Chapter 18 The foreign army blocks the road to show its prestige
said that Zhang Wanren and Gongsun Liang were constantly entangled. On martial arts, the two are comparable, but in terms of strength, Gongsun Liang is slightly inferior, so more than 200 hands are fought, Gongsun Liang sells a flaw, that Zhang Wanren chopped with a knife, Gongsun Liang dodged sideways, and then swept the long knife, Zhang Wanren had to use the knife sideways to block, the two horses intersected, Gongsun Liang grabbed the horse, then rushed over, turned around and said: Big brother is coming to Japan, and he will be able to meet again! Take care! So he turned his horse and went to Yancheng. Zhang Wanqian couldn't catch up, so he had to go back to the camp and continue to urge the men and horses to attack.
Gongsun Liang came back safely, Fang Caiyun was naturally overjoyed, so he set off with his husband and went to Gongsun Li in Nanyang. Before leaving, Gongsun Liang handed over the holy decree of Emperor Cheng to the general who guarded the city, and drove the carriage away, which would be embarrassed. Therefore, the surrounding state capitals knew that the emperor was attacked by the rebels, so they were ordered to send food and troops, and for a time, around Cangzhou, there were no less than tens of thousands of large and small military horses. And the rebels are not dry, seeing that it is difficult to conquer for a while, so they contacted the large and small cottages in Jiangbei and gathered many horses. However, although those officers and soldiers threatened to escort them, few of them actually entered the battlefield, so the rebels decided to take Cangzhou in a short time at all costs.
It turned out that Zhang Wanren was the son of Zhang Xi, the general of the Right Dragon Wuwei under Taizu's account, and like Chu Tianxiong, his father was also killed when Emperor Cheng ascended the throne. Therefore, he changed his face and his mother's surname was Tang, and he was the bandit leader Tang Wanren. At this moment, he had no less than 50,000 horses and horses in his hands, as well as Xiao Liang's 30,000 government soldiers, so he asked the righteous army to resist the enemy around Cangzhou City, and Xiao Liang commanded the government soldiers to attack the city. But then Xiao Liang is the commander of the horse army, how can the siege of the city be worthy of Liang Jin, the commander of the infantry army? Therefore, after more than ten days of attacking, it is still not clear, and the reinforcements from Yancheng have entered, and their strength has increased greatly, and they have repeatedly opened the city to sneak attack, so Xiao Liang has suffered great losses, and his officers and soldiers have begun to waver. Just when the situation began to be unfavorable, from the direction of Bingzhou, Chen Yun's general army persuaded Shi Lian, the governor of the garrison, to borrow 20,000 soldiers from the government. Therefore, after hearing the news, the morale of Xiao Liang's army fell to the bottom.
This Shi Lian is not an ordinary person, because the location of Bingzhou is unique, and the border reaches the border of the desert, so the garrison is strong and is not controlled by the Pingbei Palace. Therefore, on the surface, Shi Lian only obeyed the orders of two people, one was the king of Xiliang and the other was the emperor, but in private, he only obeyed the dispatch of the king of Xiliang. King Xiliang is naturally Emperor Cheng's brother, but his father is Emperor Cheng's uncle, so although he is a family, he is a collateral lineage. He has always held an army of 200,000 to guard the border, and he never dared to slack off, for fear of being suspected by the emperor. Emperor Cheng also knew this, so he was always reluctant to involve this brother in the affairs of the court. Therefore, when Chen Yun arrived in Bingzhou, he told Shi Lian about the stakeholders, and Shi Lian thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to send troops.
So Chen Yun marched to the north of the city for five miles, but was blocked by a general of the righteous army. The man lined up in what seemed to be a formation of goose wings. Chen Yun expected that the general would be brave, so he did not dare to advance lightly, and immediately retreated five miles, but an army rushed from the rear to block the retreat. So Chen Yun commanded the men and horses to fight in two teams, and led the rear army to the front army, and fought with the military horses that were blocked. At this time, Chen Yun found that there seemed to be fewer people and horses on the road, looking at the depth and length of the battle line, but there were only more than 3,000 people, so he led 500 Xiao to ride in front and commanded the front army to cover the killing and seize the road.
