Delong

Chapter 280 Pro Pop (13)

"It doesn't matter, we can kill Gao Shizan after taking down Leling."

Under the candlelight, Gao Shitong, who was sitting behind the case, looked calm on the surface, but his tone seemed very sincere. "Let me assure you that our Hebei Rebel Army will never really join forces with such people... Don't forget, the current situation is that the general guard Qian Tang in the plains has shrunk his troops to Ande City, the prefecture, and Ande City has enough food We have a lot of soldiers, we have been fighting for more than a month and have not come down. Basically, we have no hope. On the contrary, our food and armaments are gradually running out. If we can take down Leling and then take Gao Shizan's manor, it will be much easier .”

After finishing speaking, the commander of the Hebei Rebel Army with more than [-] troops hid in the dim light and carefully observed the people in the hall. He saw that the officers from the Pingyuan Army and the new leader of the rebel army disappeared. After saying a word, I was only half relieved in my heart.

However, at this moment, a leader of the Bohai Navy surnamed Gao couldn't help frowning: "No matter what, he took the initiative to vote, but we have to kill him afterwards. Will anyone believe us in the future? Besides, Gao After all, Qiye is our fellow villager in Bohai with the same surname, and he and the head of the family are usually considered brothers..."

Gao Shitong had one head and two big ones, so he wanted to explain again.

Of course, the leaders of the Pingyuan Army and the New Rebel Army are right next to him, so where is it his turn?Immediately, someone mocked secretly: "Is the man-eating bastard really a serious Bohai Gao family?"

These words have a gun with a stick, and I don't know how many people have scolded them.

"Who are you scolding?" Sure enough, the leader of the Bohai Navy surnamed Gao was furious immediately, but he couldn't find anyone to speak for a while.

"Whoever eats people scolds." But it doesn't matter, the leader of the Pingyuan Army said coldly, and then continued.

"Rural rumors..." Someone from Bo Haijun tried to explain again.

"Eating people is a rural rumor, but shutting the door and not accepting the rebels. The heroes of Hebei are starving to death, but who is it that bakes pancakes at home?" Another tall leader of the new rebel army stood up. He went out and came directly to the naval general named Gao Bo.

This person is obviously very prestigious, and the leaders of the Bohai Navy immediately felt a little overwhelmed, and the leader stepped back half a step before trying to defend himself: "It's a sin if the pancakes are too wide?"

"It depends on when, when other people are thrown into the water, when they catch a fish and dare not start a fire, and dare not throw fish intestines, it is a crime for him to do so!"

"If this is the case, it was a sin for us to eat rice in Dengzhou before?" The leader of the Bohai Navy was forced to ask, gritted his teeth.

"Tell this to the Dragon Gang, and see if they think it's a crime!" The general of the Pingyuan Army interrupted again.

This time, they found an opportunity. The two groups of Bo Haijun and Pingyuan Army immediately quarreled, while the local new rebel army just sneered, and a new round of chaos seemed to start again.

This is Banxian County, Pingyuan County, located in the east of Ande County, Pingyuan County.

"Enough! I will make a decision on this matter myself!" Seeing the quarrel resumed, Gao Shitong, who had been silent all this time, suddenly yelled sharply and jumped up, which ended the quarrel. "Everyone, go back and wait for the military order!"

The two groups of people looked at each other, stared at each other a few times, and the leaders of the new rebel army also exchanged winks, and they left in a chaotic manner, and they went back.

Gao Shitong was upset, so he simply kicked out the guards again, and sat alone in the seat behind the case in the hall, thinking about the current situation.

In other words, as many people ridiculed, the bad thing about Gao Shitong is that he is a smart person and has a clear understanding of the situation.

Because he is smart, he knows very well that he, the leader of the Hebei Rebel Army with a population of [-], has already lost half of his prestige.

The Conquest of Dengzhou by the Dragon Gang and its follow-up disposal had serious consequences. Bo Haijun looked down on him, thinking that he was an incompetent surrender who ruined Dengzhou's comfort zone and wanted to lead others; The Pingyuan Army, who had been stripped of all its weapons and supplies, thought he was a traitor and a betrayer.

After arriving in Hebei and occupying half of Pingyuan County in the southeast and a small amount of Bohai County in the southwest, individual rebels who were originally hidden in puddles, islands, swamps, and ravines flocked to vote, but Just for the sake of supplies, armaments and survival, all the new Hebei rebels did not think that the big leader who had fled to Dengzhou to watch a theater before was worthy of allegiance.

