The ancestors of the imperial family of Shuo State split a part of the territory from the Zhou State and the Wu State through various means more than 100 years ago to establish the Shuo State, which was originally close to the Zhou State among the countries, but in the past thirty or fifty years, the relationship with the Zhou State has become more and more stiff, and the Wu State has established new diplomatic relations.

Thirty-two years ago, the first emperor of Shuo bought 300 warships from Wu and went upriver from the Beihe River to seize a considerable territory from the northern Jin state.

So far, Shuo has become one of the eight major countries in the land of Shen Twentie, but because of the reuse of the royal family in Shuo, most of the key points in the Shuo army and local areas are controlled by the royal family, and it is very difficult for ordinary warriors and literati to get ahead in Shuo, resulting in not many masters in the Shuo army, and there are only two head armor masters in the whole country, one of whom is the younger brother of the first emperor.

The current emperor of Shuo also understands that if he wants to revitalize Shuo, he must break the control of the imperial family on state power, but after more than 100 years of operation, the imperial family has been deeply rooted in Shuo, forming a trend that cannot be dropped, and it is easy to cause civil strife and even lead to his own abdication. Therefore, the current emperor of Shuo can only try to cultivate the Hanmen forces in some inconsequential places, but it is a pity that the national strength of the Zhou State has been invigorated in recent years, and the cultural and martial arts have made great achievements, and the external strength is becoming stronger, and the Shuo State has been stuck in the neck of the Zhou State water transportation because of its geographical reasons, which is to become the first stumbling block to the expansion of the Zhou Dynasty.

In such a situation, it is really difficult to preserve the survival of the country.

Because of this, Zhao Yingqi was not surprised by Guan Zhengnong's words, because the chief general of the reinforcements who arrived from Shuo this time was not surnamed Guan!

As a member of the imperial family, Guan Zhengnong will naturally have some meritorious deeds in order to maintain the strong position of the imperial family in the army.

Zhao Yingqi also took a cup, poured tea and asked, "Then what does General Guan want?" ”

"Guan is very grateful to Mr. Zhao for his righteous action, which not only solved the danger of my country, but also saved me from the danger of Guan's defeat, Mr. Zhao has been planning with all his heart in the past few days, you and I are comrades-in-arms side by side, how about the two of us be brothers?" Guan Zhengnong came up to play a dozen emotional cards first, but it was all the truth.

When Zhao Yingqi was still groaning, Guan Zhengnong spoke again: "Guan understands that Guan Mou is superior to Mr. in terms of wisdom and martial arts, but Guan Mou really wants to get to know Mr. ”

Zhao Yingqi said this a little hard to refuse, and he couldn't say that the two had only been friends for a few days, and it was really not a deep friendship, but Zhao Yingqi still used Guan Zhengnong in the follow-up, so he had no choice but to pinch his nose and admit it.

"Why did Brother Guan say this, how can I, Zhao Yingqi, be the person whose eyes are higher than the sky, Brother Guan is so sincere, I, Zhao Yingqi, are naturally sincere." As he spoke, Zhao Yingqi raised his hand and clasped his fist and saluted.

Guan Zhengnong also returned the salute with his fists: "This is very good, very good." Brother Zhao is not welcome. ”

Zhao Tong, who was still eating on the other side, pouted, and couldn't help but be a little speechless, this Guan Zhengnong is in his forties and almost fifty years old, according to the situation that Shen Twenty got married and had children earlier, and is more than twenty and thirty years older than Zhao Yingqi, he is a little old as a father, he is really cheeky...

But isn't that the case between people, everyone is a brother, and everyone is called Xiao Zhao if the poor.

