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Chapter 61 Xu Jingzong's first appearance

Infantry is slower than cavalry, which is common sense. Cavalry attacks and infantry attacks and repels the city. But common sense is sometimes unreliable. For example, now, Zhang Huaiwei leads his subordinates to hurry up, with the purpose of capturing Shenchi City before Liu Wuzhou's Tianqiu Army came to aid.

However, when Xu Jingzong arrived at Shenchi with Zhang Huaiwei's infantry, Yu Guni was already sitting upright in the lobby of Shenchi County. Listening to the crying voice of a woman coming from his ears, Zhang Huaiwei glared at Yu Guni and said, "Do you dare to disobey the general's order?"

As early as the beginning of the army, the Lingwu Army and the Dingyuan Army had an iron rule, and whoever touched them died: "Whoever traitors or silver robbers!" This is the iron rule set by Chen Ying.

Yu Guni said lightly: "Yu Guni never dares to disobey the master's order!"

Zhang Huaiwei ignored Yu Guni and rushed to the back hall. In the back hall, Zhang Huaiwei looked at a middle-aged man lying on the mat, to be precise, a corpse. The three of them lay beside the corpse and cried in a low voice. One of the three was about thirty years old, and the young woman should be her son, about thirteen or fourteen years old, and there was also an eight or nine-year-old boy.

Seeing that these women were not violated, Zhang Huaiwei breathed a sigh of relief. As a foreign army, what he hated the most was to cut his robes towards him.

When Zhang Huaiwei looked at the older woman, Zhang Huaiwei's heart beat faster unconsciously. The older women were only in their thirties in relative terms. However, women in this era got married too early. Usually, women of aristocratic families got married at the age of sixteen (two years old) while those of the Xianbei people were earlier. For example, Changsun Wugui, who was only thirteen when she married Li Shimin. The woman's daughter was already in her teens, and she was actually only thirty.

Zhang Huaiwei opened his mouth and made a low voice: "Madam, please feel sorry for me!"

The beautiful woman said pitifully: "The deceased husband had no choice but to follow the thief. I hope the general will be kind. I have a pity for a pair of girls in the deceased husband."

Zhang Huaiwei said: "Everyone is his master. Madam, don't worry. We are the kingly army of the Tang Dynasty and will not make things difficult for women, children, young and old." Zhang Huaiwei turned around and shouted outside the door and said: "I will pass on the general's military order. The people of Shenchi are not allowed to go out until the ban on Shenchi is lifted. No soldiers are allowed to enter the household and disturb the people, and those who violate the violation will be killed!"

The soldier outside the door bowed and said, "No!"

The beautiful woman kowtowed to Zhang Huaiwei and said, "Thank you for your kindness to protect me!"

Zhang Huaiwei stepped forward and held the beautiful woman's hands, and suddenly realized that it was inappropriate. He quickly stopped, but the contact in an instant made Zhang Huaiwei feel his heart beating faster.

Zhang Huai smiled embarrassingly and said, "Madam, please feel sorry for me, I...retreat!"

Zhang Huaiwei left Houya, but the shadow of the beautiful woman in his head could not be removed.

When Zhang Huaiwei came to the county yamen hall, he found Xu Jingzong's face was gloomy. Zhang Huaiwei asked, "What happened to Xu Zongjun?"

Yu Guni said angrily: "The Shenchi County Treasury is so clean that it can run away mice!"

"This..." Zhang Huaiwei also slowly frowned. This time they carried supplies for half a month. They originally wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the divine pool and consume supplies.

In fact, it was a bit exaggerated that Yu Guni said that the Shenchi County Treasury was so empty that mice could run away. There were more than a dozen stones of grain in the Shenchi official warehouse, and the money treasury had hundreds of huddles of Wuzhu coins. This little property was barely enough for their army of tens of thousands to consume. Although the people of Shenchi might have some food in their homes, they could not rob the people of Shenchi County like bandits.

"What should I do now?" Zhang Huaiwei suddenly lost his mind and looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "What are the tricks Xu Zongjun has?"

Xu Jingzong smiled and said disapprovingly: "I don't know if you want to do a merit or a meritless solution."

