Chapter 224: Take Jiangdu lightly

Huangfu Yingjun was not in the barracks at this time, his mansion was located in Jiangdu City, it was a mansion occupying forty acres, since Huangfu Yingjun was injured in the Jiangning Water Military Mansion barracks, he had been lying at home to heal.

In fact, his injuries were not serious, he was hit in the shoulder by a piece of debris that did not hurt the bones, but only the flesh and skin, which could be bandaged, not even a minor injury.

But the sharp artillery of the Chuzhou Navy cast a shadow on Huangfu's handsome heart, and he never dreamed of the terrifying scene, the house collapsed, the flesh and blood flew, and his war horse was blown in half, although he later also experimented with the thunder, which had the same effect, but the bomb launched by the Chuzhou Navy from the ship hundreds of steps away still made him frightened.

Huangfu Yingjun suddenly woke up from his dream, just now, he had another nightmare, dreaming that he was swimming in the Yangtze River, naked, the fire was burning on the river, and there were hundreds of sharks surrounding him, sometimes turning into a Chuzhou warship, sometimes turning into a shark with a bloody mouth..... He was so frightened that he was drenched in cold sweat, and hurriedly sat up, but his shoulder ached, and then his wife came up with a bowl of medicine, Huangfu's handsome wife was the daughter of Bai Mingkai, the secretary of the Criminal Department, called Bai Miaoer, seventeen years old, as his name suggests, he was thin and small, sick and weak, just like a small seedling, from the time she was two years old, she and Huangfu Yingjun, who was ten years old at the time, were married.

Huangfu Yingjun has always disliked this thin and sick wife, like a child in bed, he didn't feel the slightest feeling, the reason why he married her was firstly for the title of Duke of Xia Guo, and secondly, because he coveted the power of Bai Mingkai's criminal department.

And now, his father-in-law Bai Mingkai has become his biggest burden, he wants to take refuge in the Eastern Emperor Fuheng, but Bai Mingkai is the secretary of Yongjing's criminal department, and Bai Miaoer is his only daughter, so there is no room for maneuver at all.

Huangfu Yingjun was upset in his heart, and he was even more disgusted with this wife.

Bai Miao'er put the medicine bowl in front of her husband's table, and when she saw him drenched in cold sweat, she couldn't help but step forward with concern and wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, "Husband, are you okay?" ”

"Go away!"

Huangfu Yingjun pushed her away, unable to hide his disgust for her, "You get out of here, I don't want you to care!" ”

Bai Miao'er bit her lip, an eye rolled in her eyes, she has been her father's baby since she was a child, holding her in her hands, thinking that after getting married, her husband can also feel sorry for her, when he returned to his parents' house, he also swore to his father that he would love her like a princess.

But she didn't expect that after her husband left the capital, he was immediately indifferent to her, and he never touched her again after the wedding night, nor did he have sex with her, she endured all of this, and wrote to tell her father that her husband was very good to her, and she tried her best to save her husband's face.

What she couldn't tolerate the most was that her husband openly took the famous prostitutes of Jiangdu City into the house to fool around, and in front of her, everyone in Jiangdu City knew about it, making her lose face, and even his subordinates looked down on her.

At this time, Bai Miao'er couldn't hold back any longer, she said with shame and indignation: "What did I do wrong, you want to treat me like this, is it because I don't abide by women's morals?" Or do I not care about you? I am also the daughter of a famous family, how did you promise my father that you humiliated me like this? ”

Bai Miao'er didn't mention her father, but when Bai Mingkai was mentioned, Huangfu Yingjun immediately thought of his drag on him, and he suddenly became furious, "Slut! Do you dare to scold me? ”

He picked up the medicine bowl and smashed it at her, 'Boom! With a bang, the medicine bowl was smashed on her forehead, and suddenly the blood flowed, Bai Miao'er fainted to the ground all of a sudden, and the emperor's handsome hatred was not gone, and he stepped forward and kicked her again, and then rushed away angrily.

When the old man walked away, Bai Miao'er's dowry maid ran in in a panic, and when she saw that the young lady's face was covered with blood, she was so frightened that she shouted, "Someone! Come on! ”

........ The emperor left the house in a rage, and more than a dozen soldiers led the horses and followed.

"Chief, where are we going?" A soldier asked.

Huangfu Yingjun thought for a while, "Go to the embroidered guard barracks!" ”

He hadn't been to the barracks for several days, and those eight lambs didn't know what had become of the chaos? He didn't want to go to the barracks outside the city, he knew that those men looked down on him one by one, which really upset him, and he could control the embroidered guard barracks.

As soon as he turned over and got on his horse, a cavalryman galloped in the distance, and shouted from afar: "Chief, something is wrong!" ”

"What's wrong, so alarmed?" Huangfu said handsomely and unpleasantly.

"Chief, the Chuzhou Navy is here, hundreds of warships are already going to Jiangdu City."

"What!"

Huangfu Handsome's eyes were red, and he yelled: "Why didn't you light the beacon fire?" ”

"The beacon fire is estimated to have been taken by the navy!"

As soon as the words of the soldiers fell, there was a rumbling explosion in the night sky, which came from the direction of the camp, exactly the same as the night attack that night, Huangfu Yingjun suddenly turned pale with fright, his legs were weak, the Jiangdu camp was only five miles away from Jiangdu City, and Huangfu Wujin really killed.

Huangfu was so handsome that he screamed in fright, turned his horse's head and galloped towards the embroidered guard barracks.

