Chapter 18: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

The person who came was none other than Wu Changqing, the head of internal affairs of the Yunyang General's Mansion.

Seeing Wu Changqing, who was stained with blood, Tao Chenmo and Cheng Jinshang secretly screamed badly.

Wu Changqing entered the hall, knelt down, and shouted: "Zhuang Qing, the defender of Fucheng, and Tu Mao, the general of Vientiane, raided our grain army, and tens of thousands of stone grain and baggage were all robbed, and almost all the soldiers who held the grain were wiped out. ”

The generals were like thunderbolts, Tao Chenmo hurriedly helped Wu Changqing up, and said with concern: "Changqing, you get up first, and tell me in detail what happened?" ”

"The subordinates brought 3,000 soldiers from Yunyang to escort grain and grass to Yuzhou, and when they passed through the Mawang Pass in Fucheng, they were suddenly ambushed by the army, and the attackers were the defenders of Fucheng, led by Zhuang Qing, the defender of Fucheng, and Tu Mao, the guard of Vientiane."

Cheng Jinshang lined up the table and said angrily: "These two bastards dare to rob me of grain and grass, I think they are tired and crooked, and Lao Tzu has to pick their skins." ”

Cheng Yanwu said: "Didn't these two people say that they would listen to the general's dispatch? Why did it attack our grain and grass army again at this time, the wind direction is turning too fast, it should be peeled, I think, a thousand knives are not too much. ”

"These two people are the grass on the wall swaying with the wind, since the general started the army, these two people's attitude is confused, seeing that I waited to take Yuzhou, then left Qin Xiang pretended to listen to the general's command, and now the old general Liang went south, these two people must have wanted to take the opportunity to make some credit, so they were making trouble behind their backs, and they should have freed their hands to take Fucheng and Vientiane." Wang Jinyi said slowly.

"Not only that, but I heard that these two are also planning to attack Yunyang in the south, so they must have already set off at this time." Wu Changqing looked very anxious.

Hearing this, everyone felt that something was wrong.

"Is the information reliable?" Cheng Jinshang asked.

"After leading dozens of soldiers who had survived the catastrophe to break out of the siege, they deliberately stayed outside Fucheng for a period of time, and they did see these two people in the army, and they had already sent people to Yunyang to report to General Wang Liyang, and they also left someone to investigate secretly in Fucheng, and then I set off to come to Yunyang." Wu Changqing said.

Cheng Jinshang said: "Changqing, you did the right thing, you were seriously injured, go down to rest first." "Then call someone and let him lead Wu Changqing to find Su Mu.

"Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao have never dared to attack my Yunyang, I think there must be something strange in this." Cheng Jinshang took the map and continued.

Tao Chenmo thought about it, suddenly understood something, and said: "It must be General Liang's plan, that day under the city, General Liang's persuasion to surrender was rejected by me, and he said meaningfully that he would take Yuzhou, I was wondering why I didn't see the siege in the past two days, it turned out to be like this, General Liang did not attack Yuzhou, intended to delay the army, but in fact, it was secretly crossing Chen Cang, sending people to persuade Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing to attack my grain and grass, and attack Yunyang, so that I could wait for the enemy to suffer from the enemy and become a turtle in the urn." ”

As soon as Tao Chenmo said this, Cheng Jinshang immediately understood and nodded yes.

"I'll lead my troops back to rescue Yunyang." Cheng Yanwu said.

Cheng Jinshang waved his hand and said: "The battle between the two armies is just like a game, the master duel is not just to see how the next chess should be settled, but to think of ten steps away, since General Liang mobilized Tu Mao and others to attack Yunyang, he will naturally expect that we will send troops to help, if he orders people to set up an ambush at any pass between Yuzhou and Yunyang, we will throw themselves into the net, Yunyang has a heavenly shadow and a natural danger, Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing are more than 20,000 people, if they really want to gnaw Yunyang, I am afraid it is unlikely, the key to the problem now is that our army's food and grass are cut off, I'm afraid that Yuzhou City is really difficult to defend. ”

Cheng Jinshang analyzed, and everyone suddenly realized that this Liang Pingchuan's use of soldiers is really extraordinary, if he is impulsive, I am afraid that he has really fallen into a trap.

The crowd was silent.

Tao Chenmo thought for a moment and said: "Our priority is not to stick to Yuzhou, but to preserve our strength, so we would rather temporarily abandon Yuzhou City to ensure that tens of thousands of soldiers in Yuzhou are not unjustified disasters. ”

"Abandoned? Brother, do you mean that we will give up Yuzhou? "I don't understand.

"The end of the minister is reasonable, now that Yuzhou is under the enemy's back, our troops are far from enough to deal with such a crisis, especially in the face of General Liang Pingchuan, the top priority is how to retreat, you have a clever plan at the end of the minister."

"I can't talk about a clever plan, but there is a way."

