Chapter 345: Counterattack Counts
"General Feng, look!"
The sudden reminder of the pro-soldiers made Feng Zhong, the super traitor of the Western Chu Army who was plotting against his generals, jump in his heart, and when he quickly turned his head to look at the direction of the city gate pointed by the pro-soldiers, Feng Zhong's pupils suddenly contracted violently again, because the target that Feng Zhong was about to capture, Xiang Yu's cousin and Xiang Kang's cousin, Sima Xiang Sheng of the Western Chu Army, actually broke away from the Pengcheng defenders who were assembling out of the city, and led more than ten horseback guards to trott towards this side, and the target seemed to be Feng Zhong's flag array.
"What's wrong? The army is still out of the city, Xiang Sheng doesn't personally preside over the army formation, what are you doing here? Did he find something? But it's not right, if Xiang Sheng found out something, why did he bring such a few people over? ”
A series of questions jumped out of Feng Zhong's mind, and then immediately after, Feng Zhong suddenly remembered a big thing, and said secretly: "It's not good, Xu Ci Wang Ke, these people, at this time, as long as you shout an alarm, Xiang Sheng will turn around and leave, and my major work will be wasted!" ”
Thinking of this, Feng Zhong didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately glanced at Tan Gu, the captain of his own army, and then said in a deep voice to Xu Ci and the others: "Listen well, no one is allowed to speak, let alone shout, who dares not to listen, don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”
Tan Gu, the captain of the personal soldiers, understood his thoughts, and immediately held the handle of the knife with his hand, making preparations to draw the knife and kill at any time, and his Feng Zhong's personal soldiers also clenched the weapons in their hands one after another, staring at Xu Ci and Wang Kun and other Feng Zhong's generals - of course, inevitably, there were still some Feng Zhong's personal soldiers whose bodies trembled slightly, and some of them were still sweating from their foreheads, so nervous that they almost forgot their breathing.
The next time is naturally extremely long for Feng Zhong, the target Xiang Sheng is trotting closer, the ten generals who have just been forced to agree to follow their actions must still be extremely shaken, Feng Zhong's personal soldiers may not all be reliable, as long as one of these people jumps out and shouts, so that Xiang Sheng is alert and turns around and runs, then even if Feng Zhong hastily launches a mutiny, at most he can only disturb the Pengcheng army led by Xiang Sheng, not only will Feng Zhongjun, who is in a hurry at that time, have no chance of winning at all, Even if they were lucky enough to gain the upper hand by relying on the advantage of a sudden move, most of the defenders of Pengcheng were sure to quickly retreat to the city to defend the city.
At that time, in the face of the fortified city of Pengcheng, it was impossible for Feng Zhongjun and Peng Yuejun, who did not have any siege weapons, to take Pengcheng quickly, not to mention, Feng Zhong's wife and children in Pengcheng City would not escape the fate of being the first to divide the family!
Because of this, even if he had gradually changed some of his cowardly weaknesses in the long-term battle against horses, Feng Zhong was inevitably sweating at this moment, his heart was constantly beating, and he couldn't help but quickly issue another order, "No one is allowed to speak, and those who disobey the order will be killed immediately!" ”
Xiang Sheng, who trotted forward, was getting closer and closer to Feng Zhongqi's array, Feng Zhong's heart was beating faster and faster, and he almost wanted to order his own soldiers to charge forward and take the initiative to face Xiang Sheng and hack him to death or take him down, but considering the consequences of failure after doing so, Feng Zhong could only grit his teeth, forcibly resist this impulse, and wait for Xiang Sheng to take the initiative to come to him.
Maybe it's because the heavens have no eyes, in this long and torturous period, although Xu Ci and Wang Kun and other Feng Zhongbu generals are all beating wildly, and the expressions on everyone's faces are uncertain, no one has opened their mouths to shout and remind Xiang Sheng to run quickly. The same is true of Feng Zhong's own soldiers, even if many people can't hide the tension in their hearts, and many people have sweat directly down their cheeks, everyone is also silent, and they all remain silent as if they have been enchanted.
