The three young men went out of the hall and went straight to a room that was not very spacious, and which had three beds and a set of tables and chairs, and nothing else. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

One of the young men went outside the house to boil water, while the other two went to bed and wrapped themselves in quilts.

After being silent for a while, one of the young men said, "Brother Zhao, they don't want to see us anymore." ”

"Oh? How so? Brother Zhao asked.

The young man replied: "Originally, the plan of the Northern Expedition was thought up of, and the emperor asked you to join the army, naturally not to ask you to come to the mountains and rivers, but these people not only set you up at the beginning, but they didn't ask your opinion on anything, and now after capturing Shuozhou City, they are even more sneering at you, in my opinion, they want to squeeze you out, so that you can't stand it and return to Kaifeng, lest someone share their credit." ”

Listening to the words of this young man, this young man surnamed Zhao Hao Ran is Zhuozhou Valley Hou Zhao Gu, and the other young man is Li Danran who accompanied him on the Northern Expedition, and the other is Ergouzi who went to boil water.

Zhao Gu stayed in the quilt for a while, and then reluctantly drilled his head out, and said: "You think too much indifferently, Yi Dechao has been guarding the frontier for many years, and he has made outstanding achievements, it is normal for me not to look at it, but how can anyone sneer at me?" I'm just a member of the army, and I can only point out the boss's problems when his decision-making goes wrong, but now that he has captured Shuozhou City and proved that he is right, the credit should naturally be his, isn't it? ”

Li said indifferently: "But look at the place he arranged for us, Brother Zhao, you are a dignified marquis, but you have to nest in such a small place, and the generals under him all live in a courtyard, isn't this that he deliberately embarrassed you?" ”

Zhao Gu smiled and didn't speak, Li Danran said again: "In my opinion, Mi Dechao will definitely think of letting you stay in Shuozhou next, and he will lead the men and horses to attack other cities alone, so that his credit will be the greatest at that time." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Gu was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that Li Indifferently looked at the problem so much, but he still didn't speak.

It wasn't until Li Danran was impatient that Zhao Gu said leisurely: "Didn't I already tell him what he wanted to do?" ”

"What do you mean?" Li asked indifferently subconsciously, and then fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Li Danran suddenly exclaimed: "I understand, Brother Zhao, the reason why you started pretending to be sick three days ago is precisely to deal with today's situation, right?" ”

Zhao Gu nodded: "I can't work with this person, I have already seen it, and I just don't want to get involved with him, so I pretend to be sick." Presumably at this time, they are conspiring to let me stay in Shuozhou City, right? It just so happened that I was tired after such a long journey, so I had a good rest in Shuozhou City for two days. ”

"However, when the time comes, Yi Dechao will capture other state cities, won't you be able to share any credit, big brother?" Li Daran asked.

Zhao Gu smiled coldly: "If I say that Yi Dechao will inevitably be defeated in less than a month, do you believe it?" ”

"What!" Li Danran was shocked again, and then laughed evilly: "I understand, Yi Dechao doesn't like you, and you also expect that he will definitely be defeated, so stay away from him in advance, so that whether he wins or loses at that time, it will have nothing to do with you." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Gu answered, and then he didn't speak, Li Danran didn't talk much, and after Zhao Gu solved his doubts, he also became silent.

Cowering in the quilt, Zhao Gu's mood was not as calm as he appeared.

In fact, from that time when Zhao Gu rushed to make peace with Mi Dechao with 10,000 forbidden troops, he felt that Mi Dechao was too conceited, and if he led the troops, he would be defeated sooner or later, especially after winning battles one after another, he would inevitably be proud.

Later, on the issue of attacking Shuozhou City, Zhao Gu wanted to remind him a few words, but he didn't expect that Mi Dechao not only didn't listen, but Zhao Gu annoyed her because of it.

The situation at that time was like this, when Zhao Gu was formulating the Northern Expedition plan, he said that the four-way army would attack together on the first day of the first month, but in order to preempt the other three-way army, he had to start attacking the city on the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and then he ignored Zhao Gu's opposition and ordered the soldiers to speed up and take Shuozhou City on the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

The disadvantage of this is that the soldiers are already physically and mentally exhausted because they are ordered to march quickly, and they have been on the road for a day and a night, and then they have been attacking the city all the time, and the cold weather has caused many people to be exhausted, and the number of people who are sick or frozen to death has risen sharply, which greatly depletes the vitality of the army.

But Mi Dechao looked complacent today, and didn't take this matter into account at all, and his subordinates sneered at Zhao Gu as Li said indifferently, and even when distributing the room, Mi Dechao only gave Zhao Gu a place barely enough to sleep, and the other generals didn't know how much.

From that day on, when Mi Dechao was preparing to attack the city on the 30th day of the lunar month, Zhao Gu pretended to be sick, as he said, he felt that Mi Dechao would be defeated sooner or later, and he was unwilling to follow him to be implicated.

And maybe Mi Dechao also felt that Zhao Gu had no effect on following, but had to share his credit, so he was very cold to Zhao Gu and wanted Zhao Gu to retreat.

As everyone knows, the entire Northern Expedition plan was formulated by Zhao Gu, even if he didn't go out with the army, after the Great Song Dynasty restored the sixteen states of Yanyun, there would be less credit for him?

It can be seen that Mi Dechao is not only arrogant, but also has a low vision and is self-serving.

Zhao Gu decided in his heart, since people have already stretched out their cold butts, why should he stick his hot face on it?

I can't mess with you, can't I hide?

Zhao Gu simply covered his head and went directly to sleep.

When Zhao Gu woke up, it was already completely dark, and Yi Dechao sent a military order to Zhao Gu, saying that Shuozhou City could not be guarded by no one, and Zhao Gu was suffering from the wind and cold, so he was not suitable to follow the army to fight, so let him guard in Shuozhou City.

Seeing that his guess came true, Zhao Gu smiled coldly in his heart, waved off the soldier who gave the order, then got up and ate dinner, and then retracted back into the quilt.

It's not that he's too lazy, it's that it's too cold, and there is no heating facility like in later generations, so if you just sit there, you'll be frozen into popsicles in less than an hour.

On the second day, Mi Dechao really continued to advance with 30,000 soldiers and horses, and when he left, he didn't even greet Zhao Gu, and expressed a very high 'respect' for him to join the army.