Chapter 53: This Man Is Not Trustworthy
(a)
Of course, Fang Zhenhai would not be stupid enough to think that Zhao Zi'an was really a good leader, but Zhao Zi'an could not be said to be a stupid person, he was just a mediocre talentβjust a mediocre talent like most of General Chang. What he needs is two people under Zhao Zi'an: Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng. But he can't just order these two to follow him, not to mention that since he wants to lead 20,000 troops to attack, except for Ma Yong, the others are just the eldest brother and the second brother, everyone is almost the same, and everyone is the same. So he simply ordered Zhao Zi'an.
Seeing the army hurriedly pull out of the camp, Fang Zhenhai turned around. At this time, he was already the commander of this 20,000-strong army, and in his tent, Ma Yong, Zhao Zi'an, and several generals were all there, and Wei Changfeng, according to the old practice, was once again specially recruited, but not by General Zhao, but by General Fang.
Fang Zhenhai's first sentence talked about Wei Changfeng: "This is Wei Changfeng, the new Xiaodu Commander, this person's talent is unusual, and this commander is specially recruited." β
On the side, General Chang Ma Yong snorted lightly, and several generals under Ma Yong also showed contempt.
Although Zhao Zi'an's subordinates already knew the name of Lu Daowei Changfeng, but Ma Yong arrived with Fang Zhenhai, where did he know who Lu Daowei Changfeng was, he only knew that Lu Dao They just came to catch up with General Zhu's plan, and they were almost taken by the Donghu army to take Shanhaiguan by a detour, and if it wasn't for him Ma Yong leading the army to forcibly break through the middle of the Donghu army in the battle, the Han army was afraid that the whole army would be wiped out.
Fang Zhenhai didn't know if no one noticed everyone's thoughts, or pretended not to know the way, he unfolded the map and assigned tasks to everyone: "Our task is to penetrate from here." Although the Donghu people came from the dense forest, but they did not find a good path, the Niuzhi County of Jianchang sent a mountain man, this person has been going back and forth in this dense forest valley for many years, and the path in the forest is very familiar, he can take us to take a shortcut, I think we will not pass through this woodland as hard as the Donghu army. You see, the path he pointed out starts from here and goes about fifty miles before Xingcheng, which is exactly what we require. β
All the soldiers praised softly, it seems that this Jianchang Zhixian is really a good official who is loyal to his duties, at least, it has helped a lot now.
Fang Zhenhai saw that the generals had nothing else to say, so he said: "Since everyone has no opinion, then we are ready to pull." As he spoke, he looked at Zhao Zi'an and his subordinates. Although he is General Dingyuan, Zhao Zi'an and others have always been under the command of General Zhu, and now that he has just taken over, he still has to take care of these people.
Zhao Zi'an shook his head, his habit is that since his superiors have made a decision, he doesn't think about right or wrong, anyway, the most important thing is not him, and he can't pass him.
On the side, the tooth general Sun Li sneered and said, "We have no opinion, but I don't know if Wei Dutong has any opinion." In his heart, he has always remembered that Wei Changfeng broke his face, and seeing that the lowest official position in the account is also a general, Wei Changfeng was actually specially recruited again, and he couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks, and the word "Dutong" was also extremely loud.
As soon as Sun Li said this, not only Fang Zhenhai was surprised, but even Ma Yong and several generals were also taken aback. What is this? Infighting? They naturally didn't know about the grievances and grievances between Wei Changfeng and Sun Li when they were in Xingcheng before, but Sun Ya said that the vinegar in his words was so great that he could smell it thirty miles away, and anyone could hear it.
Fang Zhenhai's face sank, and he shouted: "Sun Yajiang, you must have rules when you speak!" β
Sun Li's face immediately flushed. He was a general under Zhao Zi'an, and he never paid much attention to the tone of his voice, Zhao Zi'an's army has always been close to the soldiers as a signboard, so he is very tolerant and generous to Sun Li and other generals, Sun Li is used to it, thinking that this General Fang is the same, but he didn't expect General Fang to leave no face, and he broke his mind in public. He was speechless for a while, and the atmosphere in the big tent was extremely embarrassing.
In the silence, Wei Changfeng smiled and said softly: "General Yufang, the last general does have something to say. β
Fang Zhenhai looked at Wei Changfeng in surprise. He didn't understand what Wei Changfeng wanted to do, Sun Li insulted Wei Changfeng in public, he had already taught Sun Li a lesson, but Wei Changfeng actually said that he had something to say, did he want to sarcastically mock Sun Li again?
"What does Wei Dutong have to say about this operation?" Fang Zhenhai deliberately emphasized "this operation".
"The last general thinks," Wei Changfeng paused, and said, "This person from Niu Zhi County is not credible!" β
"Huh?!" "What?" "What's going on?" There was chaos in the tent all of a sudden, and everyone asked questions.
Fang Zhenhai waved his hand, stopped everyone, and stared at Wei Changfeng: "Wei Dutong, how do you know that this person is not credible?" Have you seen this person? Familiar with him? β
"The last general still doesn't know who this person is, let alone see this person." Wei Changfeng replied.
On the side, Ma Yong exploded all of a sudden: "Are you a fortune teller?" Even who doesn't know the way can calculate that he can't be trusted? I don't think you can't be trusted! He turned his head to look at Zhao Zi'an and asked, "General Zhao, how did this Weishen get mixed up with Xiaodutong?" β
Zhao Zi'an smiled awkwardly and had nothing to answer. If he followed Ma Yong's words and turned his elbow outward, but he wanted to refute Ma Yong, how could he refute it?
