Chapter 501: Hard-Boned Loyalty, Soft-Boned Reason

"Bastard, bastard......"

In a post station more than 70 miles west of Beiping City, Zhu Biao's thunderous roar came from the most high-class pavilion.

"My lord, what's wrong with General Zhu?" A post guard at the post station looked at the post chief puzzled, Zhu Biao's angry voice was about to break people's eardrums, it was really in his mind that the famous Taishan collapsed in front of him and his color remained unchanged, it was too incompatible.

The post chief glanced at his subordinates and sighed, "What's the matter, I'm angry!" Bodaoling fought a battle in Quzhou in the south, destroying more than 4,000 enemies and losing 3,000 himself. ”

"Isn't that a win? It's almost a double and a half. ”

"Win the battle, then it depends on who it is! Bodaoling fine cavalry, in the hands of General Zhu one and a half times the victory? What's more, it's still the bandits' tattered soldiers......"

Although the position of the post chief is unbearable, when he led the envoy to see Zhu Biao, he also heard some content, and the envoy did not avoid him deliberately, thinking that the news was already rotten in the royal capital.

"Alas, I wish you ...... general?"

The group came out of the hall, and the post chief immediately greeted him, and his eyes were spicy and he saw that something was wrong. Wrapped in the body, the sword hangs from the waist, this is to go?

"Captain, hurry up and prepare your horses. Ben was going to run to the capital overnight! ”

"Eh, little one!"

Don't talk about staying guests, this is not what his little post chief should say. After receiving the order, the post commander immediately turned around and beckoned the post man to help lead the horse.

Wang ordered the gold medal to open the gate of the capital, and Zhu Biao went home and slept for a while. As soon as it was dawn, I went to the Taiwei Mansion, and then the Yamen of the Ministry of War. The former took most of the time. The latter time is very short, in the afternoon to the palace, at noon to the Elbe Houfu, after the meal took the time to see a trip to Zhu Ming, in the afternoon, five thousand fine riders and three horses from the Bodao Ridge, detour to the east of the capital, and turn south.

"Long Drive-" Technique and Tactics On!

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Dongjiang County, Changrui County. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the distant horizon.

Changrui County ordered Wang Kai to stand on the high place of the city wall and look down. I saw a group of cavalry rushing towards the county seat. These cavalrymen were dressed in iron armor and carried large banners of hunting and flying.

The cavalry arrived outside the city, and after a week of inspection, they solemnly lined up, and several horsemen returned, and after a while, they saw a piece of brown battle flags constantly gathering under the city, each flag was one, five was a battalion, and the military academy general flag was even higher in the wind.

The army gathered, and the trumpets sounded constantly. Then the mountain army, which was more than 50,000, marched in formation and slowly pressed towards the city. Stop at the two arrows away.

With such a majesty, Wang Kai couldn't help but change color, and he could hear the voices of the people beside him who were both gritting their teeth and panting heavily. It's a state of mind that is both resentful and fearful!

Resentful of the treacherous mountain army fell into the well, afraid of the majestic army under the city, Mount Tai overwhelmed.

The squares were already densely packed, and it was easy to see the flags on them. The person who came was no longer the general surnamed Gong Shan that he heard at the beginning, but a man surnamed Luo.

From the top of the city, under the banner, there were densely packed with soldiers of the mountain army dressed in brown armor. The shining blades shine brightly in the sunlight.

Luo Longguang, the captain of the mountain country, personally went out. Ever since he learned that the Han army had brazenly disarmed all the mountain troops in the three states of the North, and his own Tai was imprisoned, the Mountain King was ready to go crazy.

Now they have the support of the Tang King, get the edict of the 'Han King', after the defeat in the first battle of Guangyang County, 100,000 follow-up real mountain army cavalry, immediately drove into Quzhou. At the same time, the two partial divisions also marched left and right into Yuzhou and Muzhou.

Behind Luo Longguang was a dense array of elite guards. Along with the generals, they gazed at the county seat of Changrui. Looking carefully at the flag on it, I didn't find any military flags!

Luo Longguang smiled, pointed the horsewhip at the county seat, and said loudly: "Where is the Han envoy?" ”

Then. Ji Kun's 'messenger' hurriedly came out and said, "Captain Luo, the foreign minister is here." ”

"Since the King of Han has asked our country to rescue, this Taiwei can't bear to kill more. Go quickly and persuade the city to come out immediately and give birth to the false king, and choose Allah. Otherwise, half an hour later, our army will begin to attack, and when the blood is flowing, Hugh blames the ruthlessness of Captain Ben's men. ”

"Yes, Lord Taiwei, the foreign minister will go." This Han envoy sang and harmonized with Luo Longguang like a double reed. Some unknown generals around Luo Longguang really nodded at Luo Longguang's words, but the real clear-eyed people let out a sneer in their hearts.

