Chapter 26: The Battle of Lushui

"General, General......"

Wei Kai, who was studying the map in the camp, was disturbed by the shouts of the colonel outside the tent.

"What's the alarm?" Looking at the little colonel who ran into his tent in a panic, Wei Kai was a little displeased. These days, he fought several times with Meng Baojun and the Gao brothers in the Lushui area, and they won and lost each other. I wanted to study where Zhao Wutang and the others were, and I didn't want to be disturbed by this little school.

"General Qiyu, flying pigeon messenger!" Seeing Wei Kai's angry appearance, Xiao Xiao hurriedly handed the letter to Wei Kai.

"Alright, you go down!" Taking the letter from Xiao Xiaoxiao's hand, Wei Kai motioned for him to step back. After the junior colonel retreated, Wei Kai looked up.

Wei Kai quickly skimmed through the letter, and his eyebrows were bent with a smile. It turned out that this was a flying pigeon message from Zhao Wutang to him, which said that he had captured Yizhou County and had just set off from the ancient city, and it was believed that it would not take a few hours to join forces with him to attack the barbarian army.

But there is bad news, when attacking the ancient city, the defenders of the ancient city fled without a fight, and ran in the direction of Lushui, presumably to find Meng Bao, I believe that Meng Bao should also know that his nest is gone, I hope he will think of countermeasures as soon as possible.

"Come on, go and invite Wu Jianjun to come over!" Wei Kai shouted outside. Countermeasures, what countermeasures are needed, just lead the troops to kill them.

It didn't take long for Wu Cheng to come. Wei Kai gave him Zhao Wutang's letter and said, "At this moment, they have already marched towards Lushui. I think it won't be long before they'll be able to join forces with us. ”

Wu Cheng looked at the letter and said in his duck-like voice, "General, this is indeed a good thing. However, there is one thing I don't know whether I should talk about or not. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

Wu Cheng looked around, no one was there, and then walked outside the tent, sent away a few guards guarding the tent, and then said: "This time to send troops to quell the rebellion, it stands to reason that you are the real commander, general." However, after the Battle of Yixian, the Guiyi Army arrived and became the vanguard of our army. Since then, Xiaqiongdu and Dingyi Prefecture have all been fought by his righteous army, and we have no effect.

It is better to take this opportunity to let Meng Bao go, so that Meng Bao will definitely encounter the Guiyi army from the ancient city. Although the Guiyi army is good at fighting, they are small in number, and they will definitely not be able to stop Meng Bao. At that time, we attacked at the right time, which not only solved Meng Bao, but also saved the Guiyi army. When the time comes, the credit will be the general's, and Zhao Wutang will definitely be grateful to you, the general. ”

After listening to Wu Cheng's words, Wei Kai was furious, pointed at Wu Cheng's nose and scolded: "Wu Jianjun, it was you who asked me to make the Guiyi Army the vanguard; It was you who urged me to hurry their march; It was you who asked me to let them take the path to copy Mengbao's nest; Now it's you who make me die and can't be saved. What are your intentions? ”

Seeing Wei Kai angry, Wu Cheng immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "General, everything you do is for the good of the general!" ”

"For my good, you clearly want to borrow my hand and put the Guiyi army to death, don't you?"

"The general has misunderstood, I have no intention of doing so."

"I don't mean that, I think you have bad intentions. After the Battle of Qiongdu, you have also seen the letter from His Majesty to me, so please restrain yourself and don't fight in the nest. Presumably, the prime minister should also write to you to make you more restrained.

In fact, when I read His Majesty's letter, I was also very strange why he said that you were fighting in the nest, but when I thought back to the suggestions you made to me after the Guiyi Army first came here, I understood what Your Majesty meant.

I thought that you didn't make any moves during this time, but you must have listened to the words of Your Majesty and the Prime Minister. However, now that you are saying these inconsequential things to me, I think you have eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard. ”

"General, general, have you forgotten that this Zhao Wutang is an old minister of the first emperor!"

