Chapter Twenty-Eight: Caught in Bed
In Yang Xuangan's camp, Yang Xuangan was sitting alone in the tent reading a book, when a soldier rushed over, "Report to Duke Chu, Yuwenshu's army is coming to the camp, and it has reached fifteen miles away." ”
"Sure enough!"
Yang Xuangan smiled, which was expected by him, and he immediately got up and ordered: "Pass my order, the three armies are in formation!" ”
With a bang! Boom! Boom! The drums of war were beating, and groups of heavily armed soldiers rushed out of the tents, ready for the assembly of the snare drums.
The 100,000-strong army quickly lined up on the field in front of the camp, and on the east side was the swarthy Bashui, which flowed quietly to the north under the cover of night, and on the west bank of the Bashui, the whole field was illuminated by torches like day, and the 100,000-strong army stretched for several miles.
Yang Xuangan immediately in front of the team, quietly waiting for the arrival of Yuwenshu's army, at this time, the sound of the snare drum came from afar, and a black army came from afar, also lit torches, like a dragon with a burning head, gradually, the dragon shortened and converged, and lined up two miles away opposite Yang Xuangan's army.
This is the so-called bluff, both sides understand in their hearts that it is impossible to fight, and a night battle with a large-scale army like this is simply a random killing, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us, and in the end it is meaningless to win or lose.
The two sides confronted each other quietly in the field, waiting for the dawn to come, and an hour later, the eastern sky was white, the light was clear, and the moment of great battle was coming.
At this time, Yang Xuangan rode out, and with a wave of the lance, he shouted: "Yuwen Shu came out and answered!" ”
Yu Wenshu didn't come out, and he didn't want to pay attention to Yang Xuangan at this time. He stood under the banner and was closely observing Yang Xuangan's army, and to his surprise, this army was not the same as the rabble two years ago. The armor is bright, the military appearance is neat, and there is no more mixing of swords, guns and clubs.
Yang Xuan felt that Yuwenshu didn't come out, he sneered, turned around and waved his hand, "Push it out!" ”
I saw a wooden frame pushed out of the army, two feet high, with a wooden wheel underneath. is slowly pushing forward, a person is tied in a large font on the wooden frame, and the upper body is **, which is Yu Wenhua and. There is a horizontal knife pressed on the neck, and as long as the other party moves slightly, it will be cut down.
"Father, save me!" Yu Wenhua and shouted.
Yu Wenshu's eyes widened, hasn't his son been released? Why is it still in Yang Xuangan's hands. He was in a hurry, and he didn't care about revealing the secret, so he urged the horse to rush out, pointing at Yang Xuangan and scolding: "Yang Xuangan." You are treacherous, and you dare to deceive the old man! ”
Yang Xuangan laughed. "Yuwenshu, only blame yourself for being careless. I have released him, but your people have not taken a good look at him, so in order to ensure Ling Lang's safety, I had to invite him back again. ”
Yuwen Shu was so angry that his eyes erupted into flames, and he said hatefully: "Then what do you want?" ”
Yang Xuan felt a wave of his long lance and said coldly: "It's very simple, tell your army to lay down their weapons, and I will let Ling Lang go, otherwise his head will fall to the ground!" ”
Yuwenshu looked back at the army, 50,000 pairs of eyes were staring at him, and the eyes of a famous general were full of suspicion, at this time Yuwenshu was like a beast forced into a corner, choosing between obeying orders and dying and shriveling.
"Yang Xuangan, don't deceive people too much!" Yuwen Shu roared hysterically.
Yang Xuangan took a few steps back, and with a wave of his hand, the soldier on the wooden frame raised the horizontal knife high and aimed it at Yu Wenhua's neck, Yu Wenhua was so frightened that he cried, "Don't kill me!" Father, save the child! ”
Yu Wenshu stared at his son's crying face, he seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden, and weakly turned around and ordered: "Order the whole army, put down your weapons." ”
The commander's order was passed one after another, and some soldiers were thrown to the ground, and more than a dozen of Yu Wenshu's henchmen shouted one after another, "Throw down your weapons!" ”
More and more soldiers put down their weapons, the morale of Yuwenshu's army was low, Yang Xuan felt that the time had come, and turned around and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Yang Xuangan waited for this opportunity for two whole years, and the 100,000 army was suddenly launched to kill Yuwenshu's army, Yang Xuangan took the lead, and the war horse galloped like the wind, rushing straight to Yuwenshu, "Old thief, take your life!" ”
Yuwenshu was so frightened that his soul flew away, turned around and fled, although Yuwenshu had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, he was an old man in his sixties after all, his movements were a little slow, he had heard the sound of assassination behind him, his heart was extremely panicked, he drew his knife and slashed back, Yang Xuan felt a long lance, picked his horizontal knife and flew into the sky, his arms competed, and shouted, "Kill!" ”
The sharp tip of the lance pierced his armor, 'Poof! The ground stabbed into the back of Yuwenshu's heart, the tip of the lance leaked out from the chest, Yuwenshu screamed, and immediately died of anger, and a generation of traitors died, dying in the hands of Yang Xuangan.
Yang Xuangan lifted Yuwenshu's corpse high and shouted, "Yuwenshu has been beheaded!" ”
His army followed and shouted, "Yuwen Shu is dead!" Yuwen Shu is dead! ”
The commander was killed, the morale of the Sui army was demoralized, and he had no intention of resisting, at this time Yang Xuanjing led the army to kill from behind, the two armies attacked, the Sui army was defeated, Yang Xuangan's army chased out dozens of miles, more than 20,000 people were killed, corpses were everywhere all the way, and countless soldiers knelt and surrendered.
