Chapter 379 Unparalleled Warfare

I didn't wait for the third day. That night, what surprised Xue Wanche happened.

At that time, Qin Mubai rejected Xue Wanche's proposal to go to the restaurant in the city for dinner. Instead, he ate a light meal and drank a little wine in the post hall. The two discussed some military matters.

At this time, Hou Junji came to the door and took the initiative to visit Qin Mubai.

Xue Wanche said strangely, "It's really coming! Unbelievable!"

"There is nothing strange. I know very well what he is thinking. No matter how to disguise, it is futile. Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Come on, please invite Hou Sima to the table and add a seat."

Hou Junji came in and looked at Qin Mubai and Xue Wanche from left to right. He neither saluted nor greeted. He stood in the hall so abruptly and said in the air, "If the governor returns to Lanzhou, can you take Hou there?"

"Yes." Qin Mubai agreed without thinking.

"So, Hou said goodbye." After arching his hand, Hou Junji turned around and left.

Xue Wanche was stunned, and suddenly his face was not ready to stop Hou Junji. Qin Mubai waved his hand to stop him and let Hou Jun gather and let him go.

"This person is so rude that he is not respected!" Xue Wancher gritted his teeth and said, "When you enter the court, you don't even care about the most basic etiquette. You can't call or bow. You are like a barbarian!"

"A man is not petty, so there is no need to care about it." Qin Mubai smiled carelessly and said, "What's the point of thousands of people bowing to me every day? Hou Junji is a straightforward and angry person who can't do anything hypocritical and polite. If he is respectful to someone, he will respect this person from the bottom of his heart.

"Why did he go to Lanzhou with the young commander?" Xue Wanche said curiously.

"If it were me, I would do the same." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "If one day you want to change your heart and life with each other, General Xue, what kind of person will you choose?"

"Of course, I know and trust him very well." Xue Wanche replied without thinking.

"Isn't that it?" Qin Mubai smiled and said, " Judging from Hou Junji's current situation, he dares not make any decision easily. If he has any slight movement, it may affect his life or even his family. For me, it's just a battle general in Lanzhou; but for him, it's about life and death. At present, he doesn't know anything about me. How can he change his life with me? He wants to go to Lanzhou with me, but he wants to get close to me and get to know me.

"So that's it!" Xue Wanche suddenly realized and said, "It seems that Hou Junji is really not as frustrated and lazy as it seems on the surface! He can still think so carefully that he can see that he has his own calculations in mind. A dead-hearted person can't do this.

"So I said that Hou Junji was not reconciled. He still had a great wish." Qin Mubai turned the glass and smiled playfully, "He is like a tiger locked in a cage. Even if you fall asleep, you won't become a cat. As for when he wakes up, it depends on who opens the cage!"

Xue Wanche nodded thoughtfully and said, "However, the person who opened the cage may become the owner of this tiger, and may also be the first to be eaten by him!"

Qin Mubai smiled slightly, "I'd like to try."

Two days later, Qin Mubai left Liangzhou and called Hou Junji.

"Is the governor going back to Lanzhou?" Hou Junji said lurely.

"I'm not in a hurry to go back to Lanzhou. I'm going to Dafeichuan first to review the army there and inspect the defense. Qin Mubai said, "Brother, if you want, you can go together."

"Go ahead, I don't care." Hou Junji said lightly, "I have already been expelled from the school. Don't call me brother. Besides, I can't afford it."

"That's it, Hou Sima." Qin Mubai smiled and said carelessly, "Let's go in half an hour. You get ready."

"Mr. Hou is alone. If there is nothing to prepare, you can leave at any time." Hou Junji said, "If the governor agrees, I would like to bring two maidservants and concubines for me to wash and boil water."

"It's up to you." Qin Mubai readily agreed.

Hou Junji smiled coldly and said, "You are not allowed to bring female relatives or prostitutes to accompany the army. As a general, don't you know? Why are you so indulgent in me?"

Qin Mubai looked at him sideways and sneered, "Rules and decrees have always been used to restrain most people, not everyone. And you can be one of those few people. I'd love to, how about it?"

Hou Junji was obviously stunned by the accident, but immediately covered up the past, smiled sarcastically and said, "It's true that you are a little temperamental and some people. You are better than Li Jing."

"The rules are dead, and people are alive. And the rules are made by people. Qin Mubai said indifferently, "As long as you don't touch the bottom line and violate major principles, I'm a good person to talk to."

"No more nonsense, let's go!" Hou Junji threw down a cold sentence and stopped talking.

Qin Mubai gathered the Hundred Horse Guards and left Lanzhou with Hou Junji to inspect the Dafeichuan Military Region.

