Zhu Nao

While Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji were inquiring about other troops, the other troops were also inquiring about them.

Xuzhou.

Xie Wuchen played chess with Liu Jingfeng in the house.

Xie Wuchen sat in front of the table, staring at the chess game with frowned eyes.More than half of the battles have been fought on the chessboard, the black and the white two each occupy half of the country, strangling to death on a piece of hinterland.Whoever can grab this hinterland will win this game of chess.

After hesitating for a moment, Xie Wuchen picked up the sunspot, and with a "click", it landed somewhere.

Liu Jingfeng who was sitting opposite him raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sure you want to land here?"

Xie Wuchen sat upright: "Sure."

Liu Jingfeng reminded: "Falling here will take your breath away. Are you sure you don't want to think about it anymore?"

A piece of chess piece that black and white are fighting has not been done, and they are sharing a few breaths.Xie Wuchen shortened his opponent's breath, and at the same time shortened his own breath.

Xie Wuchen was unmoved: "I have no regrets. It's your turn."

Liu Jingfeng just didn't move, and entangled with him winkingly: "I kindly remind you, if you play here, you will lose."

Xie Wuchen raised his eyelids to look at him, with a slightly impatient look on his face: "Are you still going down?"

Liu Jingfeng rolled his eyes, curled his lips and said, "A dog biting Lu Dongbin doesn't know a good heart!"

His eyes rolled around, he got a wicked look, and suddenly changed into a teasing and ambiguous expression, and leaned his upper body towards Xie Wuchen: "Hey, should we gamble? If I win this game, thank you Qi The young master will sleep with me tonight."

Thinking of beautiful things, he couldn't help but chuckled, and said again: "If you win this game of chess, I'll sleep with you for one night. I'll take care of you, Bao~jun~man~yi~"

Xie Wuchen didn't move, his eyes continued to stare at the chessboard: "No gambling."

Liu Jingfeng: "..."

If you cast a wink at a stone, it's probably nothing more than that.He finally grabbed a chess piece, slapped it on the board, and hummed: "It's boring!"

As soon as his piece landed, Xie Wuchen's face flashed a look of surprise, obviously he missed this move.He thought about catching Heizi for a long time, but he still couldn't let go.

Liu Jingfeng said: "Don't think about it, I told you earlier that you will lose if you play there. But if you are willing to sleep with me for a night, I will allow you to regret a move."

Xie Wuchen said coldly: "If you say that you have no regrets, you will have no regrets." After speaking, he took another step.

This move is a bit messy.The defeat is set, and he still insists on dying, as if he can find another way to survive if he doesn't give up.Anyone who can understand chess can see that there is no possibility of a comeback in this game.

Liu Jingfeng tutted his head and shook his head: "You thank your family, you all look serious and dignified, but in fact, one is more stubborn than the other, and one is crazier than the other. If you don't hit the south wall, you won't turn back, and if you hit the wall, you have to compare who hard head."

Xie Wuchen retorted: "Where's your Liu family? Are you more dissolute and lustful than the other?"

Liu Jingfeng wasn't annoyed at all, on the contrary, he liked this comment quite a bit, and said with a smile: "Brother Wuchen, you have wronged me. I only do this in front of you. If you want to blame, blame you for being so handsome that you seduced me. Seeing you makes my heart itch." As he said, he moved his fingers along the chessboard, wanting to eat Xie Wuchen's tofu.

Xie Wuchen remained expressionless, and swat him away like a fly.

Liu Jingfeng pursed his mouth, and suddenly remembered something, touched his chin and said, "Speaking of which, all of you Xie family children are like jade people. I remember that Xie Wuji was the most handsome when I was young. The wind and the sun in the north have ruined it."

Xie Wuchen snorted coldly, as if he didn't want to hear the name Xie Wuji.

Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Xie Wuchen said: "Come in."

The person outside the house opened the door and came in. He was a spy in charge of inquiring about news.The spy reported: "Chang Shi, the captain, the Chengdu government army and Xie Wuji army have arrived in Ruzhou area, and they will reach Xuzhou in the next day or so."

Xie Wuchen asked: "Did they arrive together? How many people did they bring?"

The spies said: "The two armies are walking together, and we can't see the number of each. The two armies add up to about 1 people."

Both Xie Wuchen and Liu Jingfeng were taken aback.Armies together?There is such a thing? If there were 1 people, did they each bring 5000 people?

Liu Jingfeng said to Xie Wuchen: "The relationship between your younger brother and the Shu army is already so good? - That's right, I heard that he brought a group of people to Guanzhong to garrison, and the Shu people also went to Guanzhong In business, the two sides have very close contacts, and it seems that some kind of alliance has been formed. I just feel sorry for the Governor of Fei, watching others fight fiercely in his own territory."

He said again: "He has such a powerful ally from the Shu people, it seems that he is going to do something big in the north. No wonder his family business doesn't want to go back."

Xie Wuchen said with a sneer: "What kind of alliance is nothing more than the same interests and each takes what he needs. Isn't everything in the world like this? When the interests collide, he and the people of Shu will immediately face each other and kill each other."

Liu Jingfeng couldn't help but licked his lips: "Why do I think that you are talking about your Xie family and our Liu family?"

Xie Wuchen glanced at him, but did not deny it.

Both the Xie family and the Liu family are wealthy families in the Huining area, and they are also the real masters of the Jiangning mansion.Han Rushan, governor of Jiangning Prefecture, is nothing more than a balancer caught between the clans.The relationship between Xie's family and Liu's family is quite delicate. When the interests are the same, they will be in harmony, and when the interests are not in harmony, they will fight violently, causing the whole Huining area to be restless.

