As soon as Tu Kuohai said this, everyone was a little stunned.

"Slaughtering the wine general, the soldiers and horses from Taihu are coming, aren't they trying to relieve Shuning City from the siege?" Jiang Xiaochun frowned.

In his opinion, the current strategy is for the Taihu soldiers and horses to unite with the Shuning City defenders to defeat the rebels outside the city, and then escort the princess to evacuate to Hangzhou. As long as she joins the Hangzhou camp, the princess can sit in Hangzhou and wait for the court's decision.

Reinforcements arrived.

In this way, not only can the princess escape unharmed, but Hangzhou can also be used as a base camp to counter the rebellion. As long as the mind is a little clearer, this is definitely the design.

Tu Kuohai picked up the wine pot and poured it for everyone one by one. He was very polite. He shook his head and said with a smile: "What the leader means is that the rebels besieging the city are just a mob and are nothing to worry about. Our target is the Suzhou camp. The Suzhou rebels

The most elite soldiers and horses in the army are the three thousand elite soldiers of the Suzhou Battalion in Suzhou City. If the Suzhou Battalion is not eliminated, the war in Suzhou will not be quelled."

"General Tu Jiu, you mean that the Taihu soldiers and horses will wait here for the Suzhou camp?" Jiang Xiaochun said in surprise.

Tu Kuohai nodded.

"General Tu Jiu, the top priority is to protect the princess and evacuate Suzhou." Fei Xin said earnestly: "It is really inappropriate for the princess to be in a dangerous place with her golden branches and jade leaves. Suzhou is full of rebels, and now the rebels who are besieging the city are unstable, so they are taking advantage of this situation.

If we really want to protect the princess and leave the city, if we really wait until the reinforcements from Suzhou City arrive, we won’t be able to leave by then."

Jiang Xiaochun nodded and said: "What Mr. Fei said is true. With all due respect, Lord Wine, although I don't know the strength of these brothers under your command, the equipment of the soldiers and horses of Suzhou Camp is no less than that of our inner treasury guards. They have armor on them."

, the weapons they use are all made of fine iron, and among the three thousand soldiers and horses, there are also hundreds of cavalry, who are good at riding and shooting...!"

"I understand what you mean." Tu Kuohai said with a smile: "Commander Jiang thinks that our Taihu soldiers and horses may be able to compete with the rebels besieging the city, but it is a fool's dream to have a showdown with the Suzhou camp."

"I didn't mean that." Jiang Xiaochun frowned, but everyone knew that this was what he meant.

However, Taihu soldiers and horses are now needed to help escort the princess to Hangzhou, so Jiang Xiaochun should not offend Tu Kuohai.

"I can understand that Commander Jiang has no confidence in Taihu soldiers and horses." Tu Kuohai said confidently: "But Mr. Tu has great faith in his brothers. Back then, the Jiangnan family framed the Taihu fishermen for rebellion. From then on, Taihu Lake was

We are at odds with the Jiangnan family. Now that the Qian family in Suzhou is in rebellion, I, Taihu, will not miss this opportunity, both publicly and privately. Since I want to avenge my hatred of the past, I naturally have to compete with the Qian family in an open and honest manner. The Suzhou camp is in the hands of the Qian family.

With the biggest capital, I, Taihu Erlang, can only feel sick in my heart if I defeat Suzhou Camp."

When Tu Kuohai spoke, he was high-spirited and seemed very confident in defeating the Suzhou camp.

However, in this case, the plans of the two sides are obviously very different.

Jiang Xiaochun hoped to combine the strength of the two armies to go to Hangzhou, use Hangzhou as the base camp, and wait for the arrival of imperial reinforcements before quelling the rebellion in Suzhou. However, Tu Kuohai's Taihu Army obviously had no intention of escorting the princess to Hangzhou, and actually seemed to want to stay here.

Bian fought with the main force of the rebels.

"Jiujiang, are you sure that the Suzhou Battalion will definitely come to reinforce the rebels?" Qin Xiaowei pondered and finally asked.

Tu Kuohai folded his hands around his chest and said: "The princess is in Shuning City, and the rebels besieging the city have been unable to defeat it, and their morale is low. Now that I, Taihu, have come to reinforce the princess, how can Suzhou City remain indifferent? Unless they really want to see it.

We can retreat with the princess intact." His eyes became stern: "We want to annihilate the Suzhou Battalion, so why don't the Suzhou Battalion want to wipe out all of us in Taihu Lake?"

Jiang Xiaochun's face looked a little ugly, and he said calmly: "What does the wine general mean? You don't care about the princess's safety. What you care about is competing with the Suzhou camp?"

"This is what the leader wants." Tu Kuohai said resolutely, "I can only act in accordance with it."

"Since Leader Linghu wanted to bury the hatchet, why didn't he come in person?" Feixin asked with a frown.

"Master Fei wants to see me?" A voice suddenly came from outside the tent. It was so sudden that everyone present was startled.

"Who is it?" Jiang Xiaochun shouted in a deep voice. When everyone entered the tent, he dismissed the guards outside so that they could talk more easily. At this time, the voice suddenly sounded outside the tent. It seemed that he had been eavesdropping on the conversation inside the tent.

, Jiang Xiaochun’s face looked even worse.

Jiang Xiaochun was a little displeased, but Qin Xiao felt a chill in his heart.

He is now at the fourth level of cultivation. Logically speaking, if someone outside approaches, he should be able to detect it easily. However, the person outside is clearly outside the tent, and he does not notice it at all.

That person did not come in, but Tu Kuohai had already stood up and saluted respectfully outside the tent.

Everyone here had realized at this time that the person outside could only be Taihu King Linghu Xuan if he could make the Taihu wine general so respectful.