The king of the mountain is really doing this - not only to be a, but also to set up a torii!

"Lord Wang, what is going on now?" A young man at the head of the city whispered to Wang Kai, looking at his dress, there is no doubt that he should be a county official.

Wang Kai's eyes erupted with fire and glared at the Han envoys under the city. With his hand pressed on the saber at his waist, he really wanted to immediately behead the brazen dog under the city.

But looking at the dense mountain army under the city, he sighed, "Wait for the switch to get out of the city!" ”

"Your Excellency!" The young man shouted unwillingly. He could not bear the humiliation of succumbing to the land of the mountain people.

"People are under the roof, and they have to bow their heads. There are less than 1,000 volunteers in our county, how can they be the opponents of these 50,000 captives? If the bandits break through, the people of our county will have no way to survive even if they are all defending the county. ”

When he heard this, the young man was speechless.

A quarter of an hour later, I saw the city gate open, and a group of people poured out, for the sake of not Wang Kai but the county Cheng, Changrui County still surrendered without a fight.

"My lord, my lord......" At the head of the city, Liang Jin looked at Wang Kai with the sword on his neck at a loss. Your Excellency, you can't ......."

"Haha, why not? As the head of a county and incapable of guarding his land, what kind of face does this official have to face the world, and he is even more ashamed of the court. The grace of the king, the heart of the people, there is no other retribution, only the heart of death! Seeing the city gate open, the city was about to be shattered, and Wang Kai's heart was broken.

"Hmm!" Twist the sword hard, and three feet of blood splash.

"My lord, my lord........." Wang Kai's body fell, and Liang Jin wept bitterly. Lying on the head of the city, a deeper and thicker hatred is taking root and sprouting......

"What's going on in the city?" Luo Longguang couldn't help frowning when he heard the cry. His army was about to enter the city, but there was a cry, how unlucky!

Personally followed the horse to investigate, and reported after a while: "Changrui County ordered suicide!" ”

The group of mountain soldiers who were talking and laughing immediately froze their smiles on their faces, and even Luo Longguang's hand couldn't help but be heavy, and he plucked out his three hairs!

"Uh-huh! The army camped outside, divided the army to defend this county, and buried the county order! ”

The army did not go into the city at all. Anyway, we will continue to walk north in the afternoon. Just stay outside! Although the mountain army came to the Northern Han Dynasty with high spirits, it was over

It was not an invading army, and Hu Cai's methods of burning, killing and looting could not be used.

At most, it is to loot the county treasury and seize some cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, ducks and floating wealth.

It's too much, and King Tang won't agree!

The incident of Changrui was just a small episode on the way to the forbidden army of the mountain army, and Luo Longguang and his group did not pay much attention to it except for chanting in their hearts: The hearts of the Northern Han people are still there. At this time, it was not the time for the mountains to go down to the Northern Han Dynasty.

And people's hearts are the most thin. As long as the mountain army does not pass the bottom line. After a long time, he didn't even have to deal with it, and this person's heart turned around on its own.

The day is dusk and sunset. The main force of more than 50,000 mountain troops arrived under the county seat of Dongjiang. Together with the baggage battalion, most of the siege equipment arrived. The mountain country that had been planning for a long time allocated a large number of chariots and horses to Luo Longguang's department, just to keep the baggage from delaying the speed of travel. In the Han army in the city, there is only one song of the old army, only one new army, plus the civilian army, the total number is only two thousand. In the past few days, the county princess has summoned the whole city of young people, and there are only 10,000 people. Compared with the mountain army outside the city, it is really an egg as a stone.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Dongjiang County. Densely packed with besieging mountain soldiers, thunderbolts threw burning stones poured with fire oil.

Every time there is a "boom", the house collapses and flesh and blood fly.

"Shoot!" Arrows staggered in the air like locusts. From the early morning to the afternoon, the foot archers of the mountain army never weakened, but the crossbowmen in the city gradually died out.

"Prepare the stone, put it!"

Dozens to hundreds of pounds of stones were thrown from the city. It slammed heavily on the ladder truck, and every time it fell, there was a scream.

"The golden juice is boiling, ready to pourβ€”" A large number of people, all carrying cauldrons. It was full of boiling dung juice, and the stench was overwhelming, but now the defenders of the city completely ignored it.

They were all scarred, their eyes were bloodshot, and when they saw an order: "Fall!" ”

Dozens of pots of boiling dung juice poured down like a yellow waterfall, and almost instantly, a number of terrible screams could be heard below.

