Chapter 450 Man-made
Hou Junji still stared at Qin Mubai aggressively, and his eyes gradually showed arrogance, provocation, and unconcealed expectations and longing.
Of course, Qin Mubai knows what he wants. From the day he was demoted from Chang'an and sent to Liangzhou, Hou Junji has been looking forward to the day when Dongshan will come back.
Now, this day seems to be near.
He wanted military power, wanted to prove himself, and wanted to do something earth-shaking that was enough to make Changsun Wuji shut up, and even made Li Shimin's face look shameless.
This is the only purpose he has always been willing to succumb to the subordinate of the younger Qin Mubai!
Qin Mubai, of course, knows it. A person like Hou Junji can't accept many gold and silver beauties. The only thing that has a fatal death to him is trust and power! Trust and power that can make him show his self-worth!
"The soldiers are fast! General Hou, please rectify the troops, and the whole army will leave immediately and go straight to Dafeichuan!" Qin Mubai paused and his eyebrows sank slightly, "That's our main battlefield!"
"No!"
Hou Junji shouted in a low voice and hugged his fist to answer.
This is almost the first time he said this word willingly in front of Qin Mubai. At this time, the strange light flashed in his eyes, even Chen Yan, who was standing behind Qin Mubai, clearly saw that this lonely wolf really found the wolf king he needed!
Qin Mubai nodded and said, "The battle of Magic Moon Valley is just the first battle of counterattack. The hundred-legged insects die without stiffness, and the vitality of the Chalin Mausoleum still exists. General Hou, please draft and issue a commander-in-chief's order on my behalf, solemnly warning the whole army to guard against arrogance and impatience and not to underestimate the enemy! Otherwise, it will soon be our turn to defeat Tubo in the first battle of Fantasy Moon Valley today.
"Good." Hou Junji held his fist and answered the promise. Such things were exactly the matter of him, the marching Sima. After a short pause, he said, "The tighter the snow, the longer it is. Otherwise, as soon as the snow is closed, we will be blocked at the gate of the Magic Moon Valley and lose our fighters in vain. It is suggested that subordinates should first lead the cavalry light soldiers and go to Dafeichuan. You can let General Yuwen Hongtai lead the rest of his troops and escort some grain, freight and other things and then get up. As for this battlefield, it can be handed over to Xue Wanjun's troops who came to help later.
"Okay, it's so appropriate. It's up to you." Qin Mubai smiled slightly and accepted it completely.
Hou Junji showed a rare comfortable smile and said, "The young commander is not in good health. Why don't you go back to Danzhou to rest for a rest?" After all, this battle is not a day's achievement. The health of the young commander is really related to the survival of our army. This is not my own opinion, but also the unanimous wish of the whole army.
"I think so too." Chen Yan behind her took a sentence.
"Yes, third brother, or the body and bones are more important. Just go back to Danzhou to rest and recover! Besides, you are the groom now, and you should stay in the bridal chamber and be happy!" Yuwen Hongtai roared.
Qin Mubai was stunned, "What are you talking about? What kind of groom? With a female, you are so open-mouthed that you should fight!"
"Uh! ...It's time to fight, it's time to fight..." Yuwen Hongtai was suddenly embarrassed and stabbed.
"Mubai, let me tell you a little bit about this matter." Chen Yan said, "You'd better agree to General Hou's request first!"
Qin Mubai thought for a little and said, "General Hou, your ability to lead troops to fight, no one in our army can come out of your right. Now it's okay for me to promise you to lead the army, but there are three things I want to tell you.
"Young commander, please speak." Hou Junji suddenly looked bright!
"One, don't underestimate the enemy. According to the full calculation, the Tubo people lost only one-third of the people here in the Magic Moon Valley, and there are still 200,000 troops and most of the Kunlun iron cavalry in the hands of the Chalqin Mausoleum. Qin Mubai said, "Although our army's small victory has frustrated the enemy's spirit, now, the strength of the enemy is still very different, and our army is still in a weak position. Moreover, all the deceptions that should be used have been used, and the Chalqinling will not be fooled again. The rest is to attack hard and hard. Therefore, we still need to clearly recognize our situation and not let the army grow a sense of pride and complacency.
