Xiahou Zhuo knew who the Qingzhou Festival envoy was a long time ago, but he never thought about what the relationship was with the Cui family, and the moment he looked at Li Qi, he knew that Li Qi had also thought of it.

"I see."

Li Qi sighed softly: "It's still because of you." ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded: "It's still because of me." ”

Although it was just thought of Cui Yan, the envoy of the Qingzhou Festival, it was not so difficult to think about the next thing.

The Cui family's goal of winning over Li Qi was ultimately Xiahou Zhuo, because Xiahou Zhuo was left behind in Jizhou and was in charge of all the soldiers and horses defending the city in Jizhou.

The Cui family will pass on Jizhou's every move to Qingzhou, and when Prince Yu's army has not yet started, it is likely that the Qingzhou army has already driven in the direction of Jizhou.

The reason is very simple, the Cui family already knew the date of Prince Yu's dispatch of troops at least two months ago, and sent the news to Qingzhou as quickly as possible, and the Qingzhou army, which was already ready, would march to Jizhou after receiving the news.

Therefore, the previous judgment was wrong, and it was not the Yanzhou Army that arrived in Jizhou first, but the Qingzhou Army farther away.

"The Cui family has been operating in Jizhou for many years, and this is their ancestral land."

Xiahou said: "It's me who underestimated the Cui family. ”

Li Qi said: "It's still too late to send someone to deliver a letter to your father, he just left the city, and he didn't go far." ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded: "I will immediately send someone to chase him, the big army industry bank left Jizhou and walked unfast, I asked people to chase quickly, how can it be faster than the Qingzhou army came back." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I want to go back and reorganize the armament just in case." ”

Li Qi said: "You go to the yamen first, and I'll help you when I go back to the carriage and horse shop to settle down." ”

Xiahou Zhuo suddenly thought of something, he looked at Li Qi and said: "The Qingzhou army didn't come, you don't have to help me, the people of the Cui family may not just want to plot against me when they contact you, now the people in the entire Jizhou know that you are my brother, and he may also attack you, so you must protect yourself and the people in the carriage and horse shop first." ”

Li Qi snorted: "Then go separately." ”

"Okay."

Xiahou Zhuo turned around and left, and went back to the general's mansion with his own soldiers.

Choi family.

Tritae sat there in a daze for a moment, then he looked at his men and said, "I may have made a mistake. ”

Qin Zhuo asked, "Owner, where is it?"

Cui Tai said: "I shouldn't have invited Li Qi to come, do you remember what the man surnamed Tang said before leaving, he said that your martial arts are considered second-rate in the army." ”

Qin Zhuo's face turned red and nodded, "Yes, he did say this." ”

"Why did he mention that he was in the army?"

Qin Zhuo thought for a while and said: "This shouldn't be a big problem, even if he can see that I am from the army, but in the current world, there are not a few people who hire people from my background as guards." ”

Cui Tai shook his head and said, "Don't be careless about everything......"

He was silent for a moment and then said, "It seems that I really need to go to Yongning Tongyuan to find out their details. ”

After saying this, he paused for a moment, and suddenly remembered what Tang Pidi said before leaving, I really don't want to see Mr. Cui in the carriage and horse shop, otherwise your face will not look good.

Thinking of this, Cui Tai's hand involuntarily patted on the armrest of the seat, quite hard.

At the same time, the carriage and horses are busy.

Tang Pidi walked back and forth in the courtyard, his brows were a little deep, and he turned his head sideways to see Li Qi enter the door, and immediately greeted him.

"I just thought of something."

Don said the opposite.

Li Qi said: "I also thought of one thing just now. ”

Then the two of them glanced at each other and said in unison: "Qingzhou Festival envoy Cui Yan came." ”

Tang Pi said: "After I came back, I have been thinking about going to the March River Tower, and I felt that something was wrong at that time, the young man who shot at me and the archer hidden on the roof were all from the military, and the Cui family was a famous family, but after I came back, I specially asked, and the people of the Cui family have no one in the Jizhou army." ”

"It's not uncommon to say that he simply hired some military masters as nurses, but the person who shot at me, I said that he was second-rate, but definitely not just second-rate, such a person, today's world, will be reused in the army, and it is much more expensive and difficult to invite them for a price than to invite a Jianghu guest with the same skills or even stronger."

He looked at Li Qi and said: "So I felt that something was wrong, so I dug a pit for Cui Tai, I deliberately pointed out that person was a martial artist in the army, and then said that I didn't want Cui Tai to come to our carriage and horse shop, if he really came......"

Li Qi said: "If he really comes, it means that he really has a ghost." ”

Tang Pi said, "Did you remind Xiahou?" ”

Li Qi nodded and said: "I was with him just now, and he had already thought that when we were cleaning up the archives of the Detective Affairs Division, we thought of Cui Yanlai, the envoy of Qingzhou Jiedu." ”

Tang Pi said: "Qingzhou is rich, and it is more peaceful than Jizhou, the Qingzhou army is huge, it should be no less than 200,000, in Jizhou City, the number of defenders is only more than 20,000, and the enemy is ten times that of me." ”

He was silent for a moment and then said, "We have to help Xiahou." ”

The next afternoon.

When Li Qi and Tang Pi arrived at the general's mansion, they were told that General Xiahou had gone to the city wall to arrange defenses, and the two of them rushed to look for it, and it took an hour to find where Xiahou Zhuo was.

Li Qi could see at a glance that Xiahou Zhuo's face was wrong, and he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "My father just left Jizhou not far away, I sent people to catch up day and night, and informed the Qingzhou army that it was possible to take advantage of the weakness to commit something, he said......"

