"Chop!" A sharp but cold voice shouted, and the two guards immediately snatched out, pressing the Wuzhou Han army guard who was dozing off on duty to the ground, and slashed his head cleanly, this cold scene immediately made all the soldiers on the city wall silent, and their bodies stood more straight.

The person who sent out the cold drink was Wu Huaien, a regular attendant in the Southern Han Dynasty and a solicitor in the northwest. He was tall and straight, with a thin figure, a white military uniform that fit and ironed, a white face and beardless, and crystal skin, like a woman dressed as a man.

Wu Huaien's right hand rushed out, and instantly grabbed a few drops of blood splashed in front of him one by one, and a personal guard behind him immediately handed over a white handkerchief. Wu Huaien gently wiped away the blood stains on his hand, and casually threw the handkerchief behind him, and the guard immediately reached out and grabbed it and put it in a white bag.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was a custom of using eunuchs in the Minling region, which became an important source of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Southern Han Dynasty, the "Zizhi Tongjian" said that Liu Yan, the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, "was particularly suspicious in his last years, and he regarded many scholars as his descendants, so he was appointed as a full-time eunuch, and he was a eunuch in the country." His son Liu Sheng was particularly suspicious of the clan and ministers because of his conspiracy, and even killed thirteen younger brothers one after another. In terms of appointing eunuchs, this Southern Han Zhongzong went one step further than Liu Yan. Lin Yanyu was promoted to the envoy of Ganquan Palace because of "insidious and multi-counting", and he was the most trusted. Liu Sheng "exterminated all the brothers, and they all had a plan to delay the encounter". Wu Huaien is one of Lin Yanyu's four internal attendants.

In history, Wu Huaien was known for being too strict. He was particularly fond of temporary inspections, and personally inspected every big ship and every project he built, and if he was not as good as the law, he would often kill the craftsmen on the spot, and all the craftsmen were secretly dissatisfied with him. Later, when Guo Wei of the Northern Zhou Dynasty personally conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu Gang, who was reigning in the Southern Han Dynasty at that time, heard this and was uneasy, and planned to go to Guizhou, which had been collected by the Southern Han Dynasty, to inspect the shipbuilding and preparation work. Wu Huaien naturally went to the scene to inspect the work of the shipwrights, and was cut off with an axe by the craftsman Ou Yanxi on a new ship. The eunuch general who made a name for himself on the battlefield during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period gave his life in this way, confirming the unpredictability of history with the blood of his life.

Wu Huaien stared at the faint blood stain on his right hand, put his hands behind his back, turned around and snorted coldly, and said softly: "Tang Guo Lin Feng brought a group of powerful subordinates into Chu, who are good at raiding, and they can't be careless at all times!" The order will be doubled, the number of Wuzhou city defense patrols will be doubled, and the scouts sent to the front for reconnaissance will be doubled, and no suspicious phenomena will be missed! ”

A group of subordinates agreed with a bang. The commander of the Han army stationed in Wuzhou made Wei Chigong break out in a cold sweat, and quickly went to arrange the deployment in person.

"Envoy Wu, although Lin Feng's subordinates are powerful, after all, the number of people is too small, and the impact on the battlefield situation will not be too great; Moreover, the three thousand elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have turned back to Chenzhou, and our side has an advantage in terms of troops! A thin black man in his forties next to him said.

This person is the commander of the Southern Han Dynasty giant elephant Wu Xun, the two have cooperated many times before, two years ago in the captivity of Chuzhong also cooperated happily, in the Southern Han Dynasty under the current internal eunuch monopoly of power, they have been a very rare example of the Southern Han army generals and eunuchs successfully "team".

Wu Huaien shook his head slightly, his voice became even colder, and he said softly: "If Commander Wu sees it like this, we will definitely lose!" ”

Wu Huaien stretched out his hand and flicked a little fold of the clothes on his chest, watched it smooth out again, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued: "Lin Feng's men are by no means any troops we have known in the past, it seems that they are specially trained for surprise attacks, if they don't make a move, they will be in the critical place, and they have to be guarded against!" As for the three thousand Tang soldiers, do you really think they turned back to Chenzhou? It's ridiculous that Lin Feng actually used such a clumsy trick, do you really think I will be fooled? ”

"Wu Envoy's concern is not unreasonable. The state of Chu has recently tightened the road blockade, and it is not easy for us to find out the news, but the fact that Ma Xicao spread the word to the world and crusaded against Chenzhou is not false. Wu Xun said, and the doubts in his heart have not disappeared.

