"PS: I arrived in Shenzhen today. I'm so tired from the car ride. Now let's go and see the seafood street in Shenzhen."
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When it was approaching Haishi, Huan Hu walked slowly out of the Lu Palace, seeing him off personally by Gong Zixing.
The guards guarding the palace gate were very puzzled by this, because a few hours ago, it was Gongzi Xing who personally brought Huan Hu into the palace. I remember that at that time, Gongzi Xing's expression remained unchanged, and his words and deeds seemed to be full of opposition to Huan.
Hu didn't trust Hu, but at this moment, Gong Zixing was surrounding Huan Hu, and there was a feeling of regret for meeting him late.
"...Why does General Huan Hu insist on going back to the post house? If the general is not used to living in the palace, he might as well move to Beppu. I still have some things I want to ask General Huan Hu."
When walking out of the palace, Gongzi Xing pulled Huan Hu's sleeve and said reluctantly.
After hearing this, Huan Hu smiled heartily and said: "Of course Huan Hu dare not refuse the kindness of the young master, but tomorrow Huan will leave Qufu and return to Pei County, and will transfer my troops to Dalu..." Speaking of
Here, he saw the look of disappointment and regret on the young master's face, so he comforted him and said: "How about waiting for Huan to lead his troops back to Qufu someday, and then go to harass the young master?"
"This..." Considering the urgency of the matter, Gongzi Xing could only nod his head, and bid farewell to Huan Hu at the palace gate: "General Huan Hu, I and my father are waiting for the general's good news in Qufu."
"Okay." Huan Hu nodded repeatedly.
After a while, Gongzi Xing returned to the palace, while Huan Hu, humming an unknown tune and swaggering toward the post house, was humming an unknown tune while a group of palace guards near the palace looked at each other in disbelief.
While passing by a nearby alley, a voice came from the alley: "I thought King Lu left you to rest in the palace."
When Huan Hu heard this, he stopped and turned his head to look at the alley. Only then did he notice that in this alley under the night sky, his comrade "Jin Gou" was standing against the brick wall, with an expression that could not be seen.
Joy is anger.
Seeing that there was no one around, Huan Hu grinned and said: "Don't tell me, King Lu did invite me to rest in the palace. In fact, the maids in the palace, tsk tsk, the women of the Lu Kingdom are quite charming...
"
"Then are you willing to let this opportunity go?" Jin Gou asked with a hint of teasing.
Huan Hu snorted and said lightly: "What's the point of playing with someone else's woman? Even if those palace ladies climbed onto my Huan Hu's bed tonight, it was only because of King Lu, not because of
I, Huan Hu...sooner or later, I will make those women climb onto my bed willingly!"
"..."
Jin Gou took a deep look at Huan Hu, then hummed and curled his lips and said: "Pretending."
That's what he said, but he was a little touched by Huan Hu's words in his heart.
It seems that Jin Gou has lived for more than fifty years and has met many different kinds of people, but this is the first time he has seen such a "bold" guy like Huan Hu.
I won’t mention the past events, but this time the Chu State attacked the Lu State. This kind of war between countries was too much for others to avoid, but Huan Hu was so good that he actually joined in and decided to help the weak.
The state of Lu competed with the behemoth state of Chu.
What shocked Jin Gou the most was that Huan Hu's decision to help the Lu State was not just for speculation, but he really put all his property on it.
You know, it took a total of ten years for Huan Hu to develop from hundreds of cavalry bandits when he rebelled against Korea to tens of thousands of troops now. How many decades can a person have in his life? Dare Huan Hu spend ten years fighting?
He used all his belongings to bet that the State of Lu could defeat the behemoth of the State of Chu in this unprecedented battle.
Even Jin Gou admired this courage and courage. This was one of the reasons why he stayed with Huan Hu - he really wanted to see how far this man could reach in this troubled world.
.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask Huan Hu: "Is the matter done?"
After hearing this, Huan Hu showed off with an exaggerated expression: "Didn't you see that I was sent out of the palace by Gong Zixing himself?"
As he said that, he saw that Jin Gou's expression remained unchanged and did not react to his words, so he shrugged and said: "King Lu and his son Xing, father and son, don't know much about military affairs. I just made a few random remarks and said,
It’s enough for their father and son to treat me as a distinguished guest..."
