"Dashuai said that there are people around Zuo Xiaoyou who have ill intentions, who is he referring to?" Qin Qiong finally couldn't help but ask, this question was always lingering in his mind, clutching his heart and torturing him.

Zhang Xutuo smiled slightly: "It's his advisor Zuo Yunshan, who is also his uncle." ”

"Oh! It turned out to be him. Only then did Qin Qiong understand.

"This is Zhang Xuan's plan, Zuo Yunshan is greedy for money and lustful, we sent him a batch of Xu Yuanlang's treasures, and took his wife and children as hostages, both soft and hard, not afraid that he will be disobedient."

"Dashuai seems to value Jang Hyun very much?" Qin Qiong said cautiously again.

Zhang Xutuo smiled, "I value him not out of gratitude to him, nor because he has any background, but because he can make up for some of my weaknesses, such as dealing with the imperial court, such as his strategy, this time I used a counter-strategy against Zuo Yunshan, broke the covenant between Zuo Xiaoyou and Meng Rang, and enabled me to break each one, this is the strategy I couldn't think of." ”

Qin Qiong hesitated for a moment and said: "There is a saying about lowly positions, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" ”

"Uncle Bao has followed me for many years, if there is anything I can't say, just say it."

"The first time I dealt with him, I found that this person was very deep in the city and very ambitious."

"It's normal for young people to be ambitious, I also aspired to become a general when I was young, I don't think there's anything, meritorious promotion, he will do it step by step, maybe one day, he will really be promoted to a general!" Zhang Xutuo was a little unimpressed by Qin Qiong's thoughts.

"The ambition of the humble post is not the ambition that the marshal said."

Zhang Xutuo was silent, and after a long time, he changed the topic and smiled: "Do you think Zuo Yunshan has played a role today?" ”

Qin Qiong sighed secretly in his heart, the big marshal still didn't want to believe what he said, he was also very helpless, so he had to give up this topic, he bowed down and said: "Today, Zuo Xiaoyou's plan to lure troops, I feel that Zuo Yunshan seems to have failed to dissuade him. ”

"I think so too, so we can't just pin our hopes on their infighting."

Zhang Xutuo said slowly: "Zuo Xiaoyou, this person has always been stubborn and self-serving, and he doesn't listen to his words. Zuo Yunshan can only persuade him by chance, it is impossible to make him obey his words, and I suspect that Zuo Xiaoyou regrets not saving Meng Rang, and he may not be willing to listen to Zuo Yunshan's advice again. However, when General Qin built the camp, the enemy army did not come to harass him, I think it was Zuo Yunshan's dissuasion. ”

"The marshal is right, the enemy army did not come to stop me from building a camp, it is indeed a big mistake on their part, Zuo Xiaoyou should have regretted it."

Zhang Xutuo pondered for a moment and said: "When Zuo Xiaoyou's challenge was fruitless. He will inevitably lead his army to steal the camp, and he must arrange it properly, and once the enemy army sneaks up, he will give them a head-on blow! ”

"Obedience!"

Qin Qiong bowed and retreated, Zhang Xutuo looked at Qin Qiong walking away, and couldn't help but shake his head, Zhang Xuan's city mansion is very deep, he has long found out that this is everyone's character, but there is no inevitable connection between the city mansion and ambition. Zhang Xuan has not been in the Flying Eagle Army for a long time, where can he see that he is ambitious?

Zhang Xutuo knew that it was because he valued Zhang Xuan too much, which made Qin Qiong feel a little uncomfortable, and the soldiers all said that Qin Qiong was the heir of the Flying Eagle Army, but now that Zhang Xuan is acting stronger, it is reasonable for Qin Qiong's mentality to be a little unbalanced, but as the coach, he must try his best to avoid infighting between his generals, and he doesn't want conflicts between Qin Qiong and Zhang Xuan.

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Zuo Xiaoyou challenged outside the Sui army camp for three days, but the Sui army never fought. He was also exhausted, and that afternoon he did not withdraw his troops until dusk and returned to the barracks.

In the big tent, Zuo Xiaoyou said coldly to the generals under the tent: "I have decided to attack the Sui army camp at night tonight. It is necessary to capture the Sui army camp at all costs. ”

The general Xie Xiang said with a smile: "Why didn't the king divide his troops into two routes, surround the Sui army camp with 30,000 troops, and send another 20,000 troops to attack Beihai County and Qi County, attack their lair, and force Zhang Xutuo to fight?" ”

Zuo Yunshan, the strategist next to him, immediately shook his head, "This plan has already been considered by the king. The reason why Zhang Xutuo is unwilling to send troops to meet the battle is because our troops are five times that of them, once the troops are divided, our strength will be greatly reduced, and it will be in Zhang Xutuo's arms, and he can defeat them individually. ”

"Then send 10,000 troops to attack Qi County, and leave 40,000 troops to attack the Sui army camp!"

