Chapter 42: The Dying Struggle (6)
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"Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! A fast horse with a red flag sweated profusely and rushed into Liu Beijun's camp, and the herald on the fast horse kept shouting hoarsely, so that everyone in Liu Beijun knew that the situation was urgent, and Liu Beijun, who was demoralized by Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Army's stubborn defense tactics, couldn't help but talk about it, and they were all speculating about what kind of urgent report this messenger sent.
The herald rushed to the front of Liu Beijun's main tent before reining in the fast horse, and rushed into the big tent with a rolling belt, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei and Tai Shici and others in the tent had already sat high, the herald rushed to Liu Bei and knelt down on one knee, panting and shouting: "Your lord, Runan urgently, Dong Zhuo's Jingzhou army has recently hoarded a large number of grain, grass and ordnance in Xiangyang, five days ago, Dong Zhuo's Jingzhou army Zhang Xiu's troops of 50,000 people suddenly crossed the Xiangjiang River and fully advanced into Xinye. β
"Report ββ!" Before the herald's words fell, another dusty herald rushed in, stumbled to Liu Bei and knelt down, hugged his fists and said: "Report to the king, Dongjun urgently, our ally Cao Cao's army defeated Liyang Baima, Cao Cao's cousin Cao Ren Cao Hong was killed, 80,000 troops evacuated Jizhou, and less than half of them withdrew to Dongjun alive." Dong Zhuojun's Jizhou Corps has been fully dispatched and is currently stationed in Liyang, Dong Zhuojun's Yongzhou Corps has entered first-class combat readiness in front, and Zhang Ji's troops have been stationed in Luoyang. β
"The Dong thief is finally coming." Zhuge Liang's former self-confidence is completely gone, he only feels that his lips are dry and his tongue is bitter, "He has been recuperating for three years, for this day, he is advancing from all directions, attacking our army and Cao Cao's army at the same time, so that we can't parry." β
"What are you afraid of him doing?" Zhang Fei shouted: "The soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, it is better for him to attack with all his strength, Lao Zhang can also take the opportunity to avenge the second brother and Han Sheng, and by the way, snatch back my Lao Zhang's Zhangba snake spear." Zhang Fei is thick on the outside and thin on the inside, he doesn't care about it, he is really panicked in his heart, the four-way army is going hand in hand, Liu Beijun is very difficult to block all the way, not to mention dealing with the four roads at the same time.
Liu Bei didn't speak, just waved his hand to let the herald go down, and after a moment of silence, Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang: "Zhuge Xian's nephew, now that the all-out attack of Dong thieves is imminent, what should our army do?" Is it to continue the attack on Gangnam? Or a complete retreat to Xuzhou? β
"According to the little nephew's observation, our army should not retreat." Zhuge Liang said loudly: "Dong Thief's Jiangnan Army has not used the 50,000 reserve troops left in the rear in order to cooperate with the other three ways to attack, and now our army still has the advantage of combat power and strength over Dong Thief's Jiangnan Army, if we can fight a head-on battle, we will definitely be able to defeat the Jiangnan Army and seize the rear of Jiangnan." β
"The problem is that Lu Su is resolutely unwilling to fight, and our naval army cannot achieve surface superiority on the Yangtze River." Tai Shi Ci asked, "How can we force the enemy to fight a decisive battle with our army?" β
"I've got a good idea about that." Zhuge Liang suddenly showed a wicked smile on his face, patted his palms twice, and two black shadows suddenly fell on the top of the tent, Zhang Fei and Tai Shici were taken aback, and hurriedly drew their swords and jumped next to Liu Bei to protect, but Liu Bei smiled and said: "Yide, Ziyi, don't worry, this is the ally of our army, the Yamatai people." β
After the two black shadows fell, they did not attack Liu Bei, but knelt on one knee in front of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Tai Shici saw the appearance of the two black shadows clearly, both of them were less than four feet tall, but they were carrying two three-foot-long knives on their backs, and their whole bodies were dressed in black, even their faces were covered by black cloths, and only four black-eyed and white-eyed eyes were exposed, and one of the black-clothed people said in proficient Chinese: "Under the account of the Queen of the Great Evil Horse Taiguo, Yanagi Liujian sent Liu Sheng to follow the fate and cherish Liu Sheng, and knock on His Royal Highness the King of Runan of the Great Han." β
