Zhou Yunjing was shocked in his heart, and asked in surprise, "Shouldn't you be in Xiakou now?" How did it come up here? ”

"Let you die today, even if the information you receive is timely, there will be a four-day time difference with Chaisang. And we sent troops three days ago, and you won't know until tomorrow. Zeng Dong laughed and continued: "The reason why we have been staying in Xiakou is to make you mistakenly think that you can arrive in time. In fact, His Royal Highness has long planned to finish his work in one battle, and on the way you come, set up an ambush and wait for you to enter the trap, so that you will not rush to Chaisang, nor will you have the opportunity to escape back to Shuzhou. ”

Zhou Yunjing felt a chill in his heart, it turned out that he had already fallen into other people's calculations. At this time, the adjutant general beside him suggested in a low voice: "General, the Qi army has 100,000 people, and we can't be a tough enemy." This is not far from Chaisang, let's break through there, as long as we can enter the city, we will not be afraid of the Qi army. ”

"I'm afraid that now Chaisang City has been surrounded by Jiang Huanyan and his army, if we go there, I'm afraid that the whole army will be wiped out." Zhou Yunjing thought for a while and said: "It's better to break through and go to Shuzhou, as long as we can escape, when the 80,000 reinforcements of the Wu army division arrive, there is still a chance to block the Qi army." ”

Zhou Yunjing never expected that his thoughts at this time were also predicted by Jiang Huanyan in advance, he was not afraid that Zhou Yunjing would break through to Chaisang, so he was worried that he would flee back to Shuzhou, so he asked Zeng Dong to arrange most of the ambush troops in the direction of Shuzhou, and Zhou Yunjing's escape fell into the calculation of the Qi army.

"General, there are more and more enemy troops in front, and if we break through so hard, I'm afraid that before we rush out, we will be wiped out, so it's better to go up Wulao Mountain first, defend according to the danger, and then think of another way." Seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the adjutant general proposed again.

Zhou Yunjing looked around, and knew that it was almost impossible to rush out, so he could only agree: "Then let's go up the mountain first." ”

Seeing the Song army fleeing towards the mountain in a swarm, Zeng Dong smiled and said to his lieutenant: "Sure enough, as judged by His Royal Highness, Zhou Yunjing had no choice but to flee up the mountain, but when he went up the mountain, he completely cut off his way of life." I will give you half of my troops now, and you pretend to be Zhou Yunjing's defeated army to take Shuzhou City for me. ”

After the deputy general left, Zeng Dong was not in a hurry to attack the mountain, but just sent troops to guard the exit of the mountain, and then ordered the mountain to be set on fire.

Zhou Yunjing made a long-distance raid this time, except for the dry food he carried with him, there was no other food in stock, as long as a fire burned the mountain, the Song army did not even have the opportunity to pick wild fruits and hunt supplies.

Although Wulao Mountain is not big, the fire also burned for seven full days before it was extinguished.

During this time, the Song army had a rather miserable time, first after a long-distance attack for half a month, then a fierce battle with the Qi army, and now it is trapped in the mountains. The rations they carried with them were eaten on the second day of their ascent to the mountain, but fortunately they were all cavalry, and they were able to kill their horses for a few more days.

After eating the war horses, the Song army starved for two more days, and finally the fire was extinguished, and everyone asked for their lives to break through, and they all felt that it was better to die in battle than to starve to death.

The two armies met again on the mountainside, and the Song soldiers knew that they had only a dead end except to break through and descend the mountain, so the offensive launched was extremely brave.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Zeng Dong hurriedly ordered the Qi army to retreat to the mountain pass, hold a few narrow roads, and no longer take the initiative to attack. In this way, no matter how brave the Song army is, there are only a limited number of people who can rush in front of him.

As soon as the two rounds of offensive passed, the fatigue of the Song army was undoubtedly revealed, Zeng Dong seized the opportunity to order a counterattack, and after a round of killing, Zhou Yunjing's 20,000 light cavalry was left with less than 3,000 people.

"It seems that I can't escape today, I'm really ashamed of the general." Even Zhou Yunjing began to despair, not to mention other ordinary soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, Zeng Dong led people to kill in front of him again: "General Zhou, you are originally a Chu minister, why do you want to serve the Song army?" Now that Emperor Xiao Yan of the Song Dynasty has condemned you as a rebel, it is better for you to come to our Daqi. ”

Zhou Yunjing laughed: "When I was in Chu State, Emperor Chu just treated me as an ordinary courtier, and I naturally treated him as an ordinary courtier, and I was stationed in Jincheng for three years, which can be regarded as repaying Emperor Chu's kindness." After the fall of Jincheng, it was General Deng who surrendered, not Emperor Xiao Yan of the Song Dynasty. General Deng treated me with the courtesy of a countryman, and I naturally had to repay it with the courtesy of a countryman, and how could I surrender to your Qi country again. ”

Zeng Dong shook his head and didn't persuade much: "Since that's the case, then don't blame me for not giving you a chance." With that, he raised his hand and gave the order to launch a final attack.

Zhou Yunjing shouted loudly: "Brothers, today I have involved you in a desperate situation with me, you can choose to surrender to the Qi army now, I will never blame you, but if you are not willing to surrender, then follow me, and finally kill happily." ”

All the soldiers shouted: "I am willing to die with the general." ”

Zhou Yunjing took the remaining 3,000 people to try to break through for the last time, Zeng Dong sighed secretly, drew his long sword, and personally went down to participate in the fight.

Zhou Yunjing saw Zeng Dong go down and felt that this was the last chance, as long as he could be captured alive, his three thousand soldiers would have hope of survival.

