"Urgent! The North City Gate fell, and a large number of Zhou troops entered the city, and the situation was critical! ”

The situation at the North City Gate finally reached the ears of Wu Heng, the fourth-generation commander of the Taiping Army, which made the face of this man, who was originally ruthless, even more gloomy and terrifying.

But otherwise, Wu Heng is also a hero who has seen big scenes, and when he was young, he followed his father, Wu Wei, the deputy commander of the first Taiping Army, and mixed in the Taiping Army, so although he learned of such bad news, his mind was still calm.

"Who is in charge of the Zhou army that broke through the North City Gate? How much? Where is it now? Wu Heng asked seemingly calmly.

Hearing this, the messenger hurriedly clenched his fists and replied, "Back to Wu Shuai, there are two Zhou soldiers who broke through the north city gate, first Zhou general Ma Dan broke through the north city gate and defeated our army's garrison in the north of the city, and then, Zhou general Fei Guo led another Zhou army to kill out of the city, and went straight to this place to kill, and now it has been killed to Mugong Street......

"......" Wu Heng took a slight breath, and a layer of haze couldn't help but cover the tiger's eyes.

In all fairness, Wu Heng is no stranger to Fei Guo and Ma Dan to be honest, after all, the first two are the most popular generals in the Jizhou Army, and they are the two sharp blades in Xie An's hands.

The difference between the two is that Fei Guo's ability is the most comprehensive, whether it is a frontal battlefield or a sudden attack, he has a set, and what is even more rare is that this person is already excellent in martial arts, and was one of the six generals of his Taiping Army, and then after defecting to the Zhou Dynasty, he worshiped under the Liangqiu family in Donggong Mansion to practice martial arts, and now martial arts are even more unfathomable. Speaking of which, even Wu Heng was not sure that he could defeat this person.

Perhaps, only Liang Qiuhao, the commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army of the previous generation, can do it, suppressing all the heroes in the world with incredibly powerful martial arts like ghosts and gods.

Compared with Fei Guo, Ma Dan's use of troops is relatively strange, this general from Yanmen, who was born in the north of Yanmen, has never liked to fight head-on, because since ancient times, head-to-head confrontation is to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and the losses are too much. Therefore, Ma Dan, who cherishes the lives of his subordinates very much, is inclined to surprise attacks. Just like the wolves in the northern grasslands, he always hides from a distance and peeps on weekdays, and will never let you touch him, but once you neglect to take precautions, you will be bitten by him fiercely, and your heart hurts.

In general, Fei Guo and Ma Dan are not easy to deal with. In fact, the two of them have long been faintly named "Liang Guohu" and "Yanmen Wolf" respectively because of their respective hometowns, after all, Fei Guo and Ma Dan's hometowns are in Liang Guochen Liu and Yanmen in the north respectively. He is now the most top-notch general in the Jizhou army. Plus it's not far in front of Wu Heng now. Liao Li, a general of the Zhou army who was once ridiculed by the eldest grandson Xiangyu as a "stubborn cow who does not know how to advance or retreat". The three sharp blades of tiger, wolf and ox in the Jizhou soldiers cannot be described as not sharp.

Wu Heng had a little headache, putting aside Ma Dan, who had never been involved in danger and fighting alone with enemy generals, Liao Li's martial arts had already been seen by him. To put it bluntly, even if he Wu Heng can win in a solo battle, I am afraid that he will have to pay a heavy price, at least his body will not be as complete as it is now. And this is the real reason why Wu Heng avoided fighting alone with Liao Li.

Joke! He Wu Heng is "handsome", how can he surrender his identity and fight with Liao Li, the "general"? Moreover, if he lost an arm in Liao Li's hands, how would he command the Taiping army in the future? God knows how many people in the Taiping Army are worried about his position as commander-in-chief.

[If that guy is still ......]

For some reason, Wu Heng suddenly remembered Liang Qiuhao. That is, Chen Bei, the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army, who he once regarded as a fierce enemy.

[If that guy was still around, I wouldn't have fallen into ...... Phew, I'm really, how could I suddenly think of that guy......]

Shaking his head and taking a deep breath, Wu Heng calmed down. He said in a deep voice, "In the name of this commander, I ordered the whole army not to panic, and asked Zhang Nan to lead a force to resist Fei Guo, and the rest of the people continued to besiege Liao Li's army and the withered sheep army!" Zhang Nan in his mouth is the guard of the East City Gate, and he is one of the powerful generals under the command of Zhang Hong, the general of the Later Army.

