Chapter Seventy-One: The Surprise Attack of Western Wei
Ge Suo saw Lin Pinghuang not long after, he didn't expect this second son to be so weak in the army, he could only help him again, he asked Lin Pinghuang in detail about his cronies in the army, Lin Pinghuang spent all day drinking and drinking a few friends, Ge Suo was very disappointed, but there was no other better way at the moment, he asked Lin Pinghuang to gather these people, and arranged a few Jiuli people, about ten people, ready to replace those generals who were not satisfied with Lin Pinghuang.
The next day, Ge Suo and the Jiuli people personally attacked and killed nearly ten generals of the Jinfan Army at once. Lin Pinghuang came forward again and arranged for a group of cronies to serve as generals. A group of old men of the Jinfan Army were disheartened when they saw that Lin Pinghuang was so ruthless, and left Jiujiang Port at night. Another group of people set off immediately and rushed to Le'an, hoping that Lin Pinghui could come back and turn the tide. The Jinfan Army, as one of the four elite corps in East Vietnam, fell apart overnight.
And in Xiakou, Western Wei, opposite Jiujiang Port, the Xiakou Army quickly noticed the abnormal movement of the Jinfan Army of Jiujiang Port. Liu Yong, the deputy general of the Xiakou Army, hurriedly reported to the main general Bao Anxin, Lin Zhenba was assassinated, and the Jinfan Army was replaced, and the current commander is Lin Pinghuang. Bao Anxin was overjoyed to hear this news, he had been suppressed by the Jinfan Army for many years, and at this moment, the Jinfan Army had changed dramatically, and it was a good time to send troops, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for war.
Lin Pinghui sent a team of sergeants to Wankou under the urging of Zhang Jue, and there was no news from the front line of Anhui in the past few days, and there was no trace of the puppet army near Le'an, but he had been feeling uneasy at this time. Xiao Zhongqin, Dong Yun, Ling Hui and Peng Yiqi, Xu Chengsheng, Su Chengling, and the rest of the people in Tianjian Villa rested for a few days, and they also recovered. Without waiting for the news from Wankou, a team of Jinfan soldiers who hurried from Jiujiang Port appeared under Le'an City in the evening. Lin Pinghui faintly felt bad, and personally went out of the city to meet this group of sergeants, and the rest of the people also felt that something happened suddenly, so they followed one after another.
Hearing the news of Lin Zhenba's assassination by the leading officer, Lin Pinghui suddenly felt a bolt from the blue, he forcibly calmed himself, listened to the officer's narration one by one, when he learned what Lin Pinghuang had done, he could no longer suppress his anger, and immediately led the army back to Jiujiang Port. Everyone stopped Lin Pinghui, Xiao Zhongqin and Dong Yun faintly felt that something was wrong, Lin Zhenba was the commander of the Jinfan Army, his own martial arts cultivation was not weak, and he was assassinated in the camp of the Jinfan Army, the two believed that even if Xiao Cheng, the commander of the forbidden army, was in person, he would not be able to do it, and the assassin clearly wanted to tell the Jinfan Army his identity, so deliberately, there must be a conspiracy.
Lin Pinghui was stopped, he couldn't control his emotions anymore, he shouted loudly, Kong Sheng and several other generals of the Jinfan Army also rushed over, they asked for details one by one, Kong Sheng turned to Lin Pinghui and said: "Young General, the second young master does not have the ability to eradicate so many people at once, and many of the new generals arranged are not from the Jinfan Army, and there are people behind this who are manipulating, and they want to destroy our Jinfan Army." ”
When Lin Pinghui heard Kong Sheng's words, his out-of-control emotions were somewhat controlled, and after thinking about it, he stepped forward and asked the general who came from Jiujiang Port: "When my father died, were there still others in the camp?" ”
The officer thought for a while, and hurriedly replied: "There is no one else, but listening to the soldiers who rushed into the main camp at that time, it seems that in addition to the assassin, there is another person who left the camp, but the attention was on the assassin at that time, and now that I think about it, it is indeed very suspicious." ”
Lin Zhenba's assassination was completely what Lin Pinghuang saw alone, what happened in the main camp at that time and no one else saw it, Lin Pinghui suddenly thought of Lin Pinghuang killing his father, but he quickly suppressed this idea, this half-brother has always been a famous gentleman, and he is not so bold when he thinks about it, the key is the assassin and the mysterious man, but one thing is certain at the moment, what Lin Pinghuang did must be related to Lin Zhenba's death.
