The next morning, around Chen, when Zhao Yu was thinking about something in the tent, He Shun led Liu Tu hurried into the tent.

When Zhao Yu turned his eyes with puzzled eyes, Liu Tu clasped his fists and explained: "Big leader, that general of chariots and cavalry is here to camp."

『Xue Ao?』

Zhao Yu was slightly stunned and asked, "Where is he now?"

"The Li Duwei was accompanying the Henan Army." Liu Tu explained with his fist: "It was Li Duwei who sent someone to pass the message that the chariot general wanted to inspect my Yingchuan Army and asked me to prepare."

"Yesterday I touched the foundation of the generals of the two armies in Henan and Yingchuan. Will I come to inspect the situation of the soldiers today? General Xue is really eager to defeat the enemy..."

Zhao Yu's heart moved slightly, nodded and said, "Okay, I understand... He Shun, ordered the generals of various departments to lead their troops to train in the airfield on the south side of the camp so that General Xue could inspect our army."

"Yes." He Shun hugged and said, "I'll send someone to order now."

From the side, Liu Tu interrupted and asked, "Big leader, what about my five hundred brothers?"

Zhao Yu thought for a while and said, "You five hundred people don't need to practice. Please follow me to welcome General Xue."

"yes."

A moment later, after receiving the order, Zhang Ji, Cao Wu, Qin Wei, Jia Shu and Le Gui immediately took the soldiers under their command to the open space on the south side of the camp, and ordered the soldiers to arrange troops and conduct training to wait for the inspection of General Xue Ao, the chariot and cavalry.

At this time, Zhao Yu had already brought Niu Heng, He Shun, and Liu Tu to the outside of the camp. He and Wang Qing, who had arrived earlier, inspected their "Yingchuan Army".

To be fair, these 20,000 Yingchuan Army are not the most elite group of soldiers in Yingchuan. However, given that there are 10,000 Xuchang County soldiers who have experienced the Battle of Xuchang and more than 4,000 former Changsha Yishi rebel soldiers who surrendered, this army is not much weaker. At best, it is just that two thousand county soldiers borrowed from Runan and Xiangcheng counties, which seem to be weaker. By the way, the soldiers of these two counties were led by Wang Qing and his confidant Le Gui.

"Is that General Xue eager to inspect Henan and Yingchuan armies. Are you going to prepare to support Xianping?"

When Zhao Yu took the lead in inspecting his own army, Wang Qing asked.

"Don't know."

Zhao Yu shook his head.

The reason he said this was because he was really unsure. The only thing he was sure of was that Tong Yan, the commander of Liang County, most of the people did not support Xianping County. Otherwise, when he and Li Meng led a total of 60,000 reinforcements to Liang County that day, Tong Yan should have sent them to Xianping immediately, but Tong Yan did not do that. Instead, he ordered him and Li Meng to establish a camp outside Liangcheng. It can be seen that Tong Yan planned to "guard Liangcheng to the death."

But the chariot general Xue Ao... Zhao Yu couldn't understand it. He still couldn't understand what kind of person he was.

Not long after, while Zhao Yu was inspecting his troops while secretly waiting for Xue Ao and his group, someone sent by Henan Commander Li Meng told him: "Master Zhou Commander, General Xue is about to inspect your army."

"good."

When Zhao Yu learned about this, he immediately prepared to welcome Wang Qing, Niu Heng, He Shun and Liu Tu.

Not long after, he received the news that Xue Ao, Tong Yan, Li Meng and his party walked around their camp and came towards the south side of the camp.

So Zhao Yu immediately brought the people to meet him.

"General Xue, Captain Tong."

"Zhou Duwei."

After the hands greeted each other, they greeted each other for a moment. Then, Xue Ao smiled heartily and said, "This time the rebels are coming in full force. The court sent Xue and the two armies of Henan and Yingchuan to fight side by side. Given that they had no understanding of Henan and Yingchuan, Xue came to inspect it. If you are bothering me, please don't be surprised by the trouble."

"Where are there." Zhao Yu quickly clasped his fists and said, "General Xue was appointed by the court as the commander of the rebels this time. He should do his best to cooperate with General Xue's orders."

"Hahaha." Xue Ao laughed and said, "With the help of Zhou Duwei and Li Meng, we will definitely defeat the rebels."

『Huh? Will Liang County not send troops?』

Zhao Yu glanced at Tong Yan standing next to him in surprise. Seeing the latter being embarrassed and laughed apologized, he realized that it was not that Tong Yan did not send troops, but that he was ignored by Xue Ao again.

He pretended not to know about this and smiled and complimented: "It should be that with General Xue here, we will definitely defeat the rebels."

Hearing this, Wei Xun, who was standing beside Xue Ao, looked at Zhao Yu intentionally or unintentionally.

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Xue Ao seemed very happy and laughed, patted Zhao Yu on the shoulder and said, "Come on, let Xue see the athlete of the army."

"please."

"please."

A moment later, Zhao Yu led Xue Ao, Tong Yan, Li Meng and several generals of the Taiyuan Cavalry Army to inspect his Yingchuan Army.

During this period, Zhao Yu introduced from time to time: "The 20,000 soldiers brought by Bei Yi this time, and the 10,000 square formation came from Xuchang, including eight thousand infantrymen and two thousand crossbowmen. Although most of them were new soldiers, they all experienced the tempering of the Battle of Xuchang... More than 4,000 troops there were some of the Kunyang troops..."

