Chapter Ninety-Four: Mrs. Xing's Meaning
Mrs. Xing, the new widow, is crying, but it's a pity that Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Li Chengdong are all tigers and wolves, and seeing Mrs. Xing's pitiful appearance has stimulated their ferocity.
Li Benshen was already bound to the title of Marquis of Xingping and the tens of thousands of troops left by Gao Jie, and he said unceremoniously: "Auntie, although my uncle is gone, we all have to be alive, tens of thousands of troops can't always be leaderless, someone has to stand up and lead the whole army!"
He is not only Gao Jie's nephew, but also has the largest number of troops under his command, so he naturally wants to become the second Xingping Bo Gao Jie, but the deputy general Gao Jinku can't stand it anymore: "Li Benshen, what do you mean?" Now that my father's body is still in Suizhou City, it's too urgent for you to seize power now!"
Gao Jinku and Gao Jie's age are actually a few years apart, so he usually doesn't take Gao Jie, his father-in-law, in his eyes, and Gao Jie has even more thoughts about Mrs. Xing after he goes, but it's a pity that his strength is a little thin, so he can only stand up and support Mrs. Xing first.
And Guo Hu, another general in Gao Jie's army, also has his own thoughts: "Now I am not in a hurry to talk about who comes first and who comes last, the key is to look at the merits of the war!"
He said that he was biased towards himself, after all, he had the most horse teams in his hands, and he had the greatest chance of fighting for merit, and Yang Chengzu, another member of the reinforcement army, had a similar opinion: "That's the case, our army has always been rewarded for meritorious deeds!"
Xing Shengping knew that he had to stand up: "There is indeed a tradition of rewarding merit in our army, but can this kind of thing be rewarded for meritorious deeds?" My sister-in-law has the final say in my brother-in-law's funeral, what are you making a fuss about!"
Chen Yuan next to him also shouted: "Yes, Mrs. Xing's future affairs have to be decided by Mrs. Xing!"
Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Yang Chengzu all regard the legacy left by Gao Jie as something in their pockets, after all, when Gao Jie was alive, they were a little ineffective in scheduling these arrogant soldiers, and they often shook their faces for Mrs. Xing, not to mention that now Mrs. Xing is just a weak woman.
But Xing Shengping and Chen Yuan stood up to support Mrs. Xing at this time, but they felt very difficult to deal with.
Although Xing Shengping and Chen Yuan's subordinates together are only 13,400 people, and most of them are still recruits for a few months, Li Benshen and Guo Hu are arrogant soldiers who don't even pay attention to Gao Jie, how can they put Xing Shengping in their eyes.
But the problem is that there are more than 2,000 people and hundreds of horse teams of Liu Yongxi in the north, in addition to Xing Shengping, there are more than 2,000 people in Jiangdu, and everyone's family members are in Jiangdu, plus Liu Kongzhao's master of the river sailor, so everyone can only sell Xing Shengping a face: "General Xing, that's not what I said, Xingpingbo's future affairs are both private and official, how can Mrs. Xing be allowed to bear such a burden alone!"
"Yes, it's true that my aunt is worried about her uncle, but we have to think about the long-term of these tens of thousands of brothers!"
"Mrs. Xing, how do you say this incident should be dealt with?"
Guo Hu felt that although Mrs. Xing was a powerful woman, her skills were still in the allocation of money, food, and military salaries, and today when she encountered such an earth-shattering upheaval, how could Mrs. Xing know how to deal with the aftermath.
She's just a woman after all!
But he didn't expect that Mrs. Xing was waiting for such an opportunity, although she was just a woman, she still had children to take care of, and there were too many people to worry about, how could she not be strong in this situation!
And what Li Xiangjun said last night also moved Mrs. Xing, making her understand that she can't just live for Gao Jie, a dead man, but also has too many things to deal with by herself!
Therefore, Mrs. Xing nodded to Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, who was standing on the side: "Governor Yue, the top priority now is to take Suizhou and snatch my husband's body back, do you think I am right!"
Although Yue Qijie has a lot of experience in commanding troops, it is the first time he has encountered this kind of sabre-rattling scene, and he is completely speechless, and now he finally reacted immediately when he heard Mrs. Xing say this: "Xingpingbo died for the imperial court, the imperial court will not treat Xingpingbo badly, even if Suizhou is a city beaten by iron, we must take Suizhou down today and snatch Xingpingbo's body back!"
Although Gao Jie is already a dead man, he is the real core of this army after all, and everyone has found that although they failed to take Suizhou City last night, the defenders of Suizhou City are close to running out of oil, and they can take Suizhou City as long as they have another round of fierce attack
Although these old Gao Jie troops present are proud soldiers, but Gao Jie can also say that it is their old master, if they don't do such things as pushing the boat down the river, the soldiers below will definitely be cold, so Li Benshen was the first to agree: "Isn't it just a Suizhou City, it will definitely be able to be taken down today, and then see who has the greatest military achievements!"
Guo Hu is also eager to try: "Yes, you will know when the time comes!"
Several other military leaders did not object to this proposal, and Yuan Shu, a native of Suizhou, was a native of Suizhou, and he was anxious when he heard the proposal of these proud generals.
But yesterday Gao Jie lost the city, he was the most responsible for the Liang soldiers, who called him a native of Suizhou, and Gao Jie died in Yuan's mansion, he could only pin all his hopes on Mrs. Xing, who was usually the most reasonable: "Mrs. Xing, Suizhou will be defeated today, but this is all Xu Dingguo's sin, and I hope that the soldiers of the army can try to restrain themselves after entering the city!"
If it weren't for Li Xiangjun's persuasion, Mrs. Xing would definitely scold Yuan Shu, but she felt that Li Xiangjun's persuasion was very reasonable, so she gave Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Yang Chengzu a big salute: "Yuan Daotai is right, this is not the fault of the officials and people of Suizhou, it is all Xu Dingguo's crime, today's battle is to avenge my husband, no matter who killed Xu Dingguo, the thief, I will entrust my husband to leave this family business to him, if I don't dislike my Pu Liu posture, I am also willing to make a promise!"
Speaking of this, Mrs. Xing was already in tears, she gritted her teeth and said: "As long as I kill Xu Dingguo, a thief, I can promise anything!"
For all the arrogant generals present, this is exactly the situation they want most, although Li Benshen is Gao Jie's nephew, and Gao Jinku is Gao Jie's righteous son, but they looked at Mrs. Xing who was wearing filial piety clothes, and did not object to such a proposal, but raised their hands in agreement: "Just do it according to Mrs. Xing's wishes!"
"Since Mrs. Xing has this intention, we will do what she wants, whoever kills Xu Dingguo will take over the family business of Xingpingbo!"
"Yes, see which of us can grab Xu Dingguo's head, rest assured, I, Li Benshen, will definitely be the first to enter Suizhou City and take off Xu Dingguo's head!"
It's just that as soon as Li Benshen's words fell, he heard an unusually crisp voice and said: "Then I'm sorry, even if General Li is the first to enter Suizhou City, there is no way to take off Xu Dingguo's head!"