Zhao Zi'an was silent, which made the people on Ma Yong's side even more emboldened, not to mention that they just saw that even General Sun Ya was sarcastic about Wei Changfeng, and he had no scruples, and everyone said anything for a while.
In the chaos, a person said in a deep voice: "I believe in Wei Dutong, if he says that this person is not credible, there must be a reason." β
(2) Who is this man who is moving against the will of the people? Who else can it be, looking at the army, there is only one person who can have such courage: Bai Qi.
As soon as Bai Qi's words came out, the big tent fell silent for a while. The people on Zhao Zi'an's side naturally wouldn't go against Bai Qi, and the people on Ma Yong's side didn't want to provoke Bai Qi, so everyone didn't speak for a while.
Fang Zhenhai coughed and looked at Wei Changfeng: "Wei Dutong." He only screamed, and naturally, there was no need to say more, everyone understood what he meant.
Wei Changfeng smiled, not looking at everyone's eyes, he met Fang Zhenhai's eyes. He had to speak his judgment. Because he felt that although Fang Zhenhai was impatient and stern, he was not unreasonable, and such a general was still worth his own efforts.
"General Fang," Wei Changfeng asked slowly, "what kind of talent will cross the mountains and mountains between Xingcheng and Jianchang for many years?" β
"Mountain people." Ma Yong interjected coldly on the side, "Mountain people, mountain people, how can you call mountain people if you don't enter the mountain?" β
On the side, several generals laughed gloatingly.
"That's not right." Wei Changfeng immediately retorted, "When mountain people enter the mountains, they hunt and chop firewood, how can there be a reason to walk between the two cities for dozens of miles through the mountains?" Even if there is such a person, it can only be done by chance, and it will never be like this for many years. The mountain people are well aware of the dangers in the mountains and forests of the Lang Road, and unless there is an emergency, they would rather take the road than risk traversing such a long mountain forest for many years! β
This logic was dismissible, and everyone was speechless for a while.
"It's bandits." Fang Zhenhai replied suddenly.
Wei Changfeng nodded, he didn't say any more, he believed that General Fang would have the right disposal.
"Someone!" Fang Zhenhai's voice became stern, "Send someone to interrogate that mountain man to see what kind of character he is!" β
While the guards left in response, Fang Zhenhai glanced at the people in the tent and said, "Everyone is waiting here, I'll come when I go to interrogate." Then he turned around and walked out of the account.
There was silence in the tent, and no one spoke.
Because there's nothing to say. If the mountain people were not bandits, Wei Changfeng had played General Fang this time, and what the consequences were, I could guess it, so no one dared to casually express support for Wei Changfeng, but what if it was a bandit? That Wei Changfeng has something to say, Ma Yong's face is only afraid that it will not look good. Or, hit the hell and say, "It's so nice today"? Well, there is no weather in the tent, and the "weather" on the faces of the generals is not very good.
So everyone was silent.
Fortunately, everyone didn't have to wait for much time, that is, about the time of two pillars of incense, when footsteps sounded outside the tent, and Fang Zhenhai came back. His face remained serious, and there was no sign of joy or anger.
"Sure enough, it's a bandit." Fang Zhenhai said, "This person doesn't want to do anything to us, he just wants to lure us halfway to the bandits' lair, cooperate with the bandits to take us in the mountains and forests to blackmail us, let us give them some money and weapons, and then take us out of the city." Speaking of this, he smiled, "I have successfully 'convinced' him, believing that he will only show us the right way, and will not turn around again." But," he looked at Ma Yong, "General Ma, this mountain man has to be handed over to you to watch, I was not very careful when I 'convinced' him, he was only afraid that it would be difficult to walk for a while, and you would have to arrange for someone to carry him." β
"Order!" Ma Yong responded, "This bandit is so bold, he dares to calculate our officers and soldiers, so he simply let the last general lead people to directly take their lair!" β
"Not right now." Fang Zhenhai replied, "We have an emergency military situation, let them go first, besides, they are hiding in the dense forest, we don't know the road at all, and we will suffer a lot of losses if we really fight." β
Ma Yong nodded, but turned his head to look at Wei Changfeng, his lips opened and closed, but he couldn't speak.
Fang Zhenhai glanced at Ma Yong, then looked at Wei Changfeng, and asked, "Wei Dutong, this time, there should be no problem, right?" β
Wei Changfeng hesitated again.
"Please say something." Fang Zhenhai saw Wei Changfeng hesitating, and immediately said, "The speaker is not guilty. β
Wei Changfeng had no choice but to say: "The last general thinks that there is actually a better way to plan than the current one. β
"Say." Fang Zhenhai immediately urged, this time, no one thought that Wei Changfeng was a fortune teller.
"There will be three strategies available at the end." Wei Changfeng said.
"Poof~~~!" Ma Yong burst out laughing directly. He still wanted to apologize to Wei Changfeng, but he couldn't open his face for a while, and he didn't speak, but now listening to Wei Changfeng's words, his apology was immediately thrown out of the clouds: "It's the upper, middle and lower three strategies, right?" There was a mockery in his words.
Wei Changfeng actually nodded solemnly: "Not bad." β
"Our Wei Dutong has listened to a lot of books." Sun Li finally found an opportunity, and he was angry again. It seems that he is going to deduct Wei Changfeng from a storyteller's hat.
"Shut up and listen to what Wei Du says." Fang Zhenhai's voice was not high, but his tone was very stern.