Ren Yue immediately said with a smile on his face: "Brother Zhang, look at what you said, as long as you are willing to serve here, the officials under the king want money and money, and women and women." Zhang Huaren looked at him and said with a smile: "It seems that you have all these things, the king of Xiangdong seems to be a good person, more generous than Hou Jing." As he spoke, he took out a big bone from the pot and handed it to Ren Yuedao: "Come and eat, Lao Tzu has nothing to entertain you here, there is no wine for this bit of meat, you can eat some of it." ”

Ren Yue thought of eating people, where did he dare to take this bone, so he smiled and said: "I was full before I came, and I am not hungry now, you can eat first." Zhang Huaren threw the bone king pot angrily, and then scolded: "Damn, do you think Lao Tzu really eats people? This is Lao Tzu's horse, and no one has anything to eat, so how can there be grain and grass to feed it, so he simply slaughtered it and ate meat. Don't say that horse meat tastes okay. ”

Ren Yue looked at the bones in the pot with a little disbelief, and when he looked closely, it was really horse meat, thinking that he was frightened just now, it was indeed a bit out of shape. Zhang Huaren smiled: "Haha, you're really a fucking egg, I really think Lao Tzu eats people." Ren Yue smiled awkwardly, smelling the aroma of meat in the pot, he swallowed his saliva unconsciously, picked up a spoon and scooped up a spoonful of broth, and drank it into his stomach, refreshing. In fact, he had been hungry for a long time, and he had been enduring it because he was scared just now, but now when he said that it was not human flesh, he felt hungry.

Zhang Huaren scolded with a smile: "Didn't you kid say that you are not hungry, mother, this is also going to deceive people, you old boy is too scheming." Ren Yue put down the spoon and swore solemnly: "We have long been brothers who share weal and woe together, no matter how heavy my scheming is, I will not use it on my brother, besides, I just want to protect myself, and I don't want to harm anyone." Zhang Huaren didn't speak, lowered his head and continued to eat horse meat.

Song Zixian, Guo Yuanjian and Zhang Huaren are all northerners, and the first to follow Hou Jing to fight the world were the three of them. Especially Zhang Huaren, he does not have Song Zixian's wit and cunning, nor Guo Yuanjian's courage and might, he is step by step from the captain of the horse soldiers to save today's position all rely on his own timing and good at following the trend, which side is strong He is with which, which side can keep him alive He is with which, so he will follow Hou Jing to rebel, and after dinner, he will follow Song Zixian to besiege Hou Jing, a person who wants to live in troubled times sometimes does not have to be resourceful and brave and invincible, just need to be good at seizing the opportunity to observe words and feelings.

Zhang Huaren is not 100% absolutely loyal to anyone, in his eyes there is only interests and glory and wealth, and he will follow whoever can give him these things, so the military attaches under him are all on the same path as him, and they are all the masters of the mother.

Outside the city, Chen Baxian was very disdainful of Zhang Huaren's surrender conditions, and said with great disdain: "What is the use of such a person coming over to us? If Gao Huan calls one day, someone like him will definitely be the first to wag his tail and beg for mercy. The blow was agreed, Xiao Yu said: "But at present, our purpose is not to fight him, but to take over Hou Jing's territory to minimize losses, you must know that there are more than 10,000 troops of Song Zixian waiting for us in Changsha, if we are here to waste our military strength and fight Zhang Huaren to the death, where is the morale to fight Changsha in the future?" ”

Xiao Yu is right, the so-called strong crossbow can't wear Lu Min at the end, relying on strong military power to suppress Zhang Huaren and Song Zixian, but if you sweep along the way to see who fights whom, I'm afraid that when you get to Changsha City, Song Zixian can easily defeat Chen Baxian with ease and waiting, and everyone doesn't say anything. Chen Baxian also understood this truth, but he just couldn't get used to the cowardice and fear of death in Xiao Duo's army, and he didn't have the courage to break the bloody battlefield at all.