In the array of the rebels, there was a young general, no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a crown of hair rushing to the sky, wearing a big red robe with gold chain mail, holding a goose wing gun of one foot and six feet, and sitting down was a black and shiny iron armored horse. Chen Yun glanced at it, raised his spear forward, and the young general turned his horse back into the formation, and the shields on both sides merged. When the horseman rushed to the front, the crossbowman suddenly appeared behind the shield, and each of them operated a small repeater machine, and ten thousand arrows were fired, and the horse was chaotic at the moment. Then the crossbowmen retreated, and the spearmen stretched out their spears through the gaps, and the large shields in front of them resisted to death, and the front line was like a hedgehog. At that moment, Chen Yun saw that the other party had changed his formation at a strange speed, and immediately returned to his horse, and more than 100 horses had fallen off his horse in front of him. Three thousand infantry rushed behind him, clash with the big shields and spears, and the crossbowmen appeared from time to time to fire, and the front army fought extremely hard. The rest of the cavalry immediately divided into two groups and made a detour to the sides of the enemy's phalanx.
The young general pointed slightly, the four doors of the phalanx were closed, and the long guns came out, and the horsemen did not dare to break in, so they planned to turn back from the back door. As a result, the young general pointed back to his horse, the back door opened, and he led more than 100 cavalrymen with long knives to rush out and fight with the roundabout horsemen. Chen Yundan saw those cavalry wielding long knives, all of them were one against ten, and under the long knives, there were constantly horses falling off their horses. When the rest of the horsemen fled back to the formation, the young general led the cavalry into the formation slowly. Chen Yun took a look at it, and it was less than a hundred years to come back. At this time, the 3,000 men of the front army were really unfavorable to charge the formation, so they had to spread their legs and run back to the formation, and the phalanx of the young general was like a tortoise shell, standing still, leaving a large number of corpses of soldiers from the state government in front. So the morale of the rebels was greatly boosted, the shouts shook the sky, and flags were unfurled from the formation, all of which were red flags with the word Dong written on them.
Chen Yun was sweating at the moment, in fact, he was a general of the Praetorian Guard, where did he fight any dignified battles? I thought that I could break through the other army with 500 horsemen, but I didn't want to break many horses, but I still failed to repel the opponent. In a panic, the order behind him rushed to the arch and said: General! The rear army has been attacked by the rebels, and now the general soldier is in a bitter battle, and I hope the general will make a decision immediately! Chen Yun looked back, and those soldiers and generals from the state were all looking at him in a panic. Chen Yun immediately shook his body, and then fixed his mind: Now that the enemy is fierce and the fight is useless, he immediately ordered the rear army to disengage and retreat thirty miles to the east! Herald: Yes! So he went back to his horse and left. Chen Yun said with a gun: Come with me! As he spoke, he urged the army to turn around and go eastward.
The young general watched the other party change his route from a distance, so he waved his army to cover the past. The people of Bingzhou were eager for their parents to have two more legs, so the army spread all over the mountains and went east. It was difficult for the rear army to get out for a while, so the general army left a thousand men and horses to resist it, and led his troops to break through. At this point, the men and horses were routed for more than ten miles, and finally set up camp on a hillside twenty-five miles northeast of the city, and by night, they gathered more than 16,000 people, and lost more than 3,000 horses and horses for a while, and their morale was completely lost. Chen Yun knew that he was guilty, so he had to write a book to inform Shi Lian, and at the same time ordered people to go around to find out the news of other military horses, and at the same time stepped up guarding the camp to prevent a sneak attack.
At this moment, Liang Qianhu saw the truth in the north of the city, so he was silent. Wang Fu, who was sent by Emperor Cheng, reported the results of the battle, and Emperor Cheng patted the case and said: How can you let that Chen Yun lead troops? Shi Lian turned out to have his own future? How unreasonable! At this time, Wang Fu arched his hand and said: Your Majesty is angry, according to the end of the future, although Chen Yun's command is not good, but the opponent is too powerful! Emperor Cheng glanced at him and said: "The rebel army, how can it be so powerful, and it is so powerful that tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are broken, you are clearly excusing Chen Yun!" Wang Fu knelt down and said: Your Majesty, that's not what the last general meant! Emperor Cheng was just about to get angry, and Liang Jin entered the inner road: General Wang is not a lie, but the enemy general is very powerful! Emperor Cheng waved his sleeves impatiently and said: I heard that there are only a few thousand people, how powerful is it?