"Steward!"

The soldiers shouted behind him and fled to the military camp north of the city.

....... After the Jiangdu Canal was dredged three times a hundred years ago, it has been able to pass through 3,000 stone warships, 300 3,000 stone warships are like a huge mountain range in the canal, and the boats are full of 30,000 elite Chuzhou soldiers, led by Sun Jianhong, who has been promoted to general.

Sun Jianhong is 35 years old this year, and has been in the army for 15 years in Meihuawei, because he was born poor, he has never been promoted to a higher officer, and he has not been able to be a member of the team for 15 years, but he has been promoted by Huangfu Wujin, from a lieutenant, a lieutenant to a general, everything happened in just half a year.

All this was like a dream for Sun Jianhong, but the difference was that he did not indulge in the dream, he knew that his qualifications were meager, and he quickly adapted to this change of role as a high-ranking official with an unprecedented perseverance, he ate and slept with the soldiers every day, trained with them, ran long distances together, he used his own money to help the poorer soldiers, and his sixty-year-old mother still worked in the fields and lived in a dilapidated thatched hut.

It was his efforts that won the love of the soldiers, so that he got the reputation of a 'soldier general', he began to establish his prestige, the first time he led the army to attack the barracks, he achieved great success, today, Huangfu Wujin appointed him as the general of Jiangdu, to take over the city of Jiangdu.

The gunboats had already sailed close to the camp in Jiangdu and began to bombard in turn hundreds of paces away, and 500 guns were fired together, and the shells rained down into the barracks, and the violent explosion engulfed the entire barracks, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the flesh and blood were flying, the soldiers screamed and ran, and the camp was in chaos.

Sun Jianhong coldly watched the situation in the Zhongda camp, he used his reason and experience to judge the timing of the landing, when the high main flagpole broke and fell in the explosion, Sun Jianhong gave the order, "Stop the shelling, the army lands, and kill the enemy camp!" ”

The shelling stopped, the planks of three hundred warships hit the embankment, the Chuzhou soldiers landed like a tide, and in the night, the army was overwhelming, covering the Jiangdu camp.

There was chaos in the Jiangdu camp, and the Pengcheng army and the Xiapi army suffered heavy casualties, but the Jiangdu army unexpectedly left the camp, which made the other two armies full of suspicion and anger, and they suspected that Huangfu Yingjun had received the news of the Chuzhou naval army going north in advance, and informed the Jiangdu army and betrayed them.

Just when Pengcheng and Xiapi were in chaos due to artillery bombardment, 30,000 Chuzhou troops covered up, and at this time, the 10,000 Shuyang troops who had been ambushed on the side were outflanked and intercepted, and the two armies were flanked, so that Pengcheng and Xiapi collapsed on the whole line, they lost their armor and abandoned the camp and fled, the Chuzhou army covered and chased behind them, countless soldiers knelt down and surrendered, and chased across the Huaihe Bridge, the Chuzhou army gradually slowed down the pace of pursuit, and less than 10,000 of the 40,000 Pengcheng and Xiapi troops fled back to Xiapi County.

Under the Jiangdu City, Sun Jianhong accepted the surrender of 30,000 Jiangdu troops on behalf of Huangfu Wujin, and then the army marched into the Jiangdu City and quickly took over this thousand-year-old city.

After occupying Jiangdu City for an hour, Huangfu Wujin entered Jiangdu City under the escort of 3,000 elite soldiers, Sun Jianhong led three Jiangdu army leaders to come to meet, Huangfu Wujin appeased them, and ordered them to assist Sun Jianhong and guard Guangling County, so that the three of them went happily.

"I thought His Highness would take the opportunity to seize their military power, but I didn't expect His Highness to still let them lead the army."

Sun Jianhong really didn't have a good impression of these three people, embezzling military salaries, smuggling official salt, and escaping from the battle, which made him hate the most.

Huangfu Wujin smiled slightly: "It has become a stubborn disease for the general to seek personal gain in power, it can be said that everyone has it, if they are killed as soon as they come, who will dare to surrender to me in the future, don't worry, I will slowly clean them up in the future." ”

Sun Jianhong felt that it made sense, so he nodded and smiled: "Huangfu Yingjun was really frightened, as soon as the cannon sounded, he led the embroidered guards to flee north in panic, and the shadow was gone." ”

"I have dealt with this person in the capital, I thought he could make progress, but I didn't expect his surname to be difficult to change, and even his generals can't tolerate him, such a person is not worthy of being my opponent, just run away, don't worry about him."

At this time, Huangfu Wujin came to the front of Huangfu's handsome mansion, which was guarded by soldiers and did not allow outsiders to break in at will, so Wujin asked: "Did his wife escape with him?" ”

"No, his wife is in the mansion, and I heard that she was injured by Huangfu Yingjun, and a doctor is treating her."

Huangfu Wujin's spy in Jiangdu City once reported to him that Huangfu Yingjun often took his daughter home to stay in the house, unscrupulous, and everyone in Jiangdu City knew it, which also shows that Huangfu Yingjun had decided to give up Yongjing, so he had such a bad attitude towards his wife.

Huangfu Wujin nodded, walked into the mansion, and happened to meet Bai Miao'er coming out, the blood on her forehead had stopped, and a big gauze was pasted, she heard that it was the arrival of King Heiliang, and hurriedly knelt down and cried: "I never ask about the affairs of the army, please spare my life." ”

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(To be continued)