When Li Hao led the imperial army to the camp where Xie Youde was stationed, he saw someone leading a group of generals standing in front of the camp waiting.
Li Hao didn't know him at first, so he thought it was Xie Youde who sent someone to welcome him in front of the camp gate again.
But when Cheng Guosheng saw it, he came over and said to Li Hao: "The one standing at the front is Xie Youde."
At this time, Li Hao took a closer look and it was indeed General Xie in the play, but the smile on his face now was completely different from when he saw Gu Tingye in the play.
Before Li Hao and the others could approach, Xie Youde took the initiative to lead people to greet him and said, "My Excellency, Xie Youde, I heard yesterday that Mr. Li was about to reach his waist, and he has already ordered people to clear out the barracks, and we can just wait for everyone to arrive before settling in."
Li Hao replied: "General Xie is too polite. It really makes me feel ashamed to trouble the general so much."
Xie Youde said: "It's Mr. Li who is being polite. After all, I came earlier than Mr. Li, so it's your duty to prepare in advance.
Why don't you let your soldiers go to the barracks first, and then we go to the main tent to talk. "
Of course Li Hao agreed, so he asked Xu Ning to make arrangements.
He took Gu Tingye and Yang Wenyuan with him before following Xie Youde to the main tent.
As soon as I came in, I found that Xie Youde was indeed a good person. Even the main seats were placed two side by side, and he took the initiative to put Li Hao in the same position to avoid embarrassment.
When everyone sat down, Li Hao's side was filled with people in three rows, while Xie Youde's side was followed by only two lieutenants.
Afterwards, everyone talked briefly, and of course the main thing was Xie Youde's compliments to Li Hao and the others, which was really watertight.
Although the faces and names probably didn't all match up, I still praised each family according to their title.
After he finished boasting, Li Hao found the opportunity to ask how the battle was going.
At this time, Xie Youde first explained the cause of the matter.
This rebellion launched by the rebel king Ze in the first month of the year was later supported by the Maitreya Sect. After the rebellion was launched, the troops started from Jizhou and went all the way to Xiazhou County, affecting Jiangnan West Road, Jiangnan East Road, Fujian Road, Jinghu South Road, The area of Jinghu North Road and Five Roads suddenly became very popular.
However, after the imperial court responded, they immediately mobilized troops to encircle and suppress the rebels. Within half a year, they defeated the main force of the rebels and then fled in all directions.
Among them, Wang Ze, the leader of the bandits, led thousands of people and retreated all the way to Fuzhou to defend the mountains. This is the road Li Hao is facing now.
In addition, several other roads were surrounded on Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan East Road, and they probably wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
Of course, during the introduction, Xie Youde mentioned many times how he led his troops to take the lead in countering the rebellion and defeated the enemy.
After hearing this, Li Hao didn't believe Xie Youde's boast at all, but he didn't refute it. Instead, he asked: "I wonder where the thief leader is hiding now?"
Upon hearing this, Xie Youde ordered someone to bring over the map, and then pointed to the locations of Chongren and Yihuang counties.
He said: "The bandits are now hiding in the mountains of these two counties. I have ordered people to investigate the specific location. There is no news yet. When there is news, I will inform Mr. Li in time."
Hearing this, the people who had just gathered around to look at the map frowned, thinking that you have been here for several months, but you don't even know where they are, and you still have the nerve to praise yourself so much. .
Although Li Hao was a little speechless, he thought that since he didn't know the situation of the rebels, let me ask you what you know. It happened that Li Hao also wanted to know how many troops Xie Youde had now.
Then he asked: "Now that the two armies are united, it will be inconvenient to cooperate in the future, so I would like to take the liberty of asking how many soldiers General Xie has under his command now."
Xie Youde said: "The cooperation between the two militaries should naturally be understood clearly.
I originally had one camp of the Forbidden Army and ten battalions of the Xiang Army under my command, but we were slightly damaged in the previous campaign. Now we still have 11,000 troops, including 8,000 of the Forbidden Army and 3,000 of the Xiang Army. "
Li Hao heard that this strength was enough, and it would definitely not be a problem to use the imperial army to deal with the rebels at a one-to-one ratio.
So he began to test Xie Youde to see if he was willing to obey and if he could cooperate with him.
Then he asked: "After all, I have just arrived here, and I don't know the situation of the bandits. I don't know what the general's next plan will be. Let's see how to cooperate to put down the bandits."
Xie Youde replied: "Master Li, you are too polite. I really have no good ideas here. Fortunately, Master Li is here. From now on, I will listen to Master Li to suppress the bandits and bring peace to the people."
Hearing these words, Li Hao was convinced. He originally thought that he would use Anding Bo to suppress Xie Youde, but he didn't expect that he was too aware of current affairs.
But Li Hao couldn't agree outright, so he said humbly: "Thank you, General, for being polite. You are the fifth grade, and I am the sixth grade. It is unreasonable for you to listen to me."
Xie Youde retorted: "What are you talking about? Military affairs involve the safety of the imperial court. Of course, it depends on ability. How can it be determined by official position alone?
Mr. Li's ability is superior to mine, so I will naturally obey him. I will just give you any orders. "
After saying this, the expressions of everyone on the field changed. However, Yang Wenyuan and the others looked down upon him, while Xie Youde's two lieutenants were a little embarrassed.
What else could Li Hao do? He could only be polite.
Then Xie Youde didn't stay any longer and left directly. However, before leaving, he left the main tent and the surrounding area to Li Hao and the imperial army, and moved away directly.
After Xie Youde left, people in the tent were talking a lot. Maybe they had never seen such a flattering person before.
Seeing this situation, Li Hao warned everyone not to say anything nonsense, so as not to affect the subsequent cooperation, and then let everyone leave.
On the other side, after Xie Youde left the tent, his lieutenant asked: "Isn't the general a little too... polite to them?"
Xie Youde said: "What do you know, you don't even look at the people in their group.
The leader of the army was born in Tanhua, and he was a capital official as soon as he entered the official position. He was promoted to one level within half a year. He was a holy family member. As for the others, they were also the heirs of the duke, marquis and uncle.
The soldiers and horses he leads are all carefully selected elites from the upper four armies. How dare you treat such people as subordinates.
Even though I have a high rank now, in less than two years, someone will be promoted above me. "
After hearing this, the deputy general suddenly realized and said: "The general is still thoughtful and wise."
Xie Youde said: "That is, otherwise I will be the general. You should learn more."
After hearing this, the deputy general said: "The general is full of knowledge. It took him 180 years to learn it at a young age."
After boasting, he said with some doubts: "Then we will really listen to them, but they have never been on the battlefield, so I am still a little worried."
Xie Youde explained: "Don't worry, they cherish their lives more than you do and won't put themselves in danger, and you really think they just came here on their own.
I just saw Uncle Anding's personal entourage, and I thought he was here to help.
And if you think about Andingbo being able to send people, other people like Ling Guogong and Ningyuan Hou can't send people. Their lives are more precious than yours, and they put your heart in their stomachs. "
After saying that, they arrived at their current tent, which was much worse than the main tent.