Finally, Xiang Sheng still trotted in front of Feng Zhong's flag array, and took the initiative to turn over and dismount, and walked straight towards Feng Zhong with his head held high, Feng Zhong's personal soldiers who surrounded the flag formation gave way without saying a word, Xiang Sheng did not find anything abnormal at all, and asked Feng Zhong in a strange voice: "Brother Feng, what happened?" What are you doing here? ”
"Discuss how to fight the thief army." Feng Zhong replied quietly, and then asked rhetorically, "Sima Xiang, why did you come here in person?" ”
"I'm not here to discuss with you how to fight the thief army." Xiang Sheng replied casually and walked directly in front of Feng Zhong, and asked again: "Brother Feng, do you say that I am arranging the formation on your flank, or is the formation in front of you?" ”
"Please Sima set up a formation in front of the last general." Feng Zhong replied calmly: "Xiang Sima, your army is a fresh force, and the formation is directly in front of the last general, so you can give full play to the advantage of your army's abundant physical strength, and when your front army has the upper hand, the last general will immediately come forward from both wings to help you." ”
After saying it casually, Feng Zhong also handed Xiang Sheng the oath of rebellion against Chu and the Han League written by himself, and said with a smile: "Xiang Sima, give you a surprise and see what this is." ”
"What is this?"
Xiang Sheng took the oath curiously, unfolded his hands to look at it carefully, and then naturally, just read a short paragraph casually, Xiang Sheng was dumbfounded, and when he quickly looked up to look at Feng Zhong, the steel knife on Feng Zhong's waist had already come out of its sheath and hit his neck, Xiang Sheng was even more shocked, and exclaimed: "Brother Feng, what are you going to do?!" ”
"Feng Zhong, what are you going to do?!"
The more than ten personal soldiers brought by Xiang Sheng were also shocked, and hurriedly picked up their weapons, but what made Feng Zhong's heart ecstatic was that not only did his personal soldiers immediately raise their weapons and point at them, but Wei Bugen, Wang Kun and other generals also pulled out their swords and steel knives and pointed at them, shouting together: "Put down your weapons!" ”
Feng Zhong's deputy, the old man of the young marshal army, Xu Ci, did even better, suddenly stretched out his left hand, strangled Xiang Sheng's neck, and quickly grabbed Xiang Sheng's hands with his right hand, and copied his hands behind his back to strangle, Tan Gu next to him also hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the sword from Xiang Sheng's waist, Xiang Sheng was even more shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Feng Zhong, what do you want to do?" You are so bold, do you know the consequences of this? ”
"Brother Xiang Sheng, things have come to this point, you still don't understand what I want to do?" Feng Zhong sneered and asked, suddenly raised his voice again, and shouted: "It's all tied, shut up!" If there are those who resist, shoot and kill! ”
"No!" Several pro-soldiers agreed together, and immediately came up to hold Xiang Sheng down with his hands and feet, and tied Xiang Sheng with a rope prepared in advance, Xiang Sheng struggled to resist, but his fists were difficult to defeat the four hands, or he was quickly tied into a twisted shape, and his mouth was quickly plugged with a cloth by Feng Zhong's personal soldiers, and none of the pro-soldiers brought by Xiang Sheng in the back failed to escape, and the four resisted and were killed, and the rest were all taken down and tied, and their mouths were all gagged.
It was only at this time that Feng Zhong breathed a long sigh of relief, and then smiled and said to Xiang Sheng, who was struggling desperately: "Brother Xiang Sheng, don't blame me for not remembering the old feelings, for things like you, when it comes to not remembering the old feelings, I also learned from your Xiang family brothers, my good brother Xiang Kang, the king of Han, is a flesh and blood brother with you, but how do you treat him?" Talking nonsense with his eyes open, Leng slandered him for betraying and becoming the king, and locked his wife and son in Pengcheng, so that their family could not be reunited, and killed the civil and military family members under his command, and used innocent old people and children to force Brother Zheng Bu and Brother Ding Ji to betray my good brother, since you are the first year of junior high school, don't blame me for being the fifteenth! ”
"I didn't do that, I did what I was told!"
