Chapter XXIII

"My lord, General Zheng Cai is preparing to attack at the east gate?" The following people will report.

Hu Tang immediately frowned, remembering Zhang Xuan's instructions. But Luo Dai couldn't hold it anymore and said, "The Zheng family is just a clown jumping off the beam." Grandpa hasn't beaten before, dare to come to grandpa to play tricks? ”

Hu Tang hurriedly said: "The general is calm and impatient, it's just a misunderstanding." It would be nice to explain it clearly. After all, General Zheng Cai and the general are ministers in the same palace, so it is better to keep some face. ”

Luo Dai snorted coldly and said, "Okay, listen to Mr. Hu." But if you can't explain it, don't blame me. ”

Hu Tang didn't agree, and it didn't seem to be true if he didn't agree, so he could only say vaguely: "If you want to come, General Zheng Cai must be reasonable." ”

Hu Tang hurriedly came to the east gate of Chaozhou.

Chaozhou East Gate Tower, is a scene of Chaozhou, the city gate is called Guangji Gate, and the city tower is called Guangji Building. Hu Tang stood on the city wall, with the three-story and four-eaves Guangji Building behind him, with couplets on both sides: "Wanfeng should stand as a household, and a water will come to the sky." ”

Hu Tang didn't have the heart to look at the city tower behind him at the moment.

His attention was on the east of Chaozhou City, and the first thing he saw was Han Jiang. The Hanjiang River runs from north to south, just like a stream of water coming from the sky. Then we focused on the Guangji Bridge. Guangji Bridge is a very special bridge. He is a half-pontoon bridge.

From both sides to the center of the Hanjiang River, there are a total of twenty-four large stone piers, and between the large stone piers, bridges are erected.

In the middle of the river, there are eighteen shuttle boats paved with wooden planks. Connecting the two shores. This is the so-called grandeur of the eighteen shuttles and twenty-four continents. However, as soon as the war came, all the eighteen shuttle boats were withdrawn. But what the Zheng family does, it's all about eating water.

Naturally, the pontoon bridge was repaired, and troops were stationed on the Guangji Bridge to occupy this traffic artery.

At this moment, the Guangji Bridge is densely packed with soldiers. And Zheng Cai, with thousands of men and horses, has already set up a position under the city, and it looks like he is about to attack.

When Hu Tang saw it, he immediately commanded: "Raise the banner of Great Xia." ”

With Hu Tang's order, all the flags at the head of the city were replaced with "Xia", and then Hu Tang found dozens of soldiers with loud voices at the head of the city, and when he said a word, let them shout again, and said: "I am joining the army under the command of General Zhengnan, Hu Tang, please General Zheng Cai come out to see." ”

Zheng Cai saw that the city head had changed the banner of Great Xia, and he already had a premonition in his heart, and when he heard the shouts of the city head, he urged him to step forward and said: "I am Zheng Cai, but I don't know what Hu Senjun has to say?" ”

Hu Tang said: "General Zheng has worked hard, Chaozhou City has been owned by the Southern Army, thinking of General Zheng's hard work in attacking the city, I am willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to labor the army, and please ask General Zheng to withdraw the army." ”

The corners of Zheng Cai's mouth hooked slightly, for ten thousand taels of silver, he didn't look at it at all, the Zheng family didn't have anything else, just a lot of silver. Ten thousand taels of silver really didn't enter Zheng Cai's eyes. Zheng Cai said: "Congratulations to Hu for joining the army, it's just that the brothers have been fighting for so long and losing their troops, you won't even allow the brothers to enter the city to take a break." ”

Zheng Cai's words were shouted by a team of soldiers, so that many people heard it, and for a while there was some turmoil among Zheng Jun, which seemed to be a little restless.

Hu Tang was determined not to let Zheng Cai enter the city.

Not to mention the military discipline of the Zheng family.

It can be said that among the armies of Great Xia, that is, the Zheng family's military discipline is the worst. Most of them are just some pirates who have come ashore, and it is impossible to expect them to have good discipline, and the lack of strict military discipline is also one of the reasons why Zheng's army is not strong.

It is only said that the Zheng army has tens of thousands of horses, while the Xia army in the city only has a few thousand.

Once Zheng Jun enters the city, who has the final say in this Chaozhou City.

And Hu Tang can't help but estimate the thoughts of the Chaozhou gentry, the Chaozhou gentry and the people have been fighting with the Zheng family for so many days, this feud has already been settled, and even the reason why Hu Tang was able to use the power of these people to seize Chaozhou City may not be without the reason why he didn't want the city to fall into the hands of the Zheng family.

