Chapter 35: Trying to Rescue
At the same time as the Chengwang Mansion was deliberating, a caravan of dozens of people came to Gaoyou City, and the gatekeeper saw it, and immediately shouted loudly, causing the caravan to stop. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The caravan steward was a fat man with a kind face, and his reaction to the goalkeeper was commonplace, so he walked quickly to the goalkeeper, claiming to be a businessman from Xuzhou, and this time he came to Gaoyou to make a deal, and then secretly stuffed a few silver ingots with white flowers.
The goalkeeper weighed the weight of the silver taels with his hand, and after feeling that it exceeded his psychological expectations, he smiled and warned the fat man to keep to himself, and then ordered his men to open the railing and let the fat man and his party enter the city.
This caravan was sent by Deng Yu to rescue Lu Zhen's family, the fat steward was named Liu Zhen, Chen Hui's deputy, and after they entered the city, they quickly settled down in the inn.
In the evening, Liu Yu and his confidant Zhang Hang were discussing in the room, only to see Zhang Hang's solemn expression, and asked worriedly: "According to the brothers' investigation report, there are soldiers and horses patrolling back and forth outside Lu Zhen's mansion, and the guard is quite strict. ”
Hearing this, Liu Yu smiled slightly, took out a bag from his sleeve and said: "How can I have such wisdom, but don't worry, Master Li has already had a plan, and the military master has a word, and he can succeed according to the plan!" ”
Zhang Hang was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Liu Yu to open the bag to see, there was a small piece of paper in the bag, and the two of them praised it after reading it.
On the second day, Liu Yu bought the house next to Lu Zhen's mansion, and organized people to carry out earthwork according to the strategy, and at the second watch on the evening of the fourth day, the outer house of Lu Mansion suddenly burst into flames, and the soldiers in charge of guarding were shocked, and hurriedly went to investigate, and when they returned, they found that Lu Zhen's important relatives had all disappeared, and the generals responsible for monitoring Lu Mansion hurriedly reported to King Cheng's Mansion.
Zhang Shicheng heard the report, immediately furious, immediately ordered the whole city to search, even if digging three feet into the ground, to find Lu Zhen's family, the next day, the search team found a tunnel in the house next to the Lu Mansion, this tunnel connects the Lu Mansion and the outside of the city.
For Zhang Shicheng's forces, Lu Zhen's family can not afford to lose, otherwise, Lu Zhen is likely to defect to Deng Yu's command, the angry Zhang Shicheng ordered all troops and horses to investigate carefully day and night, all suspicious characters, no need to interrogate, first arrested, and in the next few days, the Zhou army arrested thousands of suspicious people, but Lu Zhen's family members were not found.
Ten days later, the Zhou army was prepared, and Zhang Shicheng personally commanded an army of 30,000 and killed Xuyi City.
Zhang Shicheng was eager for revenge, and during the march, he was impatient with the slow march of the army, so he led 8,000 elite soldiers, traveled lightly, and killed fifty miles outside Xuyi City.
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Xuyi City, in Deng Yu's general's mansion, at this time Deng Yu was discussing with Li Ke about the price control in the city.
"Urgent! Urgent!! ”
The soldier ran to Deng Yu in the dust, knelt down on one knee and said: "Marshal Qiyu, a Zhou army of 8,000 soldiers and horses, is killing towards Xuyi City non-stop!" ”
"Who's in charge?"
"The subordinates look at the flag in the army, but Zhang Shicheng is there in person!"
"Zhang Shicheng?" Deng Yu muttered, looking quite surprised.
