Chapter 431: Threat

Lei Hu naturally has other conditions, but he has nothing to say about such a small role as Yu Shiji, and it is not too late to talk about it when the main master Shi Wanzai comes.

He didn't neglect Yu Shiji, entertained him with good wine and food, and sent this guy away happily.

Lei Hu didn't leave Lake City, he temporarily sat here and waited for Shi Wansui, the general of the Sui army's counterinsurgency, to talk about a deal with this guy who was also hit hard by him in Jiankang at the beginning.

Shi Wansui came quickly, and he couldn't wait.

"Wu Hou is not bold, is this a threat?"

After he dealt with the expedition, he heard that Lei Hu had something to trade, and he knew that it was wrong at the first time, but he still invited Lei Hu to discuss.

"It's just a deal!"

Lei Hu went to Jiankang alone, showed full sincerity, and said with a smile: "I hope that after the general destroys the rebellion, the collected classics can be copied by Ben Hou Yu!" ”

"Knowledge is priceless!"

Shi Wansui's face was worried, and he said angrily: "Just some military food and materials, I'm afraid it can't be exchanged, right?" ”

He was born in a northern family, but he didn't have much interest in the classics in the hands of the southern scholars, but he didn't mean to cheapen Wu Hou for nothing.

"Ben Hou is watching from the wall, which is the greatest support for the general!"

Lei Hu indifferently asked: "So, isn't it enough?" ”

"What a big breath!"

Shi Wansui's face changed, remembering the battle of Jiankang City, and said coldly: "General Ben has 100,000 male troops, but Wu Hou can despise it!" ”

Speaking of this, he sneered: "Wu Hou still wants to use this to threaten General Ben?" ”

In other words, it depends on the counterinsurgency arrangement of the Great Sui, as if it was deliberate, and it was expected that there would be chaos in the south.

Han Baohu, who was in Jiankang before, has been standing still, and now Shi Wansui rushed to Jiankang to preside over the overall situation, and by the way, he brought nearly 50,000 elite Sui troops from Jiangbei who were fully armed.

Even in the modern era of advanced science and technology, it is not a simple matter to gather troops to go on the expedition.

Manpower is easy to allocate, but weapons, ammunition, and logistical materials cannot be easily allocated in a short period of time.

In the feudal era, the efficiency of the Great Sui will only be lower, isn't there a good saying: 'The army did not move the grain and grass first', but the Sui army did not move the grain and grass this time.

As long as he is a smarter general, he will not take such a risk.

Don't think that Nan Chen will be easily destroyed, and the land snake in the south will be easily solved, but the fact is the opposite.

Looking at the Battle of Lingnan, it can be seen that the Great Sui dispatched 300,000 elite soldiers, but after fighting for half a year, only less than 150,000 men and horses were still left with combat power, and the rest either died in battle or fell due to epidemics.

Of course, among the powerful factions in the south, except for Wuhou Leihu, the ability and strength of the rest of the land snakes are far worse than those of the Lingnan Song Dynasty, but they also occupy a favorable location, and the Sui army may capsize in the gutter if they don't pay attention.

Isn't Han Baohu, the general of the Sui army who sat in Jiankang before, the best example?

This guy obviously reserved his strength and was ready to wipe out the southern rebel forces, but the southern rebel forces struck first and sent a master to assassinate and seriously injure him, and I heard that he was already dying and did not live long.

What a bad guy!

The opportunity to go further was missed, and the competitor Shi Wanzai was cheapened in vain.

Otherwise, with his first-class strength of the acquired peak, although he cannot live to the limit of human lifespan, the hundred-year-old life span is not a problem, and it is a pity to fall halfway.

And the local snake who raised the flag of rebellion was also quite shameless, and spread rumors that the Great Sui court was going to relocate all the southern people to the north, and even had to endure more and heavier labor than the northerners.

How does this work?

When the local people heard this, they were anxious, not to mention that it was difficult to leave their homeland, but they could not bear it when they heard that they would have to enjoy heavier labor when they moved to the north.

Labor is the heaviest burden on the people, and it is more terrible than paying heavy taxes.

Because of the need to bring your own dry food, there is a high chance that you will die!

And those who participate in labor are basically young and strong, and they are also the pillars of the family!

Once the pillars fall, it is likely to mean the destruction of a family, and the consequences are likely to be the death of the whole family, whether it is a family or a clan, it is a great blow.

How good it is to stay in the south, although it is also subject to the double exploitation of the government and local tyrants, but it is difficult to starve to death although you can't eat enough.

When you arrive in the Northland, you are unfamiliar with the land, and you have heavy labor, so you can't be bullied to death.

As a result, those southern landlords instigated the people in their sphere of influence to rebel together, which is why there is a huge momentum that has swept most of the south now.

However, the rabble is the rabble, and the rebellious local snake will not take out the family's heritage to cultivate this group of coerced people, but just want to strengthen the momentum and let the people be cannon fodder.

The real combat power is still the clan soldiers cultivated by these Earth Head Snake Clans, which are vulnerable in the eyes of Lei Hu!

