Chapter Seventy-Four: Into the City
Zhou Wenlong vaguely heard the shout of "Thief Chief Zhao Jie has been beheaded", and knew that this operation was a complete failure.
The eighth master of the gods relied on his high martial arts, and he didn't know where he was going, and he didn't hear back even if he sent a signal. The fire in the Chinese army's big tent has obviously dimmed.
Zhou Wenlong felt that he couldn't wait any longer, and if he didn't go and waited, he would definitely not be able to go. He knew that in the face of armored officers and soldiers, no matter how high the martial arts of these Jianghu clans were, they would be easily annihilated.
So he quietly retreated outside the barracks with more than a hundred people along the road he had come from. On the way back, Zhou Wenlong couldn't figure it out, and the plan was thorough, and nearly 500 people were mobilized. I figured out the location of the sleeping tent and made careful arrangements. But how did you let that woman escape again!
Although he didn't know why he had to get rid of that woman, Zhou Wenlong still felt a hint of danger. This is the feeling formed by many years of military scouting, and the other party must have an extremely clever veteran to protect in secret, otherwise they will definitely be in trouble.
Thinking back to the search process just now, Zhou Wenlong secretly thought: There is no big problem with the direction and vigilance of the search. It is impossible for the actions of so many people on both sides to be without the slightest gap. However, if you want to take advantage of this gap, you must have a lot of experience and agility.
The other party took the crown prince and the crown princess, two people who had little martial arts and experience, to play "hide and seek" with them for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that six or seven people were shot by crossbow arrows, Zhou Wenlong thought that they had escaped from the encirclement several times.
What kind of person is this? Zhou Wenlong was very strange about this, although he knew that there were several extremely skilled masters in the Great Interior, but several of them were protecting the emperor, and he had not heard that anyone had transferred them to the crown prince.
The failure of the operation made Zhou Wenlong very frustrated, and things did not go very smoothly from the beginning, from the initial plan to burn grain, to the change of plan to burn the Chinese army's big tent, and then the direct assassination. The plan was changed again and again into a constant repetition of reconnaissance, which eventually attracted the attention of the rear army.
Zhou Wenlong asked the above several times to unify the command of the operation, but in the end, he was the one who responded to it. Now that the operation has failed, Zhou Wenlong doesn't know how to explain to the above.
In the prince's bedchamber, Zhang Wenyi was giving Li Zhi medicine. The corpse in the sleeping tent was dragged out of the door by Li Zhi.
The two men hid in Tibet, circling in circles with the enemy in the military tent. A few times I encountered a few stragglers swimming around, and each time the two of them successfully dealt with each other.
The situation of the two of them unharmed lasted until someone came to save them, but at this time Li Zhi was injured by his own people's arrows, although he was injured, Li Zhi's mood was still excited and optimistic.
Li Zhi's injury was not serious, but he was just grazed by a stray arrow. But Zhang Wenyi didn't dare to be careless, there were no antibiotics in this era, and infection and inflammation would be fatal.
After washing the wound several times with homemade disinfectant, Zhang Wenyi was still not at ease. But there was no better way, she tore a clean cloth and bandaged Li Zhi's wound finely.
Seeing two tears dripping on his clothes, Li Zhi reached out and held Zhang Wenyi's chin. Seeing the tears on her face, Li Zhi pulled Zhang Wenyi into his arms in distress.
said softly: "Why are you crying, nothing is wrong." β
Zhang Wenyi fell into his arms and said softly: "I'm sorry, I hurt His Highness who was injured." β
Li Zhi hugged Zhang Wenyi's soft body with both hands, gently kissed the hair on her forehead, and said, "If you weren't my Li Zhi's wife, no one would touch you." β
Thinking of her perseverance and calmness just now, and then looking at the softness now, Li Zhi has a feeling of unreality. I don't know why, the more Zhang Wenyi is like this, the more he pities and loves her.
"General Jajie brought people to rescue me just now, why didn't you let me go out to meet them?" Li Zhi asked with some puzzlement.
"I don't know, I'm just afraid. I'm afraid that bad people will be mixed in and it will not be good for you. Zhang Wenyi replied sullenly.
Li Zhi asked again: "They are targeting you, how can they find me?" Are you afraid that I will be injured by mistake? β
Zhang Wenyi didn't answer, just nodded in his arms. Li Zhi was moved to lean down and kiss the little woman in his arms, Zhang Wenyi closed his eyes and let Li Zhi kiss indiscriminately.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
Cheng Chubi's loud voice came from outside the tent, and Li Zhi let go of Zhang Wenyi, stood up and responded: "Lonely here, General Cheng is here to escort him." β
Ja Jie's troops were surrounded by Cheng Chubi's Jin Wuwei, but Cheng Chubi walked up to him alone and said, "I'm sorry General Abu, I believe you didn't do it, but I can't release you until I meet the prince." β
Jajay nodded in understanding, and he turned back and ordered the soldiers to lay down their weapons and sit on the spot to wait for the disposition. Looking at the sergeant sitting neatly on the ground, Cheng Chubi also ordered Jin Wuwei's men to put away their weapons.
Then he walked towards the prince's bedchamber, and Ja Jie wanted to remind him that the prince would definitely not be in the tent, but he was about to speak, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say it.
