Li Hongmao nodded and said: "That's right, Xuzhou was originally also the Southern Heaven, but it was caused by the Zongxin spell to close the streets in heavy snow, if it wasn't for the horse oil on my hands and feet all the time, maybe I would have frostbite." When I get to Huainan, I'll ask you to have a few drinks, you've helped a lot lately. By the way, I forgot one more thing, what's your name?"

"The last general Zhang Bo. ”

"Oh~oh~! Zhang Bo, who is quite young, has become a deputy general, and his future is limitless. ”

"Thank you, Second Highness, for complimenting ......" Zhang Bo was quite embarrassed, because this kind of conversation had been several times, although Li Hongmao was the Second Highness, Zhang Bo really wanted to scold him to his face for being mentally retarded, what was this kid in his head? He couldn't even remember a name, and during this period of time, he was the only one who had a conversation with him, so he didn't remember his name? If this person became the emperor, he would immediately judge the country, otherwise he would be killed by this kind of person sooner or later.

Li Hongmao didn't care at all, and then asked, "By the way, what is this mountain called?"

"As I just said, this is called Matou Mountain. Because of its remote location, few people know about it, and the neighborhood is also desolate. However, behind Matou Mountain is open land, and the road is flat and endless. However, His Royal Highness, when marching in the past, he should pay attention to this kind of place, the situation on the mountain is unknown, and this path is too long, and the soldiers cannot assemble in a group at all, if they encounter a sneak attack by the enemy army at this time, it will be more than worth the loss. Zhang Bo said: "But this time we are withdrawing the army, and it is impossible for the Great Zhou army to chase here, so this time we can go like this, but it is feasible to send troops in the future, don't go like this, we must let the soldiers gather together, otherwise there is no power to fight back in the event of a sneak attack." ”

"It's useless for you to tell me, anyway, you can control these things. Li Hongmao said: "After this time, I will never lead troops again, and I will never fight again." I don't understand what these people think, you have to fight to enjoy it. Isn't it okay to live well? If you have food and drink at home, you have to go so far to fight a war, and you will definitely have enough to eat. ”

Zhang Bo persuaded: "Second Highness, you have food and drink, but others are not. There are too many people in this world who can't even afford to eat, and now in troubled times, the year is not good, only Xishu and my Tang people are happy, and it is difficult to even eat in other places. Many people are so poor that they are almost starving to death, so they enlist in the army, they just want to eat a mouthful of food, and for this purpose soldiers can charge into battle regardless of life and death. Otherwise, why would these soldiers fight?"

"Didn't they fight because they liked it?" Li Hongmao said in surprise: "Are these soldiers really living this kind of life for a full meal?"

Zhang Bo said: "I remember that Master Zongxin once said, 'Since ancient times, it has been known that soldiers are not belligerent', and if the family has money and can eat enough, no one wants to be a soldier." After all, when it comes to fighting, soldiers are the first to die, and soldiers' lives are the least valuable. ”

Li Hongmao nodded and said, "Yes, I was also thinking about this question before, where did those soldiers come from, and how could they become soldiers." And when you're fighting, those soldiers take knives and you cut me, and I'll cut you, isn't it interesting to do that? Isn't it more interesting to go home and drink and sleep with a woman in your arms?"

"Second Highness, do you know how much it costs you to drink once?"

Li Hongmao said with a smile: "You can't stop me with this, usually when I go to the Qinglou with my eldest brother to drink, it costs about three or five hundred taels of silver at a time, but in fact, I can't spend so much, it's all because I and my eldest brother are generous and like to give rewards." ”

"Second Highness, if you drink the wine from the shower at one time, it is enough for a hundred soldiers to pay for a whole year, which means that if you save this money and let a hundred soldiers do things for you, they will have a very happy year. There is a war that eats and drinks, and does not worry. Do you say that such a person can afford to marry a daughter-in-law? Do you have money to drink? As the saying goes, a penny is hard for a hero, and when a person can't afford to eat, he is not a human being, and he is not even as good as an animal. ”

Zhang Bo intends to educate Li Hongmao and let him know that it is not easy for people in the world, and it is even more difficult in the world. Now the world is not good, he and the eldest prince spend extravagantly all day long, and the food and expenditure are the people's hard-earned money, which is really wrong.

Li Hongmao nodded and said: "Thank you for your advice, it turns out that people who have no money are not people, and they are not even as good as animals, I understand." I will definitely get a lot of money for myself in the future, anyway, with my status, I don't have to worry about money in this life. ”

"You...... Do you really understand?"

"I understand, I understand, don't worry, my understanding is still very high. Li Hongmao thought that he understood what Zhang Bo meant, and he would definitely not be a poor person in the future......

Of course, Zhang Bo didn't mean this at all, just said that they should work hard not to let the people suffer from poverty, the people are miserable, and they, as the princes and grandsons, should understand the suffering of the people more, and as a result, this meaning was understood, Zhang Bo wondered if there was something wrong and let him understand it like this.