There are several days of itineraries along the way, and Hou Junji has few words. He went on the same road and slept with Qin Mubai and his entourage. He seemed to be a superfluous figure. He never talked to anyone, and he was also lukewarm to Qin Mubai, as if he was always detached.

Qin Mubai was also very calm. He rarely took the initiative to talk to him, allowing him to watch quietly and coldly. He knows that although Hou Junji is cold-spoken and independent, he has always been paying close attention to and observing him. Qin Mubai's words and actions all fell in Hou Junji's eyes.

Qin Mubai has never dared to despise such a character as Hou Junji. They have gone through half a life of martial arts in troubled times, and have experienced the training of blood and fire both physically and mentally. In addition, there is no doubt that the city government has a deep and hot vision. In front of such a person, any disguise and pretend is futile. His insight and judgment ability will go far beyond his imagination.

Just like in the face of Emperor Li Shimin and his father Qin Shubao, don't lose an inch by playing tricks. Naturally casual, treat each other sincerely, and just do these eight words.

Along the way, Hou Junji said less than ten sentences. Qin Mubai didn't know what kind of evaluation he got in his mind, and he didn't want to know. After all, the twisted melon is not sweet. If he really has no chance with him or doesn't have this leadership and personality charm to convince him, even if he reluctantly agrees, he will not last long, or he will have a ghost.

In this way, it's better to let nature take its course.

Dafeichuan has arrived.

The camp is rectified, and the military posture is valiant. Compared with the time when it was just built two years ago, it has added a lot of color.

"Xue Wanjun's ability to govern the army is really not bad." Qin Mubai felt it.

Hou Junji smiled coldly: "It's just like that."

Qin Mubai took a look at him and asked with great interest, "Listen to this tone, Hou Sima is quite a little bit about General Xue's camp arrangement?"

"What can I say about the array of grass chickens?" Hou Junji sneered and said, "This camp array can be done by a person who leads troops, and it is only worthy to resist the Tubo barbarians. The array of this camp is called 'the big base after the wind'. If you meet a general who is familiar with the art of war, 3,000 iron horses can break through its array.

"Can you?" Qin Mubai asked.

Hou Junji grinned at the corners of his mouth and said provocatively, "Why don't you give you a try of 3,000 iron riders?"

"There are 40,000 soldiers here." Qin Mubai said with a serious look, "There is no joke in the army. What if you can't break the battle?"

"Please cut off my head." Hou Junji threw out these four words lightly, turned his face, and stopped talking.

Qin Mubai took a deep breath and waved his hand: "Come on, General Xue Wanjun, please come. The whole army rectified, ordered 3,000 iron horses, and let Hou Junji lead the army to break through the camp.

The soldiers next to him were a little scared. Three thousand iron riders wanted to break through the camp of 40,000 troops, which was an almost impossible task. Although Hou Junji is a famous battlefield general, Xue Wanjun is also extraordinary. How can he be broken by him so easily?

However, Qin Mubai's military order had been issued, and the hundred cavalry guards had to go to the barracks to invite Xue Wanjun and convey Qin Mubai's military order.

Hearing that Qin Mubai suddenly came to Dafeichuan, Xue Wanjun was surprised and happy. But when he heard such a strange military order, he couldn't help but change his face: "When did the young commander become such a joke? Let Hou Junji break my camp, and his own people beat his own people. No matter which side wins or loses, it's not good!"

Baiqi, who passed the order, could only smile bitterly and said, "The young commander's behavior comes from his own opinions. It's not us who can figure it out. Now that his military order has been issued, General Xue, please execute it!"

Xue Wanjun had to gritt his teeth, and a layer of unconvinced annoy appeared on his face. He said, "Then execute the military order - Hou Junji, a bastard, really bullied me too much! If you don't fight for this face in front of the young commander and thousands of soldiers, how can I stand on my own feet in the future?! - Come on, beat the generals and send troops!"

The large camp of tens of thousands of sergeants suddenly moved completely. The three armies rectified the banners, with a posture of war. The 3,000 iron riders that Hou Junji asked for were also counted out, and Xue Wanjun personally led them out of the camp and came to Qin Mubai.

Xue Wanjun ran forward. First, he glanced at Hou Junji coldly, and then bowed Qin Mubai: "Young commander! The soldiers and horses have been rectified, please give the military order!"

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Gover three thousand iron horses to Hou Junji, and you go back to the camp to prepare to fight against the enemy."

"What if there are casualties?" Xue Wanjun took a fierce look at Hou Junji and said in a low voice.

"Hou Yi's responsibility." Hou Junji glanced back at him and said coldly, "Are those who marching and fighting still afraid of death and injury? If you Xue Wanjun are afraid of death, you will accompany the young commander here to watch the battle; if your soldiers are afraid of death, they will go home to breastfeed their children.

