Chapter 286: Murder with a soft knife
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In the military camp of the Qingfeng army in Wuzhou, Hao Ren set up a banquet to entertain Zhu Chongba's envoy Tang He, and invited the army members and generals to come to the banquet, and even Xu Da, who was taken hostage, was also invited to accompany him.
Hao Ren was still fighting with Shi Mo Yisun in Chuzhou a few days ago, and now he is secretly stationed in Wuzhou, Tang He was able to find Hao Ren's military camp, it goes without saying that it was Xu Da, the hostage, who sent someone to report the news, so that Tang He was able to find the location of Hao Ren's Chinese army, so frightened that Zhu Chongba did not dare to go down the mountain to attack Xie Zaixing.
Hao Ren had already made an agreement with Yao Guangxiao, who had joined the army, to pretend not to know Xu Da's actions and keep it for future use.
Although Tang He was born as a military general and has a rough appearance, he is very easy-going, and he doesn't say what he wants, he just raises his glass frequently, toasts to Hao Ren and all the soldiers and generals, and what he said is a joke about the wine field, which makes everyone laugh.
Hao Ren raised his glass to Tang and Xu Da and said: "I heard that Er and other young people are poor, and once went to the field to steal beans in addition to herding cattle and sheep, and then cooked them in a broken crockpot in the broken temple to eat, because everyone was hungry and the beans were not cooked, but everyone had already grabbed them like crazy and smashed the crockpot in which the beans were boiled, Zhu Chongba grabbed the beans from the ground and devoured them with the soil, accidentally ate the bean leaves in his mouth, and almost choked to death, who among your brothers saved him?" ā
Tang He and Xu Da looked at each other, never thinking that Hao Ren would expose the pain of the brothers when they were young, and even the details of Zhu Chongba's choking were like seeing them in person, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.
Xu Da blushed and said: "The generalissimo hears, this matter is pure fiction!" He didn't want the embarrassment of his youth to spread and tarnish Zhu Chongba's wise image.
"Heroes don't ask where they come from!" Hao Ren said with a dark face: "In the past, when I was not successful, I used to rob women and children in the countryside with my brothers!" Ben Shuai will never deny my identity as a slave, my background cannot be changed, whether it is right or wrong, Ben Shuai will not distinguish between his own poverty and what he has done wrong. ā
"There really isn't any!" Tang He saw Hao Ren's unhappy expression, afraid that the conversation would not go well, so he echoed Xu Da and denied the matter together, and said with a smile: "But my lord, when he was herding cattle, he showed superhuman wisdom!" ā
"Where does this begin?" Hao Ren asked.
"In the past, our brothers were poor, and Zhu Chongba herded cattle for the landlord Liu Shanren, but the brothers were hungry and couldn't live. Zhu Chongba invited our brothers, slaughtered and ate Liu Shanren's cow, and stuck the cow's tail on the ground, my family Pingzhang went to Liu Shanren, saying: 'Cracks in the ground, the cow fell to the ground', Liu Shanren took people to watch, only to see that the cow had indeed been drilled into the ground, and there was still a tail left outside, and people stepped forward to pull, the cow did not pull out, but the tail was torn off, and I ate Liu Shanren's ploughing cattle for nothing. Haha"
After Tang He finished telling the joke, before everyone thought it was funny, he laughed first.
All the literary and military ginseng, including Hao Ren, didn't think the joke was funny, but Tang He leaned back and laughed, which was really humorous.
"Huh!" Hao Ren said with a smile: "General Tang is here to expose Zhu Chongba's old background, beware of his future career and kill you, the person who 'insulted his name'!" ā
Tang He couldn't help but feel excited, and he knew that what Hao Ren said was true, but he pretended to be calm and said: "My lord is magnanimous, how can he worry about his subordinates because of these trivial things, not to mention Tang He's heartheart, the sun and the moon can learn from each other!" In the past, he returned to Guo Dashuai, or I wrote to invite him, counting, I am still the leader of his development! ā
In Guo Zixing's old department here, there is still Hao Ren's infantry commander Zhao Jizu here, Zhao Jizu said a few words: "Guo Dashuai treated you well back then, and when he first started the army in Haozhou, he appointed you as the commander of a thousand commanders, Guo Dashuai also has a knowing grace to you, why did you turn your back on Guo Dashuai and follow that Zhu Chongba to do something about splitting?" Chuzhou City was almost slaughtered. ā
"Hehe......" Tang He just smiled awkwardly, but did not speak. In Hao Ren's military camp, he has a small mouth, and Hao Ren has Zhao Jizu as his backing, so he can't say bad things about Guo Zixing, and he can't say that he is a lifelong friendship. Tang He guessed that no matter what, he couldn't debate Zhao Jizu, so he simply didn't answer, pretending to be stupid.
