Chapter 173: Song Xiao asks for help
Song Xiao is in the ability to be an official, it is really not small, when the world is not chaotic, can be a big official like the history of the assassin of a state, all of them are not simple characters, he is quite good at being an official, in real history, he even became the history of the Liangzhou assassin, and retreated, without being clicked by Han Sui or Ma Teng, this is a rare special case in the history of the Liangzhou assassin in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, and this shows how good he is to be an official.
But being an official and being able to lead troops to fight are two different things, and often the more you can be an official, the more intrigue people in the officialdom will be the more wasteful they will be when they lead troops to fight. With his ability to behave in the world, Song Xiao can protect himself in the era of chaos, so that others will not come to beat him and kill him, but if he wants to beat others and kill others, these are two different things!
Although Li Wenhou has a lot of soldiers and horses, to put it bluntly, they are also put together temporarily, and they have not been trained, and they all have their families, and the establishment is only more chaotic than Song Xiao's army, except for the advantage of more people, there is nothing else.
But Song Xiao came out with the army, but before he could wait for Gaonu County, he ran a small half of the people on the way, and when he was a hundred miles away from Gaonu County, Song Xiao checked the number of people, and his army was only 20,000 people, not a small half, but a large half!
Song Xiao almost fainted directly in the tent, how to fight this battle, with one-tenth of the official army to suppress Li Wenhou, no matter how you fight, it is a loss, although the official army has always won more with less, more victories and fewer defeats, but no matter how little, there are no less than 100,000 people, and his soldiers are not regular officers and soldiers, they are all improvised patchwork, and this battle is even more impossible to fight!
Song Xiao immediately sent scouts to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and he gathered the army, desperately promised benefits, and promised all the land in Gaonu County, and even promised that as long as the people who made meritorious contributions in this battle, as long as they could cut off the head of a Qiang soldier, they could be exempted from tax for three years, and they could divide 100 acres of land in Gaonu County. Leave a lot of money to your children and grandchildren!
The empty promise was said, although it was obviously unreasonable, but the soldiers of the state almost believed it, and the trend of large-scale escape was immediately slowed down, and even the soldiers who fled came back, and the soldiers all thought that they would get lucky benefits, and there would be brave men under the heavy reward, not to mention that even if they didn't get the heavy reward, it would be too late to run again, and they would not have the ability to stop them by looking at Song Xiao's appearance.
The scout reported to Song Xiao, saying that the Fujiao army had stopped advancing, it was far away from Gaonu County, and it didn't go over to attack, it seemed that they were waiting for someone, probably waiting for them, the local army of the state, let them attack first, and then the Fujiao army would come over to attack on both sides.
Song Xiao knew that it was bad as soon as he heard it, Li Qin was playing tricks, he wanted to let himself fight in the first battle, and the soldiers and horses would definitely suffer heavy losses in the first battle, no matter whether he won or lost, Li Qin used the snipe and clam to fight, and the fisherman profited from the trick. But it's right to think about it, people come from all over Liangzhou, why let people take the lead first, it's unreasonable.
Song Xiao understood that if he wanted Li Qin to send troops to attack Li Wenhou as soon as possible, he not only had to start a war with Li Wenhou first, but also had to fight with sparks in this battle, bringing huge losses to Li Wenhou.
Song Xiao is a person who understands, understands that people naturally do understandable things, he immediately ordered the whole army to retract, concentrate on attacking Gaonu County, and increase the number of Qiang soldiers to the first level, the field can not be given more, but a head has changed from tax exemption for three years to tax exemption for five years. Such a heavy reward, even if the state army was put together, it also stimulated the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting, and the state soldiers rubbed their fists and fists to fight with the Qiang soldiers.
The Bingzhou army marched towards Gaonu County at full speed, but before they could get close to Gaonu County, Li Wenhou, the emperor of Dazhao, personally led the army out to fight, and the people and horses of all ethnic groups of the Dazhao army gathered and poured out, and 200,000 soldiers and horses overwhelmingly pounced on the Bingzhou army!
At noon, the two armies met and immediately fought, but within half an hour, the state army was completely defeated, and it was not easy to use any field or tax exemption, and the state army fled with their lives, and was chased out of more than 50 miles by Li Wenhou, and Song Xiao was almost captured!
When Song Xiao fled to safety and gathered the remnants of the defeated army, he was very sad to find that there were only more than 500 people left in his Bingzhou army, and these more than 500 people were official officers and soldiers, and the temporarily recruited soldiers ran away, and even the appointed officers were gone!
Song Xiao panicked, took the remnants of the defeated soldiers into the woods, hid for a whole night, and saw that there were no Qiang soldiers chasing him, and at dawn, he dared to come out with the soldiers.
Looking at the hundreds of subordinates, Song Xiao thought about it, it was not good to fight by himself, but it was not bad in other aspects, such as bluffing. He immediately found the bamboo slips and wrote a chapter to the court in Luoyang, saying that he led the army to fight with Li Wenhou, won a complete victory, and beheaded 30,000 Qiang soldiers, but due to the lack of grain and grass, the gap was too big, he had to personally supervise it, and the front battlefield was handed over to Li Qin, under the full command of Li Qin, he handed over the army to Li Qin, and he went back to the office to prepare grain and grass, if the court had any instructions, directly instructed Li Qin to become.