Xiang Sheng roared angrily in his heart, but his mouth was stuffed with cloth, but he couldn't roar out, Feng Zhong said again: "Don't worry, I will never kill you in the past, and I promise to persuade General Peng Yue to spare your life, but you'd better obediently don't do anything, otherwise you'll force me to be anxious, don't blame me for not remembering the old love." ”
After sneering, Feng Zhong immediately turned to Xu Ci and ordered: "Brother Xu Ci, you take half of the army to grab the city gate and take the city gate and the tower on the city!" Tell our soldiers, just say that the situation has changed, first take the city gate for me, and then say, if anyone dares to stop it, they will be killed! Remember, keep it organized, don't mess around! ”
Xu Ci immediately agreed, and Feng Zhong immediately arranged for five thousand elders to help him, and then instructed the remaining four thousand elders: "You four, take the army to form a circle formation to protect my flag formation, without an order, no one is allowed to leave the position without permission, and you must not kill with our own people!" ”
The four generals received the order, immediately rushed back to the team to lead the army to retreat, and quickly arranged a circle array to protect Feng Zhong's flag array, Feng Zhong was constantly cheering, and issued orders one after another, while sending Wei Shan to contact Peng Yuejun, telling Peng Yue that he had taken Xiangsheng, so that the Pengcheng defenders lost their unified command, and asked Peng Yuejun to immediately attack the Pengcheng defenders, and at the same time let his own soldiers also arrange a small circle formation to protect himself and those who had taken Xiangsheng and others, so as to prevent his subordinates from suddenly defecting. Then, when Xu Ci led the army to charge at the west gate of Pengcheng, Feng Zhongcai sent his henchmen and soldiers to carry Xiang Sheng's seal ribbon to the front of the Pengcheng defenders to give an order, demanding that the Pengcheng defenders immediately lay down their arms, disband on the spot, and surrender to the Peng Yue army.
Feng Zhong's calm command and careful consideration played an extremely important role, seeing Xu Ci leading the army directly to the west gate of Pengcheng, the Pengcheng defenders who had just left the city were naturally in an uproar, not understanding what was happening, and then seeing Feng Zhong's own soldiers rushing to their front with Xiang Sheng's soldier talisman seal, loudly demanding that they lay down their weapons and disband on the spot, the Pengcheng defenders were even more chaotic, shouting and saying everything, and their morale suddenly plummeted to the extreme.
Peng Yue is also very good at capturing fighters, received an urgent report from Weishan Pegasus, and saw that the Western Chu army was indeed in chaos, Peng Yue didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately urged the army to attack, and directly killed the Pengcheng defenders who had just left the city with a overwhelming momentum, the Pengcheng defenders were leaderless, and they did not stand up to take over Xiang Sheng to preside over the overall situation, and before Peng Yuejun could kill in front of him, countless soldiers had escaped from the queue, and the scene was even more chaotic.
In such a situation, no matter how the elite troops of the Western Chu Army guarding Pengcheng were, of course, there was no way to exert their due combat effectiveness, and the Peng Yue Army just charged and killed the defenders of Pengcheng to pieces, fled in all directions, and then completely collapsed. Xu Cijun was also overwhelmed, taking advantage of the opportunity of the city gate defenders to be caught off guard, he quickly took control of the city gate and the city gate of the urn, and then killed the head of the city and forcibly seized the control of the city tower.
After a short battle, the uncommanded Pengcheng defenders were completely defeated by Peng Yue's army, shouting and shouting and fleeing from the battlefield outside the West Gate, leaving corpses and wreckage all over the ground, seeing that the overall situation outside the city had been decided, Feng Zhong also sent someone to Xu Ci to give an order, ordering him to lead the army into the city, hand over the city gate to Peng Yue's army control, go to the market in the south of the city to open up the assembly and wait, and then tell the soldiers the truth, and promised that each soldier would be rewarded with twenty gold afterwards - anyway, there are gold and jade jewels in the palace of Pengcheng that Xiang Yu worked hard to rob, Feng Zhong didn't have to be afraid that he wouldn't be able to fulfill his promise. At the same time, he sent soldiers who were familiar with the terrain in the city to lead the way for Peng Yue's army and help Peng Yue's army seize important facilities in the city.