Zeng Dong seemed to see through Zhou Yunjing's thoughts, and stood in place with a smile on his face and waited for him to come over.

Zhou Yunjing shouted violently, his body jumped in the air, and he was stabbed out of his head. Zeng Dong's body was slightly sideways, and after avoiding this move, he made two moves in a row: "General Zhou, I respect you and you are also a hero, so I let you make three moves, and now I want to fight back." ”

Zhou Yunjing shouted: "The two armies are fighting on the battlefield, why do you need Zhou." ”

Zeng Dong was not angry, he raised his sword to attack, and the sword was extremely fast, extremely sharp, and forced Zhou Yunjing to defend with all his strength in a moment.

After hurriedly avoiding seven or eight moves, Zhou Yunjing realized that the opponent's martial arts were far superior to his own.

You must know that Zeng Dong is the deputy leader of the Nujiao Gang, and except for Lu Xinghai, no one in the gang can catch Zeng Dong's fast sword. And Zhou Yunjing is just an ordinary general, where will he be his opponent.

The two fought in less than ten moves, and Zhou Yunjing was captured by Zeng Dongsheng. The battle of Wulaoshan was also coming to an end, and all but a few of the 3,000 Song soldiers were killed and the deputy general was also captured.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Zeng Dong took the captured Zhou Yunjing and his deputy general to Shuzhou again. Because he respected Zhou Yunjing's identity, he just sent a few more people to watch it, and he didn't add other constraints.

When the army went down the mountain, they reached a mountain stream, and the deputy general suddenly flew up and kicked down the two Song soldiers around him, snatched their single knife, and threw one to Zhou Yunjing and said: "General Zhou, you have to flee back, General Deng still needs you." After speaking, he rushed towards the Song soldiers who had just reacted.

Zhou Yunjing didn't say a word, and rushed towards the mountain stream after a single knife.

Zeng Dong was at the front of the team, and when he heard movement behind, he hurriedly ran over to check, and when he arrived, he saw Zhou Yunjing jumping down from the mountain stream.

"Let me go down and search, no matter whether you live or die, you must find Zhou Yunjing." Zeng Dong shouted angrily.

The bloodied lieutenant general was laughing when he saw Zhou Yunjing fleeing, Zeng Dong was even more angry, and stepped forward to take a sword in his chest.

"General, apart from the blood found under the mountain stream, there is no trace of Zhou Yunjing." Two hours later, a sergeant came over to report to Zeng Dong.

Zeng Dongtie blushed: "Leave a team of people to continue searching, and the others will follow me to Shuzhou." "It has been delayed for too long in Wulao Mountain, and Zeng Dong is still thinking about taking Shuzhou and Huicheng before Wu Shiqi's 80,000 reinforcements arrive.

During Zhou Yunjing's trapping in Wulao Mountain, Jiang Huanyan also came to the city of Chaisang. Despite his absolute superiority in troops, he still did not want to attack by force.

Jiang Huanyan found a sergeant in the army who looked similar to Zhou Yunjing, and asked him to take 20,000 light horsemen to pretend to be reinforcements from the Song army, and took advantage of the night to open the city gate.

Chaisang's guards were looking forward to reinforcements day and night, and he had never seen Zhou Yunjing himself, and when he heard that the reinforcements had arrived in the middle of the night, he asked a few questions roughly and opened the city gate.

As a result, the Qi army quickly occupied the city gate and let Jiang Huanyan, who was lurking not far away, enter the city, and after one night, Chaisang was also included in the territory of Qi.

"Your Highness, General Zeng sent a battle report, they have taken Shuzhou, and now they are killing Huicheng, but General Zeng also asked for a self-demotion in the battle report, saying that when he ambushed Zhou Yunjing, he accidentally escaped." On the fifth day of taking Chaisang, Zeng Dong's battle report also came.

Jiang Huanyan disagreed: "Although I ran away from Zhou Yunjing, but being able to take Shuzhou so quickly can be regarded as a crime, you reply to Zeng Dong, so that he doesn't have to blame himself, and quickly lead the troops to fight Huicheng, and I will also lead the troops to support later." ”

After speaking, Jiang Huanyan thought about it, and said to the general: "You send a message to General Tian again, saying that you can send troops to Suizhou now, and let the fourth brother also prepare to send troops to Zhoukou." ”

"Your Highness, is this planning to launch a general attack?" Seeing that Deng Yuanjue, who was famous all over the world, was beaten by his own highness and was powerless, the general was also extremely excited.

Jiang Huanyan still nodded lightly: "If it goes well, the war in Chu can be resolved within a year." ”

Just when Jiang Huanyan was about to send troops, he suddenly received a letter from Shangjing.

This letter was drafted by the crown prince Jiang Huan Song himself, and the content was that Jiang Wushuang suddenly fell seriously ill and asked Jiang Huanyan, Jiang Huan Chu and Tian Wuji to rush back to Beijing as soon as possible.

Now is the critical moment of the war Chu, if it weren't for Jiang Wushuang's real deadline, it would be impossible for Jiang Huan Song to write such a letter and recall all three of them at the same time.

Jiang Huanyan, who usually seems indifferent to everything, is also full of grief after reading the letter.

He handed over all the military affairs of Chu to Zeng Dong to be in charge, and then he took a few retinues to rush back to Shangjing by water.

Tian Wuji and Jiang Huanchu, who received the letter two days later, also arranged for Lu Xingyu and Tian Kangyou to take over their military affairs, and then also rushed to Beijing.