Chapter 182: Jizhou and Caozhou, two ways to transfer troops

"Wen Zhong's old puppet, he deceives people too much!"

In Fei Zhong's mansion, who had just been promoted to a doctor not long ago, an angry and angry curse came from the study.

When the people nearby heard this scolding, the object of the scolding was actually Wen Taishi, the number one person in the court today, and they couldn't help but change color, and hurriedly walked away, lest they hear something that should not be heard and burn themselves.

In the study, Chonghou Hu's face was full of anger, Fei Zhong's face was sinking like water, You Hao's face was bitter, the three of them sat opposite each other, and there were three edicts on the table in the middle.

The marshal and the overseer were said to be in charge of life and death, but the three men who were appointed to this appointment had no sense of joy, only the heavy pressure and the fear of facing a great threat.

"The matter is irreparable, and it is useless to say such cruel words. Fei Zhong stretched out his hand to pick up the edict, "For today's plan, the only way to fight this battle is to find a way." If we win, we will all be promoted to rank and knighted, and if we are defeated, Hugh said that if we can escape with our lives on the battlefield, then Wen Zhong, who has three eyes on the three of us, will definitely kill people on the charge of 'losing a teacher and humiliating the country'!"

The expression on Chonghou Hu's face turned from anger to horror: "Brother Fei isn't joking? Against Li Jing, how can we have half a chance of winning? Doesn't it mean that everyone is dead?"

"Not necessarily," Fei Zhong shook his head slowly, "Wen Zhong's old man has a good saying, Li Jing only occupies a corner of the land after all, and his human and financial resources are limited after all. If we have men and horses in our hands who have an absolute advantage in numbers, no matter what tactics we have, we can just crush the past with strength and skill, no matter how powerful Li Jing is. But there are not enough soldiers and horses in his hands, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. ”

"Brother Fei is high. There is a lot of truth to this. You Hao has always looked at Fei Dumas, and he habitually praised it when he heard the words. Then he said bitterly, "It's hateful that Wen Zhong refused to hand over to me and others under the pretext that the army of the Northern Expedition had become a tired army, and now we can only count on Brother Chong, your people and horses in the North." Brother Chong, please give your brother a solid explanation, how many men and horses do you have in your hands now, what is the ordnance and equipment, and what is the combat power?"

Chonghou Hu's face showed embarrassment, and he said in a slur manner: "Because the younger brother is accompanying you in the court." The cost on weekdays is very large, so Chongcheng has eliminated a lot of people and horses, and now there are less than 100,000 people, and the ordnance and equipment have not been replaced for many years, as for the combat power......

"You ......" Fei Zhong and You Hao were so angry that they jumped up from their seats, pointing at Chonghou Hu's nose and wanting to scold, but then they thought of the "expenses" he said, half of which was naturally used to curry favor with the King of Zhou, and the other half almost went into the pockets of the two of them. At this time, it was a little unreasonable to blame him because of this, and finally he sat down with anger.

Fei Zhong calmed down the anger in his heart and asked again: "As the chief of the northern princes, the princes of the four hundred towns are all under your command. Since the people and horses directly under him are not of great use, how about ordering the requisition of soldiers and horses in various towns?"

Chonghou Hu's face was even more embarrassed, and he said after a long pause: "After the junior brother inherited the position of the Northern Bohou." The princes of the towns have never been very respectful, so there was Yuan Lang's rebellion at the beginning. Later, the younger brother wanted to prevent the old things from repeating themselves. He ordered the princes of each town to reduce their troops and horses, and the violators were punished for plotting misdeeds. ”

"Stupid!" Fei Zhong and You Hao discovered for the first time that Chonghou Hu, who usually seemed to be smart and clever, was so stupid. I didn't want to use the means of division and disintegration, bribery and co-optation to surrender those princes at all, but blindly relied on power to suppress them, no wonder when Yuan Futong plotted again, the princes of the northern land gathered to respond, and the momentum was even better than that of his father Yuan Lang.

