Chapter 496 Awareness

The people Cui Hao asked Wang Huilong to lead were naturally not the elites of the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, the backbone of Xianbei.

Wang Huilong, a Han man, was to command an army composed entirely of Xianbei people. Not to mention Tuoba Tao, he was worried, but even if he was relieved, the Xianbei nobles would also have to train him.

Therefore, the soldiers under Wang Huilong's command were all composed of Rouran's old tribe, Dingling people, Murong Xianbei, Huns and some Han people.

Of course, the soldiers with such a mixed composition are not very elite, but fortunately they are large enough.

When a scout came to report, Xiao Chengzhi in Yunzhong simply sent 5,000 Song troops to the battlefield.

But Wang Huilong has 50,000 people in his hands!

The difference is ten times... and it is not the kind of falsely reported number of people. If it is just defense, Wang Huilong is still very confident.

After leaving Pingcheng, Wang Huilong led his mighty army towards the south.

To meet Xiao Chengzhi, we must first reach Mayi in the south, and then march northwest to control the road in advance.

This route is perfectly normal.

But as soon as Wang Huilong arrived in Mayi, Gu Bi, who was in Yanmen, received the news.

"Wang Huilong!"

Gu Bi didn't know that Wang Huilong's march was to deal with Xiao Chengzhi, he just thought it was for him.

"Wang Huilong is Cui Hao's confidant and one of the few Han generals. He led 50,000 people here this time... He must be here to deal with me!"

There were many sane soldiers around Gu Bi: "Sir, don't panic, this Wang Huilong's expedition is not necessarily for us, maybe he is to guard against the Song army in the clouds to the west."

"impossible!"

Once the seeds of suspicion are planted, it means that the crime has been established.

Gu Bi no longer believed in this rhetoric at this moment, or in other words, he had lost trust in Cui Hao.

"The Song army in Yunzhong also attacked Pingcheng before, but what did Cui Hao say? He said it was a feint attack! No soldiers were sent to resist at all!"

"We didn't resist at that time, but now we are sending tens of thousands of troops... Is this common sense?"

"Besides..."

"I arrived at Yanmen with my front foot, and Wang Huilong followed me to Mayi with my back foot. How can things in this world be such a coincidence?"

The private soldiers brought by Gu Bi were almost 3,000, and the original defenders of Yanmen were also 5,000. In total, the number of soldiers was almost 10,000.

It is not difficult to resist Wang Huilong's 50,000 troops with ten thousand troops...

But is this a question of whether we can keep it or not?

Gu Bi was first panicked at this moment, and then angry.

Cui Hao still doesn’t trust him after all!

"Come here! Send my letter to Song Jun."

Gu Bi made a decisive decision without hesitation, and took advantage of Gu Bi's opportunity to send herbal medicine again to send a letter to Song Jun.

At this moment.

Wang Huilong also suddenly remembered the existence of Gu Bi.

"Hmph! To mobilize the troops to defend the capital without permission is to act like a minister!"

Wang Huilong, who was educated as a conservative Confucian, has firmly engraved "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" in his bones.

What Gu Bi did was simply unforgivable to Wang Huilong!

"Furthermore, this person has always been at odds with the Prime Minister, and at the same time he has a high prestige among the Xianbei people... If we don't deal with it, he will definitely be in serious trouble in the future!"

Wang Huilong is not only a staunch "Chinese" reformist, but also a staunch supporter of Cui Hao.

In particular, Wang Huilong gradually learned about some of Cui Hao's political opinions while getting along with Cui Hao.

Cui Hao hoped that after Tuoba Tao regained Hebei, he would thoroughly promote the sinicization of Xianbei, and even wanted to "rectify human relations and distinguish surnames and clans."

To put it simply, it is to transform and then transplant the political model of the Jin and Jin Dynasties where aristocratic families dominate everything.

The Xianbei clan can completely change their surnames to Han surnames and then integrate into the aristocratic families, completely resolving the "Hua-Yi debate" in the Northern Wei Dynasty through the method of "distinguishing surnames and clans".

The blueprint created by Cui Hao is inexplicably attractive to people like Wang Huilong who come from a noble family, especially from the Taiyuan Wang family, a top family.

For this reason, Wang Huilong naturally does not allow "extremists" like Gu Bi to destroy the world Cui Hao wants to build in the future.

"I will give him a revised letter and ask him to apologize to the Prime Minister after the war is over!"

"At least... let him be subdued!"

Of course Wang Huilong's mind would not be so simple, nor would he be so ambitious.

The admission of mistakes is false. If Gu Bi can be made to admit his mistakes, it will be equivalent to admitting that his existence is detrimental to the imperial power. In this way, it is unlikely that some stubborn Xianbei nobles can be completely uprooted!

Wang Huilong could see that after Cui Hao moved his capital to Yecheng in the future, he would definitely take action against these corrupt and stubborn Xianbei nobles.

Gu Bi was the knife handed to Cui Hao by Wang Huilong!

As for whether Gu Bi would give in, Wang Huilong didn't have the slightest doubt.

Fifty thousand troops are squatting here in Mayi.

With the Song Army in front and Wang Huilong behind, what could Gu Bi do?

Thinking of this, Wang Huilong lay leisurely on a deck chair and admired the scenery of Mayi.

The mountains in front of him are no longer mountains, and the water is no longer water, but the future.

In the future, the Northern Wei Dynasty will be a behemoth that reoccupies the north! With the talents of Tuoba Tao and Cui Hao, as long as they are given territory and time, Wang Huilong believes that sooner or later he can avenge his family!

If one day he can break through Chang'an and eliminate Liu Song, he will definitely dig out Liu Yu's bones and grind them into ashes! Not even the Liu Song clan, Liu Yizhen, Liu Yilong... none of them can escape!

By the way, there is also the mad dog-like general in Qingzhou, his name seems to be Shen Tianzi...

Thinking of these, Wang Huilong's mood suddenly became extremely comfortable, and a somewhat cold and terrifying smile appeared on his face.

After staying until nightfall, Wang Huilong wrapped up his clothes and was about to return to the military tent to rest when he heard a commotion in the military camp.

"You! Don't make any noise in the ranks! Go get ten sticks by yourself!"

Although Wang Huilong had a headache, he didn't pay much attention.

The soldiers under him are all trash, and it is not incomprehensible that they have poor discipline.

But hearing that the commotion not only did not stop, but actually got worse, Wang Huilong knew that something was wrong.

"What's going on?"

Wang Huilong came to the location of the commotion and found that some scouts had gathered together to quarrel.

"General."

When a school officer saw Wang Huilong coming, he hurriedly came to his side and whispered in Wang Huilong's ear: "A few scouts did not come back at night. We are checking whether they went to perform military duties."

Wang Huilong frowned: "Could it be a deserter?"

"no."

"The scout battalion is treated very well in the entire army. It is impossible for these people to escape."

After a while, through an extremely inefficient one-by-one check, we finally found out where the scouts who had not returned had gone.

"General, they... were sent by you to Yanmen to deliver a message to General Gu Bi!"

Yanmen!

Wang Huilong's heart suddenly jumped, and a bad feeling enveloped his whole body.
Chapter completed!