Chapter 73: Lan Qi
"Who, what mountain you guys have you been going into over the past year?"
Xu Xin'an got Xin climbed up to the top of the city, patted Xu Xin's shoulder, and greeted eagerly,
"You are serving as a military army in Lanzhou, why don't you ask someone to send a message back to Huaiyuan? Do you know that we have also arrived in Lanzhou? Your father has set up a grave for you on Fanzi Cliff. It's so unlucky. I have to write a letter and go back a little and dig the grave..."
After Xu Wufu's death, the Changfang land and houses were basically resold to the tribesmen who were short of land and houses at a market price of one-third or five percent, and the money they exchanged was used in the name of tomb building to reclaim the slope fields in Shitu Ridge, Jinshagou and other places, and the construction of roads and ponds.
In addition to supporting Zhufengtang's grasp of the internal resources of the Xu clan, Xu Bosong and Xu Zhonglin also agreed to significantly reduce the tenant rent.
The conflict between Xu and Xu in the upper room has basically been alleviated now.
Xu Xin'an's vision and mind were also high. Seeing that Xu Xin was still alive in the world, he was also surprised and happy.
Xu Xin was still a little restrained. He was in power for Lanzhou. At first, he was very desolate. The bandits who were traveling with him bullied him. After arriving in Lanzhou, he was bullied by old soldiers. Apart from the tattoo on his cheek, his injuries were not healed and he could not escape.
When he was appreciated by Zhang Kui'an, his situation changed. It was when the grain and grain affairs of Huanglongpo Post were in Huanglongpo Post. He knew that Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an and others had followed Wang Bian to Lanzhou, but he was always worried about Xu Huai. Xu Xin'an was obsessed with his old resentment, so where would he contact him?
This time I happened to meet on the city wall, and I saw Xu Wukun, who had taught him how to arch and fist.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have come here on his own initiative.
Of course, Xu Xin came here and wanted to ask if he could let them go.
"The generals guard the city and guard the border and charge into battle are the duties; the military supervisor cannot sit and watch the generals escape in the battle, which is also the duties," Xu Huai said in a deep voice, "Unless there is a military order from the commander of Ge Huaicong, we cannot give up this. However, I can prepare one or two of them for whatever food you need..."
The chief general was seriously dereliction of duty or died in battle, and the military commander or the military supervisor had the right to take over the command of the battlefield, but now is obviously not the time.
Xu Huai was thinking that when the time was right, he would directly control this team through Xu Xin. How could he let them go?
However, Xu Xin had to ask Tian Zhichang to talk about Xiang, and Xu Xin could not just say it, but when he saw Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an was not worried about his old grievances, and Xu Wukun was here again, he himself did not have much urgency to remove the city wall; Xu Huai refused, and Xu Xin did not feel attentive.
Even though he has suffered all kinds of tortures over the past year, his arrogance has not been completely wiped out, and he looks down on this unscrupulous plunder in his heart.
He even consciously distinguished himself from thieves. He believed from the bottom of his heart that he was a good family, not a bandit, but the key to supporting him to today.
Before the surrender of the coalition forces in the villages, he was tortured and threw himself in the thief army's jail with his injuries for three or four months without any inquiries. If it weren't for this, he would have collapsed.
And if he had the opportunity, he also longed to make military achievements like a real general, and to truly return home in glory and reunite with his family in the future.
The hardships over the past year have caused Xu Xin to undergo great transformation from the inside to the outside.
After hearing what Xu Huai said, Xu Xin passed the message to Tian Zhichang.
Tian Zhichang was still afraid of Xu Huai's reputation and did not dare to come directly to negotiate, so he stalemate in the war shed.
When Du Zhong and Meng Laodao came over, Xu Huai asked them to prepare some food and a felt blanket for cold protection. Taking this opportunity, they quickly became familiar with the dozens of Tongbai Mountain gang soldiers.
Among the generals and soldiers who were born in the front of the city, eight of them were directly former subordinates of the judge Guo Jun and Pan Chenghu.
