When Chai Kehong returned at night, he suddenly heard that his mother had sent a letter. He hurriedly held the lamp and read it carefully.

If there is still someone in this world whom Chai Kehong dare not despise and respect very much, it is his mother. His mother, a woman, can have a great influence on Chai Kehong.

Before conquering Wu and Yue Kingdom, Chai Kehong was not famous yet, and many ministers did not trust him. However, Chai's mother wrote a letter to her, saying that her son could lead troops to be a military general. If she did not do well, she would be willing to bear the death penalty with her son...

Chai Kehong quickly finished reading his mother's handwritten letter and was immediately surprised.

The content was completely contrary to the previous encouragement, and he even suspected it was false belief! But after careful examination, it was true that the handwriting and words were undoubtedly Chai’s mother. Can’t even tell the letters written by her mother? Chai Kehong could still judge this point.

Chai's mother advised him to pretend to be sick, not to accept the military power of Haozhou, and to retreat bravely! She said, you are too famous now, the emperor and the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty have too high expectations, and once you encounter setbacks, you will not be able to bear the consequences; it is not only the honor and disgrace of the individual and the family, but also the rise and fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the morale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Such a great responsibility cannot be afforded by you alone.

Besides, because of his great military merits, his son has been promoted too fast and his training is not enough. Now there are nearly 100,000 troops in the entire Haozhou, which has been separated from his son's ability. Your father often says that an army of 10,000 can be taken advantage of, and a hundred thousand people can only win with justice. Your ability and the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang Army are not enough to shoulder such a great responsibility... In case of failure, I feel ashamed of the gifts and trust given to you by the emperor.

If the defeated person in Haozhou was not you, but a general who was not loved and highly anticipated by the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Kingdom: what was lost was only a state, not the morale of the entire Southern Tang army.

After reading the letter, Chai Kehong was deeply shocked and very unhappy.

He thought about it all night, but the next day he regained his pride and did not intend to obey his mother's advice. When Chai Kehong summoned his general, he said: "I caught the scout of the Zhou army, and the people who came were the left and right sides of the Hujie army. Zhao Chao, the chief of the right sides of the capital, started from this person."

The generals were puzzled and hurriedly asked about the reason.

Chai Kehong sneered: "A few months ago, Zhengyang was defeated and more than 3,000 people were surrendered. The prisoners were handed over to Zhao Chaozhi, and he slaughtered them all that night. This man was bloodthirsty, but I, the millions of soldiers and civilians in the Southern Tang Kingdom, could he kill them all?

There are hundreds of thousands of military farming soldiers in Shouzhou and Haozhou. However, due to poor management of the imperial officials, these people immediately surrendered after the Zhou army entered the country and received money. They wanted to let these military soldiers understand the cruel nature of the Zhou army and arouse their resistance. In this way, the tens of thousands of Zhou army faced not only 50,000 people in Haozhou City, but hundreds of thousands of people! Zhao Chao was the breakthrough."

When Chai Kehong said this, he had abandoned all the unhappiness of last night and laughed: "At that time, countless Southern Tang Erlangs will harass their food roads, patrols, and scouts, which will make the Zhou army deeply trapped in Haozhou.

The wars in various places were in chaos, and the Zhou army was working hard for a long time, and the food supply was not good, so it was even more difficult to transport. I deployed city defenses and strictly guarded Haozhou, delaying the time and fatigued its army. When we found the fighter opportunity, we would defeat the Zhou army!"

All the generals were convinced.

Chai Kehong deployed the city defense of Haozhou, first strengthened the city wall defense, found officials who built the city walls, and conducted detailed investigations on the foundation and Feng Shui of the city walls.

Chai Kehong once sent someone to observe the Shouzhou Gap and knew that the city wall was blown up by gunpowder buried in the tunnel... No one could figure out how the Zhou army exploded the city wall, but the situation was that the city wall could be blown up; Chai Kerong specifically inspected and deployed Haozhou city defense in response to this matter.

His plan was to echo the inner and outer rebels of Haozhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty. He spent a year and a half, or one or two years with the Zhou army here. Therefore, he had great hope for the persistence of Haozhou City.

If somewhere in the city wall is broken? Very good, it is really Chai Kerong's magic weapon to win.

Chai Kehong and his generals around him said, "Since ancient times, I have not been familiar with street fighting. Now I will go against the rules and deploy ambushers in the city. When the Zhou army enters the city from a certain place, they will go to the city gates and the Central Cross Avenue. At that time, cannons will be fired, and the formation will be disrupted with smoke and fire, and then the elite soldiers will defeat them one by one. Counterattack the city of the city and fight repeatedly. Haozhou City will not be scorched earth, so the Zhou army will not want to capture this city!"

He thought about it and laughed happily: "I have a clever plan, I will tell you in the future."

...

Lu Mengjun and Chai Kehong served in Haozhou at the same time. He was the military supervisor and the deputy general of Chai Kehong.

At that time, Luo Yanhuan's troops of Zhou Jun were the first to enter Haozhou as the vanguard, and sent scouts from all sides to inquire about information. A scout pretended to be a commoner and went deep into the area controlled by the Tang army. Unexpectedly, the accent was discovered by someone, so he rode a horse and turned around and ran wildly.

The horse's leg was injured on the road, and the scout had no choice but to kill the horse and hurriedly covered it with straw, and hid in a commoner's home.

The scout was discovered by a young couple in the woodshed and knelt down in despair. He said that he had fled to Huainan by his enemies and would die miserably if he was caught.

