"Okay! Guo has made meritorious contributions to killing the enemy general Li Gui, and I will promote you as General Yingyang. Lu Hang sat firmly in the copywriting and rewarded Guantai.

Guantai stood up and tidied up his clothes, knelt down again, buckled his head and said, "The last general will not disgrace the love of the lord!"

Lu Hang nodded and smiled, then turned his gaze to Chu Yang and said, "Fang Jie listens to the seal!"

Chu Yang was happy for Guantai, but he didn't expect to be sealed as soon as he came up, thinking that he was just a low-grade miscellaneous general when he came up, and when he heard Lu Hang's reward, Chu Yang quickly knelt on the ground.

"Fang Jie attacked a camp, killed countless enemy generals, and broke the enemy's army with great achievements.

Originally, he only wanted to give Guantai a position, but he didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain, Chu Yang hurriedly buckled his head and thanked him: "Thank you, lord!"

Every battle has been improved, after recapturing Lang Yuancheng last time, Chu Yang was promoted from the general of the five-rank miscellaneous number to the general of the four-rank Pingyu Zhonglang, this time the battle achievements are even greater, and he was directly promoted to the general of the three-rank town army!

When the fourth-rank lieutenant general, all the captains obeyed Chu Yang's arrangement, although they were all four rank generals, but at that time their official rank was still greater than Chu Yang, and they only listened to him because of Chu Yang's ability in the army, but it was inevitable that no one would talk nonsense because of their status, and what high-level positions should listen to the dispatch of low-level people.

Now it's okay, Chu Yang has been directly promoted to the third grade, which can completely block the mouths of those gossips!

"Gao Cun continued to be our army division, and Cheng Yuan and Zhu Kang led the army with meritorious service, each rewarded with 100 taels of gold and 500 taels of silver, and the rest of the generals were rewarded with 500 taels of silver. Lu Hang rewarded him for the third time, but because the others were not there, he directly issued the order to Gao Cun and asked him to relay it on his behalf.

In fact, Gao Cun didn't want to receive this reward, because he knew that he didn't play a big role in the whole battle, although he was the duty of the military advisor, but it was Chu Yang who gave advice throughout the whole process, and after Lu Hang rewarded him, Gao Cun was ready to stop him and said: "Lord!"

As soon as Gao Cun shouted two words, Lu Hang guessed his thoughts, and immediately stopped him from wanting to continue with a wave of his hand, and said: "Since I have made this decision, I have my own reason, Zihui don't want to say more." ”

Changing people's hearts is not a business, not only when he brings benefits to himself, but also calculated, Chu Yang's strategy can be successful, and it must be based on the high deposit of the newspaper, so this reward cannot be considered false.

"Yes. Since Lu Hang said so, Gao Cun couldn't say anything else, so he could only kneel and accept Lu Hang's reward.

After the reward, Chu Yang clenched his fists to Lu Hang and said: "Lord, the purpose of my trip is to take advantage of Ma Zhong's vitality to persuade the lord to send troops to attack Youling, so as to eradicate it in one fell swoop!"

In fact, Lu Hang had already guessed Chu Yang's thoughts, and when he recaptured Lang Yuancheng before, he persuaded himself like this with Gao Cun, but he didn't listen to his advice at that time, and the result of not listening was to attract Ma Zhong's unreasonable attack again.

This time, Lu Hang wanted to act according to Chuyang's strategy, but he was still thinking about the turmoil in the country, the two border Qin and Wei were about to attack the Han State, and now every soldier and soldier were extremely precious, and he really didn't want to have another civil strife when the country was in danger.

Seeing Lu Hang's hesitant look, Chu Yang hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded him: "Lord, Ma Zhong is ruthless and vicious, if you don't get rid of it early, you will be a disaster for the rest of your life!"

After speaking, he turned his gaze to Gao Cun, and he was a living example of the killing of his whole family!

"I don't know about this, it's just ......" Lu Hang sighed, under the overall situation, Qiao Zhou is definitely not as important as the country in his heart.

Looking at the hesitant Lu Hang, Gao Cun immediately understood the reason why he was difficult to choose, and hurriedly stepped forward to analyze him: "The lord has been an official for many years, and he naturally knows what 'the outside must first be at home', and now the lord is only for the country and does not want to fight with his own people, but has the lord ever thought that from the time of the war, Ma Zhong will make trouble from it?"

Lu Hang, who was listening, instantly widened his eyes, and a sentence of confusion suddenly made him suddenly realize that a strong enemy is not terrible, but he is afraid of a fire in the backyard!

If Ma Zhong took advantage of the national crisis to occupy the four prefectures and counties, what difference would it be from the invasion of foreign enemies? It would not even be better to die at the hands of his own people than to be occupied by the enemy!

"What is Zihui's opinion?" Lu Hang, who reacted, hurriedly asked.

As soon as he heard this sentence, it meant that there was a way, Gao Cun hurriedly stepped forward and said: "I have the same idea as Chuyang, I should take advantage of his illness to value his life, if he waits for a while to take a breather, it will be bad for Qiao Zhou and the country in the future!"

"I want to hear about it. Lu Hang nodded and said.

"Can the lord recruit soldiers and horses today?" Gao Cun asked instead of answering.

"Yes, the house has recruited 3,000 strong men, Fengzong stationed in Hequan at the beginning of the convenient recruitment of people in the city, yesterday sent a letter, has recruited more than 12,000 people. Lu Hang nodded and said.

Gao Cun nodded and thought about it, in addition to the original men and horses in Lang Yuancheng who threw away the dead and wounded, plus the previous surrender and Zhu Kang brought enough 20,000 people, the state capital plus the current recruitment can take away at least 5,000 people, Hequan originally had 7,000 people and horses, only 2,000 can be left to defend the city, and the remaining 17,000 people can be taken away.

Coupled with the 10,000 people who were previously dispatched to the shop, let them recruit some more soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and throw away the defenders and horses, at least 50,000 troops can be sent out, which is completely crushing for Ma Zhong, who has exhausted his family's funds!

Gao Cun hurriedly reported his thoughts and arrangements to Lu Hang.

"What if Ma Zhong still has a large army hoarding in Youling City?" Lu Hang was still a little worried about the previous intelligence error of Youling's soldiers and horses.

Even if there were still military horses in the city, it would never be too many. Chu Yang stepped forward and said with a smile.

"How so?" Lu Hang asked puzzled.

"Although Youling is a large county, it can be counted as just a city, although it covers a large area, but four-fifths of it is fields and forests, think about a city, how can there be too many people for Ma Zhong to wantonly replenish the troops? And the most important thing is a county, how can there be too much money and food to feed too many troops? So I dare to conclude that the number of soldiers and horses in Youling City is absolutely impossible to exceed 20,000!" Chu Yang patted his chest and replied with great certainty.

Lu Hang thought about the strength of the two battles before and after, and then analyzed: "The first time Ma Zhong sent 30,000 troops was completely annihilated, and the second time he sent 60,000 troops was annihilated, and at least it is estimated that he left 1 to 20,000 to defend the city, and it seems that it is indeed no more than 20,000." ”

Looking at the discussion and analysis of the two, Gao Cun scolded himself for being useless, and he didn't even explore how many people he had when Ma Zhong was under his tent.

In fact, Gao Cun can't be blamed for it, it is really Ma Zhong's tricks, and the previous information is not wrong, even Gao Cun, Tangtai Valley and others under him at that time thought that there were only 70,000 people in Yuling City, but they never imagined that Ma Zhong had concealed all his soldiers and did not announce all the troops to the public.