Chapter 23: Chen Ying, After the War
Three million jade dragons were retreated, and the scales and remnants of armor flew all over the sky.
Soon after the sky reached midnight (3 o'clock ~ 5 o'clock), snow began to fall in the sky again, and the snow flakes danced and fell like scales.
Liu Xiu led the generals to the county guard mansion and slaughtered all the way, and everywhere he passed, all the enemy troops were disarmed and surrendered.
When Liu Xiu came to the county guard's mansion, Chen Ying was organizing the remnants of the rout and preparing to counterattack.
Liu Xiu took the lead, with red armor, red horses and red guns, killing like the god of fire Zhu Rong, and shouted loudly at Chen Ying and the defeated generals: "Chen Ying, the county town of Changsha has been broken, don't get off the horse and tie it up quickly!" ”
"Who are you, who are you? It's so despicable that he attacked my county town at night! Chen Ying saw Liu Xiu, and he couldn't say anything angry.
"Hahaha" Liu Xiu heard this, laughed and said: "No scheming, I am Liu Xiu of Jingzhou, you don't even know who your enemy is, I really don't know how you led this Changsha County!?" After Liu Xiu finished speaking, there was another smug laugh.
"You" Chen Ying listened to Liu Xiu's ridicule, his face turned blue with anger, and he couldn't speak, so he could only retort loudly: "Tell you, outside of Changsha County, I still have two big battalions, East and West, and it won't be long before Bao Long and Xing Daorong will lead their troops to attack it, and you will definitely be able to come and go when the time comes!" ”
Chen Ying saw that there were few soldiers and horses around him at this time, and he didn't want to fight back, he just wanted to delay the time, break out of the encirclement, and wait for the two battalions from the east and west to come to the rescue, so he warned Liu Xiu loudly, so that Liu Xiu would know the difficulty and retreat.
When Liu Xiu heard Chen Ying's intimidation, he laughed even more, and even the surrounding soldiers and generals laughed unscrupulously.
Liu Xiu looked at Chen Ying with contempt and replied to him: "You idiot, you still think about Bao Long and Xing Daorong's two wastes to save you; To tell you the truth, your big camp has long been defeated by me, and Bao Long and Xing Daorong have also been captured. ”
Chen Ying's face turned even greener when he heard this, and he said tremblingly: "How is it possible, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses of our army in the two large battalions in the east and west, and there are also 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city, it is impossible to lose so quickly!" You must be in charge of me! Come on, come on, gather all the soldiers and horses, and follow me to the battle to kill the enemy! ”
Looking at Chen Ying's panic, Liu Xiu smiled unceremoniously, since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he has been under the fence, living a frightened life every day, and now he has finally laid the first city of his own, the panic in his heart is naturally gone, and what follows is naturally relaxed and proud.
Chen Ying's shout was not carried out, and the soldiers beside him who fled from the city gate answered him in a low voice: "General, the east and west camps have just caught fire, and the north city gate has also been lost, we only have the south gate to go, general, let's retreat first, right?" Where there is life, there is hope! ”
Xiao Bing's words were like cold water in winter, he suddenly came to his senses, his face immediately panicked, and he didn't have the confidence to speak just now, but he still held back his panic and shouted loudly to Liu Xiu: "You don't want to trick me, you should be careful, when my army comes, I will spare you!" As he spoke, he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, kill with me, so that the thief will know that I am powerful!" ”
It's just that when the soldiers around him were killed, Chen Ying took his personal guards and desperately retreated to the south gate, just using the soldier as a shield, and he was secretly distressed in his heart while retreating: I think I, Chen Ying, am so strategic, I lost so miserably today, how bitter!
Liu Xiu saw that Chen Ying was going to lead his troops to kill him when he said that, and he secretly admired it in his heart, but he didn't want to, the next moment he actually left all the soldiers and ran away alone; Seeing this, Liu Xiu immediately bent his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow towards Chen Ying's back heart, but unfortunately the distance was farther away after all, and there were too many figures in front of the formation, although the arrow hit Chen Ying, but it only hit his shoulder, no, Liu Xiu could only watch Chen Ying gallop away.
In fact, from the beginning, the reason why Liu Xiu said so much to Chen Ying was to mock, threaten, and persuade him to surrender, in order to repel or persuade him to surrender before Chen Ying could react, so as not to wait for him to react, gather the remnants of the army, and then there would be tens of thousands of troops, he Liu Xiu had fewer men and horses, if he fought head-on, it would inevitably be a loss, he had a total of so many soldiers and horses, all of them were treasures, but he was reluctant to waste so much.
Now he just escaped Chen Ying, although he will prematurely leak the news that Changsha was captured, but because Liu Xiu and others are raided, Chen Ying will not clearly know the specific situation of Liu Xiu's soldiers, soldiers and horses, so he is not worried that he will leak the information of Liu Xiu's army
The morning sun shone into the post-war Changsha county, and the cold wind accompanied by the flying snow bloomed like pear blossoms of thousands of trees.
The shouts of killing that resounded throughout the county town disturbed the people of the entire county town, making them all tremble, always worried about whether the next county guard who killed him would make a cruel lord.
Liu Xiu naturally doesn't know what the people think, these have nothing to do with him at the moment, at this time he is busy with the government affairs and military affairs in the county after the war, these things almost make him tired and faint, there is no way, he marched in the cold winter for several days in a row, and he fought all night last night, he was really tired.
Liu Xiu was busy for a long time, and found that most of these things would actually be handled by Liu Bowen and Xie Xuan, and he only needed him to nod and shake his head, so it didn't take long for Liu Xiu to doze off on the recliner.
When Liu Xiu woke up, it was already the sky, and the snow had stopped, which was a rare good weather in the cold winter.
At this time, Liu Bowen and Xie Xuan had already dealt with all the post-war matters and were waiting to report to him.
Everyone sat down, Liu Bowen got up first and said: "Lord Qi, in the county town, all government affairs have been handled, the notice of the people has been posted, there is not much money left in the treasury, but there is a lot of food, presumably it is the military rations of the 40,000 army in the past." ”
Liu Xiu doesn't care much about these things, Liu Bowen will deal with the people and other matters, the money has been accumulated by his chamber of commerce in the past few years, and food is a good thing, the more the merrier; However, it would be good for Liu Bowen to deal with these things, so Liu Xiu only listened to these, and simply said: "These little things, Berwyn, you can handle them well, I believe in you." ”
"Thank you for your trust!" Liu Bowen listened to what Liu Xiu said, shook the feather fan, and smiled silently.
After Liu Bowen finished reporting, Xie Xuan naturally stood up and saluted and said: "Report to the lord, there are many affairs in the army, and the remaining two counties in Jingnan need to be conquered next, so there are some things that the lord needs to decide early!" ”