At this moment, the hundreds of mountain soldiers climbing on the ladder cart will be doomed. The terrible howl can make people shudder, and after being poured with boiling dung juice, they sneer and smoke hot smoke, and the skin exposed outside the armor can be peeled off without touching it, revealing the white bones underneath, which is shocking.

With a trumpet, the mountain army retreated like a tide; Another drum sounded, and a new wave of attacks howled and killed. And then continue to be resisted.

Xu Xuan stood on the city wall, gasping for breath, staring at the sunset in the western sky, the blood-red remnant sun was really like blood, sprinkled on the city, sprinkled around him.

On the first day, the attack of the mountain army subsided, but in Nancheng, the most fiercely attacked place, there were only two or three hundred of a thousand county soldiers who mixed old and new. Thousands of young and strong corpses fell to the top of the city.

He had no fear in his heart, but he knew that if there were no reinforcements tomorrow, the day when Dongjiang City would be broken would be just around the corner, and he should not even be able to see the morning sun the day after tomorrow.

On the makeshift platform, Luo Longguang stared at the head of Dongjiang County, on which the tattered Red Red Army flag of the Han army fluttered. Xu Huan's resistance was very resolute, and the city's resistance was also very resolute, although in the eyes of any general with a certain degree of military literacy, Dongjiang City had reached the point of desperation.

But at least today, it's still standing!

"Still refusing to surrender?" Turning to ask the Han envoy.

"Still refused." This Han envoy is a member of the Nangong family, and he doesn't play false at this time, he doesn't have that energy. "Xu Huan, this person is stinky and hard, I really don't know what to do!" Luo Longguang has already promised that as long as Xu Huan is willing to open the city and surrender, then he will not blame the past and will never retaliate against himself and the soldiers and civilians in the city of General Dong.

"Really?" Luo Longguang sighed and didn't say anything more. These are all loyal ministers of the country and pillars of the society! If it is changed to a mountain country, this is a hero of the whole country.

Half a ring, and then asked: "Is there any news of reinforcements from the Han army?" ”

"I only know that Hanting urgently recalled Zhu Biao and began to transfer the Luozhou army south."

"It's the same stinky hard. The main force was pinned down on the northern front and could not go south, and the soldiers of the royal capital were surrounded in Wei County, and they still refused to beg for mercy and surrender, so they had to fight under the city of Beiping before they were willing to bow their heads? ”

"That's it! Tomorrow will break the Dongjiang River! ”

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Tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampled on the earth, and the earth shook, making a loud roar ......of rolling thunder.

It's raining! Five thousand thin knife ridge spirits galloped forward in the heavy rain!

"Long driveβ€”"

"Long driveβ€”"

"Long driveβ€”"

Techniques and tactics are constantly being used. At the same time as the speed +30%, the exhaustion of 5 points is also accumulating little by little, although the amount is small but the amount is accumulated into a lot, and the horses and soldiers are exhausted to death at the end of the day. But the army led by Zhu Biao traveled 500 miles in one day, which was the configuration of one man and three horses, which far exceeded the record of cavalry breakthrough.

At the same time, the first step was sent by the imperial court to send a thousand-mile expedited, so that the counties and counties in various places blocked the passes, check the crossroads, and no one was allowed to ride a horse without an official certificate. To a certain extent, it covers the whereabouts of Zhu Biao.

The birds that he mentioned earlier that non-government governments in the country are not allowed to raise pigeons, eagles and harriers for the purpose of transmitting information and investigating have been implemented throughout the country in the Northern Han Dynasty. Otherwise, even if the local government blocks the road traffic this time, it will not be able to control the sky! Before Zhu Biao suddenly entered the battlefield, the mountain army had already learned the news.

That raid is a fart!

Dongjiang County, the next day.

One after another ladders were erected, and there was no rain of arrows in the city, and there was only the sound of dung juice and rolling wood from the cauldron falling down.

But the arrows of the city were exhausted, and the archers were even more exhausted, so they had to desperately boil the dung and dump and dismantle the rolling wood and stones obtained from the house.

Although every time the boiling dung juice falls, in a white mist, the screams will come out in an endless stream, but both the people in the city and the city see that the destruction of the city is in front of them.

"Kill!" Xu Huan roared angrily, and slashed another mountain soldier who climbed up, blood splattered, and people gasped fiercely. Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed out of the corner of his eye, and then he felt that all the strength in his body was gone, and everything around him was blurred, and he tried to squeeze a trace of strength out of his not very strong body, but his rapidly weakened body could no longer gather any strength.

"Envoy!" Xu Huan heard the roar of the leading captain in the county......

At this time, at this time, there was a sudden exclamation in the distance, and then a sound of gold sounded in Xu Hui's ears. It's so dark in front of you!