Zhang Bo kept shaking his head and sighing, it seems that it is not a good thing to hand over the country to the eldest prince or the second highness, the only thing that can be entrusted by the third highness, but ...... The Third Highness is another blind man. How can there be a reason for a blind man to be an emperor in the world? He can't even see the cantata, and he has to ask someone else to read it to him, who knows if this person who reads the cantata for him has evil intentions, and if he casually reads good things as bad things, won't the country be finished?

In fact, Li Jing has more than these three children, and His Royal Highness Li Congshan inherited his uncle's name, but he is only 12 years old this year. The remaining three princesses are of little use...... Could it be that Datang is going to die at the hands of these brothers?

Zhang Bo eats the king's luck and bears the king's worries. Now the best situation is to let Li Jing hold out for a few more years, although Li Jing is a loser, and the treasury has been squandered by him, but after all, he is a far-sighted and ambitious loser, and the reason why he fights all year round is also to keep his imperial power, if the Tang Dynasty is peaceful, the troops in his hands will be slowly reduced, and the emperor's power will only get weaker and weaker.

For example, if the situation is like this today, if the emperor does not drag his troops in his hands, he will be eaten by the princes from all walks of life, and after they have military power, they will have confidence, and their attitude towards the emperor is lukewarm. Although the emperor is still the emperor, sometimes the emperor's power is not absolute, which is the embarrassment of contemporary times.

If this system is not changed, the war will never stop. As a result, the only people who suffer are the people, and these emperors and princes don't know the suffering of the people at all, so they only know how to continue to develop their own power, the so-called competition for the world...... It's just a false dream, even if you win the world, the world is not the emperor's, only the person who changes this system is the real emperor, the real person who unifies the world.

In contrast, Zhang Bo actually prefers Guo Wei. Guo Wei was born in the market, and he said that all the national policies implemented after the emperor were beneficial to the people, but the emperor himself lost money to let the people develop. It is no wonder that Master Zongxin will do his best to help Guo Wei, as a monk, Master Zongxin hopes that the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and Guo Wei is really working hard to develop in this direction.

But it's a pity that Guo Wei is still not the one who can unify the world. This person is too benevolent and righteous, and the person who is the emperor should be ruthless enough, so he is ruthless enough to his own people. Like today's world, it is necessary to let a peerless devil be the emperor, and after the success, he will kill the ministers and monopolize all the power, only this kind of person can really change the current system.

Zhang Bo had nowhere to solve it, so he could only look at Matou Mountain left and right to relieve the displeasure in his heart. Every time I see Li Hongmao and Zhang Bo, I have to relieve for a long time, because this Second Highness is simply a waste, the best of the waste.

Suddenly, Zhang Bo swept his eyes and felt a little flash in Matou Mountain. Then he frowned, feeling that things were not good.

"Your Highness, the last general is extremely dangerous in this place, and it is very likely that the enemy army is hidden in the Matou Mountain, and the last general will see a little flash in the mountain, which must be the reflection of the sunlight after the weapon or armor has been polished and shiny. What will the last general see...... Either turn back or immediately assemble your defenses, and never allow the enemy to sneak attack. ”

Li Hongmao was surprised: "Is this true?"

"The last general thought that it was safest to do this, even if there were no enemy troops, it should be regarded as training. Let the soldiers get used to returning to the defense immediately, so as to increase the reaction of the soldiers. Your Highness hurriedly ordered, I felt that there were ambushes around me, and I was afraid that something big would happen. ”

"Well, everyone obeys the order and immediately returns to the defense, there seems to be an enemy army here. After Li Hongmao gave the order, he immediately conveyed it one by one, this order was well given, on the sheep intestine path where only two or three soldiers could walk side by side at a time, 8,000 soldiers immediately began to assemble in the same place, and the feet were either mud or gravel, and if they were slightly unstable, they would fall on their backs, and the whole team would be in a mess, so it was better not to assemble.

Seeing that this side began to assemble, and the assembly was so chaotic, the people in the mountains couldn't hold it back. The sound of the gong, more than 20 monsters with 3,000 ironclad cavalry rushed out of the mountain, in the face of this chaotic and very concentrated troops, there is no need for any tactics at all, the fine iron armor covers the whole body, the halberd is placed on the horse's neck, and it is a wave of harvest.

Because it was Zhao Kuangyin's black bull, it spewed a thick black smoke and rushed directly into the enemy's army, and the people on the road were either knocked into the air or trampled into pulp, and then the cavalry killed, just this charge, the entire army was reduced by more than eighty percent.

"Your Highness, run away. Zhang Bo couldn't manage so much at all, so he took the reins of Li Hongmao's horse, whipped the horse and immediately fled outside Matou Mountain. As for the rest of the soldiers, Zhang Bo knew that it was useless to care about them, only to let them fend for themselves, this time they were ambushed, and the other party was full of cavalry in fine iron armor, these infantry did not even have a chance to escape, these horses were covered with armor, and the resistance of the infantry was completely ineffective.

Now the only way to get rid of them is to take advantage of the fact that their horses are not burdened and can run faster than the horses of the cavalry. If you stay here, there is only a dead end.