Zhang Huaiwei said: "How is it a meritorious solution, and how is it a meritorious solution?"

At this time, Tang Yan at Yu Guni only reached the level of daily speaking. He was stunned when he had a conversation between Xu Jingzong and Zhang Huaiwei like a tongue twister.

Xu Jingzong also intended to show off his knowledge in front of Zhang Huaiwei, and smiled slightly and said, "At that time, Emperor Gaozu of Han fought with the King of Chu and sent a mansion to Qi. It was said that Qi surrendered, but Han Xin held heavy troops in Qi and refused to give it to a scholar with his merits. Therefore, in the battle of Sui River, he destroyed Qi for two months, and Han Xin once again defeated Jianzhen Lord. If the two were willing to learn from Han Xin, they could advance into Yanmen Pass and cut off Liu Wuzhou's food route, and at the same time attacked Liu Wuzhou with the general from north to south. If it went smoothly, they would be able to defeat Liu Wuzhou in one fell swoop. This was a meritorious solution. But if Liu Wuzhou's soldiers saw that their way back was broken and they were desperate, they would probably surrender to the Turks or Dou Jiande. At that time, the land of Hedong could be recovered and returned to the Tang Dynasty. The general also had the merits to recover Hedong, but Hedong still had great trouble."

Zhang Huaiwei actually didn't feel that there was anything wrong with doing this, but he still wanted to know the solution of Wugong, so he tried to ask: "So what about Wugong's solution?"

Xu Jingzong said: "The answer to the point of no merit is to ask General Yu Gu, Zhang, two generals Zhang, one guards Shenchi, and one Chen Bingluofan. However, one sent to Loufan army camp. If it goes well, it can seize his army and horses and surrender to Loufan. With Liu Zongjun, General Ashina met Loufan, and the two armies were in one place to conquer Taiyuan. Liu Wu and Zhou Da were destroyed in one battle. If it goes well, Yanmen Pass would still be broken. The general's army would be strong and the difficulty of defeating Yanmen, and he would be able to capture Taiyuan and restore Hedong."

Zhang Huaiwei was not an arbitrary person, nor was he a handsome man who could stand alone. Xu Jingzong asked him to make a simple choice of two, but he didn't know how to choose. Zhang Huaiwei looked at Yu Guni, but Yu Guni vaguely listened to Lian Meng, and then he roughly understood what Xu Jingzong meant.

After all, Yu Guni was a tribal leader. His ideas and vision were much higher than Zhang Huaiwei. After all, Zhang Huaiwei, who was a starting partner, had a limited vision.

Yu Guni looked at Zhang Huaiwei's face and said lightly: "Xu Shenjun, if you do a good job, it may not be easy. If Lou Fan has sufficient troops and Yanmen Pass has sufficient troops, they can send troops from Lou Fan Pass, Yanmen Pass, Taiyuan and Xinzhou to encircle and annihilate us under the Shenchi City."

Xu Jingzong was shocked when he heard Yu Guni say this. He really didn't expect Yu Guni to have such knowledge. Xu Jingzong said lightly: "It's true that there is such a possibility."

Zhang Huaiwei said, "What kind of merit or no merit is actually not important. General Chen did not hesitate to commit the danger of taking action first and then reporting, and sent troops to Hedong just to rescue Princess Pingyang at Weize Pass. Now we still have the opportunity to save him. I sit in the formation divine pool, and General Yu Gu leads cavalry to attack Loufan Pass. After Lingwu Left Army and Lingwu Right Army meet, we have more troops in our hands. We can attack and retreat and defend, and we will be invincible.

While summoning the well-known gentry in Shenchi County, Xu Jingzong asked Zhang Huaiwei's troops to take over the defense of Shenwu County. Zhang Huaiwei did not dare to be careless. After all, there were Liu Wuzhou's troops around him. Once Liu Wuzhou learned the news, he would take back Shenwu City when his foothold was not stable.

Now he and Yu Guni are divided into two groups. He needs to rely on more than 1,800 troops under his command to resist the first counterattack of Liu Wuzhou's army, and it may take several days to persist.

Although Zhang Huaiwei was cautious, there was still something wrong.
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