Chapter Ninety-Five: Grinding Array

On this day, Zhang Xuansu came to the outside of Shezhou City, and a guard said to the soldiers guarding the city: "Soldiers, go and inform your marshal quickly, and say that the Tang Dynasty Taifu came to supervise the army and let him go out of the city to greet him." ”

After a while, Li Huaizhu and his party came to the outside of the city, welcomed Zhang Xuansu, and came to the main hall.

Zhang Xuansu held the holy decree in his hand and said, "Li Huaizhu takes the decree." ”

Li Huaizhu and the whole hall will kneel to listen to the order.

Zhang Xuansu preached: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said." From now on, Taifu Zhang Xuansu will take up the post of supervising the army, and fully assist Marshal Li Huaizhu in the expedition to Annan. The king of Xu was heinous and extremely evil, and he was beheaded by Li Huaizhu, and he was beheaded together with a rebellion, so as to set an example. ”

Li Huaizhu took the holy decree and said: "The ministers obey the decree, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Everyone was extremely opposed to Zhang Xuansu as the prison guard, and they stood up dissatisfied, staring at him with raised eyebrows, and they all dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Li Huaizhu escorted Niu Jianguang and a group of prisoners to the street, beat drums three times, fired cannons three times, and beheaded him.

In the afternoon, in the main hall, Zhang Xuansu said: "Marshal Li, please report on the recent battle situation, and this supervising army will report to the imperial court." ”

Li Huaizhu said: "Lord Zhang, our army has now recovered all the lost territory in the north, and is recuperating and preparing to send troops to the south. ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "Today is the auspicious day of the zodiac, Marshal Li can send troops, right?" ”

Li Huaizhu said: "Lord Supervisor, there are 40,000 enemy soldiers in the 20 miles south of Shezhou City, our army has been blocked, and we need to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on the city, so we need to deploy some troops, and we must not send troops today." ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "Our army has 100,000 soldiers, how can we be afraid of his 40,000 soldiers and horses? I believe that Marshal Li is invincible and invincible. It will definitely be able to kill and retreat and block the enemy, and advance southward. Unless the marshal deliberately does not want to win. ”

Hu Fenglian said: "Zhang Jianjun, you are clearly squeezing the marshal of our family. If you talk about leading troops to fight. You may not be able to beat him! The emperor sent you to monitor my Li family's army, not for you to command the three armies indiscriminately! ”

Zhang Xuansu said angrily: "Presumptuous." What do you know about a little general? How dare you talk nonsense in front of this prison army? Come on, take this lawless thief who doesn't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky down. ”

Li Huaizhu said: "Since the prison army insists on attacking today, then the general can only obey the order, I beg you to let General Hu go, right?" ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "Okay, for the sake of the marshal's face, this prison army will spare the junior general surnamed Hu, if he commits it again." No mercy. ”

Li Huaizhu gathered 50,000 elite soldiers and took Chang Xiulan out of Shezhou and headed south. As he was walking, he saw 40,000 enemy soldiers standing in front of him, forming a large formation, and Cheng Jizong was sitting right in front of him.

Li Huaizhu urged him to step forward and said: "Cheng Jizong, didn't your defeated general escape with his tail between his legs, why are you still waiting here to die?" ”

Cheng Jizong said: "Li Huaizhu, don't be complacent, you have the courage to come over and break my big array." ”

Li Huaizhu watched it. Seeing that the enemy's formation was very dense and resembling a grinding plate, he said, "Hahahaha." You dare to bluff people when you set up a broken formation, and wait for the master to kill you and call your mother a crying father. As he spoke, he led his troops into the enemy line and began to fight. After the battle, the enemy's formation suddenly became strange and changeable, and the purple smoke filled the air, trapping the Tang soldiers, constantly turning in circles, and instantly shattering the Tang soldiers' formation. Tang Bing was killed and wounded in the blink of an eye.

Although Li and Chang had a good martial arts, they fell into the enemy formation. But there was no countermeasure, so he could only watch his soldiers die tragically on the ground one by one.

Li Huaizhu said to Chang Xiulan: "Brother and sister." Quickly return to Shezhou City to move troops, and only by attacking inside and outside can you have a chance of winning. ”

Chang Xiulan returned to Shezhou, came to the main hall, and said to Zhang Xuansu: "Report to the supervising army, the marshal is deep in the enemy formation and needs assistance, please order the supervising army to send troops to help the marshal." ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "The enemy's only 40,000 soldiers and horses trapped him in the formation, it is really useless. Judging from the current trend, once our army sends troops, the enemy army will immediately seize the city, and then the Tang Dynasty will be defeated without a fight, why should it march south? ”

Wu Yueying said: "Lord Supervisor, Shezhou City can be protected with only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and our army still has 40,000 soldiers and horses to assist the marshal, please send troops, right?" ”

All the generals knelt down in unison and begged, "Please order the prison army to send troops." ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "What do you want to do? This prison army said that it can't send troops, that is, it can't send troops, why do you want to persuade again? Everyone, please get up! ”

Wu Fengying stood up, pointed to the prison army and said: "Zhang Xuansu, you old dog, the marshal said that it is not appropriate to send troops today, you prefer to let him go, and now that he is in the enemy formation, you don't send troops to save him, what do you want to do?" ”

Zhang Xuansu was furious and shouted: "Wu Fengying, you are so bold. Come on, pull her out and behead her to show the public, so as to boost the army's prestige. ”

The warriors stepped forward and wanted to capture Wu Fengying.

