Final Chapter. 110. Go out and hit your head
After a lapse of more than 100 years, Chu Moling was born again, and the Jianghu Dao was also boiling!
Strictly speaking, a major event like this should be made by Chu Momen's chief Wu Chengfeng; But since the grass ghost woman Urre of Miao Wuzhai died tragically under Shen You's sword; As an "ex-husband", the old name Hanako also disappeared with him, and there is no news so far, and his life and death are unknown.
Wu Chengfeng evaporated in the world, although it did not reach the point of being full of wind and rain in the city, but at least among the same people in the rivers and lakes, it is not a secret. In this way, before Wu Chengfeng personally came forward and abolished this Chu Mo Order; Shen Gui's words are equivalent to the words of Chu Mo's lineage.
Of course, Chu Mo's supervision of Jianghu Dao has been lax to the point of almost non-existence for thousands of years; Therefore, although Shen Gui issued Chu Mo's order, whether he came or did not come was also based on his original intention; Those who come to help him will not be able to benefit from it; If it is ignored, it will not incur penalties and losses; To put it bluntly, it's just a pure public welfare activity.
In the past 100 years, Huayu has undergone earth-shaking changes everywhere; Therefore, the current batch of new blood in the rivers and lakes is more pragmatic than the previous generation; In addition, most of them know very little about Chu Mo's lineage, let alone any feelings and trust. Therefore, for this Chu Mo Order, except for those who have old acquaintances with Shen Gui himself; The younger generation of rivers and lakes are all holding a cold sideline or sneering attitude, and they are not too touched.
However, those old rivers and lakes who have long since retired are very aware of the seriousness of this matter; After all, the Nankang Dynasty, which is now the richest, has been reduced to a desert; And the young people there are still doing the ancient traditional livelihood, and they are also serving a bowl of Jianghu rice, but they only lose the rules and style that Jianghu people should have!
It is foreseeable that if it is allowed to develop like this, it will definitely crush the entire rivers and lakes of the Huayu Continent!
As soon as the ancestor of Jianghu Dao moved, the Huayu Continent immediately surged!
Just when Chu Moling reappeared in the rivers and lakes, Zhou Chang'an, the fourth prince of Northern Yan, who was in command for the first time and led the army, also took the revitalized Tianyou Army and finished an ambush battle.
This ambush battle took place forty miles southwest of Hedong City. The official name of this place is Changle Beach, and the local people call it "Salt Pond", which is the largest salt producing area in the land of Sanjin. According to ancient records, there was also a famous "Yanhuang War" born here. According to legend, the crimson salt pond water is made of the blood of the great god Chiyou.
Early this morning, the 15,000 vanguard troops of the Qin army were divided into three groups and set up camp and attacked Hedong City, which was located on the north bank of Yanchi. Because of Zhou Chang'an, the new commander of Beiyan, it took twenty years to form a spy organization called Chiwu; Therefore, he knows the importance of intelligence better than any other general, and is more willing to spend effort in this area.
As early as when the first batch of Qin troops set up camp and set up camp, Zhou Changan had already arranged two ambush points on the other party's inevitable road, and waited for the other party to take the bait.
According to the original plan of the four princes, this first ambush should suddenly be killed from three sides when the opponent's front army stepped into the ambush circle! And this first ambush circle must be crushed with a single blow, and become a bait for pretending to block the enemy, but in fact luring the enemy to go deeper; The second ambush army is the main point of attack in this battle; If the enemy finds that the ambush is under attack, he immediately chooses to retreat with the whole army; Then, due to the terrain of the salt pond, a marching column of 15,000 men is bound to cause a great chaos.
If, after the Qin army was attacked, they saw that the first ambush was weak, and planned to continue to expand the results of the battle and pursue the enemy deeply; Then just wait for the 8,000 vanguard army in the middle of the queue, halfway through, the main force of the second ambush point can cut it off, so that the long dragon of 15,000 people will be broken into several sections, so that it can not care for each other.
However, until the two sides fought, the trend of the battle situation was really unexpected by Zhou Changan!
After the 5,000 vanguard army of the Qin army found that they had stepped into the ambush circle! It did fall into a brief period of panic; However, under the command of an enemy general who was in danger, they did not choose to risk breaking forward or forcibly retreating despite their friendly forces; Instead, they lined up in the encirclement to meet the enemy and stood for help!
Emperor Zhou Yuanqing of Tianyou did save a very solid family foundation, and he was chased and killed by the Qin army before, although he suffered heavy losses, he did not hurt his muscles and bones. But Zhou Changan was afraid of the concealment of this ambush and the fact that the two sides were strictly restricted by the terrain and landform, so although this battle had been prepared for a long time, in order to ensure that the ambush would not be detected by the Qin army first, Zhou Changan could only bring out 5,000 elite soldiers.
In his mind, after the Qin army was ambushed, it would inevitably be in chaos; Break through at all times, and the whole army will be completely divided by the second ambush circle; Retreating backwards, the losses of the routs squeezing each other and stampede are definitely not a small amount. But I didn't expect Qin Jun to choose the stupid method of not advancing or retreating, and sticking to and waiting for help! In this way, the Tianyou Army can only attack, and the 5,000 troops in this area will also become overstretched!
Seeing that the vanguard battalion of the Qin army was like a frightened hedgehog, shrinking into a ball on the spot; However, their own two ambushes were exhausted, but they still failed to break through the enemy position; It was originally a strategy to lure the enemy deep and cut off the waist, but it turned out to be a stalemate of attacking the enemy's position, and the ambush strategy was also a complete failure.
