Chapter Twenty-Five: Finding a Good Match for the Cause of the World, the Long Snake Sets Up a Formation to Break the Enemy
However, it was said that after Sanniang defeated the Jeju official army, he immediately collected his troops and returned to Yuncheng County, and ordered the general to send Dong Ping to escort Cheng Taishou's family from Dongping Mansion to Yuncheng County. Within a day, Dong Ping escorted Cheng Taishou's family to arrive, and Sanniang met in person at the county hall.
That Cheng Taishou called Cheng Wanli, and he governed Dongping Mansion peacefully, which was quite accomplished. Zhang Qing and Dong Ping led the army to fight Dongping, he did not have any elite soldiers, Dong Ping was the governor of Dongping Mansion, and he knew that the inside was false and real, so he only defended for one day, and the city was broken. After the city was broken, Dong Ping captured Cheng Taishou and his family, remembering the previous love, but he was not harmed.
Cheng Wanli arrived at the hall, secretly thinking about this Liangshan demon girl, talking and laughing, let tens of thousands of officials and soldiers in Jeju fly to ashes, it is really killing people without blinking, thinking that they will die, and they have been trembling. I didn't want to go to the hall, but I saw a beautiful woman sitting on the main seat of the hall, sitting on it in a straight hunting suit, with bright eyes and a smile like a flower, not like a murderous demon girl.
Cheng Wanli has a daughter, very colorful, at this time Cheng Wanli saw this woman, and sighed in his heart: "There are more beautiful women in the world than their own daughters." ”
The soldier behind him pushed, Cheng Wanli stumbled, and hurriedly sang. The woman smiled slightly and said, "Cheng Taishou, please take a seat." At that moment, the soldier moved Zhang and taught him to sit.
The woman said: "Cheng Taishou, I have admired the name for a long time, I am Hu Lan, the lord of Liangshanbo." Cheng Wanli wanted to say a few hard words, but he didn't dare to say the words, so he had to be silent.
Sanniang said again: "The Taishou army was defeated, lost the city, and now there is no way out." If Taishou wants to martyr for the Song family, it will be simple, and I will order the knife and axe hand to push all your family to the city Cao to behead the public. ”
When Dong Ping heard this, he hurriedly persuaded: "Lord, this Cheng Taishou has always had a good official reputation, and he has not harmed the people, and he has also spared his family." ”
Sanniang raised her face and said: "You are not related to her, why do you want to intercede with him?" Dong Ping was silent. Sanniang glanced at Cheng Wanli coldly, and said: "In the past three years, the Qing Governor's Mansion has been 100,000 snowflakes of silver, even if Cheng Taishou is incorruptible, how many people in this Great Song Dynasty officialdom are really honest and honest officials?" If you kill Cheng Taishou, you won't make a mistake. ”
Cheng Wanli thought that he would die, but in the end, he was not determined to die, and after hearing Sanniang's words, his face suddenly turned like earth, and he couldn't help but kneel down, and lamented: "The owner of the park is above, Xiao Ke knows that he is guilty, but Xiao Ke is familiar with government affairs and is good at financial management. ”
Sanniang snorted and said, "If you want to vote for me, you have to have someone as a guarantor." Dong Ping heard this: "Lord, the young general is willing to guarantee Cheng Taishou." Sanniang smiled slyly and said: "You are not related to him, how can you guarantee him?" ”
Cheng Wanli listened to it and remembered that Dong Ping had come to ask him for marriage in the past, but at that time, Cheng Wanli only thought about dedicating his daughter to the palace, and with his daughter Feihuang Tengda, he rejected Dong Ping. Later, I heard that Dong Ping went to participate in a martial arts competition to recruit relatives, and then he never mentioned his relatives, and after a long time, he forgot about it, and suddenly remembered that it was important to save his life, so he hurriedly said: "Master Mingjian, in the early years, Dong Dujian came to discuss marriage with the little girl, but the little girl was still young at that time, so she never married. Now he is willing to marry the little girl to Dong Dujian, so that Dong Dujian is a cute son-in-law, so it is possible to guarantee it? ”
Dong Ping hurriedly said: "This matter is not possible. Sanniang immediately said: "If you don't agree to this family business, you will kill Cheng Wanli's family immediately, and even his delicate daughter will die, you think clearly!" ”
Dong Ping's eyes widened, he muttered for a long time, and saw Cheng Wanli's pleading eyes again. Fang Cai sighed and said, "Okay, the young general is willing to agree to this family business." Sanniang and Cheng Wanli were both overjoyed, and when Sanniang called Shi Wenbin and ordered him to be a matchmaker, Cheng Wanli married Miss Cheng to Dong Ping, and Cheng Wanli put it under Liangshan.