"What way." Cheng Jinshang asked.

"General Liang sent someone to cut off my grain and grass and then ordered Tu Mao and others to go south to attack Yunyang, intending to force us to rush to the aid of Yunyang to disperse our forces and break them individually, so even if there is an ambush between Yuzhou and Yunyang, then these ambushes must be on the way from Fucheng to Yunyang, in this case, why don't we come up with a plan and govern others in the way of others."

"Oh, I'm in a hurry, brother, you hurry up, how to fight." Cheng Yan urged.

Tao Chenmo smiled slightly, and continued: "Yunyang is naturally to be saved, but we can't drill into our pockets, since we can't go back to Chi Yunyang, then we will attack Fucheng and Vientiane, these two places are the nests of Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing, these two people have always seen the wind and steered, they can't give up their foundation for a Yunyang that is already difficult to attack, so we attack the city, they will inevitably come back, and we will set up an ambush outside Fucheng to catch him off guard, so that Yunyang will be saved, and Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing will be removed." ”

Cheng Jinshang nodded with satisfaction, in the current situation, this is the best policy.

"But if you follow this plan, you will end up with two points." Cheng Yanwu didn't understand.

"It must be divided into troops, otherwise we will have to sit and wait for death, so the premise of this plan is that we must give up Yuzhou." Tao Chenmo said.

Wang Jinyi, who had been pondering before, suddenly understood and said: "What General Tao means is that Yuzhou is a false guard, and all the heavy troops went south, and by the way, they cleaned up Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing, and then all of them returned to Yunyang and guarded them with Tianying Guantian. ”

Cheng Yanwu finally understood what Tao Chenmo meant at this time, but he just wanted to give up Yuzhou, and he was still a little reluctant.

Tao Chenmo nodded and said: "General Liang's place has not yet attacked Yuzhou, he is waiting for us to send troops back to Chiyunyang, as long as I wait for a move, he will inevitably start to attack the city, so if we want our plan to succeed, the southward movement of Yuzhou's troops must be carried out at night, and there can be no big movement." ”

Cheng Jinshang stared at the map, pondered, for a long time, he began to deploy aloud: "Wang Jin Yicheng Yan I listen to the order, now Fucheng and Vientiane are two empty cities, tonight, you two will each lead 10,000 elite soldiers to feint, and will lead 50,000 soldiers to set up an ambush in Huangcaoling, the only way to pass through Yunyang and Fucheng and Vientiane, wait for these two people to come back to help, and then come to wait for work, these two villains will be abolished, Tao Chenmo, Wei Wenzhong, you two will lead the remaining soldiers to guard Yuzhou, and retreat to Yunyang two days later, and then send this Yuzhou city to General Liang. ”

Everyone received their own orders, and at this time, Ding Kangyang, who had been standing aside, suddenly remembered something and asked, "General, where is Mrs. Cheng?" ”

Cheng Jinshang set up troops in Yunyang, and in order to prevent the villain from harming him, he secretly arranged his family in a mansion outside Yuzhou before coming to Yuzhou.

Cheng Jinshang said: "General Liang's siege of the city will not affect the innocent, and his wife will not be in danger in Yuzhou, and she is not in the city." ”

"General, I think it's safer to withdraw my wife together, General Liang has a clear distinction between right and wrong, but it is difficult to prevent villains from doing trouble, a few days ago, the gangsters poisoned the soldiers and brutally killed Lang Zhong should be vigilant." Ding Kangyang said.

"The subordinates think that Kang Yang has some truth, although this time it is General Liang's main attack, but Qin Yong has always been pervasive, and it is inevitable that he will do despicable things in secret." Wang Jinyi also persuaded.

Tao Chenmo and others also thought that for the sake of safety, they should still withdraw the family members of the General's Mansion.

Ren Pujia said: "The general's deployment does not need to be changed, the task of escorting the lady will be left to me, the general only needs to find a few people who are familiar with the terrain and the direction to follow me, and when I pick up the wife, I will return to Yunyang along the way." ”

Cheng Jinshang nodded and said, "Then there will be Mrs. Lao Pujia, in this way, I will let Lianchengzong go with Mrs. ”

"There is one more thing, I don't know if the general has a decision in his heart." Tao Chenmo asked.

"What?"

"What should we do with our Lord Zhong Jie Zhong who is being locked up in Nanshan Prison?"

"Alas, I have been an official in the same dynasty with him for more than ten years, and I have worked together in Yuzhou for more than five years, although he is willing to be Qin Yong's eagle dog, but after all, he has no other deep hatred with me, and he has been locked up for so long, so let him go when you withdraw from Yuzhou." Cheng Jinshang thought for a while and said.

In this way, everything was arranged, and when night fell, they went their own way.

Tao Chenmo and Ren Pujia decided to go to see Wu Changqing.

