Verse 114: The underestimated Rong people
The night owl looked tired and the armor on his body was stained with blood, especially the iron armor on his chest There was a trace of terror, it was obvious that a strong man left it with a sharp weapon, if the night owl was not the leader of the night owl army, he was wearing the top armor of the Chu State, and he would not be able to survive if he was replaced by an ordinary soldier. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Lu Qikun was surprised and hurriedly stepped forward to help, and when he saw the dark eyes of the night owl, he was even more surprised and shocked.
"Night Owl General," Lu Qikun asked anxiously.
The night owl interrupted Lu Qikun's words and said, "Go to Wangcheng"
He then passed out in a coma.
Lu Qikun was suddenly shocked, hurriedly checked the situation of the night owl, and found that it was only the collapse that caused him to fall into a coma, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and waved his hand to let the deputy general arrange the unconscious night owl.
"General," said another lieutenant general, looking at Shoushui to the east.
Lu Qikun looked at the east of Shoushui with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice, "Go to Wangcheng first"
Three thousand cloud cranes rode out of here, Lu Qikun rode on the white dragon and looked at the east of Shoushui, and the land was covered with snow again in a short period of time, it was difficult to see the damage caused by the spell arrows just now, if it weren't for the corpses and blood scattered around, it would be difficult for people to see that Shoushui was no different from before.
"What the hell is going on" Lu Qikun thought in his heart, although he had the worst guess in his heart, but he didn't get really accurate information, Lu Qikun was willing not to believe what he thought in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Qikun drove the white dragon and chased after the vanishing army in front.
In a moment, Lu Qikun and the three thousand cloud cranes rode to Wangcheng, the only city that connects the east and west of Shoushui.
Wangcheng is the only city built by Shou water in the entire Shou County, and it is also the main fortress city that resisted the Xu State in the era of Xu Chu's hegemony. It was also King Wen's foresight that allowed the state of Chu, which was still developing at that time, to resist countless attacks from the state of Xu.
In the eleventh year of King Chuzhuang, the strong Chu State and the Xu State had a war in Shoushui, that is, the Battle of Shoushui, which laid the hegemony of the Chu State, so that the elite of the Xu State who crossed the Shoushui with 50,000 strong people sank at the bottom of Shoushui, so that the Xu State fell into a hundred years of silence and could no longer compete for the hegemony of the world, and since then this Wangshou Sai has also changed its name to Wangcheng.
At the beginning of King Wen and King Zhuang, he expected that Shousai would have 30,000 Chu soldiers to garrison, and after the Battle of Shoushui fell and could not compete for hegemony in the world, King Zhuang of Chu should look at Shousai as Wangcheng, removed the garrison of 30,000 Chu soldiers, and appointed a famous talent at that time to serve as the lord of Wangcheng to develop the economy.
At that time, the famous handsome man lived up to the expectations of the king of Chu Zhuang, and made Wangcheng achieve unimaginable development in just ten years, and finally became a tax and grain that surpassed Shouchun, making Shoujun truly an important place in Chu except Xiangjun.
Lu Qikun and three thousand cloud cranes rode to Wangcheng, only to see that the gate of Wangcheng was tightly closed, and there were countless corpses of the Rong clan outside the city, and the city wall was the defender of Wangcheng.
Although the three thousand cloud crane riders did not make the earth shake, the fast running also made the snow fly, which immediately made the defenders on the city wall nervous. When the three thousand cloud cranes rode to the city, Chu He, who was stationed on the city wall, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that it was not the Rong clan, but he was still extremely vigilant with bows and arrows in his hands.
After all, even if the other party is from the Central Plains, he can't guarantee what the purpose of the arrival is.
"Who is under the city?" shouted the general on the wall.
Lu Qikun looked up at the general and said, "Yunhe cavalry general Lu Qikun"
"Crane Ride"
The soldiers stationed on the city wall immediately began to discuss, obviously they didn't know that Chu had this army at all.
