Chapter 494 The prince visited Huishan secretly, and Zhang Julu Tavern drank alone.
No manifesto with inspiring words in the world, and no king personally ordered the generals to mobilize the troops. Lu Shengxiang, the Minister of War, left Beijing, was surprisingly quiet, so that he passed through the entire south of the capital, and no local official saw Lu’s presence along the way. But everyone knows it well, which does not mean that Lu Shengxiang’s departure from Beijing is a defeat in the temple – Lu Shengxiang lost first to Lu Baijie, who was also the minister of the past, and failed in the position of Minister of War. But then he received the imperial edict to control the 16th army town of the three prefectures south of the capital. Even a group of meritorious veterans such as Yang Shenxing, the general of Anguo, needed to be controlled by him. Lu Shengxiang’s horse team had only 300 cavalry. This half-open and half-hidden long-distance driving south. The imperial court did not use the combat power of the capital with one soldier for the time being. It seemed that it was more of a wait-and-see approach to Western Chu. Lu Shengxiang, dressed in casual clothes, took his personal soldiers to rest at Youlu Pass, but did not enter the city. Instead, he temporarily set up a large military camp tent outside the pass. When several lieutenants of Youlu Pass rushed over after hearing the news, they would immediately take a regular assistant minister with the rank of general according to the Li Yang Rule. They met you in a rough camp tent. There was no fine wine and delicacies, no singing and dancing, Lord Lu drank them with a simple meal. However, this gave those lieutenants a reassurance. Who wouldn’t know that Lu Sheng, who was born in Chunxue Tower in Guangling, is a smiling tiger. If he doesn’t smile, he will eat people with just one smile.
Youlu Pass is located at the intersection of Pingfan, Guangling Road and Huainan Road. Although the rank and salary of the lieutenant of Youlu Pass was higher than that of ordinary military officers in Liyang, they were directly under the Ministry of War. However, now the rank and rain are in trouble and are in name only. Youlu Pass is like a child who has lost his parents and has lost his milk. On the other hand, Lu Shengxiang had Guangling Dao’s family to rely on, and secondly, he was a popular nobleman from the court. Moreover, Lu Shengxiang did not enter the center of the empire with his family background, but more so rely on his outstanding military achievements in the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, no matter how much he gave Youlu Pass, he would not dare to use three or four-point airs in front of Mr. Lu.
Lu Shengxiang personally sent several lieutenants out of the barracks, and stood in the open space outside the camp with a young general who was still a confidant, watching the dust splashed from the horse’s hooves blow away by the wind. Lu Shengxiang squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil that had both the smell of earth and the smell of spring grass, sniffed it, looked south, and remained silent. Many people don’t know that the dignified Minister of War was once a clumsy scout. He was convicted of being convicted of military affairs once and almost cut off his head.
Lu Shengxiang pinched the soil in the palm of his hand and said softly: “Being a scout is similar to learning to swim. Once you know it, no matter how long it takes to be put and then thrown into the water, it will be difficult to drown again. Guo Donghan and Guangling Road’s combat power, you know very well that you are yelling all day long to compete with Beiliang and Yanla to compete for the world’s number one title. In fact, except for the tens of thousands of soldiers of King Guangling, the rest are all mud that cannot be supported on the wall. It is hard to blame the prince for embroidery.A pillow was really a pillow that had not fought for twenty years. The old man withdrew from the army and the young man withdrew from the army and the young man withdrew from the army and the Yanla infantry, who were on standby every day, how could he rack his brains to ask the court for the latest weapons and the best armor, and even the military horses that Gu Jiantang wanted were dared to grab them. What I am worried about now is not what the so-called knowledgeable people in the court and the country think. They all think that the biggest hidden danger is that the old generals such as Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun are disobeying the constraints and do not obey orders to fight each other. I am only afraid that Xichu, which lacks military strength in the early stages of the war, will show momentum and use war to support the war. Like a snowball, they will kill all the bullshit elite soldiers and generals of Guanglingdao, but they will have weapons, war armor, and even the morale of the army. In