Chai Kehong returned at night and suddenly heard that his mother had sent a letter.He hurriedly read it carefully with the light.
If there is still someone in this world whom Chai Kehong dare not despise and respect very much, then it is his mother.My mother was just a woman, but she could have a great influence on Chai Kehong.
Before conquering Wu and Yue Kingdom, Chai Kehong was not yet famous and many ministers did not trust him.
But Chai's mother wrote a letter herself, saying that her son could lead troops to be a military general. If she did not do well, she would be willing to bear the death penalty with her son...
Chai Kehong quickly finished reading his mother's handwritten letter and was immediately surprised.
The content is completely opposite to the previous encouragement, and he even suspected it was false belief!
But after careful examination, it was true that the handwriting and phrases were undoubtedly Chai’s mother.
Can't even tell the letters written by my mother? Chai Kehong can still judge this point.
Chai’s mother advised him to pretend to be sick, not to accept the military power of Haozhou, and to retreat bravely!
Her general idea in the letter: Your reputation is too great now, the expectations given by the emperor and the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty are too high, and once you encounter setbacks, you cannot afford the consequences; it is not only the honor and disgrace of the individual and the family, but also the rise and fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the morale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Such a big responsibility is not something you can afford alone.
Besides, because of his great military achievements and rapid promotion, his son did not have enough experience. Now there are nearly 100,000 troops in the entire Haozhou, which has deviated from his son's ability.
Your father often said that an army of ten thousand people can be used to be clever, and a hundred thousand people can only win with justice.
Your ability and the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang Army are not enough to shoulder such a great responsibility... In case of failure, I feel ashamed of the gifts and trust given to you by the emperor.
If the defeated person in Haozhou was not Chai Kehong, but a general who was not loved and highly expected by the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Kingdom: what was lost was only a state, not the morale of the entire Southern Tang army.
After reading the letter, Chai Kehong was deeply shocked and very unhappy.
He thought about it all night, but he regained his pride the next day and did not intend to follow his mother's advice.
When Chai Kehong summoned his general, he said: He captured the scout of the Zhou army, and the troops coming were from the left and right sides of the Hujie army.Zhao Chao, the chief of the Right Chamber of the Capital, started from this person.
The generals were puzzled and hurriedly asked about the reason.
Chai Kehong sneered: Zhengyang was defeated a few months ago and more than 3,000 people were surrendered.The prisoners were handed over to Zhao Chaozhi, and he slaughtered them all that night.This man is bloodthirsty, but I have millions of soldiers and civilians in the Southern Tang Kingdom. Can he kill him?
There were hundreds of thousands of military farming soldiers in Shouzhou and Haozhou, but due to poor management of the imperial officials, these people immediately surrendered after the Zhou army entered the country and received the money.We must let these stationed soldiers understand the cruel nature of the Zhou army and arouse their resistance; in this way, tens of thousands of Zhou army faced not only 50,000 people in Haozhou City, but tens of thousands of people!Zhao Chao is the breakthrough.
When Chai Kehong said this, he had abandoned all the unhappiness of last night and laughed: At that time, countless Southern Tang Erlangs would harass their food roads, patrols and scouts, which would make the Zhou army deeply trapped in Haozhou.
There were chaos in various places, and the Zhou army was working hard for a long time, and the food supply was insufficient and transportation was even more difficult.I will deploy city defense again, strictly guard Haozhou, and delay the time and fatigue its army.When you find the opportunity to fight, you will surely defeat the Zhou army!
All the generals were convinced.
Chai Kehong deployed the city defense of Haozhou, first strengthened the city wall defense, found officials who built the city walls, and conducted detailed investigations on the foundation and feng shui of the city walls.
Chai Kehong once sent someone to observe the Shouzhou Gap and knew that the city wall was blown up by gunpowder buried in the tunnel... No one could figure out how the Zhou army exploded the city wall, but the situation was that the city wall could be blown up; Chai Kerong specifically inspected and deployed Haozhou city defense in response to this matter.
His plan was to echo the internal and external forces of the Southern Tang Rebel Army in Haozhou, and he spent a year and a half, or one or two years with the Zhou army here.Therefore, there is great hope for Haozhou City to stick to it.
What if somewhere in the city wall is broken?Very good, it is really Chai Kerong's magic weapon to win.