"Don't worry about this." Hou Junji said, "A certain life of Hou is crazy, but he only goes to the battlefield and never arrogant and underestimates the enemy."
"Second, when you set out, I sent Zhang Tong and a team to blow up the Buha River, which flooded the Dafei River. If this plan is successful, the Dafei Sichuan army will suffer a devastating blow. I don't know how many Tubo people can drown and freeze to death, but what I can be sure is that it will become a natural disaster. It is estimated that when you lead the department to arrive, you can just pick up Zhang Tong. It is the first task to arrest and rescue the prisoners, but it is also necessary to prevent the sudden counterattack of the Tubo people.
Hou Junji set out before Zhang Tong, and he didn't know about it. At this moment, he was first surprised and then raised his eyebrows excitedly. "Although this trick is a little poisonous, it makes it exquisite. The divine power from the sky is beyond human power. It is outstanding for generals to be able to use the right time and place as flexibly as you!"
"It's a fallacy." Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "The third thing I want to tell you is not to kill indiscriminately."
Hou Junji frowned gently, "What is indiscriminate killing?"
"Except for the casualties during the head-to-head confrontation on the battlefield, everything else is indiscriminate killing." Qin Mubai replied, "If you think about the ashes of the fallen soldiers of our army back from the Garqin Mausoleum, it will be clear why I banned from killing indiscriminately."
"It's just to harvest people's hearts?"
"It can be understood in this way."
Hou Junji pondered for a moment and nodded and said, "I can only promise you not to kill indiscriminately. I know that you are ambitious, and you are not only concerned about the victory or defeat of the first battle, but to finally step on the plateau to conquer Tubo. It's not that I look down on you. I've always wanted to ask for the truth from you - do you think it's possible? Or is this just your delusion and self-deception?
Qin Mubai smiled and did not answer.
Yuwen Hongtai was anxious and shouted, "Hou Junji, what kind of bullshit are you talking about? Since you can't trust my third brother, don't follow my third brother!"
"Black, shut up." Qin Mubai scolded and only said four words to Hou Junji, "It's man-made."
"Then I'll believe you again." Hou Junji said almost word by word, "I hope you don't let me down."
After saying that, he hugged a fist and turned around and left. His horse boots creaked on the snow.
"If you take the initiative to provoke and ask questions, you don't have to fight with him, one word - boil!" Qin Mubai shouted behind him, "I'm anxious, I'm anxious. Now, the initiative is in our hands. If he wants to fight quickly, it is likely that there will be a great crisis in the supply of food and roads.
"Food supply?" Hou Junji murmured in his footsteps. He looked back at Qin Mubai but didn't ask much. He just hugged his fist and rode on the horse.
Everyone looked at Hou Junji's horse stepping on the snow.
"This one! Have you agreed?" Yuwen Hongtai couldn't hold back and scolded, "Third brother, this man is so arrogant and rude! According to my nature, I'm going to beat him down and beat him up!"
"I want to do that too. Everyone who comes into contact with him thinks about it. Qin Mubai smiled and said, "But if you really know him, you will be full of tolerance and respect for him."
What do you mean? I don't understand." Yuwen Hongtai shook his head blankly, "I only know that this man is very arrogant and indebted!"
Chen Yan smiled and said, "Heizi, Hou Junji is cold-hearted, hard-mouthed and soft-hearted. People like him don't know what hypocrisy is, and he won't be bad-hearted. Geng Zhi, just like you. If not, how could he be defeated by Changsun Wuji and others in the court? In the end, as the meritorious service of the founding of the country, he would end up being demoted?
"Ah? Isn't that a lack of heart?" Yuwen Hongtai was stunned, "Does my sister-in-law want to say that I will be the same as him in the future?"
