Chapter 159: Worrying about livelihood
Liu Bowen said with a smile: "Tomorrow, Wu Guogong will go to the Chuzhou camp with grain, grass and military salaries to reward more than 100,000 soldiers in Chuzhou, and then convene a meeting of all the generals in Chuzhou, and ask Wu Guogong to take out a forged letter at the time of the meeting, saying that it is an intercepted letter of collusion between Chen Youliang, the king of the Han Dynasty, and a certain general in Chuzhou. After that, Wu Guogong showed generosity and burned the letter, so that he could shock the hearts of the Chuzhou generals. ”
Chu Liuyan said: "Then I can contact these people, and after determining who they are, I can report this person to Wu Guogong." ”
Wu Guogong was overjoyed when he heard this: "This plan is very good, and it has won my heart, if I don't get rid of this person, even if I collect more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou under my command, my father will not be able to sleep and eat unpleasantly." If this person is removed, then the more than 100,000 people in Yingtian can be regarded as truly attached to me and used by me. ”
Chu Liuyan and Liu Bowen said in unison: "Wu Guogong is wise, that's exactly the case. ”
"If so, then it can be done. After subduing the more than 100,000 Chuzhou soldiers and horses, you can fight with the Han king Chen Youliang, even if you can't win Chen Youliang, at least you can compete with it, and you don't have to be afraid of the strength of the Han army. Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile at Chu Liuyan and Liu Bowen.
Then he said: "Then the two military advisors don't have to go back, they should stay in the mansion with their father-in-law to rest for a night." ”
Liu Bowen responded: "The minister obeys the order." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Liu Bowen had already agreed, but he didn't hear Chu Liuyan's reply, and he felt a little strange in his heart, so he turned his head to look at Chu Liuyan and asked, "What does Liuyan girl think in her heart." ”
Chu Liuyan raised his eyes and looked out the window, only to see that a little fish belly white had appeared in the east, so he said to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, "This matter is very important, now that the east is white, this matter can be done." However, I will go back to the camp first, lay it first, make complete preparations, and then rush to meet with the Wu State Guild. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, pondered for a while and said, "It's okay, then there will be a hard time for the Lao Chu military division." ”
In fact, Chu Liuyan took the initiative to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to go back to the barracks to prepare for this matter, but he was actually a little selfish in it.
Chu Liuyan suddenly had a thought in his heart, no matter whether Zhu Yuanzhang could subdue the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou, if he wanted to rescue Xu Da, he still had to go back and discuss with those soldiers under Xu Da's account first.
It was Chu Liuyan who suddenly made such a request to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect Chu Liuyan to have this plan in his heart, and when he heard Chu Liuyan say this, he didn't doubt him, and instructed Chu Liuyan a few times to be safe, and then let Chu Liuyan leave the signing room.
Chu Liuyan originally wanted to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for a fast horse, but then he thought that there were a lot of fast horses outside the door, so he went to the gatehouse to borrow a fast horse, and then whipped away.
All the way to the dust, when I arrived at the city gate, the city gate had just been opened, and there were very few pedestrians on the road, only a few stalls that came out to sell breakfast.
Chu Liuyan didn't stop, and then went out of the city gate.
Out of the city gate, Chu Liuyan galloped for a while, saw the dust in front of him from a distance, and found that there was a group of merchants in front of him, it seemed that it was a merchant from other places, there were not many people, only more than ten people, but these merchants were all well-dressed, which was really a little strange.
Of course, Chu Liuyan had something important to do right now, and he originally wanted to rush back to Xu Da's camp as soon as possible, but just when the horses were passing by, Chu Liuyan suddenly found that the horses ridden by these merchants were abnormally strong, and they seemed to be some military horses.
Although Chu Liuyan was a little suspicious of the origin of these more than ten people, but thinking that Xu Da was worried about his life at the moment, Chu Liuyan gave up his plan to go back and follow these suspicious business teams, and quickly ran towards the camp set up by the soldiers under Xu Da's command.
Not long after, Chu Liuyan had already arrived at the camp set up by the generals under Xu Da, and the generals stationed under the camp saw a woman in crimson clothes galloping over from a distance, and he was suspicious in his heart, and when Chu Liuyan was about to run to the front, he saw it clearly, and hurriedly shouted to his subordinate soldiers: "You really don't have a little look, I don't know if the person who came in front of you is the Chu military division, why don't you move the camp fence for Chu Liuyan quickly." ”
Chu Liuyan couldn't help but laugh when he heard the general's loud scolding of those pawns.
Several soldiers were reprimanded by their bosses, and then they ran over and moved the things that were blocked at the gate of the camp, Chu Liuyan didn't speak, and then beat the horse into the camp set up by the generals under Xu Da, shouting and whipping the horse under the crotch turned his head and ran towards the side of the big tent in the middle.
When Chu Liuyan arrived at the entrance of the camp tent, he immediately ordered a few soldiers guarding the camp tent to find the eight generals and Bai Chousheng who had been selected before.
Speaking of these eight generals, it is eight of the ten generals who won the competition, originally one of the ten people was not bad, but two of them could only fight and kill, and they felt that they were not competent to rob the prison and save people, so they had already withdrawn last time, so for Chu Liuyan, there were only eight candidates left who could bring over to rescue Xu Da together, but Chu Liuyan knew that among the eight generals at the moment, there might be people who were not competent for this matter, so Chu Liuyan was determined to choose.
Hearing that the Chu military division was urgently called, it didn't take long for the eight generals to rush to the Chinese army camp, and after Chu Liuyan saw that the eight generals were coming, he immediately ordered Bai Chousheng, who arrived first, to check whether these generals had memorized the topographic map of Yingtian Prison.
Bai Chousheng listened to Chu Liuyan's order, and then stood up and said: "All the generals listen, now the Chu army has ordered me to test you and others, also because this matter is not underestimated for you and me. ”
Hearing Bai Chousheng's opening remarks like this, there was already a general who shivered slightly, Chu Liuyan saw it in his eyes, knowing that there was still fear in this person's heart, if he let this person go to rescue Xu Da together, I am afraid that it would affect everyone who went with him at that time, so Chu Liuyan kept this person's appearance in his heart, and eliminated this person when he was ready to finally select a candidate.
Bai Chousheng was ready to stop, and then took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket, and then asked the soldiers on the side of the servant who came with him to open the curtain to separate the eight generals, and then distributed pens and ink to each general, and then distributed the white paper in his hand to these people one by one.
Chu Liuyan looked at this situation, thought about it for a while, and already knew how Bai Chousheng was going to be assessed.
They must have wanted to check whether these generals had memorized the topographical map of Yingtian Prison that day.
Chu Liuyan nodded slightly at Bai Chousheng, indicating that he was very much in favor of Bai Chousheng's method, Bai Chousheng looked back at Chu Liuyan's praising look for himself, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and said loudly to the few generals who were isolated by the curtain: "The best way to test whether you have memorized the drawings I delivered to you that day." ”
The generals all listened attentively, but Bai Chousheng paused slightly, and then said word by word: "The best way is to draw one silently." ”
The eight generals can understand now, it turns out that Bai Chousheng meant to let them draw a drawing in the same way, many of these generals are big characters and don't know a basket of rough people, not to mention that they don't know anything about literature before joining the army, not to mention that after joining Xu Da's command, they have been fighting for many years, where is there any opportunity to hold a pen.
However, drawing drawings is not writing after all, so although these people find it a little difficult, they also start to grab a pen and try to smear it on the white paper.