Liang Jindao: According to the last general, the enemy general is well commanded, and those men and horses are also well trained, but their tactics, as far as the last general knows, I am afraid ...... Emperor Cheng: What is the abnormality of the tactics? Liang Jindao: That kind of tactics is clearly the ironclad formation used by the officers and armies of the former dynasty, and I heard that at that time, the two regiments with the strongest combat effectiveness in the former dynasty were the red and black banner armies. Today's banner in the battle is clearly the Red Banner Army! Emperor Cheng was surprised: Didn't the Red Banner Army be wiped out in the Battle of Luoyang a long time ago? At that time, my eldest brother commanded 250,000 horses, and fought with the 30,000 Red Banner Army for three days and two nights before winning a complete victory, how could he appear here again?
Liang Jindao: The Red Banner Army is a field unit directly under the account of the general of the former dynasty, and it has been fighting in the south and north all the year round, and its combat effectiveness is naturally strong. At that time, the last commander was surnamed Dong, and now the young general's formation actually played the Dong flag, maybe he is his successor, and naturally knows how to train the Red Flag Army! When Emperor Cheng heard this, he stood up and said: I can't imagine that the rebels have put a lot of effort into me, and now they have actually pulled in all the remnants of the previous dynasty! Liang Jin, listen, once you catch that guy, bring him to see me immediately, I want everyone in the world to see it, no matter his red flag and black flag, if he dares to go against me, he will not end well! Saying that, he walked out angrily.
Wang Fu got up and tried to sweat and said: Thank you Liang Dudu for your words, but now that the reinforcements in Bingzhou have failed, and the surrounding officers and soldiers dare not move forward, how can we be good? Liang Jin sighed and said: Now we are tantamount to fighting against the people who rebel against the emperor all over the world, and whether we can win or not depends on what the Holy Destiny is! Wang Fu shook his head and said: I just don't know when you can send reinforcements in Youzhou, and now that the Red Flag Army is coming, I think even if the reinforcements arrive, if they can't break the ironclad array, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break the siege! Liang Jindao: But I don't know where Brother Nie went, the last time Gongsun Liang asked me to bring a message to him, but I haven't seen anyone for a few days, I defend the city every day, and I haven't seen him, I asked Brother Han yesterday, and I don't know his whereabouts, isn't it...... Wang Fudao: Why don't you know? Brother Nie went to Nayouzhou to ask for help!
Liang Jin was taken aback and said: How can the saint give a huge task to a child? I heard that King Pingbei is not a powerful person who is easy to deal with, how did he say it? Wang Fudao: It's not easy for me to comment on the matters decided by the Holy Lord. But now, there is only hope that he will go all the way! So Liang Jin sighed and went to the city. However, they did not know that at this moment I was wearing a red cloak, galloping on a horse, and countless arrows were striking behind me, and I only hated my mother for not preparing five or six more legs for me, and I only hoped that the horse would not have any problems.
It turned out that I walked with Na Gaoqi to lead troops for three days, stopping and stopping on the road, although I urged him to hurry up as soon as possible, but he said that it was not easy to deploy 50,000 troops, and the current lack of troops may not be able to solve the problem if he went to Cangzhou. What's more, there are still a few military towns near Cangzhou, and they must have already sent troops to support, so it is better to slow down and wait for the army to be fully deployed, so I had to agree. But privately, out of curiosity, I asked him about the county lord, and he told me that the county lord was actually the eldest daughter of the eldest grandson Menglong, named Changsun Feiying, who was nineteen years old this year. I wondered, why did she have such a name? Gauci said that when she was born, a nightingale fell in the house, hence the name.
However, since I didn't know the relationship between them, I didn't dare to ask him about the county lord's escape. But Gauge is a very generous person, although he is a little older, he has no shelves. When he saw that it was not easy for me to be a child, he tied his big red cloak to me, and caused trouble.