After a while, Xie Wuchen spoke again, his eyes were cold: "He and that fool in Chengdu Mansion are not easy to save fuel. I'll just wait and see how long their alliance can last... huh!"

Liu Jingfeng couldn't help shivering.Although Xie Wuchen and Xie Wuji are of the same generation, they didn't get along very well since childhood.Two years ago, the Xie family sent Xie Sanbei to look for Xie Wuji, but Xie San was killed by Xie Wuji.Xie San is Xie Qi's elder brother, and he has a very good relationship with him since he was a child. For this reason, Xie Wuchen regards Xie Wuji as a thorn in his side.

Liu Jingfeng said: "Are you planning to sow discord?"

Xie Wuchen was noncommittal.He did.This time, they only brought 3000 people out of the Jiangning Mansion, because they were far away, and they didn't have much interest in King Qin's affairs, they just came here to go through the motions.It was impossible for him to trouble Xie Wuji himself, and he didn't want to do it himself.Since Xie Wuji is traveling with the Shu army, it is undoubtedly the best way to provoke the two sides to fight each other.

Liu Jingfeng wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he stopped.

After the spy went out, Xie Wuchen's eyes returned to the chessboard again: "It's your turn."

Liu Jingfeng was startled.Even though the winner has already been decided, Xie Wuchen still wants to play to the last one, and he doesn't know whether to say that he refuses to admit defeat or is not sensible.

Liu Jingfeng shook his head, and while cooperatingly grabbed the chess pieces, he continued to ask for cheap things: "Okay, okay, let's play with you. Then when will you be willing to sleep with me? Xie Qigongzi, old Qi, you Think about it again, how will you know if you don't try..."

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The Jiangning government army is leisurely and carefree, and they still want to play chess, because they didn't come here for King Qin.And the ones with the most fighting spirit right now are undoubtedly the Guangjin Army and the Henan Army.

It's just that their fighting spirit is not focused on dealing with the rebels in the capital, but on competing with each other.

Guangjin Mansion Governor Liu Song paced back and forth in the courtyard, and when it was almost dusk, the spies finally came back.

Liu Song quickly asked: "How is it? Have you found out clearly? How many people did they bring with Henan Mansion? Who led the team?"

Before sending troops, the princes of all parties have reported the number of soldiers and horses they want to bring.It's just that how much you report is one thing, but how much you really bring out is another.The more remote the place, the more false the number of people will be reported.He claimed to bring 5000 people out, but in fact he only brought one or two thousand.But the princes in the Central Plains will deliberately underreport, reporting six or seven thousand, but actually bring 1 people out.After all, they are close to each other, so it is easy to dispatch troops, and this time King Qin, whoever brings more soldiers and horses is more likely to get great credit.

The spy said: "I counted their stoves, and there are probably about ten thousand people. It is said that the governor of Lu Fu personally led the troops this time."

Liu Song squeezed his fist and smashed it on the fence, cursing: "I knew it!"

This time King Qin, it is not likely that the governors from all over the country will come in person, for example, Jiangning Mansion only sent Xie Wuchen and Liu Jingfeng to lead the troops.But of course the princes who value the affairs of the king must come out to sit in the town in person in order to issue orders and play by ear.

Liu Song attaches great importance to it, and Lu Guang obviously attaches no less importance than him.Once Qin Wang succeeds, their opportunities and benefits are the greatest.

Liu Song asked again: "How is their military equipment? What about food and grass? Is there enough food and grass? Are the troops strong and horses strong?"

He asked a bunch of questions, and the spy stammered, "Okay, it doesn't seem to be enough."

Liu Song glared at him: "What is it like?"

The spy shrank his neck and said in a low voice: "Fu Yin, I can't sneak into their arsenal to check..."

Although the armies of the various princes converged in Xuzhou and Songzhou, their respective settlements were separated by several miles.After all, the army has a large number of personnel, and getting too close can easily cause friction, and each army has its own secrets and small calculations, and they don't like to let others know.Therefore, they could only secretly send spies to inquire about other people's news, and tried their best to cover up their own news.

What the spies said was the same, Liu Song could only sigh angrily.

He and Lu Guang had a tacit understanding. They both reported 5000 people, but in fact they brought nearly [-] people out.Moreover, the two sides are close to each other, and the garrisons remaining in the jurisdiction are also ready to send additional troops to help at any time.In terms of numbers, it can be said that they can't take advantage of it.

But what worries Liu Song very much is that he is afraid that his own military equipment is not as good as Lu Guang's.

You must know that the princes in the Central Plains are probably the most recruited among the princes in the country, because the Central Plains has been in chaos for several years, and there are bandits everywhere. If there is no large army stationed, the government may not be able to defend it.But also because of the war, the prefectures in the Central Plains are also the poorest.

Just like Liu Song, his Guangjin Mansion has 3 to [-] permanent troops, and if it is temporarily recruited, another [-] to [-] militiamen can be recruited.But his entire army has only a few thousand weapons—that is, not even everyone in his army has a weapon.A large number of soldiers can only use wooden sticks as weapons.

Most of the thousands of weapons are already rusted.After all, there are no copper or iron deposits in the Central Plains, and they use weapons that have been hoarded in their arsenal for decades.

Therefore, although the army has a large number of people, it is difficult to say the actual combat power.

The spies comforted: "Fu Yin, Guangjin Mansion has no iron mines, and Henan Mansion has no iron mines either. In terms of chaos, their place is a little more chaotic than ours, and they must be no better than us."

Liu Song sighed, "I hope so."