I don't want to mention it here. Let's say that after recovering Lintao, relieving the siege of Xiangwu, and possessing Xinxing, the Longxi army was shocked. At present, with the addition of new recruits and surrenders, the Longxi Army has no less than 25,000 elite forbidden troops, and nearly 10,000 reserve troops.

The Emperor's attitude towards this was very subtle. Just after Gao Yue recovered Xiangwu, the will of the imperial court came to Qinzhou. First, he said a few high-sounding words about suspending the war and working together for the country, and then changed the conversation, specifying that Sima Bao should not attack his colleagues at will again, and hand over all the military power of Qinzhou to Gao Yue, the governor of Qinzhou.

Although he still pretended to be deaf and dumb and ignored the will, Sima Bao still couldn't help but let out a thunderbolt. He knew that the emperor should be showing more and more partiality towards Gao Yue, but he was really not kind, and he didn't help at the critical moment, how could there be no reason not to make people hold grudges, and the court was also a tooth for a tooth, and he really couldn't complain about anything. In view of the current situation, Sima Bao held repeated meetings with a group of military ministers, and finally decided to gather his troops and hold Tianshui County safely, and then tried his best to encourage Pu Hong in Luoyang and Yao Yizhong in Nan'an to find an opportunity to launch a counteroffensive.

As a result, two centers appeared in Qinzhou for a time, Xiangwu and Shangqi. Both sides were unable to set off a further offensive tide for the time being, so they simply seized the time to rest and replenish, and the two sides could be regarded as tacitly maintaining some calm.

Let's say a few days ago, in Shouyang City. Pu Hong, the leader of the People's Congress of Lüyang, was explaining something to a few pro-soldiers in the government office. As he was talking, the sound of crackling cowhide boots interrupted Pu Hong.

When he looked up, it was his fourth brother Pu Tu, who strode in. Before the person got close, a rough voice shook over: "Big brother, I just opened another killing ring!" ”

Pu Hong motioned for his soldiers to retreat first. At a cold glance, there were obviously several fresh blood stains splashed on Pu Tu's clothes, and the violent murderous aura seemed to be smellable. Pu Hong couldn't help but collapse his face and said, "What's the matter? Didn't I tell you not to kill people for no reason? ”

"This time it's really not the younger brother, I don't obey the orders of the eldest brother. Just now, my subordinates caught a group of people with bad intentions, and they actually wanted to secretly mix croton into the water in our barracks! Although croton can't kill people, it always has diarrhea, and people have to pull prostration. I was so angry with this kind of behavior that I killed all seven men, and personally supervised the hanging of all their heads for public display, and I wanted to see how many more people who were not afraid of death dared to commit crimes in my hands. ”

Pu Hong frowned and was speechless for a moment. Although this fourth child is rough and easy to kill, he really can't be blamed for his reckless murderous intent now. Since the capture of Shouyang and Di Dao, the soldiers under his command have wantonly looted and committed adultery without military discipline, and the slightest disobedience will be swords and soldiers, causing great harm to the people, so the two cities will launch riots at every turn, and once boiled against Yingtian.

Seeing that it was not a matter, Pu Hong had to intervene in person. Under his coercive order, although property and materials were looted and removed as usual, the behavior of harassing the people and even killing people for no reason finally improved greatly. But the common people have been chilled, and they always resist openly and secretly like a thorn, that is, they do not obey the control, and there is an increasingly fierce momentum. Pu Tu has only one easiest way to deal with this, which is to kill him if he catches it without asking the reason, and even once he was involved. But this doesn't seem to really deter the seemingly weak people, all kinds of accidents still break out every once in a while, Pu Hong is very helpless about this, and secretly worried and irritable.

Barely smiling at the moment, Pu Hong said: "Fourth, today, you calculate, there are hundreds of heads hanging on the wall, but the result is not very good, we are still living in Shouyang City day by day." ”

"Then kill again! If you can't kill them all, damn it, I won't believe it, is the neck harder than a knife? "Pu Tu has been brave and ruthless since he was a child, and believes that anything in the world can be dealt with by force, which is a very apt interpretation of what is called violence that cannot solve the problem, but can solve you.

Pu Hong thought for a while, paused for a moment and said: "No, let them go, anyway, I'm ready to go back to Luoyang, whether it's good or bad here, it has nothing to do with me after all." ”

Pu was taken aback: "Back to Luoyang? Big brother, didn't you say that we were going to be bigger and stronger, why are you ...... now?"

