After Zuo Feng left, Gao Fei went to Chencang City to inspect it, comforted the injured soldiers, and greeted the soldiers with warmth, and sincerely cared for his subordinates and sympathized with the soldiers, which won a lot of praise in the barracks.

Yesterday's fierce battle caused the rebels to lose 10,000 soldiers, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the rebels.

The rebels have been stationed in the mountain road five miles away from Chencang City, where the people of Chencang originally lived, and since the people withdrew to the area of Chang'an, they have been deserted. When the rebels came, they occupied the original people's settlements and expanded them, cutting down large areas of surrounding mountains and forests, and setting up simple tents that stretched out from the mountain roads.

In the rebel camp, Han Sui was sitting in the tent and roasting the fire, the weather was so cold, almost thousands of war horses were frozen to death in the past few days, war horses are the lifeblood of these nomads like Qianghu, and the loss of war horses has caused a huge sensation for these rebels who are mainly Qianghu. In addition, more than 11,000 people were killed in the battle under Chencang City in just five days, and such a thing was a greater blow to the rebels who were invincible all the way to Liangzhou.

Han Sui frowned, with a straight face, his eyes were always fixed on the light not far in front of him, as if he saw the soldiers who were burned to death by the fire yesterday from the firelight.

"Hey! I didn't expect a small Chen Cang to be able to block the way of my army, planning things in the people, things in the sky, today first rest for a day, and then attack tomorrow, I don't believe that I can't conquer this Chen Cang City! Han Sui took a sip of warm wine alone, and slammed the cup in his hand to the ground in hatred, which immediately shattered and made a crisp sound.

At this moment, Beigong Boyu walked in from outside the tent, his arm was still wrapped in a bloody bandage, and the knife that was cut by Li Wenhou was still faintly painful. As soon as he entered the tent, he saw Han Sui smashing the wine glass, so he said in a rough voice: "General Han, we have been here for almost six days, and you said six days ago that as long as we listen to you along the way, we will send 100,000 troops to Chencang City, and Chencang City will fall in the wind." But now not only did Chen Cang not surrender, but instead resisted more and more fiercely, killing more than 10,000 people in just a few days, you ...... Are you sure you can capture Chencang? ”

Although Han Sui was the elected leader, he knew in his heart that in the eyes of Beigong Boyu, he was just a synonym, and in the eyes of those Qiang leaders, he did not have his own subordinates and personal entourage, and even in the past few days, many people in the army have complained about him, and they are constantly saying the benefits of Bian Zhang, the battle of Liangzhou was commanded by Bian Zhang, and with his lightning speed, he conquered the entire Liangzhou except Dunhuang in just half a month, and many Qiang leaders also secretly flocked to Bian Zhang. When he heard Beigong Boyu's distrustful words, he didn't say anything, just made a gesture and said, "Sit!" ”

Beigong Boyu was unhappy, thinking that the reason why Han Sui and Bian Zhang were elected at the beginning was because they were more famous than himself, and they had the strategy and martial arts to outperform others, but now it seems that he regretted his original decision. He sat on a stone pier, and when he saw that Han Sui couldn't make a noise for a long time, he muttered: "General Han, you have to give a bottom, can Chen Cang be captured?" I have discussed it with General Bian, if you don't have that certainty, we don't have to spend it here, the weather is too cold, the war horses can't get good forage, and it will get colder and colder in the future, more than 10,000 people have died before they conquer Chencang, and those Qiang heroes have already had the intention of retreating, everyone said that they knew that this was the result, and it was better not to come. ”

Han Sui glanced at Beigong Boyu and asked softly, "How is General Bian's injury?" ”

"It's just a skin injury, you can't die, just rest for a few days." After Beigong Boyu finished speaking, he couldn't help muttering, "I knew you were so incompetent, and I wouldn't have let you command this battle in the first place." What else do you say that we are going to live in Chang'an City this winter, I think it's all bullshit! ”

Han Sui heard Beigong Boyu's complaint and didn't say anything, but he faintly had a murderous intention in his heart, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, he thought that only Bian Zhang would block his control of all the military power, but now it seems that Beigong Boyu will also affect his future status, since he chose to rebel, he can't just be a puppet, he wants to be the real rebel leader. However, he knows very well now that this is not the time to kill Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu, now the morale in the military camp is low, everyone is retreating, and those Ziqiang people are also attracted by Beigong Boyu, he needs time to deal with these relationships, he needs to divide them one by one, and then let these Qiang Hu follow him with all their hearts.

