"So it is said that officers and soldiers mainly rely on tricks to win the rebel army?" Pei Xiaoer snorted coldly in his heart. He could not guess that Gao Yingxiang was downplaying the battle, deliberately exaggerating the effect of the officers and soldiers' strategies, and diluting the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers.

What is the purpose?

It is nothing more than making oneself think that officers and soldiers are useless except to rely on strategies, so that they can despise the officers and soldiers, and fight with them, so that they can stand on the front line for him, so that Gao Yingxiang can take the opportunity to escape. Sure enough, in this world, if people do not care for themselves, they will be punished by heaven and earth. Since

If you are unkind first, don’t blame me for being unrighteous.

Pei Xiaoer pretended to be extremely interested and chased Gao Yingxiang and asked him to tell him about the specific situation of the officers and soldiers, and he was eager to try. Seeing that what he said had worked, Gao Yingxiang became energetic and asked Pei in detail.

The waiter boasted about his performance in the official army again, saying how brave he was. If the officers and soldiers had not attacked him, he would have taken down Taiyuan and beheaded Cao Wenzhao into seventh throne.

As he spoke, Gao Yingxiang even took off his shirt, exposed the scars on his body, and showed them to Pei Xiaoer, saying, "Brother Pei, I won't lie to you, look at this." Gao Yingxiang pointed at the one in front of him.

There was a hideous scar on the spot and said loudly, "This is what I was injured when I was chasing the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi after defeating the officers and soldiers. And here..."

Perhaps it was under the influence of alcohol that Gao Yingxiang's current performance was very different from usual. He told Pei Xiaoer about his past military achievements as if he was showing off. Pei Xiaoer saw his scars and knew that Gao Yingxiang's current status was

It was not a lucky thing, but it was achieved through one blow, but the alcohol tolerance was slightly worse.

Just as Gao Yingxiang was talking vigorously, Pei Xiaoer suddenly interrupted and said, "Brother Gao, since the officers and soldiers are so weak, they won by chance. I think otherwise, I have 30,000 soldiers here, plus 20,000 brother Gao's

Elite, 50,000 of us, took advantage of the victory and was unprepared to raid Taiyuan to avenge the rebel army's slaughter. What do you think?"

Gao Yingxiang's voice stopped abruptly, as if something had been pinched by a neck. He smiled awkwardly and said, "Drink, drink."

"Brother Gao, please give me a good word." Pei Xiaoer didn't want to let him go, so he asked.

Seeing that he could not escape, Gao Yingxiang had no choice but to defend Pei Xiaoer: "Brother Pei, it's not that I won't help you, but that our army was newly defeated, and the soldiers were panicked. At this time, they should let them go north to Taiyuan again and make it happen.

I won't be able to mutiny for you now. Brother, I am not as good as you now. You have a large territory and many soldiers and generals. Brother, I still need to worry about the daily rations in the camp, if I hadn't "borrowed some" from the people along the way

, Brother, I can't even come to you."

"Brother Gao, you are short of food and tell me. As a rebel army, how can I watch you starve? Tell me, how much food does your army need?"

Gao Yingxiang was speechless for a moment. You should know that Pei Xiaoer's food was not for nothing. He took other people's food, but he had to fight for him. He sold all his 20,000 troops under his command before he exchanged for this little food. It was obviously unpaid.

Gao Yingxiang kept making noises, but kept holding the dishes in front of him.

Pei Xiaoer also knew that when he gave out some food, he wanted to fill up the 20,000 troops under Gao Yingxiang's command. It was unrealistic, so he took the initiative to increase the price and said, "Brother Gao, I know you have doubts. Let's do this,

I don’t ask you to go north to Taiyuan with me. As long as you help me block this wave of government attack, I will give you 20,000 stones of grain, plus 10,000 soldiers of armor and equipment, how about it?”

Gao Yingxiang still didn't want to agree. He knew that Cao Wenzhao's powerful combat power was a ruthless man who dared to attack the 200,000 army with eight thousand people. He finally escaped from Cao Wenzhao's men. No matter how he did it, he

Will not be delivered to the door again? Gao Yingxiang pretended to have never heard of it, and only focused on connoisseuring the delicious food in front of him, as if he had never eaten such delicious food before.

Unconsciously, the servant who was serving the side had retreated at some point, and the room was terrible. In this extremely quiet environment, a heavy footstep was accompanied by the sound of the armor blades grinding, as if there was nothing.

