Chapter 097, Kill the general of the military flag to break the delusion, and then experience all the magical powers

Mei Zhenyi smiled: "Princess, have you heard the cheers all over the city? In any case, the enemy has retreated, and your wish has been fulfilled... The wind and cold in the city, so let's go back to the inn to rest first, I'll give you a gift!"

Mei Zhenyi supported Princess Yuzhen down the city. Wuzhou Governor Jiang Hua and his wife came up with him, letting his inner servants gather around the princess. There were three yamen runners in front of him, and they rushed the princess back to Yingbin Station. The governor did not dare to climb the city and hid in the mansion during the war. He was very active at this time, but he was not a foolish official. He understood that he did not understand military affairs and temporarily handed over the power of Wuzhou to Mei Yi.

When the people of Wuzhou heard the cheers in the city, they knew that Princess Yuzhen had climbed the city and the rebels retreated outside the city, they walked out of the house to welcome the princess. There were yamen runners escorting the people to not get close, but the people were still cheering around the roadside, and many people even knelt down. Princess Yuzhen had never experienced these, and she was almost crying. Walking was like stepping on the clouds, holding her on the cold armor on Mei Zhenyi, as if she had become extremely warm.

Mei Zhenyi had just sent the princess down the city. Mei Liu, who was in charge of the city patrol, ran to the West Gate Tower, handed Mei Yi a bunch of silk books, and reported: "Outside the east gate, someone quietly dived across the Jushui River and shot the letter into the city, which said that the city guarding the city was about to open his own hands. I dare not delay, so I sent it immediately."

Mei Yi opened it and found that it was a handwritten letter from Haozhou Governor Cheng Xuanhu. Before the war in Wuzhou started, Mei Yi sent someone to ask for help from Haozhou. Cheng Xuanhu had no reason to not rescue him, but he had no power to send troops across the states. The order sent by the court to each prefecture was to defend himself and the two armies of Li Xiaoyi and Heichi Changzhi were responsible for the suppression of the enemy.

Cheng Xuanhu asked Li Xiaoyi, the commander of the First Road Army, hoping to reinforce Wuzhou, but Li Xiaoyi ordered him to defend Haozhou and prevent the rebels from fleeing west along the Yangtze River into Sichuan. Cheng Xuanhu had no choice but to wait. When Li Xiaoyi led his army to Gaoyou to fight with Xu Jingye's main force, Heichi Changzhi's rear army also approached the south of the Yangtze River. Cheng Xuanhu sent someone to ask Heichi Changzhi for his order.

Heichi Changzhi had received Mei Xiaolang's orders. After receiving the letter, he immediately ordered Cheng Xuanhu to lead the Pengze Navy to assist Wuzhou, and asked him to march carefully and enter the city to reinforce, and not to fight outside the city. When Cheng Xuanhu received the order, he immediately led 3,000 navy troops to take nearly 100 warships of all sizes and down the Yangtze River to reinforce Wuzhou. At the same time, he sent his deli subordinates to ride fast horses around the rebel defense line. He headed along the north bank of the Yangtze River, and then quietly crossed the river to the city of Wuzhou, and shot the letter in.

Seeing this letter, Mei Yi understood why Wang Naxiang retreated. Some of the scouts must have discovered the Pengze Naval Army going down the river. Speculating about the route of Cheng Xuanhu's march. If you want to enter Wuzhou, you should first advance eastward from the Yangtze River, and then go south along the Qingyi River. There is no naval army in the Jushui River, and you must land at the intersection of the Jushui River and the Qingyi River.

Wang Na will definitely not attack the city after receiving the news. If the siege is in full swing and a navy behind him comes to the shore, he will be defeated. Then has he escaped or fight now?

Qingyi River is more than three miles away from the city. Standing at a high place and looking at it, you can vaguely see that Mei Yi found that although Wang Naxiang's army retreated, its formation was not messy and was heading towards the Qingyi River. He immediately sent Mei Dadong to sneak down to the city and follow him to spy. When it was not time, Mei Dadong came back to report. Wang Naxiang did not leave, and the army formed a shield formation along the river. Spearmen were lined up behind the shield wall. Eighteen siege trenched behind the shield wall. There were also fires lit next to it. You could see archers tied things to the arrow shaft from afar.