Seeing that there was no hope of a quick victory, Zhou Changan could only order to withdraw in batches; However, from the beginning of the ambush to Zhou Changan's order to retreat, only half an hour passed; But it was enough for the Qin army's black-armored iron cavalry, patting horses to rush to the salt pond, and galloping to help the vanguard army in the ambush!
Zhou Changan originally planned to come to a place surrounded on all sides, but because he attached too much importance to the concealment of the ambush, he was turned into dumplings by the black cavalry of the Qin army; Coupled with the anger of the first vanguard troops who were trapped in the ambush circle, they had already been beaten; Now when he saw the black flags of the Qin army on horseback in the distance, fluttering in the wind, his morale was immediately boosted, and he launched an unusually strong counterattack against the Tianyou army that had already sprouted!
A well-planned ambush battle was beaten into the center by the morale of the Qin army soldiers! And the 5,000 soldiers of the Tianyou Army who came to hunt either died in the strong counterattack of the Qin army, or died under the pursuit of the Qin army's black cavalry along the way; If it weren't for the military advisor Zheng Qian leading the army out of the city to respond, these five thousand ambush troops alone would not be enough to stuff the teeth of the black-armored iron horsemen!
Zhou Chang'an suffered a solid defeat, and the remaining 5,000 carefully selected elite soldiers were only thirty percent; Even Zhou Changan, the commander who personally went out of the city to command the ambush battle, was shot in the inner side of his left arm by a stray arrow on the way to escape, and almost died on the battlefield; On the other hand, the Qin army, which was ambushed by accident, was surrounded by 5,000 vanguards, and experienced a strong attack for half an hour, only suffering more than 1,500 casualties.
The most infuriating thing is that Zhou Chang'an had only returned to the city not long after he had just sent off the military medical officer, and he received a report from the sentinel cavalry: it turned out that the Qin army had just experienced a bloody battle, and it did not stop to rest at all; On the contrary, he carried the light and serious wounded like that, and arrived twenty miles west of Hedong City with a swagger according to the original planned route. At this moment, the soldiers of the Qin army were shouting trumpets and smashing rammers, and it seemed that they were planning to set up camp on the spot......
For Zhou Changan, this news is no less than being slapped in public with a loud slap!
Rao is that he is over forty years old, and he has already practiced the kung fu of qi cultivation, but no matter what, he can't swallow this breath! The first ambush battle, which was carefully planned and personally commanded, was nothing more than a failure; But even he, the commander of the first army, was chased by the black cavalry of the Qin army and lost his armor, and he was even more injured by arrow sores! This battle not only knocked down the morale of the army that had just recovered, but even the Zhou family of the Heavenly Family with Beiyan was also swept away by his own involvement!
If it weren't for Zheng Junshi's hard work to dissuade him, he really wanted to order another sentry and go to the west gate of the city to find a little field!
When the results of this battle were transmitted back to the ears of Chen Ziling, the commander of the Qin army, he was also stunned! Who is Zhou Changan? Regardless of his illustrious bloodline of the Son of Heaven; Just by virtue of his glorious deeds of impersonating himself at the age of fourteen and pulling out the second place, he is already famous all over the world; In the year of the weak crown, he took over the "Foreign Affairs Office", which had long been reduced to a symbolic institution, and broke it up and reorganized, and single-handedly created the gold-lettered signboard of "Chiwu".
Against such a young and famous Tianzong wizard, Chen Ziling, who was born as the chief guard of the Marquis Mansion, naturally had no chance of winning in his heart; However, after this battle was fought, the name of "Heavenly Family Bangyanlang" was completely reduced to a joke in his heart!
It's rare that the Northern Yan Army has been replaced with such a stupid commander, so why should he engage in those assassination methods that can't be put on the table?
That night, Zhou Chang'an, who suffered a great defeat for the first time in the army, was sullen in the study of the Shuaifu; And Zheng Qian, the military advisor who saved his life on the battlefield, brought an old man with a sour smell at this time:
"Student Zheng Qian Zheng Yizhi. See His Royal Highness King Anping! ”
"Mr. Zheng is exempt."
Zhou Changan replied to Zheng Qian, but his eyes kept staring at the sour old man; And the other party felt Zhou Changan's gaze, and replied in a timely manner:
"Uh...... My surname is Jia, and I am the sixth in the family, so Your Highness will call me Jia Lao Liu! I am a native of Sanjin, and this time I was entrusted by a friend to help His Royal Highness King Anping defend the city! ”
When Zhou Changan heard this, he carefully looked at the old man's clothes and appearance. I saw that the other party did not have the slightest strange thing on his body; Not only was his clothes tattered and dirty, but he also had a few freshly cracked cuts on his hands, obviously from a poor background who was used to rough work. The old face was covered in mud, and locks of hair were stuck to his skin, probably because he hadn't bathed since the last time it rained.
According to his appearance, he should be a lonely old man named Hanako; Judging by his speech and demeanor, he could not have been a well-educated man; Looking at his figure, he doesn't look like a veteran of the battlefield...
Zhou Changan was puzzled, and he really couldn't bear to save his benefactor's face, so he had to say vaguely:
"Since Mr. is the person recommended by Brother Yizhi, then this king will not snub Gao Xian! Forehead...... In your opinion, what is the position of this person? ”
Zheng Qian waved his hand again and again when he heard this, and his two eyes were as big as copper bells:
"Your Highness, this old man surnamed Jia has never known a student in his life!"