When he came to the military medicine hall, he saw that this Su Mu had just finished giving Wu Changqing the medicine, Wu Changqing saw Tao Chenmo and Ren Pujia coming in, so he was about to get up and salute, but was supported by Tao Chenmo and asked, "How is it, it's okay?" ”

"It's okay, General, this girl has already treated my wounds, and I haven't hurt my bones."

Seeing that Wu Changqing was fine, Tao Chenmo began to ask some things about Yunyang, and Ren Pujia saw Tao Chenmo and Wu Changqing talking, so he pulled Su Mu aside and said, "Sister, sister has something to tell you." ”

"Sister, please command."

"Now that the form of Yuzhou has changed, we plan to withdraw from Yuzhou, I don't know what my sister plans to do?"

"This, I, marching and fighting, I don't know anything, when you leave, I will naturally go back to the infirmary."

"But my sister wants to say that today's Yuzhou is afraid that it will be fought intermittently for a long time, and my sister can stay in the land of right and wrong?"

"I grew up in Yuzhou since I was a child, and I have nowhere to go except here."

"I have an idea, I don't know what my sister thinks."

"Sister, you say."

"Yuzhou has always been a battleground for soldiers, and now the troubled times will be gunsmoke from time to time, you also know that every time there is a war, in addition to the injury of soldiers, there will always be more or less innocent people, my sister thinks, you stay here will inevitably be affected, we are ready to withdraw to Yunyang, Yunyang mountains and rivers are beautiful, but no worse than Yuzhou, and compared to Yuzhou, it is much more peaceful, or you and Lingtang will go back to Yunyang with us, your father and daughter have excellent medical skills, and staying in the army can give us a lot of help, what do you think?"

"Is Yuzhou City really on the cusp?"

"Why did my sister lie to you?"

"Then, I have to discuss it with my father."

"I'll go to Lingtang and say, besides, after getting along these days, my sister is very reluctant to let you go."

"But what about the generals?"

At this time, Tao Chenmo helped Wu Changqing and walked out.

Ren Pujia smiled and said to Tao Chenmo: "General Tao, I intend to let Miss Su's father and daughter follow us to retreat to Yunyang, I don't know if it's feasible?" ”

In fact, Tao Chenmo came this time to check Wu Changqing's injury, and secondly, he felt that he was going to withdraw from Yuzhou, and wanted to come to say goodbye to this Miss Su.

Before Su Mu could answer, Ren Pujia said: "Whether my sister wants to or not, going to Yunyang with us will definitely be safer than staying in Yuzhou, I think it's decided like this, as for Old Man Su, I'll say it." ”

Since Ren Pujia said so, Su Mu didn't want to say anything, and when she saw Tao Chenmo, she always seemed a little involuntarily, as for Tao Chenmo, he was actually reluctant to Su Mu, but the war was urgent, and he didn't have much heart to think about these things, and he didn't think that Ren Pujia seemed to have noticed it.

In fact, Ren Pujia is more or less sad in her heart when she does this, these days after getting along, she can naturally see the thoughts of Su Mu and Tao Chenmo, although these two people don't get along much on weekdays, but their eyes on each other have said everything, from the bottom of her heart, she naturally hopes to be able to accompany Tao Chenmo by herself, but she knows her identity very well, and the most important thing is that she is a person who understands righteousness, Tao Chenmo saved her life and gave her countless sense of security, then she will try her best to repay in her own way, In fact, in the end, she didn't know whether what she did was to repay her kindness or simply out of love.

After watching Wu Changqing, Tao Chenmo decided to meet Tulan Gurou again.

Tao Chenmo knew that he was going to withdraw to Yunyang in the end, so he planned to persuade the county lord again and let her leave the land of right and wrong in Yuzhou as soon as possible.

But the answer he got was still no, where did he think that through these years of observation, Turan Gurou was even more determined to let him go north, so in the end he only got a sentence "No matter what arrangements you have, as long as you don't go north, I won't leave, if you want to defend Yuzhou, I will pick you up and abandon you to the north, if you want to withdraw from Yuzhou, I will follow you wherever you go, until you agree to go north with me." However, because he was worried about leaking the news, he still couldn't help but not tell Turan Gurou that he planned to withdraw Yunyang's plan.

The time has come.

Cheng Yanwu, Wang Jinyi, and Cheng Jinshang each led their troops, and by night, they avoided the north gate where Liang Pingchuan's army was stationed, and went south along the waterway. In order to prevent someone from staring at his family and withdrawing in advance would leak the news, Cheng Jinshang decided to let Ren Pujia and Lian Chengzong act together with Tao Chenmo, and when Tao Chenmo withdrew his troops, she would pick them up along the way, and then return to Yunyang with Tao Chenmo.

Estimating that Cheng Jinshang and the others had arrived at the planned location, Tao Chenmo began to arrange the retreat of the remaining soldiers, and before that, he went to Nanshan Prison to see Zhong Jie, and he had some questions in his heart that he wanted to find answers.