However, when the three groups of people got together, a strange balance was formed.

The Bohai Navy needs Gao Shitong, the original leader of their own family, to continue to maintain their dominant position in the army, and their behavior is conservative; This strange and strong change seems to be shrinking, but some aspects seem to be too intense, so that they seem to be silent and serious on weekdays; and those rebels also need time to rest, and at the same time need to cling to this system. Contact each other in order to find a new leader who can be entrusted, and is also the most radical party in the face of the official army.

And behind the three, there is the Dragon Gang, which occupies the eight counties of Jishui on the south bank of the great river, and has fully proved its strength in all directions. You must know that the Dragon Gang has not only brought psychological shadows to the Pingyuan Army family.

As for the opponents in Hebei, Hejian Daying is the enemy that needs to be worried the most, and the prefects of Bohai, Pingyuan, and Qinghe counties are also opponents that need to be faced directly... and these three are either experienced, young and energetic, or born Even a humble person cannot be regarded as an incompetent person.

At the same time, the huge army, chaotic organization, lack of food and grass, vast plains and dense cities are also the enemies he, the commander of the Hebei Rebel Army, has to face.

Of course, there is also Gao Shizan, a relative of the same county.

Gao Shitong is more aware of this person. He knows that although the other party is powerful, he is greedy, arrogant, violent, and extravagant, but he also has unconcealable stupidity and timidity inside... He really doesn't want to be with this kind of person. Cooperate, because the consequences of cooperation are already very clear. The Pingyuan army is frightened, for fear that cooperating with this person will arouse the wrath of the Dragon Gang; extreme.

But what can he, Gao Shitong, Gao Dashuai do?

Now there are rumors everywhere on the south bank of the river, saying that the Dragon Army is about to march northward, and with the material transportation and troop build-up that cannot be concealed at all, it makes people feel guilty.He urgently needs new power to strengthen himself, strategic depth to hide, and Gao Shizan's manpower, material resources and territory...whether the opponent is dead or alive...in case this sad balance is broken and he has no new foothold .

Gao Shitong knew very well that once the balance of the army was broken, whether it was from the inside or the outside, he, the man who was erected, would definitely suffer enough pain from the fall.

"Big boss!"

Just when Marshal Gao was terrified by the situation, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside the hall. "It's me, Zhuge Dewei."

"Fourth?" Dashuai Gao cheered up and put on a smiling face. "Come in directly if you have something to do."

"Master." Zhuge Dewei immediately turned in from the empty door, but he didn't even approach when he saw that there were no guards inside, he just bowed his hands and saluted at the hall seven or eight steps away. "There's something I want to tell you..."

"Say it."

"I have a distant family brother, not from our Hejian lineage, but from Xindu, nicknamed Lieyang Palm, named Zhuge Yang..."

"I know." Gao Shitong nodded immediately. "Just now we mentioned that he was conscripted in the early years, served as an official, then moved to Daxing, and came back again?"

"Yes, I'm back."

"He also served as General Zhong Lang, a subordinate of Xue Changxiong in the Hejian Camp?"

"Yes, I did."

"Looking for you?"

"Yes, look for me."

"What are you looking for?"

"Tell me, Gao Shizan has been getting very close to Hejian Daying recently, let me be careful..."

Gao Shitong took a long breath, looked at the other person's face through the candlelight and asked seriously: "Do you think it is credible?"

"I don't think it's credible." Zhuge Dewei smiled wryly in the room. "As far as I know, he caused a lot of trouble as soon as he came back. Not only did he hate the heroes of his hometown, but he also had an enmity with Gao Shizan...how can you believe what your enemy says? It's probably just that he knows Gao Shizan Zan and Da Dangjia belong to the same family in the same county, so they might be thinking about it at this time, so they used a verbal message without any evidence or actual content as a test, or the opposite. It was used to confuse Xue Changxiong. However, I don’t care whether it’s credible or not, since my clan brother sent someone to find me and delivered the letter, he must report this to the head of the family, so as not to have villains chewing on his tongue.”

"I see." Gao Dashuai nodded. "It's time for Lao Si."

"Don't dare, dare not." Zhuge Dewei bowed to the bottom again, and retreated slowly. "It's good for the master to know that he is loyal, so I'm leaving now."

