With the assistance of 10,000 sergeants of the Chinese army, the fire in the rear camp of the Han army was quickly extinguished, Xie Gui carefully patrolled, and planned to return to the Chinese army to make up for a good night's sleep, after all, the city will be attacked tomorrow morning, and he must ensure that he is in good spirits in order to give the sergeants encouragement.

Before leaving, Xie Gui cautiously ordered that the 10,000 sergeants reinforced by the Chinese army would be stationed in the rear camp to prevent the Tang army from making trouble again. As long as the sun rises in the east, after the four brightenings, they are not afraid of the annoying Tang army to continue to harass.

Then he didn't forget to continue to reprimand Xie Chong for a few words, although Xie Gui was annoyed in his heart tonight, but in the end, under the influence of the blood connection with the famous family, after all, he still chose favoritism as usual. Slap and give another candy to eat, seeing Xie Chong trembling and constantly pausing to confess his guilt, Xie Gui was a little deflated, and hurriedly comforted his unkempt clan brother, and then took his personal guards to prepare to return to the camp.

At the moment when he was about to get on the horse, he suddenly made a earth-shattering roar out of nowhere, which was as terrifying as the thunder in the sky, and frightened the horses of several generals around him to neigh and jump non-stop. Xie Gui naturally thought that there was thunder rolling in the sky, and hurriedly looked up, but found that the sky was still full of clouds and mist, and a new moon hung comfortably in the sky, and the breeze was fine.

"Check it out! What the hell is the sound? Xie Gui suddenly felt an ominous feeling in his heart, and hurriedly asked in a loud voice.

"Boom! Rumble! Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the continuous roar sounded again, and this time the ground seemed to tremble one after another, Xie Guixunsheng decisively identified the direction, which was the direction of the front camp in the distance. The roar continued, without stopping at all, and the scene in the distance was faintly tinged with a slight flash, but it was difficult to know what was happening from a distance of several miles.

"Vice Commander! It's the direction of the front battalion! A general beside him hurriedly arched his hand and said, "This violent sound seems to be...... Seems to be a trebuchet......"

After being reminded by the general, Xie Gui couldn't help but tremble, the Han State followed the Tang system to govern the army, how could he not know about trebuchets? It's just that the stock of this kind of killing weapon in Lingnan is very small, in addition to the expensive cost, the effect of attacking the city is also not very stable, after all, dozens of catties of stone bullets can attack a small city, but when attacking a strong big city, it is often only supplemented by deterrence.

Having said that, Xie Gui became more and more flustered, the military camp was mostly made of trees, where could it compare to the masonry of the city? And Li Yuan, the commander of the Tang Army, actually used a trebuchet to attack his own Han army camp, which is really an unheard of method, thinking about why trebuchets are tall and heavy, and how to ensure that they can safely approach the front camp of the Han army......

Xie Gui frowned and thought, his heart became heavier and heavier, and he suddenly gritted his teeth and shouted: "Hurry up and go to the front camp with Pontus!" Li Yuan's dog thief is afraid that he is going to do something again! ”

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The Tang army attacked the rear camp at night, and Xie Gui, the deputy commander, sent 10,000 troops to the rescue, and it is said that there were no less than 10,000 enemy troops who came to attack, and all the grain and grass materials in the rear camp were burned. Soon after the attack on Houying, this terrifying news quickly spread throughout the Han army camp. Even if they were not attacked, the generals of the front battalion had to panic and strengthen their guard.

The former battalion commander was Shao Tingxuan, who was named the envoy of the giant elephant viewing army by Liu Cheng, the lord of the Han Dynasty.

Shao Tingxuan is very tall and majestic, except for the smoother jaw, the rest is no different from the generals in the army, but in fact, he is a famous eunuch in the Han Kingdom.

In the early years, when he was forced to enter the palace, Shao Tingxuan was fortunate to be arranged to serve next to Liu Jue, the second emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Don't look at the internal government bureau decree is only under the eight grades, but this position is what many eunuchs dream of, and being able to control the treasury and income of the imperial palace is naturally a person who is extremely trusted by the emperor, and Shao Tingxuan has been prosperous in the Southern Han Kingdom since then.

Since then, the Southern Han Dynasty began to launch a war against Chu, and won many battles along the way, Shao Tingxuan, who was born tall and burly, has the ambition to join the army since he was a child, although he is now a half-yang person, but he does not want to miss this golden opportunity, so he secretly made up his mind to strive for an opportunity to make contributions on the battlefield.

