Hengxiang County.
Yan Qing, the country of Shangzhu, sat in the upper position. He was old, with a solemn expression and a stomachache.
Many generals sat on both sides of him.
And among these generals, there are still many people dressed in barbarians.
Although the Emperor of Zhou was a Xianbei, the sinicization was extremely serious and it was difficult to distinguish from his clothes. However, the Hu people sitting next to Yan Qing could tell their identities at a glance, and they were obviously not ruled by the Zhou people.
The Hu people within the range.
Yan Qing looked around and asked, "Who is this Jie Luxian?"
The aide on the side hurriedly stood up, saluted Yan Qing, and said seriously: "My husband, this person is the son of Hulujin, a famous general of Qi State, and Huluguang's younger brother."
"He used to have a little record, and then served as a general in Xiazhou. During his term, he comforted the people and farmed farming and made contributions. He then went to Lianggan and persuaded local officials to surrender and was awarded the General of Zhenxi......"
Hearing the staff's words, Yan Qing snorted coldly, "It's a farmer!"
He looked at everyone and asked, "Now this thief is leading a large army to attack. What are your strategies to retreat to the enemy?"
Another pillar of Zhou State.
But Yan Qing, the pillar country, is at least much more reliable than Wang Qian, Sima Xiaonan and others.
Yan Qing is an authentic old Xianbei, and his ancestors have also been the chief. He is Yuwen Hu's cousin, but he is upright, brave and good at fighting, and is kind and righteous. When Yuwen Hu took office, he refused to follow him and always kept a distance.
He was valued by Yuwen Yong.
This person is a veteran. He has been fighting for many years and has sufficient military experience. At the same time, he loves the people and gives favors to the Hu people who are both inside and outside. Even the Hu people are willing to submit to him and fight with him. The people are even more willing to treat him.
It's admiration.
He is upright, never cultivates his confidants, nor does he participate in the complex struggles in the court, he works seriously and works diligently.
When Chang'an was defeated, he served as the governor of Hezhou, and then the strategic line contracted, and he was stationed in Hengxiang County.
Everyone under his devil respected him very much. When they heard his inquiry, everyone expressed their thoughts.
Some people's proposals are more risky, some people propose to send troops to occupy the highlands in the west, and set up camps there.
The situation of the defenders in the city is in a horn, echoing each other, making the thieves dare not concentrate their troops.
Yan Qing expressed contempt for the enemy in words, but was still very cautious in real strategy.
He did not agree with the decision to send troops.
Because of the main force of the Han army's offensive against Hanzhong, people from all over the country were dispatched to rescue. At that time, everyone thought that Liu Taozi was the only one of the enemy's attacking troops, but they didn't expect that there was an army here.
Therefore, there are not many armies in these cities.
If you divide the troops at this moment, if you don’t do it well, you will easily be divided and defeated by the enemy.
Some people's proposals are more conservative, destroying surrounding villages, destroying roads and water sources, and then blocking the doors.
Strengthen the city walls and stick to the city with all your might.
Yan Qing also felt that this proposal was inappropriate.
At present, the morale of the entire army is depressed, and various rumors are flying everywhere. If you fight a trapped beast, it may cause a mutiny. You still have to boost your morale and let the soldiers see hope and then stick to it.
After several negotiations, Yan Qing deployed the strategy.
"General He Ruo."
He Ruobi hurriedly got up and saluted Yan Qing.
He Ruobi was originally ordered to station in Tianshui until the surroundings fell, and then retreated. Now he is stationed in the western defense line under Yan Qing's devil.
Yan Qing said, "You will lead your elite headquarters to ride the soil now, leave the south gate, detour to the gentle slope to the west, pay attention to hiding your own traces. After the enemy arrives, you will definitely station on the spot and cut down the surrounding trees to make equipment.
Once they stop and start moving, you will take the knights out, head straight to the enemy's central rank, set fire to destroy, and then evacuate along the east road. I will bring people to pick you up!"
"only!!"