"Order!" After receiving the order, the herald quickly went to deliver Wu Heng's general order.

In a short time, among the countless Taiping troops besieging Liao Li and Withered Sheep, an army numbering about a few thousand people retreated and marched in the direction of the north, which made Withered Sheep who noticed this matter overjoyed.

"Wu Heng has drawn troops, and sure enough, there is a problem with the North City Gate!" The withered sheep said with a happy face. But as soon as he finished speaking, his expression darkened again.

You must know that at the moment where he and Liao Li's army are located, the houses on both sides of the street that could have been used as cover have been bulldozed and destroyed, which makes their nearly 10,000 troops completely exposed to the strength of the Taiping army several times their size, and the situation is several times more dangerous than before. Even Liao Li, who had extraordinary intuition and commanding power, was amazed by the withered sheep, and a trace of sweat gradually oozed from his forehead, and he kept an eye on the battlefield at all times, not allowing the slightest deviation in his orders.

But even so, the Taiping Army, which had an absolute advantage in terms of strength, still pressed up, and the Liao Lijun and the Withered Sheep Army were out of breath, and the original strength of nearly 10,000 troops was sharply reduced by a full thirty percent in just one stick of incense, and they are now struggling to support.

"Uncle don't panic!" As if sensing the panic in the heart of the withered sheep, Liao Li calmly commanded his subordinates to defend the offensive of the Taiping army from all directions, and said lightly, "There are still more than 3,000 foot soldiers under the command of the last general, and they can hold out for at least half an hour!" ”

Liao Li's words are strange, it stands to reason that the army under his command should have at least nearly 7,000 soldiers at the moment, why are there only a few thousand left?

It turned out that when Wu Heng ordered the destruction of the buildings on both sides of the street, Liao Li had already realized that their good days were over, after all, the reason why he Liao Li's army was able to defend the Taiping army from the east, west and north with one enemy and three respectively, the most fundamental reason was that he occupied the advantage of the spaciousness of the street, and once this advantage was lost, they would obviously fall into the disadvantage, after all, the Taiping army had too many troops.

Therefore, Liao Li immediately decided to divide his troops, and asked Cheng Yang, the general of the Jizhou Army, who temporarily served as his deputy general, to lead 4,000 cavalry to attack from the south side, after all, the strength of the cavalry lies in the powerful lethality brought by the galloping and sprinting of the war horse, and in this kind of street fighting in the city, the role of a cavalry is not much higher than that of an infantryman.

Although the South City Gate is now occupied by the Tianquan Army under the command of the late Tianquan God General Wei Hu, according to the withered sheep, the Tianquan Army does not seem to be very willing to be loyal to Wu Heng anymore. Otherwise, when the withered sheep retreated from the south gate with the remnants of the Tianshu army and planned to join forces with Liao Lijun, how could Luo Qing, the current general of the Tianquan army, acquiesce to the withered sheep's withdrawal, and even secretly help the withered sheep?

Yes. Although Luo Qing still adheres to the belief of his commander Wei Hu and vows to go to the soup for the Taiping Army, this does not mean that he is still loyal to Wu Heng, even if he once had, but after the words of the withered sheep, that loyalty may also be extinguished like a fire in the rain.

Mourning is greater than heart death, I'm afraid that's what I mean. The current Tianquan Army gives people the feeling that as long as they don't attack the southern gate they occupy and don't touch the last backbone of their Tianquan Army, they won't make any more moves. In other words. Even if Cheng Yang led 4,000 cavalry to make a detour from the south city gate. Bypassing the main forces of the Taiping army, they attacked the empty streets of the city. Luo Qing probably won't pay attention to it.

And it turned out that the guess of the withered sheep was not wrong, when Cheng Yang, the general of the Jizhou army, led 4,000 cavalry to bypass near the south city gate, it was obviously only twenty zhang away from the south city gate. However, neither Luo Qing nor the Tianquan Army under his command had the slightest intention of attacking and blocking. They just guarded, and didn't let anyone take away the southern city gate and take away their last backbone, whether it was the Zhou army or Wu Heng's Taiping army.

I remember that Cheng Yang was taken aback at that time, because it was hard for him to imagine that the Taiping army was so divided that Na Luo Qing obviously witnessed him Cheng Yang leading the army to attack the empty place in Guangling City, but he was indifferent and turned a blind eye.

And then again. Cheng Yang's departure with his troops undoubtedly sharply reduced the number of Liao Lijun's already insufficient troops, and with the only remaining more than 3,000 people, the withered sheep was really not sure that he would be able to hold on to the Zhou army's reinforcements.

