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Chapter 617 Ambush on the Road
Li Hongmao nodded and said: "That's right, Xuzhou was originally a place in the south, but the streets were blocked by Zongxin's magic. If I hadn't been applying horse oil on my hands and feet all the time, maybe I would have frostbite too. After arriving in Huainan I invite you to drink a few drinks, you have helped a lot recently. By the way, I forgot one more thing, what is your name?"

"The last general is Zhang Bo."

"Oh~ oh~! Zhang Bo, he's so young, he became a lieutenant general, and his future is boundless."

"Thank you, Second Highness, for your compliment..." Zhang Bo was quite embarrassed, because this kind of conversation had happened several times. Although Li Hongmao was Second Highness, Zhang Bo really wanted to scold him for being mentally retarded. What is in this kid's head?Can't even remember a name, and since this period of time, only I have talked to him, so I don't remember my name?If this person becomes the emperor, he will judge the country immediately, otherwise he will be killed by such a person sooner or later.

Li Hongmao didn't care at all, and then asked: "By the way, what is this mountain called?"

"As I said just now, this is called Matou Mountain. Because it is located in a remote place, few people know about it, and the surrounding area is also desolate. However, behind Matou Mountain is an open field with flat roads that stretch as far as the eye can see. However, Second Highness, usually when marching, the It is important to pay attention to this kind of place. The situation on the mountain is unknown, and the path is too long. The soldiers cannot form a team at all. If the enemy sneak attack at this time, it will not be worth the loss." Zhang Bo said: "But this One time we were withdrawing troops, and it was impossible for the Zhou army to chase here, so this time we can go like this, but when we send troops in the future, we must not go like this. We must let the soldiers gather together, otherwise there will be no surprise attack. There is no power to fight back.”

"It's useless for you to tell me, anyway, you can control these things." Li Hongmao said: "After this time, I will never lead troops again, and I will never fight again. I don't understand either What do these people think? You have to fight to enjoy yourself. Can’t you live well? You have to eat and drink at home, and you have to travel so far to fight, you must be full.”

Zhang Bo persuaded: "Second Highness, you have food and drink, but other people do not. There are too many people in this world who can't even afford food. In today's troubled times, the year is not good, only Xishu is as big as me. People in the Tang Dynasty were happy, but it was difficult to even eat in other places. Many people were too poor and almost starved to death, so they enlisted in the army. They just wanted to have a full meal. For this purpose, soldiers could charge forward regardless of life and death. Otherwise, these soldiers What war?"

"Don't they fight because they like it?" Li Hongmao asked in surprise: "Are these soldiers really living this kind of life just to have enough to eat?"

Zhang Bodao: "I remember Master Zong Xin once said, 'Since ancient times, we have known that soldiers are not warlike'. If the family has enough money to eat, no one is willing to be a soldier. After all, soldiers are the first to die in war. Yes, a soldier’s life is of the least value.”

Li Hongmao nodded and said: "Yeah, I was thinking about this question before, where did those soldiers come from, and how did they become soldiers. And when fighting, those soldiers took knives and you cut me, I Is it interesting to kill you? Isn't it more interesting to go home and hug a woman to drink and sleep?"

"Second Highness, do you know how much you need to spend for a drink?"

Li Hongmao said with a smile: "You can't help me with this. Usually, when my brother and I go to the brothel to drink, we spend about three to five hundred taels of silver. tips."

"Second Highness, one drink of wine from the shower is enough to pay a hundred soldiers for a whole year, that is to say, if you save this money and let a hundred soldiers do things for you, they will live a very happy year. Have food and drink, and fight wars without worrying. Do you think such a person can afford a wife? Does he have money to drink? As the saying goes, a penny is hard for a hero. When a person can’t afford food, he They are no longer human beings, not even beasts.”

Zhang Bo intends to educate Li Hongmao, let him know that the world is not easy, and the world is even more difficult.Today's world is not good, he and the eldest prince are spending all day long, and what they eat is the hard-earned money of the common people. It's really wrong to do so.

Li Hongmao nodded and said: "Thank you for your advice. It turns out that people who have no money are not human beings, even animals. I understand. I will definitely get a lot of money for myself in the future. Anyway, with my status, I don't have to worry about money in this life." .”

"Did you... really understand?"

"Understood, I understand. Don't worry, my savvy is still very high." Li Hongmao thought he understood Zhang Bo's meaning, and he would definitely not be a poor person in the future...

Of course, Zhang Bo didn’t mean that at all. He just said that they should work hard not to let the people suffer from poverty. The people’s life is hard. As the princes and grandchildren, they should understand the suffering of the people. As a result, it was understood as this. Zhang Bo doubted it. It's not that he said something wrong, let him understand it like this.

