between the two sides was very good.

I have to say that this Li Junshou is guarding his own people, and he really underestimates a certain black tiger thief leader.

In fact, Zhao Yu really didn't mention this matter to Xun Yi, because he didn't care about Yingchuan County's reward at all - all he wanted from beginning to end was just an official status, and as for the position, Zhao Yu didn't care, because he didn't think about serving Yingchuan County at all.

To put it mildly, even today, Zhao Yu is actually choosing between the Jin State and the rebels, striving to stand on the side of the final victor in order to obtain the greatest benefits.

And Xun Yi vaguely felt that Zhao Yu was not very enthusiastic about Yingchuan County and the Jin Kingdom, so he took the initiative to ask for credit for him, hoping to tie Zhao Yu to the side of Yingchuan County and the Jin Kingdom, lest the person he admired make a mistake in the future.

"I'll think about it, you can go home and rest first."

Li Junshou groaned.

Xun Yi frowned slightly, but it was not easy to continue to persuade, after all, it was troublesome to annoy the county guard in front of him and make the county guard disgusted with that Zhou Hu.

"Yes."

After weighing it repeatedly, Xun Yi gave up.

Looking at the back of Xun Yi's departure, Li Junshou couldn't help but pick up the battle report written by Xun Yi again and carefully read the content on it.

I have to say that even he admired the various tactics used by Zhou Hu in this battle, especially Zhou Hu's 'plan to defeat Guan Shuo's 'plan to plan', and invited the county officials of Xiangcheng and Runan to take advantage of the emptiness of the Huangkang military camp in the western suburbs to eliminate his camp in one fell swoop and lift the blockade west of Kunyang, which is simply a stroke of genius in Li Junshou's opinion. ——If it weren't for Guan Shuo's every move being Zhou Hu's expectations, how could Zhou Hu have done this?

With this strategy alone, then Zhou Hu deserves to be promoted, if there is another person, Li Junshou will not hesitate to promote, but this Zhou Hu ......

One thing to say, although Li Min pardoned some of Zhou Hu's evil deeds at the beginning, Zhou Hu's evil deeds of 'robbing officials and burning officials' still left a thorn in his heart, so that even if Zhou Hu made such a contribution today, he was a little hesitant whether he should promote Zhou Hu.

After all, Zhou Hu was not a guy who would be at the mercy of others.

seems to be deferential, but in fact it is unruly, this is Li Min's opinion of Zhou Hu.

And this kind of person is also very difficult to control.

But looking at the battle report again, Li Junshou had to admit that the tiger fought really beautifully this week, and he turned the tide with a small county.

"Hmm......"

After much hesitation and contemplation, Li Junshou finally wrote the battle of Kunyang into the battle report that he would deliver to the imperial court as his 'overall score' for Yingchuan County.

There is no way, except for Kunyang, he Yingchuan County really has no outstanding achievements, and even, nearly a quarter of the county land has been controlled by the rebel general Xiang Xuan, if it is not for Kunyang's side to repel Guan Shuo, he Yingchuan County will probably lose half of the county land this year alone.

Therefore, in a sense, Zhou Hu's performance in Kunyang can be regarded as a shame for his Yingchuan County, at least with the results of Zhou Hu's battle, the court will not question him again - Guan Shuo's nearly 100,000 troops have been defeated Most of them, what else can the court blame?

However, the embarrassing thing is that these achievements are all in Kunyang, and in Yingchuan County, not only did he fail to defeat the rebel Xiang Xuan during these days, but he also lost the two county towns of Yingyang and Yingyin.

Li Junshou couldn't wait to immediately call the commander Cao Suo, and slapped this battle report on the latter's face: "Look at Kunyang!" Look at Xuchang again! ”

But reason made Li Junshou understand that this was meaningless except to make Cao Suo hate him and envy Zhou Hu, after all, this Cao Duwei did not do his best, but his talent was limited to this......

"Do you want to promote that Zhou Hu?"

Li Junshou paced around the room with his hands behind his back, thinking carefully about the matter.

At the same time, he also thought about 'asking Kunyang for help'.

The county governor of a county, the county seat with the county army, actually wants to ask for help from the township and county under its rule, and ask the latter to send the county pawn to come to the rescue, however, now there is indeed only Kunyang, who has the ability to help the county - since Zhou Hu can lead the Kunyang county pawn to repel the main rebel force of Guan Shuo, naturally, he can also help the county defeat the rebel general Xiang Xuan.

