Chapter Seventy-Nine: Forced
ps: Alas, I was preached by my wife, but that's right, anyway, the Internet relies on hype, and it's not a loss for me to make a fuss, and the right should boost fame.
Well, in that case, I will sue the Yangcheng Evening News that infringes on my rights through legal channels, and it should be hyped.
But this incident is a wake-up call for me, I want to be famous, I want to work harder.
Even if it is a mayfly, it must also shake the giant tree!
Well, without further ado, the following novel text, as I promised, has a word count of 5950 words.
ββGradually Xishan, Jijing, the criminal department of Shangshu Xie Anfu -
"Your Highness, it's not good to go on like this......"
In the capital of Ji, in Xie An's mansion where the criminal department was still in the mansion, Cao Da, the general of Northern Xinjiang, whispered to Li Mao, the king of Yan, who was sitting in front of the main hall of the mansion compound, with a solemn face.
Compared with the once elegantly decorated Shangshu Xie Mansion of the Criminal Department, now Xie An's lobby is like a ruin, and it is not difficult to guess that it was Li Mao, the king of Yan, who was provoked by Xie An's few words in the city, and smashed things here in a fit of anger to vent.
Li Mao, the lord of the dignified Northern Frontier, smashed things without grace when his master was not at home, and it was not difficult to guess that he was really angry with Xie An at the head of the city.
Looking at the main hall of the hall, which looked like a ruin, I don't know if Xie An will feel pain in his heart when he sees this scene in the future.
Most likely, in terms of Xie An's sensitivity to money.
"The soldiers and horses of the imperial court...... Have they all retreated? β
Sitting in front of the stone steps panting heavily, Li Mao asked with a gloomy face.
Probably realizing that the lord was in a bad mood, he glanced at Zhang Qi, Cao Da took a slight breath, and said cautiously, "Fang Cai." The imperial court soldiers and horses tentatively attacked a wave, and saw that it was difficult to conquer Jijing for a while, so they retreated one after another, and two of them went to the northeast and northwest sides of Anping respectively, which seemed to be to interrupt and cut off the retreat of our army, in addition. There is also a cavalry of about 10,000 people who do not know where to go, if the last general is not mistaken, that cavalry should be the second division of the Jizhou Army led by Ma Dan! In addition to the above three armies, the main division of the Jizhou Army retreated more than ten miles to the west, if I guessed correctly, it should have set up camp and prepared for a stalemate with our army......"
Hearing this, Yan King Li Mao raised his hand to support his forehead and exhaled a long breath.
I have to admit that the eldest grandson Xiangyu's strategy of exchanging offense and defense. He hadn't really thought about it beforehand. The eldest grandson Xiangyu made such a high move, which almost completely disintegrated the combat power of his infantry and cavalry on the northern Xinjiang side: the infantry in the northern Xinjiang was only good at attacking cities and villages, and had little defensive experience; In this case, even with the towering and solid walls of Jijing as a barrier and a barrier, Li Mao did not have a little certainty of defending the city.
Li Mao is not a fool, although it is difficult to detect it in advance, there is always afterthought. He calmed down and carefully analyzed the process before and after the eldest grandson Xiangyu's plan.
First of all. To be precise, in fact, that strategy should be regarded as a move of flowers and trees, concealing the sky and the sea, and subtly opening the city gate many times to play the other party, but not taking the opportunity to go out of the city to attack, deepened the Liaodong Expeditionary Force's view that Jijing "will never go out of the city", and laid the groundwork for the subsequent retreat of the armies in Jijing from the city.
Come to think of it. A complicated look flashed in the tiger eyes of Yan King Li Mao.
I remember that at that time, he saw through the plan of the eldest grandson Xiangyu with high spirits, and swore to implement the plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and wanted the Liaodong Expeditionary Force to fight to the death with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, but now I think about it carefully. Where is it that he saw through the plan of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, it is obvious that the eldest grandson Xiangyu has insight into his attitude towards this and the measures he will take in advance.
[Just call the Liaodong Expeditionary Force to fight to the death with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and our army will temporarily enter Jijing to reward the generals!] ]
It was this high-spirited general order of Li Mao at that time that killed the 60,000 or 70,000 foreign cavalry of the Liaodong Expeditionary Army and retreated the entire army into the fire pit.