"The Dong thief is brutal and unreasonable, and he brazenly brutalized the envoy sent to my Han by the Evil Horse Tai State, and declared war on the Evil Ma Tai State." Liu Bei introduced to Zhang Fei and Tai Shici: "In order to form a friendship with my Han Dynasty and help our army eliminate the Dong thief, Liu Beimi, the queen of the Evil Horse Tai Kingdom, sent ten masters of the Yanagi Liujian Sect in her guard to the Great Han for Gu to send. These masters of the Yanagi-ryu Sword School have learned ninjutsu since childhood, and they are called 'Zhi Nengben' in their own country, and Zhuge Xian's nephew changed their names to ninjas for the convenience of their name. β
"So what's the use of them?" Zhang Fei looked down on these dwarfs very much, and asked Zhuge Liang disdainfully: "Little Zhuge , what do you want these ninjas to do?" β
"After careful investigation, Lu Su, the commander of the Dong Thief Jiangnan Army, has a wife who has not passed through the door, named Lu Lingqi, who is the granddaughter of Dong Thief and the eldest daughter of Lu Bu, a third family slave." Zhuge Liang said treacherously: "Lu Lingqi has been pampered and rude since she was a child, but she is very loved by Dong Thief and Lu Bu, and even when she went to Jiangnan to visit Lu Su without passing through the door, Dong Thief and Lu Bu allowed it. Our army has obtained information that Lu Lingqi is now living in Jianye (PS: now Nanjing), if we catch her, are we afraid that Lu Su will not obediently fight a decisive battle with our army? β
"The Yamatai ninjas have all learned a good light skill, they come and go like the wind in the canopy of the roof, and they are good at hiding their bodies and assassination," Liu Bei smiled: "So Zhuge Xian's nephew offered a plan to Gu, sent these ten Yamatai ninjas to Jianye, and invited Lu Su's fiancΓ©e Lu Lingqi to stay in Misukou for a few days." β
Zhang Fei and Tai Shici opened their mouths wide, and Liu Bei saw that they wanted to object, so he waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, Dong Thief also kidnapped Liu Biao and Meng Huo's wives in the unethical act back then. Liu Bei turned to Liu Sheng Suiyuan and Liu Sheng Zhen and said: "There are two ninjas in Lao, our army does not have much time, go and return quickly, and wait for your good news alone." β
On Dong Zhuojun's side, Lu Su reported the news of the dispatch of the Ma Chao Army by receiving a telegram five days ago, when Lu Su announced the news to his subordinates, the big tent cheered, and all the generals of Dong Zhuojun clearly knew that the day of Dong Zhuojun's comprehensive counterattack was not far away, and it would be the last battle to unify the land of China, and it was also the last battle to end the troubled times of the Han Dynasty since Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. At that time, almost all Dong Zhuojun's generals believed that Liu Beijun would be forced to withdraw in the short term, but Dong Zhuojun judged that two days after Liu Beijun received the information, Liu Beijun still relied on the mouth of the wet beard, and there was no sign of retreating at all.
"In the past few days, our army has secretly counted the number of enemy patrols and trainees every day, and counted the number of enemy military stoves and the number of times they fetched water, which is not much different from the past." Two days later, in the evening, Sima Yi, who joined the army, reported to Lu Su and Dong Zhuo's generals: "It is certain that Liu Bei did not use illusions to deceive our army, and they are still in a stalemate with our army. β
"Strange, does Liu Bei still want to fight a decisive battle with our army?" Lu Su was puzzled: "Doesn't he know that our army's Jingzhou Legion is already attacking Runan?" Pang Tong didn't speak, if Liu Beijun withdrew, Pang Tong would definitely suggest that Lu Su chase and kill, and not give Liu Bei a chance to escape calmly, but now Liu Bei is not moving, Pang Tong doesn't want to act rashly before he finds out what medicine Liu Bei sells in his gourd.
"No matter what the hell Liu Beijun does, he is not allowed to rush into battle." Lu Su said in a deep voice: "From today onwards, double the number of scouts, closely monitor the enemy's every move, and send more small boats and clippers to probe the enemy's surface movements, and if the opportunity is right, let the small boats go deep into Chaohu Lake to investigate Liu Beijun's actions." Lu Su, who was burdened by the Jiangnan Army, didn't know that in order to force him to fight, the enemy had already clung his fiancΓ©e on the head, and only focused on the enemy on the surface, ignoring the protection of Jianye......
