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Six or seven thousand people are not only soldiers who can fight, but also mouths that can eat, and the amount of food for each person alone is far less than Tang Weitian, but together, it is like a bottomless pit, and no amount of food can be filled with food.

Xu Ji had no food, and when the army was in chaos, there was nowhere to buy, and the righteous army relied on their own dry food to satisfy their hunger, and when they were thirsty, they smashed ice and snow, twice a day in the morning and evening, the leaders gathered together, and the first thing they asked was: "Military division, there is really surplus food in the Jiangdong Army, right?" ”

"Yes." Xu Ji answered categorically every time, but he didn't know anything in his heart.

Food and grass were his biggest concerns, and in contrast, winter clothes, horses, armor, etc., were secondary, and a group of hungry soldiers had no intention of fighting at all.

The Jiangdong Righteous Army stopped at the Rushui River and camped according to the boat, and the river was covered with a thin layer of ice, which was no longer suitable for navigation, but the Jiangdong people had to rely on the boat to feel steady.

The ship tower is towering, the camp is tightly organized, and from a distance, it is almost no different from the regular officers and soldiers, and the righteous soldiers from Jingzhou invariably express their admiration, and they are a little in awe of the "Xu Junshi".

"Set up camp." Xu Ji ordered.

"Aren't we going to join the people of Jiangdong?"

"There is a difference between the host and the guest, I will go and say hello first, and then introduce the leaders, and then we will join forces later."

"The joint venture can wait, this grain ...... We've been hungry all day. Everyone said they were brothers, but they didn't see anyone helping when they were starving......"

Although most of the rebels were from Jingzhou, they did not belong to one person, and they relied on each other and beware of each other, and no one was willing to use their remaining food to help others.

Xu Ji smiled: "Build a stove and make a fire, and wait for me to bring back food." ”

The leaders cheered, dispersed, called their men, and set up camp.

Xu Ji only took less than ten people and rode slowly towards the Jiangdong military camp.

Zhang Wenbi has been following the team, and the more he looks at it these days, the more wrong it becomes, but the bruises on his cheeks have just disappeared, and he has never been willing to talk too much.

Tang Weitian ran from the opposite side, he had entered the camp an hour ago, and announced to the Jiangdong people that "the son of the princess of Wu State" led the troops to meet, before him, Xu Ji successively sent three messengers, bringing contradictory replies, one would be overjoyed, looking forward to Xu Ji's arrival soon, and one would be cold and perfunctory, full of vigilance against the righteous army that rushed to meet.

Tang Weitian ran to Xu Jima, grabbed the reins, and said, "Wu Guoren said, I only saw Gongzi alone, and others can't enter the camp." ”

"Then I'll go in alone."

Xu Ji drove the horse away, but Tang Weitian stopped in front of the horse, grabbed the reins and shook his head and said, "I see that some of them are uneasy and kind, so don't go in." ”

Xu Ji smiled: "I am also from Jiangdong, what is there to fear?" ”

"Oh, by the way, they call themselves Wu Guoren, and they don't want to listen to the word Jiangdong."

Xu Ji nodded, turned his head to his entourage and said, "Wait here, you are not allowed to move without my order." ”

In less than five days, Xu Ji collected more than 20 rebel armies in a row, and established a lot of prestige, although the entourage was sent by Ning Baoguan, he had great respect for this military advisor, and Qi claimed that it was.

"I'll go into the camp with my son." Tang Weitian wants to protect his master.

"No, it's just a few steps." Xu Ji patted his horse and galloped towards the camp alone.

"Childe be careful, call me if you have something!" Tang Weitian exhorted loudly.

It was a downhill road to the camp, and Xu Ji thought while walking, the location of the camp was not good, if there was a large group of cavalry down the slope, the Jiangdong people were afraid that they would not even have time to get on the boat.

The camp looks like a lot from a distance, but up close it is actually a small camp next to a large camp, almost twenty of them.

Three horsemen galloped out of the nearest camp, and soon came to Xu Ji, and Wang Dian, who was in the lead, smiled and said: "Farewell to Yecheng, I didn't expect to reunite with Xu Gongzi here." ”

"If you are fated, the world is wide, and Brother Wang is fine."