Transfer to the room.

Gao Yingxiang looked up and looked at Pei Xiaoer's cold gaze. His heart tightened and suddenly turned his mind. Pei Xiaoer was not doing multiple-choice questions for him, but a judgment question. If the judgment was wrong,

Maybe he wouldn't be able to get out of this door today.

Gao Yingxiang took a deep breath, picked up the wine glass on the table, drank it all, then threw the wine glass heavily on the table, and said, "Okay, since Brother Pei looks down on me, I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman.

.”

Pei Xiaoer's face once again smiled, as if there was no sign of the bitterness on Gao Yingxiang's face, he pulled his arm and sighed: "If the rebels are as wise as Brother Gao, then I'll wait."

The day when the rebels overthrow the riots was right in front of us.”

On the fourth day of the second month of the sixth year of Chongzhen.

The Taiyuan officers and soldiers who had been resting for more than ten days finally dispatched 70,000 infantry, plus 10,000 cavalry, and a total of 80,000 troops. They marched south from Taiyuan in a mighty manner, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jiexiu.

During this period, Pei Xiaoer, who was in Jiexiu, was not idle either. Not only did he strengthen the wall of Jiexiu overnight, but he also urged Liu Xianchun in the rear to send a lot of food and supplies to Jiexiu. Most importantly, he mobilized the city in the city.

The young and strong man built a camp along the mountain not far outside the city, and cooperated with Jiexiu City to form a horn.

If the officers and soldiers take the lead in attacking Jiexiu, then the soldiers in the camp outside the city can go out of the camp and threaten the officers and soldiers' back camp, and vice versa. In this way, they will not fight to the death in the city. In that case, they will be sooner or later outside the city.

The army conquered.

Liu Changle's army, artillery battalion, Gao Yingxiang and other troops were left in the city, and Pei Xiaoer personally led it. Gao Yingxiang, after all, was the leader of a side and was used to being free on weekdays. He would still stay by his side and watch it carefully

He is better. If he puts it outside, there will inevitably be no trouble.

In addition, in the camp outside the city, Pei Xiaoer released Pei Zhuer. Pei Zhuer's army is now the town with the largest number of troops in the entire Pei family, with a total of 30,000 people. Most of them are

At the time, the prefect of Pingyang Prefecture brought the officers and soldiers who sneaked into Jiexiu. Later, after these officers and soldiers were captured by Pei Xiaoer, they selected the elites and disrupted them and reorganized them into Pei Zhuer's subordinates. This was a useful thing.

Just as Pei Xiaoer had just arranged everything and waited for the official army, the official army did not disappoint everyone's expectations and appeared in his sight.

Zhang Zongheng rode on the horse and saw Jiexiu's city wall from afar. He saw people on the city wall, spears like forests, and high morale. He also saw a tall camp not far from the city, which was built against the mountain, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Patrol soldiers walked by in the camp from time to time, and everything seemed so vigilant that people dare not look down on it.

Zhang Zongheng had some idea in his mind, and did not dare to order an attack rashly. He led his army to retreat ten miles away, set up camps and discuss good strategies.

In Zhang Zongheng's big account, there were many generals.

"Everyone has seen the situation today. If you have any ideas, you can speak freely. No matter what you want, you will be guilty of your words." Zhang Zongheng pointed out, then stopped talking, and waited for the opinions of others.

Shaoqing, a general with a weak figure but aura of Confucianism, stood up. This man's surname was Zhang, his name was Ji, and he was a hereditary commander. However, later, the literary and noble martial arts were inferior, and all the military generals of the world were called Confucian generals.

He was proud. Therefore, Zhang Ji did not learn the art of war formations since he was a child, but instead learned some of the Four Books and Five Classics. Over time, Zhang Ji did not look like a general, but instead looked like a scholar.

I saw Zhang Ji said: "Sir, I think Jiexiu's city is tall and has many soldiers. Our army should focus on breaking out the camps outside the city. As long as our army works hard and takes over the camps outside the city, it will surely lead to the bandits in Jiexiu City.

I was frightened. At that time, I could send a good scholar to the city to tell the thief Chen that he was powerful, or I could persuade the thief to come and surrender, so I would not have many killings."

This person's words sound reasonable, but if these words are said from an official's mouth, it would be normal. However, these words are indeed said from a general. No matter how you look at them, they all seem to be
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