When he heard Li Zhi's answer, Jay Jie couldn't help but be surprised. He couldn't figure out why the prince was in the tent.
Jay didn't notice that the tents around the prince's tent weren't set up regularly, or that he had overlooked a lot of things in his search for the prince. This is caused by the illusion of vision, and it is with this that Zhang Wenyi is in the vicinity and persists until someone comes to the rescue.
She once agreed with Cheng Chubi that if an accident happened, she didn't need to go elsewhere to find the prince within half an hour. If it takes more than half an hour, you need to go to the designated place to look for it.
The Chinese army's tent suddenly caught fire, and Cheng Chubi didn't realize that this was the enemy's strategy, but when he was fighting the fire, he found that the dozen or so water dragons that were extinguishing the fire quickly broke down. This situation aroused his suspicions, and he was in charge of patrolling the capital, but also knew the procedures for the stacking, management and use of these fire extinguishing equipment. It's not strange to break one or two, but it's suspicious to break them all.
So he gathered Jin Wuwei's men and returned to the camp to get weapons to protect Li Zhi, but he was still a step too late. When he arrived, the fight was over, and he originally suspected that the well-dressed side was a traitor, but when he saw that the leader was Jae Jie, Cheng Chubi changed his opinion.
When this government army entered the camp, it was this barbarian general who handed over to him, and it could be seen that this was a real person. Unless he was already rebellious, it was basically impossible to convince such a person to rebel.
Ja Jie really lived up to Cheng Chubi's expectations, he obeyed Cheng Chubi's suggestion and ordered his subordinates to give up resistance. Cheng Chubi didn't embarrass him, but just let a small number of Jin Wuwei watch on the side. The others followed Cheng Chubi to the vicinity of the prince's sleeping tent.
Hearing Li Zhi's answer, Cheng Chubi came over and ordered someone to remove the corpses around the sleeping tent. After getting Li Zhi's permission, Cheng Chubi walked into the prince's bedchamber.
Li Zhi asked about the situation, and Cheng Chubi said: "The rebellion is the new government army, and the rebellion is the other part of this government army. Now both are circled by the last general. β
Li Zhi thought for a while and said: "Don't make a noise about this matter, just say that the sergeant who escorted it didn't see it clearly at night, and he fell into someone else's trick and fought with his own people." Let's talk about Dingzhou City tomorrow. β
Cheng Chubi frowned and said, "Your Highness, is it better not to move at this time, we have lived here for a while, so the terrain is more familiar and easy to protect." β
Li Zhi smiled and said, "That's right, it's easy to protect, but you can protect them or stand still." They have time to go around us, and we can't always wait here. We are the rearguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and we are responsible for the distribution of grain and grass for the whole army. We can't stop doing our business just because we want to fight them, so we need to quickly eliminate this rebellion. β
Zhang Wenyi looked at Li Zhi in surprise, she really couldn't imagine that this person had such a mind, it seemed that she still looked down on the ancients too much.
Cheng Chubi also admires Li Zhi, and not everyone dares to do this with his example as bait. It is also admirable that Li Zhi can have such courage as a prince, but it will not be easy for him to have a good time when the army enters the city tomorrow.
In the end, Cheng Chubi still smiled and said, "The last general will be ordered!" β
Jokes, even Li Zhi dares to fight, he Cheng Chubi is known as the first demon king of the mixed world in Gyeonggi, how can he be afraid!
After a night of rescue, the fire near the Chinese army's big tent was finally extinguished. Most of the sergeants were unaware of the mutiny that had taken place last night, and they fell asleep in the morning light.
Some of the sergeants did not rest, they led the artisan battalion and the people to clean up the burned fire, remove the bodies of some of the victims, and bury them after identifying them as much as possible.
More than 200 sergeants who participated in the rebellion and finally surrendered, were imprisoned in the center of the camp of Jin Wuwei. The people who provoked Jie were released after Cheng Chubi met the prince, and he was received by the prince that night.
The crown prince was promoted to the rank of Jaejie, and he was promoted to the rank of loyal general, and the commander of Zhichong was responsible for commanding the army. When the letter of appointment from the Ministry of War arrived, he would be the official fourth-rank military attachΓ©, and his family would be able to get rid of the situation of slavery.
The crown princess's reward for him was to decide to marry Chen Juan to him. After last night's battle, Chen Juan has a new understanding of herself, she has put down the shelf of the princess's maid in front of the car, and has become an ordinary woman.
At this time, she realized that her previous thoughts were really ridiculous, and she was very satisfied with being able to have such a husband. She was grateful to the crown princess.
Li Zhi attributed the army of Jajie to the Zhongyi Mansion Army led by Zuo Wei, which was directly led by the prince. After entering the city, the army will re-customize the flag, uniform, and replenish the troops.
Cheng Chubi was a little jealous of Jay Jie's promotion, he slapped Ja Jie's shoulder, and said, "When you return to Chang'an, your brother must have a treat!" β
Ja Jie smiled and said in stiff Chinese: "If you don't get drunk, you won't return!" β
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Zhi ordered people to wake up all the sleeping sergeants, and after a short period of tidying up, the whole rear army set up camp and headed for Dingzhou City.