Song Xiao was really good at being an official. Before the world was in chaos, no one could be a high-ranking official like a state governor. He was quite good at being an official. In real history, he even became the governor of Liangzhou and escaped without being caught by Han Sui or Ma Teng. This was a rare exception among the governors of Liangzhou during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, and this shows how good he was to become an official.

But being an official and leading troops to fight are two different things. Often, the more you become an official, the more intriguing people in the officialdom, the more useless people lead troops to fight. With his ability to deal with people, Song Xiao can protect himself in a chaotic era and let others not come to beat him and kill him, but letting him beat others and kill others is two different things!

The army that was temporarily pieced together was not much smaller. Although Li Wenhou had many troops, it was just a simple matter, and he had never trained them. He also brought his family with his family. The organization was only more chaotic than Song Xiao's army. Apart from the advantage of being a large crowd, there was nothing else.

But Song Xiao came out with the army, but before he could reach Gaonu County, half of the people ran away halfway, a hundred miles away from Gaonu County. When Song Xiao checked the number of people, he found that his army was only 20,000. He didn't run half but more than half of them!

Song Xiao almost fainted in the tent. How to fight this battle? One-tenth of the official army will suppress Li Wenhou, no matter how hard it is, it will be a loss. Although the official army has always won the more with less, and the more they win, the less they lose. No matter how small they are, they cannot be less than ten thousand people. Moreover, his soldiers are not regular officers and soldiers, they are all temporarily pieced together, and this battle cannot be fought!

Song Xiao immediately sent a scout to reconnaissance the enemy situation. He gathered the army and desperately promised all the land in Gaonu County. He even promised that as long as the person who made meritorious service in this battle could be exempted from tax for three years as long as he could cut off a Qiang soldier's head and left a large amount of property for his children and grandchildren!

The short-seller promised it out. Although it was obviously unreasonable, the Bingzhou soldiers almost believed it. The large-scale escape trend was immediately slowed down. Even the escaped soldiers came back. The soldiers all wanted to get the benefits by chance. There must be brave men under heavy rewards. Moreover, even if they were not rewarded, they would have time to run away. Judging from Song Xiao's appearance, they would be unable to stop them.

The scout returned to Song Xiao, saying that the Fujiao Army had stopped advancing and was far away from Gaonu County and did not attack. It seemed that they were waiting for others. It was probably waiting for them and the local troops in Bingzhou to attack first, and then the Fujiao Army would come over and attack on both sides.

Song Xiao knew it was awful when he heard it. Li Qin was just trying to fight. He wanted to fight himself. He would definitely suffer heavy losses in the battle, regardless of victory or defeat. Li Qin used the trick of fighting between snipes and clams and fishermen gaining profits. But it was right to think about it. People came from Liangzhou from afar, so why did they let others take the lead first? It was unreasonable to reason.

Song Xiao understood that if Li Qin wanted to send troops to attack Li Wenhou as soon as possible, he would not only have to start a war with Li Wenhou first, but also have to make sparks everywhere in the front line, causing huge losses to Li Wenhou. The greater the damage to Li Wenhou, the faster Li Qin would send troops.

Song Xiao was a wise man, and he naturally did wise things. He immediately ordered the entire army to gather together and concentrate his efforts to attack Gaonu County, and to increase the amount of the Qiang soldiers' heads, so he could not give more fields, but a person's head changed from three years to five years of tax exemption. Such a heavy reward, even if the Bingzhou army was pieced together, it also inspired the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting. The Bingzhou soldiers were going to fight against the Qiang soldiers.

The Bingzhou army headed towards Gaonu County at full speed, but before they could get close to Gaonu County, the Emperor Li Wenhou of the Great Zhao army personally led the army out to fight. The troops of all ethnic groups gathered together and came out in full swing. Two hundred thousand soldiers rushed towards the Bingzhou army!

At noon, the two armies joined each other and fought immediately. However, within half an hour, the Bingzhou army was completely defeated, and no land or tax exemption was good. The Bingzhou army fled for life and was chased by Li Wenhou for more than fifty miles. Song Xiao was almost captured!

When Song Xiao fled to a safe area and gathered the defeated generals, he was sad to find that there were only more than 500 people left in his Bingzhou army. These more than 500 people were formal officers and soldiers, and none of the soldiers recruited temporarily ran away, and even the appointed officers were gone!

Song Xiao was panicked and brought the defeated generals into the woods and hid for a whole night. Seeing that there were no Qiang soldiers chasing him, he dared to bring his soldiers out at dawn.

