Chapter Thirty-Six: Running Wild on a Snowy Night
Hou Weiqing has been restless in recent days because Wu Shaoyang escaped from Shenzhou. However, he was not worried about whether Wu Shaoyang could escape back to Caizhou or whether he could be caught by the official army, he was worried that Wu Shaoyang would flee to Langshan.
After the first few days of passive beating, the officers and troops have gradually grasped the initiative, Wu Shaoyang's department has been gradually compressed by the officers and troops in a small area, and the roads leading to Shenzhou and Gwangju have long been cut off by the officers and troops, which may be due to the fact that there are more officers and troops garrisoned, but the road to Langshan is relatively loose. If it was Hou Weiqing before Wu Yuanji, he would definitely wish that Wu Shaoyang could throw himself into the net as a vote for himself, but since he had already taken Wu Yuanji, if he took someone else's Lao Tzu again, Hou Weiqing would not be happy in his heart.
After all, this era is still about work ethic. In history, according to Li Jiang's strategy, Wu Chongyin assisted Tutu Gonggong to take down Lu Congshi, and Xianzong wanted to appoint Wu Chongyin as the envoy of Zhaoyi Festival, but was resolutely opposed by Li Jiang, who designed it, and the reason for Li Jiang's opposition was that Wu Chongyin betrayed the Lord to seek glory, had a bad reputation, and was difficult to convince the public, and it was difficult to reassure Wei Bochengde and other towns. completely forgot that the reason why Wu Chongyin bore this notoriety was because he, Li Jiang, sent people to Xiaoyi Dayi. In the end, Xianzong had no choice but to appoint Wu Chongyin as the envoy of the Heyang Festival. Although the coach of Huaixi is Wu Shaocheng, Wu Shaoyang is his old boss Hou Weiqing after all, and Hou Weiqing is a little unable to arrest everyone.
Therefore, Hou Weiqing planned to send someone to remind Li Yu to be careful of Wu Shaoyang's escape in the direction of Langshan. But Hou Weiqing's henchmen had not yet been sent out, and the people sent by Li Yu arrived in Langshan. The message was very simple, let Hou Weiqing meet in the grove by the Tang River tomorrow afternoon.
The next day, Hou Weiqing took his own soldiers out of Langshan under the pretext of patrolling, and in the grove by the Tang River, Hou Weiqing saw Li Yu, the head of the Shannan Road march, who was waiting here. Hou Weiqing, who saw Li Yu, naturally bowed his head. But he was held up by Li Yu. Li Yu said:
"Long time no see, Brother Hou has always been good?"
The north wind howled across the heavens and the earth, tearing apart the cold air, and the sky was still gloomy, but Li Yu's warm words made Hou Weiqing forget the worries in his heart. He knew that Li Yu would not come to him for no reason, so he held Li Yu's warm hand and asked:
"Li Shuai summoned Weiqing, what are your orders?"
Li Yu smiled:
"Brother Hou is really fast-talking, okay, Li should be a little more simply. Li came this time to go back to Caizhou again because of the grievances of Brother Hou. ”
Hou Weiqing chuckled in his heart, and sure enough, Li Yu continued:
"Wu Shaoyang's escape from Shenzhou must have been known to Brother Hou. Li didn't say anything more. A certain has now ordered Shenzhou to be on strict alert and inspect all directions from Shenzhou to Caizhou and Gwangju. At present, Wu Shaoyang's three-way soldiers and horses have been surrounded and annihilated by our army, and the other road is being driven by General Tao Shun to the direction of Muling Pass, only Wu Shaoyang has not found any trace of this road, but I believe that after a heavy snow in the past two days, Wu Shaoyang will definitely try to get closer to Langshan, and a certain general will strive to cause death to Wu Shaoyang, and when he arrives at Langshan, Brother Hou can only open the door and admit him in. At present, the official army is advancing step by step, Wu Shaoyang will inevitably ask Brother Hou to give up Langshan and return to Caizhou to fortify the defense, at that time, Brother Hou will go with him, Li will naturally send someone to keep an eye on it, and as soon as Brother Hou comes out of Langshan, he will personally lead the army to follow, and at that time, only Brother Hou will respond a little, and Caizhou will inevitably be conquered. At that time, Huaixi was pacified, and Brother Hou was the first achievement. ”
Li Yu's words were very tempting, but Hou Weiqing was silent while being excited, of course Li Yu knew what Hou Weiqing was for, so he smiled:
"Brother Hou, don't worry, as long as you act according to the plan, your family will definitely be saved."