such a place as Guangling Road, the remnants of Western Chu have occupied all the advantages of the land and people. At the end of last year to the spring of this year, the Ministry of War and the court kept hearing news that the generals and lieutenants died suddenly. These people were stabbed in the flesh of Guangling Road, and in the end they died inexplicably. Some were strangled to death by concubines on the bed, some were poisoned by maids when drinking, some were stabbed by daggers by a staff member on the matter, some were stabbed to death by a patrol camp, some were chopped to death by swords, and even Mr. Huan, who had been quite friendly to Gu Lu. Zi was also very angry and ran to the Ministry of War to point at the nose of Lu Baijie and I, and finally General Gu was scolded, calling our Ministry of War a group of wine bags. The military officials who were sent were in a mess for the front line of the northern part of Guangling Road. None of them were a warrior who was very popular for twenty years. They also said that the imperial court should take out the spy agencies set up by Guangling Road to behead them. Our Shangshu Lu was quite tough, so he talked back to Mr. Huan on the spot and almost got kicked by the old man. I can only watch whatever I can say. But I really didn’t expect that Mr. Huan was so old that he almost kicked Lord Shangshu in the chest. It seemed that he could live for a few years. This was a great thing. “
Lu Shengxiang put the soil in his hand back on the ground. After laughing, his expression became solemn again, “Before the battle, I was thinking about how to celebrate the merits and receive rewards and how to divide the military merits. I don’t know where their conceit comes from. “
The young general who was born honest and simple stood beside Mr. Lu and laughed: “The man was killed, but the court still had Gu Jiantang, one of the four famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there were also military geniuses like Chen Zhibao and General. How could he not be confident? In addition, several major vassal kings were on the way to Jingnan. Guangling Road had Zhao Yi, who had a strong soldier, suppressed the situation. If I hadn’t been familiar with the foundation of Guangling’s elite, I would have thought so. “
Lu Shengxiang laughed it off, reached out and patted the ground, and sighed: “The waves formed between the ripples, and the wind rose at the end of the green duckweed. As soon as the Jingzhe passed, a hundred insects came out and moved when they heard the wind. “
Guo Donghan smelled the breeze on his face and laughed, “I will smell the smell of blood.” “
Lu Shengxiang stood up, as if she wanted to vomit all the depression and resentment in her heart, and forced a smile, “Yang Shenxing and the others thought it was as short as three months or as long as half a year. With a light kick,It can crush the dead spring insect in Western Chu, which is not dead, to the summer and autumn. No matter what I persuaded me now, they couldn’t listen. It would be better to let them rush up and slap Cao Changqing in the face and hurt, and then they understood who was the one who could really give orders to this protracted war. But this also has disadvantages. My mediocrity within half a year is destined to be barked by censors in the capital, and maybe even my bones and ministers will use their death to splash my blood. I saw with my own eyes what Xu Xiao was like, so this time I was a little bit in the future. The key is whether His Majesty the Emperor has enough patience. If you are not lucky, you can roll up the bed and prepare for the two Liao generals with me. But if you are lucky, you can become a real power general of the third-rank real power as long as my Lu family light cavalry can fully display his skills. ”
Guo Donghan grinned, “Okay. Anyway, I will finally recognize one thing in my life: follow the general and keep the meat to eat! “
Lu Shengxiang refused to say anything.
Guo Donghan suddenly asked carefully: “I heard that the prince’s journey south has gone to many places including Longhu Mountain and Difei Mountain. It is even more open to Guangling Road and Jiangnan Road. It sings with each other, and the court and the country are praised. Tsk, it’s very sensual. There are also rumors that Your Highness does not agree with harsh responsibilities on Guangling Dao and has also criticized and objected to the destruction of Buddhism. The Imperial College said in private that Your Highness already has the aura of benevolence. The right priest named Jin seemed to be quite close to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. This guy was originally accused of Yao Baifeng, and then drove the Chief Auxiliary and Old Master Huan out of the door. He was in a miserable state. Many scholars were so scared that they dared not go to the Jin Mansion to drink. No one expected that he would make a comeback again. ”