"Soldiers, treacherous! Chenzhou is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and it is difficult to argue whether the news is true or false. Although it is a good time for Liu Yan to take advantage of the pressure of our army's troops to set up a counter-flag, but at this time, the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have just entered the Chu realm, and the timing of the launch is obviously a little early, if it is chosen in the stalemate stage of the battlefield or when the Chu State is about to lose, wouldn't it be better? I suspect that this is a suspicious tactic by Lin Feng, but I am afraid that the three thousand Tang soldiers are all on the warships of the Chu State from the south. Moreover, as far as I can speculate, there may be more than 3,000 Tang soldiers entering the country! Wu Huaien said categorically, but the speed of his speech was still unhurried.

Wu Xun nodded immediately, but then shook his head and said: "Even if you add these 3,000 Tang soldiers, according to intelligence analysis, the Chu army and Tang army will only be about 20,000 people together, and the source of the troops is complex and abnormal, many people are still enemies for more than ten days, and sincere cooperation is not enough!" Considering all kinds of factors, they are still not the enemies of my elite soldiers! ”

"He has a good plan, I have a wall ladder!" Wu Huaien chuckled, looked up at the faint blood stain on his right hand again, turned around and asked for a white handkerchief and began to wipe his hands vigorously, and commanded coldly in his mouth, "Commander Wu is very reasonable. It was instructed that after three days the whole army must rush to Wuzhou, and 5,000 men besieged Mengzhou from the south road; The army uses the North Road as a breakthrough to attack Guizhou City again! ”

There are two roads in the north and south from Wuzhou to Guizhou, the south road passes through the mountains, passes through the city of Mengzhou, two days ago, Qiong led more than 1,000 soldiers to just enter Mengzhou, the narrow road is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack; And from the northwest of Wuzhou to the valley along the advance of one hundred and thirty miles is Hezhou, and then two hundred and forty miles is Zhaozhou, the Han army scouts have already reconnoitred the two cities countless times, the defenders are very few, and Zhaozhou has not even completed the repair of the city wall. If you start from the waterway, you can go up to Guizhou by going up to Guizhou for 600 miles, although the road is a little farther, but it is obviously much easier to attack.

The generals behind Wu Huaien agreed in unison and immediately dispersed.

On the morning of November 3, just as the Southern Han army was gathering in Wuzhou City and setting off in full gear, the huge fleet of Chu State sailed to Yongzhou, left the Xiangjiang River and turned into the Lingqu, heading straight for Lishui.

China's Yangtze River basin and Pearl River basin are separated by the majestic Wuling Mountains, and land transportation is already very difficult, and water transportation is impassable. The Lingqu, which was built in the Qin Dynasty, is one of the oldest canals in the world, because it has successfully opened up the Yangtze River water system and the Pearl River water system, and has become the key road to communicate the north-south waterway traffic for thousands of years.

In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang, who successfully annexed the Six Kingdoms, began to set his sights on conquest further north and south, sending an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north; He also sent 500,000 troops south to pacify the "Baiyue". In order to conquer Lingnan as soon as possible, Qin Shi Huang ordered the digging of the Ling Canal.

In Xing'an County, Guangxi, the source of the Li River (Darong River, flowing from north to south into the sea) and the source of the Xiang River (Haiyang River, flowing from south to north and then turning east into the Yangtze River into the sea), are not far away. He led hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to go through 4 years of hardship, and finally dug the Ling Canal in 214 BC and successfully opened the Xiang River and the Li River.

Since then, for thousands of years, the Ling Canal has passed through the Han Dynasty horse aid, the Tang Dynasty Li Bo, Yu Mengwei and others continued to preside over the construction, the name has also been changed from the Qin Digging Canal, has been renamed Zero Canal, Steep River, Xing'an Canal and other titles, but has been kept smooth for tens of millions of years.

"The rivers and mountains are close at hand, so that the talent of the king is turbulent." Watching the huge warship rush all the way south from the narrow spiritual canal, Liu Renzhen, who was lying in front of the cabin window, recited two lines of poetry, praising Shi Lu, who led the way to dig the spiritual canal.

"The princes will go to the same place, and only the sage will keep his name!" Lin Feng, who was standing beside him, said two inexplicable poems, causing Liu Renzhen to turn his head and stare at him for a long time.

"That's true, since ancient times, there have been several generals whose names have been recorded in history......" Liu Renzhen muttered, his eyes suddenly becoming confused.

"Boss, believe me, you will definitely leave a great name in the annals of history!" Lin Feng was suddenly a little excited, and said emotionally.

Liu Renzhen glanced back at Lin Feng, then turned his head to look out the window.

Just when Lin Feng and Liu Renzhen were feeling great on the boat, there were three parties fighting each other in the council hall of the Guizhou City Jiedu Embassy in front of them, with a tense sword-rattling situation, and the battle was about to break out!