Chapter 155: Blocking the Road
"I've wronged you today!" In the study of the Assassin's Mansion, the subordinates had already come in to clean up, and Rong Sleeping Crane also changed into a homely robe, and when he saw Xu Lianshan coming in, he nodded and said, "I'll give you a credit when I go back!"
After Xu Lianshan saluted, he smiled and said: "The king of the county is serious, such a trivial matter, where is the credit?"
His disputes and various doubts in front of people today were actually arranged in advance by Rong Sleepy Crane, the purpose was to ask questions for the people of Jishan Camp while trying to leak some secrets as little as possible.
After all, Rong Sleeping Crane said that the Jishan Battalion and the Wuyi Battalion were both equal henchmen in his opinion, and there was no superiority in his left and right arms, and even because of the current situation and the number of people, he was more focused on the Jishan Battalion than the Wuyi Battalion.
For example, Wu Jing, the big boss of the Jishan Battalion, went in and out of the Assassin's Mansion as casually as in his own home, and even Sheng Weiqiao, the princess of the county, was courteous;
But in fact, what Rong Sleeping Crane really trusts and relies on is the Wuyi Battalion.
This is because the Wuyi Battalion, or to be precise, the current Wuyi Battalion, was built by him personally, and the people up and down are all well known to him, and of course he is also like a finger when he uses it, while the Jishan Camp is the handwriting of his teacher Huan Guanlan, and the reason why he is under his command is also because of Huan Guanlan.
If Rong Sleeping Crane is deep-minded, his teacher is even more unfathomable.
When the young and easy retired from the court, and disappeared shortly after returning to his hometown, he had been at sea for many years, and was obviously regarded as a hot potato by the grandson of the old sea lord of Tortoiseshell Island, but he refused to return to the shore for a long time, and ignored the efforts of his heirs and protégés to seek justice for him...... If he was so desperate that he went with the flow, he left a record of countless shadows.
Such an anomalous lurking and silence.
Even if he carefully cultivates and teaches Rong Sleeping Crane, he can not trust this teacher wholeheartedly.
Therefore, for the Jishan camp, he didn't show it on his face, but in his heart he always had the idea of both wooing and guarding.
It is only then that Xu Lianshan will be arranged to argue with others in public, and control the situation with one song and one harmony.
At this moment, seeing Xu Lianshan shirking his credit, he smiled, but he didn't insist, and pointed to the chair in front of him: "Sit down and talk about it!"
Xu Lianshan answered, and after sitting down, he said: "King of the county, what you have just discussed, Ni Jidao said that you will deal with it, and you will pay it back." The most difficult thing to solve was that the people near Yizhou City could not retreat into the city before the Ruru soldiers approached the city. ”
In the end, he is a habitual bandit who has accumulated years, and he is not a child of the Western Frontier, he doesn't care about the life or death of these people, and he frowned at this moment and said, "If Ruru arrives, it will be okay to burn and loot, even if he kills them all, it doesn't matter!
In fact, there have been many things like coercing the people of the enemy country to attack the city throughout the ages, and the coping strategy is only one sentence: if you can save it, you will save it, and if you can't save it, you will kill it!
Anyway, they can't break up the array and rush to the city head by them anyway, that would be equivalent to being dragged by them to accompany the burial!
If Rong Sleeping Crane already has a foundation in Western Xinjiang, there is nothing to discuss about this, at most prepare more blades and arrows to avoid being consumed too much by cannon fodder.
The problem is that Rong Sleeping Crane didn't come to the West for half a year, except for a few high-level officials in the West Xinjiang Army, everyone else had never seen him!
Such a team is neither elite, has been negligent in training for a long time, and is also full of resentment due to poverty and illness due to the deprivation of military salaries...... The army, whether it is the actual combat strength or the determination to sacrifice his life for the country, is really not optimistic.
Seeing his parents, wives and children crying and begging under the city, Xu Lianshan put himself in his shoes and thought about it, and felt that if he changed himself, it must be the robe that united the surrounding sides to fight side by side, killed the supervision team together, and ran down the city to open the door to welcome Ruru.
Anyway, the Western Xinjiang Army is so much more than the Jishan Battalion and the Wuyi Battalion combined, no matter how ruthless the Jishan Battalion is, most of the people don't need to mutiny, and a small number of people are against it, and it doesn't work if all these two battalions are put in!
As for what will happen to Ruru after she enters the city, he doesn't care!
Xu Lianshan thinks that his thoughts are human nature, and he is of course very concerned about the people near Yizhou City.
"I have ordered someone to persuade the Western Xinjiang Army to rush to the border to set up an ambush first, with these important towns as the center, and use each other as horns to block the Ruru advance. Rong Sleepy Crane said, "When the time comes, most of the people nearby will take the initiative to flee to the state city or the rear. In this way, most people should be able to escape, and those who are difficult to leave or unable to leave their homeland can only give up, after all, the situation is like this. ”
In this way, even if those who are abandoned are all relatives of the soldiers, there will be fewer people involved, and the probability of mutiny, or the scale of mutiny, will also be reduced.
Xu Lianshan couldn't help but ask: "Can we excuse Ruru or the Meng family to kill them first?"
