After the cannon fodder prince collapsed, the country will not perish

Xiao Di said indifferently: "If you win this battle, you will naturally know it in the future."

Xu Huizhou: "..."

The journey was long, and the two of them traveled for seven or eight days on the road before they finally reached the boundary of Yunnan.

The person who met them was General Liu who was stationed in Yunnan. Seeing Xiao and Xu, there was a contemptuous smile on his face.

In his opinion, this one is the son of a traitor who has just regained his reputation, and the other is a noble son who knows nothing about the world. The two came to suppress the bandits, and it was like a child's joke.

Xiao Di and Xu Huizhou got off their horses and were rushed into the Chinese army camp.

Xiao Di didn't plan to stay here for a long time, he already knew that there were not many bandits here, but relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he occupied the mountain as king and fled everywhere, it was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

After Xu Huizhou sat down, he said, "We came to Yunnan this time because of those mountain bandits who pulled up flags and rebelled. Your Majesty has heard about it from far away in the capital. He specially ordered us to bring the elites from the capital. They are there. With the experience of eradicating bandits, I think it can help you too."

After Xie Qingci was kidnapped by bandits and rescued, the emperor specially sent people from the capital camp to sweep the mountain, and it can be said that all the bandits in the capital were wiped out at once.

These people also came to Yunnan with Xiao Di this time.

But the local General Liu was disdainful: "Lieutenant Feiqi, Mr. Xu, you don't know anything. If you want to suppress the bandits, the most important thing is to go up the mountain according to the terrain. Even these local soldiers are not as familiar with the terrain as bandits. It is even more of a waste of time for you to bring this team of people from the capital here, and it is even more difficult."

Xiao Di looked at the man calmly: "Then according to what General Liu said, what should these bandits do?"

The man murmured: "The lower officials think that bandits are like weeds in the mountains, and they can't be eradicated. If not... if not, let them go. Anyway, they just rose up on the mountain at night, and they don't have the guts to come down and claim it." king."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Huizhou's face changed suddenly: "Joke! This dynasty is a huge country, and Yunnan is also the territory of the court. As a feudal official, you are helpless against bandits, and even want to let them go. Let these people become kings in their own territory, you might as well resign as soon as possible to apologize!"

Xu Huizhou repeated his words to attack, but the general immediately refused to say anything more.

After a long while, no one in the camp spoke a word, Xiao Di stood up, took the lamp handed over by the soldiers beside him, and stood still in front of the map: "General Liu, besides the bandits, there are also several groups of Huihe soldiers and horses here? "

General Liu was taken aback: "...Yes."

"Approximately how many bandits are there, and how many soldiers and horses are there in that team of Huihe?"

"How many people..." General Liu rolled his eyes: "There are thousands of bandits, I think there are as many as six to seven thousand! There are even more soldiers and horses in Huihe, I think there are about... about 7000 troops! "

"Really?" Xiao Di sneered, and his eyes shot at General Liu like sharp swords: "False reporting the number of people is also an old trick of yours. If there are too many enemy troops, it is justifiable if you lose the battle! If you win the battle, You can use this to claim credit! You said that there are tens of thousands of people in Huihe, but you have not found any way to transport food. Even to rob food, a small group of people fled after robbing it. It seems that there are [-] to [-] troops. What does it look like!"

He pressed down on General Liu with heavy eyes: "I'll ask you again, how many bandits and enemy troops are there!"

General Liu was stunned in place, his knees were so frightened that his knees went weak.

He had also heard of Xiao Di's name, but he always felt that he was just a kid who won the battle because of his family background, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Never thought that this teenage boy could see through the number of people he was pretending at a glance, and even knew these tricks by heart.

This crime is said to be serious, it is deceiving the emperor, and he will be beheaded.

He no longer dared to hide it, and said honestly: "There are about 3000 bandits, but they occupy the mountain as kings and are familiar with the terrain, so they are slow... As for Huihe, I don't know, there are always two to 3000 people." Human."

Xiao Di stared at him, and gave a deep smile with unknown meaning: "You are living on the court's food and salary, but you are being played around by thousands of bandits. General Liu, this is not something that can be explained away by saying that you don't understand the terrain."

After saying this, General Liu was in a cold sweat.

Xiao Di ignored him and continued to look down at the map.

Although he sneered at General Liu, he did not underestimate the bandits in his heart, and he knew that what this person said was somewhat reasonable. Although there were not many bandits on the mountain, they were familiar with the terrain. , nor should one be taken lightly.

Xiao Di looked at the path on the map and pondered: "Where do these bandits get their food?"

General Liu didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly said: "Bandits... They often have a small group of people coming down the mountain to loot food, but they never love to fight, they always run away after taking it."

"Those Uighurs also lived by plundering, did the two teams meet?"

"No." General Liu thought carefully, shook his head and said, "The bandits are very cautious, and they are also very afraid of those Huihe people. They have never confronted each other head-on. It's just..."

Xiao Di raised his eyes: "But what?"

"However, the lower officials sensed that they had a tacit understanding, and they always plundered separately one at a time. It's just that several times Huihe bullied others and robbed the food that should have been the bandits on the Falling Horse Mountain. The bandits were thinking about the Huihe people. ...should be both angry and fearful."