Chai Kehong and his generals around him said: Since ancient times, he has not been familiar with street fighting.Now I will go against the rules and deploy ambushes within the city; when the Zhou army enters the city from a certain place, they will go to the city gates and the central cross road.At that time, the cannon will be fired, and the formation will be disrupted with smoke and fire, and then the elite soldiers will be defeated.Counterattack the city wall and repeatedly compete, Haozhou City cannot be scorched earth, and the Zhou army will not be able to capture this city!
……
Lu Mengjun and Chai Kehong served in Haozhou at the same time. He was the military supervisor and the deputy general of Chai Kehong.
At that time, Luo Yan's Huanjun was the vanguard and entered Haozhou first and sent scouts from all sides to inquire about the information.
A scout pretended to be a commoner and went deep into the area controlled by the Tang army. Unexpectedly, the accent was discovered by someone, so he rode a horse and ran wildly.
The horse's leg was injured on the road, and the scout had no choice but to kill the horse and hurriedly covered it with straw, and hid in a commoner's home.
The scout was discovered by a young couple in the woodshed and knelt down and begged in despair.He said that he had escaped to Huainan by his enemies and was killed. If he was caught, he would die miserably.
The young woman saw that the scout was young and tall, tall and very strong, and she could completely support the strong labor force of a family. It would be a pity to die!
The woman felt sympathy and advised her husband to save his life.
My husband knew that Huainan was suffering from war. This man spoke in the northern accent and might be the scout of the Zhou army... But in the eyes of ordinary people, the Zhou army and the Tang army were almost the same. After all, they were all Han people.
In times of crisis, he saved a hero with righteousness and formed a loyalty.
Despite the opposition of his parents, the husband hid the scout in the cellar and sent food and drinking water.
The scout of Zhou Jun was grateful, asked the name of the family, cursed and vowed to wait until the war was over, and he would bring his wife from his family to Huainan to thank him, so as to make brothers.
But the body of the dead horse was soon found by the Tang army pursuers and searched nearby.
The scout of the Zhou army was found from clues.
The young general of the Tang army found out the situation. The people of the family took in spies only out of sympathy, and did not know about it, so they stole a buffalo from their family as punishment.
Unexpectedly, Lu Mengjun happened to be patrolling the road with his personal soldiers and heard about it.
He immediately took his personal soldiers to the people's home and ordered his whole family to be tied to the main hall.
But seeing that the young woman was a little pretty, she wanted to order her personal soldiers to insult her on the spot.
The general advised: It seems inappropriate to do such things.
Lu Mengjun ignored it and scolded the spy for being severely punished, so he watched with his personal soldiers for fun.
After looking at the scout of Zhou's army, he shouted: There must be an affair!This woman is a dissolute person, so she leaves a man to steal people.I will make you die with peace of mind today.Now the woman is going to have sex with the scouts of Zhou army again.
The scout of Zhou Jun cursed: If you want to kill, kill it!I am not a beast, how can I do such a thing to my life-saving wife? I will never obey my death, but I just want to have fun!
Lu Mengjun drew his sword and wanted to kill the woman's child: Go!If you are compatible with that man, otherwise I will dig his eyes first!
The woman was very anxious and had to obey her orders with tears.
But after Lu Mengjun and others finished doing the bad things, they still killed the woman's child with one sword.The woman cried loudly, and she couldn't bear to hear the sad cry.
An aide outside the door heard the movement inside and shook his head and sighed: Mr. Lu cannot succeed, and he is indifferent to what he is betrayed by others.
Standing next to him was the general who had just advised Lu Mengjun, and hurriedly asked about the reason, and said: Although Mr. Lu was cruel, he was still very brave in war and was not afraid of death.
The staff disagreed and said: Mr. Lu has done such things more than once. Before killing someone, he must make people live worse than death and humiliate and torture him in every way.It is not that the person who was killed was extremely guilty, but that Mr. Lu liked this way and enjoyed it.
What's the use of him not afraid of death?He does not value life and has no attachment to life.But more people in the world just want to live and want to live well.Therefore, no one is willing to follow people like Mr. Lu.
He took off his official hat and threw it on the ground and stepped on it a few times, scolding, "Fuck it." It was really embarrassing to put this thing on my head, and then said to the general: I'm going back to my hometown to farm and study."