The hard work pays off, and Liu Cheng, the Han lord who has always been soft-eared, couldn't stand Shao Tingxuan's words of loyalty to the country by his side, and saw that his physique was indeed like a general, and finally awarded Shao Tingxuan the position of the envoy of the giant elephant army.

What is the Observation of the Army? As the name suggests, observing the appearance of the army and supervising the military is actually the duty of supervising the army, which has been in place since the first year of the Tang Su Zongqian (758 AD). But it is also the position of supervising the army, why did the Southern Tang Dynasty call itself the queen of the Tang Dynasty, but instead of using the four words of watching the army and allowing the army, but calling the supervising army?

It's just that the four words "watching the army and making envoys" are really notorious.

Thinking about the first year of Su Zongqian, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other nine jiedu envoys led the army to besiege An Qingxu in Xiangzhou, Tang Su Zongyi and Guangbi were both fathers, and it was difficult to subordinate each other, so they simply did not set up a marshal, this person came up with a way to use eunuchs to check and balance, and appointed the eunuch Yu Chaoen as the envoy to Guan Junrong Xuanxuan, and the director of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ninth Army became the de facto commander. The Guanjun Rong envoy got its name from this.

After that, Yu Chaoen became the "Tianxia Guanjun Rong Xuanxuan Disposal Envoy", became the chief army of the whole country, directly grasped the military power, and the eunuchs began to interfere in politics without fear, and even the emperor was at his mercy. Although Yu Chaoen was killed soon after, and the post of Guan Junrong was abolished for a time, it was soon restored, and the strength of the eunuchs was greatly strengthened and was no longer controlled, which was an important reason for the final collapse of the eunuch dictatorship at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

After the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Jianghuai, as a "descendant of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty", he hated the eunuchs' unauthorized power, and the four words nailed to the pillar of shame were naturally abolished, but the Southern Han Dynasty did not think so, in the end, it was the warlord who established the country, and it was not the royal family surnamed Li, so he didn't have so many concerns at all.

Since all the military decrees are copied from the Tang system, the envoys of the military and the supervising army have the same functions and powers anyway, so there is no need to care about the words.

To get back to the point, since Shao Tingxuan was ordered to take office, as if the Tang Dynasty was supervising the army on behalf of the emperor, Pan Chongche and the generals were dissatisfied with this red man in the palace, but they had to be respectful to him, everything needed to be reported in time, and he had to politely call him "Shao Junrong" when he met......

Shao Tingxuan, who has been in the palace for many years, has always known people's hearts best, where do you not know the intentions of these generals? It is rare that Shao Tingxuan has a characteristic that other eunuchs do not have, that is, he is very self-aware, since he is here to make meritorious contributions, he does not know much about military affairs, he does not want to interfere too much, and simply obeys the wishes of Pan Chongche and other generals, and never speaks easily when discussing military affairs, which also makes everyone have a good impression of him.

And no one would have thought that Shao Tingxuan was so low-key, he had been secretly studying military affairs, and he had amazing talent. In several battles after joining the army, as a high-status military envoy, he took the lead and was very brave and good at fighting, and in a short period of time, he also had a strategy that was recognized by the famous general Pan Chongche, and gradually became a capable general in the army.

This time, Pan Chongche divided his troops to the north to attack Yiyang, and after entrusting the 30,000 army to Xie Gui, the deputy commander, he specially instructed Xie Gui to discuss everything with Shao Tingxuan, and not to act arbitrarily.

Xie Gui naturally promised, in order to show his sincerity, he entrusted all the former army to Shao Tingxuan, Xu was hindered by the power of the position of Guanjun Rong, although he really did not dare to act arbitrarily, but after all, it was inevitable that cronyism was inevitable, for example, recently appointed his brother Xie Chong as the main general of the attack on Yiyang, this move made Shao Tingxuan very dissatisfied.

However, after Xie Chong returned, Xie Gui only demoted Xie Chong to the rear army to take care of the grain and grass, and such an obvious protection made the officers and soldiers in the army complain. If someone else had committed the crime of slowing down the army, Xie Gui would have cut off his head long ago.

Shao Tingxuan can be regarded as taking the overall situation into account, but he did not openly conflict with Xie Gui because of this, but tried his best to forbear.