But if Zheng Jun is not allowed to enter the city for repairs, it seems that it is unreasonable.

At this time, the Guangji Gate suddenly opened.

Luo Dai took three hundred elite horsemen and stood in the cave of the city gate, Luo Dai shouted: "Luo Dai, you don't want to enter Chaozhou City, win Grandpa Luo's knife, it's easy to say anything." Before the words fell, Luo Dai took three hundred elite horses, like arrows off the string, and shot out violently.

Hu Tang was above the city, stomped his feet anxiously, and said, "Why did he go out again?" ”

At this moment, all Hu Tang can do is be anxious, and nothing else can be done.

Although there were few people brought by Luo Dai, but the incident happened suddenly, Zheng Jun couldn't react at all, and there were many firearms in Zheng Jun, but they didn't have time to launch them at all. It has already been rushed into the array by Luo Dai.

Luo Dai rushed to the front, but he watched and listened to all directions. did not rush at Zheng Jun's infantry formation, but struck through the gap in Zheng Jun's formation, fast forward and go. And the soldiers who followed Luo Dai behind him were all Luo Dai's personal soldiers, and they followed Luo Dai closely, only a few of them were left behind, as if they were just giants.

Of course, Luo Dai killed so smoothly, and he also blamed the Zheng family's formation for being too undisciplined.

There are flaws in many places, and these flaws may not be visible in the eyes of ordinary people, but for Luo Dai, a general who has broken countless formations, it is simply a temptation, yes, an irresistible temptation, he glanced at the city wall, and he couldn't help but come down to fight.

Not why? Almost occupationally sick.

Luo Dai looked at this flawed formation, as if he saw a half-cut beauty in Luo Yi, lying on the bed, not doing anything, almost sorry for himself.

Zheng Cai never thought that Luo Dai would play his cards so unreasonably, he thought that he would have some war of words today, but he never thought that he would really use the sword soldiers at this moment. couldn't help but give orders again and again, wanting to stop Luo Dai. Not to mention, Zheng Jun was in the chaos, and he was able to carry out Zheng Cai's orders for a few minutes, just saying that Luo Dai was fast in and out, as if he was a Ku Ding Jieniu, killing from here, killing from there, and then rushing into a phalanx, where he passed, Zheng Jun collapsed one after another.

Even Zheng Cai's orders couldn't catch up with Luo Dai's speed.

But in a moment, the collapse began.

Luo Dai led three hundred cavalry to kill on the west bank of the Han River, and the Zheng army suddenly fled back like an avalanche. It seems that the chasing behind is not three hundred cavalry, but tens of thousands of cavalry, and countless soldiers rushed to the Guangji Bridge, but on the Guangji Bridge, there were already many Zheng troops, which were blocked for a while.

Immediately, I don't know how many Zheng Jun jumped into the Han River as if he was making dumplings.

Although Zheng Jun is a foot team, many people are transferred from the water division, so the water quality is very good. Although Han Jiang is not narrow, it is not difficult for them. But if you want to swim across the river, you can't bring all kinds of weapons or anything. So a moment later, a large area of weapons was piled up on the west bank of the Han River.

Seeing this, Luo Dai smiled coldly, and turned his eyes to Zheng Cai.

Zheng Cai is still a little disciplined. At least when the army collapsed, he was not the first to run, or he was too late to be the first to run, so he stayed behind. Zheng Cai saw Luo Dai looking at him, and his heart was cold, as if he was being targeted by some fierce beast. It's too late to escape.

Luo Dai rushed over with hundreds of horsemen, where were the soldiers beside Zheng Cai who were opponents. I can't stop it at all.

"Dangdang, dangdang, dangdang---- "Mingjin's voice was extremely urgent, and it seemed to express the mood of the orderer.

As soon as Luo Dai rushed out, Hu Tang wanted to order Mingjin. But I didn't dare, the reason was very simple, now the city gate was open, once Luo Dai lost the battle because of Ming Jin, maybe the Zheng army would rush in with Luo Dai.

So Hu Tang decided to wait.

Facts have proved that Hu Tang's judgment of the battlefield cannot keep up with Luo Dai's speed at all. Almost after a while, Hu Tang actually saw thousands of Zheng troops collapse, and what made Hu Tang's heart beat even more was that Luo Dai actually rushed towards Zheng Cai, which frightened Hu Tang's soul.

He knew that Luo Dai's backstage was very hard. In this battle, the Zheng army probably lost hundreds of people. Such things can still be erased. But if you kill Zheng Cai. But it's not so easy to erase. You must know that Zheng Cai is Zheng Zhilong's nephew no matter what.

That's when things got big.