The staff rode a horse and walked south for a while, thinking that Lu Mengjun might send someone to catch him, so he turned to the path.Unexpectedly, he got lost and ran into Zhou Jun's cavalry again and was caught.
...The aide was arrested back to Luo Yanhuan's army. Luo Yanhuan immediately stepped forward and asked: Who is coming?
The civil official said: In Zhouduan, Xiayangzhou, he was an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Luo Yanhuan then accepted it and invited him to drink in the tent during the night. He found that his words were not speculative. This person was too literary and unrestrained, and he was very noble.
Luo Yanhuan was not happy, and was afraid that he was a spy deliberately sent by the Southern Tang Army, so he sent someone to send him to Guo Shao, the commander of the Pioneer Army of Haozhou.
Guo Shao spoke very directly, and when he came in, he laughed and said: Luo Yanhuan dared not accept you because he was afraid that you were a detailed work sent by Chai Kehong, Haozhou.
After hearing this, Zhou Duan shook his head and sighed: There are always horses in a thousand miles, but there are no Bo Le.
Li Chuyun next to him laughed happily: Mr. Zhou breathed a lot.Is it a thousand-mile horse? You have to run one for people to see. Where can so many thousand-mile horses be obtained by holding them at will?
Guo Shao and Li Chuyun and other generals laughed together and said: I will only ask you one thing, are you not afraid of the people in your family being retaliated against if you join the Zhou army?
Zhou Duan sneered: Did I say I would join the Zhou army?Just Lu Mengjun, can he take revenge on the people of the Zhou family?The clan elder Zhou Gongjun Tai was the Situ when he retired. He served as the Inner Prison, Pingzhangshi, and Shizhong!Lu Mengjun, a surrendered general of Chu, only retained his status by receiving favor from the emperor. He dared to touch the people of the Zhou family!
Who is Zhou Juntai?Guo Shao asked in surprise.
Zuo You reminded: His name is Zhou Zong... His daughter is quite famous, named Zhou Xian and his courtesy name is Ehuang.
Guo Shao thought about it, was Zhou Ehuang the Queen of Li Yu's Great Zhou?Now he decided that it would be difficult for Zhou Duan to send someone to Xia Cai Town to lock it up.
If there is still someone in this world whom Chai Kehong dare not despise and respect very much, then it is his mother.My mother was just a woman, but she could have a great influence on Chai Kehong.
Before conquering Wu and Yue Kingdom, Chai Kehong was not yet famous and many ministers did not trust him.
But Chai's mother wrote a letter herself, saying that her son could lead troops to be a military general. If she did not do well, she would be willing to bear the death penalty with her son...
Chai Kehong quickly finished reading his mother's handwritten letter and was immediately surprised.
The content is completely opposite to the previous encouragement, and he even suspected it was false belief!
But after careful examination, it was true that the handwriting and phrases were undoubtedly Chai’s mother.
Can't even tell the letters written by my mother? Chai Kehong can still judge this point.
Chai’s mother advised him to pretend to be sick, not to accept the military power of Haozhou, and to retreat bravely!
Her general idea in the letter: Your reputation is too great now, the expectations given by the emperor and the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty are too high, and once you encounter setbacks, you cannot afford the consequences; it is not only the honor and disgrace of the individual and the family, but also the rise and fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the morale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Such a big responsibility is not something you can afford alone.
Besides, because of his great military achievements and rapid promotion, his son did not have enough experience. Now there are nearly 100,000 troops in the entire Haozhou, which has deviated from his son's ability.
Your father often said that an army of ten thousand people can be used to be clever, and a hundred thousand people can only win with justice.
Your ability and the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang Army are not enough to shoulder such a great responsibility... In case of failure, I feel ashamed of the gifts and trust given to you by the emperor.
If the defeated person in Haozhou was not Chai Kehong, but a general who was not loved and highly expected by the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Kingdom: what was lost was only a state, not the morale of the entire Southern Tang army.
After reading the letter, Chai Kehong was deeply shocked and very unhappy.
He thought about it all night, but he regained his pride the next day and did not intend to follow his mother's advice.
When Chai Kehong summoned his general, he said: He captured the scout of the Zhou army, and the troops coming were from the left and right sides of the Hujie army.Zhao Chao, the chief of the Right Chamber of the Capital, started from this person.