Zhao Yingqi smiled: "The younger brother and the elder brother hit it off at first sight, just like that." ”

Guan Zhengnong also smiled: "Between you and my brothers, my brother doesn't engage in those twists and turns." The main general surnamed Li, who sent 25,000 reinforcements from the DPRK this time, is a backward promoted by His Majesty in recent years, and the relationship with my Guan royal family is not harmonious, I am not afraid of your jokes, on the art of war and martial arts, brother, I am indeed not the opponent of this surnamed Li, but I don't want my brother to work hard to make wedding clothes for this surnamed Li. ”

Zhao Yingqi laughed in his heart, he Guan Zhengnong was obviously afraid that his military exploits would be diluted, but he wanted to get involved, he was just a white body, and he had no intention of taking up a position in Shuoguo, no matter what happened after this battle, he would gain a lot of fame, and there was actually no conflict of interest with the later General Li.

"What Brother Guan said is very true, the little brother doesn't matter, the left and right are just a false name, but he has taken over the good situation that Brother Guan has worked hard since General Li, even if he wins, it is not a good ability, if he loses, it will be a loss for an adult, it is better to be controlled by Brother Guan steadily, so that everyone will benefit."

"My brother really went to the same place with me, and my personal gains and losses are still inferior, the important thing is the stability of my Dashuo's frontier and the lives and military merits of the soldiers." Guan Zhengnong was very satisfied with Zhao Yingqi's upper path.

Guan Zhengnong saw that Zhao Yingqi was just smiling and silent, and said: "This time General Li came, I am afraid that he not only wants to dilute his military merits, but the 25,000 people are all Lanzhou soldiers, and he left His Majesty in Lanzhou Mansion directly but only has a verbal decree and no holy decree, which is really a bit of a constraint on the unified control and coordination of the whole army." ”

"Is there any news from my brother? Is it possible for such a large army to move without a will on paper? Zhao Yingqi was also a little strange.

"Yes, brother, what do you mean by that, Your Majesty?" Guan Zhengnong asked a little knowingly.

This Guan Zhengnong's words are all the truth, without the slightest twist and turn, but he just doesn't say it thoroughly, and has been trying to find a way to probe the bottom of Zhao Yingqi, Zhao Yingqi had to make it clear and said: "I'm afraid it's related to the gap between the royal family, the scholar family and the cold family in your country, right?" But I don't know where this General Li came from, and can he take on such an extraordinary thing? ”

Talking about this General Li, Guan Zhengnong looked down on him: "This surname Li's ability is a declining Hanmen scholar, he has some talent for martial arts, last year he advanced to the second rank in martial arts, and he also married the eldest daughter of the Yu family in Lanzhou, so His Majesty values this surname Li." ”

"Oh..."Zhao Yingqi said strangely: "No wonder, this person has the background of both the Han family and the scholar clan, no wonder." ”

"My brother is also an extremely smart person, so he naturally knows the twists and turns in this, my brother and I can't help myself, and some words can't be said too clearly, alas..."Guan Zhengnong smiled bitterly, and knocked on the table with his knuckles as he spoke, seemingly dissatisfied.

"In that case, little brother, I have a little idea, brother would like to hear it?"

"Oh, just wait for the words of the elder brother, with the wisdom of the elder brother, whether it is the general Li of the Shuo country or the general Li of the Zhou country, it will not be a problem."

...

It was five o'clock in the night, Li Ping led 20,000 Shuo reinforcements to Santong Town, Li Ping was the chief general of Shuo's 20,000 five reinforcements, and he was also the general of Wupin Rangers in Shuo.

At this time, Zhao Yingqi was still asleep, but Zhao Tong had already woken up, and the 20,000-person march plus heavy horses and so on, the movement woke up Zhao Tong from afar.

Zhao Tong was about to wake up Zhao Yingqi, Zhao Yingqi had already sat up, and he also felt the movement of the march.

"Sir, sit down for a while, Xiaotong go out to see the situation." Zhao Tong got out of bed with only a small coat, put on a coat and went out.

After a while, Zhao Tong pushed the door in.

