Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

The second volume is rampant in Qilu

Chapter 7 The Raptors cross the river and fight the strong

Section 3: Occupy the city and defend it

Li Zhenhai looked at the handwritten letter in his hand, and the shock in his heart had reached the point of no return, since Li Zhenhai followed Gu Xinghai, he had never seen Gu Xinghai change his order in more than ten years! Now he has just led his army here to resist the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, he has withdrawn his army and returned to Shanxian County? Now that the two armies are facing each other, how can they easily withdraw their troops!

Li Zhenhai looked at Liu Yunwei, who had returned to his own formation, and looked at the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion with high morale, he was very worried in his heart, and he was constantly thinking about a safe way to retreat, but where would there be a foolproof plan in the eagerness? Li Zhenhai couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart.

At this time, Liu Yunwei, who returned to the main formation, was also observing the Gu family's big array, and after looking at it for a while, he said to Lu Ying and the others: "The leader of the Gu family should be a veteran, and now the situation of the two armies is obviously unfavorable to him, but the leader is still stubbornly confronting us, and it should be expected that we will not do the thing of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, so we have made up our minds to spend it with us here." ”

Lu Ying frowned and said, "Big brother, we can't waste it here, the longer the Gu family's affairs drag on, the more bad it will be for us." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "I naturally know, so let's not waste time here, let's retreat first, and then use tactics to win!" ”

Everyone was puzzled when they heard this, and they asked one after another: "Big brother, will you come out?" ”

Liu Yunwei smiled and said, "Hehe, mountain people have their own clever plans!" The order went down, and each headquarters slowly retreated, and camped five miles away, and Gao Hongguang and I left behind the department; In addition, Wen Poyu immediately sent someone to investigate the Gu family's arrangement in Shanxian County, and I want to know the situation of Gu Xinghai's troop formation in the shortest possible time. ”

Everyone did not hesitate to receive the order, and then, the rear team of nearly 4,000 soldiers of the Hanwei battalion began to retreat in an orderly manner, and Liu Yunwei and Gao Hongguang began to form a team, and nearly 1,000 iron cavalry soldiers were ready to attack at any time to stop the enemy and break the rear of the army.

And Li Zhenhai, who was in the distance, saw the scene in front of him, and his heart was suddenly relieved, and he said secretly: "Fortunately, the Hanwei battalion withdrew its troops on its own, it seems that Liu Yunwei is also a wise and brave person, and he doesn't want to fight with me, otherwise, I really don't know how today's matter will end." However, this son knows how to advance and retreat, knows how to forbear, and can be said to be the life-and-death enemy of the Gu family, and the next war will be troublesome. ”

Thinking of this, Li Zhenhai didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly ordered the 4,000 family members to change from the rear team to the front team, and slowly retreated back to Shanxian County.

In this way, a battle of life and death was suddenly resolved invisibly under the weight of Liu Yunwei and Li Zhenhai, and the two sides withdrew their troops. However, the situation is even more chaotic, Li Zhenhai doesn't know what happened in the rear, while Liu Yunwei is planning the next strategy.

At nightfall, Li Zhenhai led 4,000 families to rush to the outside of Shanxian County. At this time, the city wall of Shanxian County was brightly lit and heavily guarded, but there was not a single officer or soldier in sight, and the city wall was full of Gu family's family members, who were being guarded tightly. Li Zhenhai couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw this, and said secretly: "Could it be that the master took advantage of the situation to seize the county seat of Shanxian?" Now that there is still a little room for maneuver, how can the master act like this! ”

didn't have time to think about it, after the city gate opened, Li Zhenhai hurriedly led his family into the city, and then inquired about Gu Xinghai's location and learned that Gu Xinghai was in the county government at this time. So Li Zhenhai took a few entourages and went straight to the county office.

After seeing Gu Xinghai, Li Zhenhai was about to salute at first, but was stopped by Gu Xinghai waving his hand. Then Gu Xinghai asked, "Have you seen that Hanwei Battalion and its commander Liu Yunwei?" ”

Li Zhenhai nodded and said, "Back to the master, I saw it." I led my troops to confront the Hanwei battalion, but fortunately there was no fight. ”

"How's it going?"

"Very elite!" Li Zhenhai praised sincerely: "Let's be honest with the master, I, Li Zhenhai, have never seen such an elite tiger and wolf army, and it is estimated that the rumored Qi family army can defeat the Hanwei battalion." ”

Gu Xinghai's face was solemn when he heard this, he sighed slightly, and said: "Since this is the case, then my thousands of families will not have a good chance of winning if they fight with them, it seems that I really did the right thing to win this single county, let's prepare to defend the city." ”

Li Zhenhai smiled bitterly and said: "Master, I think that Liu Yunwei is also a tiger general with both wisdom and bravery, will we have a chance of winning if we defend this lonely city?" You must know that the farms, blacksmith shops and Gujiazhuang outside the city are our weakness! Besides, once the news of our capture of Shanxian spreads, it won't be long before the imperial court's conquest army will follow, and then we will not only face the Hanwei battalion, but an overwhelming conquest army! ”

"I know this too, but I can't help it!" Gu Xinghai sighed heavily, and said angrily: "Master Li, do you know, you just led the family to set off, and I received a secret report from the spies: Zheng Bin, the magistrate of Shanxian County, and Gu Qian, the housekeeper, colluded to secretly respond to the Hanwei camp; Then Zheng Bin is even ready to blockade the city of Shanxian County and assault my Gujiazhuang! Master Li, tell me, do I have any other way than to strike first and capture Shanxian first? ”

Li Zhenhai was also secretly frightened after hearing this, he never thought that the Gu family had been operating in this county for so many years, and in the end, once something happened, there would still be so many small troubles.