On September 18, the ninth year of Chuping, late at night, there was a quiet scene in Jianye City behind Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Corps, because of the dying struggles of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu a few years ago, dragging almost all the young and middle-aged people in Jiangnan into the water, resulting in a great injury to Jiangnan's vitality, Kang Peng In order to give Jiangnan time to recuperate, all the soldiers stationed in Jiangnan were recruited from the rear, and the money and food were also supplied to the rear, after the efforts of Lu Su, Pang Tong and Zhang Zhao and others, Jiangnan gradually recovered its prosperity, especially Jianye City, It has surpassed its heyday in history and has become the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River.
After a while, the wind and waves on the river suddenly rose, and the two small fishing boats quietly approached the city wall of Jianye Linjiang, because there were often fishing boats here to avoid the wind and waves, the soldiers patrolling the city did not take these two small fishing boats to heart, but just shouted twice, asking the fishing boats to leave immediately after the wind and waves, and the people on the fishing boats also agreed very well. However, after the patrol soldiers left, ten short black shadows quickly sprang out of the fishing boat, one of which took the lead and waved his hand, and a rope with an iron hook on his head was tied to the city wall. There were a few soft clicks, clicks, clicks, clicks, and all the black shadows flew out of their hands and set up the city wall one after another, and the ten black shadows were as agile as monkeys, quickly climbing up the city wall, and disappeared into the darkness together.
Although it was the first time to enter Jianye City, these black shadows did not worry about getting lost, but carefully looked for the marks under the city wall, and soon, these black shadows found a small white chalk arrow in a low place under the city wall, and followed the direction indicated by this small arrow for a short distance, and these black shadows found another same arrow, following the instructions of such an arrow, these black shadows quickly found an ordinary courtyard, and in the courtyard, there were already people waiting for them.
"Is it Yanagi Suiyuan and Mr. Yanagi Zhenzhong of the Evil Horse Tai Kingdom?" The man in the courtyard asked in a low voice.
Yanagi immediately corrected: "It's the Great Evil Horse Tai Country, and we are the samurai of the Great Evil Ma Tai Country." β
Liu Shengzhen asked again, "Are you a subordinate of His Royal Highness the King of Runan?" Are all the information we need ready? β
"It's ready." The man in the courtyard led Liu Sheng Suiyuan and Liu Sheng Zhenzhong and other dwarfs into the house, took out a sketch and unfolded it, pointed to the drawings and explained one by one: "This is the map of Lu Su's house, and this room in the backyard is Lu Lingqi's bedroom, where Lu Su's servants live, and where the guards live." After the introduction, Liu Beijun said carefully: "There are not many guards in the Lu Su family, only forty people. But there is one thing you should pay attention to, because Miss Lu Lingqi likes to raise dogs, and Lu Su's family already has more than 30 vicious dogs, so you should be careful. β
"Yaga!" Liu Sheng scolded angrily: "We are dignified great evil horse warriors of the Tai Kingdom, how can we be afraid of a few wild dogs? "That Liu Beijun has lived in Jianye, which is a key point of water and land, for a long time, and he knows some Evil Horse Tai, and when he sees that dwarfs like Liu Sheng Suiyuan dare to scold him, he can't help but feel angry, and there are two important pieces of information that he doesn't want to tell these dwarfs anymore - it also hurts Liu Sheng Suiyuan and Liu Sheng Zhenzhong.
As Liu Beijun said, when Liu Sheng Suiyuan and Liu Sheng Zhenzhong and his party touched the outside of Lu Su's compound, there were still a group of dogs boiling in the courtyard, and the surrounding Jianye people couldn't sleep, and from time to time there were scoldings coming from the houses, but they were afraid of the terrible temper of Lu Lingqi, who was as fierce as fire, and dared not speak out. We must also beware of the people of Jianye who have not yet fallen asleep, and they are miserable.