After hearing these words, Xiao Di narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Falling Horse Mountain, bandits are discussing the food that the government will release soon.

As soon as the food came out, they and the Huihe people stretched out their heads like fish attracted by bait.

It's just that after a long time, the two teams have already formed a tacit understanding, you and me once, without interfering with each other.

It stands to reason that it is the turn of the Huihe people this time, and they shouldn't be tempted, but as the weather turns cold, their food is also in short supply, and in a few days, they will be starving.

And several times before, the food that should have belonged to them was snatched by Huihe.

"Boss, do you think we should do anything about this food? Those Huihe people robbed us of our food several times because they had more people, and the brothers didn't have anything to eat."

"What are you doing?" The bandit leader said forbearance: "I know that the brothers have worked hard, so you can comfort me, and next time the food arrives, we will go..."

"Who knows when the government will distribute food next time? Even if it does, it may not be our turn..." The bandit was obviously unconvinced, and muttered in his mouth: "If you want me to say that I am afraid of what they will do, just give it to us." They fight with knives and forget it, lest they think we are easy to deceive..."

On the government's grain transport path, hundreds of Huihe troops had already ambushed here, waiting for the grain transport trucks to arrive before they started looting.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they made a move, they caught a glimpse of several people dressed as bandits holding knives, and they also appeared from the surroundings.

The Huihe people's eyes flashed, and they immediately became vigilant, pulling out their sabers one after another.

Before, they had tacitly agreed to go to one side, but this time they fought hand to hand.

The bandits on patrol heard the sound of swords and soldiers clashing from a distance, and immediately went to look at it, but when they saw it from a distance, they immediately became angry.

Those people dressed as bandits, with their marks on the back of their clothes, were obviously hungry brothers who fought with the Huihe people.

With their brothers around, can these people still be bullied!

These bandits immediately rushed up with swords and drew swords to fight with hundreds of Huihe people.

The news quickly reached the bandit leader.

"It's fine to steal our food, and beat our brother!" The bandit leader was also angry: "We have swallowed our anger for so long, should we continue to endure it!

After finishing speaking, he gritted his teeth: "Go, take a team of people, go down the mountain, and let him see how powerful we are!"

In fact, the first few bandits were people arranged by the government, but those bandits looked around from a distance, how could they know that they were sent by Xiao Di, they all thought their own people were being bullied, so they rushed up.

It is also because since the beginning of autumn, the fleeing Uighur army and this mountain bandit have encountered each other on a narrow road, and the conflict has already heated up.

Xiao Di's point made him explode immediately.

This group of mountain bandits descended the mountain mightily, and formally confronted the Huihe people.

Huihe has always been fierce, and he didn't pay attention to this group of people at all, and began to fight with swords in hand.

For a moment, there was a loud killing sound at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, Xiao Di had ordered elite soldiers in the camp.

These five hundred elite soldiers were trained by him, but when the incident happened, he was locked up and taken to Beijing for interrogation. These soldiers were also scattered in various camps. Now it is also a coincidence that they met the former subordinates.

It's also very easy to set up.

Even Xu Huizhou on the side had to admit that only Xiao Di, who came to the barracks, was like letting a tiger go back to the mountain and a fish in the pond, very unrestrained and self-satisfied.

Even himself felt a little afraid of him like this.

Xiao Di's team of horses and hussars rode lightly armored, heroic and handsome like swords out of their sheaths, while Huihe was fighting with the bandits, they quickly marched to Zhuima Mountain.

Half of the bandits had gone down the mountain, and the rest were waiting on the mountain. When they heard the sound of horseshoes in a hurry, they realized that the officers and soldiers were coming behind them.

At this time, it was past the time of Haishi, in the late autumn season, and the night was cold and cold. Under the bright moon, a group of men and horses held long swords and did not even get off their horses.

The splattered blood reflected the weeds on the mountain, creating a chilling atmosphere.

Putting the knife back into its sheath, he rode his horse down the mountain and unfolded the map, and asked the sergeant beside him, "Where is the group of Huihe people you are following?"

"They won the battle and are on their way back." The sergeant pointed to the map and said, "When we go down the mountain, they will be in the depression here."

Xiao Di clamped his horse's belly and rushed down the mountain like a demon in the night.

Chinese Army Camp

The sound of victory drums reverberated in the night, which made people's spirits tremble.

The fidgety General Liu hurriedly stood up: "It was Xiao Di... who wiped out that team of bandits?"

He was surprised, but still a bit disdainful in his heart.

In the final analysis, they were just bandits with thousands of people, and these people were quite good at flattering the young masters in the capital, beating the victory drum loudly.

"More than that, General Xiao took advantage of the night to attack, and turned his horse's head when he went down the mountain. The Huihe army he killed was defeated and fled, and the leader's head was chopped off by him!"

General Liu was completely dumbfounded: "Shun...By the way?"

He led his soldiers to fight bandits for a year, and was restrained by others. As for Huihe, I'm sorry, he didn't see a few enemy troops from the beginning to the end...

This...how come when Xiao Di appeared, bandits and Huihe people all rushed out to be beaten by him?

Regardless of strength, this luck is too good