At this point, he also felt funny about what he had just said in front of Lu Wang Gong Shupan and Gongzi Xing and his son.
Although he seemed to point out various shortcomings of the Chu army with reasonable evidence and gave Lu Wang Gongshu Pan and Gong Zixing more confidence in defeating the Chu army, in the final analysis, how can fighting be so easy? If you just rely on talking.
You can win the battle, and aren’t everyone on that day a famous general?
Don't talk about anything else, just talking about the Chu State General Xiang Mo who currently occupies Ningyang. In fact, Huan Hu doesn't have much confidence in his heart. Fortunately, he doesn't need to really defeat Xiang Mo. He just needs to win in this battle.
It is enough to find a way to thwart Chu's ambition to annex Lu.
It can be said that the difficulty has been reduced a lot.
That night, Huan Hu and Jin Gou returned to the post house in the city, preparing to return to Peixian County tomorrow. They packed their bags and took all the troops with them and moved to the territory of Lu - because at this time Huan Hu had already obtained it from Lu Wanggong Shupan.
However, Huan Hu wanted to catch the Chu army off guard, so he hoped that King Lu would not announce it to the outside world for the time being.
In order to prepare Chen Shou in Peixian County as soon as possible, Huan Hu specially sent his confidants back to Peixian County overnight to tell Chen Shou that he had reached an agreement with Lu Wanggong Shupan.
At the same time, in the Peixian area, Chen Shou, the general under Huan Hu who was stationed in the city, suddenly learned of the news of the second Chu army going to the north.
This second Chu army intending to rush to the State of Lu was the army under Xiang Pei, Lord Xinyang of the State of Chu.
It turns out that a few days ago, when Chu Gongzi Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo led the main army to Pengcheng, he was blocked by Qi veteran Tian Ao, who had far fewer troops than his Chu army, at Surabaya, and was unable to advance even an inch. Xinyang of Chu State
The partial division led by Jun Xiangpei successfully captured the defenseless "Xiangcheng", and then followed the order of Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo and sent his army north to "Xiao County".
To the north of Xiao County is Huan Hu's territory "Pei County".
"Chu Xinyangjun Xiang Pei?"
In the lobby of the Peixian County Government Office, Chen Shou felt a little puzzled when he learned about the commander of the Chu army.
It has to be said that compared to Xiang Mo and Xiang Kuan brothers, the two generals of Chu State, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei is indeed far inferior to his two clan brothers in terms of reputation, but this does not mean that Xiang Pei is just idle.
After all, the Xiang family has many generals. Seventy-eight of the ten children of the Xiang family in Chu State have become talented. They can truly be regarded as the number one generals who provide generals for the Chu State.
In view of the fact that there was no news from Huan Hu who went to the state of Lu to meet Lu Wanggong Shupan, Chen Shou thought for a long time and decided to stand still. Under the current circumstances, he felt that he had no reason to offend the Chu people unless Huan Hu
The other side has received the exact commitment from King Lu and reached an agreement with the latter.
On October 19, Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang of Chu, led an army of 100,000 people from "Xiao County" to "Pei County".
Although it is said to be a route, in fact, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei had indeed considered capturing the city all the way - under the current situation, any city that is not occupied by the Wei army can be the target of their Chu army's attack, regardless of whether it is a city occupied by the Wei army.
Qi, Yue, Lu, or the Pseudo-Song Dynasty.
Precisely because the imaginary enemies in his mind were the four kingdoms of Qi, Lu, Yue, and Song, when Xiang Pei, the king of Xinyang, who led his army through Peixian County, saw the flag with the word "Huan" erected on the city, he couldn't help but be stunned.
After thinking for a long time, it suddenly dawned on me: It turned out that this was the city occupied by the great thief Huan Hu.
So, is this Huanhu force listed as one of the offensive targets in this battle?
When Xinyang Jun stood up and looked at Peixian County, the Chu generals under his command could no longer hold back. It was no wonder. After all, this time, their Chu son, Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo, wanted to survive in this unprecedented battle.