The vanguard army of the Han army had arrived outside the city.
The subsequent army is coming.
Sure enough, as Yan Qing expected, after the Han army arrived, they did not rush to attack, but began to station in groups. However, before stationing, they sent a considerable number of scouts to explore the surrounding area.
This made Yan Qing a little worried. Fortunately, He Ruobi stayed away in time and was not found by the scout.
The number of Han troops began to increase.
Huluxian rode a war horse and led the army to slowly kill him.
Compared with the central army led by the Heavenly King, the marching speed of their army is much slower.
At the levels along the road, they fought slowly and could not achieve the power of the main army.
Despite this, their record was still good, and there were not many casualties. It was difficult for the Zhou army to resist this all the way.
Hu Luxian looked at the majestic city in the distance, with a little worried in his eyes.
Before coming, Zu Ban ordered that the hardest way they were to fight on this road was Hengxiang County.
The configuration here was not very strong in the past, but now Yan Qing led elite soldiers and generals from several border states to sit here, which is extremely difficult to conquer.
After Huluxian arrived, he looked at the surrounding terrain, and then whispered: "The enemy general Yan Qing is a good fighter. You should not be despised. You should send more scouts to investigate carefully!!"
The generals said yes.
The army is stationed here.
Just as the army was separated, the scouts in the distance suddenly screamed, causing riots.
After a moment, the ground suddenly trembled slightly.
He Ruobi led an elite cavalry and killed from the side, holding the heads of several scouts in his hand.
He saw the position of the enemy's chief general's flag and ran away wildly.
As soon as the Han army arrived, the formation was relatively scattered, He Ruobi rushed in through the gap with clear goals!
The soldiers around him reacted and hurried forward to stop him.
The two sides fought, and He Ruobi was wearing heavy armor and ran all the way, no one could stop him!
The knights were very motivated and followed He Ruobi and charged together.
Kou Liu reacted at this moment and made people beat the war drum and began to organize troops to strangle the cavalry.
The front army quickly got rid of the chaos, and then split the troops and began to strangle. He Ruobi was immediately struggling!
These soldiers are wearing too many armors!!
When wearing armor, even if the weapon hits the opponent, it is difficult to kill directly. If you don’t die with one blow, problems will easily arise.
He Ruobi can rely on his personal courage to fight for his way, but the knights behind him cannot do this. The elite crossbowmen kept shooting and killing them, and these people fell down one after another and wailed.
He Ruobi could feel that his number was declining sharply.
But as long as you can get closer!!
He Ruobi looked at the main general riding a war horse in the distance.
He could even see the shock in the other person's eyes.
Hu Luxian was indeed surprised.
The guy in front of him was really brave! He was also good at leading troops. With such a rigorous formation, he found a gap and rushed to him.
Is this trying to take the enemy's head among all the troops??
Whose general is this? Why is it so brave?
However, the Han army was full of morale, had a high armor rate, and excellent weapons. He Ruobi's charge could not be maintained for too long, and the losses became more and more serious, and even He Ruobi's charge slowed down.
Fortunately, He Ruobi can already see the enemy's commander.
He was discovered by the scout in advance and the central army that wanted to destroy the enemy could not do it!
However, if you can kill the enemy's chief general!!
He Ruobi raised his weapon!!
Hu Luxian held the horse in his hand and suddenly took the war horse under his lower back, and instead of retreating, he advanced!
"Puff~~~"
He Ruobi's horse that stabbed him was opened by Huluxian. He Ruobi felt the force and was shocked!
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Jie Luxian's rough face was full of irritability.
Do you really treat me as a civil servant?
Hu Luxian has practiced martial arts with his brother since childhood and has been competing with his brother all year round. Although he loses most of the time, he is also a real frontier man, and he is definitely not a weak person.
Jie Luguang was known for his personal bravery. He shot Duke on the battlefield. Hu Luxian had won his brother in archery in the past, although his father refused to admit it...