Mei Yi knew what Wang Naxiang wanted to do when he heard this. This was a plan to siege the city and attack the aid of aid. He wanted to ambush the Pengze Navy on the bank of the river. The Qingyi River was not very wide. If an arrow tower was set up, an arrow could be shot across the middle of the river at the narrowest point of the river. Wang Naxiang must have set up a formation along the river to prevent the navy from landing. At the same time, he turned the trestle into an arrow tower and ordered the archers to attack the ship with rockets.

If Cheng Xuanhu was at a loss in this battle, the navy was the most dangerous when the navy was half-ferry. In ancient times, the warships were all wooden Zhang Fan, and the most feared thing was fire attack. If Wang Naxiang had shot rockets from a high place with eighteen arrow towers, the navy was lined up on the shore to prevent the navy from catching the beach, the navy would be very passive.

Cheng Xuanhu only brought three thousand people. If these people entered Wuzhou, there would naturally be no problem with Wuzhou's defense, but when fighting on the riverside, Wang Naxiang would have more than 5,000 people under him and he occupied the geographical advantage. If he had suddenly encountered him, Cheng Xuanhu would not be able to use troops, and he would probably fall a big shot. If both sides fought to the death, Cheng Xuanhu would be wiped out.

In Mei Yi's opinion, Cheng Xuanhu actually didn't need to enter Wuzhou City. He just needed to go ashore on the other side of the Qingyi River three miles away. The warships were spread out in the wide area of ​​the river and set up a camp to echo Wuzhou City. Then Wang Naxiang did not dare to cross the river to attack the navy easily, nor did he dare to attack Wuzhou City in large numbers. The dilemma would naturally retreat. This is the best military strategy.

Will Cheng Xuanhu use troops like this? If he couldn't, would it be too late to send someone to intercept the navy now? Mei Yi looked away and sighed in his heart: "Cheng Xuanhu probably won't use troops like this, even if he could, it would be too late."

Because there was a shaking shadow on the horizon in the direction of Jiulian Mountain. The west wind has been blowing in the past few days. The Pengze Nashi land is very fast and has arrived at this moment! It won’t take long for the navy to reach the place where Wang Nashi is arranged, and the encounter will begin. There is Wuzhou City behind it. Wang Nashi dares to line up in such a formation to fight the navy to clearly look down on the soldiers in Wuzhou City and knows that they do not have the strength to go out of the city to fight.

Mei Yi frowned, clenched his fists, and ordered: "Let me find Zhang Guo!"

Mei Zhenyi sent the princess back to the inn, and then explained a few words to the governor of Wuzhou, saying goodbye and going out to return to the city. Wang Naxiang unexpectedly withdrew from the army and he didn't know what the secret was, so he still wanted to find Mei Yi to study it again.

Before he could reach the west gate, he heard a rumbling sound in the distance, which made the ground tremble. What's going on? Could it be an earthquake? No, it was clearly the sound of horse hooves. The sound was like a large group of people rushing out of the west gate.

He quickly climbed to the west gate after taking two steps, but found that Zhang Guo was standing there holding a flag. Looking outside the city, a stream of smoke and dust rose. In front of the smoke and dust was a black torrent. A team of heavy cavalry rushed towards the direction of Qingyi River. Mei Zhenyi asked in surprise: "Old Zhang, what's going on? Where did the heavy cavalry come from in the city? Where did Uncle Yi go?"

Zhang Guo handed him a letter: "This is what Cheng Xuanhu wrote. After Mei Yi received the letter, Peng Ze's reinforcements had arrived from afar, and led his army out of the city to pick him up. That heavy cavalry was temporarily trained to form an army these days..."

When Mei Zhenyi climbed the city, the navy and Wang Naxiang's army had already fought, and arrows were fired by several warships in front. The navy abandoned the ship and landed on the shallows, but was sniped by shield formations and spearmen on the shallows, and they were in chaos. Cheng Xuanhu sent orders with flags on the ship in the building behind, constraining the navy from being confused, using crossbow arrows to cover them, and organized the boat to charge towards the shore. More than three miles away, you could see the flames and thick smoke.