[I'm afraid that woman already knew my response in advance, so she attacked the Liaodong Expeditionary Force without any scruples......]
Li Mao smacked his lips and smiled bitterly in his heart.
After that, whether the infantry on the imperial court took advantage of the autumn flood to go to the upper reaches of the Qingshui River to accumulate river water one step in advance, or the cavalry of the Jizhou Army lured the Liaodong Expeditionary Force to pass through the shallow water beach on the bank of the Qingshui River, and used the method of sprinkling beans to make the war horses under the crotch of the Liaodong Expeditionary Sergeant pause in the shallow water on the riverside, which directly led to the flood rushing down the upstream, and the Liaodong Expeditionary Force had no time to retreat at all, and the whole army was annihilated.
What a fierce and domineering serial plan, the insight of the eye, and the far-reaching of the plan, if it weren't for the fact that Li Mao, the king of Yan, was the victim of this scheme, otherwise, even he couldn't help but slap his hands and praise the clever plan, admiring the eldest grandson Xiangyu for doing it casually, and completely directed the trend of the entire battlefield situation to the side that was beneficial to the Great Zhou court.
It's not easy to do, it's really not easy to do......
A few months ago, the situation had been completely reversed, and now his northern side was in a passive position, surrounded by the imperial army, and without foreign aid, the situation was not optimistic.
The only thing to be thankful for is that before the Jizhou army withdrew from Jijing, the wells in the city were only sprinkled with laxatives instead of poison, so that thousands of his soldiers in northern Xinjiang could still save their lives, but so what? His soldiers in the north are not good at defending the city!
It is no exaggeration to say that at present, Li Mao, the king of Yan, still has 50,000 elites in northern Xinjiang, including the Yuyang Iron Cavalry, in Jijing, but the imperial court has gathered a force of nearly 100,000 because of the arrival of the Jizhou army, but so what? If they meet in the wilderness outside the city, Li Mao has a strong confidence that he can defeat the imperial court in a battle, after all, the Northern Frontier Army is the army of hegemons in the grasslands and plains, conquering and even destroying one after another grassland tribes.
But when it comes to defending the city......
Li Mao had a headache, after all, he only had the experience of defending a few times during the Northern Hebei Campaign eleven years ago, not to mention the northern Xinjiang army under his command that had always been fought by them, if he really wanted his soldiers to climb the city tower to fight the imperial army, to be honest, Li Mao was not optimistic.
And this is precisely the most clever place for the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and it is also the most clever place for him Li Mao to let the eldest grandson Xiangyu out of the city.
Jijing at this moment. It's just like chicken ribs, the food is tasteless, and it's a pity to abandon it, which stirs up Li Mao's heart.
Come to think of it, only the eldest grandson Xiangyu, a vicious woman who is bold and fearless of everything in the world, can abandon Jijing, the king of the Great Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years, without regret. Say abandon, discard, don't remember. As long as this chip is enough to determine the odds of winning the entire battle.
[Carelessly, I was taken advantage of by that woman, and now if I want to recover my disadvantage, I can only ......]
Yan King Li Mao's gaze casually looked to the north.
Because in Boling, which is about two or three hundred miles away from Jijing, there are nearly 80,000 soldiers and horses in the northern Xinjiang who are unharmed, including the Western Army, one of the four towns in Jijing.
Then the problem comes, now there are only two ways in front of Li Mao.
First, give up Jijing. Retreat to Boling.
Of course, the retreat mentioned here is just a better wording, to put it bluntly, he Li Mao left most of his soldiers with limited mobility, and took his die-hard soldiers out of the city to break through to the northwest side of Anping Kingdom.
Even if the strength of the Jizhou Army in that direction is even higher than the first partial division of the main division, and the general Fei Guo, who leads the troops, is also a famous general of the Jizhou Army who is known as the Tiger of Liang State. But so what?
He is Li Mao, Li Mao, the king of Yan!
Not to mention breaking through from Fei Guo. Even if he killed Fei Guo himself in battle, it was not impossible for him Li Mao.