To Feng Zhong's relief, he had just sent soldiers to lead the way for Peng Yuejun, and Peng Yuejun took the initiative to send someone to send him a batch of red banners of the Han army, and Feng Zhong immediately ordered his army outside the city to fight the Han army banner, so that he didn't have to worry about misunderstanding and conflict with Peng Yuejun.
With the help of Feng Zhongjun, Peng Yue's army soon rushed into Pengcheng City, which they had never been able to take, and Pengcheng was also in chaos, and there was already a small number of Pengcheng defenders in the city running around to flee for their lives, and they laid down their arms and surrendered under the shouts of Peng Yuejun's surrender, only a small number of people fled to the palace to meet with the Western Chu Junlang Central Guard led by Xiang It, Peng Yue's army was like a bamboo, and quickly seized important facilities such as granaries and arsenals, and soon surrounded the Western Chu Palace.
It was still at this time that Peng Yue and others met with Feng Zhong outside the West Gate of Pengcheng, and after hugging each other affectionately, in view of the fact that Xiang It was still leading the army to defend the palace, Feng Zhong and Peng Yue hurriedly discussed, and decided not to rush to attack the palace defended by the Western Chu army for the time being, first Peng Yuejun was responsible for taking over the four gates of Pengcheng and controlling the residents in the city, and Feng Zhong led the army into the city, went to the south market of the city to meet with Xu Cijun, first completed the reorganization of Yi Zhi, stabilized the morale of the soldiers, and then joined forces to attack the palace of Western Chu.
After entering Pengcheng, which was already in chaos, he quickly rushed to the south market of the city to meet with Xu Cijun, in front of nearly 10,000 soldiers, Feng Zhong, who had gradually been trained, delivered an impassioned speech, counting all kinds of crimes of the decision-making level of the Western Chu army headed by Xiang Yu, what brutality and poisoning the people, and the following crimes of killing the righteous emperor, perversely disregarding sibling affection, insisting on provoking a war with the Han army, and then officially announcing that Yi Zhi would join, and generously let his soldiers decide to stay, Those who express their unwillingness to go with them can immediately take off their uniforms and leave the army, and they will not be held accountable.
Feng Zhong learned from Xiang Kang the means of loving soldiers like a son, played a huge role at this moment, although most of them were from Chu, but out of love and respect for Feng Zhong, coupled with the encouragement of a large number of young marshals and old men in Feng Zhong's army, most of Feng Zhongjun's soldiers still shouted slogans, expressing their willingness to continue to follow Feng Zhong's campaign, only a very small number of people chose to leave, Feng Zhong was overjoyed, and immediately ordered all the soldiers to change to the banner of the Han army, and bare their left arms to screen the enemy from us, The reorganization of the army was soon completed.
At the same time, under the leadership of Feng Zhongjun's soldiers, Xiang Kang's fanatical admirer Yongya also personally led an army into the Tingli Prison of the Western Chu Army, quickly eliminated all the jailers and guards who dared to resist, smashed open the prison door, and rescued all the families of the Han army's civil and military ministers who were imprisoned by the Western Chu Army, as well as the Han army's important ministers Li Shiqi, the Han army's general Wang Ling's family members, and Zhang Liang's predecessors Han Cheng and Han Xin.