Wu Fengying waved his sword and said: "Who dare in my opinion?" ”

Hu Fenglian came to Zhang Xuansu's side and lifted him up: "Dog thief, can you try my second sister?" ”

Zhang Xuansu blushed and said, "Little thief, this prison army has the emperor's order, you dare to touch me?" ”

Wu Yueying said: "Lord Supervisor, everyone is a minister of the same palace, why do you bother my husband? As long as you agree to send troops, we can discuss everything. ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "Joke, this prison army is appointed by the emperor, how can it be coerced? Acquaintance, let go of the prison army immediately, maybe I'm in a good mood, and I can not blame you for the past. ”

Wu Yueying thought to herself: "This old thief is insidious and vicious, and he is really hateful, but if he has a good one, the Li family army will not escape the blame, and it seems that it will be difficult to force him to send troops today." He said, "Lord Supervisor, you must not send troops, the young general has a reluctant request, I wonder if you can agree?" ”

"Tell me about it."

"Let my five sisters go to save the marshal, right?"

"This ......" Zhang Xuansu said in his heart: "Although the Li family general is the person of the king of Qin, but he is still serving the son of today, as long as they conquer Annan, it will be beneficial to the prince to stabilize the country in the future, not to mention that the five of them cannot have any effect at all, I will let the five female generals go to save Li Huaizhu first, and then make plans in the future." Then he said, "Yes, but the old man of the five of you does not guarantee the life and death." ”

Wu Yueying said: "Thank you for the success of the prison army. ”

Hu Fenglian let go of Zhang Xuansu, left the hall with Wu Yueying, Wu Fengying, Zhang Meiying, and Bai Yu'e, ran out of the city, came to the front of the two armies, flew off the horse, and killed the enemy outside the formation. After a vicious battle, the five heroines used their palms to cast five lasers, which went straight to the sky, and suddenly came together, turning into a five-zhang giant knife, swinging into the enemy formation, and slashing hundreds of people. The five women slashed the invisible giant knife horizontally, sweeping over more than 500 people. Suddenly, the invisible knife suddenly dispersed, shooting out five cold rays, shaking the enemy's grinding array, releasing Li Huaizhu and the only remaining 10,000 Tang soldiers.

Li Huaizhu lost 40,000 elite soldiers, and was very annoyed, so he led his troops back to Shezhou and explained the military situation of Qing Yi to the prison army.

Zhang Xuansu said: "Li Huaizhu, you lost 40,000 soldiers, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

Li Huaizhu said: "Lord Prison Army, this commander is guilty, you can punish the crime." ”

"Come on, escort Li Huaizhu out and take fifty military sticks seriously." Zhang Xuansu said to the law officer.

The generals bowed to the ground and said: "Supervising the army, the current war is urgent, and it is the time to employ people, please take back your order and spare the marshal, right?" ”

Zhang Xuansu said fiercely: "The military order is like a mountain, how can you say that you will accept it?" Then he said to the law enforcement officer, "Get out." ”

Four strong men escorted Li Huaizhu out of the main hall, beat him with fifty military sticks, and came back to hand over the order to Zhang Xuansu.

Li Huaizhu's tears of pain rolled down from the palace, and he said in his heart: "I thought that I, Li Huaizhu, had studied martial arts hard to be a big official, but I didn't expect to be so unjustly punished today." Since the emperor doesn't trust my Li Jiajun, why does he want me to conquer the south? Zhang Xuansu obviously didn't understand the art of war, and he had to command indiscriminately, and he killed 40,000 of my brothers in vain. Cheng Jizong, you thief is too insidious, how can you put on a grinding array for nothing? Today, even if I am too light on the enemy, sooner or later I will break the grinding array, kill Cheng Jizong, you bastard, and avenge my 40,000 brothers. Li Huaizhu was relieved when he thought of this, and vowed to kill Cheng Jizong's army and annihilate the whole army.

Wu Yueying secretly bit her cheeks, and said in her heart: "Zhang Xuansu's old thief is too ruthless, he just beat my father-in-law with fifty military sticks, sooner or later I will repay this hatred." After thinking about it, he helped Xianggong to return to the handsome tent, and burst into tears.

Li Huaizhu was sad when he saw his beloved wife, he clenched her tender hand and said, "Yueying, why are you crying?" Isn't it just fifty military sticks, I can bear it. ”

Wu Yueying said: "Wrongdoer, although the military stick hit you, it hurt in my heart. I just heard that you were trapped in the grinding array, I was scared to death, if you had three long and two short, I wouldn't be alive. ”

Li Huaizhu hugged his beloved wife with emotion, kissed her on the face, and said, "Lady, how can I be willing to leave you?" After the conquest of Annan and the end of the war, the two of us returned to Lijiazhai in the north of the city, built a small thatched hut, and were inseparable every day, facing each other day and night, living the life of a fairy couple. ”

Wu Yueying was very excited and said, "Okay, okay, when the time comes, we will have a lot of children, let them surround us, and listen to us tell a lot of stories." ”

Wu Fengying and the others came to the marshal's tent, saluted the marshal, and asked, "Brother-in-law, how are you?" Are you okay? ”

Li Huaizhu smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Chang Xiulan handed Li Huaizhu a small white bottle and said, "Big brother, this is Nanzhao's best bone-setting gold sore medicine, you can wipe it on the wound." ”

Li Huaizhu took the medicine and said, "Thank you, brother and sister." ”

Wu Yueying said with a sad face: "The enemy's grinding array seems simple, but in fact, there is a mystery inside, and we can't break it at all. At present, our army has lost 40,000 soldiers, and there is no good plan, how can this be good? ”

Wu Fengying said: "No, let's ask the court for help and see who in the court can break this formation." ”

Zhang Meiying said: "I think it is feasible. Thinking that I am a great Tang Dynasty and full of talents, how can no one be able to break the grinding array? If the military department can allocate more troops and horses, it will be no better. (To be continued)