Xiahou Zhuo glanced at Li Qi and sighed: "He said that he could trust me, and he also said that he was very relieved to hand over Jizhou to me, saying that the Qingzhou army came from afar, although the army was strong, but it was the end of the strong crossbow, the grain and grass in Jizhou City were abundant, and the army was stable, and it was not difficult to hold Jizhou." ”

Xiahou Zhuo continued: "He asked people to pass the word back, saying that he could take this opportunity to conquer Yuzhou and Qingzhou in one fell swoop, and asked me to drag the Qingzhou army outside Jizhou no matter what, and he would first break Yuzhou and then enter Qingzhou." ”

After listening to this, Li Qi glanced at Tang Pidi, who pondered for a moment and said: "The soldiers are dangerous, if they command properly and march quickly, it is not impossible to do so, but it is not dangerous enough." ”

He said seriously: "If I lead the troops, with an army of tens of thousands of people, bluff south to approach Yuzhou, tens of thousands of people, as an army of 200,000, confront the Yuzhou army in the area of the Nanping River, select a capable general, lead the army of 150,000, bypass the Yuzhou army and go straight to Qingzhou." ”

"Qingzhou is now empty of troops, and then all the way to preach the defeat of the Qingzhou army, the festival has made Cui Yanlai have died in battle, Qingzhou will inevitably be panicked, seize the land of Qingzhou, and then raise troops from Qingzhou, from the direction of Qingzhou into Yuzhou, when the time comes, you can fight with the army of Prince Jiangyu of Nanping inside and outside, and take Yuzhou and Qingzhou in one fell swoop."

"If the Yuzhou army knows that Qingzhou has been taken by Prince Yu, they will be attacked on their backs, and their morale will inevitably be damaged."

Tang Pi said: "Prince Ruoyu is very bold when he acts like this. ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I don't care about him, he wants to take Yuzhou Qingzhou in one fell swoop, I just have to guard Jizhou, our enemy is not only the Qingzhou army, but also the Yanzhou army." ”

Li Qi said: "Send scouts out, respectively to Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the faster the better, the farther the better, after discovering the enemy's situation, the starry night and return." ”

Xiahou Zhuo

Said: "I sent people out yesterday."

Tang Pidi asked, "How many have you sent?" ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Fifty people were sent in the direction of Yanzhou, and a hundred people were sent in the direction of Qingzhou. ”

"Not enough."

Tang Pi said: "Send double the number again, you gather people over, let them bring paper and pencils, and I will draw a route for them to explore." ”

Xiahou Zhuo immediately sent people to gather a group of government soldiers, all of whom were elite people, Tang Pidi squatted down on the ground, used charcoal as a pen, and drew a map on the ground of the city wall.

After drawing the map in a short time, Tang Pidi began to draw lines on the map one by one, and said while drawing: "A team of five people, pretend to be ordinary people, remember not to bring long weapons, do not bring horizontal knives, only bring crossbows and short knives to hide, follow the route to explore, each route has to go to two teams, one in front of the other, at least five miles apart, even if something happens to the front team, it can also send out the signal." ”

Xiahou Zhuo saw that his subordinates were all looking at him, and immediately said, "Look at what I do!" Do as he says! ”

"Yes!"

All the scouts answered, they took out pen and paper, each team drew only one route, and the dispatch ended quickly.

"The Qingzhou army has many foot soldiers, and the Yanzhou army has cavalry."

Tang Pi said: "Xiahou, you now send someone to Youzhou to ask for Luo Geng, let him pay attention to the movements of the Yanzhou army, if the Yanzhou army comes, the Youzhou army can attack and harass all the way, you must make it clear, let Luo Geng only attack and not fight, the people you send ......"

Tang Pidi paused, then looked at Xiahou Zhuo and said, "You find someone, and I will teach him in person." ”

Xiahou Zhuo immediately asked Liu Ge to find someone, Liu Ge found a Wupin general under his account, and asked to see that the person sent by Luo Geng was of a low level, Luo Geng would feel that Xiahou Zhuo looked down on him, that person was the most conceited, and the Wupin general was barely justified in terms of grade.

Tang Pi said to the general: "When you see Luo Geng, tell him what I said, and you will say it...... The strength of the Youzhou army is less than one-fifth of the Yanzhou army, and it must not face the enemy head-on, and the Yanzhou army is consumed along the way. ”

He asked the man, "Remember?" ”

The man nodded, "Remember." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Remember to set off now, bring your entourage, one person and three rides, don't delay." ”

"Yes!"

The general answered, and immediately ran down the wall.

Tang Pi said: "Send someone to the southeast to give an order, if the Qingzhou army comes, it will go to the Hutuo River, you let people transfer all the fishing boats along the coast to the west bank, and leave no boat on the east bank, during the spring flood, the rain is very sufficient, and it is not so easy for the Hutuo River to cross, you can block the Qingzhou army for a while, and buy time for us to defend the city." ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded: "Liu Ge, you go and arrange it." ”

Liu Ge answered, and immediately went to assign people.

Tang Pidi pondered for a moment and said: "If you can trust me, you can assign an army to me to command, but I know that this is not in accordance with the rules, the army has its own generals to command, and the soldiers are ......."

Before he finished speaking, Xiahou Zhuo had already said: "Don't talk about the first army, I will also promise to give it to you to command, and now I have the final say in Jizhou, they are not willing to have no use for fart, I am willing, that is, they are willing." ”

He said: "I didn't think of most of what you said just now, so I handed it over to you to command, and I was stronger than me." ”

"One army is enough."

Tang Pi said: "But I want the right to live and kill, and if I don't respect the military order, I can kill people." ”

"Give!"

Xiahou Zhuo looked back at his soldiers: "Take my general's order flag, this order flag will be handed over to Tang from today!" ”