When there was no one left and right, Dong Ping said to Sanniang: "Why does the lord want to be like this? Sanniang said nonsense: "You and Miss Cheng are long-cherished karma and can't be hidden." Dong Ping was silent for a while and said: "You have to deceive me, I know that you want to break my thoughts, in fact, as long as I can see you every day, I will be satisfied." ”
Sanniang scolded with a smile: "Just to see me, you won't marry a wife and have children?" How can you be worthy of your Dong family's ancestors? If that's the case, I'm guilty of a terrible sin. Dong Ping also smiled: "The young general understands the hard work of the lord, so it's okay, thank you for arranging this marriage." They both laughed.
After arranging Dong Ping's marriage, Sanniang got a military report, saying that Tong Guan's 100,000 soldiers and horses learned that they had lost Yuncheng, Shouzhang, Wenshang, and Dongping.
Sanniang immediately convened the generals to discuss, and then ordered Zhu Tong, Lei Heng, and Shi Wenbin to guard Yuncheng County, Zhang Qing, Dong Ping, and Cheng Wanli to guard Dongping Mansion, and Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo to guard Wenshang. Sanniang led an army of 20,000 and the rest of the leaders to return to Shishou Zhang County to rescue Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Li Kui and others.
Besides, Tong Guan's military horse went to Shouzhang County, and this day he had reached the boundary of Shouzhang, and suddenly heard a report from the front sentinel army and horse, and said that a military horse in front of him was blocking the road. Tong Guan gathered all the generals until the front of the battle to see, only to see a series of armor and horse troops lined up there, the first two generals, the banner is clearly written; "Golden Gunner" Xu Ning, "Little Li Guang" Hua Rong.
Tong Guan rode on the war horse and looked over, and said to the generals of the former army: "This must be the vanguard of thieves, the one who dares to fight goes out to talk?" A fierce general in the vanguard turned around, stepped forward and jumped out, and immediately owed Tong Guan and said: "The young general is willing to go, begging for the will." ”
It is Chen Zhu, the governor of Zhengzhou, with a white robe and silver armor, a green horse, and a big pole knife, and he is a deputy pioneer. Tong Guan taught the army to send three links under the banner of the golden drum, and the red flag under the banner of Shuai recruited soldiers and horses, and Chen Zhu came out of the battle from the Pegasus under the banner, and the two armies shouted together. Chen Zhu grabbed his horse, held his knife horizontally, and shouted loudly: "Unprovoked grass cowards, rebel fanatics, the heavenly soldiers are here, they have not surrendered, and they will treat their flesh and bones into mud, how can they regret it!" ”
The pioneer leader in the Liangshan formation, Biao General Xu Ning, saw it, Pegasus came out of the battle, and he didn't speak, dancing the hook and sickle golden gun, and directly took Chen Zhu. The two horses intersected, and their weapons were raised together, one stabbing the spear head-on, and the other slashing the sword. The second future will come and go, turning over and over, more than 20 times, Xu Ning sold a flaw, let Chen Zhu rush in, and wanted to cut it empty. Xu Ning took advantage of the situation, picked up the gun and fell, put Chen Zhu with a helmet on the top, and in the middle of the door, he made a clear hole, and Chen Zhu turned over and died under the horse.
