Chapter 530: A word awakens the dreamer

As the saying goes, one word awakens the dreamer. What is the reason why Leng Zhuo rode north alone and led a group of practitioners and soldiers to fight? To eliminate the main force of the anti-king? To completely defeat the rebellion?

Neither of these two was Leng Zhuo's original purpose. Leng Zhuo had only one goal, to save the war without gunpowder in Zhuque City, so as to achieve his goal of using the leverage of grain to leverage the entire Chuzhou. The existence of the anti-Wang Army, for Leng Zhuo, not only could it not be completely killed, but to leave this disaster, which was more in line with Leng Zhuo's interests.

In troubled times, food is as expensive as gold, and whoever controls food can be in a dominant and dominant position.

The reason for seizing Jiaocheng was to intercept the main force of the anti-Wang army, and then exchange for a big victory, so as to appease the shock caused by the major defeat of the main force on the front line, and quickly stabilize the grain prices, thereby overwhelming those grain merchants and landlords who were desperately raising prices.

Since it is just for a big victory, then attacking Xiangyang and taking over the core of the anti-king city, Xiangyang City, this victory is more exciting than encircling and suppressing the main force of the anti-king army. Although taking over Xiangyang City does not mean destroying the rebellious forces. Many people understand, but the people will not know and will not think in that direction.

They will only hear that Xiangyang City was captured, that famous city in Chuzhou was reoccupied, and the anti-king king was captured. As for the pig heads on the anti-king king, they were actually the elite anti-king army soldiers who were the main force of Li Tang, no one would pay attention to it. The common people are the general trend. Once they are incited, who will care whether Li Tang or Li Tang?

And isn’t this exactly what Leng Zhuo wants. The anti-Wang army that is still active can help him win the Zhuque City, then Leng Zhuo can completely use the anti-Wang "remnants" who are running around to plan and drive away the tiger and swallow the wolf. The original Chiang Kai-shek used this trick to win several provinces of military and political affairs in succession, which is worth learning from!

"Attack Xiangyang, yes, go to attack Xiangyang, Military Advisor Zhuge, let's go!" Leng Zhuo's eyes quickly turned around for a few times, and then made up his mind to defend Jiaocheng? Let Jiaocheng go to hell. As long as he can take Xiangyang and capture the anti-king king, what can the anti-king army follow behind his butt?

As long as the troops of the other three legions chase and fight, Xiangyang will be another Jiaocheng at that time. If they don’t catch up, they will just wait to be surrounded and die under the city.

Jiaocheng County Government, a fairly intact lobby, all the generals under Leng Zhuo were summoned here. In addition, the representatives of the students, Hu Zhiyuan and Guo Kongfan, were also at the end of the team.

Leng Zhuo glanced at the bottom. The team was in four rows, two rows on the left, Zhuge Liang, Sun Wu, Li Yuanba, Dian Wei, Huo Qubing, Wei Qing, Ma Chao, Xu Chu, Shi Wansui, Han Qinhu, Lin Chong, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Wu Zixu's fourteen generals, and two rows on the right, standing, Yang Zaixing, Niu Gao, Leng Chen, Kunlun, Yan Shifang, Wang Zhu, Li Jie, four young generals of the Yang family, plus Hu Zhiyuan and Guo Kongfan, why not do it, there are 15 people in total.

Although these people are not all the lineups under Leng Zhuo, they also gather the strongest combat power in Leng Zhuo's hands. Although in terms of military and horses, there are only two guard cavalry battalions, one thousand sixteen people and one psychic brigade, only one hundred and fifty and sixteen. In addition, more than a thousand soldiers and students had only three thousand troops, Leng Zhuo was confident of capturing the big city of Xiangyang.

Looking at the people below, Leng Zhuo was excited for no reason. He was full of talents and had a lot of advice and generals. What else could he be more proud of than this?

After restraining his smile, Leng Zhuo said loudly: "Summon everyone here, there is something to tell everyone. I have decided to go north immediately and recover Xiangyang!"

Before Leng Zhuo's words could be finished, the lower part was in an uproar. Obviously, everyone was very surprised. You must know that they had been prepared to defend the city to block the main force of the rebel army in the past two days. However, at this time, Leng Zhuo told them to attack Xiangyang, so his head could not turn.

"Young master, Xiangyang is a big port, the city is high and the walls are thick. With our little soldiers, we are afraid...!" Wei Qing was speaking. This famous general who went deep into the desert and took out the Xiongnu royal court. Wei Qing's concerns largely represented the doubts of everyone present. After all, they only had 3,000 soldiers and horses, and even a county town may not be able to defend, let alone the thousand-year-old water city and the big port of Xiangyang. Even if they were lucky enough to capture Xiangyang, three thousand people would not be enough to guard a wall. If they faced the anti-king army that came later.

"I know what you think, but seeing you all looked surprised, I didn't expect that the three thousand of us would attack Xiangyang. I think Situ Nalan in Xiangyang City must have thought that either. Moreover, the soldiers and horses that can fight against the anti-king army are all in Donghu County. Although there are more than 100,000 troops in Xiangfan County, they are just written about native chickens and tiles. As long as you capture the anti-king and put the imperial flag, I think these soldiers can surrender without fighting! What's more, I believe in your strength."