Looking at the hundreds of subordinates, Song Xiao thought about it and said that he could not fight, but other aspects were not bad, such as fooling people. He immediately found the bamboo slips and wrote a memorial to the court in Luoyang, saying that he led the army to fight against Li Wenhou, and won a complete victory, killing 30,000 Qiang soldiers. However, due to the lack of food and grass, he had to supervise it himself. The battlefield ahead was handed over to Li Qin, who was fully commanded by Li Qin, and he handed over the army to Li Qin, and he returned to the capital to prepare food and grass. If the court had any instructions, he would directly instruct Li Qin.

After writing the memorial, he wrote another letter to Li Qin, telling Li Qin that he had successfully brought great losses to Li Wenhou, but his own losses were not small, so he decided to hand over the war in Gaonu County to Li Qin to command, and Li Qin was fully responsible. He returned to the capital to prepare a celebration banquet for Li Qin.

After sending two letters, Song Xiao slapped his butt and left, fled back to the capital. After returning to the capital, he took out all his savings over the years and sent them to Luoyang for bribery and buying officials. It doesn’t matter if Bingzhou is in chaos. It doesn’t matter if he can become the governor of Bingzhou. He can change his place to become the governor, go to Jizhou to Yangzhou, or even be degraded to become a county magistrate. He also admits that he can leave the place of failure as soon as possible.

Li Qin, who had been holding his troops, received the letter and quickly gathered many people to meet again. After hearing the contents of the letter, the generals were stunned. Is this okay? Isn’t this a escaping at the last minute? Song Xiao is very brave and can even do such a thing!

There is something to ask Zhang Qin. Li Qin took the bamboo slip and asked, "Zhang Zhongguan, Song Xiao was obviously defeated, but it was said to be a great victory..."

"Stop, Li Lang, you can see clearly. There is no big victory on this bamboo slip!" Zhang Qin was not good at anything else, just play with her intestines, that's fine. He could see the tricks in Song Xiao's letter at a glance.

Yuan Shao also looked at the bamboo slips and said, "This old man from Song Xiao is very sly. No one can tell me if he writes this letter. Moreover, if he also writes a letter to Beijing, it is the same way. Then you will have to take care of the unlucky things, but his military achievements will definitely not be able to escape his share."

Li Qin frowned and said, "How can I see it?"

Zhang Qin yelled and said, "He didn't say victory or defeat, but he implied that he had severely injured Li Wenhou. He returned to the capital because he worked too hard to fight the war, so his army also suffered huge losses. And no matter who you and Li Wenhou won in the future, he had something to say. If he hadn't fought hard to kill Li Wenhou and severely injured Li Wenhou's army, how could you win easily?"

Yuan Shao looked at Li Qin: "Li Lang, even if you destroy this Great Zhao Kingdom, you will probably have to be second when you reiterate your merits!" Zhang Qin also nodded silently. This kind of thing is too common.

The more corrupt a regime is, the more such things will be. The Han court is now terminally ill. Song Xiao was defeated and innocent, but he would not be the first thing to do, nor would it be the last thing to do.

Li Qin thought for a while and said, "Even if he committed a crime, it doesn't matter. I'll stay dormant for a while and change places to become an official, right?"

Zhang Qin said: "If you don't come to Bingzhou, Song Xiao will bear the crime alone. He will definitely not be able to save his head. Who gave up the Great Zhao State? But when you come, you will bear it. Song Xiao is fine, because he handed over the command of the battle to you, and it was only after he gave the Great Zhao State a fatal blow. If you can't defeat Li Wenhou... think about the consequences yourself!"

After hearing this, Dian Wei and other generals were furious and shouted and asked Li Qin to write a memorial quickly to sue Song Xiao!

Zhang Qin waved his hand and said, "You can't sue. Once you sue, Song Xiao will bite you immediately. He will say that you will not move and fear the enemy. Li Lang, think about it. He is now recruiting troops and coming from the capital. He has fought with Li Wenhou, but you have not fought a battle before you arrive. How can you explain this?"

Li Qin felt embarrassed and said, "Song Xiao is so powerful. He can't fight, but his intrigue is extremely powerful. I am far from his opponent. He has been circling in. If I had known this, I would have led the army to fight Li Wenhou first. I shouldn't have been watching it. As a result, I became like this and made a wedding dress for others!"

"No, Li Lang's words are different!" Zhang Qin and Yuan Shao said in unison.

At the same time, Zhang Qin and Yuan Shao looked at each other, and Yuan Shao stopped saying a word. Zhang Qin said to Li Qin: "Don't Li Lang have the idea of ​​becoming the governor of Bingzhou? Song Xiao is tempted with you, you can play against it and play the position of governor of Bingzhou into your hands."

Li Qinqi said: "How did this... play?"
Chapter completed!