Lu Qikun frowned, then took out a token and said, "This is the token of Gongzi Chun, the governor of Shou County."
After seeing the token in Lu Qikun's hand, the general of the city wall was still hesitant to determine the identity of the other party, after all, as a general of a city, he was still quite familiar with the 180,000 army of Chu State, and he had never heard of the so-called cloud crane horse, even if the other party had the token of the governor, he could not guarantee what the true identity of the person who came here was.
And at this moment, a soldier of the Night Owl Army came to the general's ear and whispered, the general's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and then shouted, "It's a friendly army, open the city gate"
Bang~~~~
The city gate was slowly opened, and the three thousand cloud cranes rode into it, and after the last cavalry entered the city, the city gate slowly closed again.
The "general" was dressed as a soldier of the Night Owl Army and saluted to Lu Qikun.
Lu Qikun nodded and looked ahead, the entire Wangcheng street was empty, the doors of the shops on both sides were closed, there was a faint smell of blood in the air, and there was a frightening aura in the air.
"My lord, please follow me to the palace," the night owl soldier said slowly.
At the same time, dozens of soldiers of the Night Stalker Army appeared, leaving with the unconscious Night Stalker and three thousand cloud cranes.
On the west side of the city, this century-old building is plain and unremarkable, not as grand as some of the city's mansions. Under the leadership of the night owl general, Lu Qikun walked through the quiet front hall of the mansion and came to the place where Wangcheng County kept his usual office. It's just that when Lu Qikun came to the hall, it was not the officials of Wangcheng who were among them, but several generals of the Night Owl Army.
Several generals of the Night Owl Army hurriedly saluted when they saw Lu Qikun and said, "General"
They are the generals of the Night Owl Army, and they should be at the same level as Lu Qikun, but the particularity of the Yunhe Cavalry in the Chu State, as the leader of the Yunhe Cavalry, although he is also a military general, it is a military position comparable to that of a lieutenant general.
Lu Qikun nodded and came to the central square table, looking at the extremely simple map of Shoujun on the table. On the map, there are only sporadic black flags west of Shoushui, while to the east of Shoushui there are a large number of red flags.
The black flag represents the strength of the Chu state in Shou County, and the red flag represents the location of the Rong people. And now there are so many red flags east of Shoushui on the map, it is obvious that the east of Shoushui is not the territory of Chu, which makes Lu Qikun stunned and angry.
Taking a deep breath and trying to calm himself down, Lu Qikun said in a deep voice, "What the hell is going on, how bad is the situation?"
Several generals looked at each other and did not speak, looking very ashamed and disappointed.
"Say, what the hell is going on" Lu Qikun said in a deep voice again, the anger in his heart was almost difficult to suppress.
A military general took out a book and handed it over, Lu Qikun took it from his uncle and read the contents, and then looked stunned and surprised in disbelief.
"We all underestimated the Rong people, after the mouth of Niuxia was occupied by the Rong people, they did not rest but climbed over Helan Mountain, passed through the white swamp forest and quietly came to the east of Shou County, and yesterday Chaoyang launched an attack on the city east of Shoushui, so that the five county towns east of Shoushui fell, and even secretly crossed Shoushui this morning to launch a sneak attack on Wangcheng," a military general explained.
Lu Qikun put down the book, raised his head and looked coldly at the generals present, and said coldly: "Night Owl Army, are you worthy of such a name?" ”
The generals present lowered their heads after hearing this, obviously feeling very ashamed, they were the most elite of the night owl army in the Chu State, and it was the army established by the King of Chu Zhuang with countless funds, and it played an irreplaceable role in the period when the Chu State achieved hegemony, but today it has suffered an unimaginable blow.
Since the Rong tribe infiltrated the Chu State in front of their eyes, it was not until yesterday morning that they discovered how to make them not ashamed and ashamed.
Lu Qikun took a deep breath and said, "And the worst news is that the 100,000 troops of my Chu State in the Qiu Ye of the Xu State are isolated. ”