Zhong Jie has been locked up in Nanshan Prison for nearly two months, and he has lost a lot of weight, and when he saw Tao Chenmo, he didn't plead, he had already done things for many people, and he had long expected that one day there would be such an ending, but it seemed to come faster.

Tao Chenmo brought good wine and good food, Zhong Jie was naturally not polite, and did not forget to praise "good wine" for a drink.

Tao Chenmo didn't beat around the bush, and asked straight to the point: "Lord Zhong, it's really not a secret, Chenmo came today because he had some questions and wanted adults to help solve them." ”

"Brother, I'm in your hands now, and I'm not an adult anymore, just ask if you have any questions."

"The position of an adult is granted by the imperial court, and the Qin minister who is waiting for us to rebel is not the imperial court, and the adult is naturally still an adult."

"Hahaha, Tao Chenmo, do you mean I still have a way to live?"

"Your Excellency just chose the wrong side and did something that ordinary people can't do, so it won't lead to a capital crime, not to mention that we don't plan to kill you at all."

"Since you want to oppose Qin Xiang, why don't you kill me?"

"Because in my opinion, Lord Zhong still has a lot of secrets, and the one about Qin Xiang is only one of them, am I right?"

"I'm just helping Qin Xiang secretly spy on General Cheng, this little thing has been discovered by you, what other secrets can I have?"

"Oh, yes, then let me ask your lordship, when the army entered the city, Lord Zhong had a chance to escape, but why did he go back to burn those letters, since you know that your secret communication with Qin Xiang has been exposed, why do you want to do more? It seems to me that adults are a bit of a cover-up in doing this. ”

"Brother, in the life of the world for decades, how can there be a time when you are not confused."

"Not necessarily, I carefully looked through the remaining letters, some of them were written to Qin Xiang, but some of them were not headed up or signed, and the other letters exchanged with Qin Xiang were very different in tone and way of speaking, I think these letters must not be written to Qin Xiang, and also, Lord Zhong had to burn a portrait hanging on the wall when he was struggling, this is obviously trying to cover up something, and besides, most of the classics searched from your room are not in Chinese, is there nothing strange in this? Do you think I have a point, my lord? ”

Zhong Jie was slightly stunned, haha said: "Brother, you think too much, I am the master of the abyss, and I always have some contacts with different people, so these letters are naturally not all connected to Qin, as for the painting, I just threw the torch in the wrong place at the time, but the situation was special at that time, which made my brother feel that my behavior was a little abnormal. My brother is too suspicious. ”

Tao Chenmo smiled slightly, and didn't ask anymore, first, he was really not sure if he was thinking too much, and secondly, Zhong Jie said that although it was a bit far-fetched that he threw the torch in the wrong place at that time, other explanations were reasonable, and at present, it seemed that it had no impact on Yuzhou and himself, so it didn't seem necessary to ask again. After drinking a few sips of wine, he returned to the General's Mansion, as for Zhong Jie, after Tao Chenmo left, he still shuddered in his heart, from Tao Chenmo's angry killing of Chu Chun'an, he analyzed that he should be an impulsive and stubborn person, but what he saw today, he suddenly felt that this Tao Chenmo was actually a lot of thoughtful people, but fortunately, Tao Chenmo didn't ask much, and it was over.

Soon, the time of the plan was almost up, Cheng Jinshang ambushed Huangcaoling, Cheng Yanwu and Wang Jinyi attacked Vientiane and Fucheng, and sure enough, Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao heard that Cheng Jinshang was attacking their lair, and instantly forgot Liang Pingchuan's order, and hurriedly returned to help, but was beaten by Cheng Jinshang in Huangcaoling, Cheng Jinshang temporarily changed his mind and let the two of them live. All the grain and grass were taken away.

At about the same time, Tao Chenmo let Zhong Jie go, and packed some of the objects that were searched from Zhong Jie's mansion at that time, although I don't know what the effect of these things is for the time being, but I always feel that they can come in handy in the future, and then quietly withdrew from Yuzhou, waiting for Ren Pujia in Qingshiba.

Ren Pujia took Su Mu and Lianchengzong to pick up Cheng Jinshang's family at that time, according to the agreed time, he should have arrived at Qingshiba before Tao Chenmo, but Tao Chenmo waited here for two hours and did not wait for their group, and immediately ordered Wei Wenzhong to take the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers to return to Yunyang quickly, and he took more than a dozen guards to pick up Ren Pujia, Tulan Gurou also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Tulan Bobai and others, she wanted to go south with Tao Chenmo, Tulan Bobai was against it, and this time he was going to risk with Tao Chenmo alone, Naturally, he was killed and refused, but Turan Gurou was bent on going, and he had no choice but to follow all the way.