During the war, he annexed Qi and Lu in one fell swoop, and even went as far as to prepare for overtaking Wei in the future.
The promise to reward cities as fiefs to meritorious men made the nobles of the Chu Kingdom hold back a surge of energy in their hearts, wishing to capture all the cities they encountered along the way - after all, such things as rewards of fiefs are not worth mentioning.
It is rare in Chu State, let alone a city in one go.
Under the temptation of this attractive benefit, the generals under Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei asked for help one after another, hoping to lead troops to attack Peixian County.
One of the more reliable suggestions is to first send people to Peixian County to persuade them to surrender. If Huan Hu - they think Huan Hu is in Peixian County - is willing to surrender to the Chu State, then naturally it is best. If he refuses to surrender, then attack
Pei County, Quan should be used as a warm-up battle before attacking Lu State.
Since the generals under his command were unanimous in their opinions, Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, could not displease them, so he wrote a letter urging surrender and sent it to Pei County.
Unlike Xiang Mo's attitude towards Huan Hu, Xiang Pei, the Lord of Xinyang, did not have much appreciation for Huan Hu.
On the same day, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei's letter of persuasion to surrender was sent to Peixian County, and was delivered to Chen Shou, who was currently not in Peixian County but was in charge of major and minor affairs in the city.
After opening the letter and seeing its contents, Chen Shou couldn't help but frowned.
Because this letter of persuasion to surrender was filled with all kinds of threatening words, which made Chen Shou, who already had a bad impression of the Chu people, feel even more annoyed.
But in the end, he endured it and ordered the entire city to be under martial law to prepare for the Chu army's attack.
When around dusk that day, seeing that Peixian County had not responded, Xiang Pei, the Lord of Xinyang, knew that the other party had obviously refused their surrender. With the insistence of his generals, he ordered his troops to attack ten southeast of Pei County.
Set up camp five miles away and prepare to attack Pei County in the future.
Coincidentally, it was precisely at this time that Huan Hu specially sent his confidants back to Pei County in advance to tell Chen Shou about the agreement with the Lu State: "General Chen, Boss Huan Hu has already reached an agreement with the Lu State.
According to the agreement, I was asked to rush back to Peixian day and night, hoping that General Chen would be ready to move."
Hearing the news, Chen Shou was neither happy nor angry, and asked calmly: "In other words, the Chu army and we have become enemies, right?"
"Yes, it should be." Huan Hu's confidant replied without knowing why.
After hearing this, Chen Shou immediately stood up and walked to his bedroom. After a while, he held a long spear. He saw the expressions of Huan Hu's confidant, who didn't understand that this member of their "Huan Hu force" was in front of him.
Second Master, why did you suddenly run out of the county office with a long gun?
Ignoring the dumbfounded Huan Hu confidant, Chen Shou came to the military camp in the northwest of the city alone, summoned the sergeant who ordered Mao, and ordered: "Pass my order, order 800 cavalry, and follow me to attack the Chu camp!"
"yes!"
Similar to Huan Hu's character, Chen Shou was by no means a person who swallowed his anger. The reason why he was indifferent to the Chu army's aggressive persuasion to surrender during the day was just because he was worried that Huan Hu had not sent anyone to convey the news at that time, so he did not want to provoke Chu.
Army, so as not to ruin Huan Hu's good deeds.
And now, now that it is known that Huan Hu has reached an agreement with Lu Wanggong Shupan, then the Chu army has naturally become an enemy - since they are enemies, there is nothing to be polite about!
That night, probably around the time of Xu, when Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, summoned all his generals to the commander's tent to make arrangements for tomorrow's attack on Pei County, Chen Shou led 800 cavalry and quietly sneaked into Chu.
camp, and then launched a surprise attack on the camp.
Following Chen Shou's order, eight hundred cavalrymen immediately rushed into the Chu camp, turned over the brazier, set fire to the tents, and killed the Chu soldiers they encountered along the way. If they encountered a general of the Chu army, Chen Shou would personally take action.
, relying on his excellent martial arts to defeat enemy generals.
It has to be said that Chen Shou, who was born as the uncle of the Yangwu Army in Wei Guoyang, can be regarded as one of the few brave generals in the world. With him taking the lead and personally charging at the front line, the morale of his 800 cavalrymen was as high as a rainbow.
