Hezhou is not far from Chuzhou, one hundred and seventy miles, and it will be there in two days, but in Zhu Yuan's feeling, it is as long as three thousand miles.

He always felt that with 10,000 soldiers under his command, he would definitely be able to defend Hezhou City.

So he dared to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so he dared to hold on after his troops were damaged by forty percent, even if Guo Rong's 10,000 elites joined, he was not afraid.

I have a strong city, I have a people, I have a soldier, I have a united city, what can I endure?

Unexpectedly, a song of ghosts crying and wolf howls made me uneasy, like a grain of sand in my heart, and I felt the unspeakable pain with every breath.

When the news of the death of his junior brother Li Xing came, he had never been so sad and uncomfortable, as a soldier, in fact, life and death had long been downplayed. But why did his always strong will suddenly soften, like snow being soup, and the idea of resting with the city turned clean one by one?

Why is this happening? He asked blankly.

Maybe there was a shadow when the request for help was fruitless, maybe it was when the newly received military rations were stale, or maybe it was shaken by the rumors that the imperial court wanted to remove him.

In short, all the negative energy seemed to be soaked in an instant.

When he left the city, he still held on to a glimmer of hope, and personally returned to the palace, hoping that the thief would have eggs to chase after him, so that he could fight again.

However, Xiang Xun did not come, and such peace made him feel even more ashamed.

"Dashuai, in ten miles, you will reach Chuzhou."

"Oh."

Zhu Yuan replied blankly, looked back and forth, left and right, then pulled the reins slightly, gently lifted the helmet, turned over and dismounted, "Unload the armor for a certain one." ”

General Sun Lan exclaimed in surprise: "Handsome?!" ”

Zhu Yuan touched the stiff beard on his face, and said with a wry smile: "Evacuating Hezhou, although it is not a crime of war, but losing the city is a fact, General Sun, you lead the army and slow down on the road, and wait for a certain to go to the king first to ask for guilt." ”

Sun Lan looked at this fierce general who had lost his lustre all of a sudden, his face darkened, and he responded: "...... Promise. ”

……

Won Hezhou without a fight, Xiang Xun was so depressed that he didn't want to enter the city, but Guo Rong laughed loudly, led the civil and military forces into Hezhou City, personally comforted the people, and even gave an eighty-two-year-old man a six-grade official body, which really envied the boss and the others.

Hezhou city rest for three days, the people gradually settled, then stay to Xun to sit in Hezhou, and along the river to recruit envoys, the general Liu Chongjin deputy, around Jingsui, the whole army to prepare for war, the imperial drive is sent to Chuzhou.

The Huya Army is the pioneer.

This time, Guo Rong did not sit on the dragon chariot, dressed in military uniform, and rode the yellow horse captured from the Northern Han Dynasty, and marched mightily under the escort of Jinwu on the left and right.

Two days later arrived in the west of Chuzhou, Zhang Yongde led the general Zuo to leave the camp ten miles to greet each other, for a time the drums sounded in unison, the trumpet cannon was even in the sky, and there were skilled craftsmen to set up a flagpole about six zhang high, to wait until the royal car entered the camp, the three armies lined up to greet each other, and the three dragons slowly rose in the sound of "long live" in the three armies mountain, and fluttered in the wind in the sky.

Watching Guo Rongzhi proudly walk up the nine steps and enter the big tent under the support of the left and right, Qin Yue thought to himself, this Zhang Yongde is better than Li Chongjin.

Qin Yue wondered if he would come to see his old boss later, but a junior colonel ran over with an arrow in his hand, ordering the big tent to be discussed an hour later.

Qin Yue burst into a foul mouth in his stomach and handed over the matter of camping to Chen Scar and Jia Yin, but he and Cao Bin borrowed Song Jiuzhong's camp tent to bathe and change clothes.

These two goods are so clean, the most important thing is that since the queen died of infection, it has become an unwritten rule in the court to make a pilgrimage to the saint after bathing and purifying, although Guo Rong does not care, but the eyes of the imperial history are sharp.

In late April, the weather was already starting to get a little hot, and I took a shower, but it was just refreshing.

The two of them sat to eat some dry food, gossip, the heavy drum began to beat, and was about to get up, Song Jiuzhong came in in a hurry, saying wait a minute, he quickly took a shower under the watering of the guard, while pulling the wet hair, his hand was together, and he shook it, and the splash at the tip of the hair shot like a bead, so a few times, a wet hair has been dry, only slightly wet.

Cao Bin was surprised: "Xuan Lang, your martial arts are all used to Mu Fa?" ”

Song Jiuzhong smiled slightly: "Compared with last year, the martial arts have improved a little, it's not worth mentioning, let's go, I'm less qualified, it's better to go earlier." ”

Cao Bin smiled: "As soon as you say that, we shouldn't wait for you." ”

The imperial tent camp is not only made of loess to build a five-foot-high platform, but the imperial tent is even more spacious like a palace, which can accommodate sixty or seventy people, but there are not many qualified people this time, except for a small number of civil servants, all of them are commanders of all armies, and they are all in charge of the army above the Marquis of Yu.

"Long live the saints, long live, long live."

"Zhongqing is flat."

The ministers of civil and military affairs shouted long live three times, and they sat down in different classes.

Guo Rong said with a smile: "I came this time, just like the old money in the countryside came to urge rent, hug one, first tell the harvest in this land to Zhongqing." ”

Zhang Yongde saw that Guo Rong was in the mood to make fun of him, and immediately smiled: "The minister is ashamed, under this Chuzhou city, it has been more than two months, and he has almost no work.

The enemy and we attacked the camp once, all unsuccessfully, our army dug a tunnel to advance less than two miles, and was also broken by the enemy, Song Jiuzhong battled, and the enemy general Lin Renzhao fought again, the two sides fought for fifty rounds, each broke their horses and lost their armor and returned to the battle.

Except for rainy days, our army and the Tang army engaged in skirmishes six times, and although they made slight gains, they did not damage the enemy's skin. ”

Guo Rong snorted and asked, "Then Chen Jue didn't start reading the military book temporarily, why is the defense so brilliant this time?" ”

Zhang Yongde said: "Chen Jue and Li Jingda agreed on three chapters, Chuzhou City guarded, Li Jingda decided himself, and other military affairs were planned by Chen Jue. ”

Guo Rong laughed, "Pseudo-Tang Li Jingzhi is stupid, rare in the world, his own brothers don't trust it, but he can rest assured that he is trapped by such a general, I am still blindly figuring out, there are many strong soldiers in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, why do you just let me attack, but it turns out to be like this." ”

Zhang Yongde said: "Corporal Li Jingda Lixian, can put his heart into the soldiers, so his subordinates are quite capable of recruiting people who are accustomed to fighting, among which the tyrannosaurus knife Zhu Yuan, the tiger head general Lin Renzhao, and the double knife Zheng Yanhua are the most famous. ”

Guo Rong nodded and said: "It was right for you to take this strategy first, if it weren't for you pressing forward step by step in front of this Chuzhou City, so that Chen Jue only cared about the immediate safety, then how could the three states of Huaixi, Hezhou and Sizhou be so smooth, and how could Yisheng be calmly deployed under the city of Chuzhou?"

However, I came, but I didn't want to stay here longer, I hope to go down to Yangzhou as soon as possible to see the prosperity of Jiangnan. ”

"No."

"Let's discuss it with all the secretaries, and see what can be done to take this city quickly?"