"Let me introduce Xu Gongzi, this is the general of the Wu State and the Shangshu Zuocheng Meng Seng Lun, and this is the general of the Wu State and the governor of the Western Province, Song Xingju."

Xu Ji had already inquired about it, and Wu Guo originally had seven families with the surnames Xu, Wang, Meng, Song, Lei, Tai, and Chang, so he arched his hand and said: "Don't be polite immediately, I have seen two generals in Xu Ji." ”

The Wu people pay attention to their reputations, and the old country has not yet been recovered, but their respective official titles are not small.

Song Xingci is a young man in his twenties, and said with a smile: "It's all my own blind name, what kind of general is it?" ”

Meng Seng Lun is in his forties and looks elegant, from the moment he saw Xu Ji, his eyes never left him, he kept smiling on his face, and he also arched his hand: "Young hero Xu Gongzi, as soon as you come, the Wu people have a master." ”

Xu Ji loves to listen to this kind of words, but before he finds out the details, he doesn't dare to accept it rashly, and says with a smile: "People who are wandering in the rivers and lakes, miss their home country, and they come to join us, and they hope to accept it, and they want nothing else." ”

"Let's go into the camp and talk." Wang led the way.

On the way into the camp, Meng Shenglun still glanced at Xu Ji from time to time, and his eyes became more and more cordial.

Xu Ji couldn't help but ask, "General Meng...... Have you seen me? ”

Meng Senglun hurriedly retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Xu Gongzi is not strange, I have seen Lingtang, and when I saw Gongzi at first glance, I can't help but think of the old man, there are many rudeness, and I look at Haihan." ”

Xu Ji had already decided to make the best use of the identity of "the son of the princess of Wu Kingdom", so he was ready to talk about his mother frequently with others, and he could no longer be silent as before, so he said: "Jiaci died early, and I didn't have time to tell me about the distance between the old people in my homeland, I don't know what General Meng is called in terms of seniority?" ”

Meng Shenglun was overjoyed, "I don't dare to be, if you talk about it, I and the princess are commensurate with brother and sister." ”

"Then I'm going to call 'uncle.'"

Meng Shenglun was even more happy, and Song Xingci on the side smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if it's good, if it's true, there are so many relatives that you have a headache." ”

Meng Seng Lun said: "Hugh has to pay attention to him, he is young, and he wants to call you 'uncle'." ”

"Hey, Xu Gongzi is younger than me, how can he be an uncle?"

"Let's only talk about the preface, not the seniority, I will talk to General Meng alone." Xu Ji felt kindness, so he flattered the two at the same time, but he didn't shout the word uncle after all.

There are very few horses in the camp, most of them are infantry, I heard that the son of the princess of Wu Guo arrived, all gathered to watch, Xu Ji dismounted, and met everyone, Meng Shenglun grabbed in front of Wang Dian, and kept dragging someone out of the onlookers to introduce Xu Ji, as if it was really his "uncle".

Finally squeezed into the boat, Meng Shenglun wanted to hold a feast, Xu Ji said: "There are still 20,000 soldiers waiting outside the camp, and they dare not drink alone here." ”

Xu Ji still didn't let go much, and only tripled the six or seven thousand people.

Wang Dian was calmer, first persuaded irrelevant people and others out of the cabin, and then said: "Xu Gongzi is right, there is no hurry to catch the wind and wash the dust, and the current matter must be solved first." ”

The three Wu generals glanced at each other, and Meng Senglun sighed lightly, "I'll talk about it." Xu Gongzi is not an outsider, I won't hide it, the Wu army is divided into nineteen teams, each with its own generals, I am one of the teams here, although everyone is under the banner of Wu State, but they do not belong to each other. ”

Wang Dian interjected: "The nine teams led by the children of the Seven Clans are quite united, and the other ten teams are troublesome, and their leaders are not the Gaomen clan of my Wu Kingdom, who claims to be the Wu Army, but they refuse to accept the leadership of the Seven Clans, but instead want to be on an equal footing with us." ”

Meng Seng Lun said: "In extraordinary times, I don't pay attention to these. To be honest, our nineteen Wu troops were brought here by officers and soldiers......"