"And even if the anti-Wang army attacks Xiangyang again, I want to pursue my Chuzhou army behind them to fight against rebels, so they will not stand by. They will only work harder. At that time, maybe they will not be able to complete the task under Jiaocheng City, but they will be able to complete it under Xiangyang City."

When the generals heard this, it was indeed the same thing. Xiangyang, which seemed to be crowded with heavy troops, was actually just a paper tiger. How much combat power can the troops drawn by 100,000 strong men have?

Seeing that no one had any objections from the generals, Leng Zhuo said immediately: "This time we head north to Xiangyang, there may not be any need to fight. As long as we put on ordinary armor, bypass several county towns, light cars are simple. I think even if we arrive at the city of Xiangyang, no one will find it. Everyone should prepare now. We will leave in half an hour!"

The generals promised to leave the lobby one after another. It would not take too much time for the three thousand soldiers to gather together. After only two days of dry food, Leng Zhuo took three thousand men out of the north gate of Jiaocheng and disappeared into the night.

Just as Leng Zhuo's troops left Jiaocheng, sneaked northward and entered Xiangfan County, outside Yishui City, the vibration of the cracks and mountain collapses swept the anti-Wang army's camp again.

The Rock Beast Cavalry suffered great losses in the previous escape and daytime battles. At its heyday, the Rock Legion had nearly 3,000 Rock Beast Cavalry, which was also the most proud War Beast Cavalry of the entire Rock Legion. Even the name of the Legion was named Rock, but there were only a thousand Rock Beast Cavalry that attacked the anti-King Army camp that night.

The Rock Beast Knight, which was less than nine hundred heads, was like a tsunami wave, slapped directly at the Anti-Wang Jun camp. However, for Niu Zhen, the leading army, his mood was a little complicated. On the one hand, he hoped that the camp was empty so that he would not have to worry. On the other hand, he hoped that the other party would not leave. In that case, as long as the other party wanted to leave after this night, it would not be so easy.

Although there are not many masters in the Rock Legion, if the top masters of the Mad Python Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion are added, they are enough to restrain the two eighth-level guardian beasts of the opponent. Once these two monsters do not work, he believes that relying on their troops will be enough to swallow the opponent cleanly.

I felt a little conflicted, but Niu Zhen still sat firmly on the Rock Beast, left the West Gate, and headed straight to the Anti-Wang Junying.

This is not a sneak attack, but a direct night attack against the counterattack, because the movements of the Rock Beast cannot be covered at all. The distance of several miles did not take much time, and this time was enough to defend against the Wang Army.

"Activate the Rock Shield!" Seeing that the Anti-King Camp was close at hand, Niu Zhen issued a loud order and activated the Rock Shield and the Rock Shield had just opened. There was a whistling sound of arrows in the night.

Swish, arrows flew down, but the density was a bit unsatisfactory. Such arrow rain was simply drizzling for the Rock Beast Knight, with no lethality at all and crushed all the way.

The horse pit outside the camp is almost ineffective against the rock beast. As for the trench in front of the camp, it is even more of a side dish for the rock beast. It only spits out a yellow ball of light, and a dirt wall is raised below the trench that is two meters wide, and the trench is filled in instantly.

The Rock Beast weighing ten tons is like a bulldozer directly hitting the opponent's horse fence. The round thorn on the horse could not hurt the hair of the rock beast at all, and it was hit in a mess.

Niu Zhen, who rushed into the local camp, frowned. The other party's archers were flew into the camp in a panic. From the overturned camp tent, it can be seen that there were no people in these camp tents, whether they had run away or traps.

Niu Zhen was also a little hesitant. If it were the past, he would have ordered the trampling here without hesitation, but the combat power of the anti-Wang army had caused a considerable shadow on him. The other party was an elite force that was not inferior to them at all. It was likely that Zhongzhou was the army of Li Tang who was independently facing the encirclement of the millions of imperial troops.

He could not think of losing his hooves in front of the horse and losing his life. After thinking about it, Niu Zhen immediately ordered the rock beast to stop the charge, but gathered in groups, used the ground spike to open the way and crush it slowly. In this way, even if the other party really had a trap, he could react in time.

"General Fu Zhonglang, let's part here. I hope you have good luck all the way and we will meet again in Dongling!"

Fu Yu glanced at the camp that was crushed little by little, then looked at the soldiers who were evacuating quickly, and said, "Don't worry, I only led the Demon Guards under my command. It's not difficult to escape from the other party's siege. However, it's not easy for you to get a fish-eye-eyed beads!"

"Haha, don't worry, as long as you have fun, those people will follow you and chase you relentlessly. I wouldn't have thought that our main force would turn to Dongling Mansion. Oh my, I had prepared a good gift, but I didn't expect that the other party would be so cautious!"

"Goodbye to Dongling Mansion!" Fu Yu smiled and said goodbye to Shaobai. He watched the other party disappear into the night with his personal guards, and then he gathered the retreating archers and ran towards the dark night in the northwest.
Chapter completed!