You know, even if you add his loyal Tianquan soldiers. He and Liao Li's troops were only about 4,000, but what they faced was tens of thousands of Taiping troops. In such a war with a huge disparity in troops, even if the eldest grandsons Xiangyu, Liu Qing, and Li Xian came in person, they would definitely not be able to turn the tide and recover their disadvantages.

In this way, it is no wonder that the withered sheep are worried about their current situation.

However, compared with the withered sheep, Liao Li was much calmer, and still commanded his subordinates in an orderly manner, and only when he had a premonition of a crisis, he handed over the command to the withered sheep and personally went to the front line to fight.

And it is precisely because of Liao Li, a member of the Zhou army, that Liao Lijun and the withered sheep army have been able to hold on to this day and have never been defeated.

Seeing this, Wu Heng's eyebrows furrowed tightly, and he couldn't help but think of Liang Qiuhao again, thinking of the days when there was once that unparalleled fierce general in the world.

If Liang Qiuhao is still there, what Liao Li, Fei Guo, and Ma Dan, even if this so-called Zhou Junmeng is added together, what can it be? Can you beat Liang Qiuhao?

Gritting his teeth unconsciously, Wu Heng couldn't help but recall the first battle when they first cooperated with the leading troops to fight.

Because the years were too far apart, Wu Heng had forgotten when it was, but remembered that at that time, the second commander of his Taiping Army, Tianshang Ji Liu Qian, was still there, Liang Qiuhao and Yang Yu and the fierce generals under them were there, and at that time, Liu Qing was just a few years old.

At that time, because the backbone of the original Taiping Army had almost been encircled and wiped out in Wuhu by the future Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Wu's biological father, Dongzhen Hou Liangqiu Jing, and then the Taiping Army was suppressed and rounded up by various local governments, which made Liu Qian have to use these young people who were only teenagers.

In order to escape the pursuit and persecution of the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time, Liu Qian asked the Taiping soldiers under his command to change their faces, and after making many efforts, the county order of Lingling County was surrendered by coercion and inducement, and finally laid a foundation in this county.

At that time, because the Great Zhou court had just sent troops to Jiangnan, and even caused a massacre in Jinling, the relationship between Jiangnan and the Great Zhou became extremely poor. Among them, there are also some guys who take advantage of the fire to rob, occupy the mountain, and gather crowds to cause chaos.

It can be said that at that time, the entire Jiangnan was in chaos, and even Jingzhou was affected, and near Jiangling, there were a group of bandits who gathered thousands of anti-thieves, intending to claim hegemony and wantonly bullying the local people.

It's not that the Great Zhou court ignored the fact that the people near Jiangling were in dire straits, the problem was that the bandits were purely bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.

After a few times, the bandits in Jiangling were safe and sound, but the defenders in Xiangyang and Jiangling in Jingzhou were dragged back and forth by this back and forth, so that. The Jingzhou government issued an official order to the county towns under its rule to expropriate and suppress the rebels, hoping that the counties would be able to share the burden of some state capitals.

At that time, Liu Qian had secretly occupied Lingling, and the Lingling County Order was just a puppet, so the official documents of Jingzhou Mansion naturally fell into Liu Qian's hands.

To be honest, Liu Qian was also hesitant at that time, after all, there were only a thousand available soldiers left in Lingling, where she was located, at that time, and most of them were untrained recruits, like Yang Yu and Wu Heng, the children of the first generation of Taiping soldiers. It's just that it's far less powerful than Yang Yu, Wu Heng and others.

But if you don't fight. What if those thieves attack Lingling? After all, Lingling is only a little distance away from Gangneung. Liu Qian didn't want those scum who took advantage of the fire to rob in the troubled times to set foot in the Lingling Tomb of her Taiping Army. You must know that since Liu Qian secretly controlled Lingling, she has successively brought many Taiping soldiers and their families who were previously exiled here, hoping that one day she can shake the foundation of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty with Lingling.

In other words. There are too many families of the Taiping Army in Lingling City, and Liu Qian does not dare to take risks.

So, she gathered Liang Qiuhao, Wu Heng, Yang Yu and other generals of the younger generation at that time and told them her thoughts.

"Rebuild the army?" A group of young generals of the Taiping Army, who would become famous in the future, frowned and pondered.

"Ah, as the saying goes, if it is not broken, it will not stand, although we don't want to mention it, but the original Taiping Army created by General Xue Ren was finally defeated by Dongzhen Hou Liang Qiujing, and completely collapsed......" Liu Qian sighed quietly. whispered.