He Ruobi only fought once and knew in his heart that it was unlikely to kill the general. Even if the opponent was not as good as him, he could not get it in one round, but his knights...::
He Ruobi was quite straightforward and evacuated directly from the gap in the east.
Huluxian was furious. My camp, come whenever you want, leave whenever you want?
Hu Luxian took the bow and shot.
"Puff~~"
He Ruobi felt a scorching pain from his back, and realized that his armor might have been ejaculated.
Fortunately, the armor he wore was heavy enough, otherwise, the arrow would probably have shot him through!
He Ruobi led the other knights to flee all the way.
Kou Liu led the knights to chase and fight all the way, and fewer and fewer people behind He Ruobi.
Yan Qing, who was watching on the city wall, was particularly nervous.
When the enemy officially appeared, the veteran general found out that he had made a mistake.
He calculated the enemy based on his past experience, but he did not expect that the army of Han and Qi were completely different.
Who can chisel this terrifying armor-wearing rate into it?
This kind of charge relies on the speed of the cavalry to quickly kill the opponent, causing chaos, and taking the opportunity to achieve results.
However, when the other party is fully armed, he cannot kill at all, and then he will be besieged and killed.
With the enemy's armor, even if Xiang Yu survived, he would probably die in it!
Fortunately, He Ruobi found the gap and entered the enemy's formation. Unfortunately, the enemy's reaction was fast enough and he did not give He Ruobi the chance to make contributions. Now, he only hopes that He Ruobi can escape!!
This is a powerful general, and it cannot be lost in the hands of the enemy like this!
The old general immediately stepped down from the city wall and led the army to the south gate.
The crossbowman stood on the city wall, full of things.
Under the pursuit of everyone, He Ruobi rushed towards this place with a terrible wolves.
Just as he looked at the closed city gate in the distance in despair, the city gate was suddenly opened.
Yan Qing led everyone out, and the crossbowmen on the city wall shot arrows together. The pursuers behind He Ruobi were killed and injured. The old general welcomed him into the city, and then hurriedly closed the city gate.
He Ruobi's face was pale. After entering the city, he almost fell to the ground and was helped up.
He looked at Yan Qing with a guilty look on his face.
"Elder General, I failed to complete my mission and almost lost the city..."
"No, I despised the enemy and almost lost the general!"
He Ruobi looked at Yan Qing in front of him. He knew how much risk Yan Qing took to open the city gate just now, so he immediately bowed and said, "I will fight the thief to death and protect the city without losing it!"
Yan Qing sent someone to clean He Ruobi's wounds first, and then began to deploy city defense.
Huluxian soon began to launch a fierce attack on the city.
Yan Qing personally took charge and ordered everyone to fight back.
The two sides fought very anxiously. After fighting for several days, Huluxian could not get the city, and the offensive on the northwest line was in a stalemate.
Chen, Jiangling.
Jiangling City is no longer as glorious as it used to be, and the city is no longer lively and silent.
Only the scouts who passed the message were in the official office. General Zhang Zhaoda of Chen State sat in the upper position with a solemn expression. The generals stood in two rows, looking a little unnatural.
Chunyu Liang's defection had a great impact on the soldiers in the city.
Zhang Zhaoda was a little reluctant to believe these people, so he had to use his confidants to distribute their troops, but doing so aggravated the generals' uneasiness.
First, there is Huang Fapu, then Chunyuliang, who is the next one?
Zhang Zhaoda spent a lot of effort to appease these soldiers, rewards and inspirations, and wanted to restore their morale.
However, perhaps because of being too tired, Zhang Zhaoda's body began to deteriorate.
Zhang Zhaoda was known as a romantic general, but he was happy without drinking and without girls.
In the past, he fell off a horse because of drunkenness. In the later war, Yan Qing was injured again. His left eye had extremely poor vision and could hardly see anything.
It has been fine in the past, but at this critical moment, his condition began to worsen, and the injuries he had suffered over the years seemed to be erupting at the same time.
