Chapter 53: Helpless
The Langzi battalion joined forces with the Tiance army and marched towards the western capital at the same time. At Yu Lang's suggestion, Li Shao gave up his plan to lead the army into Cangzhou City for repair, after all, the enemy and us are unknown, and the top priority should be to rush to the western capital as soon as possible to join the Longyou army.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the brothers of the Langzi Battalion learned a lot from the Tiance Army, which was full of veterans of a hundred battles, all of whom were about thirty years old, and they liked this group of studious juniors quite much, and they all taught their own experience.
The commander of this Tiance army is Yuan Qilang, the captain of the Liupinfei cavalry who was trained by Li Shao, and he and Nan Jiyun are very close to each other, and the two go in and out together, like brothers and sisters.
Yu Lang is naturally happy to see this, in his plan, the future Langzi Battalion will definitely be a peerless elite, and it is always good for the brothers to learn more things from the Tiance Army. It was Yu Lang himself who also learned a more profound art of riding and archery from Li Guangbi. The soldiers of the Langzi Battalion and the Tiance Army are deliberately alienating Li Guangbi, and it is expected that although this person is not small, he will not be liked by the prince, but Yu Lang will not give up this opportunity to make friends with heroes.
Li Shao, who has always been very strict with his subordinates, also turns a blind eye, and the prince who has not ascended the throne is the most virtuous, if he can recruit Yu Lang to his door, he is willing to hand over this Tiance army to Yu Lang to be in charge, not to mention tolerating a Khitan - that's right, the reason why Li Shao doesn't like Li Guangbi is because this person is good at advocating and blending into the Tiance army, and the second is because of this person's Khitan bloodline. Li Longji himself has no prejudice against the Shaomin, and he has been going up for hundreds of years, and the Li clan in Longxi also has Hu blood, and there are many foreign brave generals among the border generals. Li Shao is different, he highly admires the Han family knowledge, and most of the prince's staff are Han Confucians, and he is extremely disgusted with the Hu blood in his own blood.
Two days later, the group rushed to the western capital.
General Zhao Weide led the city's Chinese military officials to take over.
There are a total of 46,000 soldiers in the western capital city, but there are less than 100 war horses, because Huangfu Weiming ran thousands of miles to take down Hongji City and took away almost all the cavalry and war horses in the Longyou army. The soldiers were also infantry, and their strength was greatly reduced when they were forced to mount.
This incident made Li Shao and Yu Lang worried, originally they expected to join forces with the Western Capital City to lead a large army to attack Hongji City, cooperate with Huangfu Weiming inside and outside, and rely on the force of the disciples of their own Xiyue Academy to contain the Tubo National Teacher who likes to go into battle in person, who knows that there is not even a cavalry squad in the Western Capital. And if you bring the infantry out of the nest, the Tubo cities passing by along the way will definitely send troops to harass, greatly slowing down the speed of the march, and even the Tubo national division Kudozha is more likely to send surprise soldiers to the bottom of the kettle to seize the Longyou Protectorate, and lose the country, which is a crime against the sky.
However, at this moment, the arrow has to be sent, not to mention that Huangfu Weiming is besieged in Hongji City for a long time, and if the prince Li Shao leads the Tiance army out of Beijing without authorization and does nothing, the punishment for the two crimes is not impossible, even if he is deposed from the position of prince. In the end, Li Shao gritted his teeth and decided to fight to the death, so Zhao Wei had to select elite soldiers from the 46,000 soldiers who had cultivated above the Hundred Refining Realm or had excellent light physical skills to form a wolf tooth army, and followed the Tiance Army and the Langzi Battalion to go to Hongji City to rescue.
Zhao Wei exhausted all his means, but only managed to get together less than 800 people for the Wolf Tooth Army, and most of the 800 people were children of rich families with lords in their bodies. It is indeed helpless, most of the veterans in the barracks are from poor backgrounds, otherwise they would not come to Biansai to earn a bite to eat, although the combat effectiveness is not weak, but the cultivation above the Hundred Refining Realm is rare. These rich sons came to the army just to save military merit and mix up the future, and sooner or later they will have to return to Chang'an, how can they fight with their lives against the enemy. Zhao Weide was really sad, originally the emperor Weiming died in Hongji City, and he could still take his seat, but if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was folded in the hands of the Tubo people, His Majesty would be furious, and I am afraid that the entire Longyou Mansion would suffer.
After this incident, the crown prince Li Shao was also disappointed in Yu Lang, thinking that he was an all-round talent in humanities and martial arts, and the art of war taught by the Moon Washing Academy was also extremely mysterious, otherwise he would not be able to produce a famous general like Huangfu Weiming, and Yu Lang's military talent did not seem to be as high as Li Shao expected, and he was still at a loss in the face of such a situation.
On the other side, in the official residence of the Western Capital, Yu Lang and everyone from the Moon Washing Academy sat on the stone bench in the courtyard to discuss.
Dai Yang, who has the best light body kung fu, served as a scout, climbing on the tallest tree in the courtyard to observe the movement.
Yu Lang didn't have no ideas, but he didn't dare to say it.
Qingqing said: "I think Yu Lang's choice is correct, giving advice to the prince at this time is tantamount to tying yourself and him to the same boat, if it happens, we will have no benefit, if we lose, I am afraid that we will die." ”
Qingqing's greatest concern is naturally Yu Lang's safety, which is beyond reproach.
Zhang Chengxing said aggrievedly: "But after the morning meeting was dispersed today, the attitude of several brothers of the Tiance Army towards us changed sharply, and Yu Lang would generally only sleepwalk in the morning meeting, and even our Langzi Battalion was looked down upon by the Tiance Army!" ”
Xie Zhiqian also said: "Besides, not saying a word may not be a good thing for us, the Tiance Army plus the rabble wolf tooth army selected by our Langzi Battalion and the Longyou Army are rushing thousands of miles away with such a swagger, how can they fight the Tubo army that waits for work, isn't this self-defeating?" ”
Nan Jiyun frowned: "That's true, only to find out that this matter is far more tricky than we imagined, with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince leading the army, many means will not be able to be used." ”
Most of the methods Nan Jiyun said were to go to Juque to assassinate the Tubo national teacher, which was also a gamble with a very low success rate.
In the end, everyone's eyes pressed towards Yu Lang.
These looking forward eyes are like a thousand stones weighing heavily on Yu Lang's shoulders, he is the backbone of everyone, at this time naturally can not reveal a trace of hesitation, always have a calm face, eyes resolute, once he loses an inch, the Langzi camp will definitely scatter people's hearts into sand. But he has too many things to worry about, he can't easily suggest to Li Shao to get involved in the battle for the heir, he can't take dangerous moves, he has to rescue Huangfu Weiming, but also to ensure the safety of every brother in the Langzi camp, there are too many things to consider in all aspects, and caring about it is chaotic.
Feeling the pressure of Yu Lang, Xue Wenyang hummed a strange melody, which made everyone's tense nerves loosen, and they all turned to the mockery mode that they were used to on weekdays.
Xue Wenyang took advantage of the situation and said: "Why are you in such a heavy mood, let's go away from home for the first time, why don't we go out and take a good look and feel the unique style of a small border town?" I heard that there are not only delicious food and drinks that we have never seen before, but also exotic singers......"
After all, the brothers of the Langzi Camp are teenagers, and they were teased by Xue Wenyang, so they forgot their troubles and shouted to go out to drink.
Yu Lang was relieved at this time, and when everyone was gone, he took Qingqing out for a walk.