Chapter Ninety-Seven: The War Will Begin!
The results that had been predicted in advance were still there.
"How did you die?" Ling'er then asked.
"He gave you the last bit of aura to save you. This sentence was also said by Xu Chen to teach Lu Ying.
Ling'er was upset at the moment, and naturally couldn't detect why a little girl could know the secret of Reiki, this strange loophole.
"Oh......" Ling'er sat on the edge of the pool, lowered her head, answered, and then was stunned.
"Quick! Ling'er is about to escape! How did you guys promise me? Okay, as long as I tell you the secrets of Wuyan and Yuntianhe, you will give Ling'er to me!"
Outside the boulder door, in a corridor leading to the dungeon, a somewhat familiar voice came from Ling'er.
Ling'er raised her head, her eyes full of surprise!
As soon as his body moved, Ling'er flashed out of the boulder gate. In the corridor, a young man ran towards him.
"Ling'er!"
"Murong Chong!"
"Quick, catch him!" Murong Chong hurriedly shouted at the row of armor guards who rushed behind him.
"You damn it!" Seeing this scene, how could Ling'er not understand?
A huge wind blade flew out again, heading straight for Murong Chong's neck.
"Ah......" Murong Chong's body flashed, avoiding the vital point, but he was still slashed in the abdomen by the wind blade, and blood flowed.
In the severe pain, Murong Chong still did not forget to shout: "Hurry, catch her, she is mine!"
The sound of crackling battle suddenly sounded in the corridor, and after a long time, it gradually disappeared.
"Quick, get up! she's gone!" Lu Ying called out to the two fallen teenagers.
"Oh, this girl is really heavy!" the teenagers slowly got up, stroking their wounds, and muttered.
Dressed in several layers of armor and holding a sugar-coated healing pill in his mouth, the moment the wind blade broke through the flesh, the teenagers immediately bit the pill in their mouths......
Not only are they like this, but the teenagers who are fighting with Ling'er in the Yongdao are all in the same configuration, and after the "Murong Chong" who fell to the ground stood up, he stretched out his hand and lifted it, and under the mask, it was the old face of Chai Lao!
As for the real Murong Chong, he is still hiding in a dungeon that is also deep!
The drama in the dungeon was over, and Xu Chen, who was in the observation room, was relieved to confirm that Ling'er had indeed successfully escaped after hearing the noise in the farmhouse.
Half of the plan has been successful!
"Bring that damn pigeon!" Xu Chen calmed down and said.
Moments later, a teenager walked in with a birdcage made of stainless steel in his hand.
Xu Chen stared at the dodging white dove in the birdcage, and said coldly: "I know you can understand what I say, so I'll only say it once!"
"You've betrayed me once, and I don't want to see it a second time!
The white pigeon in the birdcage rolled around with a pair of round eyes, and nodded cringely in meeting Xu Chen's cold eyes.
"Do you really understand?" Xu Chen raised his voice and asked in a cold voice again.
This time, the little head of the white pigeon nodded vigorously!
Xu Chen then laughed: "That's good! Remember your promise, go now! Follow that woman, follow her side......"
After speaking, Xu Chen opened the iron door of the birdcage.
The white pigeon stood at the door, glanced at Xu Chen in fear, and after seeing Xu Chen nodding, he rushed out and flew westward with his wings!
At the same time, three identical white doves flew up and followed firmly behind the white dove in front of them......
"It's a pity, after spending so many of the same pills, why didn't any of the few fed in the back give birth to spirituality? Could it be that our method is wrong?" Lu Hao looked at the few white doves in the distance and wondered.
Xu Chen shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, maybe the appearance of Lingzhi depends on chance." ”
The three white doves in the back also fed a large number of "Spirit Beast Pills", but they only added a little spirituality, and could not produce spiritual intelligence like the first one. Of course, the latter few were selected by Xu Chen from the alternative carrier pigeons, and there was no trace of carrier pigeon marks on their bodies, and after they survived in the wild for a period of time, no one could find any human traces on them.
When the white dove pierced the night sky, hundreds of miles away in Shanyang County, Wang Zhonghe's marching commander's tent was brightly lit at this moment, and the generals of all armies gathered together.
"Report!" the scout Pegasus entered the camp until he jumped down from the door of the tent, and then ran into the tent quickly.
"Marshal, the rebels have all withdrawn to Yangzhou, and they are stepping up to build fortifications at the moment. ”
The scout finished reporting on the military and turned to leave.
Inside the big tent, all the generals looked at Wang Zhonghe.
After listening to the scout's report, Wang Zhongsi's brows furrowed slightly.
Han Zhi on the side saw this, swept his eyes into the tent, and found that most of the generals were puzzled, so he asked out loud: "Commander, something is wrong! The rebels can completely annihilate Li Lun's department in Yang Shou, they should not be mediocre, why would they withdraw all their soldiers and horses to Yangzhou?"
Yangzhou to Shanyang County is only more than 300 miles, although it is a flat river, but there are still a few fortresses to defend. If the rebels took the initiative to abandon these fortresses, didn't they even want a little strategic depth? As a result, Yangzhou became an isolated city, and no matter how many rebels there were, there would always be a day when they would not be able to stand it.
