Governor please stay

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Southwest of Yangqu City, on both banks of Fen River.Er Zhurong's army was on the north bank, and the army was well-organized.Gao Huan's army was on the south bank. Since they had just arrived and were reorganizing the army, they were obviously tired.

Gao Huan looked at this posture and had a bad premonition in his heart.Er Zhurong's department did not panic as expected, but stood ready at the critical point.

This battle was a conspiracy, and Gao Huan felt that time was on his side. Once the Hulu Department arrived and Er Zhurong was flanked by front and back, no matter how strict the army was, it would be useless.

The key to victory depends on the stamina of both parties!

Just as Gao Huan was hesitating, Er Zhurong's army had already started to cross the river. The river here was very shallow, not even reaching his thighs!

It was right for Er Zhurong to grab the time, because Hu Lujin of Xiurong City might reinforce Yangqu at any time and stab Er Zhurong from behind.

"Pass down the order and strike halfway."

Gao Huan said to Duan Rong beside him.

"King Gao, there are many cavalry in Erzhu's tribe, and Erzhuzhao has five thousand fine cavalry under his command. But the people crossing the river this time are all infantry. Where did Erzhu's cavalry go? I'm afraid it's a scam. It's not as good as the whole army. Temporarily retreat five miles to avoid fighting on the river bank."

Duan Shao, who was just about to hold his ground, couldn't help persuading Gao Huan.

It was a bit late to say this, there was no turning back when the bow was fired, the military order had already been conveyed, and it was too late to stop it.

Gao Huan also intuitively felt that something was wrong, he asked Duan Shao: "Is there any movement in Jinyang City?"

"Just now when we reported back from the expedition, the city gate of Jinyang was closed, and there was no sign of sending troops."

Duan Shao reported to Gao Huan.

That's not too bad!

Gao Huan breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, Murong Shaozong, who was guarding Jinyang, had no plans to preserve his strength.At this juncture, once Jinyang is empty, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Strive for a quick battle and a quick decision. If Erzhu Rong is defeated, Murong Shaozong must surrender. Success or failure will depend on this one time."

Gao Huan said in a deep voice, and patted Duan Shao on the shoulder.

In fact, what he didn't know was that the suspicious Er Zhurong didn't tell Murong Shaozong the news of the decisive battle with Gao Huan in the south of Quyang.Even Murong Shaozong was kept in the dark about the news that Bei Xiurong had been taken.

Er Zhurong was afraid that if the other party found out, he would immediately betray him.

"Dong dong dong dong dong!"

On the other side of the Fenshui River, the sound of the big drum was as deafening as thunder.

The soldiers of Erzhu Rongjun rushed over the river like their lives. Although the sword and shield soldiers were all facing forward with small shields, many people were shot and fell into the river. Soon, this section of Fenshui was dyed red.

The two armies met hand in hand on the river beach and fought.

Gao Huan didn't like this kind of unskilled fighting. If he could not fight such a battle, he would rather not fight it for the rest of his life.

The infantry of Er Zhurong's army crossing the river were like waves hitting the rocks. Although they could occasionally break through Duan Shao's first line of defense in front, they couldn't rush to Gao Huan who was observing the situation behind.

Mo Dolou, who was fighting on the front line, broke several of his knives, and his whole body was stained red like a blood demon.

"It's not right!"

Gao Huan muttered to himself.

Er Zhurong shouldn't have this ability alone.At this time, although Er Zhurong's army was full of fighting spirit, those were the morale of the soldiers, and had nothing to do with Er Zhurong's command in front of the battle.

At this time, Er Zhurong's command was similar to that of a fledgling ignorant and reckless man, who only knew how to heap human lives and fight for soldiers' blood and bravery.

At this moment, smoke was lit from behind Er Zhurong's army. Gao Huan first thought that Hu Lujin's men were coming, but before he had half an injection of incense, countless cavalry rushed out from the left wing of the army!

Oops!

Gao Huan's heart skipped a beat, and she sank to the bottom of the valley.

I kept chasing without carefully surveying the terrain. There was a dense forest not far to the left of the army. I didn't expect Er Zhurong to have the courage to hide the main force of the cavalry in the dense forest!