Qingshiba is less than an hour away from the mansion of Cheng Jinshang's family, Tao Chenmo quickly whipped his horse, and he was about to reach his destination, but he saw Ren Pujia and others being surrounded by nearly 100 people on a small hill, Tao Chenmo was furious, and he went to the rescue with a spear and threw everyone to the rescue, where did these people expect that Ren Pujia suddenly came to help, and suddenly panicked, Tao Chenmo killed indiscriminately, and soon broke through the siege of these people, Tulan Gurou saw that his hands were itchy, so he also rushed into the formation and killed a lot of people, Tulan Bobai sighed and immediately joined, These people are all first-class masters, where can these killers withstand their rampage, and soon they were all scattered, and they fled in the wilderness, Tao Chenmo ordered, leaving one alive and killing all the others, and more than a dozen guards chased and slashed everywhere, all of them were killed.

Coming closely, I saw that Ren Pujia and Lianchengzong were injured, Tao Chenmo was puzzled, this Lianchengzong was a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, plus Ren Pujia, a hundred or so people were not their opponents at all, how to hurt the city like this.

Ren Pujia explained that as soon as they received Mrs. Cheng and others, they were besieged by dozens of people, and they fought and retreated, but the number of the other party was increasing, and these people were all well-trained killers, it seemed that they had already laid an ambush, just waiting for them to come.

After inquiry, these people were all killers raised by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and they were all summoned by Zhang Zhaoyi. It turned out that this Qin Yong wanted to place Wang Jinglan and Zhang Zhaoyi in Liang Pingchuan's army, but was sternly rejected by Liang Pingchuan, Qin Yong was so angry that he secretly sent Zhang Zhaoyi to Yuzhou to walk, on the one hand, to monitor Liang Pingchuan's movements, on the other hand, to listen to the news of Yuzhou, Zhang Zhaoyi overheard that Cheng Jinshang had transferred his family to the outside of the city last time he came to Yuzhou, and this time he came to secretly make trouble, wanting to take advantage of the war in Yuzhou to solve Cheng Jinshang's family, and then blame Liang Pingchuan, so that these two people can fight to the death. But before Yuzhou started, Ren Pujia and others came to pick up people, Zhang Zhaoyi saw that the situation was not right, so he ordered to do it first, and then he was about to succeed, but Tao Chenmo came to the rescue, and he sneaked away when he saw that the situation was wrong.

Tao Chen was in a hurry, but the top priority was to withdraw to Yunyang first, so he didn't chase this Zhang Zhaoyi again.

Tao Chenmo looked at everyone, except for Ren Pujia and Lianchengzong and a few guards who were injured, Su Mu and the others were not hurt, and they were a lot more steady, and then they came to Mrs. Cheng, saluted, and said: "Madame is frightened, the minister is late, and I hope Madame will forgive me." ”

Although this Mrs. Cheng is nearly forty years old, her skin is smooth and bright, and although she is being hunted down in front of her, her bearing is still there, and she is not frightened. She waved her hand and said, "Women and children are weak, and I almost hurt you, and I should forgive me." With that, he bowed slightly to everyone.

Tao Chenmo hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Madame is polite, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, according to General Cheng's order, we must evacuate south as soon as possible, madam, please." Then he led the people south.

It stands to reason that Liang Pingchuan's plan can be described as the best policy, but it has been three days. But I didn't see any news, and I couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Liang Yunbi was puzzled and asked, "My father has the best policy, but why is he worried?" ”

"If you and Wen Ting go, I naturally don't have to worry, but Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao are the masters who see the wind and make the rudder, if it weren't for Yuzhou Henggen in front, I would definitely not let these two fight such an important battle." Liang Pingchuan said.

"The outpost has come to report, the sentry in Yuzhou City is still as usual, it stands to reason that it has been several days, if Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao take action, this Yuzhou City should have some movement." Lu Wenting said.

"No, the old man has to go and see for himself." After that, Liang Pingchuan led Lu Wenting and Liang Yunbi to the front of the battle, boarded the platform, and watched carefully, only to see that the flag was still fluttering on the city of Yuzhou, and there was no abnormality, Liang Pingchuan was puzzled, could it be that Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao really took their orders as a deaf ear, and he decided to send Liang Yunbi to call the battle and find out.

Liang Yunbi came to the city and shouted that he wanted to pick Tao Chenmo again, but the soldiers on the city wall looked at it but didn't care, seeing that there was no movement in the city, Liang Pingchuan took a closer look at it on the platform, and suddenly felt that the city wall didn't seem to be as many people coming and going as a few days ago, and some soldiers seemed to be motionless.

Tens of thousands of troops flocked to the city, the soldiers on the city wall after a little resistance and then all withdrew, changed the rags prepared in advance, mixed into the crowd, Liang Pingchuan entered the city without much effort, entered the city and saw that it was empty, there were a lot of scarecrows wearing military uniforms on the city wall, shouting badly, immediately ordered to search left and right, and led a group of generals straight to the general's mansion.