The only scruple is that once he Li Mao leaves Jijing, the imperial court soldiers and horses will inevitably storm Jijing and recapture the royal capital of the Great Zhou. And, after losing the commander of his Yan King Li Mao. The Northern Xinjiang soldiers, who are not good at fighting city defense battles, may be even more difficult to support, not to mention that the Jizhou Army also used laxatives to frame his Northern Xinjiang soldiers before, resulting in most of the soldiers in the city now being strained and their limbs weak, and their hands and feet are weak.
It is no exaggeration to say that without him, Li Mao, the king of Yan, sat in Jijing to intimidate the imperial court soldiers and horses outside the city. I'm afraid that there is only one way to die for the soldiers in the northern frontier in the city.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Mao couldn't help but hate the eldest grandson Xiangyu, who had helped him and Liang Qiuwu became famous in the Northern Hebei Campaign, because the eldest grandson Xiangyu's plan was almost to bolt him to death in Jijing, the city of chicken ribs, unless he was willing to abandon the nearly 50,000 soldiers in the northern Xinjiang under his command, and he was willing to abandon most of his efforts in the past ten years.
There is only a second way out......
And the second way out is to recruit the remaining 60,000 Northern Xinjiang soldiers who are in Boling at the moment, if necessary, even the Western Army Liberation Army, which secretly defected to him early, can also be summoned, as long as this elite division arrives, not to mention that Xie An and Li Xian have nearly 100,000 troops in their hands, even if there are more than 100,000, he Li Mao has full confidence to defeat it.
But there is also a hidden danger in doing so, and it is a huge hidden danger.
Because as we all know, the other 60,000 generals in Northern Xinjiang under Li Mao's command, these people are not in Boling for fun, but to trap and kill one of the most powerful generals in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are also the heroines of the female middle that no one in the world, Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Dance.
Once the army is withdrawn, resulting in the release of this ferocious female tiger, it will be a catastrophe for his northern army!
After all, if Liangqiu Dance is out of trouble, it means that the imperial court and the Jizhou army have a battlefield martial god that even his Yan King Li Mao is difficult to match, which means that the imperial court soldiers and horses no longer have to be afraid of a head-to-head battle with the Northern Xinjiang Army, which means that his Yan King Li Mao will be tied hand and foot, and it will be difficult to implement the tactics of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, because the Liangqiu Dance will always keep an eye on him.
I have to say that these two only ways out will cause immeasurable losses to Li Mao, which is also where he is in a dilemma.
If there is any way to break the deadlock of this disadvantage, it is ......
I don't know what I thought, a look of pain flashed in the eyes of Yan King Li Mao, he gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and the look of pain in his eyes was gradually replaced by a fierce look and fierceness.
"Whew!"
Standing up suddenly, Yan King Li Mao lowered his head slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Send a letter to Yang Ling in Boling and call him...... No more to the Eastern Army and the ...... Exercise restraint! β
From the side, Youdou, Zhang Qi, Cao Da, and Le Xu, the four generals of Northern Xinjiang, were slightly shocked when they heard this, and they wanted to open their mouths to speak. But seeing that Li Mao, the king of Yan, had already walked out of the door of Xie Mansion without looking back, there was a terrifying aura from all over his body.
"Your Highness, you have finally made up your mind......"
"Ah...... Finally ......"
Looking at the slightly depressed and lonely back of Yan King Li Mao, the four generals of Northern Xinjiang glanced at each other, as if they wanted to show joy because of something, but they didn't show it for some reason. So much so that the expressions of these four changed again and again, and they were really strangely tight.
"Kill the Flame Tiger Ji Liangqiu Dance!"
"What? Kill the Flame Tiger Ji Liangqiu Dance?! Kill the big housewife?! β
Just when Li Mao, the king of Yan, had made up his mind and was ready to say goodbye to his former relationship for the sake of his hegemony, in the north, which was about sixty miles away from Jijing, Cheng Yang, the deputy commander of the second division of the Jizhou Army, slowly marched in the direction of the north with his war horse and his subordinates, while looking at Liu Qing who was exclaiming in shock.