It was when we walked for six days, and I saw the boundary of Cangzhou, and there were almost 40,000 people, Gao Qi told me that I could arrive in Cangzhou in less than two days, so I was excited, and I thought that I had finally fulfilled my mission. But he suddenly pulled me aside and said: Actually, it's not a secret, in the past few days, I have received flying reports one after another, saying that the rebels of Heifeng Mountain have rebelled together with the Cangzhou Garrison, and have attacked the city, not long after you left, brother! I was shocked, and immediately thought of Han Baiwen, Zheng Tongjuan, and Brother Gongsun, so I asked: Is there any specific news?
Gao Qidao: I heard that there was a man named Gongsun Liang who brought out the will of the saint and summoned all the state capitals to help put down the rebellion! Now Liang Jin is guarding Cangzhou City, and he has not fallen yet! As soon as I heard it, I was happy: I knew that as long as the eldest brother and Liang Qianhu joined forces, it would not be easy for an accident to happen! But since this is the case, reinforcements are urgent, so let's speed up! Gao Qidao: Still no! I heard that the rebels are not less than 100,000 people, and there are not enough men and horses to fight, so the current plan is only for you to go first, brother, and find a way to let the people in the city know that the reinforcements from Youzhou are here, so as to boost morale, I will bring all the men and horses and then arrive! As soon as I heard the reason, I gave up my hand and said: In this case, I will go first! Gao Qi held my horse's head and said: I will send a team of cavalry to protect you, you should be careful all the way! I replied to the horse and said: I hope the general will arrive quickly! Gauge agreed, so I took five hundred horsemen and galloped away.
It may be that my destiny is too bad, and we have just walked more than thirty miles before we come to a pass. There was nothing unusual there when I came, but suddenly there was a flag. I reined in my horse and asked the lieutenant, "How can there be a military horse here?" Nadu Wei said: It may be that the grass is temporarily occupied! Or maybe it...... Maybe the Cangzhou rebels are waiting for us here! I was surprised when I heard it.
As a result, from the place where the cannon started, a group of soldiers and horses, about hundreds, poured out from behind the stones on both sides, arranged in a phalanx, and a general stood there majestically with two iron whips in his hand. Where can I see where I can fight? So he turned around and told the lieutenant: "Go back and tell the general, just say that I am still acting alone, otherwise it will be difficult to pass through here, you all go back!" The lieutenant was stunned and said: Order! So he returned to his horse and led the cavalry away. I also returned to my horse and ran away, and when I saw it, I attracted more than 30 cavalrymen to chase after me, and although it was not enough to chase those cavalry, but seeing that I was wearing a red cloak, they chased me vigorously. I was expecting to get to the junction and change to another path to steal through, not wanting to be bitten by the general, so I ran on the field with one man and one horse, and the cavalry behind me shot me with arrows, and I just ran for my life, not knowing where I had gone.
Seeing that I was chasing after me, I thought to myself that it would be easier to run to the woods, and it would be easy to get out, so I walked in that direction, but after bypassing a few trees, I found that there was an army in the open ground there, no less than a few thousand people! I have a large army blocking the road in front of me, and there are pursuers in the back, and I am at a loss at the moment. As soon as the formation opened, he rushed out of a horse, tied his hair with a golden crown and swallowed golden armor, and his hand made eight snake spears, and Pegasus came. I saw that he was coming violently, and my heart was not good, and I was about to return to the horse, but his horse was unusually fast, and was already near, so I grabbed my red cloak with my hand and pulled it, and I immediately fell off the horse, and fell all over the face of Venus. So I was tied up in a daze and pressed all the way into a tent in the woods.
I calmed down a little, and when I looked up, it was dark in this tent, and there were not many people, just a black khan sitting on it. At this time, the person who was chasing me to death came in and arched his hand and said, "Dad! This person is the great general of the imperial court, and the child saw with his own eyes that he had brought hundreds of cavalry, and now it is better to show his head to the public, so as to surprise Na Gaoqi!
I was stunned and said: Wronged! I'm a child, how can I be a hero? Adults are aware of it! The black sweater laughed and said: You kid look carefully, I'm not an adult, old man! I said: How not? You obviously have a handsome seal on your desk, you also have an arrow, and there is a flag hanging on the back, which is clearly a regular army in formation, how can you not be an officer and soldier? Or the rebels! The general who chased me said angrily: Less poor mouth! Dad, since he knows the Shuai Yin Ling Arrow, he is clearly an enemy general, so cut him down immediately! I said: I am indeed not an officer or soldier, have you ever seen an officer and soldier like me? The Black Khan said: Since it's not, it must be Gao Qi's cronies or relatives, it may be useful to keep him, put him in a cage! He waved his hand.