When he came to the mansion, Liang Pingchuan already understood everything, and couldn't help but sigh, and said with a somewhat abrupt smile: "Good Cheng Jinshang, the old man secretly crossed Chen Cang, he actually came to a golden cicada to come out of his shell, hahaha, interesting and interesting." ”

Seeing this situation, Lu Wenting said: "The general took Yuzhou without a single soldier, which can be described as a big victory." ”

Liang Yunbi also said: "Yes, Ma Weibang attacked the city and buried the lives of 60,000 soldiers in vain. ”

Liang Pingchuan said slowly: "Your Majesty invited us to come this time, and capturing Yuzhou is the primary purpose, and we can be regarded as living up to the holy will, but the old man has other ideas." ”

"Father wants to destroy Cheng Jinshang's forces in one fell swoop?"

"Yes, within two months, the soldiers in Cheng Jinshang's hands have skyrocketed from 40,000 to 80,000, such a momentum will definitely become a big disaster in Dayuan, the old man's trip is not only to capture Yuzhou, but also to completely eliminate Cheng Jinshang's threat to Dayuan, but this person really has some ability, and he can retreat with his whole body, so I wait for only half of the task of this trip."

"They must not have evacuated Yuzhou too far, so they will lead people to chase them." Lu Wenting asked for help.

Liang Pingchuan waved his hand and said: "It's useless to chase now, if the old man didn't guess wrong, it must be Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao who went wrong in the middle, Cheng Jinshang and others are at least one day ahead of us, and they have been operating in Yuzhou for many years, he has his own way to escape, the top priority, one is to immediately send someone to Fucheng to inquire about the news, find Zhuang Qing and Tu Mao for me, and the other is to immediately take over the defense of Yuzhou, the old man wants to use this as a camp to plan to destroy Cheng Jinshang." ”

Soon, Tu Mao and Zhuang Qing fled to Yuzhou, and the two were about to complain, but they were escorted to the tent by Liang Pingchuan. It turned out that Cheng Jinshang and others only guessed halfway, according to Liang Pingchuan's plan, these two people did not really want to attack Yunyang, but a feint, so as to lead Cheng Jinshang to send troops back to help, and then come to a siege point to help, although Cheng Jinshang did not know whether they were a real attack or a fake attack, but as long as they guessed that it was a design to encircle and annihilate, it didn't matter, but it was a pity that these two people forgot about Liang Pingchuan's arrangements when they heard that their nest was attacked, and they were not able to use their plans but were generalized. Liang Pingchuan has always hated those who disobey military orders, so no matter how the two people quibbled, he did not hesitate to bring them to justice.

After Cheng Jinshang and the others returned to Yunyang, they immediately strengthened the fortifications of Tianying Pass and sent heavy troops to guard it, he knew that if this pass was breached, it was only a matter of time before Yunyang City was destroyed. Wang Liyang saw Cheng Jinshang and the others Mo said how happy he was, but he didn't see Tao Chenmo, Ren Pujia and others, he looked around, and learned that Tao Chenmo would return later, his heart was relieved, his mind flashed, and he asked Cheng Jinshang for his life and said that he was going to pick up Tao Chenmo outside the gate, Cheng Jinshang naturally knew what he was thinking, since Yunyang started the army, it has been almost two months now, Yuzhou City is full of flames, and there have been many battles of all sizes, but this Wang Liyang is idle in Yunyang and can only itch his hands and be anxious, At this time, I thought about seeing if I could sweep the tail and go to the gate to practice twice. Of course, he naturally didn't agree, and Wang Liyang had no choice but to go, seeing him like this, Cheng Jinshang felt very funny.

In less than a day, Tao Chenmo returned to Yunyang with Ren Pujia, Wei Wenzhong, Lian Chengzong and others, and handed over Mrs. Cheng and other family members to Cheng Jinshang completely. Seeing Tao Chenmo return intact, the happiest person was naturally Wang Liyang, after a period of greetings, he began to complain again, it was nothing more than Cheng Jinshang's partiality, not letting him go to the battlefield or something like that, he didn't say it, as soon as he said it, this Wei Wenzhong opened the chatterbox, and kept showing off how his Yuzhou City went into battle to kill the enemy, how to kill the Quartet, so angry that this Wang Liyang was a smoke, and he couldn't wait to slap him with two big ears.

Tao Chenmo was also in a very good mood, so he let him mess around, and he went to arrange food and lodging for this Su Mu father and daughter, as well as Tulan Gurou and others, although this Yunyang City is not as majestic and magnificent as Yuzhou, but the beautiful mountains and rivers are also interesting, and Su Mu has a little less sorrow in his heart. Ren Pujia put down the affairs in her hand, and ran back to her mansion as soon as possible, Zeng Yingying saw her mother returning, and she was indescribably happy in her heart, and kept talking about her bits and pieces in Yunyang in the past two months.