"Haha, you definitely won't!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Although you are a little reckless, you don't fight for power and don't take profits. No one will swear to stand with you. Who will hurt you?"
"Hey hey, that's right!" Yuwen Hongtai grinned and said, "I still have a third brother!" I just followed the third brother and didn't think much about anything!"
"Stupid black man!" Qin Mubai smiled and thought to himself: At the beginning, Hou Junji had the same feelings for Li Shimin as Yuwen Hongtai, but in the end? ...Canghai Sangtian's human feelings are cold and warm, which is such a erratic, sighing!
Soon, Hou Junji reorganized the headquarters and rode 50,000 horses lightly and roared away against the snow. Yuwen Hongtai led thousands of soldiers and horses from the headquarters and Qin Mubai's mansion to count the battlefield and build temporary barracks. At night, the whole army rested in the temporary camp in front of the Magic Moon Valley.
That night, the north wind roared and the snow became tighter and tighter. Qin Mubai couldn't help but worry about Qin Shi and others who had ambushed on the mountain to cause explosives. It's so cold that they must have suffered a lot of ambush on the mountain for so many days. The explosives themselves are dangerous. Now the snow is heavy, and the mountain is closed. I don't know what about life and death?
At noon the next day, the mountains were white and the snow was thick.
The army had just had a lunch, and Qin Shi and others came back miraculously!
They actually came out of the big snowy mountain, but they were all invisible. Everyone was much more serious than Qin Mubai's frostbite, and more than 30 people did die from severe cold and avalanches.
Qin Shi, a wild boy who is as thin as a grass root, has extremely tenacious vitality. He almost came back with almost a lot of hair, and there was no frostbite on his body. According to Lu Youhai and others, this boy is not only not afraid of the cold, but also often takes a bath with snow cubes, and takes them to catch beasts in the mountains to satisfy their hunger and find passages. Along the way, if it hadn't been for him, I'm afraid that these two hundred people would have frozen to death in the mountains!
"They are the real heroes! The key to our army's victory!!" Qin Mubai held a celebration banquet for Qin Shi and others, and truthfully informed the generals of the previous arrangements.
All the soldiers were amazed and admired. Overnight, Qin Shi, a nobody, became a famous hero in the whole army of the Kansai Army. When he spread out his meritorious deeds, Qin Shi refused to die. He felt that he was just a dog slave of the Qin family. He did some of the simplest and most important things according to the master's instructions, and it was not his turn to be rewarded at all.
Qin Mubai told Qin Shi that if this battle is finally won by the court in the future, according to the practice of attaching importance to military merit in the Tang Dynasty, your credit is enough to be awarded a five-grade guerrilla general, or a viscount or above.
But Qin Shi still refused to die. He said that he would not be an official and would not be a general. He would only serve his master and run errands for his master. When everyone wanted to persuade him again, he actually cried in a hurry and thought that Qin Mubai was going to drive him out of the house.
Qin Mubai had no choice but to give up, and finally had to write down the names of Lu Youhai and the fire god generals on the merit book.
One day later, 25,000 people under Xue Wanjun's command returned from Danzhou, bringing a large number of important materials such as grain and fodder, tents and cold clothes. Qin Mubai left 5,000 of them and handed them over to the temporary military camp under the command of the partial general. After the heavy snow, he went to clean up the battlefield to deal with post-war matters. The other 20,000 people were handed over to Yuwen Hongtai, asking him to escort the military resources and go to Dafeichuan to pick up Hou Junji as soon as possible.
Although Yuwen Hongtai was not willing to "wangle" with Hou Junji, as soon as Qin Mubai issued the order, he still obediently obeyed and promised that he would never quarrel with Hou Junji and obediently listen to his orders.
After a little preparation, Qin Mubai led 10,000 Qinxun Yifu Yueqi, and divided into two paths with Yuwen Hongtai soldiers, and went to Shangzhou and Dafeichuan respectively.