Finally touched a dog barking outside the wall, Yanagi Sui fate immediately decided, immediately ordered all the ninjas to climb the wall, silently touched into the courtyard, Yanagi Suiyuan and Yanagi Zhen and other ninjas just stepped into the courtyard land, before they had time to breathe a sigh of relief, a black dog silently bit on the waist of Yanagi Suiyuan, it turned out that the black dog had just lost the fight with the group of dogs, and fled here with his tail to lick the wound, but Yanagi jumped in with the fate and stepped on its tail, the black dog was unceremoniously bitten back, is biting on the waist of the short Yanagi Suiyuan, if you bite it more off, Yanagi Suiyuan is afraid that he will not have the opportunity to make some kind of action in this life.
"Yaga." Liu Sheng scolded in a low voice, took out a long knife, and slashed the neck of the black dog with a backhand, and quietly cut off the head of the black dog, but two rows of blood holes had appeared on Liu Sheng Suiyuan's waist, and Liu Sheng scolded secretly, "Ba Ge Yalu, why didn't you tell us about the dog free-range?" β
At this time, a girl like a silver bell came from the courtyard, "Rhubarb, Little Gray, Old Black, don't scream, and you won't have anything to eat tomorrow." It turned out that Lu Lingqi couldn't stand the night barking of the dogs, and couldn't help but come out to stop it, Lu Lingqi trained the dogs quite well, shouted a few times, and the barking of those dogs suddenly weakened, Liu Sheng was overjoyed with the fate, and hurriedly waved his hand and led the ninjas to Lu Lingqi's voice.
Walking not far, Yanagi Suiyuan and other ninjas heard the low barking of the dog in front of him, looked carefully, and saw a big yellow dog and a gray dog standing in front, staring at Yanagi Suiyuan and Yanagi Zhenzhong and other ninjas with their tongues, Yanagi Suiyuan immediately took out two pieces of beef from his arms, and gently threw them in front of the two dogs, those beef have a considerable amount of anesthetic, as long as the dog eats it, it will immediately be unconscious, which is the magic trick of the Yamatai ninja to deal with the watchdog.
But what Yanagi didn't expect was ......, "Wangwang......!" The two dogs barked together and pounced on Liu Sheng Suiyuan and other ninjas, it turned out that Liu Beijun did not tell Liu Sheng Suiyuan and other ninjas The second piece of information was that Lu Su's dogs only ate the food fed by Lu Lingqi herself, and the others fed these dogs food, but it was just to attract these vicious dogs to attack. And as soon as these two dogs barked, the group of dogs that were pressed down by Lu Lingqi just now yelled together and rushed in this direction.
Yanagi Suiyuan and Yanagi Zhenzhong and other ninjas met such a psychic dog for the first time, and they were caught off guard, Yanagi Suiyuan and Yanagi Zhenzhong were bitten by these two dogs one on the face, one bit on the neck, and died in pain, when the other ninjas went to cut these two dogs, other vicious dogs had already pounced, and a tragic human-dog battle began.
More than thirty vicious dogs surrounded ten ninjas and bitten, one ninja just swung a knife to cut the oncoming vicious dog, and the other dog next to him had already bitten on the ninja's arm, and before the ninja could shake off, the other dog had already bitten on his waist, and when the ninja finally shook off the vicious dog on his arm, and then took care of his waist, the dog in front had already bitten the ninja's face. For a time, the flesh and blood in the courtyard were flying, from time to time there were dogs kicked over, thrown to the ground, and some loyal dogs died tragically under the knives of these ninjas, the wheezing of ninjas, the screams and roars of dogs, in the night sky was exceptionally quiet, but these ninjas did not dare to bark, for fear of being discovered by the guards.
"Eight Grids!" Liu Sheng Suiyuan was finally the first to shout - because his lifeline had been bitten by the big yellow dog that began, Rao is Liu Sheng Suiyuan has undergone strict training, and he can't stand the pain and eternal loss that goes deep into the bone marrow, and was heard by the Lu Su guards who had discovered that the voice was wrong, and one of the soldiers who had been running around the sea all year round immediately shouted, "There are assassins, it's the assassins of Yamatai!" The news of Dong Zhuojun's declaration of war with the Evil Horse Taiguo had already spread all over the world, and the gong in the compound of the Lu Mansion was immediately sounded, and the soldiers of Dong Zhuojun who stayed behind rushed towards the Lu Mansion quickly.
