Zhu Nao

A month later.

At noon, the sun was shining brightly and the weather was hot. A group of soldiers gathered by the river to enjoy the shade.Some people soaked in the river, some sat on the bank, chatting with each other.

"Hey, we're going to attack Ruyang tomorrow. I'm really not at ease. You said there are so many passers-by here, why did they choose us?"

"Didn't the commander say that he won this opportunity on purpose. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River paid a lot of money. As long as we can break through Ruyang, we will be rewarded! Each of us can get a hundred buckets of rice!"

"That's what you say, but you have to win the battle and survive to receive the reward, right? That's the Shu army! General Shangguan and even General Tao have been defeated by them..."

"But the commander said that the troops guarding Ruyang are mainly the former troops of General Shangguan. Although they surrendered to the Emperor of Shu, they may not really be willing to work for the Shu people. We still have a great chance of winning!"

"It would be great if this is the case..."

While everyone was talking, a man walked towards the river.Seeing them from a distance, he shouted at them: "Brothers!"

Several people saw him and waved to him: "Xiao Jiu is here."

The young man named Xiao Jiu quickened his pace and ran towards them. When he got close, they suddenly found that Xiao Jiu had bruises on his face and a few pieces of skin on his arms, and they were shocked.

"Xiao Jiu, what's wrong with you? Someone beat you?"

Xiao Jiu spat with a full face: "Brother Li and I were walking on the road just now, and we met a group of Yunzhou soldiers. They recognized us as Taining soldiers, deliberately blocked our way, and humiliated us with words, saying One of our Taining soldiers has big ears and the other has small ears—they are bastards bred by mating pigs and dogs. Li Ge was so angry that he pushed them with his hands. They beat us up because of their numbers. , and kidnapped Brother Li!"

"What?!" Several people jumped up immediately, and the people who had been soaking in the river to enjoy the shade quickly climbed up from the river.

"That group of beasts really said that?!"

Xiao Jiu nodded again and again: "Really, look at my injury, it was they who beat me!"

Those who are resting by the river right now are Taining soldiers. They used to have a feud with Yunzhou soldiers in order to fight for territory, and the two sides have always disliked each other.But the military officer had warned the soldiers not to cause trouble, otherwise they would be severely punished, so people have been enduring it.

But tomorrow they will go to the battlefield, and their hearts are a little depressed, and they heard that their brothers were beaten by Yunzhou soldiers, and the Yunzhou soldiers still spoke rudely, how could they bear it?A group of young men exploded on the spot.

"This matter can't just be left alone! Go, Xiao Jiu, you lead the way, and the brothers will avenge you!"

"That's right! If they dare to scold us and arrest our people, how old are they? If they don't teach them a lesson, they will lose their minds!"

"Go, go now!"

When Xiao Jiu saw everyone gearing up, she was secretly delighted.

In fact, he is not a Taining soldier at all, but the secret work of the Shu army, which was mixed into the Taining soldier.There are many soldiers and horses in the Liang State, fish and dragons are mixed, not to mention people from different armies, even in the same army, there are tens of thousands of people, and they don't all recognize each other.Even though Tian Chou installed many supervising troops, this chaotic situation could not be improved at all for a year or so.

Therefore, since the Liang army arrived in Henan, many details of the Shu army have been mixed into the enemy army.Xiao Jiu is one of them.He is sweet-talking and clever, and knows how to flatter. All day long, his elder brother grows older than his elder brother, and within a few days, he met a group of people in the Taining army, and no one doubted his identity.

Everyone clamored for Xiaojiu to lead the way and to teach the Yunzhou army a lesson, but Xiaojiu held them back and said, "We can't just go like this. When I escaped, those bastards knew that I would ask my brothers to back me up. So put down the harsh words, saying that they will wait in the barracks in Nanlin, and let me lead people there if I have the ability."

There are only a dozen or twenty of them here, but the other party is in the barracks, and if they don't bring a hundred or ten people to call the door, they will suffer a loss.

And how could these Taining soldiers who were dazzled by anger stand up to this aggressive method?Immediately, he yelled: "Let's go, we will also call people in the barracks! We must clean up those beasts today!"