This made him suffer unbearable. He realized that he might not be able to stay here for a long time, so he hurriedly sent someone to Jiankang to write a letter and request a replacement.
Jiankang's reply arrived, and he actually comforted Zhang Zhaoda, asking him not to worry, saying that the emperor trusted him very much and let him manage the army with peace of mind.
Zhang Zhaoda speculated that this was probably because the emperor felt that he was afraid of falling into the end of Huang, Chunyu and others, and pretended to be sick and wanted to leave.
But Zhang Zhaoda did not pretend to be sick. He clearly felt that his condition was getting worse. From head to toe, there was no place that didn't hurt.
But now, Zhang Zhaoda can only endure the pain and summon the future to discuss major events.
"The Han people sent troops."
"The scout came to report, and his commander seemed to be Gao Changgong."
"It's Gao Yanzong's brother."
For these people, Gao Yanzong is more familiar with Gao Changgong.
"He led 100,000 troops and was heading towards Xinling. Your Majesty has an order that we must stop them from capturing the Zhou people's city..."
The room was silent and everyone didn't say anything.
Zhang Zhaoda then said, "Don't panic, everyone, it's 100,000 yuan. That's the addition of civilians and auxiliary soldiers. According to my opinion, there are only 20,000 to 30,000 people."
After Zhang Zhaoda finished speaking, everyone was still quiet and no one spoke.
Zhang Zhaoda sighed, his eyes passed by everyone one by one, and finally stopped on Xiao Mohe.
Xiao Maha is the general he values ​​the most.
It is also the general who he thinks he can take on heavy responsibilities in the future.
Zhang Zhaoda looked at him and said slowly, "General Xiao, are you willing to lead your troops to the expedition?"
Xiao Mohe looked at him, "Does the general want me to send troops to fight Gao Changgong?"
"It's not like that. We are not going to fight directly with the Han people, but to prevent them from attacking Zhou with all their might.
You just need to lead the army to approach the Han army and make them alert."
"What if they came to hit me?"
"You can fight back."
Xiao Maha saluted him, "Okay, I'm willing to go to war."
Xiao Mohe said, but there was no excitement or other emotions on his face, as if he was dealing with perfunctory and his expression was dull.
The matters between Huang Faji and Chunyu Liang were quite a big blow to Xiao Moha.
Xiao Mohe couldn't understand why, and he was completely confused.
Zhang Zhaoda did not dare to delay, so he asked the rest of the people to leave, leaving only Xiao Maha.
Looking at Xiao Maha who said nothing, Zhang Zhaoda pondered for a long time, then said, "There is a hidden story for Chunyuliang. You are still young and cannot know the truth."
"But the court has always had high expectations for you.
"I have written to Your Majesty... to tell him your talents...
Zhang Zhaoda spoke, showing pain on his face.
"I've been feeling unwell recently, I'm afraid there will be no more days."
"I know you have a lot of dissatisfaction, but despite this, don't forget that the South is the real world!!!"
Zhang Zhaoda's face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The real name of the Qi Yao is King of Han, but it is actually a thief!"
"When the Hu people entered the pass, we kept our clothes and clothes in the south, and kept the truth and the Hu people were not allowed to pacify the world!"
"In any case, we can't watch these Hu people grow up, let alone watch them destroy the orthodox! I'm the most!!"
"If we are defeated and the South is destroyed, will the world really fall into the hands of the Hu people?"
"The people of our southern countries have their own heritage!"
"You, the ancestor of Xiao, once helped Emperor Gaozu make meritorious contributions. My ancestor of Zhang, also fought to the death for the country...."
As Zhang Zhaoda spoke, a lot of blood suddenly emerged from his nose and fell on the ground. His face seemed to be twisting, but his eyes were so calm, which was a very complicated look.
"You must never let the Beihu destroy my seeds! I entrust my mission with great things. If I die of illness on the bed in the future, I will report to you to lead the army. Be sure to protect the country!!"
Xiao Mohe was finally moved at this time.
He bowed and saluted again.
Chapter completed!