Pu Hong shook his head: "It is precisely because we have to judge the situation that we can avoid risks and slowly become bigger and stronger." Fourth, you see these days, we have moved the important materials in Di Dao Shouyang, and there are two empty cities left, the people are not convinced by us, and they are always rioting like this, this city, whether you pinch it in your hands, it doesn't make much sense, let's stay for a long time, let's go back to Luoyang. ”

"Importantly, it is recently rumored that Gao Yue in Longxi counterattacked the king of Nanyang and defeated the Jin army besieging Xiangwu. What does this mean, it shows that Gao Yue's momentum is unabated, and he already has the strength to confront the king of Nanyang head-on. Let's take advantage of the fire to rob like this, he will eventually settle accounts with us, it is better to take advantage of the fact that he has no spare strength to deal with us for the time being, take the initiative to withdraw from Longxi, return the two empty cities to him to show him, and also leave a way for the future. ”

Pu Tu thought for a while, didn't know the essentials, and impatiently pondered the key, so he said: "The eldest brother is the leader, anyway, I will follow the eldest brother." But after we return to Luoyang, what are the next steps? ”

Seeing that his brother had no objection, Pu Hong was relieved, and couldn't help but smile mysteriously: "Random movement is my magic weapon for making a fortune." Fourth, I have been thinking about the next step for several days. The Qiang people in Nan'an County next door to us have heard that the population has increased in recent years, and there are a lot of cattle and sheep, aren't we? ……”

Pu Tu was full of joy at first, then thought about it, but shook his head and said: "Our Di people and Qiang people have been a family since ancient times, and it is really difficult to attack them." Since my father became the big leader, I have been living in harmony with Nan'an for many years, and I haven't blushed, and now I suddenly want to beat the Qiang people, if my father knows, do we still have a good life, it's better to forget it. ”

Pu Hong waved his hand: "Fourth, how can you be so pedantic!" The Qiang family, this is true, but it was the old emperor's calendar of which year. Since Yao Yizhong succeeded to become the leader, Nan'an has not had any good friendship with us, and his current strength is not strong, so it is not good for me to clash with Gao Yue head-on, but it should still be possible to defeat Yao Yizhong. Let's talk about the world now, isn't the prince of the Sima family also brothers killing each other, uncles and nephews killing each other! If you don't eat everyone, you will eat you, if you don't preempt the first move, you are stupid and waiting for others to kill you? ”

"But my father ......"

Seeing that Pu Tu was still a little hesitant, Pu Hong glared at him and said, "Now I am the big leader!" This matter is decided for the time being. Father's side, don't tell him it is. In case you know, just say that Yao Yizhong provoked it first, just deal with the past. For now, don't worry about anything else, let's quickly pack up, withdraw to Luoyang early, and make adequate preparations for the surprise attack on Nan'an. ”

Pu Tu was speechless, anyway, the general policy could not be too wordy, and he was about to go down at the moment, but a herald ran in and reported: "Big leader! I just got the news that the remnants of Zhang Chun of the Jin army, not long after I left Shouyang, passed by a mountain village called Bailing Village, and somehow slaughtered the village, and now Bailing Village is a scorched earth, as if there are no survivors. After all, it is also within my jurisdiction at the moment, so there are backward people in the Jin army, and more than a dozen of them have been captured by our soldiers, and now they are waiting for the big leader to fall. ”

The Pu brothers were stunned when they heard this. Pu Tu pursed his lips and muttered, "Tu Village? Slaughter, slaughter, it doesn't matter if you catch someone or not, if you can't do it, let it go. Didn't they attack my Luoyang realm, destroy a village and make a fuss, and worry about us? But speaking of this Zhang Chun, it is enough to be wasted, the war is a mess, and he can only take some mountain people out of anger. When the eldest brother met him before, his face was full of decay, and I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the eldest brother......"

Before the words fell, Pu Hong really laughed. Pu was stunned, he didn't know what his eldest brother was doing, but he heard Pu Hong excitedly shouting: "Is it really Bailing Village? Good! Golden opportunity! Don't let these Jin soldiers who were caught, tie them up, and send them to Gao Yue, this is really a great favor, haha. ”

The second monk Pu Tuzhang was puzzled, and looked at the herald.