If he had made a move, it wouldn't have taken more than a month to put down the southern rebellion, except for the time spent on the road!

But the monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty didn't know, because the destruction of Chen was too quick and successful, and all the snakes in the south were subjugated by the obscenity of the Sui army, and they surrendered so neatly that they didn't experience a long war at all.

It was precisely because the local forces in the south surrendered too quickly that their strength did not lose much, and the monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty could not figure out the true strength of the southern scholars.

After all, when the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, many Central Plains families moved to the past, although there were still many families still standing in the world after war, and the accumulation of hundreds of years was not over.

The monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty compared the southern scholars with the northern families, and seriously overestimated the strength and war potential of the southern scholars.

It's just that Wuhou Leihu's conditions are too inferior for him, and there is also a threat to him, which naturally causes him to be unhappy.

"Oh, it seems that the general is confident about this counterinsurgency!"

Lei Hu chuckled indifferently and invited: "It's better for the general to go to Benhou's camp and see how the soldiers under Benhou perform martial arts, so that the general can know that Benhou is not a wasted person!" ”

"Hmph, this is Jiankang, my father is still afraid that you won't make it?"

Shi Wansui was a fiery temper, and when he heard Lei Hu's invitation, he immediately became angry, hehe sneered again and again, and said disdainfully: "If you can't suppress your father, Wu Hou, don't mention your conditions!" ”

As he spoke, he urged Lei Hu to move quickly, he wanted to see the demeanor of the elite soldiers under Wu Hou's command.

"I won't disappoint the general!"

Lei Hu chuckled indifferently and directly took Shi Wansui and his thousands of personal guards to the military camp outside the city.

Say it's not worried, didn't you bring thousands of guards?

In this regard, Lei Hu didn't say much, what he wanted was a deterrent purpose, no more wasteful than with Shi Wansui, let's speak with practical actions.

At the beginning, Shi Wansui was seriously injured by him in Jiankang City, and then when Lei Hu retreated to Taihu Lake and fought with more than 100,000 elite Sui troops, Shi Wansui was obviously recuperating from his injuries and did not participate.

After that, Lei Hu negotiated with the monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty, and deliberately let Yang Su, the marching marshal, see the personal guard for a while, and Shi Wansui was still not there at that time.

He didn't know at all that the strength of the three thousand guards who had cultivated the iron cloth shirt had already exceeded his imagination, and unless the Sui army besieged it with ten times the number, it had to send half of the masters controlled by the Sui Dynasty to have the possibility of victory.

As for the ordinary Sui army, even if the number of people reaches tenfold, they will not want to bargain, and they will inevitably end up in a crushing defeat.

This time was no exception, Shi Wansui entered the barracks with high spirits, but when he came out, his face was pale and his soul was lost, as if he had been deeply shocked.

and the arrogant guards under him, who were also like frosted eggplants at this time, staggering with bloodless faces, as if they had been stimulated by a lot.

They were really stimulated, and they were greatly stimulated!

The rain of stone balls flying in the sky, as well as the javelin forest whose attack power and distance are comparable to those of a strong crossbow, the two combat methods and battle trees that were revealed alone scared Shi Wansui and his personal guards a lot.

Not to mention, Shi Wansui also knew that there was a Mo Dao team in Wu Hou's personal guard camp that did not show up, which could be called the most heavily armored infantry, and its attack power was extremely strong.

This time, he was really frightened, he didn't expect the army under Wu Hou to be so strong.

Shi Wansui was deeply worried in his heart, if Wu Hou continued to develop and grow, and the number of people and troops under his rule would reach a higher level, it might be an obstacle to the Great Sui River.

It's not that he's really afraid of the strong army under Wu Hou, in his opinion, it's not easy to train such a guard, and it's obviously unrealistic to train more guards.

Besides, Wu Hou's men are all infantry, and they may be extremely powerful in the places where the water network in the south of the Yangtze River is crisscrossed, but it is not necessarily in the open places in the north.

It is the world of cavalry, and no matter how strong the infantry is, they can't kneel like the cavalry, and at most they will be defeated.

At present, the Great Sui River is thriving, so naturally there is no need to worry about Wu Hou.

But if there was a problem with the control of the Great Sui Imperial Court, and Wu Hou was already full-fledged at that time, the south might change hands in an instant, which was really not a joke.

Shi Wansui was full of concerns, and he realized that the real strong enemy in the south was not the rebels, nor the so-called Lingnan Song Lords, but Wuhou Leihu, who had quietly developed and become the strongest force in the south!

It's just that he also has doubts in his heart, such an obvious thing, the King of Jin who sits in Yangzhou and Han Baohu who sits in Jiankang, don't they have the slightest notice?

Apparently that's impossible!

Whether it is Yang Guang, the king of Jin, or Han Baohu, they are all first-class human spirits, and it is impossible not to notice the problems.

But they didn't have much to do, and apparently had other plans.

Shi Wansui only understood what was going on after a little thought, and it was still his personal interests.

He instantly figured out that since those two could pretend to be deaf and dumb, he didn't need to be a head bird, so let's cooperate.