Hu Yangeng did not wait for Wang Guanqing to arrive with Zhang Jun's Western Army, or rather, he didn't have much hope at all. After Wang Guanqing set off, he sent a messenger to Wutai to find Ma Kuo to meet.

Ma Kuo rushed to Fenzhou.

Fenzhou is about 300 miles away from Daizhou, and he marched in a hurry for two days and one night, and the guards were very tired. Ma Kuo was full of spirit, and since someone led the soldiers to the camp, he went straight to the Fenzhou Mansion. Huyan Geng's mansion waited for a long time, the two met, looked at him, and saw him in the dust, sweat dripping his face with a black and gray, like a cat.

Hu Yangeng smiled: "Third brother, I haven't seen you for two years, and you are still so strong." Traveling hundreds of miles in a day and night, are you tired? ”

Ma Kuo's family has been a general for generations, and his father Ma Zheng is also a general of the Western Army.

But the court was in turmoil, the Jin people betrayed the alliance, and all their hard work was wasted, and his father and brother had died in Yuci. Ma Kuo pulled the rebel army in Hebei and encouraged support.

He also has the style of Li Guang in governing the army, and shares weal and woe with his soldiers. Where there is a shortage of food and water, when he sees water, the soldiers do not drink enough, and he does not go near water. When he gets food, the soldiers don't eat enough, and he doesn't taste a mouthful of food. Charging into battle, he took the lead. The foot soldier marched without horses, and he did not ride. Because of the generosity and gentleness to the soldiers, the soldiers are happy to use them.

He was just thirty years old, and although he was nine years older than Hu Yangeng, he saluted respectfully and replied: "It is not a problem for the last general to walk the mountain road for a day and a night, not to mention that the weather is cold, and the gold thieves are hiding in their nests, and it is very refreshing to walk all the way." It could have come earlier, but there were some remnants of the retained soldiers on the way, and the hour was delayed. ”

"Oh? Met a patrol of gold thieves? How many people are there? Were there any casualties among the brothers? ”

"So that Xuan Shuai can rest assured that wherever there is a march in the last general, he will come out as a scout. Therefore, I took precautions early, and there were not many injured brothers. Li Ye said, "There are three or four hundred people who signed the army, mixed with dozens of captives. In order not to delay the speed of the march, there were no prisoners, and they were all cut down. ”

After Ma Kuo was under siege of Jingkang, his temperament changed greatly, and he hated the Jurchens bitterly, and he had a common hatred. "In order not to delay the speed of the march" Yunyun, purely under the pretext, in all the battles, he did not leave any prisoners under his hands.

Hu Yangeng smiled and didn't blame him. In extraordinary times, when the extraordinary law is practiced, the war is in full swing, the troops are tight, and the prisoners cannot be separated from the military horses to see, leaving a disaster in vain.

Ma Kuo asked: "Xuan Shuai came to Hedong, and I am very excited about the red scarf in Hedong." It's just that Fenzhou is too close to Taiyuan and stuck on the Fen River. The thief chief will not ignore the silver technique, and the last general heard that Xuan Shuai only brought 2,000 people from the Beiwei army to Hedong, Xuan Shuai, can there be a strategy? ”

"I was about to talk to you."

After conquering Fenzhou, Huyan Geng handed over chores to Xuanzan, and Huyan Wukang and Zhe Yanping took care of military affairs for him. In his spare time, he carefully consulted with Orizuki Lan, and through further analysis of friend and foe, he came up with four words. He slowly approached the front of the map, looked at it with his hands, and said slowly: "I have made a plan, called: attack its head." ”

"What do you mean?"

"The mountains and rivers on the east side of the river, and the various state capitals are isolated by the mountains. Therefore, the gold thieves occupied Taiyuan, and our army could still come and go freely in the east of the river. But all states and counties surrendered to the gold thieves, and they were nothing more than the 50,000 gold soldiers who were afraid of Taiyuan. Therefore, if Taiyuan's Wanyan silver technique can be solved, Hedong will be relieved. ”

"Wanyan Yinshu is also a giant chief in Suolu, and there may be 50,000 people under his command."