Xu Ning's two lieutenants, Shan Tingjue, Wei Dingguo, and Pegasus rushed straight out of the formation, grabbed the good horse first, and took Xu Ning away. Xiao Li Guanghuarong, the deputy pioneer of Liangshan in the formation on the side, saw that Xu Ning had won the first credit, and immediately pondered: "The official and military have arrived, the foothold is not stable, and they have just been defeated for a while, and they have already stepped on the sharp spirit, why don't they grab the past here, catch Tong Guan, and wait for when!" ”
At that moment, Hua Rong shouted, like a thunderbolt in front of the battle, holding a silver gun, slapping the horse and crashing into the formation. Tong Guan saw it, and he returned to Ma Wangzhong and left. When Li Zhong and Zhou Tong, the two deputy generals behind them, saw it, they also shouted: "Don't you catch Tong Guan here, when will you wait!" "Each urged the chain armor military horses and killed them. The golden gunner, Xu Ning, and Shan Tingqi and Wei Dingguo, saw that they rushed over in the formation, and also recruited the red flag military horses of their own team to rush into the formation together to catch Tong Guan.
The vanguard of five thousand chain armor horses rushed to the battle together, the arrows rained down in the distance, and the spear sprinted in the near distance, killing the three soldiers and horses of Tong Guan, the defeat and loss, the stars fell and scattered, seven losses and eight injuries, the sergeant threw gold and abandoned the drum, skimmed the halberd and lost the gun, looked for the son to find the master, called the brother and called the brother, broke more than 10,000 people and horses, and retreated thirty miles away to tie up.
At this time, Sanniang, Lu Junyi and other Chinese soldiers and horses arrived, so they collected the army in the formation, and ordered: "And you can't chase and kill as much as you want, and report a letter to him." "The people and horses of Liangshanbo collected their troops and returned, so they set up camp under Shouzhang City, and the leaders offered their own merits to ask for rewards.
Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and Li Kui saw the arrival of Sanniang's military horses, and they all went out of the city to meet each other. Sanniang said: "Although the official army was defeated, there were still 90,000 horses. Today he is defeated, and in a few days he will return, and the people will obey my command, so and so and and so and and When the princes heard this, they all received the commandment, and went their own way.
Let's say that Tong Guan lost for a while, folded the people and horses, and rested in the village gate early, feeling depressed, and gathered the generals to discuss. Yumei, Bi Sheng's second general said: "The cardinal minister is worried, this Kou knows that the official army is coming, and while our army's horse is not firmly established, he rushes to kill, and our army is caught off guard, so he is lucky to win." When the officers and soldiers first arrived, they didn't know the truth and the truth, so they were tricked by thieves. Thinking of this, he just relied on the chain of horse troops as a force, set up more military horses, bluffed, and lost his mind for a while. We will wait and train the horses and infantry soldiers again, stop for three days, develop a sharp spirit, and will rest the war horses, and after three days, all the generals will be divided into a long snake formation, and all the infantry will kill the generals. This array is like a snake in the long mountain, the head is the tail, the hit is the head and the tail, the head and the tail are the same, all have to be in constant contact, and this battle will be a great success. ”
Tong Guan said: "This plan is wonderful, just what I want." "The general order was immediately handed down, the three armies were purged, and the training was decided. On the third day, the five watches made food, the generals were full, the horses were covered with leather armor, the people were dressed in iron armor, the swords were bold, and the bows and crossbows were wound. The general is beautiful, Bi Sheng should lead the army first, and he will kill Ben Shouzhang County.
The Eighth Route Army Horse, divided into left and right, sent a three-day ironclad sentry horse to explore the road, and came back to report to Tong Guanzhong Army that "on the battlefield the day before yesterday, there was not a single military horse. Tong Guan was suspicious when he heard this, and since the former army asked Yumei, Bi Sheng said: "How about retreating?" ”
Yumei replied: "Hugh is retreating, only thinking that the conflict will go." The long snake array is set, what are you afraid of doing? The officers and soldiers rushed forward, straight into Shouzhang County, did not see a military horse, but saw the canal and waterway next to the city, across the water, are reeds and smoke water, from a distance to see Shouzhang County head of an apricot yellow flag there beckoning, the city also did not see some movement.
Tong Guan and Yumei, Bi Shenglema in front of the army, saw a small boat in the reed forest on the water surface of the canal, a person on the boat, wearing a green hat, wearing a green coat, reclining on the back of the boat, fishing alone on the west bank. (To be continued.) )