"The former ministers of the first emperor", how could Wei Kai not know. This is like a thorn in the emperor's heart, after he ascended the throne, he tried his best to squeeze out the former emperor's old ministers, derogatory derogatory, but although the emperor had a lot of dissatisfaction with the former emperor's old ministers, he did not kill anyone at that time.

And he, although he was personally promoted by Zhao Wutang, he was only a captain of the Imperial Forest Army. Therefore, Ling Tianmu was not interested in him. Later, with his bravery, he achieved the position of a general step by step. Obviously, this Wu Cheng wants to win the emperor's favor with old things.

"Someone!" Wei Kai roared, called the guards who had been evacuated by Wu Cheng, and said to them: "Wu Cheng, the prison army, has sowed discord and repeatedly violated military regulations. ”

Seeing Wei Kai's guards rushing over like wolves, Wu Cheng hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, but Wei Kai was unmoved. After three or two clicks, Wei Kai's guards tied him up firmly.

Wei Kai walked up and slapped him twice: "The surname is Wu, Lao Tzu has endured you for a long time, this time I see if you die!" Don't talk about the old ministers of the first emperor to me, it's useless! ”

"Take him down and take care of him, don't let him die, Lao Tzu has to see what happens to him. Also, his lackeys also tied up Lao Tzu and didn't let them run away. With a sigh of relief, Wei Kai continued, "Pass the order, and all departments will prepare for battle." Let the men prepare the meal, and after the soldiers have a full meal, the whole army will attack and kill the barbarians! ”

Hearing Wei Kai's order, his guards all laughed. These days, the two sides fought several times, won and lost each other, and then there was a stalemate.

They were all suffocated, and when they heard the general say this, they were going to fight again, and the whole army was attacking, and it seemed that they were going to fight a decisive battle with the barbarians.

What made them happiest was that this bastard surnamed Wu was rampant and domineering in the army as a supervisor of the army. They dare not speak out, for fear of being sued by this turtle. Now that feng shui is in turn, it's time for him to be unlucky.

When pushing Wu Cheng out, the guards couldn't help but increase their hands and feet, and one of the guards kicked him, throwing him to the ground.

After a full meal, the soldiers under Wei Kai's command gathered outside the camp and slaughtered the barbarian camp. When Meng Bao and the Gao brothers got the news that the Imperial army was pouring out and killing them, they immediately gathered their troops and killed the Imperial army as well.

The drums of war were beating, the flags were all over the sky, and the trumpets were sounding in unison. When the two armies met, they fought together. Wei Kai personally acted as the vanguard, leading more than 500 cavalry to rush to the front.

This cavalry is Wei Kai's baby bump, originally with the terrain of the four southwestern counties, there is no need for cavalry, but Wei Kai still transferred hundreds of cavalry from the Royal Forest Army to fill the army before he set out. In the past few battles, cavalry was not used. This time, Wei Kai was determined to exterminate these barbarian rebels.

The barbarians under Meng Bao and the remnants of the Gao brothers were all infantry, and where they could withstand the charge of the cavalry, the army was suddenly in turmoil, and the soldiers trampled on each other, and the dead and wounded were very heavy.

Seeing that the barbarian front army had been frustrated and the gap had been opened, Wei Kai did not like to fight, and led the cavalry to spread out on both wings and retreated. The infantry behind the cavalry saw that the barbarian formation was being disrupted by the cavalry, and they all roared and rushed up, fighting with the barbarians.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the barbarian king Meng Bao immediately led his guards to rush forward and became entangled with the infantry of the imperial army. When the barbarians saw their king coming, their morale was high. For a while, it was also on par with the infantry of the former army of the Celestial Star Empire.

Wei Kai had just returned to the rear army, and he saw that the battle situation in front of him was anxious again because of Meng Bao. So, he led the cavalry to the flank of the barbarian army, hoping to find a weak point and kill in. However, Kaohsiung and Gao Mai had already led troops to guard against his cavalry on the flanks.