Li Ke thought for a while and said: "Marshal, this Zhang Shicheng personally commanded 8,000 soldiers and horses to kill, he must be eager for revenge, and he wants to take us by surprise by attacking Xuyi!" ”
When Deng Yu heard this, he said with a panic on his face: "If Zhang Shicheng leads tens of thousands of troops to launch a thunderous offensive against Xuyi City, I may be afraid of him, but he is so big that he only brings 8,000 soldiers and horses to kill, we may be able to make him suffer some hardships, I don't know if Yunqi has a clever plan?" ”
Li Ke pondered for a while, thought of the detailed description of Zhang Shicheng's person, said that Zhang Shicheng was very doting and indulgent to his brother on weekdays, and he called the queen, his temperament became impatient and conceited, and immediately came from his heart, and said to Deng Yu that this is so, Deng Yue was overjoyed when he heard the plan, so he acted according to Li Ke's strategy.
Huang Jingfu, who joined the army, saw Zhang Shicheng rushing all the way without caution, so he suggested that Zhang Shicheng divide the army into two parts, the front army is all infantry, and the rear army is all cavalry.
Zhang Shicheng admired Huang Jingfu, who had always been cautious and strategic, and acted in accordance with his strategy.
In the cold winter season, the night wind is like a knife, the Zhou army braved the wind and cold to advance rapidly, suddenly, the wind and dust in front of him, Huang Jingfu had an ominous premonition, so he reined in the horses and suggested to Zhang Shicheng that the soldiers and horses be arranged.
Zhang Shicheng thought that Huang Jingfu had found something suspicious, so he acted according to his words, and when the Zhou soldiers and horses dispersed, Huang Jingfu asked the guide: "Where is this?" ”
The guide officer didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "This place is called Wild Boar Ridge, and thirty miles ahead is Xuyi City!" ”
When Huang Jingfu heard this, he immediately groaned, his brows were deeply locked, not far ahead is Xuyi City, this Deng Yue in the previous battle of the strange tricks, now the front of the Zhou army is not many soldiers and horses, it is a good opportunity for the broken army to take the initiative to attack, it stands to reason, Deng Yue should have some arrangements.
Huang Jingfu was thinking about it, and there was a sudden burst of dense horse hooves and footsteps in front of him, and before he could come back to his senses, he heard Zhang Shicheng shouting angrily, making Li Bosheng and Ye Wenju hold their feet, while he himself flew to the front of the formation.
Huang Jingfu was afraid that Zhang Shicheng would act impatiently, so he hurriedly followed, Zhang Shicheng rode his horse onto a high slope, raised his eyes and looked out, only to see that the wind and dust in front of him, a soldier and horse of about 3,000 people were killed.
Zhang Shicheng saw that there were only 3,000 people in the army, and immediately laughed out loud, Huang Jingfu's face tightened, and asked Zhang Shicheng: "Why is King Cheng laughing?" ”
Zhang Shicheng squinted at the tiger's eyes, with a disdainful smile on his face, and said slowly: "I laugh at Deng Yue's thief who is not self-sufficient, he uses these 3,000 men and horses as the front, and fights against my 8,000 elite soldiers, just like driving dogs and sheep to feed and cannibalize tigers and leopards!" Today is the right time to destroy his minions and vent the hatred in my heart! ”
Zhang Shicheng deceived the weak strength of the captive army, and there was no sense of crisis in his heart, and he saw that in the formation of the captive army, the banner was written with the seven big characters of 'Dong Qing, captain of the Blood Eagle Battalion'.
The generals who knew Dong Qing's details told Zhang Shicheng that Dong Qing was a thief recruited by Deng Yu, so Zhang Shicheng broke off the idea of taking action in person, thinking that he could defeat Dong Qing by sending Li Bosheng or Ye Wenju at will, and then take advantage of the situation to wave the army to cover up and kill, and then swallow up the 5,000 broken army.
Zhang Shicheng thought about it, and immediately ordered Li Bosheng to come out of the formation, Li Bosheng slapped the horse's belly and flew out of the formation, Dong Qing shouted angrily, and also spurred the horse to welcome.
The two horses intersected between the lightning and flint, and saw Li Bosheng twist the Qinglin gun in his hand, and stabbed Dong Qing's throat, Dong Qing dodged in a hurry, and raised the knife to cut Li Bosheng's head horizontally, which was so fast that Li Bosheng was shocked.