Zhang Bo kept shaking his head and sighing. It seems that it is not a good thing to entrust the country to the First Prince or the Second Highness. The only one who can entrust it is the Third Highness, but... the Third Highness is blind again.Is there any reason in the world for a blind man to become an emperor?He can't even see the memorial, and he has to let someone else read it to him. Who knows if the person who read the memorial for him has any malicious intentions?

In fact, Li Jing has more than these three children. The Fourth Highness Li Congshan inherited his uncle's name, but he is only 12 years old this year.The remaining three princesses are useless... Could it be that Datang is about to perish in the hands of these brothers?
Zhang Bo eats the emperor's salary and worries about the emperor.The best situation now is to let Li Jing survive for a few more years. Although Li Jing is a prodigal and has squandered all the treasury, he is a prodigal with vision and ambition after all. The reason why he fights all year round is to preserve his imperial power. If there was peace in the Tang Dynasty, the number of troops in his hands would slowly be reduced, and the emperor's power would only become weaker and weaker.

The current situation in the world is like this, if the emperor does not hold the military power in his hands, he will be eaten by the princes from all walks of life. After they have military power, they will have confidence, and their attitude towards the emperor is also lukewarm.Although the emperor is still the emperor, sometimes the emperor's power is not absolute, which is the contemporary embarrassment.

If this system does not change, the war will never stop.As a result, the only people who suffer are the common people. These emperors and princes don’t know the suffering of the common people at all. They only know how to continue to develop their power. The so-called competition for the world...is just a false dream. Even if they win the world, the world is not worth it For the emperor, only those who change this system are the real emperors and the ones who truly unify the world.

In contrast, Zhang Bo actually prefers Guo Wei.Guo Wei was born in a market, and all the national policies he implemented after he became emperor were beneficial to the people, but the emperor himself lost money to let the people develop.It is no wonder that Master Zongxin will do his best to help Guo Wei. As a monk, Master Zongxin also hopes that the people will live and work in peace and contentment. Guo Wei is really working hard to develop in this direction.

But unfortunately, Guo Wei is still not the one who can unify the world.This person is too kind and righteous, the emperor should be ruthless enough, because he is ruthless enough to his own people.In today's world, it is necessary to let a peerless big devil be the emperor. After he succeeds, he will kill his ministers and monopolize all the power. Only this kind of person can truly change the current system.

Zhang Bo had nowhere to deal with it, so he could only look left and right at Ma Tou Mountain to relieve his unhappiness.Every time I see Li Hongmao and Zhang Bo, I feel relieved for a long time, because this Second Highness is simply trash, the best of trash.

Suddenly, Zhang Bo glanced away from the corner of his eye and felt a little light appear in Matou Mountain.Immediately afterwards, he frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

"Your Highness, I will tell you that this place is extremely dangerous. There is a high possibility of hiding enemy troops in Ma Tou Mountain. Just now, I saw a flash of light in the mountain. It must have been the reflection of sunlight after weapons or armor were polished. What I saw... Either turn around and go back, or immediately assemble a defensive formation and never allow the enemy to sneak attack."

Li Hongmao said in surprise: "Is this really true?"

"The general thought it was the safest way to do this. Even if there were no enemy troops, he would treat it as training. Let the soldiers get used to returning to defense immediately, which would also increase the soldiers' reaction. Your Highness quickly gave the order. I feel ambushed on all sides. I'm afraid Something big is going to happen."

"Well, everyone listens to the order and returns to defense immediately. It seems that there are enemy troops infested here." After Li Hongmao gave the order, he immediately conveyed it. Above, eight thousand soldiers immediately began to gather at the same place. Their feet were either mud or gravel. If they were a little unstable, they would fall off their backs. The whole team was in a mess. It would be better not to gather.

Seeing the gathering starting here, and the gathering being so chaotic, the people in the mountain couldn't stand still.With the sound of the gong, more than [-] monsters rushed out of the mountain with [-] armored cavalry. Facing this chaotic and concentrated army, no tactics were needed at all. The whole body was covered with fine iron armor. Put the halberd on the horse's neck, charge directly towards it, and it's a wave of harvest.

Since it was Zhao Kuangyin's black bull, it rushed directly into the enemy army with a puff of thick black smoke. The people on a road were either knocked into the air or trampled into meat, and then the cavalry killed them. Just this time, the entire army A sharp drop of more than [-]%.

"Your Highness, run away." Zhang Bo couldn't care less, took the reins of Li Hongmao's horse, whipped the horse and immediately fled to Matou Mountain.As for the rest of the soldiers, Zhang Bo knew that it was useless to control them. He had to let them fend for themselves. This time, they were ambushed, and the opponent was cavalry with fine iron armor. These infantry had no chance to escape. The horses were all covered with armor, and the resistance of the infantry was completely ineffective.

Now I can only use my horse to run faster than the cavalry's horses without the weight on them, so as to get rid of them.If you stay here, there is only a dead end.

(End of this chapter)