"You! ... Hou Junji, don't bully people too much! If you lose when you are young, I don't think you have any face! - Young commander, the last general will go first and go back to the camp to prepare!" Xue Wanjun stared angrily at Hou Junji a few times and pulled his horse back.

Hou Junji looked at Xue Wanjun's back, sneered repeatedly, and said, "Can such a broken array stop me from Hou Junji? Not to mention 3,000 elite iron riders, such a desolate array, I can also break it with 500 knife hands! Xue Wanjun is brave and resourceful. Such a person is not enough to be a handsome man alone, that is, a reckless man who is in charge!"

"Don't talk too early." Qin Mubai smiled indifferently and said, "Hou Sima, I know that you have been in the army for many years, and you are skilled in using soldiers and horses, and you have won the true biography of the Duke of Guard. No matter whether the horse fights or not, you are not weak. Qin didn't learn from his teacher for a long time, but he was also familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the camp after holding the base. It is no surprise that this camp is normal. But the more ordinary it is, the more extraordinary it is. Hou Sima, you have to be careful.

"Humph!" Hou Junji sneered again and said, "After the wind, hold its base array, and the weakness is in Xun. If an elite division enters from the throne, his army will be defeated. I don't need a surprise attack this time. I used the regular soldiers to attack and enter from Xunmen. The governor can inform Xue Wanjun that Hou should retreat fifteen miles to the north, and then lead the troops and horses to enter from Xunmen after half an hour!"

After saying that, Hou Jun pulled his horse away without armor. He pulled out a long gun in his hand and rode away with the 3,000 iron.

Qin Mubai couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, "It's really crazy. But Hou Junji, Hou Junji, this large array of the rear camp behind the wind, was laid by me myself. How can I not know the advantages and disadvantages of such an ordinary array? If you let your 3,000 troops break through the barracks of 40,000 soldiers and horses, I, Qin, will find a steamed bun to kill him!"

Half an hour later, a drum horn sounded in the army to show the enemy's police.

By example, at this time, the army should be ready to get out of the sheath and the string of the arrow. However, the 40,000 troops that had just gathered just now dispersed and returned to their respective camps. As usual, there was no tense atmosphere of half a life.

Fifteen miles away, Hou Junji immediately crossed the gun and looked at the camp in the distance with a sneer.

"Xue Wanjun is ambitious and talented; Qin Mubai has shallow eyes. Today, Hou will let you open your eyes and know what a war is!"

In the big camp, in the place of the fence, two rows of thick gate doors like the wall of the carved castle were opened, revealing pieces of red silk inside. Hundreds of sergeants came forward neatly and pulled the silk away in turn, revealing the dark and cold long barrel, pointing to the sky.

Qin Mubai stood in front of this row of cannons in red with his hands cut on his back, tilting the corners of his mouth with a playful expression.

Xue Wanjun said with hatred, "Hou Junji is too frivolous. Young commander, I don't want to kill my brother with a cannon in red.

"He stepped back fifteen miles, which shows his contempt for us." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "When you rush within ten miles, fire a hundred cannons, and let him know why I can use two hundred people to recover Dafeichuan. Let him know that in addition to riding and step battles, there are also artillery battles in this world!"

"It's exactly what I want!"

Hou Junji was the first to rush here. After a few months, Hou Junji couldn't help but be a little excited. Although it was not a serious battle, it was like a hungry wolf smelling a strong smell of blood. The fighting spirit in his bones was all stimulated, and pride and wildness burst out together.

Under his leadership, three thousand iron riders galloped like wind and clouds.

Three thousand soldiers and horses broke through 40,000 arrays, which was an impossible task. But in Hou Junji's eyes, this is as ordinary as killing chickens and cutting vegetables. Marching and fighting is like holding a vegetable, which has almost become his instinct.

"The soldiers are not many but refined, and the generals are not brave but plotting. Xue Wanjun, Qin Mubai, you don't underestimate me!" Hou Junji meditated secretly, facing the cold wind, with a sarcasm and arrogant sneer at the corners of his mouth.

The cavalry marched so fast that they were about to see the camp in a blink of an eye.

At this moment, a dazzling red electric light suddenly flashed in the air, accompanied by rolling black smoke, overwhelmingly down. Then, the deafening roar sounded the world!

Just three or five miles in front of the cavalry, the landslide cracked and gravel flew, as if the mountain had collapsed!

Hou Junji, who was full of fighting spirit and moving forward, was almost shocked. He hurriedly stopped and exclaimed, "Is the earth moving?"

Looking back, the three thousand iron riders behind him were already a stone's throw away from him. It turned out that they had stopped early. All the sergeants showed fear and trembling!

"What's going on? What's going on?!" Hou Junji was shocked and shouted angrily, "What happened in front of you? Why are you stagnant? He flinched in front of the battle, which is a violation of the military law! Is Xue Wanjun leading soldiers like this?!"

