Chapter 24: The Snowman

Afterwards, someone asked Ah Dieguang why he made such a big battle for the surrender of Yuncheng, and Die Guangyan said:

"It's rare that these two are filial sons, so it's just a fulfillment. And as soon as Yuncheng is taken, the gateway to the northwest of Huai is opened, and our army goes down to Yuncheng without a fight, so why not do it? ”

In fact, the reason why Adie Guangyan did this was because he was an orphan. His parents died in his early years, and he and his brother Adieguang lived together with his brother-in-law, the feeling of growing up under the care of his parents, alas, not to mention, the beauty of a gentleman's adulthood.

After the official army entered the city, standing under the city, looking at a large area of blue and black blasted out by the divine thunder of the official army on the city, as well as the bluestone fragments on the ground that had fallen and was created, and touching their ears that had not yet woken up, Deng Huaijin and Dong Changling were a little afraid, fortunately they did not confront the official army, otherwise they were afraid that it would be easy for the official army to go down to the city. For not being buried for Wu Shaocheng's father and son, Yuncheng was extremely happy.

At this time, Caizhou City was no different from before, except that a few people in the inner circle seemed to be manic. Because Wu Shaocheng was already unconscious.

The dim light illuminates the white snow, and the dilapidated houses in Caizhou City are sandwiched between the silent streets, and as usual, Caizhou becomes a dead city with no one at night, only a group of people in the middle of the street, on the snowy streets, by the faint light of the lanterns played by the leading soldiers. The group was silent, only hearing the sound of "squeak, squeak". On both sides of the road are snowmen of all sizes, which are masterpieces left by children during the day. No matter where children are, they have the nature to pursue happiness, and Caizhou is no exception.

Looking at Wu Yuanqing, who was white in front of him, he didn't have such a consciousness, what he thought in his heart was why these children grew up so slowly and couldn't quickly replenish the soldiers for Huaixi? In the Battle of Xiaoshui, Huaixi lost more than 30,000 troops, so many young and strong, veterans of a hundred battles, where to find it? According to his observation on the battlefield, the officers and troops were well-equipped and well-trained, not only Gao Xiayu's Sixth Army, but also Wu Chongyin's 40th Army, and even Chen Xu's 47th Army was fierce, and the cavalry of the officers and troops was obviously battle-hardened for a long time, and according to Dong Chong's questioning, the officers and troops also invested in the elite Modao Army in this battle. Shenzhou in the south has been besieged and cannot get the news, and the fragmentary information heard by the careful investigation shows that Wu Shaoyang is still holding on. It would be good for Gwangju in the east to protect itself, and from Caizhou, news came in the afternoon that after Qingling, Yuncheng had also been captured by Adie Guangyan, and the two support armies were defeated.

The main strongholds of the Huaixi army in Caizhou are Yuncheng and Huiqu, and now Yuncheng has been captured by the official army, Huaixi is worried all over the heart, but Wu Shaocheng can't afford to be sick, he can still wake up several times a day a few days ago, barely deal with some affairs, and spit out a mouthful of blood after knowing the news of Xiaoshui's fiasco, and has been in a coma for several days, and has only woken up three times. Wu Yuanqing has already slaughtered four doctors, but there is still nothing he can do about his Lao Tzu's illness. Wu Yuanqing didn't dare to tell Wu Yuanqing the news of the loss of Yuncheng, and the people around him couldn't come up with any good ideas, so they only said the word "keep", which made Wu Yuanqing angry but helpless.

The envoys sent to Ziqing, Weibo, Chengde and other towns have been on their way for several days, but Wu Yuanqing doesn't expect to get any good news, and when these people come back, they are only afraid that Caizhou has been captured by Adie Guangyan. Thinking of Adie's glorious martial arts, he was knocked off the weapon in one round, Wu Yuanqing couldn't help but subconsciously shudder.

Living ancestor, don't meet him again.

What worries Wu Yuanqing more than Adie's aggressiveness is that the army's morale is already unstable. His father was seriously ill, and he almost lost Huaixi's family background when he first became the coach, and now Wu Yuanqing was annoyed when he saw the military generals, and felt that their every action implied contempt for himself, which made Wu Yuanqing's heart a little more angry. Wu Yuanqing looked at the military generals like this, but the military was also unaccustomed to Young Marshal Wu. Moreover, it is rumored in the army that there are gods and men in the official army to help each other, and if the gods want the officials and troops to win every battle, they will beat the heavenly drum and sound the heavenly thunder. In the battle of Xiaoshui, thunder sounded on the battlefield; After the soldiers and horses who went to Yuncheng to relieve the siege escaped, they also said that they heard thunder. After the war, these soldiers and horses returned to their respective barriers, one to ten, ten to hundred, and now the Huaixi army knows that the officers and soldiers have the help of the gods, and the morale is getting lower and lower. No matter how the officers explained, the soldiers just didn't believe it. Under the rule of Wu Shaocheng, these soldiers were ignorant (in fact, under the rule of His Majesty Emperor Li Xu), they did not know etiquette (they did not know the existence of Emperor Li Xu), but they only took pleasure in killing, but they were so afraid of the gods, which is really unexpected.

Today's Huaixi is really in a difficult situation at home and abroad, but Wu Yuanqing is puzzled and feels that the burden on his shoulders is extremely heavy. Riding on a horse, Wu Yuanqing looked at an oversized snowman standing on the side of the road, and couldn't help muttering:

"If I knew this, I wouldn't fight with the imperial court and continue to be my Caizhou assassin history, how good would it be?"

Just thinking like this, he suddenly felt that the snowman in front of him smiled at him, Wu Yuanqing was startled, thinking that he had dazzled his eyes, stopped his horse and blinked his eyes, and just wanted to look again, he saw that the snowman in front of him really moved, and a piece of broken jade was scattered, and a little cold light pierced Wu Yuanqing's chest through the snow mist.

"There are assassins!"

"There are assassins!"

The news of the assassination of the young marshal Wu Yuanqing on his way back from visiting the families of Deng Huaijin and Dong Changling immediately spread throughout the Huaixi high-level in Caizhou, and by daybreak, the residents of Caizhou had almost all smelled the unusual smell from the noise of the night and the sudden increase in soldiers on the streets. Fortunately, because of the cold and dark night, the assassin only stabbed Wu Yuanqing in the left rib, and he drifted away with a miss, but this was enough to make the already unstable Huaixi's people's hearts and minds even more confused.

The Huaixi civil and military officials who rushed to the Wu Mansion crowded the Wu Mansion, and Wu Yuanqing sat on the edge of Wu Shaocheng's position in the council hall with a gloomy face, with a sword in front of him, and the word "Wu" was faintly engraved on the sword. Obviously, this is Huaixi's utensil, but it is not the "Wu" of Wu Shaocheng and his son, but the "Wu" of Wu Shaoyang. This is the saber that Wu Shaocheng gave to Wu Shaoyang, it is a rare sharp weapon, extremely sharp, so although he is wearing a robe and heavy armor, Wu Yuanqing's injury is not light. If he stabs the right part, the young marshal is afraid that he will die.

"Wolf-hearted things, for the sake of their father, son and son-in-law, abandoned the high-ranking officials and Houjue, raised the troops of the three states to fight with the imperial court, and actually took revenge and wanted to murder the young marshal. I think that Wu Shaoyang spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, afraid that the young marshal will investigate them for the crime of defeat, thinking that the marshal is in a coma and wants to take the opportunity to seize the throne, phew, do his dream of a thousand autumns. What a heroic figure the young marshal is, where can he succeed? ”