"King Gao, I will escort you away first!"

Duan Shao ran over covered in blood, and said to Gao Huan in a low voice as he cupped his hands.

"The army has not retreated, how can this king..."

Gao Huan seemed to be muttering to himself, saying this mechanically with a deadpan face.Looking straight at the Er Zhu Rong cavalrymen who were getting closer and closer to the left, they just wanted to draw their swords and kill themselves.

"King Gao goes first!"

Duan Shao whipped Gao Huan's horse on the hind legs, and the horse turned around and ran away in fright.Duan Shao shouted to the soldiers around Gao Huan: "Escort Gao Wang to Qi County! Don't stop!"

Gao Huan ran on the front foot, and Er Zhurong's cavalry on the back foot smashed the left wing of Gao Huan's army!Sergeant Gao Huan's soldiers who were fighting Erzhu Rongjun's infantry on the river beach were under a lot of pressure!

Under the impact of the cavalry's flanks, the entire formation became disorganized.The soldiers fled one after another, and the front line quickly collapsed.Erzhu Rongjun's cavalry and infantry, like a pair of scissors, charged from the northwest and the north.

Wherever he went, there were dead bodies everywhere, and there were still wailing fish that slipped through the net.Er Zhuzhao, the leader of the army, kept smashing through the enemy's formation, then turned around and divided the cavalry into several teams, chasing down Gao Huan's defeated soldiers.

In the battle of Yangqu, Gao Huan's army was defeated by Er Zhurong's cavalry, and the generals and soldiers under his command fled in all directions.After the battle, Er Zhurong did not pursue Gao Huan, but led his army straight to Xiurong City.

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In the autumn of this year, Xin Zhuan, the prefect of Xuanhu in Wei State, was thinking of surrendering after he learned that the person who came to meet him was Cao Yizong, governor of Yongzhou in Liang State.

Facing the arrogance of Cao Yizong's envoy, Xin Zui remained calm, and fully agreed to the conditions proposed in Cao Yizong's letter.However, when Cao Yizong was full of joy and came to take over Xuanhu City with his trilogy, Xin Zuan, who had already been ambushing around Xuanhu, suddenly attacked!

For a while, the Liang army was defeated, and even Cao Yizong himself was captured by Xin Zuan!Xin Zuan got cheap and acted like a good boy. He wrote a letter to Xiao Yan, accusing Liang Guo of dishonesty and attempting to deceive the city into killing people.

Xiao Yan had no choice but to forward the letter to Shouyang, asking Liu Yishou to "do things cheaply".

It was just a trivial matter of taking over the city, but in the end it turned into a false surrender, not to mention Cao Yizong was captured and held as a hostage.

In the study of the Shouyang City Government Office, Liu Yishou and his subordinates Wang Wei, Chen Yuankang and others looked at each other in dismay, unable to believe that such a thing was actually true.

"Actually, I already guessed that this guy is a trash. However, it still surprises me that this guy is such a trash."

Liu Yishou spread out the letter on the table and asked everyone, "What do you think should be done?"

Chapter 371 There are always people who want to harm me

Mao Xi, who joined the army as a secretary, sat in front of the desk next to Liu Yishou, silently watching Liu Yishou arguing with Chen Yuankang and Wang Wei.

While making notes, he sighed silently in his heart. This young, handsome and charismatic Dudu Liu had a very difficult life.

The Dudu Liu in the imagination of outsiders should be a beauty in his arms, singing and dancing, wearing fresh clothes and angry horses, berating Fang Qiu, flirting with women, and getting things done while lying down.

It's okay to wander around the states and counties under its jurisdiction, and see Meijiao Niang staying overnight and picking wild flowers.Beat anyone who is upset when he sees it, and live the life that Xiao Zhengde usually lives in.

In reality, Dudu Liu is in meetings every day, approving official documents, writing regulations, patrolling everywhere to observe the people's conditions, and it is common for Dudu to come back in the middle of the night covered in mud.

After everything is done, I have to coax all the beautiful ladies at home.Anyone who knows about the intercourse on the bed knows everything, and Mao Xi has a family himself, not a kid who doesn't know anything.