Song Xing's case was raised, "Why did General Meng grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige?" The children of the seven clans shouted with their arms, and the people of Wu responded with 100,000 troops in ten months, connecting dozens of battles with officers and soldiers, although there were defeats, there were also victories. The officers and soldiers of Jiangdong shrank in the city and did not dare to come out, so we took a boat to the west, but to break through the eastern capital to avenge Emperor Wu, and then coerce Yu Wei to pacify the state of Wu. ”

Meng Seng Lun said with a smile: "It's okay to say this, in short, the soldiers of the Wu State are here, and there is no way to go back if you don't capture the eastern capital." ”

As soon as Xu Ji heard it, he understood that it was estimated that the "uneasy kindness" that Tang Weitian said was the other ten battalion soldiers, and they simply did not show up, so he smiled and said: "The west goes to the east and returns, if it is a clever plan, I don't know who came up with it?" ”

Meng Shenglun said: "The main thing is General Song's idea, everyone discussed it, and they all agreed. ”

Song Xingqi sneered: "When I was in Wu Kingdom, I all agreed, but when I came here, I all complained about me alone." The soldiers are fast, the army is trapped here, they don't dare to go further, they consume grain and grass every day, but they say that my idea is not good, it's really ...... Hum. ”

Wang Dian said: "Let's say a few words, it is said that the Descending Army and the Jinyang Army have already fought with officers and soldiers, let's wait and see for a few more days and choose the opportunity to participate in the war." ”

The more Song Xingju spoke, the more angry he became, "When the news reaches here, either the northerners will win a great victory, or the officers and soldiers will quell the chaos, how can it be the turn of the Wu army to participate in the war?" The cold winter has arrived, and if it continues like this, the soldiers of Wu State will freeze to death before they fight. ”

Meng Shenglun and Wang Dian's soft words comforted each other, and Song Xingju finally discouraged his anger and said to Xu Ji: "Let Xu Gongzi smile, Wu Jun is no longer as brave as he was in the past." ”

Xu Ji said: "I look at the camp of the Wu army, it is well organized, the nineteen battalions are connected, someone has to assign a position, right?" ”

Xu Ji had already made a judgment in his heart that none of these three people were the "leaders" of the Wu army.

The three of them looked at each other again, and it was Meng Seng Lun who spoke, "Everyone did nominate a 'Wu Emperor'." ”

Song Xingju showed his anger again, "The person surnamed Xu who came out of nowhere, claims to be the grandson of Emperor Wu, and no one knows the children of the seventh surname, but the small surname of the tenth battalion is willing to serve him as the master and call him Emperor Wu." We accept it for the time being, but we don't think that he is really Emperor Wu, and when we recover Wu in the future, we must find the real prince and grandson. ”

The surname Xu was originally the head of the seven clans, when the state of Wu was destroyed, it was killed in large numbers and almost uprooted.

Xu Ji got up, "Thanks to the three of me, when I am a native of Wu and Xu is not talented, I am willing to offer a plan, or I can resolve the deadlock." ”

"Xu Gongzi, please say, we need someone to guide us." Meng Seng Lun said.

"Not far from here is Runan City, the three can gather seven clans and nine battalions to attack the city, seize the city and live, first seize the people, and then summon another ten battalions, come to fold it, do not come to drive it, and then the Wu army can become one. When the heroes besieged the eastern capital, the battle of Runan was also regarded as the beginning of the Wu army. ”

The three of them looked at each other, and Song Xing said, "Does Gongzi Xu think that we don't want to seize Runan City?" I have already sent troops to try, but I have lost hundreds of people, and I haven't even brought back a single wall brick. To be honest, our Wu army is not very good at siege. ”

Wang Dian also said: "The ten battalions of the small surname have more troops, and the nine battalions of the seven clans are worse. ”

"Please give me a real number, how many people are in the ninth battalion?"

"There are only more than 9,000 people in reality, and nearly 30% of them are old and weak." Meng Seng Lun replied.

Song Xingci's eyes widened, and he couldn't imagine that Meng Seng Lun really gave a real number.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "It's not a secret, the Jingzhou rebels I brought are only 7,000 people, but it's enough, the two armies are one, and you can take Runan City tomorrow!" ”

Xu Ji has said a lot of big things along the way, and this time the effect is the best.