When Yang Zilu came to Liuxian, although he was extremely tired both mentally and physically, the current situation did not allow him to rest. Yang Zilu immediately summoned the original county Yin of the six counties, and the current county order is Chen.

"What's going on right now?" Yang Zilu couldn't care about being polite, and asked straight to the point.

Du Chen is an old man of nearly fifty, with a bitter gourd face, and when he heard Yang Zilu's question, his already bitter face was even more bitter, as if he was dead. Whole. Home. said: "Hanhou, the situation is not optimistic! ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, he immediately scolded: "The widow also knows that he is not optimistic, so you tell the widow how many troops Goujian has, and where he arrives." ”

Seeing Yang Zilu scolding, Du Chen immediately shrank his head, but he didn't say much, nodded and said, "Yes!" Be! Now the Vietnamese army is divided into two roads, one is Chao County, which is led by the thief of Goujian, and there are about 5,000 people. It did not move, presumably to prevent the army of your country at Chao Pass from attacking the flank of the Vietnamese army. The other road was led by Fan Li, the general of the Yue Kingdom, with about 10,000 people. Originally, the army that attacked Yongpu was led by Fan Li, when Fan Li only had 7,000 people, Fan Li attacked Yongpu in the north, and went north to Chaoxian County to join the thief of Goujian. After resting for a day in Chao County, he divided his troops with Gou Jian and set off towards Shu County. In Chaoxian County, Goujian supplemented him with some soldiers, and this is only 10,000 people. Now Fan Li is leading the 10,000 Vietnamese army to storm Shu County, and fortunately, Shu County is still in our hands. ”

Yang Zilu was surprised when he heard this, he remembered that there were not many soldiers and horses in Shu County. Plus these people have all surrendered once, let them surrender again, there shouldn't be much psychological burden, how can they hold it?

Seeing the puzzled look on Yang Zilu's face, Du Chen replied: "Hanhou is strange, how can Shu County hold it?" ”

Yang Zilu didn't hide it, nodded his head very directly and said: "With your character, if you don't have enough troops, it's not bad to abandon Shu County, even if Shu County surrenders to Goujian, it's not surprising that there are no people." Could it be that the county commander of Shu County is a general, and he can withstand Fan Li's attack? ”

Du Chen smiled awkwardly and said, "This Hanhou is a bit straightforward, we are not so unbearable." ”

"Isn't it?" What Yang Zilu said is not polite, and in Yang Zilu's opinion, there is no need to be polite. Because the reason why these people surrendered to Yang Zilu was that most of them went to the name of Bai Gongsheng. Therefore, in Yang Zilu's opinion, in the future, at least most of these people will be banned by the officials of the Han State, so there is no need to give them any face, let alone how to win them over, of course, with the exception of ability.

Du Chen said abruptly: "Hanhou is really a gentleman!" What a gentleman! ”

The corners of Yang Zilu's mouth twitched, and he didn't care about Du Chen's horses.

Du Chen also simply spread it out and said: "The county magistrate of Shu County is not a famous general, but it has a certain relationship with his background. Although the county order of Shu County is called Shu Shudou, his ancestor is the son of King Ping (Chu), because the ancestor is a concubine, so he separated the royal family, settled in Shu County, and changed his name to Shu. Counting his father and Sheng's cousins, he had to call Bai Gongsheng an uncle when he saw him. ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, she understood, oh! It turns out that this guy is from a royal family. Although the forces established by blood kinship have many shortcomings, one thing is undeniable. Most of the officials from the royal family, such as Shu Shudou, are more loyal to the Chu State than those who are not from the royal family.

This also has a lot to do with the fact that they are from the royal family, if the Yue State destroys the Chu State, is it possible for these people from the royal family to be appointed? No way! The first to be eliminated is them, and it is not necessary to kill the head, but it is certain that they will be degraded to commoners and exiled. Even if they surrender, they may not be reused, who is not afraid that one day, they will suddenly raise the anti-flag and use their royal blood to make problems!

Du Chen hesitated for a moment and then said, "There is another reason. At the beginning, Ye Gong stationed 6,000 soldiers and horses in Shu County, Qian County, and Tongyi (now Tongcheng, Anhui). Originally, according to your order of Hanhou, 3,000 people were to be transferred to the Xia Wei area for reorganization. But Uncle Shu colluded with them, saying that the soldiers had escaped with 2,000 people, and they could only squeeze out 1,000 people, and then he captured some prisoners, and the ruffians gathered a hundred people and sent them to Hanhou. So now there are about 3,000 soldiers in Shu County, plus the original county soldiers, there are about 4,000 people. Recruit the people in the city again, relying on the city wall, it is not a problem to defend Shu County. ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, he nodded, he also knew about this desertion case at the beginning, but he didn't have time to deal with it and let it go. But I didn't expect Uncle Shu to be so bold with them, but today he helped himself to a certain extent. Because this is the real reason why Shu Shudou can hold Shu County.