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After a while, Pan Chenghu, who had seen Zhu Han, also climbed up to the top of the city.
"What kind of show are you going to do?"
Pan Chenghu poked his head out from the chassis and looked at the inner side of the city wall below the corner tower with a torch. In addition to the two ropes that can only be convenient for three or five people to get up and down, several rows of shallow nests can be taken out from the slightly tilted rammed earth wall. People with agility can directly use these to climb up the city wall.
He just passed through the hall and transferred the property directly. He saw that there were a lot of semi-finished wood piled up in the yard. If necessary, he could quickly assemble several ladders to the top of the city.
Pan Chenghu was slaughtered by Zheng Tu, so he asked Wang Fan to come to Datong. He was full of thought to follow Xu Huai to make some achievements. He didn't know how serious the current situation was. Of course, he was confused when he saw the deployment here.
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At this time, many things need not be hidden from Pan Chenghu, and even need to be further expressed by him.
Xu Huai exchanged a few greetings and left Xu Wukun, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing and others staring at the corner tower, took Pan Chenghu down the city wall again and went to the room where Chen Zixiao was imprisoned.
Xu Wuji and Zhou Jing had just returned and rested in the room where Chen Zixiao was imprisoned.
With the candlelight, it was clear that Chen Zixiao was tied up on the house pillar by five flowers. Pan Chenghu's mouth was wide open, and he looked like he saw a ghost. After a while, he still looked at Xu Huai in a daze, and then said:
"Chen Zixiao disappeared. Everyone in Kelan City thought he was assassinated by Khitan assassins - I wonder why the Khitan assassin did he do? What are you going to catch him in Datong? Isn't this more terrible than the Khitan assassin killing him?"
"Then let Chen Zixiao talk to you!" Xu Huai walked over, took off the strap that tied Chen Zixiao's mouth, and pulled out the cloth that blocked his mouth.
"Master Pan, I haven't seen you for a long time. I really didn't expect you to give up on Zhufengtang!" Chen Zixiao grinned with a swelling and painful mouth and said to Pan Chenghu.
"What the hell is going on? Don't tamper my heart!" Pan Chenghu was too surprised. He didn't want to go around the corner, and he rushed to Xu Huai to tell him the whole story and the consequences neatly.
"Didn't you always think that Chen Zixiao's behavior is a bit strange? Now all this is clear. Chen Zixiao's original name is Han Lun. He was once a general under Xiao Linshi, the state magistrate of the Khitan Southern Court. He was imprisoned several years ago for offending the Khitan powerful people and was sent to Dayue Zuo. We caught the opportunity to capture him on the night of the night when we left Kelan and brought him to Datong together." Xu Huai said.
"Why don't you hand him over and bring him Datong?" Pan Chenghu asked with a little stuck in his mind.
"We have always suspected that the Khitans had a big conspiracy in Datong. Although they had not pried open his mouth, they can almost figure out what's going on now."
Xu Huai said next to the door frame,
"You have just met Zhu Han, and you should have some understanding of the situation in the city. In addition to the inner city, there are thousands of remaining soldiers who are stubbornly defending, thousands of rebels are now restless and have just raided and controlled the three city gates in the south and north. Although Ge Huaicong and others didn't think so at this time, many signs prove that all this was a trap set by Xiao Linshi and Chen Zixiao in the morning. If I expected it, Xiao Linshi would most likely lead his troops to attack Shengdemen before dawn and completely block us in Datong City."
"How could it be, how could it be? Who is Xiao Linshi? Where can he send reinforcements from at this time, and trap our nearly 40,000 troops in Datong? The Khitan is outside Datong, with a total of only 40,000 to 50,000 troops, mainly in Yingzhou. The main force of the Eastern Army approaching Yingzhou is a meal. Will you sit and watch Xiao Linshi lead Yingzhou soldiers and horses to help?" Pan Chenghu's mouth burst out with a series of questions, and then subconsciously lowered his voice and asked in confusion, "Zhu Qing doesn't seem to know about this. You haven't reported Chen Zixiao's affairs to him yet?"
