Lei Hu naturally has other conditions, but he has nothing to talk about with a small character like Yu Shiji. We can wait until the real leader Shi Wansui arrives to talk about it.
He didn't neglect Yu Shiji either. He entertained Yu Shiji with good wine and food and sent him away happily.
Lei Hu did not leave Hucheng. He stayed here temporarily to wait for the Sui army's counter-rebellion general Shi Wansui. He had a deal to discuss with this guy who was also hit hard by him in Jiankang.
Shi Wansui came very quickly, quite impatiently.
"Marquis Wu is very courageous. Is this a threat?"
After he had settled the matters regarding the expedition, he heard that Lei Hu had a deal. He immediately knew that something was wrong, but still invited Lei Hu to discuss it.
"It's just a deal!"
Lei Hu went to Jiankang alone, showing full sincerity and said with a smile: "I hope that after the general destroyed the rebellion, I can make a copy of the classics confiscated by me, Hou Yu!"
“Knowledge is priceless!”
Shi Wansui looked surprised and said angrily: "I'm afraid we can't exchange just some military rations and supplies, right?"
He was born into a noble family in the north, but he had little interest in the classics held by the southern nobles, but he had no intention of taking advantage of Marquis Wu for nothing.
"I stand by and watch, which is the greatest support for the general!"
Lei Hu asked calmly: "Isn't this enough?"
"What a loud tone!"
Shi Wansui's expression changed, and he remembered the battle at Jiankang City, and said coldly: "This general has an army of 100,000 men, which is not something that Marquis Wu can despise!"
Having said this, he sneered and said: "Could it be that Marquis Wu still wants to threaten this general with this?"
Speaking of which, looking at the counter-rebellion arrangements of the Sui Dynasty, it seems that they were deliberately made, as if they had long expected that there would be chaos in the south.
Han Qinhu, who had been stationed in Jiankang before, had been standing still. Now Shi Wansui rushed to Jiankang to take charge of the overall situation, and brought nearly 50,000 fully armed Sui army elites from Jiangbei. If there was no deliberate factor here, even if Lei Hu was killed, he would not believe it.
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Even in this modern era of advanced technology, it is not easy to gather troops and go on an expedition.
Manpower is easy to allocate, but weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies cannot be easily allocated in a short time.
In the feudal era, the efficiency of the Sui Dynasty would only be even lower. Isn't there a good saying: "The army will move first before the food and grass are used." However, this time the Sui army moved first before the food and grass were used.
As long as he is a smart general, he will not take such a risk.
Don't think that Nanchen can be easily wiped out and the local snakes in the south can be easily dealt with. The truth is exactly the opposite.
Looking at the Battle of Lingnan, we can see that the Sui Dynasty dispatched 300,000 elite troops. After fighting for half a year, only less than 150,000 men and horses were left with fighting strength. The rest either died in the battle or fell down with diseases.
Of course, among the powerful factions in the south, except Wu Hou Leihu, the abilities and strength of the rest of the local gangsters are far inferior to those of the Lingnan Song clan, but they also occupy the right location and people, and the Sui army may capsize if they are not careful.
Isn’t Han Qinhu, the Sui army general who was in charge of Jiankang, the best example?
This guy was obviously preparing to wipe out the southern rebel forces. However, the southern rebel forces took action first and sent out experts to assassinate him and seriously injured him. It was said that he was on the verge of death and would not live long.
What an unlucky guy!
Further opportunities were missed, and the competitor Shi Wansui was advantaged in vain.
Otherwise, with his top-notch acquired strength, although he would not be able to live to the limit of human lifespan, his life span of 100 years is not a problem. It would be a pity to die midway.
The local snakes who raised the flag of rebellion were also quite shameless, spreading rumors that the Sui Dynasty would move all the southern people to the north, and even have to endure more and heavier labor than the northerners.
How did this happen?
When the local people heard this, they were anxious. Not to mention that it was difficult to leave their homeland and it was low-income people to leave their hometown. They couldn't bear to hear that they would have to endure heavier labor when they moved to the north.
Labor service is the heaviest burden for the people, even more terrifying than paying heavy taxes.
Because you need to bring your own dry food for labor, there is a high chance that someone will die!
Those who participate in labor are basically young and strong, and they are also the mainstay of the family!
Once the pillar falls, it is likely to mean the destruction of a family, and the consequences are likely to be the death of the entire family, which is a huge blow to both a family and a clan.
It would be great to stay in the south. Although you will also be exploited by the government and local powerful people, you can't stand it because of the vast land, sparse people and fertile land. As long as you know some survival skills in the wild, get some wild vegetables, game, fish and shrimp, etc., you can eat it.
It’s hard to starve to death even if you’re not full.
When you arrive in the North, you are not familiar with the place, and you have to do heavy labor, and you have to be bullied to death.
As a result, those local snakes in the south encouraged the people within their sphere of influence to rebel together, and this was how the great momentum that now swept most of the south emerged.
However, a rabble is a rabble. The rebellious local snakes will not use their family's heritage to cultivate this group of people who are threatening them. They just want to increase their momentum and use the people as cannon fodder.
The real combat power is the soldiers trained by these local snake families. In Lei Hu's view, they are vulnerable to a single blow!