Seeing this letter, when he looked far away and listened to Zhang Guodi's explanation, Mei Zhenyi also understood what was going on. As for the heavy cavalry team, it was indeed Mei Yi's temporary training. The Wuzhou garrison army lacked the training and was not strong in combat and could not engage in field battles with the military formation. However, a few of them were good at riding and shooting. Some of them had served in the military service and went to the battlefield. They could ride horses and rush. Mei Yi has been picking around these days, and together with the six brothers of the Mei family, they barely picked out 180 heroes.

One hundred and eighty war horses could barely be enough, and the most in the city was heavy armor. Ningguo County Armory has been moved. The area is well-trained cavalry. Mei Yi himself once said that as long as he was given eight hundred trained subway cavalry, he could leave the city to break out of the city. But now he only has one hundred and eighty people, and he can't say he is well-trained and just hastily formed an army. In desperation, he could only rush out of the city.

Mei Zhenyi grabbed Zhang Guo: "Old Zhang, why don't you stop him?"

Zhang Guo: "Cheng Xuanhu took the risk to help him and was in danger. How could he not save him when he died?"

Mei Zhenyi: "I'm not talking about this, you know that Mei Yi has lost all his magical skills now. As the head coach, it's too dangerous to do this!"

Zhang Guo: "Mei Yi said that after this battle, no matter whether it is victory or defeat, Wang Naxiang will no longer have the power to attack the city. It doesn't matter whether he is the head coach in Wuzhou has no matter whether he is the head coach. ... Mei Yi also said that he has experienced countless battle formations, and the cavalry under his command cannot have a magical skill like him. Isn't it also a horse to charge? Now he is still strong and has martial arts. Of course, he can go out to attack and kill, just pretend that he and others do not have a magical skill!"

Mei Zhenyi turned around and was about to go down the city. Zhang Guo stretched out his sleeves and tied him up, saying apologized: "Young Master, I offended you! Mei Yi kept the old slave here to watch the young master and didn't want you to take risks in person like him. I'm sorry today. As long as you can prevent you from leaving the city, you can punish him anyway afterwards!"

Mei Zhenyi stomped her feet: "Old Zhang, you don't have to tie me up. Yesterday, I cast spells at Cuiting Temple, and my spirit was almost exhausted. I couldn't use any magical powers this month. Even if I wanted to leave the city, I couldn't help him."

While Mei Zhenyi and Zhang Guo were talking on the city, Mei Yi had already led 180 heavy cavalry into the enemy camp. The more than three miles were short for the cavalry, and the killing caught Wang Naxiang off guard. Although Wang Naxiang looked down on the defenders of Wuzhou City, he did not completely despise him. He left 200 light cavalry behind the formation to guard the direction of Wuzhou City, but he did not expect that such a fierce iron armored heavy cavalry would rush out.

Mei Yi waved his long spear and rushed in front, with the six Mei brothers following closely behind. The cavalry team behind him was like a torrent of iron armor. Without entanglement with these cavalry, they broke away and rushed directly over ten cavalry. This heavy cavalry could not fight the five thousand rebels in full, but if they only chose one direction to rush to the fullest, they could still penetrate the enemy's position.

Mei Yi was very smart and did not directly insert it from the back of the formation. In that case, the heavy cavalry would penetrate the enemy formation and fall into the shallows by the river. He led the cavalry in front, inserted it horizontally behind the shield wall of the enemy formation, and rushed straight along the line between the shield wall and the arrow tower. What would the result of the heavy cavalry rushing into the formation of the invaders and archers? That would be a trampling!

Mei Yi had no other request to his cavalry, just to rely on their heavy armor to avoid ordinary swords and arrows, and to protect them from dancing spears on the outside, and the others tightened their formation and followed the front to shoot arrows. Wherever they passed, they first knocked over the arrow tower, or ignited them with rockets. The city had already prepared rockets to deal with the siege trestle, and now they were taken out.

This time, the entire Wang Naxiangdi formation was penetrated along the back of the shield wall. The enemy lost nearly 500 people, eighteen arrow towers knocked down thirteen, and the other five also ignited fire. Nearly half of the 180 heavy cavalry were damaged, most of whom fell off the horse when they were on the arrow tower, and it was inconvenient to get up wearing heavy armor.