I never dreamed that I would be rescued, and I was carried out of the cell by Peng Yuejun's soldiers, and when I finally saw the long-lost sunshine, the families of the Han army's civil and military ministers wept and shook the sky, and thanked Yongya who rescued them from the dire situation, and Yongya waved his hand again and again to say that he didn't have to, and said with tears: "Fathers and mothers, sister-in-law Qiu, you all blame us for not being good, and we rescued you so late, so that you suffered greatly." But don't worry, from now on, if anyone dares to bully you again, I will be the first to cut off his head! ”
"General, save my tiger, save my tiger." Zhu Jishi's wife came to Yongya with her son in her arms and pleaded, crying and saying: "His high fever has not gone away yet, please hurry up and hire a medical worker to show Hu'er, what is wrong with him?" ”
"Quick!" Yongya didn't even blink his eyelids, let alone ask the identity of Zhu Jishi's wife, and immediately shouted: "Arrest the medical workers in the prison, within an hour, if my eldest nephew's fever is not subsided, I want his head!" ”
Yongya's corporal followed the order, and soon rushed to the captive crowd, slipped out of the medical staff of Xichuting Prison, and forced him to immediately treat Zhu Jishi's son, but it turned out that someone was unlucky, and in the commotion of the captive crowd, a young man with countless whips and blood marks on his face suddenly saw the enemy, and immediately rushed up, grabbed the enemy's hair and dragged him out and kicked and beaten, the Yongya sergeant hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and Yongya also hurriedly came up and asked: "Little brother, who are you?" Why do you want to hit this puppet like this? ”
"General, my name is Ding Li, and Ding Ji is my brother." The young man replied quickly, and then pointed at the trembling guard and shouted: "The wound on my body was beaten by this puppet today, this puppet beat me, and even beat my Weng, and bullied my sister-in-law, I will kill him!" ”
"Brother Ding Ji?" Yongya was shocked when he heard this, and immediately shouted: "Little brother, don't worry, I also know your brother, and we are still friends, since you are his brother, you are my brother!" Say, with which hand did this puppet beat you? ”
"Hit with both hands!" Brother Ding Ji pointed at the guard and yelled.
"Hold this puppet! Bring the axe! ”
The unlucky guard was so frightened that he peed directly on his crotch, and desperately kowtowed and begged for mercy, but the soldier of Yongya quickly pressed him to the ground, stepped on his hands, feet and head with his foot, and immediately brought a snowy axe, Yongya was about to take it, but Ding Ji's younger brother snatched the axe, used his strength to eat, and slashed down the right arm of the unlucky guard with an axe, blood splashed, the guard screamed like a pig, Yongya gave a thumbs up, and praised: "It is worthy of being the brother of my brother Ding Ji, Sure enough, the hero came out of the boy. But brother, it's fun to chop your hands with the back of an axe, why don't you try it? ”
"General, spare your life!"
"Okay, I'll try! Piff, you also have today! ”
When Ding Ji's younger brother roared angrily and desperately smashed the unlucky guard's left arm with the back of his axe, Yongya turned to the newly rescued Han army's family again, pointed at the captives and roared with a hideous expression: "Fathers and mothers, sister-in-law Qiu, no matter who these puppets have bullied you and tortured you, you can identify them now, and I will avenge you!" ”
It is true that they hate this group of vicious and brutal guards and jailers, and many Han army family members really stepped forward one after another, looking for and identifying the guards and jailers who had beaten and abused them, and the Yongya soldiers identified and arrested one by one, dragged them out, first beat them desperately, and then cut off their hands and feet, so that they could die of pain, desperately trying to avenge their future bosses' families. One of the guards, called Flower Baby, was the most unlucky, because he had defiled several female dependents of the Han army, and was castrated to death by Yongya himself - castrated with a hammer.
On this day, almost all of the guards and guards of the Western Chu Tingli Prison, who imprisoned the families of the Han army, died tragically at the hands of Yongya and his soldiers, but after Peng Yue and Feng Zhong and others knew the situation, no one said a word, nor did they accuse Yongya - it is related to the revenge and anger of so many important ministers of the Han army, Peng Yue and Feng Zhong will not say that Yongya did something wrong unless they are stupid.
In addition, Peng Yue and Feng Zhong also had to admire the thick and thin teeth on the outside, they looked short and strong, they seemed to have developed limbs and a simple mind, but in fact, they had more ghost eyes than anyone else! The first to rush into the prison to rescue so many important ministers of the Han army, and spare no effort to avenge the Han army's family members, in the future, these Han army families returned to their relatives, Zhou Zeng, Chao Zhi, Zheng Bu, Ding Ji and Long and Zhong Li, the powerful Han army ministers, who can not thank Yongya who just joined the Han army? Thanksgiving?