Xu Guanzhong heard Chao Gai's words, but he was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the Daimyo's Mansion was thousands of miles away from Liangshanbo, and Chao Gai had actually heard of his name, and said modestly at the moment: "Chao Tianwang is polite, it's all a false name, not enough to worry about it, not enough to worry about it." ”

Seeing that Xu Guanzhong was so modest, Chao Gai laughed, and after saying two more words, he left, although Chao Gai wanted to pull Xu Guanzhong up Liangshan very much, but now the old mother is not out of danger, Chao Gai is embarrassed to mention it, and there is no hurry, Xu Guanzhong will stay on this Liangshan for at least a year, and it will not be too late to talk about it then.

Chao Gai said goodbye to Xu Guanzhong, a few people went out of the room, and ordered the hotel guys to take care of him, as soon as he went out, Zhu Guibian hurriedly walked over, with an anxious face, as if something had happened.

Seeing Zhu Gui coming over, before Zhu Gui could speak, Chao Gai waved his hand and said, "Brother Zhu Gui, let's go back to the mountain and say, there are many people here, and it is not a place to talk." ”

Hearing Chao Gai's words, Zhu Gui also nodded, and then followed Chao Gai, with Wu Yong, Lu Jiang and a few people returned to Liangshan by boat, and entered the Juyi Hall.

Everyone sat down, and Chao Gai asked, "Brother Zhu Gui, but what happened, don't be in a hurry, talk slowly." ”

Zhu Gui nodded, and then said: "Brother Chao Gai, military advisors, here's the thing, I just got a report from our intelligence officers on the road of the Western Army and the Yongxing Army, saying that Song Jiang and others took refuge in Tianhu in Hebei, and commanded an army of 100,000 to attack the Hezhong Mansion of the Yongxing Army, although the imperial court guards are the generals and the generals of the Hujia Generals, there are also Hu Yanxuan, Wang Hou and others in the Hujia Generals, but they are outnumbered, and they were hit by Song Jiang's poisonous plan, the city of Hezhong Mansion was broken, and the soldiers died on the battlefield, although Huyan and Wang Hou said that they escaped, But it was also a lawsuit, was assigned to Salmon Island, and a few days before the kung fu torture car entered the territory of Qizhou, that Huyan and Wang Hou are all loyal and brave generals, especially Hu Yanzhuo is still the brother of Hu Yanzhuo's brother, the younger brother thought that I Liangshan could not stand by and watch, so he specially came to report to his brother. ”

Chao Gai thought for a while and said: "Brother Zhu Gui is doing a good job, don't say that it has something to do with us Liangshan, that is, it doesn't matter, and we can't stand idly by while such a good general and loyal person is in prison." ”

"Brother, do you want to call Brother Hu Yanzhuo over and discuss it, so that you can prepare to send troops." Chen Dong next to him echoed and said.

Listening to Chen Dong's proposal, Lu Jiang, Wu Yong, and Lou Minzhong next to him also nodded in agreement, and then Chao Gai asked Zhang San to invite Hu Yanzhuo over, Zhang San, who was standing guard at the door, answered and left in a hurry, Hu Yanzhuo was stationed in Dulonggang at this time, and he couldn't come over for a while, so Chao Gai asked Zhu Gui to introduce the situation of Hu Yanzhuo and Wang Hou.

Zhu Gui got the order, and then said all the confidence he knew, and said at the moment: "Brother, all military advisors, this Hu Yanzhuo is also from the Hu family general, the descendant of the iron whip king Hu Yanzan, but the Hu Yanzhuo brothers are not brothers, they are cousins, Hu Yanzhuo is a few years older than Hu Yanzhuo, the Hu family will be the general family in the northwest border army, and there are many talents in the family, all of them are battlefield masters, but this Hu Yanzhuo is particularly talented in water warfare, and he also served as the commander of the water army in Hangzhou in his early yearsIf he hadn't been transferred to Hezhong Mansion, I'm afraid that the Fangla uprising would have been even more difficult. ”

"There is also this Wang Hou, who is also a famous family, his father is the founding general Wang Shao, as the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, this Wang Hou is not simple, although the bravery is not as good as them in the Huyan Division, but this person is wise and scheming, proficient in military books and war strategies, on the horse to manage the army and dismount to manage the people, it can be said that the civil and military all-rounder."

After listening to Zhu Gui's introduction, Chao Gai remembered this Wang Hou, although he is also a famous general, but he is still not as famous as his father Wang Shao, among the generals of the entire Great Song Dynasty, there is one count, including Yue Fei and Di Qing, Wang Shao can definitely rank in the top ten, or even the top five.