At some point, the sky was filled with snowflakes in pieces, and the snowflakes fell silently to the ground, like dust returning to the earth, hidden in silent darkness, unsearchable. On a watchtower near Langshan, a young officer and soldier were on guard, but his eyes were staring at the snowflakes that were getting bigger and denser, and he didn't notice that several dark shadows were slowly squirming along the ditch not far from him. By the time he found out, a short knife had been stuck in his chest, and his only contribution was to try to kick the wooden wall so that the soldiers inside could have rushed time to prepare.
Indeed, as Hou Weiqing expected, although there were many official garrisons in the direction of Langshan, Wu Shaoyang still chose Langshan as his breakthrough direction in accordance with Huaixi's thinking habits, after all, there was the closest barrier to him, which could quickly replenish supplies and allow the soldiers who had been chased by the officers and soldiers like rabbits in the past few days to recover. After Wu Shaoyang escaped from Shenzhou, he relied on his familiarity with the terrain of Shenzhou and was very majestic for a few days. He divided the soldiers and horses into several groups, combined and scattered them at will, and specially attacked small groups of soldiers and horses of the officers and soldiers, and after frequently succeeding, he actually captured nearly 300 war horses, as well as similar military uniforms and weapons. When the rescue troops arrived, they were often furious, because their dead comrades had been stripped clean by the Huaixi army, and they were lying naked on the cold ground. What made the officers and soldiers even more angry was that many local people also joined the ranks of the Huaixi Army, insulting their comrades who died bravely by stripping them naked. Whenever a peasant from Huaixi appeared in front of the official army wearing the cotton uniforms of the Tang Army, many soldiers couldn't help but draw their knives to kill the farmer, but they were stopped by their indoctrination and joining the army.
Enlightened to join the army said:
"Brethren, I am also saddened by such a situation, and I want to avenge the dead brethren. But brethren, let us consider why this is the case. That's because of Wu Shaocheng's oppression, so that these people have no clothes to wear, they also have a large family to raise, and they also know the cold. If we want to take revenge, we should go to Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang for revenge! ”
Many officers and men felt that the words of indoctrination and joining the army were very reasonable, but they were still depressed and indignant. The peasants in Huaixi were spared the fear of their lives, but they always had a few heavy blows on their flesh, which forced Li Yu to reiterate the harsh military order. Naturally, the pent-up anger of the officers and soldiers could only be vented on Wu Shaoyang, who was hiding in Tibet.
These are things that Wu Shaoyang doesn't know, but what Wu Shaoyang knows is that in recent days, the sorties of the officers and troops have become more and more accurate, and the soldiers have become more and more tough and fierce. The tactics of the officers and soldiers have also changed, paying attention to each other's response, and as long as one squad is surrounded, several squadrons will immediately rush from the surroundings according to the signal, relying on their strong mobility, and they will fight and chase the Huaixi army, biting and holding on. What's even more terrifying is that the soldiers and township soldiers who are no worse than Wu Shaoyang's familiarity with the terrain are also in the pursuit. When Wu Shaoyang saw his other group of men and horses sending a signal of convergence the day before yesterday and rushed to rush but almost fell into the encirclement, Wu Shaoyang understood that his good life was over, and his only hope was to rush back to Caizhou to defend it, maybe there would be a glimmer of life, so that his grandson could continue the bloodline of the Wu family.
Ignoring the other two groups of men and horses--those two groups of men and horses were foot soldiers, and there were many fierce and unlucky-Wu Shaoyang quickly chose the direction of the breakthrough. Since the officials and soldiers thought that I would definitely go back to Caizhou, then Lao Tzu would go back to Caizhou, but Lao Tzu would not follow the route you expected, and Lao Tzu would go to Langshan, which you would not expect the most. Therefore, Wu Shaoyang led his more than 200 personal soldiers, wearing the clothes of the official army, holding the weapons of the official army, riding the war horse taken from the official army, carrying the customs defense captured from the official army in his arms, and reciting the official and military passwords obtained from the prisoners, and swaggering towards Langshan. Everything is seamless, but unfortunately, Wu Shaoyang doesn't know that the passwords of the officials and soldiers are changed every day. So when Wu Shaoyang's lieutenant officer confidently shouted the password of "Jian Ping rebel thief, repay the monarch's father" in front of the checkpoint of the official army, he saw the feather arrows flying over from Hulala.
It is much more spectacular than the rain of arrows of the Huaixi Army.