In order to avoid the emergence of the troubles, Zhao Yu tried his best to avoid introducing the origin of the "Lu Ben Second Camp" and only vaguely called it the "partial army" of Kunyang. The reason was very simple, because he planned to let go of water in this battle, and he did not want Xue Ao, Tong Yan and others to have any doubts about him.

"Um."

While listening to Zhao Yu's introduction quietly, Xue Ao focused on observing the two Yingchuan troops.

Seeing his constant nodding, it can be seen that he was quite satisfied with the 10,000 Xuchang soldiers and more than 4,000 Luben Second Camp.

Until he saw the 6,000 army composed mainly of two county soldiers in Xiangcheng, Runan and another two thousand registered soldiers, he immediately frowned and turned to ask Zhao Yu, "Emperor Zhou, this part of the army soldiers... Why do you think that most of them are new soldiers?"

While secretly surprised by Xue Ao's eyesight, Zhao Yu explained half-truely: "It's worthy of being General Xue. General Xue is not wrong. These six thousand soldiers are composed of the three counties of Kunyang, Runan and Xiangcheng. They are the troops raised in a hurry after our Yingchuan County received the order from the court.... Among them, the two counties of Runan and Xiangcheng have never fought with the rebels in the past two years and have no experience in fighting, so..."

"oh."

Xue Aowei frowned and watched for a while, then said in surprise: "I didn't expect that it was a county soldier. I see that the equipment of these soldiers is no less than that of the regular soldiers in the army... Is there enough for the county soldiers to have such equipment?"

"No." Zhao Yu said meaningfully: "We robbed the rebels."

Hearing this, Wang Qing, Niu Heng, He Shun, Liu Tu and others standing behind Zhao Yu laughed out loud, while Xue Ao, Tong Yan, Li Meng, and the generals of the Taiyuan Cavalry led by Wei Xu all turned around in surprise.

"Ha ha ha ha."

After a brief surprise, Xue Ao patted Zhao Yu's arm, nodded and smiled, "I admire you more and more."

Under Wei Xu's surprise observation, Zhao Yu hugged his fists and made a humble move.

Suddenly, Xue Ao seemed to have thought of something and turned to ask Zhao Yu, "I heard that nearly 30 to 40% of the county towns in Guizhou are still occupied by rebels, and there is another rebel army south of Guizhou. Will the rebels be coveted by the rebels this time?"

Zhao Yu thought about it for a while, and in order to facilitate the future of fishing for troubled waters, he decided to tell him about it.

He clasped his fists at Xue Ao and said in an apology: "Please forgive me General Xue. In fact, I, Yingchuan, did not send the most elite troops this time. For example, the Kunyang Army, which defeated 80,000 rebels in Kunyang last year, did not bring me this time. The reason was for the two things the general said..." He turned his head and looked at Tong Yan, the commander of Liang County, and said apologetically: "Please ask General Xue and Tong County to understand the selfishness of my Yingchuan County. I, Yingchuan, have suffered a fierce attack from the rebels in the past two years. I really don't want the rebels to feel that there is any opportunity to take advantage of it."

Xue Ao and Tong Yan were moved when they heard this.

Xue Ao nodded and said, "Yingchuan County resisted Changsha with the power of one county, and two rebels in Jiangxia finally repelled them with difficulty. Xue also heard about this. He knew the difficulties of the county, so how could he blame it?"

Tong Yanyi immediately stated: "The whole of Lai Yingchuan County resisted Changsha. The two rebels in Jiangxia have been for a long time, so that our Liang County can be spared from the war so far. How could Tong blame Zhou Duwei?"

Seeing these two people expressing their opinions, Zhao Yu was secretly proud: Since these two people knew that the Yingchuan army he brought was a weak division, then after a few days he was "defeated" in the hands of the rebels, these two people would not blame him for being on the head.

Just when he secretly thought it was time to start, he suddenly heard Xue Ao laugh and said, "After that, there are actually more elite soldiers in the county? As Xue saw, most of the soldiers brought by Zhou Duwei this time were much better than those brought by Li Meng..."

"What? The Henan army is worse than that?"

Zhao Yu looked at Henan Commander Li Meng in surprise.

Although he and Li Meng met halfway and rushed to reinforce Liang County, and then stationed in the same camp, he had not yet had time to conduct a rough assessment of the 40,000 Henan troops under Li Meng's command - mainly inappropriate.

What are your commander in Yingchuan County doing when you stare at the Henan army?

Isn't this being disliked?

Zhao Yu hopes to establish a good relationship with Li Meng so that if he is suspicious of Xue Ao and Tong Yan in the future, Li Meng can stand up and speak for him.

Perhaps because he noticed Zhao Yu's surprised gaze, Li Meng was quite embarrassed and explained with a little complaint: "General Xue, how can this be compared?...I, Henan has no actual opportunity to fight in previous years, but when I supported Yingchuan last time, I sent 20,000 troops. In Yingchuan County, at least 100,000 troops participated in the battle with the rebels. Where can those surviving old soldiers be compared with my new soldiers in Henan?"

His words were equivalent to disguisedly acknowledging the fact that the 40,000 Henan troops under his command were not as good as the 20,000 Yingchuan troops brought by Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu couldn't speak - what? The Henan army was weaker than his Yingchuan army?

Doesn’t this mean that Xue Ao and Tong Yan will still use his Yingchuan Army as the main force?

"Okay, it's in vain!"

Zhao Yu couldn't help but feel angry and thought to himself and then he was later.

Then, Xue Ao spent about a moment to inspect the Yingchuan army, and then said to Tong Yan, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng: "Through this inspection, Xue has a general understanding of the two armies of Henan and Yingchuan. Next, let's discuss the battle."

"yes!"
Chapter completed!