"What do you mean? Will you be able to capture Chencang? Beigong Boyu saw that Han Sui had been silent, so he asked.

Han Sui pondered for a moment, raised his eyelids to look at Beigong Boyu, and said slowly: "Although Chen Cang is small, it is very tightly defended, and the special terrain makes it impossible for our 100,000 troops to attack normally, which restricts us. Now that the cold winter is approaching, the weather is getting colder day by day, and it is not a way to go on like this, so let's retreat, and when we start spring next year, we will attack from the direction of stability, where the terrain is relatively spacious, and we can approach Meiyang all the way south. ”

After Beigong Boyu heard this, he stood up and said, "At the beginning, I said not to go to Chencang, go to stability, you have to go to Chencang, Gao Fei that guy is not easy to mess with, I suffered a loss and you still don't believe it." I'm going to give the order, and the army will retreat to Jicheng. ”

Han Sui didn't say anything, and when he saw Beigong Boyu walking out of the tent, he suddenly stood up, with great killing intent in his eyes, and said hatefully: "Sooner or later, one day I will make you pay for your disrespect for me today!" ”

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Gao Fei also told the story of Journey to the West to the soldiers standing guard on the city tower, these days he found that these soldiers are very fascinated by mythological stories, when they are bored, they will go up to the city tower to tell these soldiers stories, every time they talk about the Monkey King appeared at an emergency moment to rescue Tang Seng, they all seemed very excited.

Just after the hour, everyone suddenly heard a noisy sound from the rebel camp in the distance, so they hurriedly cheered up, quickly returned to their posts, looked far away at the mountain road ahead, and the drummer also walked in front of the drums, raised two drumsticks, and as soon as they saw the rebels coming out, they immediately beat the war drums.

Goofy, like everyone else, was always highly concentrated, but after waiting for a while, he didn't see anyone in the mountain path, and a lot of thick black smoke rose from the rebel camp.

After waiting for a while, Gao Fei faintly felt that something was not right, thought for a while, and said to Lu Heng, who was guarding the city tower: "Prepare ten war horses, you bring eight people to me, let's go out of the city to have a look." ”

"Out of town? Hou Ye is outside the rebel camp, in case ......" Lu Heng said in surprise.

Gao Fei said: "If I guess correctly, the rebels should have retreated." If you look at the black smoke over there, it is clear that the fire is coming out of the fire, presumably caused by the rebels retreating, burning down the villages they live in along the way. ”

Lu Heng hugged his fists and said: "No! The subordinates will go to prepare, and the Hou Ye please wait at the gate of the city! ”

Gao Fei got down from the city tower and waited by the city gate for a while, then saw Lu Heng with eight cavalrymen and another war horse sent to Gao Fei. He turned on his horse, ordered the soldiers guarding the city gate to open the city gate, and took Lu Heng and the other nine people out of the city.

Gao Fei, Lu Heng and the others walked cautiously, and after walking slowly for a few miles, they turned a corner on the side of the mountain road, and sure enough, they saw the burning rebel camp, black smoke billowing up, and the fire blocked the road.

"I didn't expect Han Sui to be quite careful, afraid that there would be pursuers, so he blocked the road with a fire first. Lu Heng, the rebels have really retreated, let's go back! After Gao Fei read it, he laughed slightly.