Seeing that things went well, Xiao Jiu couldn't help but be overjoyed.His purpose is to aggravate the conflict. If he can really encourage hundreds of Taining soldiers to rush to the Yunzhou barracks, can this matter be resolved?Dozens of people can coerce hundreds of people, and hundreds of people can coerce thousands of people, without worrying about things not ending!

A group of big-headed soldiers were clamoring and walking towards the barracks. Suddenly, Taining soldiers came from the west again.As soon as they saw their colleagues coming, they were about to pull them together, but they didn't expect those Taining soldiers to lead a supervising soldier, pointing at Xiao Jiuzhi as they walked.The supervisor walked towards Xiao Jiu with a murderous expression on his face.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Jiu instinctively felt something was wrong, and took two steps back.He hesitated for a moment, but the superintendent pointed at him and shouted loudly: "Catch that spy quickly, don't let him get away!"

Xiao Jiu was taken aback, and immediately didn't dare to take any chances, so she turned her head and ran away!

Fortunately, those Taining soldiers who were clamoring to avenge him just now didn't know what happened, and couldn't understand what was going on with the "fine work". Instead of arresting him, they even stopped him.

Xiao Jiu didn't dare to go back, and went straight to the dense bushes.After running for tens of feet, the footsteps behind him gradually became lighter, and he finally threw off the pursuers.He was exhausted, but he didn't dare to stop, and continued to drill into the depths of the woods with heavy steps...

……

In a remote and dilapidated earth temple, about twenty men sat in several rows, all of them downcast.

Yang Lie stood in front of the land statue with an unusually solemn expression.

Over the past few years, Wei Yue has trained a special service battalion for Zhu Nao—that is, a special operation battalion, and Yang Lie is an officer of the special service battalion.In the past few years, they followed Zhu Nao to fight in the north and south, and completed many special tasks.This time Zhu Nao handed over the task of alienating Liang Guojun to Yang Lie.

Because they knew in advance that Liang Guojun would march into Henan, although the Shu army retreated to Hulao Pass, Yang Lie stayed in front with many people.As soon as Liang Guojun arrived, he arranged for these people to sneak into Liang Guojun.

He had thought the task would be easy.We must know that the larger the size of the army and the more complicated its origins, the more difficult it will be to govern and the more chaotic it will be.For example, Tian Chou led an army of 12 to the expedition this time, and they were all mobs, so it must be a mess.Wouldn't it be too easy for him to sow dissension and disintegrate the morale of the army?

He was confident at first, but after a month, he finally realized that he underestimated the enemy!This matter is far from easy as he imagined.

The ones sitting in the earth temple right now are all the secret agents of the Shu army who escaped from the battalions after being exposed in the past month. There are also many secret agents of the Shu army who failed to escape after being discovered and fell into the hands of Liang Guojun. .

After paying such a heavy price, have they gained anything in this month?In fact, it cannot be said that there is no such thing. They spread rumors everywhere and provoke conflicts, and quite a few times they succeeded in causing internal strife among Liang Guo's troops.But those failed to meet Yang Lie's expectations.

What Yang Lie hoped was that several people from the Liang Kingdom would quarrel, fight each other, and turn their faces completely.But so far, the few conflicts they have provoked have not caused any major conflicts. The most serious one was just a group fight with hundreds of people, which was quickly stopped by the supervisory army, although both sides had some Complaints, but in the end the matter was settled.

why?Yang Lie has already noticed that the people in power from all walks of life don't seem to want to make things big.And because these officers are in control, they cannot achieve their goals by provoking the soldiers below.

That's weird...

Yang Lie thought for a moment, and said: "In the past month, have you heard that Tian Chou used some means to win over those officers?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.They also found that those officers were not as resistant to Tian Chou as they had imagined, and even agreed with Tian Chou to place supervisors in their army.They also deliberately inquired, but failed to find out the real reason.

Xiao Jiu said: "Lieutenant Yang, I only know that Commander Taining has been agitating the morale of the army recently. He said that Chen Guo gave him a big reward. Whoever can capture Ruyang from all walks of life will get the reward and be rich enough. It’s been half his life. He also said that the old troops of Shangguan Xian are guarding Ruyang now, and those old troops are alienated from our Shu army, so Ruyang is not difficult to attack. The Taining army is inspired by him, and their morale is now good.”