As soon as these words came out, not only Rong Sleepy Crane looked at him speechlessly, but even Gongsun Yingdun, who had just come in with tea, twitched the corners of his mouth: "Brother Lianshan, are you crazy? We are no longer pirates!"
"Doesn't that think it's quite troublesome?" Xu Lianshan realized that he had a bad idea, and said, "When we fought before, it was to kill! Except for our own people, why else, if you see it, you can cut a few knives first! How do you know that after becoming an official soldier, there will be so many troubles?"
Gongsun Yingdun saw that Rong Sleeping Crane didn't stop his interjection, and corrected him: "It's still the same now, don't move your own people! But we are the official army, and the people of Damu are also our own people!"
He also said, "Didn't the person from the Jishan camp named He Yingqian say it? The little uncle's target is not only the western frontier, since this is the case, we must pay attention to what we do, lest we be used to make a big fuss in the future! In this way, where can we do this kind of thing of killing our own people? Don't forget that although Meng Jiaqian can't get up until now, his uncle Gao Yiyi and the soldiers and horses allocated to him by the hussar general are all in Yizhou! If this kind of thing is caught by them, or on the eve of the enemy's invasion, wouldn't it be tantamount to pushing the little uncle into the fire pit? ”
Xu Lianshan said stupidly: "I think maybe the heads of those people can still be used as war exploits!"
"You save it!" Rong Sleeping Crane said with a smile and a smile, "Since you have gone ashore, you will follow the rules on the shore! Besides, when we were at sea, there were fewer times when we won more with less? What kind of ruthless character has never been killed? Why do you now have 200,000 troops in your hand, and there are 100,000 reinforcements waiting in the rear, and Ruru has only 50,000 forwards, so you are afraid?"
"Of course not!" Xu Lianshan hurriedly said, "I'm just afraid that you will bother too much!"
Rong Sleeping Crane said: "It's just a small fight now, if you can't catch this little wind and waves, don't mention it in the future! Don't forget that Chang'an is our ultimate goal!"
Although these words were said implicitly, the meaning of the words made Xu Lianshan and Gongsun Yingdun a little enthusiastic, they grew up in a bandit nest, they never dreamed that they would have one day to be an official and an army, let alone how many people and courtiers dreamed of from the dragon!
For a while, he felt that the upcoming war was really just a small scene, and he agreed, and seeing that Rong Sleeping Crane had no other instructions, he retired and continued to perform his duties.
And at this moment, on the official road three or two days away from Yizhou City, in the temporary camp, Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu were pale: "Send a scout horse again, go to the nearby village and ask! It can't be just such a road!"
No wonder it's the middle of the night, they are still so anxious: before Tanma found a big pit on the official road, Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu judged that someone wanted to delay their speed, so they ordered Cheng Meizhu to lead people to explore the road first to prepare.
As a result, after Cheng Meizhu received the order, she carefully touched the narrow valley all the way, but it was always calm.
But soon, the group was stunned!
For there is no ambush inside or outside the narrow valley, and there is no need for ambush: this valley is blocked!
As mentioned earlier, this narrow valley is very narrow, and the sky is not very worthy of the name, because some sections of the road can't see the sky at all.
So this place is easy to clogg, the key is to clean up the unspeakable trouble!
Cheng Meizhu occupied the favorable terrain after letting people disperse, ensuring that they would not be taken advantage of during the cleanup, so he dismounted and personally led people in to clean up a section, wanting to see if he could open a way out so that the army could pass.
As a result, he was busy for a long time, and the large troops behind him caught up, and he only cleared a few feet away, but the blockage was still solid and there were no traces of the passage!
"Look at the traces of the dirt. At this time, Lu Shiyu received a notice, drove a horse over to watch, saw this situation, frowned and said left and right, "Many of them are dug on the official road, and they are those pits!"
After the large army came up, the speed of the cleanup still could not be accelerated: the valley was too narrow! There were so many people who could go in at once, and there was no place to start after there were too many, but they just stood behind and watched.
Lu Shiyu then sent a master of the army who was good at flying eaves and walking on the wall to go around the top of the cliffs on both sides of the narrow valley from the cliff next to him, and let people tie ropes and go down to investigate.
As a result, this investigation found that the narrow valley five or six miles long was fully blocked by two-thirds!
"According to the current progress, it will take at least ten days and half a month to clean up thoroughly!" Lu Shiyu estimated, and asked someone to call out Cheng Meizhu from the valley, "We can't afford it, and the princess of the county can't afford it!"
However, although the soldiers did find some hunters, mountain people, and the like from the vicinity, they all insisted that this narrow valley was the only path, and that they could only go around a hundred miles away.
Lü Shiyu ordered to withdraw from the narrow valley for several miles and set up camp to discuss countermeasures.
It's just a matter of deliberating and discussing, and there is only one way: a detour.
The problem is that the guide who came over couldn't provide a new path at all, and today it can be said that I found it in a hurry, and I asked it nearby, so there may be omissions.
In case the person who looked for it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow also said no...... So, what to do?
Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu were having a headache, and at this time, the guards came to report, saying that Sheng Weiqiao had sent a maid to ask, why did the team stop first, and then retreat, is there anything going on in the narrow valley?