Chonghou Hu also knew that what he had done was really outrageous, so he had to honestly admit his mistake and ask Fei Zhong for advice: "Brother Fei, you have always been resourceful, and I hope you must think of a perfect plan." ”

Fei Zhong was silent for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "You should still have two strong troops in the north, if you can mobilize them, you will have at least 200,000 horses, and then you Chongcheng and the rest of the princes' men and horses can be put together, how can you gather enough 150,000, with this 350,000 army, it should be enough to deal with Li Jing." ”

Chonghou Hu and You Hao were in high spirits, and hurriedly asked, "Are those two people?"

Fei Zhong stretched out two fingers and reported two people: "Jizhou Hou Suhu, Caozhou Hou Chong Black Tiger." ”

Chonghou Hu was happy at first, and then said with some disappointment: "Brother Fei, Chonghou Hu and I are the same mother, although he looked down on me as a brother in the past, but such a matter of life and death, he will definitely not sit idly by." But Su Hu and the younger brother, especially the two of you, have always been at odds, and now he is the lord of the country, and the younger brother has no right to recruit him, I am afraid that he will not be able to count on it. ”

Fei Zhong was confident, waved his hand and smiled: "Brother Chong, why have you forgotten, although Su Hu is not compatible with us, he has even more grudges with Li Jing. At the beginning, he rebelled because he was unwilling to sacrifice his daughter to the palace, and His Majesty used the strategy of a foolish brother to send Li Jing to crusade against Su Hu, wanting to make him fight against each other. Li Jing surrendered to Su Hu in a battle, and forced him to send his daughter for forgiveness. Although Su Hu has never expressed it, will he have no grudge against Li Jing? What's more, Su Hu's temperament is as fierce as fire, and we only need to send a person who can speak well to provoke his old grudge against Li Jing with words, and guarantee that he will lead his troops to come!"

"Brother Fei, the two of us are far inferior!" Chonghou Hu and You Hao applauded together.

Without further ado, Chonghou Hu immediately drafted two letters, and asked Fei Zhong to edit them on his behalf, and then transcribe them and seal them. Then he chose two henchmen to serve as messengers, and the person who sent the letter to Chonghou Tiger was just a personal soldier who had followed Chonghou Hu for many years, but the person who escorted the letter to Su was the most improvisable and clever person carefully selected by Fei Zhong from his own mansion. Fei Zhong was still not at ease, and after admonishing him in person, he sent him to Jizhou overnight to write a book.

It is said that the messenger to Jizhou, because of the strict order of his master, rewarded him heavily, so the people on the road did not stop, non-stop, and rushed to Jizhou day and night.

He came to the door of the Hou Mansion and dismounted, and after he stepped forward to inform him of his identity, the doorman turned around and went in, and came back after a short time to say that the Hou Ye had summoned him.

The envoy entered the palace with him, and saw Jizhou Hou Suhu sitting on a tiger skin chair on the Yin'an Palace, and there was a son Su Quanzhong standing with a sword beside him. He hurriedly stepped forward to bow down and salute, saying, "The villain greets the Hou Ye!"

Su Hu didn't see a look of joy and anger on his face, and asked in a deep voice: "I heard that you are from the mansion of Dr. Fei Zhong, but this time you came to write on behalf of the Northern Bohou, what is going on?"

The envoy bowed again and said: "The reason is in the handwritten letter of the Northern Bohou, and the Hou Ye will naturally understand it after reading the letter. ”

Su Hu nodded and said, "In this case, present the letter." ”

The messenger took out the letter and held it high above the top, Su Quanzhong came over and took the letter, turned around and handed it to his father.

After receiving the letter, Su Hu spread out the paper and watched, his face finally changed color slightly, he looked at it several times, lowered his head and pondered for a long time, suddenly raised his hand and slapped the table case heavily, and shouted: "The traitor is so bold!" (to be continued......