If he takes action, apart from the time spent on the road, it will not take more than a month to put down the rebellion in the south!
But the emperors and ministers of the Sui Dynasty did not know that because the Chen Dynasty was so quickly defeated, all the local snakes in the south were subdued by the Sui army's power and surrendered so quickly that they did not experience a long war at all.
It was precisely because the local forces in the south surrendered so quickly that their strength did not suffer much loss, and the emperors and ministers of the Sui Dynasty could not figure out the true strength of the southern nobles.
After all, when the Eastern Jin Dynasty moved to the south, many aristocratic families from the Central Plains moved there. Despite the wars, many aristocratic families are still standing upright. Hundreds of years of accumulation are not over yet.
The emperors and ministers of the Sui Dynasty compared the southern gentry with the northern aristocratic families and seriously overestimated the strength and war potential of the southern gentry. As the commander of the counter-rebellion army, Shi Wansui naturally did not dare to neglect them.
However, Wu Hou Leihu's conditions were too unfavorable for him, and they also seemed threatening, which naturally aroused his displeasure.
"Oh, it seems that the general is very confident about countering the rebellion!"
Lei Hu chuckled lightly and invited: "Why don't you, general, come to my camp and see how my soldiers perform in martial arts? This will also help the general know that I am not a person who has gained fame in vain!"
"Humph, this is Jiankang, am I still afraid of you?"
Shi Wansui had a hot temper. He immediately became angry after hearing Lei Hu's invitation. He sneered repeatedly and said disdainfully: "If you can't control me, then don't mention your conditions, Marquis Wu!"
With that said, he urged Lei Hu to leave quickly. He wanted to see the elite soldiers under the command of Wu Hou.
"The general will not be disappointed!"
Lei Hu chuckled lightly and directly took Shi Wansui and thousands of his bodyguards to the military camp outside the city.
If you say you're not worried, why don't you bring thousands of personal guards with you?
In this regard, Lei Hu didn't say much. What he wanted was a deterrent purpose. He didn't waste words as much as he did with Shi Wansui, so let's talk with practical actions.
When Shi Wansui was seriously injured by him in Jiankang City, and then Lei Hu retreated to Taihu Lake and fought against hundreds of thousands of elite Sui troops, Shi Wansui was obviously recovering from his injuries and did not participate.
Afterwards, Lei Hu negotiated with the Sui Dynasty emperors and ministers, and specially let the marching marshal Yang Su witness the personal guard's military performance for a while. Shi Wansui was still not there at that time.
He had no idea that the strength of the 3,000 personal guards who had mastered the iron cloth shirts was beyond his imagination. Unless the Sui army besieged them with ten times the number, they would have to dispatch half of the masters controlled by the Sui Dynasty.
Only then can victory be possible.
As for the ordinary Sui army, even if their numbers were ten times greater, they would not be able to get any advantage, otherwise they would inevitably end up in a disastrous defeat.
This time was no exception. Shi Wansui entered the military camp with high spirits, but when he came out, his face was pale and soulless, as if he had been deeply hit.
And his group of arrogant personal guards were like eggplants beaten by frost at this time, with bloodless faces and staggering steps, as if they had been greatly stimulated.
They were indeed stimulated, and it was extremely stimulated!
The rain of stone balls flying all over the sky, and the forest of javelins whose attack power and distance were comparable to those of crossbows. These two tactics and trees revealed alone frightened Shi Wansui and his personal guards.
Not to mention, Shi Wansui also knew that there was a Modao team in Wuhou's personal guard camp that did not show up. It could be called the most heavily armored infantry, and its attack power was extremely powerful.
This time, he was really frightened. He didn't expect that Wu Hou's army was so powerful.
Shi Wansui was deeply worried. If the Marquis of Wu was allowed to continue to grow and grow, and the number of people and troops under his rule would increase to a higher level, it might be harmful to the Sui Dynasty.
He was not really afraid of the powerful army under Wu Hou. In his opinion, it was already quite difficult to train such a bodyguard, and it was obviously unrealistic to train more bodyguards.
Besides, Wu Hou's men are all powerful infantry. They may be extremely powerful in the water network in the south of the Yangtze River, but this may not be the case in the open areas in the north.
There is a world dominated by cavalry. No matter how powerful the infantry is, they still have to kneel down if they can't outrun the cavalry.
At present, the Sui Dynasty is prosperous, so there is no need to worry about Wu Hou.
But if there was a problem with the control of the Sui Dynasty, and Wu Hou was already full-fledged by then, the south might change hands in an instant. It's really no joke.
Shi Wansui was full of worries, and he realized that the real powerful enemy in the south was not the rebellious gang, nor the so-called Lingnan Song clan, but the Wuhou Leihu who had quietly developed and became the most powerful force in the south!
But he also had doubts in his heart. Could it be that King Jin in Yangzhou and Han Qinhu in Jiankang were not aware of such an obvious thing?
Obviously that's impossible!
Whether it is Jin Wang Yang Guang or Han Qinhu, they are both top-notch people, and it is impossible not to notice the problem.
But they didn't bother, they obviously had other plans.
Shi Wansui just thought about it for a moment and understood what was going on. Personal interests were still the priority.
He instantly understood that since the two could pretend to be deaf and dumb, there was no need for him to be the first to do so, so let's work together.