Hu Xianfeng stood up and slapped the table, lifted up his clothes and said, "Let's go and find Captain Zhao and ask what's going on!"
Meng Yuanwu drank a glass of wine by himself, knowing the outcome but did not say anything to stop it.
Hu Xianfeng has good character and a strong sense of justice. He is indeed a good candidate to win over. However, he is not sure whether he can win him in one fell swoop, so he can only wait patiently for the right time.
When the food on the table was almost eaten by the dumplings, Hu Xianfeng and others finally came back angrily.
Obviously, they did not get a satisfactory answer from Captain Zhao.
Meng Yuan piled the cups filled with wine in front of him and advised him in a slow voice: "Once a hero draws his sword, it will be another ten years of calamity for the common people. War has always been so cruel. When will the world be peaceful? Can such a thing be done?
To put an end to it fundamentally, Brother Hu should be more open-minded."
Hu Xianfeng raised his glass and shook his head, sighing: "Oh, I hope I can defeat Jiang Guo quickly and end this wrathful life."
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In the next two days, new people continued to come in. There were about 10,000 people in total. Excluding the old and young people, there were about 7,000 young and middle-aged people available.
In another station, there were about 50,000 well-equipped soldiers under Qi Sheng stationed.
With seven thousand versus fifty thousand, the chance of victory is basically zero.
Meng Yuan felt very anxious about this. His already thin body had lost weight in just a few days. He was so thin that his dumplings felt distressed. He saved his own food and secretly poured it into his bowl every day.
Five days later, at the southern border, the battle between Zhao Ying and Jiang's army was in full swing, and Qi Sheng finally couldn't hold back his ambition and officially took action.
Tens of thousands of troops left Xiangcheng overnight and rushed to Wuling County, a city in the north of Xiangcheng.
Sure enough, as Meng Yuan expected, the people in the garrison were organized into a separate team, led by Captain Zhao and his more than a thousand men, who took the lead and attracted firepower.
The other soldiers formed another team, led by Qi Sheng himself, and took another route to create a surprise effect.
This kind of troop formation also gave Meng Yuan the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes. After determining Qi Sheng's first target, he immediately sent a message to the two thousand soldiers stationed outside the city.
The leader of the soldiers was a deputy general named Lu Yan, who was very capable. After receiving the news, he immediately sent troops to notify the Wuling County Governor. At the same time, following Meng Yuan's instructions, he set up a Stonehenge ambush on the road where the civilian army must pass.
It is difficult to defeat tens of thousands of people with thousands of people, but it is a piece of cake to defeat a thousand people.
At that time, they can get rid of Captain Zhao and his party, and take the remaining civilian troops to Wuling County to join the Wuling army. Although they may not be able to defeat Qi Sheng, they can definitely delay for a few days and wait for reinforcements from the capital to arrive.
By then it will be Qi Sheng's turn to worry.
With the exact battle plan in hand, Meng Yuan felt more at ease, and his first priority was to win Hu Xianfeng and others into his camp.
After these few days of hard work, he has successfully entered Hu Xianfeng's circle of brothers, but he has not found the opportunity to tell the truth.
So when one of Hu Xianfeng's students discovered that the marching route was not right, Meng Yuan immediately stood up and said, "This is the route to Wuling County. I have walked it many times and I will never admit it."
Hu Xianfeng was stunned when he heard this, "Wuling County is in the north and Yuzhou is in the south. If you rush like this, you will never reach your destination in the next life."
As he said that, he went to the front to find Captain Zhao.
Meng Yuan grabbed him with quick hands and eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Hu, can you take a step to speak?"
Seeing his serious face and unusual voice, Hu Xianfeng couldn't help but feel nervous, "Go and talk in the woods over there."
Most of the people in the team knew Hu Xianfeng. When they saw him leaving the team without authorization, they did not stop him. They only reminded him in a friendly way to pay attention to the time.
After entering the woods, the surroundings suddenly became much quieter.
Hu Xianfeng glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "Did you discover something?"
Meng Yuan raised his hand and pulled off the green jade plaque from his waist, handed it to him, and asked, "Do you recognize the jade plaque of General Zhao Ying and Zhao?"
"General Zhao's jade plaque?"
Hu Xianfeng was shocked. He lowered his head and saw that under the moonlight, the big "Zhao" character on the jade plaque was particularly transparent.
Although he had never seen the jade plaque, he subconsciously believed Meng Yuan's words.
"Why do you have something belonging to General Zhao? Are you his?"
The moment the question came out of his mouth, Meng Yuan didn't need to answer, he had already given the answer himself.
Yes, how could a rich young man who runs an escort agency have such superb martial arts skills?
If you change your identity to a fierce general in the army, everything will make sense.
Hu Xianfeng suddenly realized, slapped his forehead and said with emotion: "My stupid head, I have drank with you so many times, but I didn't find anything wrong. But..."
He changed his voice and said: "Since you are General Zhao's man, shouldn't you be fighting on the front line now? How could you end up like this?"
"Because there is something as important as defeating Jiang Guo that needs me to solve."
Meng Yuan opened his thin lips slightly and looked at him with burning eyes, "Qi Sheng, a person with a sharp mind and a serious temperament who takes indiscriminate killing would recruit troops specifically to save the people of Yuzhou. Do you think this is reasonable?"
Hu Xianfeng was speechless, "This..."
Meng Yuan looked away and continued: "Qi Sheng never thought about supporting Yuzhou from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, he recruited the barbarian army who attacked Yuzhou just to distract General Zhao, and he could take advantage of this
Opportunity to go north to rebel."
"Rebellion, rebellion?" Hu Xianfeng's face froze, and his heart sank to the bottom like a falling stone.
Meng Yuan didn't give him a chance to respond at all, and presented several pieces of evidence in succession: "Do you remember the case of the Chen family's murder of fellow members? We released that information in order to find out the arsenal hidden in the underground secret room of the Chen family.
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"There is also the case of the fire in the class room. It was also a rumor we asked people to spread in order to invite the Minister of Dali Temple and take the opportunity to get rid of Chen Bitian, the henchman around Qi Sheng."
"The Ning family did not sell illegal salt. They were charged with this crime just because they did not agree to purchase grain, grass and weapons for Qi Sheng."
Hu Xianfeng recovered from the initial shock and began to carefully recall several things he described.
It is true that the Chen family has a secret room.
It is true that the Minister of Dali Temple came to Xiangcheng.
It is true that the Ning family has a strict family tradition and is willing to do good.
Piece by piece, piece by piece, there is a mountain of ironclad evidence.
He is not a fool. With the answer, all the questions and anger in the past few days have been explained.
No wonder they had to keep the old and the young. Would a person who could even commit such a heinous act as treason still care about the lives of the people?
He closed his eyes and took a step back. His heart seemed to be filled with boiling water, churning back and forth, unable to calm down for a long time.
Meng Yuan quietly looked up at the moon. After a while, he turned around and spoke in a soft yet firm voice, with inspiring power: "Brother Hu, the trapped comrades in the army need you, and the people of Wuling County also need you."
Let me fight side by side."
Hu Xianfeng slowly raised his head, his eyes seemed to hide a knife edge, bright and sharp, "Then just fight, there is nothing to be afraid of." This chapter has been completed!