Mao Xi asked himself, if he was as busy as Liu Yishou, he would definitely fall asleep when he came back at night, even if Xi Shi didn't have the energy to take a look in front of him.

A man is a tiger when he is free, and a dead dog when he is busy. The state is not the same.

"Bo Wu (Mao Xibiao), what do you think of this matter?"

Liu Yishou noticed that Mao Xi was distracted, so he reminded him.Liu Yishou can take fish by himself at work, but his subordinates must not take fish at work, otherwise he will be the master of the devil.

"Back to the governor, my subordinates do have some opinions on this matter."

Mao Xi cupped his hands and said.When his mind wandered away, he still knew what he should be busy with.

"Speak." Liu Yishou spat out a word.

"Cao Yizong is the ninth younger brother of the famous general Cao Jingzong, who was born in a noble family in Xinye, and has accumulated three dynasties..." Mao Xi said eloquently, Wang Wei got dizzy and said impatiently: "There is no need to say any more, let's just talk about the main points. "

"Yes." Mao Xi was not angry, bowed to Liu Yishou and continued: "On the surface, the Cao family is quite powerful, second to none in Xinye. However, there is no one in the family who can lead troops to fight. Although Cao Yizong is greedy, Shameless, but he is already the last representative of the Cao family in the military.

Now that Cao Yizong is captured, the Cao family must be in chaos.My lord can write a letter and tell Cao Jingzong's son Cao Jiao that we can exchange Cao Yizong back.But in the future, the Cao family will not be able to pass through Huaizhou, and our soldiers and horses will be stationed there. "

Ok?

Liu Yishou, Wang Wei, and Chen Yuankang looked at each other, as if surprised by Mao Xi's starting point.Contacting Cao, who had conflicts before, I have to say that Mao Xi seems to have a very tricky perspective on the issue.

Liu Yishou and the others wanted to connect with Xiao Yan, and after getting the chicken feather from the imperial court, go to Sizhou to use it as an arrow.

Unexpectedly, Mao Xi found another way. This matter is not to play with Xiao Yan, but with the "suffering master" Cao Yizong's family.After negotiating with the Cao family, they in turn forced the Jiankang court to agree to this matter.

For a while, the atmosphere in the study was rather dull, and everyone fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Mao Xi continued: "After Cao Jingzong passed away, his son Cao Jiao inherited the title of Duke Jingling. Although he has no ability, he is also a person who can speak on the surface.

When we send troops into Beiyiyang County forcefully, the imperial court will probably criticize us, and the local power faction will also think that we are meddling in our own business and have other plans.

If the Cao family invites us to join Sizhou (the state where Beiyiyang County is located, in the area of ​​Zhumadian in Xinyang), then we are well-known teachers, and we only need to write a letter to the central government.As long as Jiankang didn't say no, everything was acquiesced.

If someone in the center publicly accuses us, not only will they offend us, but they will also offend the Cao family and those local power factions who are so sad.The subordinates figured out that there shouldn't be such a stupid person, right? "

Don't look at Mao Xi's disdain for Cao Jiao in his words. In fact, Cao Jiao is much older than Liu Yishou. I don't know how much, but he must be 50 years old.

Before the age of 50, he had never led an army or served in the imperial court, but he handed over the family military power to his uncle Cao Yizong, which is enough to show that this person must be mediocre.

Mao Xi eloquently said a lot, but everyone understood what he meant.To play a game, there must be rules of the game. Since the situation in Liang Guo itself is that the local power faction is extremely powerful, it might as well "just let the soup go down".

Of course, Sizhou is the place where Cao's soldiers and horses garrisoned, and Xuanhu is adjacent to Huaizhou in the south, Sizhou in the west of Huaizhou, and Anfeng Prefecture in the east. Anfeng Prefecture is a small town affiliated to the northwest of Shaopi. Zhouzhou, currently under the control of Liu Yishou, is a "granary" used to farm and irrigate.

In other words, Cao Yizong's faction was itself arranged by Xiao Yan to check and balance Xia Houkui, and after Shouyang changed masters, it became used to check and balance Liu Yishou.