The generals were puzzled and hurriedly asked about the reason.
Chai Kehong sneered: Zhengyang was defeated a few months ago and more than 3,000 people were surrendered.The prisoners were handed over to Zhao Chaozhi, and he slaughtered them all that night.This man is bloodthirsty, but I have millions of soldiers and civilians in the Southern Tang Kingdom. Can he kill him?
There were hundreds of thousands of military farming soldiers in Shouzhou and Haozhou, but due to poor management of the imperial officials, these people immediately surrendered after the Zhou army entered the country and received the money.We must let these stationed soldiers understand the cruel nature of the Zhou army and arouse their resistance; in this way, tens of thousands of Zhou army faced not only 50,000 people in Haozhou City, but tens of thousands of people!Zhao Chao is the breakthrough.
When Chai Kehong said this, he had abandoned all the unhappiness of last night and laughed: At that time, countless Southern Tang Erlangs would harass their food roads, patrols and scouts, which would make the Zhou army deeply trapped in Haozhou.
There were chaos in various places, and the Zhou army was working hard for a long time, and the food supply was insufficient and transportation was even more difficult.I will deploy city defense again, strictly guard Haozhou, and delay the time and fatigue its army.When you find the opportunity to fight, you will surely defeat the Zhou army!
All the generals were convinced.
Chai Kehong deployed the city defense of Haozhou, first strengthened the city wall defense, found officials who built the city walls, and conducted detailed investigations on the foundation and feng shui of the city walls.
Chai Kehong once sent someone to observe the Shouzhou Gap and knew that the city wall was blown up by gunpowder buried in the tunnel... No one could figure out how the Zhou army exploded the city wall, but the situation was that the city wall could be blown up; Chai Kerong specifically inspected and deployed Haozhou city defense in response to this matter.
His plan was to echo the internal and external forces of the Southern Tang Rebel Army in Haozhou, and he spent a year and a half, or one or two years with the Zhou army here.Therefore, there is great hope for Haozhou City to stick to it.
What if somewhere in the city wall is broken?Very good, it is really Chai Kerong's magic weapon to win.
Chai Kehong and his generals around him said: Since ancient times, he has not been familiar with street fighting.Now I will go against the rules and deploy ambushes within the city; when the Zhou army enters the city from a certain place, they will go to the city gates and the central cross road.At that time, the cannon will be fired, and the formation will be disrupted with smoke and fire, and then the elite soldiers will be defeated.Counterattack the city wall and repeatedly compete, Haozhou City cannot be scorched earth, and the Zhou army will not be able to capture this city!
……
Lu Mengjun and Chai Kehong served in Haozhou at the same time. He was the military supervisor and the deputy general of Chai Kehong.
At that time, Luo Yan's Huanjun was the vanguard and entered Haozhou first and sent scouts from all sides to inquire about the information.
A scout pretended to be a commoner and went deep into the area controlled by the Tang army. Unexpectedly, the accent was discovered by someone, so he rode a horse and ran wildly.
The horse's leg was injured on the road, and the scout had no choice but to kill the horse and hurriedly covered it with straw, and hid in a commoner's home.
The scout was discovered by a young couple in the woodshed and knelt down and begged in despair.He said that he had escaped to Huainan by his enemies and was killed. If he was caught, he would die miserably.
The young woman saw that the scout was young and tall, tall and very strong, and she could completely support the strong labor force of a family. It would be a pity to die!
The woman felt sympathy and advised her husband to save his life.
My husband knew that Huainan was suffering from war. This man spoke in the northern accent and might be the scout of the Zhou army... But in the eyes of ordinary people, the Zhou army and the Tang army were almost the same. After all, they were all Han people.
In times of crisis, he saved a hero with righteousness and formed a loyalty.
Despite the opposition of his parents, the husband hid the scout in the cellar and sent food and drinking water.
The scout of Zhou Jun was grateful, asked the name of the family, cursed and vowed to wait until the war was over, and he would bring his wife from his family to Huainan to thank him, so as to make brothers.
But the body of the dead horse was soon found by the Tang army pursuers and searched nearby.
The scout of the Zhou army was found from clues.
The young general of the Tang army found out the situation. The people of the family took in spies only out of sympathy, and did not know about it, so they stole a buffalo from their family as punishment.