This should not be the result of the normal battle, but Mei Yi was quite satisfied, because at this time the Pengze navy had already rushed up, and more importantly, the vanguard of the Wang Naxiang Army formation had been defeated.

When Pengze naval was walking in the river, he suddenly encountered an ambush in a narrow place on the river surface. Rockets were raining on the arrow tower on the shore, and many sails were burning. The crossbowmen on the big ship had no advantage in shooting. The small boat charged and landed on the shore, and encountered a row of shield walls and dense spears. The war was stalemate and very passive in the shallows.

At this moment, why did a heavy iron armored cavalry suddenly come out in this country where the water networks in Jiangnan? There were not many people but they were very strong. They rushed into the enemy formation like tigers and wolves. A large area of ​​shield walls fell in front of the river beach and suddenly became messy, and the tall arrow towers also fell to the ground one after another. This was a good opportunity given by heaven. The big ships took the opportunity to dock, and the crossbows on the ship tower were fired at the same time, and the sword and shield soldiers jumped off the ship. They waved their long swords and rushed towards them.

The battle situation on the river bank had turned around, and the opponent's cavalry also surrounded him. Mei Yi shouted with a spear and led less than a hundred heavy cavalry back to the opponent's cavalry, and another fierce battle was fought. Mei Yi took a spear and rode over her. She overturned many enemies. Suddenly, she found that she had seen nothing in front of her. It turned out that she had rushed through the enemy formation again.

He shouted and walked around in circles and swung his horse, with more than 60 cavalry left behind him. But he found that there was no need to do anything else - the enemy was defeated.

Wang Naxiang's central army flag had fallen, and there were shouts of killing from the sky on the river beach. Navy swords and shields rushed to the shore. Large warships lined up along the river, crossbow arrows shot down like rain, the defense line of the rebels along the river was no longer there, and the enemy formation was defeated, the rebels were fleeing in all directions. Looking east, about two, three hundred remaining cavalry had fled from the battlefield. It should be that Wang Na had a bad situation and fled with his personal soldiers.

Mei Yi shouted loudly: "Those who put down their swords and guns will avoid death!"

The shout was like a thunderous thunder, shaking the entire battlefield. Not far away, two fleeing cavalrymen stepped down and fell down. The battlefield was silent for a moment, and then they heard a bang of Ding Ling nearby. Many people were snatching their swords and guns. I don’t know if they were scared or throwing them away on their own initiative.

Mei Yi suddenly discovered that everyone nearby was looking at him, whether it was an enemy or a friendly army. Everyone's eyes were straight. It was as if they had seen some terrible monster, with awe or fear in their eyes. At this time, there was a voice in his ear saying, "General Mei Yi. Haven't you noticed any changes in yourself?"

This was the sound of the fairy boy Qingfeng. Mei Yi suddenly realized that when he was rushing, his magical skills had been restored. He didn't notice it just now, but the others could see clearly that Mei Yi took the lead and shone coldly in his hand. No one could stop him on the battlefield. He even had to pick up many enemy troops. Even the central military flag in the center of the formation was thicker than the mouth of the bowl, which was broken by his spear.

Mei Yi heard the sound of Qingfeng, and gradually came to his senses, and his murderous aura gradually became quiet. He did something that everyone expected, turned over and dismounted, inserted the long spear in his hand on the ground, and respectfully bowed three times and nine times towards Wuzhou City.

This was a difficult action. In ancient times, the complete set of heavy riding armor was hundreds of pounds, and wearing armor could not be treated with great tribute. However, Mei Yi's movements were completely distorted. With a click, the armor behind him cracked open, and the breastplate in front of him was also broken, and the person still kowtowed in a regular manner.

The heavy cavalry behind him followed suit. The six brothers of Mei took the lead in dismounting. They could not even bow and bow like Mei Yi, but could only bow to Wuzhou City with fists. Then more than 60 cavalry all dismounted and saluted. Although they didn't know why, the coach had already done this.

Afterwards, some people speculated that after General Mei Yi's victory, who was dismounted and kneeled down? Some people contacted the past, guessed that the place he worshiped was the banner of Princess Yuzhen on the city, some people said that he worshiped the royal power, and some people guessed even more bizarrely, saying that General Mei was invincible on the battlefield, just like a god possessed, and he should worship the god.