"Not bad!" The white little hand gently stroked the horse's mane, and Liu Qing, the seventeen-year-old right army division of the Jizhou Army, looked up at the farther north, and said softly, "You have also seen the trap set by the woman of the eldest grandson Xiangyu. He was very clever, even cutting and cutting, not only did he reinforce the Liaodong Expeditionary Force of the Northern Xinjiang Army with a snap of his fingers, but also bolted Li Mao, the king of Yan, to death in Jijing, so that he could ride a tiger, and for the safety of his 50,000 soldiers, he had to stay in Jijing and spend his army...... At present, there are only two ways out for Li Mao, either abandon Jijing. Withdrawn to Boling alone; Either we can recruit Boling's soldiers and horses to resist the attack of our army. But no matter which of these two items is, it will cause immeasurable losses to Li Mao......"
"Hmm......" Cheng Yang was beside him. Xie An's brother-in-law, Withered Yang, nodded thoughtfully, and muttered, "If I were Li Mao, I'm afraid I wouldn't have chosen either...... Because the losses are too great! β
"In a word!" Glancing at the withered sheep who were older than herself, Liu Qing nodded in approval with a bit of the tone of the elders praising the juniors. "To the point! Indeed, Li Mao will not choose these two, he will choose the middle between the two, that is, to call the nearly 80,000 soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang side who are in Boling to take the lead in killing Sister Xiao Wu first. In this way, even if Boling's Northern Xinjiang Army assists Jijing completely, Li Mao will not worry about letting the tiger return to the mountain......"
"Sure enough, it's a tiger returning to the mountain, the metaphor is just right!" Liao Li, the commander of the third division of the Jizhou Army, smiled slightly, compared with the deputy general Cheng Yang, whose complexion changed greatly, Liao Li, as a coach, his calm work is naturally beyond the reach of the former.
What's so surprising? You must know that this time, the third division of the Jizhou Army went to Boling, wasn't it just to relieve the siege of the big master mother Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Dance and get her out of trouble?
After taking a few deep breaths and thinking about it, Cheng Yang gradually calmed down, and asked Liu Qing with a suspicious expression, "In that case, the last general doesn't understand why Liu Junshi wants to scold Changsun Junshi...... Does this matter have anything to do with the eldest grandson? β
"Isn't it related?" Glancing at Cheng Yang, Liu Qing said coldly, "It is rumored that Li Mao has always reciprocated affection for Sister Xiao Wu, and if he is not passive now, he will never use this trick." And who do you think put Li Mao in this passive situation? β
"Eldest Sun Junshi ......" Cheng Yang's face changed slightly, and he muttered to himself.
"Humph!" With a cold snort, Liu Qing reprimanded angrily, "Disaster to the country and the people refers to that kind of vicious woman!" It's a good one to borrow a knife to kill someone, she thinks I, Liu Qing, can't see through it? It's ridiculous! β
"Ahem!" Liao Li coughed lightly when he heard this, reminding Liu Qing that after all, if these words reached the ears of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, I am afraid that these two left and right military divisions of the Jizhou Army would have to quarrel because of this matter. To be honest, he didn't think much about facing the die-hard henchman of the eldest grandson, Beizhen Fusi Si Du Wei Mofei, who was a top assassin that even Liao Li found extremely tricky.
Cheng Yang obviously understood the deep meaning of Liao Li's light cough, a little smile appeared on his face, and he said in a soothing tone, "Liu Junshi is angry, and the last general thinks that maybe the truth of the matter is not as Liu Junshi thinks...... It's so unbearable......"
"Humph! You know what! That woman was lucky enough to give birth to a boy, the mother is expensive with the child, and the future life must be very comfortable, if Sister Xiaowu has an accident during this period...... Bah, bah, all in all, she can naturally replace Sister Xiaowu as the eldest wife of the Xie family! Still don't get it? Glancing at the generals, Liu Qing asked with a sneer.
The generals of the Jizhou Army looked at each other, thinking about what to say, but because of Liu Qing's frost-like face, they could only remain silent.
"How can I make your wish come true?!" clenched his fists tightly. Liu Qing's eyes became more and more determined.
"Wait for me, Sister Xiaowu, when my sister rescues you from trouble, go back and make that woman look good!"