Gao Shitong waved his hand, as if he was ready to end this futile and chaotic conversation.

You must know that not only is the content of the information brought by the other party just adding chaos out of thin air, it is futile to increase the complexity of the matter, and more importantly, as a sensible person, Marshal Gao has been guarding against Zhuge Dewei, the fourth master, and regarded the other party as It is the most unreliable link in the foundation of the Bohai Navy - in Dengzhou that day, the fourth leader fled without a fight, and then tried to go out of the city by himself to contact the dethroning army, which left a deep impression on him as the leader , and now that this person has caused trouble again, how do you know there will be any redundant variables?
Don’t you see, when discussing Gao Shizan’s matter, a lot of leaders of the new rebel army came, but Zhuge Dewei, the fourth leader of the Bohai Navy, and Sun Xuanzhi, the leader of the Pingyuan Army, were not there at all... Gao Shitong knew in his heart that he was on guard against some people early on.

However, just when Zhuge Dewei quickly retreated to the threshold, Gao Shitong suddenly remembered something, and then his heart moved slightly, and he directly opened his mouth to stop him:
"Fourth."

Zhuge Dewei immediately stopped, and then cupped his hands: "What do you want from Master?"

"There is something you must do." Gao Shitong smiled. "Rumors are flying all over the world now, saying that the Dragon Gang is going to cross the Hebei River. The army is worried about this, and I don't know how to deal with it... So I want you to be an envoy, cross the river, and find the Dragon Gang to inquire face to face. Be clear about this matter... Will they come? Who will come? How many soldiers will they bring? When will they come? Where will they come from? Do you want us to respond? Ask them clearly and come back, so I can do it conveniently.”

Zhuge Dewei thought for a while, and immediately nodded: "I will definitely fulfill my mission!"

Only then did Gao Shitong nod in satisfaction, and Zhuge Dewei once again bid farewell and left.

Just when Commander Gao had an idea and sent Zhuge Dewei, an unstable factor, to the other side of the river, he didn't know... Or, he knew a long time ago that the new rebels in the army have been working hard to join forces from the very beginning... But there was nothing he could do.

"Gao Shitong is untrustworthy! Bohai people can't be trusted either!"

In the twilight, in a camp outside Ban County, surrounded by a bonfire, a tall and thin man was the first to express his opinion. The voice was the same as the one who was the first to quarrel with Bo Haijun.

"Xiao Sun." The tall, middle-aged man who was in his early years sighed. "Let me speak with conscience, the Bohai Navy is really not trustworthy, and the Pingyuan Army is also a little frightened by the Dethrone Dragon Gang. The only ones who can be trusted are us volunteers who have suffered in Hebei... But, Gao Da Shuai himself is relatively fair, if he hadn't worked hard to balance, the Bohai Navy would not even give us this little material."

"It's for us to die. Didn't Brother Dou see it? Bohai Haijun himself was scared out of his wits." The young man called Xiaosun said angrily. "We were asked to take the lead in several sieges, and died in vain. It is not a good intention for the two of us to participate in military discussions."

"But Xiaosun, such brothers, family members, and neighbors all died at the hands of the officers and soldiers. Don't you want to seek revenge from the officers and soldiers?" the man surnamed Dou asked back. "Or do you want to go back to Gaojibo to eat raw loach?"

As soon as this remark came out, the young man surnamed Sun immediately kept silent.

"What did Master Hao say?" After a pause, another person asked.

"It's hard to say." The middle-aged man surnamed Dou shook his head. "Uncle Hao thinks that our Gaojibo power is too scattered. We only have a few hundred people to go to him, and he can only give him one leader...even if he invites a fellow villager Liu Heimei to speak in the middle."

"It's all a strange problem caused by the Dragon Gang." The young man surnamed Sun sneered again. "What big leader, leader, other people have followed suit... It is obvious that they are rebels who fought against Wei together. They should eat in big pots and eat meat in big bowls. It's fine if the people of Bohai are not the same as us. How can this uncle Hao be like this? ?”

"It's you, the gangster, who is going to punish the Dragon Gang." Another man shook his head helplessly. "And I'm right, whoever grows up has to be disciplined, Mr. Hao is like this, Mr. Gao is like this, and the Dragon Gang is like this... To put it bluntly, when we grow up in the future, we have to behave like this." This set."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The man surnamed Sun replied perfunctorily. "It's all reasonable, it's all right... But if this is the case, where is our way out?"

