Chapter 123: The Battle of Lintong

Gao Yue's troops arrived in Zhongli before Murong Shaozong because of the short distance, but he didn't dare to start a war with Hou Jingxian, so he simply stationed in Lintong County, which was across the river from Zhongli, and waited. Hou Jing is such a smart character, how could he wait to be beaten? Seeing that Gao Yue's troops had not yet settled in the camp, and the grain and grass had not arrived, the column crossed the river and began to attack Gao Yue's camp.

Gao Yue was still anxiously waiting for Murong Shaozong, this urgent news came one after another like an urge, and all the camps were attacked by Hou Jing's troops, Gao Yue was furious, and ordered men and horses to kill Hou Jing.

Gao Yue rode on the horse and watched carefully, and after the young general on the side pointed out to him which one was Hou Jing, he slapped his horse and came to the front of the formation, pointed a knife at Hou Jing and scolded: "Okay, you are a three-surnamed slave who doesn't know whether to live or die, the king of Qi treats you well, but today you will take revenge, and lead the enemy to invade and insult my country, kill my soldiers and rob me of grain and grass, what is the difference between you and robbers?" ”

Hou Jing rode on a horse and stood in the middle of the formation and replied: "The thief Hugh wants to say more, Gao Huan is just a straw dog who welcomes the horse, and the old man is very talented, so he transferred the old man from the capital to this wild place." Now I still want to kill the old man, why can't I strike first, thief, don't say it's you, even if Gao Huan himself comes to fight today, he is not the old man's opponent, and the acquaintance quickly dismounts and surrenders, and the old man can save you from death. ”

Gao Yue was even more annoyed when he heard this, and turned back to the generals behind him and shouted, "Take it out for me." After a while, someone threw a few heads in front of the formation, and Gao Yue smiled at this time: "Old thief, don't be crazy first, see what this is?" Hou Jing patted down and sat down with the treasure horse two steps closer to take a closer look, and almost fainted with anger at the moment, these heads are none other than Hou Jing's father, mother, brothers, sons and nephews in his hometown.

Gao Huan was ruthless and slaughtered his family. Don't talk about Gao Huan. Whoever didn't slaughter your family, and finally abandoned his family and children to the enemy country after many good words and persuasions, and he also dedicated the eleven counties of the three states of Huainan to Nanliang. Gao Huan was furious, of course, he wanted to take Hou Jing's family out of anger.

Pity his parents are both seventy or eighty old people, and they have ended up in a different place, which cannot but be said to be a kind of sadness. Hou Jing felt that Gao Huan deceived people too much. At the moment, he waved his army to attack Gao Yue, Gao Yue's subordinates could not resist Hou Jing's troops, and they retreated and fled, he couldn't stop drinking, he could only sigh, and evacuated north under the protection of the generals and fled back to Huaiyang.

Hou Jingzai vented his anger and killed all of Gao Yue's five thousand soldiers after cutting off their noses and ears. He wants to tell others that this is the end of following Gao Huan against himself. Hou Jing took advantage of the situation to occupy Lintong and wantonly ransacked and slaughtered the ancient city. The scene inside the city was as terrible as hell on earth, with ruins and broken walls everywhere, the remains of dead bodies everywhere, and the black smoke of gunpowder rising into the clouds for a long time, and wild dogs and crows gnawing at the corpses.

Half of Gao Yue's troops died in the battle of Lintong, and after fleeing back to Huaiyang, he was afraid that Hou Jing would follow, so he hurriedly asked Li Erhu for help. But he overestimated Hou Jing, and at this time, Hou Jing really didn't dare to go deep into the hinterland of Xuzhou except for being sad. I'm afraid that I will be surrounded and annihilated. At this time, Murong Shaozong's troops finally arrived near Lintong and sent a message to Gao Yue, asking him to raise troops to attack Lintong again.

Hou Jing was no longer able to hold on to Lintong City, and this city was destroyed by himself, so he simply relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, and took advantage of Murong Shaozong's unstable foothold to directly lead his troops to attack his camp. Hou Jing underestimated Murong Shaozong too much.