Otherwise, even if Shu Shudou has loyalty, with 2,000 people, if he wants to hold 10,000 Vietnamese troops, he has to be smarter than the other party and use his wisdom to make up for the lack of troops. But don't forget, the 10,000 Vietnamese army is still commanded by Fan Li, if you want to play tricks, in front of Fan Li, I am afraid that what you will get in the end is just the result of stealing chickens and rice.

As for the fact that these guys are going to keep 6,000 people, it is estimated that they are calculating themselves. Seeing that they underestimated the people of the Chu State, how could no one have thought that they had come to invade the Chu State with the help of Bai Gongsheng's name! It turned out that these guys who surrendered in Chu had already prepared, so I will say how Bai Gongsheng and Shi Qi were silent about their own troops to garrison.

It seems that Bai Gongsheng is not really silent, but he has secretly left a chess piece, saved a batch of strength, and is ready to take himself by surprise in the future. And now that Bai Gongsheng is dead, I am afraid that this power is estimated to have been taken over by Shi Qi, and maybe Wang Sunyan also knows.

And it is certain that Shu Shudou is not the only chess piece in the hands of Bai Gongsheng and Shi Qi, there must be others. But why did Du Chen tell him this? It seems that this bitter gourd-faced county commander, he may have ambitions that do not match his appearance. And he spoke in an orderly manner just now, and it seems that he has some talent, ability, and it is not impossible for him to be important.

Thinking of this, Yang Zilu glanced at Du Chen meaningfully, and said in a low voice: "What is the doctor going to do." ”

"Prepare to do what the Lord wants to do!" Du Chen still had a bitter face, bowed slightly to Yang Zilu, and said in a respectful tone. The title has also changed from the original Hanhou to the lord, obviously he is ready to take refuge in Yang Zilu.

Yang Zilu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Not bad!" Well done! The widow is ready to establish Lujiang County in Liu, Shu and other counties, do it well! Maybe the county guard of Lujiang County will be you in the future! ”

"Thank you, Lord, for your appreciation!" Du Chen Mei smiled openly, but even with his bitter gourd face, this smile was only two or three points better than bitterness.

Looking at Du Chen's bitter gourd face, Yang Zilu suddenly understood why Du Chen was loyal to him. With his bitter gourd face, without royal blood, even if he has the ability, how can he become an official in the court!

Although appearance was not the most important thing in ancient times, this did not include officials from ordinary people, who were born with ordinary people at least to sit upright, and the ancient kings did not use this idea only for talent. Especially in the state of Chu, it pays more attention to blood, and when Ling Yin and Da Sima must be from the royal family or a branch of the royal family.

In this environment, if there is no accident, Du Chen's life will probably end up in this county order. If it were someone else, it would be fine, but a capable person, how could he be willing to die in this position in silence? Taking refuge in himself has become a way out for Du Chen to go to the next level.

In fact, Yang Zilu didn't know Du Chen's ambition enough, Du Chen was born very humble. His father was a great nobleman of the Chu State, an official and a supreme doctor, but his mother was very humble and a maid, but her appearance was not beautiful, but a little ugly. Hey, that's because after getting drunk, she got into a daze. If it's on it, it's on it, if it's beautiful, it's normal to give a concubine.

But because his mother was a little ugly, the big nobles didn't even care about the identity of this concubine, when nothing happened. I don't want the big nobles to be too powerful, a shot. Hit. The maid went to the big noble, but the big nobleman hated the maid, but she had her own flesh and blood, so she pinched her nose and recognized it, and gave her the identity of a concubine.

However, after giving birth to Du Chen, the big nobles regretted it and didn't recognize Du Chen, because Du Chen was too ugly. drove the maid away along with the young Du Chen, and the maid had to raise Du Chen with all her hard work, until Du Chen was eleven years old.

The big nobles sent someone to find Du Chenlai, the reason why this is so is because he has too few sons, plus Du Chen, an illegitimate child, is only three people, and the others have all died. At that time, it was important to pay attention to spreading branches and leaves, and the more sons the better, and the big nobles were old, and it was no longer possible to count on one more son, so the big nobles found Du Chen, an illegitimate son, to come back.

