Liu Ge, who fought a battle in the Hutuo River, felt beautiful bubbles in his heart, and on the way back, he felt that his body was as light as a swallow, his heart was not heavy, and his pace was natural and brisk.

After they returned to Jizhou City, Liu Ge went directly to the south wall of Jizhou City, and he now roughly knew Tang Pidi's character, and in military affairs, Tang Pidi was a person who said one is one.

Tang Pidi said that if he wants to live on the city wall, then he will definitely live on the city wall.

When Liu Ge saw Tang's rival, this young man, who had been tanned and had a somewhat dark complexion, was squatting there to roast steamed buns and eat.

For some reason, there was no one around him, only himself.

Far away, Liu Ge saw that after Tang Pi's steamed buns were baked, he sat in the shade, a pot of water, two baked steamed buns, this was his lunch, maybe he thought of something, after eating a few bites, he got up, took a charcoal pen and wrote and painted on the ground, very focused.

In the farther places, the soldiers ate better than Tang's rivals, at least they had food and vegetables.

Liu Ge's anger rose up all of a sudden, he didn't go to see Tang Pi, but turned around and went down the city wall, and went directly to the Wubei General's Mansion to find Xiahou Zhuo.

When I arrived at the General's Mansion, I remembered that Xiahou Zhuo also had to live on the city wall, but he handed over the southern city defense to Tang Pidi, and he lived on the city wall of the eastern city.

Liu Ge rushed to Dongcheng again, and when he went up, he saw the wooden frame that Tang Pi had beaten people, and he also tied a hammock to the wooden frame, and the guy was lying in the hammock.

Not far from Xiahou Zhuo, there is an iron pot with meat stewed in the pot.

I don't know why, Liu Ge's anger burned, and he couldn't suppress it at all, he strode over and kicked the iron pot over.

The iron pot overturned, and the sound startled Xiahou Zhuo, he jumped down from the hammock violently, and was obviously stunned after glancing at Liu Ge.

"What are you doing here?"

Xiahou Zhuo asked.

"What am I doing here?"

Liu Ge took a few steps forward and stood in front of Xiahou Zhuo, the two of them were close at hand, and their noses were almost on top of their noses.

"Xiahou Zhuo, you let me down!"

Xiahou Zhuo was taken aback by him and took two steps back.

"What the hell is going on?"

Liu Ge said angrily: "After I came back, I went to Nancheng first, I originally wanted to tell Tang Pidi that we won the battle, and I also want to thank him on behalf of the brothers, but what did I see?" I saw him munching steamed buns by himself, and the food distributed by the defenders on the city wall, why didn't he even have him! If he didn't treat you as a friend, if he wasn't Li Qi's brother, if he didn't also want to defend this Jizhou City, why did he suffer this wronged anger here! ”

These few roars, Xiahou Zhuo's face was foaming.

Xiahou Zhuo was stunned, first surprised, then angry.

"Where is the pro-military camp!"

Xiahou shouted.

The lieutenant of his own army immediately rushed over: "General! ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Order, arrest all the people in charge of military supplies and food in Nancheng, including the people who distribute meals!" ”

Liu Ge asked angrily: "You don't know? ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I...... I really don't know, I handed over all the affairs of Nancheng to Tang Rival, and I specially explained to the people below, Tang Rival is just like me, and I have to obey his orders. ”

Liu Ge said: "Then you are even more disappointing!" ”

Xiahou Zhuo had any face to justify, and left Dongcheng with his own military camp, and the horse team passed through the streets of Jizhou City, and the sound of horses' hooves was like a torrential rain and thunder.

When he arrived at the city gate of Nancheng, Xiahou Zhuo did not go to the city first, but waved his hand and ordered to arrest people, and the soldiers of the pro-military camp began to tie people back with ropes, one after another, and more than 100 people were tied to the city gate in a short time.

Xiahou Zhuo looked at the people who were pressed and said, "Who is responsible for the food?" ”

Those people looked sideways at a middle-aged man in his forties, and the man hurriedly replied: "General Hui, it is the subordinate who is in charge." ”

Someone lowered his voice in Xiahou Zhuo's ear and said: "This person's name is Tao Qingqian, he is a relative of the Jiedu Envoy, and the wife of the Jiedu Envoy is Tao Qingqian's cousin. ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded, and he asked Tao Qingqian: "Is the food of the defenders on the city wall distributed according to the head. ”

Tao Qingqian hurriedly said: "General Hui, it is indeed distributed according to the head, and none of them are bad." ”

"Not bad?"

Liu Ge snorted and asked, "Then tell me, why didn't Tang Pidi get a meal?" ”

Tao Qingqian said: "General Hui, he didn't, because he didn't belong to our Jizhou army, according to the rules, there would be no food for him, and the lower officials also felt embarrassed, so he went to talk to Tang Pi in person, and he himself said that it was okay." ”

Xiahou Zhuo was silent for a moment and said, "I'll give you a chance to make things clear, if you talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being unkind." ”

Tao Qingqian said: "Back to the general, the lower officials also do things according to the rules, and the total number of people in each army does not count the Tang rivals, so there is no him in the food, this is ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xiahou Zhuo jumped off the horse, grabbed Tao Qingqian's collar and lifted the person up, without waiting for Tao Qingqian to beg for mercy, he turned Tao Qingqian in mid-air for half a circle, and poked his head down.

With a bang, Tao Qingqian's head seemed to be poked directly into his chest.

"Who of you is coming?!"

Xiahou Zhuo casually threw Tao Qingqian's body out and glared angrily at the others kneeling there.