Yang Xuan was extremely proud, looking up to the sky and laughing, but at this moment, a Sui army suddenly came from the rear, and the leader of the general was the veteran Qu Tutong, who led 20,000 troops to support Yuwenshu, and ambushed the troops in the forest a few miles behind Yang Xuangan's army.
He was experienced, and when he saw that Yuwenshu had been threatened, he endured it without fighting, until Yuwenshu was killed and the Sui army was defeated, and Yang Xuangan felt that the rear army had no chance to defend himself and killed him violently.
There are still more than 20,000 people in Yang Xuangan's rear army, they have been immersed in the joy of victory at this time, without any defense, Qu Tutong led the army to kill from behind, Yang Xuangan's rear army was caught off guard, a big chaos, only held on for a moment, the army collapsed, Yang Xuangan fled eastward in a panic, Qu Tutong led the army to chase and kill all the way, Yang Xuangan's army that had just won a complete victory was difficult to organize resistance, and was killed and defeated, they scrambled for their lives, trampled on each other, and suffered heavy casualties.
Chen Ling, the general of the Yuwen Shu Department, atoned for his crimes, led thousands of defeated troops to counterattack, and cooperated with Qu Tutong's rush to kill, and the two armies strangled Yang Xuangan's army, and the dead bodies of Yang Xuangan's army were piled up. The blood stained the water red, and Yang Xuan was terrified, and fled back to Chang'an City with only thousands of remnants.
Qu Tutong didn't know Yang Xuangan's troops, and his troops were small. The army was short of food and did not dare to stay in the pass for a long time, so he led the army to withdraw to Pujin Pass.
In this battle, Yang Xuangan won first and then lost, the 150,000 army lost more than 80,000 people, but the Sui army also suffered heavy casualties, the commander Yu Wenshu was killed, and the 50,000 army was almost wiped out. The remnants of Yuwenshu's army only recovered less than 10,000 people, and the rest of the army was either killed or took the opportunity to flee.
Qu Tutong later learned that there were only 20,000 defenders in Chang'an City, which deprived him of a golden opportunity to recapture Chang'an City. He was quite annoyed, but the opportunity has been lost and it is irretrievable, Qu Tutong on the one hand insisted on the Pujin Pass, on the other hand, sent people to Luoyang for help, and at the same time he asked the rescued Yu Wenhua and Jiangdu to report the news. Yu Wenshu was killed, which is a big deal anyway...... Ma Yi County, Taishou Wang Rengong's mood has improved in the past few days, and he has received a holy decree. He was ordered to serve as the general guard of Ye County before the end of January, although the general guard was nominally half a rank lower than the Taishou. However, Tongshou has the right to transfer troops to suppress bandits, and people, property, and goods are deployed by him. In fact, it has been overturned too much.
Being able to leave the frontier and re-enter the Central Plains has a place to use, which makes Wang Rengong feel particularly happy, and after calculating that he is only half a month away from taking office, Wang Rengong began to pack up and prepare to go.
On this morning, Wang Rengong came to the county office as usual to handle official business, ready to hand over the documents, and heard the noise and roaring from afar, Wang Rengong frowned, walked a few steps, hid in the corner of the wall and probed to the county office to check the situation.
Last year, the Turkic army of 400,000 crossed the border, destroying the grain fields of Mayi County, coupled with the great drought, the grain harvest of Mayi County was reduced by 70%.
Wang Rengong was entangled in his heart, there were still more than 30,000 stone of grain in the granary, but the emperor had a strict order that after the order was issued and before the handover with the new Taishou, grain was not allowed to be released for disaster relief, which was to prevent the use of disaster relief to cover up corruption.
"Taishou, what should I do?" An attendant asked.
Wang Rengong can't put grain at this time, in three days, the new Taishou will come, and let the new Taishou do the disaster relief, he doesn't want to make extraneous branches at this time, anger the saint, and ruin the career that is so easy to wait.
In fact, Wang Rengong just wanted to go back to the county office to get a document, he thought about it, from his house can go over the wall to the county office, he turned around and left, "Follow me!" ”
More than a dozen entourage guards returned to the mansion again, and when they walked to the door, he glanced at the guards strangely and asked, "What about Liu Wuzhou, didn't you see him in the morning?" Where have the others gone? ”
The guards all shook their heads, not knowing where Captain Liu had gone? Wang Rengong didn't want to ask more, turned around and entered the mansion, walked all the way to the back house, walked into the back house, and there was a low wall more than one person high in front of him, separating the county government and the county house into two, and more than a dozen soldiers ran to take the ladder, at this time, Wang Rengong saw a red dress flashing at the door of his inner house.
He felt strange in his heart, walked quickly into the courtyard gate, and turned his head, but saw a little maid hiding in the door, looking at him in horror.
Wang Rengong squatted down in front of the little maid, looked at her for a long time, and asked her, "What's wrong?" ”
The little maid was terrified, stammered, couldn't say a word, suddenly, a low laughter came from the room, it was the laughter of her little concubine, Wang Ren turned his head respectfully, looked at the room, slowly stood up, and walked to the room step by step, the little maid was so frightened that she turned her head and ran.
Wang Rengong had already heard Ah Tuan's moaning from the room, "Good man.... Hard! ”
His face began to swell purple, his woman was actually stealing man, Wang Rengong poked the paste paper on the door and looked into the room, his lungs almost exploded, and he kicked the door open.
I saw that on the bed he had just slept on, Liu Wuzhou, a pro-soldier lieutenant, was pressed naked on a woman, and this woman was also naked, covering her up and down, and it was his concubine A Tuan.
"Adulterer, adulteress, die!"
Wang Rengong roared angrily and drew his sword to stab Liu Wuzhou...... Note: This scene should have happened in January of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, a year ahead of schedule...... To be continued......