After hearing about this, Mei Zhenyi knew very well that Mei Yi worshipped the fairy boy Qingfeng, and at that moment, it was also the time when he had achieved enlightenment before.

Wang Naxiang's subordinates lost nearly 2,000 people, and only less than 300 cavalry escaped. The rest surrendered and became prisoners. Seventeen warships of the Pengze Navy were burned down, with more than 800 casualties. The battle was won, and the rest were to clean the battlefield, resettle prisoners, rescue the wounded, and provide for the dead. These things were not to worry about by the Mei family. Mei Yi had returned the temporary military and political power, and was all under the responsibility of Wuzhou Prefecture.

That night, Princess Yuzhen held a banquet in the inn, thanking Cheng Xuanhu, the governor of Wuzhou, and the generals of the navy. At the same time, thanking the governor of Wuzhou, the members of the Mei family who had made contributions to defending the city, as well as local garrison generals and the leaders of Min Yong. There were more than 60 people attending this celebration banquet. It was said that Princess Yuzhen was treating her, but in fact, they were all organized by Wuzhou Prefecture, and the governor Jiang Hua was full of joy.

At the banquet, Mei Zhenyi asked Cheng Xuanhu: "Sir is a scholar, why did you lead the navy?"

Cheng Xuanhu sighed: "The main force of the Pengze Navy was ordered to guard the Yangtze River, and I could only divide these 3,000 people. I was anxious, so I came here in person. I have read a lot of military books before, but the first time in my life was useless. If General Mei Yi had not left the city to respond, I would probably have to feed the fish in the Qingyi River."

Mei Yi smiled: "As the saying goes, a famous general will become a battle, and the battlefield will change thousands of times. It is difficult to predict the enemy's initiative just by talking about war on paper. But Mr. Cheng doesn't have to be upset. It is admirable that you, a literati, have such courage. It may be impossible to establish both civil and military achievements. I would like to wish you a cup!"

I drank a lot of wine this day, and I got drunk. The next day, Wuzhou Prefecture still held a banquet to entertain another group of visitors. It turned out that reinforcements sent by General Hei-Tyed Changzhi also arrived.

Heichi Changzhi heard that Wuzhou was surrounded and agreed to Cheng Xuanhu to divide his troops to rescue him, but he did not expect Cheng Xuanhu to kill the rebels. Mei Xiaolang secretly reminded him, and Heichi Changzhi also sent his general Tang Di to lead three thousand light cavalry to travel south, using this side army as the pioneer to cross the river to Wuzhou.

Tang Di's cavalry arrived one day late. When they arrived, Wang Naxiang's army was defeated. But when they came thousands of miles away, they always had to receive warmly, and another banquet was served.

Heichi Changzhi led the territory's rear army with great importance and embarrassment. He received the order to "subsequent support" rather than "coordinated combat". If Li Xiaoyi in front of him was not defeated or deliberately delayed the fighter's plane, it would be inconvenient for him to directly enter the main battlefield, which would not only be suspected of robbing military merits, but also would not meet the arrangements of the court.

Empress Wu meant that the people of the Tang Dynasty royal family Li family led their troops to suppress the rebellion, and the main responsibility of the rear army was to supervise the war.

Heiqi Changzhi also has the most important task to write a war report. He will report any war, process and result on the front line, to the court. If Li Xiaoyi had any unfair intentions, the military situation reported was different from the war report of Heiqi Changzhi, the court would immediately notice it.

This time, by strengthening the defense line of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and cutting off Xu Jingye's retreat, Tang Di was sent across the river to Wuzhou. As a result, the battle in Wuzhou had won a great victory a day ago. After receiving the reward from Tang Di, Heichi Changzhi wrote the battle report like this-

"The rebels sent the left demon Zuo Youxian to hijack Princess Yuzhen. On the way, they were discovered by Mei Zhenyi, the Duqi Weiwei, and led all the servants and asked Donghuamen Jihai Zhenren and other masters to help to rescue the princess back to Wuzhou. When the rebels heard the news, they sent Wang Na to lead more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to besiege Wuzhou City. Governor Jiang Hua and his officials, with the assistance of the guerrilla general Mei Yi, recruited eight thousand heroes to defend the city, and fought for more than ten days to protect Wuzhou.
Chapter completed!