From Xuanzhou to Huzhou, hundreds of miles apart, this time Qin Hao walked relatively slowly, and the daily journey was only twenty miles, giving people a feeling of slowness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to Monkey Langhua's report, Fang Yanshan and Chen Shishi did not go anywhere else after leaving Xuanzhou, but directly retreated to the Guangde Army, and then evacuated to Huzhou with the 3,000 men and horses of the Guangde Army.

In other words, there are about 70,000 soldiers and horses in Huzhou City now.

This number is definitely not a happy number for Qin Hao, the difference in the strength of the two sides is fourteen times, such examples are not absent, but there are many.

As far as Xiang Yu's battle of Pengcheng, with 30,000 soldiers and horses to defeat the Han army of 600,000, the near such as Yang Liulang Suicheng battle, with 3,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, hard resistance to the Liao State of 100,000 troops, held for more than a month and ended with the Liao State withdrawing troops.

These two battle examples, one attack and one defense, are classic battles in history to win more with less, but now the situation in front of Qin Hao is a bit special, if it is just to occupy Huzhou, he has many methods, but in the case of fewer kills, it is very difficult.

Three stinkers, arriving at Zhuge Liang, after thinking about it for three days, Qin Hao decided to openly and honestly tell everyone his thoughts, and wanted everyone to discuss a countermeasure together.

After dinner, he summoned everyone to the tent in the army, and let Huzi wait outside, and no one was allowed to approach without his orders.

"Once the success is achieved, how can there be a war that does not die? Brother Qin, your requirements are not ordinarily high, but very high. Outwitting Xuanzhou is just a special case, and it can't be taken seriously! "Ma Kuo joined the army as a young man, and he was used to killing on the battlefield, so he was the first to put forward his opinion.

Qin Hao nodded and said: "It is precisely because of Gao that I came to ask for everyone's opinions, and I don't hide it from your brothers, Qin Hao actually hides selfishness in doing this." The current Fang La, with millions of soldiers, but there are not many people who can really fight, when our three-way army compresses him to the last tens of thousands, these people are high-quality products, and I want to keep them. ”

"You want to keep them?"

Qin Hao's decision really scared everyone, even a strange woman like Liang Hongyu almost bounced up from her seat, thinking that her father and brother were convicted by the imperial court just because of a mistake in judgment, and he was also sold into the Qinglou, and Qin Hao ......

Thinking of this, he said without worry: "Qin Hao, you have to think clearly, the Great Song Dynasty was originally suspicious of military generals, and now you want to raise private soldiers, it is a big crime to kill your head!" ”

Tian Xiaoqian only has Qin Hao in her heart, as long as it is Qin Hao's decision, she supports it, seeing that everyone's expressions are a little surprised, she immediately took over the topic and said: "Qin Hao wants to keep them, naturally he has his reasons, can you listen to him finish speaking?" ”

Zhang Yi and the others were originally prisoners waiting for death on Shamen Island, and it was Qin Hao who took them out of Shamen Island, although they are usually commensurate with master and servant, but in their hearts, they have long regarded Qin Hao as their friend who can support life and death.

Now seeing Qin Hao take out such a big matter to discuss with them, he is also quite moved in his heart, because of this matter, if he is a little careless, it will be a dead end, and the emotion in his heart is difficult to repeat, and he immediately said:

"If Childe has any ideas, just say it, you brought all of us from Salmon Island, no matter what decision you make, we will support it!"

Qin Hao nodded and said what was in his heart, "Brothers, you can rest assured, I am not raising private soldiers to rebel against the imperial court, on the contrary, I am doing this precisely to protect the Great Song Dynasty and keep our land from being invaded by foreigners."

Everyone knows that Qin Hao is against Lianjin to resist Liao, because in this way, the Great Song Dynasty will lose a support point, lose a buffer zone, and will directly face a Jin State that is stronger and more prosperous than the Liao State, which is fatal to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Ma Kuo was not only a witness to the Maritime Alliance, but also a participant, and Qin Hao's worries were also his worries, "So, do you want to establish a force between Song and Jin that is enough to balance the two sides?" ”

"That's right! And the cornerstone of this force comes from Fang La's troops, so this time we put down the rebellion, not only to attack the city and plunder the wall, but also not to form a mortal enmity with them, so as not to do bad things in the future! Qin Hao nodded and replied quite affirmatively.

Yang Zaixing had an almost blind trust in Qin Hao, knowing that Qin Hao's words were not finished, he immediately took over the topic and said:

"Brother Qin, since you told us such an important matter, it means that you trust us, in this case, if you have anything to say, we will all say it, if it makes sense, we will listen to it, if it doesn't make sense, everyone should not have said it!"

"Good!"

Qin Hao replied very simply, and then began to analyze, "Although Fang La is known as a million, what is the combat effectiveness of those people, I think everyone has a number in their hearts.

We can capture Xuanzhou without blood, and Captain Tong can easily capture Changzhou, and even the 70,000 troops led by Fang Qifo were blocked by Wang Ziming in Xiuzhou, and only the 50,000 horses led by Tan Zhi were blocked by Lu Shixiang in Shezhou.

Judging from the current form, it is an army that is overwhelmingly biased towards the imperial court, and if nothing else, in two months, we will be able to join Tong Taiwei in Hangzhou, while Fang La will retreat to Muzhou.

His army was formed by peasants from various places, and it was okay to fight a good battle, but once he lost the battle, it would fall apart, and those who fled fled and scattered, and when he retreated to Muzhou, it was his limit to have 100,000 soldiers and horses.

As the so-called big waves wash the sand, those who can hold out to the end are gold, so we have to find a way to transfer these people to the sea, and I have already thought about the location.

There is a small island in the East China Sea called Jeju Island, with Goryeo to the northeast and Fusang to the southeast, and our first step is to evacuate the people to Jeju Island, and the second step is to evacuate some of their people to Salmon Island east of Dengju. ”

After listening to Qin Hao's evacuation plan, Ma Kuo's worries were not alleviated, but intensified, and he said worriedly: "I am not familiar with the Jeju Island you mentioned, but on Salmon Island, even hundreds of prisoners can't be fed, how can you raise so many soldiers?" ”

Regarding the question of how to raise soldiers, Qin Hao was not worried at all, and immediately said:

"These people don't rely on us to feed, but rely on themselves to feed, we are in the Song Dynasty treasure Tianhua, just get some leaves, get some mud and burn things overseas, there are a lot of silver back, this is not to worry at all."

Hearing this, Liang Hongyu almost understood Qin Hao's thoughts, and immediately took over the topic and said: "Qin Hao's method is good, let's raise these people overseas, even if the court investigates them, it will be difficult to get real evidence." ”

Yang Zaixing nodded and said: "Your analysis is correct, but there is one thing to pay attention to, we can not kill the others, but Fang La must die, if he does not die, it is impossible for this army to follow us!" ”

Ma Kuo smiled and said: "There are many people who want Fang La's life, and we don't have to kill it, what we have to do now is how to withdraw Fang La's men and horses, and how to attack Huzhou in front!" ”