"I haven't said yet," Xu Huai narrowed his eyes and looked at Pan Chenghu and asked, "Do you think it's necessary to inform Zhu Han?"
Pan Chenghu was not stupid. Seeing Xu Huai concealing such important news, he didn't know that Zhu Wei was obviously not just disliked Zhu Wei. He pondered for a while and asked uncertainly: "Is all this you guessed really possible?"
"..." Xu Huai nodded and said, "I can conclude now that this will definitely happen."
"..." Pan Chenghu glanced at Chen Zixiao, pulled a chair and sat down, and pondered, "I just met Mr. Zhu Wei, and heard that he had a lot of resentment in his tone. It seemed that Ge Huaicong was too good to act, and the military supervisor made many opinions in the courtyard. In addition, the generals of the Tianxiong Army were dispersed, and the generals also used the old revenge to show their desires and intentionally indulged in order to indulge in order to cause rebels everywhere. Even if they could win in the end, the military discipline was dispersed, which was not conducive to resisting the Chihu people in the future. In fact, you actually expected that even if you knew Zhu Wei, you would not be able to convince Ge Huaicong to act as a result. So you simply did not say anything? Everything prepared in the courtyard was really not to be dragged into the mud by these idiots?"
"Do you think Zhu Hanjun asked Ge Huaicong to tell Ge Huaicong?" Xu Huaicang asked again.
"These idiots are not enough to be together - if they really want to be with these idiots, they will only kill ourselves!" Pan Chenghu said decisively.
Not only were they sent to Lanzhou after being recruited, but they were discriminated against and alert, but mainly during the Tongbai bandit rebellion, they were beaten like dogs by the Huaiyuan Township Camp, which Xu Huai was secretly presided over, but were they beaten like dogs by them?
Pan Chenghu was dissatisfied with Ge Huaicong and other imperial guards, but was dissatisfied with his own exclusion, and looked down on them from the bottom of his heart.
He was the least psychological burden to keep Ge Huaicong and others away from working alone, let alone he had already asked Guo Jun to express his opinion in front of Xu Huai.
"Now there are still a large number of soldiers in Xicheng who are not sure that they are about to die. They are still burning, killing and looting at this time. I will let Tang Pan, Yin Peng, Han Qi and others lead their troops to follow you out and detain as many soldiers in violation of the ban on Tongbai Mountain as possible!" Xu Huai said.
They still have too few people to use.
Xu Huai predicted that even if Shengdemen was blocked by Xiao Linshi's reinforcements, the Tianxiong Army would not immediately fall into chaos, and they would not be able to directly pull the Tongbai Mountain soldiers from various troops.
Once the Tianxiong Army falls into chaos in the city, it will inevitably be caused by Xiao Linshi leading his troops directly into the Xicheng District. At that time, everyone will be on the verge of despair, desperate, crazy and chaotic; and they are also eager to see the opportunity to escape from the city at the right time, and it is impossible to have time to calmly recruit the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain.
It's late at night now, and it may be their last chance to directly recruit the Tongbai Mountain Tribe.
If we can take the streets to imprison the military discipline and detain all the soldiers who violated the ban on Tongbai Mountain, we will inevitably be directly converted into people under their control.
Of course, even if someone reacted and asked Ge Huaicong to ask the military supervisor to go out to check whether the military discipline was authorized, they would probably push Zhu Han out and shirk the matter until Xiao Linshi led his troops to attack Shengdemen.
After that, could Ge Huaicong still have time to investigate the matter of taking them to the streets without authorization to purify military discipline?
Xu Huai did not act rashly before, mainly because he was worried that they would go out to the streets to arrest the banned Tongbai Mountain soldiers now, and that they might be indulged in resistance. At the same time, they were worried that even if they were arrested, it would be difficult to reorganize them in a short period of time.
Now that Pan Chenghu is here, the difficulty of these two things will be reduced a lot...
Chapter completed!