"Humph! You think simply, there are still 10,000 Sui troops left in Qi County, can your 10,000 troops be able to defeat them? ”

The generals quarreled into a ball, and Zuo Xiaoyou slapped the table heavily, "Shut up for me!" ”

The big tent suddenly quieted down, Zuo Xiaoyou said slowly: "The military division is right, the division of troops is self-weakening, we should still concentrate our forces to capture the Sui army camp, tonight the whole army will attack, as long as the Sui army camp can be broken, they will inevitably retreat south, we will take advantage of the victory to pursue, and finally annihilate Zhang Xutuo's army, this is a safe method of war, I have made up my mind, no one is allowed to object!" ”

Everyone didn't dare to say anything, Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the night outside the account, and said to everyone: "Let's go and prepare!" Half an hour later, the whole army was dispatched! ”

'Woo-' The low horn echoed in the field, and the 50,000 thief army spread out from four directions, with great momentum, and they slowly advanced step by step towards the Sui army camp from several miles away.

At this time, Zhang Xutuo's army of 15,000 was ready, they were quietly arrayed around the camp wall, each soldier was holding a bow or crossbow, their big tent had been put away, grain and grass were piled up in the middle of the camp, and all around were full of baggage.

The structure of the 15,000 Sui army was not complicated, with 3,000 archers, 3,000 crossbowmen, 8,000 infantry, and another 1,000 scouts.

But at this time, all the soldiers were in battle with bows, and fifteen thousand crossbows were enough to form a powerful crossbow formation to defeat the enemy's attack.

In addition, the Sui army also occupies a geographical advantage, they are stationed at a high place, slightly higher than the surrounding terrain five or six zhang, although this height is relatively gentle, but also formed a condescending advantage of the Sui army.

The only shortcoming of the Sui army was that the strength of the opponent was less than one-third of that of the other side.

Zuo Xiaoyou gathered a total of 130,000 bandits in Squaogou Mountain, known as the 130,000 army, but in fact, where would he have 130,000 strong men, just 130,000 people, men, women and children.

Like Meng Rang, he gathered the population of all counties in Donglai County to Squatting Dog Mountain, and there were only 50,000 strong men who could really fight, and the remaining 80,000 people were old and young women and children, who were the families of these strong men.

Zuo Xiaoyou was originally a general of the Sui army, with a certain ability to command and train troops, and the 50,000 troops he led had a certain combat effectiveness, not a rabble, and had simple equipment.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Xutuo refused to fight directly with Zuo Xiaoyou, but wanted to use the method of delaying without fighting to grind the morale of the enemy army.

The wind blew a burst of flying sand and stones, the banner of the Sui army snapped, Zhang Xutuo stood on the camp wall due north, a full moon passed through the clouds, sprinkling silver light to the earth, Zhang Xutuo's eyes gradually narrowed, he had seen the shadow of Zuo Xiaoyou's army.

He was not mistaken, the night battle was coming, and he slowly drew his sword, which shimmered like ice in the moonlight.

The time gradually came to a watch, but the ** of the war did not weaken with the depth of the night, on the contrary, the ambition to seize Qingzhou burned in the chest of Zuo Xiaoyou and all the generals.

The 50,000-strong army advanced rapidly towards the Sui army camp from four directions, and Zuo Xiaoyou roared and roared like a beast, "Our army is three times larger than the Sui army, why be afraid!" ”

The army was mighty, like a black ocean, undulating across the field, and the spears were like boundless forests, full of death in the moonlight.

The armies were getting closer and closer, only three miles apart, when Zuo Xiaoyou's army stopped and erected a huge tombstone on the grass in front of them, with a line engraved on it, 'Tomb of the Zuo Cripple'.

Zuo Xiaoyou's leg is a little lame, he hates others to scold him for being lame, every time someone scolds him for being lame, it will cause him to be angry, and he must kill the other party.

When Zuo Xiaoyou saw the words on the tombstone, he was suddenly furious, and shouted with a gun: "This is the tomb of Zhang Xutuo, no!" I'm going to cut him with a thousand knives and make him a corpse wilderness!" ”

Anger clouded his sanity, and he had only one wish at the moment: kill! Kill this Sui army.

"Kill!"

Zuo Xiaoyou shouted angrily, "Kill the Sui army!" Leave not a single one. ”

The 50,000 thieves launched a fierce attack, they roared angrily, with an overwhelming momentum, like a tsunami erupting, brandishing spears and swords, and slaughtered the Sui army camp overwhelmingly. (To be continued.) )