The third watch was just after that night. Hou Jing took his horse and led the army towards Murong Shaozong's camp in the dark. However, because it was dark and rainy, and the road was muddy and difficult to walk, he walked for almost two hours and still couldn't find Murong Shaozong's promise. Hou Jing was about to be annoyed, when the colonel suddenly came to report that he had discovered the enemy's camp, Hou Jing was overjoyed and urged the troops to advance. Song Zixian said at this moment: "The general must not move lightly. When we get to the place first, we take a closer look and it's not too late to kill it, in case there's an ambush or something, we're not good. ”

Hou Jing said with a smile: "Zixian is too timid, can my two yellow-mouthed children have such guts?" Today, you will see how I can break his two-way pawn. After that, no one could pull the horse and urge the troops to sneak in front of Murong Shaozong's camp. I saw that the camp was brightly lit, not the soldiers who came and went to patrol and keep vigil, there were soldiers guarding the two lookouts in front of the door, and the banners of the camp were all written on General Zhenxi, this is not Murong Shaozong's main camp, where else can it be?

Hou Jing was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately urged his soldiers to enter the camp and plunder the property, and also threatened that whoever could look down on Murong Shaozong's head would be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and if he could be captured alive, he would be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold and ten thousand households. He knew that this Murong Shaozong was Gao Huan's brother-in-law, and he vowed to let Gao Huan experience the pain of losing his relatives.

Suddenly, Hou Jing's army rushed into the camp, and basically took this group of camps without encountering any resistance, but Hou Jing had an ominous feeling, Song Zixian ran forward and said to her at this time: "General, it's not good, there are few living people in this camp, and they are all old and weak soldiers." I'm afraid we've been tricked. As soon as he spoke, he heard a bang outside the camp, and Murong Shaozong and his army had already surrounded this camp.

Song Zixian asked Hou Jingdao in a panic: "King, we are really ambushed, what should we do?" This Murong Shaozong is also too insidious. Hou Jing kicked him down, and scolded in his mouth: "What's the use of you talking about this now? Why don't ******you rush out with your brothers first? With that, he limped over and got on his horse, ready to raid out.

Song Zixian hurriedly got up from the ground, put on his helmet, pulled out his sword and shouted at the soldiers: "Brothers, then Murong Shaozong is outside at the moment, we rushed out to cut off his dog's head and get a bounty, all follow me!" After that, he rushed to the gate, and the soldiers rushed up to the gate and shouted to kill it, the road was slippery in the rain and the camp gate was narrow, and many people could not rush out for a while, and there were many who trampled on each other and died.

As soon as Hou Jingjun came out of the camp gate, he was shot into a hedgehog by the rain of arrows, Murong Shaozong stood in the army formation of open fire, with archers on both sides, he had expected that Hou Jing would come to rob the camp tonight, had dinner early, and waited for him in the woods to throw himself into the net. Murong Shaozong was much relieved in his heart. Worthy of the hardships endured tonight.

The gate couldn't get out, Hou Jing turned around and led people to rush towards the small gate behind, there were few people there and it was easy to assault, and then there were not many troops of the Murong army, Hou Jing and the people still wanted to escape back to Lintong from the middle road, and Murong Shaozong chased after him. Hou Jing's subordinates fought and fled in all directions, leaving only a few hundred cavalry, Song Zixian caught up at this time (this grandson can't be thrown away) and said to Hou Jing: "General, I'm afraid this Lintong can't hold on, why don't we go south and meet Zhongli, anyway, there are still 20,000 horses and horses from us over there." ”

Hou Jing was also in a panic, forgetting that Lintong had been almost destroyed by himself. Only then did he remember it, so he hurriedly turned around and walked south, this was Murong Shaozong's pursuers were already behind him, Hou Jingyi hurriedly said to everyone: "Brothers." Today, this Murong Shaozong is chasing too quickly, let's break the cauldron and kill them back, if we don't kill them back, we don't want to live in peace along the way. After saying that, he turned around and bent his bow and arrows, Murong Shaozong's pursuers thought that Gao Huan and the others were about to give up resistance, and they were overjoyed at the moment, and they stepped up their efforts to arrest them and waited to go back to ask for merit and reward.

How did they know that this Hou Jing had superb archery skills, and he was hit by three people before he got closer. When the other pursuers saw this, they were so frightened that they quickly turned around and fled. Hou Jing put down his bow and arrows and laughed, and led the rest of the people to return to Zhongli on the south bank from the ferry in a hurry. Along the way, Hou Jing's generals and stragglers converged on him. Most of these people are homeless outlaws. learned that Hou Jing was not dead, and they all returned to him.

But being driven back to Zhongli by Murong Shaozong was a great shame for Hou Jing, and he secretly vowed in his heart to seek revenge on Murong Shaozong. Zhu Yi and Song Zixian came to Hou Jing's residence to visit him after handing over the grain and grass.