The county town is not as good as the township under its rule, which is really embarrassing.

But despite feeling embarrassed, for the sake of the overall situation, Li Junshou also had to try, after all, although the imperial court was already dispatching troops, but when the reinforcements would arrive in his Yingchuan County, Li Junshou was not sure, in case the imperial court's reinforcements did not arrive in time after the beginning of spring next year, he was not sure that he could hold the rebel general Xiang Xuan's attack in the spring.

Therefore, instead of waiting for the reinforcements of the imperial court, it is better to ask for help from Kunyang, at least the reinforcements from Kunyang can arrive in time.

The next day, Li Min summoned the commander Cao Suo and the rest of the generals and officials to discuss the war.

Before the meeting began, Li Junshou said to everyone with an expressionless face: "Yesterday, Xun Yi returned to the city and told me that the rebels had been repelled in Kunyang, and most of the nearly 100,000 troops in Guanshuo were wiped out in Kunyang, and only less than three armies were left to withdraw to Zhaoling, and that's it, including one army of Jiangxia rebels......"

Hearing this, all the generals and officials in the room were dumbfounded, and the generals such as Commander Cao Suo and Scholar Tian Qin were even more embarrassed.

On his side of Xuchang, he was beaten by Xiang Xuan's 10,000 Changsha rebels and 30,000 Jiangxia rebels, but on the Kunyang side, he could defeat or even defeat him in the face of nearly 100,000 troops.

In addition to being ashamed, Cao Suo, Tian Qin and others didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing that these people's faces were flushed, Li Junshou no longer did too many questions, and then asked everyone again: "This Xiang Xuan has captured Yingyang and Yingyin counties, although he has temporarily evacuated Xuchang, but when he waits for the spring of next year, he will definitely make a comeback. ”

Including Cao Suo, Tian Qin and others, everyone swore and said: "Only swear to defend the city!" ”

However, Li Junshou was obviously not satisfied with this reply.

Seeing that the county keeper frowned and was silent, or the official with a brainy mind thought of the former before mentioning the matter of Kunyang, he tentatively suggested: "My lord, since the crisis in Kunyang has been solved, why not ask Kunyang for help?" Yingyang is just north of Xiangcheng, and it can be called that Zhou Hu to organize the coalition forces of Kunyang, Xiangcheng, and Runan counties to recover Yingyang first, and then support Xuchang ......"

"Hmm......" Li Min pretended to groan.

How could the people in the house not know the latter, having spent so much time with the county guard? Seeing Li Min's hesitant expression, everyone immediately understood: it must be that this county guard is afraid of losing it, so he can't take the initiative to mention this matter.

Thinking of this, except for Cao Suo and Tian Qin, who were still silent, the rest of the people persuaded one after another, as if only Kunyang could solve the siege of Xuchang.

Seeing this, Li Min turned his head to look at Xun Yi, although he didn't speak, his attitude was very obvious.

"I'm afraid it's hard to ......"

Xun Yi, who had already guessed a few points, said with a wry smile: "In this battle, Kunyang lost nearly 20,000 strong men, and every household in the county has dead. In this way, it is not benevolent. ”

"......" Li Min changed color slightly.

From the side, several officials who noticed the face of the county guard immediately came out to accuse Xun Yi.

"Xun Dupost's words are wrong! …… The rebels invaded the territory, which was a catastrophe for my entire Yingchuan County, and the entire county should advance and retreat together, how can there be a difference? ”

"Kunyang, isn't it under the rule of my Yingchuan County? The county town is in danger, how can he stand idly by? ”

"Xun Duyou's words are ridiculous!"

However, Xun Yi didn't bother to pay attention to this group of people at all, just looked directly at Li Min, arched his hand and said, "If the lord insists on this, please send another messenger." ”

Li Junshou scolded in his heart.

Fortunately, he is also used to Xun Yi's stinky temper, but he is not too angry, not to mention, he also wants Xun Yi to convince that Zhou Hu - except Xun Yi, who here has a relationship with that Zhou Hu?

Thinking of this, Li Junshou said comfortingly: "This is not an order from the county, you can discuss it with that Zhou Hu, if Zhou Hu is willing to rescue Xuchang, I can promote him to the 'Captain of the Ministry'." ”

“……”

Xun Yi frowned, but did not refuse on the spot.