Yang Lie frowned even tighter.The attitude of those officers is very important to them. If the officers avoid fighting, no matter how large the army is, it will be just for display.But if the officers are fighting for meritorious service, it will be very disadvantageous for Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji.

Is it really because of the heavy reward given by Chen Guo?

He always felt that things were not that simple...

After a while, he rubbed his forehead and said: "Go and inform the people who are still lurking in the armies so that they don't act rashly anymore. First, we should first find out the news, and find out as soon as possible what method Tian Chou used to control the entire army."

He also knows that time is of the essence, and Zhu Nao hopes that this battle can be resolved quickly, otherwise, if the war drags on for a long time, it will cause damage to the treasury and people's livelihood.It has been a month now, and he has not made any progress, which is really a bit of dereliction of duty.

But in the current deadlock, the more impatient he is, the more helpless he becomes. If he continues to advance aggressively, he will only lose more subordinates.It can only be tolerated temporarily.

Of course, it has a bearing on the overall situation, and he must not deceive others in order to evade responsibility.So he ordered to his confidant: "Find a way to report the situation here to General Xie, and see if General Xie has any other instructions."

The confidant took the order and hurried to go.

……

Ruyang.

Xie Wuji stood on the high ground, overlooking the plain below.

The plain was a mess, and the enemy was retreating—they had just repelled another attack.Ordinarily, Xie Wuji should be happy that the war was won, but the expression on his face was extremely serious.

Liang Guojun was really beyond his expectation.

During this month, Liang Guojun launched three attacks on Ruyang. Although they were repelled three times, they were all aggressive.It is true that Liang Guojun's combat power is weak, but they are not as negative as Xie Wujiyuan imagined.

Now the battlefield is scattered, apart from the corpses of soldiers, there are also a large number of damaged fortifications.So far, Xie Wuji has won every time beautifully. Relying on the fortifications he had arranged long ago and his excellent command, he killed the enemy army to the brim, but the Shu army suffered few casualties.But precisely because the enemy is not passive, every time they come, they will destroy a large number of fortifications.

It is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to build these fortifications. According to Liang Guojun's attack speed, Xie Wuji has no time to make them up.If Liang Guojun continued to attack like this, and if he still wanted to hold on to the fortifications after they were completely destroyed, he would probably have to pay for them with human lives.Neither he nor Junao wanted to see this happen.

It seems that Tian Chou is really a mighty general, such a messy army is handed over to him, and he can manipulate it freely...

Xie Wuji was thinking about it when Wu Cong ran up.

"General," Wu Cong said, "Yang Lie sent someone here, saying that he has news to report to the general."

Xie Wuji was wondering why Yang Lie didn't make any achievements there, when he heard this, he hurriedly said: "Bring it here."

Soon, Yang Lie's confidant was brought before Xie Wuji.

Xie Wuji asked: "It has been a month, why have you waited so long to make no progress? What is the reason?"

The confidant quickly knelt down to plead guilty, and reported to Xie Wuji all the details of their lurking in Liang Guojun.

Xie Wuji was stationed in Ruyang, watching the situation on the battlefield, he also vaguely guessed the situation after the battlefield.Hearing this, he didn't blame Yang Lie's confidant - Zhu Nao always gave great patience to those whom Zhu Nao hired.Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, who can not make mistakes?Unless you're really worthless and mediocre, a mistake or two is an opportunity for growth.Then Yang Lie has made a lot of contributions over the years, and this time it is not unforgivable.

So Xie Wuji told Wu Cong: "Being caught by two fast horses, I will wait for him to see His Majesty immediately. You guard Ruyang here first."

Because Liang Guojun attacked in two ways, the situation in Ruyang was more dangerous than Hulao Pass, so Xie Wuji personally came to Ruyang to guard it.It was inconvenient for Junao to risk himself, so he stayed in a relatively safe rear town, but the distance was not far.

So Xie Wuji took the person who reported the letter and hurried towards the place where Zhu Nao was.