A military academy came immediately, patiently arched to Hou Junji and said, "General Hou, you don't know anything. This is the powerful cannon in red in Dafeichuan. Don't say that it is the flesh of a man and a horse, and even the gold, iron and jade will be smashed and bones under its rumble power! ...I, brothers, would rather be at least protect my whole body by the military court than go forward and fall into pieces!"

"What did you say? What kind of bullshit, Shenwu cannon in red?!" Hou Jun gathered angrily and roared, took off the whip from the saddle and angrily slapped the military academy, "Go forward! Come forward with me and kill!"

The military academy did not dodge nor resist, but forced him to whip him immediately. He just looked at him coldly and said, "There are no cowardly soldiers who came out of General Qin and General Xue**. The last general is not afraid of death, but death is also valuable! Since General Hou is the commander of the three armies, how can he let his brother jump into the fire? If General Hou wants to kill the last general, he will do it. In any case, the last general will not allow the brothers behind him to rush forward!"

"Boom-Rumble!"

Another row of artillery bombarded down, the sky shook, and the thick smoke in front of it rolled, like a volcano bursting upside down.

Hou Junji trembled all over and turned his head to look at the thick smoke. His face was as earthy, as dull as a wooden chicken.

After three rounds of bombardment, everything was silent, leaving only the east wind roaring, rolling up black smoke and dust.

Hou Junji stood on his horse and looked at the front and muttered to himself, "It turns out that in the weakest place, such magic weapons are used to defend... Hou Junji, Hou Junji, you really live half of your life in vain, and you are still so frivolous at an old age! ...Qin Jia Sanlang, there is yours! Today, the eye-opener is not you, Qin Sanlang or Xue Wanjun, and I, Hou Junji, is the frog at the bottom of the well!"

After moving forward a few miles alone, Hou Junji saw the craters, and there were still many residual flames and strong smell of gunpowder smoke.

Imagining these shells falling on him, Hou Junji had to shake his head and close his eyes, "No matter how exquisite tactics, how brave soldiers, how can he face such a power?"

A string of horses' hoofs sounded in the distance, and he rode alone. Hou Junji fixed his eyes and saw that it was Qin Mubai.

He couldn't help moving his eyes a few times, with a slight look of embarrassment on his face, standing still.

Qin Mubai came immediately. He looked at Hou Junji with a natural look. He didn't say anything, but only stared at Hou Junji unappropriately.

"You won." After a long time, Hou Junji spit out these three words. His face was a little ugly, but his eyes were still stubborn. He said coldly, "It's a common thing to win or lose soldiers. You... What kind of red cannon? It's really unexpected. It can be called the king of strange soldiers. Hou was convinced that he lost. Take this life as you like."

"Oh!" Qin Mubai smiled indifferently and said, "You can only win if you can afford to lose. Hou Junji, you really have the demeanor of a general. I'm still useful for your life. I'll leave it to you for the time being.

Hou Junji's mind lit up and said, "I have heard that at the beginning, you used this kind of mysterious artifacts to beat the souls of Tubo soldiers and horses stationed in Dafeichuan, so that you recovered this place with hundreds of people, right?"

The facts of the war in Dafeichuan in the past and the existence of cannons in red are both high-level military secrets, and not many people know about it. It is not surprising that a senior general like Hou Junji only knows only the scales and claws.

Qin Mubai smiled lightly and said, "Specifically, it is 200 artillerymen who have recovered Dafeichuan. However, 200 artillerymen alone can't do this. For example, the killing blade is only the shallow layer, but without the blade handle and the power of the knife, the blade is completely useless. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Do you want Hou to be your knife handle?" Hou Junji stared straight at Qin Mubai and said.

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "A foot is short, and an inch is long. The cannon in red is not invincible. Otherwise, there will be no banners of the Tubo people on the snowy plateau now. If you want to charge and destroy the city, you have to rely on the cavalry and horses of the Tang Dynasty.

Hou Junji stared at Qin Mubai with a pair of eagle hunting eyes. Suddenly, he sneered and shook his head and said, "Hou's life is yours, but this does not mean that I will work for you."

Finally, he solemnly added, "I, I won't agree!"

"It doesn't matter. One day, you will agree." Qin Mubai patted the saddle with a careless smile with a horse whip, raised his finger to the direction of the barracks, and said, "Go back to the camp. Good wine and meat are ready. The rumble of cannons just now is regarded as a salute to welcome us!"

Hou Junji took a long breath and patted immediately without saying a word. The corner of his eyes glanced at Qin Mubai. He seemed to say to himself, "I admit that you won, but I didn't lose. What else surprises me and shocks me? Just use it.

"You were surprised, were you shocked?" Qin Mubai laughed and said, "Then I did win."