Hou Jing was closing his eyes on the couch to recuperate and think of a way, and the guard at the door said that Zhu Yi, a scholar from the middle school, was here, he quickly got up and limped out to greet him, and said to him happily: "Lord Zhu, don't come unharmed." Why do you have time to come to me today? ”

Zhu Yi also bowed his hand and said with a smile: "General Hou has been doing well recently, I heard that you went hunting in Huaibei a few days ago?" How's it going? Hou Jing restrained his smile and said, "It's a pity that I don't have enough troops in my hands, otherwise Huaibei can be recovered by me in one day." ”

These two people are a pig and a monkey, and they acted well in both plays. Zhu Yi still comforted him: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, so the lower officials will go back to report to the emperor and strive to send you some more manpower over, but are you really sure that this Huaibei will be recovered?" When Hou Jing heard that Zhu Yi could help him mobilize people, he was very happy at the moment, and took his hand and said, "Come on, let's go into the house." He turned to the guard at the door and said, "Hurry up and boil water to make tea, I want to discuss important matters with Lord Zhu." ”

Hou Jing now knows that he came to Nanliang with Zhu Yi's support, and he is also very grateful at the moment, holding his hand and wanting to play with him, you think, this Hou Jing is almost fifty people, Zhu Yi is just a young man less than thirty, both of them can be godsons and godfathers, but they worship the city brothers, isn't it a joke. But where does Hou Jing care about those red tapes, when he arrives in Nanliang, he has to sing southern operas, and he naturally has to find someone who can rely on internal aid when he follows the customs.

Zhu Yi used to be in the middle academy, and occasionally served the emperor before and after the saddle, and his dedication made Xiao Yan appreciate him a lot. But his colleagues and ministers looked down on him, so Zhu Yi was very annoyed, and he held his breath in his heart to find an opportunity to show his outstanding ability and talent in front of everyone. Now that Hou Jing is such a powerful foreign aid to be a brother with his own son, of course he is a little flattered, and the two helpless people are combined together in such an embarrassed way. This cannot but be said to be the sorrow of Nanliang.

After Gao Yue learned that Hou Jing's army had retreated to the south bank, he led his army into Lintong to rescue the dead and help the wounded, and asked the widows and orphans to bury the dead. Murong Shaozong, at the suggestion of Gao Huan, also requisitioned the official grain of Pengcheng and Qian County to relieve the people of Lintong. Murong Shaozong, who won the first battle, did not rush into the greedy battle and was eager to fight Hou Jing. However, the old god led the troops to turn around and go to Hou Jing's previous lair: Vortex Yang. Stationed there.

Hou Jing saw that there was an opportunity, and asked Song Zixian to take 5,000 men and horses to ambush in Yangping County, which was the only way for Wuyang to go to Lintong, and then led an army of 15,000 people to cross the Huai River to attack Gao Yue's troops again, as the saying goes, persimmons pick soft pinch, Gao Yue is indeed not Hou Jing's opponent, this even Gao Yue himself knows, knowing that Hou Jing led the army to attack again, he didn't say a word to lead all the people of Lintong to move north, but how can this march with the people compare with Hou Jing's light cavalry?

In desperation, Gao Yue left the people of Lintong and retreated to Xiapi alone after hurriedly engaging Hou Jingjun, and even Huaiyang was only passing by and did not dare to stay. This is really scared by him.

Murong Shaozong immediately ordered his men and horses to go to support after learning that Gao Yue's department was attacked, but he was caught off guard and was killed by Hou Jing halfway, and there was Song Zixian's encirclement and interception behind him, and he was almost captured in danger at that time. Fortunately, he sat down on the horse and had good legs and feet, and fled all the way back to Chenliu with the remnants of the defeated army, which was a complete loss of momentum.

Gao Huan soon learned of the defeat of Murong Shaozong and Gao Yue, and immediately ignored Murong Heng's dissuasion, took Yang Xiuzhi and Gao Aocao and other generals, and personally led an army of 300,000 to the south and went straight to Chenliu. Hou Jing contacted Yuwentai as soon as he took Yuzhou and southern Xuzhou, and planned to give up the Huaibei territory he occupied, Yuwentai was overjoyed at the time, and immediately sent someone to send him gold, silver, jewelry and the edict of the official, and ordered Huazhou Assassin Shi Wang Ba to lead the army south to attack Shangluo, wanting to echo Hou Jing from afar, so that Gao Huan could not take care of each other. (To be continued.) )