It was with this last shred of consciousness that many Huaixi soldiers died. Although he passed the checkpoint, Wu Shaoyang lost three-quarters of his men and horses, after all, there were too many cavalry teams of officers and soldiers patrolling the field. It was easy to get rid of the pursuit of the official army by relying on the familiar terrain and the dark sky, but Wu Shaoyang was dejected to find that there were deserters among his own soldiers. Looking at the weapons held horizontally on the ground in the early snow, which should have been the place where the sentry sentry was standing, Wu Shaoyang painfully decided to end his rest early and head for Langshan. The getting heavier and heavier snow made Wu Shaoyang very happy, if the snow fell during the day, he would still not be able to escape no matter what. In order to prevent anyone from escaping again, and also out of anxiety about his subordinates whose morale was fluctuating, Wu Shaoyang personally broke off the rear and cleaned up the traces. Unfortunately, this is tantamount to useless work, because they do not dare to take the main road, they all walk along the bushes in the middle of nowhere, and often soldiers plunge headlong into the bushes and never find them again. When he arrived at this watchtower, there were only more than 30 people left around Wu Shaoyang.
Therefore, Wu Shaoyang chose not to attack hard, but to sneak over. It's just that the sentry looked straight to this side, which made Wu Shaoyang always feel unsafe, and sent two people to be the sentinels. Unfortunately, a series of actions were done beautifully, but they still alarmed the soldiers in the house. Wu Shaoyang, who sighed, had no choice but to touch the cold big knife and lead people to kill it.
The number of sentinels was not large, only a dozen, but they were all equipped with short crossbows, which caused a certain amount of damage to Wu Shaoyang. The anxious Wu Shaoyang had to rush to Langshan with more than a dozen people under the persuasion of his own generals, asking for help from Hou Weiqing and Liang Xiguo - due to the isolation of the news, and the dereliction of duty to educate and join the army, Wu Shaoyang did not know that Liang Xiguo had been arrested by Ding Shiliang. The pro-soldier generals continued the siege with a dozen men, and only four or five sentinels remained. It's a pity that Wu Shaoyang led people to ride a horse and only stumbled out of four or five miles, when he heard a loud "bang" behind him. Just see --
What beautiful fireworks!
If I had known, I wouldn't have picked up the clothes of the officers and soldiers. Wu Shaoyang didn't even have time to think like this, so he continued to gallop wildly. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the horses were getting more and more tired and weak, but Wu Shaoyang could still hear the huge sound of horses' hooves. The sound of horses' hooves came from behind.
The sky was cloudy and the house was leaking, the snow covered the ground, and it was in the dark night, and he didn't dare to light the torches, so that it was the road and where the field was not clear for a long time, Wu Shaoyang's mount lost its front hooves, and a foot, no, a hoof stepped into the pit, and Wu Shaoyang fell off the horse.
Wu Shaoyang, who fell, was already white. Wu Shaoyang had never been so depressed in his life, but he didn't have time to complain, so he got on another horse with the support of his own soldiers and continued to flee. The shouts of the officers and soldiers were getting closer and closer, and when they turned around, they could even see the light of the torches covering the sky and the snowflakes falling in the light. At this time, Wu Shaoyang couldn't care about hiding any traces, and it was safe to go to Langshan early. But the horror is that while there are pursuers in the back, there are also officers and soldiers rushing to the checkpoint in front.
Finally, Wu Shaoyang's pro-soldiers made a major decision to pull Wu Shaoyang's horse's head, and another pro-general said:
"Marshal, dismount!"
Since he learned from the indoctrination army that Wu Shaoyang was named the deputy ambassador of the Changyi Army, although he was on the run, the title of Wu Shaoyang by the soldiers was also changed to that of the marshal. Others shouted:
"I wish the fourth, you are crazy!"
I wish the old four ways:
"Lao Tzu is not crazy, only in this way can we save Dashuai. Commander, change your armor and the last general, the last general will take ten brothers to ride horses to lead the officers and soldiers away, and you can take the remaining brothers to Langshan on foot! ”
Looking at this officer who had followed him for more than ten years, Wu Shaoyang's heart was hot, and he silently took off his armor and changed into the armor of Zhu Laosi, Wu Shaoyang said:
"I will take care of your wives and children."
Zhu Si smiled miserably and said to Wu Shaoyang:
"Dashuai, I just ask you to let the wives and children of the ten of us go out of the city after you return to Caizhou, and let them go to other places to be kings, I don't want my son to live anymore. The officials and soldiers said that they would not be embarrassed. ”
The eyes of the others were the same as Zhu Si, Wu Shaoyang had to nod, and as soon as Zhu Si pulled the reins, ten people disappeared into the vast night.
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