"You are all loyal ministers and fierce generals of Great Wei, as long as you can successfully drive out Hu Lu this time, I will never forget your merits."

"If you can be appreciated by the emperor, the lower officials are grateful. Even if the liver and brain are smeared, they will not give up. ”

"The emperor is really a wise king through the ages, and the ministers will do their best to repay the emperor's kindness."

"That's right, the last general must do his best to repay the emperor's kindness."

Several local guard commanders began to actively show their loyalty.

Emperor Shuntian was greatly satisfied, and promised: "As long as all the Qing family is loyal to me, it will be okay to be promoted to the rank of lord in the future."

Put all your men in order, and then march with the army, and then do everything according to my commands. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Okay, you guys go."

After shouting three hoorays, the local commanders left respectfully.

Seeing the excited look on their faces as they left, Emperor Shuntian couldn't help but show a smug smile.

Xu Qingjia is right, although the forbidden army and the five military camps in the capital are controlled by the Xie family, most of the generals in the local guards are still willing to obey the orders of the imperial court, and they are also willing to regard him, the orthodox emperor, as the lord of the Great Wei.

As long as you get close to these local generals and gather them around you, you can naturally become a big help against the Xie family.

At this time, at the other end of Emperor Shuntian's tent, the children of the Xie family, led by Xie Yukun, the eldest son of Duke An Guo, suddenly turned ugly after listening to the spies' report.

"It seems that I still underestimate Zhao Yufeng's kid." Xie Yukun slammed the table with some annoyance.

He didn't expect Zhao Yufeng to use such a method to win over local generals, which was indeed a bit of a mistake.

Whenever this kid went to a prefecture, he would summon the generals at all levels of the local guard station, and then take the initiative to show them goodwill, and promise all kinds of benefits and promises to win them over.

Where did these low-ranking local generals think that they would one day see the emperor with their own eyes, and they were naturally flattered and greatly moved by the emperor's initiative to show goodwill.

Zhao Yufeng also used the name of going south to cut down Hu, and let these local generals who were willing to submit to him lead their soldiers to follow the army south.

These local generals, who were grateful for the emperor's appreciation, were of course willing to follow the expedition. Zhao Yanfeng used this method to continuously collect people, and now he has collected more than 20,000 people.

If this continues, when this kid arrives in the south, his private army can reach at least seventy or eighty thousand, and it will not be easy to solve him privately.

"Uncle, what now?" Xie Changping asked in a low voice.

Xie Yukun did not answer his nephew's question, but asked one of his confidants sent to him by his father, An Guogong, "What is Mr. Xiao's good plan?" ”

The staff member surnamed Xiao stroked his beard and said: "General, it is not difficult to deal with this matter, as long as you use one trick to draw salary." ”

"Please sir."

"Didn't that person want to gather the soldiers and horses along the way? We can order the commander of the guard post along the way to lead the troops to the south in advance, so that he will not have a chance to meet them.

In this way, even if he wants to gather the generals from all over the world, there is no one to gather around. ”

"High, it's really high, sir's strategy is wonderful." Xie Yukun couldn't help but applaud, and the other Xie disciples also felt that this plan was very good.

"The general has won the award. I'm just afraid that doing so will anger him. ”

"So what, as long as we dispatch troops in advance under the banner of going south to cut down Hu, what else can he do with us. Okay, let's do what we do. ”

In the following journey, Emperor Shuntian found that almost all the local guards along the way were empty, and only some old and weak soldiers who were responsible for cleaning and cleaning were left to maintain the operation of the guards.

When Emperor Shuntian asked, he learned that all the soldiers and generals of these guards had been transferred to the south by the military department to cut down Hu.

Seeing that every guard was like this next, Emperor Shuntian naturally knew that this must be the ghost of the Xie family, and he was so angry that he really wanted to directly order Xie Yukun and the others to be cut down.

But the only reason left told him that it would not work.

