Cao Bin and others are feasting, quite like the style of Liangshan heroes, it is really eating meat and drinking wine in a big bowl, which makes people have an appetite when they look at it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Unlike the gatherings of civil officials, the banquets of military generals only have the sound of 'chirp', and their gatherings are really gatherings, and they are completely for the purpose of eating.

Compared with the night banquet at Lu Mengzheng's house, Zhao Gu found that he preferred to eat with generals such as Cao Wei, Pan Mei, and Hu Yanzan, which was heroic and heroic, without so many twists and turns.

Originally, eating is for eating, and eating enough is the goal, and it's a little sorry to talk about other things.

asked someone to bring him a small bowl, Zhao Gu also moved his chopsticks, and drank a glass of wine from time to time, and when he was five or six minutes full, Zhao Gu ate another bowl of rice, and he was completely full.

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Zhao Gu found that Cao Bin and the others were still eating, and the thirty or so dishes he made didn't seem to be enough for them, and most of the thirty or so plates were already empty, and the other half was about to be eaten.

That's a lot!

Zhao Gu sighed in his heart, got up and was about to get a few more dishes, but Pan Mei called out to him.

"Marquis Zhao, don't be busy, we people can eat and be hungry, but our stomachs are not bottomless, it's enough to eat so many dishes, you don't have to bother."

"Is it really enough?" Zhao Gu looked at the few dishes left on the table and said with a smile.

Pan Mei nodded, and by the way, pulled two more chicken legs and put them in her bowl.

Cao Bin also nodded, and then killed two more bowls of rice.

Hu Yanzan didn't speak directly, rubbing his round belly, he seemed to be estimating whether his stomach could not be tolerated.

After thinking about it for a while, Hu Yanzan looked at a fish on the table again, his eyes lit up, and finally he seemed to think that his stomach should be able to eat, so he killed another fish and half a plate of fried cabbage.

Yang Yanzhao and Cao Wei didn't speak directly, but their movements were not slow, and they emptied the two plates again.

Zhao Gu was directly speechless, and after talking for a while, there were six plates empty on the table again, and he began to doubt Pan Mei's words, are these thirty dishes really enough?

Fortunately, after the thirty plates were gone, Cao Bin and the others were really full, and they burped with their swollen stomachs, and Zhao Gu felt that he had fulfilled his responsibilities as a chef.

Suddenly, he found that Cao Bin and the others looked at him differently, just like looking at the owner's dog ......, oh no, looking at the eyes of a friend, kind and friendly.

After the meal, the maid served tea to everyone, and Cao Bin and Pan Mei took the lead in chatting.

Soon, Zhao Gu found that most of the things they expected were secrets in the army, as well as major events in the court, during which the two expressed their opinions, which made Zhao Gu increase a lot of knowledge.

After delaying it for a long time, he finally stopped holding it anymore, and joined in, constantly expressing his opinions, don't look at his five big and three coarse, but he is a real person who does not show his face, and the words he says are very charming, making people feel like an initiation.

Because of listening to the words of the three of them, Zhao Gu had a better understanding of the various intricate relationships and events in some courts, and he knew more about Zhao Guangyi's past.

And Cao Wei and Yang Yanzhao seem to have long been accustomed to their small talk, and if they ask a few questions from time to time, Cao Bin and the three of them will also answer them one by one, which is very detailed.

Zhao Gu understood a little at this time, Cao Bin and the three of them were actually vaguely pointing out Zhao Gu, Cao Wei and Yang Yanzhao!

They pretended to talk, in fact, they were telling Zhao Gu the experience of the three of them, and at the same time, they were sorting out various relationships for them.

Zhao Gu couldn't help but be a little moved, Cao Wei is Cao Bin's son, Yang Yanzhao is the son of Yang Ye, the son of Cao Bin's three comrades-in-arms, they were taught by Cao Bin and the three, but Cao Bin and the three did not avoid Zhao Gu, doesn't this mean that they also treat themselves like sons and nephews?

This is the way of life that Cao Bin and the three of them have summed up after living for most of their lives, and they have told Zhao Gu about the various complex relationships, some of which are even more unknown, once Zhao Gu and the three of them master and digest these things, they will definitely be like a fish in water in the officialdom in the future.

The so-called predecessors planted trees, and later generations enjoyed the shade, this is the truth.

You must know that for Cao Bin and the others, who are already at the top of the Great Song Dynasty pyramid, if they want to teach others something, I don't know how many people will enter their sight if they break their heads, but they chose to teach Zhao Gu in this way, which is really well-intentioned.

And when Cao Bin and the three of them were talking, they were naturally observing Zhao Gu's reaction, and when they saw the emotion in Zhao Gu's eyes, the three of them smiled without a trace.

Sometimes, when the master imparts something to the disciple, he doesn't care whether the disciple learns it or not, as long as the disciple understands it, the master is very happy.

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Seven days later, a message from the scouts in front was sent to the Song army's central army tent.

Cao Bin unfolded the information and handed it to everyone, when everyone read it, Cao Bin said: "The Liao army has gathered 300,000 troops, menacing, it seems that it is going to a decisive battle with us, I am afraid that we will not give up until we recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, you have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy!" ”

After Pan Mei read the information, he said: "We had a total of 180,000 troops during the Northern Expedition, plus Huyan's 20,000 troops, a total of 200,000, although there are only 170,000 people left, but the Liao army is only 300,000, they want to break through our defense, it is estimated that it is impossible, as long as we choose to defend to the death, we will definitely be able to block the Liao army." ”

Yang Yanzhao also said: "I agree with the statement of the Korean Gong, we should focus on protecting the sixteen states of Yanyun and not defend it." ”

Everyone nodded, only Mi Dechao's eyes always flashed with a strange light, and said: "Everyone, 300,000 Liao troops are not a small number, if we only choose to defend to the death, I am afraid that even if we defeat them, we will suffer heavy casualties, so it is not cost-effective." ”

"What is General Mi Dechao's plan?" Cao Bin asked.

Mi Dechao smiled proudly, as if everything was in the palm of his hand: "I thought that I could send a strange army to ambush the Liao army in advance, and then frustrate their prestige first." ”

Cao Bin glanced at Yi Dechao, and secretly despised it in his heart, no wonder this guy lost Yunzhou and Huanzhou before, and attacked the enemy lightly, I really don't know what the emperor likes about him.

But Cao Bin couldn't say such words, he looked at Zhao Gu again: "Marquis Zhao, when it comes to marching and fighting, the old man asks himself if he is not as good as you, I don't know what you think?" ”

Zhao Gu didn't seem to hear it, and stared straight at the map on the wall.