But when he saw Du Chen, the big nobleman regretted it, compared to when he was a child, the grown up Du Chen was not only not better, but even uglier, but at this time, the big nobleman was not good to drive Du Chen away. After all, you just looked for someone to come, and when you saw it, you drove people away viciously, and I am afraid that you will be laughed at by the world. The big nobles had to pinch their noses again and admit it, but they didn't like Du Chen.

and the father of the great nobleman still cares about face, but Du Chen's other brothers and sisters don't have so many scruples, they don't like Du Chen's illegitimate son very much, and they beat and humiliate Du Chen when they find the opportunity. Du Chen's boy was also full of shame and darkness because of this, but Du Chen still gritted his teeth and admitted it, because only here can he learn knowledge.

At that time, Du Chen was like a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge he could learn. But Du Chen's bad luck was not over, and when Du Chen was seventeen years old, the great nobleman couldn't survive the years and died of illness at home.

The position of head of the family was taken over by Du Chen's brother, but this brother disliked Du Chen very much. When the great nobles were alive before, they did not advise the big nobles to rush Du Chen away, but at that time, Du Chen tolerated everywhere, there was no big mistake, and with a little pity, the big nobles did not agree. Now that he is in power, his brother is not polite, and the next day he announced that Du Chen was not the son of a great nobleman, and expelled Du Chen from the house.

The dark and bumpy childhood made Du Chen, who was not yet an adult, very mature, not much worse than some people who were still young. After Du Chen was driven away, he did a lot of things, and in the end, through his own strategy, Du Chen was finally able to visit a doctor's house as a guest.

Through flattery, enduring humiliation, by showing his talents, and showing his loyalty, he finally won the trust of the doctor, and was able to be elected by the doctor to the field as an official. Through his own struggle, Du Chen finally became the official of the six counties, but he has been in this official position for six years, but it is difficult to advance an inch. This made Du Chen very discouraged, because he vowed to give him ten times the revenge of the noble family he had humiliated, but with his current status, let alone revenge, he didn't even have the ability to fight. That's why he took the risk of taking refuge with Yang Zilu.

If his defection to Yang Zilu is exposed, I am afraid that he will die at the hands of the assassin the next day, and Yang Zilu will not be able to help him avenge. And it is very likely that he will be used as toilet paper by Yang Zilu and throw it away when he runs out. In order to take revenge, Du Chen is already desperate.

Yang Zilu didn't pay too much attention to Du Chen, he paid attention to what Du Chen said. So after Du Chen finished talking about important things, Yang Zilu did not leave Du Chen to woo him, but asked Du Chen to arrange a place for him to rest.

Yang Zilu slept for five hours. After Yang Zilu got up, Hou Yuanzhi couldn't help but complain a little, and said to Yang Zilu: "Lord, now that the Vietnamese army is attacking Shu County, how can the Lord still be in the mood to sleep here!" You should quickly go to the Qianxian area to mobilize troops and horses to deal with the Vietnamese army! ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, he stretched out disappreciatively and said, "Do you know that there are six thousand Chu troops in Qianxian, Shuxian, and Tongyi?" ”

"Isn't it three thousand? There are also recently recruited county soldiers, which should add up to only 5,000 people! There shouldn't be as many as 6,000! Where did the Lord hear that? Hou Yuanzhi was taken aback when he heard this, and said with some hesitation.

"They hid their forces!" Yang Zilu swept Hou Yuanzhi and told the news he got from Du Chen and his own conjecture.

Hou Yuanzhi was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down to confess: "The minister is derelict in his duties!" ”

"It's good that you know, forget about the widow this time, send some people to pay attention to the situation in the surrendered county, especially those who have the blood of the Chu royal family. After you find out, don't do it, so as not to startle the snake, you know? Yang Zilu looked at Hou Yuanzhi and said indifferently.

"Yes! Please rest assured, the minister will handle this matter well! When Hou Yuanzhi heard this, he hurriedly nodded with a cold sweat on his face. For Bai Gongsheng and them, Hou Yuanzhi didn't know in his heart how many generations of them were asked. sexual relatives too.

Yang Zilu nodded, Yang Zilu still knew the difficulties of the platform. In the end, the platform is too young, first, it is not so easy to find that it can do fine work, and it takes a certain amount of time to train after finding it, and it takes time to integrate into the core level of the other party, which is not what the platform has that has been established for only four or five years.

PS: The first update, 4,000 words, enough sincerity! Tomorrow at least 10,000 words update!