Not to mention whether the newly converted 20,000 men and horses under his command could do this, just giving such an order would lead to a mutiny in the whole army.

After all, in the pro-conscription army, most of the generals are from the Xie family, and now he has no chance of winning by tearing his face.

Faced with such a predicament, Emperor Shuntian immediately called his resourceful henchman Xu Yuchu in to discuss a solution.

Because of the 20,000 more private troops under his command, Emperor Shuntian's confidence has also increased significantly, and he is no longer like before, even if he wants to discuss with Xu Yuchu, he has to act carefully.

Now they have directly called him in, and they have also sent troops outside the camp to guard and prevent anyone from approaching.

After Xu Yuchu came, the two of them talked for a long time in the camp tent before parting.

When the army camped and rested the next night, Emperor Shuntian suddenly called Sun Pei, the general of Zuo, into the camp alone, and the two talked for a long time before it ended.

On the night of the third day, Emperor Shuntian called the right general Ma Yihai into the camp alone, and the two also talked for a long time before releasing him.

Since then, Emperor Shuntian began to call these two leading generals to talk about things separately, and often for an hour or two, and he didn't know what they were talking about.

Xie Yukun and others were highly nervous about this, and began to send spies to continuously investigate the situation of Sun Pei and Ma Yihai.

Xie Yukun and the others are not fools, and naturally know that this is Emperor Shuntian's divisive plan.

However, since the Hu people invaded the southern region and burned and looted on a large scale, the Sun and Ma families, who owned a large amount of land and various commercial interests in the southern region, even if they did not say anything, must have been full of resentment in their hearts against the Xie family who caused this result. They knew this for a long time.

And Sun Pei and Ma Yihai's reactions were also very strange, on the surface, it seemed that it was helpless to meet Emperor Shuntian alone, after all, the emperor's order was difficult to disobey.

But anyone with a discerning eye could see that they didn't seem to resist this opportunity to meet Emperor Shuntian alone.

Now that Zhao Yufeng frequently meets Sun Pei and Ma Yihai alone, it is difficult to guarantee that the two will not be rebelled by.

And no one knows what benefits Zhao Yufeng promised them, what if this benefit is so big that they are tempted?

Thinking of this, Xie Yukun suddenly fidgeted.

For this situation, Mr. Xiao, a staff member, has no good solution.

After all, as the emperor, isn't it normal for Zhao Yufeng to discuss things with his courtiers? Could it be that the Xie family still wants to force Sun Ma and the two to resist the decree? I can't make sense of that.

Due to the ambiguous attitude of Sun Ma and the others, although Xie Yukun and the others would not show it on the surface, they had to be wary of them secretly.

Originally, only Emperor Shuntian and Lieutenant General Xie Yukun were opposites in the army, but because of the sudden emergence of Sun Ma and the two variables, the situation in the entire army became more complicated and difficult to understand.

It is precisely because of this that some officials and generals who are still waiting and watching do not dare to stand in line easily, and begin to collectively pretend to be deaf and dumb and be cautious.

In this strange situation in which all officials and generals had their own evil intentions, the pro-conquest army finally slowly arrived in the southern region.

As the Hu people approached, the atmosphere of the war gradually became stronger.

Among them, Emperor Shuntian himself was the most nervous, because the outcome of this battle would determine his future fate.

He originally wanted to use the name of the royal driver to collect soldiers and horses from all over the country for his own use.

But since the Xie family used this trick to draw salary, his plan has completely failed.

Now the only way is to do a fake show.

used his pro-conquest army in his name to fight against the Hu people and completely drove the Hu people out of Great Wei.

As his confidant Xu Yuchu said, as long as he succeeds in driving out the Hu people, then his reputation will be as unmatched as that of his ancestor Emperor Wu of Wei. There will be more and more people who are willing to take refuge in him, and then the Xie family will no longer be able to suppress him.

Whether you can break free from the cage and soar into the sky depends on the outcome this time.

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