The Jinfan Army suddenly fell apart, and Lin Zhenba's life's hard work was in vain. Lin Pinghui couldn't stop his sadness, slowly knelt on the ground, tears blurred in his eyes, and bowed heavily in the direction of Jiujiang Port. When the sergeants saw the Lord like this, they also knelt down one after another. Xiao Zhongqin, Peng Yiqi and the others looked at Lin Pinghui and the sergeants, and their mood was also quite sentimental.
Xiao Zhongqin called Dong Yun and Ling Hui to the side, and he asked Dong Yun, "Are there any Jiuli people in the forbidden army?" Dong Yun thought for a while and replied: "I shouldn't have it before I left, but now Your Majesty has a lot of Jiuli people around him, and it is difficult to ensure that he has not infiltrated the forbidden army, but this assassin is too flamboyant and deliberate, I am afraid that he deliberately wants to provoke the Jinfan Army to mutiny." ”
"The Jinfan Army that stayed in Jiujiang Port is going to be used." Xiao Zhongqin was a little helpless.
Ling Hui heard the two of them talking, and interjected alertly: "Most of it is General Lin's younger brother's hand." ”
The two were quite curious, why did he talk like this, Xiao Zhongtan opened his mouth and asked, "Tell me." ”
Ling Hui saw the expressions of the two, and hurriedly replied: "This is not simple, it is clear that it is to support General Lin's younger brother to ascend to the throne, there must have been a conflict at that time, if it was just for assassination, since he could kill the old general, he didn't care about killing one more, and then so many generals died, this is a conspiracy to seize military power." ”
Xiao Zhongqin and Dong Yun nodded, they also thought of these truths, but after all, it involved Lin Pinghui's family affairs, which was also the misfortune of the Lin family, so they didn't have much to say, I believe Lin Pinghui also thought of this.
Xiao Zhongtan was silent for a while, and asked Dong Yun again: "It can't be the hand of Western Wei, right?" Dong Yun didn't dare to be sure, but the Xiakou army on the opposite side of Jiujiang Port had not heard of such a master, and he said: "I'm afraid it won't, just like Senior Brother Ling said, for the sake of military power, if it is the Western Wei Dynasty, directly kill the main general, cause chaos, and lead the army across the river, it is not necessary to deploy so troublesome." ”
The three of them discussed for a while, but there was no result, so they went back to the camp first.
On this night, the whole army of the Jinfan Army changed into plain clothes, and Lin Pinghui integrated the whole army and was ready to set off back to Jiujiang Port at any time.
Xu Chengsheng and Peng Yiwei discussed that the news of Lin Zhenba's assassination needed to be transmitted back to Tianjian Villa, and they asked Su Chengling and another female disciple to return immediately, although Su Chengling was a little reluctant, Xu Chengsheng was very persistent, and had no choice but to return to Tianjian Villa first.
Xiao Zhongtan returned to the camp tent, and suddenly thought that he had the ability to infiltrate the camp of the Jinfan Army and kill the main general so easily, and with Yukou as the center, Jiuli soldiers were deployed in many surrounding cities, which should not be something that a core elder of Yuji could do, guessing that it was very likely that there was a patriarch of the courtyard in Jiujiang Port, and the mysterious person who appeared in the main camp of the Jinfan Army was very likely to be a patriarch of the academy. He hurriedly called Dong Yun and Ling Hui and told the two to stay in Le'an, and he wanted to go to Jiujiang Port first.
The two couldn't figure out Xiao Zhongqin's intentions, but seeing that he was quite anxious, they promised to stay in Le'an first.
Peng Yiwei was a little confused because of today's incident, and wanted to come to Xiao Zhongqin to discuss. But as soon as he arrived at the door of the tent, he saw Xiao Zhongqin packing his luggage and preparing to leave. He asked, "Where are you going?" ”
"Jiujiang Port." Xiao Zhongqin is not shy about it.