He led the army to defeat the Qiang and Western Xia armies, placed Xizhou, recovered the five prefectures of He, Tao, Min, Tang, and Kang, and formed an encirclement of Western Xia.

In the fifth year of Xining, Wang Shao recovered Lintao and Linxia, and set up Xihe Road.

In the sixth year of Xining, he led his troops to capture Wusheng City in the summer, pursued the victory, attacked Hezhou, and smashed Qiang City.

In the seventh year of Xining, he recovered 200,000 square kilometers of homeland occupied by Tubo. Wang Shao was once a deputy envoy of the Privy Council and other central officials, known for his strange schemes, strange times, and strange rewards, and those who did good things in Beijing called him "Three Strange Deputy Envoys".

Thinking of this, not only Chao Gai, but even the next few people Lu Jiang were very puzzled, and then Lu Jiang asked: "Brother Zhu Gui, if you say so, there is a kind of division in this Hezhong Mansion, Hu Yanxuan and Wang Hou are guarded by three generals, even if we may not be able to capture this Hezhong Mansion, let alone force the seed master to commit suicide, we have also seen Song Jiang's house, how can there be such ability?" ”

Hearing General Lu's question, Chao Gai and several people were also like this, Zhu Gui sighed, and said immediately: "Brother, all military advisors, although there are three generals, but the officials of the Song Dynasty have been corrupted to the extreme, what can I do?" ”

Since that day, the most elite chariot troops of their breeders were sent to the division, and after the Song Jiang army and horses were defeated, the two sides began to confront each other, and no one could help anyone, and they fought several battles for more than two months, and they won and lost each other.

Song Jiang sat in the tent all day long, these tens of thousands of troops looked at the city here every day and sighed, people eat horses and chewed a lot of food and wages, not to mention, the deputy Shuai Tian bought all day long, yin and yang weird, said that once the reinforcements of the imperial court came over, the time came to the back of the enemy, the situation was even worse, so Song Jiang was discussing countermeasures with his brothers all day long.

And in the Hezhong Mansion, it is also a strict battle, among the planters, Hu Yanqiu, Wang Hou three people take turns to supervise, organize the people to strengthen the city wall, ready to apply the thunder stone rolling wood, just one month to strengthen the Hezhong Mansion is solid.

But there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, just when they were waiting for the planters, suddenly a bad news reached their ears, and there was no food and grass in Hezhong Mansion.

The most critical factor in the war is not the number of people, nor the sophistication of equipment, but the guarantee of logistics, as the saying goes, the three armies have not moved the grain and grass first, which shows the importance of grain and grass.

That night, the seed master instructed Huyan and Wang Hou to guard the city, and he rushed to Jingzhao Mansion overnight and found Zhou Yunqi, the supervisor of the Yongxing Army.

At this time, Zhou Yunqi was drinking and having fun in the house, singing and dancing girls, the lights were bright and green, and she was very extravagant, and when she heard the subordinates say that the seed master was asking to see her outside the door, Zhou Yunqi showed displeasure on her face, and disturbed her Yaxing waved his hand to let everyone go down, and then let the seed master go to the backyard study.

After Zhou Yunqi changed into a piece of clothing, he went to see the seed master, after all, he is the general of the northwest seed family, and there is still some politeness, came to the study, Zhou Yunqi saw the seed master, and then smiled, walked over, and said: "Oh, the general has worked hard, I heard that the general broke the rebels in Hezhong Mansion in the past few days, and the official was happy that he didn't sleep all night, and the general hurried over in the middle of the night, I don't know what is important?" If there is any difficulty, the official will have the right to cooperate. ”

Looking at Zhou Yunqi's appearance, the planter was angry, but he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, and the people smiled and politely talked to you, you can't ignore it, at the moment, the planter held back the anger in his heart, hugged his fist towards Zhou Yunqi, and asked: "My lord, the last general came to ask why he didn't send food and salary to Hezhong Mansion, there is a war ahead, and when the official critical time, once the food and grass are not enough, then ......"

Before the seed master finished speaking, Zhou Yunqi stretched out his hand and interrupted the seed master's words. At the moment, he said: "Oh, General Zong, I also know about this, but now not only Hezhong Mansion, but also other places in the Yongxing Army also need grain and grass, this official can't favor one over the other, right, now I don't have a single grain here, how can I send you food again?" ”