Unexpectedly, Lu Mengjun happened to be patrolling the road with his personal soldiers and heard about it.
He immediately took his personal soldiers to the people's home and ordered his whole family to be tied to the main hall.
But seeing that the young woman was a little pretty, she wanted to order her personal soldiers to insult her on the spot.
The general advised: It seems inappropriate to do such things.
Lu Mengjun ignored it and scolded the spy for being severely punished, so he watched with his personal soldiers for fun.
After looking at the scout of Zhou's army, he shouted: There must be an affair!This woman is a dissolute person, so she leaves a man to steal people.I will make you die with peace of mind today.Now the woman is going to have sex with the scouts of Zhou army again.
The scout of Zhou Jun cursed: If you want to kill, kill it!I am not a beast, how can I do such a thing to my life-saving wife? I will never obey my death, but I just want to have fun!
Lu Mengjun drew his sword and wanted to kill the woman's child: Go!If you are compatible with that man, otherwise I will dig his eyes first!
The woman was very anxious and had to obey her orders with tears.
But after Lu Mengjun and others finished doing the bad things, they still killed the woman's child with one sword.The woman cried loudly, and she couldn't bear to hear the sad cry.
An aide outside the door heard the movement inside and shook his head and sighed: Mr. Lu cannot succeed, and he is indifferent to what he is betrayed by others.
Standing next to him was the general who had just advised Lu Mengjun, and hurriedly asked about the reason, and said: Although Mr. Lu was cruel, he was still very brave in war and was not afraid of death.
The staff disagreed and said: Mr. Lu has done such things more than once. Before killing someone, he must make people live worse than death and humiliate and torture him in every way.It is not that the person who was killed was extremely guilty, but that Mr. Lu liked this way and enjoyed it.
What's the use of him not afraid of death?He does not value life and has no attachment to life.But more people in the world just want to live and want to live well.Therefore, no one is willing to follow people like Mr. Lu.
He took off his official hat and threw it on the ground and stepped on it a few times, scolding, "Fuck it." It was really embarrassing to put this thing on my head, and then said to the general: I'm going back to my hometown to farm and study."
The staff rode a horse and walked south for a while, thinking that Lu Mengjun might send someone to catch him, so he turned to the path.Unexpectedly, he got lost and ran into Zhou Jun's cavalry again and was caught.
...The aide was arrested back to Luo Yanhuan's army. Luo Yanhuan immediately stepped forward and asked: Who is coming?
The civil official said: In Zhouduan, Xiayangzhou, he was an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Luo Yanhuan then accepted it and invited him to drink in the tent during the night. He found that his words were not speculative. This person was too literary and unrestrained, and he was very noble.
Luo Yanhuan was not happy, and was afraid that he was a spy deliberately sent by the Southern Tang Army, so he sent someone to send him to Guo Shao, the commander of the Pioneer Army of Haozhou.
Guo Shao spoke very directly, and when he came in, he laughed and said: Luo Yanhuan dared not accept you because he was afraid that you were a detailed work sent by Chai Kehong, Haozhou.
After hearing this, Zhou Duan shook his head and sighed: There are always horses in a thousand miles, but there are no Bo Le.
Li Chuyun next to him laughed happily: Mr. Zhou breathed a lot.Is it a thousand-mile horse? You have to run one for people to see. Where can so many thousand-mile horses be obtained by holding them at will?
Guo Shao and Li Chuyun and other generals laughed together and said: I will only ask you one thing, are you not afraid of the people in your family being retaliated against if you join the Zhou army?
Zhou Duan sneered: Did I say I would join the Zhou army?Just Lu Mengjun, can he take revenge on the people of the Zhou family?The clan elder Zhou Gongjun Tai was the Situ when he retired. He served as the Inner Prison, Pingzhangshi, and Shizhong!Lu Mengjun, a surrendered general of Chu, only retained his status by receiving favor from the emperor. He dared to touch the people of the Zhou family!
Who is Zhou Juntai?Guo Shao asked in surprise.
Zuo You reminded: His name is Zhou Zong... His daughter is quite famous, named Zhou Xian and his courtesy name is Ehuang.
Guo Shao thought about it, was Zhou Ehuang the Queen of Li Yu's Great Zhou?Now he decided that it would be difficult for Zhou Duan to send someone to Xia Cai Town to lock it up.
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