It is necessary to recreate the scene in which Huan Hu led hundreds of cavalry bandits to attack the King of Wei's camp repeatedly during the Chenggao hunt, with overwhelming force.
Since it was already dark, the soldiers of the Chu army in the Chu camp had no idea how many enemy troops were coming to attack. For a time, the Chu camp of 100,000 troops was in chaos.
The main soldiers of the Chu army even knew how to rendezvous with Tongze and form an array to guard against the enemy's interference. However, the food recruits among them were very unbearable. They saw fires everywhere in the camp and an unknown number of cavalry.
When the soldiers arrived at the camp, they killed everyone they saw. They were so frightened that they lost their minds and turned pale with fright. They ran back and forth in panic. Not only did they fail to contribute anything to the battle, but they only aggravated the chaos in the Chu camp.
Countless of them trample on each other.
At this time, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, who was in the commander's tent, also heard the unusual noises in the camp. He rushed out of the tent with his generals in shock and stared at the chaos in the camp in amazement.
"...Could it be that Huan Hu? How dare he, how dare he..."
Looking at the messy scene in the camp, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei was a little unbelievable.
He could not imagine that Huan Hu, the evil bandit hiding in Song County, would dare to take the initiative to provoke his Chu country.
You must know that the Chu State today has joined hands with Wei and Qin, the two great powers, and has the hope of re-dividing the territories of various countries in the Central Plains. How dare a small Huan Hu be an enemy of the Chu State?
He Huan Hu is not Wei Gongzi Run, and he does not have the support of Wei State behind him, so why does he have such courage?
"That Huan Hu is so brave!"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, who had not had much impression of Huan Hu at first, was furious at this time. The generals around him immediately said: "You must quickly return to your respective armies and perform your duties. You must surround and kill this army."
Those thieves who dare to sneak attack on my Chu army!"
"yes!"
Seeing that their camp was actually attacked by a small Huan Hu, the Chu generals under Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei were also furious and returned to their respective military camps one after another, intending to quell the chaos and organize their soldiers to launch a counterattack.
However, what Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei never expected was that within a short time of burning incense, bad news came one after another.
"Report! Three thousand people in Zhangshui will die in battle!"
"Retribution! Three thousand people from Changhui will die in battle!"
"Report! Two thousand people will die in the battle!"
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Five or six bad news reports in a row made Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei's eyes widen in disbelief. He could not understand at all how many soldiers and generals there were in the bandit army who dared to attack his Chuying camp. Why did he have two thousand people in his army?
Generals, three thousand generals, died in battle so easily?
Did Huan Hu really have many powerful generals under his command?
"Who killed all the generals?"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei urged his soldiers to go and investigate.
Not long after, those soldiers returned and reported back to Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei: "All the generals died at the head of one man, and that man called himself Chen Shou."
"Not Huan Hu?"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei was shocked when he heard this, and then he was shocked again: just this one rogue general killed several generals in our army?
Just when he was deeply shocked, he suddenly saw a messenger coming over to report: "Your Majesty, that group of thieves are coming towards the Chinese army!"
"What?"
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei was shocked and angry when he heard this.
What surprised me was that this group of thieves was so fast, and they found the position of the Chinese army so quickly. What made me angry was that the thieves who called themselves Chen Shou got so bold that they attacked him with a hundred thousand troops.
Not to mention the Chu camp, they actually dared to go straight to the Chinese army commander's tent in an attempt to kill the general and seize the flag. This is simply too much!
Anger arose in his heart. Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the hilt of the sword on his waist, intending to personally go out and kill the thieves who didn't know the heights of the world. However, when he thought about it, he thought of Xi Zhangshui, Chang Hui, and Bu.
Bao and other powerful generals were defeated one after another at the hands of this thief general, Xiang Pei, the Lord of Xinyang, could not help but feel a little uneasy again.
After all, to be honest, I think his martial arts skills are not much better than those of Zhang Shui, Chang Hui, and Divination Bao. Since that thief general can kill several generals under his command, then it probably won't be difficult to kill him.
But getting cold feet...