"Taiyuan's Wanyan Yinshu can be under his hands, and it is true that there are 10,000 or 20,000 Jurchen old troops, but according to my investigation, most of them are forcibly recruited in Hedong. Third brother, how many people do you have in Daizhou? ”

"All the dock forts are mobilized, and there are fifty thousand of them."

"But there are still three regimental training divisions?"

Ma Kuo showed an embarrassed look: "Since Xuanshuai left Hedong, the gold thieves have been persecuting me day by day, almost every day last year, this year there are also several battles in Fanxian and Xinzhou, the three regimental training divisions are broken, and the armor guards of a dock fort need sharp soldiers, so the regimental training divisions have been dismantled and incorporated into the armor protection as the backbone." ”

"Then the 50,000 people you have on hand now are all Ruishi as the backbone?"

"Indeed."

"That's good," Hu Yangeng lifted the scabbard, put a little weight on the map, and said, "Third brother, do you know the truth of Xinzhou?" ”

"The general wants to attack Lou Fu openly and attack Xinzhou secretly?"

Ma Kuan's family history, this method of cultivating the plank road openly and Chen Cang in the dark, how could he not see it. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Xinzhou leads to Yanmen in the north, Taiyuan in the south, and Xinzhou moves, and Wanyan Yinshu will inevitably attack with all his strength." ”

"Just as he was going to attack with all his might, he was only 50,000 soldiers, third brother, you have 50,000 armor, you may not be afraid of him."

Ma Kuo was a little bitter: "Since the establishment of Yan for two years, Ma Kuo has encouraged and supported in Hedong, and only then has he accumulated this bit of blood in Daizhou. Xuan Shuai is going to throw everything now. ”

Hu Yangeng groaned for a while, and replied categorically: "Yes." If this battle is won, the Hedong gold thieves will be swept away, from Pingyang to Daizhou, and the military and civilian companies of the Great Song Dynasty will be one, and the situation in the world will be completely reversed. ”

"However, there are still twenty or thirty thousand true suo captives in my hands, and the number of people in my Hedong Baojia is the same, and I still can't catch it." He tried his best to stop it, saying, "Xuan Shuai, Ma Kuo is definitely not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but it is not easy to accumulate these 50,000 armor, if you let them die, it is too worthless." ”

Hu Yangeng's eyes glared: "Take the imperial court and sacrifice your life for the country, how can you refuse." ”

"Xuan Shuai, please think twice. They are small people who form a village to protect themselves, but they don't take the court's money. ”

Hu Yangeng smiled and said, "Third brother, if I say that as long as the number of people is equal, I have a strategy to win, do you believe me?" ”

"Xuan Shuai is strategizing and winning a thousand miles, how dare Ma Kuo not believe it."

"Third brother, you can also make sycophants. In this way, you lead people to besiege Xinzhou, and prepare to fight against the gold thief reinforcements from Taiyuan, and I will break the enemy's strategy. ”

"The last will obey."

Xinzhou under the jurisdiction of Xinkou Village, stuck in the southeast and north of the river channel, if Xinzhou is besieged, Wanyan Yinshu can inevitably rescue, when the time comes, I don't know if he is a piece of oil, or to do the army of Taiyuan.

After talking about Yan Yinshuke's combat power, he had seen it during the siege of Taiyuan. He would never despise the head of Yan Yinshuke's Meng'an. But he has collected Yan Yinshuke's achievements in Hedong for three years, which is really lackluster.

The reason why it declined so quickly was that Hu Yangeng was not in his army, and it was difficult to know the reason, but after making a guess, it is estimated that Taiyuan has become a fief of Wanyan Yinshuke, and his tribal generals enjoy wealth and wealth, and the Jin soldiers are not strict in governing the army, and the soldiers are slack.