"Yaga!" Liu Shengzhen scolded heavily, turned around and struggled to cut a flower dog that bit his ass in two, and yelled: "Retreat, retreat!" Several other ninjas hurriedly got rid of the entanglement of other dogs and fled out with Yanagi Zhenzhong, but Yanagi Suiyuan rolled on the ground and couldn't stand up for anything, and when his younger brother Yanagi Zhenzhong rushed over to check, he saw that Yanagi Suiyuan's small piece of meat had disappeared, and on the ground, there was another ninja who had bitten his throat off.
After a while, the guards of the Lu Mansion had rushed over, and these ninjas had no choice but to draw their knives to fight with the guards of the Lu Mansion, but the dog raised by Lu Lingqi pounced on those ninjas with red eyes in order to avenge his companions, and most of the guards of the Lu Mansion were veterans of the battlefield, and they were extremely experienced in combat, and they were good at fighting more and less, although the ninjas such as Liu Sheng Zhen had good martial arts, they had no choice but to be attacked from both sides, and in an instant, two ninjas were bitten by the flexible dogs, and then they were cut into pulp by the Lu Mansion guards. After fighting for a while, only three of the ten ninjas who could still fight were left with Yanagi Zhen and the others, and the others were either bitten to death by vicious dogs or cut into dozens of pieces by the guards of the Lu Mansion.
"Retreat." Liu Shengzhen saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly took another ninja to jump on the wall, leaving another ninja to be surrounded and cut by the guards of Lufu, and another ninja just jumped on the wall, and an arrow suddenly flew next to him, which hit him in the heart, and the ninja looked back with difficulty, and saw a beautiful girl standing in the courtyard with a bow and arrow in her hand, it turned out that Lu Lingqi heard the shout and rushed out with a weapon, and killed a ninja who tried to kidnap her with her own hands. Liu Sheng Zhen next to him was so frightened that he jumped off the courtyard wall, dodging another arrow shot by Lu Lingqi, and even his brother Liu Sheng, who was still churning and shouting in the courtyard, couldn't take care of it.
"Catch the assassins! Catch the assassins! "Jianye City was full of shouts like this, and there were heavily armed Dong Zhuojun soldiers everywhere, standing in the streets and alleys, searching for assassins everywhere. But Liu Shengzhen, who was bitten by a dog and bruised all over his body, was very cunning, and did not immediately flee away, but lurked in the dark place in the alley near Lu's house, but also deceived the Dong Zhuojun soldiers who searched him.
"Kuangdang." Liu Shengzhen accidentally knocked over a wooden frame in the alley, and the people's voices immediately came from the houses next to him, "Who?" Liu Shengzhen was startled, and hurriedly crawled on the ground and barked twice, "Wangwang." When Liu Shengzhen admired his pretending dog barking sound, several Jianye people with flat wooden forks immediately rushed out of several houses next to him, and without saying a word, he smashed Liu Shengzhen who was crawling on the ground, and one of the people also scolded while beating, "Dead dog, let you bark, let you bark, let us not sleep." It turns out that these people all regard Liu Sheng Zhen as the dog of the Lu Su family, Liu Sheng Zhen is heavy and short in stature, and the anger of Lu Su's neighbors who usually can't sleep well is vented on Liu Sheng Zhenzhong.
"I'm a human, I'm not a dog." Liu Sheng Zhen used the Evil Horse Taiwanese language in a hurry, which is good, Lu Su's neighbors, who couldn't understand the Evil Horse language, took his words as a dog barking, and he hated the past and hated now, and as soon as he went down with a flat wooden fork, Liu Sheng Zhen quickly became a mess of rotten meat......
Two days later, the angry Lu Lingqi personally sent Liu Sheng, who still had half a life, to the Jiangnan camp, and punched and kicked Lu Su in front of the generals, blaming Lu Su for not protecting her well, and asking Lu Su to compensate for her dog, Lu Su nodded and apologized, and finally appeased Lu Lingqi before interrogating Liu Sheng's motive for assassinating his fiancΓ©e. When it became clear that it was Liu Bei who instigated it, the honest man Lu Su was also furious, and personally cut off Liu Sheng's limbs and sent someone to Liu Bei......
To find out what happened next, see the next chapter, "The War of Unification".