As soon as this remark came out, he was discouraged by the campfire for a while.

After a while, another person punched the ground next to him bitterly: "I don't believe it, this world can't accommodate us brothers?"

"Of course it can be tolerated, why can't it be tolerated?!" Hearing this, the man surnamed Dou who was silent for a moment suddenly threw the firewood in his hand into the fire, then stood up and looked around solemnly. "Xue Changxiong and the Youzhou horse team came to sweep together. How many people died? If we can survive, it means that we are heroes! Your Sun Anzu is a hero! You Wang Xiaohu is also a hero! Da Cao, Lao Dong, Xiao Gao, you guys They are all heroes! I, Dou Lide, am also a hero! As a hero, even if the Supreme Being is blind, we can still find our own way out!"

There was a moment of panting by the bonfire, and the soldiers on the periphery also looked up, but the atmosphere in the camp unexpectedly calmed down.

After a while, the middle-aged man, that is Dou Lide, changed his tone and sat down and continued: "The most urgent thing is to urge Commander Gao to send troops... No matter where we fight, we should fight outside, and only by fighting can we fight." Take a place of your own to settle down. If you want me to say, it’s really not possible, you can just grit your teeth and agree to Uncle Hao, and go to occupy a place with him... Otherwise, according to the rumors, if the Dethrone Dragon Gang crosses the river in a big way, we will really fall into ruin It's someone else's miscellaneous soldiers."

The heroes around all nodded their heads.

In this way, in the next few days, the Hebei rebel army became more and more restless, and soon, Zhuge Dewei saw Zhang Xing who was busy with many things in the territory of Jibei County on the other side of the river. summoned him.

And Zhuge Dewei did not hesitate, and relayed Gao Shitong's questions one by one.

After listening, Zhang Xing didn't do anything to cover up, but immediately gave a reply: "It is true that we will cross the river in a big way, and Chief Wei and I will personally lead the troops. Not including the Putai Army, it is estimated that we will reorganize three The [-] elite went northward, and the accompanying leaders were about half of the occupying army leaders... As for when and where to go, to be honest, it has not been decided yet, but the current discussion trend is that if Gao Dadang's progress in Hebei is smooth, we will wait for Dahe Freeze, and move again, because this can save a lot of logistical troubles, and can also choose the target to attack calmly, and at the same time, it is convenient to retreat in case of defeat."

Zhuge Dewei nodded again and again: "So, I can rest assured."

Zhang Xing also nodded, and it seemed that the envoy of the Hebei Rebel Army was going to cross over as a matter of course.

But right away, the fourth leader of the Bohai Navy of the Hebei Rebel Army continued: "But, forgive me for talking too much, the tall leader seemed unstoppable after crossing the river, but in fact he was exhausted, but the camp was divided into three forces. , made him mentally and mentally exhausted, and he couldn't make his own decision to send troops to do things, but was pushed away by the three families... At this time, the Hejian camp seems to have some plans again."

Up to this point, Zhuge Dewei almost fully explained the matter of Gao Shizan, the crap that his brother had found him, and the undercurrents in Gao Shitong's army, and even the intentions and movements of some main leaders. out.

Zhang Xing listened for a while, until the other party took the initiative to stop, and then asked under the embankment next to the ferry: "So, what does it mean that Zhuge is in charge?"

"To be honest with the leader, this matter has nothing to do with our leader, it's just my own concern." Zhuge Dewei pointed to the sun above his head and said seriously. "The early winter of this year is obviously Xiaoyangchun, and I am afraid that it will be frozen in the twelfth lunar month... At that time, judging from the scattered sand of the Hebei rebel army, it is impossible to say that they have been wiped out by the elite of the imperial court's Hejian camp. It is time to fight again with the elite of the Hejian Camp who are waiting for work... Rather than that, what I mean is that it is better to ask Zhang Longtou to sneak north as soon as possible, gather [-] Hebei rebels for his own use, and maybe even beat the Hejian Camp. Caught off guard."

Zhang Xing thought for a while, and didn't directly answer whether it was good or bad. Instead, he sighed, walked up to him, and touched the other person's shoulder: "Zhuge is in charge, he's so talented."

Zhuge Dewei's shoulders shook, and he quickly bowed to the end.

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)