"Master, I know a little about this, I caught one of Zheng Bin's family members before the battle, and searched out a secret letter from him, and now I have killed him on the spot. But master, playing a single county is also a dead move! Li Zhenhai said with a bitter face.

Gu Xinghai said with a gloomy face: "I know that the only chance we can count on now is to be able to defeat the Han Wei camp first, and then quickly capture the surrounding cities with the power of a great victory, and fight a situation before the imperial army is encircled." In this case, we can still win in a dangerous situation! ”

"But we don't have time, so what if Liu Yunwei delays and doesn't fight? What if he waits for the officers and soldiers to come to our aid? ”

Speaking of this, Gu Xinghai sneered and said, "He won't, I think Liu Yunwei may want to divide the victory and defeat sooner than us!" ”

At the same time, Liu Yunwei was leading the soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion to Shanxian in the night. At nightfall, the night harvest sent out by Wen Poyu earlier sent back a shocking news: Gu Xinghai actually captured the city of Shanxian County, and all the officials below Zheng Bin in the county were killed!

Liu Yunwei was immediately furious, and immediately ordered the Hanwei battalion to take advantage of the night to go south to Shan County, preparing to raid Gu Xinghai. And on the way, Liu Yunwei received an urgent report that he did not receive at night: Gu Xinghai was sitting in the city of Shanxian County at this time, and the main force of 4,000 of his subordinates was guarding the city, and the remaining 1,000 were scattered in several farms outside the city and blacksmith shops in the north of the city; And the whereabouts of the Gu family's 2,000 horses are still unknown.

Liu Yunwei pondered for a while and asked, "What is the situation of the several ferries on the banks of the Yellow River?" ”

"There are also a thousand river soldiers of the Gu family guarding the ferry."

"Gu Xinghai, is this going to rebel directly? No, Gu Xinghai has endured it for so many years, and during this time, he also supported the Wenxiang Sect as a disaster, isn't it just to develop his power in secret? How could you suddenly do something so impulsive? Also, who are those family members killing in front of the battle during the day? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Yunwei still couldn't think of any method, so he simply didn't think about it, and directly ordered: "The soldiers of the whole battalion continue to move forward and rush to camp ten miles north of Shanxian County!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, Shanxian County Ya.

Gu Xinghai's face was not good after listening to Tanma's recital, and he said to Li Zhenhai beside him: "This Liu Yunwei is so bold, he dares to enter the army late at night, he is not afraid that I will take the opportunity to attack at night?" ”

"Maybe Liu Yunwei has something to rely on."

Gu Xinghai frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Master Li, I plan to let Gu Hu lead his troops back to the city to join us, and at the same time bring back all the grain in the eight major farms outside the city, and the blacksmith shop in the north of the city will also be moved to the city, so that we can support it for a little longer." What does Master Li think? ”

Li Zhenhai sighed and said: "The master is right to do this, we can only do this now, if we can last a little longer, maybe things will take a turn for the better." But what about the 3,000 serfs in those farms? Shall they also be brought into the city, so that they may help defend the city? ”

Gu Xinghai thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Absolutely not!" These serfs are always dissatisfied with our Gu family, and now at this critical juncture, they must not be allowed to enter the city! ”

Li Zhenhai nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go and send a letter to the second young master." ”

Gu Xinghai said: "Okay, the sooner the better." After Li Zhenhai went out, Gu Xinghai smiled slightly, and said to himself: "Okay, now that the bait has been released, this is half of my Gu Xinghai's net worth, I don't believe that Liu Yunwei can't take the bait!" ”

Ten miles east of Shanxian County.

Gu Long was sitting on his war horse looking at a secret letter, and after a while, Gu Long lit the secret letter in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, the secret letter was burned to ashes.

After that, Gu Longzhi laughed proudly and said, "Haha, okay, my father is finally going to make a move!" I'd rather see what means that so-called Hanwei battalion has, and see how he can resist the two thousand elite horsemen of my Gu family!" ”

After speaking, Gu Long waved his hand, and the two thousand family members behind him turned over and got on their horses together, and their movements were neat and uniform, as if they were one person. After that, Gu Long roared, "Brothers, come with me!" ”

The two thousand horse team started violently, and under the leadership of Gu Long, they galloped in the direction of Shanxian.