Without waiting for the men to answer, one of the soldiers said, "General...... Tao Qingqian ordered everyone to have less rations, there were so many soldiers in the garrison, a few truckloads of grain could be saved with a meal, and he sold the grain to merchants in the city at a high price, not only now, but Tao Qingqian also did it before. ”

"A few days ago, a few days ago, Mr. Tang saw that the amount of food distributed by the soldiers was insufficient, and then he found Tao Qingqian and asked, Tao Qingqian said that Mr. Tang couldn't take care of it, and then asked people not to distribute food to Mr. Tang, and said to see if this person was cheap or not, if he had a little backbone, he would leave by himself."

The soldier glanced at Xiahou Zhuo and continued: "He was probably afraid that Mr. Tang and the general would talk about the small amount of food, so he wanted to humiliate Mr. Tang and force him to leave, originally the soldiers on the city wall had to share the food with Mr. Tang, but Mr. Tang refused, he went down to the city and bought a bag full of steamed buns, and ate this ...... at once."

Hearing this, Xiahou Zhuoqi's eyes turned red, and his lips trembled.

He scolded: "You ...... You bastards! ”

Those people kowtowed and begged for mercy, some people said that this was Tao Qingqian's idea, and they did not dare to object, Tao Qingqian was responsible for grain and grass food, although the official position was not high, but the power was very great, whoever did not listen to him would be unlucky.

Because he is a relative of the Lord of the Festival, no one dares to mess with him.

Such a person, not only is he not afraid of Tang's rivalry, but even Xiahou Zhuo is not really afraid, because he thinks that Xiahou Zhuo may not be able to stay in the army for a long time, besides, he believes in the sophistication of human feelings.

He is a relative of the Jiedu envoy, can Xiahou Zhuo still offend Zeng Ling, the Jiedu envoy, because of a Tang rival?

"You're talking lightly."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "You people, if it weren't for Tao Qingqian's people, how could he stay with you to do things, disobedient people have already been squeezed out, now that Tao Qingqian was killed by me, why do you just push everything on him, thinking that I can let you go?!" ”

"Kill!"

Xiahou Zhuo gave an order: "These."

I was hanged at the gates of the city, so that everyone could see clearly! ”

After a short time, Liu Ge personally led people to carry a lot of wooden stakes, smashed them into the open space on both sides of the city gate one by one, and then hung those who were captured on the wooden stakes one by one.

Hundred and ten people were hanged there, their bodies dangling.

Xiahou Zhuo didn't understand his hatred, he pointed to Tao Qingqian's corpse and said, "Hang this person's corpse too!" ”

After finishing the order, he strode up to the city, Liu Ge followed, and Xiahou Zhuo said as he walked: "It's me who overestimated these people, I thought they were at least individuals. ”

Liu Ge said: "I originally wanted to come back and persuade you, no matter what, you have to keep Tang Pidi in the army, and when the prince comes back, I will personally recommend it, but now it seems that it is impossible for people to stay in the army." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "The court employs people, and there are no real usable people, all of them are like a group of Tao Qingqian, I thought Jizhou was pretty good, but I thought that Jizhou was exactly the same." ”

"It's the same everywhere."

After Liu Ge said this, he exhaled heavily.

Xiahou Zhuo ran to the city wall, because the place where Tang Pidi lived was not near the city gate, so Tang Pidi didn't know what happened just now, and he was still squatting on the ground at this time and writing and painting with charcoal.

Xiahou Zhuo walked to his side and Tang Pidi didn't notice it, he was holding a charcoal in his right hand, and he still had half an uneaten steamed bun in his left hand, which he had forgotten himself.

The sketches drawn on the ground indicate the location of the Qingzhou army's camp, the baggage battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the distribution of each army, which have basically been drawn clearly.

In addition to this, he drew the direction of the enemy attack with arrows on the ground, and he crouched there, his eyes fixed on the ones he had drawn, as if he was contemplating something.

"Matched."

Xiahou Zhuo screamed softly.

Tang Pidi subconsciously glanced up, and then his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "I was just about to ask someone to invite you over, I thought about it for a morning, and I guessed the location where the enemy was going to camp, and I wanted to discuss with you, whether to take advantage of the enemy's unstable camp to get him." ”

Tang Pidi said with some excitement: "I have thought about it carefully, although the enemy army will suffer losses in the Hutuo River, they will definitely not believe it, when their army is pressing the city, we dare to open the city gate to raid, as long as it is fast enough, we can kill at least thousands of enemies, the key is to frustrate the enemy's spirit for two consecutive battles, for the defense of the city, it should have a miraculous effect." ”

When he said this, he saw Liu Ge, so he smiled and asked, "But you won?" ”

Liu Ge only felt that his face was so hot at this moment, and it was still hot and painful, as if he had been slapped countless times, and he didn't dare to look at Tang Pi.

"Don ...... Mr. Tang, we won, killing more than 3,000 enemies. ”

Liu Ge stammered back, he knew how ugly and ashamed his face was at this moment.

"Expected"

Tang Pidi smiled: "The general has not returned, I also know that this battle will be won, everything is expected, but I didn't expect the general to call me Mr. Tang, hahaha...... It's better to call me a match in the future. ”

In normal times, Xiahou Zhuo would definitely say that Tang was the enemy and pretended again.

But at this time, where was Xiahou Zhuo still in the mood to joke, he reached out and took the half of the steamed bun in Tang Pidi's left hand, looked at it, and then took a bite.

Tang Pidi immediately understood what he meant, and then said with a smile: "I'm just giving you a short-term job, some small things, I don't take it to heart, and it depends on who I care about when I care about people, and that kind of person is not worth my attention." ”

Xiahou said: "You don't care, but I care." ”

He took a step back and bowed.

"Xiahou Zhuo, I'm ashamed of you."

Liu Ge then leaned over and bowed: "Liu Ge, I'm ashamed of you." ”