Soon after nightfall, everyone went to the general's mansion under the convening of Cheng Jinshang, and the side birds who had been idle for nearly two months in the eighteenth mile were also picked up, and saw Cheng Jinshang returning, not to mention how happy he was, seeing Cheng Jinshang, he laughed and said: "Back then, you and I swore to work together to help the common people and serve the court, but now you have become a thief, and I have become a follower of the thief." ”

Cheng Jinshang deliberately put on a face and said seriously: "It's a shame that you have also done the history of the Great Abyss's Yizhou Assassination, and you can even make several mistakes in one sentence." ”

"Oh, really?"

"First, I'm against Qin Yong, who is in trouble with the dynasty, don't you see that the general is playing the banner of 'Zhu Qin, Qing Jun's side', and this court is not his surname Qin. Second, the general didn't force you to follow me, although I saved your life, but now that I am raising troops to punish Qin, you can still return to Tai'an as a criminal minister of the Great Abyss, and maybe you can also give orders to break hands with this general. ”

"Yo, when you say this, I think there is some truth, but people can't cross the river and tear down the bridge to be ungrateful, you saved my life, I will be wronged and wronged to follow you first, if you really can't stand it in the future, I will return to Dayuan, just say that you have been holding me hostage and not letting me go, right, this person, you have to leave yourself a way out."

"You still know how to leave a way out, why didn't you think of leaving a way out for yourself when you scolded Qin Yong at that time?"

"I said which pot you don't open and which pot you want, how long has it been, forget it, which one of these is Tao Chenmo, who can make you mobilize the army and raise troops to punish Qin, I want to see and understand."

"Alright, you'll see you later."

The two of them came to the council chamber with their mouths in this way.

Everyone has not been seen for a long time, Wang Liyang briefly reported the recent situation of Yunyang, first, there has been no change in Qianzhou these days, thinking that this Yang Mingzhen may not have recovered his vitality, secondly, since Cheng Jinshang planned to raise troops, Yan Yu was flustered, he was really in a dilemma, if he followed Cheng Jinshang, then he would become a chaotic minister and thief, and he was afraid that he would not be able to wash away his infamy in his life, but his strength was weak, and he was stared at tightly by Wang Liyang, so he was really powerless to resist, so he used the excuse of illness and weakness to ask about Yunyang's affairs these days, third, During the time when Cheng Jin was still in Yuzhou, Wang Liyang also recruited some soldiers and horses in Yunyang according to his orders, plus the 10,000 soldiers who stayed behind before, and now there are 20,000 garrisons in Yunyang City.

After listening to Wang Liyang's statement, Cheng Jinshang said with a smile: "Our Lord Yan is really embarrassed, I won't bother him anymore, pass on my order, if he wants to stay in Yunyang, we will eat and drink well, if he is afraid of being implicated, he can also leave by himself." As for Qianzhou, it is still necessary to find out the news in time, today's Yunyang, there is the 100,000 army of the old general Liang in front of him, and Yang Mingzhen is watching closely, and he can't relax for a moment, in addition, the defense of Tianying Pass will be handed over to Wang Liyang and Ding Kangyang, although the old general has 100,000 people, but Tianying Pass is like a moat, with the old general's style of warfare, he will not attack rashly. ”

"What? This is not a fight? We have 100,000 people in Yunyang now, so we can't always nest in this one place. Wang Liyang felt a little lost.

Wang Jinyi said with a smile: "The battle still has to be fought, but now is not the time to fight hard, Brother Wang, you don't have to worry, there will be a chance for you to go into battle to kill the enemy in the future, but I feel that what General Wang said also has some truth, plus the 80,000 soldiers brought back from Yuzhou, there are 100,000 troops in Yunyang City today, although we can stick to the natural danger to consolidate the fundamentals, but this Yunyang is too small after all, and the 100,000 people who are idle here are probably problems with both food and grass and exercises." ”

"Yes, what you two said is very reasonable, but now we have no better way to deal with all this, but now we can only respond to all changes with the same, and if we take a slight wrong step, we will fall into a situation from which we will never recover." Cheng Jinshang said.

"It's understandable that you want to let go and do a lot of work, but you can't do it when the time comes." Tao Chenmo got up, came to the map, and continued: "There are 100,000 troops outside the Tianying Pass, if it is just a simple 100,000 army, it is easy to say, but the leader of the troops is Liang Pingchuan, the god of war in the abyss, we can wait for the rabbit in the pass, on the contrary, with the wisdom of General Liang, he can also wait outside the pass to watch the changes, waiting for the opportunity to move, the two armies are fighting like a master game, one son is wrong, and the whole game is lost, not to mention, Yang Mingzhen of Qianzhou has always been eyeing Yunyang, so as General Cheng said, now we can only do a good job of defense first, how to spread out the battle situation, It will take time to think about it in the long term. ”

"But we can't just wait, can we?" Wang Liyang asked.