Wei Kai grinned, thinking that this would be useful, although the cavalry of the Imperial Forest Army could not ride and shoot like those who controlled the strings of Xianbei Hu, but they could still do it by stopping and shooting.

"Shoot the arrows!" With Wei Kai's order, the cavalry of the Royal Forest Army stopped, took the bow from their backs, and with a "whoosh" round of arrows, the barbarian soldiers fell down, and a hole was opened in the flanks.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Kai led the cavalry to rush in, and rushed to kill, causing chaos on the flanks.

It's just that just when Wei Kai was on the rise, he saw the rear of the barbarian army suddenly billowing smoke and dust, as if an army was coming. Originally, Wei Kai thought it was Zhao Wutang's army, but when he saw it clearly, he gasped, it turned out to be a barbarian rebel, and they came to help.

"Withdraw!" Wei Kai shouted, he didn't want to give these cavalry an account like this.

The cavalry of the Imperial Forest Army withdrew, and the Gao brothers who were defending the flank breathed a sigh of relief, and when they were wondering why the cavalry of the Celestial Star Empire would retreat, a person squeezed through the flow of people and stumbled to them, and said breathlessly: "Oh no, the brothers of the ancient city just came with news. From behind them, an army of about four or five thousand people of the Celestial Star Empire appeared, and the ancient city was taken, and they ran out with all their might. ”

Hearing the news, Gao Mai shouted: "Oh no, the ancient city has been taken, and there is no way back for us." ”

"I'm afraid it's worse! I'm afraid that not only the ancient city was seized, but the entire Yizhou County should have fallen into the hands of others. Kaohsiung said slowly.

"Ah, how is that possible?" Gao Mai panicked, Yizhou County is gone, then they will not be a lone army.

"How is it impossible, think about it, what's wrong with these days?"

Hearing Kaohsiung say this, Gao Mai didn't care, what could be wrong. Wait, he suddenly understood, the army that beat them to the desert and fled is not there, and he hasn't seen the generals of "Zhao" and "Mo" in the past few days!

"Is it the army that took our city?" Gao Mai asked.

"That's right!" Kaohsiung sighed helplessly, "I thought that they suffered too many casualties, and Wei Kai didn't let them fight." It wasn't until just now that I woke up, why didn't you go to war, people were sneaking up on your lair. ”

"Big brother, that means they're not far from us! In that case, let's run! ”

"No, this is open land, and if we escape, Wei Kai's cavalry will soon catch up and eat us. Rather than this, it is better to fight with them. Killing one is enough, killing two and we're earning. Even if you die, you have to pull some cushions. As he spoke, he swung his knife and slashed forward.

Kaohsiung rushed up, and Gao Mai naturally couldn't fall behind, so he also rushed up.

Originally, a scorching situation had formed on the front, but now that the Gao brothers had killed from the side, the army of the Celestial Star Empire was instantly killed and one person turned on his back.

Seeing the Gao brothers coming from behind, Meng Bao thought that they had repelled Wei Kai's cavalry and came to help them. But that's just his beautiful fantasy, and the reality is much more cruel.

When he knew that it was because Yizhou County was gone and the ancient city was lost, Wei Kai saw the defeated soldiers in the ancient city, thinking that it was their reinforcements coming, so he took the initiative to retreat. Hearing this, his chest was tight, his eyes were black, and he felt that the whole world was turned upside down.

The soldiers on the left and right saw their own king like this, and hurriedly helped him down, if he was killed by the army of the Celestial Star Empire like this, it would be worth the loss.

Wei Kai, who retreated to the back, looked at it carefully for a while, and then realized that this was not a barbarian reinforcement at all, but the defeated army of the ancient city mentioned in Zhao Wutang's letter, Wei Kai whipped himself a few times in annoyance. If they hadn't retreated from the army, the Gao brothers would not have come back to help, and they would not have been caught off guard by them.

He looked at the horses sitting down on the cavalry beside him, they were all out of breath, and they must not be able to fight anymore. Now the only hope is Zhao Wutang's Guiyi Army.