Wait a minute! I shouted: You keep claiming that you are embarrassed by Gao Qi, could it be that there is any personal grudge between you? That will say: Stop talking nonsense, hurry up! Hei Da Khan waved his hand and said: But there is no selfish grudge, don't guess! I said: I don't look like a bad person, and you don't have a grudge against Gao Qi, the army here is neat, could it be that you are ...... The general was stunned and said: You...... Guess what? The Black Khan was also surprised. So I calmly said: You must be the defeated soldiers of the previous dynasty, and you have lived here for a long time. In this case, he must have clashed with Gao Qi many times back then. At this moment, seeing that Gao Qi commanding the army coming, he mistakenly thought that he was coming to conquer, so he wanted to fight a jade battle to repay the emperor's kindness of the previous dynasty, but what about this?
Then the Black Khan wondered: How do you know that we have misunderstood?
I saw that things had taken a turn for the better, so I said: That Gao Qi was ordered by the emperor to go to Cangzhou to quell the chaos, not at you! That general said: It's because he wants to save that guy that we are here to stop it! I said, "Then aren't you misleading the country and the people?" The Black Khan stood up and said: We are not the subjects of Daxin ourselves, how can we mislead the country and the people? At this time, some generals came in one after another to watch us talk.
I said, "Then the previous dynasty has been dead for more than 20 years, what are you still loyal to?" What's more, the original intention of being loyal to the monarch and patriotism is nothing more than thinking about the people, as long as it conforms to the will of the people, it is patriotic, as for which monarch is loyal, what does it matter? That will say: How can a husband forget his roots? I replied: Since you don't forget your roots, why don't you dare to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors, return to your hometown with dignity, add glory to your ancestors, and contribute to the people? That would be silent.
The Black Great Khan said: We are all remnants of the former dynasty that the court wants to kill and then hurry, where do you dare to go back if you have a home? Little brother, you preach, although we don't have the courage to speak righteously like you, however, we must not be defeated without a fight!
I suddenly laughed and said: Defeat without a fight? It seems that the general has the heart not to fight, and when he heard it, his blackened face turned white. I continued: In this case, the boy can guarantee that as long as you listen to me, you will not lose your prestige, and you can also be a dignified man and return to your hometown, how about it?
When the generals heard this, they looked at each other, and they didn't seem to believe it. So I said: Why, you want to sit in the grass for the rest of your life, wander in the mountains, don't want to kill people and rob money, and don't have the strength to go against the court head-on, and spend your days in a trance. I continued: Seeing that you are all not young, and some of your children are adults, but there is no hope for the next generation, and there are still many people who do not have the opportunity to have the next generation, do you think there is still hope for such a day? As a result, those big men actually burst into tears, which was really funny to watch, but also heart-wrenching.
The black sweater waved his hand and said: Don't say it! I walked over to him and said, "Your son is heroic, don't you want him to be famous and glorious in the future, and live happily with children and grandchildren?" Your own generation is almost there, and your loyalty is evident from the sun and the moon, but that's it, isn't it good to let the next generation do what they want to do?
His eyes gradually moistened, so he said in a low voice: "Little brother can really show us the way to live?"
I jumped for joy and said: Now is the opportunity! As long as you go with me, no one will doubt that when the siege is lifted, you and others are all meritorious people, even if the Holy God does not reward you, you can also get rid of the body of sin, and you will definitely do something after returning home, isn't it good!
That will say: We will not be loyal to a faint king with such a bad reputation! The black sweat nodded, and the generals bit their lips. I rolled my eyes and said: Then be loyal to me, I will definitely save your net worth and life before driving, how about changing your free body?
The Black Khan couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, looked me up and down and said, "Little brother, who are you?"
I smiled and said: In the body of the guilty, the emperor's envoy who was sentenced to five years of exile, Bohai County, Nie Chenghai!
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