"My good brother-in-law Zhu Chongba, who swallowed the Poyang Lake Plain alone, came in with a spring breeze, was he carried away by the victory, and even the wives and daughters of his subordinates could be distributed arbitrarily?" Hao Ren knew that Tang He's intention must be for Xie Zaixing's sake, so he simply returned the topic to the point and took the initiative.
"Thanks to the generalissimo's Hongfu, the generalissimo is in the east, pinned down and annihilated Yang Tongguan's soldiers and horses, so that my lord has the opportunity to occupy the Poyang Lake Plain, my lord did not dare to enjoy the fruits of victory alone, but let Xu Dalai send the spoils of war and the generalissimo, why did the generalissimo detain the messenger Xu Daer and refuse to return it? Now that Xie Zaixing has betrayed my father-in-law, Tang Mou steals that the generalissimo should not accept Xie Zaixing, a traitor, and chills my father-in-law's loyalty to the generalissimo! Tang and Dao.
"Haha!" Hao Ren was quite amused by Tang He's words, and he said: "Zhu Chong's heart of the eight tigers and wolves, when I don't know? I just took Xu Da as a hostage, so as not to prevent the main force of our army from leaving Jiangnan, and Zhu Chongba sneaking up on my territory from behind, did General Tang dislike that I didn't hold Zhu Chongba's chips in my hand enough, and came to add weight to me? ā
Tang Hexin said: "I have heard that Hao Ren is a hero in the world, but he still naively thinks that if he detains me and Xu Da, Zhu Chongba will not be able to attack him, isn't this a dream? ā
Tang He saw that Hao Ren was going to take me hostage again, and hurriedly said: "I'm just a mouthpiece for Zhu Chongba, my family Pingzhang has always been good friends with Xu Da, there is a Xu Da here, how dare my family Pingzhang be disloyal to the generalissimo, so Pingzhang sent Tang to ask the generalissimo to return the traitor Xie Zaixing, the generalissimo is a hospitable person, and it doesn't hurt to stay Xu Da here for the time being!" "He spoke humbly, used the word 'request', but did not dare to use the word 'request', and acquiesced in Xu Da's taking hostage and betraying this friend.
Hao Ren wants to use Xie Zaixing as a weight to lead Zhu Chongbadong, how can he easily betray the people who are obedient to him because of Tang He's words, if so, who else dares to come to him in the future?
"From my father-in-law, Guo Zixing's righteous daughter Ma's family, Xie Zaixing's eldest daughter married my brother-in-law's nephew, Xie Zaixing and I are relatives, and the second daughter is married to Xu Da, how can I watch Zhu Chongba slaughter my relatives and let Xu Da, a respected person, lose my father-in-law?"
Hao Ren reluctantly recognized Xie Zaixing, a relative, and decisively rejected Tang He's request to return Xie Zaixing, and said: "Go back and tell your family Pingzhang, don't fight my family's territory again, if he has a bad plan, before the two armies start the war, Xu Da will be the first to die!" ā
Tang He came here and got nothing, neither to return Xu Da as a hostage, nor to Xie Zaixing, a rebel, but Tang He got an important inference:
Hao Ren was just temporarily supporting Zhao Pusheng in materials, and the Qingfeng army occupied a disadvantage in the terrain and did not have enough courage to cross the Yellow Mountain to attack the Poyang Lake Plain. Even, Hao Ren naively believed that taking Xu Da as a hostage could prevent Zhu Chongba from attacking the Jiangnan territory occupied by the Qingfeng army.
These inferences were inevitably conveyed to his lord Zhu Chongba after completing the book.
(To be continued.) )