"Waiting is a matter of waiting, then it depends on whether Qin Xiang has the patience." Tao Chenmo said thoughtfully.

"Oh? What does this have to do with Prime Minister Qin? Cheng Yanwu couldn't help but ask.

"Everyone should know how many hole cards Qin Xiang has in his hand, a few months ago Chu Chunan lost tens of thousands of people in Qianzhou, and Wang Jinglan lost 100,000 soldiers in the north, plus more than 60,000 people lost by Ma Weibang in Yuzhou, the Dayuan Imperial Court has lost more than 200,000 horses, and there is no victory, this is unbearable for Qin Yong, he urgently needs to regain face in front of His Majesty, so he will use the old general Liang, who has been idle for many years, but in any case, the old general is not his Qin Yong's person, and now Yuzhou has been recaptured, Qin Yong can speak again in front of His Majesty, so next, will he let the old general enjoy his military exploits alone? Definitely not, this is the same as a few months ago, Chu Chunan was defeated but was transferred to Yunyang to serve as the overseer, so if the old general can't capture Yunyang after a while, then our Qin Xiang just has a reason to take away the handsome seal from the old general's hand and let his own people lead the troops, success or failure doesn't matter, because at least they can firmly control Yuzhou. Tao Chen explained word by word.

Hearing Tao Chenmo say this, everyone suddenly realized.

"But there is a problem that cannot be solved, now there are 100,000 people in Yunyang, and all the grain and grass can only supply 100,000 troops for a month at most, what if this Qin Yong is patient again this time? As long as he allows General Liang to hold out for another month, then we will inevitably have to fight in the end. Cheng Yanwu expressed the doubts in his heart.

"Hirata." Tao Chenmo pointed to the map and said, "Pingtian and Ningzhong are the main supply areas of grain and grass for the garrisons in Rongzhou and Yunzhou, and now there are not many garrisons in Yunzhou. ”

"Attack Hirata?" The generals were immediately interested.

Tao Chenmo turned his gaze to Cheng Jinshang, Cheng Jinshang stared at the map thoughtfully, pondered for a while, Cheng Jinshang nodded and said: "The minister's plan is exactly what I want, the old general can take Yuzhou without wasting a soldier, he will naturally not die around Yunyang, we can think of it He must also be able to think of it, so when the old general reflects it, he will definitely send heavy troops to garrison Pingtian, and sooner or later he will confront the general, then I might as well strike first and take Pingtian and Ningzhong." ”

Seeing that Cheng Jinshang nodded to fight, everyone was more interested, and before he could arrange it, Wang Liyang jumped out and said, "General Cheng, no matter what, this battle must be let me go." ”

Cheng Jinshang smiled helplessly, but looked at Tao Chenmo and asked: "Troop formation can't be child's play, you see, how to fight?" ”

Seeing that Cheng Jinshang was asking Tao Chenmo's opinion, Wang Liyang looked at Tao Chenmo again.

Tao Chenmo said with a smile: "Brother Wang has been in Yunyang for so long, and if you don't let him move, I'm afraid that I'm really going to suffocate." However, this battle is only allowed to be won and not defeated, and it is more prudent to arrange a few more men, and we must not only capture Hirata, but also defend, which is not a one-and-done thing. ”

Cheng Jinshang looked around the people in the hall, looked at the map carefully, and planned for a long time in his heart, and said loudly: "Wang Jinyi, Wang Liyang, this will order the two of you to lead 50,000 troops to attack Pingtian and Ningzhong, Wang Jinyi is handsome, Wang Liyang obeys the order of the account, after the matter is completed, we must strengthen the defense, and hold the foundation of my Yunyang grain and grass, if the general is not wrong, when the old general Liang frees his hand, he will inevitably attack Pingtian, in order to cut off my grain road, you two siege the city is not much difficulty, the difficulty is how to hold this place, the old general has a lot of people, You two must not be reckless because of belligerence. ”

Cheng Jinshang's intention to arrange this is obvious, he doesn't believe in Wang Liyang's ability, it's just that this Wang Jinyi has followed him for many years, and he has much more battlefield experience, he is both a good general and a handsome talent, in the battle with Liang Pingchuan in Yuzhou, Cheng Jinshang already knows the means of this old general, not to mention that he also has Lu Wenting, Liang Yunbi and other good players, and he can't deal with it with a single passion, so he uses Wang Jinyi as the handsome, and lets Wang Liyang obey the order, of course, Wang Liyang doesn't care about how the commander arranges the troops, He doesn't care about the pros and cons of this, as long as he is allowed to go to war and not hide in this city, he will be very happy.

Because they had to do it before Liang Pingchuan, the two of them immediately ordered troops after receiving the order, and sent troops to Pingtian early the next morning.

However, before leaving, Cheng Jinshang and Tao Chenmo called the two to explain a few words.