"The night here in Yiwu is quite beautiful." Song Sheng asked the guard to open the tent curtain, then put the table and chairs in front of the door, sipping a drink and looking at the starry sky outside.
While he was drinking, he suddenly heard someone laughing: "General Song, why don't you sleep at night and drink alone here?"
"Wei Guo Gong? I have met Wei Guo Gong. Why are you getting up at this time?" Song Sheng stood up immediately after hearing this voice and said.
"I couldn't sleep. I woke up half an hour ago. I thought about sending troops to attack the Xilu camp tomorrow morning, so I started thinking about it." Xu Huizu said with a smile: "General Song, why are you so different from me? You are older than me.
I'm older, just call me Huizu. Besides, your meritorious service in this battle is not small, and you can at least be awarded a count, which is not far behind me, or even above me. My title is inherited from my father, but your title is
You earned it yourself.”
"General Xu, please." Song Sheng ordered the guards to bring another wine glass and a chair and said to him.
Xu Huizu sighed and was not humble. He sat down and started drinking. He took a sip and said, "Well, this wine is good, but it's a bit spicy."
"It's the shochu I asked Quanzi to bring from the capital. In this frontier area, drinking rice wine always feels like it's not enough, so I brew my own shochu, and there are also merchants who sell it to the Westerners and Mongols, and it's five to six times the profit.
"Sometimes I drink milk wine made by the Xifan people, but it's not strong enough." Song Sheng said with a smile.
"You are lucky. During this Western Expedition, His Majesty strictly prohibited the soldiers from bringing alcohol. He sent people to check from time to time along the way, and many people's alcohol was confiscated." Xu Huizu said with a smile.
Song Sheng smiled and said nothing. This was not entirely due to his luck. He also found Song Xuan's guard house at that time, but Cao Xing put all the wine brought by the guards in his car, and the guards did not dare to offend Cao.
Okay, I casually ordered three or four bottles of wine and went back to do my job. Of course, there was also an element of luck, because the people who came to check the left and right guards of the government army were all bodyguards and not censors. If they were censors, they would not be able to pass the test.
"Today we are sending troops to attack the Xilu camp and the acropolis. The Xilu are in the stronghold, there are not many cannons left in the city, and there are only 50,000 soldiers. We should be able to attack them in one fell swoop."
"Once we capture this place, there will be no Xilu left in the entire Yiwu Basin. Although the battle is not over yet, we can start preparing for the war," Xu Huizu said.
"Maybe His Highness the King of Qin will be able to lead his soldiers to come here tomorrow?" Song Sheng asked. Because the previous losses in defending Yiwu City were heavy, the soldiers under the King of Qin's command had not been engaged in many battles during this period, which also made Shang Bing's military exploits less.
.So in the final siege of the Xilu camp, Xu Huizu decided to let the guards under King Qin participate in the battle.
"Okay." Xu Huizu said: "This afternoon I sent a letter to His Highness the King of Qin. His Highness the King of Qin replied and said that he has brought troops and they should be here before noon."
"That's good." Song Sheng said, "His Royal Highness the King of Qin cannot let this battle be in vain."
The two of them drank for a while, and Xu Huizu suddenly frowned, as if thinking about something. Upon seeing this, Song Sheng hurriedly said: "General Xu, what are you worried about?"
"This," Xu Huizu hesitated and said, "That's all, you will know about this sooner or later. Your Majesty has made an arrangement. He plans to use these captured Xilu soldiers." He then told Yunxi about the plan he had just made this afternoon.
Song Sheng.
"Is that okay? So many prisoners are released as long as they are willing to believe in Buddhism? No way, no way!" Song Sheng immediately said excitedly: "This is not that I am against Your Majesty. Before, the Westerners attacked and killed many of our Han people and those who surrendered to His Highness the King of Qin.
Other people? They also drove the people to attack the city? The soldiers hated the Xilu very much and wished to kill them all. It would definitely not work if they were let go like this! Even His Highness can't suppress them."
"It is not that they will be released immediately. They still need to work hard to redeem themselves with labor money. Your Majesty plans to build a few cities in the Western Region. It is estimated that they will be used as labor to build the cities, and they will be released after the city is completed." Xu Huizu explained.
"That's pretty much it! But the most heinous of them must be put to death!" Song Sheng said.
"Of course those who commit heinous crimes must be put to death. But don't you think that your Majesty's plan is, well," he wanted to say that he was short-sighted, but he did not dare to comment on the emperor's plan like this. Xu Huizu couldn't find a more euphemistic word for a while.
, stuck.
"General Xu, where do you think it would be better to make some changes in His Majesty's plan?" Seeing such confusion, Song Sheng understood what he meant and asked.
Xu Huizu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to express his views. It was also a good time to clarify his thoughts and prepare for admonition to Yunxi.
But at this moment, a soldier on duty at night suddenly ran out of the tent and saw the army commander and a deputy general drinking here. He was stunned before saluting and said: "I have seen General Xu and General Song."
"What happened?" Seeing him in such a hurry, Xu Huizu knew it must be something big.
"General Xu, General Song, and the Western captives are fighting in their own camp, and the fire is rising into the sky. What should we do?" the man said.
"What? How dare they make trouble after being taken as prisoners? The person guarding them tonight is Chang Jizong's military guard, right? He ordered him to suppress them, and after suppressing them, he would kill a group of people one by one." Xu Huizu said.
"General Xu, it was not the prisoners in the prison camp who were causing trouble, but the fire that appeared in the surrounded but not captured Xilu camp. The commander felt something was wrong and sent people to investigate, only to find out that they were fighting. I would like to ask the general how to deal with it.
"said the soldier on duty.
"Is this so?" Xu Huizu was surprised at first, but then his face calmed down and he said to Song Sheng: "This must be a fight between those who are willing to surrender and those who are unwilling to surrender."
"I think so too. How does General Xu think about it?" Song Sheng said.
"Of course we must send troops immediately! This opportunity cannot be missed and will not come back again. If they wait for dawn to decide the outcome, and those who are unwilling to surrender win, there will still be casualties if they try to break into the camp; if we send troops now, the casualties will be minimized."
Xu Huizu then turned his head and said to the person on duty: "Go immediately and send an order to the surrounding guards to break into the camp immediately. Be careful not to hurt any of your own people."
The man accepted the order and came down. However, Song Sheng said: "Then what should I do, Your Highness, King Qin?"
"There is still a city that has not been attacked. Let His Highness the King of Qin lead the troops to attack the city tomorrow."
Xu Huizu immediately stood up and said to him: "I can't sleep anyway, why don't you come with me to take a look?"
"It's my wish, but I don't dare to ask for it." Song Sheng also stood up with a smile and followed him out.
Xu Huizu never expected that this seemingly ordinary internal riot would cause earth-shaking changes to occur, and the entire history of Central Asia would be rewritten again.
