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    When Zhang Xutuo led his troops to rescue Beihai, Zuo Xiaoyou was leading his troops to besiege Yidu County, Beihai County.  Hearing that Zhang Xutuo was advancing eastward, Zuo Xiaoyou ignored Zhang Xutuo's attack and immediately led his troops westward to Niushan (now Niushan, Linzi, Shandong Province) to resist Zhang Xutuo.

    Zhang Xutuo is Zuo Xiaoyou¡¯s grievance, and Zuo Xiaoyou¡¯s contribution to Zhang Xutuo¡¯s illustrious military exploits in recent years is also part of it.

    In the battle at Kugou Mountain (now northeast of Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province), Zhang Xutuo defeated Zuo Xiaoyou. Zuo Xiaoyou fled to Jiaodong and spent several years recovering before he recovered.  Today, Zhang Xutuo is here again. How can he not be afraid?

    Zuo Xiaoyou really wanted to pull Zhang Xutuo by the collar and ask, "Why do you keep holding on to me when there are so many traitors in the world? I abandoned your ancestral grave?"

    The two sides met. In order to resist Zhang Xutuo, Zuo Xiaoyou ordered people to set up a barracks in front of the formation to resist the Sui army.

    Zhang Xutuo also set up camp opposite and held a stalemate with Zuo Xiaoyou.

    Zuo Xiaoyou had suffered losses from Zhang Xutuo, so no matter how many people Zhang Xutuo sent to challenge him, he could not hold on.  He knew that Qi County was short of food and the stalemate would not last long. Anyway, he had food.  He also ordered his generals Xie Xiang, Wang Liang, Zheng Dabiao, Li Wan and others to occupy favorable terrain and form an angle with each other to block the Sui army.

    Zhang Xutuo and Zuo Xiaoyou had been fighting for more than ten days, and the food was about to run out.

    Qingzhou is the area hardest hit by banditry. The entire Qi County and Beihai County have been devastated by banditry. Ten houses are empty, and the land is thousands of miles away. They can't even raise food on the spot.

    At this time, Jia Wuben persuaded Zhang Xutuo to retreat.

    Zhang Xutuo did not want to lose his chance of fighting, so he said to everyone: "When the bandit army sees my retreat, they will definitely attack in full force. If our army sends elite soldiers to sneak attack on the enemy camp, we will definitely win. Who among the generals is willing to attack on my behalf?"

    The soldiers of the Bafeng Camp had long been reluctant to fight again. Now that they were about to retreat, they were even more happy. Therefore, Zhang Xutuo ordered everyone to take the initiative to volunteer, but no one was willing.

    Looking at the silent crowd below, Zhang Xutuo became a little angry. He slapped the table and said, "Don't you all want to attack the thief for me?"

    At this time, General Fan Hu said: "Ming Mansion, since the food is exhausted, we might as well retreat. The soldiers are all homesick and no one wants to continue fighting."

    The rest of the people didn¡¯t say anything, but they also meant the same thing.

    Zhang Xutuo was filled with anger, but he did not vent it out in the end.

    "Well, if Uncle Bao were here, he wouldn't worry me so much."

    Fan Hu couldn't help but slandered in his heart: "Shu Bao has been gone for so many years. He has followed Wei Gong, and his position has been above mine. Even here now, he is the one commanding us."

    At this time, Luo Shixin was searching for food and grass and returned to the camp. After hearing the news, he hurriedly came to ask for a fight.  Cheng Yaojin, a young general in the army, also volunteered, and Yuan and Luo Shixin went together.

    Zhang Xutuo was overjoyed and ordered Luo Shixin and Cheng Yaojin each to lead a thousand elite troops to ambush in the bushes, while he led his troops to abandon the camp and pretend to escape.  Zuo Xiaoyou was overjoyed when he heard that Zhang Xutuo fled after running out of food, so he thought of beating up the drowned dog, and then led the whole army to pursue him.

    Zuo Xiaoyou's entire army pursued Zhang Xutuo for more than ten miles, and all the main forces left the camp.

    At this time, Luo Shixin and Cheng Yaojin suddenly led their troops to attack Zuo Xiaoyou's camp.  But the main force in the stronghold was used up, and those left behind were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and they were completely invincible.  So there was an immediate collapse.