The young woman saw that the scout was young and tall, and very strong. She could completely support the strong labor force of a family. It would be a pity to die! The woman felt sympathy and advised her husband to save his life.

My husband knew that Huainan was suffering from war, and this man spoke in the northern accent, probably the scout of the Zhou army... However, in the eyes of ordinary people, the Zhou army and the Tang army were almost all Han people after fighting. In times of crisis, they saved a hero with righteousness, but instead formed a loyalty. The husband ignored his parents' opposition and hid the scout in the cellar and sent food and drinking water.

The scout of Zhou army was grateful, asked the family's name, cursed and swore that he would take his wife from his family to Huainan to thank him, so as to make brothers. But the body of the dead horse was soon found by the Tang army pursuers and searched nearby. The scout of Zhou army was found from clues.

The young general of the Tang army found out the situation. The people of the family took in spies only out of sympathy. Without knowing it, they stole a buffalo from their family as punishment.

Unexpectedly, Lu Mengjun happened to be patrolling the road with his personal soldiers. After hearing this, he immediately took his personal soldiers to the people's home and ordered his whole family to be tied to the main hall. But seeing that the young woman was a little pretty, he wanted to order the personal soldiers to insult him on the spot.

The general advised: "It seems inappropriate to do this."

Lu Mengjun ignored it and scolded the spy for being severely punished, so he watched with all his personal soldiers for fun. He looked at the scout of the Zhou army and shouted: "There must be a traitor! This woman is unlucky by nature, so she left a man to steal people. Today I will let you die with the scout of the Zhou army." Now she wants the woman to have sex with the scout of the Zhou army again.

The scout of Zhou Jun cursed: "If you want to kill, kill it! I am not a beast, how can I do such a thing to my life-saving benefactor's wife? I will never obey my death, but I just want to have fun!"

Lu Mengjun drew his sword to kill the woman's child: "Go! Get along with that man, otherwise I will dig his eyes first!"

The woman was so anxious that she had to obey her orders with tears.

But after Lu Mengjun and others finished the bad things, they still killed the woman's child with a sword. The woman cried loudly, and the sad crying sounded terrible.

An aide outside the door heard the movement inside and shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Lu cannot succeed, and what he is betrays his subordinates will not be the ones he is betrayed."

Standing next to him was the general who had just advised Lu Mengjun, and hurriedly asked about the reason, and said, "Although Mr. Lu is cruel, he is still very brave in fighting and is not afraid of death."

The staff disagreed and said, "Mr. Lu has done such a thing more than once. Before killing someone, he must make life worse than death, and he will be humiliated and tortured in all kinds of ways. It is not that the person who is killed is extremely guilty, but that Mr. Lu likes this and enjoys it.

What's the use of him not afraid of death? He doesn't value life and has no attachment to life. But more people in the world just want to live and want to live well. Therefore, no one is willing to follow people like Mr. Lu."

He immediately took off his official hat and threw it on the ground and stepped on it a few times, cursing, "Fuck, I feel embarrassed to wear this thing on my head." Then he said to the general: "Just say I went back to my hometown to farm and study."

The staff rode a horse and walked south for a while, thinking that Lu Mengjun might send someone to catch him, so he turned to the path. Unexpectedly, he got lost and ran into Zhou Jun's cavalry again and was caught.

...

The aide was arrested back to Luo Yanhuan's army. Luo Yanhuan immediately stepped forward and asked, "Who is coming?"

The civil official said: "In Zhouduan, Xiayangzhou, he is an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty."

Luo Yanhuan then accepted it and invited him to drink in the tent during the night. When he was sleeping, he found that he was not prone to his words. This person was too literary and unrestrained, and was very noble. Luo Yanhuan was not happy, and was afraid that he was a spy deliberately sent by the Southern Tang army, so he sent someone to Guo Shao, the commander of the Pioneer Army of Haozhou.

Guo Shao spoke very directly, and when he entered the tent, he laughed and said, "Luo Yanhuan dared not accept you because he was afraid that you were a detailed work sent by Chai Kehong of Haozhou."

After hearing this, Zhou Duan shook his head and sighed: "There are always horses in a thousand miles, but the Bole does not."

Li Chuyun next to him laughed happily: "Mr. Zhou is such a big tone. Is it a thousand-mile horse? I have to run one for people to see. Where can so many thousand-mile horses come from and get it with just a hand?"

Zhou Duan did not "run" and continued to shake his head and said, "In the past, Liu Xuande visited the thatched cottage three times before he invited Kong Ming out..."

Guo Shao and Li Chuyun and other generals laughed and said, "As far as I know, Kong Ming was born into a local tribe and has a relationship with many tribes. He was famous in Longzhong and was highly respected by people within a radius. He was not famous, how did Liu Xuande know him?"

Guo Shao thought about it and asked, "I will only ask you one thing, are you not afraid of the people in your family being retaliated against?"

Zhou Duan sneered: "Have I said I would join the Zhou army? Just Lu Mengjun, can he revenge the Zhou family? The clan elder Zhou Gongjun was Tai, who was Situ when he retired. Before his death, he served as the Inner Prison, Pingzhangshi, and Shizhong! Lu Mengjun, a surrendered general of Chu State, was given a favor to the emperor to retain his status. He dared to touch the Zhou family!"

"Who is Mr. Zhou?" Guo Shao asked in surprise.

Zuo You reminded: "He is called Zhou Zong... His daughter is quite famous, named Zhou Xian, and his courtesy name is Ehuang."
Chapter completed!