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei gritted his teeth and was a little at a loss.
And just when he was in a daze, a group of cavalry suddenly sprang out under the night cover in the distance, led by an enemy general, waving the spear in his hand as thick as a child's arm, but all the Chu army generals who met him were killed.
They either pick and kill, or sweep away, even when faced with the siege of more than a dozen Chu soldiers at the same time, they can easily resolve the difficulty, causing the opponent to be killed or injured.
Seeing this scene, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei couldn't help but feel a little scared.
The Chu army, which almost always relied on human sea tactics in every battle, had never seen such a fierce general?
Seeing this, the soldiers around Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei shouted urgently: "You can't stay here for a long time, please retreat quickly!"
Hearing this, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei struggled for a while, but in the end he chose to follow the advice of his bodyguard - as the saying goes, a gentleman does not sit down in the palace. As a dignified king of the city, why would he, Lord Xinyang, have to fight with a warrior?
Fight?
Thinking of this, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei withdrew to that place under the protection of a group of personal guards. This made the thief general on the opposite side who led his army into the Chu army's camp commander's tent to ambush him - that is, Huan Hu's general Chen Shou.
It came to nothing.
Wielding his spear, he stabbed several soldiers near the commander's tent to death. Chen Shou jumped on his horse and broke into the commander's tent, but regrettably found that the tent was empty.
"Courageless bandits!"
Cursing contemptuously, Chen Shou held a gun in both hands, used the tip of the gun to pick up a brazier in front of the handsome tent, and then slapped the bottom of the brazier hard with the tip of the gun. There was only a bang sound, and as sparks flew everywhere, those burning
The charcoal fire in the flaming basin splashed around, igniting the Chu army's handsome tent in front of them.
"Walk!"
After doing all this, Chen Shou did not dare to stay any longer. He shouted loudly and led hundreds of cavalrymen away.
Seeing the backs of these cavalrymen flying away, the Chu soldiers and generals looked at each other and did not dare to pursue them.
The next day, when the sky was dark, the Chu army finally got the statistics of losses from the night attack last night and reported them to Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang.
When he learned that the casualties of the army sergeants exceeded 10,000 people last night, even though Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei could guess that most of them died in the fire or trampled on each other, he was trembling with anger.
The previous Peixian County, in the eyes of their Chu army, was just a warm-up battle before attacking Lu. But who would have thought that the enemy on the opposite side that their Chu army thought was only worthy of being a warm-up target would be defeated overnight.
They suffered losses of tens of thousands of people, and even lost seven generals.
"Huan Hu, Chen Shou..."
After this battle, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei firmly remembered these two names in his heart. At this time, he finally realized that Huan Hu had been able to escape from the Wei army several times, and even though he was still defeated by the Wei army,
Although he is wanted, he still lives happily. It cannot be denied that this Huan Hu is by no means an ordinary person.
All in all, Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, hated Huan Hu.
However, in fact, as the object of resentment by Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, Huan Hu did not return to Peixian until three days later.
When he returned to the Peixian area, Huan Hu felt that something was wrong, because in the wilderness outside the city, he could see the corpses of Chu State Liang soldiers from time to time. This made him feel baffled, and he quickly speeded up and returned to Peixian.
Returning to Peixian County, he asked his confidant Chen Shou, and Huan Hu found out with a smile that he had deliberately tried to hide the fact that he had defected to the Lu State, and intended to kill the Chu army, especially the Chu State Commander.
General Xiang Mo was caught off guard, but Chen Shou, his good brother, actually went head-to-head with Xiang Pei's army of Xinyang Lord of Chu State in Peixian County, and even fought very well after several battles.
, not only caused the Chu army to suffer more than 20,000 casualties, but also lost nearly ten generals.
What is even more incredible is that the 800 cavalrymen who accompanied Chen Shou in the night attack on the Chu camp that night even captured the general flag of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei.
"This is really..." Huan Hu scratched his hair and felt that he was a little unprepared.
But after thinking about it, this is not bad. After all, these victories will help him gain the trust of the Lu State and help him gain a foothold in the Lu State.
After all, Huan Hu did not decide to help the state of Lu out of good intentions or following righteousness.