Chen Baxian said stiffly: "Hmph, with my Chen Baxian's ability, it is not necessary to take down this small Yueyang City at all, so what's the harm if there are millions of male soldiers in his city?" Xiao Yan also said without giving an inch: "We all know that the general is powerful, but in this world, there are not only one or two Song Zixian and Zhang Huaren who are enemies of us, our bigger enemy is in the east." As the saying goes, two tigers must be injured when they fight, and Gao Huan sits on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and enjoys the benefits of the fisherman, which I don't think the general wants to see. ”

Chen Ba was speechless about his words first, Xiao Yu's every sentence was very reasonable, but he was not convinced by this young descendant, and immediately said angrily: "When Ben is fighting, you don't know where you are?" What do you want to do with my strategy? In fact, Xiao Yu was originally suspicious of a foreign general like Chen Baxian as the commander, and he always wanted to reduce losses for his uncle and avoid unnecessary losses, but now it seems that Chen Baxian is really messing around, completely fooling around.

Xiao Yu was so angry that his face turned red, he stood up and said loudly: "Although Xia Guan is only a small prison army, but he has also drawn a knife on the battle array and seen blood, although no general can fight well, but some ordinary people are familiar with the truth, Xia Guan still understands, I don't want to do anything, I just want to reduce losses and avoid casualties, as the so-called soldiers who surrender without a fight This is the best policy, why does the general have to kill so that people who don't want to resist have taken up arms, is this how the general shows your bravery?" ”

Chen Ba was angry with him first, and he didn't save him any face in front of so many people, and he was even more angry in his heart, and said loudly: "This general is the boss this time, where is your turn to talk nonsense here?" What kind of prison army did a good army send, is this out to fight? The surrounding generals all rose up to persuade him, everyone originally had good intentions, after all, Xiao Yu was Xiao Duo's own nephew, or the prison army, this persuasion made Chen Baxian think that they all felt that it was their own fault, and they were even more angry.

Xiao Yu was dragged out of the tent and sent back to the barracks. The veteran general on the side persuaded and said: "The boss doesn't have to be angry with a young man, besides, this big war is a taboo for the commander to be in discord, and the most important thing we need to do now is to take Zhang Huaren's Yueyang City first." Although Chen Baxian was angry in his heart, he was also a person who listened to persuasion, and when he saw that Xiao Yu had been pulled away, he no longer scolded the street with his teeth and claws.

Chen Baxian's reply to Zhang Huaren was that he could accept the conditions of surrender, because it was indeed as Xiao Yu said, it would be unwise to spend his military strength and fight Zhang Huaren of Yueyang head-on before he arrived in Changsha, but Chen Baxian gave Zhang Huaren a conditional agreement to surrender, that is, his more than 10,000 people would attack the Song Zixian Department in Changsha as the main forward army.

Zhang Huaren is a master who sees the wind and rudder, and he doesn't dare to make trouble with Chen Baxian openly, because his little arm can't twist Chen Baxian's thigh. But Song Zixian in Changsha City is not stupid, he has already fled from Changsha South to Hengyang with his troops, Changsha City is just his old, weak, sick and disabled 2,000 people, really old, weak, sick and disabled, Chen Baxian cried and laughed when he looked at these captives, and he didn't know that Song Zixian had never dug out these old and weak soldiers, there were lame military Cao, blind men, old men in their seventies, and only eleven or twelve years old.

A large group of surrendered prisoners stood on the school field Chen Baxian looked at them, they also looked at him, Chen Baxian felt very ridiculous, originally heard that Song Zixian had escaped, he thought that he could receive the other party's troops, at least partially. Who knew that it would be like this: a large group of old, weak, sick and disabled people not only ate and drank Lazar every day, but also sent people to watch them to prevent them from coming, and such a big revenge Song Zixian wittily threw it at him.

Chen Baxian didn't have any confidence at all and said: "You, ah, you guys, are not good at farming at home, and you have to come out to fight at this age, I feel very relieved and helpless as a general, what the hell do you guys think?" He really couldn't help but burst into a foul language, he was really angry.