This is where the reflex generals in the field wonder.
Wang Zhongsi was also puzzled, and his years of experience in fighting horses told him that if something was abnormal, he would be a demon. The rebels, who were clearly not a rabble, made such an arrangement, apparently with other purposes.
"Could it be...... The rebels are ready to abandon Yangzhou?" Han Zhi couldn't suppress this thought as soon as it was born, if so, then the abnormality of the rebels could be explained.
"That's not right! If they abandon Yangzhou, where should they go? The army in the north is pressing, and the south is a vast river, so the rebels have no way to escape!" Han Zhi thought for a moment and shook his head.
"A few days ago, the rebels went south to Shengzhou?" Wang Zhongsi suddenly asked.
Han Zhi was in charge of all the military information, although the battle of Shengzhou was fought before Wang Zhongsi came, but in the past few days, Han Zhi still quickly browsed the previous military information. Hearing Wang Zhonghe's inquiry, he nodded after a moment of recollection: "Yes! After more than two days of fighting, the city was not broken by the rebels, and the rebels suddenly withdrew on the evening of the third day!"
"Oh......" Wang Zhongsi nodded noncommittally.
"By the way, Dashuai, the current commander of Shengzhou City is not the commander of Shengzhou Zhichong Mansion, but a teenager!" Han Zhi suddenly remembered something.
"Oh?" said Wang Zhonghe.
The strength of the Southern Mansion Army, Wang Zhonghei has also seen and heard about it these days, and the rebels can defeat the elite cavalry of Hebei on the frontal battlefield, obviously these remnants of the Yang family have also put a lot of thought into it. Since the rebels rebels, the surrounding counties of Yangzhou have been taken by the rebels one by one with almost no resistance. And a young man was able to defend Shengzhou City under the attack of the rebels, which made Wang Zhongsi a little curious, and even more curious, how did a young man become the lord of a city?
Han Zhi understood what the marshal was thinking, so he said: "This young man is not an ordinary person, I heard that he is a student of Xu Xiang. ”
"Oh......" Wang Zhongsi nodded and glanced at him.
Han Zhi smiled awkwardly and said: "As for the details of the battle of Shengzhou, the Shengzhou Mansion Army has not yet reported to the imperial court, and the marching camp has not received the relevant report, and even the internal guards only have a few words.
"Mu Xiu is in the forest, the young man knows how to hide clumsy, but he is a smart person!" Wang Zhongsi said indifferently.
Xu Chen deliberately concealed the situation of the Shengzhou battle naturally did not want people to know the truth of Shengzhou, and there were also internal guard outlets in Shengzhou City, but they were found by Xu Chen early in the morning, and on the day of the battle on Gongyuan Street, the internal guards in Shengzhou were stunned by Xu Chen with drugs worth 10,000 gold, and when he woke up, the offensive and defensive battle of Shengzhou also came to an end. Although I don't know how these people reported to Chang'an, it seems that Xu Chen did succeed in concealing the appearance of the cultivator.
It's just that Xu Chen didn't expect that Wang Zhonghe, who was interested in his puppet, explained Xu Chen's behavior as a young man's caution, which was an unexpected gain.
Wang Zhongsi's interest in the young general of Shengzhou City was just a whim, and his thoughts faded away, and he returned to the current battle situation.
Wang Zhongsi didn't think about it for too long, and then ordered to the generals: "Pull out the camp early tomorrow morning, and target Yangzhou!"
"No!" all the generals clasped their fists in unison, and after receiving the order, they left the tent and prepared to go.
The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, saying that the camp would be pulled out early tomorrow morning, and the troops transporting grain, grass and baggage would go south one after another tonight, although the scouts came to the news that there were no rebels along the way, but prudence was Wang Zhonghe's consistent style, and he still sent two light cavalry troops to escort the grain, grass and baggage.
The march of the army was not very fast, and the distance of three hundred miles took five days. By the time Wang Zhongsi set up camp ten miles north of Yangzhou City, Yangzhou City had already been built by Li Yi like an iron wall.
The original body of Yangzhou City was Yang Guang's Yangzhou camp, the whole city was originally a huge barracks, although it changed his original appearance for more than 100 years, but in recent months, Yangzhou City has been in turmoil, and some redundant buildings in the city have long been destroyed. In the past few days, Li Yi has simply demolished all the newly built buildings, roughly restoring the appearance of Yangzhou City a hundred years ago.
Now, Li Yi is standing on the city wall of Yangzhou City, behind him is the place where his ancestors once fought, at this moment Li Yi seems to feel the strength of his ancestors from the underworld, and he is full of confidence at this moment!
Although the other party is a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou City has also been completely repaired by it, with all the fortifications complete, and there are sailors to guard the canal waterway. With 30,000 men and horses to deal with more than 70,000 soldiers and horses outside the city, no matter how you look at it, your chances of victory are very high.
What's more, he doesn't need to lose the ground, as long as the maximum consumption of the opponent's forces is enough.
After about half a day's rest, Wang Zhonghe's army also completed preparations before the siege.
The horn sounded, and 3,000 infantry pushed ten siege vehicles, and slowly rushed towards Yangzhou City under the escort of shield soldiers on both sides!
The army is besieging the city, and the battle will rise!