Since early October, after Xiang Xuan put on a defensive posture in Pingyu County, the Yingchuan army led by Wang Qing had a small-scale battle with the Changsha Yishi on the opposite side.

Almost every few days, Wang Qing took turns calling Zhou Gong, Legui, Ju Sheng and other generals to Pingyu to take the initiative to fight, shouting at the city top of Pingyu County, and occasionally shooting a few arrows at the city top, but Xiang Xuan just didn't go out to fight.

In this case, Zhou Gong, Legui, Ju Sheng and others organized a siege battle perfunctorily and went home. In terms of military losses, the total number of wounded soldiers on both sides may not even be 100.

On the other hand, Xiang Xuan occasionally sent his general Liu De to lead the army to fight, or even supervise the battle himself. After all, just as Wang Shangde and Li Zhi believed, Xiang Xuan's Changsha Yishi is basically nothing, but he does not have enough combat power. The Yingchuan Army, which has established a "tactic understanding" with them, is obviously the best target for training. As long as he fights with the Yingchuan Army, he believes that the new soldiers of the Changsha Yishi will quickly transform into qualified soldiers.

Seeing Xiang Xuan bringing a group of new recruits to challenge, Wang Qing, Ju Sheng, Zhou Gong and others naturally guessed the idea of ​​the opponent, but they did not expose it. Just as Wang Qing said to the generals: "The opponent takes the initiative to deliver military achievements to the door, why not?"

The generals nodded with smiles.

Although Xiang Xuan achieved the goal of training by fighting with his Yingchuan army, fighting would kill people. Those soldiers of the righteous army killed by his Yingchuan army could undoubtedly be turned into a merit - at least used to deal with the court.

So, each with his own thoughts and conveniences began a small-scale war with tacit understanding.

Xiang Xuan controlled the casualties as much as possible, and was also guarding against the opponent's "sudden breach of the contract"; and Wang Qing, he was happy to reap one small victory after another, and at the same time avoided causing too much casualties to the opponent - otherwise he would not be able to explain to Zhao Yu.

In short, although the two sides fought several times in early October alone, they were both restrained.

At least Wang Qing has kept a lot of tricks and has not sent out the wield wolves from beginning to end. Otherwise, with the strength of the wield wolves, the group of new and old wolves of Changsha Yishi, who are of varying quality, still want to build a camp outside the city? They will all be given away all night!

However, to the eyes of those who are unaware of the situation, the two sides are fighting back and forth extremely lively, and there is only a decisive battle to decide the outcome.

Although Wang Qing did not write the above in the battle report he sent to Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu could roughly guess based on the casualties between the two sides - even if Wang Qing exaggerated the battle losses of the Changsha Yishi opposite ten times, a battle would be to behead thousands.

Please, how many times can Pingyu County "behead thousands" of casualties?

Speechlessly, Zhao Yu re-touched the battle report submitted by Wang Qing, modified the number of casualties on both sides, and exaggerated the casualties of one side and the casualties of the other side by five times, which means killing two or three thousand enemies and causing hundreds of damage to themselves.

I believe this is enough to deal with the imperial court.

When he saw Wang Qing’s battle report, Wang Shangde’s letter happened to be delivered to him, which really surprised him.

After carefully reading Wang Shangde's letter, Zhao Yu couldn't help laughing.

With the content of the letter and Wang Shangde's current situation, he immediately guessed the complicated mood of General Wang's "want to ask for help but can't hold back" at this moment.

To be honest, Zhao Yu had a good impression of Wang Shangde.

People who are not familiar with Wang Shangde may think that General Wang treats others indifferently, but through the incident of "Lu Kuang" back then, Zhao Yu felt that General Wang was cold on the outside and warm on the inside - at least he also valued emotions.

Therefore, Wang Shangde came to ask for help in a roundabout way, and Zhao Yu was willing to help him, but this time it didn't work!

Not to mention that Xiang Xuan had already joined the command of his elder brother Zhao Bohu, even if Xiang Xuan simply responded to the call of the Jiangdong Yishi and set up an army to advance north, Zhao Yu could not intercept him, destroying the good situation of the Yishi's advance north.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yu wrote a reply letter to Wang Shangde. Although he agreed to fight against the Changsha Yishi with the Nanyang Army, he also explained various reasons why he "cannot advance immediately."

First of all, the weather is not good, because it is already mid-October and there is only one month left before the beginning of winter. It takes time for Yingchuan County to convene a large army, so it is naturally not appropriate to launch a joint encirclement and suppression of the Changsha Yishi immediately.

Therefore, it was a man-made disaster, and Zhao Yu once again brought out the Woniu Mountain thieves who had been suppressed for four months.

Coupled with other fragmented reasons, Zhao Yu tactfully told Wang Shangde that at least a few years ago he could not send heavy troops to attack the Changsha Yishi, so he could only talk about it next year.

In order to express sincerity, Zhao Yu sent Wei Shi Hanhe to Jiangling in person and delivered the letter to Wang Shangde.

In early November, Han He arrived in Jiangling with Zhao Yu's handwritten letter.

At this time, snow had begun to fall in Jiangling area, and Wang Shangde did not expect Zhao Yu to organize an army to accompany him to "snow battle" with the Changsha rebels before the New Year. Therefore, after reading the seemingly pertinent explanations in Zhao Yu's letter, he could accept them.

Even General Wang was in a good mood at the moment. After all, Zhou Hu understood his roundabout hints and offered to join forces to deal with the Changsha rebels, eliminating the link where General Wang asked for help. This made General Wang feel that although Zhou Hu was a bandit, he was much better than Xue Ao and Zhang Jing's two bastards. If those two people were not allowed to laugh at him.

While feeling happy, Wang Shangde asked Han He: "In other words, at the beginning of the next year, your army can join forces with our Nanyang Army to deal with the rebels in Changsha?"

"This...is not necessarily."

Han He, who received Zhao Yu's advice in advance, naturally did not dare to say all the words.

Hearing this, Wang Shangde was immediately displeased: "What does 'not necessarily' mean?"

Han He spread his hands and said, "General, calm down... Although there are nearly 100,000 soldiers in Yingchuan, most of them are county-level troops. They are scattered in various counties and it takes a certain amount of time to gather them together. Moreover, the bandits on Woniu Mountain have not yet been wiped out. Zhou Duwei is afraid that after he leads the army to Runan, the garrison of Yingchuan will be empty, and they will be retaliated by Woniu Mountain bandits."

"A group of mountain bandits, you, Zhou Hu, have been suppressed for four months and have not yet been wiped out?"

Wang Shangde almost blurted out this sentence, but in the end he swallowed it back.

First, he didn't want to offend Zhou Hu, and second, he had heard a little about the difficulty of the Woniu bandits.

He held back his anger and said, "At least, the army of Chen Mo and Chu Yan will be transferred to Runan?"

Han He looked at Wang Shangde in surprise, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not possible... Chen Mo's army of Chen's upper division commander will first assist Zhou's commander to encircle and suppress the Woniu bandits after the New Year. After all, it's too threatening to keep this mountain bandit. As for Chu Yan and Chu's upper division commander, he is responsible for escorting Princess Xiangrui back to Handan."

After a pause, he explained: "Because Princess Xiangrui wanted to go back to Handan to visit the emperor, but was afraid of any dangers on the way, she asked the Chief Commander Chu to protect him along the way."

“…”

Wang Shangde was stunned and speechless.
Chapter completed!