At the same time, in the tent of the main division of the Jizhou Army, Mirage Qin Keer was looking at the eldest grandson Xiangyu who was holding his son with a happy face in the tent with puzzled eyes.
"Is that good? And so it goes. The contradiction between the second lady and Liu Qing is even more impossible to resolve......"
"Do you think the concubine cares?" Glancing at Qin Ke'er, the eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled and said, "Liu Qing is smart and smart, but if you want to call her a strong rival of the concubine body, she doesn't have this qualification yet......"
"The slave really doesn't understand, why does the second lady use this way?"
The smile on the eldest grandson Xiangyu's face retracted when he heard this, and he said, "Don't you understand? Liu Qing is a descendant of the Southern Tang royal family. Even if she is now in the Jizhou Army and holds the position of the right army division, it seems that she is dutiful, but in the final analysis, she still did not show her true talent...... How could she possibly show all her talents, Da Zhou had destroyed the enemies of her country! In his bones, Liu Qing didn't want to serve the Great Zhou court...... And the only breakthrough is the Liangqiu dance, according to the concubine's body has been tried many times. She mostly treats Liangqiu Dance as her own sister with all her heart, in other words. The more dangerous Xiao Wu's situation becomes, the more she can motivate this woman's talents! -- There is no way, in order to deal with Li Mao, it is impossible for us to send more troops to Boling, at most it is Liao Li's one, and it is the cavalry among them. Liao Liao has 4,000 horses, if you want to use 4,000 horses to rescue Xiao Wu, who is besieged by 80,000 troops in northern Xinjiang, without stimulating and stimulating that girl and asking her to play her true skills, even if there is a fierce general Liao Li to help, the chance of winning is very small! β
When Qin Ke'er heard this, he suddenly realized. Nodding and chuckling, he said, "I see...... To put it mildly, the slave really thought that the second lady was planning to kill people with a knife and eliminate General Liangqiu so that she could sit in the position of the wife of the Xie family......"
"The position of the wife of the Xie family, the concubine body naturally wants to take it, but it is not ...... in this way"
"The slave understands that the second lady is focusing on the overall situation......
"No, you don't understand." Glancing at Qin Ke'er with a smile, the eldest grandson Xiangyu said indifferently, "The position of the Xie family's wife that the concubine wants to take is on the premise that Liangqiu Dance is still there, otherwise, ...... That would be so unfulfilling......"
"Cheng ...... A sense of accomplishment? Qin Ke'er was stunned for a moment, looking at the eldest grandson Xiangyu dumbfounded, and only after half a ring did she realize her gaffe, and changed the topic and asked, "That...... The second lady thinks that General Liang Qiu may get out of trouble this time? β
When the eldest grandson Xiangyu heard this, he hugged his son Momo in his arms to the little girl Wang Xin, and immediately moved to the front of the tent, lifting the tent with his delicate right hand and looking at the far north under the sunset.
"That's the concubine's rival, how can Liu Qing's girl be compared to her? Rest assured, that tigress will surely appear in front of you and me again safe and sound...... If there is no such woman, and there is no concubine who is an enemy in the world, wouldn't he be lonely for a lifetime? That's so boring...... Besides, how could that woman be allowed to die like this if she hadn't seen her concubine's son with her own eyes? The concubine is very curious, what kind of expression will she have when the time comes. Is it angry? Is it self-pity? Is it at a loss? Giggles, as soon as she thinks of this, the concubine's body trembles with excitement, and she can't help herself, cluck, cluck, ......cluck,
[said a lot...... The last sentence is the most fundamental reason, right? ]
Looking at the smiling and trembling princess in front of her, Qin Ke'er subconsciously swallowed her saliva, feeling that as an ordinary person, she couldn't understand the way of thinking of the person in front of her at all.
ps: Eh, it turned out to be released first, and then modified, so that it was a free single chapter. Yesterday it was all revised without being released, and I said how could I not get it for free.
I'm sorry to the readers who subscribed to those two whining articles yesterday, if you send two chapters for a fee, I will send two chapters for free, and the word count is about 5,000 or 6,000, and I will definitely not let this reader suffer. Tomorrow's text is also free.
Again, I'm sorry, but I'll post a free article in the future, so there won't be any more mistakes. (To be continued......)