Jiang Xiaochun was surprised. He came to Xixia Mountain with the Taihu soldiers and horses. He thought that the leader of the army was Tu Kuohai. Only then did he realize that Taihu King Linghu Xuan had been among the troops for a long time, but he did not show off the mountain.

There was a water leak, but he didn't notice it at all, and the Taihu Army didn't show that the King of Taihu was in the army.

"I heard that Mr. Qin is here, I wonder if I can come out to meet him?" The voice outside said calmly: "It's too stuffy in the tent, so it's better to come out and get some fresh air."

Qin Xiao had already smiled and said: "The King of Taihu led the reinforcements, I was just about to thank you." He stood up and walked out of the tent. He only saw a few steps outside the tent, a person wearing a very ordinary burlap cloth, carrying a bag with one hand.

Behind him, he was looking up at the moon in the sky when he heard someone coming out of the tent behind him. The man turned around, looked Qin Xiao up and down first, then raised his hands and said with a smile: "Linghu Xuan, a common man, has met Mr. Shaoqing!"

He is above the thousands of people in Taihu Lake. Although the fishermen in Taihu Lake respect him as king, he has no official status and calls himself a commoner, which is reasonable.

Linghu Xuan looks very ordinary, with thick eyebrows and a scar above his left eyebrow. At first glance, he looks no different from ordinary fishermen fishing on the lake, but his eyes are extremely deep and seem to have

He smiled, but it seemed to go straight through his heart.

"King of Taihu!" Although Qin Xiao only met Linghu Xuan for the first time, he knew a lot about this man's deeds. He knew that this man was definitely a powerful figure, so he did not dare to neglect him.

"I dare not call you that." Linghu Xuan said with a smile: "This will bring endless trouble to Taihu Lake." He put one hand behind his back and raised his hand and said: "The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the night is very beautiful. Master Qin, are you willing to come with me?"

Take a walk?”

At this time, Jiang Xiaochun and others had also left the tent, and when they saw the unattractive Linghu Xuan, they all felt different.

Linghu Xuan was famous, but no one could have imagined that he looked like an ordinary fisherman.

Linghu Xuan just nodded slightly to those people without saying hello and walked forward slowly.

Qin Xiao saw this and thought that the Taihu King was also an arrogant person. Both Fei Xin and Jiang Xiaochun were officials of the imperial court, and their ranks were not low. However, the Taihu King downplayed it and did not put these people at all.

In eyes.

Qin Xiao knew that Linghu Xuan suddenly appeared and invited him to accompany him. There must be a reason.

At present, Shuning City still needs the strong help of this support army, so it is not easy to flatter the Taihu King and follow him.

Under the moonlight, Linghu Xuan walked in front, and Qin Xiao followed a step behind. Strangely enough, Linghu Xuan looked ordinary, but he exuded a unique temperament that made people dare not disrespect him at all.

.

"It is not difficult for the city defenders and Taihu fishermen to work together to escort the princess out of Suzhou." Linghu Xuan said as he walked: "If the princess is sure to leave Suzhou, we can escort her there. However, if the princess leaves Suzhou at this time, then

From now on, I may never be able to return to Suzhou."

Qin Xiao paused for a moment. Seeing that Linghu Xuan did not stop, he could only continue to follow and asked: "Why did the King of Taihu say this?"

He used to call Linghu Xuan the King of Taihu, but Linghu Xuan didn't take it seriously and said: "There are at least three major disasters for the princess leaving Suzhou for Hangzhou. First of all, just because the princess leaves Shuning City, it does not mean that the rebels will let Shu go.

Ningcheng, on the other hand, has good morale because of the presence of the princess. However, after the princess leaves, the morale of the defenders in the city will definitely collapse. If the rebels try to attack the city again, Shuning City may not be able to hold it. The rebels will not suffer any casualties in attacking the city.

There are few, and the people of Shuning City have followed the princess to fight against the rebels. Once the city is breached, Shuning City will face a disaster."

Qin Xiao couldn't help but nodded slightly, and the Taihu King still said calmly: "Secondly, if the princess wants to evacuate, of course the tens of thousands of people in the city cannot follow her. This is their home, and they will not abandon their home and leave. The rebels

There was no annihilation, but the princess escaped first. This matter spread throughout the world, and the princess' reputation will be severely damaged. People in the world will regard the princess as a foolish person who only cares about her own life and death and does not care about the lives of the people."

These words hit the nail on the head, and Qin Xiao's heart trembled.

"The most important disaster is that once the princess leaves, Jiangnan will no longer be within the princess's sphere of influence." The King of Taihu walked to a stone and sat down on it casually, looking up at the sky.

Mingyue: "The anti-rebellion army sent by the imperial court can only be the Shence Army. The Shence Army is the sphere of influence of the eunuchs. They put down the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River and will take advantage of the situation to establish their own forces in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, there is the Xiahou family, and the Xiahou family is in charge

Hu Bu, without the support behind Hu Bu, the Shence Army cannot put down the rebellion. So if nothing else happens, after the rebellion is put down, Jiangnan will be the sphere of influence of the eunuchs and the Xiahou family. The princess will be in Jiangnan.

The forces will definitely be swept away."

After saying what he said, Qin Xiao admired in his heart, thinking to himself that the King of Taihu who could rule the roost was indeed not an ordinary person. What he said almost coincided with what She Yue was worried about.

"If the princess loses Jiangnan, Lord Qin's wish to regain Xiling will also come to nothing." The King of Taihu said calmly: "So you can make a choice whether the princess will continue to stay in Suzhou or go to Hangzhou."

Qin Xiao's expression suddenly changed and he was shocked.

If King Taihu's previous words made Qin Xiao admire him, these last two sentences made Qin Xiao feel incredible.
Chapter completed!