"Sir, it is Li Ping who has led 20,000 reinforcements to the outside of Santong Town, and is communicating with General Guan about military affairs. How about Xiaotong waiting for Mr. to change his clothes and go out to meet? ”

"Don't worry about him, let's continue to sleep, I'm so tired today, why waste this time." Zhao Yingqi rubbed the pillow, adjusted a comfortable shape, lay down and covered the quilt and continued to sleep.

Zhao Tong naturally obeyed his husband's words, sat on the edge of the bed, pulled off his coat, put it aside and got into the quilt.

Originally, Zhao Yingqi was unwilling to sleep with Zhao Tong, but Zhao Tong firmly said that he had arrived in the war zone and must protect Mr. closely, so Zhao Yingqi half-pushed and half-followed her.

There's no way, Zhao Yingqi is hard-mouthed, not to mention who can refuse a beautiful maid, I can't do it anyway...

Of course, it's just sleeping, literally, and not allowing self-divergence.

The master and servant had just laid down for a while, when the lights outside were flickering, and there were voices from time to time.

Someone knocked on the door, Zhao Yingqi didn't pay attention, and Zhao Tong also followed his husband to keep talking.

After knocking for a while, the person outside asked loudly: "The last general Li Ping, the follow-up of this war against the Zhou State will be in charge of the last general, it is really scary to disturb late at night, but the military situation is urgent, dare to ask Mr. Zhao and Miss Zhao to see it." ”

Seeing that Zhao Yingqi was still silent, Zhao Tong had no choice but to reply: "My husband was injured when he entered the battle formation, and now he is unwell and needs to rest, so it is inconvenient to see people, and I ask General Li to come again tomorrow." ”

This Li Ping still didn't give up: "Then invite Miss Zhao to come out to meet, there will be important matters to discuss at the end." ”

Zhao Yingqi still closed his eyes and didn't say anything, joking, how could he call the little girl out of someone's bed to discuss things, and there was no more courtesy at all.

Zhao Tong was also a little impatient when he saw this, but replied: "The little girl is just my husband's maid, and she doesn't know the way of the battle formation, if you have anything, please talk to my husband tomorrow." ”

"Well, the Admiral is bothered." Then a few footsteps away, and the door was darkened.

"Sir, isn't that rude?" Zhao Tong turned his face sideways and asked Zhao Yingqi.

Zhao Yingqi didn't open his eyes, and replied lazily: "It's obviously that he is impolite, I have always hated working overtime." ”

Zhao Yingqi This is true, in his previous life, he left his job as a freelance project manager because he hated overtime and was disobedient.

Zhao Tong understood what he meant, and didn't want to disturb Mr., so he didn't ask Mr. more what he meant by working overtime, but turned sideways and closed his eyes at Zhao Yingqi.

I was angry, and after a while, someone knocked on the door again.

Zhao Tong could tell from the footsteps that this was Ren Fei, and just as he was about to ask Zhao Yingqi, he heard Zhao Yingqi snort impatiently on the side, so he had to ask: "Is there anything that Captain Ren can't talk about tomorrow?" ”

"I'm really sorry, I hope Mr. Zhao and Miss Zhao will forgive me, General Li asked us to hand over Wang Lin's three people and more than 5,000 prisoners of war, saying that the military situation is urgent tomorrow and these people are needed."

"What does General Guan mean?" Zhao Yingqi finally spoke, but there was still deep impatience in his tone.

"General Guan only asked the humble post to ask Mr. Zhao what he meant."

"This old fox!" Zhao Yingqi still didn't open his eyes, and complained quietly.

"Go and tell that Li Ping that the five thousand prisoners of war can be handed over to him and let him negotiate with Guan Zhengnong himself, but Wang Lin and the three of them can't, just say that Wang Lin and the three of them are my prisoners of war, and I still need to use them to ask for a ransom from Zhou Guo." Zhao Yingqi turned to Zhao Tong sideways and said.

"Yes, sir." Zhao Tong quickly got up, put on his coat and was about to go out.

"Wait, bring a gun."

"Yes, Xiaotong understands what Mr. means."