If Huaizhou and Xuanhu in the north can be dealt with, then the tentacles of power can be extended to Henan.It got rid of a force that hindered itself, and occupied two more states, and directly bordered Wei State Henan.This is much more than just taking the land of a state.

More importantly, there is an area in the Pishihang Irrigation District. It is really not too cool to use the pretext of repairing the irrigation area to make all kinds of troubles.

"This plan is very good."

Liu Yishou nodded slightly, a person who knows how to do it really hits the nail on the head.

"I believe you to write, be more sincere. I won't bother the two masters with one thing."

He patted Mao Xi on the shoulder, and said to Chen Yuankang and the others: "Today there is a good show in the outskirts of the city, you follow me."

After the three of them left the city under the guard of Yuan Shikang, Hu Luxian, who was staying in the yard, walked into the study calmly and squeezed beside Mao Xi, holding a torn book in his hand, as if he had flipped through it a lot all over.

Uh...Mao Xi really doesn't understand how a vulture-shooting barbarian has anything to do with him.

"Well, Mr. Mao, can you tell me about the "Zuoshi Chunqiu"?"

Hu Luxian looked expectantly at Mao Xi.

You learn to fight by riding a horse, you just need to bend your bow and shoot an arrow. Look at Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period!

Mao Xi originally wanted to say something, but felt that it was not polite. After all, it was the first time someone asked him for advice.He pretended to be deep and asked: "Which one is it, let me read it for you."

"In "Cao Gui's Controversy", it says that meat eaters are despicable and can't seek far. What does it mean?"

Hu Luxian asked suspiciously.

This time Mao Xi was really stopped.

The "meat eaters" like Liu Yishou are really cunning and cunning. Can you say that they "failed to plan far away".

"Is the carnivore referring to the rich and powerful? I see that the lord and all the counselors are constantly plotting, what does this failure to seek far-reaching mean?" Hu Luxian asked suspiciously.

"This is just Cao GUI's rebuttal to his fellow countrymen. If he had said similar things in front of Duke Zhuang of Lu, he would have been beheaded long ago. It's like bragging that they can't do it, let me do it. Don't take it seriously as meat eaters. "

After speaking, Mao Xi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and cursed Hu Luxian for being a monster in his heart.

"And here, "Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan", why can't Zheng Zhuanggong be brothers and educate his younger brother? I think Zheng Zhuanggong deliberately indulged his younger brother so that people in the country would think that Gong Shuduan was a waste and troublemaker. If Zheng Zhuanggong did not indulge, brother Youdi Gong, I'm afraid there won't be such a tragedy, right? After all, they are born of the same mother."

Hu Luxian asked another tricky question.

Mao Xi thought that the other party just asked which word he didn't know and didn't pay much attention.It is only now that I realize that people are not judged by appearances, and Hu Luxian, who usually looks like a young martial artist, can actually read books and read his mind, which is very rare!

"Duke Zheng Zhuang indeed used Yangmou to deal with his younger brother Gongshuduan, which is despised by future generations. But those who write history books can't directly write these words. Winners and losers, that's all."

Mao Xi sighed.

"By the way, aren't you good at archery? Zuo's age is not very useful. You should practice archery."

Mao Xi suddenly remembered this.

"Xiang Wang once said that learning literature and writing is enough. Learning swordsmanship is one enemy, and I want to learn ten thousand enemies. I think so. Everyone in the mansion reads books, and it has become a common practice. If I don't study, I'm not General Lianyuan. Is it worse?"

Well, this is also good advice, but Yuanshi Kang Fengping was killed.Mao Xi nodded slightly, feeling that Hu Luxian's example of Xiang Yu was awkward.

"Mr. Mao, it's impolite to call him by his first name, and it's a little strange to call you sir. From now on, you and I will take care of each other under the command of the lord. No one is around on weekdays. Should I call you Amao, or Axie?"

Hu Lu was envious of the young mind, and asked a very abrupt question.

Ah Xi sounded like the nickname of a female servant, Mao Xi sighed helplessly, and said with a blank expression: "If you want to call me, you can call me Amao from now on."

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On the outskirts of Shouyang, Yuan Shikang led a team of personal guards and was tinkering with a row of bamboo tubes fixed on a wooden frame.There is a commonly used hemp rope on each bamboo tube.