After writing the chapter, he wrote a letter to Li Qin, telling Li Qin that he had succeeded in bringing heavy losses to Li Wenhou, but his own losses were not small, so he decided to hand over the war in Gaonu County to Li Qin's command, and Li Qin was fully responsible, and he went back to the governance office to prepare a celebration banquet for Li Qin.
The two letters were sent, and Song Xiao slapped his ass and left, and fled back to the prison. After returning to the office, he took out all his savings over the years and sent them to Luoyang to bribe and buy officials, and it doesn't matter if he can't be a state assassin, it doesn't matter if he can't be a state assassin, change places to be a stabbing history, go to Jizhou to Yangzhou, and even not be a stabbing history, demoted to a county guard, he also admits it, as long as he is allowed to leave the place of right and wrong quickly.
Li Qin, who had been standing still, received the letter and hurriedly gathered the crowd again for a meeting in the future, and the generals were all stunned after listening to the content of the letter. Isn't this an escape from the battle, Song Xiao's courage is not small, he can even do this kind of thing!
This kind of thing has to be asked Zhang Qin, Li Qin took the bamboo slip and asked: "Zhang Zhongguan, Song Xiao obviously lost the battle, but it was said to be a big victory......
"Stop, Li Lang, you can see clearly, there is no big victory on this bamboo slip!" Zhang Qin can't do anything else, play with flowers, that's fine, he can see at a glance that Song Xiao's letter is tired.
Yuan Shao also looked at the bamboo slip and said: "This Song Xiao is an old man, no one can find a reason for him to write a letter like this, and if he also writes a letter to Jingzhong, it is also written in this way, then the unfortunate things are all in your pocket, and the battle exploits will definitely not be able to run away from him." ”
Li Qin frowned and said, "How can you see it?" ”
Zhang Qin snorted and said: "He didn't say victory, nor did he say defeat, but he implied that he gave Li Wenhou a heavy blow, and he returned to the place because he fought too hard, so his army also lost huge losses, and no matter who wins the battle between you and Li Wenhou in the future, he has something to say, if it weren't for him to fight Li Wenhou to the death and hit Li Wenhou's army hard, how could you win easily?" ”
Yuan Shao looked at Li Qin: "Li Lang, even if you destroy this Great Zhao Kingdom, I'm afraid that when it comes to the merits, you will have to be second!" Zhang Qin also nodded silently, this kind of thing is too common.
The more [***] a regime is, the more this kind of thing will be, and the current Han court is terminally ill, and Song Xiao is defeated and not guilty, but the thing that has great merit will not be the first one, and it will definitely not be the last.
Li Qin thought for a while and said, "Even if you commit a crime, it doesn't matter, lie dormant for a while, change places and become an official, right?" ”
Zhang Qin said: "If you don't come to the state and commit the crime Song Xiao will bear it alone, he will definitely not be able to keep his head, who will give up a big Zhao country!" But when you come, it's up to you to bear it, but Song Xiao has nothing to do, because he handed over the command of the battle to you, and it was handed over to you after he gave the Great Zhao Kingdom a fatal blow, if you can't defeat Li Wenhou...... Think for yourself! ”
When Dian Wei and other generals heard this, they were all furious, shouting and shouting for Li Qin to hurry up and write a chapter to sue Song Xiao!
Zhang Qin waved his hand and said: "I can't tell you, as soon as you tell us, Song Xiao will immediately bite you back, and he will say that you don't move and are afraid of the enemy." Li Lang, what do you think, he is now recruiting troops and horses to rush from the Zhisho, and he has fought with Li Wenhou, but you arrived first but did not fight, how can this be explained? ”
Li Qin was embarrassed and said: "This Song Xiao is so powerful, he can't fight, but this ability to intrigue is extremely powerful, I am far from his opponent, I was surrounded by him." Knowing this, I would have led the soldiers to fight with Li Wenhou first, and I shouldn't have done anything to wait and see, but it turned out to be like this, making wedding dresses for others! ”
"No, Li Lang's words are wrong!" Zhang Qin and Yuan Shao said in unison.
After saying it at the same time, Zhang Qin and Yuan Shao glanced at each other, Yuan Shao didn't squeak anymore, Zhang Qin said to Li Qin: "Didn't Li Lang have the idea of being the assassin of the state?" Song Xiao plays with you, you can play it back, and play the official position of the history of the state assassin in your hands. ”
Li Qinqi said: "This ...... How is it played? ”
Zhang Qin said with a smile: "As the assassin of Bingzhou, Song Xiao actually handed over to you the responsibility of the war against the Great Zhao State, you can plan the plan, recruit troops and buy horses in Bingzhou, and then try to let Song Xiao provide you with food and grass and military salary, anyway, he didn't say that he could do this work now, then let him do it hard, but once he found it too difficult to do, and he was afraid of taking responsibility, so he would definitely write to the court and ask for a transfer." We have someone in Beijing, as long as the above nods, he will go wherever he falls in love, isn't this the largest state for you, defeat Li Wenhou, then you will naturally be the assassin of the state, there are people above us, you don't need to spend money to buy officials, isn't it convenient for you! ”
(To be continued)