"You wait for me for a while." Peng Yiwei also felt that what happened in Jiujiang Port was very suspicious, and decided to go with Xiao Zhongqin immediately.
Taking advantage of the night, the two left Le'an together and rushed to Jiujiang Port.
Western Wei Dynasty, Xiakou, it was dark, Bao Anxin gathered a large army in the port, ready to attack the other side, if he could occupy Jiujiang Port before the Spring Festival, it would be a great achievement for him, and it would also relieve the spirit of being suppressed by the Jinfan Army for many years.
Liu Yong was eager to try in front of the battle, he endured it for many years, and finally waited for this day. The sergeants boarded the boat one after another, and the distribution had slowly sailed to the opposite shore. In order to avoid being discovered by the Jinfan army on the other side, the torches were not lit on the ship, and at the moment they were driving the warship completely by the feeling of the boatman.
After driving for a while, gradually approaching the port of Jiujiang Port, Liu Yong saw some scattered sergeants by the faint moonlight. He instructed the teams to prepare.
The air on the ship seemed to be still, except for the breathing of the sergeants. Liu Yong suddenly pulled out his blade and shouted, "Kill!" ”
A dense burst of bows and arrows was fired at the shore, and the nearby sergeants fell to the ground. When the Jinfan army found out about the enemy attack, they immediately blew the horn, and the torches were suddenly lit up on the shore, and the sergeants quickly assembled, and the whole platoon of the Jinfan army also shot bows and crossbows at the enemy troops on the river, and for a time there was a wail of the sergeants on both sides of the arrow.
The warships of the Xiakou army slowly approached the port, and a group of Jinfan soldiers saw the ships coming, and set up bamboo poles to stop the incoming ships, but a group of Xiakou soldiers waved their broadswords and kept slashing the bamboo poles against the ships, and some of the sergeants went directly into the water, swam to the shallows, and rushed onto the riverbank.
The sergeants who prevented the warship from docking and the Xiakou army fought together, and the warships slowly approached, and the Xiakou army kept getting off the boat.
Liu Yong saw that the front team had moved closer, shook the big knife in his hand, jumped high, and rushed directly to the Jinfan army. The big knife glowed with cold light, mixed with the sword, slashing wildly, and the surrounding Jinfan troops fell to the ground one by one.
Several of the new commanders of the Jinfan Army had seen the fight for the first time, and they had seen such a bloody scene there, and they were all confused for a while, and they turned around and fled.
There was no main general on the shore, and the Jinfan army was fighting on its own, barely resisting the offensive of the Xiakou army. As soon as the Xiakou army, which rushed to the front, dispersed the archer formation, many Jinfan army crossbowmen were killed, and the shore was full of corpses. The Jinfan Army retreated step by step, while there were more and more warships of the Xiakou Army on the shore, and the number of Xiakou troops was also increasing. The sergeant of the Jinfan Army, who stubbornly resisted, saw that the main general had fled, and his morale was also low at this moment, and when he saw that there were many enemy troops, he could only retreat first and retreat to Jiujiang Port City.
After Bao Anxin gained a foothold in the front, he also went ashore and came to Jiujiang Port, which was the first time he stepped into the territory of Jiujiang Port as the commander of the Xiakou Army. He breathed a long sigh of relief, and the depression that had been suppressed by the Jinfan Army for many years was completely released at this moment. He drew his blade and shouted to the sergeant behind him: "Rush over with all your might, and annihilate the Jinfan thief army." ”
With the order of the commander-in-chief, the whole army of Xiakou attacked and swept away the defenders on the shore, and gradually assembled under the city of Jiujiang Port. Liu Yong came to Bao Anxin's side and said excitedly: "General Bao, we have finally crossed the shore." ”
Bao Anxin laughed heartily, looked at Jiujiang Port City, and ordered the soldiers to assemble and attack the city as soon as the siege equipment arrived.
Lin Pinghuang came to the city wall and saw that the Xiakou army under the city had assembled into an army formation. He was stunned in place, without saying a word, at this time he knew the pressure that his father and eldest brother had been under over the years, and in the face of the besieging Xia Kou army, his whole person suddenly trembled, and he was at a loss for a while, and collapsed to the ground.