I have to say that Liu Qian, as a woman who Liang Qiuhao never forgot until her death, is really a dignified and beautiful woman. It can't help but make people's hearts break.

At least, Liang Qiuhao's eyes never took his eyes off her beautiful figure for a moment, but this also attracted the eyes of Yang Yu, the future commander of the Tianfu Army. After all, at this moment, Yang Yu is not Liang Qiuhao's hardcore confidant.

Hearing Liu Qian's words, Yang Yu, Wu Heng and other descendants of the first generation of Taiping soldiers were silent, after all, they were also fortunate to participate in the Wuhu War, and they saw with their own eyes the courage of Hou Liang Qiujing in Dongzhen at that time, which was simply an insurmountable mountain.

Afterwards, I heard that this person died violently, but all the Taiping soldiers couldn't help but let out a long breath, and secretly said that they were lucky.

Seeing that the young generals in the hall were silent, Liu Qian sighed lightly and said to herself, "Our army is based on Lingling, and temporarily lies under the wings of the Great Zhou Mansion...... As for the new army, it can only be said to be my county soldiers in Lingling. And in private...... It's called the Tianfu Army, how? ”

"Tianfu Army?" Yang Yu, Wu Heng and others couldn't help but look up at Liu Qian. You must know that the Southern Tang Dynasty Liu family respects the word "sky", but it is not something that can be used casually. And now Liu Qian has named the new army Tianfu Army, isn't this the best encouragement and spur for them?

"As for the selection of the main general of the Tianfu Army...... Liu Qian's gaze walked on the many young generals in the hall who were looking at him, and finally fell on Liang Qiuhao.

"Ah Bei, it's up to you to be the chief general of the Tianfu Army!"

Yang Yu and Wu Heng's faces changed slightly when they heard this, and they looked at Liang Qiuhao with some hostility, but Liang Qiuhao also looked surprised and puzzled.

"What? I? ”

"Yes! - How? Reluctantly? Liu Qian asked with a chuckle.

Liang Qiuhao looked deeply at the smile on Liu Qian's face, and said softly, "Naturally willing, as long as it is ...... you say."

Liu Qian was stunned when she heard this, and then her pretty face turned slightly red.

Different from the respectful gaze that others look at him, this kid has always looked at himself with the kind of admiring gaze that does not hide or contain any lust since he was by his side, which makes Liu Qian sometimes have a headache.

After all, she will be almost thirty years old in a few years, and Liang Qiuhao is only seventeen or eighteen years old in her prime, not to mention that she is still a widow, and she also has four or five daughters Liu Qing, Liu Qian really can't understand why Liang Qiuhao, the little guy, takes a fancy to herself.

But on the other hand, Liu Qian was also ashamed of her admiring gaze from time to time, but it didn't seem to feel bad......

"In short, this matter has been decided, Ah Fei, you will be the commander of the Tianfu Army, and this palace will give you the title of 'Kaiyang', you are the hope of my Taiping Army's comeback, just like the red sun on the horizon! -- Receiving the order, Kaiyang God General Chen Bei! ”

Liang Qiuhao, no, it was Chen Bei who immediately knocked on the ground when he heard the words, and became the first god general, and also the only god general who was canonized by Liu Qian, the second commander of the Taiping Army, Kaiyang God General.

The Tianfu soldiers, the strongest army of the Taiping Army, which shocked the Zhou army in the future and called Xie An and the eldest grandson Xiangyu were inexplicably frightened, were established here.

The initial number of Tianfu soldiers was about 500 people, and then it gradually increased, which was maintained at about 300 people, and became Liu Qing's personal guard.

At that time, after three months of arduous training, the 500 Tianfu soldiers obeyed the orders of the Jingzhou government, with Liang Qiuhao as the commander, Yang Yu and Wu Heng as the deputy commanders, and launched a campaign against the robbers who occupied the mountains and were the kings in Jiangling.

So far, the copywriting study of Jingzhou Mansion still has a record, a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, Jiangling anti-thieves made a rebellion, gathered four or five thousand people, occupied the mountain as the king, after Jingzhou Mansion under the rule of Lingling County sent five hundred county soldiers to fight Jiangling thieves, ten days of triumph, the loss of soldiers is not more than 100!

The first battle of the Tianfu soldiers, Liang Qiuhao's force, Yang Yu's commander, and Wu Heng's wisdom made the Jiangling thieves, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, as vulnerable as manuscript paper in the Tianfu soldiers.