Lu Heng and the other eight people all looked excited, the battle of the past few days was not in vain, and finally let the rebels retreat. Lu Heng glanced at Gao Fei, and saw that Gao Fei's face didn't seem to have much surprise, but more sorrow, so he asked, "The rebels have retreated, isn't Master Hou happy?" ”

Gao Fei did not answer, but said to the other eight cavalrymen: "You go back first, tell everyone in the city the news of the retreat of the rebels, and let Fu Xie and Gai Xun prepare a celebration banquet, and celebrate it tonight." ”

The other eight cavalrymen all said "no" and galloped back with a look of joy on their faces.

Gao Fei saw that the eight cavalry were far away, so he said to Lu Heng: "Last night, the imperial court came to the holy decree, and I killed Zuo Chang to offset the merits, and let me temporarily take the post of Liangzhou Assassin, and command these soldiers and horses to guard Chen Cang......"

"Master Hou, this is a good thing, Master Hou should be happy!" Lu Heng happily interrupted Gao Fei's words.

Gao Fei smiled and continued: "In addition, the imperial court sent the general Huangfu Song to lead 100,000 elite soldiers to fight the thieves, and asked me to deliver these soldiers and horses to Huangfu Song after Huangfu Song arrived with the troops, so that I will have no soldiers and horses in my hands, and the Liangzhou Assassin History is also a false title, it is estimated that when Liangzhou is pacified, the post of Assassin will be appointed to do it." ”

Lu Heng's originally happy face immediately turned into sorrow after hearing this, and said: "Hou Ye is dedicated to contributing to the imperial court, but I didn't expect the imperial court to treat Hou Ye like this, it's really chilling." Hou Ye, the production of 4,000 catties of gold that Bian Xi brought back from Liangzhou before has not come in handy, so it is better for Hou Ye to use them to buy an official. ”

Gao Fei sneered and said, "If you don't buy it, even if you buy it, it won't last long, and it's still useful to keep that gold, what I want, don't you understand?" ”

Lu Heng said: "What does Master Hou mean...... Recruiting private soldiers? ”

Gao Fei turned his head to look at Lu Heng, feeling that this guy was getting more and more hungry for himself, just like a roundworm in his stomach. He smiled and said, "That's right, it's a private soldier." As long as you have your own soldiers in your hands, you are not afraid to go anywhere. ”

Lu Heng hurriedly asked, "Master Hou, how many people do you need to recruit?" ”

"Two thousand!"

Lu Heng thought for a while and said, "Master Hou, there is a way for my subordinates, I don't know if it's feasible?" ”

"Tell me about it!"

"Now in Chencang City, in addition to the more than 700 horsemen brought back by Hou Ye from Liangzhou, there are still more than 10,000 regular Han troops, Hou Ye might as well select some people from these more than 10,000 people, make up 2,000 people, and quietly transform these 2,000 people into the people of Chencang. Although there are fewer soldiers, Hou Ye can say that more than 1,000 people are killed in battle. According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, all soldiers who died on the battlefield could receive a settling-in allowance higher than twice the soldier's salary, and then the Hou Ye took out some money to support these people, so that those selected soldiers could receive additional soldiers' salaries. Although he has become Hou Ye's private soldier, he only has the same salary every month, he doesn't care about what officials or soldiers are Hou Ye's private soldiers, and he will definitely serve Hou Ye. ”

"Haha, you really deserve to be my confidant, and even think about the same as me. But this matter has to be kept secret, don't forget, there are still people like Fu Xie and Gai Xun in Chen Cangcheng, who must be able to hide from the world, are you sure of this? ”

"Don't worry, Master Hou, his subordinates have their own methods, they only need a small plague......

"The plague?"

Lu Heng smiled and told Gao Fei the method he had thought of, after Gao Fei listened, he felt that the method was feasible, so he nodded with satisfaction and said to Lu Heng: "Let it go, but in the future, you must not shout anything nonsense, long live, remember!" ”

Lu Heng said "promise", and said: "I know Master Hou, my subordinates have written it down." ”