    Luo Shixin and Cheng Yaojin set fire to the camp and burned more than thirty fences erected by Zuo Xiaoyou.

    Zuo Xiaoyou was leading his army to rush forward when he suddenly heard that the camp was on fire. He was so frightened that he did not care to pursue Zhang Xutuo and immediately led his troops back to rescue the camp.

    This played into Zhang Xutuo's plan.

    As soon as Zhang Xutuo saw the fire, he knew that Luo Shixin and the others had succeeded.  Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou retreating again, he immediately led his army to turn around and attack Zuo Xiaoyou's army.

    Zuo Xiaoyou rushed to the front of the camp, and Luo Shixin ordered people to close the gate of the camp tightly to ward off the enemy.

    Zuo Xiaoyou stormed the camp, but was unable to break it.

    At this time, Zhang Xutuo also came to kill from behind, so Luo Shixin opened the gate of the village and attacked Zuo Xiaoyou.  The Sui army attacked from two directions and defeated the main force of the bandits.  Zuo Xiaoyou's troops were greatly defeated and numerous people were killed. He himself only fled with a few hundred cavalry.

    The siege of Beihai was lifted.

    After Zhang Xutuo defeated the thief, he did not go to Beihai County, so he led his troops directly back to Qi County.  He seemed to be the deposed and arrested ambassador of the Twelve Counties of Henan Province, and was a very high-ranking official. However, this official was only a temporary dispatcher responsible for suppressing bandits and had no right to interfere with local government affairs.

    "That is, the emperor gave him a tasteless bone."

    This is also the reason why the soldiers of Bafeng Camp are not willing to continue to fight around.  Seven years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Bafeng Battalion has been fighting everywhere and suppressing hundreds of thousands of bandits.??'s contribution.  In the end, there was no reward, and even the head coach Zhang Xutuo was still a prefect-level official.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Rewards and punishments are so unfair, why should we serve him?

    Zhang Xutuo, however, didn't care about his official position. He just felt guilty that he couldn't seek meritorious service and receive pensions for his officers and soldiers.

    Zhang Xutuo was impoverished in these years, and all his savings were used to support the widows of soldiers who died in the war.  His wife Xue and his two daughters died in the turmoil, and he had nothing but Bafengying.

    Back to Qi County, the soldiers of the three armies had been out of food for a day, and everyone went home hungry.

    Fan Hu asked Zhang Xutuo at the gate of Qijun, what was he trying to do without risking his life?

    Zhang Xutuo told Fan Hu that he was a general of the Sui Dynasty and wanted peace in the world. He could not be a disloyal person just because the court was unfair.

    After Zhang Xutuo returned to the city, he saw that his whole house was full of grains. It turned out that his step-sibling Kudi also died of illness at home due to long-term malnutrition.

    ??Cudi is his second wife, and she is actually just a maid.  He felt grateful that the other party had taken care of him even though he was a poor man, so he gave the other party a status.  Kudis married him less than two years ago and did not enjoy much happiness. Today, she passed away suddenly. Before her death, she did not even see Zhang Xutuo.

    Zhang Xutuo sighed and remained silent.  When the night was quiet, he sat in front of Cudi's coffin and burst into tears.

    In fact, Zhang Xutuo couldn't afford this coffin. It was the county officials who paid for him when they saw that he was not around, so that they could bury Kudi.

    It is really a sigh that the governor of a large county and the commander-in-chief of an army of tens of thousands of people should be reduced to this situation.

    Jia Wuben once told Zhang Xutuo that not everyone is as selfless as him.  When people join the army, in addition to protecting their hometowns, they also want to gain promotions and honors to honor their ancestors.  If this continues, the morale of the military will be in chaos.

    It¡¯s not that Zhang Xutuo doesn¡¯t understand, but he should try his best to do whatever he can.

    "I think you are just a paper framer, blocking the wind everywhere. Wait until one day when the wind is so strong that you can't repair it and the window is broken, let's see what you do."

    "By the time the window is broken, I will be dead already, what else can I do?"

    The wind blew through the eaves, making it even quieter.

    Zhang Xutuo sat in the hall and spent the whole night like this.

    Early the next morning, Jia Wuben hurried to Zhang Xutuo's home. What he held in his hand was the imperial court's troop deployment document.

    The Wagang bandits invaded Xingyang, and Zhang Xutuo marched westward to suppress the bandits.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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