A very old soldier stepped forward tremblingly, Chen Baxian was afraid that the old man would fall and die at any time, and hurriedly asked, "What do you have to say?" Stand up and say, don't lean over. The old man saw his disgusted look, so he stopped coughing and replied: "Back to the master's words, we are really helpless, cough cough just with Song Zixian rebelled, we all understand what you just said, but if there is chaos today, the people are not living, our village was burned by the war two years ago, the sons and daughters-in-law of the family are dead, the old woman also died of illness last year, I am alone and have no food or shelter, I want to find a way to live, fortunately, Hou Jing's troops are recruiting, so I came in." ”

Chen Ba's eyes widened first and said, "He even dares to ask for a soldier like you?" When the old man heard this, he was quite dissatisfied and said: "What's wrong with the old man, don't underestimate the old man, I have a limerick poem to read to the old man, and it is about our veterans." The old man is sixty-eight this year, and he is carrying the top of the wall, although he is a little older, he does not fall behind in the work and war. ”

Chen Baxian asked in disbelief: "Old man, can you still fight in your state?" The old man patted his chest proudly and said: "I eat three bowls of bean pod rice at a time, and it is not a problem to see if the grain and grass are fed to the horses." Chen Ba nodded first, and said in his heart: Mother, you are embarrassed to say it, and if the three bowls of rice are dried, you will look at the city gate to feed the horses, so I didn't plan to pay attention to him anymore, but I just turned around to leave but was pulled by the old man and said: "Master, don't go, tell me how this poem is written?" ”

Chen Baxian said angrily: "Old man, you don't have to look at the grain and grass in the future, just write poems." The old man believed it and asked, "Really, sir, you are not fooling me, are you?" The atmosphere on the school field suddenly seemed very weird, and Chen Baxian didn't even want to stay here for a minute. The two lieutenant generals who followed closely behind him asked, "General, how to deal with this batch of surrendered troops?" ”

Chen Baxian cursed angrily: "Heaven damn Song Zixian, he had better pray to the Bodhisattva not to let me catch him." He looked back at the group of "surrendered soldiers", it was a nightmare, so he said: "First leave as much as possible among them who can still be used, although these people are surrendered soldiers, but after all, they are also helpless and homeless people, and everything that can be arranged can be arranged as much as possible, and those who can't be arranged will be sent home with some military salaries." ”

Chen Baxian's nature is as anxious as fire, and he is upright. When you encounter something, you can directly express your meaning, regardless of whether the methods are appropriate or not, whether others can accept it, but on the whole, this person is not bad-eyed, and even a little old-fashioned, but he is not good at expressing himself.

Xiao Yu was reluctant to return to Xiangyang, because he wanted to stare at Chen Baxian here, and he was always worried about this person, for fear that he would take the troops to Xiao Daoquan. Chen Baxian couldn't get used to this sissy who spoke softly, he felt that most of the people in the Xiao family were psychopaths who were neither men nor women, and they were uncomfortable to look at, and even the one-eyed dragon Xiao Duo was scolded by him in private as a "one-eyed general" in the crotch of his pants.

The disagreement between him and Xiao Yu is well known, and Xiao Yu refuses to bow to him, so Chen Baxian decided to let Xiao Yu lead the troops to challenge Song Zixian, the battlefield is not a place to play tricks, since Xiao Yu refuses to go, then don't talk nonsense, take out some real skills to convince him Chen Baxian. Xiao Yu didn't expect this Chen Baxian to be so despicable and shameless, and use the way he is not good at to hit him. Of course, Xiao Yu asked a strong general to accompany him, and the others unanimously agreed (they didn't want to go back and question Xiao Duo because of Xiao Yu's death) Chen Baxian had no choice but to choose Zhang Huaren, a rebel general, as his subordinate.

Xiao Yu still had objections to this, and Chen Baxian said disdainfully: "If you are afraid, you can go to Xiangyang by yourself." Xiao Yu thought to himself that I was betting on this tone to let you know that our Xiao family also had good generals, so he stopped saying a word, and took Zhang Huaren's 10,000 men and 10,000 self-army to the south to pursue Song Zixian's last headquarters: Hengyang City. (To be continued.) )